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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01

lie compte oficielle du vote
pour gouverneur de POhio, donne
a Foster une majorit6 de 1920
sur Ewing. LIE vote total etait
de 66S,667.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01

I Meridional, tache de me donner
celui du serin, qui me convient
sous tous les rapports. O Eau.
vette! Sur ce, cher redacteur ct
a bientot. PJJrroN
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01

Une ameliora'ion s'est produite
sur le marche a Ia laine. Ii s'est
.fait des ventes considerables des
lainages anglais pour rAmerique,
ct i Y a eu une hausse d 'un penny
par liyre.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01

lelection municipale de Balti
more s'cst pass6e dams la plus
grand ordre. Latrobe, dem, a
ealeVe tous les wards, moins les
lSme ct Gone. sa majorite sur
Hooper, rep, est de 5s99.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01
Lost or Mislaid.

A promisofy note, dated Able
vile, Feb lst 1878. drawn by NJ
and I. BagIey, for $27947, sub
ject to a credit of $lOl.55 on May
18th 1879. The public are here.
by warned against negotiating for
said note.
SOLOMON WISE.
Oct 18th 1879.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01
lie MERIDIONAL,
$2 so. PAR AM. 81 80
POUR JUICE DE DISTRICT.

A mes concitoyens des pdroisses
lafayette ct Tefm1on.
Jai I'hoDneur de vous annoncer
oue je suis candidat aux fonctions
de Juge du 25me District Judi
claire compose dcs paroisses Lafa-
vette ct Vermillon. Jose map
nuyer pres de vous sur ma courte
'carriere de Juge, ct vous deman-
dez votre soutlen ct vos voix, a
rejection du 2 decembre proclaim.
Ed. EUG. MoUToN.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01
commencement 2
Marche.
Bon
Pcopagateur Catholique.

ffopagateuf CathOllque.
Les journaux ont rapporte out
ifEtat de lIowa, avec 100000
habltaats, naval; depense, Tannee
derniere, qu'un million cinquante
mile piastres dams son admins
tration, ct de plus, que la princi-
pale depense await etc consacree
aux secours de Indulgence. Ce
serait un peu moins de soixante-
dix sous par tete. LIE departe.
ment de rExecutif n'aurait coute
que trente. quatre Mile ct quatre
cents piastres.
C'est preSque trop beau pour le
croire, ct dependant on nous dome
des chiffres.
Celia voudrait dire que l'heureux
Etat a en- place que des citoyens
complement desinteresses qui, en-
recompense de leurs services pu.
bllcs, ou bien font remise a l'Etat |
de leur salaire, on bien men prele-
vent que juste la somme equiva-
lente a celles qu'ils gagneraient,
sils pouvaient yaquer a d'autres
occupations lucratives.
La Louisiana peut nous donner
,et exemple de desinteressement
It d'economie. LIE fera.t-elle :?
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01

LIE roi des Birmans qui Went de
mourn laisse 81 enfants vivants
sur ITO quill await Gus, ct 42 fem.
mes II autres de ses femmes
Font proc6de dams la tombe.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01
TAM-TAM.
G. A. MoU1ssET.

Nous recevons du vieux Pap
Caron, qui a bien voalu quitter vi
instant sa barque moyennant UNI
indemnite de 500 dollars en- bon
de paroisse la, lettre suivant d,
R0i des enters. Ellie est datee dc,
bords de Get x! Non, pardon dt
Styx:
Au Me,idiona ct d ses hcte,rs.
Debout poetes sursum corda!
FaiS entendre 8 Brass Band tes
accords les plus discordants ton.
ne 8 crosse caisse faites courrir
sur lie clavier vos jolies critics
roses, charmants demons qu'on
nommc demoiselles.
Remonte yers ia source, 8 Yer
million.
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n met un adtre au-dessous de II q
leds ct lie tour est joue. Regarde D
omme c'est joli \
los ifaoeais redlsa'ent tn taches de RI
ma Ia connaisso,. oa,,aI :, 80
s'ls visnnent Jean. q
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01
(Comamunigue.)

Far decision du 3me bureau inu
tile en- date du 5me lundi couran,
mols, il a etc resoIu que desormais
pour JOUR- du .droit de voter, ii
faudrait produire aux commissai.
res une Photographic en- tout par
faltement conforme a roriginal.
On demande des Daguerres.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01

QuIconqne est richie est tout sans
sagesse il est sage,
Ii a sans rien savoir la sagesse en-
partage,
Ii a l'esprit, le ceur, lie mfrite, lie
rang,
La ver!u, la valeur, la dignite, lie
sang.
Ainsi parlait Boileaa qui buvait
du vim a la table de Louis XIV.
Alusi pense celui qui ma eueIque.
fois pas I'LL verre d'eau a Sc METRE
SOUS la dent.
G. A. MOUIssET.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01
Special Notice to
Bayou Vermilion
Shippers.

p hGAe | nave bought the Str
fHssssaaEa7I;7a5 SEXCHANGE E and will run
:. her direct to New Orleans
via Harvey's canal. Freight received AZ
New Orleans daily, at Morgan's old T.cbe
rates, storage free. ,o''
Apply to j. E. Carlin. agent at New
orleans, or to the undersigned at Abbe-
vile, Louisiana.
SOLOMON WISE.
April IL. l979.-tf.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01
f. U. Leblanc.
EGTOE

-,, oOAA-LC CIOh,
VIII give prompt attention to
an accounts or notes placed in his
hands Tor collection.-oct Il-'79.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01

Chew Jackson's Best Sweet
Navy Tobacco.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-11-01
ID. K. PERRET.
COMJNlSSION MERCHANT
No. 9 St. Louis Street,
New Orleans.
CONsIGNMENrs m

CoNsIGNMENTs OF
-. Cotton, Sugar, Moiasses, Rice,
Haaes, and other produce solicited.
uo the sale of which prompt at1en ion
Will be given ard satisfactory retnrns
mads.-Maroh s'7s-ly.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
HUXLEY ON INDUSTRIAL EDU-
III s5s+' ae-t CATION

IF lad in an elementary school showed
signs of special capacity, would try to
provide him with the means of continuing
his education after his daily working life
had begun. If in the evening classes he
developed special capabilities in the direc-
ton OF science or of drawing, would try
to secure him an apprentice to some trade
in which those powers would have appli-
cabiity Or if he chose to become teach
er, he should have the chance of SO doing.
Finally, to the lad of genius, the one in a
million, would make accessible the high
est and most complete training the coun
try could afford. Whatever that might
cost, depend upon it the investment would
be good one. | weigh my words when
say that, if the nation could purchase
potential Watt orIDavy or Faraday, at the
cost of a hundred thousand pounds down,
he would be dirt cheap at the money. It
is a mere commonplace and every day
piece of knowledge that what these three
men did has produced untold millions of
wealth IN the narrowest economical sense
of the word.-The Sanitarian.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
WHEAT-SALT-CLOVER

All farmers can raise wheat to some ex-
tent-but not one in hundred succeeds
to the extent that is really attainable.
Perhaps there is no one crop of all the
farmers production that is so little under
Stood orrather in which the requisite con-
dltlons Tor its best success are so imper-
fectly understood; or, in view of its uni
versal importance, in which so little effort
and study are devoted to fully understand
all its requirements. Lebig and others
best informed on the subject, tell us that
soils impoverished of their alkaline and
phosphate ingredients cannot possibly
produce first-class crops of wheat in
quantity and quality.
Liebig told us that the old lands of Vir-
ginia and Maryland, which had become.
from long cropping, incapable of ielding
good crops of wheat, were so simply from
being exhausted of their potash, and that
only by restoring that property to the soils
could they be restored 10 fertility. A very
small per cent. of potash only is needed.
but that little is absolutely essential. and
must be supplied in some way. In local
tiles where wood ashes, commercial pot
ash or sal soda are not easily and cheaplv
obtainable, caustic lime mixed into the soil
is, perhaps the cheapest and rcadiest wav
to revive worn out land, while the blow
ing-in of clover, peas, buckwheat or some
other green crop rich in alkaline substan-
ces. 1t is we'll known that lands which
overlie, or are contiguous to limestone for.
nations, last much longer under CROPPING
with wheat than lands where there is no
limestone connected with them
Here there is foundation and startino
point for continuously successful wheat
growing. A good rank crop of LARGE red
clover, treated with two to three hundred
pounds of plaster lgypsum) per acre in
the warm fall. and then as much more in
April or May; and then in July treated to
5 or 10 bushels of lime per acre. then all
plowed, rolled and narrowed and seeded
to wheat soaked in alt-brine- put in
with drill, is preparation that in most
cases will give three to four successive
'heavy crops of wheat, with only the an.
pllcation of five bushels of lime to the
acre, at each seeding, and two hundred
pounds OF plaster the acre each spring. in
Aprll, or earlier, in March. Fhis is the
cheapest and surest means known to the
writer for keeping the land in a condition
to produce good wheat, year after year.
But from various facts, acquired from
both experience and observation. il is
known that salt will do more in propor,
ton to cost to preserve healthy soil. healthy
gram, and destroy insects, than any other
ingredient yet tried very few worms or
bugs can live in the soil where there is
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23

The farmers in Southwest Mississippi
and other sections of the State are begin
ming to speak out on the cotton seed ques-
ton. They are opposed to selling seed to
she oil companies at the prices fixed by
the latter, and are taking steps to hold
back for higher prices. 1t would be bet
ter not to sell at all.
We have just received for publication
the following resolution from Jefferson
county: .....
That we, the members of the Neigh
bors' Club, do solemnly promise, each to
the other, that we will not sell, nor permit
the same to be done by those over whom
we have any control, any cotton seed to
the cotton seed oil mills or their agents, so
Dong as the oil mills continue to fix and
keep down the price of seed.
J. D. MCCALEB, Sec'y.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
THE GRANGE NOT DEAD.

Editor Patron. | wish to assure the
Hon. w. P. Harris, and the crest of man
kind" that the Grange is not dead in Clai-
borne county We have three live, active
and progressive Oranges in this county,
that have no idea of giving up the ghost
yet; on the contrary, we are making ac-
cessions to our numbers, and for some
time past a renewed life and greater ener-
gy have been manifest in all our borders.
Recently, old Pattona, No. al, received 9
petitions at one meeting, and from the best
material in our vicinity. She has had, first
and last, about 1870 members; lost by re-
moval and death about 20, and some 80
weak material that worked in during the
rush of 70 and IA stand suspended. We
number and report SO members. -E ae
Flower Hill Grange, No. II3, numbers,
l believe, about 90 members, embracing
all the best people within its limits, who
were noted before the war for wealth, and
yet for culture and refinement. She has
ever maintained an active and flourishing
condition, and has no thought of giving
up the ship. 1st
Economy. No. "a, has been in a Ian
gushing condition the past two years, but
has been revived this year, with every
promise of future life and usefulness. She
has been receiving applications at each
meeting, and has class of five to initiate
at the next She numbers less members
than Pattona and Flower HILL but has fine
material and broad field to work in, which
with the spirit now moving her, may soon
put her ahead of her sister Oranges. They
| have on foot the starting of a cooperative
store at Rocky Springs, while Flower Hill
and Pattona will soon have one in opera
! ton at Port Gibson. III. g.
| WE ARE NOT DEAD! A.
Claiborne county, August 10.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
THE PIG.

Black or flesh colored pigs are freest
from skin diseases in hot climate. The
choice is practically between the Essex
and Berkshires for males with which to
improve the native stock of hardy grub.
bers of the root or die variety. Those who
have tried the former have been delighted
at first, but after few years began to re-
call with longing the lean hams and slim
but solid and havorous bacon of the old
horse breed. The trouble with the
Essex pigs for the South is that they are
not active enough. They are the eat-and-
sleep to sleep-and- wake-to eat kind, and
their grades are, of course, like them. The
side fat is supurb, and so is the leaf lard,
and so far the breed is all that could be
desired; but the hams and shoulders are
too fat for profit, and the ham is not mar
bled with fat like the Berkshires. These
1.-THE Berks) are much more wide awake,
less easily controlled, but good foragers.
Their grades are a wonderful improve
ment upon the original stock, may be
made very fat, and yet the proportion
between the fat and lean hams, shoul
ders and side pork or bacon, is such
as to develop and preserve the excellences
of the meat. The hams are large and rich
ana JUICY, with dlI1used rat. berkShlreS
are not quite SO easily fattened when
penned and systematically fed as the Es
sex grade, but they will take much better
care of themselves in the woods, and when
penned or fastened, may be finished off
with half the feed the original ''land
pixies would require. With many North
ern and Western breeders the Eessex is a
more profitable pig than the Berkshire
because his nature leads him to take little
exercise, so that all he eats goes to flesh
and fat Respiration, which, if rapid, re-
duces fat greatly, is with him never accel
Grated by moving about, and with plenty
offeed, the sole burden of life is to digest
it. This breed is pre- eminent among the
black breeds, and exceeded by none as
fat producers.-1Amerfcan 4ericulturia
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
NO MIDDLE GROUND.

While we have no hesitancy in saying
that as time runs on the permanency OF
the Grange becomes the more sure, yet
the organization ought not to rest satlshed
with the fact that it is on firm basis.
There is still something more wanting.
Its extent and influence should begeom-
'mensurate with the magnitude and I'M m
sportance of this industry and the numbers
employed in Its development. The reason
is plain. 1t is only by the general dlitfu-
sion of knowledge and the sustaining
power of cooperation that class interests
and class rights can be protected. The
country has only recently walked up to
the fact that the farmer is somebody. and
his importance to the State, politically
and financially, recognized. Let him be
simply producer and he will fall back
into the position of toiler, with no ann
bition beyond piece of bread, and in
spite of himself be made the tool OF de-
signing and covetous men, The farmer
cannot afford to let the Grange stagnate.
-Grang Bulletin.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23

much salt; when applied to growing veo
etables salt will kill them, except in win
ter when they are frozen; but salt when
narrowed into the soil at the time of seed
ing, or before the young grain is up, !,
highly beneficial; also, when sowed on 70
pastures, meadows and growing grain in
the winter it is sure to secure luxurian,
growth in the spring. In large major
ty of instances where tried, this use of sal.
on the wheat crop has prevented all mil
dew and rust, besides doing much to pre-
vent the depredations of various insects
Reports from Tennessee, Missouri, Ind.
ana, and other States where rust has been
most Injurious, state that it is almost
wholly prevented, particularly where the
seed is soaked in salt-brine and salt ap
Piled literally to the soil about the time
of seeding. e--.
We have large mass of testimony from
both English and American farmers who
believe and state that salt applied at the
rate of toto 20 bushels, and in some in
stances over 80 bushels per acre, gives
more advantageous results than have been
derived from the same cost of anything
else applied.
The Scriptures tell US that "salt is the
savior of the earth," land it is true, and as
much materially as scripturally. 1t has
come to be very much used by the farm.
ers in Onondaga County, N. Y, about
Syracuse and Saline, and also in south
eastern portion of Illinois.
The farmers in this portion of Michigan
have great facilities for obtaining salt in
abundance at small expense, and salt
boilers would advance their own Interests
by encouraging and making it an object
for farmers to use it generally; it is prob.
able the supply will never-not in an age
be exhausted, and it is equally proba.
BILE, under this new use the demand will
never be lessened, or the market glutted
To pitulate-salt literally applied
to land has the effect to make grass and
grain more luxuriant and sure of growth.
by strengthening the fertility of the soil. Ii
removes much of the dangers to the crop
by destroying worms and bugs; and by
applying it to the seed as well as soil il
has considerable tendency to prevent rust
smut and other diseases, besides killing
the Larvae and eggs of wheat insects in
| the seed. l...
One man a few years ago, in New
Hampshire, applied 10 bushels to FIVE acres
and derived so much and marked benefit
that he applied 1000 bushels to his farm
the next two years.-D. sc, in M. Farmer
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
SUBSTITUTING MUSCLE FOR
- RAIN .-.rs

On Tuesday we received from Mr.. G..
Z. Coleman, one of our dashing and ener.
getic prairie planters, three ears of new
corn, taken at random from wagon load
sent in from one of his farms, that were
perfect beauties. The grains were larger
by nearly a third than the usual average,
each ear containing IS rows with 20
grains to the row
Mr.. Coleman has in about 900 acres Of
corn, and 200 acres of cotton, and claims
that his corn crop is without exception
the finest he ever made, while his cotton
at the present time promises to exceed all
his previous ventures with the tickle weed.
1hls crop shows what can be accomplish
ed IN our rich prairies in seasons of drouth.
Up to the last week in July, Mr.. Cole,
mans fields had not been blessed with a
drop OF rain for over six weeks, but du-
rlng the drouth he acted upon the princi-
pie that the cotton could better stand neg.
lect than the corn, and kept the plows
moving in the latter, and the result is sue:
cess with both crops.
This was the plan generally pursued in
the days of slavery, but the average freed
man is the poorest corn maker in the
world, and it requires the best of manage.
ment to induce him to leave his "money
crop, the cotton, to pillow his corn, unless
there is the most palpable reason for it
ExaDztner, aberdeen, Miss.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
Worthy Master Darden, of the Missis


sippi State Grange, is making vigorous
campaign in Southwest and Central Mis-
sissippi, and with splendid effect. He is
greeted by large crowds, and his speeches
excite an enthusiasm, deep and earnest
interest in the cause, that never before ex-
listed in the State. The members of the
Order have unbounded confidence in
Worthy Master Darder. His acknowl-
edged ability, the force snd eloquence of
his public addresses, the fidelity, the zeal
and unselfsh patriotism that have marked
his years of active service in the cause,
have won not only the confidence but the
love and esteem of the farmers OF Missis-
sippi He has never lost confidence IN
in the cause; when its friends feared and
its enemies boosted that the Grange was
dying, he redoubled his efforts, and sue
ceeded in reviving the hopes of thousands
who were ready to surrender to the enc
my. The Improvement in the Order in
this State, now rapidly developing, is due,
more than to any other cause, to the zeal,
the enthusiasm and the fearlessness of
Worthy Master Darden, and the farmers
of Mississippi may well gather around
him and strengthen his hands for the no
bic work to which he has been called.
We publish letters this week from Clai
borne county, and hope to present others
in our next from Rankin, Scott and New
ton, in which counties Worthy Master
Darden addresses the farmers this and
next week.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
CLAIBORNE COUNTY.

Editor Patron. Worthy Master Oar
den, of our State Grange, met the Patrons
of this county at Centre Grove, near
Rocky Springs, on yesterday, the 9th, &C
cording to appointment, and notwith-
standing rain from 81 to 10 o'clock, a
large audience was assembled to hear him,
and it was continually being augmented
until IT,. In view of the bad weather, /
was surprised to see SO many out, but was
told that had the day clear, one of
the largest turn outs of the people in that
section would have been made
The Worthy Master spoke about an
hour and a half, and kept his audience so
enrapt that the babies forgot to cry. He
explained the principles and objects of
our Order fully and clearly, and most for
chilly set forth the duty of its members to
themselves, to their Order and their coun-
try; and here he evidently touched chord
in every breast present. as he made appa-
rent to every one the evils and wrongs
that we farmers have suffered from un-
friendly legislation and laws, the result OF
electing lawyers, who have neither interest
nor sympathy in our calling, to legislate
and make laws for us. A large number
of those present had never heard a Grange
speech before, and | heard many express
their delight with both the speaker and
the speech: some said that they would join
the Grange without delay.
After a most sumptuous dinner 1.-THE
people of Rocky Springs district are ia
nous for good cooking and good living,)
Bro. I. J. Carver, the worthy Manager at
New Orleans of the Southwestern Coop
erative Association, delivered an address
on cooperation, setting forth the object
of and manner of conducting Co;opera-
tive Associations, which was well received,
being information much desired by many,
as they are about to start two stores in
this county.
Bro. Carver made many friends here, as
by his pleasant and urbane manner he is
calculated to do wherever he may go. |
trust that he and Bro. Darden may meet
with the cordial greeting they had yester-
day at all their appointments. ALPHA.
Claiborne county, Aug. 10.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-23
FIGHTING THE MONEY POWER.
Richard Trevilick, of Detroit, Michi-

gan, says:
This grasping money power stops at
nothing. 1t has spread desolation over
this glorious land. 1t has covered the
farms with the dark clouds of mortgages.
1t has driven thousands of our mechanics
from their homes forever. 1t has filled
our jails with prisoners, our land with
tramps, and bright and once happy
homes have been turned into scenes Of
desolation and sorrow. Workingmen,
tins is the power we must fight, and
never cease until money shall become the
servant of man, and man, created in the
likeness of God, shall be master This
you can do if united. Then, clasp hands
for the fight, and swear by Him that liveth
that the tyrant's power shall be broken
and human deliverance shall come. 1t is
this tyrant, the Money Power, that strikes
down every man that lifts his voice in be-
half of liberty