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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19

by virtue of a commission to me direct.
D ed from the aforesaid court, / will sell
at public auction TO the last and highest
bidder, at the courthouse in the town OF
Abbeville, .Fel1nilion Parish. Louisiana,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19
Clever Capture.

The capture of Homer Borell the
young cattle thief from Iberia par
lsh, was quite clever on the Dart Of
Sheriff Broussard. Borell had
changed clothes and did not look at
all like nan who had sold the cat.
tie to Messrs. Otto and Castel. The
sheriff located him 10 one of the
houses in the tenderloin district of
Lafayette and placed him under ar
rest. He at first denied all conpec.
ton with the theft and gave a very
plausible account of himself. but
when the sheriff found $50 under his
hat band he felt sure that had the
right man, The prisoner vas soon
identified and the proper affidavit
was made against him. He had sold
ten head Of cattle to Mr.. Castel and
eight to Mr.. Otto. he expressed
his willingness to sell some more cat
tie to Mr.. Castel but it is not be-
lieved that he will do any live stock
business for some time as his chances
are excellent for an enforced service
10 the State. Lafayette Gazette.
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j. u.THEALL vs.. HIS CRED1Tos,

j. u, THEALL vs.. HIS c~REDlross
By virtue Of an orde, J,
granted by the Hon. 18th ,Iaas Wy
District Court, in and Tor ,be ns.sa
of Fermilion, State of Lon;s;a p ].
the above entitled and nunls,s !
cause, the undersigned will pras. ss
to sell at public auction. 10 ~ I nv
and highest bidder, all the Drons ,ss'
0elong'ng TO the i~nsolvent es,a,s J
j. ULCER TheaII, all the prona,' Y
ceded by said insolvent for eas ps' u
the day of sale; that the tracts y =
land together with all the bniId;.s'
and improvements situated theraas I.
and that the residue of the proDs,,.
rights and credits be sold separs,sI
= item ny item on Tuesday, 0cto6s,
20, 1895, at the store formerly osss'
pied by j. ULCER Theall. Said ~
erty consists of
]. One certain tract OF land III.
in this parish near Cnulee Kisess
containing thirty three and one.thjsS
arpents, measuring seven arnaa,s
east and west by such depth nas,s
and south as will give the ahovs
stated area; bounded north BY VaIA.
rien TOUGHER, east BY Evariste Ga.
ner, south by public road and West
by Numa Leblanc, together with III
property thereon situated.
2 Another tract Of land lyiue Il
the parish Of Vermilion. contaiuiag
thirty Fhree and one third ar,ents
measnr. ~ seven arpeHts east saJ
west ~ nch depth north and saa.h
~ will Tive tile above stated area.
honrdeA forth bf .Inlps schexnsiII,
der. "ast 10y Evarisse Conner. anih
bv Eal>in Tonchet and west III
NINA i"b'anr. with all tie imDraye.
mems thereon situated.
One lot Of merchandise and On.
CORES. one lot Of saloon fixtures. me
three p'ows. one ~cuisivaiaf,
cows end calves fen horses
one lot Of accounts. and manr other
articles TOO numerous to mention.
A. j, GOLDEN. Ssnaie.
September g, 1898.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19
Everything is progressing in Yer.
million, ever the small boy.

Democratic Executive Committee
of Avoyelles has ordered a primary
election for Nov. l4th for the nomi-
nation of parochiaI officers. The
candidates must receive a majority
of the votes cast to be entitled to the
nomination. Ia case no candidate
receives a majority, then a second
primary is to be ordered, leaving
out all but the two highest on the
list.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19

The tough element of New Orr
leans have for the past ten days
been engaged in the laudable en-
deavor to exterminate each other.
French a Unborn gambler killed
Lasalle another sport a few DAYS
ago. Saturday morning before day
light Tony LAVA a Dago tough and
gambler assisted by his pal Falco,
attempted to assassinate Dennis
Corcoran the notorious Poydras
market thug, heller and all around
hoodIum, but Dennis bears a chained
life, and altho' shot in the shoulder
and right hand before he conld pull
his gun he got it out in time to plug
LAVA a center shot through the
heart. Saturday evening NuheaI
Neaton a Boylan policeman shot to
death in n of the most wretcbed
novels, Mrs. Purcell his bigamous
wife.
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To whom it may concern

Be it known that l, Toville Alb.
shire, in the presence of three witt
nesses, took, appraised and killed a
white spotted COW branded about
thus )c L. Said cow had been in
T
the vicinity for FIVE or six years,
broke fences repeatedly and would
have been shot. The owner is re
Quested to call at my residence for
settlement, as appraised.
TovILLE ABsBIRE.
August 8, 1895.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19

Louisiana claims within her do
minions the oldest person now living
in the country, if not in the world,
in the person Of George Brown,
colored, a native of Virginia, who
boasts Of l3l years, and of having
acted as a servant of George Wash.
ington. He claims to have fre
quently hacked the boots of aud
lighted cigars for the Father of his
country. He has a certificate from
Ed. Cronigan, his former master.
certifying that be was born in 1854.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
This Brown must certainly be a
near relative Of Ben Small Of our
parish who claims to be lO4 years
old, and remembers when General
Lafayette landed in the United
States,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19

The many friends in Lafayette of
district attorney Gordy were happy
to meet him this week. No officer
has ever been more successful in
winning the esteem and confidence
OF the people than this able young
lawyer. 1t is safe to say his re-
election is an assured fact Gazette,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19
an EZRA <SF s. WEN.

llmes.Herald says the people OF
the North are fully aware of the &C.
rious problem that confronts the
people of Sonth Carolina and GER
tain other Southern States, sympa,
tEizes with them. But they also be-
lieVe that the wi5est policy is an
honest policy, and that a State that
has produced so many great states
men, the State of the PiDckneys and
RutIedges and Lowndes and Cal
houns and P~restons, ought still to
produce men Of the same wisdom
and the same ideals of honor"
This is all very nice as specula.
ton and talk; bot the State Of these
great men seems to he 10 the cOndi-
ton of the late Ben King, humorist.
When talked to of perseverance and
such things as are required 10 make
men great and valuable to the coun-
try, having his attention especially
called to the case of EIihu Burritt,
who became a llnguist while work,
ing at the forge. he replied that that
might all be so-hnt he had no
smlthery like Burritt! South Caro-
lima does not seem to have anything
now with which to make great men
the moUlds were broken when her
last one were made, from all the in
dications. Aud it does not appear
that men above mediocrity are
wanted.
The above thiuly coated SANDER
upon the people of South Carolina
is taken from the Memphis Com
merciaI-Appeal. It is evident that
this editors vision has been badly
,jaundiced and his mind poisoned by
reading systematic, lying dispatches
of the Associated press concerning
events in South Carolina. The men
who are controlling and shaping the
destinies Of the Palmetto State to-
day are not small men. save in the
eyes of their enemies and defamers.
They have proven themselves entire
ly too large aud heavy. for the as
plring remnants of the %autOcracy, in
every political joust. This old ste
reotyped whine about the decayed
grandeur aud greatness of Calhoun,
Pickney, Rhett, Preston, Lowndes
Brooks is hut idle rant and hubgud-
geon. Of what pray, did their pre-
eminent greatness consist other than
that they were the political leaders
of the State? If we are to Judge
them by the results of their political
scheming and craftsmanship they
were certainly magnificent failures.
Calhoun and his coterie daddied the
famous Notification Convention and
swore by all the Gods, both great
and small, they would run the coun-
try to suit their notions, but when
old Hickory Jackson put his foot
down on the plan they were com.
PEELED to eat crow and rescind their
ordinance.
The Rhetts and the later DAY
gang of great men, in spite of the
opposition of a majority of the PEG.
pie OF South Carolina and the dele.
gates to the Secession Convention
rushed the State and South into a
long, bloody war, which left the
country stripped of everything aud
PROSTATE under the heel of negro
and carpet'bag misrule, tyranny and
pluuder. What sta,esmanship!-
IIllman, Evans, Hemphi!l, Gary and
the men who are leading the reform
movement are as able, sincere and
patriotic as any of the men of a past
era. They redeemed the State from
the'unsold degradation of the Cham.
berIaln dynasty and have made made
it a white mans country. The car
cotty haired editor of Memphis
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19
One Thing anu & mother.


He is happiest who takes the
weather as it comes c%heerfa.ly.
Good thoughts are no better than
good dreams unless they are execu-
ted.
Strive to make every thing happy,
and you will make one at least So
yourself.
Deeds are fruits; words are but
leaves; words and leaves are noble
companions.
A grass widow is a woman whose
husband died OF the hay fever. This
is the new version.
The eagle is a tough bird, but
when it is put on the back of a dol
lar it is legal tender.
Never wait for a thing to turn up.
60 and turn it up yourself. 1t takes
less time, and is is surer to be done.
Boiled water tastes fiat and insi
pid because the gases it contained
dave beeU driven of by the heat.
Never purchase love or friendship
by gifts; when thus obtained they
are lost as soon as you stop pay
ment.
Money has some bad habits; it ia
often tight, and prosperous men gen
orally have some loose silver about
them.
There is a good deal of quarreling
in this world. and in a short time we
may expect 10 see the trees come to
blows.
Certain books appear to have
been written not to give instruction,
bat to indicate that the author knew
some thing.
1t is said that the light of q match
will brighten a volt, but a love
match sometimes fails to keep the
wolf from the door,
While sunlight is the most favor
able for hay-maklng, it is a we'll
known fact that wild oats are best
sown by moonlight.
A baby should never be shown to
a husband or 10 other men except
when in good temper, weIl-dressed
and thoroughly clean.
Up to the time Of Henry III, only
and brass were used for coin
age, gold being first coined in this
''""' Il" 'na' mug r'''0'
PROFESSIONAL gamblers nave a great
A'a"y S0petS'''''nS' one Oh Inc
most practicle is, that if they deal
oS'oS themselves tne' nave a
nucn De''er cnaoce 10 win.
we "e"' away Two 'nooe' VI s"oe
'o"'hef III d year. n pal: ol ooo's
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19

by virtue of a commission to me direct
D ed from the aforesaid court, / will sell
at public auction 60 the last and highest
bidder, at the courthouse in the town Of
Abbeville, .FerInilion Parish, Louisiana,
Oh Wednesday. the 9th day Of
November, 1895. the following des'
cribed property belonging to said success
sion, to wit
One lot of ground situated at PerTT'ss
Bridge. Vermilion parish, bounded on tle
north by bayou Vermilion, east By YAK
street, west by Prairie street, or 10y 9e-
longing to JOS. T. Labit and south by
Wine street. with dwelling house and In
proyements thereon.
One certain town lot situated in the
town of Perry's Bridge, parish of V.ernlil-
ion, having a front $50 feet 8 inches on
both Elm and Vine streets of said OVID
and being the southwest corner lot Of Ine
squares; bounded by Main, Cypress, Eim
and Vine streets.
Two certain town lots situated at Per
rvs Bridge, in the parish of Vermili0n.
having a front of two hundred and Sky
feet on Vine street running back TO In ~
bayou, and being lots numbers W anu g
of the original plan of said town as sup
posed and bounded north by bayou III
million. south by Vine street, east by Al
street. west by Oak street. less thai POI
ton sold to Sarah E. Stakes to her minor
sons r. and N. King.
One certain town lot situated at PeTTyss
Bridge, in this parish, having q FROM "
seventy-seven feet by a depth OF aDous
one hundred and twenty feet more "
less; bounded north hy bayou perml. lls,.s
east by Alfred Baudoin and west by Eim
street.
Another town lot situated in the IoWn
of Perry's Bridge. having q front OF ens
hundred feet on Elm street by q depth U
one hundred and twenty-nine feet ~ H.
bounded north by the first mentioned "
east by Alfred Baudoin, sout by 4. II
Maxwell and west by Elm street-,ana ~
theimDrovements situated on SAID iotS.
One lumber shed-one buggy HOUSE.
one corn crib and shed-sundry accounts
and notes due succession by various paA
ties
Terms &. Conditions:
One-half cash on day of sale and TOT lns
credit portion purchasers to furnlsD ~
promIssory notes payable twelve III.
after date to the order of B. l.. Roos. e.
ministrator, with in crest at the TUE Until
eight Per cent per annum from date unit nant
paid anu the usual clause of ten per toos
additional for attorney's fees ~ even r .
suit for collection, with two soiTtne s4 ~.
ties to the satisfaction Of the admlnissan
tor for all credit portion of persons lploa
erty. and for the credit portion OF VI 8.
estate vendors lien and privilege lo " NJ
tanned on said real estate until fui. a ~
final payment of all principal, ihteioss
and attorneys fees.
BIZ ROOT.
Administrator;
Mcdonald & Overton. attorneys. lShS
Charles, Louisiana. October .. lsSh
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Succession Sale.
18th Judicial District C~ourt-Parish of
Vermilion-No. 292.
Succession of A. l.. Leblanc.

By virtue of an order of sale issued out
of the Hon. nth Judicial District Court,
in ard for State and parish above men
toned in the matters of the above entitled
and numbered succession and to me di-
rected. | will proceed to sell at public
auction, to the last highest bidder. at the
court house in the town OF Abbeville, on
Wedn esday, October 80, 1895,
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Succession Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
18th Judicial District Court-Parish of8
Calcasleu-No. S8.

Succession of James and Sarah Root.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-10-19
Syndic Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA

Parish of Vernilion-l7th Jos,.,,,
District Court-No. 736.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
THE SENATE DOORKEEPER.

Mr. Bassett, the veteran doorkeeper
of the Senate. is reported to to be i'll. His
service in that position covers long
period, and during that time he has
and brilliant orators who have sat in the
Senate-Clay, Calhoun, Benton. Doug
las and the rest. His abiding love, how
ever, is for the memory of Webster.
1.-The earliest political event within
my recollection" he said, in converse
ton with friend some time ago, "oc-
Cured before was regularly enrolled as
a page, but | was on the floor at the
time and remember it distinctly. l re.
fer to the Webster-Hayne debate in
1880. The crowds thronged every bit of
space for seeing and hearing, and hun
dreds went away who could not get near
the room. 1t was wonderful scene'
webster was the more eloquent of
the two contestants, was he not?"
No. Hayne was more finished ora
tor than Webster, but Webster out
matched Hayne in craftsmanship. Web
ster had more of the natural bearing of
a great man than any of the persons l
have seen in public life since his day.
His voice was like a roll of thunder
Once he asked me to go out and order a
carriage for him. l came back and told
him could not find one. You get me a
carriage he commanded in tones which
fairly took me off my feet. Somehow,
after that. succeeded in finding one,
and it did not take long. either"
Andrew jackson, who was President
when Bassett began his career in the
government employ, he described as "a
tall. thin. soldierly man, who rode around
on horseback over the swamps on the
outskirts of Washington, where some Of
the finest residence quarters have since
sprung up.
81 remember, among other exciting
scenes | have witnessed here he went
on, the fight between Benton and Foote,
which ended by Foote'S dashing down
the center aisle with a long pistol,
cooked in his hand. Benton sprang on
top of his desk, threw open his coat, and
cried, dramatically: Shoot. you villain"
When Billy Brooks made his memora-
BILE assault upon Charles Sumner. it was
Bassett who assisted Sumner to the
cloak room and helped to battle his
wounds and prepare him for removal to
his home. The cane, the captain says,
was not made of wood, as SO often des-
cribed. but of gutta percha. 1t was
broken all to pieces.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09

rivals installation, since all we're equal
ly well lodged. Nothing at Futtipoor
Skirts more impressive than the view of
the walls and the strange outlines of
the structures towering above them,
when one leaves. at sunset, the gateway
IN the north where stand the two great
elephants of stone with interlinked
trunks, and descending the steep path
way, encountered with fallen fragments,
he reaches the isolated tower bristlipg
with elephants tusks. Here he may
look back to the deserted capital, or for.
ward to the western glow, beyond the
crumbling ruins of the last and outer
most wall, where the great vultures and
adjutant-storks balance themselves on
the broken battlements.-Eda Lord
Weeks IN Harpers Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
HAPPINESS AND RICHES,

The individual of limited means in
many cases signs for riches, fancying
that wealth and happiness are synonym
GUS. Frequently greatest scholars are
found in comparative poverty, and they
are said to have made an i'll use of their
education. Solomon indicates that the
pursuit of knowledge and the struggle
for riches seldom run in the same chan
mel, and it is fact that to serve two
masters is impossible: that is. it is i'm
possible to conserve two great interests
simultaneously. This, however, does
not initiate against education, nor yet
against the requirement of Compel
ency of this worlds goods, since it is
equally true that wealth without meae-
ure of learning cannot be acquired. 1t
indicates that the mastery in either de-
partment can only be gained by the sac
rifce of the other.
Wealth does not mean happiness. if
the testimony of the money kings of the
United States may be accepted as evil
dence. General Alger. of Michigan, has
said: "Men are no happier when rich
than poor" Once poor, now rich, he is
qualified judge. Gov. Morton, of New
York, says: Il do not think I am really
any happier than in my poorer, early
days. Happiness is in no sense depend
D.,ll
the palace and sleeping car magnate of
Illinois, testifies. II am not an iota hap
pier now than was in the days when I
had not dollar that could call my own
save that for which | worked" Russell
Sage, the famous Wall street financier,
says: Riches like everything else in life,
are all vanity and vexation of spirit.
Few people have an idea of the many
Inconvenience which wealth brings"
True; few realize the hardness of heart
it brings to some men making them i'm
pervious to the cry of misery and the
plant of suffering. John d. Rockefel-
Ter, the Standard Oil Company capital
ist, says: Wealth is more likely to bring
unhappinees than happiness"
Thus in the experience of men of the
present the verdict of sages of the past
is verified, attainment of wealth is not
synonymous with happiness. and the
question arises, where, then, shall happi-
ness be found?
Not in pleasure. Burns aptly wrote:
Pleasures are like peoples spread; you
seize the fower-its bloom is she'd"
The temporary nature of worldly pleas
ure is incompatible with happiness,
which to be real must be lasting, and
must bear no bitter fruit. Happiness is
as much gift of God as "the life ever
lasting and attainable only by the same
channel. my peace l give you," said
the Christ, mot as the world giveth."
This is true happiness, and is the abid-
ing kind Christian Herald.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09
HORTICULTURE.

The man whose soil is a good, strong
loan, and who will give his orchard ex.
ira care and attention, will make more
money from dwarf ears than from the
standard varieties; they should be graft
ed on the ounce, have good culture, and
the last years growth kept trimmed
back.
Roses may be increased by layering,
that is, taking strong shoot, cutting
slit in the stem and burying this cut un-
der the ground. If done in early sum
mer, roots will soon form, and by fall or
the next spring the shoot can be cut off
and the new plant started upon it own
hook.
1t is better practice to prune the apple
trees in the spring time when the leaves
are we'll started; the wounds then heal
more quickly and effectually. The ex-
tremes of winter weather are sufficiently
exhaustive to the tree without having
any supertiuous demands made upon it's
vital forces.
A few standard varieties of apples.
well grown and prepared for market, will
make a farms reputation. while, if there
be a score of kinde, there will not be
enough of any one to establish a name.
1t is wise even for the farmers of a GER
tain region to make reputation for
few standard things. suited to climate
and locality, and-t their fame will come.
Blighted leaves and branches on fruit
trees should be cut off and burned as
soon as discovered, otherwise the disease
spreads from branch to branch. The
past two or three seasons have been re.
markable for the presence of these
blights. and probably due to the dryness
of the soil,
Plow under rye, peas and millet in the
peach orchards, and they will do won
ders in changing the soil to rich, loose
feeding ground for the trees. Clover is
a little slow; but two crops of rye or
millet can be turned under each year,
and a green crop kept rotting for the
rootlets to feed upon the entire time.
Prune peach trees severely at planting.
and every year thereafter cut back the
seasons growth one-half, SO as to keep
the tree bushy and have fruit bearing
branches all over ii, rather than at the
top, which is usual. As a large number
of the trees planted in the fall do not
survive the winter. plant in the spring.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-09

to superintend their efforts; but the
time soon comes when they have
gained the inestimable ability to find
it no effort. | have had mothers
write me in behalf of children sixteen
years old, that Sarah or Harry were
$50 pleased with my Christmas giftp
But Sarah and Harry were never
pleased again, if they could not say
so themselves. / am like the won an
who said, 81 don't want people to
thank me, but | could kill them if
they don'tl"
The Encouragement of Candor.
XII. | encourage candor in my
family, but do not demand it. The
needless reticence about small mat
tiers which some young people think
they must use to preserve their dig
nifty, is easily laughed down. My
older boys have grown up with the
happy habit of saying, I'm going to
do so-and so;" but if they ever do say
merely, 81 am going out" l never ask
them, "Where?" knowing it would be
perfectly easy for them to evade an
swering, and add hypocrisy to reti-
cence.
And one thing more: l make a
point of giving them, not what l
would like to have them want, but
what | know they do want. Of
course don't mean that l give them
hurtful things, but | do give them
silly things, when they are at the
silly age.
So you will see that my pursuit of
happiness is built on Calmire's maxim
that it exists as much in ignoring as
in enjoying. And if ever am
tempted to make an effort for per-
lection, remember the woman in
Ruth McEnery Stuart's story: ellis
ma wuz powerful good woman; but
I've known heaps O wuss ones that
wuz pleasanter to live with"
NEW YORK CITY.