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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05
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disease any more than the lovely
lily can grow in the sterile soil.
When consumption fastens its hold
upon q victim, the whole physical
structure commences its decay. At
such a period, before the disease ia
too far advanced, DR.. P~ierce's
Golden Medical Discovery will ar"
rest and cure it. So certain is this,
that an offer is made to refund the
money paid for it when q failure can
be found under the condition of a
fair trial.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

Speaking of the wives of our pub
lie men reminds one irresistibly OF
the dove-eyed, brown. haired, soft
voiced lady who nov is the first lady
in the State; the gentle wife OF bis
Excellency Gov. Foster. Mrs. Foster
is an ideal woman, i0asmuch as she
is a true home. keeping woman, Q
housewife in its best sense. She -
devoted to all the domestic Lares
and Penates. and already she has
made the big State mansion at Baton
Rouge a home of flowers. Her
womanly presence seems to pervade
every room, and among the sweetest
and daintiest apartments about sne
house are the four or FIVE rooms 10
a wing that r set aside Tor inc
Governors friends and constituents
who may come without any warning
but who never fail TO finda welcome
and that picturesque Creole vel
come, a cup of coffee. Already Mrs.
Foster has won the genuine regard
and respect OF the Baton Rouge
people. Who are pleased to see in Der
the typical mother and wife OF the
soath.-Times Democrat
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

"The town of Cahaba was once
the capitol of Alabama" said G. L.
Sims, Of Mobile, recently, land a
visit to the old place is amply worth
the trip. No one lives there. The
town is tenantless and deserted, but
many of the buildings still stand.
Here car be seen the courthouse
where Aaron Burr spoke, the house
in which he stopped. VIM. l.. Yam
cey thrilled thousands of people with
his eloquence where now nothing
can be heard but the sound of some
wildwood bird. Some of the dwell
ings show that once they were occu-
pied by fashionable people, for
Cahaba in its days was not only the
capital, but the centre, where the
wealth and culture of the State met.
Many of the buildings are gone, and
ell of them are rapidly falling into
decay, but those who think America
too new to have interesting rims
should go to this place, and while
upon the spot where so many mem,
cries OF the past cluster. read the
early history of Alabama and COM
par the past Cahaba with the
present."
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

The opening speech of Col. Phil.
Thompson, representing the defense
in the celebrated Pollard recken~
ridge case reminds US of the wild
ranting of backwoods Kentucky
orator badly mixed with old Ken
lucky tangle foot. It must have
been grating upon the nerves of the
defendant to have heard the Kings
English butchered, and bis terrible
case presented in such o terrible
manner. Col. Thompson's argp-
ment was based entirely upon Wild
ow Bedot's observation. 1--WE are all
poor sinners and bound to die"
What the evidence failed to estah.
lish against Col. Breckenridge, Col.
Thompson plead guilty to on his
own account and for all mankind.
Baton Rouge Advocate. :
Ditto, Brother.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

The State Board of Liquidation
held q session at the capitol. The
deliberations of the board are EN-.
braced In q set of resolutions ad.
opted which provides that coupons
to the amount of $28O,T24,92 at 46
Is cents amounting to $l29.559.l2
and warrants to the amount of $3.50:
289,2S9.63 at so cents, amounting
to $l73,573.78 should be paid
Under the bids for the sale of bonds
100000 were accepted at IS IS
cents, amounting to $191.700- The
cash paid out for all was ,832.
Ruston Leader.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

Gen. Coxey's army has arrived at
Washington, D. c., and everything
seems quiet there. For % time the
residents of that city felt uneasy,
fearing trouble, but things is as
quiet 90 o Methodist camp meeting,
aud much lese, because they are not
shouting.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05
NEW iberia As A CITY.

In a squib written by u devil
some time ago, the MER1D1oNAL said
there were but four cities in the
state outside of New Orleans,
namely Baton. Rouge. Monroe,
Shreveport and Lake Charles. The
article stated further that New
Iberia and three other places were
close behind, yet, not quite up to
the notch, and that all other places
were simply towns and not cities.
Taking it harl that Baton Rouge,
Monroe and Lake Charles were
ranked before New Iberia by the
devl of the MER1DIoNAL published
at ABBEVILLE, the Iberian in the
following extract shows her vanity:
shreveport, we acknowledge. is a
larger city than New Iberia, but We
don't and won't take a back seat as
far as Baton Rouge, Monroe and
Lake Charles are concerned. New
Iberia q show (if the corporation
was extended, so az to take in the
thousands of outside residents lying
in close proximity to the town line)
a population of from eight to eleven
thousand inhabitants. She is also
as rich financially aud in resources
az either of the three cities; has got
as fine a lot Of buildings with the
exception of the Calcasieu bank, of
Lake Charles-as these c~ities, and
8 finer school system. Baton Rouge
is old enough to have become, by
this time, q second Chicago; the
simple fact that she is still small
shows that she has nc energy Or push
or even natural advantages; and
Lake Charles. why it reminds US of
q Kansas town that has been struck
by a cyclone and spread all over
two or three countries, very poor
sidewalks and only one resource,
pine lumber, she would be nothing
without it. Among all the cities in
in the State New Iberia has the best
advantages; if one source tails there
are two or three more to fall back
upon. New Iberia never asked the
honor of being called the Queen
City," nevertheless che deserves it.
As far as Abbeville is concerned, we
consider it the jumping off place. q
good place for bull frogs and mos
%quitoes."
Now that is a great gag is it not?
Running down Abbeville because
our devl did not place New Iberia
in the second place. ...
That's like calling us a nasty
thing just because we did not get off
the sidewalk as she passed. New
Iberia is a great place, and for
energy, pluck and business men she
is we'll off. She shows up as well as
any place in the state, and better
than many. But because she sports
a few dagoes, has q daily Berian,
and violates the Sunday law, che
must not expect US to place hor in
front of other towns that have street
cars, waterworks, and equally as
good politicians.
The Iberian ia too vain. II New
Iberia is as great a place as the
Iberian believes, and Abbeville az
mean a one. then she could have
well afforded to pass Us by In con-
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

Book number ID Brancroft's His
tory of the Worlds Fair, has been
received ct this Office. The publ
cation is CO attn active and interest.
ing as the preceding volumes, and is
we'll worth the price of subscription,
81 for each book. For particulars,
address the Bancroft History Co.,
Auditorium building. Chicago.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05
GOV. NORTHERN Rsacrrr

Rev. G. G. Penick, the genera,
agent for the commission on eolo,.a
work of the Protestant Episeon.,
Church in the United States, sana.
Gov Northern a comparison tb..
we reproduce. He has been s,ud,.
ing the census and compares Geor.
gia and New York as follows:
Georgia-Popnla,iop total, lss7.
1853; white, 97S,357; negro, 858.sl5
Prisoners, white, 342; to eve,v
1850 whites; negroes, 1895: j u
every $50 negroes. Homicide.
whites, 57;l to every l7,ie4 whites.
negroes, 200; to every 1851 ne.
Igroes.
New York-Popula,ion, total:
|5'9e7' 1858; white, 1928 1852 negroes,
I7o.092. Prisoners, total, n,46s:
white, 1O,745; to every $50; no
groes, 70l; l to every 100; Homi-
cides,' whites, 4lo; / to every IA
I47S; negroes, So; | to every 1908.
There is no disputing the truth
that the negro is either twice as bad
North as he is South, or that the
South is twice as lenient with HE
badness. Be it either way, The North
has no right to throw stones south.
ward in this matter. The South, too
is paying $5,250,O00 a year 10 edu~
cate the negro, aud 10 also bearing
the burden of their poor. Run )
line from Delaware to the northern
point of Texas, and in the country
southeast of that line we have one
negro to two whites. In all the rest
of the country the proportion ID one
negro to every ifty-eight whites.
Thot is the way we are bearing our
share OF this burden. end yet our
two whites make their one negro
twice as good as their ff,yeigha
whites make their one negro.
Pardon my liberty, but ! feel this
is such a big and important subject
that oil of US who are concerned In
it should get in touch aud help
each other.
Yours Respectfully.
e. C. PENICK.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

The State Legislature meets on
the l4th inst, al Baton Rouge,
There is going to be. q hot fight
among the different asporants for
the two seats in the United States
senate.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

Abbeville's representatives to the
State Editors convention, which
meets at Crowley next week, will
try their utmost efforts to secure
the next annual meeting of that
body.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

1.-THE Duty that Newspaper Men
Owe to Themselves" will be read
at the editors convention OF Crow
ley next week, by n of the MER1'
DIONAL staff.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

The army of the unemployed,
grows larger every day. At several
points throughout the country ar
mics are getting organized and the
cry is ION to Washington"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

Notice the change in the Official
Directory This week, and govern
yourself accordingly.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

"Ruston is rat cursed just now.
Can any of our exchanges tell us
just how to get rid of his ratship?
We have got an undying enmity
against the whole rat tribe, and
would like to exterminate them
from the face of the earth. PRO-
gressiVe Age.
Abbeville is not the only place
troubled with rats.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

1t Is new reported that Gen. Jas.
b. Weaver, of Dee Moins, Iowa the
great apostle of the Populists party
is about to move to Kansas. He il
one of the great political tricksters
of the day. He has already been in
congress three times, representing
the 9th district of Iowa, and We will
venture to say that inside of two
years he will be known as the con.
gressman from Kansas, the great
calamity State.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05
Abbeville, La, !
April 81, 1894 {

pursuant to adjournment. Present:
W. M. Conerly, PRESIDENT; George
Hayes, John Abshire, Jr., Aurelien
TheaIl, Octave Hebert and e. W.
Gaspard. Messrs. Aris:ide Toups
and Ophelias Bourque having shown
their commissions, and having been
duly sworn and qualified as mem
bers of the board were regularly in
stalled as such. The minutes of the
previous meeting were read and
adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Hayes, seconded
by Mr.. Abshire, W. P. Edwards.
ESQ, collector of school lend rentals
is hereby authorized aud instructed
to investigate and ascertain the true
state of facts concerning the rent of
the school section which lies partly
in the parishes of Acadia, Lafayette
and Vermilion, and to notify the
secretary of the board when he shall
be ready to report thereon, SO that
a special meeting of the board may
be called to take steps 10 the matter.
Mr.. Edwards was further requested
to make out o list and chart of all
school lands in this parish giving
particulars az to the nature aud rem
tai value Of same and stating the
amounts for which the same is
rented.
On motion of Mr.. Abshirc, sec.
onded by Dir. Bourque,M Mr.. Edwards
is hereby instructed to lease the
Cheniere Autigre school section to
the highest bidder after advertise
menk.
On motion OF Mr.. Gaspard, Sec
onded by Mr.. Hayes, W. P. Ed
wards, Esq, is hereby appointed to
survey and trace out tie Fla Island
school section and his services as
surveyor shall be compensated &C.
cording to the regular rates. estab-
lished by the Police Jury.
On motion of Mr.. Abshire seconded
by Mr.. Theall, Geo. Hayes is here
by authorized to have the necessary
repairs done at the Indian Bayou
school house and present bills for
same at next regular meeting.
On motion of Mr.. Theall seconded
by Mr.. Abehire the secretary is
hereby authorized 10 advertise for
bids for the construction of a school
house 20 by 80 feet at Theall's.
The following named gentlemen
were appointed as a committee of
arrangements to make the prepara-
tons necessary for the school reun-
ion to be had on the day after the
close of the session viz:-Eli Wise,
l.. O. Broussard and W. P. Ed
wards and Messrs. Eli Wise, NJ. T.
Gordy, Jr., G. j. Edwards, l.. O.
Broussard and 0. Bonrque, were
appointed as a committee to solicit
subscriptions to raise fund for the
erection of a suitable school building
in Abbeville.
The following claims were allow
ed and ordered paid:
J D Morgan repairing Henry $3.50
Young & Edwards mdse 80
Lastie Broussard one day com work 3 90.
Godchaux 2 days com work 90
s Wise mdse 81 Is.
W ? Edwards sal to Jan LIST "a as
land rentals collector SO 90
L 0 Broussard supt / sal com
work 8 days SO 90
L L Bourges 2days com work 600
There being no further business
the meeting adjourned.
VIM. CoNERLY, President.
L. O. BRoUssARD, seetY.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

The annual convention of the
Louisiana Press Association which
meets at Crowley on the 7th, 9Th
and 9thspromises to be interesting,
The citizens of Crowley have con-
tribated $1,000 to the expenses of
entertaining the editors, and ar.
rangemcnts have been made for an
excursion to Lake Arthur and Shell
Beach. Some important questions
will come before the convention.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

Capt. Kerkam, of the Weather
Bureau, has returned from an ex-
tended visit to various sections of
Louisiana. The captains trip was
10 the interest of the weather service
whose ramifcations now extend to
all portions of Louisiana within the
Jurisdiction of the local office. Capt.
Kerkam, SINCE his assignment to
Louisiana has popularized the
weather bureau, which in this part
of the country was unable ally TO
The planting and farming interests
Now that St. Charles Hotel has
been burned, and the leading first
class hotel of the city swept away.
tho Grunewald, the Schmitt, the
Cosmopolitan and the Royal, ard
the several minor oaravanseries of
the city will for two years ut least
have 10 accommodate visiting stran-
gers. In that length of time a new
and magnificent modern hotel, frst~
class in every detail. will probably
have been constructed, if not on the
site Of the old St. Charles, at least
upon some centrally located plot of
ground. The Royal will fall heir
to considerable of the business of
the San Carlos
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-05-05

Abbeville, La, April 7, 1894

Abbeville, La, April 7, 1894.
The board of school directors met
this day in regular quarterly session.
Messrs. VIM. NJ. Conerly, president;
John Abshire. Jr., Geo. Hayes and
Aurelien Theall were present. There
being no quorum present, the board
adjourned to Saturday April 81, at
lG o'clock a. m.
VIM. NJ. CoNERLY, President.
L. 0. BRoUssARD, Supt.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-12
RICHES HAVE WINGS.
The Story of Ex-senator Tabor's Vanished
Millions.

The story of the career of HAY W.
Tabor of Colorado is picturesque and
romantic one interspersed with episodes
of both comedy and pathos. and convey
ing some lessons that have general in
terest and Importance. He was born and
raised in New England, where he learned
the trade of stonecuter. From there
he went to Kansas during the slavery
trou bles, and engaged in farming, but
gave good share of his time to politics
MS an ardent friend of the free State
cause. Then he moved to Colorado and
opened small store at Leadville, being
then SO poor that his wife did washing.
One day he casually "grub-staked" two
ragged and hungry miners and they
"struck it rich," and he became mil
lionaire before he knew it. He was the
principal owner OF the Little Pittsburg
mine, which yielded $S3,O0o,OO0 in less
than one year; then a part of the
Robert E. Lee, which yielded as much
more; and then the Matchless, which
paid him $4,000 per day. and at times as
much as $35, 600. Everything that he
touched turned to money, and he accu-
avarice.n He built magnificent blocks of
houses in Denver, and established vari-
Gus business enterprises. and at length
he was sent as senator to Washing ton,
where he promoted the gayety Of nations
by wearing night shirts that cost $40
apiece.
That was only little over dozen
years ago, and today Tabor is a bank
rupt. and an assignee has possession of
the small remnants of his once colossal
fortune. For the past five or six years
he has known nothing but reverses. His
property steadily dwindled in value, his
| speculations all proved disappointing,
and the payment of high rates of inter
est upon money borrowed in the vain
hope of turning the tide once more in
his favor has finally forced him to ca.
pitulate. and placed him practically
where he was when he kept the little
store at Leadville, and his wife, from
whom he has meanwhile been divorced
was helping him along by doing the
service of mining camp laundress.
| This goes to show iG striking way
how riches take to themselves wings and
| fly away.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-12

back by means of foul anchor orags.nS
over the bottom. The speed is regulateu
by letting out more chain. Sometime
in swift tides the diver has to run az
full speed, barely stopping now ana then
to pick up a shell; by nearly leloslns
the air. valve, aud by so doing compress
ing the air, he can bound over the DOT
tom of the sea like an india rubber ball'
easily, crying a heavy weight, and tray
ersing long distances in the water worlu.
Indictment weather does not interfere
with the descent, for after few feet OF
surface water the sea is ever the.same.
A descent was made one night by the
diver, and curious and inten ely In
teresting observation of the shining
phos phorescence was made. Everything
was aglow with this wondrous light: the
diver himself became transformed, the
fish sent forth the soft radiance, and
the fantastic reefs and tropical growths
were enhanced by this strange, faint,
yet luminous medium.
The pearl shells are the bread and
butter OF the diver, three or four hun
dred pair being gathered in day, and
are worth to the owner about a dollar
pair. The anemones and other growths
on the outside of the shells are easily
scraped off while fresh, the oyster is
thrown overheard, the only edible por-
tion being the muscle that holds the
SHOllS bOSctHcIs duo WHICH bHo 4hohuAh
medans eat in their diet of fish and rice.
The inside Of the she'll is the beautifully
polished and exquisitely- surface
called mother-of-pearl.
A diver goes through each oyster, care
fully feeling for the precious pearl, which
is great rarity, as in opening ton of
shells he will find only about one hun
dred seed pearls and seldom one as
large as a pea. The pearl is formed
either by the intrusion of some particle
that irritates the oyster. causing it to
cover the irritant with coating of nacre
which, when hardened, becomes the
pearl, or, as many divers believe. by
parasite; for it has been found that old
Shells bored throughout by these para
ties cont tain the largest and fin est pearls.
The pearl is found embedded in the
oyster. and not, as many suppose, at
tached to the shell. The diver puts the
precious stones in bottle, and the shells
are then cleaned and packed by the
Malays ready for the London market.
Here they are sold by auction agents,
especially from ustria where SO many
beautiful buttons and mother of-pearl
ornaments are manufactured-Bosto
Transcript.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-12

The coinage of silver at the ratio OF
I6 to 1, has pro hably received killing
blow from the recent election. All the
northern champions OF that policy have
been defeated and the people of Ohio to
whom the question was presented direct
", both by the platform and on the
stump, have have repudiated it by an
overwhelming majority. Even in Mis-
souri,. where silver heresies have had
pretty strong following, the tide seems
to havesturned, for Bland is defeated
and with him five or six other Demo-
cratic congressman. All inducement to
cater to the free silver idea in order to
please the Populists is gone, too, for it
has been shown that the Populists no
longer count as political factor in any
Northern state.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-12


The ASSETS Of the Company are as follows:
Cash on Hand, in Bank and with
Agent. oUI. f4I.Jb
State Stocks and Bonds ......... 27,5O0.O0
Hartford Bank Stocks. ......... 607.126.OO
Miscellaneous Bank Stocks..... 425,065.00
Corporation and Railroad Stocks
and Bonds. 2.326,5 600
County, City and Water Bonds. 1872, 1877 so
Real Estate. acknowledgements. 1913, 157.48
Loans on Collateral .......... 58,382. so
Loans GU Real Estate .......... 368,150.92
Accumulated Interest and Rents. 59,036.12
-----
Total Cash Assets + ...... s5.429. 1881
LIABILITIES.
Cash Capital ~. 81, ooo, ooo. 90
Reserved for Outstanding Losses. 533 5O3.73
Reserved for Reinsurance. .s.... 2,1S3. 093.85
Net Surplus. .................. lib, 1861 SO
Total Assets. ............. So, 429, 7ss. 81
ST.
w. C. SKILToN, President
GEO. H. BURDICK, Secretary.
oct22eod3w
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-12
THE PRESS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10.

Colonel Strong's declared intention OF
sweeping the whole Tammany crowd out
of office as soon as he can do SO under
the existing laws. will undoubtedly be
highly satisfactory to the people OF New
York. A clean sweep is what they voted
for,--there can be 10 doubt of that
aud their wishes ought to be respected.
Furthermore if any assistance is needed
from the legislature to enable Mayor
Strong to carry out his purpose to the
fullest extent he ought to get that.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-12
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