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About Savannah daily evening recorder. (Savannah, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1880)
liifiufv* «■ D A. I L Y EYlG^smSTG Savannah Is PTf ■ *a I OT §5 ■X p > J ‘ VOL IV.—No. 81. THE SAVANNAH RECORDER R. M. ORME, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING , (Saturday Excepted,) lOX BAY STREET* By J. STERN. Tbe Recorder le served to subscribers, every part ol tbe city by careful carriers. Communications must be accompanied 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 tbe order of the pub¬ lisher. We will not undertake to preserve or rejected communications. Correspondence on Local and general mat tors 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 Reoorder will tne o<ace ol the Saturday evening edition which will make alx full Issues for the week. 49~We do not hold ourselves responsible tbe opinions expressed by Correspondents. 2he Pecohder is registered at Post Office in /Savannah as Second Matter. ONLY A LITTLE BROOK A dying child feared the river death, but while passing over “It is only a little brook after all.” Dear Mother, I tremble to think I must die; It In lonely and sad In the dark grave to lie; Could you but go I know that your hand Would guide me through the gloom of shadow land. This deep, endless river, I shrink us I feel Its darkness and mystery over me steal; I fear Its wild waves will m.v soul overwhelm Ere I reach the far shore of the realm. But what Is the music that falls on my ear, Eucliantlugmy sense,s dispelling ray fear? Oh the angels are with me—I am not alone, They- are bearing mo safe to my dear home. The playmates I loved, who are gone on before, Are wa ting for rne on yon beautiful shore; Jesus beckons me to Him—I follow His call, It Is only a little brook after all. WAS IT DEATH t A TRUE NARRATIVE, One frequently hears, now-a-days, ot the injection of medicine into the veins by means of hypodermic syringe, as one cf the new-fashioned modes ot cure. My own experience in the mat¬ ter, limited as it is, may be useful as a warning both to physicians and suf¬ ferers, and it may be interesting, fast, because it is real; secondly, as we must do some time or other, I suppose most of us wonder now and then how it will feel. Now, if what I went through was not death, it was at least so neai it that as far as physical sensation went it. was piaetically the same thing. I had been ill for some time, suffer¬ ing from lrequent returns of severe pains which the doctors thought might be rheumatic, or neuralgic, or might be something else. At arty rate they could not hit upon the medicines to relieve these pains or to prevent their recurrence. Meanwhile, they were experimenting, aud 1 was getting weak and thin; so it. was determined to try and ease nip ol my misery, if even only ior a lime, in hopes that natuie would gather a little strength, and perhaps succetd in doing what the doctors fiad failed in—cui ing me. I had a great objection to taking opium, on account of its well known injurious effects, and 1 had borua a gieat deal ot pain rather than take it. The doctors, however, overcame by assuring me that the injection of mor¬ phine under the skin was uot. attended with rhe same injury to the constitu¬ tion, and was usually more in Cases like mine than any olher way of taking the drug. Accordingly, I was furnished a very small syringe, which would hold the right dose, to the end which was attached a gold tube about the size of a needle. A small bottle of was also provided, and I faithfully to use it according to rections on the return of severe pain My medical attendant was very ious to try it then and there but, as at the time of his visit I enjoying an interval of ease, I not consent to this, feeling * 8 , in e* , he himself duf—of my paii \ 0 ^.minister it, and being u anxiety a 0 t° the result.. several ia . ni * bt '' be ‘ ore 8 0,n £. ^ bed, severe twinges, which had beeu at me lor an hour more, gave un mist akouble warning of another • * t f , unless i r torment, « °u Ih-ut lehet , somewhere. Ot course 1 tnought ol the little syringe. If “7 api .e leasiona about H at ' l *1 °l1 ^ ;d ve ^ ad eDmw %i‘ fiaLd; Wit I»m t SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1880. unimaginative individual, things aa they come, sol said goo night, went to my room and the door as usual. When my tions for the night were complete took m 7 friend out of the pretty morocco case and filled the syringe about two-thirds full of the for such were the doctor’s orders, as had never previously taken in any way; it is to this precaution probably owe my life. Then, accord ing to instruction, I pinched tightly up a of the calf of my leg the finger and thumb of my left inserted the point of the tube the skin with a dexterity which remember pleased me at the time, as thought wbat a skillful surgeon h ive been lost to suffering bv the untoward circumstances of early life, and gent.y introduced my system the magic fluid which 10 relieve me of all my suffering. did it with a vengeance, and with expected rapidity, too. The first sensation was of not belonging to rao crawling my skin, and mounting rapid.y up my backbone, spreading theDce all my body as it went. This was not all painful nor was I alarmed by for, though certainly very peculiar, took it all at first as part ot the gramme and troubled myself no about it than so far as to hastily the door, thinking, “There is no how long I shall sleep, and if I open the door in the morning they be frightened to death.” By this time the crawling bed mounted to the back of my neck 1 could trace it as it moved; my were beginring to refuse to seVve I was obliged to totter to tbe without putting out nry light, for though not the least sleepy, I have fallen had I not helped by chairs and table There I lay, wide open, senses all alive, quite of fain but no idea of going to sleep When the crawl,ng thing, whatever was, reached the back of my bead, seemed to give a slight blow to part, and immediately I lost all over my limbs. Still I retained fect consciousness, I heard the ments going on in different paits the house. I saw the moon rise peer in at one of tbe windows, and remembered a slight feeling of annoy¬ ance that, about midnight., the would come in through another win¬ dow, the curtain of which I had lected to pull dowu. If I had burglars breaking into the room, could not have moved or spoken, was not trjubled about this, nor much about anything else earth. I watched my symptoms care and interest, and felt certain was going to sleep, though what coming next I could "not even The only leeliug of concern about thing that I remember was a that, rose in my mind like this: “What a horrible fuss EfBo make when she finds me in state." Even this did not trouble me tor'it really did not seem to be business ot mine; by degrees, but -lowly as to be hardly noticeable, lost all consciousness of my At first, though I could not iliem, I was quite aware that I hands and feet; now I seemed to them, to go trom them, as from ble contact with a fore’gn body, into myself. This particular loss consciousness extended very up my limbs. Still I had my my eyes were open, I cnild see thing around me, I could hear as as ever, and my mind was clear tranquil. 1 was neither nor agitated, nor anxious, nor, I .unless, was I impressed with any culiar solemnity attaching to the sion. Pei haps this was owing to habitual matter of fact disposition seemed to myself just, as without my aims and legs as when had them. Little b, little I lost Etv bo.iv equal indifference. Whether mi cessed to beat snd my heart to at this time I cannot tell you no means o< knowing but did, I did not seem to m« them j Soon I was cone up to sense” mv neck Then, and not ttllthen mv gan to grow dim. Fir*, my eight as by the closing of leaving my eves but jects disappeared, "upon eye*; only the then tb at tou, laded, and finally no of that organ remained. My was still with me, or I with it, ever you prefer to say. Soon it, le • t me. Head, face, body, senses, seemed gone—everything except feeling of weight in my tongue and .round spot in tne hack ot my b^ad | where 1 had previously felt the (Then my tongue went, and the j spot was that was eft; vet just as absolutely and j pletely me as ever my body had This state continued apparently tong while, duni g which I 1 wondering what Dr. b. wouid say suw crev hbya^ fib vrohtti uht with any annoyance about his ot the transaction. As to anxiety j worldly or other affairs, fears for future, memory instantaneously before me the events of my lile down to the minutest as we are told it sometimes does—I no such experience, and I admit I not uow contemplate the state I in with anything like the composure ielt at the time, though I thought to myself, “This is certainly the lastyet it was with something relief at its being so well over. Even that consciousness of went, and there was nothing in of it for I know not how long. whole affair from the first injection the morphine to the complete loss sensibility seemed to me to last five or six hours; but, of course, cannot be sure that I am right, as I nothing to measnie time by except own sensations. The next thing I have any idea was the feeling of external warmth P^ e( ^ t0 m 7 co ^ d body. ^ b ’ fi ^ ^ [*y er me otl ? e - ^ ben came a ^le struggle within me, but in which seemed to have no will—-it was ^ ,8 f ®ttempt of the organs to cr mmence their work again ^ wa8 distressing, and if I had bow to awa y it I would ^ one 80 - At last I became aware people moving about me, and of sunshine around me. With a 1 opened my eyes and saw ^ was ou * 1 00 ^ be veranda, upon which “7 room opened, with th3 morning sun Hnd fre ' h breeze P ourin 8 their benefi - ce " 1 >°fl< , ‘®oes upon me. V 00T ^ar Effie was by inys.de. not “* k . * n S; the b bad P 0 * d sbe w °” ld ’ b “f "h.te and teot, vigorously rubbing me as if her own corn8taik ! ,f ?. de fi P ,n,! ' of d ™ Dr "i S wblle ,be bover- ,al1 * ure w,s P«fo«»'»g , . ,n “ # ” r “* “«* antics, which I was alte,w ? rd ‘ D ' or “ ed tlle m ° st "P Proved artificial methods , of , restoring respiration. I drew a feeble, gasping 81g ’ “Water, doctor, water !”cried Effi*; “he is alive. Dash it over his head and neck!" She raised me in her arms as sbe spoke, turning my face to the breeze. I think I should have choked but for that cool wind blowing over me. A dash of cool water made me draw a long, deep breath, and set heart, and luugs at their regular woik again. So I “came to," aa people call it, and a very disagreeable process it is—much more so than "going off,” if I may judge by my own experience of the two. I was very ill all that day; as weak as a little child, and lor days I could not walk across the room without stag gering like a drunken man. By grees I got quite over it, but I think I shall carry with me to my grave the horrible impression of what I suffered in coming back to life. It seeni 9 that Effi« came to my room in the morning to see why I did not come to breakfast, and found me lying upon the bed cold, and apparently liteless. I suppose I must have looked very terribly, and really dead, for cau never get her to talk about it. The poor little woman, when I force the subject upon her, cries, don’t! I never thought to have seen that sight and live to talk with yon about it,” and she grows so white I am forced to give up. Dr. S says that when he saw me certainly thought I was dead. I lieve he has never since prescribed the hypodermic use of morphine. Talk TO THE Children.—C hildren hunger perpetually for new ideas. They will learn with pleasure from lips ot parents what they deem drudg ery to study in books; and even if they have the misfortune to be d prived of many educational advan i taees, they all grow up intelligent j people. tbe We llla sometimes C see “P parents wblch !" 8 ev er ? 0 a O • ! h, tf e ?*" do11 - , ?“ d .t home among thetr children. lbe L have not mental activity and > them e “ ta first -donee what sufficient they have for for both, their let use 0WQ households. A eilent home is a Jul) place for young people-, place from *«! escape if they j cun ’ ^ ow muc ^ u8eful ftn ^ wbit UDConsc i° . us . excellent e ? tal < rai ™« * imparled in lively, socia * argument Cultivate to the ut most the a rt of co nversation at ~~ Haunted Me. Debt, poverty and suffering haunted me for years, caused by a sick family and large bills for doctoring, which did no good. I was completely dis jeouraged, until pastor,' one year ago, by the advice of my I procured Hup Bitters and commenced their use, an i m one month we were all well, and none of us have been sick a day since; and I want to eay to all poor men, you can keep your families well a with Hop Bitter* for less than cue tbr't Viett v?ui ^*—.4 j Painting Walls—Some Seasonable Suggestions j yi^i’se says the American Builder, j k “ ow ®-. or ou ght to know wans and ceilings are finished with j everybody may not be lDat Poster has the property of ! g . 1 mo,8 ture -. This, perhaps, *•“? n J, ak P] . i f ace I0 .°“ s where a . 8 eac 1 ^ut rooms left, . ; as Q o ten case, for weeks without | * n ® wal ! s will take up a con ., , ^ a P 1 S ^ an) P’ The effect -i. , ■ e usurious to the health of the . ib “ re ®*’e few persons who Qave not suffered from a mysterious ' » f -‘augbt they know not how, ” '• P®. a P 8 * damp in the plaster a L® oulf: ,n 8 f° do with it. , e ex ent to wjieh damp is ^ absorb e< ^ ^ a u0 Postered lclf ig what wall mav so often be discover- takes P 1 l , n r ° 0 m8 where tne walls are , become U 1,1 tc ftn ave chilled by a 88a> ' on ° f cold weather. As soon as the mosphere^is cond^noA^nn 111 ^ ^ iV* Q 16 " a 8 . ^ ; n such quantities as to . tsi qw had it not been for the paint, the greater portion of this moisture would have been absorbed by the pi ae tered walls, and, as a consequence, the quality of the plaster would have been impaired and the loom made unwhole¬ some. In view of this defect in plas¬ tered walls, it becomes a question well worth considering whether, in finishing a house, the walls should be papered or painted, if paint is decided cn, it is highly necessary that the painting be properly done and good materials employed. White lead, which is the chief ingredient of all paint us^d, is of late years heavily adulterated—a rea¬ son why some painters can do woik so much cheaper than others. There are also dishonest painters who will Uy on nothing 'irionhmry but “whiting” and size for the first coat, and finish off with one coat of oil paint. It is not easy to detect the fraud at the time, but, as such paint soon wears off the wall and at¬ taches itself to the garments of those who rub against it, the customer speed¬ ily finds out that he has been . cheated. It takes three or lour coats o/good oil paint honestly laid on to make good woik of paiutiog plastered walls. Need of liepose. Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton has recently printed some reminiscences of the late Mr. Hepworth Dixon, in the course of which sbe says that he was exceptionally fortunate in his domestic life ; Lis home was one of the pleasant¬ est in London, (face in conversation with him 1 asked whether he thought the nu i uity of marriages were happy i or ur.h ppy. “Happy, certainly,” was reply "I think most men marry ! or love, and get the right woman, with whom they are perfectly satisfied j through life who Of fail course, how'ever, there are wives to hold the hearts of their hu-batids.” "Will you tell me,” I said, “in what you think is the secret ot woman’s last¬ ing power, what quality is it in her which makes her husband’s heart her’s forever ?’’ “That she should be a pillow’,” an lowered Mr. Nixon, seriously. “I mean that in her, as on a pillow, her husband must find repose He gets hard kno ks {.enough in the world—people stick their isharp corners in him — they hurt his j pride or wound his sensibilities. Let be able to go home feeling tnat there, at least, is some one who believes J in him utterly. He has no need to himself it he is tired. She will contented even if he does not tell his [best times stories, over. or She tells asks the nothing old ones of three him { that he will be h’mseif. Do think make you j years such a refuge of less worth ? No, mau will never stay long away from such companionship—the j eincerest flattery, the mos t perfect rest.^ j Juiieue , umrpet, ais.er , of f bus- „ ; J ".Vpl?Vff, „V.!l 10 V 0 ” p « 0 ': ata “ ' 1 .... bet i J -net 11. Lon was condemned . to ; W « 1 P'!'dtown the column o ; M - 1 8 allowed ^n^ome. eja gment jhe court htm 30 years me >° "h' cb « W h * amount .Mile ; ^ pay one-third of *= 1 ‘‘ » j lhe ffi0U ^. u . a receip in nil, -nd prom ea to devote^the surplus to ..... ‘ ‘ m m m For ft mean trici of a California ’ ; i is b est bave heard fctely. a r ‘ or worPt we She eloped with her objection able lover the same day her mother was enamelled, as the Utter was com pelie.l to remain shut up three days or else crack all over. —-—— - Senator-elect Mahone, of Virginia, swings his bat for Hancock with the re.-t, and the fangs are probably drawn from bis convention of Readjusters, which meets at Richmond July 7, though they talk still ot putting an in dependent tic*jvt <S. Ha&oofck tietlbfia net&. ' ihttuu * PRICE THREE CENTS. A Fable. The Lion amt the Rabbit. On one occasion a lion, who was out to air his teeth and lord it over small fry, encountered a rabbit in the forest. Tbe rabbit was about to slink away without a word when the lion desirous of impressing on the whole rabbit tribe his great importance, called up the little victim and began: “Tell me wbat you have to live lor? You cannot roar, you cannot fight; almost every animal in the forest can make you fly in alarm. It seems to me that if I belonged to such small potatoes I would as soon be dead.” “If nature had made us all humbly replied tbe rabbit, would be nothing for us to prey and hardly room enough for us all to move about. I had rather be a rabbit than nothing at all." “There my be philosophy in that," continued the lion, “but when I roar men tremble; when I spring my vic¬ tim falls. I knock down and drag out. I boss the job; I am the chair¬ man of the convention as it were. I were such a bob tailed, insignificant creature as you, are I would hide my head. Why I can knock you over with one swing of my tail!’’ He whisked it around to back up his assertion, and lo ! it caught in a crevice in the rocks and he was fast. Tbe harder he pulled the worse was his fix, and his roars of rage guided some bushmen to the spot and they quickly dispatched him. “As for me,” said the rabbit as he lop< d away. “I neither roar nor lash, and while the great liou lies dead I never felt better in my life.” Despise not the bob-tailed trifles life. A bee is not as big as a butteifly but he’ll upset quick. a Sunday-school picnic ten times as Age of the Enrth. Among the astounding discoveries of modean science, is that of the immense periods gradual of time which have passed in the formation oftheeaith. So vast were the cycles of time preceding even the appearance ot man on the surface of the globe, that our own period seems as yesterday when com¬ pared with tbe epochs that have gone before it. Had we no other evidence than tbe deposites of rocks heaped up¬ on »ack other in reguar strata by slow accumulation of material-, they alone would have convinced us of the ex¬ tended and slow maturing of God’s woik3 on earth; but when we add to these the succesive populations of whose life this world has been the theatre, and whose remains are hidden in the rocks into which the mud, oi sand, or soil of whatever kind, on which they lived, has hardened in the course of time—or the enormous chains of mountains whose upheval divided these periods of quiet accumulation by great convulsions—or the changes of a different nature in the configuration of our globe, as the sinking of lands be¬ neath the ocean, or the gradual rising of t he continents and islands above— or the , slow , growth ,, ot „ the coral * reefs, r those wonderful sea walls, raised by the little ocean architects, whose own bodies furnish both the building stones and the cement that Linds them to* getber, and who have worked so busily j during the long cen'uries, that there are extensive countries, mountain i chains, islands, and long lines of coast j j or the nsisting solely of their remains—or countless forests that have grown up, flourished and decayed, to fill houses ot coal that feed tbe fire ol the human race—if we consider ail these records of the past, the , fails to grasp a chronology of which j experience furnishes the data, and that, lies behiods us seems as much j»ure eternity to stretches our conception before as the that us. i - -— - .A Sagacious Horse—A German paper ,elates that at Biberich, recently, » CTOwd «» th ”* d 10 *'<»•» '* 0Tel » drunken being taken home by bis hsrw man tvaa so intoxicated that he could y st „ nd , b(U the faithful animal pushe d him onward with Ida!..,! and then the driver turn int0 a , de elr6ets , hut the horse eei2ed bia hy the cost w ith its anc l thus piloted him to the stable The ( horse had a great deal of trouble with it8 maBter| but firjally gol him home safe. It is said that this valuable ani “ al had acted the good Samaritan hiS ma9ter repeatedly before, Gen. Hancock is not connected an y religious denomination, but most of the officers of the army, at tends the Episcopal Churen . when be go ‘8 to church. His father was a member of the Protestant copa; ^hurnh -nd hP mother a Baptist, while his y.uth was pa^c i among the Friends. _____ ^ ^ T ere were 187 de*ta in Nsw Yo;k last Thur-iav, 79 of vrl i v.iih 4 di«ct eauwVf exchRjv 6 hwfo The Pulse. 1 Many erroneous impressions prevail health about the pulse as indicative of or disease, a common notion being that its beatings are much more regu liar and uniform than they really are. Frequency varies with age. In the newborn infant the beatings are from 130 to 140 to the minute; in the se¬ cond year, from 100 to 115; from the seventh to tbe fourteenth year, from SO to 90; from the fourteenth to the twenty-first year, from 75 to 85 ; from the twenty-first to the sixtieth year, from 70 to 75. After that period the pulse is generally thought, to decline, but medical authorities differ radically this point, having expressed Young the contradictory opinions. persons are often found whose pulses j are below 60 , and there have been many instances of pulses habitually reaching 100, or not exceeding 40, without apparent disease. Sex, espe¬ cially in adults, influences the puls>e, woich in women is from 10 *o 114 beats to tbe minute more rapid than in oieu of tile same age. Muscular ex¬ ertion, even position, materially affects the pulse. Its average frequency in men of twenty-seven is, when stand¬ ing, 81; when sitting, 71; when lying, 66 , per minute ; in women of the same age iu the same positions, 91, 84, and 79. In sleep the pulse is in general considerably slower than dur¬ ing wakefulness. In certain diseases, such as acute dropsy ol the brain, for example—there may he 150, even 200 beats; in other kinds of disease, such as apoplexy and some organic a flec¬ tions ot the heart, there may be no more than 20 to 30 to the minute. Thus one of the commonest, diagnostic signs is liable to deceive the most ex¬ perienced practitioners. Some Uses of Charcoal —Charcoal, laid flat while cold on a burn, causes the pain to abate immediately; by leaving it on for an hour the burn seems almost healed when the wound is superficial. decomposed Strewn over heaps of pelts, over dead auimals, prevents an unpleasant odor. Prepared charcoal sprinkled over meat that is tainted will sweeten and freshen it. Foul water is purified by it. It is a great disinfectant, aud sweet¬ ens offensive air if placed in shallow trays around apartments. It is so very porous that it absorbs and condenses gases rapidly. One cubic inch of fresh charcoal will absorb nearly one hundred inches of gaseous ammonia. Charcoal forms an excellent poultice for malignant wounds and sores. In cases of what is called proud flesh it is invaluable. It gives no disagreeable odor, co ’•odes no metal, hurts no texture, in¬ jures no color, is a simple aud safe sweetener and disinfectant. A teaspoonful of charcoal, in a glass of water, often relieves sick headache. It absorbs the gases and relievos the distended stomach pressing against the nerves which extend from the sto maoh to the head, It oflen relievefJ cOS tipation, pain or heartburn The Farmer. —It does one’s heart 1 good to see a merry round-faced far- 1 laer jj _ g 0 independent and yet so free j | roJ vanity and pride; so rich and yet | - 0 ln dastriou 8 - 'calling, so patient and perse veriu" in hia and yet so kind, f 0 C i a b| e aD d obliging. There are a thousand noble traits about his cbarac *, er Ear. and drink with him and be wou’t set a mark on you and sweat it out of you wit h double compound in terest, as some people I know will; vou are welcome He will do yon a kindness without compensation_iT expecting a return by wa y 0 f is not so with everybody He is usually more honest and sincere, less disposed to deal in low and underhanded cunning than many I could name. He gives society its best support, its firmest piL tb.t supports the edifice of govern toent—he w the lord of nature. Look him in hie homeepun and grey, ; laugh he ?an at him if you will, but believe laugh K back if he pleases, 1 Fever, Sections helnTronah^ of territorv where onP fevers rison are and have ? of . • i : f t t Lr-reas ara us : w : t k comr) i ete Wa^e^ in ^ Kjdti off such afflictions 3 ey and Liver Cure and Warner’s Safe PiUs. Parties down sick with diseases of such a character, are cured by the use of same. It will be a close race between Ohio and Illinois for the third place in popu lation among tbe States. Ohio was • .slightly ahead in 1870 but Illinois increased more rapidly since. The population claimed for these two States by the Cincinnati Commercial>md Ghi- 1 cago Tribum is 3 OOO.OuO each. Should it r.ot exceed this, theae States would io,-e five C'oDgresemen, on the bars of an apportipoxaeot of oue labmhvr Uj ITU.ODU
