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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22
DEATHS FROM ALCOHOLISM.

The Philadelphia Times makes short
work with the statistics lately published
in an organ of the liquor interests, as to
the deaths from ALCOHOLICS m in this coun.
try. This organ of the deadliest of
trsfics holds that deaths from alcoholism
are decreasing and refers to " the figures
of the tenth census, which report but
1862 deaths from this cause during the
census year of 1880, out of a total of
756, 693 deaths from all causes. The
claim is made upon these figures that
there was a decrease of 90 per cent in
deaths from alcoholism in proportion to
the whole number of deaths during a
period of ten years." The Times shows
how few of the deaths mainly due to al.
coholism are really reported in that way
and insists that the consumption of al.
coholic drinks is increasing faster than
the population. This much," says the
Times, lean be learned from the Internal
Revenue reports, which show that while
the consumption of spirituous liquor is
at a standstill on the decline, the con.
sumption of beer and other malt drinks
is increasing at an o rmo rate. 1t
stands to reason that drink produces the
same effects now as ever, and that if
there is more drinking than ever the
of deaths from drink is not decreas.
ipp."
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22

NEW TO-DAY.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22

Parson Downs recently preached Q
sermon in Boston. and it is announced
that it was so Indecent that no respect.
able newspaper would print it. 1t must
indeed have been very foul, for the Bos.
ton newspapers calling themselves re-
spectacle have printed columns of mat.
ter, some of it illustrated, detailing the
incidents of several accusations OF adul-
terry against the parson and of Others
made by him against his parishioners.
The Boston press is to be congratulated
on the coming to the front of respecta-
bility.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22
Destructive Connagratiou.

GALVESTON, Texas, Dec. 21.-A fire
broke out at 3 O'Clock this morning in
the residence portion of the city on
Avenue X, between Twenty-first and
Twenty-second streets. This portion
of the city is almost exclusively
wooden buildings. The fire spread
with great rapidity, owing to the water
in the cisterns in the vicinity becom-
ing exhausted. Before the flames
were controlled they had spread e
the greater portion of two squares.
T~wenty-eight dwelling houses and two
stores were burned. The total loss is
estimated at $50, 900 to 100000.
A Minneapolis Failure.
MrNNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Dec. 21.-The
private banking house of n. G. Hush
& Co. suspended payment this morn
ing. Their liabilities are not yet
known. The cause of the failure is
said to be the necessity OF Hush to
carry the paper of Jackson 4 Collins,
the owners of the Puritan Iron mine,
on which he was the endorser to the
extent OF $500, 600 or $500 900. The
bank itself is said to be solvent, and
Hush himself worth at least $4,000.
1t is believed he will be able to pay
everything in full.
A Fatal Accident.
HELENA, M. T., Dec. 21.-A Tacoma,
w. T., special to the Independent
News, has Just been received here of
a terrible accident at the west end OF
the Cascade tunnel, by which three
men were killed outright and five
others seriously injured, one of whom
has since died. The accident was
caused by the premature explosion OF
a charge of several blasts simultane-
ously. The names of the killed and
injured are as vet unobtainable. The
accident will not cause delay to the
work, which is being pushed forward
as rapidly as possible.
A $4,000 Robbery.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 21.-A bold rob
berry was committed at the First Ma
tional Bank in this city to-day. Tit
cashier, who was engaged in signinI
the new issue of S. notes, when abou
hall through with a 5 $1,000 lot went t.
dinner, leaving the notes on the desk
On his return he discovered thu
money stolen by some unknown per
son who unlocked the door OF hi
room.
MeCOon's Suspension
New YORK, Dec. 21.-The suspen
sion OF j. H. McCoon was announces
to-day on the Stock Exchange. Thi
is one OF the houses reported il
trouble in the panic last Wednesday
but which tided over the trouble unit
to-day. McCoon has been a membe
of the Stock Exchange since 1872
1t is stated that McCoon has no out
standing contracts on the Exchange.
Acts Approved.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-The. Presl
dent has approved the Act to rein
quish the interest OF the United State
in certain lands to the city and count
of San Francisco, and an Act retirin
Vice Admiral Rowan and Rear Ad
miral Worden, with the highest pa
of their grades.
Assigned.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 21.-Albei
Rivert, dry goods, of this city has as
signed.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22
WHY NOT AMERICA MAIL
STEANERS?

The New York Herald says: We are
to have q compact, small, and, we hope,
effective new navy; and that is a good
thing. The sooner we can get the new
men.of. war built, armed and ready Tor
a cruise the better.
But why stop there? Why should
not Congress appropriate say twelve
millions to build ten or a dozen steel
mail and passenger teainer OF the class
OF the French Bourgogne, or the German
Vera, or the English Umbria? Only
faster than these rather than slower
twenty-one knot ships they ought to be.
The vessels of such a feet could carry
the mails from Montauk Point to Milford
Haven, and make much quicker time be-
tween America and Europe with mails
and passengers than has ever been made
yet.
They should be carefully built to meet
all the requirements of the Navy DE.
partment as to efficiency as cruisers IN
case OF war. They should therefore be
stanch and strong as well as fast, and
the construction of their hulls and en-.
zines would give a new start in the best
way to shipbuilding in this country. We
have no doubt the Secretary of the Navy
thinks his hands full already with the
new war ships authorized; but in our
belief he would find it easier to bnild
these and have them up to the highest
mark if he had a dozen first-class mail
steamers to build also, because so large a
mass of work would stimulate the en-.
ergy and invention of our ship and en-.
CINE builders.
Such ships as we speak of should be
differed and manned by the United
States Navy, thus giving our naval of,
icers employment in work where they
would become familiar with sea service
in modern vessels and where they would
feel the competition of rival lines.
If the Government furnished the
ships, there is no doubt that a private
company would be found to run them,
giving proper and abundant security to
the Government for their preservation
and q fair return for their use. Mr.. Cor.
bin proposed some time ago to run a line
OF large, fast and in every way first. class
steamers between Montauk Point and
Milford Haven. Ii Congress will now
authorize the building of such a steam
fleet, no doubt Mr.. Corbin and a COM
pany would run them. Here is a chance
for Congress to help our shipping in
t~erests, and that just when the British
Postofice and the English companies are
quarreling.
Our Government, in any arrangement
it might make with a responsible com
pany to run such a fleet of steamers,
would of course reserve the right tC
take control of them and use them fol
naval purposes the very moment we
should be involved in war. The best
naval authorities Of Europe concur il
saying that such ships would make idea
cruisers of the modern Alabama type,
and everybody admits that such cruisers
would be our main reliance for attack
should we ever be so unfortunate as t.
be involved in a war.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22

The reason Steler gets all the fine
watch and %jewelry work to repair is,
because be is a practical jeweler from
boyhood, and has in his employ a fine
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22

Go to j. Straus, for the famous improved
Centennial watch. which be sells cheaper
than can be bought in Eureka.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22

Sick headache cured by I'D DD"-st
Opron's.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22

New York, Dec. 21.-Judge Pratt,
of the Brooklyn Supreme Court, to-
day granted an order to show u
why a stay should not be granted to
McQuade, Doodle ex-Alderman, re-
turnable tomorrow.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22

W. Fl. Stowell. druggist and asssyer
No 3 Main street.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-22
Music LessOms

]. M. Navoni, professor OF music, has
to remain in Eureka tins winter
and will be pleased to confer with any de-
string instructions on the VIOLIN, piano
and guitar. Special attention paid 10 the
cultivation Of the voice. Leave orders ~
Cspron's drug store.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04
Plant Pecan Trees.

Gilbert Canderdonk, a successful pc
ran grower in Texas, gives the follow
ing advice to those who would engage
in the culture Of the pecan:
If you have a piece Of low, rich, aflu-
vial bottom land that is too low or too
exposed for oranges, it is good for a pc
can grove, just as good, and no better,
than a plot of well drained bottom that
is good for anything else. l think none
Of your land is very high, probably
none too high for pecans. If you are
willing to start pecan trees with the
understanding that if you live a dozen
years you may live to see a few nuts,
but not enough to amount to much, at
the end of twenty-five years from plant
ing you will be getting some little prac-
teal returns in nuts, besides the other
crop products of your land; thatin fifty
years from planting it will begin to be
q really profitable possession to the
owner, not only as a producer of yalua-
bic nuts, but still and always as a pas
ture; that in a hundred years from
planting, when you are sleeping the
long sleep of your fathers, your grove
will be the pride of the neighborhood,
the admiration of the soiourners, the
fortune of it's owner, and then, century
after century, it will continue to de-
light and bless mankind. j say if you
plant a pecan grove with this under
standing, you can hardly provide bet
ter possession for your posterity Or es-
tablish a more enduring monument tC
your enterprise.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04
Abbwille Meudioual.
Farm Life.

There is 10 life that will compare
with tarm-lile in independence OF liv-
ing and in the development OF mental,
moral, and physical powers. Farm
life furnishes man with more and better
opportunities for progress and improve
nlent than any other occupation.
From the farm come the mental,
and physical giants OF the world.
Some of our greatest and best men
were once boys brought up on the
farm. John Randolph of Roanoke was
a farmer, and Whers has he had an
equal in our country's history Danial
Webster was q farmer, and where is his
equal? Talmage, Beecher, and numer-
Gus others were once farmers, and
where are their equals? Young man,
the farm is the place for you. There is
something in farm-life that will elevate
YOU, and give you broader and deeper
views OF human life and human destiny.
Stick to the farm, there is 10 life that
will compare with it.
The true farmer is the only truly
happy man. His time is his own and
he is dependent upon nobody for a
living. Not SO with the man in the
town and city. He must be behind the
counter, at the desk, at the laW-othce.
It is business in the early morning and
business at the late hour of night, He
must count, pack, write, and labor, al
though his body is tired and his brain
weary. 1t is strange that SO many peo-
pie flock to the towns and cities to
live when the country affords such
great and glorious opportunities. Why
men should prefer the dust, smoke,
and crowded walls of a city to the pure
air and lovely sunshine of the country
is a mystery to me.
To the many young men who are
leaving the farm for the city, l think
the words of Mrs. Randolph to her son
John while he was a little fellow,
should prove Of advantage. Mrs. Ran
dolph while riding out one day over
the Roanoke plantations, took little
John up behind her, and when they
came in full sight of the many planta-
ton scenes, she raised her hand and
waved it over the broad acres, ex-
claimed, "Johny, all this land be-
longs to you and your brother Theo-
dore, it is your fathers inheritance.
When you get to be a man you must
not sell your land, it is the first step to
ruin for a boy to part with his fathers
home. Keep your land and your land
will keep you. 1t is said John Ran
dolph never forgot these words, and
they We're the making Of him. He
kept his fathers land, and his fathers
land kept him. From the farm he
went up to the national capital. Young
men, stick to the farm.
j. NJ. ETHRIDGE.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04

A turpentine farm must be seer to
be appreciated. When a farm is first
pitched the boxes are cut one to three
in Il pine, according to size. The trees
are counted in crops of SO many thou
sand, and this is called a virgin crop.
The queer little gauge called a buck is
then brought to bear and a streak is
cut above the box, which is simply a
deep oval notch, pointing downward
so as to lead the gum which exudes
into the box below. These boxes
are made to hold about a quart.
This first run is as clear as oil, and
is the finest of all After being
dipped out with a paddle, it is dis
titled, and the hard resin left is
sometimes as white and as clear as
glass. 1t is very beautiful, and
brings good price in the great
naval store markets. Second years
gum is not as good in quality, but
fully so in quantity. Third year
boxes, when the monthly hackings
have made the scar high up, are still
poorer, and from then on the crops
hardly pay for working.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04
Snnaav2i1apuue

Which may be taken separately from
the daily subscription service, Gfuu
and complete in all news departments,
with the aidel features of household,
fashion and society talk, and a feaet Of
choice original and selected literary
matter for home reading, The special
writibRsof "CATuARlNE COLE" HENRY
HAYN1x sparie correspondent. JENNIE
JUNE fashion writer), MoLLIE MOORE
DAVIS, and many others, appeaf in the
SunSa-issra
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04

A girl suffering from lockjaw was left
alone with a mouse by the shrewd ply
slctan, and she contrived to open her
mouth enough to give a yell that made
s-lle crockery in the china closet rattle.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04
What is Home without a Mother?

What is Home without a Mother?
And yet how many of us have
unhealthy mothers, wives. sisters and
daughters. If they would only use
Creole Female Sonic all the Ills to
which womankmd are heirs would
vanish like mist beneath a monday
sun. This inestimable remedy is an
infallible cure for weakness. nerv.
BUSINESS, monthly irregularities. pain
full menstruation and all female com.
plants. For sale by N. c Young,
Druggist. Abbeville, La.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04
uNyAu Send six cents Tor
postage, and receive
free "a costly box Of
which will

nelp you to more money right away
than anything else in this world. All
Of either sex, succeed from first hour.
The broad road to fortune opens be-
fore the workers. absolutely sure. At
ouce address, TRUE 4 Co., Augusta,
Maine.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04
WHAT IS IT?

BY a SPECIAL arrangement. wv a.
the publishers of Farm and F1faas
we can for a short time Oilers IT. /
gift in connection with our psPa.v
Is a I~AGNIFCENT FNGkAr
ING entitled "HAMlEI aas
OPHELIA." Our offer is as ~
lows:
The price Off eck'sS Sun one ye'
is Sc 90 :, 5.
The price of Farm g. Flres'o -
year is so add
The value Of the Engraving ~
ly $50 * m
We give all the above. 'vo, Y,
$500. for only $500. Snbscr'os :
Peck's Sun at once and secure W
all. Addrss. ~.
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04

An editor having read in another
paper that there is a tobacco, which
if a mar smoke OF chew it, twill make
him forget that he owes a dollar in the
world" innocently concludes that
many OF his subscribers have been
furnished with the article.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04
: : =: :: #; !; s: $: S: s;

O will get free a package OF
goods Of large value. that will start
YOU 10 work that will at once bring you
in money faster than anything else in
America. All aboa: 500. coo in pres
ents with each box. Agents wanted
everywhere, Of either sex. of all ages,
for all the time, or spare time oaly, to
work for MS at their own homes. For
tunes for all workers absolutely assured
Don't delay I'll. HALLHrr u Coz
Portland. Maine.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04

Two things never eaten for supper
breakfast and dinner,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04
Official DIRECTORY.

Official Directory.
District Judge.
CONRAD D%EBAll1o,.
District Attorney.
ROBERT c. saEDn
Clerk Of District Court,
LAsrlE B%RoussAsp.
Representative.
ROBERT. P. o'BRYA,,
Sheriff & Tax Collector,
JOSEPH S. Nusn,
DR.. W. D. WHlrr.
Police Jury.
Fl. HoFFpAu1R, President.
NJ. T.. ELDREDGE, il. BRouss,p,
RoBT. GREEN. I'd. MoRcm
H. Fl. BARTELs j. A. LEBl.M
Clerk Of Police Jury.
LYMAN c. Lyons.
Parish Treasurer,
ELIJAH WISE,
Town Council.
J. j. ABAD1E, Mayor.
R. Il. Mills, J. N. Braun
s. WISE, N. C. You,e
Constable.
GEORGE e. Lyons,
Justices Of the Peace, Sd. Ward,
l.. G. LYONS. G.. LABAup
Surveyors,
". W. EDWARDS, Il. Mosrles.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04

What makes the slums of London so
horrible? We answer with certainty,
and with the confidence of one who
knows-drink! We tell the nation with
conviction founded on experience that
there will be no remedy until you save
these outcasts from the temptation of
drink. Leave them drink and you
might buildthem palacesin vain. Leave
the drink, and before the year is ver
your palaces would be recking with
dirt and squalor, with infamy and
crime.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04

Sp6G1al TAte8 I'd CIuUS.
weekly, lists Of presents for club
rsisers, etc. address
NICHOLSON g. Co. Proprietore,
New Orleans. La.
The Abbcville MERrD1oNAL and
he New Orleans WEEKLY Plea
YuNE will be dubbed together for
50 a year, payable Invariably in ad-
yanca.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-12-04
observation-disclosures

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these valuaENe pregents xyiH
be sent to amy address.
TERN9 or SUBSCRIPTION.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-08-26
NEARLY BURIED ALIVE.
A Dominican Friar Tells of His Close Es
cape from a Horrible Fate.


Rev. Father Smith, of Brooklyn, a
member of the Dominican order, has
had two very peculiar trance expert
ences. They are thus narrated BY
him:
81 am suffering from a malady
which weakens me greatly. But never
did it cause me to enter into trance
before, except once in Italy. For sew
eral hours Twas believed dead, and it
was only when the chspelle ardente
was being prepared that | awoke. In
Brooklyn the trance began in the same
manner had been ailing for several
days. One evening when | was. lying
on my couch suddenly felt great
weakness creeping over me. | tried to
call for help. My mouth refused to
articulate any sound. A moment after
| had entered into a trance like the one
| had had in Italy. When my friends
came into my room they found me
pale and motionless. They felt my
heart, but its pulsations could not be
/ lCies anu tiCN SOiJcSeuiOu eh"' = AhNS'
have passed away during their absence
from my bedside. could hear them
walking about my couch, but was Sc
overcome with weakness thatl was un.
able to move finger. It's customary
In religious communities to bury one oi
their deceased members shortly aftel
his demise. In accordance with the
custom they wired the news of my
death to my family in Ottawa, and
charged one of my confessors to pre-
pare my funeral oration. When the
time came to place me IN my coffin
fully realized my horrible position.
tried to move, but the effort proved
fruitless. When in the coffin made ;
supreme effort and called upon Heav
en- to hear me and save me from sucf
a horrible fate. / succeeded in partl.
raising my head, and this is wha
saved me. The first to congratulate
me was the priest who had been sum
moned to preach my funeral sermon.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-08-26
FILLING TEETH.
A Noted German Dentist Coming to This
Country to show His Methods.

Noted German Dentist Coming to This
Country to show His Methods.
William Herbst, dentist of Bremen,
mas come to New York, by invitation,
to show his rotary method of filling
teeth, which he does without remuner-
alton in any form. The rotary method
is not new, but no one except Herbst
has ever succeeded with it. His only
instruments are a smooth-headed hand
instrument, and small, round agate
point, to be used in the foot drill. He
first lays the foundation for the filing,
and then puts in the gold, pressing it
down with the hand instrument, and
turning his hand as he presses to give
it the effect of the rotary motion.
When he has put in layer in this
manner, he puts the agate on it, and,
with the instrument rapidly revolving
in the machine, he Furnishes it down
until it adheres to the other founda-
ton. This method has in it three
points of advantage. 1t is quicker by
about four-fifths than the mallet pro-
cess, it is entirely painless, anditputs
in filling harder than it can be made
with the old method. 1t will, no
doubt, become the popular method
after the American dentists have had
time to learn it Besides this, Herbst
shows dentists how to make, for
twenty-five cents, a dismond-pointed
drill which ordinarily costs five or six
dollars.-Cor. st. LoRis Globe-Deno-
'crdt