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Savannah ” l>»: H Recorder.
VOL I.—No. 155.
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Opinions expressed by Correspondents.
Testing the Spirits.
When spiritualism first made its ap¬
pearance in the village of-, old
Deacon Jones, a rich man, who had
by the church for nearly three
years, all believers was exceedingly bitter
st * in the “devil's
* “ > ” as he called it, and denounced
and spiritualism in no very
gentle language. when Imagine the Deacon’s
anger then six months afterward
he found it had worked its way into his
family, and not only were his wife and
daughters believers, but one^of them
was a medium and" possessed full
powers to converse with the spirits of
those who had departed to that “bourne
, whence no traveler returns."
Deacon Jones was mad, dreadfully
mad; but he had sense enough not to
show it, and bore the taunts of the un¬
godly with useless a meek spirit. declare He knew it
would be to open war,
for Miss Jones alone had proved more
than a match for him, and ne was sure
to be defeated. He must “circumvent
the critter," as he expressed it, and to
this end he set himself to work. He
worldly was a man experience of sound judgment, and his
of fifty years was
not thrown away. From the day it
first came to his knowledge that his
wife and daughters were spiritualists
he never spoke a word against, nor did
he ever allude to it, except in general
terms in his morning prayer; but any
one could see that it troubled him, for
he was absent-minded, his eyes wan¬
dered restlessly, and he looked care¬
worn.
The Deacon witnessed one or two
“sittings” at his own house, and was
satisfied that if he possessed a little
more them. knowledge So he could get rid of
the determined one morning he started for
city, to thoroughly in¬
vestigate After visiting the subject before the he returned.
two of most popular
mediums and paying his money, he
returned home, satisfied that he could
see There through it.
house was a “sitting” at the Dea
oon’s on the night he returned;
and his daughter Mary (the medium)
invited the Deacon to take a seat at
the table; which to her gratification was
accepted. The spirits \yere in good
tune, and so exceedingly communica¬
tive that the Deacon was induced to
ask a few questions, which were readi¬
ly answered; and the wife the and daugh¬
ters were in ecstasies at thought
that father would yet be a believer,
and urged the Deacon on in his in¬
quiries. ‘Has wife always been her
my true to
marriage vows ?’ asked the Deacon.
To this question there were no raps
in return, while Mrs. Jones sat trans¬
fixed with holy horror that such a
thought should enter her husband's
mind.
‘How now many many yeais years have nave ua«sed parsed since since
she was untrue.
Answer by single raps. Then came
slowly and solemnly one, two, three,
fotff, and so on, until they reached
twenty. who , .
‘How many claim . to . , he are not ,
my children ?
Mrs. Jones looked dumbfounded.
Mercy I* said Mary.
Whiqh are they ?’ asked the Deacon,
O now seemed so intent on this sub
t that he paid no attention to his
companions. replied the spirits, the
‘Mary, Sanjh,’ daughters, the elder
names of the two
of which was under twenty.
Mrs. Jones could stand it no
‘It’s a lie ! I didn’t! It’s a lie !’ she
shrieked, rising from the table. ‘They
are your children, Deacon Jones, and
God kuows it.’
‘But the spirits . . affirm differently, , v , ,
said the Deacon, in a solemn voice.
‘lhen they lie!’said the wife.
f 'But if you believe them iu every
Jthing 'But else, I don’t why not in this?’ them all
believe in at
Is all foolery.’
‘Nor I!’ shouted Mary.
‘Nor I!’ added Sarah.
‘Then,’ said the Deacon, while a
smile illuminated his countenance, ‘we
will bid them good-bye, and leave
those things which God has wisely hid
from us to be revealed in His time.’
The Deacon’s evening devotions were
characterized with more earnestness
than usual, and the family retired fully
satisfied that the spirits and mediums
did not always reveal the truth.
Mrs. Jones was so glad that none of
the neighbors were present, But
somehow the story got wind, and so
fearful were the spirit dames of it that
they might be caught in the same trap
which the Deacon had set,, that spirit¬
ualism was driven entirely from the
village.— Wood's Household Magazine.
Peter Cartwright.
Among the most notable of the
American pioneer preachers was Peter
Cartwright, who was bom in Amherst
bounty, Va ., m and died at Pleas
ant Plains, 111., iif?872. When he was
a child his parents removed to Ken
tucky, where, about 1801, he was con¬
verted through, the instrumentality of
an itinerant preacher, and joined the
Methodist church. He was ordained
as deacon in 1806 and as elder in 1808.
In 1812 he was appointed Presiding
Elder, and acted in that capacity six
years; the last forty-five in the Illinois
Conference. During the time of his minis
’try he received more than 10,000 mem
bers in the church, baptized more than
12,000 persons and for thirty-three years
preached, on an average, four sermons
a week. His fifty years of presiding
elder, and his autobiography, edited
by Rev. W. P. Strickland, DD., are a
perfect storehouse of characteristics,
anecdotes and reminiscences. Among
these we find the following:
One day, on approaching a ferry
across the river Illinois, he heard the
ferryman swearing terribly at the ser¬
mons of Peter Cartwright, and threaten¬
ing that if he ever had to ferry the
preacher across, and knew him, he
would drown him in the river. Peter,
unrecognized, said to the ferryman:
“Stranger, I want you to put me
across,’
“Wait till I’m ready,” said the
ferryman, and pursued his conversa¬
tion and strictures on Peter Cartwright.
said Having finished, he turned to Peter and
:
“Now, I’ll put you across.”
Ofi reaching the middle of the stream
Peter threw his horse’s bridle over a
stake in the boat, and told the ferry¬
man to let go his pole.
“What for?” asked the ferryman.
“Well, you’ve just been using my
name improper-like, and you said if I
ever came this way you would drowu
me. Now you’ve got a chance.”
Is your name Peter Cartwright?”
asked the ferryman.
Instantly “My name is Peter Cartwright.”
the ferryman laid hold of
the preacher, but he did not know
Peter’s strength, for Peter instantly
seized the ferryman, and, holding him
by the nape of the neck, plunged him
in the water, saying :
“I Satan, baptize thee (splash) in the name
of whose child thou art.”
Then lifting him up dripping, Peter
asked:
“Did you ever pray ?”
“No.”
“Then it’s time you did.”
“I’ll do no such thing," answered
the ferryman.
Splash, splash, and the ferry man was
in the depths again.
“Will you pray now?” asked Peter.
The gasping victim shouted : "i'ii
do anything you bid me !”
“Then follow me— ‘Our Father, which
art in Heaven,’ ’’ etc.
Having acted as clerk, repeating
after Peter, the ferryman cried :
“Now, let me go-!’’
“Not yet,” said Peter, You must
make me three l )romises: ~ at
you will n repeat , the prayer, morning
and evening, as long as you live ; ~d,
1 yoU ^ 1 iear e A er £ P lon ^ er
preacher , that ., within ., five miles
comes
of this ferry; and 3d, that you will put
every Methodist preacher over free of
expense. Do you promise and vow ?"
“I promise,” said the ferryman; and,
strange J to say, that very man became
a shi iu , T in the church
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Unorthodox Fall.—A lamentable
story is told of the fall of a Baptist
clergyman in Wisconsin. Some months
ago he was thrown from a wagon,
ing then an exemplary and strictly
orthodoxman. He fell upon his
and fractured his skull. Long he lay
unconscious aud in imminent peril of
death, and now that he has recovered
he is surprised and doubtless chagrined I
j to discover that he is no longer
tist, but has become a Unitarian with a
“Spiritualism. distinctly marked leaning towards
No arguments have con
veited him that he is aware ot, and
had he alighted upon his feet instead
ot his head when his horse ran away
he would still be a faithful pastor de
termiued not to make his bed with
‘Theodore Parker and Professor Crookes
and the German Rationalists.
SAVANNAH TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1879.
BY TELEGRAPH.
TRAIN WRECKERS AT WORK
AGAIN.
Arrest of Conspirators in
Russia.
BRITISH VICTORY OVER THE
AFGHANS.
A Fenian Appointed a Treasury
Clerk.
Cincinnati, March 31.—A special
says: “As the night express train on
the Grand Trunk Railroad whs passing
a point two ifiiles east of Smith’s creek,
tlfcown Michigan, Saturday night, it was
from the track. TfSe engine
and the three forward cars were
wrecked. A brakeman was crushed to
death between two cars, and the engi¬
neer and fireman fatally scalded. The
latter has since died. Francis Kellogg,
of Erie, Pennsylvania, had a leg broken.
S. P. Willard, of Cbicago, sustained a
cut on the head and a fracture of the
right arm. Several other persons were
slightly injured. The disaster was
caused by train wreckers, who res
moved a rail.
Hudson, N. Y., March 31.—The
wadding Trimper, mill, owned by Charles W.
at Riverville, in this county,
was, with the contents, totally de¬
stroyed by fire yesterday. Loss $70,
000; insurance $35,000. It is thought
to have been of incendiary origin.
London, March 31.—A St. Peters¬
burg dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
says: “Forty-five persons were arrested
on the night after the attempt on the
life of General Von Drentlem, chief of
the Gendarmerie. Some were of such
high rank that they were not sent to
the common prisons. They include
officers of guards, court chamberlains,
and two daughters of a prominent
Minister.
Capetown, March 31.—It is stated
that a serious breach has occurred be¬
tween Sir Bartle Frere, Governor and
Commander-in-chief cf Cape Colony,
and Sir Henry E. Bulwer, Governor of
Natal, in consequence of the harsh
measures sanctioned by the former to
conscript natives.
London, March 31.—A dispatch
from Lahore to the Reuter Telegram
Company Major says: “A small force under
27th Humfrey March was attacked on the
of in the Pishin valley by
two thousand Afghans. The enemy was
defeated with a loss of sixty men killed.
There were no casualties among the
British.’’
The Agence Russe announces that
Austria, England, Russia, Turkey and
Italy have consented to take part in
the mixed occupation of Eastern Rou>
melia. Italy, however, it is reported,
has made some reservation.
Charleston, March 31.—A man
named Morgan, who claims to be from
Utica, N. Y , was detected and arrest¬
ed here to day while passing from the
First Natsonal Bank with $20,000
worth of United States bonds and other
securities stolen from the President’s
private room. The property was re¬
covered and the prisoner locked up.
London, March 31.—The Times
says the meeting of operative weavers
at Blackburn on Saturday, which de¬
cided to accept the five per cent, re¬
duction in ivages, may practically be
considered to end the wages dispute for
the present.
Washington, March 31.—Capt.
Edward O Meagher Condon,the Fenian,
has been appointed to a Treasury clerk¬
ship.
Rome, March 31.—Passanante, the
would-be assassin of King Humbert,
w jj 0 ^as ]j a{ j his sentence commuted,
to-day embarked aboard a man-of-war
for the island of Elba, where he will
uni i ere0 ^ Deni i servitude for life
*
w Washington, March , 31.-Colonel qi . .
„ French, late Sergeant-at-arms of the
®® nate » t°*Jay was prostrated by the
j °^ ect8 ot r ® cen *-mental excitement and
nervo “ s exhaustlon - a " d remained for
several minutes in a convulsion, which
edited serious alarm among his nu
rnerous friends at the capital. Medical
800n assistance recovered being sufficiently promptly procured, to be he j
re
jHi° ve d to his residence.
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Omer Fasha, well known twenty-five
j years ago, at the outset of the Russians! Crimean
; war, by his victories over the
ou the line of the Danube, died at
Constantinople last month, aged 73. In
1867 he gained an unenviable notoriety;
, by his cruelty and violence in crushing
the Cretan levolt. In the late war he
was at first very successful in Armenia,
but at the decisive battle of Aladjudah
was taken prisoner with a number ot
other Turkish Generals. He died ,
while attending a court martial called
; to inquire into the circumstances of his j
defeat and capture.
How You Sarbes Me.
We give below a few remaks made
by one of our colored ministers in an
adjacent county. The moral might be
well applied among our white friends :
Now my brudders and sisters I des
wants to tell youens how you sarbes
me, an de stinction you meek twixt me
an Brudder Johnson, who am de pre¬
sidin’ Elder to dis distnek, an me, who
am your local paster ob dis here sur
kit. Now when brudder Johnson come
fur see you, de yad am all kibered wid
de fowel fedder, de pot am all fill up
wid de chicken an de dumprul, for bru
der Johnson; de white table clote am
spred for bruder Johnson, and de risen
bisket am all pile up on de table—so—
for bruder Johnson an all- dem sw^et
t’ings flow round for bruder Johnson.
But when me—myself—bruder Harby
come—you gib him a little hom’ny an
seldom any graby, fer go ober em, and
now my frens I dis wants to tell you
dat my preachin’ am des as liable to
teck you to Heben a3 bruder Johnson’s
own; darfore, you oughten to meet any
’stinction twix us, fer when you gits
Heben, ef you eber does, you will see
dat me and bruder Johnson will set at
de same table an eat outen de werry
same dish—a chawin’ ob de Meffodist
pie.
“Hark from de toom a doleful soun’.”
All de brudders jine in.
The Pope on Brains and Legs.
When Pius IX. was Pope, Fanny
Elssler visited Rome, danced and set
the public crazy. In forty-eight hours
the gilded youth, her admirers, had
subscribed 12,000 francs and bought a
splendid crown to be presented to her
as a testimonial. When the time came
for presenting the danseuse with it,
one of the subscribers, an excellent
young noble, obtained an audience with
the Pope and asked if there would be
anything wrong in the presentation— if
the Pope had any objections.
“I have neither objection to make or
advice to offer,” said his holiness, “but
it does seem to me that you might have
pitched upon a more appropriate gift.
In my simplicity as a priest, I have
always thought that crowns were made
for heads and not for legs.”
The crown was duly given to the
danseuse, who meanwhile had heard of
Pope’s saying, and she promptly
the value of the gift in money to
the parish IX. priests heard for their poor.
Pius of this in his turn,
when next he met one of the sub¬
to the testimonial, said to him :
“You were quite right in giving that
woman that crown—she has just prov¬
that there is more sense in her legs
than you had in your heads.”— Nev>
York World.
The Alamo Altar.
A correspondent of the Alton (III.)
lelegram, writing from Austin, says :
“We visited the empty state house
Capitol hill, amidst grounds diver
by live oak and holly, but itself
replaced an unsightly by structure, soon to
a new building, we un
Upon ascending the steps and just
before the front entrance you see a mon
umental altar, made from the ruins of
Alamo. On one of its panels is
inscribed the name ot every gallant
kero who perished in that fated fort.
On the face of the altar fronting the
street is this inscription : “Blood of
heroes hath stained me. Let the stones
of the Alamo speak that their immola
tion be not forgotten." On the second
face, “Be they enrolled with Leonidas
in the host of the mighty dead." On
the third, “Thermopvi® had her mes
senger of defeat, but the Alamo had
none." On the fourth, “To the God
of the fearless and free is dedicated j
this altar.” ;
Facts and Fancies.
Rowell carries a pedometer.
Brother Talmag* is on the rack.
The Queen of Italy loves to dance quadrilles.
Nea! Dow is seventy-live, and still agile on his
f«et.
New sun umbrellas are in dark and wine j
tints -
“Point de Raguse” is a new rival to Breton ;
lace.
Some of the fresh cambrics look just like In
dian silk. |
Belfast, Me., dedicates her new Masonic Hall,
®, ome new P an » sols uave ril >s instead
.
* u< ' ar ‘- v Um * t0 out J uUr ase a
clubs
_ / . *Ji , st . paras ° u . n j ,, e . ls ae simm . ... ‘ , e 0 , a
‘ ‘ u
pug h
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e ma mme a auc ° L *’ e ’ asstruc
pure r go u
cuffs ° n a dre , „ * s , . . fr°« . ^ .. t ,
Bicvclists are oili their siUnt stwds f
u early start.
A p renc i, nove hv in drv goods is called
-shanghai Rom.’’ ' '
Straw hat5 will ^ be brimmi over the h
mon,
-— «» -
William Howitt, the author, and his
brother, though a thousand or two miles
apart, died on the same day and hour
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It T . Colton _ that . Will ...
IS wno says men
wrangle for religion—write for it, fight for'
for it, die for it; anything but—live
it.”
Since paper napkins were introduced
by a manufacturing firm in Wisconsin,
a year ago, one Boston firm alone has
sold 25,000 of them.
There are now only two Republican
United States Senators from south of
the Potomac—Bruce of Mississippi and
Kellogg of Louisiana.
A German dealer in bird trimmings
for ladies’ hats has just recced a con¬
signment of 30,000 dead humming
birds, 80,000 corpses of ^aquatic birds,
and 800,000 pairs of wings.
The New York tenement house re¬
form movement has taken practical
shape. A stock company is to be
organized with a capital of from $500,
000 to $2,000,000 for the erection of
improved dwellings.
J. D. McIntyre, known as the king
of the whisky ring, plead “guilty” at
Springfield, Illinois, to all the indict¬
ments tell what against him. He proposes to
he knows about other mem¬
bers of the ring.
A centenarian is at present living in
the townland of Mullinaskea, near
Castlecoole, Ireland, named Mrs. Rose
Leonard, whose age is 108 years. Dur¬
ing the last twenty years she had lost
all her teeth, but last year she got six
new ones.
The late Mrs. Julia Cameron, the
clever Englishwoman, was extremely
plain, as well as original, but she greatly
admired beauty. Her bouse was man¬
aged by pretty servants, and to her
intense delight, a visitor of hers once
fell in love with a graceful cook (who
used to dust the flour from her arms
that she might meet her suitor in the
library) and married her. Mrs. Came¬
ron was one of three sisters, whose
varied gifts won for them in Calcutta
society the names of “Wit, Beauty and
Fashion.” Her husband, Mr. Charles
Hay Cameron, was a member of Coun¬
cil, and still survives as the last of
Bentham’s personal disciples.
The Diamond and Gold Fields of
South Africa.
[(’ape Town correspondence.]
There are many persons who labor
under the impression that the diamond
fields are played out, or nearly so. Al¬
low me to correct their error. The
average cost of taking out reef from
the Kimberline mine is £6,000 a week,
and this is paid by the claimholders
themselves, and not by the government,
nor with any assistance from the gov¬
ernment. The mining works of Kim¬
berly are vastly greater than the harbor
works of Table Bay, and the cost of
water the fields for washing out diamonds on
is quite as great as the annual
cost of the government establishments
of the Cape colony. We constantly
hear of some good fields, but people are
more reticent than they used to be, and
the outside world is not made ac
quainted with every stroke of good
luck, as was aforetime the case. We
hear of a good deal of mortality at the
fields, in fact, out of a total of eight
hundred and sixty-seven deaths regis
tered in Griqualand West last year,
among the Europeans and natives, one
half occurred during the last quarter of
the year.
The recently discovered Karatara
gold fieids are not turning out such
of trumps importance as was expected, and no news
is at hand. Some parties
digging there Uave found a few very
small fragments of the precious metal,
aQ d some deep water holes have been
explored but without any favorable
results. A number of licenses have
been issued by the government at thirty
shillings apiece, which is considered a
tolerably high price, and unless there
is some reduction many of the holders
will throw up their claims. A Cali¬
fornian miner, whom I saw a day or
two ago, has returned from the dig¬
gings anything but sanguine, although
there are all kinds of reports in circu
lation, It is an ill wind that blows no
one any good, however, and whether
paying gold fields are found or not, the
rush will prove an excellent thing for
the district, which is greatly in want of
the population to develop its soil.
Spring is Coming.—S pring, sweet
sweet spring will soon be here. The
green grass will sprout; the keno
player and the lambkin will eambol •
turtle dove ^ill turtle to hia mate ;
the young man’s thoughts will lightlv
bla his first bumble ■ 1 the wTll'renew festive vellnw
jackefc an d the small boy
iations; straw hats hill come out; BO
will dusters, white pants, strawberry
festivals, boils and campaign papers,
and the spring poet will mount the
editorial stair with cheerful face and
t en pounds of manuscript Spring is
at hand. We cheerfully recognize the
fact and appeal to all truehearted
paragrapbersto pass the hat around as
usual -~N O
PRICE THREE CENT.
Wanted*
/CARPENTERS WANTED—Apply to A. G.
V3 Ybanes, No. 99 Bay street. tf
W ANTED—Everybody Jos. now prepared to serve to know my customers, that I am
with Scnlitz’ Milwaukee Beer, also with
the finest of choice WINES and LIQUORS,
Segars, Tobacco and Smokers’ Articles, at my
old Stand, the C. R. R. HOUSE,
Cor. West Broad & Harrison sts.,
to which I have now removed.
THEO. RADEBICK.
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Business
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Mineral
15 Houston St., Savanst
feb23-3m ,
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. oct.l-bino
W. B. FERRELL’S Agt.
RESTAURANT,
No. 11 New Market Basement,
(Opposite Lippman’s Drug Store.)
lAniatf SAVANNAH. GA
C. A. GORTJ.NO,
Ew Cattine, Eair Dressing, Curia; ui
SHAVING SALOON.
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
16614 Bryan street, opposite the Market, un¬
Planters’ Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger¬
and English spokon. se!6-tf
FINE stock of Cigars on hand. Prices to
anybody. Call and examine my stock
purchasing, and save money.
H. J. RIESER,
mh28 Cor. Whitaker and Bryan sts.
JOS. H. BAKER.
STALL No. 66, Savannah Market.
Dealer in Beef, Mutton, Pork nd
All other Meats In their Seasons.
Particular attention paid to supplying Ship
Boarding Houses. * augl2
HAIR store:
JOS. E. L01SEAU & CO.,
118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull A Draytou
EEP on hand a largo assortment of Hair
Hair Switches, combings Curls, Puffs, and Fancy Goods
worked in the latest style.
Fancy Costumes, Wigs and Beards for Rent
GEORGE EEY,
WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, Ac.
The celebrated Joseph Schlllz’ MILWAU¬
KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22
FREE Street, LUNCH Lyons’ day Block, Savannah, 11 to 1.
every from
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Carriages*
A. K. WILSON’S
CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY,
Corner Bay and West Broad sts.
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY .
Cor. Bay aud Montgomery streets.
GEORGIA
The largest establishment in the city.
I keep a full line of Farm Carriages, Rockaways, Canopy
Falling Spring Top and Baby Carilages. wagons. also full
a
of Carriage and Wagon Material. I have
in my factory the most skillful me¬
Any orders for new work, and re¬
will he executed to give satisfaction
at short notice. mayl2-ly
EAST END
Manufactory.
P. O’CONNOR,
East Broad, President and York sts.
Savannah, Ga.
beg leave to inform my friends and the
public in supply general that I always keep on
a fall of the best seasoned mate¬
and am prepared to execute orders for
Buggies, Drays, Trucks,
with promptness and dispatch, guaran¬
all work turned out from my shops to
Repairing as represented. all Its
in branches. Painting, Var¬
In polishing, workmanlike lettering and trimming
a manner.
Horse-shoeing a specialty. mch2tf
Ice*
Knickerbocker Ice Company.
and Shippers Retail Dealers' in" and
of
ICE.
DEPOT;
BAY STREET.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
F. CAVANAUGH, Manager.
mchl-Gm
Candies*
ESTABLISHED 1850.
M. FITZGERALD
—Manufacturer of—
PURE, PLAIN AND PINE
CANDIES.
Factory and Store, 176 BRYAN STREET
Branch Store, & No. 122 BROUGHTON ST..
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