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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-04-19
EXCELSIOR.
The GalVt ston News,

on entering another Year, makes u"
Understanding promises, hut SIMPLY re-
fers to its s'eady progress from year I"
wear as its best co,nnfendation to- tho
continued acceptance Of ar intelligent
aud appreciative reading public. 1t
points to it's record in the past as furn-
ishing the most authsntie and most
telling prospectus fr the future, That
it will hereafter, rs heretofore, in its
chosen field.
ECLIPSE COMPETITION,
and use promptly and effectively every
advantage presented 10 the way Ut in-
creased materials facii ies for i'm row
ing up0n itself in all the features OF q
general newspaper for the people may
be stated without presumption and &C
cepted without misgiving upon the as
surance of accomplished fact. Such a
journal as the Galveston Neps may be
regarded as one of the necessaries Of our
coDtem]poraneUus civilization. 1t is III
the nature of a kind OF ubiquitous uni
versity for the people, while their local
papers afford them the more special To-
cal information. No intelligent and
substantial CITIZEN should consider his
household or his place Of business sdc-
quately equipped without the regular
presence of The Galteston Nus and a
good local newspaper.
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LOUISIANA Stats
UNIV ERSITY
AND
Agricultural 4 Mechanical
BATON ROUGE. LA.
COL. WIN. PRESTON JOHNSON
PRE6ID 2.
- :
Session Of Nine Months Begins
EH>- 1000

Healthy location. Free tuition. Board,
lodging, medical expenses, ETC., s16 per
month. Cheap Uniform. Full corps of
competent Professors. Workshop OF
Mechanical Department in operation.
Military discipline, For further rar,u-
c~nlars, apply /"
PEoF l.. w, SEWELL,
Aug. o75m Ea.on Rouge, La.
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n. A. 1HEDsoRD 4 Co,-S1
Having been one q b, I'oss
Medicine, and also aesnt ~ IN
his death, I do hsssf,sss No.
mend it to the pubic r -
ana best Liver Medicins ~ X 11sl1
have used the medsssns ALI
Pr. A. 9: StmMoNs MaSS1
that made by the rsjSS &
ThedfOrd. M9c d ~ Ml
0bem; 20 T know the rs.llA
BY yon IL the aen0fne - -
- made by Df. gimusons ~
I Yours Truly,
! DANIEL DUalAn,
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HOMES FOR THE MILLION
IL in VcrmiliOn Parish, Louisiana.
Never overtDwed. SEMI stamp for de-
scriptive circular to
vERMIlrOT IMMIGRATION ASSOCIATION,
Abbeyille, La.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1884-04-19

1kis pure wine 10 . simple vsee.
table extract without iitexieasass
qualities. and has proved e p
ihost sstonishing TONIC ron WOMB
tkn0tvn 70 medical science.
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! vel.known gentleman n; !!
wife has been IN delicate heeE@
teen years. She suffered teaI3u.y WI
month with pains and exceeeavS zS251S
{DOctors could do her no good. ~
iof McElree's Wine OF C9piui 49,
health, and she gained ei49sesI ~
\ In weight In two months Wniae
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A NEW HEAT MOTOR.

Mr.. Bourne, c. E., the principal of the
new Engineering College at Muswell Hill,
England, and author of various practical
works on the steam engine, has, we are
informed, been engaged during the past
year in perfecting new species of heat
engine, which, it is expected, will super
sede the steam engine for nearly all the
purposes for which that is at present EN-.
ployed. 1t has long been known that the
steam engine is most wasteful machine,
not more than one-tenth of the theoretical
efficiency of the heat expended being OBJ
tanned in even the best engines, the other
nine.tenths being wasted. 1t has also long
been known that power can not be gener-
ated by heat unless there be two unequal
temperatures and that it is in the act of
falling from the high temperature to the
low that the heat is transformed into pow.
er. The farther removed these two tenn
peratures are from one another the larger
will be the proportion of the total heat
transformed into power and it is because
in the steam engine these two tempera.
lures are not far apart that the heat is
wasted to 30 serious an extent. The max
imum temperature in a steam engine is the
temperature of the steam, which may be
$50 or thereabout and the minimum
temperature, which is that of the conden-
ser, may be 1902 80 that the total fall
from the highest temperature to the low.
est may be about 1907 The power gener.
ated by this inconsiderable fall will not be
great, any more than the power will be
great which 10 got from low fall of water
by any hydraulic machine. But the con.
ditions under which steam can be worked
in an engine imply limited extremes of
temperature, and therefore large expend.
iture OF fuel to generate given amount
of power. To enable higher temperatures
to be employed in engines for the genera
ton of power, air has been proposed as a
substitute for steam, and air engines have
been contrived by Stirling Ericsson, Joule
and others. But the difficulty of heating
the air by any species of air boiler, and of
preserving the piston in a working condi-
tion at high temperatures has 30 seriously
impaired the advantages of these contriv-
auces that they have never come into
extended use. Under Mr.. Bourne's ar
rangement these objections are avoided.
There is no air boiler, but the fuel is in
jected into a small chamber 80 that the
heat is generated internally instead of be-
ing transmitted through heating surfaces.
The maximum temperature employed is
the temperature of flame. But the engine
is so contrived that the piston is not sub
iected to any higher temperature than is
usual in steam engines. 1t is stated that
an engine constructed upon this principle
may be made SO compact and 80 light as to
be applicable to many purposes for which
steam engines cannot be used, such as fly.
ing, tramway locomotion and the propul.
sion of tricycles, while the economy of
fuel will be such, by reason of the high
temperature employed, that very mex
pensive performance will be obtained.
London Iron.
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not be. A farmer raises sheep, cattle and
horses. They are propagated by like pro.
ducing like. According to his theory. the
colt should not be taxed, but the dam
should be; or the hen that lays the egg
should be taxed, but not the egg. Would
it be easier to collect $500. 900, 600 annually
from the owners of land than the $780,
600, 600 as now collected by the Federal
Government through its Custom.houses
and internal revenue Offices?
Again, as stated, it takes about
$500 000, 900 to meet the annual la
bilities of the General Government. 1t
takes about one hundred thousand men
and women in all its departments TO
keep its wheels in motion. This, accord.
ing to Mr.. George, is a very complicated
affair, and we admit it does appear to be
large number to be connected with the
Federal Government, but we cannot see
how, by changing the method OF raising
$500, 600, 900 revenue, it is going to do
away with this army of employees. But
when, under the George theory" we add
to this number of Government employees
1920, 900 more who are directly and in
directly connected with the telegraph and
railroads, and whose annual transactions
in the aggregate amount to double the
revenue the Government now collects,
thus increasing the responsibility OF the
Government instead of decreasing it, we
appreciate the vision of Mr.. George as pre-.
sented in the Trying pan.to-fire " scene.
If there is mismanagement in the public
service now, what would it be with
trebled patronage, and quadrupled incen-
tive To corruption ? The tasks of officials
and others engaged in the public service
are not in excess of one.h half what they are
in either the railroad or telegraph service.
Would the tasks of railroad and telegraph
officials and their employees be made an
exception if the Government worked them
Would not the incentive to tighten the
tasks and increase the number of ".voting
employees" be as great with the increased
patronage as it now is ? The Government
might possibly survive such calamity.
If it did, like the burden piled upon the
back of the mule, d" it would be only evi.
dence of it's strength. MERCHANT.
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HANGING.

A physician writes to the London Tines :.
Even the hangman may claim the right not
to be censured hastily and ignorantly. In
your report of the inquest held on the re-
cently.executed criminal at Liverpool, DR..
James Barr is said to have complained that
the work was badly done because "the
moose was placed in the wrong position, in
the nspe of the neck, instead of under the
ear :" the consequence of which was that
the man died from strangulation, and not
his neck broken. Now it so happens that
DIR. Barker, of Melbourne, who has been
striving for twenty. seven years to make
hanging as merciful as possible, advocates
the knot of the moose being placed on the
spine as the most effectual means of frac-
turing the vertebre. He made fifty post
mortem examinations of criminals hanged
in the ordinary way, and did not find dis
location or fracture of the vertebre in a
single case. Bat by his method of placing
the knot about two inches from the spine
he found that There was dislocation be-
tween the second and third cervical verte.
bra, with fracture OF the third, and press.
ure on the spinal cord" After all, the
best mode Of hanging must be a clumsy
and uncertain method Of breaking the vic
TINS neck and if that be the object OF a
public execution, it might be achieved
far more certainly and efectually by other
means. The use of the long drop as a
means of doing it has led within the last
dozen years to some horribly painful re-
suits. o. one occasion the victims head
was nearly or entirely torn off; on another
occasion the rope broke, and the man was
hoisted up a second time, and aboHt a year
ago loop of the loHg rope caught the
mans elbow, so that it was necessary to
hoist him up in order to release it. Why,
then, these hangmen's experiments to
make death by hanging something else
what death by hanging ought to be
namely, death by strangulation For it
is well-known that such mode of death
is not painful, that the Inconsistencies oc.
ours very soon, and that the bodily con-
vulsions and the continuation of the hearts
beats do not mean the continuance of sem
sibility.
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Neln York.

This is to certify that am well acquainted with
man 80 years of age, for many years resident OF
this city who has been at times extremely Ill, but
could not tell from what cause unless it was worms
He told his attending physician his suspicious, but
the physician at once rdiculed the idea, and re-
fused TO attend him any longer. His son then men
toned DR.. Z. McLanes Vermifuge, and asked him if
he would take it his reply was-I must take some
thing TO get relief or die
They at once procured bottle Of DR.. C. Nc
LaneS VerIaifuge, and he took one dose The re-.
suit was, ne passed upwards of three quarts Of
lpor7nS cut up in every form. He got well imme-
dately, and is enjoying excellent health and,
like the good Samaritan Of old, is endeavoring to
relieve his unfortunate neighbors He makes it his
business to hunt up and select all similar to
his own, that may &c given over by regular physi-
cians and iuiuces them to try DR. c. McLane's YER
mifuge. So fan he has induced more than twenty
persons to take the Vermifuge, and in every case
with the most happy results. He is well satisfied
that DR.. C. McLane's Vermifuge, prepared by Elem.
ing Bros Pittsburgh Pa is far superior to any other
known remedy, and if more generally known would
not fail to save many valuable lives. For further
particulars inquire of Mrs. Hardie, 1l4l Cannen
street, New York City.
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Symptoms and Cure.
ST, DAVlD'S,

a FIRST. CLASS LODGING HOUSE, CON.
n tains 173 rooms; us Howard street, near
Third, San Francisco This house is especially de.
signed comfortable home for ladies and gentle
men visiting the city from the interior. No dark
rooms. Gas and running water in each room. The
floors are covered with body Brussels csrpet and all
the furniture IS made OF solid black walnut. Ea:h
bed has spring mattress, with an additional hair
top mattress, making them the most luxurious and
healthy beds in the world. Hot and cold
baths large parlor and reading room, containing
Grand rlano-all free TO guests. Price, single
rooms per night, so cents per week, from e up
wards House open all night.
r. HUGHES, Proprietor.
At Market-street Ferry, take Omnibus line OF
street cars to corner Of Third and Howard
iy3.TuTSu
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WEAK AND UNDEVELoPED PARTS
or the Human Body Enlarged. De-
Yel0ned and strengthened,' ETC,

VsAN INTERESTING ADVERTISEMENT LONG
L run in our paper. In reply to inquiries we will
say that there is evidence Of humbug about this
On the contrary the advertisers very highly in
dorsed Interested persons may get sealed circulars
giving all particulars by addressing Erie Medical Co.,
P. o. Box SIS, Buffalo, n Toledo Evening Bee.
sl5-1yTuThS
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The new Board of Health of the city of
Cincinnati is composed of five saloon.
keepers and one physician. Evidently
politics are not ignored In the manage.
ment of municipal affairs at Porkopolis.
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MANUFACTURER OF ROAD SCRAPERS,
Va Iron Doors sail Cells. Shutters, Ratings
Gratings, Homework and Blacksmithing in general,
No. $50 street, between Fifth and Sixth. Second
hand Doors for sale. ie22- 4ptf
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OFFICE AND MEDICINE STORE, NO. 92e
" Third street, between end ]. By the pulse
he can locate disease Consultation free. He uses
no poisonous drugs, but roots and herbs, natures
medicine for man. Call and see him dlI-lm
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The necessity for

The necessity for
prompt and ethcien:
household remedies
is daily growing
IN ore imperative,
and OF these Hostel
ter'5 Stomach Bit
tiers is the chief in
merit and the most
popular. Ire G u.
larity'of the stomach
and bowels, ma,arial
ievers, liver COM
plain t, debility,
rheumati1m an d
minor ailments, are
thoroughly con
quered by this in
comparable family
restor2 tive and me-
dicinal s.fe guard,
and it is justly re-
garded as the purest
and most comprehe
sale by allD. uggist'
i'll
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FUNNsLL BRos., Ozark, Mo-, say
browns Iron Bitters is giving better SAITH
faction than any other medicine We handle.
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ELY,s
CREAM BALM

Efectually cleanses
the head Of catarrhal
virus, causing healthy
secretions. 1t allays
inflammation, pro
tects the nasal pas
sages from additional
C o d 2, completely
heals the sores and
restores sense of taste
and smell.
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OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, NJ STREET, BE-
~ tween Ninth and Tenth, Nos 9lS and 920.
viii visit the Railroad Hospital daily at $50 A. NJ.
inpH 1y14-lm
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LOIIs sLOSS & CO.

nEALERS, CORNER OF FRONT AND L
~ streets. Highest price for Hides, Sheep
Pelts and Tallow. Butchers supplied with Salt,
Paper, latest improved Sausage Machines, Suffers,
Lard Presses, etc. Prompt CASH returns made for
all censgnments felS.4pu
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ARCHITECT.


JAMES sEADLER (FoRMERLY OF BABSoN
~ Il Seadlerl, has removed his office 10 Room g.,
Suffer Building, southwest .corner Fifth and J
streets. jyll II
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Standing in the utter solitude of these
gigantic upheavals, where, peering afar
through hazy expanse,



creeps with barely perceptible motion
ICES his physical insignifcance in the vast.
mesa of nature. Here, surely, might all
human vainglory feel its futility, where an
army of men-where the population of a
great city-nay, the great city itself,
might be
"Sown in a wrinkle of the INDUSTRIOUS hill"
and hide from the world its whereabouts |!
On the eastern TANKS of Volcano Noun
tain, distance of 5000 to 1000 feet hori-
zontally through its base, from the granitic
intrusion spoken Of, and, approximately,
6, 600 feet above the sea-level, found a
well.marked fossiliferous belt of silurian
age which l traced and examined super
ticially, about one mile in linesl extent,
and from one to three hundred feet wide.
This formation trends north and south
over some minor ridges and arroyos the
portions most prolific in organic remains
being an indufated sandstone and coarse
arensceous shale, in parts thickly inter
mixed with comminuted shells-1oubtless
the exuvi@ of an ancient seashore. These
strata are fanked with finely Illuminated
shales, silicious limestones, quantities, and
other rocks exhibiting more or less meta
morphism, in which the fossils grow fewer
and ultimately fade out.
The remains were chiefly silicious casts
of silurian mollusco which but rarely re-
tanned the calcareous structure of the orig
inals. The most abundant forms are of
bivalves allied to the mussel and clam a
few ortkis lynr and orthis testudinaria. The
gasterpods are represented by Pleurotoma-
ria, and the cephalopods by Orthoceratites
and close.coiled Lituites. OF coral form
discovered only a few Cyathophy Holds,
probably Zaphrentis Canadense.
At different points along the fossil belt
certain types were predominant to the ex-
clusion almost of all others. Thus, for a
considerable distance, the bivalves pre-
vail in other portions gasteropods occu-
by the ground, and at the higher and
northern end of the formation, where it
disappears on the crest of the hill In highly
metamorphosed strata, the Lituites
swarmed politically, and grew to diam
eter OF twelve or fifteen inches. No trace
was found OF radiRta or crustacea-not
even of trilobites aud until q more thor.
ough and competent examination of its fos-
sill evidences is made, this formation may
be assigned to very early geological age
not later, probably. then the Trenton
epoch of the lower Silurian. In conse.
quence of the assured and indurated char
acter of the inclosing rock, no complete
fossil specimens were gathered, with the
exception of one small ostres /; doubtless,
however, tolerably perfec. forms may be
secured by removing the weathered sur
face rock.
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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
r. A. SNYDER. NJ, ID.

DHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, SOUTHEAST
corner Second and K streets. Office Hours
9 to 1880 A. NJ; to 4, and TO 9 P. NJ Residence,
9l3 NJ street. between Ninth and Tenth. mig. 4ply
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CBAs. III. POWERS, m. ID,
DIR. LAME,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEoN.-oFFICE AND
i Residence, No. 323 ] street. between Third and
Fourth. HOURS to 10 A. ", 3 to and to P. NJ
Office of City Superintendent Of Public Schools at
same place. se54p1m
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VIM. GUTENHERGER,

IRON AND BRASS FOUNDER AND MA
Il chin;st, Front and streets. Manufacturer Of
Gutenberger's Horse Powers, Patent Ground Roller
and Clod Crusher and Barley Mills All kinds of
Hydraulic Pipes. For sale, Three Miller Patent Hay
Presses ml-lpIm
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON (HOMEOPA-
thist), Residence, No. 6l2 Fourteenth street.
office, No. 627 street lover Dae's), Sacramento,
Cal. Office hours-l0 to II A. NJ; to p. NJ; $40
to sP M Special attention given to diseases Of the
heart and ungs. dl2.lm
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CHARLES p, PINKHAM, Nj. D.,
DR. NIXON,

HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Ofice-removed to SIS Eighth treet, between
II and !. Residence next door. Office hours till
A. NJ from l to g. and $50 to 7:30 P NJ. jy131m
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GENERAL NOTICES.

Readings Russia SaIve.-An Invaluable
dressing for cuts, burns, flesh wounds o2-ly TuThS
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s. CARLH.
J. CROLY.
earle q CROLH,

NoNTRACToRS AND BUILDERS, ARE PRE-
" pared TO do all kinds Of work in their li1> in
city or county, Principal place Of business, Sacra
mento Shop, Nc 1924 Second street, between b
and L Pcstotfoe Box No. 40, Sscram onto.
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DR. GEORGE PYBURN.
G. DART, NJ. ID. ,

OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, NORTHEAST
" Corner Eleventh and Il streets. Hours-9 to 10
A. NJ, Ito and to 8PM d12-lm
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BUSINESS CARDS.
j. HYMAN, JR.
TELEPHONE FLAMING MIL.

NORNER ] AND FIFTEENTH STREETS,
" Sacramento. H. D. vANDERCooK & CO., Pro
pretors, Contractors and Builders Manufacturers
of Doors, Sashes, Frames, Blinds and Moldings
Planning, Turning and all kinds of Mill Work done
gu short notice The fitting Of Stores and Offices
Speciality. iyl2-tf
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WALLACE A. BRIGGS, N. d.
DIR. 10y FOND WON.

" Sacramento.
ONCE Hours = : r 5,ls4p''
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CATAR q II

A few applications relieve. 4 thorough treatment
mil cure. Agreeable to use. Send for circular.
Price, 80 cents, by nail at druggists ELY
BROTHERS, Druggists, Oweg9, n. Y.
O6-lyIuThSSwly
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DIR. A. T.. BRINE,

nHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, GRADUATE OF
[ the University of Berlin, Germany. Office and
residence No. 52l street, between Fifth and Sixth,
Ito SPIN ,I5-H
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Applied with the
Finger.

" Thousands on
t h e Pacific Slope
testify to its priceless
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WIN. ELLERY BRIGGS, N, D.,
w. A. RUGHs0H, NJ. D.,

W. As lDWHHsUNt Mo Ds1
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
IA Office southwest corner Of Seventh and
streets, in Bryte's building, up stairs. Resi-
dence southeast corner of Seventh and streets,
Sacramento. Office Hours to and to 8 P. M. /;
and on Sundays only, 7 to r.. NJ. je25-4plm