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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1879)
I> A. I L Y T^V1']XI]S T G Savannah r l Recorder. VOL I.—No. 157. ^ THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) A.t IS! EA.Y STREET, By J. STERN. . The Recorder is served to subscribers, in every part ol the city by careful carriers. Communications must be accompanied by the name of the writer, not necessarily for publieation, but as a guarantee of good faith. Remittance by Check or Post Office orders must be made payable to the order of the pub l isher. 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 Rhould be addressed, Re¬ corder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the )..iaco ol the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. 49rWe do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed oy Correspondents. Cupid in a Street Car. A Fashionable Young Lady Falls in Love with a Driver. ELOPEMENT AND MARRIAGE. Certainly it is not for the modest re¬ porter describing the courtship and marriage of a New York belle and a Sixth Avenue horse car diver to deny the ex-cathedra utterances of Avon’s bard. Nor is there anything in the circumstances of the following story to warrant with an appeal from his decision. It begins horse a journny in a Sixth avenue car, which led to Miss Clarence Treadwell meeting her fate iu the glances of Dennis McQuiiin. It continues with his journey to his in¬ amorata’s house, her journey to the dwelling of a rival and the post martial journey ot Clarence and her husband to Philadelphia. be The story can told thus : THE FIRST BOLD MOVE. Watching her opportunity, the front door being still open, and while the conductor was talking to some one on the rear platform, she approached the driver, and to the latter’s astonishment told him that she wanted to see him at her home. The poor fellow, utterly nonplussed handsome lady at being addressed by a and requested to call upon hei at her house, did not know what to think. But handing him a slip of paper on which her name and address were writteu in full she said, “Now, don’t forget; I must see you this afternoon.” ed Arriving ill-health at and the depot, Dennis plead¬ asked to be replaced till morning by another driver a re quest readily granted by the starter. Wondering what a lady residing with her parents in a prominent uptown family Quinn hotel could want of him, Mc put on his best suit and soon reached the proper address, The voung lady was already waiting for him. Indeed, time was precious, as the hour for papa’s returning from business was rapidly approaching. Her story was soon told to the be¬ wildered driver. She wanted to marry him and bask in the sunshine of his eyes, which to her were almost divine. His objection, however, was not so easily disposed of. “I am already engaged to a young woman hotel,’’ said employed in a West Side he. “Do you love her ?” was the rejoin¬ der, and the hesitating driver was cuptured word. betore he could say another “I'll see her and make her give up the engagement,” was Miss Treadwell’s ready solution of this difficulty. THE RIVALS. But it was not so easy of accomplish¬ ment as Miss Treadwell imagined, and as the sequel will show. Obtaining the young woman’s address she dismissed the object of her love, first, as a matter of course, arranging to meet him agaiu. A note was quickly dispatched to the hotel where the fiancee was emploved, and the latter, not dreaming what the nature of the business could be, pre¬ sented herself at Miss Treadwell’s domicil the next morning. Without further ado the latter unfolded her plans, saying that Sixth she was determined to marry the avenue horse driver. “But you never shall,” exclaimed Margaret in a rage ; “you ought to be ashamed of yourself to try to take him from me.” Words cau hardly describe the scene of passion and pleading that followed, and the first interview ended any way but satisfactory to Miss Treadwell. Days and weeks elapsed when at last, with the aid of Denuis himself, she en deavored to pacify the enraged Marga xet. But all to no purpose, until at last he himself settled the questiou by renouncing her and giving his baud and heart to the new love. All this, to Margaret’s credit be it said, was kept a secret from the Tread¬ well family, and it was only after the driver and his young bride had reached Philadelphia that word was sent to the distressed parents. ATTEMPTS AT RECONCILIATION. A car driver’s funds are never very large and the honeymoon was not pro¬ tracted. The young man’s presence among the young lady’s acquaintances shortly after was for the purpose of daughter’s reconciling the old folks his to their match, and good looks, it is said, have thus far done much to¬ ward accomplishing that end .—New York Herald. Yanderbilt. When Commodore Vanderbilt died the prevailing sentiment in the com¬ munity was one of admiration for his character. It was known that he was selfish, domineering and uncultured; but he and had taken amassed leading a great private for¬ tune, a part in many enterprises perity. that developed public pros¬ It was generally conceded that he was one of those men who, in the pursuit of their own ends, become ben¬ efactors of the community. He took the first rank among the millionaires. Pleased with the colossal strength of his character, people forgave its lack of polish and delicacy of outline. The quarrel among his relatives over the disposition validity of his property lias left the of his will unimpaired, but it has destroyed this heroic conception of the man himself. No one will be likely to question the decision of the Surro¬ gate that Commodore Vanderbilt had intellect enough to dispose of his for¬ tune ; but no one will hereafter concede to him intellect enough to command especial respect or admiration. He had the money-getting virtues and abilities; but, taking into account what weaknesses he had, few will be disposed to envy his endowments. In the injury which they have done to his memory his children have hurt their own fair fame, and furnished to the moralist a new illustration of the truth that even in this commercial age there are some things better than money. No Remorse. Amelia Linkhaw went to the hotel in Lumberton, N. C , and inquired for J. E. Harriman. He was a travelling salesman from Baltimore, a frequent visitor to the village, and had been regarded as Miss Liokhaw’s accepted suitor. She was a somewhat famous beauty of that isolat ed part of the State, an active worker in religious charities, and the daughter of a moderately the wealthy hotel man. Harriman joined her in parlor, and they shook hands; but, while she held his hand with her left, she drew a pistol with her right, and shot him dead, That was five months ago, and she has since been in jail, except when lately taken into court The interest on the day appointed for a trial. in the case was so great that 5,000 persons, nearly the entire population of the two counties, gathered in and around the court house. Miss Linkhaw addressed the court, saying that she killed Harriman because he broke his promise cf marriage ; that she did not believe she had done any wrong, and that she did not desire a lawyer to defend her, as she was entirely willing to leave herself in the hands of God, who would take care of her. Her father, however, had engaged counsel, and the trial was postponed. Appropriate Links. A cotemporary says the following couples were “proclaimed in matri¬ mony’’ last year iu Scotland: Thomas Black and Mary White, Toter Day and Ellen Knight, Solomon Bank and Catharine Vale. James Hill and Susan Dale, Isaac Slater and Jane Thatcher, John Baker and Mary Butcher, Stephen Hare and Fanny Heart, William Stately and Jesse Smart, Joseph Heed and Julia Hay, Thomas Spring and Mary May, Joseph Brown and Kitty Green, John Robbins and Jenny Wren, W’illiam Castle and Nancy Hull, Peter Chatter and Fanny Call, Joseph Mann and Eliza Child, James Merry and Lucy Wild, Thomas Bruiu aud Mary Bear, James Fox and Catherine Hare, j Andrew Clay and Lucy Stone, Michael Blood and Lizzy Bone, John Cloak and Julia Hood, Edward Cole and Neucy Wood, James Broom aud Ellen Birch, Charles Chapel and Susan Church, Moses Beck and Martha Fryck, Eugene O’Brien and Biddy Bryan. j bequeath Any one his proposing to devise benevolent and entire estate to | associations should carefully refrain from dying within two mouths of date of his will in New York. Some relig ions and charitable societies are about to worth mourn nearly a million dollars because Mr. Henry A. Kerr did not comply with this precaution three ‘years ago. SAVANNAH THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1879. What they Put Under the Stone, The corner-stone of a monument to the Confederate dead was laid in Colum bia, S. 27. C., on Thursday afternoon, March Among the many articles placed in "the cavity, as we learn from the Register Carolina , were these : A copy of the South ordinance of seces¬ sion; a copy of the Beacon , containing W. Gilmoie Simm’s account of the sack and burning of Columbia by Gen. Sher¬ man; a box containing several coins and a memorandum, saying : The coins contained in this box were taken from the corner stone of the court house of Richland county, erected in the years 1859-60, which was destroyed Feb. 17, 1865, by Gen. W. T. Sher¬ man’s Army, United States forces, then occupying a city that had peace¬ ably surrendered to him ; two Confed¬ erate flags, a flag of the State of South Carolina, Confederate money, from the denomination of $500 down to 5 cents; Confederate postage stamps, five Con¬ federate bonds; one for $1,000, at 8 per cent., due July 1, 1880 ; one for $100, at 6 per cent., due July 1, 1894; one for $1 000, at 8 per cent., due July 1, 1870; two for $500 each, at 7 per cent., due July 1, 1868; some leaves cut from a day-book of Hon. John Mc¬ Kenzie, of date 1864, showing the prices at which various articles sold at that time. Some of these items are in¬ candy teresting; for charged instance, a half-pound of was at $10; seven oranges at $17 50; one pound of hoar hound candy at $10; four lemons at $8; one dozen lady-fingers at $4; one half pound of kisses at $18; three dozen apples at $12; one stick of candy at 50 cents; one quart of chestnuts at $4; one pound mint drops at $25. Rheumatism—Celery. New discoveries—or what claim to be discoveries—of the healing virtues of plants, are continually making. One of the latest is that celery is a cure for rheumatism; indeed, it is asserted that the disease is impossible if the vegeta¬ ble be cooked and freely eaten. The fact that it is almost always put on the table raw prevents its therapeutic pow¬ should ers from be becoming known. The celery cut into bits, boiled in water until soft, and the water drank bv the patient. Put new milk, with a little flour and nutmeg, into a saucepan with the boiled celery, serve it w T arm with pieces of toast, eat it with potatoes, and the painful ailment will soon yield. Such is the declaration of a physician who has again and again tried the ex¬ periment, and with uniform success. He adds that cold or damp never pro¬ duces, but simply develops, the disease, of which acid blood is the primary and sustaining cause, and that while the blood is alkaline, there can be neither rheumatism or gout. English statistics show that in one year (1876) 3,640 persons died of rheumatism, and every case, it is claimed, might have been cured or prevented by the adoption of the remedy mentioned. Baptizing in Midwinter.— A num¬ ber of journals in New Jersey and Ohio have betrayed grave anxiety of mind in respect to the hardships and perils cold of baptizing in the open air iu weather. In particular, the enor¬ could mity of be baptizing reached persons in water that only through an opening made in lively the ice that covered it, excites very emotions. It does not seem to have occurred to these our brethern of the press—what is never* theless the authentic fact varified by many witnesses—that the suffering in the cases last referred to is all in the imagination of lookers-on. It seems to have been forgotten that water un der ice is warmer than the atmosphere above the ice. We have personally tested the point, and the nearest ap proximation to the sensations of a warm bath in the act of baptizing, ■ within our experience, were felt cn a cold day in winter, 4 in a baptistry formed by cutting through more than a foot of ice. The water seemed tepid, —Boston Watchman. New inducements to immigrants are offered on Santa Marguereta ranche, Los Angeles county. Johnny Foster, an Emerald Islander, married a native Mexican lady with a ranche of many thousand acres. He thus became and is now Don Juan Foster. He has subdivided his land into 160 acres tracts. He reserves alternate tracts, and offers intermediate ones to settlers. He asks no money. He rents to tenants * the as follows, viz : First year, free ; second year, $1.50 per acre, or one sixtb of whatever crops he may the third year, $2.50 per acre, or one fifth of buy his crops. If then preferred, he may at 610 per acre, on easy terms, with interest. There . why the terrible . is no reason calamity at Claremont, N. H., where hve persons lost their lives in a burn ing hotel, may not be repeated many times in a country where men are allowed to erect great caravansaries of wood are not compelled to provide fire escapes. A Case of Mistaken Identity. [From South Bend (Ind.) Tribune.] Mr. Josiah Hill, employed at the lower Studebaker shops, has been a res ident of this place for two years. A few months before coming here he was the victim of one of the most wonder¬ ful cases of mistaken identity on record. Mr. Hill and his family lived at No. 21 Grant-place, Chicago, and he follow¬ ed his trade of gardening in Evanston and adjoining villages. He had former¬ ly resided in Evanston, and was known by nearly every person in the village. On Sunday morning, June 11, 1876, a man was run over and killed at Evans¬ ton by an incoming railroad train. The corpse was at once identified as that of Mr. Josiah Hill, the gardener. Word was sent to his family, consisting of a wife and a daughter, aged 16, and they of went the to Evanston to care for the father. hody unfortunate husband and The wife wept, and in her almost incon¬ solable grief frantically caressed the dead one. The inquest was held, and there was no lack of evidence cov—rn ing the dead man’s identity. In tact there was so much unimpeachable evi¬ dence establishing the identity that it was never once questioned. When the inquest was over the wife took charge of the remains, and on Tuesday, the day appointed for the funeral, the body was borne to the grave, amid the lamentations of a large circle of friends and acquaintance. That apparently, Hill was the end of Mr. Josiah on this earth. On the jury at the inquest was Mr. Kearney, Deputy Sheriff of Cook county, who, among others present at the time, knew Mr. Hill very well, and swore to the iden¬ tity. On Tuesday, the day of the funeral, he made an official trip to Winnetka, a place about five miles dis¬ tant from Evanston, and was frighten¬ ed out of his senses at seeing what he at first took to be Mr. Hill’s ghost at work in a garden, setting out celery plants. He finally hailed the object, and was somwhat reassured when he heard Mr. Hill's voice return the salu¬ tation. Still, he could not disabuse his mind of the idea that it was Hill’s ghost. Mr. Hill thought the man was crazy at first, and upon listening to a subsequent explanation concluded that his surmise was correct, and all the way back to Chicago, to which city he re¬ turned with Sheriff Kearney, he re¬ gretted the untimely fate of his friend’s brain. But judge of his surprise and astonishment upon entering his own home to see his wife scream out and faint before what she took to be an apparition. Sheriff Kearney assured her that it was her husband, and that he found him working in a garden at Winnetka, and that the party she had just buried, and whose identity they had all sworn to, must be somebody else. Mrs. Hill had never doubted the identity of the dead man for an instant. Her husband had left her only a few days before to do some work at Evans¬ ton and Winnetka. Indeed, it was some time before either she or her dis¬ consolate daughter could be convinced that their husband and father was still alive. To this day it is a mystery who the man was that was killed. Egyptian Influence on Hebrew Names. It is chiefly in proper names that we recognize the Egyptian influence on the Hebrews. That of Moses has been admitted to be Egyptian, and recog nized in the name Mes, Messu, Messui, not unusual under the Empire, which means “born, brought forth, child.” Dr. Brugsch has lately proposed Mesha, or. as he reads it, Mosha, which is of common occurrence, and is found in the name of a place in Egypt, “the island” or “coast of Mesha” {Diet. Geog. 30S.) There is no Hebrew derivation for Aaron or Miriam! Aaron has an Egyptian sound ; Miriam may be Meree(t) “beloved,’ with a Hebrew termination. Phinehas (Pi-nenas) is r.ot “mouth of brass,” which is doubt fill etymologically and not sense, but Pi-nehas “the Negro,” an Egyptian name no doubt applied to dark men. Harnepher, the whose sixth name generation occurs in ap parently from Asher (1 Chron. vii. 36) is evidently Har-nefer. “Horus the good,’ which is to conjecture be preferred to Gesenius’s be Nehar- start ling Hebrew that it may nepher from a root “to snore,” and Review. a Syriac “topant.”— Contemporary *— m m m --* Round the World in a Sailboat. —The boat now being built for Lewis Goldsmith, the latest aspirant to cross the ocean and ultimately to go round the world, is almost completed, It is eighteen feet and a half in length, feet beam, and three feet depth of hold, built of oak and hard pine plank* ing. It is so constructed as to be a boat within a boat, having nine air tight compartments. It is sharp at j both ends, and it can bail itself. Gold smith and his wife expect to circum navigate the globe and terminate their voyage at San Francjsco, returning to Boston by rail. * ITEMS OF INTEREST. The expenses of the late French In¬ - ternational Exposition were $11,000 000, and the receipts $6,000,000. It is rumored that the Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise will hire a oottage the at Newport, Rhode Island, for summer season. The good man is the only one w r ho can be indifferent to a slander; the bad man must needs chase it and try to head it off. It is not always possible to keep from having mud thrown at you; but you can always beep from throwing it at others. Some and people fulfil are born to he eon trary, they their irheaion with Irishman's religious zeal. They are like the frog, who, he said, always stood up when he sat down and always sat down when he stood up. Down in Indiana when they don’t want a man to be a candidate for office, they get the papers to speak of him as “an aged citizen whose many infirmi¬ ties will prevent him from entering the political field.” Kimpton find has sent to Hartford, Conn., to out whether Gov. Andrews, of that State, will deliver him up to the South Carolina authorities on a requi¬ sition if he goes to Hartford to live. Andrews will give the criminal no sat¬ isfaction on the subject. President Grevy being asked recent¬ ly to write something in a lady's album, indicted the following : “Life is like a game of chess ; each one holds his rank according to his quality, hut when the game is over, king3, queens, knights and all the rest are thrown into one common box." Some men seem to be sent into the world for purposes of action only. Their faculties are all strung up to toil and enterprise; their spirit and their frame alike redolent of energy. They pause and slumber like other men; but it is only to recruit from ac¬ tual fatigue. The Mormons have plauted a colony of one hundred and fifty believers on Little Colorado, Arizona. They are provided with machinery for a com¬ plete woolen mill, now being erected. They have saw mills to build their houses and improvements, flour mills and sugar mills, also a tannery. Flocks of sheep, seeds and farming implements, with food to last till harvest, and with no lack of capital to attest an earnest¬ ness that knows no failure. A letter from M. Lepere, French Minister of the Interior, reproving the Bishop of Grenoble for misrepresenting the government and encouraging dis¬ obedience of the laws by his pastoral, wherein he declared that the govern¬ ment is hostile to religion, and that the laws are not sanctioned by the church and are not binding, is attracting much attention, as it is the sternest and most determined communication re¬ cently addressed by a civil power to any prelate. In the last seven years the amount spent in drink by the population of the United Kingdom is estimated at over £800,000,000, or more than the whole revenue of the kingdom for the last ten years. In spite of what are called “hard times’’ we find that the power of the British drinking public, in beer principally, has increased during the last couple of years by £2,000,000 sterling 1 The returns show a falling off in the wine; drinkers. so it is the “people” who are Thomas Hardy, who is the only rival of William Black for the honor of being the most popular of recent English novelists, is thirty-eight years old and was educated in a provincial village, becoming, as one might fancy from his figures of speech, the apprentice of a country architect. In London, however, he became a student under Blomfield and a prizes disciple of the Gothic school. He won in architecture, and studied to be an art critic. Finally he chose fiction. A Cincinnati Enquirer reporter, who has been investigating the charges against Dr. Keifer, Superintendent of the Soldier’s Orphans’ Home, at Neina, 0-, states that out of nineteen matrons in the institution, sixteen admitted that they had been hugged and kissed by the doctor, some twice and others thrice. The superintendent says in defense, that he intended nothin wrong, but did it to make friends wit the ladies, ail of whom, however, de c ^ are that his kisses were exceedingly unpleasant. There may be seen in the window of a well-known Paris jeweller, whose establishment is situated on the Boule vard de la Madeleine, a beautiful par asol, which was finished too late to be shown at the late exhibition. This odjet ered dart has a blue silk ground °The cov with the richest lace. handle and the stick are black, studded with splendid brilliants, and the elastic ring which serves for keeping the parasol closed is composed entirely of brilliants. The price is 25,000 francs, or jugt $5000. — PRICE THREE CEN T'S. Wanted* CARPENTERS VA Ybanes, No. 99 W Bay ANTED—Apply street. to A. tf G. W ANTED—Everybody now prepared to serve to know my customers, that I aiu with Jos. Schlitz’ Milwaukee Beer, also with the finest of choice WINES and LIQUORS, Segars, old Tobacco and Smokers’ Articles, at my Stand, the C. It. R. HOUSE, Cor. West Broad & Harrison sts., to which I have now removed. THEO. RADERICK. mh21tf Business Cards* JAMES RAY, —Manufacturer and Bottler— Miners! 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. All work I respectfully beg to refer to any of my patrons. octl-bmo W. B: FERRELL’S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. II New Market Basement, (Opposite Lippman’s Drug Store.) Ian 13M SAVANNAH. GA C. A. CORTJ.NO, Bair Cuttine, Bair Dressing:, Curling and SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. der 166V£ Planters’ Bryan street, Hotel. opposite Spanish, the Italian, Market, Ger¬ un¬ man, and English spokon. selli-tf i i i A FINE stock of Cigars on hand, Prices to suit anybody. Call and examine my stock before purchasing, and save money. H. J. RIESER, mh‘28 Cor . W hitaker and Bryan sts. JOS. H. BAKER, B ITTO ZEE IEl! JEi,, STALL No. GO, Savannah Market. Dealer in Beef, Mutton, Pork nd All other Meats in their Seasons. Particular attention paid to supplying Ship an d Boarding Houses. aug!2 HAIR STORE . JOS. E. L0ISEAU & CO., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull A Drayton K EEP on hand a large assortment of Hair ___ Hair Switches, combings Curls. worked Puffs, In and Fancy Goods tho latest stylo. Fancy Costumes, Wigs and Beards for F.eut GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS, TOBACCO, Ac. The celebrated Joseph Schlitz’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah, Ga. FREE LUNCH every day from 11 to 1. r-z31-J v Carriages* A. K. WILSON S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, Corner Bay and West Broad sts. CARRIAGE REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay and Montgomery streets. BA VANN AH, GEORGIA The largest establishment in the city. I keep a full line of Carriages, Rockaways, and Buggies, uggies, Falling Spring Bpring Top and and Baby Farm Farm Can Wagons, Wagons, lages, also Canopy L full . w-fev.'.. .....v a line of Carriage and Wagon Material. Material. I I have have engaged iu my factory the uaost skillful me¬ chanics. Any orders for new work, and re¬ pairing, will be executed tc» give satisfaction and at short notice. mayl2-ly EAST END Carriage Manufactory. P. O’CONNOR, Corner East Broad, President and York sts. Savannah, Ga. I public beg leave in general to inform that my I always friends keep and the on hand a full supply of the best seasoned mate¬ rial and am prepared to execute orders fjr Wagons, Buggies, Drays, Trucks, Etc., with promptness and dispatch, guaran¬ teeing all work turned out from my shops to be as represented. nishing. Ke pairing iu all Its branches. Painting, Var¬ done in polishing, lettering and trimming a workmanlike manner. Horse-shoeing a specialty. mch2tf Ice* Knocker Ice Company. Wholesale and Retail Dealers In and Shippers of EASTERN ICE. — DEPOT; — 144 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, 178 BRYAN STREET Branch Out tittore. No. eaut at RROUGHTOK Hull ST., .. j wot c SAVAIUTAlf. street. QAf
