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D A. I L Y EVENING
jL \ N N AH Recorder.
VOL I—No. 154.
THE SAVANNAH RECORDER,
R. M. ORME, Editor.
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Delmonico’s Dinners.
One that Cost $20,000, or $200 a Plate.
[From the New York Times.]
The most expensive dinner ever given
at the crumbled shrine of entertain¬
ment was the dinner given by Sir Mor¬
ton Peto to a hundred merchants, with
a sprinkling of journalists, about the
close of the war. He was regarded as
immensely wealthy; he had vast inter¬
ests in railways, and various public im¬
provements; attended was an exemplar of ortho¬
doxy, any number of churches,
prayed long and loud, contributed
handsomely to benevolent societies, was
a favorite of evangelical clergymen,
and was handsomely eulogized as the
model Christian merchant. After he
had returned to England he was ar¬
raigned for fraudulent transactions on
an enormous scale, and, -although he
escaped prison by coudemned certain legal techni
chalitieB, he was in public
opinion, and forever ruined in reputa¬
tion. Sir Morton’s piety was doubt¬
less a studied hypocrisy, readily practised for
the purpose of more carrying
out his dishonest schemes, and, perhaps,
of eliciting sympathy when he should
be found out.
Ostentatious expenditure was one of
the methods he adopted to gain favor
in this country, and he was never
more ostentatious than in his order to
Delmonico who was enjoined to exer¬
cise his ingenuity in that making every¬
thing the very best money would
buy. Consequently, the dinner was a
marvel of skill and art and evtrava"
g&nce. The saloon was smothered in
the rarest flowers ; the menu was in
gilt on embroidered satin ; some of the
wine cost $25 a bottle ; the cleverest
musicians were engaged at fancy
rices. Clara Louise Kellog had
1,000 for two songs, and a present
besides of a diamond bracelet. In all
probability such a dinner has never
been served in the Republic; it would
have delighted Soyer and Francatelli,
and had the ancient Greek, Philoxenua,
been there he would have again wished
for the neck of a crane, that he might
longer enjoy the passage of so many
dainties down his greedy throat. The
total cost was about $20,000 or $200
for each person present.
Among tbe gueBts was James Gordon
Bennett, tbe elder, who very rarely ac¬
cepted invitations^ and whose person
was SO unfamiliar, despite his univer
sally known name, that very few per¬
sons recognized him. It was we think,
his last appearance in public, and then
be seemed ill at ease, greatly bored,
and withdrew as early as decent
courtesy would allow.
Tne Legislative Committee , . appoint- .
ed to investigate the reports with re
gard to the Hanford. insecurity of the new State
ed hat » the of Conn, ba. report
process cons meting the
building without was changed by the Superin
undent the knowledge of the
Commission, lime-mortar being substi
tuted lor cement in setting the granite
o e piers, o w ic was due the
breaking, disfiguring, and weakening
ot tne piers is eiieved, however,
that safety has been secured hydnUmg
acme 80.1 holes in the joints of the
CSthZTmeUl® ling wuu lypu uieni. ’
Col. Jerome Bonaparte, who was
telegraphed to hasten to Baltimore on
account ot the illness ot his grand
mother, Mine. Elizabeth I atterson
Bonaparte, sailed Irom Havre on the
35th inst., and is expected week. His to family arrive
here the last of this
remained in Europe, and will come to
Baltimore about May 1. Mme. Bona*
parte is yet clear in intellect and
possesses more physical strength than
could reasonably be expected. She
looks forward anxiously to see her
grandson.
Yellow Fever—Coffee.
The new theory that sacks of coffee
are specially adapted to the transmis¬
sion of the yellow fever germ seems to
be corroborated by the actual expe
rience of persons living in Texas. The
fact, if it be a fact, is alarming, of the since
it is said that four-fifths all coffee
used in this country is imported direct
from the regions where the pestilence
originates spontaneously. A physician
of local repute says that the town of
Liberty had declared and was enforc¬
ing (1867) where quarantine the against Galves¬
ton, fever was prevailing.
The place being small, and everybody
on the alert, no stranger or merchan¬
dise could get into it unknown. A
steamboat from Galveston was coming
up the Trinity river, and, when within
a mile or two of the town, was stopped
by the authorities. The Captain of
the vessel said that if allowed to land
a sack of coffee for a tradesman of
Liberty he would put about, and he
did so after leaving the sack on the
bank of the stream. The tradesman,
a small grocer, received the coffee,
opened it, caught the fever, and died.
His family and servants were also
seized, and from them the scourge
spread deaths. through In the town, causing many
the same year the supply
of coffee had been exhausted in a set¬
tlement on the Nueces river, near
Corpus Christi, and a man who had
had the fever was sent to that town,
where the epidemic was, to buy a sack.
He got it, and, by agreement, drove to
a mesquit tree, divided the coffee into
portions, placed them in the boughs,
and retraced his steps, to avoid any
possibility of communicating the con¬
tagion. The persons wanted the coffee
went to the tree, got their several
portions, and carried it home. The
fever was introduced within a few days
into every one of those families, and
carried off most of the members. Sub¬
sequent had, investigation proved that the
scourge in both these instances,
came directly from the sacks of coffee.
In one of the cases, it should be re¬
membered that the coffee had been
carried fifteen miles in a wagon, then
opened and divided, put into small
bags, and again exposed to* the open
air for twenty-four hours. The fever
germ lived, nevertheless, and as soon
as conditions were propitious, devel¬
oped into active and mortal disease.
Poisonous Hats, Gloves, Stockings
and Clothing.
[From the Scientific American.]
It is not long since several cases of
arsenical poisoning were traced to the
Next wearing of scarlet and blue stockings
came a somewhat remarkable
case in which the mischief was traced
to a highly English colored hat lining. More
recent and German papers,
medical and other, have called atten¬
tion don to Times dangerous gloves. In the Lon¬
7 •, a deM "£“ -u *£• i-i.
n poisonous „. „ effect , of a pair . of the fash
lonable “ bronze green” silk gloves
when worn by J ?, a member of his family.
After wearing them a day j or two the
patient was attacked with a peculiar
blistering and swelling of both hands
which increased to such an extent that
for three weeks she was compelled to
acfl'to L I'nd Kalin c ° urse aud ® ri 1 “, s
all!. 1 .
i ,r?ia fa dr f h * rseJf p'
i!a.a/T.a » m 8 ,K , frle d ; dl
V° d er a 7 I® a 81mllar] P ® , B f '
afflicted. , . A . German medical , journal
V“ e b y '*
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’
elndiino lininos^if ,i L” 83 311 be
boot.'an 1 .K
Prnf Nichols of Hi i
e l orts the
• a- lbL* f | T
filmed 8 rj, „L* at seine 383 7 to tie
square foot , In [ Troy, N Y lately,
the death of a child was attributed to
arsen c sucked from a vail which had
kea» over the child s cub to
keep off flies. At this rate, it will soon
become necessary to test for arsenic
all goods purchased before venturing
to wear them ; or else the label-'war
ranted to contain no poisonous dye.
— — *
Another victory has been achieved
by American manufacturers, this time
i„ the pottery trade. For many
all the fine China which graced the
,ab ! es0 / W h0C0n J d sfford *° b “y
it, has been made J in 1 ranee and Ger-:
many, and the French market has held
control ot the New York and United
States trade, without competition. The
difficulty has always been to
China which should have the pure
color and transparency of the foreign
made article, but now we are told that
American potters have succeeded in
doing this. The profits on French
China heretofore have been enormous,
The American China which is in every
respect the equal to the French, is now in
1 market, and can be sold at such
prices as will enable the retailer to
‘it at reasonable rates.
SAVANNAH MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1879.
A Little Romance that Reaches
from New York to Georgia.
Husband-hunting seems to have
been the cause which recently led a
robust and rather good looking New
York lady to leave her comfortable
home in that city and come to the State
of Georgia. Yesterday she returned
home without a husband and in com¬
pany with her mother and brother, who
had accompanied her on a wild goose
chase in search of a man. A reporter
of the Constitution saw the trio at the
Union passenger depot as they were
awaiting bound train. the departure of a Northern
The countenance of the young female
seemed to say that she was deeply dis¬
tressed, probably occasioned by a feel¬
mother ing of severe appeared disappointment, be while her
easily. Her brother to taking things
was also troubled.
He stated to a by-stander that he was
a d—d fool for having come South with
his mother and sister and spending
nearly two hundred dollars in attempt¬
ing This to get a husband for his sister
kind of conversation was not re¬
jected but rather encouraged by those
who stood near and he gradually turned
the whole story loose to his audience.
It seems that several months since
his sister inserted the following notice
in the New York Herald-.
Wanted, a husband; would like to
marry a gentleman of comfortable cir¬
cumstances E. R. Herald residing in the south. S.
up-town office.
Shortly after the appearance of this
notice in the public press, Miss Red¬
mond, whom we learned was the young
lady’s name, received a letter from a
gentleman postmarked at Hawkinsviile,
Ga., which states that he bad read her
notice in the Herald , and desired to
open author up of a the correspondence advertisement. with the
The lady
answered the letter immediately and
animated correspondence was at
once commenced.
The lady wrote numerous letters giv¬
she ing her age and size, and stated that
she was a brunette; Accomplished and also stated that
and was quite an pianist
vocalist; in short she thought that
she could make her correspondent a
good wife, and would try and make him
happy, if they should become united in
marriage. Her letters, correspondent answer¬
ed all of the and wrote that he
was a farmer of middle age, and that he
was situated in comfortable circum¬
stances. He stated that he had quite
a large farm located about fourteen
miles from Hawkinsviile and that he had
a plenty of everything for both. Some
of the letters which passed between
them might be called “soft,” if such an
expression is admissible under the cir¬
cumstances.
This state of things continued until
a few weeks since, at which time Miss
Redmond wrote a letter to her corres¬
pondent at Hawkinsviile to the effect
that she thought the time had come for
act icm> aQ d that if he would marry her
elie would uorao to him at once 7 and iw
k or ,„ the cere ___ “° ny performed, c do
th ' 3 A v , *“ ??T r t0 ,° 0me at
once aru i that he would be ready ' to re
ccive her with f arm8 anJ m ke h
his wife TWa ettarate receiv€ll with
true deli ht and in all probabjlily
k- •>
ml8S1Ve “
Delay was not to be thought of under
any circumstances. She at once read
to her mother and brother the letter
that had made her feel so happy. A
trip / south The was planned ‘other in a most hasty
m Mer two members of
the family said that they would go with
«« 'he affair done up in the
best tf*- / No »«* Clothes were
needed AU lhat had t0 be d0D6 waa
to bundle up such clothing as was now
at baud, throw a few pairs of slippers
into the trunks of those who were to
«* P">y- Tickets were
p Urc hased without delay and soon the
tno * ere ontb8 ‘> to Georgia as
f ar aa j be Kennesaw route could take
tbcm Arrivi § in Atlanta the> . board .
ed an outwar bou , ld tram for Haw -
kiDsvll , where th e ‘ ted l0 meet
tbe man that was ; 0 m akeonaof the
Ls reached ba for , ife Hawkinsviile
without accident, and tbe
tlpon party of tbre e persons disembarked.
the farmer inquiry for it whom was ascertained that
they were search-i
ing lived about fourteen miles from
Hawkinsviile, and that the stage would ;
not go until the following day. This
of course caused nom.ll disap- 1
pointmeut ,b to ¥r- the party, ' and especially
t0 V 0M «
inexpressible, Although the disappointment a was
it only brought about a
greater determination upon the part of
the lady to get to the man whom she
had learned to love on paper. The
services of a stage were procured at an
advanced price and the journey Lay was
continued. Alter riding for
hours over a rough road and through a
perfectly barren pulled waste ot country, the;
stage was up in front of a log
cabin. It was midnight when the party i
reached the bouse. Alter knocking g*ray. on
the door for some time, an old
man looked out and inquired,
was there?” The response
“friends,” and a moment after the sit'
nation was fully explained. The old
man dressed himself and asked the
party in. The surprise of the young
lady when.she saw that her lover was
an old wreck of humanity rather than
a young and handsome Southerner can
only be imagined. She turned away
from him with a shudder and a feeling
of great disappointment. The mother
became wrathy, and the brother let fly
a few not very complimentary remarks
with reference to the “old cuss,’’ as he
termed the farmer. An invitation to
the party to remain until morning was
lady, indignantly depressed refused, and the young
panied muen by her wrathy in and spirits, accom¬
mother and brother, indignant
entered the stage
and were soon on their way to Haw
kinsville.
rival Meeting there, an old negro upon their ar¬
stood they asked him how the
man from a financial standpoint.
The old negro looked up and remarked:
“Why, missus, dat man hain’i b ;ot a
cent, and his farm is so po dat a tf.'Und
mole would starve to def on it."
The first train that left Hawkinsviile
for Atlanta brought the disappointed
trio away from the scene that had pro¬
mised to be such a bright one to at
least one member of the party, and ere
now the would-be emigrants are on
their return to New York city. The
young bably lady should try it again. Pro¬
she would have better luck. If
at first you don’t succeed, etc .—Atlanta
Constitution.
Making a Yision True.
The young wile of William Schwartz,
of 61 Elizabeth street, just before her
death in June last, called her husband
to her bedside and told him that she
had dreamed of entering their bedroom
to call him to breakfast, and finding
him dead on the floor, wilh blood
streaming from a wound in his temple,
and a pistol near his right hand. She
gave and he a graphic account of her dream,
was much impressed by it.
“He was lying,” said she, to a friend,
“upon his back, partially dressed, in
front of the mirror. His white shirt
bosom was bespattered with blood, and
a pool of blood surrounded his head on
the floor. The pistol was near his
right hand.”
Schwartz became despondent after her
death, and often spoke of her strange
dream. Yesterday morning his house¬
keeper, Dora Stolfz, went to his room,
the same in which his wife bad died,
to call him to breakfast. She found
him before the mirror, brushing the hair
from his temples. He was partially
dressed, having on his trousers and
slippers, and a spotless white shirt.
She asked him if he was dressing to
make a call. He replied that he would
go down to the breakfast table after a
little while. A few’ minutes afterward,
the report of a pistol was heard in his
room. On opening the door the house¬
hold found Schwartz lying en his back.
His white shirt was spattered with
blood. A bnllet hole was in‘his right
temple, from which the blood was flow¬
ing, and a revolver was lying near his
right hand. All was as Mrs. Schwartz
had dreamed.
The “ Madison Champion."—T his
offers to its readers a fioe story, L?.\
The of the 26th March,
Neat week we shall commence publi
cation of one of the best, most thrilling
and intensely exciting serial stories
entitled, •• Malcolm The Avenger
or, The Mysterious Murder," by
Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, author of °
.. Tower Hil |y .. Baffled at Last " .. A
Tale of Mystery," etc. etc. Itiswith
out published any exception the best story ever
in a Southern paper, and
will run through eight or ten issues,
giving four or five columns of fine print
each week. We are still offering the
paper knt. at one dollar per annum, fifty
for six months or twenty-five
cents for three months, but most' post- P
tively do we back 0 our ular
price, *1 50 a year, on the 1st day * of
April.
Nebraska's Thriving Capital
Never in the history of Lincoln has
there been such a mania fo, building
The building season has not yet opened,
and there are at least one hundred
houses in course of construction to-day.
The Disputed Eigktv is fairly alive
springing' with carpenters, and new houses are
up as if by magic. What
was a wild piece of prairie only a few
months ago is now thickly dotted over
with dwelling houses. By the middle
of April the building season will be
fairly commenced, and our bricklayers,
carpenters and painters wilL be
over heels in work .—Lincoln (Heb)
Journal.
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Diamond dealers in New York loan
dazzling displays of gems to ladip*
secretly engaged in the trade, that they
may emulate wear otherenvwTladieJ them at paities and towSrl tberpbv
their husbands into buying 78 outfits
costly
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There seems to be a strong drift of
public the sentiment in California against
new constitution, which is to
submitted to the people for adoption
on May 7. The great objection is that
there is too much Kearneyism in it.
France, with a population half as
great gives again as that of England, only
an excess of 142,000 births, Eng¬
land gives an excess of 804,000 births,
and the United Kingdom, with a pop¬
ulation 3,000,000 below that of France,
an excess of 387,000 births.
The train known as the “ Flying
Dutchman’’ runs froii London to
Swindon, 77 miles, in 87 minutes, or
at the average speed of more than 53
miles an hour, the actual speed for a
part of the way being fully 65 miles an
hour.
Sylvester J. Sherman, a few years
ago, was a wealthy citizen of Philadel¬
phia, being worth six hundred thousand
dollars. Monday he pleaded guilty to
keeping a disorderly house, a low va¬
riety theatre. He still owns some
property and preserves a respectable
exterior.
The sister of the wealthy Mrs. J. W.
Mackey, who spends her Occidental
money in Paris, is about to make a
European marriage. The bridegroom
is a rich Austrian, Count Telfener.
He is a naturalized Italian citizen, and
has a palace in Rome, where the wed¬
ding is to be.
Mr. Sothern, the actor, objects to his
dog forming new acquaintances, and so
he fastens two very sharp needles to
the dog’s nose, leaving the ends pro¬
about an inch. When a strange
dog rushes up to “shake noses” with
him, he gets a thrust which sends him
away howling.
William Garrett, who was rescued
from the Indians by Custer, says that
he was a Mountain Meadow captive,
his life being spared on account of his
age, which was only ten years. His
younger sister, taken at the same time,
afterward became the wife of Red
Cloud, the Sioux chief, and now refuses
to forsake him.
Ladies who move in the highest cir¬
cles of Russian society have joined the
Nihilist conspirators. No fewer than
young ladies of high birth took a
leading part in the late outbreak at
The policeman who was killed
the struggle fell by a ball aim¬
at him from a revolver, which was
by Olga Raffowska.
A resolution has been offered in the
York Board of Aldermen p ro
to sell the franchise for buildi ing
railroad on Broadway to the highest
It was stated that a responsi¬
gentleman would give one million
for the franchise, and assume
the conditions that Mr. Belmont
his associates were willing to ac¬
A Maine paper relates that an Ells¬
worth man visited one of the logging
and on leaving forgot his mit¬
He did not miss them until a
mile away. He wrote a note and gave
it to his dog, with instructions to go
back to the camp and give it to the
which he did, and returned in a
very short time with the mittens in his
In Leipsic fourteen out of every one
dwelling places are in cellars,
one hundred and four higher than
third story. In Berlin the'corre
numbers are one hundred and
and eighty-three ; in Hamburg,
and thirty-eight; in Dres¬
thirty-eight and one hundred and
while Pesth. notwith¬
an almost annual inundation,
one hundred and eight families in
cellars and five only of every one
above the third story.
The total number of births in France
the year 1877, exclusive of still
was 944,500. The still births
given at 44,100. The number of
was 801,900. The excess of
over deaths is accordingly 142,"
In 1876 the excess was 132,600,
that there was a visible improvement
1877. As, moreover, in 1875 the
of births over deaths was only
enduring the improvement seems to
an tendency.
A boy of 13 and a girl of 11 ran
together to’Lowell from South ewapXwM Famiueham
Their toK la
to the theywerearCted Lowell an
and but
little fellow indignantly comoanion^ repelled
aspersion on his and
that he had taken her from h^r
where she was discontented to
her a better one. A slight! voider
aged 17 and 14 4or reallv mLrfoi/uu did plnnp
hJ bov£ Cleveland moth^ ami 0 k
ei*rl ^
behavad hrlAm tv.
herself on her lnvpr’n ™A
tkof '
k blw^enc^^dfrom . • • ,
her heart might
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PRICE THREE CENT.
Wanted*
C A ?ba E n^No \t'
W ANTED—Everybody prepared to to know that I am
now Schlitz’ Milwaukee serve Beer, my customers, with
with Job. also
the finest Tobacco of choice and Smokers’ WINES and Articles, LIQUORS, at
Segars, old Stand, the C. R. R. HOUSE, my
Cor. West Broad & Harrison sts.,
to w’hich I have now removed.
THEO. RADERICK.
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Business Cards*
JAMES RAY,
—Manufacturer and Bottler—
Mineral Waters, Soda, Porter and Ale,
15 Houston St., Savannah, Ga.
feb23-3m ,
Dr. A. H. BEST.
DENTIST
Cor. Congress and Wh itaker streets.
SAVANNAH, GA.
T EETH guaranteed. extracted without pain, AU work
I respectfully beg to refer to any of my
patrons. octl-brno
W. B. FERRELL’S Agt.
RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market
Basement,
(Opposite Lippman’s Drug Store,)
Ian ISM SAVANNAH. GA
C. A. CORTJ.NO,
Bair Csttise, Bair Mu, Cnrliu aai
SHAVING SALOON.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
der 166V£ Planters’ Bryan street, Hotel. opposite Spanish, the Italian, Market, Gor¬ un¬
man. and English spokon. se!6-tf
I
SI bips!
A FINE stock of Cigars on hand. Prices to
suit anybody. Call and examine my stock
before purchasing, and save money.
H. J. RIESER,
mli28 Cor. Wh itaker and Bryan sts.
JOS. H. BAKER,
BITTCHEB,
STALL No. 66, Savannah Market.
Dealer la JBeef, Mutton, Fork nd
All other Meats in their Seasons.
Particular attention paid to supplying Shi p
and Boarding Houses. auglli
HA IR store:
JOS. E. LOISEAU & CO.,
118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull & Drayton
K EEP on hand a large assortment of Hair
Hair Switches, combings Curls, Putt's, and Fancy Goods
worked in the latest style.
Faucy Costumes, Wigs and Beards for Rent
GEORGE FEY,
WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, &o .
The celebrated Joseph Schlitz’ MILWAU¬
KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22
Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah,
Ga. FREE LUNCH every day from II to I.
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Carriages,
A. K. WILSON’S
CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY,
Corner Bay and West Broad sts.
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY .
Cor. Bay and Montgomery streets.
GEORGIA
The largest establishment in the city.
I keep a full line of Carriages, Rockuways,
Falling Spring Top and Farm Wagons, Canopy
line of Carriage and Baby Wagon Carilages, Material. also a full
I have
in my Ikctory the most skillful me¬
Any orders for new work, and re¬
will be executed to give satisfaction
at short notice mayl2-ly
EAST END
Manufactory.
P. O’CONNOil,
East Broad, President and York sts.
Savannah, Ga.
beg leave to inform my friends and the
public in general that I always keep on
a full supply of the best seasoned mate¬
and am prepared to execute orders for
Wagons, Buggies, Drays, Trucks,
with promptness and dispatch, guaran¬
all work turned out from my shops to
be as represented.
Be pairing in all its branches. Painting, Var¬
in polishing, workmanlike lettering and trimming
a manner.
Horse-shoeing a specialty. mch2tf
Ice*
Kaickerbscker lee Coap?.
and Shippers Retail Dealers* in and
of
ICE.
— DEPOT; —
BAY STREET.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
F. CAVANAUGH, Manager.
mchl-6m
Candies.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
M. FITZGERALD
—Manufacturer of—
PLAIN AND FINE
CANDIES.
Factory and Store, 176 BRYAN STREET
Branch Store, No. 122 BROUGHTON 8T..
One door eatft or HAVANJCArf. Bull street.
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