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French P. osperity Menaced—
Rascality Already at Work.
Why is it that lree institutions so
often mean free fights and free frauds ?
Honest men of seem to imagine that a
good form government is above con¬
tamination and will ruu itself like some
automatic machine which they need
look at after it is once started, until it
is time to wind it up again. Are na¬
tions Frankensteins that toil to create
their own destroyers? Must mankind
be ruled by fraud and force instead of
re=i3on, now, as in the past ? These are
the questions- suggested by the present
French crisis, betraying, as it does,
with the very beginning of popular gov
ernment signs of a vicious administra¬
tion with designs not unlike the great
swindle that is steadily dragging
America down to meanness and base¬
ness of every description. Consolidat¬
ed and purged French of the republic elements of des¬
potism the has only
been in existence since the 6th of Jan¬
uary last. And yet it has developed
the worst administration scandal that
Europe has seen within the past quar¬
ter century.
A stock Leon jobbing scheme has been
opened by Say, the minister of
finance, and like those of John Sherman
and his predecessors, there’s millions in
it, for the parties interested. It was
given out by Say, or one of his asso¬
ciates, a lew weeks ago, that the five
per cent, rentes were to be converted,
or exchanged for four per cents. Of
course this announcement caused a
great which falling off in the price of the fives,
was just what the Rothschilds
were looking for. Leon Say was their
agent, similar maintaining those relations with them
to maintained by John
Sherman with the First National Bank
of New York. Of course these bank
five ers at once proceeded to buy up all the
prices per continued cents they could. The low
to rule until this ring
had gathered about all the five per
cents in the country. Suddenly the
members of the budget of the chamber
of deputies concluded to ascertain the
real instructions of the government re
arding the financial policy. Minister
that ay was the questioned, and announced
gether impracticable proposed change was alto¬
and that the
ministry had not the slightest intention
of making it. Back to their original
price came the five per cents with a
rush, and into the pockets of the Messrs.
Rothschild when the ducats.
wonder that immense excite¬
ment prevails in France over the sit¬
uation. It is certain that tlio rumor
of the intended conversion of the five
per is still cents originated with Say, that he
a sort of partner of the Roths¬
childs, and that these gigantic bank
sharks made heavy purchases of the
clear depreciated bonds. It is apparently as
a case as that which was made in
this country against Belknap, for by
some strange give the oversight the bankers for¬
got to newspaper proprietors
a “ divy,” and consequently Mr. Say
fiuds himself in trouble. Fortunately
for France, he will be forced to step
down and out, and the financial
troubles of that nation are likely to
end where ours began.— T-oy Standard.
[If speculation cau be proved on Say,
he should be sent to prison or the chain
gang. He should be made a warning
to start with. We have organized
rascals —among those holding high
positions—but the people are so tied and
bound by party lines and party in¬
fluences, that rascals and viIlians under
the vantage of a party name, rob at
pleasure and at will.— Ed. Recorder,
The once famous country residence of
Bose Tweed, at Greenwich, Conn., has
just been sold by bis family to Joseph
Millbaok, a rich New Yorker.
wants a wife of his own race and relig¬
ion, and undoubtedly, with his convic¬
tions, prejudices and customs, he is wise
to go unmarried rather than seek one
among Christians, who will not or can¬
not adapt themselves to his ways or get
over their repugnance to his Jewish
blood and Hebrew faith. Iu our East¬
ern cities there are now Jews who are
so by race but not by religion. They
really have no faith at all, are thorough¬
going materialists, infidels, or even
atheists, and pay no regard to the
Mosaic law touching meats and sacred
observances. Such Jews may marry
Christian girls if they can win them
for they have wholly or largely con¬
quered the prejudices of their people,
and they never put in an appearance
at a synagogue; Jews, either but even they usually
marry from preference or
because they are unable to get other
maidens to listen to their avowals of
love. Yet there are a good many He¬
brew husbands of Christian wives in
New York who seem to enjoy their full
share of domestic happiness.— N. Y.
Sun
Yanderbilt—His Character—His
Love of Money.
The worst feature of the Vanderbilt
will case has been its vulgarity. There
are some things whieh are better than
money. Family pride, family affection,
and the respect which is paid to the
dead by all civilized people, would
seek to cover up, at any cost, the foi¬
bles and frailties of a parent who has
been laid in his grave, and whose mem¬
ory is at the mercy of his survivors.
Those who cannot speak handsomely
of their parents will, at least., /‘walk
backward with averted gaze” when his
weaknesses are uncovered. In the
Vanderbilt will case it was thought
necessary to prove that the man who
had accumulated a colossal fortune by
his own unaided exertions was not, in
his later years, of sound mind. That
this will was invalid was assumed be¬
cause the testator did not divide bis
property among the issue of his body,
without discrimination. And the bod¬
ily infirmities incidental t,o advanced
age were adduced as proof conclusive
of an unsound mind. If strict inquisi-,
tion were made, no man's body would
be found perfect. And it is admitted
sound that no man There living is of absolutely
mind. is in every brain
a strain of insanity.
The late Mr. Vanderbilt appears to
have been an Irascible, opinionated,
and lowbred man. With many traits
of mind and heart which played a
minor part in his general character¬
istics, he had but one dominant idea
—money. Money, not for the sake of
hoarding, nor for the sake of using it
for the improvement of the race, but
for the joy of holding it, increasing it,
and making it grow. In his estima¬
tion, men were to be commended or
despised as they made money chief or failed
to make money. The end and
aim of man was to get money, to save
it when it was got, and to be built up
of money. Such a man might be ribald
in his conversation, unnatural in his
affections, and defiant of the common
decencies of life. The world, he
seemed to think, would be indulgent
of the pecularities of a man who was
worth many millions. How far these
idiosyncrasies are the heritage of this
man’s children, we do not undertake
to say. But we venture to say that
the contest over the Vanderbilt will
has presented the most unseemly spec¬
tacle witnessed in this generation. which have The
portrait of the testator we
lust now roughly “ J limned is drawn from
te3timon ' m ade ] public by h j 3 cbi ,_
d who 8 em nn 0 , lscioU3 0 f creat _
. | in / pubUc [ be ublic 3cand have ,l. beon inv i te d
e
to scrutinize the private life of this
millionaire> t0 8ee him in his bedroom,
in Ms bathingtub and the inner re
cesse8 of his own hora3j a reasonable
infereoce would be that greafc riches do
bring “W* happiness. In this case, at
l *“M t «“
* overty oftenZ often nas ,t tne saTeTfect s< pt
”rtur!^ ^ ™v£ts
^ perverts ihe the noble- noblest characters- A
1108 ot humanity, and those who might
^ aVe ovetl an ^ c ^n s lied eaca ot ei 1D
Wolfish ! T^ile rapacity Throve
densivelv to hear of
««ihe cures of riches.’’ No man desires
^ . be b e “J miserably ^ poor P But the sor
dn e ga wea!t it3 a eadenin effect
nnnn j the nobler N part of man are illus
j ■ ne bves 0 f others than Van
bret j pr u:i t ^ theIverof^'m^ bis heirs The wise man
be '”—N
\ novertv * nor riches * ' Y ’
7 c
p 1 ersona I ...(Cm - ° m d -A v P- a rv> ““
olten digest raw eggs when the stomacii
is too weak to receive and retain any
thing else. They are always very
nour i s hin" “ and strength ” giving.
There small community .
is a oi
mons in Paris
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST.
THE PLAQUE IN RUSSIA.
THE BERLIN TREATY UN¬
EXECUTED.
TERRIBLE FAMINE IN CASH
MERE.
Washington, March 11. Hon.
Samuel J. Randall arrived here this
afternoon. He will actively commence
the Speakership campaign to-morrow,
having engaged quarters at the Nation¬
al Hotel. Colonel Blackburn is re¬
ceiving numerous friends at Willard’s.
His rooms were crowded to-night. The
supporters of both these gentlemen ap¬
pear however, equally sanguine. At this time,
all that is said upon the
chances of either candidate is to be re
garded as speculative. The candidates
for other offices under the two {houses
are increasing, and their are*prospects
of exceeding animated canvasses before
the end of the present week.
St. Petersburg, March 11.—The
Golos' publication of the mortality
statistics in this city during the past
week shows that typhus has increased
in virulence. Spotted typhus is also
prevalent, and two fatal case£ of the
Siberian plague have occurred.
Berlin, March 11.—The Reichstag
to-day European rejected the motion in favor of a
disarmament. Congress to arrange a general
The Ultramontanes, the
Socialists and Herr Sonneman only
supported the motion.
England and France have notified
the Porte that they will not com¬
ply with its requests for the ap
pointment of customs commissioners,
unless the support of a stronger syndi¬
cate of bankers than that which sup¬
ports the De Tocqueville scheme can be
obtained.
London, March 11.— The last rein¬
forcements for South Africa leave to¬
day in the steamers Andean and Prus¬
sian.
The Times' Pesth dispatch says the
pour the parlers between the powers as to
various points of the treaty of
Berlin, which is still unexecuted, have
not yet led to any positive proposals
from any quarter, but they have made
apparent the necessity of finding some
general rule applicable to all cases of
difference. It would not be surprising
if the idea of an eventual reference of
all such matters to the Ambassadors at
Constantinople, majority the decision of the
of whom would be final, were
revived, as the only means of terminat¬
ing the tedious negotiations.
London, March 11. —The Pall Mall
Gazette has a private letter from a high
Indian official, which states that the
people of Cashmere are dying of fam¬
ine, and that at the present rate of
mortality the province will be nearly
depopulated by the end of the year.
London, March 10. —The reduction
of 12£ per cent, in the wages of which
the Fife and Clockmannen colliers
have received notice, will make their
average wages three shillings per diem,
which is lower than for many years,
but no serious opposition to the reduc¬
tion is anticipated.
Wives for Western Jews
We ttt , learn from , the .it-)/- Reformer and j
Times i of thisi city that Hebrew
.n the iarWeat make fremtettt
complaint that the lack of Hebrew
them to for.® ln the.oy. ot married ““Pf life.
in Leadville, 111 for instance, there is
only one Jewish girl of marriageable
age while a score of young Israelites
contend for her hand In other places
are “HouTto suttatrw“ 7 ^ y s'of butte thtr ° unSe
to Cud e own
and religion
This is an unfortunate state of things,
and is especially trying to the Jews, for
they iL are a people Vkree much given to mar
ry and cet share of their
enjoyment 4 7 StfCT5&r in the domestic circle where
acter, and present examples of marital
fidelity and paternal and filial devotion
worthy they of the highest praise. When
are in distant communities, with
few of their own faith about them, they
greatly family, miss the ties of home and
be for, lacking them, they are apt
pleasures to deprived almost entirely of social
and the comforting and re
tmmg ship. influences of female companion
They are shut out from Christian
society shun usually, or thev themselves
it, and so they must lead a morbid
life, which is very "bad for them.
riages Though there may be more intermar
nowadays between Jews and
Christians than formerly, they are,
however, of rare occurrence even yet,
and a strict Jew is more averse to
than wedding a Cnristian maiden, perhaps,
she to give her hand to him. He
SAVANNAH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1879.
The Liars’ Club,
Four Hundred Pigeons Killed at a Single Fire
with One Hundred Shot — How Wes.
Doughty Counted Ninety-Eight Thousand
Panes of Glass—A Wonderful Rise iu
Pork.
[From the New York Mercury.]
The Liars’ Club has been in session
in the mountains, near Fall City, Pa.,
and here are some of the facts placed
on record by its members:
Said a wonderful shot, Dr. Frank
Cowan, of Greensburg: “On one occa¬
sion I killed just four hundred pigeons
with exactly one hundred shot, at a
single fire, and then got all the shot
back again. Shall I tell the stoiy ?”
“By all means,” was the unanimous
response.
“It used to be,” said the doctor,
“that pigeons were very plentiful over
in Westmoreland. A thousand dozen
to the acre was considered a light crrp.
There used to be a good deal of riv a 1 1 y
between Lieutenant Governor L, i
and myself as to which could kill the
most pigeons at a single shot, until
finally we got to considering it a waste
of ammunition when we brought down
less than one hundred. One day Latta
killed two hundred and thirteen at a
single shot, and went around crow¬
ing over me at a great rate.
I made up my mind that I would
have to beat that or leave Greensburg;
consequently, turkey one day I bought a lot of
shot, counted out just an even
hundred of them, and put them down
on top of two ounces of powder. When
I got out into the field the pigeons
were pretty thick, coming in from the
big roost up toward Cresson. At last
I saw a tremendous flock coming. In
the aggregate they were so heavy
that they couldn’t fly more than four
or five feet from the ground. I stoop¬
ed down and let them pass over me,
and then I banged away. About two
minutes afterward I picked myself out
of a fence corner and saw the whole
field covered with dead pigeons. I
picked and them up and counted hundred them,
there were just four of
them. I noticed that the shot had not
passed through the last hundred that
I picked up, and when they were
plucked and cut open there was a shot
in each one of them. Each shot had
passed through three birds, and the
force being spent had lodged in the
fourth. If I bad put in two ounces
more of pc wder I would have brought
down at least eight hundred pigeons.”
Wes. Doughty, of Rosevill, has a fa¬
culty of counting that would make Bob
Mackey turn green with envy If a
flock of a thousand sheep goes by him
on the run he can count the last one of
them. On one occasion he bet two hun¬
dred and fifty dollars with Col. R. L.
P. Baber, of Columbus, late a prominent that
Democratic candidate for Congress,
he could ride a horse at full speed from
one end of a street to the other and
count the exact number of panes of glass
in the front windows and doors of all
the houses on both sides. The feat was
performed on High street from the
railroad crossing to the southern ter¬
minus, covering a distahce of three and
a half miles, mostly built up compact¬
ly. Having ridden over the course at
break-neck speed, he reported the num¬
ber of panes of glass, great and small,
at 98,732. It took Captain Engelke,
Chief of Police and referee in the con¬
test, with a squad of ten ground policemen,
seven hours to go over the and
verify the account. When they got
through with the computations they
reported the number at 98.73I L Dough¬
ty didn’t expect them to deduct'the
missing half of the broken part other¬
wise he could have won the wager
easily.
“There is something in the signs of
the moon,” put in Tim Hardin, of the
Excursion House. “One day,’’ said he,
“when I was about to kill my hogs, a
neighbor ® came in and told me that the
m moon was ____ on __, the decrease, and i that
meat would all shrivel up laughed if I killed the
P* *«• But I only at him
and went on W1 t b t ^ e butchering. When
1 ^vay the pork and I thought it
looked rather light, every time I
went to look at it the pieces seemed
gmaller> But w h e n it come to cooking:
the meat, the shrinkage big became abso
lut ely appalling. A slice shrank
U P «to a mouthful, and a whole ham
^ a side wouldn t make more than an
or ^ mar 7 °* eal ^ or P ei 'sons. The
‘ Dex f‘ ^ e ar ^ conc ^ u ^ et i to butcher my
! Pork when , the moon was on the
rease ! an ^ s0. Gentlemen, I;
j ^ j on 1 ^ now whether you will beueve
me or no ^’ 11 13 * TUe > nevertheless,
1 didn’t have that meat salted down
three weeks until it swelled out so large
, that I had to enlarge the smoke-house
' to double its former size to keep it
un
t^ er cover ' When ifc was P ut into the
frying-pan the effect was wonderful.
a piece two inches square would spread
out until it was bigger than a napkin,
Fact, and I can prove it. No,
men, don’t you fool yourselves about
the signs of the moon.’
After this story the club solemnly
‘adjourned, '
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
President Grevy is reported to carry
himself very much like an American
President. Visitors easily gpt
of him, finding him in his office in a
loose coat and slippers, pacing the
floor, and in the full enjoyment of a
cigar.
London Dr. Newman, Times it has is excused reported himself by the
,
from accepting the rank of Cardinal.
Several years ago Pope Tius offered
this dignity to the English churchman,
who refused that offer as he has now
refused Pope Leo’s, with expressions of
deep respect for the Holy See.
The women of Massachusetts are
competent to perplexed take a philosophic When view
of the most problems.
one of them was informed that there
were more women than men in the
State, she at once replied that the fact
was in accordance with the scientific
doctrine of the “ survival of the fit¬
test.”
A meeting of 7,000 persons in San
Francisco, “savagely denounced” Mr.
Hayes for his veto, but there appears
to have been no violent outbreak of
the “hoodlum” element, which might
have been feared, and, had it occurred,
the unoffending Chinamen been brutally of San Fran¬
cisco would have dealt
with.
There is such an enormous surplus of
steam tonnage all over the world that
freights are very low. Our principal
imports from Japan are tea and raw
silk. By the Pacific Mail route New
York received 2,139,883 pounds of last
season’s while importations of Japan teas,
13,086,224 came by the Suez
Canal.
A Newfoundland young man, who
suffered much from pain in the back,
bandaged ed himself with flannel moisten¬
with turpentine. Afterwards, de¬
siring to loosen the bandage, and hav¬
ing nothing at hand to cut the thread
with which it was stitched, he lighted
a match to burn it, and was burned so
severely that he died in a few hours.
To the general reader it will hardly
seem credible that the value of the
annual product of butter and cheese in
the United States is $50,000,000 great¬
er than that of the wheat crop, yet
such is the fact, the former being
$350,000,000, and the latter about
$300,000,000. The cow is an immense
actor in our productive wealth.
During the Revolutionary war the
Earl of Dartmouth asked an American
of how many members Congress con¬
sisted. The reply was “Fifty-two.”
“Why, that is the number of cards in a
pack !" said his lordship. “Pray how
many knaves are there ?” “Not one,"
recollect returned the Republican; “please to
the knaves are court cards.”
The elevation of Rev. Dr. John H.
Newman to a cardinalate will be an
event in the Catholic church. He is a
man of great ability, and his appoint¬
ment will please all but the Jesuits and
ultramontanists. Dr. Newman was
bred in the Church of England. He
became a leader in the high church
party, and in 1845 embraced the Ro¬
man Catholic faith. Pope Gregory
XVI. made him a doctor of divinity,
and Piux IX. offered to make him
theologian to the Vatican council, but
the offer was declined. Dr. Newman
is 78 years old.
The Chinese Charge d’ Affairs, in his
national dress, is a conspicuous person
at the court entertainments in Berlin.
He is said to be far less arrogant than
his predecessor, Lin-Ta-Juu, who, in
his boundless pride, overstepped all
limits. Instigated by a keen dislike to
foreigners, denote he his neglected no opportunity
to aversion publicly. One
day he appeared at court with a nu¬
merous and other suite, menials. including even his cook
A traveler famous
for his explorations in China, detecting
by their garb the low social rank of the
respective ,• persons, drew , the attention ,,
of t the L 7 tt- High l. ul Chamberlain, i_ i • whereupon i
the Minister was sharply reprimanded
for his insolence.
In France and Germany very many
more England. gentlemen affect corsets than in
Here at home it is lmpossi
ble the custom will ever become what
our English friends call “usual." We
haven’t time for the intricacies of the
corset Even the suspender is getting
beyond the control of the Amencaa
man, and a fellow sufferer wrote not
mng ago to a newspaper in New York
makers asking it to request of suspender
to have pity on poor male
humanity and cease adding novel
machinery to this _ necessary part of our
attire. No; a people who are frightened
at penders so simpie will a thing as a pair of sus
never undertake the
management of corsets, hedged about,
f 3 the ^ are ™mored to be, with whale
bones innumerable, strings by the yard
and holes by the dozens. It has not
been the purpose in this paper to do
more than mention—as has been done
—about the whipping and the spurs,
These are themes at which the pen that
• did not falter at corsets for gentlemen
1 wisely stops.
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