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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
Judge AdolpIie Bailey.

The subject of this brief sketch
was born in Lafayette parish and
died at his home.in Opelousas at
II o'clock NJ, on Monday, June
2oth, 1880. after a long and pain
FL. illness, aged so years. The
deceased was a haif-brother Of the
late lamented Judge Eugene Cue
gnon. former editor Of this paper
and resided for a number Of years
in this parish. Entering the legal
profession upon his return from
Yale College, he at once devoted
the skilled faculties of his massive
intellect to the complete mastery
Of its most intricate and delicate
points. Quiet aud unassumihg, a
great thinker, and a deep student,
yet utterly devoid Of that pomp
and destinations demeanor which
too often characterize the, man OF
learning, this child Of nature,
when placed upon the bench at the
close OF the war, startled the peo.
pie as would an aprarition. Firm
and decisive in his rulings, quo
ting authorities od EJituxn, with
the most minute accuracy, without
any reference, giving decisions
prompt and clearly defined, il
seemed as tho, Marshall or Mans.
field hal again put on the ermine.
Delrauded Of his seat in Congress:
by a radical Ma. joritv he returned
to private life in Opelousas where
he was regarded a5l the Nestor o.
the St. Landry Bar. His dea,h i.
a sad shock to his large circle Of
relatives, friends aud acquaintan
ces here. So truthful and timely
30 We find the suhjoined line.
from the Opelousas CouJier tina
we give it a place here:
"In his death, OpeIousas has
lost the most profound jurist at it;
bar and st. Landry parish ,ht
ripest scholar within lis borders
Nheaa young man, he graduated
With the highest honors at. Yale
College /; taught school for while
after entering the battle of life
and at the same time prosecuted
the study of law. Being gifted
with fine natural endowments
these supplemented b, a thorougi
land finished education, and con
FINALLY strengthened and enlarged
by persistent study, he rose witt
rapid steps to distinction in his
profession. At the close Of the
war, he was appointed Judge o
tits district, and served with sig
mai ability upon the bench. A.
the expiration of his term of office
he was elected to Congress froa
this district, but a republican ma
.jority IN that body refused to lie
INN take his seat. Stree that time
he has devoted himself TO tn,
practice Of law in Opelousas ; ane
his profound legal acumen, anC
scholarly attachments. have com
manded alike the highest respec
Of his brother attorneys and al
classes OF our citizens. Peace Il
his ashes.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

Extracts from the Minutes of
the 25th Jud,. District Court.
Friday June 18th 1880.
Court opened pursuant to
adjournment.
The grand Jury having ap.
peared in open court, through
their Foreman. made the follow
ing reports concerning the condi-
ton of the Jail, Court House &c.
which reports were read in open
court, ordered spread on The
minutes and published, 10 wit:
State of louisiana
Parish of Vermilion.
In the name and by the author
itv of the State of Louisiana, the
Grand Jury Of the State of Louis
lana, duly impanneled, sworn and
charged to examine and inquire
within aud for the body of the
parish Of Vermilion, in the 18th.
Judicial District Of the State of
Louisiana, upon their oath do re-
ports follows, to wit. That we
have examined the jail as charged
10y the Hon. Court ard we
reiterate the report of every
Grand jury since 1874, as to the
insuHiciency for safe keeping Of
prisoners and bad condition of the
parish jail And further that
we find it unfit for the incarccra-
ton of prisoners, not only so far
as safe keeping is concerned, but
is utterly unfit en- account Of its
corstsuctt@A, with regard to
health and deem it inhuman to
contine prisoners therein !; and
further we report that with re-
gard to the prisoners confined
therein that they are treated as
we'll as they can be in such a
Jail it being necessary to chain
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

Mr.. Hagan, an employee of the
Morgan company, who has been
spending a few days in our town,
informed US that the track had
been laid to Ba ,ou Carancro last
Saturday, aud the bridge would
be finished across that stream by
to-day Saturday. The grading
is finished some distance on this
side of that place, and a large
force is at work from thence to
within four miles of Opelorsas.
There is fine prospect of The rails
being laid up to that point by the
Goth INST, aud the cars will he
running to Opelousas, at farthest
by the 18th Of August.
Hurry up your improvements
fcllow-citizens, for 1.-THE BuIgine
IS con.iOg.- Opeloasas Courier.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
a Press

The S9gar Planter and Pa
hiot-D emo@rat want a State Con-
ventlon. Morehouse Clarion.
wanting" is about as near as
we'll get 10 it,, Nearly every
State iii the Union has its regular
press conventions, but the frater-
atty Of Louisiana are too POOR in
spirit to ATTEMPT anything Of the
kind with a view Of success.
The last attempt at q Convention
was made in 1873. A few ed
.itors, out Of a long list Of names
appended to the call, met in Baton
E-ongc, went into an organization,
passed a few resolutions, fixed
prices for advertising and tLen
went out Of existence forever.
We are anxious for a regular
press organization for the State.
Its advantages are so great and so
well nn!erstood that it must be
a wonder to our brethren in other
States that we were not organized
years ago. Let US have another
trla!-success may come at last,
and once fairly entered in,o it
may last for years, if not forever.
The Country Tisit0r endorses the
call and promises its hcartiets
support. Why will not country
editors do as much ?-Sugar
Planter.
Aye! aye, sir We heartily
second the motion, Hyams and
shall vote right straight along 10
favor Of a Iress Convention.
The numerous benefits and advan-
tages TO be derived therefron are
so well known that no one viii
attempt to discuss that point, (well
perhaps Bro. Geo. McCranie Of
the Telegraph. may, as he is a
"backsiider" on tie convention
question:. To this fact, perhaps
more than any other, can the
present degenerate condition Of
the country press in Louisiana be
attributed. Relying upon their
own individual judgment and
utterly destitute of any preconcer
ted plan Of action the country
editors plod along their weary
toilsome way, much after the
fashion Of a drift-log bobbing up
and down with the current.
Scattered and dismembered, they
have been enslaved ly politicians
and schemers, and reduced to the
servlle condition OF hewers Of
wood and drawers Of water
while '.the Lever that moves d
world" snatched from its possess
ors has become a mere tool and
a catspaw in the service Of a few
INSCRIPTIONS and designing
tricksters. Keep the ball roll
ing until we do have a convention
1t is essential and we shall no,
let the matter rest uutil all oul
bretheren have taken a decisive
move in regard to it. Who
speaks next?
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

s Bro. WooIcock Of the
Mog4a Gig Repieao wil' please
accept our apology lor the ne;,,ec,
of our printer to give him credit
for an alt,cle eat..- u / uruoa'no
* Gs,m.aa's" appearing in our
issue of J,as IS. We do not
belong e the "seisSo. iiend bri
gade" and always give credit
4ls,~uasc was not intentional
b,t mere an oversight of the
coi1poSltor as our cop, hook will
8nog.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

&c We have omitted to men
ton that Mr. Ludwig SokoloskI
and wife Of Shreveport, La, is
how here on a visit to lis father
il.law, Solomon Wise, Esqr.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
LsT Abbeville was we'll rel

LGg Abbeville was we'll rep.
resea,ed al tie Fomrth Of July
frciic in New Iberia, many Of the
boys did rot return until the day
following. At all accounts the
affair was "a big t. ag on ice
Toe,e were at lest 5000 people
upon the streets. Grow is blocked
the way at all corne.s and the
Jam was saoh as is only seen 10
large Cries npon some extraordin.
ary occasion.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

also lots Nos. |, z d s OF lracllOn-
al section Is, in township IL,
south Of range 3 east, containing
one hundred and thirty 7olloo
acres, situated in the parish Of
Vermilion, on the west side of
Bayou Vermilion also lot No.
AZ Of A. D. Megret's portion Of
the town. of Abbcvilie. measuring
80 feet front on State street, by a
depth of 140 feet, as per plot of
said town, bounded north by lot
No. Al, south by lot No. 43, east
by State street and west by lot
No. 81.
Also lot No. 81 Of Megret's
portion of Abbeville, measuring as
per plot of said town, 80 feet
front by a depth of l42 feet 6
inches ; boundea north by Boule-
ward St. Victor, south by lot No.
SO, east by lot No. So and west by
st. Charles street.
Also lot No. SO % MegIet's por-
ton of Abbeville, bounded north
by Boulevard St. Victor, south by
lot No. 70, east by Lo%uisianaise
street and west by lot No. 81 and
all the improvements thereon
situated.
Ais, lot No. 81 Of Vitor Bo6te's
portion of AbbevilIe, rs per the
plan of said town, with all the i'm
provemcnts thereon.
Also lots Nos. 26 & 43 Of BoGte's
portion of Abheville, as per the
plan of said town.
Also, the rights, titles and in
forests of defendant VOORHEES,
Tsahan, in the following described
property The east half of lot
No. Al of the plat of the town OF
AbbeviIle. in the parish of Yer.
million, bounded north by Rue de
la Concorde, EAST by Rue de re
tat, south by lot No AZ and west
by the west-half Of said lot No. Al
together with all the buildings and
improvements thereon situated.
Also the west one-half of said
lot No. Al, in said town Of Able
vile, (Megret's rortiou) bounded
NORTH by Rue de la Concorde.
east ty the east-half Of said lot Nc
Al above described and south by
lot No ~, and west by lot No SO
as per plan OF said town, with al
the improvements thereon situated
Also let No29 Of Victor Boete's
portion OF the town of Abbeville
measuring Is per plat Of said town
6S feet 3 inuhes front hy l42 fee
inches deep, bonded north by
lot No 80, south by Boulevard st
Victor, east by lot No SO anc
west Ivy St. Charles street.
Also lot No. 81 of Boete's por
ton of the town Of Abheville
measuring 80 feet front by IA:
feet 6 inches deep, bonded nortf
by lot No. 36, cast by Louisianais,
street, south by lot No. 3S anc
west BY lot No. 80, with all tn,
Improvements thereon situated.
Also lots Nos II and Is of Vic
tor Boete's portion Of The town o
AbbeviIle, and all the improve
ments thereon situated.
Also lot No 30 Of Victor BoGte',
portion of Abheville, bounded
north by lot No 81, south by 10
No 80, east by lot No 81 ant
west by st. Charles street ; anc
all The improvements thereon stu
ated, as we'll as all the rents, due
and accrning on said property, al
of said property being in the par
ish OF Vermilion, State Of Loui
siana.
Terms. CASH.
Given under my official sigma
tura this 3rd day Of July 1880.
G. z SHAW Sheriff
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

az Surely this is the heated
term. Last Monday the Their.
moneter, stood at $50 in Sol.
Wise's store and the close, oppres-
sioa heat which prevailed render.
ed it almost impossible to keep
comfortable. Bot, hotter, hottest,
End still heating!
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

We have been requested by a
member Of the New School Board
to state that a meeting Of said
Board will be held on the l7th
lit, at the courthouse, at II
o'clock M, for the purpose OF
Organizing.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
f[TF W r White Fcnr III

fGF W. B. White, Esqr., the
ooliging deputy clerk of court
has placed US under lasting obi
cations for appreciated favors.
Wait until next year, Willie
when you come back from Opel.
ousas. with yonr s~hecpskin, a full
fed5cd knight Of Blackstone, and
we will see how nice a puff We
can give you /; aud then later on
when you become initiated into
the ancient aud noble order of
Benedicts we shall not forget
thee
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

~ \ facetions friend tells Us
that there we're only 4,444 dar-
kies in New iberia on the Fourth
of July, for he counted them all.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

NOTICE--Persons owing Lii
censes--State ard Parish--for the
year 1880, and also back taxes
are requested to come Immediate
ly at my Office, at the courthouse,
and settle the SAINT.
G.. B. SHAW,
Sheriff & Tax Collector.
June 26th lSS.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
Sheriff Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
DISTRICT CoURT,
PARISH OF VERMIL1oN,
Howard Hoffpanir, President Of
the Police Jury
VOORHEES, Trahan, Tax Collector
ct al.
No 1IO1

'o
BY virtne OF a writ OF fieri facias
issued In the above entitled suit by the
District Court OF the State of Lonisiaba.
IN and tor the parish of Vermji'on, ami
to me directed, there will be exposed at
public sale, TO the last and highest bid
Ae', at the courthouse door, in the town
Of Ahbevilie, with benefit of appraise-
mtnt, on
Saturday August 18th 1880,
between the hours Of IL O'Clock a. NJ,
an 4 o'clock p. IT,, and continuing from
day to d y. ii necessary, all the rights,
Titles, Interests aud demanus Of defendant
In and to the following described pro-
perry, seized to satisfy said writ, to wit
Southeast quarter of section 20,
r, r. :, situated in the par
ISL OF yermilion, on the east side
OF Bayou Vermilion, Containing
one hundred and sixty-one acres ;
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
ALI INDORSE 1T.

The Recorder, Ame icus. Ga,
says CLERKS, Senators, Repre-
scntatives, Doctors, Lawyers
Citizens, in public and private
life, are testifyins BY the thons-
ands, and over their own sigma
tnres, that a remedy has been
found for 6right's Disease of
the Kidneys and for Diabetes ;
these are respectively known as
Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure and Warmers Safe Diabetes
Cure
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

30 Improvements are yet be
in made in our little town, and
sl,o,..d they continue at the pre-
sent rate Abbeville. will ere long
assume metropolitan proportions.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

Heg Owing to our having to
move our Office this week, we are
compelled to defer the proceed
ings of the Police Jury and City
Council until next week.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

Hancock is indeed a tower of
strength and the journals Of the
country all unite In his praise.
Says the Morgan City Rer;ew,
Independent We do not re-
member that the independent
press Of the the country has ever
before commented so favorably
upon a Democratic nomination as
they have upon that of Gen.
Hancock. With them it is a
common remark that not since the
war has that party shown such
good sense. Besides, it seems
impossible for the Republican
papers to successfully assail the
man.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

Who wouldn't like to discover
an ice berg floating up the bayou
Vermilion ore Of these hot suItry
days We should
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

All advertisements and communications
irfenGed for the MEfIDI",AL. must be
a snded in by z O'Clock on Thursday
10 easura publication. This is an impor-
tant business rule. which should not be
oyatt0.ks or neglected.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
Col. r. G.. INGERs

Col. r. G. INGERS
No. | Mistakes Of Moses
Skulls. No. 8 Ghost.
He'll. No. 5 Libert
Man, Women and GIN
No. 6 Gods. No. ii
tellectaal Develops
ment. No. 5 HunM
Rights. Nj. .
Hereafter.
No. 10 Religions lntolersn
ii Herelies and Heresis
Il. Gel. IDgersol's lisdnl
cation of Thos. PaiR,Hl
Is Plea for Indiyidaiih
and Arrangement i
the church, No Il
TIE Religion Of or
Day, No. Is Person
al Deism Denied,
No. l6 The PhilosopbdI|
Reason Hamboldt.
PACE 5 CENT EaG.
Col. lsaersell and n, IN
irilicS
\ Lecture by the Rev. Jams
Applebee. Price IS cent saa
Speech Of Charles Pan
Stewart at the EIl0sa
Binding. Chicago, telta
%, 1880. Together w
short Biography q hs Y
with Large Portrait snd Y
graph on Cover passe.
Price l0ct.
Fall Report of the
Union Of the sOldl'
and sailors Of the !,
War, he'd at Chicago =
~ to rs - including
Speeches. and those d @.
G. lgDersoil, Col. VA
Villas, Samuel |. tles
MARX Twins speech %
Lies). PRIZE Is GHln
life ard Trip Around the We
Gen. Grant" Is ot'p'
last Speech Of SeIa'
Zack Chandler" aug I
graphical Sketch, Elln j. !
Portrait Of Dlr. Chsad'a
Cove Page. Ce''s'
Common Sense, Esssl
Dreams, The Re1s'
of Deisnl, in one vo' \. 4
Thomas Paine. PRICE ~
ing of the ADORE niR 9 y
paid on rtcelpt0 e..
Agents wanted il e,sl!
and Town Liberia y,
Address /: P. W. CARROlD
l0l Randolph Street Cn'e's'
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

C,ncho.Quin...c cures chil.s and
fever.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
WM. Noun
E.. |. ADDs
ARCHIE "a

| desire all my friends
toners to give this speDs
one trial so they may h!
how good the best so,1 I
U. $. is. Give it a nj \
am sure you will use No Nj
-. :, A. D. Mann
Abheville, La. Sole I,n
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10

Price Within the Radin'
Most popular bpAs II M.
wos iaveaA
The full and CompldsL III.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-07-10
DoBBINs' ELECTRO
Havinm oL.. nit

D9BBiNs' ELECTRIC n
-: Having obtained H. h.. ~ all
this celebrated soap la "a, assg e.
and vicinity, | append a ~
ION OF some of our bssi , V Y
to its merits. W. R,a
using u for the last ! n my !
Dohbl"s' Electric sos s''i.,
l. l. L. Crasin 4 Co Pti, 'l,a,i
"a, and find that ii s ICY
cleans the clothes mo-, NY ,s !!
ana more thoroughly N '''eI
the end cheaper than =, 4.
soap we have ever ~
family. We can hearth.
mend it and a single /,
convince all.of the ca,,s%
our assertions.
WV. Noun
b. |. Ann
nr
The daily gazette., 1880-11-08

g. G. Owens. Druggist, Altoona, Pa.
writes: "Dr. Bulls Baby Syrup has a
wonderful reputation, the demand for IL
Is astonishing. Mothers will have no
o'her. 1t is destined to supersede all
other Soothing Syrups."
The daily gazette., 1880-11-08

"My feeble lines do not pretend to
give the vigor Of the original staDza, and
when add that nothing could be more
religious in Its convlctlon,o or less musical
in its accompaniment, you will readily
believe it was strange scene.
The pilot waits alongside to carry these
lines. More In my next. Extremely
interesting and most exciting"
The daily gazette., 1880-11-08
A NEW TELEGRAPH MACHINE.

Mr.. Royal E. House, the last of the
original telegraphers of the Morse time,
80 years ago, has, it is said, perfected
"a system by which from $50 to 300
words minute can be transmitted,
received and permanently recorded,
and which is automatic. The first is
built on the general principle of the
type-writing machine, but, instead of
printing characters, cuts long slits of
greater or less length III some strip of
hard and stiff manila paper, with
pointed knives, which are raised alter
nately through the lower and upper
eiges of the paper by system of levers
worked by series of brass keys, the
strip of paper passing from wheel
through narrow brass galley and, un-
der constant pressure, over the little
slots through which the knives work.
The length of the slit indicates the let
ter to a small fraction of an inch. The
strip of paper, whose marks are not
those of punch, but cut Sits in a
rapidly moving strip, is then placed in
a machine connected with battery,
and moves quickly through it. Two
constantly revolving wheels, with
sharp, but not keen, edges, fall readily
into the slits-upper and lower alter
nately-of the paper, and thereby
make an electrical connection with a
receiving instrument at another Office,
with a set of knives similar to those in
which the original slip is placed. The
knives in the second machine cut slips
of length corresponding to those in
the original, and can be read by an sx-
pert, although they can be printed in
the fourth machine with such rapidity
as to make handwriting comparatively
tedious and useless. This last instru-
ment prints on somewhat the same
principles as the gold and stock auto.
matte telegraph, but the letters are
printed from the cut slip without any
interference than that of the power by
which the machine is run. These mes
sages record themselves, and the pres
cree or absence of an operator at the
receiving end is of no consequence.
They can be sent with all the rapidity
| of which perfect mechanism is capable,
d will, it is claimed, average 200 to
$50 words per minute, or approximate
iOSONN POI hOui Va SOhobIhi
work. All delay will be in preparing
the instruments. and the work then
can be accomplished by operators at
such times as the wires are occupied
from other stations. Perhaps the
most remarkable feature of the system,
and the one which will strike operators
and electricians as the most improba-
BILE, is the simplest. 1t is that all mes
sages can be sent to any particular sat
tion and to no other, and without be-
ing heard or repeated at any other.
The "call' is so arranged in its auto
matte way that while this machinery is
in movement in every Office the knife
like wheel only fills the call slits on
the tape in the office for which it is in
tended, giving an automatic reply, and
the similarly moving wheels in every
other Office, failing to fit the Sits, have
no impression, Iron Age.
The daily gazette., 1880-11-08
The Easy Wife.

There's Just one thing q man can have
In all this world OF woe and strife
That makes the business not too bad.
And that ono things an easy wife.
Dost fancy that love my girl
For rosy cheeks or raven hair?
She holds my heart because she laughs
Because she laughs, and doesen'L care
put my boots Just where IL suits.
and lind them where l put them, toe;
That IL a thing, you must nllew,
a chap can very seldom do.
l leave my papers on my desk
She never dusts them in help,
Or takes 10 light the Kitchen stove
The very one l want 10 keep.
On winter nights my cozy dame
VIII warm her toes be ore tn ; fire
She never scolds about the lamp,
Or wants the wick trlfle higher;
On Sundays she is not so f1ne
But what her ru flies can hug;
light my pipe jest where 1 please,
Aud spill aAhes on the rug.
The bed is never filled with .'shams'
A thirg some women vilely plan
To worry servants half to death
And spoil the temper OF man.
Sic lets me sleep 10 any hour,
Nor raises any horrld din
II II lust happens, now and then,
To be quite late when 4 come in.
Iteil you, Jack, IL you would wed,
just get girl who lels thugs run i
She'll Keep her temper like lamb,
And help you on to lots of fun
Don't look for none style, or shsw,
Or blushing beauty, ripe and raro
Just take the one who laughs at fate
Who laughs, and shows she doseh't
care.
You think, perhaps our household ways
Are Just percnance little mixed
Oh, when they get too horria bad,
We stir about and get things fixed.
WHAT compensation mas IA man
Who earns his bread by sweat Of brow
If home is made a bait e-ground,
And life one long eternal row?