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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-01-17
Here an There.


The Lafayette Jail contains sever.
al lunaticts, but no criminals.
The pnb!ic schools Of Lake
Charles has five teachers and $50
pupils.
The reetory fund OF St. James
Church at Alexandra. now amounts
to about $500.
The ht. Joseph levee has been
thoroughly repaired and is now in
first class condition.
The Jail Of Jackson parish, is now
without an occupant, and has been
for some time past.
Nine families numbering sixtv.fve
person. have settled near Longstreet
in Desoto parish.
The town of Plaquemine voted in
favor of taxation for electric lights
and waterworks by 8 majority.
The Christmas rain of OpeIonsas
ended a drouth which had lasted
from October q, over two months.
The old year closed license for
the liQnor tarffiie in Claiborne par
ish outside the town of Homer.
The COW ordinance, prohibiting
the roaming Of cattle at large in
New Iberia, went into effect on
January |.
The well.known and venerable
st Landry citizens, Mr.. Felix
Dejean, died recently, aged eighty
six years.
The treasurer of IberYille parish
is now prepared to discharge all
Indebtedness Of the parish on a
cash basis.
The "nigger shooter is prohibi.
ted Crowley, under a penalty Of
$40 fine or imprisonment for thirty
days.
A shooting affary occurred in
Webster parish. in which Hoyle
Kea was killed By James Perkins
in self defense.
Six more large locomotives and
supplies of steel rails have
been purchased by Mr.. Watkins
for his railroad.
The superintendent of the Nat.
ional Cemetery at Pineville, Mr..
B. G. Taylor, has been transferred
to Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The affairs Of Belle Helene plan
have been satisfactorily ad-
and the proposed sale Of the
place Cancelled.
The store of Arthur Veltin. near
Opelousas, burned in New Years
and nothing was saved. Very
little insurance.
The negroes of Shreveport have
advantage of the recent rise
the river, and are catching drift
wood for winter fires.
Two barges loaded with Irish
potatoes from Ohio have entered
Lafourche. and are selling TO
growers for seed at SO Is to 81 =
The problem for the police jury
Of St. James parish to solve is the
construction Of a wagon road along
the new levee BY Nita crevasse.
The town Of Lake Charles and
parish OF Calcasieu have quarantin
against Houston and other Texas
points. infected with smallpox.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-01-17
A Chapter of Beginnings.


Bicycles were first used in France
about 1915.
The first church bells were used
in France about $50.
The wheel barrow was invented
by Leonardo di Vinci, the painter.
Barrels were first made a century
or so B. G. in the Alpine valleys.
The first telescope was used by
Lippersheim, of Holland. in 1908.
The 6rst railway locomotive was
p~atened by Treyetbick, a Welshman,
in 1902.
The earliest known coins were
issued by the Greeks in the seventh
century B. G.
Tie first electric telegraph was
constructed by Lesage, Of Geneva,
in l774. It hal o wire for each
letter of the alphabet.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-01-17

A waking chair is a new inven-
tion for a gymnasium. A man can
sit down 10 one of these chairs and
walk 80 far as he pieases with his
legs.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-01-17
General News.


andria last week by a drove of wild
cattle on the streets, and one man
jumped into the river to save him.
selffrom being gored.
A tract Of 500 acres Of land, lying
yellow and adjoining Alexandria, is
being surveyed. 1t belongs to Col.
Wheelock, and will be laid off in
city lots.
The Boeage plantation, in Ascen.
sion parish, was sold by Messrs.
Shakespeare & Swoop, of N ew Or
leans, to John and William j.
Kelly for $4,000 cash.
At Vidalia two young negroes got
into a dispute over a dime wagered
on a game Of craps, and one Of them
stabbed the other to the heart, xii.
ling him instantly.
a.-s" ... Fl
The latest report from Belle
Alliance plantation shows an out
put of about 3,750, 600 pounds Of
sugar, with a litt}s over 1000, 900
in prospective. The total yield will
be nearly 5000, 600 pounds.
A brakeman on the Alexandria
branch of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road ate sixteen links of sausage for
his Christmas dinner. After his meal
he was probably what Byron calls
"a bout of linked sweetness long
drawn out"
The sugar house of Esperanza
plantation, in Assumption parish.
was destroyed by FIRE on Dec. 90,
with fifty hogshead of sugar, thirty
five barrels Of molasses and cane
enough to make twenty-five hogs
heads OF sugar more.
Three venerable ladies died last
week in Natchitoches. They were:
Nine. Hypolite Allan, aged eighty
years; Mrs. George Quincy, widow
Of Capt. Quincy, also aged eighty
years. aud Nine. l.. Boutriche, aged
eighty-three years. They were all
old residents.
At Trisler's Landing. in Catahou
la parish, a man named RUSSELL
plunged a butcher knife into the
breast Of a boy named Bass, splitting
his heart ia twain. The murderer
escaped, and it is said that some
white people gave him money to
help him flee from justice.
A Second Adventist Church at
Galyez. in Ascension parish, was
burned by an incendiary fire, The
congregation numbers about seventy.
person. who believe that the second
coming of Christ is near at hand.
They also abstain from the use of
whisky and tobacco.
At st. Louis plantation, in Iber.
vile parish, or old darkey tried to
cross the Texas and Pacific track
ahead OF a train with a wagon, but
the engine struck it, killed one Of
the mules and fatally crushed the
old man. He was warned not to
make the trip, bat was foolhardy
from drink.
At Girard, in kichland parish, a
beer keg, charged with two pounds
Of powder, was exploded in honor
Of Christmas, and Walter Whiting
ton, a young man standing near by,
severely if not fatally injured.
face was shockingly mutilated,
and one or both fhis eyes put out.
BROWNS IRON BITTERS
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-01-17
Venire.

STATE OF LOUISIANA-PariA
of Vermilion.
Lists of persons drawn TO serve as
Grand and Petit Jurors at the next
Jury Term Of the District Court 10
be held 10 this parish on Monday
18th day of January, A. D., 1891.
FIRST WEEK
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-01-17
or Rent.

A small farm $50 arpents) near
Abbeville, all under fence. Enquire
of W. W. EDWARDS.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-01-17
HOGS FOR SALE.

About six head of Berkshire hogs
for sale cheap. w. W. EDWARDS.
January 10, 1891.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-01-17

A true cory
Attest. GEO. " SUMMERS.
by. CLERK Of Court.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
Where the Currew is Still Rung.

For many a century there has been
rung in the ancient city of Sandwich,
the old Clnque Port of Kent, the Curlew
bell, which marked at one period so dis.
tinctive feature of English life. The
Church of st. Peter has maintained this
custom up to the present day, but adj
verse fortune now threatens to extinguish
this honored relic of past ages. A Sand.
wich paper says that relations are some
what strained between the rector and the
sexton of st. Peters, aud as the fund
from which the latter was paid ;s now
claimed by the church wardens the sexton
Is consequently in the dilemma of having
a time-honored office without any salary.
At the Easter vestry his reelection was
mooted, and he thought it very hard,
and naturally too, that he should have
to work for nothing. He inquired if in
the event of his giving up the office the
rector would have rcwc. 20 prevent MIN
from carrying out his duties rs ringer of
the Curfew bell, but no one could inform
him. We trust, says the Pal .Nill
Budget, the rector will not allow this in
teresting custom to fall into dn5uct;,i,e,
and perhaps, if he be anything of an
antiquarian, he will sec to its observance
himself.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
The Census In New York and in Phil
adelphia.

The census of New York City at the
best constitutes most difficult problem,
saws General Francis a. Walker in the
Forum In comparison with such n
task, census of Philadelphia is child's
play. There we have a city openly
built, with ninety houses to every hun.
dred families. Tenement houses are
rare. Few of the people sleep in stables,
in cellars, or in lofts. The houses are
set squarely on the streets. Four-tilth'
of the inhabitants are native born, and
all but trihing percentage arc of Eng
lish speech. Merely to state these facts
is, to one who knows anything of New
York, enough to show the difficulties OF
enumeration in that city, which in 1881
had for 243, 157 families but 1855
dwellings,, of which perhaps 20,O0'
were tenement houses within the mean
ing of the sanitary acts. New York /
a city with crowded and crooked court
Sf.oussssus u. 'S,..aS,os, -s.sOos:, -.Nl II,Hdt
tied sites in the upper parts, and its pop
ulation is almost equally divided betwec,
natives and foreigners, no small proper
tion of the latter element using Ian
guages other than English-not mercl,
the more or less familiar German an,
French, but Slavic and even non -Aryar
tongues.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
WISE WORDS.

Motherhood is woman's throne.
No woman is really beautiful until sh,
Is old.
Most won en- are ambitious; they want
to be men.
Sweethcarts and wives are entrel,
different women
Anger is like rain, it breaks itsclf upoi
that on which it falls.
A woman is seldom prosaic until she
II some mans mother-in. law.
To keep your own secret is wisdom
to expect others to keep it is folly.
If only women fought battles there
would be only wars of determination.
Modesty is to merit as shades to figures
in picture, giving it strength and beauty
He that tcalls-S-ksas--ungrate sums
up all the evil that man can be guilty
of.
Some women are born fools; some
achieve it and some have it thrust upon
them.
Fruitless is sorrow for having dom,
amiss if it issues not in a resolution ia
do so no more.
Families are a good deal like clocks
too much regulation may easily max.
thcmgo wrong.
There is difference between happi-
ness and wisdom, that he that thinks
himself the happiest man is really so,
but he that thinks himself the wsest is
generally the greatest fool.
1t may be remarked for the comfort o.
honest poverty, that avarice rcigns mos
in those who have but few good quail
ties to recommend them. This is a weeG
that will grow only in barren soil.
There are peculiBr ways in men, which
discover what they are through the most
subtle fcints and clever disguises. a
block head cannot come in, nor go away,
nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man
of sense
Know that f1attcrers are the worse KIND
of traitors; for they will strengthen the
impcrfcct!ons, encourage thee in all evils,
correct thee in nothing, but so shadow
and paint all thy vices and follics as thou
shall never, by thine will, discern gooG
from evil, or vice from virtue.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
A Pine Nut In His Lungs.

The case OF e.. Boutwell,, who died
with n cork in his lungs, has been paral-
lcicd by an Oakland (Cal) man, who
survived the very operation which proved
fatal to the Brooklyn preacher. Charles
Pinkham is a car driver, who, when a
lad Of eleven years, in Tuolomne County,
swallowed n big pine nut, 1t was al u
Now York dinner, and, in trying to
crush the nut, it slipped down his throat
and into his wind-pipe. 1t went into
the right lung, where it stuck. 1t was
very large nut, as big as the front Joint
of the little finger. Pinkham, whose
only trace of the accident is very husky
voice, in talking Of his case to day said:
"Eyery scheme to dislodge the nut
was tr;ca BY iiYo doctors present. For
five days. s.nothing was done to help me,
and lfwHs growing weaker. Sometimes
the nut would work up into my wind
pipe and stop my breath. 1t took two
men to hold me, and they used to stand
me on my feet and slap me on the back
until it would slip back into the lung |
could breathe with my left lung. At
last the doctors saw | could not live
much longer, and DR.. Walker determined
to try an operation somewhat similar to
that tried on DR.. Boutwell, He cut into
my windpipc, down to my brcastbone.
1t took two days TO do it.. The first day
silver tube was set in my throat, and
'hreathed through that. Tho next day
DIR. Walker cut the brcastbonc, and then
he applied his lips 10 the wound and
suckat the nut out. | recovered, but
for seven years did not speak above q
whisper. carry the scar yet, and my
voice is little hoarse, but that is all I
have to remember my escape By. Tho
fact that the nut didn't swell is all that
saved my life. - GloJe Demor1ut.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
Sailing in BolIin; Water.

It seems somewhat of an anomaly to
eDumerste earthquakes among the perils
Of the sec, nevertheless, ,subm arine earth
quakes are quito often source Of consi6
erabie danger to navigators. Instances
like the catastrophe in the Sunda Strait.
and the seas surrounding the Island of
~ ... ..v.. .vrnmou, Dut in some parts
of tho ocean earthquakes aud volcanic
disturbances are Of quite common occur
renee, although not often the cause OF
disaster. The Atlantic, from st. Paul
Rocks to the Windward Islands, and the
waters around these islands, are espe
cially subject TO these disturbances. The
Swedish bark Eleanora had an expert
cnce with an earthquake in that vicinity
on recent voyage. Captain Petersen
says that one evening between z and 6
o'clock, while the ship was sailing along
at O three-knot rate, with light wind
and calm sea, a noise was heard on the
port side like a heavy surf, and almost
Immediately the water began to boil and
bubble like water in huge kettle, break
ing violently and reaching as high as the
poop-deck. No distinct shock was felt,
but the ship confined to tremble as long
as the disturbance lasted. 1t continued
for about an hour, and after the same in
terval the bubbling and foaming of the
water began again. 1t was then dark,
and the sound could be plainly heard,
but il was not possible to observe
| whether the water was muddy. Next
day the sea was calm and weather fine.
Last fall number Of violent shocks
1 wera reported from this region. On
was felt at Barbados and in variou
places throughout the region betweei
Demerara, ON the mainland of Soutf
America and the island of Martinique
The American bark p. J. Carleton, Cap
tain Crosbie, reported feeling sever
shock. The sea became like boilin:
pot, greatly confused and tumblins
about in seething mass, and gratln:
sensation was experienced, rs though TIT
vessel were going over reef. Othe
vessels reported similar experiences a
about the same time. A particularly vi
olent submarine volcanic disturbance
would have such disastrous effects tina
no reports would ever reach any por
from vessels unfortunate enough to be II
the locality. And how far such distur
Dances may be responsible for the melan
choly list of ships "missing' is matte
for conjecture. -Ne,o York Recorder.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
Blue Cranes Nest in the Willow.

Along the sloughs near Bucna Vista
Lake there are, Just at this time, multi.
tudes of blue cranes sitting on nests of
eggs. The eggs are about equal in size
to those of turkey, of blucish tint and
spotted. The crane invariably selects a
willow tree, the lower part of which is
under water land there are abundance
of such at this time of the ycar-as If its
instinct taught it to guard against prcda-
tory land animals. In the topmost limb
it builds of sticks q loosely woven nest,
about eighteen inches i'll diameter, and
in that it composcs its long legs and
curious body to hepaticnt duty of hatch
ing out the twin eggs. Docs anyone
know how long it takes for crane chicks
toappcar'-~hcm C0wW (C"lD Enter
prise. ...
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
Tho Frontier CayaIryman.

Our frontier cavalryman Is the beau
ideal of an irregular. The irregular
horseman OF all ages was recruited from
among rowing, uniutelligent classes. and
had, except in his own peculiar province,
as plentiful lack of good as he had .
superabundan"~ :. L-5 Yu.,i.,vs. vur
trooper is intelligent, and trained in the
hardest Of schools. Few civilians, who
find it so easy to criticise the operations
of the army in the West, would make
much of success in hunting band Of a
few hundred Indians in a pathless wild
erness or waterless desert bigger than
New York and New England combined
And yet, thus handicapped, what spleu-
did work our cavalry has donel While
ne civil department of the Government
has for years been busy sowing the seeds
of strife and furnishing the red mar
arms of precision, the best OF cartridge:
and plenty of them, how ably our hand
full of bluecoats, under orders of another
have managed to quell the Indian upris
ingsl A force Of fifty thousand mel
constantly on foot would have been non,
too great to do justice to our Indian
problem since the war; the actual fore
has been less than third of this mum
ber. Let whose is tempted to criticis'
the army make himself familiar will
some of the deeds of hcroism of the pas
twenty years by our soldiers on th'
Plains. Criticism blenches before thei
recital. But the so ldier is no boaster
You must seek his story from other lip
than his.-Harper's Magazine.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
A Famous Cakemaker.

Mrs. Myra Miller, colored woman
who has just died in Atlanta, Ga, at the
age of eighty was the most celebrated
cakcmaker in the city She was born in
Virginia, and in her childhood belonged
10 the Rando phs, Hamptons and John
sops. For the last twenty years she has
lived in Atlanta. She was SO proficient
in her trade and so much liked that hel
illness was source of public concern
Fclcgrams inquiring after her health
care in from different parts of the State
aud ut the funeral many ladies sent flora
tributes. - B0SUR TraRM-viyi.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
PIossoM TIME.

Spring came with tiny lances thrussins'
And earth was clad In peeping green'
I'm russell bark, tho twigs encrustins'
Tenderest blossom points were soen;
A robin courier proclaimed good cheer:
Summer will soon arrive for am here
And nov from cherry boushs In flower
The Ianguid breeze srousins shakes
yUtsh --->---- 80 -.s"vu
OF feather snow In drifting flakes;
Are vered' with smoky, amsthystine light.
All, little soul, on thy first Spring.
Enclosing merry, puzzled eyes.
Would that q fathers thought could bring
Prophetic counsel more than wise
To guide thee; as fathers love would yearn,
Thou hast 80 much 10 suffer and 10 learnt
cannot live thy life for thee,
Myprecepts would he dull aud trite,
Barren ns last years love to mo
Beneath the apple blossoms white;
But in thy new horizons ynster range
Our hearts close knit shall feel no chilling
change
W. Larren,ore, in Ne~ England Monthly
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26

\, ..,,,.s hx eIectricity.


Teeth are pullsd By dectsieity.
A.Bslaisu cod nine Z s7oo fsst deep.
o,t..so O.usds. hss An agricultural
.ext-bo5k in her cc,nnos schools.
T..chsrv, salariss . ~ United States
annually amount e nps snAn 0o'oVV''
0nn - -, |. :, -,
According . i & ess.a. thor:
wero twenty si2 shf sf-ead ma rricd
women In payij -
The average; ~ ccnstrucsing q
mile Of railroad in tts ynisA States at
the present time il sbOpe $50, 600.
A Baltimore man keA earache contin-
ually for elcven years. Finally he recov-
cred and delight drove m insane.
A cut Of tea made FRI the roots OF
freshly dug daadelions work won
ders for the nerves. Take three times
day.
A grain of fine sand will Aver one of
the minute scales of thelhumaA skin, yet
each one of these scales coveVtrom 800
to 500 pores.
A bill sticking machine, whSh sticks
without ladder or paste pot, has knade its
appearance in the streets OF Ptis, and
does its work well.
The roots of timothy grass haze been
traced to a depth Of 2t feet, and dsclover
3 lie feet, in hard clay soil siitable
ior making bricks.
In the text Of the ''Encyclopedia Brit.
ave nev,r been f5iSl enter d and de
ined in any Dictionary.
The people Of Starlight, Grundy Coun
ty, Mo-, complain that the man who car
ries the mail to that town puts yount
pigs, etc., in the pouch along with th'
love letters, etc.
A magistrate in Georgia recently re
ceive6 four silver dimes as marriag'
fec. The groom, a boy yof eighteen, sait
it was all he could afford. Inc orld'
was a widow ofiforty.
A tramp stole,a razor and opened up
shop in boxtcar near the hre- e-brics
works, at Mexico, MO He shaved twenty
five men in half a day, pocketed SZ.5
and again took toNthe road.
Reindeer flesh, which is said to bt
tender, delicious, and nutritious, is regu
larly exported from tho arctic zones tt
Hamburg, where it meets eager demand
at about thirteen cents pound.
Two years ago thnlrsmains of William
Inncs were buried at Corunua, Ind
When exhumed the ether day, they wer
found petriied, and had increased i
weight from 175 to over 800 pounds.
A benevolent Atchison Ran.) woma
keeps bar of soap Oh a board near
creek that runs through tho town, for tt
use of tramps, and numbeD of theI
nay be seen at that place everyday wash
ng themselves.
It pays to feed crops bountnully. Th
extra yield from the extra supply {
plant food is largely clear profit. A col
siderable part of this extra supply I
plant food can be obtained by frequei
and thorough cultivation.
Baron Hirsch, in an interview, sai'
not Uruguay, but the Argentine Repu'
lie would be tho site of the propose
Hebrew colony. The baron intends
buy 100000 acres for this purpos
Baron Hirsch may aftesyard buy laud
! GNesa.a, hIt be saw tRs. initial = q
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
CatliiIftp.

Catlinite. the sacred red pipcstone Of
the varloustribes OF Indians, is found in
quantity only in Pipestone County, Min
nesota, the county seat of the county
also being named Pipestonc. The Indians
claim that Manitou, the Great Spirit.
taught them the use of the stone and com
mandcd them to always gather at the
quarry In peace. For miles around the
quarry in every directions may be seen
relies OF camps, now nearly buried from
eight, except where the prairie has re-.
Gently been swept away.--St. Loui.
Republic.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in ali its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. CataTTh being n con-
treatment Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de-
stroying tho foundation OF the disease, and
giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting the nature In doing
its work. The proprietors have so much fait6
In its curative powers that they Offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that IL fails 10
cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address
+. j. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, @.
- Snli 10y Druggists, 15c.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-06-26
The Trade In MammOths' Tusks

The abundance Of the remains Of the
mammoth is almost incredible. hidden
dorf rcckonc that at least 100 pairs of
these tusks had been put on the market
yearly during the past two centuriesi
auh from personal oh>er walton Nordensk
jold isinclincd to regard the estimate as
too small. 1t thus appears that in the
recent modern trade the tusks. of more
,Han 10000 pt these snimals of past
gpiIic. q. !.