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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-05-01
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NO. IL.

| The jury took a recess until 2
o'clock P. M. The jury having re-
assembled at the appointed hour,
the same members presnt.
| Art. 9th. Resolved, that the
presideAt be and he is hereby au-
thorlzed to appoint a committee
OF three persons to examine the
court house Of said parish TO
In' 3stigato the practicability Of
having the courtroom iu the up
PEI story Of the court house build
ing o divide the lower apart
ment of building into convenient
rooms 10 be used as ofices of tie
Ct the PARISH, and to make al ap.
plox'mate of the probable costs
OF she same, with the cost Of all
other necessary repairs to said
court house building .'.at said
committee report at the next
meetiug Of .tis body.
| Ahe president appointed on
said committee Of Messrs W. w.
Edward, Lastie b1uussard and
Alouzo vanslyke.
Art. 9th. Resolved that the
following named persons be, and
they are hereby appointed inspec.
tors of cattle and hides for their
respective districts.
Ist district Sevenne Primeaux,
2na do Henry j. Moss,
3rd do Leonce Perret &c
buziie Broussard,
4th 10 Ielix Broussard &
Aladdin Vincent,
5til do Paul F. Richard &
Zenon Laadry,
9th. do Norbert Bouroue,
Rodolphe Broussard, Josenh lie.
maire, Ambrose Mou.on, and
VIM. Meaux,
7th do sarrazin uebert, EIoi
Guidry, Olive Leblanc aad
Isaac White for Cheniere au1-
Tigres.
The following claims were al
lowed and order4d to De paid out
Of their respective funds, viz:
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HoBLEf / CO. j. u. ROBINSON
AcEW ORLEANS
Lightning Rod w orks
find General Factory Agency,
Reorganized
r. ~E ~ n. n

ID W. hOD111SO1lS
Of 1loriba Genera, agent.
Formerly of Savannah Lightning
Rod Factory Is years ago. Has
had 20 years experience in this
Branch Of Business,
Manufacturers, lnventoys. importers
and Dealers IN all Kinds Of
LIGHTNING RODS AND
LIGHTNING ROD MATE
RIALS.
TIE Oldest Established Company
South and the only house OF the
kind in South western Country
"RobiHson's Silver Cables" q
specially. These Cables are con.
tiRuous, having no Joints. They
are the safest protector against
lightning ever invented. This
Company has been, is now, and
will be-. for the remainder of this
year, through The western and
northern parishes Of Louisiana
represented BY its. gentlemanly
statesmen Messrs. E. E. Anding, oi
La; s. W. Greene, of Miss i; E. g.
Pritchard, Of 8. c., G.. G. Pitch
ard, of 8. G.; aud J. NJ. Robinson
Of Fla. This Company puts up
the Silver Cables and all other
Rods cheaper than they were ever
offered to the Public before
Skillful workmen employed
Orders promptly attended to and
satisfaction guaranteed.
Office, ,293 st. Charles St., cor
Calliope. june 23-6m.
New Orleans.
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The Best Family Newspaper,
Publishes both the religious and
secular news that is desired in any
icmily, while all that is likely to
do harm is shut out. It devotcs
four pages to religious news, and
four to secular.
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its even course for .ftty.sir gears,
without a change of name. doc
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POLICE JURY.

cu Wouuoy, IuC ctu uu3 VI
April 1880, the police jury me-
IN regular session at the court
house in AbbeviIle.
Present Howard Hoffpauir
president, and Messrs. Broussard
Thibeaux, Trahan aud Vanslyke.
The minutes of the previous
meeting were read, corrected and
adopted.
The Finance Committee brought
this day the vouchers and war
rants received by them from the
Parish Treasurer amounting to
the sum OF eight thousand eight
hundred and eighty.two and sew.
enty-six cents (sSS,82.76) which
were received by the police jury
for the purpose Of burning all but
the receipts selected by said com.
mittee, which it is hereby ordered
to be kept by the Clerk in the
q rrhivoa of thia hOHv Tho fol.
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nour' Tue jury re'aSse"o'eoi 'ae
same members oe'ng Rreseu.'
on motlon OF Mr. ans'yke.
Art: lst; Resolved, that Messrs
W: ". Eowaros' a. vanslyke'
ana Il. ". Lyons oe and .ney
are g nereoy appointed q coh'm'ttee
Tor the purpose OF framing a sul,a'
ble ordinance 10 relation 10 tne
'nspection; OF hioes eold 10 'nls
parish the pfoprie'y ol l'cens'
'ng butchers ana LOT the lnspee'
ton OF s,ock 70 % ey Tue"
slaughtered.
Art: "a: Resolved tnat 'ne o.n OIL
roao a's:iic' con'ueuo,"s a. 'ne ~
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b+r Of ao'ive. euer-
m. ,s y engage In a pleasant
business. Good men will
snfe chxuce "
.1AKE MONEY.
lAass answer ,eis advertise
escios "a Q amp for reply,
saness " have been co.
aeoe but tnose who mean
: apply. '''
tlr, HARVEY l. Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
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soath clear profit made
~ Agents wanted every.
- Vine or snare momen.. : .
.lnea. Every body wants
= .nnily will buy It, Big
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: "a In tact the best
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y, On ree4ip. Of One Dol
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Address
I 1aNsRLY COMPANY,
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nr1T business you can engage In.
0LOl Five to twenty dollars per
aay made by any worker Of either sex
right ic their own localities. Particulars
and samples worth IS free. Improve
YOUR spare time ct this business: Ad'
dress SrnseA and Co., Portland, Maine
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SO V E N IR

Sashington City;
'as : collection OF all The
S..lAags in and around the
NasOna! Capital,
~. ~ : a.uasone case, will be sen,
- post paid. for 50 cents, by
J. BRADLEY ADAus,
: Set Ot6ce, Washington, D. G,
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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-16

This is the year for maiden efforts.
Brightest when it's bluest-the sky.
Cheese has advanced'a little-just a mite.
Adam raised Cane, but didn'lm make sugar.
About all the money some folks can take
to church is sancti-money.
An Ohio newspaper speaks of Il man belng
bruised by ''enphatic gestures OF a mule"
1t is alleged that no American cat can
make so hideOus a noise us a Chinese tom
tom.
a good many people pretend to be not what
they will be trumpet up to be at the last
day.
1t has been discovered that the Ouch baby
cries for its muddeY and its fodder at the same
time.
mamma, what ale twins made for?" Her
precocious brother replied, $50 that cannibals
may eat ~philopnnas."
Some people never know when to stop.
The editor of the Buffalo Advertiser writes of
'a very deep hole without bottom.'
Veteran joker reading proof at the next
tablet wrote Brown and it is set up Black.
The compositor must be color blind.'
1t is now discovered agriculturally that the
surest way to get rid of the weeds is to
marry the window. This is a very agreeable
Of %husbandry,
'Ioung man." said Daniel Rice, s.do you
want to go down to a %drunkard's grave %
'Well," replied the young man, IL don't care
if do. Whereabouts is your family lot ?'
The waist Of Mrs. Scott Siddons dress
parted in the middle while the lady was adj
dressing II Chicago audience the other night.
"iou will excuse Inc ;" she said, hastily re-
firing; 'this is not a part of the regular
entertainment.
Sheridan once declined to take Il walk with
a troublesome feminine admirer, on the plea
that the weather would not permit and being
caught by the lady as he was sneaking out
for Il stroll, countered her remark that the
weather seemed now to have cleared up,
with the bold asseveration Eyes madam,
enough for one, but not enough for two
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-16

CINCINNATI, March 9.-Last night j. w.
Perry, a member of the Kentucky Legislature
registered at Hunts hotel, for separate rooms
for himself and Miss Adams. Early this
morning Miss Adams left for Van Vert, Ohio,
when it was found she had given bril- to a
child which had been wrapped IN a sheet and
dropped from a second story window into the
area. 1t was taken to the hospital and shows
no signs of the fall. Miss Adams was arrest
ed near Dayton, and Perry arrested here. He
claims to have known nothing of Miss Adams
condition. She has lived in his family since
infancy and was on her way to visit friends
at Van Vert. The case is of exciting inter-
est OH account of Perry's prominence and the
wonderful escape of tie babe from death and
the TACT that the mother is only sixteen wears
Did. 1t now appears the child was lowered
from the second story window by a cord and
as it is still living it will be difficult to place
any criminal charge either against Miss
Adams or Mr. Perry.
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CHIPS

Artemus Ward said in England it took him
an honr and half to deliver the lecture which
he got through in an hour in America. The
extra time was spent in waiting for his hearers
to take the Joke.
emo, thank you | never waltz; ma SAYS if
you young men want to hug me you must do
II on the sly; she won't have you mussing
my dress up, and leaving finger marks OH my
white waist as long us she does the washing
and has to support me-"
81 do not think, madam, that any man of
the least sense would approve of your con-
duct" said an indignant husband. s'Sir,"
retorted his better half, show can you Judge
what any man of the least sense would do o'
A fellow wrote to IL downtown store as fol-
lows: "Dear sur if yew hev a book called
Daniel Webster on a bridge, please send me
a copy by PYSer's express C. o.. ID want to
git 1t ]ter-lnorrer if i kin, cause my spellin-
teacher says l oughter hev it,
A grim, hard headed old Judge, after hear
ing a flowery discourse from a pretentious
young barrister, advised him to pluck out
some of the feathers from the wings of his
imagination and put them in the tail of his
judgment.
Old Billy Gray used to do a big lump of the
foreign mercantile business of Boston. One
day a new salesman was employed by Gray's
firm. He had heard much of Gray's wealth,
and was every day expecting to see a sleek
old gentleman dressed in the finest clothes,
with gold watch, chain, jewelry, etc. This
new salesman bought a turkey one morning,
and was looking out for somebody to carry it
home for him. A plainly dressed man asked
him how much he would give him to carry
the turkey for him. ~"Ninepence." The
bargain was struck and the two walked down
towards State street side by side. the elder
carrying the turkey by its legs in the hand.
When the young mans home was reached
the turkey was duly delivered and the nine
pence paid as agreed, whereupon the elder of
the two returned thanks to the young man.
attended with the request that whenever lie
wanted to pay ninepeuce for the carrying of
a turkey a few blocks on the way he himself
was going, to just call on old Billy Gray and
he would be glad Of a job by which he could
earn ninepence so easily.
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Are We n Nation Of Gamblers:

Are we a nation of gamblers? On a close
examination we should say not far from it.
First, there are the professional gamblers, the
elegant gentlemen of leisure, who dress in
purple and fine linen and fare sumptuously
every day who eat and drink and wear the
best of everything and live by their wits.
These are the ~leeclIes of society, non-pro-
duceis, drones, ~barnacles. Next are those
who gamble In lotteries, a great army that
no man can number Next is the still greater
army OF those who bet on everything and
anything, horse races, elections, walking
matches, games and contests of all kinds-in
fact, on everything OF doubtful occurrences.
Finally come the stock and grain gamblers
the men who buy n sell on margins, which
is nothing but betting on the rise or fall of
produce. All these are forms of gambling
which in any and every shape is one of the
most demoralizing of vices. Again We ask,
are we a nation of galnblers.-Mdtanapoiis
Journal.
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The Manifesto,

SAN Francisco, March 9.-Dumngt the day
signatures to the roll of the Citizens Protect
i've Union. with decided success. To IA very
considerable extent the project finds favor
with the business classes, though many ques-
ton the necessity or wisdom of such a move
ment. The Bulletin this evening treats the
subject editorialy under the heading of o
g~anizing Prosperity" taking the ground that
the organization means just what it says, viz
"The preservation of the public peace, pro-
lection of life and property, the restoration of
confidence in the security Of life and property
from all violence, and the restoration of
the legitimate commerce., industries and bus
mess of the people by peaceful methods with
in the law" and approves of the undertaking
as tending to act as a safeguard against both
mob violence and vicious legislation. 1t may
be said that there are many who do not accept
the Bulletins views as to the real intent of
the organization, but assume that something
of a more radical nature is contemplated,
limiting at ordering the incendiary legislators
out of the city, or even more pronounced
measures. It is difficult to learn anything
more about the plans Of the union than is set
forth in its manifesto. If there are any secrets
among the promoters they are we'll kept.
The Post this evening publishes the following
strong municipal and State government. quite
able and willing to suppress any unlawful
assemblage, whether Its headquarters are at
the Sand Lot or in secret chambers" The
~workingmen have not yet been heard FROM.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-16

The widow Hicks-Lord, of recent notorie-
ty, and who, it is alleged, was lately engaged
to be married to Charles O'Connor, the octo-
genarian New York lawyer, is now in Hicks
vile, Ohio. She is described as being stately
and stylish in appearance and is said to be
about ~fifty-ti.a years of age. In regard
TO the O'Connor matter. she denies the
soft impeachment, according to a dispatch of
not yet entrusted him with her young and
untried affections. She has probably con-
cluded that the fires of O'Connol's youth
have died out, or that he can't waltz, or that
his credit isn't good at the millinery shops.
Such is love.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-16

REPORTED o THE MINER By THE MONTANA
CENTRAL. TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
FROM ALL PARTS OF THE woRLr!
Crumbs Of Eastern Comfort.

NEW YORK, March l0.-The Epeninq TEL
egrdph, commenting Oh the manifesto. saws :
'Now at length San Francisco society per-
ceives that a community is an organism of
which one member can not suffer without an
a%tiliclion to all the rest. The curses of its
hoodlumism have come home to roost and the
cowardice of its responsibility has brought
dishonor upon American civilization"
The Post thinks it is plainly only another
way OF saying that neither now, nor for the
past twenty five years, have the local officers
elected III San Francisco been what they
should be. If these officers had been, or
were now, what they should be, there would
have been no need for either a vigilance
or Il protective union. Society
may be defended in 1880, as it was in 1856.
by an eNpedient whose illegally NAV he ey-
cUsed by its necessity, but the expedient must
always be pronounced a deplorable one that
sets aside or acts independently of the law.
The Commercial says: "All this means
one thing, and one thing only, and that is a
liked resolution to put down hoodlumism and
hearneyism by any means it may be found
to employ. California is scared
there is no longer a question about it. Capital
IS being withdrawn, the mining interest has
begun to centre in New York, and a general
feeling OF apprehension is growing. The
better class of people are at last waking I'D to
a sense of the serious blunder that has been
committed.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-16

PARIS, March lot was ~foreseen some
time ago that clause seven of the Ferry edu-
catlonal bill would be rejected by the right or
lett. The majority was swollen to nineteen
by debate, especially by Ferry's impolitic
speech. The unanimous opinion of those
who do not share Ferly's view is that his res
gnation is Inevitable.
The projected Cuban loan of sixteen mil
lion pounds encounters difficulties as the for
elgn fInanciers ask for an imperial guarantee
OF interest as we'll as principal.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-16
THE MINING O

Some Time ago, it will be remembered, there
appeared an article in the MINER in relation
to the persistent refusal of certain Eastern
mining journals, and especially the New York
Mining Record, to publish in their columns
any notice of the mining resources of this
Territory. The Record weekly devoted its
valuable space to the silver mines of such
States as South Carolina, Georgia and
Alabama, but for some reason dis
dained to republish any mining in
formation furnished by the Montana press.
The MINER charged that this neglect was
owing to the faa that the Record subscrip-
ton list in this Territory was not sufficiently
ton at the hands of the proprietors of that
journal, and that by so ignoring the mining
interest of this Territory, the Record whose
subscribers had a right to demand in it the
republication of important mining news IT.
respective of locality, became an I'M
fair, partial and unreliable exponent of one
of the greatest industries of the times.
In the last humble of the Record the editor
of that journal attempts to defend his course
by stating that during the year 1879 he pub
llshed nine letters from a correspondent in
Helena, and seems to consider that in
proportion to the value of the mines in this
territory the publication of those mine letters
was all that could be expected. We beg to
differ. Within five years Montana will
be producing more wealth than any
other territory or State in the Union,
and can already boast some of the
most valuable properties on the coast.
What few letters that have been published in
the Record relating to mining in this Terri
tory have been devoted almost exclusively to
the Wickes mines, and though we would say
noting in disparagement of the Wickes COM
pany's property, for we believe it to be pro-
ductive and valuable, it is beyond dispute
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-16

WAsHINe.ToN, March SIN the supreme
court decision in the case of judges appointed
by States at Congressional election
on the charge OF interfering with and resist
ing supervisors of election and deputy mar
shals. They were convicted OF this offense
and appealed on the ground that the statutes
under which they were tried were nnconsti-
t%utional. The court holds: taa Gt
LIST. The constltutionality j~ustlfies a writ of
habeas corpus to inquire into the legality of
conviction and if the laws arc unconstitution-
la the prisoners should he discharged.
I'd. Congress had the constitutional power
10 adopt those revised statutes which appoint
supervisors OF election, that they be respected
and not inte1felred with in the exercise of
their functions, and making such interference
or resistance a penal offence. The revised
statutes referred to are the enforcement Of the
act of May 81, 10.
Sd. The circuit court may convict for the
violation of those statutes, and this court
cannot relieve on habeds corpus.
18th. Congress need not assume exclusive
control Of the Congressional elections. The
States are constitutionally empowered to fix
times, places and manner of holding elections
tor senators, and representatives, subject to
alterations by Congress, (eXcept as to place of
choosing senators.) Congress has supervising
power over subjects and may alter, modify or
add to the State regulations.
9Th. Congress may impose new duties on
officers OF election, provide for the attendance
of officers, prevent frauds, and see that the
elections are fairly and legally conducted.
9th. Such supervision can cause no collision
because the authority of Congress is para
mount and its regulations necessarily super
cede those of the State.
It'll. State and National sOvcIeignties do
not preclude the cooperation Of both IN cleo
lions. National authority being paramount,
jealousy can cause no collision.
Sth. Congress has constitutional power to
vest in the circuit courts the appointment of
supervisors of elections.
9th. The provision authorizing deputy
marshals to keep peace at elections is not I'M
constitutional. The national government has
the right to use force to compel obedience to
its laws and execute its constitutional powers.
10th. The concurrent jurisdiction of the
government which it has in every part of the
United States, is distinct from the exclusive
jurisdiction in the District of Columbia, etc.
18th. The provisions for compelling the
observance Of the State laws in the election
of representatives within the supervision of
the State law in the election of representatives
are within the supervision of Congress, and
the violation of those laws is an otfense
against the United States which the national
government may inhibit and punish.
The petition for hdJeds corpus and ccrtiO-
T0ri was granted.