Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-13

ENIERCURY GOES ANOTHER DE
GREE NEARER ZERO.


habitant Hunting for Colder Day
than Yesterday-PeopIe who Make the
Most OF the Cold spell While Is Lasts.
Mercury lowered its record 1 degree
yesterday, aud went down 10 y. The
AChauces are that it will not 90 any lower.
The Signal Service men said last night
that the cold wave WAS broken in the
Northwest, and that the temperature had
risen between 30 and 40 deg. there since
Monday night. At Bismarck, Oak, it
was y deg. below zero on Monday morn
sing, and yesterday morning it was IL
above. DeadwOod, next TO Key West
was, at O'clock yesterday morning, the
varmest place in the United States.
lfthe cold weather lasts much longer
Aefe Sayannahians will want to emigTate
10 Dakota. The highest that mercury
went yesterday was 30 deg. II tried hard
10 get up 70 81 but hadn't legs enough.
AT IL O'Clock last night IL had gone down
to %. The Signal officer looked so
smiling when he took the observation that
mercury couldn't help stopping to look at
him ana then made a fresh start down
again. At midnight 1t halted
awhile, and the chances are that it will
he several degrees warmer to-day than it
was yesterday.
The signal Service men said that
the crest OF the cold wave passed here
might before last, or early yesterday
E3norning. The ponds were covered with
skaters all day. The Ogeechee canal was
1rOZen over, aud the boy that had pair Of
bskates. and knew how to use them, was
scuttiag grape vines and pigeon wings and
Shaping stars to the admiration Of the
crowds that gathered on the banks. Many
of them had never seen pair Of skates
Before. The ice IN some places
was not quite strong enough to
bear up the skaters, and several broke
s1hrOagh, Ope Ventures0me young man
tsat down with such force that the ice
scracked and splinteTed under him. Two
Eothers went to his assistance and also
went through An three finally managed
40 scramble out. The canal, ia many
places, is deep, and skating is attended
with a good deal of risk. A good many
Rls4t on skates tor the first time just TO
see how IL goes. One young man thought
6t would be lots Of fun. lie managed 20
borrow a pair and finally got them on
after trying for fully half an hour. He had
30t eOt, more than dozen steps when he
Gu 1esgild pigeon wing, and sat down on
5lis derby hat till il looked like a closed
laeeOrdeOn.- ty6e trial was enough, and he
scrambled up the bank and started for
home. The ponds south Of the city were
wherever there was patch OF ice it was
turned into a rink. II mercury continues
10 Turk in its little bulb the whole CITY
will be frozen up.
Gas mebers all over the city we're frozen,
and kerosene aud candles were popular
last night. The gas Otice was Desieged
with inquiries. Nearly everybody had
something to complain about. lit wasn't
The gas it was something else. The coal
men we're on the jump all day. one
dealer said he had more orders than he
can tll in week, and was tying 10 get
extra teams and drivers TO supply the de-
mand.
The truck farmers are anxious. Most
OF them think that every thing has been
killed. The cabbage crop, it is thought,
will be a total failure.
Reports from South Carolina state that
the entire crop on EdistO, Wadmalaw
aBd Johns Islands has been killed. All
OF the plants had nOt been set out, but at
least 400 acres had been planted. and the
destruction of the crop Is complete
Planters who were in the city Yesterday
said that the freeze has killed everything.
Ifs still early enough, however, to
plant another crop. The Florida growers
whose crops were killed will probably re-
plant and will reach the markets at ABOUT
The same time as the Georgia growers.
The competition some planters think
wild be so great that there will be very
little profit and few farmers in this sec
ton will attempt to raise another crop
this season.
There was very little in the market yes
terday. Vegetables were frozen, and
whatever there was sold at high prices
The freeze in Florida has sent up the
price OF oranges among the small dealers.
All farm work has been suspended I'M
Nell the frost is out OF the ground. In the
nIfU II 81 Ia
Is being done. The cold was so severe
yesterday that the convict gang was taken
into camp until the weather moderates.
Along the WharVes the lOngshoremen
managed TO keep warm, and in spite OF
the cold vessels were loaded with little
delay.
People coming into the city from the
country say that everything is frozen up.
Streams are frozen over in many places,
and vegetation has been killed. The old
est inhabitant tried hard 10 lind a colder
spell, but couldn't recOllect any that he
WAS sure OF. Every body talked about the
weather and wondered when there is go
ing to be a change. The Signal Station
has been besleged with inquiries ever
since the cold wave arrived.
The fountain in the savannah Hospital
grounds was g beautiful sight yester-
day, and was visited by hundreds
of people 1t resembled an iceberg.
FROM the SIDES or the fountain the urip-
ping water had turned into glittering
jcicles that sparkled in the cold rays OF
the sun. The basin is q solid mass Of ice.
and above IL the iron frame work is com
pletely developed, forming an immense
pyramid. In order to prevent the iouu-
tain from being stopped with zoe the
waterh has been kcptunning continuously
z since Friday night wnen the freeze began.
Jt Is one OF the most novel sights that has
ever been seen IN the city, and the
chances are that il will be a good many
years before anything like IL will be seen
here again.
SO far as tits known there has been
very little suffering thus far among the
poorer classes. The charitable societies
have been AT work in quiet way looking
after the poor and relieving the wants OF
those who are IN need of assistance.
james Taylor. an old cOlOred man, liV-
ing at the corner OF Montgomery and An
dersOn streets, was found dead ia his
room yesterday morning. Coroner Dixon
was Motif I'd but did not hold an inquest.
Death Is supposed 10 have resulted from
old age and cold. The Coroner found IN
TaylOr's room an enormous stock OF sec
ond hand clOthes. Two trunks were
packed full aud line stretched across
the room was thickly hung with old gar