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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-06-05
SCHOOL BOARD.
Abbevill,e1 May 9Th 1880.

The Board met this day ON .
call Of the president.-present
y. n. Williams, John Lenore,
daniel Paul, Archie Young, and
BENJAMIN Fanlk.-Absent F. R.
King, R. segrera, and J. J
4 behire.
r. scgrera having resigned
the position Of Secretary. The
Board elected Archie Young to
FL! the vacancy. The committee
appointed to examine the books
of Isaac W'oc school Treasurer
reported as follows.
Abbeville April 3rd 1880.
To the Honorable Board Of
School Directors parish Of Yer
million.
Gentlemen.-We The under-
signed committee, appointed by
your Body to examine the books
Of Issacs Wise School Trea sarer
beg leave to report as follows.
Balance Oh hand on Aug 10Th
1879 $lGs5.39
Receipts since
From
state Treas'r S 1890
Tax Col. 8GS.77
Rent s lands 48.l5 $685.
Total $2.75.2i
Disbursements since.
Back claims rs 40.85
Teachers sai'rs 1880
Suild'ng s. Fl. 1880
Con g expenses 2ls,27 2465.9l
Balance o. hand S3O9.5a
We further certify that IL,
Treasurers books and vouchers
re correct.
signed ARCHIE You've,
JAS. u. WILLIAMS
BGSyAgIN FAULx,
On motion the report was aaop
ed snd ordered to be spread ou
he minutes. i petition fron'
lie Inhabitants 4yh ward was
cad and on motion was tabled
1he bill Of 1saacs Wise schoo'
reasnrer for diSbursing fund
mounting to $3.50 was read ana
n motion was ordered to he paid
Bill Of Leo Perret Recorder for
ecordlng 2 Acts Of DONATION
mounting to $500 was read and
motion was ordered TO be paid.
On motion Mr.. Levi Rice was
rderes o be paid for teaching
he Blanth Of March he having
-ecured an attendance.
On motion Board adjourned
:ine die.
Jas. n. WILLIAMS President.
ARCHIE YOU'VE Secretary
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I'm A LIMfTED NUM-
Der Of active. ener-
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sasinsss. Good men will
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Atlanta, Ga.
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Disbursements siuCe.
Back claims rs 40.85
Teachers sai'rs 1880
5uild'ng s. Fl. 1880
Con g expenses 2ls,27 2465.9l
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29

Mr.. Hayes had no sooner vetoed the
Deficiency Appropriation bill than the
fruit of. his rashness began to appear.
The United States District Court at New
York has been compelled to suspend
proceedings because there is no money
to pay jurors, witnesses and officers OF
the Court. Something very similar has
taken place in St. Louis, where the
United States jurors summoned to ap-
pear before the Court have been noti-
fed not to come because there is no
money to pay them. The bill vetoed
by MIR. Hayes made appropriations for
these very purposes, and had it be-
come law no such suspension of the
public business would have taken place.
Mr.. Hayes rests his veto on the ground
that there was legislation in the bill
changing the method of appointing
deputy Marshals for elections; but this
does not relieve him from the response
bility for the present arrangement of
business in the Courts. He is to blame
for it. Congress has a right to pass the
appropriation bills in the form most
acceptable to itself. 1t legislates for
the country, not for Mr.. Hayes. The
case as it stands is very plain one:
Congress passed the Appropriation bill
and Mr.. Hayes vetoed it, not on account
of anything Objectionable in it, but
because he did not like the shape of it;
and therefore the Courts are without
money to pay their expenses.-Er-
change.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29

A. young man "that works for his
board,' no matter what honest work he
does, has no reason for shame. A
young man who eats the bread of idle
ness, no matter how much he has, is
disgraced. All men, starting in life,
ought to aim, first of all, to find place
where they can earn their bread and
butter with hoe, AK, spade, wheel-bar-
row, cnrry-comb, blacking-brush--no
matter how. Independence first. The
bread-and-butter question settled, let
the young man perform his duty so
faithfully as to attract attention, and let
him constantly keep his eye open for a
chance to do better. About half of the
poor, proud young men, and two-thirds
of the poor, discouraged young men,
are always out of work The young
man who pockets his pride, and carries
a stiff upper lip, need not starve, and he
stands a chance to become rich, if he
cares to.-Giiboa ON. 70 Monitor.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29
See How They Love Each Otheri

The Republicans of the United States
have gotten themselves into an inhar-
moniOus position. The discussions of
their journals have, if we take them all
in all, disbarred all of the Republican
candidates for the Presidential nomina-
ton. The people of the country only
need to go SO far as the perusal of the
Republican journals of the country to
learn that neither of the Republican
candidates ought to be nominated or
ought to be elected after nomination.
There is plenty of Republican testi-
mony to show that Blaine and Sherman
are bad men and corrupt men. There
is, to those gentlemen, an uncomforta-
BILE amount of evidence as to both of
these points. If we may believe Re-
publicans no Republican candidate for
the Presidency that has yet been named
dency by the Chicago Convention, or
elected by the people afterward. Each
of the Republican Journals of the coun-
try gives excellent reasons why the
other Republican candidate for
the Presidency ought not to be
nominated or elected. The Repub-
lican expressions of the Republican
sentiment concerning the Republican
candidacy for the Presidency are not
suggestive of Republican harmony. Mr..
Sherman is bitterly opposed by Repub-
licans. He is antagonized by Republic
cans in Ohio where he should have no
Republican opposition. All Republic
cans, really, seem to have killed all
Republican possibilities of electing a
Republican President. The Republican
attacks made upon Mr.. Blaine in Ohio,
and elsewhere, ought to be sufficient to
convince the American people that Mr..
Blaine ought not to be elected to the
Presidency. If we may believe Repub-
licans, Mr. Blaine should not be made
President; and if we may believe Re-
publicans, Grant should not be made
President; and if we may believe Re-
publicans, John Sherman should not be
made President. From the Republican
press of the country the evidence, much
of which is before us, indicates that no
Republican candidate for the nomina-
ton at Chicago for the Presidency
should be nominated or elected. We
might print this Republican testimony
in volumes, but we forbear. 1t is sig
nificant that in Democratic ranks there
is no similar advertisement in advance
that no Democratic candidate for the
Presidency ought to be nominated or
elected cinnati Enquirer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

In the Senate, on the 22d, Mr.. Pad
dock, from the Committee on Public Lands,
reported, with amendment, the House bill
for the relief Of certain homestead and pre-
emption settlers in Kansas. Placed on the
calendar. Senator Morgan's joint
rule for counting the electoral
vote was taken up and the Senator
made a speech in advocacy thereof.
In the House motion was made to go into
Committee Of the Whole to consider various
bills for the erection Of public buildings.
The Republicans, by dilatory motions and
refusing to vote, endeavored to prevent ac-
ton, but the motion was finally carried.
Before the first bill on the calendar had been
reached, however, it became evident that no
progress could be made, and the Committee
rose and the House adjourned.
HON. G. b. FARwELL, of Chicago,
has published card addressed to the Re-
publicans Of Illinois, in which he charges
that the result at Springfield was achieved
by the ''personal and desperate exertions of
Senator Logan" "by the disgraceful interior
ence of national officials in the primaries and
County Conventions" etc., and that "the
Convention was packed from its organiza-
tion." He therefore announces that the
anti-Grant districts, who feel that their
appointed delegates to Chicago and will ask
to have them admitted to seats in the Ma
tional Convention.
The Galena Qn.) Gazette, whose ed
itor is said to be a personal friend Of Gen.
Grant, publishes an editorial denying cur
rent item said to have emanated from George
w. Childs, Of Philadelphia, that Gen. Grant
will order his name withdrawn from the
Chicago Convention.
SENATOR DAVIS, of Illinois, has
written letter to a friend and constituent,
the Hon. o. II. Browning, of Quincy, ILL.,,
giving at some length his views upon ma
tional affairs The correspondence was pub
lished on the oath.
THE principal business portion of the
village of Edinburg, Clarion County, Pa,
comprising seventy buildings, was destroyed
by fire on the night of the I'D. Loss about
$780, 900; insurance small.
The freight and accommodation train
from Macon to Montgomery, Ala, ran into
Shaluga Creek, nine miles east of Columbia.
on the night of 2lst, the bridge having been
washed away. Engineer John T.z Wade,
fireman Joseph Schaefer, and Charles Tay-
Tor and Joseph Il. Brown, also employees
were all killed. The locomotive and eleven
cars were badly wrecked.
A MAIL-COACH was captured by Indi-
ans In STEMS Peak range, about sixty miles
east OF Tucson, AriZ., on the night of the
2lst. One passenger was killed and the
driver was wounded.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29
Justice Cheated, Spurned and Insulted.

1t seems impossible for Pennsylvania,
under its present political management,
to even SO much as assume political
virtue very long at time. Recently
the country, as well as the five culprits
themselves, was very much surprised at
the sentence pronounced by Judge
Pearson against w. H. Kemble, Charles
d. Salter, Emil j. Petroff. Jesse r.
Crawford and w. F. Rumberger, ar
raigned and convicted upon a charge of
bribery, a crime too common and too
open in Pennsylvania politics. But the
general establishment felt was tempered
with the liveliest pleasure and approval.
There was a promise in this rigorous
decision of an upright magistrate that
the demands of justice would be salts
fled and that the solid front of corrup-
ton would be broken. Fines and impris-
onment, with some solitary confinement
and healthful allowance of hard labor
for the benefit of the State against
whose interests the public careers of
these men had been uninterruptedly
hostile, was the prescription made out
prisoners opened their eyes very wide
at that. Why, everybody did Just what
they had been doing. All their party
associates were in the habit of spending
money to accomplish their ends. That
was the easiest and perhaps the cheap
est method of dealing with legislators
and subordinate politicians. In other
words, about their only defense was,
that their moral sense had been SO
deadened by habitual crime that they
could not see any justice in holding
them accountable for their misdeeds.
The plea was not made in that form,
but that was its significance.
The tender-hearted Board of Pardons,
in less than week after the sentence
was passed, appeared to regard this
question from the standpoint of the
prisoners rather than from that of the
Judge. 1t could have waited for a de-
cision by the Supreme Court; but that
might not have been attainable before
the gentlemanly bribers had blistered
their palms at stone-breaking or shoe
making, and so the Judgment was inn
mediately passed upon Judge Pearson's
sentence, that it was extra-Constitu-
these convicted criminals walk tho
earth free men once more, with only
their fines and political disabilities
standing against them. The State will
be made to pay the former. sooner or
later, in one way or another, and the
latter will be removed as soon as an
other Republican Legislature comes to-
gether. Thus, instead of Furnishing the
men convicted of the heinous crime of
bribery, the Judge who gave it its due
weight in the catalogue of public evils
has been promptly and, by implication.
peremptOrily rebuked for daring to obey
the laws rather than observe the lax and
fatally demoralizing custom SO long in
vogue, and still to be observed, accord
ing to the ruling of the Board of Par
dons. Justice has been cheated in her
own name, and she will be spurned and
insulted as long as a soulless and con-
scienceless Republican ring rules Penn
sylvania, and needs the services of bold
and INSCRIPTIONS men to keep its MEM
bers in power. The conviction and
sentence of these men was surprise.
Their pardon was expected and pre-
dicted.-Boston Post.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29

SO appointed shall be In equal numbers
from different political parties, and
shall be well known citizens of good
moral character, and actual residents of the
voting precincts in which their duties are to
be performed, and shall not be candidates
for any office at such elections. The pay of
such Deputy Marshals is fixed at five dollars
for each day Of actual service.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29

and others less noxious. To Offset this
list we have given Europe the vilest of
all weeds, . parasite that sucks up hui
man blood, tobacco. Now IL they catch
the Colorado beetle of us it will go far
toward paying them of for the rats and
the mice, and for other pests in our
houses.
The more attractive and pretty Of the
British weeds, as the common daisy, of
which the poets have made so much,
the larkspur, which is q pretty corn
field weed, land the scarlet field-poppy
which flowers all summer, and is so
taking amid the ripening grain, have
mot immigrated to our shores. Like a
certain sweet rusticity and charm of ru-
raj life, they do not thrive readily under
our skies. Our Aeabane (Ertgeron Can
adensis) has become a roadside weed
in England, and few other of our ma
tive less known plants have gained a
foothold in the Old World.
Poko-weed Is q native American, and
what lusty, royal plant it is 1t never
invades cultivated fields, but hovers
about the borders and looks over the
fences like a painted Indian sachem.
Thoreau coveted its strong purple stalk
for q cane, and the robins eat its dark
crimson juiced berries.
It is commonly believed that the null
lein is indigenous to this country, for
have we not heard that 1t is cultivated
in European gardens, and christened
the American velvet planta Yet it, too.
seems to have come over with the Pil-
rrims. and u most abundant in the
older parts Of the country. 1t abounds
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

DR. GABRIEL kAIsER, well known
physician of indianapolis, committed sui
eide upon the grave Of his wife at Louis
vile, where she was buried about six weeks
ago. Since her death his mind had been I'M
ettled by excessive grief. He was mem
Der Of the Knights of Pythias and several
other societies.
SENIOR JUAN p. BACCA and his uncle,
Senior Gonzales, were both shot ard killed at
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29
TO rH. FzRsT MoAUIro.

Sing, sing. sing,
With Guesamer wing,
Ethereal thing.
Even the sadness
OF utter madness
Hardly explains
The moral dcclension,
The physical tension,
The awful suspension
Hacking the brains.
Bite, bite, bite,
Entrauc.ng delight
Enduring the night
Pain without ccasing,
Ever increasing,
Sharpens the bill.
when 1 would compass thee,
When / thy doom would be-
6tiIl thou escapest mo
Drinking thy MI. \
Sing, sing, sing. "
With goesamer wing.
Ethereal thing. \
Soon will the morning
See thee I'm mourning
For thy misdeeds-
Then will my triumph DO
Ihen will punish thee
For prosecuting mo
WORDS will be deeds.
IN. 7. Graphic.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29

The colored sexton of Congrega-
tional Church in New Hampshire has
lately died after a service of more than
sixty years. In all that time it is said
he was absent from the services of the
church on less than ten occasions.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29

the hardihood to set himself up as a
censor of men whose only offense is
that they represent the section which
fifteen years ago laid down its arms and
abandoned conflict from the results of
which Robson and such as he were
immensely enriched.
If there were any honesty in the pre-
teh.es which these Robeson5 and Fryes
and SQngers make of indignation
against>Se South and of belief in its
continued hsstility to the North there
would be some excuse for them. But
there is not parsele of honesty in it.
1t is deliberate, m>lipnant enGeayor
to irritate the Southerfs epresentatiyes
and goad them into expressions which
can be tortured into indicatio>s of the
pretended hostility. and then nssd as
| fuel in firing the Northern heart<or
partisan purposes. Those men know
as well as any of the witnesses whose
testimony we have cited that the pre-
vailing temper of the South is an ardent
desire for peace and the prosperity
which peace alone. can bring. lint e
new lease of the power which has fur
nished them such glorious opportuni-
ties for stealing, they persist in their
fiendish work of Misrepresentation and
irritation. And because the Southern
Representatives, as a rule, decline to
furnish them, even when most outrage
ously provoked, with the capital they
want they become all the more bitter
and persistent in their efforts.
The fragrant dishonesty of this out
rageous course on the part of the Re-
publican leaders is in no way shown more
conclusively than by the readiness with
which any Confederate Brigadier'
who will vote the Republican ticket or
labor for the Republican party is honor
ed with an office. The stories of Mostly
and Longstreet are old ones; but they
have not lost their point. And the
same point the Republican press and
leaders are again emphasizing in their
commentator of General Wickham,
who heads the electoral ticket of the
Virginia Republicans. The General is
a real Confederate Brigadier, having
actually served in the rebel army. But
as he has chosen, in the exercise of his
political freedom, to act with the Re-
publican party. his offenses are all con-
doned; and even such bitter Republican
papers as the Detroit Post take pains to
commend him.-Detroit Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29
The third.termers are actua

The third-termers are actually
hanging out signals of distress. They
propose that the Chicago ticket shall
be Grant aud Sherman-which is an
appeal to the Secretary's friends to ac-
cept the Vice-Presidcncy. Three weeks
ago they offered the same bait to
Blaine, but he declined TO bite at it. If
Sherman declines, they may offer it to
Edmunds. The third-termers find that
they need allies.-St. Louis Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29
WEEDS POLITICALLY CONSIDERED

TAs Tr.nps e The Vegetable World.
The walker makes the acquaintance
Of all the weeds They are travellers
like himself, the tramps of the vege-
table world They are going east, west,
north, south; they walk, they fly, they
swim, they steal o ride, they travel by
rail, by food. by wind; they go under,
ground, and they 60 above, across lots
and by the highway. But, ike other
tramps, they find it safest by
the highway; in the fields they
are intercepted and cut of. but on the
public road. every boy, every passing
her herd OF sheep or COWS, gives them a
Ours is a weedy country because it is
. roomy country. Weeds love a wide
margin, and they find it here. You
shall see more weeds in one days travel
In this country than in . weeks Jour-
ney in Europe. Our culture of the soil
10 not 20 close and thorough, our occu-
pancy not 20 entire and exclusive. The
weeds take up with the farmers leav-
ings and find good fare. One may see
. large slice taken from . field hG ele-
campane, or by teasle, or milk-weed;
whole acres given up to white-weed,
golden-rod, wild carrots, or the ox-eye
daisy; meadows overrun with bear
weed. and sheep pastures nearly ruined
BY St John's-wort, or the Canada
thistle Our farms are SO large and
our husbandry SO loose that we do not
mind these things. By and by we shall
clean them out. Weeds seem to thrive
here IS in no other country.
Is there not something in our soil and
climate exceptionally favorable to weeds
-something harsh, ungenial, sharp
toothed that u akin to themp How
woody, and rank, and fbrous many va
rieties become, lasting the whole sea-
son, and standing up stark and stiff
through the deep winter snows-desic-
Gated, preserved by our dry airi Do
nettles and thistles bite 80 sharply in
any other countryP To know how
sharply they bite, OF dry August or
. September day. take q turn at raking
Sand binding oats with . sprinkling OF
blind nettles in them A sprinkling of
wasps and hornets would not be much
worse.
Yet it Is fact that AL our more per-
nicious weeds, like our vermin, are Of
Old World origin. They hold up their
take their I'LL of riot and license; they
are avenged for their long years of re-
precision by the stern hand Of European
agriculture. Until searched through
the botanies 1 was not aware to what
extent we were indebted to Europe for
these vegetable Ishmaelites. We have
hardly weed we can call our own; I
recall but three that are at all noxious
or troublesome, viz: milk-weed, rag
weed and golden-rod; but who would
mias the latter from our felds and
highwaysf In Europe our golden-rod
h cultivated in the fower-gardens, as
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-05-29

ne common thistle
The Canada thistle,
Buryiock.
Yellow dock,
Wild carrot,
0x-eye daisy,
Chamomile,
he mullen,
Elscampane.
Plantain,
Nofhc1woff,
etrumonium,
eGs;iflr .
B1ue-wesd,
etick-Aeed,
Hound's-tongue,
Henbane,
Pig-weed.
Quifch Rrass,