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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1879)
• smi. DAILY bjvmntn'g Savannah tTn< lyi'l raiilllii] A :* • rnjjbl Recorder. VOL I.—No. 151. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING , (Saturday Excepted,) At 161 BAY STREET. By J. STERN. The Recorder is served to subscribers, in every part ot 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 piace ol the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondents. A Wonderful Runner. From Paris to Moscow in 13 Days and 18 Hours. The present interest the in pedestrianism, manifested by gathering of throngs of people to witness walking and run¬ ning matches, was equally great in the early part of the centuary, but was then excited by the wonderful, and almost incredible performances of one man. This was Mensen Ernst, born in Bergen, Norway, on October 19, 1799. He was the son entered of a sea captain, and when still a boy, the English Navy. Al¬ displayed though his powers in his as boyhood, a runner were even he had made three voyages to the East Indies, and had completed a three years cruise on the frigate Caledonian, before he made a public exhibition of them,which he first did by running a race in London when 19 years old. Though up to this time he had no training, and had even lacked a pedestrian’s ordinary oppor¬ tunities for muscular development, he was famed throughout the Navy as a runner, and wonderful stories as to his extraordinary powers circulated among all branches of the service. At last a heavy sum of money was wagered by the officers of his ship that Mensen would run from London to Portsmouth, a distance of 73 miles, in less than 10 hours. The feat was attempted and accomplished, the sailor distance being cover¬ ed by the young in exactly nine hourB. Shortly afterward he ran from London to Liverpool, a distance of 150 miles, in 32 hours. Although thus successful as a runner, Mensen did not quit the sea until after having dis¬ tinguished himself by bravery in the battle of Navarino, fought October 20, 1827. Soon after that date he became a professional number runner, of lesser and, matches, after win¬ ning a was induced to undertake the great feat of running from Paris to Moscow. He started from the Place Vendome at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of June 11, 1831, and entered the Kremlin at 10 o'clock a. in. of June 25, having accom¬ plished the distance of 1,760 miles in 13 days and 18 hours. This feat created a decided sensation throughout Europe, and the employ¬ ment of Menser as a courier extraor¬ dinary by Kings and Princes became a popular amusement in European courts. He ran from country to coun¬ try, and from congratulation, court to court, condolence, bearing messages of or dispatches of greater importance, and whenever matched against the re¬ gular mounted couriers easily succeed¬ ed in beating them. He always carried with him a map, a compass, and as many biscuits and ounces of raspberry syrup as there were to be days occupi¬ ed on the journey. In winter he took with him a pair of long, slender Nor¬ wegian snow-shoes, and in traveling he always chose the most direct line, turn¬ ing out neither for mountains nor riv¬ ers, but climbing the one and swim¬ ming the other. He never walked, but invariably ran, hours keeping up a long, swinging lope for at a time with¬ out rest. His only refreshment was one biscuit and an ounce of raspberry syrup per day, and two short rests ot 10 or 15 minutes each in 24 hours. These rests he took while standing and leaning against a tree or other object of support. At such times he covered his face with a handkerchief and slept,and after such a nap he would pursue his way apparently as refreshed as though he had slep for hours. He was very uneasy when compelled to be quiet, and could not sit still for half aud hour without feeling a sense of suffocation. He was a very amiable man, a favorite with all who knew him, and was made much of by lus royal patrons. Munich at In 1S33, he started from l p. m., June 6, with dispatches from the King of Bavaria to his son Otto, King of Greece. These dispatches were delivered at Nauplia at 9 a. than m. op if July 1 ; or seven days sooner the regular they had been sent by employ of post. In 1836, while iD the the British East India Company, Men sen was charged with the conveying of dispatches from Calcutta to Constanti¬ nople through Central Asia. The dis¬ tance is 5,615 miles, which the messen¬ ger accomplished in 59 days, or in one third of the time made by the swiftest caravan. On this wonderful journey he made his way across terrible deserts, awful salt swamps, where, for hundreds of miles, he saw no living being, and through countries whose inhabitants were savage robbers, and who lived in a state of continual warfare. The man aeemed invested with supernatural powers, and his fame spread far and wide. One of the most interesting problems of the age being the discov¬ ery of the sources of the Nile, it was suggested that this wonderful man be employed to follow the course of the river to its sources, and thus determine them. Prince Puckler Muskan, who had himself traveled extensively in Egypt and had made several unsuc¬ cessful attempts to penetrate to the head-waters of the Nile, offered to defray all expenses and reward Men sen handsomely if he would undertake the trip. The indefatigable runner consented to make the attempt, and on May 11, 1842, set out from Muskan, in Silesia, whence he ran to Jerusalem, where he had somebusinoss to attend to. Thence he continued his way to Cairo and up the western bank of the Nile, through Lower and Middle and into Upper Egypt. Here, just outside the village of Syane, he was seen on the morning of January 22, 1843, to stop and rest, leaning against a palm tree, with his face covered by a handkerchief. He rested so long that seme persons tried to awake him, but they tried in vain, for he was dead. He was buried at the foot of the tree, and it was years before his friends in Europe knew what fate had befallen him. Rev. Dr. Ingram, who died recently in Shetland at the age of 103, is said to have been the oldest minister in the world. Four generations of the Ingrams have lived in the same house in Shet¬ land, and they were long generations too. Th^deceased’s father died at the age of 100, and his grandfather at 105. celebration Archbishop Purcell attended the of St. Patrick’s Day at the Opera House in Cincinnati on Monday evening, and his appearance in one of the proscenium boxes was the occasion of quite a demonstration from the au¬ dience. His health is improved, and he now takes a more hopeful view of his financial troubles. In a conversa¬ tion witn one of the priests he said that he could not express the gratitude he felt toward the Church for the ex¬ pressions of sympathy and kindness he received on every side, and the hope those expressions gave him that he would live to see all his embarrass¬ ments cleared up. He still expresses the belief that every one who holds a claim against him will yet be paid up and the diocese relieved of all embar¬ rassments. The kind responses that have come from the Cardinal at New York, and the Archbishops at Philadel¬ phia, Boston, Baltimore and other places, and the numerous assurances irorn priests and laymen throughout the country, gave him much hope. A colored preacher in Kentuck call¬ ed on a tobacco dealer for a subscrip¬ tion in aid of the Church over which he presided, and when the dealer said he ought to go to work and earn some¬ thing for the Church instead of begging offered to work if the dealer would em¬ ploy him. The dealer agreed; the negro preacher laid aside his clerical coat and labored assiduously in the factory all day, aud at sunset received a $50 check in payment. the The Government Belgian bishops Education have condemned law because instruction in dogmatic religion is no longer made compulsory, and have pre¬ scribed a prayer which is to be recited aloud after mass in every church and chapel. ItcallsonGod to prevent the bill from becoming a law. One of its most characteristic sentences is: From the schools without God, and the school¬ masters without faith, deliver us, O Lord! Amen.” Although the payment of $7,500,000 for the right to fish for a few years near the shores of Newfoundland may have convinced Americans that products annually drawn from the sea by our countrymen questionable are of immense worth.it is whether the true value of the sea to us as a food producing element is clearly appreciate ed by most persons. It is conspicuous —---. of the a ieature Forty-sixth Congress that the faces of no colored men are to be seen. In the Forty-th’rd Congress there were nine colored men, in the Forty-fourth, six, and in the Forty-filth, three, SAVANNAH THUESDAY, MAECH 27, 1879. BY TELEGRAPH. THE OBNOXIOUS ELECTION LAWS. A KENTUCKY JUDGE ASSAS¬ SINATED. A Sleeping Man Murdered. Washington, March 26.—There was decided unanimity in the joint Demo¬ cratic caucus to-day, and the pro¬ gramme heretofore decided on remains practically unchanged. The disposi¬ tion not to yield on the political issues was universal. This will bring Congress and Hayes in direct conflict. Whether or not general legislation should be entered on was left in abeyance. Frankfort, Ky., March 26.—Judge J. M. Elliott, of the Court of Appeals, was assassinated in the street in front of the Capitol Hotel, by Thomas Bu¬ ford, of Henry county. Judge Elliott had rendered an opinion adverse to a case Buford had for some time in court. Buford loaded a double-bar¬ relled shot gun, and waited for Elliott to come to dinner, and walked up and shot him through the heart without warning, killing him instantly. The assassin was arrested and is now in jail. Ingersoll, Ont., March 26.—This afternoon Reuben Smith, while sitting asleep in a chair in the Royal Hotel, was kicked in the face by Charles Moore, killing him instantly. It is supposed the act was prompted by an old grudge. London, March 26.—Correspondence of the limes, dated Arment, Upper Egypt, February 25th, gives heart¬ rending accounts of the condition of the population of the Nile valley. The scenes described resemble those in India during the recent famine. In some of the villages the people are past help, sitting naked and like wild beasts eating roots and suffering with the endurance of despair. Bombay, March 26.—Private ad¬ vices from prevails Mandalay represent The that quiet there. King of Burmah, since the dispatch of rein¬ forcements of British troops, is reported to have expressed his willingness to grant any concessions demanded. Vienna, March 26.—The Political Correspondence states that negotiations are making more satisfactory progress between Russia and England relative to measures the to be adopted in Roumelia after departure of the Russians, but the project of military occupation by neutral powers has been completely abandoned. Cairo, III., March 26.—During a heavy thunder storm at 3 o’clock this morning the Roman Catholic convent in this city was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. No one was injured. New York, March 26—John Smith, proprietor of a low den at Oliver street, who was convicted last week of the murder of Henry Madden, an English seaman on the 23d of January, was to¬ day sentenced to State prison for life London, March 26.—Dr. Carver, the American sharpshooter gave au exhibi¬ tion of rifle shooting at the Welsh Harp, at Hendon, yesterday. Though the weather was unfavorable the Sports¬ man says such consummate skill was never before displayed in England. A farmer at Glenburn, Maine, pur chased some supplies in Bangor, among j which was a pint of whisky. To avoid breakage, he placed the bottle in a of rice, but found on reaching home : that the bottle was broken and the rice saturated. He threw the rice behind ■ his barn, and a big turkey roon paid his respects to it. In due time the turkey became dead drunk, and was found in that condition by the farmer, who killed thought him. that disease bird or poison had The was still warm, and the death evidently recent. The farmer would not eat him himself, but plucked him for market and lett him in the stable. The next morning he found the bereft gobbler shivering naked on his roost, and looking on him with reproachful eyes. Suez canal stock is nov selling in Europe at about $143 per share and is advancing. The annual $6,000,000, revenue has now crept up to and the expenses have probably reached their maximum at about $3,000,000. ---- —--— Ex-Governor __ Robt. McClelland, of Michigan, who was Secretary of the Interior under President Pierce, has been stricken with paralysis, and is in a critical condition, lne Metnodist Church ^ . owns more ( property than any other in the In ion, that sect having £69, S54.191 invested hi churches. From sor(bere Irovidence, , ss1mdm vided {ot ^ a gracious ’ ‘ sm. Live in a City. Macon lelegraph : On Saturday night occurred one of those little ro¬ mances in real life of which we read on pages of fiction, but which in the dull routine of every-day existence we do not often meet. The incident illustrates the old expression, “there’s many a slip, time twixt the cup and the lip.” Some¬ since a prominent business gentle¬ man of a neighboring town, of the Hebrew faith, lost his wife. The dis¬ consolate husband, to soothe his grief, and as a testimonial of his esteem for the departed, which he deemed the fittest he could give, resolved to take unto himself another lady. His brother was in New York, and with due care and lady diligence whom selected for the groom a he thought would be agrees able to his brother. They were per¬ sonally strangers, but a family connec¬ tion made them known to one another. The courtship was done by proxy, and the lady’s consent obtained. A short engagement followed, .vhen he wrote to her to meet him in M icon, where the union would be consummat¬ ed. She replied by saying that she would be there on the day appointed. the Friday evening as the sun ushered in holy Sabbath of his faith, was ap¬ pointed for her to reach the city. Ac¬ companied Magistrate by two relatives, she came. M. R. Freeman was selected and was promptly on hand to tie the knot nuptial. The bride, however, asked, as a preliminary question, where her future lord intended residing, and when told protested and insisted that the man who claimed her hand must live in a city. She was begged to con¬ sider the matter again and the cere¬ mony was deferred until Saturday evening. When bride Saturday evening came the about was unrelenting. Just as she was to consent for the question of residence to be banished, the groom refused to have the ceremony per¬ formed, and the ceremony was post¬ poned indefinitely. The gentleman is in middle life, and the young lady is in the bloom of youth, and pronounced quite attractive. The affair has created quite a little sensation in the circle of friends, and they do not know which to sympathize with the most —he, for losing the expectation of his heart in his lady by choice, or she a husband, who would have loved and taken care of her. She will return to New York and he will go back to his home in a neighboring city. The case presents some and quite the romantic points all around, Sunday was with topic of conversation on quite a number of people. A Chinese Row. Most extraordinary proceedings are reported from time to time in China, but seldom anything more remarkable than this incident. Mr. Sen, of Soo chow, pronounced was dangerously sick of a disease incurable, and had a son who loved Miss Ma. Miss Ma was “sickly and jaundiced-looking,” so that old Mr. Sen disapproved the match. One day he consulted some conjurers about his health, and they gravely told him his life would surely end in a few days if his son was not married at once. The stern parent then relented and Miss Ma was soon made Mrs. Sen. But the jaundiced-looking bride a few days after her wedding suddenly died. Old Mrs. Ma was very angry at this. Ac¬ companied by a dozen viragoes she en¬ tered the house of the Sens and raised a general commotion. The members of the Sen family were roundly beaten with whips and sticks, and the furni ture was smashed into a hundred pieces, Everybody took flight before them ex the widower, who bravely stood ground and was beaten without last mercy by the infuriated dames. At tied they threw* him to the tloor and him by his queue to the feet of his dead wife and there extracted from’him ed a pledge that he would give a pro>,ract wake and mass, lasting for forty nine days, The coffin was to be an expensive one, and of feasting there was to be a plen.y. A temporary feast was in-law at and once her prepared dozen for the mother eating had well begun vi’agoes, and the when the mother of young Sen and all those who had followed her in flight from the house stealthily entered by a rear door and (descended in fury upon the banquet scene. They soon learned that old Mr. Sen had died during their absence, and this intelligence only added to their rage. Mrs. Ma was beaten roundly till she cried aloud for help, and when she became exhausted her head was ceremoniously tied to the corpse of old Air. Sen. There she was forced to sign a paper had signifying that nothing im proper been done, and on the fol lowing day there were two funerals in Soochow and no questions asked, Nathan P. Pratt, Treasurer of Savings Bank at Reading, Massachu* setts, has turned out to be a defaulter to tfie amount of §90,000. He enjoyed the fullest confidence of the depositors, hom he had be en systematically rob and bis defalcation creates 1 greatest consternation. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The verv best and kindest way in which to look at the fault, of your friends is to shut your eyes. A recent census shows that Portland, Oregon, that has 17,225 inhabitants, and 1,832 of them are Chinese. The Swiss State Council, at Berne last Friday by a vote of 27 to 15, re solved to restore capital punishment in Switzerland. If a man is honest he does not need to tell of it. Sterling virtue can af¬ ford to keep still, but sly dishonesty has a very busy tongue. The skeptic is a skeptic, not ignorance of the considerations usually urged in support ot religion, but cause his mind perceives objections to it which need to be answered. It has been calculated by Ritter that seventy-five radiated thousand years ago the sun one per cent, less heat than at present, and that seven hundred thou¬ sand years ago it gave out ten per cent, less. Each kilogramme of the sun’s mass contains, he thinks, about forty three million units of heat. The old quarrel should be dead, for both the stage and the pulpit had changed. Religion is not now what it used to be 200, or even 100 years ago. It is very much modified in its spirit if not in its doctrine. The voice of the pulpit must recognize the existence, at least, in society of elements that it did not generate and could not control. Such is the formidable antagonism of the sexes that a chance to give a Roland for an Oliver is never lost. “Don’t you think that a good likeness of me ?” said a pretty wife to her small fraction of herself called her husband. Very good,” was the reply, “except that there is a little too much repose about the mouth.” J. C. Clymer, who was murdered by highwaymen 29th near Vienna, 111., on the of March, 1872, in a letter to Horatio King, the Assistant Postmaster General, at Washington, dated March 25, said : “I feel distressed thismornin by reason of something uncommon, have dreamed for four successive nights of being murdered. I have very little faith in dreams, though this is so sin¬ gular.” lady A Naples that paper says that a young of city, whose name is Rosa del Prete, has been in the habit “making and up” as an old beggar woman, in this guise collecting alms in the public streets. She has got so much money in this way as to enable her to dress and live in most luxurious style, and has actually, it is said, been ac*. customed to receive in her elegant saloon in the evening the very persons from whom she had begged in the morning. A German periodical is responsible for the following method of making malleable brass : Thirty-three parts of copper and twenty-five of zinc are alloyed, the copper being first put into the crucible, which is loosely covered. As soon as the copper is melted, zinc purified by sulphur is added. The alloy is then cast into moulding sand in the shape of bars, which, when still hot, will be found to be malleable and capable without of showing being brought into any shape cracks. Women in Austria perform the duties of bricklayers’ hods laborers, and may be seen carrying of mortar and bask¬ ets of brick up high ladders. More than this, they actually supply the lace of navvies, and dig and wheel arrows of "ballast’’ almost as nimbly as their lords. They chop wood, they carry water, they offer to black your boots in the street, and perform many other little offices which, according to our notions, hardly come under the de¬ nomination of “woman’s work." Prince Bismarck comes out of the recent legislative conflict without any gains to his reputation as a statesman. He showed characteristic pertinacity in upholding a bill which he knew would not be passed, but and he irritability evinced a degree of sensitiveness which detracts from his position as the virtual ruler of a great empire. His angry declarations in the Reichstag are, however, exceeded in significance by his statement at partial a recent disarmament parliamentary reception, that is impossible, as Germany has to show front in four different directions, and could trust none of her neighbors. General Robert T. Burton, a leading Mormon of Utah, has just been ac¬ quitted after a long trial on a charge of murder. Joseph Morris headed a schism in 1862, proclaimed himself a more glorious prophet than Brigham Young, and took five hundred follow¬ ers to a fort on Weber river. Some of these became dissatisfied and wished to return to Salt Lake ; but Morris im them and confiscated money. Burton, as a United Marshal, went to the fort, accompanied by three hundred militia men, to serve a writ. Morris called on his men to fight, and was shot down by Burton] half acquitting Gentile. jury was half Mormon PEICE THEEE CENTS. Wants* TIT"anted—E verybody to know that I am v sefaK'Tob^SSi old stand the B. house, LcuS" t Ky * Cor. West Broad & Harrison Sts., to whlch 1 have now remo ™d. TPIEO. RADERICK. mh21tf Business Cards* F. BINGEL, WINES, LIQUORS AND SEGARS. draught. Milwauki* Free and Cincinnati Lager Beer on hand. Lunch. F’resh Oysters always on 21 Jefferson st., corner Con ngress street laiio.___mchlO-ly JAMES RAY, Manufacturer and Bottler— Mineral Waters, Soda, Porter and Ale, feb23-3m , . ,15 Houston St., Savannah, Ga. Dr. A. H. BEST, DENTIST Cor. Congress and Wh itaker streets. SAVANNAH, GA. T EETH guaranteed. extracted without pain, All work I respectfully beg to refer to any of my patrons. ootl-bmo W. B. FERRELL’S Aet. RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market Basement, (Opposite Llppman’s Drug Store,) Ian ISM SAVANNAH. GA* C. A. CORTINO, Bair Cutting Bair Dressing, Curling and SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. 166'X Bryan street, opposite the Markot, un¬ der Planters’ .and English Hotel. spokon. Spanish, Italian, seitf-n Gef man HAIR store: * JOS. E. L0ISEAU & C0., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull ft Draytou K EEP on hand a large assortment of Hair Hair Switches, combings Curls, worked Pull's, in and Fancy Goods the latest style. Fancy Costumes, Wigs and Beards for Rent GEORGE EEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, &c . The celebrated Joseph SchllUs’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGFIR BEER, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah, Ga. FREE LUNCH every day from II to 1. r-zJl-lv 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 line of Carriages, Rockawaya, and Buggies, Spring and Farm wagons. Canopy Falling Top Baby Cariiages. also a full line of Carriage and Wagon Material. I have engaged in my factory the most sklllftil mo ohanlcs. Any orders for new work, and re¬ and pairing, will be executed to give satisfaction at short notice. mayI2-ly EAST END Carriage Manufactory. P. O’CONNOR, Corner Flast Broad, President and York sts. Savannah, Ga. I beg leave to Inform my friends and the hand public full in general that I always kocp on rial and a supply prepared of the best seasoned mate¬ am to execute orders for Wagons, Buggies, Brays, Trucks, Etc., with promptness and dispatch, guaran¬ teeing all work turned out from iny shops to be as represented. nishing. Repairing polishing, in all its branches. Painting, Var¬ done in workmanlike lettering and trimming a manner. Horse-shoeing a specialty. meli2tf Leather and Findings* COMMISSION MERCHANTS And Dealers in HIDES, LEATHER AND FINDINGS, 106 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. —o H IGHEST Market Price paid for Hides, Wool. Sheep Skins, F’urs, Deer 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. Ice* Knickerbocker Ice Company. Wholesale and Retail Dealers * Shippers in and of EASTERN ICE. — DEPOT;- 114: BAY STREET. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, J. F. CAVANAUGH, Manager. mchl-Gm Candies* ESTABLISHED 1850. M. FITZGERALD —Manufacturer of— PURE, PLAIN AND FINE CANDIES. Factory and Store, 170 BRYAN STREET Branch Store, No. 122 BROUGHTON Bull ST., One door east of SAVANNA^, »treat. GA;
