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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29
ELEC ITO 4.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH OF VERHlLiOs.

Notice is hereby given to ae
qualified voters Of the Town g
Abbeville, that pursuant % "
provisions Of the charter Of eaia
town, an election will be held .
the Court House in said town 90
Monday, It'll day Of Apa 1854
for the purpose Of electing . nay.
or and four Aldermen 70 se1'e
drring the ensuing year.
Given under my official s'go..
ture at the Mayors Office y "
Town of Abbcville, La. on 'Ap
day of March 1884:
r. C. SMEDES, Mayor.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29

Fontclieu has received the nomi-
nation for District Judge at the
hands of the Republican Conven-
ton.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29

We arc authorized to announc that
JOSEPH S. NUNEZ is a candidate for
The Office of Sheriff for tho parish of
at the election to DO held in
April 1884.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29

A notice Of the funeral Of the
Gar Of Russia is daily expected.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29
Democratic State Ticket

For Governor:
S. D. McENERY, of Ouachita.
For Lieutenant Governor
C. KLOBLOCH, Of Lafourche.
For Treasurer
E. A. BURKE, of Orleans.
For Auditor
o. B. STEELE, Of Tensas.
For Attorney General :
NJ. J CUNNINGHAM, Of Nat
chitoches.
For Secretary OF State
o. ARROYO of Plaquemines.
For Sup't of Public Education +:
WARREN EASTON, of Orleans.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29

The Aid Educational Bill is
before congress and being dis.
cussed.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29

Beautiful bracing weather all
this week, since, Tuesday.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29

It is easy to forgive others, but
self it's mighty hard.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29
For Representative
GEO. NJ. ELDREDGE.

Summer weather, all this week.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-03-29

March goth 1884.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05
The weekly ALERT.
n
j. q. WARNQCK, EDITOR.

THE floating Indebtedness of this coun.
iy, principally for roads and bridges, IS 4
buld"n for which the people for the pres.
ent should be relieved by an act of the
legislature funding the debt in bonds to
run fifteen or twenty years, and the men,
her of the next legislature from this coun-
~ should be instructed to secure such
legislation. Roads and bridges are an
indispensable necessity to the develop
mcnt of the county, but it is neither just
nor proper that the pl neers should bear
this burden .lone that others coming here
and settling later may enjoy the benefit
without paying portion Of the expenses.
With this Indebtedness funded very low
tax levy would he sufficient to pay the
interest and current expenses of the coun-
ty. County orders would then be at par
and pay dollar for dollar on purchases for
labor and material. The county always
will suffer loss until her orders will OBJ
tam their full! face value in cash on pre-
sentation at the Office of the county treas
urer
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

mission passed his own home, city and
county by and named Alex. Mckenzie,
Of Bismarck, Tor the place, which practi-
cally set Jamestown out Of the contest
for the capital by rendering such con-
contest hopeless Another matter of Leg
islation secured by Mr.. Nickeus which is
unsatisfactory to the people of his own
county is the fish bill which exposes the
farmer and the laborer as we'll as all 9th.
ers to fine of from five to twenty five
dollars who may wish to combine pleas
ure and economy in meat bill by catching
fish in Spiritwood lake between the first
day of February and the first day of May
in each year. Considering the fact that
there are fish enough in that lake to feed
an army until they would become disgust
ed with fish diet, and the further fact
that the country about in easy reach of
that lake does not average more than one
family to each quarter section the people
naturally feel that such q law is drawing
the relns of government excessively tight.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

BARNES county, as is its usual custom,
is again in state of political revolution.
the people at Valley City on Monday hav
ing had double caucus and appointed q
double header delegation TO the county
convention which meets today, and which
will likewise in all probability send a
double header delegation to the legisla-
tive convention at Bismarck. Barnes
county is forcible illustration Of the sui.
cldal policy Of faction i dissension and
contention. 1t polls nearly one.third
more votes than any other county IN the
district and yet, because of its divisions
and internal dissenslons, it has but little
influence IN the district, not because the
other counties have any disposition SO ig-
more Barnes but because the people Of
that county cannot agree among them
selves as to what they want. Their war
ring factions 60 to the conventions each
to resist what the other wants regardless
of the good or interest of the county, and
without any other feeling than to "dewn''
each other.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

TIE developments in regard to the in
sane asylum at this place from the legis-
lature down through its various stages to
the present time are, to say the least, Pc
culiar. Our file of the Press and Dako-
tsian during the session of the legislature
lacks few numbers of being complete,
but we find that IN the 5th of March,
1883, the appropriation bill was amended
in the council and passed. 1t then went
to the house and on the 9Th motion
was made by Mr.. Towner to suspend the
rules and pass the bill. This motion was
lost and after second reading the bill
went to the committee and this is the last
trace we have Of it. 1t was, however,
probably passed with many others at the
close of the session as it was approve d by
the governor on the 9th. 1t is certain
that no bill creating the institution was
ever passed and that 1t is founded alone
upon the appropriation bill, which bill,
standing alone, is model of bungling
and inconsistency. 1t makes an appro-
prlatioa of $50, 900 for erecting the hospital
but none whatever for the purchasing of
site although 1t requires bonanza
farm of not less than six hundred and
forty acres in extent within four miles of
the court house Of Stutsman county for q
site, evidently presuming upon the llber-
ality of our citizens to donate that
amount of land There Is an act estab-
fishing the North Dakota university at
Grand Forks and another making an ap-
preparation therefor. Tue same with the
penitentiary at Bismarck, but the only
authority for the existence Of our insane
asylum Is the appropriation bill. 1t is
true we have nice building in course of
construction, and one that is we'll worth
the money it will cost, located on site
that will ever remain ''dear" to the peo
pie of the territory, and if our member of
the council In the next legislature will
use due diligence he can no dou bt secure
the passage of bill legalizing It's loca-
ton.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

cal works to fortify their minds agains,
attacks upon the church creed than in
reading fashion books and studying how
70 appear before the people and excite
the most envy IN dress parade at church.
Things are changed considerably in this
regard now. We have more church COM
municants now though not so strong IN
The faith perhaps as IN earlier days The
and notifications that have
taken place IN the church the last quar-
ter century have been an improvement on
the whole and in harmony with the pro-
gress of the age. The ministers now
are we'll educated and more liberal mind
ed than formerly and the congregations
have become largely imbued with like
spirit of liberality and federation.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

b. F. BUTLER, the great avowed cham
pion of the laboring men, who owns a
thirty thousand dollar yatch for his own
pleasure and has an annual income of
slOO, 700 principally as attorney for rail-
roads, IS comiog to Minneapolis to address
the people upon the subject nearest his
heart. He will probably tell the vast ar
nv of railroad employees, if not in person
through the press in which his speech will
be reported, why it is their wages are so
low for manual labor which exposes them
TO danger to life and limb, while his wa
ges are so high, exposed to nothing but
the cross fire of opposing counsel in the
court room. But the probability is much
greater that he will do nothing of the
kind. He will not care to discuss the
question of an equitable adjustment of
wages as between these two classes OF
railroad employees by reducing that of the
attorneys and increasing that of the Ia
borers. But still his sympathies are with
the laboring men when they have votes
10 bestow and the laws of the country
make 1t necessary for him to obtain them
to reach official position as he now de-
sires to do.
AS rule there is no greater or more
unscrupulous fraud in politics than the
man who seeks to pose as the friend OF
the laboring men when his position and
life belle his pretended sympathies. 1t is
not in the nature of the man who is
millionaire to fee! or realize the wants OF
the man who buys his supper aud break
fast, and that of his family, with his day 3
wages. Such is Ben. Butler. He never
knew what it was to want for the neces-
saries, or even the luxuries, of life. There
are men who can from experience, II not
from present experience from the past,
feel and sympsthize with the common
people, but they are themselves OF the
common people. As political question,
or rather presidential possibility. Buffers
candidacy is not worth considering, but
he and his candidacy may be used to illus.
tratc principle that IS usually lost sight
of in campaigns.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

HELENA, Mont, Sept. 2-Twenty-two
buildings at M,ssoula burned this morn
ing. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Incendiary.
LONDON, Sept. 2-It is reported that
the rebels at Berber are selling the popu-
lat,on of that city into slavery. The wo-
men are subjected to horrible atrocities.
MADISON, Sept. 2-General Logan and
party arrived here at seven o'clock. A
procession Was formed at the west Madl-
son depot, and, headed by company OF
veteran soldiers, who escorted General
Logan to Governor Rusk's residence.
Great crowds gathered along the line Of
march.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-The army off,
cial who recently read portions OF the
diaries of the Greedy party said today that
they reveal a more serious condition VI
affairs than she survivors will admit. 1t
seems that from the beginning of the
expedition there were disputes betweer
the members of the party.
New York, Sept. 2-The committed
appointed to present Mr.. Tilden the Chi
caeo convention resolutions meet tomor-
row to decide the method of officially In
forming Mr.. Tllden Of the conventions
action. l, is probable that, in compliance
with Mr.. Tllten's wish they will be SEM
by mail.
Indian Commissioner Price has taken
measures for the immediate relief of the
starving Piegan Indians at the Blackfee'
agency, Montana. He has ordered addi
tional supplies and ordered the agent to
make them last until March Slst next, by
which time it is hoped congress will make
provisions for additional supplies.
New YoRK, Sept. 2-Open war has
been declared by the Erie against the
Grand Trunk. At the Wabash 4 Pa
citic office today tickets to St. Louis were
sold over the counter for sl7. At other
offices the rates were maintained, but
scalpers did a heavy business Tickets
to Chicago can be obtained from 81 to
xs6.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Sept. 2-Genera
Butler arrived here this morning accom-
panied by N. A. Plymptou aud Ex-Sena-
tor Ames. He was met at the depot by {
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

The foolish issue of q solid south and q
solid north IN Dakota politics made by
some extremists of both sections in the
pending contest for delegate to congress
is one that ought not have been made and
one that should be discouraged and con.
demned by every conservative paper and
person in both sections. The delegate is
expected to represent all sections fairly
and equally, and if he should fail to do
this he would be recreant to bis sworn
duty and basely dishonor his position
Any candidate who promises special ia
vors to any one section as against or to
the neglect of others should be repudiated
by all as unworthy of the position to which
he aspires and as one not to be trusted by
even the section he proposes to favor, fol-
the man who will barter away in advance
his Official integrity could not be trusted
even to carry that out IN good faith if
other inducements should be offered that
would make It to his personal interest to
repudlate his former corrupt bargain and
sale. The faction or interest that makes
such corrupt bargain with proposed
candidate may itself be sold out to some
other faction or interest for larger price
The only safety to all the people and to
all interests is in the nomination of man
Of lnaexible integrity, and one who knows
no north, no south, no east, no west.
With such man it matters little in what
particular part or section of the territory
he may reside. If he is good and desir.
able citizen he must have residence at
some particular place, hut this does not
imply that he will only represent the wish.
es of the people of that particular section
of the territory, by any means. 1t is a
matter of no consequence whether the
delegate to congress has his home place
of sidence in North Dakota, South Da-
kota or the Black Hills, If he possesses
the essential qualifications for the Office
and if he does not possess these he should
not be entrusted with that honor and
mission on any account. The objection
that MIR. Raymond lives in North Dakota,
or that Mr.. McMasters lives IN the Black
Hills, or that other candidates live in
South Dakota, Is not worthy of mo.
ment's consideration if they are otherwise
qualified for the place and the duties OF
the office, which are all comprehended in
the two words "ablllty" and "integrity.
The old Jacksonian test, "sober, honest
and capable" is good enough and COM
prehensive enough for all positions, fol
all parties and for all time.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

FARGO and Bismarck represent the two
opposite extremes IN the contest over the
nomination of a candidate for delegate to
congress, the former representing the ex-
treme in Mr.. Raymond's favor and the
latter the extreme Of opposition, the one
almost unanimously in his favor and the
other almost unanimously opposed to him.
But 80 far rs the two counties of Cass
and Burleigh are concerned the odds are
largely in favor Of Raymond, for the first
named county is entitled to thirteen del
egates in the Pierre convention while the
latter is entitled to but seven. The Bur
leigh county faction supports DR.. Bent
ley. of Bismarck, not so much with the
hope of securing his nomination at Pierre
as by it to defeat that of Raymond, for
the Tribune already anticipates contln-
gcncy when the vote Of Burleigh will be
cast "for some other but none the less de.
serving candidate - The prospect of the
Pierre convention becomes every day
more and more case of "confusion worse
confounded," and the result more and
more enc Of speculation as dark as blind
pool. Yankton county, the thiri in the
Raymond pool will hold its convention
Sept. llth when the tug of war between
the three counties composing the pool
will be decided. These are the only three
counties where there will be any bitter
contest with reference TO the nomination
of Raymond, the only ones where he has
over Jealous support and determined op.
position. All the other counties are com.
psratlvely Indifferent upon the subject
except Minnehahs and Grand Forks
which will be perhaps stand off and
neutrallze each other. But as many other
portions of the territory will present can
didates matters will thereby become more
complicated, and. as We have several
times said before, no nomination can be
effected except through compromise,
and who will 60 up and who 60 down in
that compromise no one can now know.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

WHILE each church is striving 70 gain
proselytes, and it may be in some instan-
ces with the view uppermost in the effort
to obtain more than other like organiza-
tions, the rivalry is more to be commend
ed than to De condemned. They work
with the zeal of conviction AMI as rule
with the idea of benefitting mankind
rather than tearing each other down. All
churches are becoming less dogmatlcal
every year and likewise becoming great
er power for good. 1t has been within
the memory of many who are not much
past the meridian of life that the preach
er, like the politician, would take up the
doctrine of rival church and tear it into
ridiculous shreds holding the wreck up
before the audience with as much gusto
and worldly triumph as the politician now
does the platform Of the opposing party.
This was especially true of the Metho-
dists, Baptlsts and "Campbellites."
When the presiding elder came, as he
usually did each quarter, he being gen.
orally ''big gun" was expected to threw
a charge of canister shot among the "wa-
ter fowls" of the other two sects, and he
rarely failed to meet the expectation.
Then as the other two sects followed in
successive Sundays at the same country
school house they would "give it to" the
elder and the Methodist generally on in
fant baptism, AMI when there was nobody
else to contend with the Baptists and
Campbelhtes would dispute between
themselves upon the question whether
"remlssion of sius' took place in the act
of baptism or was condition that must
precede the administration of that rite.
THIS was of course in the rural districts
where, as we have SAID, all denomina-
tions, usually the three named, held SER
vices in the saue country school house.
This condition of religious society fur
nished good deal of amusement TO ''out-
s,ders'' and was partially compensated
IN the incentive it gave 10 reading the
bible so as to be able to take hand IN
discussion of the subject of dispute be-
tween the churches on such favorable
occasions as meeting at the cross roads or
visiting neigebor's on rainy day. The
man or woman who united with the
church in those days and under those
circumstances did it with full knvwl-
edge that he or she would have to "de-
fend the faith in argument every day,
and as . consequence gave more attention
to the reading Of the bible and theologi-
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

OTHER places are seeking their special
interests in the nomination of delegate to
congress and why should not jamestown
as we'll? Why not require Of the man
to whom Stutsman county gives her vote
pledge that he will secure an appropri-
alton for the improvement of the James
river for navigation up as far as James.
town. The government could expend
million dollars IN that stream as easily
and as quickly as upon any other between
the two oceans, and find plenty of con-
tractors who would take the contract at
one half profit and the other half SWIM
die, the regular rule in dealing with the
government. One million would do to
commence with and put the work in such
u shape that it would require five million
more to finish it, which ls also the rule
in government contracts. and by the time
that is expended we will have voting
representation in both houses of congress
to look after other needed appropriations
for the purpose. The James river is the
most important water thoroughfare in the
nation. The Missouri, Mississippi and
Ohio rivers all en- pity into the James river
before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico at
New Olleans. 1t rises in the best part of
the United States and courses through the
next best. If this improvement was made
the United States navy fleet could be run
mp here out of danger of being run into
and sunk by the mackerel boats on the
Atlantic coast and out of runge OF British
guns should there eyer be trouble with
that nation of q strong navy. 1t IS the
policy of our government to protect its
own institutions, especially the manufac-
turing institutions, in their infancy until
they are able 10 stand alone on the necks
of the people, and the government GER
talnly has no infant that requires more
moth:rly protection than our navy. Only
the other day one infant of the navy fam.
,ly wandered away from the protecting
care of mother Chandler and was run
over and sunk bv schooner These
would be strong points to urge in sup.
port OF an appropriation for the improve
men, of the James river and If Mr.. Ray
moud or any other candidate will pledge
himself to secure 1t he will be solid with
the James river valley delegation.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-09-05

THE Fargo Argus says that Iowa has a
young republican orator only twenty-six
years old whose brilllancy IN wit, eplgram
and satire surpasses that of Storrs or In
gersoll. He was unknown 10 such fame
until elected temporary chairman of the
recent state convention and turned his
oraterlcal artillery loose on the audience
when he at once made himself famous in
aspeech that has been published al over
the state.
THE card by Mr.. A. A. Allen, publish
ed in this paper, expresses feeling and
sentiment eminently worthy of an hon
orable man, such as the Alert and his
numerous frienus have claimed him to be
throughout this contest, and it is a course
which the better judgment of all must
certainly approve, as we'll as merit the es-
teen of his opponents. 1t is to be hoped
that the temporary bitterness between
former associates and friends that has
been eugendered IN the heat anil excite.
ment of the recent contest will subslde as
rapidly as it arose, and that the people of
jamestown and stutsman county will
present a solid and unbroken front in
every movement, political or otherwise,
that may presen, itself involving the pro-
gress and prosperity of our city and coun
ty. This has been the great secret of
Jamestown's success in the past and it
must be in the future. While our people
fight like spartans in their local contests
they have never carried the war over into
the realm Of malice, and it IS to be hoped
they never will engage IN the suicidal
policy o; wraugling over dead and set
tied issues. The people are the source of
all political power anu the caucus is what
the people make 1t. Whether it be right
or wrong the people themselves are res
ponsible.