Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18??, March 31, 1879, Image 1
D A. I L Y EVENING jL \ N N AH Recorder. VOL I—No. 154. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) At -JL ex BAY STREET, By J. STERN. The Recorder is Berved 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 oi the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. 4 S*-We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed oy Correspondents. 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 '* ?!,,7 7 y .-S t k .t D k V” g K iTl L .i ^ l T,., ^'r ‘d emen ,n dBU 8 unoei 80dms " ’ 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. ------—• ♦ ^ 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 TVio Knvr Vmtravm ^ ™ -’houfder ^m JeS 8 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. mh21tf 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. r-z31-lv 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. Qit