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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13

Editor Jos. Pulitzer has sold bis
newspaper, the New York World,
to Mesars. Geo. w. Childs and
Anthony W. Drezel. for the sum Of
$3,5O0,O00
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13
Captain F. =. montgomery.


We take the following sketch Of
the life of this gallant soldier from
the OpeIonsas Clarion. The de.
ceased was related by marriage to
the Edwards family of this place.
He and Judge Edwards having mar.
ried sisters =
Captain E. j. Montgomery, the
largest and successful cotton planter
in this parish, died Of pneumonia at
his home 10 Bellevue, last Tuesday
aged So years. He was born in
Amite Mississippi, and came TO this
parish twenty-one years ago. He
was captain Of a company in q Mis-.
sissippi regiment, and served
through the war in Virginia, losing
a leg at the battle Of Gbancellors.
vile. After the war lie and Mr..
McNuIty, whose wife was his niece,
came to this parish and bought the
Hudson plantation in Bellevue.
They were partners. Owing to the
losses by the war, they began with
limited capital. Mr. McNnlty soon
died, and the partnership was con,
tinued with his widow. The acea-
mutation Of wealth by farming is
generally slow; bat success in this
case has been phenomenal. The
original plantation has been en-
larged on all its borders, until ii has
become a small spot of the whole
area; and all other property per.
tanning to the business has increased
in proportions The cotton crop this
year is about 500 bales. Captain
Montgomery has always been con.
sidered the great cotton planter of
st. Landry.
In January. 1876, he married Miss
Mary Hollingsworth. Two sons
were born, and one OF them and the
mother survive.
His great success in business was
to his sound judgment great
energy aud good management. He
was q good neighbor and a good
Rich men are generally
greedy and often hard-hearted. One
circumstance will illustrate
this side of Captain Montgomery's
much better than words
expressing merely an opinion. Capt.
Montgomery always made plenty OF
and had a surplus for sale.
Several years ago an individual, who
was on the most friendly terms with
him, applied to him to buy a wagon
load. He declined to him have it.
in words as well as can be reeoliect
ed, as follows: well, now, you
have money and can buy corn some.
where else; but | have a lot of neigh
bors who have no corn and no money
to buy any, I must supply them and
they will return the corn after the
crop is made" Such an act speaks
itself; it could have proceeded
from none but a kind heart. An
epigram expressing it would be a ct
inscription on bis tomb.-st Landry
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13

That excellent sporting paper the
Spirit Of the South, T.. A. Marshall,
Jr., Editor has changed it's form to
four columns to the page and looks
much handsomer. Published week.
" at New Orleans, only 50 per year,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13

|
The Mississippi river hss
up against the new Aosgaazs
and the contractors viii bsss
trouble in finishing i d line
The negro pastor ii III 6.
Church at Thibodaax vas Iosss
oed one morning IsaeIy uiIT,
face badly cut. There 81 1
to the crime.
A Lake Charles editor
s'0ted vitsa delicious satsa
on Nov. % BY Mrs. BAILEY.
toWn-a belated lazary, h. ~
the loss appreciated. ~
Capt. Vaughn has secured
tie steamboat sallie and pat 4,
tne DAroonne trade in place II IL
Tributary. which was rsssa,ly
atroyed By ERE.
A white man named jim b..
Waskilled at Roberts mil, ii M
toches parish, by w q ~
the foreman, Evans vas coasss
q dangerous man.
The mail steamer brings
Charles people, tri.weekIy Ii
dant supply of Wild ga,
ducks, oyster, crabs aaa afas
from Cameron parish.
The new steamer Henry "
lnilt at Patterson for liz
Lumber Company, Is construct
entirely Of cypress and i oas
the staanchest crafts aaoat.
Several large plantations
Fensas parish have been sab
into tracts Of thirty Of fotly ii
and sold TO small farmers. Ths
age price paid vas abOai
acre.
There is now IN course l
strnetinn at the Monroe SHOES
Vicksharg, Shreveport aid I
Railroad q new locomotive.
will be ready for service by Ja
i. 1891.
4 black bear weighing 400
was lately killed BY Mr. Fraak
Erwin. On B1sot NariDgoaia
Other bear was Killed near
measuring SIX feel from aos
tail.
One night last week / pat u
rnfHans visited the prenifs !
respectable negro family near
iberia, and after firing of rsFa
and terrifying them, stole IL
turkeys on the place.
Mr.. Joel Nattbes. Of Lssa
Rapides parish, made % 600
of sugar from FIVE acres,
$3.50, Or $3.50 per aere. WA
the sale Of a tract Of land Il
will, rear by, at s. per acre.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13

Our esteemed contemporary the
St. Landry Democrat has discarded
for the nonce its patent inside and is
a much better paper in consequence.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13

The sad killing of Jos. G. Gibbs,
district attorney for Calcasieu and
cameron parishes should be a warn.
Ing to all persons to handle FIRE arne
carefully,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13

Dillon and O'Brien, the Irish
agitators will visit New Orleans
shortly.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13

Last Thursday morning the safe of
Abe Meyer, a merchant Of Shreve-
port was burglarized and $4,000
carried of.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13
State News.

growing.
A handsome new fence is being
built around the bishops palace at
Natchitoches.
A pecan grower Of 81. James par.
lsh sold some choice nuts this season
at $45 per barrel.
A band of ggpsies 100 strong,
were at Ruston last week. They
move from town to town.
Hon. Andrew Prices Acadia
plantation is yielding nearly 5000
pounds of sugar to the acre.
Col. William Polk of Lamourie
suggests the building Of a central
sugar refinery at Alexandria.
The Edna Rice Mill Company,
with a capital Of so, 1000 has been
organized at Mermentan.
The sweet potato crop of Grant
has just been housed, and is very
large and of excellent quality.
The Natehitothes oil mill has
made over zoe barrels of oil, and its
orders keep up with the output.
The Baton Rouge Home for Or.
phan Girls has room for seventy
children, but there are only ten
inmates.
There are $4,000 ba9es Of cotton
stored in Shreveport, worth about
100000. waiting for better prices.
The Monroe cotton compress has
squeezed about $4,000 hales this sea.
son. It has shipped direct to the
mills.
The dry weather of November
was very favorable to sugar and
cotton planters throughout this
State.
The site for The Bossier parish
courthouse has been selected at New
Benton. The building will cost
SIS, 1000.
A party of hunters in Franklio
parish, killed three bears in a days
hunt. and and report game of that
kind plentiful.
Near HaYnesville last week a lit
tie colored boy climbed up on a
burning coal kiln, when il cayed in
and he was cremated.
At Farmerville, last week, Mr.
" P. Chandler had his hand SO
badly cut in the gin saws that it was
amputated at the wrist.
The Presbyterian College at OK.
ford. De Soto parish, will soon be
established. Il will be o frst class
institution for both sexes.
A rare and valuable opal is owned
By Mr.. George T. Mugnio of Amite
City. He found the gem in an In.
dian mound in St. Tammany parish.
The Catholic Church at Church
Point, in Acadia parish, was so
badly wrecked by q recent storm
that will be torn down and rebuilt.
In Carroll parish there is much
complaint of decay in the. sweet
potatoes. Il il a new disease. and
the farmers are trying to End d
remedy.
A Rapides parish sugar planter,
Mr.. Z. S. Ferris, sent TO New Or.
leans and procured q number of
German laborers to take off his cane
CROP.
Tie railroad bridge at Columbia
has been moved about 500 feet below
the frst location, and will DO push.
ed forward to completion at once.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-12-13
Saturday, December f3, 1890.

Late returns and the official count
show that the RAIDS have carried
Iowa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07
A Conrressman.s Trials.

Col. Wade, of Missouri, familiarly
known as Farmer Bill" Wade, congratu-
lates himself on the fact that he has
achieved o committee Craftsmanship be-
Cause he now has o clerk to attend to his
correspondence. The law contemplates
this clerk in the act of devoting himself
exclusively to the pressing business
Wade views him more frequently in the
net of attending to the congressional af-
fairs Of William Wade Of Missouri. This
relieves the colonel Of much Of the petty
drudgery of congressional work and leaves
him free to relate to his fellow members
the side splitting anecdotes for which he is
famous. Col. Wade never had q private
secretary or clerk before he was made
chairman Of the labor committee, except
on one occasion. when he employed q sub
stitute whose performance the colonel has
described in o fearful way to all of his col
LEAGUES.
This clerk was a man who lived in Col.
Wade's district for many years, and who
had almost a wider acquaintance there than
MIR. Wade. He volunteered his services for
certain hours in the evening to write let
ters. Col. Wade was about to absent him
self from the halls of legislation and from
the national capital, with q view
to transacting some private business.
The suggestion came to him oppor-
timely. He would go away, leaving
his correspondence in the hands of the ex-
Missourian. The x-Missourian would
with much adroitness write in the colonels
name non-committal answers to the letters
that were received and the colonel on his
return would follow up his assistants let
tiers with something appropriate, explain
ing the pressure of business which had oc-
casioned the hasty reply previously for
warded.
The situation was explained to the ex-
Mlssourian. He took it in smiling and as
serted a thorough comprehension of it. So
Col. Wade went away with O light heart.
1t was a day or two after his return before
he realized the wreck to which his political
hopes and prospects had well-nigh been
brought. Said the colonel, tearfully, X
planning the situation to a colleague after
ward:
That man wrotet to all the people in my
thing I did not want them to know. But
he did more than that. Instead of ad-
dressing my warm political friends in con-
c%iliatory phrase; instead of implying that
1 was the dust of the earth and that they
were he people, he fell on them
and smote them hip and thigh.
Reading between the lines Of his
letters these were about the ideas
that would appear to my correspondent
Look here, you d scoundrel. don't yor
know who [ am? I am Bill Wade, con,
gresham, and 1 own the XIIIth district
together with all the live stock, two-legget
or fo~ur-legged, in or about it!
1t took me the rest of my term to Sc
myself right with my people," continued
Col. Wade with o groan, and it is o won
der | ever got back to congress."-Ne,
York Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07

faithfully resemble cork, both in color
and texture, and it is upon this bilious,
sponge-like material that one is invited
to conduct ones frivolous correspond
ence. Certainly the newest stationery is
about as hideous and as stupid as any
thing w%herewith We have been afflicted,
and that IS saying a great deal; but the
worst Of it is that We are only Mt the be-
ginning of an epidemic of realistic note
paper. l have noticed that the introduce
ton of a new color or texture in station
cry invariably leads to a series, and thus
1 confidently await the appearance of sim
ulated toweling, with the address
stamped to initiate red marking-cotton.
Materials now to be used for dressy bon
nets are light velvet faille. stitched to
initiate quilting, cloth, and crepe dc
Chine, with lace, feathers, and tiligree
gold. A pretty capote was made of pink
velvet with white lace over, edged with
gold braid, and ornamental with aierettes
set in lace. A white capote was en-
broidered with pink and gold and had q
black aigrette. a pink faille quilted,
capote, with a crossway band of faille on
the brim and vieuX rose aigrette; black
velvet strings. A capote made of tileul
crepe de Chine, with silver embroidery
cream-colorea roses outside. and q fill
gree draSonf1y ~dlsportlng on them. An
other bonnet was open black passemen-
terie'over emerald green velvet, feathers
and aigrette %spr'nsing from a black peau
de sole bow. The capotes and toques
with strings continue small, but hats are
large, and of all imaginable shapes. The
hair is still worn dressed high for even
ing, making the head to look as small as
possible, and only an aigrette or small
tuft of flowers or ribbon toward the
front. But the incest thing in bonnets
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07
Personal and General.

PHILADELPHIA bon vivant has kept n
tubful of terrapin alive in his cellar all
winter, SO as to have them handy.
The Mexican government is encourag-
ing the cultivation of rubber trees. A COM
pany has recently planted 300, 900 in
Chiapas.
A,,METEoR that cast a shadow and ap-
peared as large as the full moon was seen
by Noblesville, Ind, people the other
evening.
A. S. C1oUGH, of Prescott, A. T., drives
n team of mules that are SO and So years
old. They are still good workers.
A BosToN woman has had her shroud
made at q cost OF 10000. This will GER
tainly be q case where o woman is wrapt
up in her wealth.
The British museum is so little in touch
with the multitude that popular illustrated
lectures are to be given on its treasures
in art and antiquity.
A MAN in Saratoga, N. Y, who fought
in the war without being regularly enlisted,
nov finds his name on the list of desert
ers. The congressman from his district
has introduced a bill to relieve him of the
stigma.
JOHN LUScE TALBOT, of North Mid
dletown, Ky, aged 116, is very i'll with the
prevailing disease, Ia grippe. Owing to
his extreme age his friends are very anxious
about him, but it is thought he will pull
through.
TIE bishop of Rochester, addressing
the students of the Royal Female School
Of Arts, in London, on the occasion of the
annual prize giving, remarked: Il IN struck
with the lovely taste displayed in your
hats, they are SO quiet and %ladylike." That
pleased the girls more than all the prizes.
The Essex institute, at Salem. Mass,
has received from Robert G. Winthrop, jr.,
two original deeds from Masconomet, saga
more, of Agawam, to John Winthrop, jr.,
of lands in Ipswich and Chebacco. The
instruments are in the handwriting of John
Winthrop, jr., and are dated June %, 1888.
Two lovers of a young woman in Bir-
mingham, Conn.,, got into q quarrel the
other day and ven to the railroad trestle
bridge over the Naugatuck river to settle
it. One hit the other a stunning blow
under the ear and then pushed him off the
bridge into the river. The victor barely
had time to step aside to let a freight train
go by.
A ST. LOUIS physician thinks it just as
important that the ears of railroad em-
ployes, and particularly that the ears of
locomotive engineers, should be scien-
tifically tested for natural or acquired de-
fects as that their eyes should be tested for
olor-bllndness. There is a trouble known
to medical men who practice largely among
railroad employees as whistle deafness.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07
"TAKEN IN.n

81 used often to read the newspaper aloud
to my wife" said Bert Robinson, "and once
| was fairly taken in by a patent medicine
advertisement. The seductive paragraph
began with a modest account of the sea-
serpent, but ended by setting forth the viz
tues of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry, which, it was alleged, was q sure cure
for all Bronchial, Throat and Lung troubles,
and would even cure Consumption, If taken
in time. The way 1 was taken in ives this:
| had lung disease, and l bought a bottle
took me in-and cured me.n Robinson's
experience is identical with that of thou
sands Of others. So true is this, that after
witnessing, for many. years, the marvellous
cures of Bronchial, Throat and Lung affec-
tions wrought by this wonderful remedy, it's
manufacturers feel warranted in selling it
as they are doing, through druggists, under
a positive guarantee that, if taken in time
and given a fair trial, it will relieve or cure
in every case. or money paid for it will be
refunded. No other remedy for such mala-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07
Put on the Brakes

II you find you ore going down hill in point Of
health Falling strength, impaired digestion,
and assimilation are the marks of decline.
Check these and other indications of premature
decay with the grand vitalizer and restraining
tonic, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Beginning
at the fountain head. the stomach, the Bitters
remedies its inetficiency, %corrects its errors, and
sets 1t vigorously at work. The digestive organ
is thus enabled to thoroughly separate from the
food its nutritive principles, which the blood as
slmilatlng, is enriched. Thus is the system
no9flsned, and being .nourished, strengthened
petlte, the power to rest we'll, u regular habit
are also re-established, and the various func-
tlohs move once more in their natural and
healthful groove. The Bitters, moreover. is a
speclt1c for and preventive of malarial com.
plants, rheumatism, biiousness, and kidney
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07
te the o ut

The harrow fringes to denote the ut
lines of the fronts.
The rage for high sleeves increases,
aud as these give a good effect to q thin,
Straight figure, folded bodices, with the
V'ea's or gathers set in at the shoulders,
arc exceedingly fashionable, and the
pam. close-htting bodice is left entirely
" 'Ae tailor, who just now is less in IA
WI. but my third sketch shows how the
ssgslAs Will probably transfer her tickle
ss,ot 10 close-titting gowns which show
"a 'Ie inquire, but combined with high
sloaldered sleeves. This toilet in the
"i.slAa! was made of mauve faille,
I'l!llaed with black astr,khan, and en-
aoiuefles and grelots of antique silver.
! mutf was silk, astrakhan and silver en-
s sv'u sas 10 correspond. A pretty bon
toFnea of mauve surah ribbons and
k st1es was surrounded by a border of sill
.o, SHioio!aery. Velvet sleeves nre gen.
f,Ir; '0t only where some of the same
ra.' y Is used in the skirt. Damasse
a~s 1or those woven in shawl pat
s S,lS Vt relief brocades are much used
NJ u pam cashmere, the sleeves always
Ea y i, iaAcy fabric, and generally q vest
9ns ISeA ana front plastron, and some
mis- ,s or a tablier in the skirt. The
sT WIZ ".i embroidery is being copied at
Eata MLeS' but the deep points in this
kba>r nave not yet become sufficiently
him. W De generally used. Some new
esvs1 'lisS OF the applique type have the
md . .n ana scrolls partly of silk, wool,
in ,'!se4' but the o~ld-fashioned trim
eyiysS ~ SIX cord and gimp which were
ks4 10, ~ ~ new designs during last season
BIZ ~ llHely to be developed just yet.
he nv May, NJ who have lamented
30 .Ea n,secnl'ty of the ordinary dress
arlr which In their natural state GER
nsiSa oi. .e every advantage to the enter
Eem = lhleil will doubtless rejoice to
AicH =, a new invention, by the use of
Epl !, .les can in future carry untold
Pat rrn.-I pockets of their skirts with
Fiege is 4iis any risk of being robbed.
F!essms nc patent on it. Some of u
(!leled are making them whenever
(ebblpy ne Ne eed by a strong piece of
e4eI ,, ), Mnich should be securely fas-
Fistpana 'Ie skirt OF the dress at the
Ping WI; inls pocket is arranged with q
hal bra-pein opens Immediately when q
70 one bn, p ~ is pressed by the hand.
Ne rort ~ the wearer can possibly open
nlsbe5H d. e.. n for further security It is
Fhicl. w al 'As end with a small chain,
pt awsy ehectnally prevent it's being
FITTED h!SoM the dress itself. An in
easel IN 'l'' would be caught like a
llg uova +1'efs anxious to find some
.anneI Vii, N the way of a gift will be
Gls, Tya ,!'n the latest fancy in lace
mile n 1es consist simply Of a fac
Fhe' for mso of the signature Of the
Seles lay; ron they axe purchased, the
previously had, of course,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07
is an amiable face.-Daisy Dart, IN CHI
caO0 Ledger.
Good %FOrgettery.

"Let me see, what's the date" said
old Bodkins, the shipping merchant, to
one of his clerks; "the sixteenth, isn't
it?"
Seventeenth, sir"
Dear me- pondered the employer,
Give lost q day somehow"
"Well, if it was last Sunday you
lost" said the innocent clerk, thought
fully" Think ! can tell you about 1t.
[ was taking q drive on the othef sue
of Harlem River, and as l was passing
Gabe Case'sI saw
"Ahem!" coughed the old gentle.
man; "I-er-here, take these letters
to the mail at once?" -.
And when the faithful clerk got ms
a SALARY c ssijsa On y to ths Syro ps sss'4 that at
n nlli is more useful in business than
y good memory, with a tirst-class for !.
gettery as a sort of back-stop' as IL
were. "
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07
dies is sold under such trying conditions; n
ordinary remedy could sustain itself ,,nxIs

dies is sold under such trying conditions; sss
ordinary remedy could sustain itself under,
such a plan Of sale.
For all chronic or lingering Coughs, Weak
Lungs, Splitting Of Blood, Bronchitis, Short,
ness Of Breath, Asthma, and kindred aiE-
ments, it is q most potent remedy. While IL
cures these diseases it also cleanses the blood,
%invigorates the liver, improves digestion, azsS
builds up both flesh and strength. Contains
no alcohol to inebriate, no sugar or syrup to
SOU or fer1nent in the stomach and inter
fere with digestion. 1t is a concentrated,
fluid, vegetable extract. Dose small ami
pleasant to taste. It stands alone in the field
Of medicine, and is as peculiar in its wosr-
derful curative effects as in its composition
Therefore, don't be fooled into taking some,
thing recommended as just as good.h Bear,
in mind, it's the only Liver, Blood and Lang
Remedy possessed Of such transcendeat
curative properties as to warrant it's manu-
facturers in selling it under a printed cer-
tificate of guarantee, which wraps every
bottle. WORLDS DIspENsARY MEDICAL
AssocIATIoN, Proprietors, 663 Main Street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07

THERE is more Catarrh in this section Of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For q great many years Doctors
pronounced it O local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be q constitutions
disease, md therefore requires constitutions
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure; manufactured
by +. J. Cheney G. Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. 1t is takel
internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoon
full. 1t acts directly upon the blood and mucus
surface of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send TO,
circulars and testimonials. Address +. j,
CHENEY 81 CO., Toledo, o. GJ- Sold by Drug
cists. 75c,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-07

THOMAS A. DEBLo1s, of Portland. saws
the Lewiston Journal, was one of the witty
Name lawyers of whom interesting stories
are told. At one time Judge Nicholas
Emery, who was particular sensitive to
Jokes at his own expense, had repeatedly
rebuked Deblols for alleged departure from
the rules of propriety. He being specially
pointed at one time the councillor retorted:
. L beg your honor's pardon. Your honor
IS right and 1 was wrong, as your honor
usually is"