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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12

B.W. Baldwin, Gainesville, Tenn,
writes: I have used your German
Syrup in my family, and find it the
best medicine / ever tried for coughs
and colds. l recommend it to every
one for these troubles.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12

closed in the morning and afternoon to
exclude them. In the cattle pits on
the railway line the locusts were several
feet deep. The farmers have suffered
severe losses from the plague.
ONE of the Springfield Mass hotels
occasionally has queer lodger. He was
formerly an engineer, but is now a
United States boiler inspector. While
an engineer he was severely scalded on
one side, and is unable to sleep comforta-
bly, when lying on that part of his body.
Whenever he happens to turn upon the
lender place he makes great disturb
ance in his sleep, but is difficult to
arouse. The other evening was one OF
his nights, and he awoke half the guests
in the house. The landlord was just
upon the point of climbing through the
ransom to awake him when the man fell
out of bed. When he understood the
state of the case he explained that all
that was necessary to bring him out all
right at such time was to yell Turn
over, John" he having become so famil-
lar with such command in his sleer
that he invariably obeyed it unconscious.
ly. The plan has since been tried and
found to work admirably. The boarder;
hope the clerk will never lose the, com
bination.
DURING the recent illness of Street
Commissioner Beatte of New York City
his department was. controlled for fort
night by his private secretary, Mis-
Cynthia Westover, who superintendec
1900 men. Miss Westover went abou
personally to decide which street
were in worst condition, and assigne;
every day the dump-carts ant
sweepers. Knowing just how mucl
money she could spend daily
she engaged or discharged hands accord
ingly, having narrowing experience witt
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21
A new two story hir

A new two story high schoo,
building has been erected in ST
Martinsville. The st. Landry Dem.
ocrat wants to know when Opelon.
sas will do as well as that "~sleenv
old Creole town. as some peonIa
disparagingly call it.
The trial Of Horace Mcfarland
and Willis Darby, for the murder
Of Judge r. &. Trimble in Union
parish several years ago, returned
and surrendered themselves 10 tha
authorities.
The sugar mills on the Teche Iass
season poisoned the waters of that
beautiful and historic stream H.
discharging refuse chemicals into il.
but this practice will hereafter be-
prevented by Injunction OF the courts
on complaint of citizens.
The inspector of Scott levee found
imbeded in it the trunk and sturnn
of a large cottonwood tree. left there
by the contractors. The leyee Il
believed to contain many other LOGS.
bnt they cannot now be removed On
account Of high water.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21
Succession Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
1weay.afh judicial District Court,
Parish Of Kermilioa.
Succession W4aostosie Blanchet.
Parish Of YermiHon.

No. 1856.
By virtue Of an order of sale issued
by the Honorable Court aforesaid, I'M
aud for said parish, authorizing me t0
sell at public auction, to the last and
highest bidder, the property of the
aforementioned and numbered success
sion, to pay debts, | will proceed to sell
at the late residence of the deceased I'M
the town of Abbeville, in said parish,
at public auction, to the last and high
est bidder, on
SATURDAY, M4RCH q, 1891,
the following described property, to-
wit:
A large dwelling house situated on
the plantation of Z. 1. Addison, near
Abbeville. The said property wa duly
advertised and offered for sale for cash
on February 81 1891, and having fail
ed to bring the two-thirds of it's
appraised value, / there announced that
said property would be sold On said
date first above mentioned without
benefit of appraisement on twelve
months credit, purchaser to furnish
bond with good and solvent security
Tor the amount of the purchase price.
Sherif's Office, AbbeViiIe, Louisia1laf
February e, 1881
a. e. LEBLANC, Sheriff.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

By an indult of His Holiness,
Pope Leo XIII, of august 3rd, 1881
we hereby publish the following
regulations for Lent :
70 Every day in lent except Sun.
day, is a fasting day of obligation.
% The use of neshmeat is allowed
at the principle meals on all days,
except Wednesdays. and FRIDAYS,
and except Saturday the Ember day,
and Saturday Of Holly Week.
50 They who are dispensed from
fasting, ray eat feshmeat at every
meal, on days when meat is allowed.
80 Fleshmeat and fish are not
allowed to be used at the same meal.
not>even on Sunday.
So Only one full meal in the daY
after midday or near it is allowed.
60 A small collation. may be
taken il the evening, at which fish,
bntter, milk and eggs are allowed.
When the principal meal cannot be
taken at midday. the order may be
reversed and The collation. may be
taken IN the morning ,Ha nr;nc;n.I
meal in tbe e]yenias T. .ha ~
marathon Of food ,ba nd If l.rg :
allowed ai4 7
70 n the mor,;nc he a.;n.
of L. fFse tea a. %c5o.aloto ;snds
forbidden, I'M. tbere i - nsrn.ss;or
10 eat. p%nless il IL u Iiftla ,ba, IN
Il ] e.,aaa II, 80; ~
~ Tba law e sas.iaaa.o v.
maa. i b;na;rr ] i. f.as. O. Aoas
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

There is a big row going on in
Lake Charles over the building OF
1.-THE new courthouse. Some of the
lhnilding committee claiming it is a
ssfide job and that the contractor is
not living up to his contract. The
Commercial says: In pursuance to
call of twelve citizens, the Police
NnrY met last Thursday to take some
action in regard to the plans, speci.
fcations and work Of the new court
house. On Friday, after much dis.
'cussion, they decided TO appoint a
building committee to be composed
OF the District Judge, District At.
torney and Sheriff, said committee to
be empowered to employ a ,supervis.
ing architect to superintend the con.
stgsuction Of the building.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

Editor Alpha Of the Lafayette
Vindicator has got his dander up
over he partisan, lying report Of the
Engineer department that Bayou
Teche is unworthy Of Improvement.
It is truly absurd and as he remarks
were this Bayou 10 a Northern State
no engineer would dare make such a
report. The true inwardness of this
report however lies in the part that
the railroad magnates Of this State
are opposed to improving the water.
ways and they unfortunately run the
Government Engineer Department
in this part Of the country.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

The Baton Rouge Truth says that
Mrs. W. Hearsey, of that city, has a
floral curiosity, a japonica tree that
bears sixteen different kinds OF bios
SONS, the colors varying from white
to dark red. Upon which the La.
fayette Advertiser remarks That
does pretty well for Baton Rouge,
but we have in our town a japonica
tree which bears a blossom showing
sixteen different kinds Of colors,
same variation.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

IN an ARRAY at Winnsboro be
tween James Woodbridge and Nea1
Bule, son Of Judge Buie, the former
was shot in the shoulder and the
latter received three severe wounds,
supposed to hare been inflicted BY
Nylle Wicks, a brotherin.law Of
woodbridge. The quarrel was over
game Of cards.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

The Lake Charles Echo has en-.
tered its 23d volume. Barring the
Alexandria Town Talk it is the lar.
gest, neatest ard best local paper in
the State of Louisiana or anywhere
else for that matter. Long may it
Echo.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

The editors Of the Welsh Ores
cent and the Jennings Reporter are
spatting at each Other. Cary says
Harrison has declared for free whis
KY, free love, Sunday home races
and the Lottery, and he is against
all such. Well that's about the
usual combination any way.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

Nov that the infamous report on
Bayou Teche has called down the
deDunciation Of the press and people
upon those arant frauds the United
States Engineer department, why
not roast the imbeciles about their
attempt to steal Or strangIe the
Charenton Canal appropriation.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

Weeks Island or Grand Cote has
been sold by its owner Vim. F.
Weeks to Frank G. Viguerie for
100000. 1t is a magnificent estate.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

The blue ribben farmer of Clai
borne parish is Mr., NJ. NJ. Gaines,
who last year, with the help of q
fourteen.year.old boy, raised Is bales
Of cotton, $50 bushels of corn, $50
gallons of ribbon cane syrup, rs
bushels Of potatoes, besides peas,
vegetable, etc.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

The St. Landry Clarion charges
that the Lottery Company paid the
st. Landry Democrat $500 for the
control Of its columns last year.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

10 is reported that the Gar Of
Russia has purchased a cotton plan
tation near Shreyeporta and will have
his agents study cotton culture there.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

a young man named Sutton has
lived IT days on soda water at
Dubuque La. srs
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

From all sections east come ae
counts OF disastrous rains and floods
on March 7th Durant, Miss advices
report the greatest rainfall ever wit
messed 10 that section; that Big
Black Swamp was completely in.
undated and that a number of
bridges. along the line Of the Illinois
Central Railroad we're washed out
and would require some time to re.
pair the damages wrought. Chatta-
uooga reports the Tennessee river
there as having reached the danger
line; Jackson, Mississippi reports a
rise Of threefeet Id twelve h6nfs in
Pearl river and all trains DELAYED.
The washouts on the Mississippi
Valley. Railroad. ten miles north
and fire miles south of Vicksburg
have been repaired. The Cumber-
land river at Nashville, Tenn, was
out Of its banks-the river having
risen 6 feet in twenty!four hours
and nearly the entire front Of
that city was submerged. The
Yazoo river is also on the rampage
and the two cotton warehouses al
Yazoo City are submerged.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

The tongue is the instrument with
which conversations are opened.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21
State News.

SIG a. ~ SotAhhS a00 a.
mond trees, pineapple plants anc
coffee shrub growing IN his orchard
beside orange, pears and other more
familiar fruits.
A waif was found in front Of Mr.
G. A. Dewing's residence at Shreve
port. It is a white female child
about three weeks old, and will be
well cared for.
A young girl named Willie Fnl
Ter, sixteen years Of age, daughter 81
Mr.. W. A. Fuller, living near
Arcadia, committed suicide by tax
ing an overdose of morphine.
The drills are going down into
the Lafayette coal strata to ascer.
tain the extent and value of the
deposits. The owner, Mr.. Falk
thinks it will be profitable.
An excursion is announced to take
place over the Watkins road from
Alexandria to Lake Charles on July
4, BY which time it is expected the
line will be completed.
The A~tchatalaya Leyee Board has
issued and placed sf5C, 900 worth Of
bonds, Of which 100000 were taken
By a prominent planter of West
Baton Rouge parish.
A train of cars loaded with s agar
cane, sidetracked at Donaldsonvill lie.
was raided by about fifty children.
who carried off armsfuls of cane for
private consumption.
The two bridges 10 be built across
Red River at Alexandria, and the
construction Of two lines Of railroad.
will keep the Central City Ii yely
during the summer months.
The election in the Colfax pre-.
cinct Of Grant parish resulted in a
victory for prohibition by twenty
SIX majority. The colored brethren
voted strong against whisky.
A citizen of Bunkie. Nj. C.. S.
Mccormick, has lately recovered a
fortune of $4,000, awarded to him
by the Supreme Court of New Jur
sey for property at Ocean Springs.
The Unsectarian Aid Society, Of
New Iberia, has sent a crippled son
OF Mr.. Francois Guillot to a hosp
tai for treatment. This is good
home missionary work.
The merchants Of several local.,
Ties 10 Point Coupee parish have
discontinued the sale Of liquor bv
the drink md combined to establish
a single baroom in their joint
interest.
The town of Bayon Sara is again
fighting the water, from the inside
and outside. A steam pump runs
regularly to relieve the streets from
the accumulation of rain and see.
page.
The remains of Mr.. j.. Taylor
who was fatally injured. on
the Northern Railroad, near New
Orleans, were conveyed to his home
IN Rapides parish, and inferred at
The dead body Of a woman was
found in the rear of Walkers plan
tation, 10 st. Bernard parish. Ill
g supposed she had been living III
woods alonefors some time before
ler death.
The new diffusion plant at Mag
plantation has finished work
or the season, having consumed
bout $4,000 tons of caue and made
lboat 1000, 600 pounds OF sugar. or
10 pounds per ton.
The bitches skirting the highland
Dads near Baton Rouge, which
we're filed with water by the winters
'aias, contain many little fish known
ls sardines. Where they came from
5 a mystery.
The Kansas City Commercial
Club and leading officials Of the
Kansas City, Nevada and Fort Smith |
railroad, will visit Shreveport soon.
they will be invited to extend their
rip to Alexandria.
The beautiful and @snacions now
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

- = EE# &-EAHF u .e.N7cET EGEIL f-N
Louisiana is aIwaysa day behind
the fair in everything. When the
oyster beds of this State are ruined
beyond redemption .our Legislators
map take some active and efficient
steps to protect the valuable source
OF revenue. Alabama has recently
passed a very stringent law. Be
tween May and September no oys,
ters are to be taken. The limit as
to size is two and one half inches 10
length. No one is permitted to take
oysters in anyway but with double
rake, and boats found with dredges,
drags and scoops or nets on board
are subject to a ipe and condemna.
tion of boats. All boats will have
to take out a license at the rate of
ten cents per barrel for the boats
capacity and then pay the inspector
ten cents for each barrel carried by
them.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

The Carroll Democrat conveys
the intelligence of the death on Ben.
ham plantation, Carroll parish, Sun.
day, January rs, 1891, Of Thurlow
Morson, aged SO years. We knew
Thurlow we'll. He was an honest,
faithful negro. One of his savings
which gave him more than a local
celebrity was Had there been no
JEFF Davis old Abe Lincoln would
have never feared the niggers.n "a
fair hand pays him this fitting and
touching tribute /: Thurlow had seen
service 10 peace and war, and when
he followed the fortunes Of his young
master >. M. Tucker to the battle
held, none we're more devoted 10
duty than Thnrlow. After the bat.
tie Of Shiloh when young Tucker
was among the missing, Thnrlow fol.
lowed the ambulances looking long
and vainly for his lost charge. After
a time the wounded soldier felt
hands passing rapidly over bis limbs
in the darkness. Strong arms en-
circled him and an almost too close
embrace caused a moan of pain. A
lound cry Of the well known voice Of
ThurloW, you live, you liye,"-he
bore him TO the ambulance. Though
the vehicle with its burden Of
wounded men was upset in fording
an intervening sVeam. ThurloW
waded in and aga1 bore the helpless
sufferer to the baRk.
All things eabthlv have an end,
and among the kindly and faithful Of,
those days ther0wilI be mono to re.
late q tale OF loye and fidelity that
linked servant and master.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21
1t is often claimed that farming

1t is often claimed that farming
does not pay. OF course any kind
Of farming does not, but the proper
mode never fails TO bring good re-
suits. The Crowley Signal has been
investigating the subject states that
the best individual crop heard of be,
ing raised in Acadia during the past
year, was that Of Mr.. Joseph 1Bud)
ColHgau residing near Church
Point. He made eleven bales of
cotton, Weighing'4s6 lbs. eachi 400
bushels of corn and several hundred
bundles Of fodder $40 bushels of
sweet potatoes, and a large supply
of tobacco. He had no assistance,
except two children aged s and 10
years-and picked another bale of
cotton for a neighbor. II any body
can beat this general crop when so
much work is required for its cult
and harvesting, let him speak
out. Ask Mr.. Colligan if farming
pays.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

Anyman can acquire a habit,
Aut lew men can reIinquisb one.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

The New Orleans Headlight
though a sensational journal evident.
" is accomplishing o world Of good
in its chosen mission of exposing the
vices and scoundrels of that city.
Its fearless denunciation of the rot
ten crew now administering the city
government followed up by a sabre
charge upon the dives or concert
saloons Of Royal street is alike cred.
liable to the paper and disgraceful
to the municipal authorities who
permit and the city press which
countenances such hell holes and
sinks Of ~iuiquity. The recent expo
sure Of the wholesale expectation Of
q dozen or so of young and Innocent
girls from New York City to lead
lives Of sin and shame in the Royal
Palace Concert Saloon, owned and
run by that ex-convict, self confessed
thief and pimp o. FL. Scbaunhausen
of Crystal Palace infamy has sent a
thrill of honest indignation through.
out the land and attracted uneyita-.
BILE attention to the Crescent City.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21
Bro. Watson of the Trinity Herald

Bro. Watson Of the Trinity Herald
is against miscegenation and believes
in radical measures. Speaking Of
the recent tarriug and feathering of
a Mississippi man who had married
a negress, he says IF some Of these
"nigger' loving gents of CatahouIa
were honored as Mr.. Turnbull was
by his friends? a precious few Of
half breeds would peranbulate. orr,
state Of C~alahouIa." a white man
living with negro. woman, needs six
feet OF good hemp, one end tied to
the limb Of a tree twelve feet from
the ground, and the other end
around his infamous, ,rascalLy neck
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-03-21

Here is a dot for our merchants.
The Alexandria Times learns that a
steamboat load of provisions left St.
Louis for Alexandria on the 26th
to supply the hands engaged in
building the Watkins railroad from
Lake Charles northward. Was New
Orleans given a chance at the trade?
-Ex.
Commenting on which the Trinity
Herald remarks with just warmth .
Yes, the New Orleans merchants
were given d chance. The Herald
solicitor tried 10 persuade them to.
let the world know that such a place
as that existed but they only snubb.
ed US. Said advertising does not
pay. Ask Capt. Cooley of the Str.
Ouachita, ye New Orleans sharks,
and he will answer you that he has
discharged boat loads of freight at
Trinity during the past month,
shipped directly from St. Lonis, to
be used in feeding the hands employ.
in tue construction of the Fl. C.
A. & Mr.. R! through The northern
portion Of Catahoula. No, New
Orleans i tagging and the sooner
she realizes that advertising in coun
try papers pay, the better it viii be
for them.
The Penn's Grove record., 1891-06-19
CHAPTER

A Further Supplement to an act entitled IAN
act relative to sales of and under a public
statute, or by virtue of any judicial pro
ceedings" tRevisionl, approved March
twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.
l. BE it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
hereafter in all cases whatsoever where any
sheriff is now or hereafter shall be authorized
or required by any public statute or under the
direction of any court of competent jurisdic-
ton in this state, to make sales of any lands,
tcnements, Entertainments or real estate. such
sheriff shall give notice by public advertise.
ment signed by himself, and set up at five or
more public places in the county, one whereof
shall be in the township where such real estate
Is situate, of the time and place of such sale,
at least fOur weeks next before the time so ap-
pointed, and he shall likewise have the power
to cause the same to be published in two Of
the newspapers printed and published in the
county in which the lands are situate, that
the publication of the la Tvs of this state; or if
no designation has been made of newspapers
10 publish the laws in the year in which said
advertisement is made, then in two of the
newspapers designated for the publication OF
the laws of this state, in the year preceding
such advertisement; such publication shall be
at least four weeks successfully once q week
next preceding the time appointed for selling
the said lands, tenements, Entertainments or
real estate. and such publication. il so made,
shall be deemed sufficient, without compliance
with the provisions of any act heretofore
passed in reference to such publications; and
after the sheriff shall have made such publiCa
ton in two of such newspapers as aforesaid,
effectual as ii made under the provisions of II
law now existing.
.. M he IL enacted, That all acts or parts of
acts inconsistent herewith he and the same are
hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect
Approved April IL, 1891.