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. ID A. I L Y I TTYKlSTHsTG Savannah U TA Recorder. & B ■f$C Ml VOL II.— No. 102. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER, K M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY E VENING. (Saturday Excepted,) t :i GX BAY JS»TXX:E2:E:' r E\ Jiy ,T. 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 publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Remittance by Check or Post Oilice orders must be made payable to the order of the pub isher. We will not undertake to preserve or return rej ected cornmuuications. Correspondence on Local and general mat¬ ters of interest solicited. On Advertisements running three, six, and twelve months a liberal reduction from our egular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressed, Re¬ corder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will take the toace oj the Saturday evening edition, which will make six full issues for the v/eek. «-\Ve do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed hy Correspondents. The French Prince. A Sensational Story —Did lie Have a Wife and Child? [From the New York World.] Is it not enough that the Prince Im¬ perial should have been killed ? Why must he be married too ? Are there no limits to political hatred? When the Prince set out for Zululand there was some talk about a betrothal to the Princess Beatrice, and now Le Petit Lyonnias publishes an extremely cir¬ cumstantial and ingenious story to this effect: Act I. Last year about the close of the bathing season a couple took lodging at Bath (where nobody ever goes to bathe, be it observed; in England. Tlie gentleman was young and looked “like a Frenchman whose vivacity had been extinguished by an enfeebled constitution the lady was tall, of light complexion and spoke English with a slight German accent. They had a nurse and a child three or tour months old. After a week the husband left Bath. He returned seve¬ ral times to see his wife, on some occa¬ sions wearing the uniform of an officer of artillery. They lived in strict se¬ clusion, having but one visitor, the priest of a neighboring church. Act II. When the Zulu war broke out the husband went to this priest and said he was ordered to Africa ; family reasons did not permit him to reveal his name or avow his marriage ; would the priest during his absence act as protector of his wife aud child? The good Father consented, imd when the news of the Prince Imperial’s death was received sent the paper to the lady to cheer her up, as it were. She read a few lines and promptly swooned. Act 111 . That same afternoon a blonde Cliiselhurst woman in deep mourning arrived at (of course by special train from the far west of England) and begged with tears an audience of the Empress. It was refused, but she had a long interview with Father Goddard. Next day she came back, but was still not admitted. Act IV. Her disappearance being noticed at Bath, the priest of that place was surprised and, with the well known discretion ot his order, immedi¬ ately went into the public place and told all that ho knew about this wo¬ man. “But,” said a bystander, who must Lave come up by express from Kent, “that’s precisely the description of the mysterious woman at. Chisel hurst.'’ So both of them ran and bought a The photograph of the Prince Imperial, piiest, “This immediately on seeing it, cried : is the husband of this young woman.” Could anything be more interesting? It is a reproach to the Paris papers and to the London correspondent of our Pvcniruj Post that it should first have seen the light in a penny journal at Lyons. There are some facts, it will have been observed, however, which it is not easy to reconcile with its strict accuracy. Thus, people do not go to Bath to take sea baths as we have hinted, among other reasons, the city of King Bladud and Beau Nash is not on the sea. Again, the Prince Imperial at that particular season was making a very extended tour on the continent. Thirdly, nobody ever saw artillery an Englishman in the uniform of an officer five minutes after was released from duty. Fourthly, wlmt earthly blonde woman, not American, could recover from a swoon. get. a suit of mourning and travel from Wiltshire into Kent by the same after noon ? Fifth • y, how did the mixed company at Bath hear all about her visit which wasu’t in the papers? the whole, the author of this tale de serves to be recognized as the Lyin’ King of Gallic journalism. * Willow are growing on the bar in the Mississippi at Vicksburg, and it will soon be dry land where the river once flowed. • How Memphis Appears. The Streets Destitute of Pedestrians, and the Corners of Loafers. [From the Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanch.j The streets yesterday were almost deserted, except by certain old stagers from whose hides Yellow Jack would recoil in dismay. Several noted places of resort were lonely and desolate. The pavement in front of the Peabody no longer was crowded with “bloods,” who were wont to stand there in atti¬ tudes of graceful repose, and by their killing “get up” slay the peace of un¬ sophisticated feminines who might chance to pass that way. The absence of our two crack mil¬ itary companies has told fearfully up¬ on the beer saloons, and the corners are no longer festooned with amateur warriors, in deep discussion over some knotty point in tactics, or the latest style of undress uniforms. It is to be hoped that when health and prosperity return once more to gladden our city with their presence in time for the society season, the gang are reduced to such an extent that it is almost im¬ possible to get up any sport. One veteran soldier in the army of chance complained yesterday that he was reduced to the humiliation of doing nothing or engaging in a game of poker. There were tears in his eyes as he spoke. Court square, once the resort of hundreds of our people was deserted, with the exception ot two or three listless can’t get aways, and the festive squirrels, who hopped around in a very poseless kind of way, as if they missed the merry children who used to feed them with peanuts and other delicacies dear to the squir¬ rel's heart. But saddest of all was the determination expressed by several saloon keepers to close their places of resort during the present unpleas¬ antness, and the sight of drays loaded with barrels of whisky being shipped off to the West. One bombproof citi¬ zen, as he beheld the latter sight, re¬ marked sadly to a 'friend that Mem¬ phis was “deader’n the Ten Com¬ mandments’’ The rotunda of the Peabody w r as tenantless, save by a few men with satchels, ready to light out to healthier climes, or an occasional re¬ porter lying in wait for some doctor attending a “bad case.” The whole town looked as if people had made money enough to retire from business, and had shut up shop for .good. A Curious Old CoiN.mCaptain Ed¬ ward 0. Nicholas, of the"ark Nori :iena, of Portland, while stopping at Port Mahon, in the Mediterranean, making repairs, made the acquaintance of a wo, -know citizen ol that port, An omo Barteon,, who presented h.m with a silver com which ts supposed to bo : very va cable, and one of the most re. mart-able cariosities ever brought to this country. Mr. Barteom says this corn is one of the original silvershekles ofthe kind used, rn the purchase of Joseph at the time he war sold by his brethren into Egypt and that it was made with some kind of flint stone by the ancients He says it came into possession ot his family from the Moors, and has been handed down from gen eration to generation until now. nle people aie at liberty to take their , own view ot this estimate ot its antiquity, it seems to be better lushed that the com is one which was eageily sought alter titty years ago b\ the officers of one of our United btates man-o i-w av \ esse is, \'ho applied to the owner for it. and which bignor Barteom then carefully kept from them. It is almost square in shape, and has some peculiar hieroglyphics worked on both sides. J.cwtsion (Mr) Journal. An Attractive Spectacle.— Fret ty little girls wading and paddling in the surf make an attractive spectacle, ^ ut when a pretty young lady ot twen J7 summers or thereabouts, and wear U! £ a Gainsborough hat, undertakes the same pastime, the scene is a novel °? e * S “ c k a J ouu p Ldy, on a part of Manhattan Beach which was se eluded tor the moment, thought it would be nice to join the little and, pulling off her shoes and stockings ^ oatu red in. It was evidently a more j |rising difficult task to adjust her dress to the and lowering of the tide, for :she gave her whole mind to it and 1 succeeded very poomy. Everybody P^S that way paused, and tbe I men to °^ seats, determined to fight it out it it took all summer. In fifteen minutes a crowd ot nearly 300 persons, mostly men, had gathered. The smile 011 0\e young lady 's face changed to a frown, and a mother's sharp cr y hastened her withdrawal to the background, where, screened by a phalanx of female friends, she restored s koes and stockings to their proper place in the economy of civilization. --------♦ ♦ ♦-- We are now sorry for the Zulus. If they had only allowed themselves to be killed off quietly and peaceably seme time ago they would not now be labor ing under the disgrace of defeat, ■ Savages never will listen to reason. Infidelity and Crime. We believe it to be susceptible of demonstration that the late extraordi¬ nary and deplorable increase of crime, an crowding increase with more its palpable record the every day’ columns of the public prints and sickening the soul with its endless detail aud'novelty of horror, is largely due to the growth of materialism, or what is termed in¬ fidelity, and that mainly in reaction from the sceptical drift of the time lies the path of wholesome reform. The fruit of unbelief among the upper or wealthy classes is sensuality. ; Those classes get to worship instead bf their Maker the pleasures of the moment. They bow doiVD to rich food and fine clothes and enervating amusements. They make goddesses of women Their who possess mere physical beauty. and hearts are set cn vachts race courses anti theatres and operas. What is given, in a word, to gild or soften life, to lend grace and sparkle and color to the plod and monotone of existence, such persons make it sole object and aim. Thus they become of tlie earth, earthly, and all that is spiritual and exalted dries out of their soul. One after another the commandments are broken as they stand in the way of de¬ sire, and a shameful ruin is left at last in place of what might have been a per¬ fect temple; a shattered and sated voluptuary in place of a nobly perfect human being. Among the poorer and less educated ranks of' society the cant and poison of living only for the day is even more directly disastrous. The rich can gratify their passions without, as a rule and in the legal sense, coming in conflict wfith the rights of others. But the needy, unrestrained by any only fear of future and account, drink and thinking to eat since to-morrow they die, drive straight on to crime. That this is no idle assertion can be abun¬ dantly proved. A careful survey of the murders, suicides and other great felonies committed in the great cities of the United States during the last ten years show’s that a heavy fraction of the perpetrators were atheists or free thinkers. These unhappy person#, persuaded that life is the be-all and the end-all here, imagine that in their calculations they can jump the life to come. A collection of the letters or other papers left by criminals when anticipating death show’s a fearful num¬ ber of instances, some of which many readers will recall, of absolute disbelief in the existence of a God or in a reckoning for wrong done in this life to be exacted in a futue one.— New York Post. Singular Instincts of Scorpions. _ There ■„ a ie3 of sti ; ac01 ._ Western ; 0 n found in the river bottoms of Texas. Immediately after the bhth of ber the female places theLQ a basket shaped receptacle ‘ on her back where th begin L afc h themse lves and sucking her bloo(1 Of course the mother soon sue cum bs to this unfilial treatment one’s and begins to droop. The young are t t h; s t i me sufficiently nourished to demanJ more substantial food and thev kill their mother and devour her. Should one of the younw ones become Cached from the living nest, it is at once killed and feasted upon by its mo ther. Thus it seems that while the f pma } e willingly sacrifices her life to her offspringf yet she does not hesitate f 0 kill them, should they be so devoid of m , t inct as to refuse to remain where s be places them after birth. While thig is go ing on the male parent stands aroun d .—Hannibal (J[o XCourier ______ - m m*' — The Florida Indians.—L ieuten ants Pratt and Browne, who wen to see and report upon the condition of the Indians in South Florida, ha3 ro turned. They found the Indians friendly, very well off and contented. They do not like “white man’s ways,” however, and declare that they will ] lve and die following the Indian ens p irns of their fathers, and the ; chiefs even oppose the younger learning English. It is probable that the no new policy will be adopted by government until the old chiefs j warriors who were in the Indian wars are gone, when it is thought, the er men will be more manageable and more willing to advance. It is eati mated that the Indians in that se.etbn number but three hundred meg to! a. ----—> ^ —- A duel took place on the 24th inst, at a point 14 miles east of Columbia, Miss., in the State of Alabama, tween Capt. Humphreys and Major Moore. Five hundred people witnessed fired the affair. The combatants upon each other at a distance'of ten paces with Smith •& Wesson revolvers without effect. Major Moore fired im mediately on turning. Capt. revs took cool, calm and deliberate aim. After the first fire friends pressed the seconds to take advantage of the regu lations of tne code, which was done, and the affair ended, both their honors having been satisfied. The duel grew out ot a difference of politics. • SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1879. Our Dead Presidents A review’ of the lives of the different Presidents of the United States is pro¬ ductive of some interesting results. For instance, three of them died on tlie 4th of July. John Adams and Jeffer¬ son botti died on the country’s fiftieth died birthday—July 4th, 1825 ; and Monroe on the 4tli of July, 1831. Madi¬ son died on the 28tli of June, 1836, and his friends were confident that he, too, would live until July 4th. If he had, then the second, third, fourth and fifth Presidents would have died on Independence Day. Taylor and John¬ son both died in July. Every fourth President until Mr. Hayes was an old bachelor. Van Buren did not draw any of his salary until his term expired, when he drew it out in gold, “all in a lump.” Tyler died poor, having gone into the rebellion, and was one of the Confederate Commissioners at Mont¬ gomery. John Adams lived the long¬ est—he was 91 years old when he died. Madison was 85 ; Jefferson, 8? ; John Quincy Adams, 81 ; Van B'i -n, 80; Jackson, 78 ; Buchanan, 77 ; 1’ ilmore, 74; Monroe, 72; Tyler, 72; Harri¬ son, 68; Washington, 67; Johnson, 67; Pierce, 65; Taylor, 60; Lincoln, 56; Polk, 54. General Grant is tbe only living ex-President. Tyler and Van Buren both died in 1862; Lincoln in 1865; Buchanan in 1868 ; Fillmore in 1874; and Johnson in 1875. The Ceremony of Identification. —Before the removal of the Prince Imoerial’s hody to Cliiselhurst the cere¬ mony of formally identifying it took place, in accordance with French cus¬ tom, and lasted about two hours. The temporary coffin was opened in the presence of the two Princes Bonaparte, M. Rouher, Gen. Fleury, several medL cal men and others. The lad’s mother was absent. It was found that the operation of embalming had not been successful. So decomposed were the features of the dead young soldier that the work of recognition is des¬ cribed as having been almost as dif¬ ficult as it was painful. The peculiar configuration of one of his teeth, aud the gold filling in several others, were the principal means of identification; and these were discovered by Dr. Evans, who bad accompanied tbe late Emperor and Empress on their last departure from France, and was extre¬ mely well informed concerning their unfortunate soil. Another physician, Dr. Larry, probed and measured every wound on the body. In a voice chok¬ ing with emotion, M. Rouher exclaim¬ ed, “I am satisfied.” Uhlman, the faithful servant, who had been with his master in Zululand, fainted away at the sig n ! 1 t of the .spoliation wrought by death. _. Toe marsh# intends to arresttha tot violator of quarantine he catches ■» the city Ve lively drummer and gay gamboher from Memphis will do well to give this burg a wide berth. A f 50 a nd la > Tin § lfl the old Y. F hos P ltal m . quarantine . would not be pleasant episodes. We tried the hospi table style last year, and found it cost one hundred and eighty-one live and lully a iniHioq dollars direct loss, to sa y not L n g ot indirect losses,which no °? e can estimate. We are not so hos I )lta i ,‘ e as we were, but rather more uos.tile, so to speak. This is not a £? od ? r 8al ' 3 “ resor t for persons run mu 3 the , pestilence which walketh a £°uud Memphis regardless of the hour ot da y °r night. Don t come here 8%ve<Jt Memphians. We cant appre ciate >’ our S0clet 7 J^t now. After irost come over and we 11 have suthin together and will talk over the matter our leisure. But just now we d Chattel noo 9 a ( & nn -) Jg/ua “There ninT in ilpmand for fmrv T10 ” \a t u u |.p “ rnm , p - a ar P , lpr -v V, - 1 - fa chin mW ‘ " f - 7 ^ I ' i there 'vnn’t hr n i heDmi Vf thirT hars hot lU.,. .Drk ... aS iXp\r „ win- T made { unch to . d £,. and onlvthree or four !;ll . et inmo l Even lemonades ain’t tQuc j i of a ‘ aQ> Everybodv ..-roes f or Per i, i p: 1- V ears nan f a heer kp^ J? hadn’t ! qjJ , p i l } j 1 ‘V tk \ ; g l t here’d be" ;L. four or five of us U Tn7' n , n ir ..; va ,i ,i v c ^Now ce t r, an tW v -fi ve cents a ^lass its Pi beer, and thev’d mob us if we charged mn ., p t j mn c* P0nf “for , »TkiUed a.... „; n - r mnch more ca ‘ b« *____________ -mm*- ___ At the Wabash Narrows, a few miles a b 0 ve Merom, Ind., the Wabash rose to suc b a height as to overflow and com p i ete ] y carr7 aw ay shock.° an eighty acre farm 0 f wheat just in seeing The farmer, naraec [ t Phillips, all his labor* an ‘ q swept away from before ev es plunged in the Wabash " and ' in despair ‘ " * drowned himself. -—-—---- The Minnesota wheat crop promises well, and the probable yield will be from fifteen to twenty bushels to the acre, which will make the wheat pro duct of the State (over 400,000 acres) nearly 50.000,000 bushels. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Georgia coal is largely J sold in South j Carolina n A million dollars worth of chickens are shipped out of East Tennessee ans nually. Galveston, Texas, has a crabbing club. The person catching the most takes the hamper. Sleepy Tom, a blind horse, in a pacing race at Columbus, Ohio, made the best time on record. Ex-Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, is in luck. His share of the profits in a Colorado silver mine for the month was $40,000. A party of Irish farmers having gone to London to see the Royal Agricul¬ tural Show, the Prince of Wales invit¬ ed them to visit him at Marlborough House. George the obituary W. Childs (a steamer, and not barges Philadelphia. poet) ignobly tows at A vessel by that name ought not to be less than a gondola laden with sweet singers. The heaviest taxpayers of Wilming¬ ton, Del., have determined that the city shall live within its income. They give notice to the officials that any in¬ crease of the debt will be resisted at law. James Gordon Bennett means to have good, fresh milk while at Newport. He has hired pasturage near his cottage, and placed there six cows which will yield nearly thirty quarts of milk per day. Town Treasury Wilson, of Monti cello, Ind., brought a libel suit against the local newspaper that said he was dishonest, but before the case came to trial he fled with $21,000 of public money. Two aged colored women fought in the Newport almshouse, and it trans¬ pired that sixty years before they had quarrelled about a lover so bitterly that, on meeting, their animosity was as strong as ever. Dr. Le Moyne, the crematiohist, is said to have altered his will so as to deprive his.,son of $40,000 that had been intended for him. The son had given offence by refusing to burn the remains of his child. A busy man at Columbus, Ohio, his keeps office, a phonograph ready for use in and, when anybody begins to tell him a long story, he says, “Just talk it into the instrument, and I’ll listen to it by and by.” Pittsburg is ready to gnash its teeth and grief, weep the in disappointment, anger and at prospect of being compell¬ ed to pay the riot losses. Well, she had her lun, half sympathizing with the moh when it burned the property of “the grinding monopoly,” and now having done the dancing the fiddler’s bill is in order. There has been discovered near Rowlesburg, West Virginia, belonging to Senator H. G. Davis, on Cheat river, a large body of pure and solid i ce , formed last winter. Hundreds of people are daily visiting the spot to view the curiosity. The same thing is remembered to have occurred in I860, when it was regarded as very curious, Prince Jerome Bonaparte, the suc cessor of the Prince Imperial as head of the house, is known by appearance to many New Yorkers, having visited the city in 1861, in his yacht, and stayed fora considerable time in the New York Hotel. When his features are in repose he is the image of the first Napoleon; but the great Napoleon’s smile was full of sweetness, while Plon Plon’s is full of bitterness. He is said by those who know him best indolence.! to possess ability, but he has an air of he* By refusing to go to the Crimea 1 ac Q u i re d a reputation in France for cowardice. He lives separate from his' wife, the Princess Clothilde, who re- 6 * des ‘ n Laly. She is gentle and pious, She was with her husband here, and evei 7 morning t^e at 7 o’clock went ^ar mass at Jesuit Chapel in teen t'n street. a A f ° urfo l d murder , horror has l been committed . Prague 1 m Iveport, two discharged workmen Johan-j of one] an upholsterer in the j nis P latz - The motive was revenge for having had to undergo three days’ j imprisonment in consequence of 8 They ^mly were conduct no toward sooner Keport’s free of prison sister. tk “ miscreants went to their late door employer’s workshop, and, locking th® behind them, drew revolvers a ? d knives and began the butchery, daughter Report, his wife, killed sister and infant their were on the spot, bodies being dreadfully mangled. An assistant, who sprang out of the win dow twenty-one wounds, lies d ^ n o^ n hospital. Twelve shots were fired and six people wounded be sides the four slain. The people had the greatest trouble in preventing the crowd of some thousands of people from lynching the ruffians. One of them, indeed, was so knocked about by the exasperated people before be could be got away that he is now unrecogni*i ^able. For Sale, IT 101 *: walk.— A fine 4 year pm colt ; tjen Jj tie, and well broken to harness. A nply y-‘ii $O 0 M 0 $ent. T O RENT.—Nicely Furnished Rooms, nitli or without Hoard, at reasonable t rins. Privilege of Bath Room. No. 70 BRYAN ST. jy25-eod-tf Business Cards, L. FERNAN 0 , I. I M Office : No. 9 Whitaker /Street , [UP STAIRS.] Office Hours:—8—9 A. M. !—4and7J4 -S % P. M. my2ti-lm W. B. FERRELL’S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. II New Market Basement, (Opposite Lippman’s Drug Store,) Innl.'iM SAVANNAH. GA C. A. CORTXNO, Hair Cutting, Hair Dressing, Carlins and SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. 1 C 034 Bryan street, opposite the Market, uu ■ uer UlanterB’ Hotel. Spanish, Italian, Ger man, and English spokon. sclG- X JOS. H. BAKER, butoheb, •STALL No. 60, Savannah Market. Dealer ia Deef) Mutton, Dork aud All other Moats iu their Seasons. Particular attention paid to supplying Shin anil Boarding Hous es. augli MAIli store: JOS. E. L0ISEAU & CO., 118 BROUGHTON ST., Bet. Bull & Dray tail EEP on hand a largo assortment of Hair Hair Switches, combings Curls, worked PuiTs, and Fancy Go jd* iu tlie latest style. Fancy Costumes, W igs and Boards for Rent T. J. McELLINN, PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING. Whitaker street, Southwest corner Statu st f N.B. Houses fitted with gas and water at short notice, Jobbing promptly attendee t» and all work guaranteed, at fow pricon. S*K:7.| y GEORGE FEY, WINES, LIQUORS, SEGAllS, TOBACCO, Ac The celebratod Joseph Sclilitz’ MILWj U KEE LAGER BEER, a speciality. No. 22 Whitaker Street, Lyons’ Block, Savannah. Ga. FREE LUNCH every day from 11 to J. r-zJl-1v Hotels* r e SAVANNAH. JOSEPH HERSCIIBAC1I, ProjCr. T HIS and well favorably known established, and popular as hotel, to he ranked so long among one of the old landmarks of,Savannah Is now thrown open to the public uudera n management, patronage and I respectfully solicit i ia oi l he public to its old and ho; >i table doors. livery exertion will be made to put It upon a footing with the best hostelrlea throughout plied with the.Stale. Its tables will he .-ap¬ the best the markets afford, JOSEPH 1IERSCIIBACH. Ie20-tf SI PELlOli MANAUEMENT. With its spacious VESTIBULE ! Extensive aud Elegant Affording PIAZZA ! Ladies a fine view of the Promenade. Airy and well ventilated ROOjMS, And Unrivalled Is Par Excellence TABLE ! the HOTEL of SAVANNAH. our Mottostui win be, a mu house atm i ir rates. w», jym john hhes xan, Managy. flff AM WfiPP *■■■■«■«•'», WT AMU f 6A i H /'i ' el n i^cc'7hG P jast 1 ^ Rst, audit is 79 , ions’ tias, «i muko^ .ni a many which it h seeking pleasure or relaxation rr 11 “ ,0 ° c< “‘“ ,,ou “"‘■ UiM at^Y/u per PaviVion. yeekio C MeL7s°ut' oo. Spu< Ji ai u ‘ a. o. vbanez, . P. O. address, .Sava mlub, ( Ja. “ 1 ^myi, "m EUROPEAN HO LYE 33 .A. K I 16f BRYAN .STREET, [near the market,] S now stocked with the best of Imported and domestic Liquors, Wines and sc gars. Cool Lager ulway, on draught. Free Lunch every day. Open day and night. I ish Chowder every Saturday, fromO—I2i» jr. FREb. WEBER. Drawing and Painting School. his classes for Painting CHURCIULL will open Saturday. April 26th, and Drawing on Class for Cluldivu, at Mozart Afternoon fiaii. Drawing PRICE THREE CENTS.