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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02
The Late Storm in Texas.

Tie dreadful storm which swept
over brownsville, Teas, and Mata-
moroS, Mexico, on the 9Th Of last
month, proved to be a very disas-
trous affair in the: section oil coun.
try, doing much damage to property
and causing many families to suffer.
Ia Matamoros three hundred houses
were Frustrated and severa! Kindred
people injured. The gale dashed
away the quarantine OF Padre
Island, and in the two cities over
two thousand poor families are left
perfectly he!n'rss. Assistance is
being rendered as fast as private
subscriptions can be raised. The
river at Colorado, Texas. we learn
has risen twenty-five feet, and at
last accounts was still rising. All
tributary creeks are OVERLOOKING,
aud large sections of country are
submerged. Very heavy rains are
reported having fallen in other Sec
items, aud much apprehension is felt
for tie safety Of property. This is
supposed to be the result of the
storm from the Goth to the 23d Of
last month. The rainfall at Mata-
moroa is reported as having been
enormous, twenty-Six inches iu five
days. Tho whole country was in.
undated, and the tracks Of the Mata.
noros and Monterey and Rio Grande
railroads were under water and
badly washed, preventing all com
mrnication over them. All tie telc.
graph lines we're down and the crops
destroyed on the ranches.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

above BY Iessin Nou,on, below i.
J T Guidry, east by i " stana.
bury and vest by ----
being a portion Of the tract Wild,
the deceased purchased from JoI,a
e Creighton, in coEmon with ~.
sin Nouton and subsequently divided
between them.
Old dwelling house at old ROO.
teuec, one corn crib, one kitche,
one store-room. one c~hicken.Lousa
about 1900 panne's Of fence. oue
dwelling house at SEVERN Heber,,s,
one lot of garden pickets, one Q.
cart, one old buggy, one clock, One
shot gun, two revolver pistols, one
bedstead and bedding, oae small bed
and bedding, fonr pairs of work
oxen, two hundred and eighty head
Of cattle. one American stal ion. 30
gentle horses, scyenty-6ve wild har.
SEES ard mares, more or less, About
IS head OF sheep. one branding iron.
and other articles 100 numerous ii
mention.
TE..Ns & CONDITIONS The real
estate on a credit Of one, two and
three years from TIE day Of sale, aud
the personal property, all adisdica.
tions Of which that sha'.i rot exceed
ten dollars shall be paid cash on
the day Of sale, and one fourth Of all
adjadications exceeding ten dollars
shall also be paid cash on the day Of
sale, and the remainder in one. tw,
and three years from The ddy Of sale;
purchasers Or credit t. fdruish their
notes with solvent s,,rcties. in salido.
to the satisfaction OF administrator.
and made PAYABLE to his order will.
ga per annnm interest FROM the day
OF sale until paid, Together with te.
per cent. additional for attorneys
fee, il case it should become neces-
sary to institute legal proceedings
For TIE recovery of the notes to bu
tins fn'Eished- Or aug parts thereof;
said fee to he based on the amount
involved in suit. aud that the lands
be and remain mortgaged and spe,
cialIy hypothecated in favor Of said
succession and not to he alienatei,
nor in any way encurltercd to the
prejudice of the succession until lnlt
and final payment Of said notes, ii
principal. interest and attorney. M
well as all costs which may accrue
thereon.
J. CoLUMBus LEMAIRE.
Administrator.
Abbeviile, La, Sept. III, 1856.
Smeaes & White. Atsv~.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

Three more shocks of earthquake
were felt at Charleston, S. G., on
the morning Of the 2Sth ult. In the
afternoon there was a Sharp shock,
accompanied by the usual ruuhling
noise. The shock was violent enough
to shake buildings and caused many
people to rush out into the streets.
she direction of the wave was from
norlh to south. It's duration was
about one and j half seconds.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

The Claiborne Guardian, in refer.
ring to the next gubernatcrial nomi.
nation, puts the question thus: "Who
is to be our next Governor? In the
lower part Of the State the name of
Hon. Henry l.. Garland has been
suggested. We beg leave to con-
front that name with that of Judge
j. G. Moncure, Of Shreveport. North
Louisiana knows him." Who comes
ncxt?
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

Captain William Campbell, for
many years past commanding the
schooner Lottie Mayo, plying be.
tween Lake Charles and the Texas
coast, was lost at sea during q
recent storm while on his way to
Brazos Santiago. He was a good
and upright citizen, and a worthy
and Jealous member of the Masonic
fraternity.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

Our friend Bradford, of the AGA.
'dia Sentinel, voiced our sentiments
so fully in his s%a!utatory, that we
feel bound to quote: While Dem.
ocratic in politics, we shall not feel
bound to support a mai because he
is nominated, but shall demand that
his record be clear and free from
STAIN"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02
Abbeville, Oct. 9, 1886.
Notice Of Election.
Parish of Vern:ilion, /
October 2, 1886. 4

By virtue and u1der authority OF
'he proclamation OF His Excellency
Samuel Douglas McEnery, governor
of the State Of Louisiana, under date
Of August 4, 1885, directing that an
election be held throughout the
State, on Tuesday, the I'd day of
November 1856, lit being the first
Tuesday next following the first
Monday in said monthly from 7
o'clock in the forenoon until 6
o'clock in the afternoon, at such pla.
ces as may be designated and Fixed
by tic legal local authorities. for the
purpose Of electing one Representa-.
tive for each Congressional District
Of tie State Louisiana, in the Con.
grcss of the United States for the
Fiftieth Congress, to serve for the
term of two years from the 18th day
OF March A. D. 1887.
I, Lyman G. Lyons. Returning
Officer for the Parish. Of Verminn,
do hereby give public notice that an
election will be held in this parish
on Tuesday, the I'd day Of Novem.
Der 1886, from 7 o'clock in the
morning until s o'clock in the after
noon. for the purpose Of voting for
one Representative for the Third
Congressional District Of the State
III Louisiana. Said election to be
conducted and returns made &C
co:ding law.
+. G. LYONS.
Returning Officer.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

The Lake Charles Echo is out for
Hon. Edward Simon, Of St. Martin,
for congress'from the third copgrcs,
sional district, who'is running as an
independent candidate. We are not
much in favor of independent candi.
dates, but believe if properly en-.
dorscd Mr.. Simon would make q
good representative.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

A disastrous coniiay~a:ion took
place at New Iberia last Monday
anorning, destroying a large portion
of the business center of that city.
1t is supposed to be the work Of in
,cendiarism. The destruction Ct
property is generally estimated at
$4,000, and the insurance at about
2$25OOO.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02
Saturday, October 2, 1886

Mr.. j. Albert Rosteet, of lake
Charles, who vas recently wounded
by the accidental discharge os'his
gun, died on tho goth Of last month.
lie was a noble and worthy young
gentleman.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02
Sherif's Sale.
STATE or LOUISIANA.
tAHiSH OF NEEMlLION.
25tn judicial District Court.
No. 100.
Silvestrc Manscaux
Ernest i,ertran !

A'"b
BY virtue OF a@ order of seizure
and sale issued out of The Hon. 2sih
District Court, in and for the parish
of Vermilion. in the above entitled
and numbered suit, aud to me dilec,.
ed, | viii proceed to sell at public
sale to the last aud highest bidde.
ut the door Of the court house in
this parish. for CASH with benefit
OF appraisement, on
Saturday, November 6,
1886,
between the hours of II o'clock \.
NJ. and 4 o'clock P. NJ, and con,ina.
ing from day to day if necessary, aid
the rights, titles, interests and de,
mands of defendant, in and to the
following described property, seized
to satisfy said writ. to wit =
One certain tract of land lying
and being situated in this parish
acar the bayou Qneue Tortne. meas.
uring four arrents front ny seven
arpents deep, the long lines running
east and west, together with tho
hnildings ard improvements situated
thereon !; bounded north by Philosie
Manseaux. south by Douat Man.
seaux, east by Alexis Bertrand and
west by Julien Dreussard.
Given under my official signature.
at Office, in the town Of Abheville,
this I'd day of October 1886.
Fl. B. LYONS, Dep-Shcrif.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

Tie people living in the drouth
stricken region Of Texas are still
stuff and appeals for aid from
New York and other places are
being made.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02
SELLING OUT AT COST !
Cheap For Cash!
A Rare chanre For Bargains !

The undersigned. not being able
to occupy his new building as early
as was expected, and having made
large purchases of goods Of different
kinds, and having no room i'll the
present building occupied by him to
sheIve same, he now offers this stock
for sale at cost, for cash. in lots to
suit purchasers.
JACOB ISAACS.
AhbeviHe. Oct. 9. 1886.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

4 strip Of Arabian paper, dating
from the ninth century, and contain
ing a woodcnt with ornaments AID
initials, has been found among the
papers Of the austrian Archduke
Rainer. This rel;c shows that the
art Of wood-cutting was probably Of
Arabian origin, O Mat it was, at
all events, known to the Arabs lie
the ninth century.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

Wigeins' rrorhecy about the earth
quake at New Otieans proved him
to he a gigantic fraud.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02
A Cloud Of Butterflies.

One Of the most beautiful sights
in the world is the annual migra.
ton Of butterflies across the 1sthmns
Of Panalna. Where they come FROM
Or whittier they 60 no one knows,
and though many distinguished
n~aturaijsts have attempted TO sioye
the problem it is still as strange a
mystery as it was to hse first
European traveller who observed it.
Towards the end Of June u few
scattered specimens were discovered
fitting out to sea, and as the days
went by the number increased, until
about the l4th or 18th Of July the
sky was occasionally almost obscured
by myriads Of these frail insects.
Viewed from a distance, or through
a telescope, the spectacle was wonder
ful. AS tie sun shines on the
millions Of swiftly fi~uttcring wings
the result is a glistenipg and pull
sating haze ofgolden green. When
the wind drives them to the earth
they can be caught in handfuls.
Swallows and %hycatcliers single out
the largest and chase them for miles.
On being examined the butterfly is
found TO be Of the beautiful Cfaine
kilus species. It's wings are OF
velvety black and bronze and golden
green. Occasionally it is seen to
settle on branches Of trees aud
flowers before leaving land a'togeth-
CT. Bat in spite OF the most active
exertions Of naturalists the origin
and destination Of the Insects are
absolutely unknown.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02
ADVERTIsING RATES,

advertisements will be inserted at ore da!iir AUD
'nfty cents p square zone inch Of space or less,. f.r the
q -st. and seventy five cents for each sGbseqaent IN
sertion, for any time under one month. For ionRe
periods as follows
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

COMMUNICATING OF . personal oa:ure Will be
charged double sbe rates, and IN paid
FOR POSITIVELY in tdysnce.
Advertiseraan.s not market Will be ~ .,:shed Until
old, If rcs-c,sihle,' and will DO chA.ged accord.
~ng!y.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

superficial 6FpShCS, saving lTout VI
arpents by the depth of ----.
arpents, being a portion of the land
which deceased acquired from Mr..
Robt Green who had acquired it
from VIM Lenere who had acquired
the same at sheriff. sale in suit Of
Onezime Moston vs. Eraste Thibant,
ct ais tie said Thibaut had pur.
chased the same at the probate sale
Of the property Of the succession of
Onezime Mouton, Snr.
ID One tract of cypress swamp in
Little Bayou swamp in this parish,
on the west side Of the bayou Yer
million, containing thirty acres super
icial area, more Or less bounded
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-10-02

above BY Lessin Noo,on. below +.
j T Guidry, east by i " stan..
,,nrv and vest hv -
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-12-06
IMMORTALITY,

live. Thus much know. And defy
The world to prove that shall ever die.
But all men perisha Aye; and even SO
Beneath the grasses lay this body low,
Forever close these eyes and still this breath,
All this. Yet shall not have tasted death!
Where are the lips that prattled infant laysf
The eyes that shone with light Of childhood's
daysl
The heart that bubbled Ger with boyhood's
glee!
The limbs that bounded as the chamois freei
The ears that heard life's music everywhere
These, all; where are they nowl Declare.
Forever gonel Forever deadl Yet still
live! My love, my hate, my fear, my viii,
My oil that makes live living, firm abides
As towers the rock above the tickle tides.
Dead is my youth, and SO my age must die.
But remain, imperishable /!
Speed day and yearl Fleet by the stream Of
time!
Wing, birds of passage, to summer cimeI
Come change, come dissolution and decay,
To kill the very semblance of this clay!
Yet know the conscious, the unchanging
Through oil eternity shall never die! -.
Willis Fletcher Johnson, in Current.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-12-06
Defending Her Pastor.

Rev. R. w. Todd, in his recent work,
"Methodism of the Peninsula, tells this
story: In the last years before the war
feeling on the slavery question ran dan
gerously high, and those Methodist
preachers in Virginia who were even sus.
pected of leaning toward abolitionism
were threatened with tar and feathers
and other forms of injury. The Rev,
James A. Massey was particularly obnox-
ious to the mob element, and was re-
peatedly warned not to preach. he never
paid any attention to threats, but bus
meetings were sometimes forcibly broken
up. Once while he was holding service
COMMITTEE" headed BY one Dick
,Ayres, stalwart fellow of 250 pounds,
entered the church, and Avres, mount
ing to the side of the preacher, began TO-
harangue the mob. At this juncture .
devout sister, aged seventy years, climbed
over the altar-rail, ascended the pulpit
stairs, collared Ayres, and with o dex-
ferrous jerk laid him upon his back on the
floor. Then she grabbed him by his
long hair and pounded his head against
the planks until he begged for mercy.
The men sat still in amazement; the
women prepared to defend their pastor,
and would probably have driven out the
mob by force if Mr.. Massey had not sus-
pended the services and dispersed the
CONGREGATION.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-12-06
All Mistakes.
white.

There are number of mistakes made
even by wise people while passing
through life. Prominent among them
is the idea that you must labor when you
are not in fit condition to do SO; to
think that the more a person eats the
healthier and stronger he will become;
to 90 to bed at midnight and rise at
daybreak, and imagine that every hour
taken from sleep is an hour gained; to
imagine that, if little work or exercise
is good, violent and prolonged exercise
is better: to conclude that the smallest
room in the house was large enough to
sleep in; to eat as if you had only a
minute to finish the meal in, or to eat
without any appetite, or to continue
alter it has been satisfied, merely to
please the taste; to believe that children
can do as much work as grown people,
and that the more hours they study the
more they learn; to imagine hat what
ever remedy causes one to feel immedl-
ately better is good for the system, with
out regard to the after-effects; to take
off proper clothing odt of season because
you have become heated; to sleep ex-
posed 10 direct draught; to think any
nostrum is a specific for all the diseases
flesh is heir to.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-12-06

Until within a comparatively short
time, among the Indians of the Six Ma
tions on the reservation in Allegany and
Cattaraugus counties, New York, the
habit has been to sew the body up in a
blanket. not forgetting to place inside q
generous supply of meat for food, wam-
pun for ferriage over the Styx, and q
bow and arrow for use in the happy
hunting grounds. But when Billy Nc
Rale, one of the favorite chiefs, died,
with a view of doing his memory espe-
cal honor, the Indians besought coffin
and inferred the remains in pale-face fash
ion. Since then the aboriginal method
of disposing of the bodies of the dead has
we'll nigh become obsolete, and now the
wealthict Indians buy caskcts and en-
ploy undertakers. 1t is mistaken no.
ton that the Western New York Indians
have ever placed the bodies of the dead
on elevated platforms, at least for many
years past. The practice formerly was
to scoop out shallow grave and tumble
the remains in, giving them scanty
covering Of earth.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-12-06


The Zanzibar Arabs, in their long
white garments, who, DR.. Lenz, the Aus
trian traveller, says, make Stanley Falls
Station, in Central Africa, look like a
village of the Zanzibar coast. have thrown
off their mask of friendship and COM
PEELED King Leopold's white agents to
abandon the station and retreat down the
river. DR.. Lenz wrote early this year
that these slave dealers had far more in
fuence at Stanley Falls than the Congo
white men welded. Here, in the heart
of King Leopold's territories, they have
at last openly manifested their hostility
to the advancing white influences that
are threatening their supremacy in Cen
trail Africa. 1t was these gentry whom
General Gordon was employed to deal
with just before his fate changed his
plans and sent him to Khartoum. instead
of the Congo. How to manage these
powerful Arabs will henceforth be a puz.
zling question.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-12-06
Proportion of Deaths by Lightning.

The yearly average number of deaths
from lightning in England is twenty
three, or four and four-tenths per 100,
OO0 deaths. AS general rule it seems
that unless persons are killed on the spot
by lightning they recover. A person
struck by lightning is more or less
stunned, and deprived of consciousness
for a time, often, no doubt, by mere
fright, in which case the effect is
transient; but sometimes in consequence
of a shock given to the brain, in which
case there is certain amount of paralysis
of motion and sensation. The appear
ances after death of bodies which have
been struck by lightning vary extremely.
Sometimes they retain the position which
they occupied when struck; while in
other cases they may be dashed to con-
siderable distance. Their clothes are
often burnt or torn. and have q peculiar
singed smell. Metallic Substances about
the body present signs of fusion, while
such as are composed of steel become
magnetic.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-12-06

One of the most striking passages in
the annual report of Indian Commissioner
]. D. C. Atkins, shows the workings Of
an Indian landed aristocracy under the
present tribal sysrem of holding reserva-
tions. It appears that the chief cult.
vation of the tribal lands is done by a
few rich and enterprising red men, who
pocket all the proceeds and pay no rent
to the tribe as a whole. Of course, their
plea is that if any other members of the
tribe choose to till tribal lands they are
at liberty to do so: but it appears that in
Indian Territory, where some very large
aggregate crops are raised on lands held
in common by partly civilized tribes,
the wealthier and more influential In
dians have monopolized the best lands
and much more than would be their
share under an equal division in severalty.
Commissioner Atkins accordingly points
out that the present system of land tenure
among the red men is working very
badly, and that the Government ought
to intervene and divide the land held in
Indian Territory into lots of 1G0 acres
for each head Of a family and half as
much for each minor child. The general
impression derived from Commissioner
Atkins report is that the present system
of Indian land-holding is very imperfect
and unwise, and that Congress should
promptly substitute one which would
be better both for the red men and the
white
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1886-12-06
Fashions in MaIadies.

Most physicians are likely to have the.
cries about diseases rather than actual
knowledge thereof, because, being ig-
norant of what is going on inside the
human body. they are forced to surmise
and infer, from certain data, often in
sufficient. Their theories seem to enjoy
kind of periodicity. Physicians look
to this or that organ, and usually find, or
think they find, that its derangement lies
at the base of the trouble. In the same
way specialists always discover in pa
tients what is their speciality, whether it
be nerves, brain, heart, liver, lungs or
kidneys, as most of US are prone to find
what we seek. Until Richard Bright
had published his treatises, forty-six
and torty-seven years ago, no one had
supposed the kidneys affected, and he
might not have turned his attention to
this disorder but from his own nephritic
sufferings, which finally caused his
death. Bright's disease gets its name
from him, and ever since he described
its symptoms physicians have regarded
the kidneys as the source of numberless
ailments. Every one must have noticed
how constantly nowadays the cause of
mortality is called Brights disease;
often, indeed, when it is something
else. Many of the ablest and most ex-
perienced practitioners regard Bright's
disease, or albumenuria, as a combina-
tion of diseases rather than aseparate and
distinct disease. This would account
for the number of old persons who are
thought to die of Albumenuria. Aman
who has long been ill must be affected
in different organs. the arrangement of
one causing the arrangement of another.
Thus general breaking down is called
albumenuria. The kidneys have, in the
way of diagnoses, nearly had their run,
which has lasted almost half a century.
The liver is now having its turn, and ere
long no doubt most disorders will be at
tributed thereto. This is moderately
safe, because its condition is hard to de-
termine, and theory will answer in the
absence of facts. There are cras and
fashions in maladies, as in other things,
and at present the liver may be said to
be coming in.-Ne,o York Commercial.