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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-10

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-10

NAME.
lis Elk. Hon. H. a. Z. Garter,
:. IL. Allen,
}. A. Mckinley,
Lawrence Bond,
John McCraken,
James g. Swan,
Col. w. j. De Gress,
nastatio Oregon,
Robert James Barney,
David Thomas,
r. II. Beddy,
5ylvanus Crosby,
Henry E. Cooke,
Henry Tolke,
Conrad Hughes,
A. Marengo,
Abraham Hoffnung,
Sidney B. Francis Hoffnung,
Manley Hopkins,
Harold Janion,
Mark Whitwell,
w. Mora n,
E. Biess rfeldt,
w. s. Broad,
F. W. Prescott,
Hyam Goldberg,
E. G. Buchanan,
James Dunn,
J. G. Zoller,
r. j. Murphy,
g. B. Dawson,
w. A. Ross.
G. Elliot Anderson,
Dickson Anderson,
Col. Geo. A. Shaw,
J. D. Buell.,
A. Brown,
g. Richardson,
J. N. Pouliot, Q. c.,
A. 0. Crookshank,
E. F. Clements,
Il. P. Rithet,
Ernest o. Smith,
II. E. Stokes,
G. N. Oakley,
A. b. Webster,
Captain Hon. A. Coete,
Geo. Collins,
D. B. Cruickshank,
II. Driver,
Hon. j. Bell Irving,
j. j. Keswick,
II. Schott,
Alfred Houle,
A. Couve,
E. de Boissac,
@. Schaessler,
J. Il. Cognet
E. F. Weber,
j. f. Muller,
j. Kopp,
4. p. Russ,
III. Muller,
E. Minguez,
"a. Scham,
V. Chust,
F. T. De Navarro,
j. Paris,
l.. Falcon y Quevedo,
j. b. De Laguna,
B. Matthew y Battaller,
A. F. De Serpa,
n. L. M. Ferro,
j. Hutchinson,
e. Seeman,
10. Martins,
j. Clinton Hooker,
r. De Luchi,
L. Colombo,
A. Tagliavia,
j. D. van der Made, P. R. z.
Victor Forge,
E. Coppieters,
J. Blanpain,
E. Vanden Brande,
Fl. A. Burger,
L. Samson,
III. Bergstrom,
lG. Kraak,
". Won Sch0nberger,
y. Holmblad,
His Excellenoy r. w. Irwin
IS. Endicott,
ID. Fl. Schmiill,
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-07-10

The Thousand islands have been
counted again. They number 1000.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
Report of Committee.
VERM1L1oN PARISH. La, May 6, 1889.

VRRM1LIoN PARISH. La, May G, 1889.
We, the undersigned committee
appointed by you at called meet.
ing held on May 4, 1889, to ascertain
if there can be money raised sufi.
cieht to purchase or build first.
class cotton gin, beg leave to submit
the Following report that we met, on
the above date, and accepted from
Bazile Broussard a certain tract of
land situated On the west bank of
Vermilion bayou, between the public
road and said bayou, containing four
acres, more Or less. Said donation
is made to and accepted by said
Farmers Union for the purpose of
building thereon parish cotton gin
for the Farmers Union Of Vermilion
parish; said committee thought this
the most central point, consequently
the most convenient to the greatest
number; said gin to be built with
shares issued by the Parish Farmers
Union, said shares to be four hun.
dred in number, at a value of ten
dollars per share, making joint
stock Of four thousand dollars, and
said amount Of stock to be increased,
if need, by increasing the number of
shares: Limited stock to be owned
by any one person or member to
fifty shares; and further, we also
request that the secretary of the
Parish Union send a duplicate copy
Of this report to the secretary of
each sub-union in this parish request
ing their members to take shares
and sign their name with number of
shares each will take, said shares to
bo paid for as follows: One half
on the Let day of August, 1889, and
the balance on the lst day Of Noyem.
ber. 1889.
Hoping this will meet with your
we respectfully submit.
(Signed)
BAZTLE BROUssARD, Chairman;
Nc BRoUssARD, JOSEPH MILLS,
NJ. Y. LAMpMAN, FELIX HoLL1ER.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
An Unsrncious Manner.

The possessor OF an ungracious
manner will never come up to the
standard of a true gentleman or
gentlewoman, although possibly we'll
born and we'll educated. The sensa.
tion Of insecurity and of being on
the lookout for some illjudged speech
dissipates that safe and calm atmos.
phere which surrounds the truly
refined. There is always a nervous
dread Of what may come next, and
feeling Of constraiut is generated.
Persons who are much in the society
Of the ungracious foster insensibly
a guarded catefulnese as to topics
likely to call forth a show Of ungra,
ciousness, and a cautious manner of
feeling their way on a subject, so to
speak, very trying to those having
to practice it. Yet; with every care
taken, the failing will appear, and
almost always when least expected,
and on occasions seemingly the least
called for tn. Y. Ledger.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18

Everything does not move off so
lovely in public affairs in the Great
West. Extravaganza gets a fair
serving once in a while as is shown
by the following extract from q
Kansas paper
George Theis, Jr., returned from
Lamar and Las Animas Sunday and
reports everything dull out there.
he says Clark county has a better
courthouse for 100000 than the one
at Las Animas which cost $4,000
and is nicer, more durable and
roomy. He says they paid $500
for a corner stone on which the
word commissioner was spelled with
one "m." This is not such a bad
comparison for Clark county.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18

Rev. ". A. Cuddy, chaplain Of
the Arkansas legislature, has turned
into the conscience fund" the money
paid him for praying for that body
during its session. He probably
thinks that. as his prayers aid not do
the Legislature any good, he is not
entitled to be paid for them.-N. o.
News.
Hope this will quicken the con.
sciences Of the two praying members
of the legislature from North Louis
lana, and cause them to disgorge the
money they drew for praying at fifty
dollars prayer.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
Tie scEat Df fBlooilh~unds:

Some people doubt the possibility
Of dogs tracking a criminal through
the streets and lanes and busy thor
oughfares of a great city. They
speak of cross.scents; but in doing
so they speak of what they do not
understand so we'll as the blood.
hound does. Hc has got the right
scent at the right place, and if he is
the right sort of a dog he will stick
to that and no other. Besides, it
has been done over and over again.
Whether to the bloodhound nose
every human being has different
scent I know not, but it really seems
so, else how can the animal follow
his man so directly, and single him
out among even a crowd of others
at pubic-house bar or in the BOSOM
of his unhappy family ?-Chambers'
Journal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18

Entered at the Post Office, Abbeville, La.
as second class matter.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
The Lafayette Troubles.

Sheriff I. A. Broussard and DR..
N. D. Young, of Lafayette, are on
a visit to our city. They are indig
uant at the ISLANDERS that have been
put upon their people by some news
paper correspondents. The whole
trouble originated in the contest
over the town marshalship between
Vignaux and Olivier, the former an
alleged Republican and the latter a
Democratic candidate.
Olivier, anticipating trouble, in.
vited some o. his relatives and
friends from St. Martin to come over
and help him. They came in large
numbers, but came armed. How.
ever, they committed no excesses
and were obedient to orders. Instead
of there being reign of terror, the
streets were more than usually
thronged with women and children,
and with the merchants it was gala
day, the stores doing more business
than any day for long time before.
The saloons only were closed on
account of it being election day.
The Regulators reported to the
sheriff, and when told their services
were not wanted they went quietly
away. The sheriff had no trouble
in arresting dozen of the ringlead.
ers, who gave bonds to appear when
wanted. No further trouble is an.
ticipated, as the election has been
indefinitely postponed and the gov.
ernor will be called upon to fill the
office by appointment. Attorney
General Walter FL. Rogers has re.
turned here and will submit his
report to the governor to-day.-N.
0. Picayune, 10th.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
tits written of Voltaire that whe

tits written Of Voltaire that when,
in his painful effort to learn English,
he discovered that the letters a-g u.e
spelled "ague," a word of two sylla.
bles, but if you increased the length
by adding two more letters, and so
got p-l.a que, the word became one
syllable and was pronounced "pIag,'
he threw the book across the room
and fairly danced in rage.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
"Rlessed is the man who sittetb

"Rlessed is the man who sittetb
not in the seat of the kicker nor min.
giles himself in the congregation OF
the mossbacks, but his delight is in
new railroads and brick blocks, and
in schemes to build up himself and
town. And he shall be like an
evergreen tree planted by the rivers
Of waters, his leaf shall not wither
in the early fall, like the cotton
wood. for the Eli Of boomers shall
get there, but the kicker shall be
left to hold the bag. Matched Dem.
Ocrat.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
ADVERTISING RATE

Transient advertisements, $l.GO per
;,ch Grst insertion. Each subsequent IL
scrtion, so cents per inch. .
Announcing candidates for Office; $1,000
nadvoncc. Ward offices, $500 in advance.
Death and marriage notices. when not
over six lines, pr blishcd free. Obituaries:
resolutions of respect, etc. will be charged
for at regular advertising rates. =
Articles of q personal nature, when adj
,nissiblc, will be charged double price.
No notice taken Of anonymous commr-
uications. In all cases we requirg the
writer's name and address. not necessarily
,or publications, but as q guarantee OF
good faith. We will undertake tp preserve
or return rejected manuscript. LIN no way
will we be responsible for the views and
opinions of our correspondents.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
Special Notice !!


ALL PERSONS indebted to the
undersigned are respectfully request
ed to liquidate their accounts on or
before the FIRST DAY Of January.
1889. All accounts remaining un-
paid after that date will be handed
over to the MAGISTRATE and
proceedings Immediately instituted.
Bear in mind that this is earnestly
a business principle and will be
strictly adhered to without any
exception whatever.
Very respectfully.
N. c. YOUNG.
Abbeville, La. Oct. 20, 1888.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18

In the German navy are two YES.
sells that have made the extraordin-
ary speed of twenty.nine miles an
hour. One is a dispatch boat, the
Pfei|; the other is torpedo boat
chaser, called the Saeger. Other
vessels Of the type Of the Saeger are
to be built. The German torpedo
boats are now the hest of their kind.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
RICHLY those msT"rstfi WI" reat aiisanS arf

then act; they will find honorable EN-.
pleyment that will not take them from
their homes and families. The profits are
large and sure for every Industrious per-
son, many have made and are now making
several hundred dollars a month. It is
easy for any one to make S. and upwards
per day, who is willing to work. Either
sex. young or old; capital not needed; we
start you. Everything new. No special
we'll as any one. Write to us at once for
full particulars, which we mail free. Ad-
dress Stinsou n Co.. rtland. Maine.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18

The Courier Journal facetious'y
announces that "the King of Samoa
is discontentcd, not because his sa'a.
ry is only $50 month. but because
he has to take part Of it il cocoa
nuts"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1889-05-18
f. r. FEKAY. d. w. WALL.
FERAY e. WALL.
DEALERS IN
''ough and Dressed, Pine
AND CYPRESS
LU VI B e II!
Sawed and Split Shingles.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS,

Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings, Cis.
teIns, Balnsters, Ornamental Pickets.
In connection with the above we will
soon have established carpenters shop
to do all kinds of wood work.
Give us a call and be convinced that
you will get the best bargain.
ABBEVILLE, LA.
April 80, 1ss7.-ly.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-30
DIAGRAM OF THE CHAIR.

rubber, made around a small metal
piece in the center. 1t will look some
what as if made by taking a rubber
foot ball, and with metal cap at the
hole for center. cutting off the end of
the ball into sort of hood. The cap
will fit over almost the whole of the
head. from the base of the brain to we'll
toward the forehead. Inside of it, in
the center about the metal piece, will
be spiral arrangement of copper wire,
about five inches in diameter, and made
to fit down over the part of the head
that it will cover. The wires, just be-
fore tine cap is placed on the prisoners
head, will be covered with sponge,
saturated with salt water.
While these arrangements are being
put On the prisoner will be sitting on a
chair in his ceh. This chair, not differ
ing apparently from an ordinary one,
but which is being made especially for
wires leading into another room, and
the sprisoner sitting in the chair will,
without knowing it, be subjected to a
current of electricity too light to be felt,
but heavy enough to give an expert
electrician in the other room an exact
measurement, by the use of what is
known as the ssWhetstone bridge" of
electrical resistance of the man. This
Willitake only an instant, and will be
done before the officers have the priS-
0ner ready to leave the cell.
From the cell the procession will be
much as now to the execution room,
where the deputies and other persons
permitted by law to witness the execu-
ton, will be waiting.
Near the center of the room, raised
upon a small platform about eight inches
above the floor will be the chair. made
somewhat like a large reclining chair.
The long straight frame that forms
the slanting back will be of hard
wood pieces, three inches square, and
will be long enough so that if a seven
foot man should lie in the chair his lead
would rest upon the back. The seat and
arms will be of plain wood and without
any peculiaritieS. The upper part of
the back frame on each side will be fit
ted with slot, in which will slide back
and forth small arrangement with a
ring at the top and thImb-screw be-
meath. The rings are to receive the
hooks in the back of the belt about the
mans body, and the screws are 10 fasten
the arrangement in place at the spot
where the rings will meet the hooks,
which will vary according to- the height
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-30

OF the prisoner. In front OF the chair
will be fO0t-rest, something like those
in a barber shop except that the top
portion, instead of being fixed, will be
balanced upon e. pivot to permitit to
dip front or back so that the feet Willie
firmly upon 1t. This whole foot-rest4
will be arranged to slide backward and
forward, and to be secured with screw
at the point where the feet will rest
upon it.
From the ceiling over the back of the
chair and over the foot-rest will dangle
two flexible wires like those from which
small electric lights swing. On the
wall at one side will be small round
dial attached to a brass instrument. A
hand upon the dial will indicate the in
tensity of the current that will pass
over the wires. Near it on the wall
will be small d0ubla-pole switch,
brass instrument similar to the familiar
switches used to shut Off or let OH the
current wherever electricity is used,
but designed especially to show at a
glance whether the current Is Off or on,
in order to prevent accidents which
carelesSness in handling the apparatus
might bring about. This will be all of
the apparatus apparent in the room.
The prisoner, Immediately upon en-
tering the room, will be led to the chair,
and in moment will be pushed back
into it, the hooks in the belt about his
body slipped into the rings in the chair,
and there fastened in place by the turn
of the screws. At the same moment his
| feet will be raised, the foot-rest slipped
under them and fastened by turn OF
the screw, and strap on top of the rest
| will be buckled tightly over his ankles.
In another moment the two dangling
wires will be fastened one to the metal
at the center of the back of the cap and
the other to the metal connection on the
heel of each shoe. A black cloth will
be pulled over the face of the prisoner,
the officers will stand well back from
the chair, and at a signal the execu-
TONER at the switch will turn on the
current, the volume of which has pre-
viously been adjusted to suit the resist
ance of the prisoner, as shown by the
test in the cell.
Only the experience of Joseph Kemm-
Ter can certainly tell what will happen
then, but if the confidence of those in
charge, or the efficiency of the appar-
atuS is we'll founded, on the instant that
the switch is touched there will be a
little stiffening of the prisoners body, a
little quivering of the limbs, life will
futter for bare instant, like the needle
that will be dancing upon the dial on
the wall, and then it will all be over.
There will be no pain, no CONFUSION,
scarcely a movement to mark the pass
age from life to death, but the victim
will be hopelessly and Enthusiastically
dead.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-30
GOT MAD.

Could Not Endure Seeing SWIM
ming Professor Push a Pretty
Girl. @
New York Sun.
A German keeps a swimming school
for ladies in the upper part Of this city
and enjoys the patronage of some of the
most elegant, as well as the loyeliest
girls in New York. He teaches these
fair creatures to swim by suspending
them in belt at the end of swimming
pole, and making them count the move
menrs of the arms and Inns. After this
sort of treatment he sends them afloat
with life-presprver, and later on starts
them off without any support. After
they can swim fairly well he teaches
them to dive from board which
projects over the bank. Being quick
tempered man, this German gets very
angry at an especially timid girl who re-
fuses to obey him. The professor was
trying to teach beautiful young lady
to dive, but she could not get up cour-
age enough to shoot forward when he
gave the word, and, after long time of
trembling and objection. the teacher
began to lose his temper. There the
SlIl SGOOu DIT UliC CIu VI lllC OOdlus WlUl
her pink arms raised above her head,
her shapely feet pressed together and
her little skirts bobbing coquettishly.
She made sweet picture. but every
time the teacher shouted "Gow
she would say, in a fright
eped voice, "Oh, I can't" FL
nalIy the German could not con-
troll himself, and, walking up behind
the girl. he pushed her headlong
into the tank. There was cry. fash
of feet. loud splash, and general
churning of the tank. No sooner had
this happened than big, broad-shoul-
dered girl. who had been standing near
by, came bounding toward the profess
sor. She raised her list and struck him
a scientific clip on the side of the head,
sprawling him off the board into the
water. When he had recovered himself
and got out of the water, heloeked
aghast at the girl who had struck him.
"You hussy," he cried, what for you
hat struck me?"
.'For luck" came the answer in good
masculine tones. I've Kept mighty
quiet in your school for two weeks, but
when you pushed that girl round like a
bag of meal 1 had to declare myself.
I'm man."
That is the story exactly as it is being
told at the New York Athletic club, and
it is entertaining whether true or not.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-30
THE HEADGEAR OF ROYALTY.

A Partisan Modiste Recounts the
Fancies of Her Titled Customers.
Pail Mall Gazette Paris Letter.
number great many royal ladies
among my customers. For instance, !
have furnished for years past the hats
and bonnets worn by the princesses of
the Orleans family. The Comtesse de
Paris dresses in severe and simple
style, and always wears round hats
never bonnets. Her hats are small and
of special variety of the toque
shape, which is prepared purposely
for her. Dark brown and black are her
favorite coIors. Her married daughter,
the Duchesse de Braganza, shares her
mothers simplicity of taste. The
Duchesse de Chartres, the sister-1n-law
of the Comtesse de Paris, is one of the
most elegant royal ladies in Europe.
She is famed for her graceful carriage,
and it has been said of her that to see
her sit down was in itself lesson in
grace. Her usual style of headgear
is the capote bonnet in black and
gold or cream-white or red. all of
which colors or combination of cOlorS
are very becoming to her. Her daugh-
ter, the Princess Waldemar of Den
HdIks pI0iCIo ooylO VI HOoeSOoA
which is gotten mp especially for her.
1t is of the toque shape in front, curv-
ing down at the back in something of
the capote form. She likes straight
high trimmings set in front of the
crown, never wears strings. and par
ticularly dislikes hanging ends, wheth-
er of ribbon or lace. AS she has a
fresh, fair complexion she delights in
delicate shades of pale blue or silver
gray.
Tina Empress of Russia has been for
some years past one of my customers.
Like her sister, the Princess of Wales.
she never wears high crowned or large
brimmed hats, which, indeed. would be
unsuited to the delicate type of her
beauty. Everything must be small and
neat and compact, whether hat or
bonnet. Her fav0rite cOlOrS are pale
blue and mauve, and several of the new
shades of green, such as Nile-reed and
varnish green, which last is the newest
color as yet produced this season.
Her Sister-in-law. the Grand Duchess
Vladimir, who was princess of the
Ducal house of Mecklenburg- Schwerin,
is one of the royal leaders Of European
fashion, being extremely stylish in
manner and possessing infinite taste in
dress.
l have Just carried out her idea of
her own, which was to combine in
touue a crown in real Seal-skin with
trimming of white silk gauze. This
union of fur and gauze, of dark-brown
and white, was daring and novel, and
perfectly successful. She delights IN
wearing flowers. her favOrities being
chrysanthemums and vioietS.
The wife of her second brother.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-30
'9a) Hello, old man, did you send your
governor the cooked up expense account

'92EHeIlo, old man, did you send your
governor the cooked up expense account
l fixed up for you9
Biddle B. Biddle (of Philadelphia,
Harvard '9S, d0lefully)-Yes, and here's
his reply: 4.es
"My Dear Sir: Your request for 5000
more and the balance sheet, showing
what you did with the last 5000, re-
ceived. I find that, outside Of few
dollars spent for. washing, you have
given the entire amount away to orphan
asylums and similar institutions, thus
showing that your own running ex-
penses are extremely light, as I sup
posed they would be. Your generosity
is extremely creditable, but there are so
many orphan asylums in this section
needing aid that prefer to give my
money to them, rather. than to institu-
tiOns whose officers are unknown to me.
l inclose S., which will pay your wash
ing for month.
YOUR AFT. FATHER.