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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1879)
DAILY eviljnxn' G Savannah roflnl [nip] Recorder VOI. I.—No. 138. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, .Saturday Excepted,) At26i BAY STREET. Rij STERN. The Recorder is served to subscribers, in every part oi 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 eommuuications. Correspondence on Local and general mat¬ ters of interest solicited. On Advertisements running three, six, and twelve months a liberal reduction from our regular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressed, Rk cokder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the r ;Hce n: the Saturday evening edition, which wilt make six full issues for the week. £3-We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. 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. PRICE THREE CENTS. ftet muSi Artist’s e tinder «beArtut. 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 from 11 to 1 o’clock. At the Market Square House, 174 BRYAN ST. Savannah, Ga. E. BINGEL, WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS. Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer on draught. hand. Free Lunch. Fresh Oysters always on 21 Jefferson st., corner Con ngress street lane. mohlO-ly JAMBS RAY, —Manufacturer and Bottler— Waters, Soda, Porter and Ale, 15 Houston St., Savannah, Ga. feb23-3m Dr. A. H. BEST, DE1TTI ST Cor. Congress and Whitaker streets. SAVANNAH, GA. T EETH extracted without paiu. All work guaranteed. I respectfully beg to refer to any of my patrons. octl-brao C. A. CORTJ.NO, Hair Cutting Hair Dressing Curlio? and SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. 1MJ V> Bryau street, opposite the Market, un¬ der Planters’ Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger¬ man, and English spokon. sel6-tf HAIR store: JOS. E. LOISEAU & CO., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull * Drayton K EEP Switches, on hand Curls, a large Puffs, assortment and Fancy of Goods Hair Hair combings worked in the latest style. Fancy Costumes, Wigs and Beards for Rent GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, Ac . The celebrated Joseph Schlit/.’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality, No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah, Ga. FREE LUNCH every day from 11 to 1. r-z31-iv Carriages* A. K. WILSON S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, Corner Bay and West Broad sts. CARRIAGE REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay and Montgomery streets. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA The largest establishment in the city. I keep a full lino of Carriages, Rockaways, and Buggies. Falling Spring and Farm Wagons, Canopy line of Carriage Top and Baby Wagon Carriages, also a full Material, I have chanics. engaged in my factory the most skillful me¬ pairing, will Any be orders for new work, and re¬ executed tc« give satisfaction and at short notice. may!2-Iy Carriages; EAST E ND Carriage Man ufactory. P. O’CONNOR, Corner East Broad, President and York sts, Savannah, Ga. I public beg leave to inform my friends and the lu general that I always keep on hand a full supply of the best seasoned mate¬ rial and am prepared to execute orders for Wagons, Buggies, Drays, Trucks, teeing Etc., with promptness and dispatch, gi uaran al 1 work turned out from iny sh opB to be as represented. nishing. Repairing inall its brandies. Painting, Var¬ done in polishing, workmanlike lettering and trimming a manner. Horse-shoeing a specialty. mch2tf Leather and Findings* COMMISSION MERCHANTS And Dealers Jn HIDES, LEATHER A HD FINDINGS, 160 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. H IGHEST Wool. Sheep Market Sklntt, Price Furs, paid Deer for Hldea, Skins, Beeswax and Tallow. A full supply of the best French and Ameri¬ can Liberal tannages constantly kept on hand. advances made on consignments. No business transacted on Saturday. : msffl iPffljD () UR book for orders for Passover Bread Is now open. Our Machinery being new and of the best kind, we will be able to lurnlsb a first-class article. Our price will compare favorably with Northern and Western manu¬ facturers. No charge for drayage. Please send your orders to gum, & co. ! m Cor. Bay and^Barnard sts.; lebia-Jw SAVASaUB, GA
