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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-08-23

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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-08-23

-D'apres une statistique pu'
bliee par les journaux allemands
la Vile de Berlin compte actuelle
ment l.O62.579 habitants.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-08-23

!. anne, favorisee par les
!, noa,se / vue d'eil. La
a 4e.leuent active Ia seve.
co general presente On
h plus satisfaisants.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-08-23

By examining the books Of the
secretary, showing the number and
amount Of licenses issued for the
year 1879, aud turned over to the
Collector, and by a further exam
ination of the treasurer's books
and the receipts given by the trea-
surer to the Collector, the Coun.
Gil are enabled to make ont the
following statement or account t, Of
the corporation against the Collec'
tor and have adopted the same as
a basis of settlement with him.
The Cons. Collector is charged
with licenses of 1879 amounting
tn 5 965 OC
To j Of tax on dogs l "
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-08-23
CHAussUREs.-Nous dirons aux

CHAUsSURES.-NOus dlrOnS aux
dandies, ou pour mieux dire, aux
amateurs de bonne ct elegante
chaussure que notre entreprenant
ct zel6 coocltoyeu A. D. Laborde,
q constamment en- main un assor.
timent complet de soulicrs, bot
tines, ETC., provenant dune des
plus .fortes maisons de cordonne-
rie de la Vile. La chaussure est
garantie ct, en- fait d'el@gance ct
dc solidit6, unit,le d'aller ailleurs.
Jeunes.gens, meme de tout age
allez chez NJ. Laborde ct la chaus'
sure vons sera taite sur commando
4 nm prix tres rebuilt defiant aims
toute concurrence locale.
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Total charged against him eee 90
Cr.

Total charged against % h'" 700 W
Bv receipts of w B White, Trea- 7
surer, for cash / vouchers $434 10
Licenses returned l5O w
R C Smedes. atty for licen'
ses turned over for suit 1872 81
Com u per cent on 434.7O 81 60
Killing and hauling out
dead dogs, &c., ~ 5o
Attys fees for defense . w
Balance in his hands ~
Total : 96e 90
On motion Of Mr.. Wise, reso'v.
ed that q committee be appointed
to receive the report and settle
/ with w B White, treasurer, and
to receive the report and settle
with the same party as justice OF
the peace said committee to re-
port at the next meeting OF this
body. 80.
Messrs. S.Wise and J. J. Aba
die were appointed a committee
for that purpose.
IN motion the Council adjourn
. ed to the next regular meeting.
A. D. MARTIN. Mayor.
w. B. WHITE, Secretary.
Chew Jackson's Best .svee'
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-08-23
Colonie Francaise
Dams l'Arkansas.

100000 acres de terres a ven.
Dire i prix reduits avec placements
faciles, cans pOuest de lArkansas
LIE chemin de fer Hitchcock ct
Fort.Smith, ainsi que le fieuve
Arkansas, traversent toute Ia val
lee. LIE sol est generalement
tres fertile ; le climat doux ct tenn
p6re.
LIE cotton, le tabac. le chanvre,
le froment, le mais, Forge, l'avoine,
les pommes de terre. le treae ct le
foin y viennent tres bien, ainsi que
Ia vigne ct les arbres fruitiers.
Environ 200 600 acres de ces
terres, situ&es le long du chemin
de fer, an Nord du feuve Arkan-
sas, ont etc comedies aux Peres du
st-Esprit pour la fondation dune
colonie.
A SO miles de Litte.Rock, pres
de la Station Morilton, non loin
de Louisbourg ct sur un magnif-
Que plateau, s'etendant vers le
Nord, les Peres du St.Esprit ont
reserve $4,000 acres pour les co.
lions francais. Une eglise ct IN
convent sont en- vote de cohstruc'
ton pres de Morilton ct une sec
d onde eglise francaise Va stre CON
struite pres de Springfield 10 mil
les plus loin, des que le besoin sen
fera sentir.
Avis aux families FRANCHISES de-
sirant acquerir une belle propriete,
=" i pen de frais, dams le voisinage
dune eglise catholique.
Pour plus amples information
on peut s'adresser !
w. D. SLACK, ou a
MICHEL BRAUN,
Land Office, L. R. & F. s. R'y., q
Little Ro.k, Arkansas, ou aux
Peres du St-Esprit 4 Morilton.
% novembre T8.
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5000 month clear profit made
easily by agSnts. AGENTS wanted every.
where. Men and women, Boys and
Girls. Lntire time or spare moments
day time or evenings. Everybody wants
il, and every family will buy It. Big
cash pay. leasant employment. Ex.
elusive territory. In TACT the best
agency ever offered. Circular and terms
FREE on application. CoNrIETE OUTFITS
nailed. postpaid, on receipt Of One Dol
lar and Fifty Cents. Send for 1t and
make money. Address
The BEVERLY COMPANY,
/ 978. Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-08-23

In settlement with the sheriff on
judgment against Mrs Mur'agh,
part Of the judgment being paya'
BILE in warrants, l accepted as war
rant the receipt Of S. Wise for
|$5 O5, as being that much paid on
warrant No. $50 which he holds
against the corporation.
The above is respectfully sub
mitted.
July "a, 1879.
r. G. SMEDEs,
Corporation Atty.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1879-08-23

Chew Jackson's Best Sweet
Navy Tobacco.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30
He Didn't Come Ii.

A very good and pious-looking young
man applied for a position in well-known
store in a neighboring town last week.
A fter he had introduced himself and made
his business known, the proprietor inform
ed him that he would like to have CLERK
if he could get one that would suit him.
81 suppose you 60 to church, eh" he com
meaced.
"Yes, sir"
"Do YOU drink" " continued the mer-
chant cycling him closely.
"Never."
"Do YOU use tobacco in any form'"
Here the Young man pushed the quid
into the roof Of his mouth, and replied
with a smile that was childlike and bland
al never use the weed and never did.
consider it the lowest and most shocking
habit that a man can be addicted to-,
"Do YOU frequent the race courses:
"No, sir; never"
"Do YOU go to theaters, dog-fghts, ol
boxing exhibitions"
"Ncyer was at any in my life" was The
emphatic reply.
"Can YOU tell the ace of diamonds from
the king of clubs?, 49,
"I know nothing whatever OF caras!
"Do you ever bet"
"No sir; don't"
Suppose, said the merchant ia maj
should offer to bet $1,000 to $40 that
three legged goat could outrun gray
hound would you take him?"
"No, sir"
"Then you wont do for this establish
,,ept. we don't want you- we have n
use for such bright business intellect
That youth won't be quite such mooe
of perfection next time.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30
Editorial Spinnings,

Babies are quite fashionable again.
A Sitting Bull (fnch) in the hand is
worth two in the tush.
The report that the "end man" of the
minstrel troupe has the bone SPAWN is only a new
gag"
The young gentleman who fell in love
broke his heart and laceraed his sensibilties in u
fearful manner.
BulI-dog-ing will take the place of
bull doing during the autumn months at fash
ionable watering places.
Hobby-h0r5e- tilities have been instl-
tuted against England and Germany by manu-
featuring firm OF this city.
The young poet who wrote an owed
was sent back for the old mans indorsement be-
fore he could get discounted.
An elopement was prevented the other
evening out at the West End by the ladys dentists
failure to send her a new set OF false teeth in
time.
The odious male creatures who 90 tC
the watering places year after year and never
propose are going to be sat down on severely
after this season.
The young man who wanted to be an
angel says he is not particular about it just at thi
time, as he has got acquainted with the youut
ladies across the way
The young lady who was about to com
nit suicide from unrequited affection, changed
her mind when she got an invitation to picni
from another ladys beau.
The weather was so precedentedly
| hot for n few DAYS during this month that III
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30
A Canal to Europe.

The Scientific American says that the
proposed Huron and Ontario Ship Canal,
after making due allowance for tolls,
would save in the cost of shipping grain
from Chicago to Liverpool, close upon s..
a ton. A cargo of grain shipped from Chi
cago through Sault st. Marie Canal,
Lakes Huron and Erie and the Erie Canal
by New York to Liverpool, would tray
erse distance of 1000 miles. The same
cargo passing through the proposed canal,
and going by the st. Lawrence Canals by
way Of Quebec, would only have to trav-
erse a distance of 3766 miles, saving of
no less than S34 miles. Even compared
with the Welland Canal, the gain in dis
tance is very great From Chicago to
Quebec by the Welland Canal is I,soo
miles, 'while by the Huron and Ontario
Ship Canal it would be 1880 miles, a saw
ing of about $50 miles.
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To BE CONTINUED.
The Butcher Boy and the Bakers Girl.
Peoria Journal

1t was down in the yeast part of the city.
He was bully butcher boy-she was the
pie-ous daughter OF the German baker
next door, with eyes like currants, and her
yellow hair twisted on the back OF her
head like a huge cruller. They leaned
toward each other over the backbone OF
the separating railing. He casting Sheep S
ewes at her, while hers turned on him with
a provoking roll.
"NIeat me tonight beeffore-q quarter to
ten" said he.
ooh, dough-nut ask it" said she.
81 make no bones about it, said he
"You'rc not well-bread,' said she.
sOnly sweet-bread," said he.
"Don't egg me or" said she.
a never sausage a girl. Don't keep me
on tcndcrhooks!7 y said he, quite chop.iallen
"Why don't you wear that dear flour
gave v0u?" asked she.
"Pork -quoi2" asked he.
ooh, knead | sayi" asked she.
"That don't suit me-" said he.
"You're crusty. only wanted to cracke
Ioke," said she. =,
"You gave me a cut-the cold shoulder,
said he.
"Ah, you don't loaf me" sighed she;
"Veal see. III cleavc to you, and NJ
mis- stcak-if you have money" said he.
~ can make a bun dance" said she.
"Then no more lamb entations," ," said he
"You shall be my rib"
DWELL donew said she.
And their arms embraced like pretze
So his cake was not all dough; she liked
man of his kidney; and being good liver
they will no doubt live on the fat OF tn
land, raisin lots Of children. This worl
is queer tumble, but love seems "brea
in the bone"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

in this case that Captain Merriman, of
the bark John Zittleson, left Birming-
ham for New York, April 2Sth, with a
crew of eight men and boy, that for
the first twenty-four hours out of port
the men were allowed no rest, that they
asked the Captain for watch and watch,
that is four hours on and four hours off
duty, and that in reply to this request
the Captain informed them that they
must either work or be put in irons.
A man by the name of Mallcy replied
that it was impossible for them to work
longer without rest. He was immediate
ly clapped in irons. -Four Others were
also ironed and placed below the half
deck, space three and half feet high,
and the hold closed. The place was dark
and the air sufocating. The men were
kept in irons respectively three days,
four days, five days, ten days, and NAL
10y twelve days. For forty hours they
had nothing to eat and for over fifty
hours not a drop of water to drink. AT
the end of the forty hours fast they were
given three and half crackers to be di-
vided between the five. The next day
they received four crackers, and on the
third day each person received one.
As diversion for Malloy and one OF
the other men by the name of Johnson
they were taken on deck the second day
and strapped up by the wrists for an
hour. A rope was made fast to the irons
on their arms and run over pulley, SC
that their toes could just touch the deck
Each lurch of the ship sent them stag
gering across the deck, causing the irons
to sink into the flesh. When Malloy wa'
finally released he could no
stand. On the twelfth day
he was brought on deck ane
told by the Captain to get down on hi
knees and ask his pardon. This Mallo.
had the nerve to refuse, notwithstandin:
the state of weakness he was in, and h'
was finally permitted to return to hi
work.
On the arrival of this vessel in Ney
York the Seamen appealed to U. S. Ship
ping Commissioner Duncan for redress
He awarded them damages ranging il
amount from $l25 to $50 each. Captail
Merriman, refusing to pay this award
his case will now go before Court, a
whose hands, it is to be sincerely hopeC
in the cause of civilization, he vii
get his deserts.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30
Inquisitiveness.
lHarpers Monthly,1

The man who wants to know every
thing. We have all seen him. Have all
"been there" as they say in the beautiful
West. A dear son Of New England hav-
ing piled newcomer in the mining re-
gion of Nevada with every conceivable
question as to why he visited the gold re-
gion his hopes, means, prospects, etc,
finally asked him if he had family.
"Ycs, Sir" was the reply, al have a
wife and six children, and l never saw
one of them"
Then there was brief silence, after
which the bore commenced: twas you
ever blind, Sir"
"No, Sir"
"Did you marry widow"
"No, Sir"
Another pause.
"Dd understand you to say you had
wife and six children living in New
York, and had never seen one of them?'
"Fact."
"IIow can that be2"
"Why," was the reply, lone of them
was born after / left!"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

What the street cars insist on is that a
mans five senses shall be active while
doing business with them.
Patti is looking around for another hus-
band Let's see, what were the names OF
the last four or five2 These prima donnas
who marry on this European plan, seem
10 have real nice time, till they begin TO
get old.
If Pocohantus had kept her hands of,
and let the old man belted that John
Smith over tine head, it would have been
tough on ST Louis The city directory
wouldn't have been half so big The idea
Of three hundred pages OF Smiths
Our genial old friend, Wilbur F. Storey,
of the Chicago "Times," has returned
from Europe much improved in health.
The paralysis that he was stricken with in
The lower part of Herzagonia has entirely
disappeared, and he is in condition TO go
right TO the case and set type as we'll as
over Next to TIE SrN the "Times" ha'
probably mighty big circulation,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

Many persons look upon celery as
plant for the rich and luxurious. 1t is
just as good for the laboring man, and for
the farmers hard working wife. 1t is easy
to raise, and may be made to last through
the winter in good cellar. Sow the
seed in beds or boxes, and prick out into
other beds once or twice to give more
room. 1t may then be planted in trench
es, or in rows on the surface, giving space
enough to bank up for blanching in au-
tumn. Any good seed catalogue will
give directions for handling.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30
A Paying Railroad.

Perhaps the most paying thing in this
country is the New York Elevated Rail
road. In a recent interview its President
says: This road carries 10000 passengers
day, bringing in $1,000 every twenty
four hours to the company. If this rate
continues all the year, and the President
thinks the road is just in its infancy yet
it will bring in considerably over $4,000
900, and as the road cost but $4,ooo,ooo
this rate will certainly be profitable.
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The Cincinnati Star,

THE DAILY STAR is served by carriers
to their subscribers in the City of Cincin.
natl and in all important Western cities
and towns for IL CENTS PER WEEK.
payable to the carrier. Or the paper will
be mailed, postage paid, to any part of
the country for so CENTS PER MONTH.
$6 per annum.
THE STAR is the only STRICTLY INDE-
PENDENT NEWSPAPER published in
Cincinnati. 1t is taken and read by
people of all parties and shades of opin,
ion, and it seeks to present the news OF
allkinds fairly and faithfully, with Justice
to all and with especial favor to none
THE WEEKLY STAR-$l PER YEAR,
circulates in all parts of the country, and
is tirst-class family newspaper.
ADVERTISING RATES-In Daily. 1ok
CENTS per line, or 81 per square of eight
lines, agate measure. In Weekly, q
CENTS per line.
Address THE STAR
250 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, O.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30
JUGURTHA.

How cold are thy baths, Apollol
Cried the African monarch, the splendid,
AS down to his death in the hollow,
Dark dungeons of Rome he decended,
Uncrowned, unthroned, unattended;
How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
Cried the Poet, unknown, unbefriended,
AS the vision that lured him to follow,
With the mist and darkness blended,
And the dream of his life was ended
How cold are are thy baths, Apollo.
-Longfellow in the International.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

THE grotesque intelligence comes to us
from New Mexico that Col. Hatch,
Of the Ninth Regiment, of the
U. S. Cavalry, is seriously discussing
the propriety of mounting a portion OF
his command on ostriches. The idea is
not new, since some genius few years
ago imported into New Mexico eighteen
of these ungainly creatures for this pur-
pose. and these have multiplied until the
flock of birds or beasts, as you may be
pleased to call them, numbers one hun
dred and seventeen, that Col. Hatch
now proposes to utilize as above stated
There will be one advantage in the com,
pany thus mounted, namely-they are
feet of foot, and if it shall chance III an
engagement that they run away from the
battle instead of towards it, they will pre-
serye that number of our heroic soldiers
from being killed by the remorseless In
dians. "He who 6ghts and runs away
ION an ostrich) may live to fight anothe
day."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

oCan women dissect dead bodies in a
neat and workmanlike manner" has
been satisfactorily answered by Doctors
Lila G. Bedell and Sue A. White, of Chi
.ago, who recently conducted post-mor-
tenn examination in the presence OF SIX
professional gentlemen and a number OF
spectators, upon the body of a man whose
case had been very interesting but very
obscure. The operation was acknowledge
by all to have been well performed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30
VERY PLEASANT READING.

It makes pleasant reading for a
person of ordinary sensibility, the re-
citaJ of treatment to which American
sailors are subject to occasionally on an
American vessel by an American Cap
tain. A case is now before United States
Commissioner Osborn, in New York,
which develops features of torture in
Aicted upon seamen that would do credit
to the real and mythical histories OF the
Spanish Inquisition, 1t is in evidence
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

DOM PIATT proposes to hire a hall at
Toledo next Saturday night and talk in
it. In country like this there is no lie,
gitimate way to prevent a man from hir-
ing hall end yelling around in it as
much as he pleases, but the privileges of
a free country guarantee the people,
against being forced to listen to him.
Just here is where the people of Toledo
have the best Of y. P.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30


Miss Cecilia Lawrence, granddaughter
Of John Lawrence, who was for many
years Treasurer of the Connecticut Col
ony, died in Hartford last Wednesday.
She was past ninety years old, and had
spent all her life in The wooden house in
which she was born until last March,
when it was partly torn down to make
room for new block. She had not been
out of it since 1856, when she attended a
funeral. She died of that most unavold
able of diseases, old age. She was very
intelligent person, retaining her facultie;
to the end, reading the newspapers and
keeping herself acquainted with the in
terests of the world She and her his
toric house had much that was romantic
, about them and both have appeared in a
novel of New England life.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

THERE is one comfort as we sweIter
through the torrid heats of the end of
June and the first three-quarters Of July
and crowd on toward the beginning of
August, and that is, that we approach
the period where the nights are refresG-
ing even if the days are hot. August in
this latitude is rarely 50 oppressive a,
July, while the August nights are al
most invariably pleasant for sleeping.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

New YORK has got a tolerably search
ing tenement-house law, but, like many
other excellent laws, it has not
been very vigorously enforced here
tofore. The Board of Health of
that city has, however, bought new
broom, so to speak, and is making prep,
arations to thoroughly enforce the law
A corps of inspectors has been appointed
to make a survey of all the tenement
houses of that city and report, and We
may expect in few days to see the ful
fy.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30
How Game II Theree

High up in the Sierra Nevada noun
tains there has been found the wreck of
vessel resembling Chinese junck' The
timbers appear to be of camPhor wood,
and the fastenings are of copper, but the
rigging is of course all gone. Near by
lay the bones of human beings. The val
ley is known to have been an inland sea.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30
A New Want.
Oil City Derrick.

T'V7h'
We want to exchange with some papers
that don't tell their readers when a resi-
dent dies that "he was an old and respect
ed citizen whose death is regretted by the
entire community, and his demise will
leave vacancy that can never be filled"
1t makes the people who are left behind
feel that they are paltry set of villains
whose deaths will be announced by the
ringing of bells, booming Of guns, and a
general "whoop 'er up boys; old Jones has
kicked the bucket
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

THE tramp who butchered the Defoor
family in Georgia left behind him a
scrap of the Cincinnati Gazette, This
may not furnish clue to the murderer
but it will make Watterson the happiest
man in America.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

THE young men Of this country whose
interest is concentrated upon the eccen-
tricities of little leather-covered ball,
can perhaps see a foreshadowing of their
fate in that of Mark Gray, who endeav-
ored to shoot Edwin Booth. A baseball
nine has been organized among the luna
ties of the Elgn Asylum, and Gray Sc
lected as pitcher.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

The two friends in Green street sat
silently for short time after the door
had closed upon Lettice; and then Cath
crime began:
"More astonishing things happen in
the real world than one ever finds in a
book. am sure if such reverse OF for
tune as this had been described to me in
a story, ! should at once have declared it
impossible. could not have believed it
credible that, in society such as
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

The sudden death of Judge Collins
will cause great surprise and wide-felt
sorrow. He was well known and highly
esteemed by the people of this city,
among whom he has lived for over thirty
years.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

DETRolTERs are throwing out some
marvelously y attractive bait to induce the
tide of summer tourists to flow in their
direction. They have just fshed the
wreck of brig from the bottom of the
lake with a cargo of whisky sunk in
1910