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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1879)
DAILY EVENING Savannah m n pTTBl r ECORDER * VOL I.—No. 142. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) At 1GI BAY STREET, By J. 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 communications. Correspondence on Local and general mat¬ ters of interest solicited. On Advertisements running three, six, and twelve months a liberal reduction from our regular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressed, Re¬ corder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the (.jace oi the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. i#S“We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. A Patriarch at Thirty-Nine. The Founder of an Order Numbering 110,000 Members. [From the N. Y. World.] The visit to New York of Justus H. Rathbone, the founder of the Order of the Knights of Pythias and Senior Past Supreme Chancellor, of the Order, has awakened much interest among the officers and members for this section. Mr. Rathbone has not yet reached the prime of life, being just thirty-nine. He was born at Deerfoot, New York; is tall but not toor stout, and likely to live to a good age. He tells many stories about his tours in the West, where the lodges he visited looked for a patriarch and hardly believed the young man before them was the origi¬ nator of their Ordei. Concerning the founding of the Order, Mr. Rathbone says that when he was nineteen years of age he was teaching school in Mich¬ igan. The hoys were anxious to get up a sort of a dramatic entertainment, but lacked ladies to take the female parts. To this they overcome wrote to a dramatic agency in New York to send them plays with as few female charac¬ ters as possible. One of those sent happened to be “Damon and Phyrhias,” and while reading he it over young Rath¬ bone thought saw a good chance for a secret organization. which He immediately wrote out the ritual, he carried in his pocket for some years. During 1864 he was stationed at Washington as a military attache to the War De¬ partment. He gathered a few clerks ot the different departments together, on the evening of February 15, and after duly binding them to secrecy, read the ritual of the Knights of Pythias, which pleased them so much that they imme¬ diately began to found a lodge. Then threatened came jealousies and contentions, which at times to sap the growth of the body. Mr. Rathbone fought against odds and finally succeeded in overcoming his opponents. Now the order numbers 110,000 members, and lias thirty-four grand lodges, besides a supreme lodge. The initials of the order are F. C. B. —meaning “Friendship, Charity, Be¬ nevolence.’’ As a token of the esteem and respect in which Mr. Rathbone is held the Supreme Lodge of the World presented him with a gold badge, which lie carries with him. It has the shape of triangles centreing on a hemisphere from which projects the heads of five spears, joined by a wreath of myrtle. On the uppermost triangle is the word “Friendship,” the first lodge and organized, the date on February which was 19,1804. On the right hand triangle is “Charity," and the date of the or¬ ganization left triangle of the supreme body, and the is “Benevolence,” and the date of the appointment of the committee badge. On to the design border and procure the of the hemis phare Rathbone, is the fouuder inscriptio of n the : “To Order.” Justis The H. whole badge is surmoanted by a knight’s vizier, to which is attached a blue silk ribbon. Across the centre of inscribed the ribbon is words a gold bar on which are the Fans it oj'iao. Prince Henry of Holland, the richest man of Europe and worth Janu¬ forty million dollars, died suddenly in ary. It had been supposed that he had bequeathed half othis wealth to his wife, but. the will cannot be found and Mrs. Henry-has It is only $17,000 a circles year. generally believed in court that the dead prince made provision for his wife, and declared that before his marriage the princess showed the testament to his mother-in-law, the grand duchess of Weimar, and that he kept it in a leather portfolio in a desk reserved tor private papers of import¬ ance. Portfolio and will, the story says, have disappeared, and no trace is to be found of either. A Remarkable Case. One of the most remarkable stories of burying alive is told by Dr. O’Sulli¬ van, of New York, who says he learned it from his father, who was at the be¬ ginning of the present century a medi¬ cal student in Cork, Ireland. A lady of good family in that city was taken suddenly with convulsions, and to all outward seeming died. She was seen by several physicians pronounced who examined her and was dead. She was pregnant at the time, and the con¬ vulsions were supposed labor. to be of the nature of premature She was prepared for burial, and the customary wake was held over her remains. Alter the lapse of the usual t : me from her supposed death the usual religious rites were placed performed, and the body was in a vault. On her fingers were several valuable rings, which it had been proposed to remove before her burial, but when the attendants were about to take them off they found that hand the was so swollen that the rings could not be removed without cutting the fingers, and this the lady’s husband peremptorily accordingly forbade. The ring3 were left in the coffin, and it is supposed that the servants of the house plotted to violate the grave for the purpose of securing the jewels. RISEN FROM THE GRAVE. Late on the night following the burial the lady’s husband lay in bed awake, when he heard a knock at the street door of his house. It was before the introduction of door-bells, and it visitor was a common by thing to recognize a the sound of his knock. The husband called to his servants to go to the door, and added, in great agitation, that if his wife were alive he would swear she had knocked. Paralyzed with superstitious fear, which was probably enhanced by a conscientious¬ ness of guilt, the servants all refused to answer the summons, and the hus¬ band thereupon went to the door him¬ self. Standing outside in her grave clothes was his wife in a terrible state of agitation, but undeniably alive. Af¬ ter she had recovered her self-posses¬ sion she declaied that she had been un¬ conscious from the time she had fallen in the convulsions until she had been aroused by a pain in her fingers. Opening her eyes she had seen that robbers were trying to cut her rings from her hand. They were frightened at her resuscitation and fled, leaving her alone, and she, when she realized her situation, was hardly less terrified than they. She had, however, got out of her coffin unaided and made her way home alone. The physicians pro¬ nounced the case one of suspended an¬ imation and declared that her revival was caused by the fresh air admitted to the coffin and by the cutting of her fingers. They were, however, by no child means month prepared later, for the birth of her a but a fine boy was in truth born, and in the course of time became an eminent physician. It is probably safe to say that none of his patients were ever buried prematurely. Reminiscences of Slavery. Fio e essor Erast,us Tp. 1 Everett, - of r Rut gers emale Co lege, delivered a lecture before the Lebanon Club, at its hall, corner of Columbia and Stanton streets, New ork, the subject being A Sugar rlantation ot the Olden lime. Hav ing ived in the couth for some years before the late war, the lecturer spoke onl) iiom o servation and experience. In a pleasant, colloquial manner he described the mighty Mississippi river and its commerce, conducted his audi enee and China through fragrant orange groves trees to the palatial resi deuce of the wealthy sugar planter, whose generous hospitality latter to strangers egress (so long a. the did not obnoxious ideas in regard to the then divine institution of slavery) he warm ly extolled. He eulogized the ladies of the planter’s household for their quiet New industry, England, and, he although a native of said that the Southern ladies were the most beauti tul, fnl pure mim and nnd virtnnns virtuous ne hp Pad bod pvpi- ever ttimI- met, that they approached of nearer to Solo mon’s description otter a virtuous woman than eve/wa any class of women that he had or read of He brieflv alluded to the evils of slaveiy and saM that it was not so much the former Southern slaveowners who were at fault as the system itself. Ti The ladies 1 A- w will -n K be interested • f f 1 in ■ knowing, as the scientific American de-; dares, that many cases of arsenic pois omug have been traced recently to the weanng oi scarlet and blue stockings and gloves,.and even bat and oboe l.n health ingsot and these, hie. tints A aie dangeioua to case of serious poisoning has oeeu traced to a pair of new kids, and a child died liom tirsemcj poison sucked from a \a.i thrown o^el its face, A life-size statue ot a young woman clothed in a long robe has been dis covered near Porto d’Anzo in Italy. It represents a priestess of one of the tem pies of Aetium. ? SAVANNAH MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1879. Senator Bayard on the Situation. The Test Oath and Federal Election Laws Must he Repealed—Injustice of the One and Tyrannical Character of the Other. Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of Dela¬ ware, is passing a portion of the inter¬ val between the close of the Forty-fifth Congress and the time fixed for the extra session of the Forty-sixth gentleman in this city. As this distinguished head of the is regarded as the more conservative portion of the Democratic party his views upon the proposed le¬ gislation which resulted in the failure of important appropriation bills will be read with interest throughout the coun¬ try. A Herald reporter called upon the Senator Wednesday, when the fol¬ lowing conversation, in which such views are embodied, took place : Reporter—Will there be any general legislation at the extra session of Con* gress ? think . Senator Bayard—I am disposed and to the session will be short, consequently there will be no time to consider any but essential measures. refer Reporter—To what measures do you as essential ? Senator Bayard—The two appropria¬ tion bills which failed and the passage of the laws demanded by the House of Representatives at the last session. Senator Reporter-—What are the latter? Bayard—A repeal of the war test oath of 1862, which now excludes nearly the entire white population of the Southern States from the jury box; the enactment of a law providing for impartial juries, the right to -which is so by plainly guaranteed to every person the fifth amendment of the Consti¬ tution ; an amendment of the present law which permits the presence of armed forces at elections to keep the peace, and the repeal of those sections of the Revised Statutes which provide for the appointment of Federal officials supervisors of elections in the several and of countless deputy mar¬ with unlimited power of arrest, with or without process, even while the is proceeding, and their own from arrest by State author¬ no matter how arbitrary or outra¬ their misconduct. METHOD OF DRAWING JURORS. Reporter—You speak of impartial Are not the modes of drawing in the United States courts are held in the Southern States same as are employed to obtain or service in the State courts? Senator Bayard—Not at all. The in those States of jurors is practically left in the discretion of the United States marshals, who generally act under the suggestions or control of the United States district attorneys and sometimes of the Federal Judges. It is true that the Revised Statues of the United States contain a loosely worded section _ which was intended to assimilate the mode of drawing federal to that followed under the laws of the State in which the federal court is held, but in Georgia, for instance, where ihey have an excellent State jury established by the State con stitution of 18G8 (Republican), that has been wholly disregarded by Judge Woods and Mr. Justice Bradley, and the arbitrary selec tion of jurors by the clerk of the federal court or the marshal has bean sustained against protest. In Maryland and Delaware the Federal marshal summons such persons as as he pleases, and there is no legal remedy. As a consequence the grand and petit juries are composed sometimes wholly and generally almost entirely of men of one political party. You can readily offence see the consequences ag’ains when the charged a person on trial is political in its nature Impartial verdicts are in this rendered well iniusfice nigh imposs “aufed bleand the^ebv the feeling of arowi^g is deeply [it seated and is g h in in ten y Reporter - When were the "• laws passed i creating these .i supervisors and •> deputy Uator marshals? Bayard-In 1870-71 and “o amended ‘TUt in 1872 ~i about ?, » a year year or or two necessity Si for th^epeal of Whentheywere dange^To fir t pro [he posed I -aw the the peace of rl!!! counG !!. v which they they contained, contained and and thI “ Tk 0 hifr-uiobf * f in 1 ' t ?nate «--i ] dec 1 [ ai , ed * c *®red that they were grossly uneon stitutional, and so utterly invasive of the essential rights of each State that beir execution would be incons,stent withi the peace of the bmon.-A. 1 ' The City Mission .* m reports that New York has 4S9 churches <ind chapels, 41S Sunday 8,000 schools, 504 day schools, maintains liquor shops. This mission forty city missionaries and five chapels. about $60,000 It receives and distrib of utes which for the a year, relief a large part goes of the phy sical necessities of the poor and tressed. A Level-Headed Dead Man. [From the Baltimore American.] The following is an extract from the will of a gentleman who was a citizen of and who died recently in Baltimore county, and which he directed should be read at his funeral. The leading traits of his character throughout his life were honesty and truthfulness, and the extract shows how he, as a dying man, viewed the popular and fashion¬ able funeral pageantry of the day: “In view of the uncertainty of life, I here¬ by commit to writing my last wishes in regard to the manner and means used for fhe disposal of my mortal re¬ mains. First, I wish my body clothed in a mock plain display. shroud. I wish no flowers, nor I object to my body being carried to the church. I wish it to be removed from my earthly home to its last resting place, there to rest, unmarked, unless at some future time some child or children are moved so to do. Most earnestly I request that no thing called mourning shall be worn > y my family, as I am persuaded this h .s become a solemn mockery. If the he cl 1 L is not the fountain from whence these emotions flow they can never emanate from this source. Above all, I wish no undeserved eulogies pronounced over my remains. If there was one trait in my character worthy of imitation then imitate it, and with the last look bury all my imperfections and infirmities with my remains. Without reflecting upon my friends, I may allude to one infirmity ing of our natures; that is, in vy¬ with each other to show our consid¬ eration and respect for them that are beyond this influence. There was time, but the opportunity is lost. If I may select the ground for a few remarks, it is from these words: ‘Unprofitable ten¬ ant.’ Lastly, in order to satisfy the curious, and avoid reflections upon my family, I request or the minister officiating to read this pub¬ licly at my funeral. J. H. S.” The New Gold Coin Stella. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, mem¬ ber of the House from Georgia, has prepared duce a bill, which he will intro¬ coinage as soon of as Congress meets, for the four hundred a new gold piece, worth cents, of the metric sys¬ tem, which he entitles “ Stella.’’ The value of this coin approximates more uniformly to the gold coins of the metric in the European countries than our five dollar gold piece. The Com m ittee on Coins, Weights and Measures 0 f the last House favored the adoption 0 f the Stella. Mr. Stephens has ap parenlly accepted the metric system wholly for our coinage in place of the troy system of weights, and his com mittee adopted the idea of a goloid coin, as patented by Dr. W.W. Hub bell, of Philadelphia, Of the dollar of this alloy coin metal which has recently been coined at the Philadelphia mint, the commit tee say: “ l t i 3 the first metric dollar of full standard intrinsic value struck in the world, and fulfils all the requirements for standard coinage of dollars, halves, quarters and dimes of metric measure, and fo accord with United States coin age value.” A new twenty metric gold dollar co i n Wd3 exhibited by Mr. Stephens, It is one of the most beautiful coins, probably, ever executed. It has upon it the same devices as found upon our present coins, with the addition of the words; “ Deo est Gloria.”— Capital. ------^ mm ^------ Jack’s State-Kooni ill Church. g t^ea^on” of tLkkes •, . „ , 0 ! f -1 If found tound him self lf Wlth * P°f , k et fu “. ut of ^y, the , b*s labor. . His aged mother ^ ' experienced and on Jack rehg.on" s return during persuad- h,s ed Imn to reat a pew in her church.— The Sunday she persuaded Jack t0 ^d service with her. As a re vival was in progiess, after a while the very individual of whom Jack had hired the pew cameto his 6 f at and be * & gan to talk 1 , to him about , his welfare, Presently -11 he asked. A™ " ha_a 7°“» 1 returned Jack , *>“ tem ' ' ' per n8ing . “ Are Christian? ’’ ‘‘ Am I a Christian?” retorted the in- . dlgQant Sail ° r ’ m a t<me Ioud en0Ugh t0 attention. ., Wh bla8t your eyes! didn’t I buy a State-room in this very church yes ter ^y; and haven’t I got your own rece j pt fo r j fc my jacket this very ' m j uute 9 »’ The incipient ! “mus” was explained ^ with MBW a.mculty; but Jack cou DQt be coaseJ a seconJ „ m9 t0 enter “The a building blasted lubber where, as third he said of a mate insulted him.” — m* tm m -- Another letter has gone aronnd the world, this time in eighty-seven days, the shortest time the distance was ever made. This missive made every con nection with a precision equal to a punctual human traveler, never stop ping to lunch or “see a man,” and consequently never got left. ITEMS OF INTEREST. \ immigrants, During 1878 there arrived 152,207 against 130,503 in 1877. It was Brougham who said that lawyer is a very learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your ene¬ mies and then keep it for himself. Napoleon I. said, “Spirits and tobac¬ co give me 300,000,000 francs. Show me auy two virtues that will pay so well !’* It is natural that fallen man should be willing to make one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in one day on a turn in the wheat market, and that he should be further willing to commit for that purpose a forgery extremely un¬ likely to be detected. In the far West they have what they consider a specific for croup. It is very simple. Take a piece of lard as big as a buttarnut, rub it full of sugar, divide into three parts, and give at intervals of twenty minutes; the croup will dis¬ appear gradually but surely. Mr. Robert Templeton, jeweler, of Ayr, who died recently, has bequeathed his whole estate, some fifty thousand dollars, subject to the life rent of three sisters, to rebuild the old bridge of that tow», particularly known as the “Auld Brig o’ Ayr,” and rendered famoua by Burns’ poems. Secretary Sherman estimates that the arrearages of pensions bill will cause a deficit in the Treasury of $28,000,000. Congress these appropriated but made money provision to pay for arrears no raising the funds. This matter will be brought before Congress at the extra Dr. Holmes attributes to the histori¬ Motley, “one of the three wittiest things that have been said in Boston in our time.” What were the other he tauntingly omits to mention ; Motley’s bon mot was : “Give with me the luxuries, and I will dispense the necessaries of life.” A vessel recently sailed to Africa laden with innumerable hogsheads of rum and carrying one poor, meagre missionary. It certainly could not be expected be the antidote that a single missionary would to the rum, though it might easily be predicted that the rum would be a perfect antidote to the mis¬ Consistency is a great jewel, and hereafter when ships ara laden with those things which are exported to be¬ the poor heathen it will be far to send one article at a time— all rum or all missionary. In the Russian paper Siberia we find curious petition of a nobleman to a imperial officer: “All your peti¬ usually trouble you about the of this life; but I beg leave to you about my death. Though thirty-seven years old, I shall depart this world, for my health ruined. I trust my soul to God, but body to you. The idea of its de¬ is the burden of my life, and there¬ I respectfully request an order that be burned on the woodpile, for which have already provided twenty-five of wood.” “My brudren, I was passin’ fru de dis mawnin’ and I saw a mighty bush o’ huckleberries, and I I would tote som of ’em hum de ole ’oman, and I hadn’t no basket nuffin to pick’em in, and I looked foun’a shingle, and and begun to pick off de berries put’em dat shingle; but dey’d roll offjes’ brung as I put ’em on, and I no hum to de ole’oman. Brudren, prayers is jes’ like pickin’ buckle on a shingle; dey roll right off; don’t none of ’em go hum to de ********** farder.” rovernment of Cheison, Rus . in the bed of the river apeaean an egg of unusual size. It is to forty hen s eggs whereas the egg is equal to only twenty-four is of yellowish color, and being found between the clay and gypsum layers, is belong to the tertiary form- 10n { The purchaser of this egg of fered lt to the Imperial Academy of St fat Petersbnrc 1 etersburg, for for 1,000 1onO The academy failed to buy it “f 0 ?" 4 ? f of “““• kot “ ke permission to take a mould from , it.— ^ he Britiih Mus ^m has now bought this unique egg to the grief the Bus Si& ? 8tU ^ ° Four meagre Hindoos, who appear barely able to carry a hand-bag, will take a heavy palanqum, containing an officer and all his belongings, over the ground marvelous at a smart trot for hours. Even more are the achievements of the Persian shatirs, (professional courier.) childhood who. trained from their very to feats of strength and activity, bordering daily accomplish the distances upon incredible. Not many year 3 ago one of these men reached Teheran fully two hours before his appointed time, having covered au immense tract of very difficult country in 14 hours of almost incessant run ning: but his chief, so far from praising him, simply remarked : “Could you not have done it in 12 ?” and on his journey the indomitable man so. PRICE THREE CENTS. fwt. L OST—A Tools. Paints TRUNK, and containing Pictures. The Artist’s Under will be suitably EDWIN rewarded. CHURCHILL, Address, Prof. J. Artist. FOE SALE. T HE LARGE BRICK HOUSE, cor. Mont¬ gomery and State streets. Terms:—Ten per In cent, cash, the balance of purchase money annual installments of ten per cent, with interest at six per cent, payable quarterly. mhlltf Apply to DAVID No. 2 R. Whitaker DILLON, st. Business Cards* F. BINGEL, WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGA.RS. Milwaukee and Cincinnati Lager Beer cm draught. Free Lunch. Fresh Oysters always on hand. 21 Jefferson st., corner Con tigress street lane._____mchlO-ly JAMES RAY, —Manufacturer and Bottler— Mineral Waters, Soda, Porter and Ale, 15 Houston St., Savannah, Ga. feb23-3m , Dr. A. H. BEST, DENTI ST Cor. Congress and Whitaker streets. SAVANNAH, GA. T EETH guaranteed. extracted without pain, All work I respectfully beg to refer to any of mr patrons. octl-brao c. a. cortino, Hair Cuttine, Hair Mur, Curliu and SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. der 106)4 Planters’ Bryan street, opposite the Market, un¬ Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger¬ man. and English spokon. seKl-ff ii a in store: JOS. E. L0ISEAU & CO., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull & Drayton K EEP on hand a large assortment of Hair Flair Switches, combings Curls, Pulls, and Fancy Goods worked in the latest style. Fancy Costumes, Wigs and Beards for Rent GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, Ac . The celebrated Joseph Sclilitz’ MILWAU Whitaker f lA - OER Street, ’ BEER, Lyons’ a speciality. Block, Savannah. No. 22 Ga. 1 REE LUNCH every day from 11 to 1. r-z31-lv Carriages* A. It. 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 line of Carriages, Itockaways, and Buggies. Falling Spring and Farm Wagons, also Canopy line of Carriage Top Baby Carriages Material. a fun and Wagon I have engaged in factory . chanics. my the most skillful me pairing, will Any orders for new work, and re¬ be executed to give satisfaction iiutl tit short notice. inayl2-ly Carriages; EAST END Carriage Manufactory. P. O’CONNOR, Corner East Broad, President and York sts. Savannah, Ga. I beg leave to Inform my friends and the public full in general that I always keep on hand a supply of the best seasoned mate¬ rial and am prepared to execute orders for Wagons, Buggies, Drays, Trucks, Etc., with promptness nud dispatch, guaran¬ teeing al 1 work turned out from my shops to be as represented. nishing. Repairing in all Us branches. Painting, Var¬ done in polishing, lettering and trimming a workmanlike manner. Horse-shoeing a specialty. mch2tf Leather and Findings. COMMISSION MERCHANTS And Dealers in HIDES, LEATHER AND FINDINGS, 103 BAY STREET , SAVANNAH, GEORGiA. H IGHEST Wool. Sheep Market Skins, Price Furs, paid Deer for Hides. 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. Ics. K&ickerbocksr Ice Cow. Wholesale and Retail Dealers' in and Shippers of EASTERN ICE. — DEPOT; — HI BAY STREET. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, J. F. CAVANAUGH, Manager. mchi-6m SUNDRIES. A PPLES, Onions, Butter, Beef, Cheese, Mackerel, Lard, Ferris’ Smoked Meats, Codfish, Lemons, Dried apples, Beans, etc. Now landing and for sale GILBERT by CO. C. L. <fc Wholesale Grocers, mcblO : a, E, cor. Ray and Sauuud»U *
