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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.
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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;
