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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1879)
D A. I Xj Y jrviinsriisrG Savannah iPn< P Recorder. VOL I.—No. 159. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER » R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING . Saturday Excepted,) 1 G1 BA.Y By ,7. STERN. The Recorder is served to subscribers, every part ot the city by careful carriers. Communications must be accompanied by the name of the writer, not necessarily publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Remittance by Check or Post Office must bo made payable to the order of the 1 isher. We will not undertake to preserve or return rejected communications. Correspondence on Local and general ters of Interest solicited. On Advertisements running three, six, and twelve months a liberal reduction from r egular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressed, corder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will the ( .,ace oi the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the week. W“lVe do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed oy Correspondents. [Written by Request.] JESUS CRUCIFIED. BY ELLIK S. O! agonizing JesusJ what grief, what pain is Thine! Bleeding, dying on the cross, to save this sou* of mine; ’ Thy pallid thorn-encircled brow, Thy sad sweet suffering eyes, Drop o’er the tear-stained cheek, where sorrows shadow lies, From the quivering parted lips, there trembles forth a sigh, And Sitlo! Jesus cries aloud, from His cr ue throne on high. Yes! Jesus thirsts, He bleeds, He dies for love of thee, Then Christian soul, would'st yet resist, then look again and sea, Those wounded hands and feet, that opened bleeding side, A refuge safe from sin and care, to thee are opened wide. Oh 1 in those wounds of love divine, for the wear; there is rest. And hearts oppressed with sin and grief, find there, solace blest. Draw us then, dear Lord, to those founts of living love, Far from the world’s sad bitterness and care* We too have suffered, and oft like the timid dove, Wandering through earth's thorny ways, have louud no shelter there. t Then at Thy feet, sweet Jesus, may we ever cling and pray, ’Mid life’s fiercest storms, and in the gloom of earth’s Tenebral. Who Know* Positively of the Life Hereafter. The dogmatic assertions, in which some the people are wont to indulge, as to fate and condition of human souls after they pass from this mortal life, are likely to have their force im¬ paired, at least with reflecting minds, by certain hard, undeniable facts of not infrequent occurrence. To illus¬ trate: it is most positively affirmed and and sincerely believed by many, that no human being, who dies without having repented of his sins in such a way as to insure divine forgiveness, can poasibly beyond enter into a state of hap¬ py existence the grave, but is certain to be consigned to a condition of unending woe; but that, at no matter what period of this life the requisite repentance and consequent forgiveness be secured, if it he in reality secured, the soul thus circumstanced will be certain of an eternity of bliss. Again, and pa- contra, others assert with equal¬ ly dogmatic assurance that, no matter what the souls character may have been here in this life, and without reference to any consideration of repentance in¬ dulged in here, or of divine forgive¬ ness obtained before death, it is abso¬ lutely certain that all human souls will be, in the life beyond the grave, puri¬ fied and made happy. Now, let as consider these two theological dogmas with some of the corollaries which they necessarily involve, in the light of some facts of human experience, If the first, asserted creed be true, it follows, that a human soul, no matter how polluted with sin and crimes against both God and man, will, provided it repents the eve of its departure for the future life, escape all punishment and penalty and be forever thereafter supremely blest; it also follows that a human soul no matter how lightly it may have stained itself with sin, will yet, if repentant, when it passes the portal of dealh, remain forever unforgiven and completely damned. If the second asserted creed, which is the opposite of the first, be true, it follows that both these human bouIs, the one deep dyed in guilt, the other with its purity only slightly marred by sin, will enter on the future their happiness lite on equal is concerned, terms, and so far the as differences between their characters which existed in their mortal life, will not enter as an element into the deter minatton of their future and eternal .destinies. How do these dogmas apgdttti tfc tsufeu trf wiuUi WU bftfe 4 positive knowledge? This one will as an illustration of the difficulties which result from the acceptance either of these dogmas. At Cleveland, Ohio, a few days ago, a young man named McGill was hanged. He had deserted his wife and child, and lived with a wayward girl as his paramour. She became weary of his company and left him. He followed and found her, urged her to return to his companionship, and when she re¬ fused to do so he murdered her in cold blood, and under circumstances of most heartless cruelty. He was justly con¬ demned and righteously hanged. But while in prison, after sentence, he re¬ pented, professed to have become sincerely religious, and went to the gallows declaring that he felt assured of immediate admission to heaven and an eternal life ot happiness, and ex¬ horted others to repent and make themselves as sure of heaven as he had done. Now, what are we to conclude as to a case like this, on either one of the dogmatic, theogolical theories we have before noticed ? According to the first., if the murderer was really repentant, and unless we admit the possibility of his being so the whole theory falls, he is in heaven supremely and eternally happy, while his murdered victim, whom he sent into eternity without a moment’s warning, or giving her the opportunity to repent of her life of impurity, is in hell ineffably and eternally unhappy. What just mind, what right reason, does not revolt conclusions? against being compelled to accept such Yet what other outcome is possible ? But the case is not more satisfactory on the other and opposite creed ; for if that be true we must believe that the wilful murderer and the victim of his parsion and his auger are now both in a state of supreme happiness, and in no wise affected by their previous charac¬ ters so far as their eternal future is concerned. Can we accept the absurd, the revolting consequences which must follow.this theory ? If it is correct then McGill, in murdering the girl, who, though guilty enough in other ways, was not, like himself guilty of murder, did her a favor in killing her and sending her to heaven a few months in advance of himself There are a great many other deduc¬ tions, which logically, inevitably, fol¬ low the acceptance of either of these dogmatic assertions as to the future of human souls, many of them quite as repugnant to reason and common sense as those which we have noted The moral which we would draw from all this is that we should be very cautious how we assert that which we do not and cannot positively know, and exceedingly charitable in conceding to others the right to give or withhold their assent when any dogmatic propo¬ sition relating to these matters is an¬ nounced. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind—if he can —but let him not attempt to sit in judgment on any other soul or its final destiny .—Jersey City Journal. ‘‘Outlived Her Usefulness, Or, a Son Without A Heart. Not long since, a good-looking man in middle life came to our door, asking for the minister. When informed that he was out of town, he seemed disap¬ pointed and anxious. On being replied: ques¬ tioned as to his business, he “I have lost my mother, and as my father lies here, we have come to lay her beside him.” Our heart rose in sympathy, and we said: “You have met with a greftt loss.” “Well, yes,” replied the strange man, with hesitancy, “a mother is a great loss in general ; but our mother had outlived her usefulness; she was iu her second childhood; mind had grown as weak as her body, so she was no com . , . , a , ur , en o evert or o , a. 10 ;,L ere were seven o us sons an aug ers an as we con no burl anybody wbo was willing to board her,». agreed to keep her among us a year about. But I bare had more than my share of her. for she was too feeble to be moved wuen mv time was out, ana that was more than three mouths before ter death. But then she was a good mother in her day, and toiled very hard to bring us a.l np. Without looking at the face of the ^ heartless mao, we directed him to the house of a neighboring pastor, and returned to our nursery. We gazed on the merry little faces which smiled or grew sad in imitation of ours— those little ones to whose ear no word in “Mother,” our language is half so sweet that dav as and we woudered if would never come when they say ot us, “She has outlived her useful ne*s«=; she is no comfort to herself and a burden to everybody else. would And dawn we hoped before such a day we might he taken to our rest. God forbid that we should outlive the of our children! Rather let U6 die when our hearts are pyt of their own, 'thftt o\ur ms/ wfeftba&i WtUi SAVANNAH SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1879. their tears, and our love linked with their When hopes of heaven. bell ceased tolling, the the strange minister rose in the his form was very erect, and his hair was silvery white. He read several passages God’s of Scripture expressive and of especially compassion to feeble man, of his tenderness when gray hairs are on him, and his strength faileth him. “From a little child I have honored the aged; but never till grey hairs covered my own head did I know truly how much love and sympathy this class had a right to demand of their fellow creatures. Now I feel it.” “Our mother,’’ he added, most tender¬ ly, “who now lies in death before us, was a stranger to me, as are all these her descendants. All I know of her is what her son has to)d me to-day, that she was brought to this town from afar, seventy years ago, a happy bride, that here she passed most of her life, toiling; as only mothers ever have strength to toil, until she reared a large family of sons home and clad daughters ; that she left her in the weeds of widowhood, to dwell among her children ; and that till health and vigor left her, she lived for you—her descendants. “You, who together have shared her love and care, know how well you have requited her. God forbid that con science should accuse any of you of in* gratitude or murmuring on account of the care she has beon to you of late ! When you go back home be caieful of your words and example before your own children, for the fruit of your own doings you will surely reap from them when you totter on the brink of the grave. “I entreat you as a friend, as one who has himself entered the ‘evening of life,’ that you may never say, in the presence of your iamilies, nor of heav en.'Our mother has outlived her use* fulness; she was a burden to us.’ Never, never. A mother cannot live so long as that. No ! when she can no longer labor for her children, nor yet for her¬ self, she can fall like a precious weight on their bosoms, and call forth, by her helplessness, all the noble, generous feelings of their natures. “Adieu, then, poor, toil-worn moth¬ er 1 there are no more sleepless nights, ing no more days of pain for thee. Undy¬ vigor and everlasting usefulness are part of the inheritance of the re¬ deemed. Feeble as thou wert on earth, thou wilt be no burden on the bosom ot Infinite Love, but there wilt thou find thy long-sought rest, and receive glorious sympathy from Jesus and His ransomed fold.” The Black Cloud That Hangs Over It. The black cloud which has been hanging for years past over the old ducal house of Newcastle seems to grow thicker and thicker. Only a few weeks ago the old Duke died at a hotel in St. James Place, with nobody by his side except an old servant. He for years, has been separated from his wife, and lived upon an annuity £2,500 paid him by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Hope, to whom he had surrendered the whole of bis estate. He was a man more sinned against than sinning. He ran through the best part of an immense fortune solely beeause he could never reiuse assistance to friends. His larg est liabilities were incurred by going security for other people. He died of gout, for which lie had doctored him self with homoeopathic medicines. The boy of fifteen, who succeeds him. has always beau weak, and some years ago he broke his leg. He was in charge ol a nurse, who patched up the leg with the aid of a oountry doctor. Later on it had to be rebroken and set anew, But this operation does not seem to I have been much more successful, for i the leg had to be amputated a few! months ago. Poor little Lennie, as he j is familiarly called, was slowly e q D g f rom the amputation when neWi 0 f his father’s death reached him. ^ as q U jj e n r0 9 trated the boy, and hope! his medicai attendants give but little f hi rec Wednesday last a M ow was inflicted upon the little fcl|ow by , be burm 0 f C l„mber House, ^ Nottinghamshire seat of the family, ^ ccor jj n g to the cable dispatches, the wor j. g ot art con tained have been I destroyed. value, The propertv was of im mense and has been admirably taken care of by Mrs. Hope, since bought up all the Nottinghamshire mortgages of the late Duke. Notwithstanding all these calamities, maiority', the boy, if he lives, will,at his fi n d himself worth some four hundred ; t h 0U sand dollars. - The Bureau Veritas, of Paris, in tne number of steamers regie tered in 18TS, makes Great Britain head the list, with 3,216; the United States is placed next, with 516, and France ranks third, with 275 steamers, —— ■— — —- General ^ Beauregard denies the story about the $26,000 secession editorial of D- Preethcfc itt Che LounfvHita I * The Endless Future of the Human Race. A Letter to a Friend by C. S. Henry, D. D. Dr. Henry is probably a Universalist minister, since he speaks of his “hope and trust in the final restoration of all men to goodness and blessedness,” and since his words have the usual Univer ealist tone in them, He believes in a purgatory, but “not the Romish one,” and he believes in praying for the dead. It is strange past comprehension that men, dootors of divinity, 40, 50 and 60 years old, who have spent their lives in the study of the Bible, should bo persistently fail to discern the sim¬ ple truth of the matter. For example, why endeavor to escape the conclusion of eternal punishment by twisting the teachings of the Bible, when the teach ings of the Bible have nothing to do with the subject? Why not tell the suffering friend of the truth and be done with it? The facta are these: Previous to the Babylonish cai ; vity the Jews knew nothing of the lure life or future punishment—had i.iver thought of them, so far as we of this age can tell. When they were carried captive down to Babylon they came in contact, of course, with the Persians. The Persians are sun worshipers, and believe that after death men are puri¬ fied from the effects of their sins by fire. By a very easy step the Jews drew from this belief—which, together with a belief in immortality, they ac qnired from the Persians—a doctrine of future punishment by fire, and then an endless future punishment. This sun Persia, worshiping religion still exists in as every man of any intelligence knows. The Jews brought these be¬ liefs back to Palestine with them, when they were released by Cyrus, and the beliefs grew and were transmitted from father to son, and by the time that Jesus was born they were a part of the religious beliefs of the time, He learned them at His mother’s knee, perhaps as every boy has, be it said reverentially, learned hideous theolog¬ ical, doctrines. He believed them, and when He grew up, and became a re¬ ligious teacher, He taught them. But what did He know of their truth any more than we do? Or why should we be agonizing ourselves over a mon¬ strous fire superstition that originated among the ignorant mountaineer sheep keepers of Persia simply because Jesus repeated it? The quickest and best and truest way to relieve the appre¬ hensive suffering of modern skeptics is to go back of the jbihle and see how this hell doctrine originated, That done, he will not trouble himself about what the Bible or what the words of Jesus teach, lor he will see that they have nothing *o do with it. And then to him any exegesis of the scriptures <»n the subject will appear silly, as it ought to. A Clever Rogue.—A gentleman of great world cashed experience in the commercial a check at a London bank £i,000, taking the whole in £100 notes. He was only a few hundred yards from the bank when a person resembling a eleik, bareheaded, and with a pen behind his ear, touched him ou the shoulder, saying: “Beg your pardon, sir ;. will you allow me just toj take the number of these notes again ? I won’t keep you a minute.” The gen tleman taken off his guard, handed the notes over to the supposed clerk, whom he followed into the bank. After giv ing the former time to reach the top end and return, he met the gentleman at the door, saying, “Please walk this | way ; that gentleman will attend to in a minute,” pointing to a clerk who was deeply engaged. Five min elapsed before the gentleman could! the clerk s attention to his case ; j and he was thunderstruck to find that this officer knew nothing about it. The cLika were interrogated, and were equally in the dark. Of no time was lost in going to the bank of England, but too late, the rogue had been before them, and gold for the notes .—Chamber's Journal Aram Foon.-The origin of April tooling is hardly known ; but the cus ; tom is widespread. It is universal in Europeans Europe, and in all countries where have settled, and is prac (iced in Hindostan, where the Hindus the Hull Festival, as they term it, on the 31st of March, by send mg whomsoever they* canon fruitless by playing all manner of pranks on people, and then exposing i them to laughter, as the Western na tions do. Oriental scholars trace April fooling to this source. Another opin ion is that it came from a travesty of i the sending hither and thither of Jesus from Annas to Caiaphas and from Pilate Ages! to Herod, because in the Middle that Scriptural scene w^s turned into', a miracle piay at Easter, which during this month. m m Dr. Polli says that no human being die bteiore tho hundredth y&ar arownud. A Protest Against Pensions Union Soldiers. From [Jackson (Miss.) Clarion.] Not to be considered censorious, Southern members (whose names we not know, because we have not inedthe record, and, therefore, we stepped not aiming at any in particular,) over¬ the bounds of magnanimity itself in voting these $50,000,000 of extra pay to the armies that fought and desolated and impoverished their own States in the late war. It is an open question, so far as the opinion of man* kind at large is concerned, whether that war was a just one; but it is not but an open question with the people of the South, who have always held to be a slander the charge destroy that they were seeking to the Government from which they propose to withdraw, and estab¬ lish a Government of their own, based upon the principle that just Govern¬ ments derive their powers from the consent of the governed. If bygones are to be bygones, let them be so in fact as well as pretension; but this system of pensioning the sol diers who fought on the winning side of the war at the expense of the side that lost (because of the overwhelming odds against them) is not only a disa¬ greeable reminder and of bygones but a most While unfair iniquitous proceeding large numbers of the soldiers on the side of the North houestly believed they were fighting to save their Govern-, ment and were impelled by patriotic motives, others were mere soldiers of fortune from abroad, who enlisted for pay, regardless of the cause involved. On the side of the South the struggle was for home and altar and the right of It self-government. is a monstrous crime against the peace of the reunited country for its Government to pursue a course which will perpetually remind the weaker side that it is to be a beast of burden for the other. It was only twelve months ago that a bill passed the Republican Senate Grant, voting a princely leader pension to General the of the Northern ar¬ mies, notwithstanding that he had been crowned with the Ligbest. honors of the country and had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the public treasury. And but the other day the same body passed an amendment to the Mexican War Pension hill, excluding Jefferson Davis from its benefits, though he was one of the most gallant and successful leaders of the armies of die United States in that war. How the Woman Vote in Kansas. A Hoosier sees in Kansas many new and unfamiliar sights, but none more interesting than that of the ladies voting. They have the privilege of voting in all matters pertaining to schools. As far as my observation goes, the ladies have minds of their own. They neither vote for the handsomest rjaan ,l0r the one their husband tell them to vote for > unless the candidate in their own opinion, the proper one. Their votes cannot be bought, They are universally on the side of morality and temperance; hence the workers in'the temperance cause are warm advocates, of equal suffrage, Election days pass quieily. If there is Hn y the drinking or Everything fighting done, it is not polls. is orderly circulated there, notwithstanding contrary reports by anti-suffragists in the Eastern States, Candidates keep carriages running ^ or accommodation of the ladies, Unt * great many walk up and deposit their votes. As the result, so far, has been very satisfactory, even to the men, the brutes, it will probably be but a s ^ 0f f time until equal suffrage is grant e <I I he gentlemen show their gallantry an< ^ kdth in the ability of the ladies by appointing them to office. The enroll ing clerks ot the Legislature are ladies, a * 8C a l ar 8 e proportion of the county superintendents, discharge who in every instance their duties in a manner that £ lves universal satisfaction.— Indian apolis Herald. “Ze Buzzard.” When Achille Mu rat was in Florida, with a true French man’s instinct for new and rare foods, he cooked and ate from nearly the en tire fauna of the State. He used to cook alligator steak in a way so deli cious that no alligator in all Florida would recoguize it as a morsel of one of bis brothers. He worked long and faithfully to make the turkey buzzard palatable by good cooking, but at last gave it up in despair. When asked how he liked it, be said, “Oh! I can eat any kind of bird—I am not affrate to eat anyzing, I Have no prejudice, but ze buzzard is not goode.” ■ m m The distinction betw pen liking and Moving was well made by a little girl years old. She was eating an egg at breakfast, which she seemed to relish very much. “Do you love it ?” asked her aunt. “No,” replied the child, with a look of disgust. “I like it. If loyud ic I should kiss it,“ i PRICE THREE CENTS. Wanted. C ARPENTERS W ANTED—Apply to A. G. Ybanes, No. 99 Ray street tf "ITT*ANTED—Everybody VV prepared to to know that I am now serve my customers, witli Jos. Bchliiz’ Milwaukee Beer, also with the finest of choice WINES and LIQUORS, Segars, Tobacco and Smokers’ Articles, at my old .Stand, the C. R. U. HOUSE, Cor. West Broad & Harrison sts., to which I have now removed. THEO. RADERICK. mh21tf Business Cards. JAMES RAY, —Manufacturer and Bottler— Mineral Wafers, Soda, Porter and Ale. feb23-3m , , A 5 Houston St., Savannah, Ga. Hr. A. H. BEST, beutist Cor. Congress and Wh itaker streets. SAVANNAH, GA. T EETH extracted without p; tin. All work guaranteed. I respectfully beg to refer to any of my patrons. oot.l-btno W. B. FERRELL'S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market Basement, (Opposite Llppmau’s Drug Store.) Ian ISM SAVANNAH GA C. A. CGRTJNO, Hair Cutting, Hai? Dressing, Curling ani SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. der lGG'A Planters’ Bryan street, opposite the Market, un¬ Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger¬ man, and English spoken. selfi-tf Cigars! Cigars! A FINE stock of Cigars on hand. Prices to suit anybody. Call and examine my stock before purchasing, and save money. H. J. RIESER, mil 28 Cot. Whitaker and Bryan sts. JOS. H. BAKER. IB T 7 T O H IE ■&,, STALL No. C6, Savannah Market. Dealer ia Beef, Mutton, Pork nd All other Meats iu their Seasons. Particular attention paid to supplying Shi p and Boarding Houses. augi2 HAIR store; JOS. E. L0ISEAU & CO., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull & Drayton K EEP on hand a large assortment of Hair Hair Switches, combings Curls, Puffs, and Fancy Goods worked in the latest style. Fancy Costumes, Wigs anil Beards for Kent GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGARS. TOBACCO, Ac. The celebrated Joseph Schlltz’ MILWAU¬ KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah, Ga. r-z31-lv FREE LUNCH every clay from ii to 1. Carriages* A. K. VVILSON’S^ CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, Corner Hay and West Broad sts. CARRIAGE REPOSITORY . Cor. Bay ami Montgomery streets. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA The largest establishment m the city. I keep a full line of Carri «;e,s, Itockaways, and Buggies. Falling Bpring and Farm wagons. Canopy line of Top Baby Can luges also a full Carriage and Wagon Material. I have chanics. engaged in my factory the most skillful me¬ Any orders for naw work, and re¬ pairing, will be executed tc give satisfaction and at short notice. may!2-ly EAST END Carriage Manufactory. P. O’COINYOIt, 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 tc execute orders f>r Wagons, Buggies, Drays, Trucks, Etc., with promptness and dispatch, guaran¬ teeing all work turned out from my shops to be as represented nishing. Repairing polishing, in all its branches. Painting, Var¬ done workmanlike lettering and trimming in a manner. Horse-shoeing a special ty. mch2tf Ice. Wholesale and Retail Dealers iu and Shippers of EASTERN ICE. — DEPOT; 1M BAY STREET. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, J. F. CAVANAUGH, Manager. mchi-Gm Candies. ESTABLISH ED IhW. M. FITZGERALD —Manufacturer of— PURE, PLAIN AND FINE CANDIES. factory ami atore, m bryan htrset jartwicii store, No. aiiuuuHrojc bt* ' WvVr
