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mm / i ' .** fH* Mgr] B ••'*>. # “ VOL I.—No. 88. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. OBME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING , (Saturday Excepted,) 1161 3BAY STREET, By JT. STB By. V The Recorder is served to subscribers, in every part ol the city by careful carriers. Communications must be accompanied by the name of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Remittance by Check or Post Office orders must be made payable to the order of the pub¬ lisher. We will not undertake to preserve or return .rejected communications. Correspondence on bocal and general mat> ters of interest solicited. On Advertisements running three, six, and twelve months a liberal reduction from our regular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressed, Re¬ corder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the pmee ol the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. *®-We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. OUR OWN. If I had known in the morning How wearily all the day The words unkind Would trouble my mind I said when I went away, I had been more careful, darling, Nor given you needless pain ; But we ‘‘vex our own” With look and tone We may never see again. For though in the quiet evening I may give you the kiss in peace, Yet it might be That never for me The pain at the heart should cease ! How many go forth in the moruing That never come home at night, And hearts have been broken, By harsh words spoken, That sorrows ne’er can set right. We have careful thought for the stranger, And smiles for the sometime guest, But oft for our own, TheTutter tone, Though we love "our own” the best. Ah ! lips with curse impatient! Ah ! brow with that look of scorn ! ’Twere a cruel fate, Were the night too late To undo the work cf the morn. —Australian Star. Bogardus , Great Feat. Breaking 3,000 Glass Balls in Succession— A Score Never Before Equaled. At 9: 10 Friday champion evening Capt . shot A. H. of Bogardus, the wing the world, accomplished at G ilmore’s Garden the wonderful feat of breaking 8,000 glass balls in succession, being the first half of his two days’ match of shooting at 6,000 balls. Capt. Bogardus made the match for three wagers: First, an even $1,000 that he would break 6,000 balls out of 6,200 ; second, $500 against $1,000 that he would break 6,000 out of 6,100, and, third, $100 against $1,000 that he would break 6,000 without a miss. Three thousand balls were to be shot at on each of the two days of the match. The Captain commenced his task at 11 o’clock Friday morning, Banks, the Forest scorer being Mr. T. C. of the and Stream , and the referees Dr. Tal¬ bot, of New York, and Miles Johnson, of New Jersey. Three Bogardus traps were in position, but only one was used. The distance was 15 yards, and at the same distance beyend the traps a large the wooden screen was erected to stop flight of the shot. This was covered ground with muslin, the so balls as to give they a good back¬ to as. were thrown toward it. Capt. Bogardus used his Scott gun, which he snot with when abroad, and for which he has two sets of barrels, one being of 10 and the othe.- 1*2 gauge. These barrels were used alter¬ nately for each 100 shots. The cart¬ ridges were made by Capt. Bogardus, an d contained four drams of Ditlmar powder and one and a half ounces of No* 8 tin coated shot. The Dittmar powder was used because it makes little or no smoke, while the tin coated shot causes no fouling of the barrels, and thus the latter were never obliged to be cleaned out during the entire day’s shooting. Very few persons were present when the match was commenced, and at no time during the day was the attendance large. Among freely the old marksmen present it was stated that the Captain had laid out for himself a task that he could not ac¬ complish. They were willing to allow that he might be ablrto break nearly 3,000, or perhaps that entire number, on the first day, l' but believed that the ftraiu upon hi is nerves and system would b® so great that he would be almost incapacitated the second day for shoo ting. The recoil of the gun 3,000 time*, the shooter's cramp, which seizes the left arm of the marksman after he has held the gun up to his shoulder for a great number of times, and the soreness of his thumbs caused by constantly cocking the gun, all these would tend, they said, to make the Captain a very sore man on the second day. this chance several bets made, Upon and the Captain’s condition were to¬ day when he goes to the score will tell the tale. Last night he was suffering somewhat from a sore shoulder, cramp in his left arm, and two sore thumbs, but he made light of them, and said that he would be as well as ever this morning. On the thirty-fifth hand ball the thumb-piece of the right off hammer short, of the Captain’s gun broke and the ragged edge left put the shoot¬ er to great inconvenience and cut his thumb terribly. It will be repaired before to-day’s shooting. The shoot¬ ing continued all day and evening with the exception of short delays for din ner and supper. The constant discharge of the gun and the ever-breaking and of the balls became very monotonous, the missing of a shot would have been hailed as a relief. During the morn¬ ing Dr. Carver put in an appearance, but only remained a short time. He claimed that he and Bogardus for had match now come tc an understanding the a between them, and that papers would be signed in a few garden days. lignt In the evening the was ed with gas and a calcium light; a band occasionally played inspiring airs, and there was more animation than during the day. When Capt. Bogardus and had the fired his last shot of the 3,000, referees announced that he had fairly broken every ball, there was hearty applause, and he was warmly congratu¬ lated. The Tramp Question. How Poughkeepsie’s Stone-yard System keeps Sturdy Beggars at a Distance. [From a regular cor espondent of the World.] Poughkeepsie, January 8. The tramp question has been sclved here with the stone-yard system. Attached to the City Almshouse is a quarry from which stone is taken in bowlders by pauper labor and conveyed to the stone yard of the institution, inclosed by a rough shed. This yard is supplied with wooden boxes which hold two, three or four feet of square of broken stone of the size of stove coal. Numerous sledge-hammers loose. dusk are also lying around At the loafing tramp ap¬ plies for shelter. He is told he can have a bunk for the night if he will break three feet square or stone. Seven times out of ten he refuses to do it. If he consents he is cocdacted to the stone yard, and when his task is finished he is given something to eat and a bed. In the morning he wants breakfast. “Will you earn it in the stone-yard?” asks the Superintendent. If he concludes to do so he is the again sent to the yard. If he breaks stone he is given his break¬ fast. In nine cases out of ten he never comes here again. In fact the records of Superintendent Dutcher show that the tramp applications for temporary relief at the City Almshouse since the opening fully 70 of th6 stone-yard has fallen off per cent. Indeed the whole tramp atth Poughkeepsie fraternity have come to know must be avoided. The stone yard system also works cerned. admirably If so far as the city poor is con¬ the head of a family applies for relief he is told he can have work in the stone yard at 50 cents per day till he can find something else to do, and many avail themselves of the op¬ portunity. there All the broken stone (and are thousands of wagon loads) is used to macademise the streets of the city, and it pays. Should every city in the State adopt the same system there would be a stampede of tramps to points outside of New York’s borders. Sanitary Influence on Trees. The value of tree? in a sanitary point of view in large and overcrowded cities can scarcely be over-estimated. Apart from the sense of belief and coolness which they impart, their infiuenee as purifiers of the atmosphere is almost incredible. It has been calculated that produce a good sized elm, plane or lime tree will 700,U00 leaves, having a united area of 200,000 square feet. The com¬ petent show suthority that above quoted proceeds to not only do the leaves ab¬ sorb deleterious gases, but they exhale oxygen. immense They benefit must, therefore, be of in overcrowded and unhealthy added districts. When to this ia that trees modify temperature, promoting warmth coolness in summer and in winter, also that they pu¬ rify the soil below as well as the atmos¬ phere above, we have a very powerful sanitary argument iu favor of tree planting. Three singular cases of defective vision land, N. are C. reported Three from children Ocracoke Is¬ of James Howard become totally blind each day immediately after the sun goes down. They retire, sleep soundly until after sunrise, when their tight is restored. SAVANNAH, MONDAY, JANUARY 13. 1879. BY TELEGRAPH. Another Defeat for the Ameer’s Troops. HILL TRIBES DISPERSED. The Pope’s Encyclical Letter. British Troops March Through Candahar. DEFEAT OF TSE AFGHAN TROOPS. London, January 12.—The Stand¬ ard's correspondent with the Quettah column telegraphs from Sifoodin, on Tuesday, as lollows: “One hundred and forty British cavalry yesterday defeated a body of Afghans, killing twenty-four and capturing nine. Twelve hundred Afghan cavalry were subse quently forced to abandon the heights by a cannonade. Seven of the British were wounded. It is thought this skirmish will cause the Afghans to de cide not to defend Candahar.” The Viceroy of India telegraphs Roberts’ con¬ firming the news of General victory over the hostile tribes, but says that owing to rumors of threatened at¬ tacks by the Mongols, General Roberts intends to return to Koorum, concern trating his foroes, which are now much scattered. Friendly letters have been received from several sirdars of Cabul. The general feeling in Afghanistan is very strong against the Ameer and Russia. The enemy opposing General Roberts ; n the fight on Taesday num¬ bered 6,000. The British loss was two killed and four wounded. Major Sandeman reports that au¬ thentic intelligence has been received that Afzah Khan has disbanded bis army and left Candahar. General Stewart was one day’s march from Candahar on the 8th of January. He expected no opposition. TURKISH MATTERS. A telegram from Constantinople says that matters relating to the cession ot Podgoritza have been satisfactorily ar¬ ranged , but, according to a Ragusa dispatch, the Albanian notables have declared their intention to oppose the cession by force. THX POPE’S ENCYCLICAL. The encyclical letter of the Pope ap. peals to the governments to restore to the Church the degree of liberty which would enable her to efficaciously em¬ ploy her influence in favor of society. The Italic says the encyclical letter is the commencement of a crusade against modern institutions. THE AFGHAN WAR. Calcutta, January 13.—Gen. Stew¬ art’s force has marched through Canda¬ har. Enigma. —The following beautiful enigma on the letter H, was written by Miss Catherine Fanshawe, in the Deepdene Album, in 1816, while on a visit to the late Thomas Hope, Esq., of Deepdene. It has often been ascribed to Lord Byron, and has been published in some cheap editions of his poems. We give it to our readers from the ori¬ ginal : THB LETTER H. ’Twas whispered in heaven, ’twas muttered in hell. And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth ’twas permitted to And rest, depth of the its the ocean presence con¬ test : ’Twill be found in the sphere when ’tis riven Be asunder, in the lightning and heard in the seen thunder. ’Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath, Attends at his birth, and awaits him at death ; Presides o’er his happiness, honorsand health; Is the prop of his house and the end of his wea 1th. In the heaps of the miser ’tis hoarded with care, by its prodigal heir, But is sure to be lost It begins every hope, every wish it must bound; toils; with the With the husbandman mon¬ arch is crowned. Without it the soldier, the sailor may roam, But woe to the wretch who expels it from home! Ia the whispers of conscience its voice will be Nor found, in the whirlwind of passion be e’en drowned. ’Twill not soften the heart; though deaf be the Twill-make ear, acutely and instantly hear; it But in shade let it rest like a delicate flower; Oh ! breathe on it softly—it dies in an hour. Tbe axe given to Mr. Gladstone on his sixty-ninth birthday is an exact copy of the American axe he uses in his woodcraft. The head is of solid sterling silver, weighing eighty ounces, and bears the following inscription: “Presented to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M P., by a few admiring friends. ’ The handle is of ebony, The axe is inclosed in a case of polished oak, lined with velvet. It is asserted that there are 100 Frankforters worth from $4,050,000 to $*,000,000 each, and 250 who are worth $1,000,000 and upward. The city is one of the great banking centres of the globe. estimated Its aggregate $200,000,000, banking capital is one-fourth of at which the famous more Roth- than | schilds, whose original and parent house is there, own and centrol. Lecture on the Virgin Mary. There was a very large audience in attendance at the Rev. Dr. Burton’s lecture on the Virgin Mary, at the Park church, last evening. The preliminary exercises included the singing of hymns, Scriptural readings reading and prayer. The New Testament was the history of the annunciation of the Angel Ga¬ briel to the Virgin Mary that she was to become the mother of Jesus, as re¬ corded in the first chapter of Luke’s Gospel. Dr. Burton said in his lecture that it was curious that we knew so lit¬ tle in regard to the Lord. early The life of Mary, the mother of our first men¬ tion of her life history in the New Tes¬ tament was the incident he had read from Luke’s Gospel. It was not strange, howeyer, that very early in the history of the Christian church reports respect¬ ing her childhood and later life should have sprung up and been extensively circulated. There were very many such traditions, which were not to be trusted for the most part, for oral tra* dition could not be relied upon as authentic history; and the stone ; ori¬ ginating greatly in altered such a source were sure to be and enlarged. Yet, when we come across traditions respect¬ ing the Virgin Mary that have been kept up in the same form for a long series of ages, we may believe some¬ thing in them, although the most of the only traditions relating to her are to be read oldest as traditions interesting stories. One of the of the mother of our Lord is the tradition that relates to her personal appearance, and describes her to have been a quiet woman of middle stature, with an oval face, pale brown hair and fair complexion. Very ancient, also, was the tradition respecting her marriage to Joseph the carpenter, a widower, out of whose rod, when be presented it to the high priest in the Temple, head sprang Joseph a dove which alighted on the of and then flew away into heaven. Another, and a beautiful tradition, was that which stated that after the crucifixion the mother of Jesus retired to the privacy with mil of her own chamber, where, a of one of the prophe¬ tical books of the Old Testament before her, believing that her' son would rise from the dead, she prayed earnestly for the accomplishment of the event, saying, “Return to me, thy mother, 0 my son." While thus occupied, the tradition relates, a company of angels saluted her as queen of heaven, and then a com of the patriarchs and prophets-saluted she would and blessed her; but for all this, not be comforted until she heard the voice of her divine sou, who appeared to her and tenderly embraced her, and showed her the wounds he had suffered, and after he had talked with her a while, returned to the Magdalene, garden, that he might meet Mary who next to his mother most needed consolation. Dr. Burton then inquired what we knew of the Virgin Mary from the New Testament record of her, and answered, first, bv saying that we knew she was of the tribe of Judah and of David’s regal line. We also knew that she was poor, but not extremely so, he thought; the her poverty incidentally the coming out in record of gift of two turtle¬ doves, or young pigeons, which she offer¬ ed in the Temple at her purification. Other personal characteristics were known respecting her from New Testa¬ ment statements. We know her to have been a woman of uncommon faith, as evidenced by her not doubting the message of the angel. The Messianic expectation was so general that man? a woman regarded it as a transcendent possibility other life that she might be¬ come the mother of the Messian. It was ten times more thrilling when that woman was called out by name, and she was certified of the fact that she was to be the mother of the long ex¬ pected one ; and this Jewish maiden might well discredit what she was told by Gabriel. What made the message still harder to believe was the fact that she was yet unmarried, and the vague language of the angel was in fact no explanation of how the event was to be accomplished. Yet notwithstanding the apparent told, she replied impossibility of what she was in words of loveliness and piety never excelled, “Be it unto me according to Thy word,” and in so saying she at once took her place as a martyr in the direct Abrahamic line.— Hartford Times. A lady in Lima, this State, who late ly accidentally broke the handle from a china cup, rashly exclaimed that she wished none of them had handles. Later on it became necessary for the serving maid to explain matters, and she proceeded to do so by saying: “In marm: and ye’s said and ye’d prefare seel to th e hanthels all off, ye have done it rale noice.” An artistic London tailor exhibits his cloth for sporting suits by turning hie window, placing stuffed partridges the and pkeasauts in it and displaying intend bales of cloth thereon, so that ing purchasers could judge for them selves how the goods would look when worn in the field. The Cold Wave. Some of u it# Causes “ which Produced It—Be- “ coming More Frequent. J [From the Phl.adelphla Time,.] < The climate of (he United States, and especially the Eastern portions ot it, is subject to great and rapid changes. That waves of heat and cold travel in certain directions, and often with in¬ creasing by the rapidity, is generally of caused course of chains mountains and the vicinity of oceans and lakes. In the States east of the Alleghenies clouds loaded with rain or snow gen¬ erally come from the East or North, while in the great valley of the Mis¬ sissippi the cold wave usually has its origin in the ice and snow-covered countries drouth directly north, and periods of by winds from the South. In European countries the cultiva¬ tion of the soil and the removal of timber have produced and the important has climatic changes, same been noticed in the United States. Oar winters, probably, occurred have not in so the much early severe weather as settlement of the continent, but it takes place more suddenly and accounted to a greater extent. This is easily timber, for, as the land, when denuded of presents less obstruction to the advance of storms, and also affords a greater diversity of exposure in its surface to the fays of the sun and becomes more readily and differently heated. As is well known, wind is nothing more than air rushing in to disturbed restore the by equilibrium expansion which has been caused by heat, and when the air thus moving is loaded with snow or other vapor this when meeting with air of a different temperature, condensation takes place and rain or snow is deposit ed. The influence of these sudden changes on health is a subject for the investigation of medical men and philanthropists. That it has much to do with causing physical infirmities can¬ not admit of a doubt. A change of forty degrees of temperature, such as occurred on the 2d inst., must aggra¬ vate «nll diseases of the pulmonary organs, and hence, perhaps, the extent and fatal effects of consumption in the Eastern and many of the Western States. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Memphis doctor has discovered that aa 80 foot tapeworm can be readi¬ ly brought to terms by the administra¬ tion of pumpkin seed. A statistical view of the battles fought by Austrian troops since 1495 has just been issued by the military authorities, which shows that in that period the aggregate losses in killed and wounded have amounted to 1,085, 931, including 261 generals and 17,0„6 officers, while the prisoners taken by the enemy were 56 generals, 4,174 other officers and 289,041 non-commis¬ sioned officers and men. Ex-Governor Foote, Superintendent people of the Mint, is annoyed older because than will insist that he is be really is. “Sir,” he is quoted assaying the other day, “I was born in 1804, and consequently am not 78 years of age. Neither am I so infirm in body as some people have represented. Why, sir, I am accustomed to walk every morning from Alexandria to Washing¬ break¬ ton, about eight miles, before fast.” A new gate will shortly be opened through the walls of Rome and a new avenue will be laid out. Earthworks, already begun at what is known as the Vigna Venturi, have led to the discov ry of the pavement of the old Via Ti burtina lined with tombs of the first century and even earlier. Only one of them ha3 escaped destruction. It con¬ tains a coffin with the skeleton of a lady, with gold earrings, necklace and signet ring, who belonged to the Statiar family. Five hundred coach builders have struck in Liverpool against an increase in their hours from fifty to fifty-six and a half per week. Similar strikes have occurred in Yorkshire. many large Five towns hun¬ in Lancashire and dred shipwrights in the Middleboro shipyard struck against a reduction of wages. The men were paid off and the yard closed. The Britania iron works at Middleboro have been closed, throwing two hundred men out of em ployment. The Midland Railway em ployes at Carlisle have yielded, The constitutional convention of California has before it a proposition the fol- to incorporate in the constitution lowing clause: “Nor shall any stock board or stock exchange, or other asso ciation for the of buying and selling of the capital stock a corporation, be per mitted to exist.” There is a strong party in the convention in fav.>r ot the measure. It has been strongly advo cated by Mr. Cross, a miner, from a mining county, and Judge Terry, who denounced stock gambling as “the scource of more poverty, death crime, and suffering in California than other one thing.” * PRICE THREE CENTS. To Rent* O FI NT.—A small Farm, on the Whita containing A Bluff Road, (6% miles from lana, Savannah,) 15 acres of cleared under gKk'SS'shSp*" S^SS^SFVSt^SSff^S son and Charlton streets. decSi Business Cards* FRANOELIUS’ COPYING INK. In Pint and Half Pint Bottle*. Does net mould or thicken when exposed to the air. Saves the Pen. Copies excellently, C_ TRY IT. , F. BINGEL, WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS. Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer os draught. hand. Free Lunch. Fresh Oysters always on 21 Jefferson st., oorner Congress street lane.__ mchlO-Iy C IGAR rer Snuff, of FACTORY.—F. Cigars, Pipes, and dealer KOLB, in manuiactu- Cigars, To¬ Street. bacco, Ac. Call at 121 Broughton 23 gy VAI. BASLE It’S WINES . LIQUORS, SEGARS and TOBACCO The best Lager Beer in the city. The w ell " known TEN PIN ALLEY reopened. Lmw* Square every day House, from 11 to 1 o’clock. At the Mai 174 BRYAN ST. Savannah, GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, &C. The celebrated Joseph Schlitz’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah. Oa. FREE LUNCH every day from 11 to 1. r-z31-Jv Clothing* The Popular Clothing House Of B. H. LEVY, /~KFFERS for the next thirty days his entire y / stock of all styles Men’s, Youths’ and Children’s CLOTHING, at the following re-, 201 duced Men’s prices: r* Cassimere Suits, dark or light, solid colors or striped, formerly sold at $10 00. > now ?12 50. Dress Diagonal Coats and Vests, ranging k from S6 00 and upwards. 500 pairs Cassimere Pants, different colors and 1500 Children styles, ranging from S2 00 and upwards. wards. Great and Boys’ suits from SO 00 and up¬ (dUB 300 Overcoats reduction in Overcoats! at the low figure of S3 00 and up- $ warde, must be closed; out, rather than t carry over the season. Anyone wishiii ; to purchase will find it profi table to call ( this popular Clothing House. B. H. LEVY. jan3 Corner Congress and Jefferson sp. Stoves and Tinware* JjxsiS 353 % A) l THOMAS J. DALEY, PRACTICAL TINNER and dealer In STOVES House Furnishing Goods, Willow and Wooden Ware, manufacturer of Ware, Tin Roofing, Gutters, Leaders, At* 177 Congress Street, GEOf» £A novI0-6tn Plumbing and Gas Fitting* CHAS. E. WAKEFIELD, Plumbing, Gas & Steam Fitting, 48 BARNARD STREET, one door north ot South Broad treet. Bath Tubs. Water Closets, Boilers, Ranges, Joboing Promptly attended to. Also, Agent of “BACKUS WATER MOTOR.’ T. J. McELLIN, PLUMBIN AND FITTING. street, One door North of State st. N.B. Houses fitted with gas and water at all notice, Jobbing promptly attended to, work guaranteed, at low prices. 83R:Zgy Carriages A. K. WILSON’S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, Corner Bay and West Broad sts. CARRIAGE REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay and Montgot*ery streets. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. The largest establishment in the city. I keep a full line of CarrLxftes, Kockaways, Buggies, Falling Spring and Farm Wagons, Canopy an d Top Baby Canlages, also a full line of Carriage and Wagon Material. I have In my lactory the raoat skillful me¬ will Any be orders for new work, and re¬ executed to give satisfaction at short notice. may!2-ly CENTRAL HOUSE AND RESTAURANT. 158 and 160 Bryan Street, OPPOSITE THE MARKET, GEORGIA. JAMES LANE, Proprietor. The interior of the building has been reno¬ vated tnroughoul, and is n-udy to receive on and or Upholstery about January 1st, WJ; tbe Fur¬ pnblic being all new; and can rely drink. upon the best the market to eat or Terms $1 OO Per Dav Boflrd and Lodging by the day o ; week at an hours, open day and night; winee, y