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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
Has John A. Morris Ope2

When the genial, energetic, generous
and public spirited Charlie Howard
was endeavoring to persuade the black
and tan Legislature of 1869 to assist the
cause of charity and education by
chartering his lottery company he had
a little book in which he carefully kept
the receipts of those legislators who re-
quired a monetary consideration in Or
der to be able to perceive the point Of
the lottery's arguments. This he call
ed his "S-B-Book, and he afterward
referred in these affectionate terms to
the persons whose autographs graced
its pages. Has John A. Morris one 2
Can the Times-D Democrat, the Daily
States, the City Item, all of whom
never tire in chanting his praises, tell
MS Or can the all wise man Of the
New Delta furnish us an answer7
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
Dosing Seed With His Own
Medicine.

The Boston Herald calls the at
tention TO the fact that Dictator
Reed is famous as a quorum breaker
and that the Democrats have only
been giving him his own medicine.
Says the Herald: In the outburst
of indignation which has core from
the Republican press because Of the
Democrats in refusing to vote upon
the contested Virginia election case
last week. it is only fair to remem
Der that the Republicans did the
same thing in a previous Congress.
They prevented a vote being taken
for six months on the case of FELTON,
whose seat was contested from Cali
@fornia, and Thomas B. Reed led
them in so doing. They gloried
then in thus obstructing the vote,
and tainted the Democrats with the
lack of a quorum which the Republi-
can refusal to participate occasion.
ed" This is a case in which the
hair of the dog was the proper rem
edy for his bite.-Picayune.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
A Grand Character.

Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsyl.
vania, one of the greatest of the
statesmen, if there are any in the
United States in the present genera.
ton, died on the 18th of last April.
Letters of administration on his es.
tate were granted to his wife a few
ago. and his total effects were val.
ued at not over $4,000.
Mr. Randall held a seat in Con.
gress for nearly thirty years consec.
utively, showing the great conf.
dence and affection Of the people he
SO ably represented. During a por.
ton of that time Congressman had
extraordinary opportunities to be-
come rich, and not q few Of them
embraced the opportunities and be.
came millionaires.
Well, Mr.. Randall lived and died
poor. He lived and died with clean
hands, and with a character that has
deied detraction. There is some.
thing truly grand in this record of
the life-work of such a man, a life
spent in the public service.-N. O..
Picayune.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
Another Lie Nailed!

The Lottery press have been strenu-
ously attempting to create the impress
sion in the popular mind that the Anti
Lottery League of this State entered
into ian unholy alliance" with the
Republican negroes. In an able edi-
torial on this subject the New Delta
says
Most Of these attacks have been by
inuendo and insinuation. To make a
direct and positive statement has been
too much for the mendacity of all of
them, save the Daily States. In that
paper Of yesterday we find the follow
ing
"During the virtually joint conven-
ton of the Farmers Alliance and the
Anti Lottery League in Baton Rouge,
an official message of Congratulation
was sent from that body to the negro
convention at Alexandria, opening the
arms Of the ants to their colored Re-
publican brethren"
This is a deliberate and Willful and
slanderous falsehood. 1t is a falsehood,
because no such message ever was sent
by the Anti Lottery Convention or any
of its officers, committees, or members;
because their was nothing in any
speech, motion, vote, resolution or
other proceedings of that convention
that even remotely touched such a SUBJ
iect. tt is slanderous because it was
intended to injure the political reputa-
ton of those engaged in fighting the
Louisiana State Lottery. It is willful
and deliberate because that paper had
a reporter present who was a witness
to all the proceedings of that couven-
ton. and because the truth was known
to the States when it published this
falsehood.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

The South Carolina Republicans last
week held a State Convention and
nominated a full ticket for State officers
and every man on it was a Bourbon
Democrat. A.. G. Haskell is the nomi-
9 for Governor against Ben Tillman
the Farmers Alliance candidate. Has
kea has not accepted the nomination,
but he is out in a pronunciamento in
which he declares he a not and will
not support or vote for TiHman.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

Tho Republican Congressional com
mittee for the Third District, which
met a Morgan City last Saturday,
decided that it would be unadvisable
to nominate a Republican candidate,
hence Mr.. Price will in all probabil.
ity have the field 10 himself. The
committee decided TO issue an ad.
dress to the Republican voters Of the
district explaining the raison d'stre
of its action. A similar conclusion
has been reached by the Republican
organization in the Sixth District,
and Mr.. Robertson, the Democratic
nominee, il also likely to be without
a competitor Chief.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
The Times Engine Smashed.

Last Tuesday night, about 9
o'clock, the engine used to run the
press of the Alexandria Daily Times
was badly broken. A bolt slipping
out Of the pitman was the cause Of
the smash.up. No one was hurt.
sneh an accident might happen to
any engine and the engineer in
charge is not 70 be blamed. MI.
I. N. Miles, the Manager, procured
40 engine belonging I'd the Marsh
Brothers had i T'ut up, and got it
in running order il time to get of
the edition on Wednesday morning.
Town Talk.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

The New Orleans States is a Wig
orous journal. It's opinions are us
ed very much like an Irishman's shil
lelah at a D~onnybrook fair--with
but little regard for the opinions
and feelings of others. We have
generally admired its warm advoca.
cy Of democracy and white supre.
macy and this in our eyes has often
atoned for the venom which SO
often tinclures its articles.
The Lottery question is a very
sore point with the States and when
closely cornered or out gener,
aled in the fight it invariably res
orts to the Chinese mode of warfare
to cover its retreat. The article
from the New Delta a'propos the
Republican--Anti Lottery alliance
was the carmine hued fragment
which awoke the ire of the slumber.
ing lion. "And oh how he roared II
Camp followers, creatures, SANDER
ers, liars, defamers, blackguards,
vermin and dirty insects are a few
Of the choice explosives hurled with
diabolical hate at the head Of G..
81. Parker and John G. Wick
life. 1t is enough to make a horse
quit his oats to laugh at such
a spectacle Of impotent ragel
The idea of such epithets being
applicable to these gentlemen is
absurd beyond compare. They may
have their foibles, as all men are
human ; bnt Of one thing We are
positive: and that is they have never
been guilty Of refusing satisfaction
to any man whom they had offended
nor Of taking q cowardly advantage
of q harmless defenceless old man
whom every body knows would not
ii~ght.even a duel.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

We areF pleased to learn that the
Farmers Alliance has made ar.
engagements with English capitalists
by which they can mortgage 1000,
Que bales Of cotton for $32 per bale
and store the cotton for one year by
paying 4 per cent interest on the
money SO advanced. This is much
to be preferred to the sub.treasury,
warehouse scheme, as it is a bust
ness transaction between private
parties and free from all political
complications. Our short-sighted
millionaires turned a bird loose
when they refused to avail them.
selves of this proposition Of the Al
They could have sold their
government bonds at over twenty
per cent premium and have invested
the money with equally good securi-
ty and at the same rate Of interest.
They seem to know no other way Of
inanciering than that of fleeing their
citizens under the protection
IF the McKiley Bill and similar acts
Of class legislation.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

Scribner's Magazine for October
contains articles of life and adven.
ture in unusual places and circum.
stances, as on a cable ship; in the
Maine lake region, and on board the
white Squadhrn" IN port; others
about interesting natural phenomena,
like Professor Shaler's second paper,
and the description Of destructive
sand.Wayes; articles of great prac.
teal value, like Mrs. sylvanus
paper on private schools for
girls, and John W. Roots on West.
ern city architecture; good fiction
and poetry, and many rich illustra.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

The lottery's great constitutional
lawyers have suddenly discovered that
Congress a not enact claws that i'm
pair the obligation of a contract and
hence that the anti-lottery postal bill
IS unconstitutional because it ~interferes
with the business of the Louisiana
State Lottery Company, by depriving
1t of the use Of the mails. It is we'll to
remember that when this chartered
pirate was granted letters of marque by
the black and tan legislature Of 1869 it
was not to plumber the people Of sister
states. 1t was the intention, and so
declared, to foster home industry by
allowing the people of this State to be
lawfully robbed By none other than the
louisiana State Lottery Company. No
where does the bill authorize it to ope-
rate in ether States, and if it did. a
business that is denounced as q vice
ana a crime can not be held as coming
Within the scope of the article of the
constitution prohibiting the impair
nent Of obligations.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Parish Of VermiliOa
Twenty.dfth Judicial District
No.
fltarlaa DunuVs
Charles DnpuyI

Widow and heirs Of Nose ssIs
To Adelaide Bronssard, Efizal7s
Arena Guidry, wife OF Levi
her husband. Azelie GuidTy Ap@ NJ
band VIM. Cheate, Alice GuillS
husband Sam Choate. Alphee 49,
Tutor to the minors Mareelie asS
Guidry and Oliver HebeTt q ~
of Vermilion and Analse GniaIg
husband Benjamen BFoAssata
parish Of Acadia.
You and each Of you are heTe9
that nIsintiff in the above ensfs
numbered a 8 has filed q pellsoa &
above entitled and nnmberea s1ss
inc for the revival, reinstats4s
establishment Of the evidence eA a
in and to the hereinafter desettss
tvs by yirtue of an act OF sag
fore Leo Ferret, Esq. Reeorqeli n
ish of Vermilion on the 29bn ~ Tsn
1873, for the consideration Y
dred dollars, to wit: s;fa8
One certain tTsct OF 49, s6d
Cheniere au Tigre in sald pal baa
ing thirty two superficial sslsS
North by Hyppolitte Bro9sni;ao
the Gulf of Mexico East Pr ,ers.
sard and West by Raphael ~
You are further notified shAs r
has been fixed for trial. ID W. ~
at the courthouse of sald pasls Wsx
day the nth day of NoVeA1s
which time and place you Iiey
fle vonr answer if you think
WHITE 81 BROUss
Attys. fc3 RA
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

Editor Todd of the Bastrop Clarion,
and Editor Shell of the Chicot lark.
Press are having a little set-to over the
labor question, and contract-jumping
among the negroes on the Louisiana
and Arkansas border. Of course the
people of Louisiana have a grievance in
this matter and a serious one, but we
do not believe the people of Arkansas
and Chicot country in particular are as
black as they are painted. Shell liter
ally fayed Todd alive a few weeks ago
when replying to his structures, and
now Todd retorts by calling Shell a
negro, a backyard, a dirty cur, a
semling-headed jackass and several
other elegant phrases, which certainly
indicate a very uncharitable frame of
mind and a fragrant disregard of the
amenities of journalism. We do not
happen to know Editor Shell either,
but if he is true to the soil and tradi-
tons of Old Rackensack, he will beard
the Bastrop lion in his den.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

Mr.. F. N. Welsh, of Iberia par
ish, has returned from the Iowa
State Fair at Des Moines, where
he had a fine exhibit of sugar cane
cotton, rice, corn, potatoes, pears,
oranges, moss and cotton.seed oil
cake. He says he gave Information
about Louisiana to at least 100000
Northwestern people. He will make
a similar exhibit at the Sioux City
Corn Palace
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
The BnaalI Game Growers
Chance

An old adage has it otis an Ill
wind that blows no one good" and
this saying iads application in the
present instance 10 regard to the
Tariff Bill. For while this bill will
no doubt work some hardship to the
sugar planters and especially for the
present season, the small farmer
who COWS only a few acres of cane
which be makes up on his little mill
with the labor Of his own family, is
more than probably benefited by
the bounty feature of the bill. We
advise our friends who have been
raising small lots of cane to grind
up on the shares for their own sup
ply to plant a little larger patch
next year and endeavor to reap the
benefit conferred the bounty. The
least amount that comes within the
purview Of the proposed law is 500
pounds. This amount, and larger
amounts up to 5000 or 10000
pounds, can readily be made by
hundreds Of farmers in Southern
Louisiana, with the little cane
crop they have now in hand.
Five acres Of moderately good cane
will produce 100 tons Of cane, and
any horse mill well worked can
secure sufficient juice from one ton
to make about 100 pounds Of sugar
as well as the usual molasses, say
another 100 pounds. The farmer
who has FIVE acres of cane and pro
duces 100 tons OF cane can thus
make 10000 pounds of sugar, and
receive from the government 5000
bounty thereon, and this bounty Of
5000 will pay the entire cost of the
necessary sugar house. The little
cane mill, such az is made by the
Chattanooga Plow Company, and Of
which thousands have been sold
throughout the Southern states, and
the Cook evaporation, form an AIDE.
outfit. In Northern Louisiana.
these little patches of cane have been
usually made into syrup for local
sale, and it has been considered a
misfortune when the syrup was so
boiled that it crystallized.
Under the new regime there will be
every motive for the farmer to boil
high and to crystalline all the sugar
possible. Some of them seem to
know how to do this with
such conveniences as they have. but
It can be done with great facility,
and with scarcely any additional
cost. Captain j. NJ. White, pres
dent of the North Louisiana Agri-
cultural Society, has a small field of
zane, from which he has made dur
ne the last year or two q considera.
Die amount Of bright, handsome,
'pcn kettle sugar, and his whole
ugar making outfit cost him less
b an 5000 so We are informed by
IN Exchange.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

What a sad calamity it is that some
Louisiana newspaper editors were not
in Congress to have averted the terri
BILE evil which now threatens the coun-
try in the thin disguise of the Anti
Lottery Postal Bill How strange it is
too that such a dangerous and undemo-
cratic measure should have passed
without mi dissenting voice from all
these true and tried Democratic states
men and leaders Very sad amt it
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
TO our Patrons.

Ihave again assumed charge of THE
MERIDIoNAL and will conduct it as an
untrammeled Democratic journal. Ar
rangements are being made to perfect
its system of news gathering and l hope
to 0 o be able to show the Invest local
paper in the Attakapas.
E. /. ADDISON.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

The fresh young man of the Assump-
zion Pioneer pokes fun at our Anti
Lottery Rooster. That's all right my
friend. The bird is a veteran of many
wars and tho badly disfigured is still in
the ring, and we expect to keep him In
training until he scratches oYer the
Lottery's grave!
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

Mr.. ]. z. Sanders, the editor Of the
st. Mary Banner has resigned and will
be succeeded by Geo. B. Shepherd who
was at one time connected with the
AHGkapas Register, at that place. Bro.
Sanders was an agreeable confrere and
we regret his retirement.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

The Morgan City Review
ing an account Of the lale
tive fire which occurred there
morning Of the 10th iasl.
Jack, . bull dog beleagine
Roome, rushed into tie III
grabbing a small dog. which
dered and hemmed 10 By lie
made no effort to escape. BIZ
pulled him out Of danger.
street and tarn him loose.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

Bro. Edgar Mccormick is making
a boom with the Alexandria Town
Talk. It is the largest paper in the
State out side Of New Orleans and the
best local paper in the country. Eight
pages, 8 columns, all home print.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
Congress has adjourned.

The Saturday and Sunday editions
of the New Orleans States were refused
admission to the mails on the ground
that they contained an advertisement
of a lottery advertisement.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

The registered letter and money
order business at the New Orleans
postofice has fallen off at least 40
per cent, caused by decreased re.
ceipts of the Lottery Company.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

The Anti.Lottery Bin M
.. $. Senate last Tuesday !
OOce vote. We have & eonis !
to run the Lottery advsfls
until Jan. lst. What ars
do?-N er4ailion Star sept.
Take those lottery adyerth
out. Do you hearY-New Ds
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

The electric light vires
cause a queer trouble ii
phone. As soon as the strs
are cut on there is . tsfribIs
the telephone making II mil
to use the instruments. AI
dies for the evil. so for .rjss
failed.--N. I. Democrat.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
STATE OF LOUISIANA
Parish Of Vermllion-S5th Distria
Parish Of VermilionN o
49,
Succession Of Marie G. y

Notice is hereby given Is al
interested in the said succession,
ing any opposition to mak8 to M
tableau of debts and charges ana
ment of the aforesaid gucee
by Phylemen Landry, admih
thereof, to file the sans in
the Office of the clerkOf court
days from the date hereof.
Given under my hand and seal d
this 4th day of October, 1899.
ALCIDE LEBLANC
l.. T.. Bourges, Atty.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

Mr.. Gradnego YouVg
st. Mary Banner has
family to Patterson aad
school there.
The steamer 3. 4. Bar,s...
ter being overhauled snS
at Freeman's ship yard IeIs
day to resume her Dlses 4
Vermilion trade.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

Col. A. p. Battle is making a
live paperont oftbe Alexandra Daily
Times. He Just can do it!
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04
STATE OF L0UISrAEz
IaCenty1NfTh judicial UsSNs2
---
Parish Of Termai0n
Succession of Marie Gaspaa
M. I18

Application of Euphemie Meaux
husband Camille Landry 70 O.
appointed c0-adfninistrate
of said succession.
Notice is hereby given to aA
interested in said succession q
any opposition to make to the
of said applicants to file same IA
in the office of the clerk of eUu1t
ten DAYS from the date hereof.
Given under my official signatuA
seal of court this 4th day Of OetoseE
ALEIDE LEBLANC
L. L. Bourges, Atty,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

u1 hGnIs = 9 the OH
has increased during ,I,s
years years I'll T i also t6s oa III m
= which public morality isss
= lo.tery company can con.sa
tons and shape Legislation
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

We received the i0i,i.I
lished at Alexandris n
La, with Col. 4. b. sst'Is
and T, n. Miles business y.
success to the new enterp,iss
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1890-10-04

- The police jury Il Rssp
I'll Il s sssa'ds' a III hide i =. g
desh for sale. 's0a easa
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-11-15
TOO HORRIBLE FOR BELIEF.
The Story of Cannib aIism at the
Camp at Yambuya.

LONDON, November 14.-The Times pub
fishes the full text of Assad Farran's afida-
Wit. After describing BartteloL's cruelties,
1t deals with the Jameson cannibal affair at
Ribakiba. Jameson expressed to Tippoo's
interpreter curiosity to witness cannibalism.
Tippoo consulted with the chiefs and told
Jameson he had better purchase slave.
Jameson asked the price and paid six hand
kerchiefs. A man returned few minutes
afterward with ten -year-old girl. Tippoo
and the chiefs ordered the girl to be taken to
the native huts. Jameson himself, Selm,
Masondie, and Farhani, Jameson's servant,
presented to him by Tippoo, and many 9TH
ers followed.
The man who had brought the girl said to
the cannibals: This is present from a
white man, who desires to see her eaten"
"The girl was tied to tree" says Farran.
"the natives sharpening their knives the
while. One of them then stabbed her twice
In the belly. She did not scream, but knew
what would happen, looking to the right and
left for help. When stabbed she fell dead,
The natives cut pieces from her body.
Jameson, in the meantime, made rough
sketches of the horrible scenes. Then we
all returned to the chiefs house. Jameson
afterward went to his tent, where he finished
his sketches in water cOlors.
There were six of them, all neatly done.
The first sketch was of the girl as she was
led to the tree. The second showed her
stabbed, with the blood gushing from the
wounds ihe third showed her dissected
The fourth, fifth and sixth showed men car
rying off the various parts of the body.
Jameson showed these and many other
sketches to all the chiefs"