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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21

Mr.. Joachim Broussard of the
Chenieres was in our midst this
week. He is over eighty and is
vet hale and hearty as a man of
sixty. We wish him many more
years to live.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21

The Governor has appointed
w. w. Kuehling, Sheriff Of Yer
million parish, vice G. B. Shaw re-
signed.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21

Cetewayo is making for him
self quite a military reputation, i'll
defeating and capturing all op'
posing chiefs.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21

At the last session Of the Police
Jury the 5 per cent monthly in
terest on the bond of sheriff G.. B.
Shaw was RENTED to the sec"ri-
ties. The action Of the Police
Jury may be literally and direct
ly opposed to the written law, but
the equity of the case in behalf of
the bondsmen, that we cannot
censure their action as severely as
some do.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21

We had the pleasure of meeting
on the street our quondam towns.
man Isaac Wise. Mr.. Wise is
now engaged in the commission
business in Orleans at No. AZ De-
catur Street. We would not
trouble our readers with useless
recommendations of Mr.. Wise,
his business capacities, urbanity
Of manners, we'll known to our
people will no doubt assure him
a large custom from Vermilion.
This we hope, for he certainly de.
serves it.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21
JURY LIST

| hereby certify the follo,i,.
to be a true and and correc, l:ee
of the jury drawn to serve =, ~. y!
next jury term Of the n;..ae
Court Of Vermilion parish J"
held and began at Abbev;,ia. y
the 3rd day of Sept. next, tovis :
Grand & Petit Jury for III,
LS,n, "Ao
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21

Rev. E. T. Vaudray we'll known
to our community and for a long
time vicar at this place has been
"reconciled to the church." The
reconciliation took place through
the influence Of the Papal nuncio
Mgr. de Rende. The ceremony
took place in Paris where he now
is. This fact instead proving the
weakness, as some would have it,
proves the strength of the church.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21

VIM. Fl. Vanderbilt it seems is
seriously affected with dyspepsia,
we'll now,' that is too bad.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21

Yellow fever is at Ship Island
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1883-07-21
Succession Sale.
STATE OF VI
TWENTYFIFTH DISTRICT COURT,
Parish OF Vermillon.
Ne. 66S.
Parish OF Vermillon.

SUGGESTIONS Of Luffroy Toups.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
More New Uses for Cotton.

1t is said it has been demonstrated
that fire and waterproof houses can
be built out of cotton and straw.
The cotton used is the refuse of the
plantations and factories, and when
ground up in about an equal amount
of straw and asbestos, is converted
into a paste, and subsequently into
large slabs or bricks, which become
as hard as stone. The article thus
made is pronounced the best of archi
tectural material and will be much
used. A Boston rope-maker of long
experience, like the father before him,
says the cotton rope can be made for
fifty per cent less than hemp, and is
preferable for all shipping uses, cables,
bolt, rope, halyards, tow
ropes, hawser, tackle and falls, hoist
ing, etc. He also says that cotton is
superior to hemp for caulking, and
believes that it can be used for roof
ing and as a substitute for leather and
rubber in hose and betting, and for
tubing to inclose telegraph and tele-
phone wires, both overhead and under
ground. He states that one hundred
and fifty tons of hemp rope is made
in the United States daily, the mate
rial for which is mostly imported.
Congress has authorized the secretary
of the navy to introduce cotton cord
age into the navy service of the Uni
ted States, to such an extent as will
fully test its value and efficiency as
compared with the kinds now in use.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
EXHIBITION INDICATIONS.

All the indications go to prove that
the exhibition to be given next Octo-
Der by the Capital State Fair Associa
ton will far surpass in all the depart
ments anything heretofore seen at
any of its annual expositions.
The premium committee has
nearly completed the premium
lists, and they are more attrac-
tive than ever before. Premiums are
largely increased over what they ever
were before, and the business men of
Austin are coming forward in mag
niGcent style to aid the association
with it's premiums. These people are
not only subscribing largely in special
contributions from their stock in
trade, but they are turning over to the
association hundreds of dollars in
cash, to be used where it may do the
most good in securing larger exhibits.
When the premium lists are complete
the STATESMAN may give an insight
posed to make the fair this year
particularly attractive. 1t may be
mentioned that the railways are
showing a commendable interest. The
International turns over this year to
the directory, Internationally, to be
used as is deemed best, three hun
dred dollars. With liberal aid given
the association the prospect, as we
have stated, is that the exposition in
October Is to be the best ever seen in
the southwest. Many exhibitors are
already signifying their determine
ton to make large displays. The ag-
ricultural, horticultural and floral,
and the live stock premiums are fixed
at such figures as to secure splendid
exhibits. Premiums inthe ladies' de-
partment have been put up on every
thing, and it is understood that the
premiums on poultry will be in
creased SO as to secure a much finer
show of the feathered beauties than
even last year. Sweepstake premiums
In money are to be given this
year in the machinery and i'm
plement departments; and the
most liberal manner of advertis-
ing is to be adopted. at an early day
from five to ten thousand copies of
the premium lists will be published,
and they are to be scattered all over
the state, and will find their way to
exhibitors in other states, with the
hope that many of these may take
advantage of the tieod-tide in Texas
prosperity, and be on hand to popu-
larize their products in the empire
state of the union.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
E8act off Tremors an Foo,

It is common belief among per-
sons who keep poultry that the shock
and tremors to which eggs are sub
ject during transport on road. or rail-
way affect the germ contained In
the egg. M. Dareste, who has been
studying this matter (comptes rendus)
found, few years ago, that in eggs
submitted to incubation, directly after
a railway journey, the embryo very
generally died; but a few days rest be-
fore incubation obxiated this. He has
lately inquired into the effect of
shocks on the formulated egg. germ.
with the aid of a tapoteuse, orma-
chine used by chocolate maxi
ers to force the paste into
the mills; it gives one hundred
and twenty blows a minute. Mon
strosities were always the result of
the tremors so caused. This terato-
genie cause Is the more remarkable
that it acts before evolution of the
embryo; whereas the other causes NJ.
Dareste has indicated, as elevation or
lowering of temperature, diminution
OF porosity of the eggshell, the verti-
cal position of the egg, and unequal
heating, only modify the embryo dur
ing its evolution. The modification
impressed on the germ by those shocks
did not disappear after rest, as In the
case mentioned above; but il is not
known why. A few eggs escape thE
action
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
Objections to the Union.

waco Examiner.
What we chiefly deprecate in the
operations of the printers union, Gas
we have dealt with it, are the defects
in the organization which permit the
most reckless, irresponsible members
of the craft to control and order its
workings without reference to the
rights or interests of employers, and
frequently to the absolute detriment
of the very source that yield liveli-
hood to the employed. 1t is the no.
madic, hot-headed, reckless men who
make all the trouble. Teeming with
communiStic ideas. untrammelled by
social or moral obligations that make
other men reasonable and reliable.
they push the really respectable
element into extremes that
are utterly indefensible. When
these extremists are suppressed
there will be fewer diff
culties between unions and employers.
The result of the struggle in Dallas
has been repetition of similar con-
tests in San Antonio and Fort Worth.
In each instance the employers tri-
umphed, and now those towns are vir-
tually non-union points. In the light
of experience the unions that still re-
tain their working potency in Texas
towns may well hope to be delivered
from the indiscretion of over-zealous
friends. Looking back at the trouble
between the Herald and the Dallas
union we can reach no other conclu-
sion than that the paper could not, in
self-defence, have done else than re-
fused to be dictated to by men who
had no regard for its welfare and no
adequate conception of the interests
involved,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
Excites Quick Attention.
Houston Post

The correspondence between the
governor and Colonel Brown. the late
comptroller, in reference to the appli--
cation of the. latter for the position of
financial agent of the penitentiaries
will excite a quick attention through.
out the state. The governor excuses
himself for not giving Colonel,
Browns application consideration.
because the appointment had already
been given to another gentleman.
The letter would give the Impression
tlat the governor would have BEEN
glad to have obliged Colonel Brown
had it not been for the fact that his
application was too late. From Colo
mel Browns rejoinder we see that he
denies the fact that any appointment
had been made, since he had been in
formed by members of the board
that such was not the casp
The inference to be drs :,
therefrom is that the = wv
nor either considers himself tb> ioyer,,
to the exclusion of the OF . ooai '
bers, or that he has by SOP 40. mel "a
other been betrayed il 40 In5ans Va -
statement at variance !t1 1 .Sn fns.s q
that the governc, by Col. Brown
himself an mn r has arrogated to
and he proteS> con ,titutional power
done 40 her rs against it. Having
two othsS ,resents his application te
claimin1 :. members of the board
heard : the right of citizen to bt
noTt IN such case by the board, anC
Of 70 have his application disposed
in corner by one member alone
The affair is to be regretted. U2hss
the GARD covers the governor he WI
be publicly rebuked for unwarrant
able assumption of authority; anC
should the board endorse the action o.
the governor, the fact remains thai
he has acted in an arbitrary manner
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
Chinese Social Life.
Correspondence s. A. Express


The girls are not allowed to go to
school since our Emperor Lee-Si-
mans reign, about twelve OF thirteen
hundred years ago, because they asso-
clate with men and write to each
other in the secret way for their secret
wants, as they would not have a
drunkard for husband, but they
would drink a glass of wine with a
fast young man. They would not
use pPofane language, yet they love
the society of young men whom they
know are profane out of their
presence. They would not wish to
be considered dishonest, but
they use deceitful words, and
eountenance the society of men
known as deceivers. They would not
be irreligious, but they smile upon the
most irreligious and even immoral
men, and show that they love to be
wooed by them. This is the virtue of
too many women. virtue scarcely
worth the Numerically no virtue at
all, a hypocritical, hollow pretension
to virtue as unwomanly as it is dis
graceful. This is not the virtue of
true womanhood. So now only the
daughters of the officers receive private
instructians in their own home, and
would not have the old custom any
more for young ladies and young gen
tlemen to associate together before
marriage as in this country. The
wives and husbands are selected by
their parents. We do not merry to
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

THE Cuero Star discusses the rapid
development of southwestern Texas.
A few years ago quarter section of
land could be bought almost any,
where in that region for Spanish
pony. 1t says: "a change from the
practice of stockraising to farming
has been gradually going on for the
past ten years, until now nearly every
stockman has in connection with his
stock business farm of sufficient
capacity to supply his necessities.
Immigrants have been gradually
coming in, and the population has in
creased from natural causes very
rapidly. New houses have sprung up
as if by magic; where only desc
late forest or prairie existed a
few years since, the farmer now en-
joys all the comforts of domestic fe-
Lefty. A further change may DO
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
A Magnificent Hotel,

The STATESMAN has several times
alluded to the fact that Col. j. l..
Driskill has in contemplation the
building of a magnificent hotel in
this city. 1t is now an assured fact.
Col. Driskill has instructed his archi
tects, Messrs. j n. Preston & Son, to
prepare the detailed drawings and
complete pllns at as early day as
possible, "a he wishes work to iiagin
Immediately. Col. Preston shovel Il
STATESMAN representative th' pans
so far us completed. and they Irpelicn
the well known reputation OF Col.
Preston as an architect of the highest
class, both as to design anu beauty
of form and finish. The building
will have frontage on Pecan street
OF $50 feet, and ON BraZos frontage
of ITO feet. 1t will be six stories, in
Guiding the basement story, which
will be fitted up with all necessary
kitchens, store rooms. laundries, serv-
ants rooms and electric machines for
lighting the imposing structure.
There will be about 80 rooms for
guests, all of which show an opening
directly outside--this, perhaps, being
the only hotel in the United States
with this latter desirable feature.
The entire structure will be fre-proof
throughout, all partition walls and
floors being of brick and tile,
and carried on iron beams; no
wood will be used except for win
dows and doors, and other dressings.
There will be four grand stairways
on each floor, thus offering ample and
easy escape in case of panic. Be
sides these there will be an elevator
which will be accessible from the ro-
tunda. The style of architecture
adopted by the architects Is princi-
pally Queen Anne. There will be
! three grand entrances, surmounted
bv magnificent towers, and on each
floor, above the entrances, are ar
ranged verandas 80 made, by an orig
| inal and happy idea of the architects,
as to form open vestibleS: THESE en-
frances will be: one on Pecan, thirty
feet wide; one on Brazos, forty feet
| with the same on the street west.
Around this beautiful ana I'M
posing structure Will run an
attractive pavement In Mosaic and
encaustic thing, in variegated colors,
and which will extend across both
Pecan and Brazos streets, forming
| snnerb promenade. When completed,
| thfs building will be not only an
ornament TO the Capital City of the
empire state and Il credit to the archi-
tects who designed it but it will be a
monument to its protector and build
er, j. L. Driskill; and will ever stand
as the pyramids on the land OF the
Rsslemies. to make the name of Dris-
kill Synonymous with enterprise and
pubic spirited energy. 1t will take
about two years to complete the build
ing, and it will be the finest example
of architecture west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi river. A photograph of the build
| Ing in prospective can be seen at the
/ STATESMAN Office.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

expected in the near future. The
lamented Col. A. NJ. Hobby,
who was deeply interested in the de-
velopment of the southwest. and who
was a gentleman of scientific research,
used to contend that southwestern
Texas would some day be one of the
finest small grain regions of the
world. He contended that wherever
the grain-bearing mesquite grasses
grow luxuriantly the cereals will
find a congenial home soil, and that it
is only necessary to institute a
proper system of subsoiling to make
the vast mesquite region the Egypt
of the great southwest. His predic'
lions are being verified.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
How the Human Organism Protects
Itself

The organism of the human body
is self-regulating apparatus. Every
interruption of its normal functions
excites reaction against the disturb
ing cause. If a grain of caustic pot
ash irritates the nerves of the palate,
the salivary glands try to remove it
by an increased secretion. The eye
would wash it off by an immediate
flow of tears. A large quantity of
the same substance could be sWal-
lowed only under the protest of the
fauces, and the digestive organs
would soon find means to eject It.
The bronchial tubes promptly react
against the obtruSion of foreign sub
stances. The sting of an insect causes
an involuntary twitching of the cpl
dermis. If thorn or splinter fastens
itself under the skin, suppuration
prepares the way for its removal. If
the stomach be overloaded with food,
it revolts against further ingestion.
These automatic agencies of the Or
ganism generally suffice to counterfeit
the disturbing cause, and the s ensory
symptoms attending the process of
reconstruction constitute merely a
plea for non-interference. The sup
purating tissues push the thorn out
ward, and resent only pressure in
the opposite direction. The eye vol
unteers to rid itself of the sand dust,
but demonstrates against friction.
The rum-soaked system of the topper
undertakes to eliminate the poison,
and only asks that the consequences
of the outrage be not aggravated by
it's repetition. But, if that plea re-
mains unheeded, it finally takes the
form of the emphatic protest we call
disease. For, even in its urgent man.
ifestations, the reaction against VIC
lation of natures health laws is a
cry for peace, rather than a petition
for active assistance in the form of
medication. "Accustom yourself in
all your little pains and aches" says
DR.. Jennings, land also in your grave
and more distressing affections, to re-
gard the movement concerned in them
in friendly aspect-designed for and
tending to the removal of difficulty
of whose existence you were before
unaware, and which, if suffered to re-
main and accumulate, might prove
the destruction of the house you live
ln-and that, instead of its needing to
be cured it is itself curative opera
ton; and that what should be called
disease lies back of the symptoms
which, in fact, are made for the eX-
press purpose of removing The real
disorder or difficulty DR.. Felix L.
Oswald. in Popular Science Monthly
for Nav
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26

mense building boom in the city,
and contractors had to allow the in
crease asked, and all the men are at
work again. The carpenters resolved
to strike for an. increasei from $3.50 to
50, but the contractors voluntarily
raised to that price.
SAN ANTONIO, April 24.-Ex-Mar-
shall Stillwell H. Russell left to-day,
in charge of Deputy NJ ,rshal Nigel,
and accompanied by his wife and SON,
for Chester, Illinois, penitentiary, to
serve out his sentence of two years.
A large party of friends, some from
Austin, babe him goodbye at the
depot. The following numerously
signed petition is being circulated in
the city, and has been forwarded for
circulation to various parts of the
state:
To His Excellency Chester A. Arthur. Presi-
dent:
We, the undersigned citizens of-Ae
United States, and of the state of
Texas. and of the county of --,
do hereby most humbly petition your
ex cellency that you do grant unto
Stilwell II. Russell. of Harrison coun-
ty. ard state of Texas, your most gra-
cious writ of pardon. The said Still
well II. Russell is native of the
state of Texas, of good report and
high character for honor and integri-
to, and further confinement, while
adding no great punishment to him
is a grievous blow to the health
and happiness of his mother,
wife and children and honored men,
bers of an honorable family, and in
their behalf as well as in behalf of
the said Stillwell III. Russell, we ap.
peal to your excellency for executive
.clemency in his behalf Respectfully
submitted
There is strong feeling of sympa-
thy here for RussellS family as well
as for himself, and this among the
better class of our citizens.
We are to have new city directory
with a-city map specially prepared in
a few weeks, to be published by Nor
rison & Tourney, the Houston direc-
tory men.
William Mcdowell was yesterday
placed in the county poor house after
being declared insane by jury. He
has been confined the county jail for
theft. There is no room in the Aus
tin asylum and the accommodations
are very poor at the poor house for
lunaticS.
A brakeman named VIM. Williams
on the Sunset, while coupling freight
cars at Painted Cave yesterday,
caught his foot in the guard rails and
was thrown under the cars, which
passed over his legs, cutting them off.
He died while being taken to the hos
pital at Del Rio.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-26
What Science is Doing for Modern
Thought.

One OF the most important inf1u-
ences now at wo, K is doubtless that
of science, which is OF course as old
as human curiosity, and is only new
in its results. That che effect of the
great advance in scientific thought
has been to modify considerably most
forms of religious belief can not be
denied; and, in spite of the many at
tempted reconciliations of the two, it
is not difficult to see that some of the
leading dogmas of Christianity are
doomed. Fortunately, one of the re-
wards of the freedom that is given to
science is lack of venom in it's at
tack, and, on the other side, there is
an absence of bitterness in those
whose opinions it unavoidably alters.
There are, of course, exceptions;
modern science has not expelled AFRO
gance from the world, and enlighten-
ment has not wholly driven out big
otry. Yet, in the calmness with
which the controversy is carried on,
we see how widespread is the belief
that dogmas are less essential than the
trouth which all men alike are seek
ing. AS Professor Asa Gray puts it:
No sensible person now believes
what the most sensible people be-
ieYed formerly. Settled scientific be-
lief must control religious belief" It
is one of the time-honored jests which
the late L rd Beaconsfield thrust into
his last novel, that the religion of SEN
sible people is what sensible people
never tell. They may not, but their
tered position of ecclesiasticism de-
oil hot hn In
The present interest in science is
distinctly part of the revolutionary
movement which demands, with rest
less curiosity, why everything should
be as it is. This is the question that
is put to every existing institution,
and science often gives serviceable
answer. The answer is leveling
one to all conventionalities, because
science concerns itself only about
facts, and it is heard now because
science can only exist where thought
is free. Freedom of thought is pow.
erful solvent, and it is especially de.
structive to all the eonyentionalities
which exist by means of ths
common agreement that they
shall not be examined. We
see that in politics the divine
right of kings is called in question
and in the uniform tendency of mod
ern times toward Democracy the as
sumption of government by tbos,
who are governed. In social matter
we perceive a similar movement to
ward the emancipation of the indi
vidual. All knowledge advance
from vague generalitles to the com
prehens1on of particulars, and as hu
man beings have succeeded in under
standing themselves they hav
thrown, aside the convenient habit o
dividing the rest of the world int,
vast homogeneous classes, and hav
recognized the dignity and impor
lance of each individual of the race
Prof. 7. S. Perry, in Popular Scienc
Monthly for May.