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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-01-05

and American
Casimeres,
Ladies Dress Goods,
Cloaks, Shawls.
Notions of all descriptions,
Calicos, Best American Brand,
Cotton, Bleached and Brown,
Alpacas of all shades, Flannels,
Opera, Plain l. Colored Checked.
Ladies are respectfully solicited
to call ard examine my stock and
no trouble will be saved to show
all articles which they desire to
examine, to price or purchase.
CIothibgs of all descriptions !:
Gentlemen's Shirt,
Underwear,
and all kinds
of Furnishing
Ladies, Goods,
Misses, Men
and Boys
Boots & Shoes.
Hardware, the latest improve
rnents in utensils.
Saddlery, Crockery Tinware,
A fine stock of fresh family gro
ccries.
Tobacco, chewing & smoking,
segars, pipes, &c.
Sole agent for the celebrated
WEED SEWING MACHINE,
the simplest. cheapest and most
durable Of the kind.
Ny stock is now entirely New
and complete, aaa every one rich
and poor, white and colored are
welcome to enter and see for them
selves.
believing that it would be great
ly to the interest of this parish to
establish a Real Estate Agency in
the town Of Abbcville. | have
assumed the position, and INFORM
all those who have lands, planta-
tons or town lots for sale, or
those who desire to purchase the
same, to call at my store where |
shall always be ready to give full
particulars end make agreements.
Having now communications with
different parties in the United
States who are desirous to locate
in this country there are chances
to effect sales or purchases at early
date and on satisfactory terms.
Respectfully,
A. D. MARTIN.
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TO the Public.

Iwould respectfully inform my
friends and customers and the peo-
ple in general, that I have just Sc
lected with the greaest care, a
general assortment of Fall and
Winter Goods, which | am now
Offering at the lowest cash price,
My stock comprises large va
riety Of
Domestic Dry Goods,
Fancy Goods,
English,
French
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-01-05
Police Jury.
State of Louisiana, ]
Parish of Vermilion.

On this day, Monday, the first of Octc-
Der eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,
the police jury Of said parish met in regu.
lar session at the Courthouse.
On the roll being called, the following
members answered to their names, viz
Howard Hoffpauir, esq. president.
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The minutes OF the last meeting were
read and adopted.
Art. Resolved that the president of
the police jury be, AID he is hereby au-
thorised to cancel the bond furnished by
John G. White as late parish Treasurer.
The finance committee submitted the
following report which after being read
wa&, adopted and ordered to be spread on
the minutes.
Abbeville, Oct. 1st 1877.
TO the hon. president and members of
the police jury of the parish OF Vermilion
Your finance committee met on the 22d
day of August eighteen hundred and
segenty-seven, and furnished the aitor-
neys employed by the parish, with papers
and other evidences to assist them in ma
king up their account in the snits parish
of Vermilion VS. John A. Brookshler, ct
ais. etc.
No parties having appeared to make
affidavit of lost tax receipts authorised by
a resolution of the police Jury at their
meeting on the 18th of August eighteen
hundred and seyenty-seven.
The committee recommend the police
jnry to rescind said resolution as dan
gerous precedent.
This committee further report that jos
S. Nunez has tailed up to this time to
make settlement, altho' solicited TO do so
frequently.
GEO. NJ. ELDRiDGE,
Cbs;r.pon
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Unparalleled BsrbarIfy.

LONDON, July 10-A Constantine
pie dispatch TO the Times says:
Mr. Fawcett has returned from Lagos,
and reports that intense suffering ex-
It's among the population south OF the
Bhodope mountains. He enumerates
the horrors perpetrated by the Bull
gariaus and Cossacks, aud sometimes
By regular Russian soldiers, whose
designs seem to he the EXTERN nation
or utter dispersion of Musselmans
and Christians unfavorabls to them
10 the DJmOda district. Flfty-three
villages have been plundered aud
burned by the Russian and Bulgarian
within the last two months.
Twenty-three villages have been
equally laid waste and burned ia the
district Of Haskiev, aud 10 the Philli-
popolis district twelve villages have
been burned. in numerous villages
there has been wantOn destruction.
attended by deeds Of unheard-of bar
Cases Of men and women
deliberately burnt alive have been
frequent. The violation of the young
Das been very frequent. Nothing
more horrible than the particulars of
his report Ear be imagined. Its We
-aeity rests on the official authority
enc OF the most respected Of Her
Nsjesty's servants, and Of men EN-
by him upon his conviction OF
heir p1Tfecs uustwortbiness Mr..
Fawcett intends to lay bis report be-
or the English, Austrian and French
rs, with a view to send
ng out a commission Of Inquiry 10
he spot. to endeavor to put au end 70
.hese txcesses, which disgrace hui
nani v"
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Coal oil Accident.

CLEVELAND, o July 9.-Mrs. DR..
AllyUe Maynard, committed suicide
yesterday afternoon, by saturatiag
her clothes with coal oil and then set
ting IRE TO them. For about eigh-
teen months she had been subject TO
melancholy and insanity. Not far
from two years ago, while travelling
in Italy with her husband, she was
stricken with fever and was confined
to her bed fOy months The disease
left her with a sound bjty but an
impaired brain.
She returned home; soon after ar
irving was seized with an idea that
she must take her life ia such a wav
as Tot to ~disfgare her person. She
was placed in several asylums, aud
the treatment of the most skillful
physicians secured, but there was
little or no change for the better.
The husband finally brought her
home again and secured two expert
enced nurses to watch and care for
her. To do this better, the insane
woman was taken to the house on
Hough avenue, of the principal nurse,
Mrs. Jackson. Here the husband also
took up his quarters. At times Mrs.
Maynard would appear much improv-
ed ard once or twice her condition
a such that she was left alone. but
whenever this was done she would try
to steal away.
Last spring she thus disappeared.
and was gone Till late 1T night before
found. Yesterday the decd appear
ed rather more cheerful than usual /:
she was sitting in Der chair, oppar-
emily asleep, when both nurses left
her in the room. They returned 10 a
of minutes. to fad her wrap
ped 10 a sheet of flames, and appar-
eudavoring to drink 10 the fire.
This was soon extinguished, but not
till Mrs. Maynard was so badly burn
ed that she died ia fifteen min
The deceased was forty-two years
Did, wa7a native of Cleveland, and.
I'LL her I reign illness, was one Of
The most intelligent ladies' in the city.
SIZE WAS highly educated, aud a
member Ut n of the first families
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The President Removes
Arthur and Cornell
from Their Positions
in the New York
Custom House.
The Main Object of the Chan
ges Believed to Be to Sc
cure Senator Conk-
ling's Defeat.

WAsuiNGToS, Juue 1.-The Pres
ident to day took advantage OF the
absence of the Senate, and made the
changes in the New York Custom
House which be endeavored to do last
winter, bat which endeyor was defeat
ed by Conkling's exeriions ia The
Senate. To-day General Merritt was
appointed Collector and Colonel Burt
naval Officer. The former is at pres
ent Surveyor of the Port, having
been nominated and confirmed a, the
time Roosevelt and Prince were nom
mated and defeated for Collector ant
Naval Officer, respectively. The re-
moval of Arthur and Cornell, who
now hold these Offices. is cosidered
by the Senator's friends u very mean
attack on bin, as the President had
several months 10 which TO make the
change after Roosevelt and Prince
where rejected. when the Senator
would have been able to do something
effective for his friends Arthur's
term of Office does not expire until
next spring, and Cornell's 1t a later
day. The main object of the Presi-
dent in removing Conkling's friends
1T this time is understood TO prevent
the use of their Official influence in
the election Of members OF the Legis-
%lature, who will be Conkling men
when the Legislature comes 10 vote
for Senator. Conkling's friends,
however, claim that be will be re-
elected. and significantly point to the
fact hat the Greeaback men have a
chaee of holding the balance ofpower,
aud that Coukling RETAINED from
speaking or the fusI question of the
late session. when all Of the bard
money men INDUCED 10 TRADES on the
greenback cause. Burt, who is made
Naval Officer. has for many years
been Chief Deputy in that Office. The
promotion, for such it is, Of Merritt.
will necessitate the immediate ap-
pointment of u Surveyor Of the
Port.
The commissions Of the new officials
wheref rwared by mail to night. Ii
is now learned that Secretary Sher-
mans visit to New York was in
connection with the changes which
have been made. The President,
Secretary Evarts and Secretary Sher-
man decided some time aga to make
the changes, but have been waiting
to ok things so that there would be
no trouble in cOnsummating The
change. When Secretary Sherman
went to New York he held several
consultations with leading Republic
ans to secure influence to do what the
was so DESTROYS to
accomplish. Secretary Sherman will
now select some one to succeed
Merritt as Surveyor of the Port
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a CORRESPONDENT # the New
York World wants to ksow if the
Randall that made the speech at the
Manhattan Club on Tuesday night Is
the same Randall who spoke in Phil
adelphia on Monday night. The
New YORK person spoke Of the free
dom Of individual enterprise and Of
the folly Of laws intended to shackle
industry for the special benefit Of a
favored few. The Philadelphia per-
son said "he always set down a man
who talked to him Of free trade as
being either ignorant or a deeeiyer. T"
1t is to be hoped that the Manhattan
Club has not been imposed upon.
Such sentiments Is are ascribed to
Mr.. Randall in New York be is new
err known TO utter in Philadelphia.
Here be is esteemed an excellent sort
Of protectionist, worthy to sit at the
feet Of Carey and at the side of KEEL
ley.
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Suspected Double Murder.

NORWICH, July lion June 6
Charles IL. Cobb, City Collector,
died suddenly and in a manne that
aroused suspicion. A post-mortem
disclosed no reason for his death, and
his stomach was sent to Prof. DJre-
mus for analysis. The Professor
found in it arsenic enough to cause
death, and so reported. Suspicion
at once fell On Wesley w. Bishop, a
neighbor, who was arrested. 1t was
then concluded to have an examina-
tioE Of the body Of Bishops wife,
who also died with suspicious symp-
toms last February. Her body was &C
co-dingly dislnterred, aud parts of it
were submitted to Prof. Doremus.
At to-day's session of the Coroner's
jury the Professor testified TO fad
ing 10 her vitals VEGETABLE quanti-
ties of arsenic and traces Of copper.
Other testimony was submitted, and
the jury returned a verdict that in
their opinion Mr.. Cobb came to bis
death from poison, administered by
his wife, Katie NJ. Cobb, aided and
abetted by Wesley W. Bishop. Up
on the rendering of the verdict Mrs.
Cobb was placed under arrest. The
examination of the case is set down
for Monday next.
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struck ny Lightning on a spIrc.

When DR.. Halls old church, cor
ner Of Fifth-avenue and Nine .eenth-
street, was torn down to make way
for an extension of the large dry
goods establishment ia Nineteenth
street, the material was sold for the
erection of another church of the
Presbyterian denomination. This
church is located in Fifty seventh
street, between Broadway and Sew
enth-avenue, and o nearly COM
plete, services being held uader the
direction of Rev. Dr.. Wilson. The
steeple is yet to be built, and men
are at work upon it. Yesterday,
during the progress of the thunder
storm, Edward White, aged 80 years.
a b%ricklayer. boarding at Tenth.
street and North avenue, and Bsr-
nard Gray, 80 years Of age, living ut
No. 4l6 Second avenue, were at
work upon the spire s~caffolding.
While being outside the steeple and
Gray on the interior. The church is
somea bat isolated from other build
ings, and suddenly, at 4:35 O'Clock,
both men were struck by lightring.
The electric fluid killed White iu-
stantly, and be Tell backward from
the platform and plunged headlopg
to the ground, a distance Of 60 feet
The fluid struck Gray 10 the chest,
and then diverged. running up both
arms, down the abdomen. and along
both thighs. 1t SCARED his body,
a plainly visible purple streak
to mark IFS course Several neigh
bors witnessed the accident, and
notified the Police, who summoned
an ambulance, and removed Gray TO
the Roosevelt Hospital, while the
body Of White was transferred to the
Twenty second Precinct Starinn,
an autopsy vas made by Dep
lty Coroner Gnldschiedt The Doe
.or was unable I o fud any injury on
he body beyond a Sigh; scratch on
inc forehead. White has relatives in
Morrisania, who will take charge Of
he body for burial. The physician
who attended Gray at the hospital,
expressed the opinion that the patient
night cover although his injuries
ire severe.-N !. Times. ofJaiy IL
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The estate of DR.. J. C. Aver, OF
Lowell, Mass, whose death has been
lately announced, is said TO be worth
over fifteen million dollars. This
money was mainly made by vending
patent medicines, and the vast amount
of it represents IN equivalent of pur-
CATION such as no other citiz en- of
Massachusetts, Will be credited with
in this world or the next. We do
not remember ever to have heard or
read of a medicine man so prosperous.
DR.. Aver was a believer in the vir-
tues OF printers ink. lie advertised
bis nostrums the world over. Hence
his millions.
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a Miner Falls I,sI0 Feet.

The Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise
Of the Cd inst saws: "At | O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, G. T. Germann,
q shift boss at the Caledonia Mine.
fell to the bottom of the shaft, a dis
lance of 1850 feet, and was torn 10
shreds. Il. W. Mckay, German.
and another man. had been down ID
the 700 fcot station 10 change a
pump clGck Haying completed this
work, they ran the cage down to the
1000 level. At that point the as
sistsnt was landed, and Mckay and
German started for the surface. The
tools which had been used in chang
ing the clack were on the cage. and
GermaDn ha in his hads a piece of
plank some six feet in length, which
he was taking to the surface. lie
bad the plank under one arm and
held u tne crossbar of the cage with
n hand. Mr.. Mckay was holding
to the crcssbar, and all went smooth
~ until the cage was within $50 feet
Of the top Of the shaft. The cage
then gave a sudden bound. throwing
Mr.. Mckay up against the bonnet,
ipjuring his hip and side. When be
had colleete | his senses and looked
about Mr.. Mckay fJuad tina, Ger
mann was gone, and knew that be
had fallen to the bottom of the shaft.
The plank German mad been car.
ryIng was also gone. Undoubtedly
the end Of the plank caught under the
wall plate of the shaft and threw
German fl. In falling to the bot
ten f the shaft Germann's BODY
appears to have bonded from side
to side, striking against The timbers.
and was thus torn to fragments The
head was torn of, also the hands and
feet aud the arms aDd legs were
whipped to pieces, leaving portions
OF the flesh and fragments Of bones
down the shaft aDd scattered
about at the bottom. The trunk
was l,ft a shapeless pulpy mass. The
remains were rolled up 10 a blanket
and when brought to the surface Law
10 a heap that bore very little resem-
blance to the body of q human being.
/ he bodies of men who fall such a
distance are generally terribly man
sled, but in this instance the dis
nemberment and rending to pieces
much greater than is usually
seen. The deceased was a native of
Delahelf, Waukesha county, Wis,
md aged 81 years. He was au old
'esideut here, and a good, careful
miner. He was married a year ago
asst April, and lived on Petaluma
treet, near the cemeteries. lie
caves many friends and a W ife and
me small child"
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Revenge For Teasing.

WORCESTER, Mass July lQ-This
morning James Murphy. a workman
at the Central Mills, Uxbridge, struck
Peter Cullen over the head with al
iron pipe, cutting two gashes and
fr~actGriog tie skull. The injuries
are believed TO he fatal. Cullen had
lag had The habit OF teasing Xur-
ply. alth ugh warned against it by
employees aud the priest. This
morning his taunts provoked Mur-
phys probably fatal blows.
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THE Labor party carried Luzerne
County last year, and as q conse-
quence elected W. II Stanton, its
candidate for Judge. Having secur-
ed the position, Stanton, who was,
and is, a wool-dyed Democrat, like
the SOW that returned to her wallow-
ing, is now attempting to transfer
the labor vote to the Democratic
party. He, who claims to be q leader
of the labor party, and lives in a
region where tens of thousands of
laboring men have been thrown out
employment by the destruction of
business, in face Of the fact that the
Democrats in the last Congress pro-
posed to reduce the tariff and open
the ports Of this country to the manu-
features Of Great Britain asd Belgium,
which would have been certain death
TO the coal and iron interests of this
State, coolly advises the labor party
of LuZerne County and OF the country
10 vote the Democratic party into
power, and actually asks il to aban-
don its own ticket and support that
Of the Democratic party for State
Offices. The history of the country
is full of just such incidents, where
the laboring men have been deluded
into joining Independent" political
organizations, only to fad them
selves sold out and cheated by
Democratic demagogues who have
used them ia the interests of their
own party. This trick of Stanton's
is an old one. the object being to
seduce the Democratic portion of the
party from the support OF their State
ticket, leaving the Republican por-
lion to do that kind Of voting, and
thereby secure the State 10 o Dem
ocracy, re-elect the old Congressional
delegation, and in that event pass
the Wood tariff at the next session,
which every intelligent laboring man
in the State ought TO know, would
almost ruin OUT home manufacturers,
and compel them to suspend opera
tons, unless wages are reduced to
such q low point as TO enable them
60 compete with the cheap labor OF
foreign countries. Undoubtedly the
object Of Stanton and other Demo
cratic demsgogues is to cheat the
Republicans who have Joined this
organization, and they as sane men
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Private Secretary badgers.

WASHINGTON, July l0-Col. w.
X. Rodgers, the private secretary Of
the Presidenr. for some weeks has
been confined to his room by a severe
pulmonary af' ctien When be ae-
eepted the position be nov holds his
friends were apprehensive tina, be
would be unequal to its arduous la
Dor. Notwithstanding the declining
of his health be has stood az
his post until recently. To day his
G ndition is regarded "a alarming.
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have but one course left 70 pursue, If
they wish to promote their W in
teTesi, aad that is to retarn 10 their
own party aud not permit themselves
to be made the dupcs Of the Demo
cratic tricksiers who joined the labor
party solely for the purpose Of con-
trolling and proGting by it, and who
to a nan viii vote the entire Demo-
cratic ticket ia the fall.
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A Desperate Prisoner.

CHATHAM VILLAGE, n. Y, July
l0.-Two of the Troy burglars were
captured to-day near North Adams,
Mass. Officers Walden, Thomas
Quinn and citizen E. j. Cary started
for Albany with them. When ap-
preaching the State line one of the
prisoners asked permission to take
off his coat. When freed he drew a
revolver and commenced firing. Four
chambers were discharged. Qdinn
received two balls, n in the hand
and one in the lower part of the alb
domen. The prisoners were finally
bound by those in charge after a des'
perate struggle. They had just pre-
viousIy offered 500 and a gold watch
for their release. Quinn was taken
off at this station. The doctor thinks
his life can be saved.
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KilIed win a Base Ball Rat.

ATLANTA, Ga, July l0.-During
a game If base bal on Monday an
altercal;on occurred between William
Lawshe, 81 years of age. and Samuel
Venable, IL years old. A scufie en-
sued, and While Lswshe had Vena-
BILE on the ground, Carl Mitchell, q
boy sixteen years old, and a friend
Of Yensble, struck Lawshe TWO ter
rible blows on the head With a. bat.
Lawsbe died yesterday, and Mitch
ell was arrested.
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The Man and Platform, In 1850.

/ rom the CIeFelani LeaueF-
The Graphic only depicts what is
in the air when it portrays among
the fireworks Of Independence day
the figure Of the man with a cigar on
horseback. IL nothing occurs to
turn the tide ofpnblic sentiment from
IFS present course, the work Of the
Convention in 1880 will be easy and
brief. 1t will nominate the silent
man as he was nominated 10 1872,
unanimously, because there will be
no other candidate. Then if the
Convention is wise, it will eschew
all trimming and connecting of elab-
crate resolutions and adopt for the
Republican platform of 1880 the e.
nal clause of President Grants Sec
ond message to Congress, as follows:
THE POLICY OF TIE ADMINISTRATION.
"In conclusion, | would sum up
the policy of the Administration to
be q thorough enforcement of every
law, a faithful collection of the tax
provided for economy ia the dis
bursement of the same, q prompt
payment of every debt of the nation:
a reduction of taxes az rapidly as the
requirements of the nation will ad-
nit, reduction of taxation and tariff
to be arranged as to afford the great
est relief to the greatest number;
honest and fair dealing with all 9th
er people, to the end, that war, with
all its blighting consequences, may be
averted, but without surrendering
any right or obligation due to US ; a
reform in the treatment of Indians,
and the whole civil service of the
country and frmness in securing q
pure, untrsmpled ballot, at which ev-
cry man entitled to cast a vote may
do so just once at each election, with
out fear of molestation or proscrip-
ton on of his political faith,
nativity or color. (Signed)
U. S. GRANT.
Executive Mansion, December s.,
1902
There are not Democrats enough
in the United States to beat the hero
of Yicksburg and Appomattax upon a
platform like that.
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BRADFORD, Mexican county, this
State, has shot up like a rocket. A
year ago it was an idle village OF
500 people. but now its 10000 are
projecting an opera house, churches,
high school building and fine resi-
dcnces. Stores rent at from $1,000
81 500 upon It's business streets, and
building lots bring fancy prices. Its
wells are safe and profitable. yielding
from 1900 to 10000 barrels a day.
and q railroad is now in process OF
construction which Bradford relies
on to make it the greatest centre in
the whole oil region.