Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-02

Snow and Rain-Mud and Ice-Ninor
Topics-PersOnal and General Gossip
Legislative DOts-HOrace Greeley's
Pen-Final Paragraphs.
ATLANTA, Nov. 30.-I have been irving
for several days to give you letter, but
the terrible weather has wholly disabled
me for that service. l have had all l
could do to keep up my special kilograms.
Even the Atlanta press now admit that
no city in the world can show such sud-
den and severe changes in the weather.
A man goes home to dinner in fat boat,
ON account of the rain, and comes back
on skates, the water having frozen while
he was dining,
ms may appear ridiculous, but in SUBJ
stance 1t is the truth. Rain and snow,
water and ice, mud and frozen ground, in
TINS city, are as sudden in their character
as the transformations in Humpty Dump
ty. L came home last night in rain
storm that followed a heavy fall of snow.
and this morning the thermometer is down
to 30, and everything frozen solid.
vi course this kind of weather knocks
the Georgia Legislature into big hospi-
tai. Colds, coughs, pneumonia, rheuma-
tlsm, etc, prevail, and correspondents
and clerks, as well as members, are badly
used up. Were it not for the tax and APP
preparation bills the General Assembly
would adjourn tomorrow noon, and seek
rellet In a milder climate or more COM
Portable homes.
One of the worst local features of this
weather is its effects upon the Grand Art
Loan Exhibition of the Young Mems Lii
brary Association. The directors have
expended about three Thousand dollars to
prepare the exhibition which closes next
week, Saturday, and unless we have bet
ter weather the association will lose from
one to two thousand dollars, which it can
not afford to do. So far the immediate
friends of the association, especially the
ladies, who are helping to make the exhi-
bltlon attractive in its social features,
have done nObly, despite snow and rain
and mud and ice. They have proved "a
noble army of martyrs" in good cause.
MINOR TOPICS,
The thanks of your correspondent are
due the committee for card of invitation
to a delightful chop given Wednesday
night at Kimball House ball room to Miss
Mary COuper, a Brunswick belle, who is
spending the winter here with the family.
One of the curiosities at the Art Loan
Exhibition is the pen with which Horace
Greeley and others signed the bail bond of
President Jefferson Davis, by which act
he was released from Fortress Monroe.
Ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock now owns
the pen, and has loaned it to the managers
for exhibition.
Hon. j. f. Dart, of Glynn, has the
honor of getting through the first bill to
become law in the House. 1t is bill
amending the act allowing purchasers of
railroads to form corporations, and under
this amendment the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad will take a new lease of
life, and open up very important through
line via Selma, Ala, from Albany.
The temperance workers have become
aroused by the Liquor Dealers Conven-
tiOn, and are now holding meetings nightly
to discuss the subject Of temperance, and
the most desirable legislation to promote
its interest. The advocates of whisky are
also invited to attend the meetings, and
show their side of the question to the
public.
1t won't do to ''pOoh-pOOh" the Bullock
''bOgus bonds movement, for it tmeans
business" and the men who are backing
it up are fully determined to die in the
last ditch" They are amply provided
with the ''sineWs Of war;" and will lay
siege to the State Treasury with very
hopeful hearts. | simply allude to this
matter in order to arouse public attention
to the serious consideration of it. 1t is to
be fight in which both sides must be fully
prepared.
The election of VIM. r. Hammond, Esq,
as Judge of the Atlanta Circuit was the
most remarkable event of the kind on
record. 1t was a contest between a nephew
Marshall j. Clarke, Esq. and uncle,
Baptist and a Methodist, which fact was
used by both sides, and a member of the
bar defying the official action of the bar
meeting and ''whipping the fight" Every
appliance was brought to bear against
Hammond, but conscious of the justness of
his cause and the purity of his actions, he
refused to be bulldozed. And in this the
General Assembly Joined him, virtually
telling the Atlanta bar that the Legisla-
ture, not the bar, was to elect Judge for
their circuit. Judge Hammond is an able
lawyer, gentleman of fine presence and.
of excellent character, His relatives and
friends in Florida may well be proud of
his remarkable victory-122 to 50 for his
opponent.
THEATRICAL GOSSIP.
Jacksonville, Fla, has given one of its
most charming and accomplished young
ladies to the stage. | refer TO Miss Belle
Abel, daughter ofCaptain f. +. Abel, of
that city, where he has lived for number
OF years past, Captain Abel resided in
Apalachicola when that city was flourish
ing, but subsequently removed to COlum-
bus, ga, where he was prominent mer-
CudllO uIllll llc WENT 10 OdckSOnNlIle, MISS
Abel graduated at the celebrated Column
bus Girls High School, and was quite a
society belle. She is now with the Madi-
son Square Theatre Company, which is
playing ''Esmeralda," !" and old friends are
preparing TO give her grand ovation on
Monday night next, at which time the
company appear in Columbus.
No young tragedian has ever had such a
grand ovation in Atlanta as greeted Keene
last week. Despite the weather he played
to big houses, and added largely to his
already Widespread and substantial popu-
larity IN this city. Properly disciplined
in some few particulars, Keene viii vet
secure a proud position in the list of
American tragedians. He is constantly
improving, and under the skillful man.
agement of the energetic Hayden he will
never lack for pecuniary announcement.
Savannah may look for a fine treat from
him next week.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
am compelled to cut this letter short.
as the frost of last night chilled nv ener,
gies beyond a speedy thaw.
Atlanta is proceeding slowly and steadi-
ly in reducing her decrease in cotton re-
celpts, ana is now less than five thousand
bales behind.
Emigrants continue to flock 10 Texas
they often meet persons or families return
ing froW those States in disgust.
There IS tine lot of Norman stations in
the city for sale, which attracts marked
attention. They are large, strong and
hardy, and it is proposed to introduce
them into the South for draft horses.
Members of the Legislature will have
their fun. Wright, of Floyd, having sug-
gested that Little, of MuscOgee, was using
a ''subterfugeN 20 secure a summer ses2
sion, member responded that from its
effects on Wright it must be more of a
''vermifuge" than 'subterfuge."
Senator Meldrim has won quite a repu- /
tatiOn as presiding officer in the Senate. !
and frequently fills President Boynton's !
chair with dignity, ease and ability, He /
is perfectly at home on the floor, ia the /
committee room, or in the Presidents 1
chair.
Now that the smallpox is at Rome.
Chattanooga and Knoxville, the people of /
Atlanta are alarmed for fear it will re-
appear here during the winter. No steps
have yet been taken to prevent such a ca
amity, so far as the public are informed.
1t would make you blush to hear all the
ine compliments passed by members of
the General Assembly on the new and ele-
CANT dress of the MORNING NEWS, The
general verdict is that you now have the
landsOmest paper in the South. Other i'm
are also noted.
"Uncle RAD Morrow, the venerable
member Of the House from Clayton cOun.
", is the most venerable lookisg as We'll
rs the oldest membep OF the General AS
'emblY, and his Introduction OF the reso-