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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1879)
D A. I L Y evening 71 . 1 YOL I.—No. 116. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. OBME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) At 181 BAY STH.BBT, By J. HTKRN. 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. » Wo 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 piace ol the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full Issues for the week. WWe do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. Daniel Manin, the Greatest of Vene¬ tians. Five and thirty year? ago there was living in Venice, quietly, and without there be ; ng much talk about him, an advocate, with his wife and their two children—Giorgio, a manly boy, and Emilia, a delicate but unusually gifted girl. The father of this boy and girl was in the prime of life, but had weak health. From his early childhood life had been a continued burden to him ; and now, though he worked hard in support of attacks his family, of he was subject to frequent with acute suffering, al¬ ternating such a perpetual would have feeling of weariness, as made many a man think himself entitled to the indolence of the invalid. But in this case the weakness of the body, in¬ stead of gaining mastery over the men¬ tal faculties, seemed incessantly to spur them into action, or rather, perhaps, an indomitable will conquered both this physical lassitude, and also the melan¬ choly upon which nature appeared to have based his character, though on the surface there was much of brightness and gayety. He seemed to thirst in¬ satiably the after knowledge. forms jurisprudence, Deeply versed in abstrusest of he had written upon Venetian law and had translated a learned legal work from the French. Another of his pub¬ lications was a Greok translation. Be¬ sides these Hebrew, languages, Latin, he was conver¬ sant with English and German. As a relaxation from his graver studies, he made researches in the Venetian patois, and edited a dic¬ tionary of that dialect. There were not very great opportunities for an advo¬ cate to distinguish public pleading himself in those times; no was allowed and a counsel might only be consulted, in civil cases, when the defense was made in writing. Thus there was not much talk about this Venetian advo¬ cate, and yet in a quiet way he had begun to attract the attention of two powers—the Austrian Government and the Venetian people. What both one and the other thought about him may be gathered from in the a private memorandum set down secret annals of the Austrian police, which states him to have won conduot, public esteem by his high moral bis talents, and the dis¬ interestedness of his character. Further, it says, be is a profound jurist, and an able epeaker, who understands how to expound orderly his ideas in an admirably clear and manner. He was, in short, just the kind of man whom it ^parti¬ cularly disagreeable for a despotic ? overnm«nt to have among its subjects, n person this advocate was short rath er than tall, of spare figure, with light blue eyes, in which there was great animation, and thick, dark chestnut hair. The face was not handsome, hut it was extremely mobile and expressive, such a face as might have done well for an actor. He was the sou of a Vene¬ tian Jew, who had embraced the Chris¬ tian religion, Rnd in accordance with patronymic the prevailing the custom noble bad family adopted which this ot to his sponsor belonged. This was the family of the last Venetian Doge, and the name was Manin.— The British Quarterly Review. There are now 143 daily newspapers in Great Britain, as against 151 £last year. Eighteen the are published 2 in in Wales, Lon don, 85 in provencee, 21 in Scotland, 16 i i Ireland, and one in Jersey. Seventy-eight are 70 morning pub { >apcrs and 65 evening: are ished at a penny, 63 at a half penny, and the remainder (10) at prices returned vary ing from l*d. to 3d 64 ate as Liberal, 37 as Conservative, and 42 as independent or neutral. The lute Frince Henry of the Nether lands was one of the wealthiest princes been in Europe estimated His property has usually in Holland at 500,000. The part of it con •ht* m State funds. Death of Mr. Thomas Lord. How He Became Possessed of Biches. For more than sixty years Thomas Lord, Sr., who died this morning at hie home, No. 10 West Fourteenth street, in the eighty-fifth year of hie age, was a resident of this city. For almost forty years he was a prosperous mercantile mer* chant and well known in and social circles. Retiring from: bu¬ siness in 1853, with an ample fortune, he led an easy life, making for a short time a show of business activity by acting as the Vice President of an in¬ surance company. Losing much of his fortune through his easy manner of living, he became comparatively poor. With his fortunes rehabilitated through the death of his brother Rufus, who left him possessed of about $3,000,000 ten years ago, he resumed his former life. A little more than a year ago his sudden espousal of the dashing widow, Mrs. Hicks, the opposition developed thereto by his children, his mysterious disappearance and with his bride made for a month, the revelations in court and the newspapers concerning himself, his new wife, and his children, provided food for public gossip for a long period of time. Norwich, Thomas Lord was born in Conn., in March, 1794, and was the youngest of nine brothers. Our Luuarian Neighbors. A great change is taking place in our views in regard to the moon, and it may be that we are on the eve of discoveries which will make this century an epoch in astronomical history. Some Ameri¬ can observers saw not long since a crater on the lunar surface in active operation under conditions as reliable as human vision at such a distance can be expected to reach. A French as¬ tronomer has made observations on a grander scale and confidently asserts that the moon is inhabited. M. Camille Flammarion, the present originator of this long-cherished idea, is a scientist of honor and renown, well known for his reputation as an obser¬ ver and enthusiastic writer. He has wrttten several article to prove bis position, and has determined to devote his life to this branch of astronomical research. No instruments on the globe are powerful enough to afford a glimpse of our lunarian neighbors. M. Flam¬ marion is not in the insuperable least discouraged at this apparently solution this obstacle in the way of a of pro¬ blem. He is going to have one made that will exhibit the men in the moon to terrestrial eves without a possibility of mistake. He is urgently soliciting contributions to a fund for an immense refracting telescope, whose estimated cost is 1,000,000 francs or $‘200,000. This instrument, the astronomer be¬ lieves, will be effectual in revealing the inhabitants in the moon really existing, according to his sanguine faith. Some of the largest refractors in the world, if uaed when the air is pure, bear a power of 3,000 on the moon ; that is, the moon appears as if it were at a dis¬ tance of eighty miles instead of 240, 000. It can thus be seen that an im¬ mensely increased power would be re¬ quired to detect small objects on the surface. We trust M. Flammarion will be sue cessful in collecting funds for his rno* ster telescope, and that he will pick up crowds of lunarians throught its far seeing eye before the vision of the pre¬ sent generation becomes too dim to be¬ hold the long-wished-for sight.— Pro videnee Journal. Prince Pif.rre Bonaparte s First Murder.— “May 7. 1S36.—Mr. Myer and Dr. Braun dined with us yesterday, They brought a terrible story of the Princess Canmo a sons, Pietro and An tonio, who have been roving about the country, banditti; performing robbing, all the atrocities ot carrying off women, and at last, committing murder. This murder was on the person of a man al most as bad as themselves, and who had been told that one of them had, pei- disgrazia, shot a robber, took it into his head to compliment the Princess upon her son’s having nd the country of a public answered nuisance. The tin fortunate mother with embar rassment. * * * However, scarce ly had Meyer and Brauu left the Castle ( Musignano learned of when they that ! one of the Bonapartes, the guilty one, had escaped, but that the other had been arrested, after having killed on the *pot one of the Fope's officers, and mortally wounded auother ot the tnose sent to arrest him. He is now in Castle St. Angelo, and the opinion of the Romans are divided as to the manner of the death, which jt is supposed he cannot avoid ; whether,‘to save public disgrace,’he will be privately of the Baroness executed or poisoned !”— Letter Bunsen. Julius Blum the Austrian Jew, whom the Egyptian Khedive has raised to the rank of Pasha and made assistant Sec ot State, is said to be the first Israelite ‘t&h in Egypt whp since ijas hald JosSpV* so high time'. f SAVANNAH, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1879. BY TELEGRAPH. From the Old World . MASSACRE OF BRITISH OF* FICERS. Labor Strikes in England* DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. A telegraphic dispatch to the Man¬ chester Guardian says: “Intelligence is received from South Africa, that the native levies Berving with the British have risen en masse and mas¬ sacred their officers. Those natives who were engaged in the fight of the 21st ult. have massacred their officers and the bulk of the native force along the frontier is deserting.” The weavers at Ashton-under-Lyne struck yesterday. The masters will probably lock up. The spinners also struck, though the latter desire to continue work. There have been fur¬ ther stoppages of the mills, and notices of a reduction of wages were posted at Burnley this week. Forty firms at Bolton have given notice of the ten per cent, reduction in wages. In the Lower House of the Prussian Diet yesterday, the Minister of Com¬ merce said that negatiations are pend¬ ing for the purchase of all private railways in Prussia. The Golos publishes a telegrom from Tzarilzin, dated the 12th inst., stating that since the thaw has set in, the num¬ ber of the plague stricken has increas¬ ed. Professor Jacobi, cf Charkoff, head of the medical commission sent into the infected district, has been attacked with the disease, and was worse at last ac¬ counts. It is stated on the highest authority that the negotiations between Turkey and Greece for the rectification of the frontier have not been suspended. The heirs of Napoleon III. have been defeated in the action against the State for the recovery of the Chinese Museum and arms at the Chateau Pierrefouds, or their value, out of the civil list. The District Attorney General of the Post Office Department has decided that the members of Congress elect are not entitled to franking privileges. A fire occurred in the Harris safe eBtablishment, Chicago,involving ales* of twenty-four thousand dollars. A meeting of the holders of the Ten¬ nessee State bonds, held at Baltimore yesterday, endorsed the proceedings and action of the bondholders at a meeting recently held in New York, agreeing to scale the debt to sixty cents on the dollar. The Democratic Senators held a caucus yesterday morning. The sub¬ jects occupied of discussion were the same that the attention of the joint caucus Monday night. Diametrically opposite advisability views were expressed as to the in a party point of view, election in endeavoring to repeal the Federal law, etc., by means of an amendment to an appropriation bill, and thus probably forcing an extra session of Congress. After earnest dis¬ cussion, in which Senators Thurman and Bayard were the principal speak¬ ers on the opposite sides, the caucus adjourned without action, to meet again to-day. Orvil Grant’s Crazj Idea. Orvil _ .. Grant, \V ashington . says a cor respondeut to the Hartford Times, has been in town for several days, having been released from the New Jersey lunatic asylum. He is worse than ever, and has more money schemes in hand even than Colonel Mulberry Sellers. One of Orvil’s grand schemes is to get all the hotels of the country in a combination which he is to manage. He intends to feed the guests of the same on the cheapest kind ot food, and take all tne profits for himse f and the combination. He says he will keen the guests from kicking when tuey learn that they cannot get any better eating at any 'other place, besidesthis, which is a mere side spec ulation, he has an improvement in the manner of trotting horses which will make it possible for a pair of ordinary road plugs to go over a mile in 2:10 or less. He proposes to make fast horses go inside ot two minutes. He intends to sell the right to the use of this itn provement lor $1,000 to each and every owner ot horses. His calculation is that from horses alone he will make four millions more. Besides talking in eessantlv, he barms no one and has the sympathy of all who know him. He never refers to his brother, General Grant, or mixes in any way in political matters. He says since his mind is en grossed in business he has no time to ; devote to politics. The Baltimore Gazette says Banks will get $25,000 per annum as Marshal ot Massachusetts. A Marsha; is doubt less ‘a bigger man’ than a Congressman, does Rpt make $25,000 even in Massattnrtattf. A Terrible Mistake. A young man from a back county come into town to buy a present for his girl last week. His wondering play gaze being fixed goods by the gorgeous dis¬ in a dry window, he enter¬ ed the store, and bashfully stepped in front cf a pretty young lady behind the counter. “How much are those worth?” he inquired, pointing at a pair of hand¬ somely wrought nickel-plated garters in the window. “Seventy-five cents,” handing replied the young lady, sweetly, out the articles in question, and blushing slightly. kinder “I think they are pretty, don’t you ?’’ inquired the young man, anxious for somebody else’s opinion. “Very," replied the young miss ; “they are the latest style. 1 ' “Everyhody wears them, don’t* they?" asked the young man. “Almost everyone,” said the young lady, affecting an unconcerned air. “I was going to get them for a gal that I know,” said the young man, somewhat nervously. “Do you think she would like them ?” “I should think she might—I don’t know,” returned the young lady, blush¬ ing again. “Well, I don’t hardly know, myself,’’ said the young man, picking up one of the dainty articles, and examining it closely. “You don’t suppose they are too large, now do you ?” “Why—I—I—I—’’ stammered the young lady, the blush still growing eper. de“They seem a sorter big like,’’ con tinned the young man, not observing her confusion, “but of course I wouldn’t be certain. She’s middlin’ size, but not very fat, and mebbe these things would be a little too loose. I should think she was about your bigness, and if these would fit you, of course they would fit her. Now just suppose you try them on, and if—” “Sir !” exclaimed the young lady behind the counter, in an awful voice, that lifted the young man’s hat on the end of his hair, “you are insulting,” and she sweyt away to the rear of the store, leaving the bewildered young man standing in dumb amazement, holding in his hands what he supposed was a beautiful pair of bracelets, and when one of the men clerks came and explained his mistake, the struck young direct man from the back county a line for his team, and in a very brief space of time was tearing toward home at a rate that threatened to irretriev¬ ably ruin the old family horse. He won’t buy any bracelets until he’s married. Singular Suicides. In the year 1500, William the Dorring ton threw himself from parpet of the church of St. Sepulchre, in Loudon, leaving behind him a note stating as his reason, “that he wanted to go to the opera that night, but had not mon ¬ ey enough to purchase a ticket of ad¬ mission.’’ A farmer in Allendale, England, got a gun-barrel, loaded it, and placed the stock end in a hot fire, and leaned his stomach against the other. The barrel soon became hot and exploded, killing the unfortunate wretch instantly. A blacksmith in New Orleans, in 1841, killed himself in the same man¬ ner, blowing his bellows until the fire was hot enough to explode the gun barrel. A young lady at a boarding school n E n g] and drowned herself In a rain i cas k because she was made to study f rom an 0 [ d book. She was “sweet sixteen!" ‘ A Greenwich Ed*., pensioner, who was d5cft put upon short allowance f or mis con t in 1846, sharpened the ends of his spectacles, and with them stabbed himself * to the heart In a French newspaper of 1862 we find ftQ account of a ma!j who , his wife having proved un f a ithful to him, called his valet and informed him that he was about to m hirQ3elf and reque8 ted lhat he wo „ id boil him down and make A Ciind j e Q ( ^is f at and carry it to his mistress, handing her at the same time . be f 0 U 0w j ng no te • D r * ot Th ^^ow I h 1 cr b ed u ’ an I Drove to ' " you * that m .. fl ameg are rea j ^ Yours ’ ’p ' ------V IEaRE ' - — i Mine. Grevy coquetted with Capoul > the tenor, who expects to return to this country next autumn, and now she is not Mrs. President, the first lady ot France. husband She has been separated from her some time, much doubt less now to the lady’s great discomd trre. Her preference for opera boulfe was as untimely as it was sinful. The — of Elizabeth ^ City, _ - New _ Jer case eey, is aim st an exa t Jav^sanile ot that ot Memphis It owes $5,828,S65 lo, and hw nominal assets amounting to §2,810,771 19. Its population is only 28,000, and its taxable property in round numbers only $14,400,000. Tae [city |ipilM. covers It an has area seventy-five of about four miles square of struts. ITEMS OP INTEREST. Salt fish are quickest and best fresh ened enea bv ny soaring soakim? in in sour sour mna. milk Lager vVr beer is fifteen cents a glass ” T Key , West, , ™ Florida. i Kansas has an immigration bureau which brought 115,050 settlers into the State last year. Cold rain water and soap will re¬ move machine grease from washable fabrics. Fish may be scaled much easier by first minute. dipping into boiling water about a A Nelson county, Ky., man has trapped three hundred pole-cats this winter. The proportion of water absorbed by wood of different kinds varies from 9.37 to 174.86 per cent. Aunt Phillis, a 60 year old woman,' near Yanceville,Virginia, hasjust given birth to twins. Two Texas gentlemen recently fought desperately in a bail room, with knives, for the honor of dancing with the belle. Louis Passet, a young farmer, living near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, shot him¬ self through the heart. The death a day previous of a recently married wife, was the cause of the suicide. W. F. Storey, of the Chicago Times, is said to have paid $500 for a guaran¬ tee that one of his wife’s new dresses should not be duplicated by her dress¬ maker. From two sets of experiments, one conducted at Nancy and the other at Mettray, L. Grandeau has formed the conclusion that atmospheric electricity decidedly plants. promotes the fructification of A young lady of South Lyme, who has been engaged to be married for some months past to a young man in Waterford, is reported to have received a letter from him a few days since, which read as follows : “Money is scarce and girls are plenty. Guess I will give up the contract.” On Friday, January 10th, a man named Montgomery, of Killinchey, county Down, Ireland, dropped down dead; his wife, upon hearing the news, fell dead also, and, on a message being dispatched to the sister of the latter it was discovered that she had died sud¬ denly. The most significant statement made in the Navy report is that, on footing up the estimated value of material sold and the amounts appropriated by Con¬ gress, it is found that the construction branch of the naval service cost $65, 000,000 under Mr. Robeson’s adminis¬ tration. Pensions. A Washington correspondent to the Hartford Times thus talks of the pension bill and its fate : “It appears that after all the empty talk about the “justness” of the arrears of the pension bill which would.ifit was carried into effect, consume fiom $39, 000,000 to $50,000,000, there will be no appropriation made to pay any of the money called for by the bill. The bill has been passed through both Houses of Congress for “buncomb” alone. There is nothing yet in the bill. Ou the contrary, it is the most unjust to many pensioners that could he passed. Those who rushed it along supposed that they would gain friends among the voters by it, but they have found out different. There never was a dozen members of either house that honestly supposed it would pass, and neither did they want it passed ; but when the push came, out of cowardice and a fear of injuring themselves among the boys in blue, they dared not re¬ fuse to vote for it. There seems to be no indication that any appropriation will be made to pay the promises held out in the bill. If there is, Hayes will veto it." Language of Finger Rings.— In the case of a gentleman wishing to marry, literally "in the market” with his heart, he wears a plain or chased gold u P on ** rst ^ n 8 er hand. When success attends his su ^’ ant ^ * s ac ^ a ^7 en g a £ e d, the nn £ P aaees to the third finger. If, how ever, the gentleman desires to tell the fair ones that he not only is not “in the market,” but that he does not design to marry at all, he wears the signet upon his little finger, and all the ladies may understand that he is out of their reach. With the fair sex the laws of the ring are: “A plain or gold ring on the little finger of the right hand implies not engaged, or in plainer words, ready for proposals, sealed i otherwise.” When engaged, the i.:.* passes to the third fingei of the rigm hand. When married, the third finger ot the right hand receives it. If the f a i r one proposes to defy all seige to her heart, she places the” rings on her first and fourth fingers—one on each— jtjep. [like two It charms ia pomewhat to keep Mngnlar away that the this latter disposition otriD^is tare. PRICE THREE CENTS Business Cards. VA.L, wines, liquors, segars and tobacco known The best ten Lager pin Beer in the city. The well alley reopened. Lunch every day from 11 to BRYAN 1 o’clock. At the Market Square House, 171 ST. Savannah, Ga. F. BINGEL, WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS. Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer on draught. hand, Free 21 Jefferson Lunch. Fresh st., Oysters Con always on corner tigress street lane. mchlO-ly Dr. A. H. BEST, DEFTI ST Cor. Congress and Whitaker streeta. SAVANNAH, GA. T EETH guaranteed. extracted without pain, All work I respectfully beg to refer to any of my patrons. ocM-hmo C IGAR rer Snuff, of FACTORY.—F. Cigars, and dealer KOLB, in manufactu¬ Cigars, To¬ Street. bacco, Pipes, &c. Call at 121 Broughton 2Sgy c. a. cortj.no, Bw Cutting, Bair Msg, Curling ad SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. der 166J4 Bryan street, opposite the Market, un¬ Planters’ Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger man. and English spokon. RESERVOIR MILLS Congress and Jefferson streets. CHOICE GRITS AND MEAL, Grain, Hay, LOWEST Feed, Flour, Provisions, At market figures. febI2-lm B. L. MEBCEB. GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, <fce. The celebrated Joseph Schlltz’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah, Ga. FREE LUNCH every day from II to 1. r-zJI-iv HAIR store; JOS. E. L01SEAU & C0., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull A Drayton K EEP on hand a large assortment o.' Hair Hair Switches, combings Curls, Fulls, and Fancy Goods worked In the latest style. Fancy Costumes, Wigs and Boards for P.ent FRANCELIUS’ COPYING INK. In Pint and Half Pint Bottles. Does not mould or thicken when exposed to the air. Saves the Pen. Copies excellently. TRY IT. JOS. II. BAKER, EuTGHEB, STALL No. 60, Savann Market. Dealer in Beef, Mutton, Pork nd All other Meats In their Seasons. Particular attention paid to supplying Ship and Boarding Houses. »ugl2 W. B. FERRELL’S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market Basement, (Opposite Llppman’s Drug Store.) Jan ltft.t *A VANNA H. GA. Coal and Wood* COAL OF ALL KINDS, Sold and delivered promptly by D. R. THOMAS, OFFICE: 111 BAY 8T , dcc22-s2m Yard foot of West Broad St, GRANTHAM TAGGART, Best Family Coal I I deal cite and only Bituminous in the best Coal. qualities of Anthra¬ LOW PRICES, EXTRA PREPARATION, PROMPT DELIVERY. Main Office: 124 Bay Street. Public Special Institutions. prices to Manufacturers, Dealers and nov‘l-tu,th,su-tf Carriages. A. K. WILSON’S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, Corner Bay and West Broad sts. CARRIAGE REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay and Montgottery streets. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. The largest establishment in the city. I keep a full line of Carriages, Kockuwaya, Bu ggies. tailing Spring Top and Farm Wagons, Canopy an line a of Carnage and Baby Wagon Can lages, also I a lull Material. have engaged chanics. In my factory the rtost skillful me¬ Any orders for naw work, and re¬ and pairing, at shorr will Le executed U give eatlsiairtlon notice. m»yl2-ly Candiss. ESTABLISHED 1*50. M. FITZGIDRALD •Manufacturer of PURE PLAIN AND FINE CANDIES. F « !tor y a “ d >St ^ e ’ Bran Jrv’r <‘a*t of Hull street,* * I One *aVaitkak,
