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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-05-08

picket fence, and can be had at a moderate price ana on very so0'
terms. .h,.oh,+
100 wards from the Methods, Church, very suitable tor a residence
or business stand. measuring zoe feet front by 25o feet deep .Ae
same can be had on a good bargain. -. =.
No. Is This beautiful and well improved property IS situated 10
This town on rue du-Bas-de-Vile. The lot measures ~ fet front oy
AS feet deem a large commodious and we'll furnished dwelling house
kitchen, corn crib. stable and carriage house, bathing room and well
also a large cistern, everything perfectly new and a e; enc ,bs .s w,'a
of the village offers a good position for a business man with family
physician, mIliner Or hotel keeper and can be had at a very low
price. .. II az. some
can be had on calling at the store of above address. He also mas me
agency for a variety of movable properties. anu pa'"e9 u'"oN' :"
purchasing closely would do we'll to consult HIM
A full stock of general merchandise and Of the most selected aaaI.,,
ties is constantly on hand and at The falrest prices. Cus. %" na. tho
or colored can rey that they will always receive as In the past 'he
best auention.--my "a 791y.
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I'll. Leguennec,

WHEELwRIGHT & BLACKSMITH.
I respectfully announce to the
public that / keep on hand all the
different materials appertaining
to sewing machines, Of all kinds
and more especially to the Singer;
and also the genuine machine oil
l also have buggies and hacks
for sale, and make and repair the
same at prices to suit the times.
Sept-7'78.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-05-08
March 1st 1880.

Seed Catalogue-JosEpH
HARRIS, Of Moreton Farm, Ro-
chester, N. Y, sends US his Cat
alogue of Choice, Garden Seeds
for 1880. 1t is sent free Of charge
to all applicants. Drop him a
postal card with your address,
and tell him you saw this notice
In the MERIDIONAL.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1880-05-08
Notice,
fLouRi FLOUR, FLOUR

The undersigned Baker at Alb.
beville. informs the public that he
will constantly keep on hand a
complete stock of Flour, which he
will oTer for sale at moderate
prices ; according to quality, from
ordinary suPer6ne to extra choice.
J. BOYANCE. Baker.
Dec. 2O-'79 -3m
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WM. MouToN.
e. /. ADDISON.
ARCHIE YOU'VE.
Best Offer Yet! We take take

Best Offer Yet! we. , s;s.:
sure in announcing to our friends and the
public generally t7at We have made ar
rangements by which we are enabled to
furnish that handsome paper. the
Louisiana Capitolian
and the MERIDlONAL one year for
the extremely low price Of So SO CASH.
Baton Rouge IL now the permanent Capt.
tai Of this great State, and this is an ex-
cellent opportunity to get the Capital and
Parish news for little more than ONE
pRlcH The CAPITOLIAN is . spicy,
iu,e-e-tipg journal, filed with literary
matter for the ladies. humor for the fun
loving, historical sketches for the student,
and news from all parts OF tie World, for
every one. Its editorials upon the cur
rent political topics Of tie day are writ
ten IN q pithy and attractive style, while
'other subjects Of importance are present
cd TO the reader in VIGOROUS and unnts-
'takable terms. It "a, In fact. a frst-rate
Democratic family newspaper, calculated
to elevate and strengthen the morals OF
our State, and should circulsfe in every
nook and corner Of it, boundaries.
Send TO the publishers for . specimen
copy, which Is forwarded free upon ap-
plication. Address. Tie CAPITOLfAN.
Baton Rouge. La.
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. Rochester Physicians Experience

A Rochester Physicians Experience.
R. Caulkins, NJ. D., Of Roches-
ter N. Y, certified Oct. 6, 1879,
that he has used the Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure in his practice for
diseases Of the kidneys and liver,
and the result has been satislac-
tory ia the extreme. BE says Il
would now prescribe the same
remedy to all similarly afflicted,
and YOU are at liberty to 30 state
an yolnt1stisnonials-"
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Notice.

The public is hereby notified
that | have no agents to dispose
of or sell any OF my land, the
power Of attorney by me given to
+. Montague, Jr., Agt. having
been by me revoked on April 9th
1873, as per Act filed at the
Recorders Office.
J. RYKoskI.
Abbeyille March 81 1880.
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A V / S !.

Je previens lie public ct mes
amis de ne pas chaser dams ma
savanna, a cause Cd tort que celia
fait a mes animaux autrcment je
serai force de les %poursuivre pour
violation de droits de propriete.
JOSEPH NUNEZ.
81 lanvier, 1880.
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G. II. MouToN, CONRAD DEBAI1LOs
MOutOn & BaillOn.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Vermilionville Louisiana.
Job work neatly
and expeditiously
executed at this Of
flee

TT Can make money faster at work for
u us than at anything else. Capital
not required; We will start you. Twelve
dolsars per DAY at home made by the iu-
dustriuus. Men. woman, boys and girls
wanted everywhere % work for us, Now
is the time. Costly outfit and terms free.
Address TRnE and Co, Augusta, Maine.
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Livery Stable,
~ @ ~

The undersigned would respect
fully inform the public that he
has opened a Livery Stable in the
Town of Abbeville, where he is
prepared to hire horses, car
riages. hacks etc. and receive the
anne at very moderate prices.
OPHILrAs BOURQUE.
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noBR1Ns, ELECTRIC SOAP.

DOBBINS' ELECTRIC SOAP.
Having obtained the agency OF
this celebrated soap for Abbeville
and vicinity, ! append the opin-
ION of some Of our best people as
to its merits. We have been
using for the last 3 months the
Dobbins' Electric soap, made ny
]. L. Cragin & Co Philadelphia.
Pa, and find that it washes and
cleans the clothes more rapidly
and more thoroughly and IS in
the end cheaper than any other
soap we have ever used in our
family. We can heartily recon.
mend it and a single trial will
convince all of the correctness OF
our assertions.
WM. MouTeN.
e. /. ADDISON.
ARCHIE You've.
A. LAcJuR.
desire all MY friends and'cus'
toners to give this splendid soap
one trial 50 they may know just
how good the best soap in the
u. s. is. Give it a trial and l
am sure you will use no other.
A. D. MARTIN,
Abbeyille. La. Sole Agent.
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Special NOTICE.

The firm Of Godchanx &
Abadie is this day dissolved by
,nutual consent Mr.. j. j. Abadie
having purchased the interest
of G.. Godchaux. will continue
bu3incss on his account.
G. GoDcHAUx,
J. J. ABADlE.
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CONSUMPTION CCRLD.


An old physician retired from act'v
practice. having Id placed in his hapa
by an East Indian missionary the fora.ul
OF a simple vegetable remedy for til
speedy aud permanent cure Of Consnmp
ton, Bronchitis. Catarrh. Asthma, and h
Throat and Lung Affections. a!so q posi-
tive and radical cure for General Deh,lit
and all nervous complaint, after havit
thoroughly tested IFS wonderful curativ
powers in thousands of Cases. feels il b
duty to make it known to his suff-rin
fellows. The r-ciue will be sent free /.
charge, to all who desire it, With I'LL d
rections for preparing and successful
using. Address with stamp naming toi
paper, DR.. j. q. STONE A North Mint.
Street, Philadelphia, Ps.-Nov. ly.
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Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05
A Five Minutes Call.
Boston Transcript. ]

Boston transcript
Out of a five minutes call woman
will gather inspiration for good hours
speech when she gets home. She will tell
her husband-who is so interested, you know
that Mrs. Stuckup ''has furniture the Sec
ond time within three years if I'm not mis-
taken and lace curtains with lambrequins and
her black silk dress made over and her hair
done up in new way higher thar she used
to wear it and not becoming a bit and her
little girls got her hair banged and all dress
ed in white and is going to Miss Giddigurl's
school in the fall and her cook has gone Oft
mad and she says she's almost tired to death
and is going to SEampscott next week and
Miss Flrt is going to have young Spoodling-
ton after all and Miss Smiths going to give
her pair of bouquet holders she says they're
good enough for her she got them cheap up
at Ragshop's and Mis- Ferguson's got boy
lots of hair on its head and looks three
months old everybody says and Steve Beak-
er's awful dissipated they say and that Love-
well girls father ordered him out of the
house and she's been taking on awful and
declares she will leave him and the Stigginses
have moved out of town and the Browns
have lost every thing and Mis- Smiths bought
a whole piece of cotton cloth and -" By
this time the husband is asleep or has fled.
A man could never make so much out of q
weeks visit. All he would remember would
be that Browns got mighty pretty wife, or
keeps good cigars, or some other equally in
consequential matter.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05
Animal Gratitude.

A story comes from Tenbury, England,
where mensgerie has been paying visit,
which illustrates the well-known character of
the elephant of humane feelings in a re-
markable degree Among the animals was a
very fine female elephant called Lizzie, which
was attacked by violent fit of collie and
suffered intensely. A local chemist, whose
success as an animal doctor was we'll known,
treated Lizzie and saved the animals life.
On the procession passing the chemists shop
on Friday, the elephant Immediately recog-
nized her benefactor, who was standing at
the door of his shop, and, going up to him,
gracefully placed her trunk in his hand. The
chemist visited the exhibition at night, and
met with an unexpected reception from his
former patient. Gently seizing the doctor
with her trunk, the elephant encircled him
with it, to the terror of the audience, who
expected to see him crushed to death but
Lizzie had no such intention, and. after hav-
ing thus demonstrated her gratitude by acts
more eloquent than words, she released the
doctor from her embrace and proceeded with
her appointed task.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05
A Natural lee House.

A natural ice house is one of the curiosities
of northern New Jersey. II lies behind Blue
Mountain. The ice gorge is several hundred
yards in extent, ten to thirty feet deed. with
caves and clefts in the rocks where the ice
lies. The shade at the gorge Id very dense,
the sun apparently never penetrating it. The
The bottom of the gorge and the little caves
and crevices are filled with leo. The Their
mometer, which registered the nineties in
Newton, marked thirty eight degrees at the
bottom of this gorge. A few feet from one
end spring of the most delicious sparkling
water bubbles up. The water in this spring
stands at thirty-four degrees.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05
A New Gun,

A newly invented gun, called the Lowell
Battery, says the San Francisco Examiner of
July 10Th, was given trial yesterday at the
Presidio in presence Of number of military
men and other interested parties. The gun is
somewhat upon the principle of the Gatln
gun. has four barrels. and is said to have dis
charged 900 shots per minute. The gun was
manipulated by Sergeant Weber, of Light
Battery B, Captain Hsshrouck. private Sing
er, Battery D, and private Clemins, Battery
81. The use of the range was granted by
Colonel Livingston. Two or three thousand
shots were discharged, the practice eviDcing
the ease with which the gun can be handled
and the deadly execution of which it is capa-
h1o
Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05
Our Own Tea and Sugar.
Isl. Paul Pioneer Press.

lSL raul tlOneef-TreSsJ
Gen. LeDuc had scarcely been installed at
| the head OF the Department of Agriculture
before he startled the dull monotony of that
government seed store by actually proposing
to do something for the agricultural interests
of the country, and he surprised the public
and actually drew down upon himself good
deal Of fippant criticism by the bold and
novel character of the enterprises in which
he engaged. One of them was the naturaliza-
ton of tea culture in the Southern States,
and another the establishment of sugar pro-
duction from sorghum and other sugar canes
or roots as a general feature of the agricul-
tural economy of the Northern States. He
set out with the startling proposition that the
United States could and should produce its
own tea and sugar, and thus save the country
about a hundred millions a year now sent
abroad for these luxuries. AS to the sugar
business, that is settled. The people of the
North are rapidly learning to make their own
sugar, and in a few years Minnesota, for ex-
ample, will undoubtedly produce the greater
part of the sugar consumed by her people.
But there was general disposition to laugh
at LeDuc's tea project as visionary. But in
spite of the mocking incredulity of the press
and public, he has persevered till he seems to
have demonstrated beyond any reasonable
doubt that the United States can not only
produce its own tea, but tea Of very super
iOr quality and at cost and on scale which
will enable it to compete successfully with
the teas of China, Japan and India in the
markets of the world. He has, fortunately
for the success of his experiment, secured the
aid and cooperation of gentleman, an ex-
pert of many years experience in the manu-
facture of tea, who has gone to tea raising in
Georgia on large scale, with great success.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05

INorristown HerAld.l

A mouse recently intruded himself into q
lady's chamber and found upon her toilet
table a small vial of whisky, which, 1t is but
fair to say, the lady used for the benefit of
her crimps. The vial was stoppered with q
paper cork, which. of course, was saturated
with whiskey. The mouse nibbled off the
top of the cork anc finally succeeded in draw
ing 1t. and then RECALLED itself with what the
paper had absorbed. Under the stimulus thus
secured it bad made its presence in the room
very evident. and careful search for 1t was
promptly instituted II was soon discovered
in the drawer of huresn, stretched out at
full length on comfortable bed, dead drunk.
When il was removed and thrown upon the
ground. the shock restored it to partial con-
sciousness and to staggering effort at loco
motion. Moral: It is not safe even to smell
the cork of whisky bottle.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05
The Regulation StOve.Pipe HAT.

Miss Kate Field, speaking of hats, discus
ses some eminent gentlemen as follows :
Apropos of hats, it's as much as mans life
is Worth-in society-to wear aught but the
regulation stove-pipe. There may be NJ. s. g
who dare to face the Speaker with billy-cock
or soft-felt hat in hand, but | doubt 1t. The
only man ever heard of equal to such an
amount of bravery is Joseph Cowen, the
member of Newcastle. and owner OF the rad
ical Newcastle Chronicle. He at all times
has the courage of his opinions. Whether
people agree with him or moi, all admire bis
pluck, a pluck backed by brains. Joseph
Cowen would be an orator were it not for
Northumberland burr which prevents him
from being fully understood Very elegant
speaker is Mr.. Cowen. once exclaimed Lord
Beaconsfield; "What pity no one knows
what he is talking about" Cowen, the radi-
cal, wears slouch hat, but should no more
expect to see Sir William Harcourt in such q
covering than l should expect to see ele-
plants in satin gowns. No one in England
who is not rough or genius can afford to
wear a slouch hat Alfred Tennyson is
rarely seen in anything else. Wilkie Collins
and Charles Reade defy public opinion, but
I firmly believe that even these men would
wear stove-pipes were they daily subjected to
the insnuating respectability of the House of
Commons. Stove-pipes permeate the atmos-
phere and play an important part in legisla-
tion. So greatly do they tyranize over the
British male that even Eton boys in jackets
are swallowed up by them. Talk about wo-
mans blind devotion to fashion Did ever
woman cling as fondly to crinOline as man
clinps to his stoye-pipe? Never
Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05
English A Agricultural Commission

Englishmen are becoming more deeply
convinced every day of the hopelessness OF
contending with the natural products OF this
country. Under the late Government an
Agricultural commission was formed to In
quire into the state of affairs, gather inform
alton, or, if possible, suggest remedy Tor
the actual and threatened distress of the Eng
lish agricultural classes. This commission
Mr.. Gladstone denounced as absurd, and an
imposition" Notwithstanding it was CON-
posed of very eminent and experienced men.
The truth of the case was very plain. The
English agriculturist had to contend against
the weather. succession of bad seasons
and competition from abroad. The weather
may change, but the competition must con-
tinue. for very long period of time, at all
events, TO be overwhelming. I'm certain
sense" says the London Times very keenly,
America and Australia are being discovered
over again )" that is to say, people IN the va
World are only just beginning 10 realize
what the discovery of these enormous terri
tories with their marvellous climates and vas:
stores of still undeveloped natural and min.
eral wealth, means. 1t means shltung OF
the human race and of centers of interest
and power. disturbances from beyond the
seas are always arriving on the British
coasts" confesses the English journal.
There is new world coming upon US, and
we have to acquaint ourselves with its ways
and possibilities The general recommend
alton seems to be that the English farmers
must find their own way ont of the Difficult
ties that beset them, and either change the
material Of their product so as to evade the
competition, or else abandon soil that will
no longer support them. Agricultural COM
missions may be useful in their way, but they
cannot overcome nature nor shut England
off from world that will pour its wealth
into her lap-for consideration.
Helena weekly herald., 1880-08-05
The Black Hole i'm Calcutta.

tLorG MacaUayr article on "Macoms Life of Give "
Even for single European malefactor,
that dungeon would, in such climate, have
been too close and narrow. The space was
only twenty feet square. The air boleswere
small and obstructed. 1t was the summer
solstice-the season when the fierce heat of
Bengal Can scarcely be rendered tolerable to
natives of England by lofty halls, and the con-
slant waving Of fans. The number of pris-
oners was one hundred and fortY-six. When
they were ordered 10 enter the cell, they
magined that the soldiers were joking, and,
being in high spirits ON account of the prom
ise OF the Nabob to spare their lives, they
laughed and jested at the absurdity of the
notion. They soon discovered their mistake
They expostulated they entreated; but in
vain. The guards threatened to cut down all
who hesitated. The captives were driven into
the cell at the point ot the sword, and the
door was shut and locked upon them. Moth
ing in history or iction-nOt even the story
which UgOlino told in the sea of everlasting
ice, after he had wiped his bloody lips On the
scalp of his murderer-approaches the hor-
rors which were recounted of the few sur
vivors of that night. They cried for mercy
They strove to burst the door. Holwell, who,
even in that extremity, retained some pres
ence of mind, offered large bribes to the
jailors, but the answer was that nothing could
be done without the Nabob's orders, that the
Nabob was asleep, and that he would be
angry if any body awoke him. Then the pris-
oners went mad with despair. They trampled
each other down, fought for the place at tt e
windows, fought for the pittance of water
with which the cruel mercy of the murderers
Knocked their agonies-raved, prayed, bias
phemed-implored the guards to fire among
them. The jnilers in the meantime held
lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter
at the frantic struggles Of their victims. At
length the tumult died away in low gasps and
meanings The day broke. The Nabob had
slept off his debaucb, and permitted the door
to be opened But it was some time before
the soldiers could make lane for the sur
vivors, by piing up on each side the heaps o.
corpses, on which the burning climate had
already begun to do its loathsome work.
When at length a passage was made, twenty
three ghastly figures. snch as their own moth
ers would not have known, staggered one by
one out of the charnel houee. A pit was in
stantly dug. The dead bddies, one hundred
and twenty-three in number, were flung into
it promiscuously, anc covered up.