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.AJIi 33 A. I L Y A EVENING Savannah li ’ lA/ I iwri *«> ; Mm a !? ,f k: » H i i ■ 1? T3 o VOL I.—No. 114. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER f R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) 161 BAY STREET, Tfy tT. STERN. The Recorder is served to subscribers, in every part ol the city by careful carriers. Communications must be accompanied by tho name of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good laitb. 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, Rk corder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the piace oi the Saturday evening edition, which wilt make six full issues for the week. do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. 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. ] --------- 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* „ ma u sl i vei . co j (iarkey’s to the be thefts ] ie ! d ove a Ted ier 0 ,j t p a j- occ 10 low a ad more lv fr u. ie v or of r :aei t erst d o D n m nature will h a; create ma i a ue p DA till 10 puter wi aeiec tiou. 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 ° r08e ' 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 *i •an, < ad la. ih 1 too witn them twenty w h will take part in the ereat nation; i n in v Q diati vi uunn I, r IS vr j ueceed Jenn l wer f w bat ar 116 low t ' r)V Court, dr sed her 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. las seen of the ri ,] d t he t 6 1 r* opini “I GQ nvinci is the X6 der r ae a v ar wash' d. Y iV qf! limp i n ; a shin u c-am ar . m p u c a on ot Doth ea . BRICE THREE CENTS. Wanted \\ T ANTED — -----— By a professional man, TWO furnished rooms, on the first floor ifpos Aivok S sn>U’." “ 1 ’ h \aa?-! ■ stove, l:;<; with HULL privilege ST. ° J.ss ful) 1 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 - 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,