davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-06-25
Probate Sale.

SThTE , LOUISIANA.
25th Judicial District Court
Parish of VermiIion.
Succession of Emanuel Foreman
BY virtue of a decree of the
Honorable Court aforesaid. grant
ed in the matters of the above en-
titled and numbered succession
notice is hereby given that there
will be offered for sale. at The re
s'dence of the deceased, in this
parish, to the last and highest bid
der, on
Wednesday. 29M of June 1881.
the following described properly
to wit !:
One tract Of land situated N
this parish on the West side OF
Bayou Vermilion, near Indian
Point, containing seven acres.
bounded West by Mrs Olivia Ian.
dry. East by public land, North bv
public land and south by Turner
Foreman.
One tract of wood land measur
ing eighty-two acres, and designa
ted as lot No. 3 Of section 80 in
Township 10 south uange two
East, and situated on the BAYOU
Quene Tortue in the Parish of st.
Landry.
One dwelling house, corn mill
and sheds. sugar mill and kettles
DC, lot cattle, horses and hogs.
Fencing, farming implements,
household furniture, beds, bedding
&C., and snndry other articles too
numerous to menticn.
Homestead Entry. under Re
ceivers receipt No. 542l dated
New Orleans, March llth 1881.
in the name Of Emanuel Foreman
Tor the West ] of Northwest ! of
section one Q) in Towship IL
south Range 2 East, containing
Eighty 0Sl Zoe acres.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS = One
halt OF the purchase price of each
and every adjudication to he paid
cash on the day of sale, and the
remainder in one and two years
from the day of sale in two equal
annual inS ailments, purchasers to
furnish their notes for The credit
portion with solvent snreties an
sofido, to tn satisfaction of the ad.
mlnlstrator, and conditioned TO
draw eighi per cent per annum
interest from maturity until raid,
and the lands to be and remain +
speciall Y mo tagged aud hypothe-
Gated. with vendors lien and .
retained thereon. with
the pact he non atienanf2o in favor /
OF said succession, untiI ful and .
final payment of said notes, in
primo pal interest and all costs and
charges which may acc ne thereon.
Given IN er ms official sigma
ture this 2Sth day of MAY A.D.
1881. +
G. B SHAW, dgiif,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-06-25

The cotton crop of the South
last year exceeded 100000 bales
and yet it will not show an
acreage of more than half a bale
to the acre. The St. Louis Re-
publican thinks that if our fields
were thoroughly cultivated with
improved implements the crop
would have been twice as large.
1t justly remarks, Southern
farming is superficial, exhaustive
and unthrifty. 1t cultivates too
many acres, and does not cultivate
them deep enough. If the depth
of blowing where doubled the
area might be reduced one-half,
and still the crop would be the
same. There is too great a
monotony in it, too, an unending
of the same crop on
the same fields till the vitality of
the soil is exhausted, and the fields,
are worn out.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-06-25
Southern Development.

The shrek and hiss of political
malediction against the South
have been so loud as to rise above
the assuring notes of industrial
development and educational
expansion that are heard by
dWellers in that section. Probably
In no other part OF the country is
there SO little discussion of politics
as at the South, and it is equally
probable that nowhere else are
the people facing the future with
more healthy or better grounded
hopes. The newspapers of the
South are filled, not with
revolutionary or even extreme
political views, but with discus.
slons of railroad development, of
the opportunities for manu-.
featuring that are afforded, of the
relative cost and efficiency of
steam and water power, of the
expositions they contemplate, and
OF the immigration they are
looking for and. inviting. So
interested and enthusiastic are
these redectors of public opinion.
IN regard to their commercial and
industrial progress, that they al
most forget to reply to the guerilla
attacks of Northern demagogues.
This feeling is not local, but
general. It extends over every
part, aud if less positive in one
State than others, that State is Vir.
glnla, where a partisan fight with
reputation as the watchword, has
been forced upon the people by the
Republican party, and until this
peril to the States honor and
credit is forced back by the debt
paying element, there will not be
that sense of security that is
favorable to the largest prosperity.
But In South Carolina the manu-
featuring question is being
considered with direct reference to
speedy test of its merits, and
all along the Atlantic States, from
Virginia to Georgia, there are
new movements in railroads,
which embrace not merely single
lines but systems. The cotton
exposition that is to be held at
Atlanta is desinged to give the
great industry that it represents
a prominence that it never before
enjoyed, even when invested with
the title and pomp and power of
royalty. Aside from its immediate
object it will serve a good
purpose in showing to those still
and skeptical the
resources of the great State and
the greater section where tho
exhibition will be held, and PROV
ing it is industrial ambition and
not political intolerance that
is animating the Southern people
at the present time. Among the
commercial cities, New Orleans
once more rises from her pros.
'ration and, shows larger relative
for the last two
years than any other city in the
country. The spirit of the people
$ healthy and progressive. They
nave fixed their eyes upon a great
md bright future, and they will
attain it even though the
POLITICAL demagogues snarl at
heir HEELS Boston Post.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-06-25
Idr CoHector's .Notice.

Persons owing Licenses-State
and Parish--for the year 1881,
and also bach taxes are hereby
notified to come immediately at
my office near the court house and
settle the same.
G, 3. SHAW,
Sheriff & Tax Collector.
May 18th 1881.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-06-25

A new sect of Adventists have
sprung upin Indiana. They are
called Soul slecpers. and believe
that the body sleeps till the resur. !.
rection, the soul being in a state
Of quiescence till that time.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-06-25
y 0tice.

Merchaa s and .peddlers IRE here
by not'iei that | will ply any
debts contracted by my vile from
and after this dat.
a K BRnrs8ARD.
Parish Of Yermiiioh, Jurt 4th 1881.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1881-06-25

incurred during the year 1881, b,
published in the "ficial Journal, b,
the CI' rk of this b dy. at least this
~ days before fixing and deciding
on the amount OF taxes to be assess
ed, VIZ mill
! For Criminal expenses 2
Grand & Petit Jurors & Jury
I commissioners 1
3 Printers and Stationer's ;
4 Parish and District Attorney J
3 Sheriff for holding court !
3 Magistrates, Constable, Ply
siclans, Collector and Assessor l
7 Police Jurors, Finance Com
mirtee, tClerE, Constable and
Parish Treasurer 1
8 Roads and Bridges 1
8 Paup rs and INDECENT persons ]
10 Public Schools L
IL Special Jail tax 81
Tot l.: l35
Art, 8fh Resolved, that the lst
road district be and the same is here
by divided as follows That portion
OF Said district commencing at the
second bridge from Grosse-Ile coulee
on Glosse-Ite coulee levee and run
nirg to the lower limits of said 1st
Districi, be ,orm d into he 18th
ro d district. The 1st load district
shall commence a. the Court House
and run to second bridge from Crosse
lie coulee Oh Crosse II, couIee levee
and to include the road to Per,ys
Bridge; persons liable % road duty
living on I s.. Winston's p'antati !,
Shall be subject to duty in said LIST
district as heretofore.
j. IL. Putnam Was continued as
Road Overseer tor 1st district and
James Pickett was appointed for
the 13.h district.
The Police Jury proceeded to
the election of its officers to serve
during the current year ending De-
cembef 3lst 1881, with the follow
ing result
Howard Hofpa ir, President, A.
Lacour, Clerk. III B. Lyous, Con-
stable, Isaac Wise, Parish Treasurer.
Yearly salaries TO be the same as
the pres'ons ear. except the Clerks,
which W s fixed at 1925 per anuum.
and all payable quarterly.
E | Addison, ESQ Publisher of
"IHE MERIDio>AL.' being present,
agreed and consented to publish all
the proceedings f his body in the
English and Frnch langu ge and
do all necessary printing upon the
same terms stipulations and agree
ments OF the previous year, for tn.
SANE annu remuneration, to wit
81 90, payable quarterly.
On motion of Mr.. Br,ussard,
Art. 8 Resolved that Messrs A.
Van-lyke, j. II Putnam Lastie
Broussard. Henry Leguennec and
Geo. Caldwell be aud they are here
by appoioted a commi tee to CORES
pond with ny persons or firms for
the purp Sc OF building a Parish
Jail they arc auth rized to receive
plans and specifications, and make
estimates Of cost of said Jail, and
whenever said committee deem il
proper, they are her by authorized
o call the Police Jury in extra ses
sion with view of confirming or re-
"ctpg any ag cement made by them
With ny party or firm. The above
COMMITTED shalt also superintend the
'ni ding Of sal Jail, and receive the
anne, when completed, j. coniuoc-
ion with The PoIlc' Jury.
The following claims were allow
ID payable out of their resp ctive
Il DIS
Out of Bridg4 repairing fund 1880
J. Ill. Putnam Road Overse, + SIS 90
'rmlnal prosecution funas l so.
'acob Is acs assignee
:, i /
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-11
THE SENATE ORGANIZATION.

The new Senate, when full, will consist of
81 Republicans, 81 Democrats and indie
pendents-Judge Davis, of Illinois, and Gen.
eral Malone, of Virginia. Davis is expected
to vote with the Democrats, and although he
has given no public expression of his inten-
tons his course during the past two years
variants this expectation. Malone is a man
of strong liberal aud progressive tendencies
who cut loose from the regular Democratic
organization in Virginia and was elected to
the Senate in spite of its opposition. All
efforts TO induce him to identify himself with
the Democratic side have thus far failed, and
il is only reasonable to suppose that after his
fight against the Bourbons in his own State
he will net make an alliance with them
in Washington. He could not do so without
placing himself in a weak aud inconsistent
position and dropping at once into OBJ
scurity as one of the rank and file
of the Democratic organization in the Senate
While it is not to be supposed that he will
declare himself Republican, it may, however,
be taken for granted that in so important
matter as organizing the Senate and fixing
the political relations Of it's committees and
officers toward the new Administration, he
will act with the Republicans. Such is the
general belief in Washington, and the logic of
his situation and his antecedents certainly
warrants it.
Counting Davis with the Democrats and
Malone with the Republicans, the Senate will
be tied, and the casting vote of the Vice-Pres-
ident will decide party questions In favor of the
Republicans. Until recently the Democratic
Senators appeared to acquiesce In this attitude
of affairs, but the death of Mr.. Carpenter and
the retirement of Messrs. Blaine, Window and
Kirkwood to take places in the Cabinet have
since caused four temporary vacancies in the
Republican seats. Now the Democrats pro-
pose to use the transient and accidental power
thus placed In their hands to appoint all the
standing committees and elect the officers of
the Senate. Mr.. Pendleton yesterday reported
an entire list of Committees, as agreed upon
in the Democratic caucus, which actually goes
so far as to assign the Republican Senators
instead of leaving the distribution to them
selves, as has been usual. The whole pro-
ceeding can be rightly characterized by no
other terms than outrageous and indecent
We hope the Republicans will resist it by all
the parliamentary means possible. The new
Senators will be in their seats in a few
days. They are all chosen except Mr.. Win
doms successor. who is to be appointed by the
Governor of Minnesota and will doubtless be
named before the close Of the present week
1t il the right of these new Senators TO partci-
pate in the organization of the body. 1t is the
right of the Republicans, as party, to have
an opportunity to test the question of their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-11

year by the failure OF Congress to give them
aid. Nothing tangible came OF the effort TO
help Captain Eads's ship transit railroad, and
the Nicaragua Canal scheme got nothing but
fair words De Lesseps, we must therefore
concede, mas not only organization and money,
but years start. One thing has been accom-
plished in this country, however, of which he
does not make sufficient account. The attitude
of the Government toward an interoceanio
canal in foreign hands has been plainly defined
by the action of Congress and the explicit
declaration of President Hayes, Ieafirmed by
President Garfield in his inaugural address. In
effect our position is this: The Frenchmen may
go ahead and dig the canal, but we give them
notice, in the language of the book publishers,
that "all rights are reserved" 1t is our right
to protect ourselves against any untavorable
consequences to our commerce OF our defensive
strength on land and sea which may come from
an isthmus canal in foreign control, and
this right we shall exercise whenever and how
ever we may see fit. The shareholders in the
Panama Company cannot In the future COM
plain that they did not have fair warning of the
possible action of the United States in defence
Of American interests.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-11
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Aldrich is to prepare the May number of Tho
AtlaHtie
Mr., Langtry is quoted as saying that his wife
never for a moment thought of the stage a. pro-
fesslOn."
The President and the members of the Cabinet
cannot be said to be rich men, Mr.. Blaine aud Mr..
MacVeagh have more of this worlds goods than the
others
Mr. Gladstone's wound, caused by his fall on the
snowy ground, was rather an uncomfortable one.
Tho scalp was cut clean through to the bone The
excitement in London could not have been much
greater If he had broken his head. The Queen sent
twice day TO inquire about him, and the Princess
of Wales called upon him In person.
Mr.. Tennyson is staying in London and frequently
visits many of the haunts of his youth which are
still in existence-among them the Cock" Tavern
IN Fleet.st., which he made famous by his mono
loue of Will Waterproof" The poet, it is SOL
EMMY recorded, Is democratic enough to wash down
his dinner with modest pint of beer.
The Princess Augusta Victoria Amelia Louise
Marie Constance, now, through her marriage to
Prince Wilhelm, Presumptive Empress of Germany,
is true little German housewife The SchleswiR-
Holstein absorption made her family very much out
at elbows and the girl was brought up In COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-11

are not the only debt which the Government
ought to meet July /.
The five per cent bonds amount to
$469, 800, $50, and are in precisely the same
condition as the six per cents, except that
! three months notice must be given OF inten-
ton to redeem them. 1t is not possible, by
any stretch of existing laws, to pay OIL
these bonds and the six per cents also when
they become redeemable, or at any time this
year. True, the act of 1864, which author
ICES a temporary loan to the amount OF
$3.50, 100000, might be so construed as to
provide for the payment of $110,000,0OO or
S120, 900, 900 of the fves, after the six per
| cents had been redeemed. Also, the act re-
Gently passed would permit the use OF all the
cash reserves in the Treasury, not obtained by
sales of bonds specifically for resumption, In
the purchase or redemption of bonds, while
the act of 1875 permits the sale of any requl-
site amount of four per cents, to supply and
maintain coin reserve for the redemption OF
legal-tender notes on demand. By using laws
for purposes not originally contemplated in
their framing, it might thus be possible to pay
off all but about 5000, 100000 of the five
per cents. On the score of the public credit,
serious if $2OO,OOO,OOO of fves should be
left outstanding after they had become re-
deemable, as if all the fves and all the SKIES
should be so left.
With respect to the public welfare, perhaps
no better thing could be done under present
laws than to sell four per cents to the utmost
limit of the law, in order to provide for the
retirement OF the bonds bearing higher rate.
But much lower premium would be paid if
three or four hundred millions of four per
cents should be sold than if only one hun
bred millions should be sold. Moreover, the
Administration, if it should take that course,
would have t. prepare itself for bitter criti-
cism, even from many men who ought to
know better Sales Of four per cents are I'M
avOdable, however, unless the Administration
decides to DO one of two things-to leave the
credit of the country to whatever injury it
may sustain from the non-reGemptiOn Of bonds
when they become redeemable, and to leave the
taxpayers to bear and 6 per cent interest on
about $500, 100000 after June 80, or else to
call an extra sesMC of Congress. 1t is prob
able that an extra session would quickly give
the Secretary ample power to sell either three
OF three aud a half per cent bonds, according
to the condition of the market, beside making
useful provisions to attract the small savings
of the working classes. Whether the manifest
and great advantages of this course are out
weighed by the disadvantages OF an extra
session, the President will have to judge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-11
THE AyFRJC1N BASTTLES

Here are one or two significant facts worth
the attention of State Legislatures I he Hos
pital for the Insane which was burned in DAN
vile, Penn, last week, was an enormous
stone structure, finished a short time ago it
require eleven years to build it, and il cost the
State of Pennsylvania, before n single patient
entered it, over 5000, 900. Five hours suflced
10 undo the whole work about One-third the
money expended was covered by insurance, the
rest-with the time and labor, furniture and
appliances-is a total loss. II, too, the fire
had occurred an hour or two later, when the
patients were in bed, instead of while they
were collected at evening service, We should
have had another wholesale hecatOmb OF human
life to record.
Here is another proof Of tho folly OF the huge
Bastiles which We Americans are so fond of
building in order to crowd into them our sick,
insane or orphans The HndOOs cage their
babies and sick in n wicker case before sacrifc-
ing them to MOlOch; VIC make our cases OF
stone THE TRIBUNE has protested against
them for years they have been condemned by
all leading humanitarians, and long age were
disnsed "a far as practicable in England and
France. We have before us as account OF the
opening, q few weeks since, of cottage hospital
in village in England, built on healthy high
location, where land was cheap. he cOnstruc-
ton was simple and economical; strict atten-
ton was paid to drainage and ventilation, and
none whatever to decoration OF show of any
kind; the number OF patients was limited to
twenty. The total cost of the building, fur
nishing, etc. when really for occupancy, was
ST., 900, all Of which was gwen by few we'll
TODD people in the neghb0rhOod. This hos
pital is but one OF many OF the same kind " hich
have sprung ND all over England during the
last ten years. The land and building are
usually contributed by individuals, whilo the
cost of maintenance falls on the Govern
ment. But each hospital thus becomes
matter OF personal interest to the neighbor-
hood ana the patients are the wards OF good
kindly people, not mere units in an enormous
mass OF disease insanity, which is manipu-
lated solely by paid and, too often, ignorant or
brutal keepers.
In a case like this, for instance, there would
be no possibility that the managers would be
allowed to locK up forty helpless children at
night and abandon them to their fate until q
fire came to rOast them to death. The money
spent on the vast barrack at Danville, which is
now a mass OF smoking ruins, would have
erected and furnished fifty such hospitals as we
have described. The after cost OF maintenance
and care OF the patients would be about one
half They would have family government and
intelligent Individual oversight. The chances
of recovery both in physical and mental all
ments would be largely increased, while the
risk from cOntagiOn, fire, OF other accidents
would be no greater than that incurred by any
ordinary household. When Americans build
hospitals and asylums for the patients, and not
to provide a subject for Dragging, they will
nrobably hear reason on this matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-11
CUTTING TIE LSTRNUS

1t may as well be frankly admitted that in
the contest between DE Lessepss canal project
and public opinion and official action in this
country, the Frenchman is thus far ahead At
a recent meeting OF the directors of his COM
pany, held in Paris, he read telegram from
Washington announcing that all the rival
American projects had fallen to the ground.
At this announcement there was much ap-
plause, and fresh subscriptions of stock were
reported. The work OF digging, it appears, has
actually begun upon the Isthmus. About q
fortnight ago large number of German and
Bohemian labOrers, enlisted for the canal opera
tons, arrived here and weIe forwarded to
Panama, and a force of native labOrers Is
being hired in Colombia and Central America.
De Lesseps has money enough already to
enable him to prosecute the enterprise vigor-
Ously for two or three years, and he is con-
stantly getting more. We are bound, therefore,
to admit that the opposition in this country has
had no sort Of effect in hndering him from
putting his project in motion.
Mean while the rival American projects, II not
In as hopeless state ~ DE Lesseps seems to
think, have at least been put to sleep for o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-11
MUSIC.

ENGLISH OPERATIVE BOHEMIAN GIRL
The performance of Balfe's Bohemian Grip last
night by the members of the Strakosch-Hess COM
pany, at Haverly's Fifth Avenue Theatres was an
extraordinary affair. Why 60, many people came TO
hear it it was hard TO understand: why they ap.
plauded such q rendering of is was simply incom-
prehensible.
IL was not tho worst performance of this work
that have had here Of late, but IL s hard to find
anything good to say of it. MissAbbie Darlington.
who sang the part Of the youthful and interesting
ArliHs, 10 q buxom lady, whose figure family re-
called the lamented Psrepa-Rosa. but whose
singing did not She sang weakly
and nefFectvely, and her acting which was not inn
proved by an evident unfamilarity with her lines,
was worse than her singing. Miss Annandale, the
Gypsy Qsecz, has been heretofore ut least unobec-
tionable. but Last night she seemed determined to
create q decided impression. one way or
the other. She did it. Nothing could be
worse than an air which she interpo-
lated in the second act. Her singing of it showed
lack Of taste and Of vocal training. and her insex
ton of it showed lack of discretion. As for her
acting it rivalled that of Miss Carrington. Mr..
Perugini was somewhat better as Thaddess. bat he
spoiled bis work by singing out of tune. Mere
words cannot do justice to Mr.. Hale. the Cont Ax-
helm he should be heard to be appreciated. BE was
appallingly melancholy at all times but in that dole
full dItty, "A heart bowed down" h6 was nortally
depressins, Vocally and otherwise. Even Mr.. Comfy
made no.ang of the part of Devilsh0o but faithfully
preserved the tone OF amateurishness which per-
vaded the work Of all the others. To crown 1t all,
the orchestra too was wretchedly bad, and played
as If IL had never seen the music before.
Why o company which can give such creditable
should suddenly do 50 shockingly all round Is hard
TO explain. Fortunately for the lovers Of English
OPERA who appear to be nunerouss something vastly
halter Ia NYnectAd tonight in g C2Tm60.V when
Nine. Marie Roze will take benefit, singing the
title part