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VOL I.—No. 114.
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A Romantic Story.
How a Poor Massachusetts Sewing Girl Mar¬
ried a Rich Iowa Man.
A Springfield letter to the Boston
Herald says: A sewing girl in this
city has had a romantic experience
■which is worth the telling. Several
months ago a man at Dubuque, Iowa,
advertised in an Eastern paper for a
wife. Among a swarm of answers
which he received were two from two
girls in this city, who replied just for
the fun ot the thing.
One of them was my heroine, who
represented herself as a young widow,
and whose lively account of herself and
her circumstances was very largely fic¬
titious, especially that which told (very
incidentally, for it was of no conse¬
quence,) of the snug sum of money left
her by the dear departed. She never
expected to bear ol the matter again,
but that was the one letter out oi all
the advertiser received which struck
his fancy.
He wrote to the supposed “widow”
(who, in fact, had never been married,
and who was then earning her living
with her needle); photographs were ex¬
changed; the letters grew more and
more atiectionate, until the young
woman, realizing that the affair was
no longer a joke, wrote to her new
found admirer and told him frankly ol
i her humble circumstance. Ot course
he admired her then all the more, and
at last he came from Dubuque bride. to this
city to claim her for his Instead
of the aliok and yTelligent-looking and
manly individual whom she had ex¬
pected from his letter and his photo¬
graph, what decidedly was her vexation to see a
person of seedy appearance,
wearing an old slouch hat, and aj
pearing altogether unattractive.
Well, she refused him, and he, chid¬
ing her bitterly for so doing, after all
the pains he had taken to win her, re¬
turned alone to Iowa. I suppose he
hadn’t left the house before she was
sorry—such is the flexible character of
female affection—and it is certainly
true that she was very sorry, indeed,
before he had put a thousand miles be¬
tween them. Ii» wrote no more, but
the distressed young woman w r rote, or
got friends to write, to the pastor of the
church lie attended, and to various per¬
sons in Dubuque, to find out what sort
of a man this was—something she ought
to have thought of in the first pla ce.
The replies were uniformly compli¬
mentary, and every one only increased
her regret that she, a poor sewing gitl,
had refused a “good match.” Didn’t
alie hope, though, that he would hear
ot the inquiries she was making and re¬
open the correspondence with her. But
never a word from him and at last she
swallowed her pride, reopened the oor
reepondeuce had misjudged herself, and told him how
.she him and how sorry
che was that she had.
which Promptly she discovered came a manly reply, from
that when he
visited her here he had intentionally
made himself as unattractive as possi¬
ble, from a romantic notion that she
ought to take him for what he was
not for what he wore. Of course they
weie married, and the poor sewing girl
has for her husband one of the
citizens of Dubuque, and for her home
one of the finest mansions in Dubuque
This true story ought to have a
of the negative sort—namely,
young girls are not to infer that it i
sale for them to answer matnmonnu
advertisements, for where one case of
this sort has is, like this, a happy issue, 1
there are ten which lead to
ness or something a good deal worse. j
It is reported that Edison has invert¬ j
ed an i”k that, on be ng applied to ,
paper, loims ltsei 1 into letters and
words, no matter how illiterate the
person may be who employs it, thus
doing away with the necessitv for
learning to write.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1879.
A Tale of Yeiigeauce.
The blue waves of the Norman coast
have been the scene of a little drama
quite worthy in its way of the pen of a
Theophile Gautier. A lady, persecuted had given
by an unwelcome admirer,
him a sharp rebuff, and the ungallant
lover had retorted by an insult ad¬
dressed to her in the public did anything streets.
The lady neither said nor
at the time, but reserved to herself the
right of revenge at a suitable oppor¬
tunity. It will amuse some English
readers to hear what was the opportu¬
nity found most suitable for the pur*
pose. The fair avenger of her own
wrongs appears to be an excellent swim¬
mer, and she selected a moment when
the enemy was taking his pastime in
the open sea at Dieppe. Then, swoop¬
ing out from the quarter of the ladies’
bathing machines and bearing down
upon the unsuspecting bather, she pro¬
ceeded to subject him to that playful
but eminently disagreeable proceeding
known in English schools as “ducking.”
Laying head, her hand upon the back of his
she held it firmly down under
the water, and had no difficulty, not¬
withstanding the struggles of the suf¬
ferer, in keeping it there as long as she
liked. Every schoolboy, however
knows that the art of ducking to be
thoroughly successful should be prac¬
tised with a good deal of moderation,
and that without the admixture of pru¬
dence the effects are not unlikely to be
tragic. In this case the nymph, whose
hand was nerved with all the bitterness
ol passion, went just a little too far,
and reduced the foe to a state of uncon¬
sciousness from which he was with dif¬
ficulty recovered. He was, however,
dragged out alive, chiefly by the as¬
sistance of bis persecutor, who saw her
mistake in time, and took an early op¬
portunity, as well he might, of saying
goodby to Dieppe. His turn for ven¬
geance has, it seems, now come round ;
and he has instituted proceedings
against the lady for an attempt to mur¬
der him. The case seems actually like¬
ly to be heard at the Assizes ; but the
Norman jurymen must be very degene¬
rate it they do not read a severe lesson
to Globe. this ungallant prosecutor.— London
French Courtship.
Even after the engagement, lovers
are never left alone; the lady’s mother
keeps them company; else, what would
people say? Worldly-minded mothers
find this tete-alete of three a great
nuisance, it keeps them at home, and
they will often complain that the
young fledglings talk an unconscionable
time. There can be nothing else to.
censure; it is the discreetest billing and
cooing ever heard since birds were
birds. In its wildest excesses it never
goes beyond a giggle; and if hands do
meet occasionally, it is only under
cover of a book, which, perhaps, if we
come to the strict necessities of the case
one might hold as well as two. The
lover is quite reconciled to this formal
wooing, being prepared for it; and it
will not last long, for an engagement
seldom drags on with more than fathers a month.
It was even thus our and
forefathers, in so far as we can learn
anything of the matter. Nothing can
exceed his embarrassment when the
chances of the marriage market throw
him into a family, English or American
(especially American), where he i is ex¬
pected to make real love. It perplexes,
irritates, frightens him, and when dis
ereet friends retire and leave him and
the other to themselves in awful
tude, he is embarrassed beyond measure.
His theory ot marriage is,
not quite so heartless as may be
posed, It is untrue that he bargains fold
only for money and not at all ove.
He simply thinks that, the money
being secured, the Jove is sure to come;
and in that behet he is not far from
right, . , . since the . majority . of French _ ,
mamagc.-aie happy ones.
Farming in Berrien County, Ga
—Berrien county holds her head up as
one of the best farming counties in the
wiregrass belt, and the following items
from the Alamaha News go very far to
establish that reputation :
H. J. Parrish gathered twenty-seven
bales of cotton from twenty-five acres
of land and gathered twenty-two bund
^ , pounds , of „ seed . cotton com one
acie '
J. H. Shaw gathered seed twenty -iour
ultK IVl pounds of cotton
tU i e , and sixty bushels of corn irom
iison gatheied ninety busiiol
t0:u lrum one iicre '
B. F. Lindsay gathered twenty-six
bushels of corn from one acre.
W. B. Lovitt gathered thirty-six
bushels from one half acre.
J. S. Lindsay gathered fifty bust
from one acre,
bushels Capt. Moi n gathered forty* e
from one acre.
There is said to e a law m Jap a
that any woman why wn cats whu u
i 0 her ueighbo Au,
work »\ year lor lire persou d urbed.
BY TELEGRAPH.
SUPPOSED BANK ROBBER CAP¬
TURED.
A FEARFUL ACCIDENT.
THE BRITISH DISASTER IN
AFRICA.
CONVENTION OF COLORED
MEN.
FEARFUL ACCIDENT — WORKMEN AND
TEAMS BURIED ALIVE.
St. Louis, February 11.—A Kansas
City dispatch says: “A terrible acci¬
dent occurred this morning at the foot
of Grand avenue, in a cut being made
for the Chicago and Alton Railroad.
The cut, with its almost perpendicular
walls, ninety feet high, caved in and
buried the workmen and their teams
under six thousand yards of falling
earth. There were four teams in the
cut at the time and ten men working
at each tecam. Besides these there
were two men working witffithe pick,
the foreman,JJames McCarthy, and his
clerk. Mr. Sodden, tiro contractor, was
not in the cut. Six persons were killed
instantly and sevaral wounded.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR LORD CHELMS¬
FORD.
London, February 11.—The Cabinet
Council to-day decided to send six
battalions of infantry, two regiments of
cavalry, two batteries of artillery, a
company of engineers, three companies
of the army service corps and a com¬
pany or the army hospital corps to re¬
inforce Lord Chelmsford in South
Africa.
A COMPROMISE OFFERED BY TIIE BOND
HOLDERS.
Nashnille, Tenn ‘ > February 11.—
The Legislature reassembled *to-day
after a recess of ten days. Gen Rogerl
A. Pryor, the legal representative ot
the Tennessee bondholders,armed this
morning from New York to renew the
offer of the bondholders to compromise
the State debt by a reduction of forty
per cent, of the principal or a reduction
os the interest. |
DISASTROUS CASUALTY.
Allentown, Pa, February n._
About ten o’clock this morning an era
bank ment at Zeigler’s ore beds, fifteen I
miles from here, caved in, burying fxf
teen persons, instantly killing one man i
and seriously injuring four others.
-
convention OF COLORED WEN. |
Washington, February 11- — A [
movement has been started by repre
sentative colored men for a convention
to to consular consiuer their ineir condition couuiuon, wants wants, etc, etc
and a call has been prepared for a
convention to meet at Nashville on May j
>
ARREST OF A SUPPOSED MANHATTAN j
BANK ROBBER. I
New York, Feb. 11. —The police|
have made an important arrest in con
nection w ith the Manhattan Ban ik rob- I
bery. The prisoner is John Hope, and
he was taken into custodv last night.
THE BRITISH LOSSES—A COURT OF i
inquiry. j
London, Feb. 11 —Lord Chelmsford,
the commander of-the expedition, sets
down the British loss at thirty
an d about five hundred non- commission-1
e j officers, rank and file, of the I luq !
rial troops, and seventy non-commis- j
g j one ^ officers, rank and fiie, of
co i on i a j troops. ]
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Playing Pos m to Advantage.—
I f) n a e carcely imagine, alter the
'
j infinite ingenuity that has been dis¬
played } in stealing method for innumerable be ages,!
; t iy q any new could devised I
| But a colored porter, employed in a I
;8 h op at JdttJe Rock, Arkansas, appeal
> to have appropriated money in an c 71
j itinually nal manner. missed The small tradesman had con
sums from his
,, 1 rawer, and could not account for
appea ranee. Fi any, 11
eted the port er, and h him searched
;every evening be g home. B
!he could hnd for his si;
d was at his w end
expla a the v- rv \vf , at last, he
obt' erved, one n zht, t hat a tame temale
r sum, in the iiibit ot t ) w I tne i
jegro everywi. cl pany
h, mm. The llll;
0 tor ome rea.so nc
ove. T. mop Keej 6 ili
li bifid c id or i was PIT
at ner weight, itevt her
the enigma was ill*
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CO XU E ESS 10 X A L SUMMARY.
What Was Done in Both Houses.
In the Senate yesterday, Mr. Morrill
of Vermont, from the Committee on
Finance, reported 1 without am era
ment the Senate bill authorizing the
conversional of national bank notes
with gold. Placed on the calendar.
Mr. Dorsey, of Arkansas, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
back the post office appropriation bill,
with various amendments. It was
placed on the calendar.
Mr. Kernan, of New York, introduc¬
ed a bill to authorize the Presi i to
appoint George Foster Robinson to Joe
paymaster in the Uiiited States army.
Referred to the Committee on Military
Affairs. Robinson is the man who de¬
fended Secretary Seward from the as¬
sassin Payne.
The Senate agreed to the conference
report on the naval bill, which w iS
passed. passed
A bill was for removing the
political disabilities of the following :
Asa Wall, F. E. Shepperd, C. B. Oliver,
D. M. W. Nash, Henry G. Thomas,
Chas. II. F. M. Spottswood, W. B. Jno. Sinclair, D, Simms, and
C. Kennedy,
R. L. Page, of Virginia; Isaac R.
Trimble, Henry H. Lews, and W. E.
Wysbam of Maryland ; C. H. William¬
son, of New York ; John T, Tucker, oi’
the District of Columbia, and W. T.
Welker, of California.
A joint resolution providing for a
commission to consider and report, up¬
on what legislation o is needed for the
better regulation of commerce amon o
the States, was submitted and referred
to the Committee on Commerce.
The postal appropriation bill, with
sundry amendments, was reported
back from the committee and placed on
ll ie lendar.
The Senate resumed the considera¬
tion of the bill for erecting the library
building on Judiciary square. I
The House has agreed to the con—
ference report on the naval appropria¬
tion bill.
In the House to-day the majority
arid minority reports of the Committee
on Elections in the Florida contested
election case of Finley vs. Bisbee were
submitted and laid on the table for fu¬
ture action. The majority report is in
favor of Finley’s claims, and is signed
'Y ai lae Democratic members of the
. Turney, eunsyl
except ot
vama » who joins tne Republicans m the
re B? rt IP‘ avor ot Disbee.
1110 Douse was m committee of the
exocutive appropriation i.scuesionon bill. After
House protracted proceeded consider lhe blll tb by
to it
aragrapbs f or amendment. Aft.r |
ma king j ■ some progress the committee
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Mr . Reardon, ot Texas, Chairman of
the Committee on Commerce, reported
the river and harbor appropriation bill,
which was ordered to be printed and
recommitted. Ar-nropri-} j
The Senate Committee on
atl0 nS ye; srday morning agre ed to add
to the , post office appropriation bill a
tion authorizing co 3 tracts to be made
a semi-monthlv ceamsnq mail !
sen e between the United St ce: and
Brazil by two lines, one from New York j
via orfolk, and the other from New 1
Or. ans via Galveston, each to receive
compel ion not exceeding O one
nu red and fifty thousand dolla ™ r er I
annum. The committee recommend the
appropriation of two hundred thousand;
or so much thereof as may 1 I
to provide lor this servic I
during the next fiscal year.
A National Dog Fight.
Harry Jennnings Sails for New Orleans with
Twenty Bull-Dogs
[From the New Y<
Ami sen gets to New I
i ■ leans the ,eai Kuiekerbc
e ot the ( well line, which
r North iv er yesterday af e r
were the a hers Harry i
01 S city and Thom
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witn them twenty w h will
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Nebraska has now forty-two
terian churches, fourteen of which
built last year and dedicated free
debt.
Man wants but little here below ;
but a woman wants most everything
she sees her neighbor have—excepting
her toothbrush and youngest baby.
A bill has been introduced in the
Tennessee Legislature, which is said to
be favorably received, making the legal
rate of interest in that State three per
cent. Such a law will hardly invite
capital to the State.
The New York Herald, states that of
fifteen hundred dollars received by the
Sailors’ Boarding House Commissioners
of that city last year they expended
five dollars and five cents in relieving
sick and destitute seamen and a thou¬
sand dollars upon a Secretary.
The Chinese New Year falls, with
Mongolian contempt for the Caucasian
calendar, upon the last week m Janu¬
ary, and they celebrate it in San Fran¬
cisco with the regularity and enthus¬
iasm with which the American colonies
in Paris and Berliu celebrate the 4th
of July.
Prince Louis Napoleon is said to be
lying dangerously ill at his mother’s
residence, Ghiselhurst. It is said that
the Prince has for some time led an ir¬
regular and dissipated life, and has
been wholly regardless of the admoni¬
tions of his mother, and of M. Bouher
and other devoted adherents of the
Imperial family.
An examination of eight thousand
school children in Boston reveals the
fact that while eight per cent, of the
boys are color blind only one per cent,
of the girls - are thus afflicted. Any
,
body who has ever heard an average
woman describe a neighbor’s new spring
oon net knows well enough that color
l] uness ' is not one if t tie peculiarities
1G —Boston Globe
I hole throng
necticut and tieing it through ,to a tag, a vjon- / mail ■
man sent it the
fora cent, .whereas if be had put it in
an envelope it would have cost him 3
cents. No one but a Yankee would
have thought of grappling such a device, with the and sit¬ it
is this prompt
uation that gives New England world.— it’s
mighty influence upon the
Danbury News.
j Q t j, e Pennsylvania* House of Rej I
resen t a ti veg last Tuesday a bill was
introduced appropriate ? Jr,000,000
^ ^ pa y m ent of losses sustained by
f»r he .V the appomlmeut ? ,“- A of a comm.s .on ol
I f, ! ;; ,y the Governor u ho
J” 4l ‘? of the losses by a
thorough , examination. No peison who
•, w „ participated .■ • , ■ riots L will „ -i, i be
or in
entltled to compensation for losses.
Says an old religious darkey to an
in a private conversation on
street recently : “We’se a’gwyne
organize a siety in our church, to be
free from de wiraen, to bab no wirnen
connected wid it; dey always cause
you know’.” The other reli¬
bruder shook his head approving
and answered: “Yes, yes; dem is
y sentiments ; de wimen do cause
in de sieties .”—Memphis Ap
A Prov ence youni man was m
loston with a friend the other day.
went t o a leading hotel for din
ner, at.d, after eating, the former ca„ 11 -
for two cigars. The waiter iked
what kind of cigars he w’ould have.
This made the young man indignant,
r :>r he is high toned in looks and dress,
an 1 he a 1: “You heard my order,
didn’t i c Now you be sure and
bring me the 1 st.” He got the best
he 1 l to pay three oi 3 for two
n.
i leaker Anderson, of the Wyoming he
• embly, a Democrat, te lit s that
tfc X P I yet
agains the id i o lemale
UAb now he must hr.
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Wanted
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Business Cards*
FA L. BASLE IDS
WINES, LIQUORS, KEGAIIS and TOBACCO
The best Lager Beer in the city, The well
known TEN PIN ALLEY reopened, Lunch
every day from 11 to 1 o’clock. At, the Market
Square House, 171 BRYAN ST. Savannah, On.
F. BINGEL,
WINES, LIQUORS AND SEG ARS.
Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer on
draught. hand, Free Lunch, Fresh oysters always
on 21 Jefferson st., corner Con tigress
street lane. mehlO-Iy
Dr. A. K. BEST,
dentist
Cor. Congress and Whitaker streets,
savannah, GA.
rrVEETH extracted without pain. All work
-L guaranteed.
1 respectfully beg to refer to any of my
patrons. oct 1-brno
t llGAR FACTORY.—F. KOL1 manufaetu
J rer of Cigars, i md dealer in Cigars, To
street. bacco, Snuff, Pipes, &c. Call at 121 Broughton
0. A, CORTI.NO,
Hair Cutting, Hair Brsssinj, Curlinff and
SHAVING SALOON.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
der KW'j planters’ Bryan street, opposite the Market, un¬
Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger¬
man, and English spokon. selN-U
GEORGE FEY,
WIN EH, LIQUOI SEGA Its, TOBACCO, Ac.
The celebrated Joseph Schlitz’ MILWAU¬
KEE LAG El BE E It, a speciality. No. 22
Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah,
Ga. nil LUNCH every day from 11 to 1.
r-z;il-Jv
HAIR store:
JOS. E. LOISEAU & CO.
Lis BROUGHTON ST Bet. Bull & Drayton
L I on hand a lai assortment of Hair
liair sx .-switches, Curls, Buffs, and Fancy Goods
combings worked in the latest style.
r aucy Ooj mu,w. W ins and He u\L for Rout
JOS. H. £ AKER,
13 o -X 1 a: YEZ LAEEIIR,,
ST A1 i. (10, .avan n Market.
Dealer Beef, Mutton, Pork ml
All other Meats in their Season's.
Particular attention paid to supplying Ship
and Boarding House's. aughi
Theodor Gron ivalrl,
TAILOR.
UW’o. 120 1-2 Wliitalior last.
.Suits maue to order in the latest styles.
will Clothing with cleaned and repaired, All orders
meet prompt attention. janlS-lm
W. B. FERRELL’S Agt.
RESTAURANT,
No. 11 New Market Basement,
(Opposite Lippman’s Drug Store,)
lan ISO KA VANN A H, «A.
Coal and Wood,
COAL
OF ALL KINDS,
Sold and delivered promptly by
D. R. THOMAS,
OFFICE: 111 BAY ST.,
d C“e22- n2m Yard I >t, of West Broad St,
GRANTHAM J. TAGGART,
Best Family Goa!!
i deal only In tlie be? Coal. qualities of Anthra
. cite and Bituminous
LOW PRICES,
EXTRA PREPARATION,
PROMPT DELIVERY.
Main Ollicc: 124 Day Street.
ial prices to Manufacturers, Dealers and
Publi 1 n»t it.utions. novJ-tu.th.su-tl
r war * T'r 11 t a n j nae
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A. K. WILSON’S
CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY,
u ner Bay and est Broad 8
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY .
Cor '. Bay and M mtgor.Msry street.
— — — GEORGIA,
establishment in the city.
I keep a full line of Carri *<*es, It ways,
E lug Spring, Toj nd Baby Fan roll anopy
p Can iau< also a full
of mil Wago iteriul. I have
;ed in my factory tbc r :o.' skillful me*
os. Any orders uted lor new give work, and re
will to satisfaction
d ai hort notice. tnayl2-iy
riTi ■■ i i . iBraBaro*^ saKs
ESTABI j t HMD lS.jf).
> T TT
—Manufac
PURE, PLAIN AND FINE
GANDIES.
Factory Bin •STREET
Brand BROUGHTON bT.,
oue door t >f Bui 11 street,
SAVANNAH, GA,
