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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-09-09

"Wm. P. Kellogg, Of IBERIA
Shades of Pluto, and has it come
to this The Iberians are to be
commiserated. They have been
seourged by the mighty floods,
ground under the leaden heel OF
mlsrule, frightened out of their
wits by the small pox, and yellow
fever, and now a greater calamity
than a plague has befallen them,
Billy Pitt Kellogg, the ussrper.
has claimed to be one of them, and
we suppose will actually cast his
unclean shadow in their midst
for a few days. We doubt if he
has ever spent "a hours in the par.
ish. The Republicans cay he has
bought a $4,000 plantation there
recently. Well according to the
New Orleans Republic a good Re.
publican journal, he sold his vote
on the Southern Pacific Railroad
Bill for $4,000, and will still
have $4,000 with which to pur.
chase, the votes of sugar-brained
Democrats and Acklen-R epubli-
cans. If F. I. Nichols, or Alci.
blade DeBIanc was in the field in.
stead of the unbiblical Joseph
Harvey Acklen, why the Demo
Gratis might count on a victory.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-09-09

For dyspepsia, biliousness constipa.
ton, torpid liver, sour stomach, heart
barn, sick headache, &c, there is moth
ing that equals Bailey's SALINE ApER-
lent. 1t ia cheaper than pills, does not
grippe Dor sicken, is pleasant and speedy
ia cooling and quoting, and can be
used at all tunes without interfering
with any duties Of life.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-09-09

Hon. John Clegg, District
Judge and J. A. Chargois District
Attorney reached this place on
Sunday ereniug. They are in
usual good health.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-09-09
? A Z E n rs!

F. A. lehman, Solicitor Of
American and Foreign Patents,
Washington. Il. C. All business
connected with Patents. whether
before the Patent Office or the
Go..t- a-a.~.-.!--~tA--@-a-~*v~
No Charge made unless a patent
is secured. Send for circular.
iebZ1 Scion.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-09-09

NOTICE is he,eby given that 800 -
IN Lists ars deposited in tho g'saI = soss
and all persons are hereby noI s.ts d
forward within thirty days i 49,
this publication and make eHovnNS.
they deem prePss. - Iaee1at
Mays !, 1882.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-09-09
Notice.

Notice is hereby given that I will
open the Office q Repatriation - the
Court House Oh Monday september lsh
for the purpose Of revising the registra,.
ion books, by erasiDg the names OF
those who have died. left the parish. or
fir N any cause become ineligible as
electors, and enrolling the names Of
those who have become entitled to reg
lister since last registration aid will
open my Office at the following places
tO-wit:
lst ward schlo oil house Sept 18th
Cd Camille E Broussard 18th
4th Mrs L Broussard jr " 2Oth
.Lessin Abshire 2lst
l6 b Robt Green. 1zd
9Th Bernard Sorbet " G5th
9TH A,nb Laeour jr 18th
7th James F Lee Oet 5rd
Aud will re open at the Court House
at Abbeville Oct 9 hand finally close
Saturday Oct 21st 1892.
D. NJ. LYONS, Assessor
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-09-09

I certify the foregoing TO bel
true and correct list ofjury, drawn
to serve a, the next term OF Tho
District Court, as aforesaid.
Given under my hand and seal,
this 18th day Of July 4. D., 1857.
LAsTIn RRoUgeARD,
Clerk Of Court.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-09-09

Jury drawn on the 18th Of July
1882 to serve at the term Of the
District Court for the parish Of
Termilion, to begin on the 4.h Of
September 1882.
Grand and Petit Jury for the lat
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21


The exhibit this week Is the most salts
factory that we have had the pleasure to
record for a number OF weeks past, showing
a most gratifying Improvement in the volume
OF leg tim ate'trade and business transactions
throughout the entire country. On the
whole the condition Of the entire country as
far as business il concerned, Is much better
than when last reported. In twenty-four
leading cities the total gross exchanges of
the week amount to 81 1858, 102, 27l, against
81, 19S, 0173l2 last week in the same cities.
Our figures are even more satisfactory, if
compared with the corresponding week last
year, for in the latter instance they show a
percentage OF gains amounting to 20-2 per
cent, against decrease OF "a per cent. last
week, and one of 10 > per cent. the previous
week. IUthe West nearly all the principal
cities slow large gains. Chicago, with live
and active jobbing trade, makes the large
gain of 1872 per cent, against 80 per cent
last week St. Louis, with general trade in a
buOyant condition, shows an increase of 2l3
per cent, against IL per cent. last week /;
Kansas City, with an improved tone mani
fest in all its markets, records a gain of II 5
per cent, against 30.3 per cent. last week;
Milwaukee shows a gain of 5l.2 per cent
against sos per cent. last week; indianapolis
shows loss OF lib per cent, against a loss
of % per cent. last week Columbus foots up
a total of S9l9,982 against 1895, 299 last
weeks and Peoria S942, S77, against $685.
III last week. In San Francisco, where the
outlook is most favorable 10 both the COM
mercial and agricultural interests, the clear
ipgs show an increase of III per cent
against gain of 30.l per cent. last week.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21
ARKANSAS NEWS.

Van Buren, has chain-gang, and vio-
lators of the city laws now work out their
fines on the streets.
The prospects in the entire wheat growing
sections for an abundant harvest were never
more promising than at present.
Sjxtyfour houses have been built or be-
gun in Fort Smith since January LIST. A
good deal OF land IS Euyin2 On speculation
in that neighborhood
At Hot Springs 4 Pennsylvania oil man
was relieved of several hundred dollars by
bunkoist@, asst week. The victim refused to
prosecute the heecers.
Four boys away from home at Hot
Springs ten days ag0. They got as far as
Malvern without finding their fortune, and
back again tired and sorrowful.
The caving bank on Red river, near Lewis
vile, exposed to view variety of articles,
relics of the prehistoric mound builders,
which were gathered in by Mr. George
Nocum.
Forrest City Eagle: -Four cases o. small
pox occurred in a negro family last week.
They were moved to a house a mile away.
The house they had been in was bought, paid
for and burned down, leaving no small pox
in the place"
Alma Independent: "Mauy of our farmers
have commenced planting; a largely in
creased acreage of oats has been sown. 49,.
This is going 10 be a hard year on the peo-
ple......... Cotton is being shipped from this
point at the rate of bale day; 29S5 bales
have been shipped up to date. We hear
that many of our farmers intend to pl ant
more corn than usual this year and less cot
ton"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21

UNCLE SAMMY TILSEN is not wholly given
over to money grabbing. He occasionally
INDUCES his philanthopic hmor and fur
nishes gratuitous aGice 10 a politician.
ridden country. An instance of this sort
was recently given n his letter to the
Iriquois Indians, whomet at Chicago last
week for grand iced sad free indulgence in
political hugger-mugge- He told these wild
men that "the government can never be re-
stored ind reformed except from the inside
and by the active, intelligent agency of the
executive. We must hQe that Providence
will, in its own good tine, raise up man
adapted and qualified fir a wise execution
Of the great work, and hat the people will
put him in possessionof the executive,
through which alone tina noble mission can
be accomplished and preserved and reinvig-
Grated" Sammy in "thtse few lines" is at
his modest best. Self-coHinced that he is
the man raised up by Providence for this
great work, he left it for oilers to say. We
are willing to help him that much, but can
no further 20.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21
WHO ARE THEY?
Can Any OF the Citizens of Brunswick
Tell Us?


On January 9TH two young rakes of B uns-
wick, Warren county, Miss, mailed a letter
addressed "To any Shareholder, Constanli-
nople, Turkey, Europe" in which they ex-
pressed desire to purchase at fair price two
young and pretty female slaves as travelling
companions during their projected European
tour. The original letter and enveloye have
been sent to the Ifblns office by the gentle
man in ConstantinOple into whose hands they
fell, accompanied by the following express
zion of Indignation and disgust: Every
such discovery as the present one of the
inner thought of foreigners rouses the stub
born religious fervor of our people into
more invincible determination to resist
the civilization offered to them by en-
issaries of every grade. Your reader
should be informed that the proposal
OF Messrs. and --, of Brunswick
Miss, is one which would be rejected with
inexpressible scorn by every slave dealer in
this city. When Turkish girls are sold they
They uereI cold to infidel aud disIrputa-
bic Foreigners, 20 be CirrE=ea r'yTt tirc 10,
the slaves OF caprice, and to be dropped into
any vile slum soon as the caprice f4ils." "
The full names of Messrs. --- and --,
of Brunswick, Miss, signed to their infamous
letter now in this Office, are omitted in this
paragraph, in the hope that their owners,
out OF their secret shame, may "brins forth
fruits meet for repentance" The letter,
with their signatures, will be carefully pre-
served for future use in case such use should
seem to be desirable
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21
HELENA TO ARK 4NSAs CITY.
The Dull MouOtOny of Suffering and
De,tifutiOn UnbrOken.

ST. LOUIS, March 20.-Dispatches from
the Globe Democrats river expedition, re-
ceived last night, dated Arkansas City, de-
scribe the scene from Helena down as very
similar to that above. There is scarcely any
thing but water to be seen, and what few
spots are as yet left are covered with dead
or starving cattle or hogs, and families who
have not been able TO secure better positions.
These latter are generally in destitute con
dition, many of them almost without food
and all of them will have to be fed by the
government.
A number OF refugees at Friars Point
said the whole country back of that place
is submerged, and many of the inhabitants
are still living in the upper stories or on the
roofs of their houses, not having been able
to get away. Most of them are suffering
for want of food. Five colored children and
six men had been drowned at different places
around Friars Point.
In the neighborhood Of Dublin 500 fami-
lies are in a state of restitution and many of
them are suffering for food. No government
aid has yet reach them, but a representative
is now en- route for Memphis to see the State
commissioner and procure rauons. Several
persons have been drowned in the vicinity OF
Dublin, while either attempting to obtain
supplies or cave stock.
The levee above Friars Point, which is still
above water, is dotted with families, who
have been driven from their homes by the
floods. All of them are without shelter, and
many Of them without food.
Seven or eight thousand people are in need
of assistance in Coahoma county, and will
have to be fed until the waters subside
Some government rations have already been
distributed, but the supply did not last long
More food is expected tonight, however, and
the commissioner will recommence the dis
tribution at once.
The levees at Friars Point we're only saved
and the inundation of the place prevented
by an almost superhuman effort. Men worked
necessarily for thirty days and nights. 1t
was not until last night that safety was as
sured and the work secured. The river ha;
now fallen about foot, and tine fear OF over
aow is, in a measure at least, abated.
John W. White was taken on board th'
dispatch boat opposite Island 81, and IN this
course of conversation with the reporter
stated that he and many of his neighbour
| thought the idea of distributing stores a
| regular landings would not work. The ricf
| planters along the river, he said, had Away
cared for their hands in time of trouble, Il
keep them from leaving, as when oultivatlol
| commenced they were badly needed. Mr.
| White alleged that this had been demon
trated at Concordia and other points dow
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21
MEMPHIS APPEAL
CEsDAY, MARCH 81, 1852
DANGEROUS AND unlawful.

few days since the Taxing Distric, legis
Isture passed an ordinance on first reading
repeating so much Of the sanitary regUla.
tiOns az devolyed upon the government the
collection and final disposition Of the gar
bage, the reason advanced for this step being
that it was better to use the tax hitherto APP
piled to that purpose for the pavement Of
the streets. The objections to the repeal Of
this section Of the sanitary ordinance are.
First-That it is IN direct opposition to
the spirit Of the organic law OF the District,
which devolyes upon the government the
duty Of keeping 1t in a clean and healthy
condition, and to provide for the removal by
the public carts of the garbage collected in
vessels made for that purpose.
Second-Even if this was not the case,
nothing is to be gained for the citizens on the
score Of economy, but much to be lost by fore
ing upon them work which is now better and
more promptly performed by the government.
The tax for the removal of garbage is trifing
when compared with the good accomplished
and Is not, we venture to say, one-fourth the
amount the citizen would be compelled TO
pay for the same work by private contract.
Besides which, the District collector of gart-
age is not only in the accomplishment of
necessary sanitary work, but to that extent is
acting as sanitary inspector and is thus
doing what the government would have to
employ men specially for.
AS to the discrimination made between
solid and liquid garbage, the District Fathers
are at sea. There is no such thing liquid
garbage. Webster and other photographers
define the word garbage" to mean "de refuse
animal and vegetable NATTER from a Kitchen"
Matter is not liquid. Besides, the sewers
have been provided for the purpose of carry
ing off the household liquids, il being well
understood that that is the special pecu-
liarity of a system that has won its way TO
adoption by many of the leading cities of
this country and Europe.
As TO another question OF preference by
citizens in favor of pavement over the re-
movaI of filth there can be but one answer.
$500 su.Io mall IOr payements;z they
cannot sit idly by and do nothing to prevent
accretions OF filth, such as in other times
made the name of Memphis a synonym for
the extremes of unsanitary conditions.
Instead of tinkering or meddling with the !
existing sanitary regulations, the Taxing |
District government should in view Of the |
existing floods, bend all their energies to their
prompt and full enforcement and initiate at |
an early day the most thorough and search
ing measures against the introduction of dis: |
ease. The sanitary ordinances are very we'll |
as they stand. To enforce them is to protect
the people, 10 repeal or weaken them is to
open ways to unnumbered evils and dangers.
and impair, if not destroy, the confidence
people abroad have learned to repose in US
as community that has protited by the
awful lessons of the past.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21
THE POLYGAMIsTs AND THE Law,

The passage OF the Edmunds bill for the.
repression of polygamy is hailed with gen
eral reclamation by the press, Tba
its provisions alone will accomplish all
that is required is not expected The
bill goes as far as Congress would admit
at present. 1t ia the eentering WEDGE and
it is agreed on all sides, if it proves INSULT
cieni, inture legislation will supply what It's
practical operation demonstrates to he still
necessary. If the polygamists are wise
enough to submit to the sssure they may
be left in quiet; but ii they prove rebellious,
they will only provoke measures more Sc
we're. AS it is, $4,000 wives and 200 hus-
bands, it is estimated, will be DISTINGUISHED.
This law makes Cannon ineligible for any
future Congress; ii makes polygamus mar
riage crime, sGbjeoting 10 arrest and pun
ishment; the same in cases OF cohabitation
with mora thar one woman; polygamists are
disqualified as jurors. in certain cases
Spholders and believers in polygamy
are also Disqualified amnesty is given
for past ofienses; children born in po-
lyvamv up to January next are legit-
imatized; polygamists are debarred from
holding Office; five commissioners are to- he
appointed to see that elections are carried on
according to law, with authority to provide
for registrars, and tor receiving, counting
and declaring the vote. As no provision /;
made for open marriage and marriage regis
tration, the former difficulty in proving
polygamy in individual cases remains, bul
perhaps the enactment against Capitalization
may prove Intellectual. The legal i4leglti'
macy of children, and difficulties about the
inheritance of property, and unwillingnesi
on the part Of the more selt-respecting and
intelligent Mormons to have children borI
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21
THE FLOOD NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Northern papers, as we have frequently
shown in the APPEAL, have commonly OPP
posed appropriations for improving the
Mississippi river. Since the calamity that
is now desolating the lower Mississippi val
ley occurred, the New York Times, and two
or three other papers, have frankly admitted
that there exists good reason why Congress
should give the matter attention. The
papers most inimical to the project are those
that are most ready to clamor in favor of
grants for some dam, or pond, or creek in
their own vicinity, or that have been sufi-
GENTLY short-sighted to believe that a meas
ure that would aid to fill the Mississippi
valley with well-cultivated farms, busy mile,
and thriving manufactures would be taking
business from themselves. But even these,
If they have spark of Justice in their com
position, before again insultingly telling the
people along the Mississippi banks to make
their own improvements or go without them,
will be struck with consideration recently
pointed out by the New Orleans Democrat,
that while the lower stream is the sufferer,
1t is the higher tributaries of the North
that are the invaders and that inflict
the suffering. The melting SHOWS and
me heavy rains of the watershed up
TO the borders OF Dacotah, northern Mime
sofa, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, pour
down upon the luckIess cotton and sugar
planters of the South, and carry deselation |
and ruin upon them and restitution among |
the toiling class. Of course the residents of |
the North are in no way responsible for this |
state Of things, but they are not entitled, |
while never backward, TO appeal for congress
sional aid for their own neighborhood, to OPP
pose and jeer and execrate the attempts
making in this part of the Union to have
Congress pay some attention to claims that
are intrinsically sound and legitimate. The
Mississippi is under the control of the CEN
tral government, it is grand highway of the
nation, end no highway within orr broad
borders equals it in Importance, or goes be-
yond it in value. Is this property OF the |
nation to be lett in a condition damaging to
the prosperity and destructive to the prop
erty OF thousands dwelling from Caire to
the ietties? 1t is the plain duty of Congress
10 make the highway of waters, the manage
ment of which is in their hands. secure and
harmless; the Southern farmer ought not 10 |
be exposed to disaster and his family s2r-
rounded with danger. We doubt if a single
upon congress has 1.-THE Of the claims to
to that presented by the condition
Of the lower Mississippi.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

The town of Austin has been almost COM
petely wiped out by the Mississippi river
flood.
A cholera epidemic is giving trouble to
hog owners in the northern part of Scott
county.
Stoves circus collapsed at Vicksburg
last Monday. Liabilities about $4,000. The
paraphernalia was all sold to pay the debts
due the actors.
A man,wife and two children, the Lexing-
ton Bulletin says, were dining when a storm
struck the house down. Both parents were
killed, and the little ones are orphans.
The Brandon Republican advises Mississip-
plane to stay where they are, but the flood
will not let them. 80. The same paper says
"times are hard, money scarce, and our peo-
pie gloomy"
Coffeeville Times: 1--WE are told that one
day last week a party attempting TO swim
his mule across Schooner was washed from
its back and the mule, unable to stem the
current, was carried down the stream some
distance before being able to make landing.
An eyewitness says the mule, when 1t would
| get tired, would catch limb in its mouth
! and hold on thereby until rested, and then
| make another effort, repeating the action
| several times until it had safely landed"
| Pittsboro Exporter: Corn is scarce, and if
somebody don't keep their hogs from under
the schoolhouse they will be scarcer than corn.
..... A gentleman came to town the other
day to get supplies for the year, and after he
| had made arrangement with his merchant
he asked the price Of meat ION time, of course,)
when ne was informed it was sixteen cents
per pound. He studied for a moment and
said: "DId you know that did without
meat one year," NO" said the merchant.
"Well did, and I'll do it again before l will
give that price"
Yazoo City Herald: "Satartia is badly
overlooked, so much so that it is now bereft
| of nearly all its inhabitants We are
| taught by the Scriptures that the world will
not be again destroyed by water. This Is
abundant cause for hope e.. VIM. Chivers,
! the colored man who received a death SEN
tence at our last Circuit Court, owing to the
exertions OF his attorney, Mr.. J. L. Everett,
will not hang, ii at all, until the 18th of
next month. -. The dog tax failed to pass
the legislature, and so now those popular
animals can roam up and down the State like
roaring lions seeking whatever pleases them
! best in the way of something TO eat. The
average dog has an unconquerable fondness
/ forF
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21

Mr.. CRAGIN, of Chicago, has been
making some startling disclosures as to the
tax collections and expenses of that city,
from which we learn that there was received
from 1908 saloons for licenses $1S2, 226 40,
and for taxes of entire liquor interests,
81 1000, making \ total of S194 ,22E 40.
Against this he puts the extra expense en-
tailed for police supervision, arrests, Justices
courts, prisons and murder trials, s930,OOc,
leaving a balance rightly due the city, I'M
collectable, OF S7S5,773 so. Startling and
convincing figures these, for temperate and
conservative people.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21

Is said l. true, and they should be called
upon 10 make j public statement, giving the
items OF each account and the reasons for
such allowance. The idea that these thieves
and charlatans shall be quietly paid with
out even a question a. TO the equity OF such
payments IL moustrous, and the mantle OF
grief which covers the country Tor the loss
OF a beloved ruler should not be allowed 70
cover a multitude of harpies who seek 10
take advantage OF the nations sorrow and
softened disposition, and steal from the PEG
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-21

A DECISION by Judge Hammond touahing
the responsibility of the FeCeral government
for letters passing through he postofice is
of importance to the general public. We
give a synopsis of it in another column,
from which it will be seen that the judge de-
clares the government responsible until the
letter is delivered into the hands of the per-
son to whom it is directed. 1t is, the refore,
an indictable ofense, punishable by impris-
onment in the penitentiary, for any one to
open letter addressed to another party and
which may have been left il an Office or in
trusted to hotel or clearinghouse Ike eper
for that toartv