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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-11-19
For Sale.

| offer for sale my property situated on Port
Street, in the town of St. Martinville. The resi-
dence is new building in first class condition
with all mordern accommodation. The lot is
large. There is also on the premises a nice ba-
kerry. which is in operation and doing paying
business. For terms, apply to
OCTAVE GAGNE.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-11-19
FOR SALE.

Improved town lots, with good resi-
dences, and a well located lot and store
thereon with good patronage, at st
Martinyille, La. also lot and store at
Cade station, La. RObt. Martin,
st. Martinville. La.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-11-19
Land For Sale.

We are requested to offer for sale, 40
acres of first class land, adjoining the
limits Of this corporation.
Also, one fine property, with good bull
ding, out houses, stables etc For fur
Their particulars. terms etc.
Address ibis Office.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-11-19
New Dray.

I take pleasure in notifying my
friends and the public that | have
started a dray, and solicit their
patronage. Hauling will be done
promptly and at moderate prices.
Z. j. OLIVIER.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-11-19
NeMrniHic Persons

Ard those troubled with nervousness resulting
from cHrc OF ovcrWGrs viii Le relieved by taking
i3P0iCa'S I"Ca EitterS. Genuine
he's trade mark az ] crossed res lines on rapper.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-11-19
Police Jury.

IExtractl
Regular Meeting of the Police Jury OF
the Parish Of st. Martin, held
NOV. 9TH 1892.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1892-11-19

Indebtedness of parish audited
10 date 10,9S2,ll
On motion of Mr.. Liable seconded by
Mr.. Martin put to vote and carried the
written majority report of Committee ap-
pointed at last meeting to lay out and
trace public road from public ward at
Archile Bijeau to public road on Gaia
houla Lake was read and accepted.
Mr.. Barras as a member Of above nam
ed Committee now appears and makes
verbal minority report and at his re-
quest the Police Juror Of the Ward is
requested 10 visit the locality and ascer-
tain if facts reported are correct or not.
On motion of Mr.. Martin seconded by
MIR. Guilbeau put TO a vote the following
Ordinance was unanimously carried.
AN ORDNANCE.
To compel the removal of obstruction ana
other mpediments to the travelling in
the Public Roads and in the drainage Of
said Roads of the Parish of st. Martin,
and to provide penalty for violation Of
this ordinance.
Section LIST Be it ordained by the PO-
lice Jury Of the Parish of ST. Martin in
regular Session. assembled that all own
ers of land adjacent to public Road
and which land is enclosed by cherokee
Usage orange or any other hedges, shall
within 80 days from the PRONUNCIATION
Of this ordinance remove, cut down,
trim or pull out all portions or parts of
said hedges growing in the public roads
or extending over and partly across the
same, so as in any manner to interior
with or to impede the free convenient
and safe travelling over and through
said Public Roads or in any manner to
impede or diminish the drainage Of the
same.
Section 2nd Be il further ordained
that it is and it shall be the duty of the
Road oyerseers of this parish to give, IL
writing. ten days notice TO all such own
nC:S Of land us mentioned in the pre-
ceeiing Section whose hedges grow IN
or extend over or partly across any Pu-
bile Roads of this Parish in cOntrayen-
tion with The provisions of this orti-
nance TO remove cut down trim or pull
out the same within ten days from the
service OF sail notice.
Section 3rd Re il further ordained tina,
any person who shall violate the proyi-
sions of this ordinance by negiecting
or by refusing. after having been mott
fled as provided in the proceeding sec
ton shall pay Il fine of fifty dollars TO be
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
advertisements.

Here are Special Prices to
close q lime of mems, also u
line of JOdies' Shoes:
Mems calf Goodyear welt congress and
lace Shoes, we're $3.50,
1925
to close.
One line Of ladies' fine Dongola Shoes,
widths B, c, D, E, were S.,
$500
to close.
The 0bOVe prices are less
than the cost of m1O7ci2ag the
shoes, but as aCe do not carry
the 06OUe lines at oar Mich-
ig0aa store, aUe do not aUish
to haze q pair of them left
October LIST, hence the lOaU
price.
We still have quite stock Of those So
cent ladies' Rubbers, which we are sell
ing for 80 and IS cents also mems rs
cent Rubbers for SO cents. ..
MARVIN & WILSON,
MONTPELIER, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
A West Point Story.

Two plain ordinary citizens visited
West Point for the first time, and were
deeply interested in the blithe cadet.
With the assurance that they were on
government ground, and that they were
finite parts of the same government,
they went where they pleased, and were
not interrupted. AS the day waned,
however, they drew nigh forbidden
ground--a plot sacred to the embryo
generals. AS they stepped across
line, ignorant of the awful trespass, a
mild youth with spotless uniform and
heavy musket ran up. "No citizens
allowed here" said the sentry. The
citizens turned sadly away. II feel
like the sunset gum" remarked one.
The sentry stopped to listen. "Why?"
inquired the other citizen. "Because
I've just been fired off," was the an
swer; and, to the citizens delight, the
sentry smiled.-Harper'S Young People.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
One Year Without Rum.

Two years afterward it was said to
one visiting that tenement house, 81 wish
you could see the woman who lives
here" pointing to one of the tenements;
"but she is out" Coming back the wo-
man was passed in one of the alleys, and
the expression with which she looked at
the guide was such as the visitor had
never seen on any human face. 1t sug-
gested the Mount of TRANSPORTATION.
She invited the caretaker and the visitor
into her room. She carried on her arm
baby eight months old, beautiful
boy. The visitor knew there was soul
history to be told, and briefly this is it,:
That mother, from the time she was
sixteen years old, had never been off the
island longer than eleven days. She
married a huckster, whose record al
most equaled hers.
The story of their first married life is
too horrible to contemplate. Rarely was
either seen without the marks of the fin
ger nails or the boots of the other, but
for one year neither husband nor wife
had appeared before the police court
judge, nor had either of them tasted that
which robbed them of manhood or wom-
anhood. Their home was as clean az
could be, and the husband brought his
earnings every night to the caretaker,
and three months before had opened his
first bank decentralization Union.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
Temperance.
Oatmeal Water Triumphs.

1t is supposed to be the proper thing
at the close of novel to introduce
moral with which to adorn the tale. In
like manner the recent gauge conversion
by the Great Western Railway company
has its moral side. 1t was wonderful
feat and it was accomplished without
the aid of alcohol Time was, and is
now in some quarters, when no work
could be carried out unless intoxicants
were supplied. 1t was supposed that
nothing could exceed the sustaining
power of alcohol, and this supposition
has become crystallized into one Of the
most dangerous of customs. This testi-
mony has been secuted in the past. But
the late railway conversion was strik-
ing proof of its truth, says The Western
Morning News.
Over 200 miles of broad gauge rail-
road had to be transformed to narrow
dimensions in the shortest possible time
and with the greatest possible care To
accomplish the work nearly 5000 men
were employed, and they worked two
successive days of seventeen hours with
only short intervals for meals. The
strain on the men was exceptional, yet
not beer but oatmeal and water was
provided by the railway company. Tes-
timonials to its refreshing, thirst quench-
ing and sustaining power were heard on
every side. This triumph of oatmeal
water over beer should not pass I'M
noticed. Will farmers and other en-
ployers take cognizance of the explosion
Of the idea that beer is more sustaining
than any other beverage?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
Total Abstinence Best.

Statistical observations made in 1887
among British troops in India gave the
following result The daily percentage
Of invalids among the members of tenn
perance societies was 1855, while for the
remainder of the troops it was 1920, or
nearly three times as great. The aver
age annual mortality in England for all
ages between fifteen and seventy years,
is about 90 per 1000. Among insured
lives it is about II per 1000, while in
the Temperance Provident institution,
after an experience Of eight years and
with several lives above seventy years
of age, the average mortality has been
only 6 per 1000.
The Briton Life association has made
an annual reduction of 10 per cent. upon
the premiums of all who have been
total abstainers for two years. 1t is a
question whether an occasional spree,
with entire abstinence between, would
not be less injurious than to be constant
ly absorbing alcoholic poison in small
quantities. What is the moral and the
application of these facts? Just this.
An order like ours should never receive
into membership any who have cross
ed the line and who even OCCASION
ally drink to excess. Moreover, the
nearer we can come to the standard of
total abstinence the better will it be.
Quality is more important than quantity.
Total abstainers are, other things being
equal, the best risks. Total abstinence
from all that intoxicates is the best rule
for every one.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
London GrOg Shops.

London has 1926 miles of streets and
population of 5,s47, O00-more than the
whole of Scotland or of Ireland. 1t has
only 439 church buildings. 1t has
about $500 people to the square mile;
$4,000 paupers, one-third of whom are
children. London has over SO, 600 reg
istered, habitual criminals. There are
over $4,000 policemen, which cost the
city over $7,000,000 year. London has
also $4,000 grogshops, How much these
cost nobody can figure up. Never will
there be any way out of darkest" Lon
don, or the bottomless miseries and
degradation of any other city, so long
as the grogshop curse is tolerated,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

A LITTLE GIRLS EXPERIENCE IN A
LIGHTHoUsE.-Mr and Mrs. Loren
Trescott are keepers of the government
lighthouse at Sand Beach, Mich, and
are blessed with daughter four years
old. Last April she was taken down
with measles, followed with a dreadful
cough and turning into fever. Doc
tors at home and at Detroit treated her,
but in vain. She grew worse rapidly,
until she was a mere handful of
bones" Then she tried DR.. Kings
New Discovery, and after the use of
two and a half bottles, was completely
cured. They say DIR. Kings New Dis
covery is worth its weight in gold, yet
you may get trial bottle free at G.
Blakely's drugstore, Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

"We mustn't lose heart, William,
and il he don't, thank God the Lords
day is longer than ours"
That night Bob raised the latch of
the kitchen door, and walked in, hang
ing his cap in its old place on the nail
After the first hearty greetings were
exchanged, Mrs. Voorhees, said:
why did you leave the door on a
crack, Bob2 and if you feel it draughty,
why don't you shut it, and not keep
lookin' at it all the while, as if you
could make it shut itself by hintin'?"
Why, / left it on crack" began
Bob, confusedly, because-because l
wanted to break it to you slow, only
only can't seem to think o. nuthin' to
begin on. You see, thought p'raps
mebbe the Flip Voorhees, you was
wantin' and the Flip Varnum used to
know was the same man. And so they
was, and 80 -"
But long before Bob's stumbling sem
| tence was at an end, Mrs. Voorhees,
had swiftly and silently risen, crossed
the kitchen and flung open the door.
My son, my sonl" the men inside
heard her cry, and Bob's errand was
accomplished.
What chapter shall 1 read2" asked
the farmer, hours afterward when they
at last were about to separate for the
night.
Read about findin' the stray sheep,
father" said Philip; "Bob found me
and lost me again twice, for twice my
courage gave out and | made off. And
then was sick, and he nursed me day
and night as good as any woman could,
any woman but my mother, and then
he brought me home, coaxin' me and
keepin' up my spirits all the way. 1
hope it amt wrong" Philip ended rev.
erently, "but whenever after this l
hear the story of the Good Shepherd
seekin' after the lost one, know it will
always make me think of Bob "--Sally
Campbell, in Ne,o York Observer
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portions of the ear.
There is only one way TO cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inhamed con-
dition of the mucuous lining of the Eus-
tachian tube. When this tube gets in
famed, you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out, and this tube restored to its nor
NAL condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an infamed condition of the mucuous
surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, etc.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
"a Sold by druggists, rs cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

"TIRED all the time" is the COM
plant of many poor mortals, who know
not where to find relief. Hoods Sar-
saparilla possesses just those elements
of strength which you so earnestly
crave. 1t will build you up, give you
an appetite, strengthen your stomach
and nerves. Try it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria,
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
The Leading RepubIi-
can Weekly of
the State!
q q o 8 8 8 8 8 8

In general affairs and in
all discussions relating to
Vermont interests, The
Waterman has long been
recognized throughout the
state as the leader among
the state journals. Pub
lished at the State Capital,
in contact with the best
sources of information, and
competently edited, it is
enabled to serve Vermont
readers, to meet their re-
quirements, far more eff
fectively than the city
journals, with their great
mass of facts and discus
sions not germane to YER
mont interests.
The Legislative Session
Every one will want The
Waterman during the Leg
islative Session. No other
paper publishes reports of
Legislative Proceedings so
full and accurate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

SHIPMENTS of dried apples from the
United States to foreign countries DUR
ing the year ended June 30, 1892, were
26,042, 063 pounds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

A GENTLE, quiet disposition in a
horse is of intrinsic value. This value
is represented in dollars and cents
when the horse is placed upon the mar
L.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14

HOODS PILLS act especially upon the
liver, rousing it from torpidity to its
natural duties, cure constipation and
assist digestion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-11
Majestic Palms.

The talipot, or great fan-plam, grows
for about thirty years, and reaches q
height of more than a hundred feet.
Then, for the first and only time, it
blossoms. What looks like a single
huge bud four feet in height is devel-
oped and finally bursts into pyramid
of snowy .plumes composed of num-
berless small creamcolored flowers.
The cluster is sometimes twenty-five
feet high, and at its base has dame
ter of forty feet. AS Miss Cumming
says, in her 1.-Two Happy Years in
Ceylon," ""It is a glorious object, and is
visible from an immense distance, as it
oten grows among flat surroundings,
such as rice fields"
The natives turn the leaves to &
thousand Uses, domestic and literary.
When on a journey, and especially if
they ere on pilgrimage to some sa-
cred shrine, each of them carries por-
ton Of one of these great leaves tight
ly folded into long, narrow form,
like gigantic closed fan.
This serves as u SunShade or rain
cloak by day, and at night several
friends contribute every man his
the pointed end upward, forming q
very fair bell-shaped tent. And very
picturesque few groups Of these tents
look when pitched in some forest glade
round blazing camp-tires.
Formerly the exact grade of every
noble was shown by the number of
such sun-shades which he was entitl-
cd to have carried before him, and on
state occasions leaf, inlaid with
pieces of glitterng tale, and folded
like q huge fan, formed the ceremonial
canopy which was held above his head
by one or more attendants.
The leaves attain their largest size
when the tree is about twenty years of
age, at which time they sometimes
measure twenty-five feet from the base
of the leaf-stalk to the outer edge of
the fan.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-11

Tie British Friend reprints from the
Alliance News thrilling story of the
hair-breath escape of "Steeple-J ack"
in Lancaster, England.
The man had been engaged in re-
pairing the top of one of the tall ch!nl-
neys which are common in the manu-
featuring districts of the north, and
the repairs being completed, he pro-
ceeded to lower the scaffolding where
on he had been working. This he dlu
piece by piece, by means OF a rope, he
himself remaining OH the dizzy sum-
nit of the chimney. At length the
last plank had been lowered, and the
steeple-jack himself was preparing TO
descend, when, to his horror, ana
equally to that Of the spectators below,
his rope became detached and fell to
the ground.
The mans perilous position was at
once evident. Resting on marrow
ledge hundred feet above the ground,
he had no apparent means of descent,
nor was there and way Of assisting
from below. The excitement quickly
spread throughout the town, and soon
aIarge crowd had assembled.
How long could he retain his dam
gerous position in mid-air: Would he
be overcome by vertigo, caused by fear,
and fall Readlong 10 the ground ?
Such were the thoughts passing
through the minds OF the excited
crowd of onlookers. Some one sug-
gested that kite should be flown with
cord attached to take up q rope, but
no kite was available. The steeple-
jack was gesticulating as If beseech.ng
assistance that those below were anX-
ious vet powerless to render.
A piteous shrek rent the air as a
woman ran quickly into the crowd.
His mother % was whispered from
mouth TO mouth. A deadly silence
spread over the assembly, and all eyes
were turned towards the woman, who
with stony look of horror, was gaz-
; ing upward at her son. Suddenly her
voice again rang though the air, sharp
and clear, amid the pervading silence.
"Unravel tha stockin'w she cried out;
"Tom, ma. dear, unravel tina stockln'!
1t wasa flash of inspiration. Wise
men had been vainly endeavorlng to
devise a means of rescue, but it was
left for the poor woman who had knit
ted the stockings that he wore to find
the way TO save MIN. "A nearly CueeI
burst fom the crowd when this was
recognized, and soon it was seen that
the steeple,jack had taken off one Of
his stockings and was unpicking the
stitches.
1t was a long process but at last it
was finished, ana another cheer burst
forth as the woolen thread tioated
lightly to the ground. Thin twine
was in readiness, and this was affixed
the woollen tilament to be drawn up
by the man above. Then stout
string was fastened to the twine; and
this being drawn up too, a cord was
fastened to the string, and, finally, Il
rope to the cord. The steeple-jack this
time fixed the rope firmly on the
chimney, and, to the JOY of ihe null
titude they saw him dascend in safe
ty.
The idea that occurred to the moth
er, to tell her son to unravel his stock
ing, is spoken of as "a flash of inspira-
ton" And so it may really have
been. For have no doubt that He,
whose tender mercies are oyer all his
works, does at time put into the mind of
man the fitting thought, as we'll as the
high resolve, in the needful time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-11
APPLES as q Medicine.-Chemically

Apples as a Medicine.-Chemically
the apple is composed of vegetable
fibre, ,albumen, sugar. gum, chlOro-
phyll, malic acid, gallic acid, lime
and much water. Furthermore, the
German analysts say that the apple
contains a larger percentage of phos-
phorous is admirably adapted for re-
newing the essential nervous NATTER
lethicin, of the brain and spinal cord.
1T is, perhaps, for the same reason rude
ly understood that old Scadinavian ira
ditions represented the apple as the
food of the gods who, when they felt
themselves to be growing feeble and in
firm, resorted to this fruit for renewing
their powers of mind and body. Also,
the acids of the apple are of signal use
for men of sendentary habits whose
livers are sluggish in action, these ac-
ids serving to eliminate from the body
noxious matters, which, if retained,
would make the brain heavy and dull,
or bring about jaundice or skin erup-
tious.-London Hospital.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-11
SCHOOL NOTICE.

al, PERSONS HAVING BUSINESS
u with the School Commissioner " ill find
him in his office all public days and every
Saturday In each month nearest the middle
OF the month. during the present year for the
purpose OF registering claims, &c.
+, COWAN,
School Commissioner Abbeville County.
Feb 2, 1882,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-11
What Was it ?

Guess what he had in his pocket.
Marbles and tops and shndry toys
Such as always belong to boys,
A bitter apple, u lcathern bal?-
Not ut all
What did he have in his pocket?
A bubble pipe and rusty screw,
A brassy watch-kcy broken in two,
A fish-hook in tanglc Of string
No such thing.
What did he have in his pocket:
Gingerbread crumbs, whistle he made,
Buttons, knife with broken blade,
A nail Or two with rubber gun -
Neither one.
What did he have in his pocket:
Before he knew it slyly crept
Under the treasures carefully kept,
And awry they all Of them quickly stole
Twas O hole
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-11
Apportionment School Fund for
AbbeVille County for 1892,

THE apportionmpnt OF the School Fund for
/ the townships in Abbes lille comfy IS
herewith annexed. and the School Trustees
are cautioned not to oyerdraw on the amounts
designated for their respective School Dis
,.infu