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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1879)
I> A. I L Y EVENING JL \NNAH tcffn fYj m 'nflnl ECORDER. VOL I.—No. 103. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) At 161 STREET, By J. STERN. The Recorder Is served to subscribers, in every part ot 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 Local 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 uace oi the Saturday evening edition which will make six full issues for the week. fllS-AVe do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents, Unrecorded History. Benedict Arnold’s Narrow Escape from Dfatli at the Hands of a Woman. [New York Times.] * Tne recent death of Mrs. Ann Hin man Kellogg, of Fairfield, Conn., in the nint oy—third year of her age recalls an unrecorded incident of the war ol the revolution. Mrs. Kellogg was the daughter of Captain Elisha Hinman, of the United States Navy, and her mother was the only American who remained in New London when the town was destroyed by the traitor Benedict Arnold in 1781. At that time Captain Hinman’s ship was hour ly expected to arrive at London, and it was hoped that he might come in time to save the town. Mrs. Hinman was well acquainted her with Arnold, and as he had often dined at house, had been a friend of her husband. In duced by anxiety for her husband’s safety, she remained after all others had fled, and watched the entry of the British from the doorway of her house, As Arnold rode up he saw and salu ted her, and said that if she would point out her own property it should be spared. She pointed out the houses of several of her neighbors as her own and thus saved them from destruction, Arnold remained on horseback near her house nearly aU day notwithstanding the battle that was raging at Fort Gris wold, on the Groton side of the river, where the tall monument commemorat ing the event now stands. Three times were the British driven down the hill by the deadly fire from the fort. Then the ammunition of its defenders became exhausted and they were obliged to mand° d of' ^ “party the desperafe storming <£fenje enraged at the of the ^h^alh^ CoL Ledyard replied, “I did, but you do now,” at the same time surrendering his sword. The officer received the sword and instantly plunged it into the heart of the gallant Colonel. An American officer standing beside his Colonel, snatched his own sword from its scabbard and in a mo ment the cowardly Briton lay dead be Bide hie victim. An mdiscrimmate massacre ot all witlnn the tort followed and thirty ot the wounded Americans were piled into a wagon that was rolled down a steep hillside to the bottom, where it was dashed in pieces against a tree. Then hurried preparations were made to evacuate their position by 'he British, Arnold having learned of the expected arrival of Captain Hinman. Mrs Hinman, having housetop, witnessed these outrages from her became so incensed against the traitor that iJie huri iedly descended from the roof, tuck a musket from a closet where it l ad beer left the day betore by an American sold er, and leveled it at Arnold as he sal i n his horse in front ot the house Tali ng a long, steady aim, she pulled the ’rigger, but the piece missed fire, Hearing the snap of the lock, Arnold turr. id and asked her what that noise was With great presence ot mind she bad dropped the gun, so that he did not see it, ami she answered that it was the breaking ot a chair. This incident formed the subject ot a painting by Huntington, the artist, whose wife is a grand niece ot Mrs. Hinman. This painting is now in the possession ot Mr. lhornas Day, ol Ler— gen Point, New Jersey. In it Mrs. Hinman is represented as leveling musket at Arnold trom a window of her house, and the burning The remains town is seeu in the background. and Mrs. Hwiman of both Captain now lie in the Cedar Grove Cemetery at Jsew London, where their monument is oue of the finest to be seen. A marriage has just been celebrated in Nevada and elsewhere, where the bride stood in Nevada aud the groom in Utah, and the officiating clergyman straddled the line. The Breaded Cholera. Foreign advices gives the distressing intelligence that the cholera is steadily increasing in Asia Minor. This disease works sad havoc in low and marshy re¬ gions, such as border the deltas of large rivers, and among the squalid and ill fed poor in large cities, In Georgia it crept out, some years before the war, upon the rice plantations of the Ogee chee and other rivers, destroying and many of the slaves of their owners, was also very prevalent in Nashville and other cities situated in the limestone region of the West and South. It is a terrible malady, running its course with fearful rapidity unless promptly stated taken in hand. We have seen it that cholera travels at the rate of about fifteen miles per day when fairly established in any locality. This fatal sickness originated in the low and crowded districts near the mouth of the Ganges, where it existed in an epidemic form for centuries. Not before 1817 did it leave those filthy fastnesses and begin to carry death and consternation among the nations the earth. In August of that year it appeared at Calcutta, thence extending to Madras, Ceylon and Malacca. Two years later it invaded Burrnah and swept off lpO, 000 inhabitants. China, Borneo and the PhilJipine Isles were next devasta¬ ted. Then in 1821 it followed the river courses and highways to Persia, Arabia and Asia Minor. In 1823, after an interval of two years, it started again, and ran riot in Central Asia. Afterwards for several years in regular succession this horrible pestilence swept with the besom of de¬ struction, Southern Russia, Moscow and Central Europe. It was not until October, 1831, that England was visited by cholera. Early m the following year it prevailed in Edinburg, London, Paris and other Its advent into America was made at Quebec on the 8th of June, 1832, and two days aftor Montreal was visited. Then skipping over the inter vening country, two months after, New York was horrified by the appearance this awful carrying disease, and which spread rapidly, terror havoc into most of the large cities of the Union. In 1834, it revisited this country,and this is the last time that the disease, in well-defined and epidemic lorm, has been among us, though there have been mild visitations ot a complaint much resembling it. England We read that in 38.5 per cent ot the cases proved this fatal, and the 58.6 in Russia. In country deaths ranged trom attacked 40 to 50 per mala- cent, of all who were by the dy. The disease rages with equal virulence in summer and winter. The majority of the cases terminate in about twenty-four hours. and Happily, cholera have is not contagious physicians SSb the paints without ^er^mnginju^ excULent and Lupuhu, cleanliness &re the surest preventives. God grant that this terrible plague may not be superadded to all the suffering and mis cry which now affiict so large a portion of Christendom .—Macon Tel. and Mes. -- Substitute for Constitutional Amendments. TUe fo!lowi & is the fuU tslt of the osltlon ... reported trom „ the 0 Senate . P ro P judiciary committee as a substitute for the constitutional amendment on the same subject proposed by the joint res olution which passed the House on a suspension the session. ol rules on the last day of last Article XVI. No claim against the United States shall ever hereafter be sustained or allowed by Congress of any department officer, or court of the United States, or money paid by the United States, or from their tunds, j whether as damages, compensation, or j otherwise, for or account ol any proper i ty, real, personal or mixed; taken, used, injured or destroyed by the United i States troops, or by, or through any ; officer, civil or military, or other per sons, by acting or professing the l_ rated to act j or authority of States or .of their enemies,or taken used, injured, j or whatever, destroyed from any other causes | late during the existence ot the i insurrection or rebellion against the Government of the - United States unless the owner thereof, aud in case ot any authority co-operation of its Government and management, was during all the time of such insurrection or rebellion loyal in fact to the Govern ment ot the United States, and 'gave | neither aid nor encouragement to the enemy. No pension, bounty, grant I pecuniary indemnity or pecuniary efit shall ever be paid, provided for by or under authority ot Congress or any fetate tor, or on account of any military ; or other service, or injury suffered iu hostility to the Government of the Uni ted States. No pardon or j past or future shall have auy effect to taffe any person, ease or claim out ‘ the purview of this auicle. SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 1879. BY TELEGRAPH. THE FRENCH SITUATION. Outrage by a Band of Tramps ARRESTS FOR VIOLATION OF FLECTION LA IPS Election of a Bulgarian Prince. THE EGYPTIAN FAMINE. Cairo, Jan. 29. —Accounts from up p the er Egypt famine give heartrending details of there. THE FRENCH SITUATION. Paris, Jan. 29.—M. Dufoure this morning Mahon. had a conference with Mac It is generally believed that the Marshal persists in his refusal to sign the decree. The Ministers will meet to- morrow at Versailles prior to the opening of the Chambers to delib¬ erate uprn the situation. WHOLESALE ARRESTS -FOR VIOLATION OF ELECTION LAWS. New Orleans, Jan. 29.—Marshal Wharton continues making arrests in various whom parishes of parties against true bills have been found by the United States grand jury for violation of the election laws. Twenty-nine prisoners are expected to arrive to-night in charge of a deputy marshal. It is stated that one hundred more will ar¬ rive in the next five days. POPE LEO’s ENCYCLICAL LETTER. New York, January 29-Some of the morning papers publish the text of Pope Ws encyclical J letter. It i is said to have been written by thej ! Pontiff himself, and the London Stand -1 | ard’s Rome correspondent says; “It is, a great subject of discussion to-dajr j Much of it gives reasou to believe that, there is to be a great change from Pius the Ninth’s and policy. Socialists, Com¬ munists Nihilists are anathematiz¬ ed as a death dealing plague that is creeping into all the fibres of human society.” THE CONTESTED CASE OF FINLEY VS. BISBEE. Washington, January 29. The House Elections Committee to-day con¬ sidered the Florida contested case of Finley vs. Bisbee. The majority favor unseating Bisbee, and will soon report to the House, though the late date of the report may prevent action by the House before the expiration of Congress. Finley has strong friends, though, who will see that even tardy justice shall be accorded him. GAMBETTA ON MACMAKON’s THREATEN EI) resignation. p January 29 —The f Jimuhlim,, £ " or * indent w 0 ethe threat f MacMahons resignation as a scarecrow , , , nation ” outrages by tramps * A -» Januai 7 “f ram P® attempted to wreck the mail train from Harrisburg yesterday afternoon by placing obstructions on the track. They afterwards visited the station and *Mpm**n. were “ade. * ^ Bulgarian assembly to meet next Monday. Constantinople, January 29.—The opening of the Bulgarian Assembly of Notables at Tirnova for the election of a Prince, is now fixed for the 22d of February. ———' m -w - AY here To llliltoesWere First Eaten, It is a Newport tradition that to matoes were first eaten in this country in about 1823, in a house still standing on the corner of Corne and Mill streets, About that time there came here an eccentric Italian painter, Michaele Felice Corne. He bought a stable on the street now called for him, fashioned it into a died. dwelling house, and there lived and Previous to his com and long alter, tomatoes, then called “love apples,” were thought to be poisonous. A gentleman told me to-dav that in 1819 he brought them from South Carolina and planted them ! in his yard, curiosities where they were looked. upon as and prized for their | i beauty. They became later, however, | a very the small unpleasant boy. A missile charming in the old hands lady ; of also told me that in 1824 she was j sitting with a sick person when some one brought the invalid as a tempting delicacy some tomatoes. “Would you , | poison the astouisked her ?” was attendants; the exclamation and of yet: Corue in his section of the town had been serving them for a year regarded previous, As late as 1835 they were as poisonons throughout Connecticut. — m m m- - In a few days the china, plate md table lmeu of Louis Napoleon are to be sold at auction, and the property of an ‘Emperor is to go to the highest Old Maids and Old Bachelors. Old maids are useful. They can cook, , take of sick people, sew, care children, nurse and generally play the piano. Old bachelors are useless. They do not even know how to drive nails or to split wood. Old maids are amiable. If one wants and anything kindness done that requires patience of heart, a single lady is sure to be the one to do it. Old bach¬ elors are ill-natured. They desire to be as disobliging as possible. They snub children, despise babies, hate young mothers, and are always so bus¬ ily employed in seeing that other peo¬ ple take good care of them, that they have not a moment to give to any one else. Old maids are nice-looking, and “young for their years.” Old bache¬ lors generally have red ncses, rheuma¬ tism in their knees, bald heads, and mouths that turn down at the corners. Old maids can make a home of me little room, and cook delicious mea.s for one over the gas jet, in cunning lit lie tin kettles, besides making all their own wardrobe. Old bachelors need an army of tailors, waiters, cooks, distant relatives and hotel landlords to keep them comfortable. When old maids are ill, they tie up their heads in pock¬ et-handkerchiefs, take homoepathic pel¬ lets out of two bottles alternately, and get well again. When old bachelors are ill, they go to bed and send for four doctors; have a consultation, a mantled piece full of black bottle?; all the ami¬ able married men who belong to tha club to sit up with them at night, be “ d « a a h ir f. d ^rse; they telegraph to heir 1 ' el , ^ lons . d ? their he \[ t0 ess the world With the idea that L they are dying. When an old maid travels, 6he takes sandwich, a piece of pound cake and bottle of lemonade in a hand-basket, arid lunches comfortably in the carriage. an old bachelor travels, he or¬ a dinner in courses at the station, and raves because he has not time to it before the “fifteen minutes for refreshments” are over. Old maids drink weak tea, and it their headaches. Old bachelors drink strong liquors, which give them headaches. Old maids are modest ; they think their youth is over, and their beauty gone. If, after a while, some autumnal love is given them, they take it as a of miracle, and hope people will not laugh at them bachelors for “marrying so late in life.” Old believe that all women are in love with them, and that they must carefully guard themselves from tramps laid to inveigle them into matrimony. A Cunning Arrest. A French Marshal once defined Algerian warfare as “a succession of tricks,” and the inhabitants of the Sa¬ hara border have certainly few equals in cunning. On one or two occasions, however, they have found themselves fairly overmatched by the disciplined craft of civilization, as the following story sufficiently shows: “Some little time ago a friendly Arab was found murdered near one of the French military posts, and sus¬ picion at onceiell upon the sheikh of a neighboring tribe, who was known to be the dead man’s mortal enemy. As he was a man of proverbial courage aud ferocity, as well as extremely popu¬ lar with his own tribe, there seemed to be no way of taking him except by armed torce, which was thought too hazardous in the disturbed state of the country. A veteran French agent, however, undertook the difficult task, and, riding alone into the Arab camp, saluted the shiekh, with whom he was personally acquainted, and informed him, with a R reat ell0W of righteous indignation, that a vagabond Arab, from some small tribe which the shiekh held in special contempt, had dared to accuse the latter ot stealing a camel from him. It Si ‘id he, the shiekh would condescend t0 accompany him to the fort, the charge the slanderer might punished be at once disproved,'and as he deserved. tl je haughty Arab, stiwg to the ‘RBck insult, by hurried the mere thought of such an of! with him, accompani ^ 0D| y t w ° followers, and, being confronted with his supposed accuser, a t once proved an alibi. Jnst then the !renckman looked ^ him searchingly in the face, and said, with startling suddenness : "V here were you on sod* a day, at such a time ' (naming °t the murder.) The cuiprit, thunderstruck at finding himself so unexpectedly entrapped, betrayed kts guilt by a tew incoherent words, aud was instantly arrested and sentenced.” “ “• A , e we *‘ Known down town land- , “ a r f ^ | n S, ' A \ ork A l Stewarts * ' - 1 , converted f ', 01 ' 6 ’ t0 into r. ^9. ,un a * te r the style ot the Astor House. In three chambers of the Vatican the possessions of Pope Pius IX have been set out and are being bought by people forms of foreign countries, and of van of religion. The Mormon Woman’s Argument. The J judiciary committee of the house , have , been pathetically . .. appealed , , to , . J oy delegation , . of Mormon against, women, the enforcement of the anti-polygamy law of 1872. Mrs. Wells, one of the speakers, said : “We have been driven westward from State to State, and at last took refuge United on soil not belonging to the States, but Mexico. We were thought unfit to live under the free American flag, and we took that wil¬ derness in whieh to build up a civili¬ zation of our own, and to worship God according to our consciences. When the United States took possession of our territory we were again hunted down by Gentiles who followed us there,and who saw that we had comfortable homes, good husbands, and were rear¬ ing children in our faith—good child¬ ren, owned and blessed by their kind fathers. These men have stirred up the Christian women of our country, who, in appealing to you to further afflict us, know not what they do. We have no dram-shops, no paupers, no outcast women, no illegitimate children. Enforce this cruel law, let the Gentiles rule that territory, and you must build prisons for our husbands ; and we— what shall we be before your eyes?” Mrs. Williams, a daughter of Brig-, ham Young, said: “My father, Brigham Young, loved his children, owned them and provided for them. Will the government of the United States make these women outcasts who are now honored wives and mothers, grown gray in rearing sons good citizens of the United States ? We thought that the constitution of the United States would protect us in the free exercise of religion, and that the law would be pronounced unconstitutional. Now otherwise, that the Supreme Court has for decided we come to you protec¬ tion. We are United States citizens, born on American soil. We are a strength to this nation. Nowhere will you find braver or truer men than our husbands and the sons we are rearing.’ Mr. Conger asked what definite action this committee was requested to take. The reply was: “ You are this requested to frame a better bill than now on the calendar of the Committee on Ter¬ ritories, which panishis all Mormon women for no crime—they have not married several husbands—and which punishes all Mormon men for the only redeeming feature in their peculiar in¬ stitution—claiming and recognizing these women as wives. That is the crime men see in Utah—not living with several women, but honoring them and claiming them which as wives. Enact 'power a law, if at all, will have to protect these women and their children, and repeal whatever does them wrong.” History and Curiosities of Ad¬ vertising. It is an old custom. Doubtless it has existed in some form or other ever since men began to buy and sell. We have positive records that it was practiced more than 3,000 which years ago, the for the papyrus slips upon ancient Thebans advertised their run away slaves and offered rewards for their recapture have been dug up among the ruins of Thebes. The pub¬ lic crier, kerux, was the advertising medium of the Greeks. In this respect the natives of tie a girt Nantucket have caught up with the Athenians of the fourth Glympiad; in all other be essentials relegated of civilization they must to the remote and shadowy time dimly reflected in Hesiod’s “Theogony,” which relates the genesis of the gods them¬ selves. The crier of Athens was accompanied J by a slave, him’the who, on a soft-tened pipe, g ave pitch in which his an nouncements were to be shouted. The f ine ear8 0 f the Greeks would brook no boarse bawlings, and correct pitch and accent were exacted of Eupolis, who cried salt in the streets, as rigidly as ot Aeschines, who declaimed againt CtesU pbon in the Assembly. According to Apuleius, Venus was accustomed to offer sweet kisses as a reward to who ever would bring back thi fugitive Eros. Herculaneum and Pompeii, over¬ taken by the volcano’s wrath in the tide of their proud, for luxurious, Bin— Hfe ( and sealed up 1,800 years, have transmitted to us countless valu a ble and instructive relics of Roman civilization and society in A. D. 79, and, amongothers, theiradvertisements, vvhich, by their number and character s h 0 w that the business advantages of i the practice were appreciated by men of those cities. The Romans bor rowing trom the Greeks, had on their houses a bulletin board—a white fa lief or piece of waU left while—ca.; 1 «». ft ibu m , upon which were paiuied an n0U ncementa of their aiiairs. - w m At a coroner’s inquest in a Chinese physician of high repute hat^a among his countrymen testified t man has seven lungs. Thfi--lica! l t > ,- ne said, usually has five holes in it, and ' its principal is “to catch air iu." use . PRICE THREE CENTS . I Boarding. ~ - VX /^looi) week. BOARD AND LODGING $5 00 per eod-Jan per 00 bryan st., 17-lm Below Lincoln, —------ To Rent. T O Blurt' RENT Hbad, A small (0V£ miles Farm, from on savannah) the White good containing 15 acres of cleared lanu, under Blacksmith fencing, Shop. with good Can Dwelling, rented .Store and be at the low¬ est Mr. terms, Mehrtens’ by applying to C. H. G. WTTTCAMP at C. Grist Mill, corner Jeffer¬ son and Charlton streets. deo31 Wanted W ANTED, Apply at A the GOOD Recorder SERVANT office. GIRL. W ANTED-Two stove, for a Professional Furnished ROOMS man and with his a sister, located. with privilege of cook stove. Centrally References exchanged. Address J. E. C. 130 HULL ST., Savannah, Ga. Business Cards, VAL. BASLE It’S WINES. LIQUORS, SEGARS and TOBACCO The best Lager Beer in the city. The well known TEN PIN ALLEY reopened. Lunch Square every day from 11 to 1 o'clock. At the Market House, 174 BRYA N ST. Savann ah, Ga. F. BINGEL, WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS. Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer on draught. Free Lunch. Fresh Oysters alwavs on hand. 21 Jefferson st., corner Conugress street lane. mchio-ly V Dr. A. H. BEST, DENTI ST Cor. Congress and Whitaker streets. SAVANNAH, GA. T EETH extracted without pain, All work guaranteed. I respectfully beg to refer to any of my patrons. ootl-b m o ______ manurhctiU niOAR FACTORY.-F. KOLB. KJ rer of Cigars, and dealer in Cigars, To¬ bacco, Snuff, Pipes, &c. Call at 121 Broughton Street. g 3 gy FRANCELIUS’ COPYING INK~ la Pint aud Half Pint Bottles. Does not mould or thicken when ox nosed to the air. Saves the I’en. Copies excellently. __TRY IT. GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, Ac. The celebrated Joseph Schlitz’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah, Ga. FREE LUNCH every day from 11 to 1. r-z'Jl-} v H AIR store: JOS. E. L01SEAU & CO., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull & Drayton K EEP on hand a large assortment of Hair Hair Switches, combings Curls, Puffs, and Fancy Goods worked In the latest style. Fancy Costum es , Wigs and Beards for Kent. JOS. H. BAKER, BUTCHER, .STALL No. 66, Savann Market, . Dealer iu Heef, Mutton, Pork ud All other Meats in their Seasons. Particular attention paid to supplying Ship and Boarding Houses. augl2 Theodor O TAILOR. Z No. 30 1-2 n 'WlxitaliLor S fcit. Baits made to order in the latest styles. will Clothing with cleaned aud repaired. All orders meet prompt attention. Jan 13-1 in W. B. FERRELL'S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market Basement, (Opposite Llppman’s Drug Htore.) Inn l.'tt.l HA V A N N A H. G a . Clothing. The Popular Clothing House of B. H. LEVY, O FFERS for the next thirty dayH his entire stock of all styles Men’s, following Youths’ and Children's CLOTHING, at the re* duced prices: 203 Men’s Cassimere Suits, dark or light, solid colors or striped, formerly sold at 810 00. now 812 50. Dress Diagonal Coats and Vests, ranging from 80 00 and upwards. 500 pairs Cassimere Pants, different colors and Children styles, ranging from |2 00 and upwards. 300 and Boys’ suits from 83 00 and up¬ wards. Great reduction In Overcoats! 300 Overcoats at the low ilgure of 83 00 and up warde. must he closed out, rather than to carry over the season. Anyone wishing to purchase will find It profitable to call at this populiir Clothing House. B. H. LEVY, jan3 Corner Congress and Jefferson Sts. Plumbing and Gas Fitting. CHAS. E. WAKEFIELD, Plumbing, Gas & Steam Fitting, No. 40 BARNARD STREET, one door north oi South Broad treet. Bath Tubs. Water Closets, Boilers, Ranges Joboiug Promptly attended to. Also, Agent of “ BACKUS WATER MOTOR, ebll T. J. McELUN, PLUMBIN AND G/vS FITTING. Whitaker street, One door North of State st. N.B. Houses fitted with gas and water at short notice, Jobbing promptly attended to, and aU work guaranteed, at low prices. 33R:Zgy Carriages. \ |f Wf l/S01V , S PARRIAPP M ANIIFAPTORY “ I™* rnUIviii » Corner Huy and we ? •’a.KRIAGE REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay and Montgor.iery streets. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. The largest establishment in the city. uLd ’FurnLtfagonH/ canopy am ^Lgtci^Vi'my i t'-‘1q skillful ms? factory turn knffiort w m n notici. be°execuu”t t”*^ve satfsrlcuon and «*yi2-Jy
