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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1879)
X> A. I L Y ■EVKNXisra Recorder. VOL I.—No. 134. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, t.Saturday Excepted,) At 2G1 BAY STREET, My J. STERN. The Recorder is served to subscribers, in every part ol the city by careful carriers. Communications must be accompanied by the name of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Remittance by Check or Post Office orders must be made payable to the order of the pub¬ lisher. We will not undertake to preserve or return rejected communications. Correspondence on Local and general mat¬ ters of interest solicited. Oil 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 ..,acc > the Saturday evening edition, which win make six full issues for the week. tj-VV e do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. No Nonsense About M. Grevy. A Frenchman who Never Wore a Uniform or Decorations—A Plain, Blunt Man—Fond of Billiards and the Weed—The Income and Allowances of the French President. [From the London News, Feb. 4th.] In the midst of the recent crisis which led to Marshal MacMahon’s re¬ signation, M. John Lemoinne wrote in the Debats about the inconvenience of having military Presidents. The Mar¬ shal ia said to have picked remarked up one of his sentences, and to have on retiring, “If you want a President in a black coat, try one.’’ M. Grevy is a President who has never worn any* other costume but the robes of the ad¬ vocate and the modest black coat which modern civilization is alleged to have borrowed from the Quakers. He has uot even sported the though epaulet how of he a National Guardsman, came to be exempted from residence this obligation Paris during his 18 years’ in under Louis Phillipe’s reign is more than I can say. When acting as Commissaire or Pre¬ fect cf the Republic of 1848 in the Jura, he would have been entitled to don an embroidered coat and a plumed hat; but be modestly confined himself to a tricolor sash girt round the waist. As President of the National Assembly, aud afterward of the Chamber of Depu¬ ties, lie always discharged his func" tions in evening dress, including the white tie. He is not decorated. At present, by virtue of his office of Chief of the State, he becoms Grand Master of the Legion of Honor, and must con¬ sequently wear the star and broad red ribbon of a Grand Cross ; but hitherto that little slip of scarlet ribbon which giaces the buttons of so many French¬ men has not adorned his. Nay, M. Grevy was among the members of the Constituante who voted for the aboli¬ tion of the Legion of Honor, and more prohibited recently he voted for the hill which members of the Legislature lrom Government. accepting decorations from the been better Perhaps adopt it would have to the Belgian sys¬ tem, and to decree that a member of Parliament who accepted the red rib¬ bon should simply vacate his seat un¬ til his constituents had re-elected him; for the present law has prevented M. Bardoux from conferring the grand cross on Victor Hugo, as he desired to do. M. Grevy is not only the enemy of tinsel on men’s coats, he is a man of In Republican simplicity in all his ways. his every-day attire, even in Paris, he has always donned a wide-awake instead of a silk hat; and in summer time he may generally be seen saunter¬ ing about the Boulevards clad all in gray, and crowned with a p&nama. Though a man of considerable landed property, as estates go in France, he never President, set up of a brougham till he became the Chamber, and he has always kept this modest one-horse ve¬ hicle (with a coachman out of livery) at \ ersailles. In Paris he uses cabs and omnibuses, but it must be a very muddy day which compels him to ride at. all. The state which hedges a Pres¬ ident will probably seem irksome to him, and one may expect to see him cut much of it down. Marshal Mac Mahon put all the servants of his palaces Iiis in the gray scarlet liveries of private household. M. Grew, whose domestics have never worn hve ry, will, no doubt, clothe his establish¬ ment. in plain black suits, a H Ameri¬ ca ine. He will now have two official lesidences—one at Versailles, located in the ex-Pretecture, and the other the magnificent Elysee, in Paris. He will also have the run, for the purposes of sport, old royal or pleasurable sojourn, of all the and imperial chateaux, Fon tainebleau Compiegne, Pierrefonds. His salary will be ±24,000, with fin addi .° f mon0 y. and nnA l Of for office expenses; M. Jules Grevy is not the first civilian ehiei ot the State whom the French have had; hut he will be first who will have eschewed official attire. Robespierre contrived a special costume for himself, and shone gorgeous in a hat bristling with tri-colored os¬ trich plumes Under the Directorate, Barras and his colleagues dressed in a fancy costume much resembling the fashion of Henry IV., their trunk hose and embroidered scarlet mantles being particularly noteworthy. Cambaceres and Lebrun, Bonaparte's civilian col" leagues in the Consulate, sported Louis coats of red velvet, and when Prince Napoleon was elected President of the Republic in 1848, he immediately usurped the uniform of a General of Division, though there was a Constitu¬ tional prohibition against his doing so. An amusing story is told of how M. Thiers argued in vain with the Presi" dent that he should shave off his mus" tache, and it is said that he told him petulantly that a “pekin” in General’s uniform would look ridiculous. But Louis Napoleon answered that, as Com¬ mander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy, he might do as he pleased, and so, for that matter, might M. Grevy now. He would not be exceeding his rights in arraying himself as full Ad miral. M. Grevy is not a President to whom society can look much for the promotion of social festivity. As Speak er of the lower house he broke with the tradition of all his predecessors by giv" ing no balls, but only occasional dinner parties, which members of Right and Left attended. He will probably give concerts, for he delights in music ; but his favorite pastime of all is to play billiards and to smoke cigars while making his caroms. I m!ly surprise the woald by saying that one of his most frequent opponents with the cue is M. Paul de Cassagnac. A private friend of M. Grevy, M. de Cassagnac, used to leave his opinions at the door when he went to call on M. Grevy; aud the pair felt a mutual esteem for each other which had nothing to do with politics, but came from their respective powers with the balls. They are two of the best billiard players going. Mozart’s Twelfth Mass. “The Twelfth Mass of Mozart is a work of which the original is obscure, wrote the late accomplished Edward Holmes. But this well-known mass is now universally admitted by the best from internal evidence, to be spurious. It was first published by Simrock of Bonn ; and in 1826 the Chevalier Sey fried published an article in the musical paper Ccecillia , in which he strongly contested its authenticity. Simrock referred to Carl Zulehner, a composer and pupil of Sterkel’s, from whom he had received the manuscript, “which, however, could hardly be Mo¬ zart’s writing.” Zulehner, when ap¬ pealed to by the editor of the Ccecillia, made bo reply Both Jahn and Kochel, the two greatest authorities on the sub¬ ject of Mozart, agree in denying tha genuineness of the mass, and in the magnificent edition of Mozart’s com¬ plete works now in the course of pub¬ lication by Messrs Breitkopf & Hartel of Leipzig, it is omitted. See Kochel Chronological and The¬ matic Catalogue, 7; Jahn’s “Mozart,” ed. 1867, 2 vols., p. 90 ; “Holmes’ Life (J Mozart,” admirably edited by Ebe nezer Prout, p. 81 note. In this mass, it may be observed that the words are, in one instance at least, senselessly fixus, inverted. Thus : “Cruci et homo factus est.” A natural washing machine has been discovered in Tulare county, California. A with boiling spring was found by a fellow an ingenious turn of mind, and he at once secured a water right, con structed a clothes wringer to be run by a water wheel at one side of the spring, where it boils over into another of clear cold water, into which he placed a sack ol blue indigo. The ranchers ot the settlement throw their clothes into the water, which has a whirling motion, and are drawn in out of sight. In about five minutes they come to the surface, float to the wringer and are where run through into the other spring, they are rinsed by passing through another wringer. In less than thirty minutes the washing is done. By Their Fruits.— To measure a Christian, ^ we must puncture his creed and toss it as gossamer aside ; to test a man we must reconnoiter beyond the lines of his profession, and get over into the domain where he lives. Y e unist gat beyond pew, beyond the faun *y R ‘ tar ! R od linger a little in the realm where lie makes bargains, where he pians and where he touches the world, I here must be a righteous citizenship as the counterpart of an evangelical | profession. Four Boston girls, ranging from 8 12 years of age, have been caught pick ing !y pockets. They have worked in Methodist revival meetings, where the crowding and the fervor made the women careless as to their valuables, the Ninety little handkerchiefs were found in thieves' room, besides .emptied pocket books and articles SAVANNAH FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1879. BY TELEGRAPH. A MURDEROUS BURGLAR. Pretenders to Share Alps Throne. CAPTAIN BIAIR DISMISSED ■ TIIE SERVICE. Philadelphia, March 6.—Mr. John Scott was surprised in an act of bur¬ glary early this morning and was pur¬ sued by policeman Robert Cone. The burglar turned upon the officer and stabbed him fatally. Scott was subse¬ quently arrested. Berlin, March 6—The Germania announces that Bismarck recently sent a reply to the representatives of the Vatican. Its tone is conciliatory, al¬ though it by no means justifies the expectation of a speedy and favorable issue. Washington, March 6.— The Presi¬ dent’s approval of the court martial sentence the ol Captain Thomas Blair, of Fifteenth Infantry, dismissing him from service, was officially promulgated to-day. London, March 6.—The London Daily duty News says : “It is our painful to declare that Lord Chelmsford, commander of the forces at the Cape of Good Hope, has failed and ought to be instantly recalled. The latest news confirms our impression that the disas¬ ter at Isandula, on the 22d of January, was due to his miserable blundering and helpless incapacity.’’ Constantinople, March 6.—The Porte has sent a circular to the powers declaring that the delay in the nego¬ tiations relative to the Greek frontier 18 attributed to the unaccommodating at¬ titude of Greece. St. Petersburg, March 6. —A tele¬ gram from Taskend states that after the death of Shere Ali at Mazari Sherif, a bloody conflict broke oat among the followers of the various pretenders to the Afghan throne, and the parti¬ sans of Yakood Khan were victorious. It was reported that Yakoob Khan and two other pretenders had taken refuge at Herat. Beavers—How They Work. The following will be very interesting t r those who are fond of natural history, xae thoughtful reader will ask himself the question: Do these little animals reason ? “At the head of one of the rivers of Louisiana, in a very retired place, was found a beaver dam. Not far from it, but hidden from the sight of the a u mal, the writer hid himself in order to watch the operations of the beavers at leisure. He waited until the moon shone bright and then went with great care to the dam At once he cut a gutter about a foot wide through it. and returned to his through hiding the place. As began soon as the water gutter to make a noise he heard a beaver come from one of the houses and plunge in ; he saw him get upon the bank and clearly perceived that he examined it . The beaver then, with all his force, gave four distinct blows with his when at once a whole colony threw themselves into the water and went to dam. As soon as they were assembled, one of them appeared, by grumbling, to issue some kind of orders, for they all instantly left the place and went out on the banks of the river in differ¬ ent direetions. Those nearest to the wnter were between the station and therefore be cou ld observe their opera tions pkinly. Some of them formed ft substance like mortar ; others carried thig on their tails, which served ag vehic ] es f or the purpose. He ob~ gerTed tbat they ranged themselves twQ and tw0 and that each animal of g couple i oa ded the other. They lrail g d tbe m0 rtar, which was pretty f. be dam> where others were gtat j oned to take it. These put it into h& tej . and ramme d it down with ® talIg <p be noise of the waters thgi <soon cgased and the breach was com j ete]y repa ired. One of the beavers [ hen struc k two blows with his tail, and instantly thev all took to the water wilbout anv ( noise, and disappeared.” the beaver’s On0 b ) 0 v 0 f the tail is • nal 0 f danger, an d when the signal j g g 6 [ venj every beaver, though there be doze n S 0 f them exposed to a disap- view, wdl diye> jf water be near| an peaf in a momen t, ‘ - ev j deu t, that a colony of arg ers” regU j ar iy or ganized. Some direct, j 0 t b make up mortar, others carry j the monar an d still others do WQrk of putting together better or trained No master builder has a set of bauds to wait upon his lavers than a master beaver has to upon his head work-beavers. By the dsath of Mrs Cohen, of Baroness Meyer de Rothschild grandmother of the Countess of bery, a sum of a quarter of a sterling falls to the share of the tess of Rosebery. Tilings Done and Undone by the Forty-fifth Congress. The principal measures whiffi hare become laws during the session of Con¬ gress the just closed, in addition to ten of bill regular appropriation bills, are the otherwise reducing the tax on tobacco and laws; amending the the internal reve nue aid refunding of census the bill; the bill to national debt by certificates authorizing the issue of small treasury ; the bill to prevent the in¬ troduction of infectious or contagious diseases, and bills providing for the payment of arrears of pensions for ser¬ vice during the rebellion. Among the measures which made more or less progress, but failed of enactment this session, are the follow ing : The legislative, executive and in dicial appropriation bill • the army appropriation inter-State bill ; the bill to regulate commerce ; the “steamboat bill;’’ the Geneva award bill; the bill to establish postal savings banks ; the bill to repeal the specie resum; 1 on act; the bill granting pensions t <’ ir vivors of the Mexican war ; the ".v g-ir bill;” the bill to restrict Chinese irn migration ; the joint resolution pro posing a constitutional amendment to prohibit the payment of disloyal claims; the bill to provide for the enforcement of the eight-hour law; the proposition to transfer the Indian bureau to the War Department; the Mississippi levee bill and the bill providing for comrnis sion on the improvement of the Missis sippi; the bill extending the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad; the Brazilian mail service bill; the bill to regulate the transpor tation of animals by railroads, the bill to devote the proceeds of sales oi the public lands to educational purposes ; the bill authorizing railroad companies to construct and maintain lines of tele" graph for commercial purposes ; the Burnside committee’s army reorganiza¬ tion bill ; the bill to revise the patent laws; the Japanese and Chinese in" demnity fund bills ; the various mea" sures reported from the House Com¬ mittee on Banking and Currency; and many other financial bills both in the House and Senate : all bills besides those specified above proposing aid in lands or bonds for the construction of railroads, canals, etc.; a large number of bills on calendars affecting local ins terests of more or less importance, and several hundred reported from commit¬ tees for the relief of private claimants, besides thousands ot others which were left untouched in the files of committee rooms. HOW LONG. It does not seem to be thought that the extra session will last beyond three or four weeks, as all the necessary business can be very well transacted in , hat period. . , The rr House can convenient- 1 >>’ to work in abort time after con venI ]S- as the new Speaker, if so dis* Appropriations “Ir “Ft™" and 1 perhaps the Committee two 011 or three other committees, and leave the res t 11 December, SENA1E COMMITTElES. re p rd to the Senate Committees ‘hV'crpnisation, it is general lj'thought that Mr. Thurman will be of the Jmlici.ry Committee, Bayard of the Finance Committee, Governor Whyte of the Committee on Printing, Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, of the Committee on Appropriations, naval affairs, Mr. Jones, of Florida, of and General Gordon of the Committee on Commerce.— Baltimore Sun. Calhoun. —The editor of the Colum¬ bia Register, very recently, retorted bravely upon the New York Herald. for making unjust allusions to John C. Calhoun, and, more particularly, for sneeringly alluding to the great Car¬ olina statesman as “a half-forgotten pol¬ itician.” It is safe to predict that Mr. Calhoun’s fame will eadure with this Republic and beyond it. It will grow and more and more bright the more he his work are understood and properly appreciated. He was that rare thing in political life, an incorruptible Amid man, privately and days, publicly. liks the the vices of these he shines sun itself, and such qualities as he pos¬ sessed are imperishable, as much the wisdom so as the sobriety of Phocion or of Aristides. The man who accuses Mr. Calhoun of being anything but a patriot in the loftiest sense is either an ignoramus, a knave or an unscrupulous Bohemian.— Chronicle and Consti.ution - alist. * I have no doubt that there are mul¬ titudes of Chinese in California worship¬ ping their idols who are better men than the red-mouthed, whisky-drinking fel¬ lows who are persecuting them, who are commonly called Christians. I had rather have a heathen with a pagan Christ in him than Christian man with a devil in him which he calls Christ.”— Beecher. The Cuban government has the municipalities to establish schools for colored children, and ever this can not should promptly be omitted be colored children the white schools. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Adelina Patti is singing in (jeneva, and the Swiss are blistering their hands by applauding. Patti has salted down' $76,000 since last October. A Texas deacon adopted the novel method of passing the contribution box in one hand and carrying a revolver in the other Net results, $47.03, Two men quarrelled in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, while playing faro, and one fired a pistol at the other who would have been killed if the bullet had not been stopped by the ivory chips he had thrust into hi* waistcoat pocket. Nothing human is nearer divine than , a trul J v dl £ mfied woman. She - commands the respect of good men and 18 free from thd insults oi the low and vicious She walks out in her ac know edged purity as the sun arises m clear sky. Gratitude toward one’s adopted coun¬ try i'ied is a good thing, but it may be car too far. “America,” said a Ten ton, ‘‘is der best gountry in der world, I haf vailed dree dimes, und now I goes pack to spend mine vortune mit nay vamily.” The Berlin Post concludes from the recent speeches of the Pope that to the journalists and cardinals there ia but a slight prospect of peace between the Vatican aud European States, es pecially Germany, unless the Pope con eiderably modifies his sentiments, King Oscar, of Sweden, is about to c i rcu l ate a reply to Pope Pius IX.’s numerous attacks on Freemasonry, enlarged The publication will be further by a collection of King Oscar’s princi p a j addresses to Masons in various lodges k in Sweden and simultaneously Norway. The wor will appear in S W edish and German Mr. Heal Dow, a committee of the Maine Legislature having reported that the Maine Liquor law was by no means well administered or beneficent in its tend, writes as the friends that of prohibition committee con¬ the was in the interest of Rum,” and that its report was “shameless and mendacious.” Elias Black, a farmer near Doyles town, Pa., has sixteen harvests of hay and grain rotting in stacks on his farm. When farm produce began to rise at the held breaking out of the higher rebellion, be his crop for still prices. When values fell, embittered by disap¬ pointment, he kept on stacking until now he has $20,000 worth of hay and grain on his hands. A correspondent wants us to remind Rev. Joseph Cook that to speak of the Churoh of Roms as a “Romish Church,” is offensive, because ’‘Romish” is a nick¬ name. It is rather a small matter, but it ia a case in which it costs nothing to gratify a harmless prejudice. Let us say “the Church of Rome,” just as we say “the Church of England .”—Poston Transcript. Paddock, of Nebraska, has constitu¬ ted himself the special enemy and op¬ ponent ot brigs in the Senate. He has lately been studying entomology and reports that this country suffers more from insects than any other on the globe. The chinch bug is responsible for an annual loss of $60,000,000, while the locust in the two years from 1873 to 1875 swept away $200,000,000 of crops. In one week in 1874 the cotton worm ate up $20,000,000 of cotton. Paddock want* more bug investigating committees. Shere All. Death of the Ameer—Who and What He War [From the Baltimore Gazette.] The official statement of the death of Shere Ali, Ameer of Afghanistan, wretch,” com¬ ing through “that ill-starred Yakoob Khan, via the Viceroy of In¬ dia, removes all doubt as to the event. It has been shown to have been genuine. He was the victim of Russian friend¬ ship. Shere Ali was one of the twelve sons of Dost Mohammed Khan and was by him nominated as his successor to the throne and he was pi ©claimed King in 1863. His oldest brother, Ai'zul Khan, however, disputed his right to the throne and raised an army and drove the Ameer out of his however, capital to the mountains. Shere Ali, enjoyed the support of the English in his adversity and recognized his right by to them. the Throne was always Azful Khan Upon the death of ID 1868 he regained possesion of Kabul how¬ and the throne. He was angry, ever, with England for not troubles giving him more material aid in his and manifested from time to time a sullen coolness. This took a more aggressive form, however, a few months ago, when he received in great state an embasaa** dor from Russia and repulsed with SI gnal discourtesy an English embassy, his led to the war with him England, but Russia, who beguiled and into the fight, gave him no help tipped him the cold shoulder. 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No business transacted on Saturday. :rm» :r-m® book for orders for Passover Bread la now open. Our Machinery being new and of the best kind, we will be able to lurnlsh a flrst-cla-is article. Our price will compare favorably with Northern and Western manu facturers. No charge for drayage. Please send your orders to Cor. Bay and Barnard si??) febl&Sw SAVANNAH, CIA
