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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

| nM Nos honorables ont cru
honorer la St-Joseph en- s'ajour
nant sine die apres, soft dit en
passant, une session peu feconde
en- reformes. Nous VOLTA done de-
barrasses de ces braillards qui ont
consomme les trois quarts de leur
temps a Sc disputer CONNIE des
porte-faire atm de gagner leur per
diem. La presse est unanime a
exprimer lie dego1t que leur ms
pire la legislature d6funte, car, en-
de6nitive, qu'ont Eait nos represen-
tants ? que le bon Dieu aye pitie
de leur anne ct quill nous fasse la
grace de nous accorder l'annee
prochaine, non des r6tormatears
de carton, mais bien des gems re-.
element d6voues au salut deFEtat,
ct dams ce cas-, il nous 1aut : hon
netete ct capacite.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

@ Nous avons remarqu6 e1
oonnons un bon point a son auteur
que la banquette, pres de PEglise
Catholique, est en- bonne vote
dexecution. On Sc rappelle qu'un
llas ayant empiet6 sur le domaine
public, await etale ses racines jus.
qu'au beau milieu du trottoir.-
Flusleurs d'entre, nous ont peut-
etre encore souvenance des nom.
breuses chutes, des eclats de rire
qul en- sont toujours Ia conse-
qnence, occasionn6es par ses ra-
cines parasites. Tout disparu,
arore ct racines, la banquette nj
velee sera Ia meilleure du village.
Tout le monde deyrait inter dams
notre corporation, Texemple du
Rev. Mehault.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

"BIsHoPs OF THE NJ. E. CpgRcH,
SOUTH" Steel Engraving Of
Bishops Paine, Pierce, Wightman,
4 kavanaugh, Doggett, NcTyiere,
Marvin and Keener; size for franz
ing l6x20 inches, price 50; also
separate engraving . of Bishop
Marvin for framing. nx.4 inches.
price 80 cents. AGENTS WAN.
TED everywhere to sell these
splendid portraits. Send price
named for sample copy of either
or both, with terms to agents.
Address, The ADVOCATE PUBLISH
ING HOUSE, St. Louis. Mo.
feb16'78
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30
NO. 40.

On motion of Lastie Brous<a
whereas JOS. I. Labit has a,nl,,l
to this board for reduction of tn,
licenses imposed on him as coffee
house keeper and billiard table
Keeper, and in consideration of
the facts that only one-fourth of
the present year has expired. and
OF his statement to the board that
he intended to Immediately and
entirely suspend his business in
that line.
Be it therefore resolved, that
the amount of his said licenses be
and the same are hereby reduced
to the sum of $23.70.
Resolved further that tho Col.
lector be, and he is hereby autho-
rized to deliver to said Labit the
said licenses, and to endorse there
on the amount paid in accordance
with this resolution, as follows -
On the $500 coffee house license
$2l.25, and on the $1,000 billiard
table license $3.50. The difference
between the original amount and
that hereby fixed to be received
by the Collector, to be credited to
the Collector hereafter, provided.
that said payment be made within
ten days from this date, and pro-
vided that said Labit closes estab-
lishment as above stated.
On motion of S. Wise, resolved
that all vouchers, receipts and un-
collected licenses turned over to
the committee on this day by the
Treasurer as shown by the report
OF said committee be DESTROYED.
and further that the committee be
ordered to receipt to said l'reasu-
rer., according to their report. he
he having exhibited his vouchers
for the amount in full, and they
found to be in due form and cor.
rect.
On motion Of Lastie Broussard,
resolved that Victor Guidry, be
and he is hereby authorized to
carry on the business of coffee
house keeper, under the lirenses
issued to Voorhies Trahan, provi.
ded that he paid the same. and
costs accrued in suit of corpora
ton vs.. said V. Trahan, and fur.
ther that he will not be subject to
pay any othnr for the same occu.
patton for the year 1878.
On motion the Council then
to next regular meet
ng.
LEoNCE PERRET,
l.. =. Lyons, Mayor:
Secretary.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

Ia On parle de couvrir de
dattiers les regions desertes de la
California ct de rArizona. LIE
general LeDuc, commissaire du
depaytement de 'agr,culture s'est
deja mis- en- rapport avec le gene
raj americain Stone, aujourd hui
au service du Khedive d'Egypte,
ain de faire venir des graines de
dattier de ce pays.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

nD= CONNIE il lavait prece.
demment annonc6, notre asseseur
Vilmont Branx, Sc trouvait a la
maison de cour dams les journees
du %, 26 ct q afn d'operer la re-
vision des listcs d'assessement.+
N'ayant point de blanks d'enregis-
trement, les citoyens residents de
la corporation, mont pa etre enre-
gistrGs.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30
Exg ST lie bill pendant au Cor

Esy 81 le bill pendant au Con
gres passe, lEtat de la Louisiana
recouvrira une partie de ses terres
uencedees aux chemin de fer North
Louisiana & Texas soft 61O,8SO
acres, plus 3,SOO,O0O acres conce-
d6s a la compagnic de chemin de
fer New Orleans, Baton Rouge &
Vicksburg.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

HW% Les papabottes, les gros-
ses-tetes ct autres becassines sont
arrives. II faudra, amis lecteurs,
Sc preparer a bien les recevoir en-
leur accordant dependant quelques
.jours de repit, car des leur pre-
miere arrivee, ces divers passer-
eau2 sont toujours naigres.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

R@@ Les pauvy es africans dc
Haiti sont indomptables ct diff.
Giles a gouverner. Une Insured
ton formidable Went encore de-
clater dams Tile en- l'absence du
president, un fort a Port-au-Prince
est tombe au pouyoir des insurges.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

Gw La feu administration de
Grant a laiss6 de beaux reliquats,
on dit qu'on decouyert un def
cit de deux millions dams les comp
tes de M. Robson ex secretaire
de Ia marine.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30
EB VOLTA St-Louis. la grande

rT VOLTA St-Louis, la grande
cite am6ricaine, qui devient le
siege des communards. L'anni-
yersaire de la commune de Paris
etc celebree avec pompe par des
ouvriers cosmopolites. Des dis
cou-s varies en- anglais, espagnoi.
allemand ct francais ont etc pro-
nonces.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

HxyT Les opinions sont divisees
dams lEtat a propos de la deci-
sion de Ia Cour Supreme de la
Louisiana. On ne saurait salts
faire tout lie monde ct il fallait
s'attendre froisser quelqus poll
ticieas. QUAINT a nous, nous res
pectons les decisions du tribunal
supreme ct aimons 4 croire que
nul interet ma guide nos honora-
bles .jnges, mais bien un point
technique, laccusation n'ayant pas
etc conforme a Fesprit de la loi /;
Tom Anderson a etc acqnite, mais
non mis- en- liberte, car lavocat
general a qui IN r6pit de quinze
jours est accorde, scion les status
pour Sc pourvoir contre Ia deci-
sion donnte, en- a profile ct fait
characterization du nabab
attakapien une nouYelle addition
aura lieu, ct nous esp6rons bien
que la Cour Supreme qui r'a point
delib&re a Ia legare, reyienne sur
ga decision.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

Un bourgeois naIf demandait
un agloteur sans vergogne
Comment avez vous pu vous
enrichir, quand tous vos action
naires Sc sont ruines!
oh =! mon Dieu !! c'est simple
repondit Taimable fnancier. Tou.
te affaire sc d6compose en- Doit e1
en- Avoir; eh bien, j'ai toujours
mis- l'agoir dams ma poche ct lie
doit. dams reil de mes action.
naires.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

Hsg LIE Consul americain !
Paris, NJ. Torbert Sc plant amere
ment des procedes de la douane
francaise, qui, en- vertu de l'exces
du tariff impose sur les wins ct tbs.
sus, par le gouvernement am6ri.
cain, a cru user de represailles.--
Nous lie regrettons sincerement.
Emus de Get etat de chooses, le gou-
vernement ct la chambre du COM
merce viennent d'envoyer Leon
Chotteau. LIE vapeur France Ia
deja debarqu6 a New-York. On
espere qu'une entente aura lieu 81
lie gouvernement AMERICAN Sc con-
tente dun tariff reasonable sur les
wins ct les soieries. LIE gouverne-
ment francais voudrait un tarif
uniforma de 20 cts par gallon sur
lie vim ct so cts par metre carre
sur les tissus de sole. Plut a Dieu
que tout s'arrange a lamiable ct
que le gouyernement AMERICAN
|alsse entrer, presque librement, ce
bon vieuK bordeaux don't nous
friends tous, plus GU
moins.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

nD Des proprietes pour une
valeur de $4,000 ct appartenant
a pEglise Catholique de Ia Nou-
velle- Orleans viennent d'etre sal
sizes par ordre de la 5me Cour de
District.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

HkaF LIE representant du SINE
District Congressional J. E. Leo
nard a la poursuite dune jolie
femme a la Havane trouve autre
chose que sa fiancee dams ce pays
rebelle. La fevre jaune, qui Ia
emporte dams respace de qaatre
jours. Leonard etait originaire
de Chester, Pennsylvania ct age
de 80 ans. Homme dun grand
talent, il await dtja occupe sous
administration de son cVpere
en- carpet bag, Warmoth, plusieurs
emplois; il await meme fait un
court passage a la Cour Supreme.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

nJ Lundi proclaim, scion la
charte ct l'avis du maire, une cleo.
ton municipale aura lieu. "Un
mare ct quatre aldermen a elire. "
Quels seront les heureux du jour F?
Ce cue nous desirons ardemment
c'est quill Sc trouve au sein du
conseil des homlnes de bon sens ct
d'energie.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

pxy lie IA a la Nouvelle- Or.
leans, il ' a eu a Ia sale Grilne.
wald une exposition magnifque de
bebes. Les Perret, non les n5tres,
Iont emporte. Lie premier prix a
etc decerne Felix Perret age de
6 mois ct peasant ~ liyres.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

ag- Moins heureuse cue dams
TUtah, Ia secte mormonne en- vote
de formation a shutesbury a etc
arretee par les autorites.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

Tn Cham amusant dams le Cha.
rivari
Un general turc qui Went de
rendre e. ses canons, ses fusils ct qui
s'ecrlre avec philosophie:
,-H.eureusement, rien de tout
celia n'etait paye.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

Isa@ Notre belle prison etant, q
plusienrs reprises, condamn6e par
le juri, on n'a point permis a Mr.
Adrien Dartez d'attendre dams &C
rebuilt, le mois de septembre terme
de Ia cour de district. Mardi der.
nler, accompagne de M. Bascomb
Lyons, il s'acheminait vers les
Opelousas. II est yraiment re.
grettable ct honteux pour notre
paroisse qui deja depense de
forres sommes d'argent, d'etre
oblig6e de confer a d'autres pa
roisses la garde de ses prisonniers.
lie juri de police ne peutil rien
faire a ce sujet? ct faudra til tou-
jours payer des sommes enormes
aux autorit6s voisines :?
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30
TOWN COUNCIL.
ABBEvILLE. March 81. 1873


The Board of Town Council oI
Abbevllle met at the courthouse
in special session, on this day
pursuant to adjournment.
Members present: Leonce Per
ret, mayor; aldermen, L. Brous
na'd, S. Wise, J. Boyance ant
J. Abadie.
Minutes Of last meeting were
read and adopted.
Report Of Committee appoint
ed to settle with officers was sub
mitted and read to the Council
and same adopted, ordered spread
on the minutes and published.
-REPORT:-
George 8. Lyons, Corsta BILE. Col.
lector, debtor in account with
town
DR.:
To amount Of DR.. Young's
license, paid to him for
1877, $40 90
To amount received from
Secretary licenses, for
1877, 80 90
To amount received from
Secretary licenses of
1878, for collection to
date, 1927 SO
Total: $1067 so
Accounted for as follows:
Or:
By amount collected on
licenses of the year 1877,
paid to treasurer, SIS 90,
Amount Of license of Fred.
erick, uncollected, for
1877, 2 so
Amount Of license of T.
Fassiani, uncollected for
1877, 5 OOi
Amount of licenses return
ed 10 treasurer, per reso. /
luton Of Council, for
year 1878, 100 90 |
Amount of licenses uncol-
lected and in suits, for
1878 657 so |
Amount Of licences COL
lected and not yet paid
over to the treasurer for
1878 1877 so
Total: $1O67 SO
Ad valorem tax-fnes, hog and
dog tax:
)r:
o amount tax roll levied
for 1877 $472 90
o amount of dog-tax-
fines and in hogs, 19 Is
o amount Of fines since
last report, 3 Is
Total 1896 so
Accounted for as follows:
II:
y commission on $4O1 60
collected on tax roll of
1877, $50 10
y amount paid treasurer
On said roll of 1877, 371 70
y amount paid treasurer
IN fines, dogs, hogs, &c. 10 IS
y amount paid treasurer
'nroll Of 1877, by J. T.
9atten, 25 25
mount of delinquencies
N roll of 1877, As 45
mount on hand since
asst report, 3 25l
Total: $495 sol Il
with L. G. Lyons, treas {,
urer;
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

LII.
10 amoant received from
former treasurer, $7s 90
10 amount received from
R. P. O'Bryan, attorney.
on roll of 1874, 18 30
TO amount received from
R. p. O'Bryan. attorney
on licenses for the year
1877, 10 90
Amount received from J.
T. Patten On roll 1877 rs 90
Amount received from con-
lector on roll Of 1877, az
ter his commission re.
tanned, 384 73
Amount received from con-
stable collector on fines,
hog and dog tax, 19 Is
Amount received from J.
+. Patten on roll of 1876 II 80
Total: 554 78
Accounted for az fo1lova
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

Or:
By amount paid R. P. O:
Bryan, attorney, fees Su-
prene Court, $50 90
By amount paid A. D. La
borde ON mayors salary % 81
BY amount paid out of
street aad bridge fund,
per vouchers, I58 sc
Amount paid on judgment
j. Abadie, %
Amount paid corporation
officers, as per vouchers, 28O e6
Amount Of cash in treas
ury, 81 26
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-30

Thereby making the cor
poration indebted in
debted to him in this
suit $137 93
PASSIVE
The outstanding indebtedness
of incorporation is as follows:
Amount due succession of
NJ. L. Bernard, $l37 SO
Amount of outstanding
warrants, 285 %
Amount due to officers of
corporation as balance Of
their salary and other
small claims. 41O SO
Total: 1888 68
ACTIVE:
By cash in treasury, $6l 26
Cash in collectors hand, 1877 so
By amount of licenses of
1878 uncollected, 657 so
BY amount of delinquents
on roll of 1876, 81 20
By amount Of delinquents
on roll Of 1877, As 45l
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-02-23
eooK AND JOB PRINTING
Written br the Advertiser
Still Dear to Memory.
roc.L.H. OF HONOLULU, 81

rocGH. or HONOLULU 81
57- ,-ff pes tius rereTie pins trt'te e's 's''s-'
/ sought u keep thee always neari
still thoug.. our lives be wide apart
y, other name shall be as dear,
A, that which held my captive heart
rbol,-b oceans roll ther tides between,
AMI coming years bring naught but pain
Tn. memory Of what might have been
VIII bring thee to my heart again
No matter what to Us beiallr
OR calm Or rough LIES stormy sea-
A. ivy c!ings ruined wall
80 shan my friendship cling 10 thee.
And should fond echoes fall at last,
In mournfuI cadence your ears,
Remember not these scenes are past
And naught Is left but bitter tears
Love has no hoier theme than this
Love knew fondsr dreams Than ours;
In clusters round farewell kiss,
Fall shadows Of these faded flowers.
Dead leaves they are, whose presence now
No longer cheer the heart or eye
But not my fault this broken vow,
No. mine the sad yet f1nd goodbye.
WN. d. POLLOCK.
san Francisco. Cal Dec. 1st, 1877.
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Postage stamps they wish and their
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~ Business Cards, when PREPAiD FOR A YEAR, are
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&usintss GarOs.
CECIL BROWN,

A TTORSEY AND COUNSELLOR AT la w.
"A NOTARY PUBLIC and Agent for taking Acknowledg-
of Instruments for the Island of Oahu
No 8 Kaahumanu Street, Honolulu, ii. l. fe9 ly
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VARIETY.

san Francisco, Cal, Dec. 1zt, 1877.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-11-15
JosePh's Band.

| Especial correspondence Of the Chicago T'n'es.l
BAXTER SpRINGs. Kan, Oct. IT,
On Tuesday last Mr.. Hayt, commission
er Of indian affairs, accompanied by Mr..
Kingsley, Of the board Of Indian com.
missioners, arrived at the Quapaw
agency, Indian Territory. They came
with reference tolhe grievances of Chief
Joseph, of the Nez Pcrce Indians. Chief
Joseph and his people have never been
satisfied with their removal to the Ter,
titory, but have always insisted On being
returned to their old reservation, ac-
cording to the terms oftheir surrender
to Gems. Howard and Miles. 9'l a'@
This condition the department could
not comply with, as there are thirty two
indictments, in courts there. against
Chief Joseph and his principal men, for
murders committed by them at the be
ginning of their raid; therefore he next
best thing to do was to compromise in
some way satisfactory to the Indians, for
so hong as they are dissatisfied they will
make DO progress in 9civilization The
commissioners propose that Chief Joseph
accompany them to the head waters. Of
the Canadian, in the western part of The
Indian Territory, examine the lands
there, and if he found anything there
which he preferred to their present res
ervation the government would remove
thep there. Joseph accepted the prop
ositioIi and he and His Interpreter,
Chapman, went with them. last night.
The probability is that they will ego
west" as Joseph is obstinate and has
been determined from the first that he
will not renain, here. His principal eb-
ject seems 10 be to make conditions With
the civil as he did with the war depart
ment, believing that if the department
comedies to him the situation of areser.
walton other concessions can be made to
fpllow, the first Of which will probably
be reservation in close proximity ITO
the blanket Indians: second, ponies for
h'mselfand principal warriors, and then,
with tie first grass of the coming Spring,
look out for another raid across Kansas
and Nebraska. to their old, reservation
Our military must know that condition.
al surrenders only lead to treaty stipu-
lations that cannot be kept, and which
if not complied with must end 10 war.
Indians on the warpath must be forced
to an unconditiopal, surrender, must be
deprived of their arms. ponies. and their
anDuities, slipped of their blankets,
breech-coths!I and leggings--put into
citizens clothes, --removed from the in.
fiuenceof blanket Indians placed under
the care Of an efficient. agent who will
put them into dwelling houses, fake
their children from them and educate
them in good manuel labor schools amt
who will make the adults learn to be
self sustaining, law abiding citizensJ
The Modocs, alone. Of all our Indians,
have been 50 handled, and they are the
only tribe on the, cQEt.1ent to day who
are bot Indians. They are n pcaceable.
law abiding industrious, self-sustaining
pes pie, and have oulybaen in the hands
of an agent since their capture in the
lava beds Eve years ago the 18th Of next
month.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-11-15

| The laws dfthe United States.require
that an applicant for naturalization be.
fore he can be admitted to citizenship.
shall show that hehas behaved as a man
OF good moral character during his resi-
dence in this country. Upon an appli.
| cation made to the United States Cir.
cult Court IN Oregon lheld by Judge
Uesdy, the District Judge, this Sum
mer, It appeared that all the other re-
quirepenis of the statute had been com
piled with, but some doubt arose upop
tiIis'subiect Of good moral character. 1t
was proved that, in 1876, the applicant
ad.beeh duly Convicted Of perjury in
an Oregon court, and had been there.
dpon sentenced to FIVE years imprison
ment in The penitentiary. On the other
hand he produced an unqualified pardon
by the Governor Of Oregon, upon which
he was released after an incarceration of
fifteen months, and which was granted
expressly because of doubts as to his
guilt. This pardon he commended, made
his crime as though it never was, and
forbade the Court from regarding the
Judgement of conviction as evidence of
misbehavior. There is certainly strong
authority in tho reports of this view,
but the District Judge refused to adopt
it. Mr.. Justice Field, for example, de-
llyerlng tue opinion of the Supreme
Court IN ex pante Garland ca Wallace
Rep, 3.SOl,) said: "a pardon reaches
both the punishment prescribed for the
,offepce. and the guilt Of the offender;
and when the pardon is full it releases
the punishment aud blots out of exist
ence the guilt, 50 that in the eyes of the
law the offender is as innocent as if he
had never committed the offence,
Judge Deadly held, however, that, not
withstanding this language, the effect of
4 pardon is not Retrospective, ana he
denied the. application to be admitted to
citizenship Er.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1878-11-15
A Strikitl e prophecy =

Z. d
Macauley once said Of America: y
As long as yon have a boundless ex.
tent Of fertile, unoccupied land your la.
boring population will be far more al
ease than the laboring population OF the
old world; but the time will come when
New England will be thickly settled
wages will be low and fuctuate, and
sometimes many, will be out of work
Then your institutions will be brought
to a test. Hard times make the labore1
discontented and turbulent, anil incline
him, to listen withgeagerness to asitators,
who tell HIM that it is monstrous in
Equity dor enc to have a milion while
another cannot get full meal. When
a Legislature 10 to be chosen, on one side
will be a statesman preaching patience
respect for vested rights. strict 9observ-
ance ofpnblici filth. On the other d
demagogse, ranting about the tyranny
Of capitalists aud usurers, asking why
anybody should be permittei to i've in
luxury while thousands of honest people
are in want Of necessaiies. Who will be
likely to be preferred BY this discontent
cd element, and wfiat Sort 81 'legisla
ture will you be likely to expect? /
fear in some such season of adyersity
spoilation will incrasse tlistrcss.9 =, -