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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03

Fathers, mothers, all ye to
whom is con6ded the rearing Of
the rising generation, we do tell
you again, educate, educate, send
to school, you have no reason for
not so doing. Neglect to do this
and we tell you, that you are sin.
Mug against your most sacred
obligations.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03

Many persons viii take no medicine
until Frustrated on a bed of sickness.
This is folly. Nature always calls for
assistance when needed to throw of
impurities. With our habits of lite, it
is necessary to render this help PRICK
LY ASH BITTERs will no, force ma ure,
but acts mildly and renders the assis-
lance required.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

All advertisements and communications
intended for the MERID1oNAL. must be
handed in by IL o'clock M. on Thursday
to ensure publication. This is an impor-
tant business rule, which should not be
overlooked or neglected.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03

Judging from present appear
auces, the crops in this parish will
be remarkably fine this year. Let
us hope that in this instance at
least, appearances are not decep-
tive.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03

Thus far all attempts to raise
the sunken Exchange have prov.
en- futile. The contractor how.
ever does not give it up as a hope.
less undertaking, but thinks he
will finally succeed. We hope he
may.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03

Don't Loaf's communication
came in a little too late for this
weeks number, our readers will
have it in our next.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03

Say my friend the Government
has got an agricultural department
aud the secretary of that depart
ment will have a say so in nation
al matters. That's a new leaf
amt it What will it amount
to? Amount to? Why my good
friend, all the other departments
without this one properly attended
to amt worth a....and if with
the assistance of this. the greatest
the sun ever shone
upon. we will strive to till mother
earth, we will make money and
supplies and every thing else, to
glut the whole world and the
balance Of mankind" (Zack Tav.
IosQ
Doyou think so?
| do and it all depends Or the
people to make it true.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03
F. r. 1OLSON,
Physician & Surgeon.
AbbeciUe, La

Abbecille, La.
Respectfully offers his professional SER
vices to the citizens Of Ahheville and sur
rounding country He may be found,
when not professionally engaged, at
Tolson g. Young's drug store during tht
day, and at his residence at all other hours.
May g., 1882.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1882.
When will the Grand Marais
bridge be repaired.

The republicans are wisely hold
ing back all nomination for this
Congressional District. us yOient
Uenir.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03
ConstabIe's Sale.
State Of Lonisiana--Pari,h oil
Vermilion-3d Justices Court
No. 500.
Sylvanie Gibson
Troy Ewing,

By virtue of a writ of fer
facias issued 10 the above entitled
suit and to me directed by thu
Hon. she Third Justices Court, il
and for the parish OF VermiIiol
and State aforesaid. | will pro
coed to sell at public sale to the
last and highest bidder, at the
Court House door in this parish
Oh
Saturday. Jne 10Th 1882,
between the hours Of II o'clock
A. NJ, and 4 O'Clock P. NJ, and con
timing from day to day if neces.
sary, all the rights. titles and de
mands of the defendant, in and 10
the following described propertf
seized to satisfy said writ, to wit
One dwelling house and brick
chimney.
TERMS Cash.
Given under my official sigma
ture this 9th day of May 1882.
ALPHoNsE LEBLANC,
Constable
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03

Hon. John Clegg was in town
this week, attending to some civil
business specially fixed for trial.
The Judge is in fine health and
cheerful spirits.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03

1t is one thing to see that a line
is crooked, and another thing to
be able to draw a straight one.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03

Oft the cloud which wraps the
present hour serves but to bright.
all our future days.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03
JESSE NJ Is DEAD.

A pnnfc For the Illustrated
% Lives and Adventures
w duCGu of Frank and Jesse
James and the Younger Brothers, the
noted Western Ontlaws.-By Hon. J.
A. Dacus, Phi. D A rue and thrilling
account of their bold operations for 20
years, in as many States and Terrific
ries, with graphic statement of tbs fina
tragedy in st. Joseph. Profusely illus
trated, including e%ngravings of he,Ou
law Jesse James, before and after death.
his young wife and little children, the
detectives. Fords, the house of the las
struggle, and so others, engraved from
actual photographs.
Agents Wanted Z! Send y q, for full
aud be convinced that this is the most
salable and profitable book published !;
OF, to save lime, send so cts, at once
for C~anvassing Book and state your
choice of townships, Address
N. D. THOMPSON & CO, Pubs.
st. Louis, Mo.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1882-06-03
Do you think so =?

| do and it all depends OF the
people to make it true.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
--7-----
a Great NeDbtha Fire.

Although heexisieHce OF the naphfha
springs in the -neighborhood of Baku,
Russia. has beer known for centuries,
| it is only within the last ten wears that
! measures have been taken for realizing
their production, by using it for light
! ing purposes. From one of the chief
wells the liquid shoots up as from q
fountain. and has formed a lake four
miles long and one and quarter wide.
Us depth is, however, only two feet, SO
that in very hot summers it is nearly
dried up. -
This enormous surface of infiamma-
BILE liquid recently became ignited, and
presented an imposing spectacle, the
thick black clouds Of smoke being lifted
zap by the lurid glare of the central col
uEln of flame, which rose to great
height. The smoke and heat were such
as to render nearer approach than one
thousand yards distance impr.cticable.
Suitable means for extirguishing the
fire were not at hand. and it was feared
that the confiagration would spread un-
deEground in such a manner as to cause
/ an explosion. This supposition led
many inha4itants of the immediate Vi
clnity to remove to safer distance.
The quantity of naphtha on fire was es-
tImated at four and half million cubic
feet. The trees. and buildings within
three miles distance We're covered with
THICK SCOT. and this unpleasant deposit
appeared on persons clothes. and even
on the food IN the adjacent houses.
Not only was the naphtha itself burn
ing, but the earth which was saturated
with it was also on fire, and ten large
:tabGshments, founded at great ex-
pense for the development of the trade
in the article We're destroyed. The fire
ceased of Itself Unexpectedly, and thus
the fears of q fetal destruction of the To-
cal naphtha industry have been allayed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Tirnhar.

Some European countries are almost
as bad of, as far as supply of timber
is concerned, as is the United States.
According to French agricultural
journal, the oak CT Sweden and Norway
is about exhausted, and they are COM
PEELED to buy their wood in Poland, and
the pine is being rapidly removed. The
forests of Russia, along the shores Of
the Baltic, in Finland and in the south
ern provinces, have been SO rapidly
thinned that the forest area of the en-
pire is now only one-tenth. The for
ests Of Germany are well cared for, and
there are now in that empire about
1900, 600 acres of forest (over half of
which are in Prussia), valued at about
$400. .O0O. 900, and producing an income
annually Of nearly $50, 900, 600. The
greatest effort is made to preserve the
forests Of Germany, aud to increase the
forest acreage (about $500,0O0 being
annually expended in replanting by the
state), and the imports exceed the ex-
ports by over 2.O00, 600 tons. There are
about a. 900, 900 acres of forest in Aus
tria and Hungary. Austria, however,
has so recklessly cut her forests that she
is now obliged to buy most of her timber
in Bosnia and Montenegro. Servia,
Roumania, and Portugal have good for
ests, but the fine forests of Italy and
Spain are so situated that they cannot
reach market when cut. It would
seem that the United States might prof
itably follow the example of Germany
and save her forests. South Australia
is at present engaged in this work and
planting trees on an extensive scale
Boston Globe
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Josh Billings.

The famed writer of the Yankee
proverbs is now about 60 in years, and
shows it. His hair, which is as long
and unkempt as ever, is iron gray, and
his stiff, dropping mustache is fast
changing to the color of old age. As he
grows older, he seems to become more
and more supremely regardless of per-
sons, surroundings or opinions. As he
greets one with machine-like ''How do
te do" or an inanimate ''Good day."
the impression is conveyed that he has
arrived at that state of life and prosper
ity where he deems fate powerless to
work any alteration for worse. Billings
is essentially man to himself, taciturn
and unobtyusive everywhere. He is
not so popular as formerly, his only
work now being that which appears in
the New York Weekly. For this service
he receives, perhaps, $4,000 a year.
His royalty from the circulation of
Proverbs, his almanacs and other
works swell his yearly income to about
$4,000. He is now q willing, but not an
attractive lecturer; his services in this
field are in small and waning demand.
From the proceeds of his labor he has
amassed fortune of over $50, 600. All
this money apparently affords himself
and wife but meager and inelegant COM
fort. They pass quiet, relegated, but
doubtless contented life, in an unpre-
tentious Sixty-third street dwelling
house. the garret Of which is made to
answer the combined purposes of liter
ary sanctum and stOre-hOuse.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Surerstition in Kansas.

In the third ward. says the Leaven-
worth, Kan, Times. there lives q young
couple whose married life has lately
been blessed by the advent of . child
The child is not healthy one. and
when the regular physician was. sum-
moned to attend it he pronounced the
disease to be marasmus. Not satisfied
with the counsel of the physician. the
family employed one Of those who cure
by sympathy, laying on hands, etc.
This man said the child was bewitched,
and the parents believed it. The only
question then was, who was guilty Of
the witchery. The man said he could
tell. The first woman who entered the
house, he said, after performing his in
carnations, was the witch. She must
come, he said; she will be driven to it,;
she would have burning desire to
come. Shortly afterward woman did
come into the house, and her first inqui-
nv was afser the welfare Of the child.
Immediately the woman was pronounced
the witch. 1t is said the parents Of the
sick child then engaged the services of a
woman who is well known in the SYM
pathetic line, and she also pronounced
the case one of witchery. Naturally the
woman who has been pronounced a
witch has been placed in a very unenvi-
able light, the more so on account of
the prcvalency of the superstition in her
neighborhOod. She is the same old
woman who goes about the stores sell
ing apples and pears. .,7 -,--<
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Victoria at Windsor.

With regard to the .'relic-rooms," to
which allusion was made in Truth last
week, understand that not only at Bal
moral, but also at Osborne and at Wind
sor castle, the suits which were occupied
by tho prince consolt have never been
altered In any way since his death.
Everything remains as he left it. The
rooms are kept locked up during the alb
sence of the court, but, as the queen
comes to each palace, they are opened,
and lighted up every evening during her
stay. At Windsor her majesty usually
passes q part Of each evening in the
prince consort's sitting room, his suit
adjoining her own, which open from the
grand corridor. FrogmOre has been
practically rendered unavailable as q
residence, in consequence of the queen
having closed up the rooms which were
used habitually by the duchess of Kent.
This house was always an inconvenient-
ly small one, and the shutting up Of the
best rooms makes it impossible to accom-
ldodate q family and establishment
sEzere, which, however, is not regretted
~ the royal family, as d is q very dull
place and exceedingly damp. The queen
passes every morning at FrOgmore while
residing at Windsor. In summer her
majesty has tents put up on the lawn,
breakfasts in one and writes her letters
and sransacts business in the other.
driving back to the castle to lunch. Two
grooms are constantly kept employed
conveying the boxes Of papers from Sir
Henry FOnsonby at the castle to the
queen in her tent.-London Truth.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Curious Facts.

The natives Of India say that the baya
bird lights up her nest with firetiies.
The tomato plant is avoided by ear
wigs, caterpillars. aphides. slugs and
snails.
The part Of the. human body which
shows the greatest variety of color is the
iris Of the eye.
A wire 400 feet long can be made
from one grain Of silver. Such wire
is finer than human hair.
King Alfred used to measure time by
. device Of twelve candles, graduated SO
US to burn two hours each.
A large boa in the geological gardens
in London swallowed . blanket, and
disgorged it in thirty-three days.
From animal remains it is concluded
that Great Britain was at one time con-
nected with the mainland, and the Eng
lish channel was dry.
Resonance in public halls can be mod
flied or prevented by stretching wires
across the ceiling, so that the vibrations
are absorbed, conveyed from one wire
to another, and spread over the build
ing.
The largest room in the world under
one roof and unbroken by pillars. is at
st. Petersburg. BY day it is used for
military displays; by night for vast
ballroom. Twenty thousand WAX tap
ers are required to light it.
There is tract Of country in Califor-
MIA, about fifteen miles long by half a
mile in width, where lightning strikes
trees nearly every time a storm passes
over. Outside Of this strip there is no
such damage. The line can be plainly
traced by dead timber. As many as
three fires have been caused by light
ming in this tract in one single storm.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
A DOGS Sense Of Smell.

Have you eyer observed how really
wonderful Is the dogs sense Of smell?
Anaoharsis (says his happy owner)
knows me, when am dressed in clothes
he never saw before. by his nose alone.
Let me get myself up in theatrical
costume and cover my face with mask,
yet hs viii recognize me by some (to us)
undiscoverable perfume. Moreover, he
viii recognize the same odor as ,clinging
to my clothes after they have been taken
of. II / shy apebble on the beach, he
can pick out that identical pebble by
scent among q thousand others. Even
the very ground on which have trod-
den retains for him some faint memento
of my presence for hours afterward.
The bloodhound can track. human
scent . week old-which argues a deli
cacy Of nose almost Incredible to human
nostrils. Similarly, too, if you watch
Anacharsis at this moment. you will see
that he runs up and down the path,
shifting away at every stick. stone and
plant, as though he got a separate and
dlstinguishable scent out of every one
of them. And SO he must, no doubt: for
even the earth keeps perfume of the
person who has walked over it hours be-
fore, surely every object about us must
have some faint smell or other, either
Of itself or Of objects which have touch
ed it. Therefore the smells which make
up hAh dogs picture of life must be
successive and continuous. slE.tsj-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Samuel's First Letter.

It was his first letter home from board
ing-school, and it read as follows:
Dear Father:-I wrote you before I
write ma becoz know You like to see
ma mad. think l will get along with
my lessons .frst-rate- The garden here
il full of chickens, and makes the walk
lug bad. In history I've got as far as
Alexander the Great. He carried
sword TO cut knots with. There is an
apple orchard half mile off. The boys
play ball in it: after that there amt
much apples. The minister's son was
licked this morning for going fishing
on sunday. He caught lots of fish and
says he is going again next Sunday. I
think / like the minister's son good
deal. Send me some marbles as soon
as you can. also jackknife and top.
Two of us boys left u piece of wet soap
at the head of the stairs just before day
break. and by the time the cook got to
the bottom she was too sick to get break
fast. We have prayers reg'1ar every
day, and the teacher reads out of the
Bible, but don't think it's so bully as
playing tag in a hay-loft.
From your affectionate son, SAMUEL.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
What ny Lover Said.


ny the,meress CAaAes. IN - twilight gloom,
In TIM 1nchsrd path he met NO; y, ,,f 80
In the tsll, wot Srass, win its faint perfume.
And tried to pass, but hs made no room;
So steati sud blushed till the grass grew red.
WITH my face bent down above it
l Mhii. st Ne tSSa |y hand d. .s ns whspsrius said
o. the clover in bloomI I love il. .-..,. p.
In'the high. wet srasslwsat the path 10 hide,
And the low, wet leaves hung over; ...-
But could not pass on either eide,
Fof found myself, when vainly tried.
n the arms of my steadfastlover.
Anil he held me there, and he raised my head,
While hi closed tue path before me;
And he looked down Into my eyes and said
To listen to all that my lover said:-
i o, the leaves hanging lowiy DER me.
I am sure that he knew. when he held me fast,
ThatI must be all unwilling; ~
ForI tried to go, and I would have paseed,
The sky with its sters was nlling.
But he c:asped me close when would have
And he babe me hear his story:
And his soul came os,ts from bis lips and said.
Hoy the stars crept otft by the white moon led,
no listen to all that my lover said!-
., the moon and stars In glory!
IEnow that the srass and the leaves won't tell,
Andrm sure that the wind, precious rover,
: That no being shall ever discover
One word of the many that rapidly fell
: From the easer lips Of my lover.
Shall never reveal what o fairy-like spell
They wove round about US that night In the
In the path through the dew-laien clover;
Nor echo the whispers that made my heart
Jas they fell from the lips OF my lover.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Reserve Power.

Chemistry is the science of the world
and of the future. 1t has put in our
hands gun-pOwder, nitro7glycerine, dy-
Mantle, and, above all, illuminate Of
gOld-an explosive so terrible that II an
ounce Of it be left In stoppered bottle,
its grains falling among themselves by
their own weight will create n cOnvul-
sion sufficient to lay all London in ruins.
1t has given us poisons So subtle that,
were we to employ such means Of war
fare, we could sail in balloon over the
camp of the enemy and drop upon it q
shell, the bursting of which would kill
every human being within mile of its
range.
The possibilities of chemistry are al
most too terrible to be contemplated.
As the science at present stands any
student can, il he have access to . we'll
stored laboratory, carry away In pill box
matter sufficient to lay London in ruins,
or to poison the whole community of its
inhabitants. The chemist can, as every
school boy knows, convert water into
ice in the center of a red-hot crucible.
He can construct a shell the size of
cricket ball, which will explode the mo-
ment it touches the water and over
whelm in flames a hostile fleet. In
deed the chemist reduces the world to
its original and primal element. For
him even more than for the engineer,
nothing is impossible. And yet his
power, vast as it is, is limited. He can
more easily destroy than construct. He
can take life. but he cannot give it. He
can level the city with the plain, but he
cannot build it again. He can create
prussic acid. but he il ignorant of its
:e ;E.< ho Eoha n yb<>
rashly opened the vessel sealed with the
ring of Sulerman Ben .Daoud. The
forces at his control are beyond his COM
mand; the powers he can evoke he can
not lay. 1t is the old story of Cornelius
Agrippa-those who trifie with natures
secrets do so at theiT peril. London O6-
Serler
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Glass Eyes that Seem Natural.

WHAT'S the cost of glass eye ?''
.'From $40 to $15. Perhaps the doctors
charge more ''Sometimes they move
like genuine eye, do they not?'' ..Oh,
yes Surgical operations are performed
on the eye more dellcately than former
", when it was deemed necessary to
take the eye out entirely. Then the ar
tificial eye was fixed, CLASSY. staring
object. Now amputations of portions
of the eye can be performed quite often,
and the glass eye fitted on the stump,
which moves quite naturally. Some
people have several glass eyes with pu-
pills painted in them, which are of diff
ferent sizes. so as to represent the dila-
tons which occur at different times in
the day. Thus man will have a morn
ing eye, an afternoon eye and large
pupiled eye to wear of an evening at
party, What colored eyes are the
most soldP' That depends. In New
Orleans almost all are dark eyes: in
Chicago and Cincinnati light eyes are
more common.-Fr0m an Literuiea0
sLsth G7a Oculist
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-01-12
Irish Bogs Reclaimable.

The total area Of bog in ireland is es
imated at 2,830, 900 acres, nearly one
seventh of the entire surface of the is
land. OF these bogs there are ,576, 600
acres Of fat bog, the remaining 1 ,254 600
acres are mountain bog. Without en-
tering into chemical details. which, how
ever we are fully prepared to do. we
may state as an uncontradicted fact that
nothing but ll-directed labor is reauir-
ed to convert the greater portion, if not
all, Of that land, now waste into the
richest pasture or corn land. Drainage
is the first, and in many cases the only,
requisite to effect this change. Burning
the surface Of the bog after draining has
in some places had an admirable result
Claying the bog by extracting the clay
which lies below and forms an impervi-
GUS bed. and placing it as atop-dressing
is the method which has been followed
in other cases, as in our own Bridge
water levels, with the result Of turning
waste swamps into the richest pasture of
hay-growing lands. in the kingdom.
Whichever Of these methods be adopted,
there is the remarkable characteristic
that only labor is required. No more
capital is required than will suffice to
feed the work people. There is great
WOTh W Uc uOuc-d WOIA ~ tAldk
it is beyond the reach of any private
enterprise; it is work involving inn
mense national benefit. All neighbor-
ing landowners would be enriched by
the reclamation of this enormous bog.
The island. would. have almost new
county added to its productive area. No
money need be sunk in bog. 1t is only
requisite to apply to it that muscular
force which is fretting itself into deeper
poverty and misery by enforced idleness.
That the proper mode for attacking the
bog is matter for ready scientific de-
termination, every Woolwich cadet is
aware. What is required is simply
enough labor under scientific direction;
and when we reflect that we want the
work to be done, as we'll as the men to
be employed, We think no unnecessary
strain would be put on convict labor as
solution to the problem. London Builder.