Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18??, June 24, 1880, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextD A I L Yj EVENING W ; ’•'I Pv» ,,J J ' l - h “ T 71 x: r [cTr] Infjoj iff, ■''w "r VOL IV.—No. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER ft M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING, (Saturday Excepted,) At 181 BAT STHB1ST* By J. aTMBN. The Recorder is served to subscribers, iu every part ol 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 be made payable to the order of the lisher. We will not undertake to preserve or rejected communications. Correspondence on Local and general mat ters of Interest solicited. On Advertisements running three, six, twelve mouths a liberal reduction from oui regular rates will be made. All correspondence should be addressed corder, Savannah, Georgia. The Sunday Morning Recorder will the piace ol the Saturday evening edition which will make six full issueB for the week. **-We do not hold ourselves responsible the opinions expressed oy Correspondents. 2he Recorder is registered at Fosi Office in Savannah as Second Matter. Some Interesting Anecdotes of Late Jolitt Brougham. His CLivalrio Conduct Toward an Girl. The friends of the late John Brough¬ am, who followed his remains to Green¬ wood, on Wednesday, were unusually delayed there by the difficulty of gett¬ ing the coffin into the grave, it being too narrow for its easy lowering. The cause of this was eminently characters istic of the comedian and fcis extreme goodness of heart. A little while ago, a young actress, Amy Fawcett, died here in impoverished circumstances, and Brougham, though very poor him¬ self both in iortuue and in health, gave part of his lot for her burial, rendering the space between his dead wife and the young actress hardly suf¬ ficient for his own interment, soon to succeed. Even after death his exceed ing generosity hampered him ; he had beeu so bountiful in bestowmeut that he had barely enough ground to lie in at the last. After he had played some time he became a marked favorite on the stage, particularly with women, who were captivated by his handsomeness, grace and his vivacity. He received, of course, many letters, llowers and mementoes of the romantically-silly sort, to which he paid no One of these dreamy adorers her own name to her billets, aud wrote repeatedly, despite thediscouragement of silence. She was very desirous meet the comedian, beseeching and again the privilege of an view. Finally, Brougham named time and place for their meeting. came promptly, decidedly and proved to be very young, pretty and good sociable position. She tvas well educated and clever, too; but her ment and common sense had been warped by the morbid sentiment that belongs to such an age. Instead making love to her, he read her al lecture; talked to her literally like a futher, pointed out the great danger of hor conduct, aud told her most men would take advantage ot her innocence. “It eouuds very egotistic,” he added, “for me to say it, mv child, but all actors are not John Broughams.”. She was moved to tears and to the deepest gratitude by his kind counsel; declared that he had opened her eyes to her folly, and that she would not be guil ty ol it again. 8ho kissed his hand parting, »nd went away, it is said, pletely changed. A year or two she was married. She invited comedian, as the story runs, to wedding, but he did not go, Ho been much attracted to her, and knew enough of human nature to that under the circumstances, if not safety, consisted in his away. John Brougham was a man the world, but he also was a man heart, andI. above al\ a man of —N. 1. Times. —------- Haunted Me. Debt, poverty aud suffering me for years, caused by a sick and large bills for doctoring, .C«r«y5nnm« diil no good I was ev.arToby comulefelv advice of mv r a»t° 0 r. ! p Xu’red Bitters and commenced heir use, one month wo were al, Well none of u» have been «ck a day aud I want to say to all poor men, Aiith can kacp Hop Bitters your ^families for less than well a one tor s visit will cost. A Ability acd necessity will dwell each other. The Boss Bigamist. A One-Armed Man the Husband of Five Wives. [From the Bradford (Pa.) Star.) Detectives arrived at Erie Saturday with George M. Staley, of North East, the noted bigamist of the season. Sta¬ ley was captured during the night, after he had retired with his fifth bride, who is twenty years younger than he. He says he thought be was divorced. He is fifty-six years old, and has but one arm. All his wives are living and do¬ ing well without him. Staley, while in jail, was interviewed. He is an elderly man, with quite a pleasing expression, and has but one arm. The other he lost in Michigan while employed on the Lake Shore road. He thought that he was divorced from his first wife, although she claims that he deserted her nineteen years ago. In reply 3 'A question, he said:' “We to a agreed to separate. She thought I wasn’t pleasant to live with, and I had the same idea of her, so we came to Erie and saw the lawyers. I agreed to leave her and never troiible her again or condition that she gave me $25 in cash and a feather bed.” “Did your wife agree to these condi¬ tions ?” “She did. She went back to North East and brought in the bed on a cart, and she gave me the money.” “Did you ‘take up your bed and walk’ into Michigan ?” “No, I rode in the cars.” “There is a Mrs. Franklin of that State who claims to have been betray¬ ed iuto a union with you under the name of Franklin. Did you ever pass under that name?” “Yes, when I was in the army.” “Have you aDy recollection of mar¬ rying any one in Michigan, Mr. Staley ?” Mr. S. thought a few moments, but failed to remember anything of the kmd, It’s so long ago, you see,” said he, as if in apology for his de¬ fective memory. “I did some carpent¬ er work for a lady there, and I finally became her boarder and possessor of the house, but I don’t beiieve I mar¬ ried.” “Have you any knowledge of the California lady who wishes the court to deprive her of your name, which she alleges you invested her with at the altar ?” Mr. Staley reflected and ap¬ parently did his best to recall the cir¬ cumstance, but couldn’t. “What about Miss Phoebe Chriebro, of iiipley, N. Y., whom it ia said you married in 1875 ?’’ Mr. Staley again shook his head, “You would proba¬ bly remember place!” so recent a marriage if it took remarked the reporter. The old man believed it possible he might. “I lived at Ripley, but I am willing lie. to sWear I did not marry her," said “Will it betaxiDgyour memory too much to go back to last year when you married Mrs. Tar?" “Oh, dear, no; I remember that per¬ fectly well,” said he. “You see, I did some fixing up about the house lor Mrs. Tar and made myself so useful that when she offered me her hand I thought it would be a good thing for me. I am an old man, fifty-six years next month, and it was a home for me with a young wife. I couldn’t refuse it, so I married her. But 1 thought I was free from the others.” “What made you think you were free, Mr. Staley?” “Why, the lawyers told me nineteen years ago that they would get , a di- ,■ vorce for me, and I thought they had done it. Too Ambitious. —The present aus rival is causing many heartburnings m cities. A wail is heard from St. Louis and Chicago is disappointed, but Hatibiied presumably because its Cen sub Commissioner gives it roughly 100,000 more than St. Louis, T , head lines of an article onehir? in a St ?efere Lorns p.Der makes the 4ho!S sSS n ea -in 37^000-Tne .1 roDolationof lea (incomplete cade of disgrace and nnsatislactorr-A unless the de ° l“ys rp«nlr It the hlama on Schurz, “who had Col Solo mon appointed,” and the latter it affirmed appointed many enumerators, “some of whom had a very p 00r command of the English language.” The article closes with interesting sentiment: “Nothing less * ban * population at least in proximity to 500,000 will satisfy the people that the census has beeu cor vctlv takea." Chicago also 500,000, tut the Ceneoe doeen t eee how he can conscientiously dehvor more than 475000. Still fib. Chicago Journal coneoleg Uelt with the refiection that the National cen* sus has often revealed the fact that the F°r u ) ar estimate in general is . . . luere is notJingso imprudent as ex cessms prudence. SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1880. A Queer History. Hew . N, gI s , Cowted.r.1. Spy r Wa, Arrested After the War aud Sold into Slavery Cuba. In 1863 Gen. Pemberton commanded at tbis point. Col. Hemingway owned a'faithful slave—Peyton by name, miles a noted negro fiddler, known for around, and highly respected by both black and white. When his young master, W. Lynn Hemingway, at pres¬ ent State Treasurer of Mississippi, took joined the old “Carroil Rifles,” he Peyton along as a trusted servant. He went with him into Virginia and re¬ turned home in 1863. In February or March of that year a. faithful spy was needed to visit the Federal gunboats then coining down the river on Fort Pemberton. Peyton at once under¬ took the mission, and representing himself as a fugitive slave to the com¬ manders of the boats, was well receiv¬ ed. Being bright far beyond ordinary he managed to secrete their official papers, maps, etc., and escaped with these documents to Fort Pemberton. After the fall of Vicksburg, in July following, Peyton went with his young master remained again until to Virginia, where he the surrender of General Lee. The former being compelled to remain a number of days thereafter, iu order to comply with the formalities the surrender, eeut Peyton ahead of him to his home, near Carrollton, Miss. On his way, however, he was betrayed to the enemy by some Con¬ federate as the spy who had deceived them above Fort Pemberton, was cap¬ tured aud carried in irons to New York, thence to Cuba, and sold as a slave, together with many others. The vessel on which he was taken was a Federal gun boat. In Cuba he work¬ ed as a slave in factories for nearly fifteen years, being entirely cut off from all communication with home and friends. He made seven attempts to escaps from bondage, all but the last, of course, being unsuccessful. Finally he found an American vessel command¬ ed by a Southerner, to whom he rela¬ ted the history of His capture, enslave¬ ment aDd forced exile, and begged to be returned to his home and family. The Captain eecreted him in the hold of his vessel, carried him to Costa Rica, thence to New York. Peyton then worked his way to Virginia, where a number of ladies raised the means to return him to his heme after An absence of seventeen years. He reached Winona, Mississippi, on the 15th of April, 1880. Peyton says that uumhers of mulatto women are being constantly sold in Cuba as slaves. Northern men marry them, take them to Cuba “on a bridal tour,” and there sell them as cooks and fancy house servants. He saw one sold last fall by a man who married her, for $500, and further, as he came through Cincin¬ nati on his way home, be saw the man and recognized him who sold her in Cuba. The facts above given are irom one of the most reliable and responsi¬ ble gentlemen in Mississippi, written to a distinguished member of Congress from that State. Closing his letter, he says of Peyton : “He was delighted to again meet his wife, who had married in his long ab¬ sence, though her second husband was drowned several months ago. Hence, he found her a widow. With both husband and wife it was like a return to life from death. Peyton is an ex¬ ceedingly intelligent negro, and says he can hardly realize the changes that have taken place. He left his children babea auJ fiods th em married and with children 0 , their own. If any one doubts the truth of this story he or she can write to Capt. B. F. Jones, Winona, Miss., or to C. Y. F. Merriwether, Oakland, Yalobusha county, same State. How He Trusted. —There is noth ing like taffv, even in the strictest bu A Frenchman <**4™ a wanted 8 ain8fc bein boy S swindled, to a barrel : » f floor o&l from a merchant of Augusta, «>d he could only pay halt end the other half on fte follow in S Saturday. With a confiding smile ! thd merchant said to his salesman: i'‘ Th “ * ood maD wants to get trusted for a barrel of flour; he’ll pay half down and the rest next Saturday. I’ll risk { barrel lim ! he -weigh ' s .g°od out as gold] half, open deliver a fresh it in good shape at bis house, put the barrel awa F eafeI y* a^d take it down next Saturday; when he pays the balance; DeV0 r refuse to trust an honest looking 1 bread !” And the Frenchman was i^lgence delighted, thinking he got 6 all the he «ked for. ----- j Fever. Section, of territory where fevere are a „d have been brought on by reason a malarial infected atmosphere, are using, and with complete sucres* in keeping off such afflictions, Warner’s Kidney and Liver Cure and W arner s bafe Pills. Parties down sick w:tu d.senses ol such a character, cttftd by the use of same. Hon. R. E. Lester. I. “ 0me of OOr .XchangjM h»T« inclined . to t poke little fun at a correspondent-“Hall,” because he Col. Lester was “raised on his farm, and began life a barefoot We can say to our funny cotempora riee that it makes no difference Rufus Lester began life barefoot shod, on foot or on horseback; he it with brains and common sense, has improved his talents until, if will proclaim himself a candidate Governor on the independent, wool “barefoot” platform, to-wit: The of the people as against rings cliques of every sort, he will come next fall shod with a good pair Governor’s shoes on his feet, and broad brimmed wool hat on, to shield his devoted head from the of ring leaders for places tuey are neither honest or capable enough to —Gainesville Southron. Gubernatorial. A correspondence of the News writes a strong letter in ! of Rufus E. Lester for Goven or. some time we have seen a remarked aud growiDg sentiment in his In this section all seem to concede that he can come nearer the discordant elements of the cracy than anybody yet Mr. Lester would be entirely tory we think to nearly every Demo¬ crat in upper Georgia, leave out the simple question of his location, which never ought to come into a State can¬ vass under any circumstance, save where a small number of politicians come together iu one place and there issue their edicts to the whole State; all such combinations the people should disband by defeat as often as they are fouud — Gainsville Southron. What to Driuk. A great deal of harm to health and many deaths result, as everybody knows, from injudicious use of cold liquors to quench thirst during our blazing summers. Persons exposed to the heat, especially those bard at work, cannot, or will not, refrain from drink¬ ing, for they feel the need of supplying the waste from copious perspiration. What, then, shall they drink? Water seems, under the circumstances, to be It inadequate to the wants of the system. passes through through the circulation to the skin as a sieve, and flows over the surface in streams. A big drink of cold, or even of cool, water on an empty stomach is very dangerous ; it is liable to produce sudden death. The danger may be avoided, it is said, by putting farinaceous substances, par¬ ticularly <»at meal, with the water to be drank bv laborers, the proper pro¬ portion being, three or lour ounces Gf meal tia gallon of water. Why oat meal should be better than rye, millet, buckwheat or corn meal cannot easily be determined, but those who have used oat meal, especially firemen, coal heavers and the like, say that it gives them greater endurance and increases their strength. This may be a mere notion, but the peculiar aroma of the oats may be so associated with an agreeable stimulation of the alimentary mucous surface as to promote complete digestion. The meal appears to fill the blood vessels without increasing the cutaneous exhalations. Workmen who have tried acid, saccharine, or al¬ coholic drinks as a substitute tor the oat meal drinks have invariably pressed unsatisfactory results. Water ;ith oat meal seems to be by all odds tlie most wholesome and desirable summer drink for manuel laborers.— N Y Times. There has just been a new sensation in St. Petersburg. A young widow, left penniless, tries her utmost to a living, but failed; she then to a strategy. Assuming the name her deceased husband, she changed her dress for that of a man, procured em ployment for in a undiscovered factory, and and there years, tented. who By and by maltreated she met a by her woman was parents, and, m order to save her from further persecution, proposed marriage, after having informed her of her own sex. The wedding ceremony was duly performed in a church of St. Petersburg, and the pair lived happily UD ^ facts were discovered aod exposed. pair were arrrated and committed trial; but the Judges were puzzled a case which had not been foressen Russian law, and it has been sent j the Senate for decision. * * * j : Myron Adam,, the P.ochosUr gregationjli* renounced hie belief minister, in the who Adem-^ ;\, Tal who i. %tor at D^kirk of the ® i 0 ^ Church ° m m m Tbs census just completed Thomasville to contain 2557 tants, an increase of 906 since the * census taken in 1S70, a gam of 90 per annum. Called a Liar in His Pulpit. Captain Young, of the Narragansett, Arrested for Interrupting the Rev, Mr. Harcourt in Church. Captain William S. Young, who commanded the steamer Narragansett at the time of the recent accident, was arrested in Jersey City last evening on a charge of disorderly conduct made by Cyrus D. Shepherd, one of the trustees of the Trinity Methodist Epis¬ copal Church, in York street, that city, for denouncing the Rev. Richard Har¬ court, the pastor, as a liar, while the services were going on. The com¬ plaint was subsequently withdrawn and the Captain was discharged. Mr. Harcourt preached upon the lessons taught by the accident, and when he bitterly denounced the officers and sailors of the vessel as the biggest set of cowards that ever lived, Captain Young said, in a deep bass voice : “You are a liar.” People arose in all parts of the church to see who the speaker was, and after a short pause the minister pro¬ ceeded with his sermon, While the closing prayer was being offered the Captain, in a loud voice, called the pastor a blackguard. Police A messenger Precinct was sent to the First Station for an officer, and at the close of the services Captain Young was ar-, rested and taken to the station, where he was detained tor two hours. To a reporter of the Tribund Captain Young gave the following statement : “I stayed with the wreck of the Nar¬ ragansett from the time of the accident until last Friday, when I returned to my home in Fourth street, Jersey City. This morning I saw by a notice in one of the papers that the Rev. Mr. Har¬ court was to preach this evening on ‘The Lessons from the Narragansett Slaughter,’ and I went to hear him. The sermon was a recital of the scenes and incidents of the collision, the burn¬ ing of the Narragansett and the loss of life that followed. A great many of the statements were untrue, and the preacher reflected in very severe terms upon the action of the officers and crew of my vessel. I did not care what be said about me, but my blood boiled when the preacher denounced our crew as ‘the biggest set of cowards that ever manned a vessel.’ I was terribly ex¬ cited and in my indignation shouted out ‘you are a liar.’ The people got up to look at me, and it was all I could do to sit quiet. asked When Lord in his closing prayer he the to make 'that old man feel sorry for hie hasty action,’ I said the preacher wa* a blackguard. I did wrong, and I should have kept still, but when I heard my brave crew denounced in that manner I could not contain myself, and so I said just what. I,thought.” Several of the official members of the church visited Captain Young at the station, and expressed regret that he had been placed under arrest. The Rev. Mr. Harcourt stated that the charge against Captain Young was made contrary 4o his wishes, and that he was very sorry any notice had been taken of the remarks. Humors ot Politics. We reproduce the following from the Washington Cntic, in its sketch of Hon. J. B Weaver, the Greenback candi¬ date for President: “His speeches, of which he has al¬ ready delivered some half dozen dur , . . he has been the i 158 time in Uouse, display a good degree of elo d 1161106 ar jd laborious research. As a i running deba.or he is quick, pointed and humorous. His sallies of wit often elicit hearty applause and laughter, even from his opponents. Some time ‘Nast’ got him up in caricature in Harper s 'W eekly, lie was represented a working suit with rohs of infla soldier bills, etc., under his ’arms. He had the form of a man, but the head of a donkey, and Speaker Randall was seen in the d.atance wi k hta back toward him, « though to avoid recognmng him. On the Mon- 4ay following the appearance place of this t v»r “On eumeju foe to^ft j <1 - F ‘ n ■ - • ->. , general view he paper containing ne | |P a 1C public > joimnal wnich , j by means of , a I ^^esidipg tbe pres.aicpmutr officer tl oi this ijis House nouse, in- in j asmuch his back as it to represents me, a memt him r as of turn * j ^ouse. y j"«8 never^ lurneu n back on me j 0 / e8 \tTr J £Xl ZoTLT At.(hispoint ,. Ganeral n . r Garfiehl po.n • . - mg to the picture, asked : Which w you and which « the Speaker .^ Weav eaw the angel before Balaam Of cour.e, * about followed thi. repar tee” * » ^ The census returns g. ,e Nashville, Tenn., a population of over 4?-,000, aud Baltimore figures up but i population. — PRICE THREE CENTS. Business Cards* The following Papers for this week at the Florida News Depot, New York Weekly, No. 33 * 7 New York Ledger, No. 20 Fireside Companion, No. 001 Saturday Night. No. 12 Saturday New York Journal, No. 537 Boys of New Family Story Paper, 351 Frank Leslie’s York, Boys No. 254 and Girls Weekly, 714 Just received a laive lot of very tine WATER¬ No. MELONS, 120 Broughton which 1 will sell very cheap at st. jel3-lm A. L. CRANFORD. Agt. JAS. McGINLEY, CARPENTER YORK STREET, second door east of Bull. urnished Jobbing promptly attended to. Estimates f when desired. jel4-Gm ____ TENNESSEE BEEF & MUTTON jos. hTbaker, BUTOHEK, STALL No. 66, Savannah Market. A LL other meals in their season at lowest market rates. Orders promptly filled and delivered. Will victual ships throughout. Give him a trial. oeM-tf ISjAJAC boos. BUTCHER. STALLS 9 AND 10 CITY MARKET, K OSHER Tennessee Beef and Mutton, Customers served at their residences. Orders promptly executed, also meats deliv ered Sunday morn ings. irhl4^f ANDERSON STREET MARKET AND ICE HOUSE, J F. PHILLIPS, Butcher, and dealer in all • kinds of Meats, Fish, Poultry and their Mar¬ ket Produce. Families supplied at residences, and all orders executed with anteed promptness and dispatch. .Satisfaction up6 guar- 6m , C. A. CQRTJ.NO, Stir Csttiaz, Sur Dressing Curia* aid SHAVING SALOON. HOT AND COLD BATHS. 166UJ Bryan street, opposite the Market, un der Planters’ Hotel. Spanish. ItaliA.j, Ger uiKn.auil Enel lull a|.okmi Uftlff-t.f U A lit STORE. 71 < JOS. E. L01SEAU & CO., 118 BROUGHTON HT., Bet. Bull & Drayton K EEP on hand a large assortment of Hair Switches, Curls, Pulls, and Fancy Goods Hair combings worked iu the latest style. Fancy CostumeB, Wigs and Beards for Rent ■f Office: No. 9 Whitaker Sired k [UP STAIRS.] Office Hours 8—9 A. M. 2 —i and myiai-lm 7^—8}^ P. M. W. B. FERRELL’S Agt. RESTAURANT, No. 11 New Market Basement, (Opposite Llppmau’u Drug Store,) Innllitr SAVANNAH, GA Plumbing and Gas Fitting^ ~ CHAS. E. WAKEFIELD, Plumbing, Gas & Steam Fitting, No. BARNARD STREET, one door north ot South Broad treot. Bath Tubs, Jobnlng Water Closets, Boilers, Ranges< Promptly attended to. ebil Also, Agent of BACKUS WATER MOTOR McELLINN & McFALL. PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING. Na. 46 Whitaker street, corner York st. Lau« N.B. Houses fitted with gas and water at short notice, Jobbing promptly attended t« and all 11 work guaranteed, at low prices. sep7ti W. II. CGSGIiOVE, East side of Bull street, one door from York, Practical Plumber and Gae Fitter JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. 4®- Prices to suit the times. mh7tf Faints, Oiis and Glass* JOHN G. BUTLER. Wholesale and Retail Dealer In WHITE LEADS VARNISH, COLORS, OILS, GLASS, ETC. Heady Mixed Paints, Railroad. Steamer and Mill Supplies. Sole Agent for Georgia Lime Calcined Planter, Cements, Hair and Land Plaster. No. 22 Drayton street, Janltitf .SAVANNAH. GA. ANDREW HANLEY, —Dealer In— Doors, Srios, Blinds, Mouldings Lime, Plaster, Hair and Cement, STEAMBOAT, Railroad and Mill Supplies, paints, oils, varnishes, glass, &c. No. 6 Whitaker & 171 Bay St., SAVANNAH, OEOROlr my2K-*f JOHN OLIVER. — Dealer In — Steamboat, Hail Hoad and Mill Supplies, JrAlwI5>, p.ry™ UUL><j „„„ uLAotS, &C - •t bashes, blinds. MOULDING Balusters, Blind Trimminas, &0 No. 5. WHJUakek ht.. rr YAM a xr*j ax, a ji GEOFGJA d