The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-01
new YEAR HERE on THE.
It's Arrival NOt Delayed by Disturbing
Weather Elements.

a General Holiday to Be Observed,
with All Banks and Public Buildings
/ Closed-Colored People 70 Celebrate
/ Emancipation Day With Parade and
/ Exercises in the Park Eztension-The
Old Year Ushered Out With Ceremo-
nies-The Plumbers New Years Gift
and the Eew-Leaf-Turning Fiend on
Deck.
The outlook for New Years weather
/ this morning while not the brightest, is
/ encoura ging compared with what has been
i'm order for the last two or three days.
. The forecast is for fair but colder
weather this morning. with continued
low temperature to-day and tonight. and
northwest winds.
To-day's cold weather is expected to
come from a second cold wave which
moved southeastward into Texas yester-
Gay morning, and is predicted to move
eastward over the gulf and southern
states, bringing with it freezing weather
The day as usual viii be general holi-
day with the business houses Of Savan-
nah as well as the public buildings. The
Cotton Exchange and Board Of Trade were
closed yesterday and will be closed to-
day also. Christmas and New Years
eve are holidays with the exchanges in the
large market centers, and there are no
market reports sent out. just as is the
case on the holidays themselves.
The officers in the custom house, court
mouse ana city exchange will take a day
Off, and the legal holiday notice will be
posted on the doors of all the banking
institutions in the city. Many Of those
who have the whole day to themselves
viii spend their time in the woods with
gun and dog, and there is many a good
shot in the city.
New Years hops we're in order last night.
Division No. / of the Ancient order of
Hibernians celebrated the occasion with
grand dance and supper at the Hiber-
man han Music was furnished by Ros-
enfeld's orchestra. The arrangements
for the dance were in good hands and 1t
was well carried out, supper being served
Just as the clock on the city exchange was
Ginning the hour for the entrance of the
year 1895. The exchange clock got it right
TOO, or pretty nearly so, as Savannah has
not yet given up sun time.
The Forsyth Social Club too. was cele-
brating the advent Of the new year. and
many dancer made merry at the Catholic
Library hall as a last farewell TO DEPART
Ing time and a welcome to the approach
ing season. Refreshments We're served
and the evening and morning were made
pleasant ones for an hour or two of the
new year went flying by before adjourn
ment was in order.
Elsewhere too, watchers made the hours
merry until the flight Of time announced
the new arrival, and unlike "Puck's un-
HAPPY Iather' they had the satisfaction
or knowing IL could not be twins.
The day with the colored people will
no doubt be a joyous one. They will
celebrate II as emancipation day and
nave mapped out an elaborate pro-
gramme for the occasion The First
Georgia battalion win assemble at Lib
erty and East Broad streets at 10 O'Clock
and commanded by Col. John H. De-
VeauN will march through the principal
streets of the city, followed by the civic
societies. At the park there will be a
dress parade and a programme Of exer-
cises in celebration OF the day The
emancipation proclamation win be read
and addresses will he delivered by sew
eral well known colored divines There
VIII be eight companies in the parade be-
side civic societies.
AT several of the colored churches last
! night the members sat and counted the
| hours and then minutes as the long hand
on the dial approached the midnight hour.
I ~ NiN SN1A uoiAct lney departed IN
/ peace to begin the new, perhaps as they
had lived the old.
New Years resolutions are somewhat
| out OF date, and the new leaf has been
| so badly thumb-nailed and dog-eared that
1 1t can hardly claim longer that distinc-
! tive qualification. The farce of the new
/ leaf-turning will become boldly apparent
/ when, an hour or two after il Is turned
| the habitual swearer gets his plumbers
! bill, and the occasional drinker who has
| impulsvely decided to quit finds himself
! socially seated next to a bowl of New
Years punch
The first Of the year and first of the
! month, in view of the recent visit of the
freeze, will bring no doubt many New
Years present into happy households. in
the shape of plumbers bills, and Puck
or Judge win probably put it in some
such familiar shape as this;
Mr.. Hounghusband-AIy dear, our firm
was forced to make an assignment to-
day and we are without dollar in the
! world.
Mrs. WHAT Has VANDERBILT fore
! closed his mortgage?
Mr.. Y. 80 No; worse than that The
plumber sent in his bill by the sheriff
| with instructions to collect at once.
The old year was rung and fired out
/ of Savannah last night, and the new
one was ushered in with very much the
| same ceremonies At eight bells by the
marine time-piece there were no less
than fifty of them ringing from one end Of
| the citys water front to the other, and
I church bells all over town told the same
/ story. Cannon crackers were booming
here and there, and altogether 1894 was
made ancient history with very impress