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R. IF. ORME, Editor.
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Fro n Washington.
Political PoinU in Dispute—One-Sided Elec¬
tion Laws—Hasty Work on Huge Appro¬
priations— The ,Case of Lieut. Col. Wyse—
Report of tie Potter Committee—“Bill
Nye” and His Friends Going for the Pres¬
ident, &c.
[Special to the Baltimore Sun.]
BONE) I OF CONTENTION.
Washington, February 25. The
deficiency bil as reported to the Senate
to-day contai is the item of $250,000,
alluded to in hfcse dispatches last night,
to pay the expenses of election super¬
visors and deputy marshals for 1876
and 1878. A very skillful attempt is
made to conn ect the real purpose of the
amendment v ith sundry other objects
to which no objeccion would, under the
circumstances be likely to attach, but
to use the favorite expression of Senator
Thurman, “Iwon’t do.” The House
will not permit this appropriation to be
made. The £ enate Committee has also
struck out o the deficiency bill the
clause iuserfei 1 by the House prohibit
ing one Jpers on offices from holding at the
same time th 3 of clerk of the
United State s District and Circuit
Courts. The] ■ also insert an additional
item ot $1(J,0( '0 to defray the expenses
of investigatu ns ordered by the Senate,
A clause is in aerted providing that all
Senators who: ie term of office begins on
the fourth of March, and whose ere
dentials in d ue form have been pre
sented to the Senate, or may be depos
ited with the Secretary of the Senate,
may receive t heir compensation month
ly from the begi 1 >eginning of their term
until the lining oi the first session
of the next ( fongiess. The object of
this is to enal le the new Senators to ob
tain their pay in advance of being sworn
in, and is desi gned to remove one of tbe
main reasons why the new Senators
would like to have an executive session
of the Senate alter March 4th.
THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
The action of the House in passing
to-day, under suspension of tbe rules,
the sundry ci dl bill, was very unusual,
if not without precedent. It cannot be
defended on any proper grounds that a
bill involvi pg nearly $20,000,000
should be put through with no member
except those of the committee on ap
propriations inowing anything of its
first contents, disposed Tl ie Republicans were at
to resist the passage oi
the bill, hut \ fhen they discovered that
a Democratic minority was disposed to
do the same tiling they turned in and
voted to suspend ihe rules and pass it.
They conside *ed that to get it out
tbe way would be to remove one of the
aids to forcing an extra session.
THE l’OTTER COMMITTEE REPORT.
The Potter committee decided to-day
not to wait more than a day or two
longer for Hi rdy, Solomon and other
missing witnesses. It is probable that
the report oi the committee will be
concluded an i made to the House this
week.
BULLDOZING the PRESIDENT.
A bu rned l> Mhe reports of the l’resi
dent’s inclination to veto the Chinese
bill, the Facile coast, people have
termined to'i eat idm to a little first
class bulldozing. To-morrow morning
the dele gat hi. sot the States and
toriets ou tin Pacific coast in the two
houses pi opes ? to call on the
and demand, in the name ot then pen
pie of both pt rties that he sign the bill,
THE Baltimore war claims.
While the Senate Committee on Ap
propriations v id not insert in the defi
cieney bill the item of $96,000 ou
account ot th s war claim ot the city of
Baltimore ior money understood expended that Senator ill forti
fications, it is
Whvte will b? authorized to oiler it, as
an auu ndment when the bill comes
before the Se late, and that it will pio
bably be passed.
proposed greenback and honest
moxey discussion.
Hon. F. P. Pewes, Chairman of the
National Greenback Committee, re¬
plies to the proposition for a joint Nichols, dis¬
cussion made by Thomas M.
Secretary follows of the Honest-Money the League,
as : “I recognize fact that
the so-called ‘Honest-Money League’ is
the representative and exponent of
both the Democratic and Republican
parties dictating their platforms,
directing and controlling their counsels.
I believe that the policy principles you advo¬
cate and the you indorse are
fraught With disaster and ruin to the
American people, and that a full and
candid discussion of such principles
and policy would tend to their under¬
standing and determination. But, to
effect the purpose proposed, the debate
should be extended into every State
and the Union. Congressional district throughout
To arrange for a joint
discussion, such as I have suggested, I
will appoint a committee consisting of
four gentlemen, to meet a committee to
be appointed by two of such committee
to be representative men of the Re¬
publican party, and two to be repre¬
sentative men of the Democratic party,
to arrange points for discussion and
times and terms of this debate.”
Death of Field Marshal Yon Boon
Field Marshal Von Roon, of Ger¬
many, who died at Berlin on Sunday
after noon, was born at Piereshagen, near
Colburg, ucated Prussia, April 30, 1803, ed¬
at the Berlin Military School,
and entered the army as a lieutenant in
1819. After holding various minor
positions he became, in 1842, military
preceptor to Prince Frederick Charles,
but in 1848 was again assigned the
camp, and so distinguished himself in
the revolutionary troubles of that time
as to win the decoration of the red
eagle. He was promoted colonel in
1850, and thence rose rapidly to the
position of lieutenant general in 1859,
and was then appointed war minister
of Prussia.
It was under his administration that
Prussia's military system was reorgan¬
ized. The campaigns of 1864 (Schles¬
wig Holstein) and 1866, which ter¬
minated at Sadowa, justified measures
that met with great opposition when
first proposed, and Von Roon became
one of the most popular men in the
German Empire.
Von Roon took personal part in the
battle of Koeniggraetz, June 8, 1866,
and received the decoration of the
black eagle for distinguished services.
He participated, but not prominently,
in the Franco-German war, and was
named a field marshal of the empire in
the military and political reorganiza¬
tion that followed. He was a minister
of war in 1871, but was displaced at
the war office in 1872 to make room
for Gen. Kamecke,
A Good One,
A preacher going through a dark
corner of one of the counties in this
section lately stopped over night with
a family that never had bad a Bible.
The good man was shocked at this and
gave the man of the house a Bible that
he had with him, aud impressed upon
the unenlightened countryman the im¬
portance of searching the Scriptures. the
Some time afterwards minister
was passing through the same neigh¬
borhood wnen he called on his friend
to whom he had presented the Bible,
and in conversation with him inquired:
“How did you like the book I gave
you ?”
“Oh, first rate,” said the mau ; “it’s
a good book and has lots of good stories
in it. If that is a true tale about
Samson and the Philistines, the old
man Samson played h Taw ,
didn’t he? That jackasses ' J bone j
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JVV. oi v oi a P wet rea f her o convti thought 11S he had ea “ I
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The United States and Japanese
Treaty.—T he letter from Tokio, Ja
pan, published yesterday, to the effect
that the recently negotiated treaty
between the United States and Japan
contained a serreptitiou.? clause which
practically sentation.’ nullified The United it, in a misrepre-! I
States. Great
Britain, France, Germany, Holland,
Italy and Russia hold relations with
Japan under a joint commercial treaty, clause' I
an( f Secretary Evarts caused the
j to be inserted in the separate treaty in
deteienee to those nations already a-so
eiated with the United States, and to
give assurance that in the event of
those powers declining to make similar
j separate treaties the United States j
would continue relation? under the
joint treaty. is’ Under the joint treatyi
Japan particularly her deprived from
regulating own coasting trade desires and
revenue laws, and as Japan now
to be treated as other independent na- j
tions, and as its relations with the
Uuited States have alwavs been of the
most friendly character, the Misado
made with the latter the first separate
treaty. He is now negotiating for !
similar treaties with the other powers.
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A bill has been introduced in the
nessee Legislature to refund the dog tax.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1879.
BY TELEGRAPH
TROY CITY COUNCIL
DON PLATT IN
Pennsylvania Opposed to
Chinese Bill.
Troy, N. Y., Feb.
have been issued by Justice Smith,
Lansingburg, bers for the arrest of 23
of the Troy Common
13 Democrats and 10
for violation of the election law,
is designating sold. polling places where
The complainants are
backers.
Washington, Feb. 26.—An
cation occurred in the Senate
about ten o’clock to-night
Donn Platt aud Wm.
which, though of very brief
resulted in Platt’s being badly
meled about the head and face.
altercation grew out of personal
sions to McGarrahan published
torially in the Sunday Capital.
Harrisburg, Pa., February 26.—
The joint resolution condemning the
anti-Chinese bill was reported favor¬
ably in the lower House of the
Legislature this morning.
Wilmington, Del., February 26.—
All the national banks of this city to¬
day refused to receive trade dollars for
any amount whatever.
London, February 26.—Tremendous
storms continue to be reported in the
south of France, where hundreds of
people are thrown on public charity by
the destruction and inundation of their
houses. In Spain the tempest lasted
four days, with much damage and loss
of life. Various villages and farms in
Navarre and Asturias are destroyed.
Cairo, February 26.—The Khedive’s
Prince Hassan, commander of the
has publicly apulogized to the
English Consul for the insults to Mr.
Rivers Wilson, Minister of Finance, and
Mr. Wilson has expressed his satisfac¬
tion with the apology.
In Germany employers must be care¬
what they say or write in favor of
servants whom they discharge
A merchant who spent the summer in
Wiesbeden with bis family left his
house in care of his servant girl, On
his return he discovered that she had
absconded with valuables. He said that
her former employer, who as he then
learned, had dismissed her for dishones¬
ty, had, nevertheless, given him a writ¬
ten recommendation, declaring her to
be ‘faithful and trustworthy.’ It was
decided that the suit was
by well his brought, and that the man who,
negligence or reckless indorse¬
ment of a faithless servaut, caused
another to put confidence in her, ought
to be held liable for the damage there¬
by occesioned.
Why Chinamen’s Coats Have
Five Buttons. —Why does the mantle
of our national costume have five but
tons, neither more nor less? This
number was not fixed upon capricious
ly, nor because of fashion. We Chinese
wear it solely that we may keep in sight
something to remind us of the live
principal moral virtues which Confucius
recommended to us so earnestly. These
Are—Jen, humanity y, ly, fcAeand justice; sin ; that ly, order; is to
say, jen, ; y,
pruden 55’ and sin, rectitude up
rightness. 1 ou will perceive that hu
inanity stands before all the
v j r tuea. When one has humanity, he
knows and feels that the unfortunate
«. to bo respected : he does not add
trouble to trouble, sorrow to sorrow, or
misfortune to misfortune. — Sunday
Afternoon.
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Canton, New York, has a strange
murder trial in prospect, from
principals Mrs. Cobb and Bishop oi
Norwich, Conn., may have taken
tern. Mrs Murray and one Shipman
were criminally intimate seme years
a 4°> in 1871 Mrs. Murray’s bus
^aod died of poison which her lover wa*
proved to have bought. Shipman
before the trial came on, and Mrs.
Murray was afterward declared insane.
and taken to an asylum, where she has
recovered, and is now to stand trial ior
t ^ e murder ot eigi.t years ago.
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We published, says the Rome Chur
dr, a notice last Saturday from the
Some Tribune announcing the death of
Mr. J. J. Print up. of Gordon county,
The article stated that Mr. Printup
was drowned while crossing the Oos
tauula river. From the facts that we
have little subsequently doubt that learned there seem
the deceased commit
Ad suicide by drowning. His closing
was found on the bank of the river
tiear "'here his body was found, and
bis conduct and conversation just pre
vious that his to death his^ death premeditated. altogether indicate
was
New Idea.
The New York District
system now includes 4,682 boxes,
600 boys are kept to answer the
ous summons. The uses to which
hundreds of boys are puf appear to
veal many curious phases of
There are many young men too,
are employed by the company for
ous purposes. Of late there has
a demand for escorts to places of
ment, and from one house to
In the former case the address of
person taken, applying for the attendant
and word is telegraphed to
central office for an escort. The
who answers the summons is given
address and a letter of introduction,
accompanies the applicant to
theatre she desires. The escort
for the car fare and tickets from
that his newly made friend has
him. He attends her back to the
and receives two dollars for his
This custom of employing escorts
become a regular practice, and
to be growing in favor. One eveiiir.
recently there were eight ladies at
different theatres, including
during the Kellogg opera seasou,
escorts were furnished “to order.”
men fully employed for escort duty are care
selected, and in a majority oi
cases they are in the service of the tele¬
graph company during the day. As a
rule the demand for these disguised
messengers comes from married women,
widow r s and maiden ladies of mature
years. Not infrequently two women
apply for one escort. It is said that
the daughters of a prominent profession¬
al man and of a well known clergyman
are among those who take advantage ol
this curious custom. Many of the
women who apply for these attendants
are strangers to the city, ignorant of
the situation of the theatres.
Heretical Degree—Who Not to
Marry.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :
Section 4533 of the Code of Georgia
provides: “If any person shall com¬
mit incestuous fornication or adultery,
or intermarry within the Levitical de¬
grees of consanguinity or affinity,” etc.,
—Penitentiary penalty.
The term “Levitical Degrees” refers
to the law of the Jew’s, as set forth in
chapter 18, Book of Leviticus. The
degrees there prohibited are : Father,
mother, father’s wife, sister, half-sister,
son’s or daughter’s daughter, father or
mother’s sister, father’s mother’s wife,
daughter-in-law, brother’s wife, wife’s
daughter, wife’s son’s daughter or wife,
daughter's daughter, wfife’s sister.
The code at section 1700 adds and
makes which incestuous the forth following relations
are not set in the Jewish
law : Stepmother, mother-in-law,
widow of uncle, daughter-in-law, step¬
daughter, granddaughter of wife, and
the corresponding relations of a
woman husband : step-father, father-in-law, son
in-law, of aunt, step-son,grand¬
son of husband.
The provision of the penal code is but
poorly understood by the people of
this State. There are several things
prohibited by the law of the Jews that
there seem to be no reason for in this
age. And there is no apparent reason
why the prohibition should not be
stricken out.
The experience of ages has demon
stiated the wisdom of the Jews, even
considering in far their tends code as a haman law,
so as it to prevent the co
mingling ol kindred blood in marriage.
The philosophers of our day—among
them Dr. Combe—have eliminated the
theory, not only as to the human species
: Du t the lower animals.
Bat, the reasons do not seem to ap
ply under our system, to the degrees of
affinity, prohibited in the Old Testa
meat.
There seems to be, for instance, no
j the reason purity connected of our society, with public or the morality, health
hu propagation of the species to pro
j hibit a woman irorn bearing children
L v two hu-’oands, related by blood to
i ; ai ouiei . but not to her, or that a
ul<tn s ‘ 10l *‘d not, after tire dea-hofhis
' v '.ie, intermarry with another woman
1 oi.Hed to her, but not to him by blood,
These are matters ior the law-making
pr.wer loice, is jn tne above State. stated. The law Lawyer. as now
as
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We have often beard, says the Grif
fin Hues, ot white blackbirds and
white crows, but it has never been our
fortune to see them. We never heard
ot white partridges till a few days
and being infromed that one was in
the city, we resolve ! to put the ex
istence of this rara avis to the test of
personal observation. The bird was
in the possession of Mr. J. B. Carson,
who is an enthusiastic bird hunter,
While hunting partridges a few weeks
..go, he found thi- bird and was
struck with the novelty that after con
siderable effort he brought it home
alive. The bird, with the exception of
the breast, is nearly white, a circum
stance that has made it quite a euriosi
ty with our sportsmen. The bird has
‘since died.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The store of Mr. D. F. Robinson,
McDonald, in Thomas county, was
tirely consumed by fire recently,
his stock of goods along with it.
News has been received of the
der of Jeff Logan, a prominent
of White county. He was
and shot on the road on the 23d.
Recently, Charles Dawn, of
while jumping on the train at
Clay, Whitfield county, fell and
crushed by the wheels. He died.
Near Reynolds, last week, Dr. J.
McKeliar, who is well known in
accidentally shot himself in the
with a shot gun while out gunning.
It is maintained by Di. H. F.
that heat can only be converted into
tricity to the same degree as it can
converted into work.
A San Franciscan, who was sued
the value of half a dozem shirts
to his order, pleaded a misfit, and
peared upon the witness stand
one of the garments. He won the case.
Miss Patsy Smith died near
ther station in Baldwin county,
ary 1st. She was 91 years old,
had lived all her life at that place.
white person had lived with her for
or 20 years prior to her death.
Rev. Mr. Wm. M. Clark, a
preacher, aud an old citizen of Monroe
county, is dead. He had resided in
the county ever since he was a boy,
and had served a term in the Legisla¬
ture as a Whig before the war.
Waynesboro Herald: There was a
wild turkey caught in Rocky creek
swamp a few days since, by swallowing hook
a grain of corn. A fishing with
a line attached had been set for that
purpose—and the grain of corn was
fast to the hook.
The estimated cost of the proposed
interoeeanie canal across the American
Isthmus, Nicaragua route, is $53,000,
000; but it is considered wise to regard
the actual cost, including the interest
on dormant capital, at double that sum.
Theodore Tilton thinks the bank
directors who sat around a table in
$25,000,000 Glasgow andjplotted how people’s to appropriate
of other money,
are greater criminals than the rioters
who burnt Pittsburg.
Cartersville Express : The soldier’s
Confederate monument at the Carters¬
ville cemetery is completed, and is an
imposing structure. The names of the
noble women whose work it is, ought
to be added to the long list of heroes
and heroines, whose lives unconscious¬
ly beautify the earth.
The capital invested in all the rail¬
roads of the globe exceeds $15,500,000,
000. These roads, according to the
statistics 62,000 of Prof. locomotives, Neumann-Spallart,
require and 112,000 pas¬
senger carriages, 1,500,000 goods
trucks. Annually 1,600,000,000 tons
of merchandise and 1,500,000,000 pas¬
sengers are conveyed by these means of
transit.
Mrs. Humber, wife of Mr. John
Humber, the gentleman who a few days
since killed Mr. E. M. Roberson, of
Crawford county, has beer arrested on
the charge of being accessory before
the fact in the killing. In the eyes of
the law an accessory before the fact is
as guilty as the principal, and as the
charge is for the murder of Roberson,
bail was inadmissable in the case of
Mrs. Humber.
The United States Post Office and
Court House, now $182,476, building and in Atlanta, $60,000
has so far cost
is wanted to finish it. The following
facts give some idea of the magnitude
and solidity of this structure: There
was used in constructing it 1,400,000
common and 150,000 pressed brick,
1 763 barrels of lime, 900 cubic yards
:„f san( J, 1,200 barrel, of cement, 275,
,000 pounds of iron, and 1,000 cubic
yards Mr. of Robert stone concreting. Rawlinson,
in a paper
on “Sanitary Science,” says: “As the
strength of a nation is in the health of
the people, it must be the duty of gov
emments to see that means of health
secured to every child born into
the world. There is no value apart
from human life, and as the poor can
not provide their own dwelling places,
and as experience from the first dawn
of history proves that defective tene
,
ments produce disease in -------,
must be a prime duty of a government
so to legislate, order, and regulate them
that health shall be possible within the
cottage.’ be protected and
Iron can from rust
made very pleasing in color by a method
invented by Mr. Dode. He coats the
surface with a thin film of borate
lead, in which some oxide of
had been dissolved, and some scales of
precipitated platinum held
by means of a brush or a
He then heats the composition until
is fused. The result is a thin, glassy
coating, which will withstand the
tion of sewer-gases, dilute acids or
alkalies, and the heat of a kitchen fire.
If all be true that is said of this “plati
* nized iron,” as it is called, it will
numerous applications.
PRICE THREE CENTS.
• fost.
L OST—A TRUNK, containing Artist’s
Tools, Paints and Pictures, The Under
will be suitably rewarded. Address.
Prof. J. EDWIN CHURCHILL, Artist.
Business Cards*
VAL. BASLER’S
WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS and TOBACCO
The best Lager Beer in the city. The well
known TEN PIN ALLEY reopened. Lunch
every day House, from 11 to BRYAN 1 o’clock. ST. At. the Market
Square 174 Savannah, Ga.
F. BINGEL,
WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS,.
Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer on
draught. Free Lunch. Fresh Oysters always
on hand, 21 Jetterson st., corner Con ogress
street lane. mohW-lv
JAMES RAY,
—Manufacturer and Bottler— *
Mineral Waters, Soda, Porter and Ale,
15 Houston St Savannah, Ga.
feb2S-3m
Dr. A. H. BEST,
DENTIST
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. net,1-bran
C. A. CORTJNO,
Hair Cutting, Hair Dr it, Carlin; aid
SHAVING SALOON.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
de m'A Bryan street, opposite the Market, un¬
i- Planters’ English Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger¬
man. and spokon. sehi-tf
RESERVOIR MILLS
Congress and Jetterson streets.
CHOICE GBITS ANI) MEAL,
Grain, Hay, Feed, Flour, Provisions,
At LOWEST market figures.
E. L. MEECER.
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WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, &C .
The celebrated Joseph Schlitz’ MILWAU¬
KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22
Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah,
Ga. FREE LUNCH every day tram 11 to 1.
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HAIll store:
JOS. E. L0ISEAU & CO.,
118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull A Drayton
K EEP on hand a large assortment of Hair
Hair Switches, combings Curls, Pull's, and Fancy Goods
worked in the latest style.
Fancy Costumes. Wigs and Beards for Rent
JOS. H. BAKER,
BTTTOHBB,
STALL No. 66, Savannah Market.
Dealer in Beef, Mutton, Pork ml
All other Moats In their Seasons.
Particular attention paid to supplying Ship
and Boarding.Houses. augLi
Coal and Wood*
GRANTHAM I. TAGGART,
Best Family Coal!
I efte and , bituminous , 4 . . 4 coaf. Ues 0< Anthra *
j 4 ow prices,
extra preparation.
’ROMPT delivery.
Main ^ Office : 124- Bay Street.
Public special institutions. prices to Manufacturer*, Dealer*aud
nov3-tu,th,su-tr
Carriage 4+
A. K. WILSON’S
CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY,
Corner Bay and West Broad Hts.
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY ;
Cor. Bay and Montgomery streets.
.SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
The largest establishment in the city.
Buggies. I keep a full line of C’arrl wres, Rockaways
and lulling Spring Top and Farm Wagons, also Canopy
line or Carriage Baby Wagon Carl Material, luges, a full
and r have
engaged chanics. In my factory the most skillful me¬
pairing, Any orders for new work, and re¬
will be executed to give satisfaction
and at short notice. mayl2-ly
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QT’R book for orders for Passover Bread Is
now open. Our Machinery being new and of
j i the best kind, we will be i, j
. > a
fir.st-ela.-.s article. Our pi ice will compare
favorably with Northern and Western manu¬
facturers. No charge for drayage.
Please send your orders to
am, mm i co,
Cor. Bay and Barnard st*.
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