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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-12-24
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ten in pithy and attractive style, while
other subjects Of Importance are present
ed to The reader in vigourous and unmis.
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Official Directory.

District Judge. CISCO
J. A. CHARGoIs.
clerk Of District Court,
LAsrIE BRoUssApD.
representative;
Sheriff & Tax Collector,
G. B. SHAW.
Police Jury.
4 HoFFpAUIR, President.
9 9 pR1MEAux. Jos. TRAHAN,
4 VANsLYKE, j. F. BRoUssARD.
4 NuNEz L. THIBEAUx.
llxk of Police Jury.
A. LACOUR.
Yssh Treasurer,
Isaac WISE.
i5En Council.
LEoNcE PERRET, Mayor.
~. ABADtE, JACOB lsAAcs,
& WISE, }. y. LEGE,
aEo. E. Lyons, Constable.
Justices of the Peace, Sd. Ward:
Leo PERRET, w. b. WHITE.
Surveyors
W. w. EDWARDS. e. MONTAGNE.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-12-24
.aUWlSlAMA STATE
UNIVERSITY
AND
Agricultural & Mechanical
COLLEGE,
BATON ROUGE, LA.
COL. VIM. PRESTON JOHNSON,
PRESI ENT.
Session Of Nine Months Begins
October 5, 1881.

Healthy location. Free tuition. Board,
lodging, medical expenses, etc, SIG per
month. Cheap uniform. Full corps of
competent Professors. Workshop of
Mechanical Department in operation.
Military discipline. For further parlu-
culars, apply to
PROF. L. w. SEWELL,
Aug. 27-6m Baiou Rouge. La.
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start yon. S12 a day and upwards
made by the industrious. Msn. women.
boys and girls wanted everywhere to
work for us. Now is the time You can
work in spare moments only or give
vonr whole time the business. You
can live at home and do the work. No
o her business will pay you nearly so
we'll. No one can fail to make enor-
mons pay by engaging at.once. Costly
outfit and terms free. Money made fast,
easily and honorably. Address TRUE &
Co, Augusta, Maine.
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Notice.

Merchants and peddlers sre here-
by notifcd that / will not pay any
debts contracted by my wife from
and after this date.
A. r. BROUssARD.
Parish Of Vermi!ion, Jure 4th 1851.
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PAY YOUR 1'AXES

The assessment rolls Of the Cor
poration of Abbeville are now
complete and in my possession !;
parties owing taxes for 1881, and
also previous years will Go we'll
to come and pay the same imme-
diately.
GEO. e. LYONS,
Nov. 5th 1881 Con Collector
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RE nhusiness now before the
kulonblic. You can make
X money faster at wort toY us
uylIV han at anything eise. Cap
HHl ~ II itat NOT needed W.. will
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IL, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, Dec =
DR.. w. 4. Thompson.
I'll Canal Street, New Orleans.
Piles, Fistula and Fissure

2ll Canal Street, New Orleans
Piles, Fistula and Fissure
| Cured without the use of the
KNIFE, LfGATURE OR CAUsTI(
Free from pain, danger or loss Q
! time from business.
These Diseases Receive Specia
Attention and Cures Guaranteed.
Epilepsy or Fits treated witt
wonderful success. as. all cases ar,
carefully examined, and non,
taken but those Offering goot
prospects Of curing.
lmpotency, Spermatorrhea an,
Sexual Debility, treated by medi
cine alone, has heretofore proved
usiess and even injurious. The,
do no good, is the universa
testimony of all honest physicians
Thousands have "doctored" TO,
these complaints, and have thrown
away their money and theil
constitutions together, but the Doc
tor combines medical treatmen,
with electricity, the electricity
being generated by a simple
electrical apparatus that any one
can use, and by these means
insures success.
Constipation, the bane of 50
many lives and the most prolific
source of ilIhealth, cured by a
simple method, with little or no
medicine.
J Diseases Of women treated by
electricity, without pain or expo
sure.
Sticture of the Urethra and
RecJum cured without surgica
operation and without pain: Tape
Worm, Diseases Of the Kidneys,
Bladder, Pirate Diseases, Rheu-
maiism, Neuralgia, Nervous and
Sick Headache, Asthma, Weak,
Painful and Sore Eyes, without a
5fss i, ARssra ps haas ilaps a aRfafsasf selH
Diseases. Scrofula, Tumors, Loss
ef Voice etc, successfully treated
Inv improved remedies,
Letters Of inquiry must be
accompanied with stamp for reply
N. B.-No names made public
without the written consent of the
parties.
The following persons may be
referred to:
New Orleans Testimonials.
Capt. Max Blanchard, Piles.
Jas. Wallbillech, Supt. John.
sons Foundry, Rheumatism,
l.. Fl. Patterson, Pilot stmr.
Pagan, Piles.
Max Beer, 1853 Canal street,
Neuralgia.
Mrs. Miller, conner Jacson and
Libery streets, Deaf.
E. Dill, Morgan Railroad, Tape
Worm.
Thos. Robinson, 10 Cont street,
Piles.
Jacob Blum, Baronne St., Piles,
Capt. Pharr, Morgan City, Loss
Of Voice.
Leo Wolfson, Craps Bluff, La,
Plies.
Col, W. O'neal, Covington, KY.
Fistula.
W F. Shrock, Goodman, Miss,
Piles.
j. T. Swim, Main street, Cincin-
natl, Fissure
E Wolf, Port Hickey, La, Piles.
Byron Eastman, Mercer, Ky.,
j. b. Roos, Ben Lomond, Miss.
Piles.
Jas, Aldrich, Covington, KY,
Diabetes.
S. Freidheim, Bastrop, Id, Plies
A. J. Gordon, 1872 Walnut
street, Cincinnati, O.. Catarrh.
j. I. Hawkins. Mason, Tenn,
Discharge from the Ear.
J. B. Wilson, Alton, KY.
G. D. Hickersoa Vicksburg,
Miss. Asthma.
j.. T Warren, Carrollton, Tenn,
Bronchitis.
H. shipp, Owen, Ky, scrofula.
Office hours from 9 a, m., to 4
D. m.
Dec. II, 1905
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CONSOLIDATED

Statement of G. B. Shaw, Sher.
Id and Tax Collector, of his entire
collection from July LIST 1880, to
October 1st 1881, and including
Foil tax of 1880 to November
18th 1881 -
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E. d j. Brooks Anchor Brand Nails
and Spikes.
U. S. Metallic Cartridge Co.
Winstead Hoe Co., Winstead, Conn.
H. Diss on Sons Celebrated Files,
Philadelphia
Fox's Breech-Loading Shot Guns.
Ohio Valley Steel and Iron Works,
Cincinnati.
Midvale Steel Works, Philadelphia.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-10-06
Water In Dry Places.

It is known that between the Rocky
mountains and the Mississippi there
are vast regions which are arid aud un-
profitable because OF the absence OF
water. / stream or q we'll is all that is
necessary to make these sterile regions
blossom as the rose 1t is known that
at some distance underground there is
an abundance of water, which, II resched
and utilized, would make fruitful hun
dreds of millions of acres OF land. The
government has selected Messrs. G. A.
White, of Greeley, Colombo, and Pro-
fessor 8. Aughey, of Nebraska, 10 act as
a commission TO select sites for sinking
experimental artesian wells in the arid
regions Of the Rocky mountains. To
guide the commission, Professor Powell
has marked spots on the map for exam
inasion. Most Of them are between the
10ist and 113th degrees of longitude.
The area TO be inspected includes one
third of the State of Texas. the eastern
portions OF Montana, Colorado and New
Mexico, and the western portions of
Nebraska, Dakota and Kansas. The
practical result from this inquiry must
be Of the utmost moment TO the coun-
try. Irrigated land Is wonderfully
fruitful, and it Is of the utmost i'm
portancs that. As our population in
crcases, new outlets should be found
for those who wish homes aud farms of
their own. These nov arid plains are
near the richest mineral regions in the
United States. Could they be made
productive, the crops would fnd a
ready market among the mining popu.
lation.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-10-06
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS.


Some time ago very earnest and
successful Baptist minister in Virginia
was telling us some Of his early ezpe-
riences-among others, this, which is
quite too good, We think, TO be lost.
He was accustomed to labor not little
In protracted meetings, and his method
always was TO begin by belaboling the
members Of the church. In this, per
haps, he was not peculiar, as such is the
habit OF professional eyangelists.
Our brother had just concluded
very searching and scoTching discourse,
addressed with great yehemcnce to pro-
fcssors Of religion, when, coming down
from the pulpit, he was accogted by
venerable, but mild-mannered disciple,
who told him that he had a ,ext from
which if some time he would be good
enough TO preach the aforesaid disciple
would be very thankful.
The pastor, while diaident Of his
ability to preach with freedom from the
text selected for him by somebody else,
declared his willingness 10 do the best
he could, and cur.ously inquired what
the text might be. The old brother
could not quite remember just the chap.
ter and verse, but said that ii related TO
words spoken By Our Lord to Peter,
after his resurrection, when he asked
the apostle II he loved him and upon
Peters replying, "Lord, thou knowest
all things, thou knowest tha. / love
thee" he said unto Peter, "Beat my
sheep" "Noi mol" said the pastor;
"you are mistaken, my brother. He
said, 'Fesd my sheep" "Ah, he
didf' said the old man, with 4 scoreh-
ing look into the pastors face Il
thought maybe you read It Beat my
Gheep.'"
The pastor thought he saw a light-a
light that twinkled in the old mans
eyes, aud a new light on the Word Of
God.
He threw away his cudgel, and filed
up his crib.-Bapfia Teacher.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-10-06
"But father" I walled, "father-save

0nb ANtHGAf WaAht1f n6F v
him II
"My poor little lass" he said, ten
derly, "I'd jump into the water nov II
you bid me but what can I do, you
know, Prudence. what can 1 do?"
I did not answer, for did know that
he must have been swept far away be-
fore then, and I was beginning to feel
that was alone-quite alone in the
world. =
It was quite six months after that
dreadful night that one evening John
came ashore from his barge to the cot
tage where I was staying with his
mother, ever since he had brought me
there, without seeing him, only to wave
my hand to him as he sailed by. That
evening he came and looked wistfully
at me, and said but little and at last
his time was up, and he rose to go.
walked down TO the boat with him,
and on the way he told me he had got
leave to alter the name of his barge,
and it was called the Prudence, too ;
and then, without word, he was say
ing goodbye, when I put my hand in his
and said, quietly:
"John, dear, I haven't forgot my
promise"
"And You are alone, now, Prudence,
my lass" he cried.
"No, John, no." said, softly. al
never shall be while you live"
Never, my lass, never" he cried.
And you will be my little wife?"
"Yes, john" said, and with one
long hand-pressure we parted, and ]
went back TO wait another month, and
then I was his happy little wife.
And there seemed no change, for ]
was once moro on the river or out at
sea, leaning upon the tiller and gazing
before me, with the gulls wailing as
they wheeled and dipped and skinned
and settled upon the water; while the
soft wind gently stirred the hood that
was tied over my wind rafilcd hair.
Only bargeman's young wife, living
on the tide, but very happy, for John
often points to the great ships that pass
us, with their captains in gold-lace
caps, and whispers: "Not with tho
best among them, Prue, not with the
best I wouldn't change places with a
king
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-10-06
The End or the World.

The age of the earth is placed by
some at five hundred millions of years;
and still others, Of later time, among
them the Duke of Argyll, places IL at
ten million years, knowing Whit pro-
ceascs have been gone through. Other
planets 90 through the same process.
Tho reason that other planets differ so
much from the earth, is tina; they arc in
4 so much earlier or later stage of ex-
istence. The earth must beome old.
Newton surmised, although he could
give no reason for it, that the earth
would at one time lose all its water and
become dry. Since then 1t has been
found that Newton was correct. As the
earth keeps cooling, it will become
porous, aud great cavities will be formed
in the interior, which will take in the
water. 1t is estimated that this process
is now in progress, so far that the water
diminishcs ct about the rate of the
thickness Of sheet Of writing paper
each year. At this rate, in G,O0O,O 900
years tho water will have sunk mile,
and in 15,OO0.O 600 years every trace Of
water will have disappeared from the
face of the globe. The nitrogen aud
oxygen in the atmosphere are also di-
minisEing allthc time. tt Is in an in
preciable degree, but the time will come
when the air will be 30 thin that no
creatures We know could breathe Il and
live; the time will come when the world
cannot support life. That will be the
period Of old age, and then will come
death. Richard a. Proctor.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-10-06
PEARLS oP THOUGHT.


There are remedies for all things but
death.
Virtue has many preachers, but few
martyrs.
There is no charity in helping man
who will not help himself.
Would you respect yourself, keep
your heart and body clean.
Worid you retain the love Of a
friend, do not be too selilshly exact
ing.
There are those for whom money
does everything except to make honor
able men Of them.
The truly great man undertakes q
thing because it is great; tile fool, be-
cause he thinks il is easy.
Even poverty is better than ayarice,
for while poverty wants many things,
avarice wants everything.
II is not necessary to threaten bad
man, for his own deeds threaten him
with worse punishment than you can
infict.
Above every other feature which
adorns the female character, delicacy
stands foremost within the province OF
good taste.
We can never have much confidence
in the uprightness of others until VIC
have discovered some degree Of up
rightness in ourselves.
There cannot be surer proof OF low
origin, or OF an innate meanness Of dis
position, than TO be always talking and
thinking Of being genteel.
The nero lapse of years is not life.
Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, good
ness, faith, alone can give vitality to
the mechanism Of existence.
Every man has in his own life follies
enough, in his own mind trouble
enough, in his own fortunes evil
enough, without being curious after
the affairs Of others.
This wish falls often sarm upon my
heart, that may learn nothing that ]
cannot continue in the other world;
that ] may do nothing here but deeds
that will bear fruit in heaven.
The beginning OF hardship is like the
first taste OF bitter food-it seems for q
moment unbearable; yet, if there is
nothing else 10 satisfy our hunger, VIC
take another bite and find il possible
10 go on.
II you want knowledge You must toll
for It; il food, you must toll for It, and
il pleasure. you must toll for it. Toll
is the Law. Pleasure comes through
toll, and not by seli-indulgence and
Incidence. When one gets TO love
work his life is a happy one.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-10-06
Religious News and Notes.

No opium smoker, i: is said, is ad-
mitted 70 church membership by any
Christian mission working in China.
The Germany and Switzerland Metho-
dist Episcopal conference has 9,717
members, showing an increase during
the year OF 273, Notwithstanding 1si
deaths and many removals to America"
The Congregational church at Barn
stead, n. H, has had only two pastors
in seventy-siH years. The former pastor
preached for fifty.six years and the
present one has been settled for twenty
years.
An edict has been published 10y The
Chinese government extending to Prot
estant Christians the exemption from
assessments for the benefit of heather
ceremonies which was accorded 10
Roman Catholics in 1862.
At the late session Of the Episcopal
convention in Danville, Va, it was
voted that the clergy should recognize
the fact that the negroes within their
parochial bounds arc an integral part Of
their parochial work, and that such work
cannot be ignored or neglected.
The Lutheran Tisifor calls for a Lu-
theran Ecumenical council. II believes
that such body would be perhaps one
OF the greatest meetings ever held, and
asserts that instead Of "a few millions
Of Calvinists or Armenians or Dissent
ers," it would represent fifty millions Of
Lutherans from all quarters Of the globe.
The latest statistics OF missions in
japan record the work of sixteen church.
es and societies, which are represented
by 3s4 missionaries, thirty-eight woman
missionaries, twenty-eight native or
dained preachers, ninety organized
churches. and 3.7o2 members. Two
hundred and twenty-one rooms are used
for worship. The largest number Of
members has been gathered by the
American Presbyterian, the next largest
by the Congregational. aud the third
largest by the Methodist Episcopal mis-
sions.
The summary Of the Presbyterian
board Of home missions for the past
year shows that I,e17 men have been in
commission in 80 States end Territories.
Kansas takes the lead. having l2l mis-
sionaries, and Iowa coming next with
103. OF the whole number. $40 are in
the Western States and Territories.
The missionaries report 4,Dsp additions
on confession and s,Tl5 on certificate.
and total membership of 5.666, with
90.0is in The congregations. There are
I.l47 church ediAces. and silS. S65 Of
church debts was paid the past year.
Tho total receipts of the board we're
s3l5, ,ol1, the largest since the reunion.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-10-06
Pearls In Otstcrs and CLANS.

"Do you ever find anything in oys-
ters p was asked OF 4 proprietor of q
New York oyster saloon who for many
years has stood in ono place opening
bivalves. Pointing to n milk-white
pearl, about the size of 4 canary birds
egg, held by golden claw and fastened
in his shirt bosom, he said: "That is
tho best thing / ever found. lis worth
500, / have been told. At least, /
would give that for its duplicate. In
every oyster expect TO find something.
That is the reason open all get my.
self. There is a mild fascination about
the work TO me. / will show you a few
specimens Of the foreign substances 1
have taken ont Of oysters." He pro-
duced half pint bottle with wide open
mouth. II was half filled with rough
its of stone. "These arc all pearls, =
said tho oystermAn. They are, Of
course, undressed. and appear rough.
sx2me Of :hem are irregular in shape,
- aNarly all OF them would make good
Settings il treated by a lapidary. 1
don't know that they have any value
except as curiosities. Sometimes n
customer, in eating oysters on the half
shell, finds a tiny pearl. which he has
made into a shirt stud or ring. Did you
ever Sec clam pearl? No Then I'll
show you beauty"
II was indeed thing OF beauty that
the oyster opener uniolded from COW
ering of chamois skin when he opened
the door Of his safe. II was egg.shaped
and greatly resembled a catbird's egg.
II had slate color. which, at the apex
OF the cone, was worn into white. There
was q rich appearance to the curiosity
in It's setting IN heavy gold ring.
"Now, isn't that pretty?' said Tho
owner. smiliag with satisfaction. Isn't
IL jewell found that in clam
few years ago, and am afraid that
will never find another. am patiently
looking for Il, though. l never saw
anything like Il before, and no ono
over showed II to ever saw its like.
You see take good care Of it. Well.
think iE'a worth taking care Of"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-10-06
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Fumigation OF birthstone is OF Roman
origin.
A locomotive drinks forty-five gal
Ions of water every mile it travels.
Out of every 100 inhabitants Of the
United States sixteen live in cities.
Bracelets were given as q reward of
bravery to soldiers in the Middle Ages.
The Gauls love TO decorate their
helmets. swords and buckles with coral.
A crown of red-hot iron was an
ancient punishment for rebels and regi-
cides.
The Emperor Augustus in his letter
writing dated even the divisions OF the
hours.
Coleridge and Goldsmith wrote The
House that Jack Built and "Goody-
two-shoes."
BY the Saxon laws twelve years of
age was fixed as the earliest possible de-
velopment of the legal understanding.
The smallest engine in The world has
been finished in Baltimore. II can be
covered by thimble. Three drops Of
water fill the boiler.
The Greek word for horseshoe first
occurs in the ninth century. Horses
were then only shod in time of frost or
for especial occasions.
Goats OF arms and heraldry were in
troduced into England in 100. The
arms of England and France were first
quartered by Edward Ill in 1868.
The Roman soldiers carried, in their
military baggage, chains for prisoners
of war-iron for common, and Of gold
and silver for rich prisoners and princes.
The first silver money coined in Rome
was a. L. @. isl. The mint was in the
temple Of Juno Moncta, which circum-
stance occasioned the origin OF our word
money.
A circulating library in the Middle
Ages may seem surprising. In 1912 q
law was framed in Paris compelling all
public booksellers to keep books to lend
out on hire.
On the Patent Roll of Henry ". is q
record which allows Matthew Flint,
t0oths drawer Of London, si1pence a day
for life upon condition of his drawing
the teeth Of the poor gratuitously.
Professor Huxley declares the supply
of herring in tho sea TO be practically
ine1haustible, and that nothing which
man can do in the ordinary way OF de-
struction will ever appreciably diminish
tho stock.
Among the carly Romans a kind of
Fast, or annals, was kept by driving
nails into the wall of the temple of
Minerva; aud in public calarnities, in
time of pestilence. etc, a nail was
fastened in the temule of JupiaaF.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-10-06
Impaired EyesIght.

Myopia, or shortsightedness, has been
attributed to excessive reading and
study in standing position and in an
ill-lighted room. DIR. Samuel Sexton,
a leading biologist, has been examining
the matter and has made rather curious
discovery. He Finds that defective
vision is due, in many instances, to the
decay OF the teeth. The nerves which
supply what may be called The vital
power 10 the eyes. the ears, and the
teeth, arc Joined together, and any grave
defect IN ths teeth Is apt to impair both
viaion and hearing. Now, II is we'll
known 70 psychologists thai defective
teeth are almost universal among civiIi-
zed habits Of eating. The alternate use
Of cold and hot fluids impaiFs the in
tsgrisy os tho teeth and finally decays
them. This reacts on Tho nerves. and
Affects the oyesight and hearing.
Pafsnt', II tllcy wish their children 10
bo sound IN their various aenaes, should
look 70 the teeth ani eco thai theY are
krpt u good order.