The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-02-17
STATE ITEMS.

ments are going forward ON all handz.
The river is booming at Port Allen:
A few weeks of rise like that of last
Thursday night will put the water
over the battur0.
The circuit court met at Centreyilsd
last Monday. If it does meet it will b6
about the second time it has ever held
forth in Livingston parish.
The bank of st. Martinviile has not
been in operation six months yet; but
some of its stock changed hands this
week at $120, which means net earn
ing of 20 per cent in less than six
months.
The levees III the neighborhood of
Iberville are being raised four or five
feet and are being put In excellent
shape. The new levee In front of the
town will be an excellent piece OF. worls
when completed.
Parish paper is not hawked on the
streets in Mansfield by jurors and wit.
nesses as formerly. Scrip is being
cashed at its par value without trouble;
and everybody hopes the financial con-
dition of the parish will continue to be-
as 1t is now.
Up at Shiloh; in Union parish, and
not very far distant from Monroe, thers
exists a furniture factoty, which it is
claimed is manufacturing furniturG
that will compete with either Northern
or Eastern Manufacture: Ash wood is
used almost exclusively.
Sunday last Henry Efferson shot and
killed spotted deer near Springville.
1t was a doe, and had been hunted for
the last fifteen years, but heretofore
always succeeded in escaping unin-
.jured. The doe was almost white with
a brown spot on each side
The freeze of last week, We learn,did
not do the slightest damage to the
Irish potato crop. The orange trees
we're not injured in the least; and if no
severe cold visits us between now and
spring, the vegetable and fruit crop ilt
this parish this year will bb very large:
Plaquemines Protector.
Clara Wimberly, deserving coloFed
girl, who lives near Arcadia; left Tues
day for New Orleans to attend college
with view of Qualifying herself for
the responsible position of school
teacher. The Advance wishes her
much success in this most laudable un-
dertaking.
nj. 4. Kistner, who went North some
time ago, has returned with his farm
ing implements and Ia head Of horses
to Lake Arthur. One of his best horses
had his eye SO badly hurt by a jar of
the car, that it il, feared that the sight
win be destroyed. Another car Of
emigrant goods, horses, etc; arrived
last week also.
Every person III Jennings should
willingly support the project of the
ladies' library society to keep the read
ing room open several evenings in the
week. In that way d pleasant and
moral resort W" be provided, where
young men and others can drop in and
read for an hour or two. Really, the
rooms ought to be open six nights in
the week.
During the past week the force of
'jail birds" have been engaged in digl
ging in a trench around the court
house square, thereby greatly improv-
ing the drainage Of the gryunds. Other
are being made under
the supervision Of our worthy sheriff,
and the public square now presents a
neat and attractive appearance Mad
ison Journal.
A number Of papers in the State are
not satisfied with amendments and
want new constitution. We thought
that way, too, fifteen years ago, but
the result Of the convention OF 1870
changed our notions a little. The
work of another convention would
probably have to be patched, and there
would be the expense OF q convention
and the Amendments also. II the people