Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-13
BITE OF THE BLIZZARD.
An Albany Editor Who Believes the
North Has Lost Something.

Monday.
Fairburn shivered with the mercury
only point above zero Monday.
The thermometer at Conyers registered
3 deg. below zero Monday morning.
Fred White, hack driver of Atlanta,
slipped on the ice and fell and broke one
Of MS arms.
Wesleyan Female College at Macon was
closed on Monday IN consequence of the
extreme cold, and the students are out
for holiday.
Sunday the prisoners in the county jail
| at Americas were taken to the court
house and kept under a guard. The jail
became too cold for them.
Saturday night a negro came into Lex
ngton from the country on load of hay
and had to be taken utf Of the wagon, so
tightly frozen was be to his position.
Joel Hall, negro living a few miles
from Camak, was found dead near Mace
donia cburch Monday. He is supposed
to have been under the influence Of whis-
Ky, and froze to death.
Albany was visited by a fall of snow
between and 9 O'Clock sunday morning.
There was enough to whiten the roofs and
make some snow on the ground, but the
sunshine soon caused it to disappear.
For the first time since the cold Satur-
day o. 1885 are all tue streams in the vi
cinity of FlOWery Branch frozen over so
that horses and vehicles can pass over
without breaking the ice. TheTm )meter
6 deg. below zero.
Albany Medium: II the inhabitants OF
the Northwest have lost blizzard, we
would be glad to return it and pay all
charges, conditional upon its not strayiug
I ills way again. 1t struck this town FRI
| LAY afternoon and stayed with us long
enough TO give us an idea OF what full
sized blizzard, not wearied by long travel,
might do.
1t was go cold at Athens Saturday and
Sunday that when the drivers would put
the brakes on the street cars to stop them
tney would have to build 6res under the
brakes to tuatv them sufficiently to throw
them OF II the wheels, for they would
freeze to the wheels almost the instant
they came ia contact. The Thermometer
stood al deg. above zero Monday morn
Ing.
An old resident says about so odd years
ago In Columbus the weather was so cold
that the hens and chickens froze on their
rUOsts, and eggs were frozen so card tnat
1t was as imp0ssi bic to break them as TO
break rock. 1t was 50 cold that buck
ct OF water would be huge block of ice
IN carrying it from the wei TO the house.
lutOW VI pau OF wafer anu IL WOQLQ
rattle ice on the frozen ground.
At Monroe the weather is the coolest
ever felt. Several families are out OF wood
and but for their neighbOrs would sun r..
The liquor in the bRrr0oms is frozen and
IS being sold 0y the pound. The prisoners
in jail, although well supplied with
blankets, are nearly dead with cold. A
tramp was found in a stable FRIDAY morn
ing nearly frozen. He was supplied with
a good suit of clothes and went his way
rejoicing.
Augusta Chronicle: 1t is dreadful
enough 10 have your property destroyed
wnen one is WITHIN the reach OF friends
and the aid of the gallant firemen In the
city, but when the thermometer is below
zero and the wind piercing through the
trees it is horrible TO realize fre in the
country IN the early morn OF day like
yesterday. Sunday morning about $3.50
Mr.. Frederick Pike, who ives on the
Miiledgeville road about three miles
from the city, found it so cold mat ne got
up ana built iire. The sparks from the
chimney caught on the roof and set the
"A use on lire aud in less than an hour
everything in it was gone. Mr. Pixies
loss is very severe but a great portion OF
it is covered by insurance. Not thing
was saved. Very few of his neigh bors
ever knew Of the disaster until Sunday
later in the day.
THE COLD AT QUITMAE.
QUfTMAN, Jan. 1l.-Th, coolest weather
experienced IN this county IN the past
quarter Of "A century by the oldest inhabl-
tants has been prevailing here for the
past two days. Thermometer registered
yesterday morning IL deg. above zero and
this morning II. Orange trees here are,
perhaps, dead, but it is not thought any
other fruiJ trees are Injured. Great appre-
hension Is feit for the oat crop, and it is
feared by most of me planters that it is
ruined. but 10 is difficult to tell definitely
until tne weather moderates. This will
b. a great loss to the farming interest,
and many VIII not be able 20 procure seed
10 SOW again. Vegetables not materially
damaged.
YANKEE BLIZZARD.
CANTON, GA, Jan. live are now en-
ipyinga tirst-c ASS YANKEE blizzard. Since
last Thursday the mercury has not been
far above zero, ana the wind has had the
velocity of Northern gale. This morn
ing the mercury settled down al . O'Clock
6 deg. below zero, and the wind higher.
Business OF an sorts suspended Such a
continued cold has never been witnessed
m this climate.
MONRoE's SILVER.
MONROE, Jan. 1.-THE cold weather
continues undated. Old citizens say
that today has been the C ldest ever
known here, the thermometer standing
de-. bslow zero. AlcOva river, one and
q half miles west Of here, Is frozen en-.
tirely over.
The Freeze at Augusta.
from tho Aayusfa fCa.l Chronicle.
Many people visited the river Monday
to .tness the strange sisht OF ice fields