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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

Cotton is slowly advancing and
! 'ns chances are that the bear move.
Msn1 will fail. .Neilr's crop estimate
- way OF and when the short crop
oseoues generally known the prices
! VIII 60 higher.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

J. r. Legueoec returned last
Friday from a business trip to ST.
Louis, Mo.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

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Bodin Emile
Broussard Ii Use Miss
Broussard Hulini Miss
Berwick Joseph
(. BudWine John
G.
Conrad Oliver
Clark NJ. L.
; Contor G. l..
ID
Diear J. FL.
Ester John
G.
Gotleb T.
Henrais Tezaroh Miss
: Hebert joseph
Henry Edlar
Hunter Lizia Mrs.
James Matilda Mrs.
K
+ Kohn Julius
l..
Lee Jos
Leblanc L. O..
Leblanc G. Moster.
NJ.
Moss Robert
Meccann Eloiley
= Nethers Bette
Nunez jos
Oven Nargrete Mrs.
Z.
Porter Sarah
r.
Robertson Geo"
Stake Eufanie Miss
T.
Thomas Amos
w.
Walker Poster
W alker Silinia Mrs.
PARTIES calling for any of the, above let.
Will please say Letter AdveE.
Ged.
ERNEST. j. LYONS,
Postmaster.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

Spring HHl is coming to the front
10 the newspapers. Public road and
school house have stirred up the
people to write.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

l.. O. Broussard, cashier ofsthe
AbbeVilIe Bank returned home last
week from his vacation trip Ito
Cooper's veil.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

The. alter. season will soon: open
and judging from the number Of
places, IN town where they will be ON
sale, the price should lie. cheap.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

DR.. LeBlanc's Office has been
moved into position on the south
side Of his seidence and adjoining
DR.. >Kibbe's Office.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

Pears are unusually plentiful this
year, though the rains have caused
them to rot badly.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

Owing to the continued rains the
roads are becoming almost impass-
able in a number of places.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24
Town and Parish.

A mans troubles never come sing
y in this world.
Thursday morning was somewhat
like 40 Autumn morn.
Cotton is beginning to open some
INIT the wet weather retards it.
Mrs. D. W. Wall left Thursday
i. for her home in Abbeville.-Optic.
The Jennings Fair will take place
at that foprishiug town on October
1913.
J. r. Legueoec returned last
Friday from a business trip to St.
Louis, Mo.
Pears are unusually plentiful this
year, though the rains have caused
them to rot badly.
Owing to the continued rains the
roads are becoming almost impass-
able 10 a number of places.
L. O. Broussard, cashier of9the
AbbeyilIe Bank returned home last
week from his i. vacation trip Ito
Cooper's veil.
Spring Fill is coming to the front
10 the newspapers. Public road and
school house have stirred up the
people to write.
DR.. LeBlanc's office has been
moved into position on the south
side of his seidence and adjoining
DR.. ,Kibbe's Office.
The. alter. season will soon: open I
and judging from the number Of
places, IN town where they will be ON
sale, 1.-The price should Le CHEAP.
Mrs. Anna DelOude went over to
New Iberia last Wednesday morn
ing and will remain there a few days
visiting friends and acquaintances.
W.O.yPipes has. ell the lumber
and material on the ground far the
erection Of o residence on bis lot on
upper Main street just opposite the
Convert.
The" -Four, Houndred" of Able
vile gave a nice hop at the. French
hall Tuesday night. which was we'll
attended and every body had a most
enjoyable time. :,
j. RKitchell, Esq. our. efficient
superintendent of parish public
schools, returned Monday from az
extended visit to- his old home iu
lafayette county, Mississippi.
Misses Myrtle and Lily Cord Of
AoOevllle who have, been visiting
NIT. iaylor's for some time, went to
Live Oak Sunday 10 company with
.Danie Foutz.-Lsakeside Review
cotton 10 slowly advancing and
ING chances are that the bear. move. I
l'snt will fail. .NeilPs crop estimate t
- way of and when the short crop I
0scones generally known the prices l
Will go higher.
ros'nas'er Ernest J. Lyons, of G
Ao0eSllle accompanied by a party b
u ia0les from the same place, was d
-'oAfa she steamer Alvin as it pass r
: fa1'ersou last Monday, on the t
ssY 10 New Orleans.-Optic. I
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-08-24

George P. Tinker, a composition
on the Times Democrat, is undoubt'
eddy the fastest typesetter in the
world. On last Sunday night he
set8l,g4l ems in s hours and cor.
rected the, proofs. i He performed
the marvellous feat On q type,setting
machine. By hand it would take q
fast type setter from eight. to ten
days to have accomplished the work
that Mr.. Tinker didin eight hours.
The Alvin met With quite an
accident on her last trip. Sunday
morning about three o'clock while
making a landing at Donaldsonyille.
the stage geariDgs gave away and
the stage, striking the. wharf tore
away the front :of. the upper deck
and the smoke stacks, a deckhand
named Vim Jackson got tangled up
in a rope and had. his leg cut off.
The boat had the damage repaired
after a delay OF "a hours and arri-
we'd here Thursday night.
One night when Mr.. Isaac Reese
was stopping With me, says NJ. F.
Hatch, a prominent merchant of
Quartermaster, Washington, ! heard
him groauing. On going to- his
room | found him suffering from
cramp collie. He was in such agony
[ feared he would die. E / hastily
gave him a dose of Chamberlain'sI
Cholera and Diarrhoeas Rem
edy. He was soon relieved and the
first words he uttered were, "what
was that stnf you gave me I iu.l
form him, A few days ago we were
about his attack and he said
be was never without that remedy
DOW. / have used it 10 my family
for several years. Il know its worth
and do not hesitate to recommend it
to my friends and customers. For
sale by r. f. Mills Drug Co., Limi-
ted.
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lTo DE Continued
OUARRYlNG IN INDIA.
Thirty Pounds of Stone Broken Up by
One Pound of Wood.

Thirty Pounds OF Stone Broken UP Dy
One Pound of Wood.
At Bangalore, in southern India, the
ouarrying of granite slabs by means OF
wood fire has been brought to such
perfection that an account of the
method is interesting. The rock forms
solid masses uninterrupted by cracks
for several hundred feet, and when
ouarried over an area is treated as fol-
lows: A narrow line of wood fire, per-
haps seven feet long, is gradually
elongated, and at the same time moved
forward over the tolerably even sur
face of solid rock. The line of the
general splitting Of the rock is
made by the fires of light wood,
which have been left burning in
their position until strokes with ham
mer indicate that the rock in front OF
the fire has become detached from the
main mass underneath. The burning
wood is then pushed forward q few
inches, and left until the hammer again
indicates that the slit has extended.
Thus the fire is moved on, and at the
same time the length of the line OF fire
is increased and made to be convex on
the side of the fresh rock, the max
imum length Of the arc amounting to
about twenty-five feet. 1t is only on
this advancing line of fire that any
heating takes place, the portion which
has been trayersed being left to itself.
This latter portion is covered with the
ashes left by the wood, and with thin
splinters which have been burst off.
These splinters are only of about one
eighth of an inch in thickness and q
few inches across. They are quite in
dependent of the general splitting OF
the rock, which is all the time going
on at depth of about five inches from
the surface. The burning lasts eight
hours, and the line of fire advances al
the average rate of nearly six feet
an hour. The area actually passed
over by the line of fire is 400 square
feet, but, as the crack extends about
three feet on either side beyond the
. fire, the area of the entire slab which
is set free measures about 740 square
. feet. All this is done with, may be
J, about IS hundredweight of wood. TAX
/ ing the average thickness of the ston'
: at five inches, and its specific gravit.
at 2.69, the result is 80 pounds o
:. stone quarried with one pound OF wood
}, Nature.
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that perilous ride, though all had
heard Mrs. Downeys cries and means
and appeals for aid, and some one
might have volunteered and been al
lowed to 90, but not until Leon was
well on his way. True, had Downey
been there he would not have permit
ted the sacrifice, and was now ready to
bitterly upbraid his weaker half for in
spring it. A good woman in many
way was Mrs. Downey, and very fond
of the boys, Randall and Leon, but the
least pain On illness Frustrated her, and
serious pain frightened her to the
verge of distraction. All this Leon was
too young to appreciate. He believed
her suffering terribly and in dire need,
as did all who heard her, perhaps, but
Kelly's girls and her own Mexican
maid of all work-and so, just as he
thought Randy would have done had
he been there, he determined to go
and went withouta q word to Crane, who
might have stopped him, as, indeed,
Mrs. Downey was shrewd enough to
declare he would if he happened to hear
of it.
And now Crane and his party were
well away into the Socorro in pursuit
and Kelly, returning wrathful to his
home, was anticipated in his search fol
Leon by the coming of Turner's troop
followed within moment or two by
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anything would stir old Kelly's wrath,
to the nethermost depths it was the
faintest hint that he ever used SO much.
as single cartridge of all the ordnance
stores confded to his care. :,
""Tis no time for settling our scores,
Phil Downey, or you and would ex-
pind few ass as soldiers and
sintlemcn did in the days when
more gintlemen and fewer frauds
were soldering. Go to yer wife
that's always dyin' if she has an ear
ache, and I'll to mine, that's never,
known what 1t was to whimper, and
she and l will see what we can do to;
find the brave little lad that's gone to.
die for you and yours-for by me sowl'
the hand that lit yon blazing signal;
was his, as sure as this" and he
clinched hairy fist under Downey's
nose, ''is at yer service in any way yell
have it, Mr.. Phil Downey-an' it won't
be the first batin' 1t gave ye."
With that he turned his back on a
shame-faced groupan strobe fierceT
away in the direction of his home.
Never until that instant had 1t seemed
to dawn upon them that by any human
possibility Leon had striven to return
had found the Indians interposed be-
tween him and the old post in the
valley, and then realizing what its
original projectors had not thought
possible that the Indians had probably
so closely invested the post itself as to
prevent anyone's getting out to fire
the beacon-he had rislsed his own
brave life in the attempt; had given
the signal that brought rescue to them
at the gallop, and in so doing had
betrayed his own presence to the
lurking foe. Here again, therefore
was case where the ground remained
In The hands of one party, but all the
telling blows were dealt by the other
The soldiers had tslt the sting o.
Kclly's words. True, no one OF theil
number had been ordered to rrak'
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foothills without discovering anything
of the enemy. A few minutes later
horse recognized as Private Rafferty's,
of c troop, came riderless and wounded
into the post, and | had just dispatched
Capt. Turner with his troop at day
break to scout the country along the
Prescott road, when the flaming signal
at the butte told that the Indians had
worked around to the valley to the west
of us. Leaving Capt. Raymond with
the infantry and his half troop to
guard the post, | proceeded with Troop
f (Turner's) to this point, reaching
here after q sharp trot in less than an
hour and quarter, only to find the
Indians fed with some stock from
Kelly's ranch and Lieut.. Crane al
ready in pursuit. The only casualty
in the valley thus far reported is one
Mexican herder killed at Kelly's, and,
l regret to add, the probable loss OF a
gallant little fellow, Leon MacNutt,
whose pony was found few minutes
ago at the foot of the butte with three
Apache arrows through him. 1t is
feared that the boy has been killed or
run off by the Indians, who are report
ed to have fed into the Businesses OF
the Socorro, to the north of us. If so,
between Capt Fosters troop, already
in the field, and those here at hand, /
hope to make short work of them.
And here Maj, Thornton was inter
rupted by the entrance of the ordnance
sergeant. 1t must be remembered now
that old Kelly had served in Arizona II
his dragoon days, before the war, and
had Just completed another period o.
five long years with the Eleventh cav
airy, the predecessors of Thornton
regiment. Like every other old sol
dier, he was inclined to the belief tina
newcomers had very much to learn
and, as we have seen, the Indians them
selves were taking advantage OF thi
inexperience. Kelly couldn't be dis
respectful to an officer, but he ha'
much to say, and there was no time t
be lost.
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Self-Bitten.

About quarter Of century ago
Beranger's "Grisette" was performed at
one of the theaters. The part Of Lisette
was allotted to Virginie Deiazet. This
popular actress, then advanced in
years, had lost all her teeth, and, to do
Justice to the new role, she had or
dered fresh set. AS the teeth felt I'M
comfortable, she took them out when
the play was over and put them in her
pocket. When in the green-room she
incautiously sat down, and immediate
ly jumped up with scream.
"What is the matter?" inquired oui
jolly old friend, Adolph Dennery.
Nothing" said Mile. Dejazet. 81
have only bitten myself. ."-Revu'
Theatrale.
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al cold Wenther Joke.

A business man came down to his Of
fee on winter morning when it was
bitterly cold.
"Whewl how cold it Isl" he said to one
of the clerks Just shut that safe, If
you please" !"
The clerk obeyed, with q puzzled
look. Then, when he could restrain
his curiosity no longer, he asked;
Excuse me, sir, but why did you tell
me to shut the safep"
"Why," replied his employer, with a
sly chuckle, ''there are good many
drafts in that safe"
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a BROKEN HEART.
llIttle china figure

Allttle china figure
On little bracket sat,
His little feet we're always crossed,
He wore little hat,
And every morning, fair or foul,
In shine or shadows dim,
A pretty little housemaid came
And softly busted him.
She took him up so gently,
And with such q charming air,
His china soul was melted quite,
He loved her to despair
All day he sat and thought OF her,
Until the twilight came,
And in his china dreams at night
He broathcd her little name.
One day, whilst being busted,
In his Joy he tremblod so,
To feel her little fingers, that,
Alas she let him go,
In vain she tried to grab him back,
Fate wllled it they should part;
he fell against the fender edge
And broke his little heart.
She gathered up his fragments,
And she told q little lie.
Expounding to the mistress how
The cat had made him die.
And on the following morning, when
The shutters back she thrust,
She spoke his little epitaph:
'Thcre's one thing loss to dust"
Pail Mall Magazine.
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ever ready stack ofwood and steal back
to his lair They were talking of it
when broad daylight and Kelly came in
together.
1.-THE blackguards ran off my mules"
he said, with fierce oath, 'and killed
poor Bustamente. There can't be more'n
six all told. Can't the lieutenant spare
me few men to go after them? They've
all skipped off for the Socorro." But
Crane said he'd go himself with dozen
men if need be, for he had been chafng
at the idea of having done nothing at
all and was eager to retrieve himself
ere relief could reach them and the
chance be gone.
''The bottom must be clear if you
came across from the butte" he said,
."and very likely they'll run for all they
are worth"
"Yes, the bottoms clear enough, sir,
though l haven't been near the butte
-"
"You haven't? Then who fred the
beacon?"
"I'm sure 1 don't know, sir, I
thought, of course, some of this party
had been sent over to do So"
And then men began looking into
each others faces, bewildered. If not
by some one at Kelly's or here at the
post who could have scaled the butte
and started the signal fireP Already
lookout, pecring eastward through the
lieutepant's binocular, reported a dust
cloud far up, the rise toward the new
post-the coming of the reinforcements
and if Crane meant to do anything at
all now was the time.
'I'll leave you to find out who did it,
sergeant" he said. "We1l go on after
the mules. Perhaps the Apaches did it
themselves as joke"
"Apaches don't joke" growlcd the
old man, with gloomy face, as the de-
tachment trotted away. "Thcre's been
no Joke from one end of this night to
the other but there's been some stupid
laundering on somebody's part, or I'm
a recruit" And then, turning to one
of his daughters, who stood silently by
he said, briefly: "Fctch me the pony,
Kate. I'll ride back to your mother"
"Sure, didn't you know yet. father
Twas Leon took it to ride to the fort
for medicine for Mrs. Downey."
And thus for the first time was the
veteran trooper made aware that his
little friend and founding had dared
that midnight ride. Fiercely he broke
forth
"And was there no man among ye?
he turned to the silent group of soldiers
left behind. mo man among ye fit Il
do mans work that ye should let
boy baby ride into the teeth of then
:, Indian divils? Where were you, Phi
Downey, that you should send XII
like that for yer wife's poppy sauce?"
!, "Where was l but tending to my owl
business, as you were, Sergt. Kelly,
answered the other veteran, stoutly
. for between the two ex-dragoons an
rival ranchmen little love was wasteo
y "Of course, if I'd been here, 'tisn't Leo
or anybody else would have gone fo
medicine but me, as you ought to hav
!, sense enough to know if you weren't s
- keen to be saddling blame on other fe
d lows shoulders and so diverting it frol
;. your own. Me and Mike spent tn
~ night at our ranch, as you did at your
u u and niver came up till we heard th
y firing" And Downey's eyes fashe
Il angrily on his more prosperous neigl
. Dor. II haven't a gov'ment post or
. gov'ment arsenal to dhraw on to defin
u u me property and have to do it meself
- - he added in whitening sarcasm, and
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-20
matrimonial Item.

Col Yerger--I hear your son is going
to get married.
Judge Peterby-Yes; he is about to
become Benedict.
"Why don't you make him wait until
he is older and gets more sense?"
"Humphl If he should get sensible
spell he would not marry at ALL
Texas Siftings.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-20
We All Eat!

OCCASIONAL self-inficted starvation is not one
of the fads of the nineteenth century. 1t If
stylish to eat. And, since custom and nature
both demand it, and
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-20

Mother Goose ModeFnized.
uHowdy. pretty gentleman,
WHITTIER do you roami"
"Looltlng up q poker gamei
Wlfe's away from home"
IN Y Recorder
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-20
You Must Eat,

why not use groceries that are fresh! They
cost no more; look best taste best and are best
for freshness ir things eatable is divine attrl~
butte. Wilder & Vincent keep stock OF gro
ceries that is superlatively fresh (and they keeI
nothing but what is fresh.) TEL No. T.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-23
PENNSYLVANIA SUFFERS.
Destructive Cloudbursts in the Coal
ana Iron Regi0ns-NO Loss OF
Life Reported.

Dunbar, Pc, July %. - Last nights
food and storm did great damage. The
Presbyterian parsonage was struck by
lightning and partially destroyed. Many
buildings are badly damaged. The tele-
graph poles along the Baltimore & Ohio
road were blown down and the track be.
tween Dunbar and Uniontown was
washed out for over a half mile. The
mines and coke works of this section are
flooded and much damage has resulted.
Many houses we're swept away, but, as
far as known, the occupants escaped to
the mountains. The heavy hail storm
which followed worked destruction to
farms.
Connellesville, Pa.-The heaviest rain
storm in this vicinity for years Gu niua-
ted last night ia a cloud burst, resulting
in an immense loss of property. As far
as known no lives we're lost.
Bradford, Pa.-A cloud burst occurred
here last night. All railroads are blocked
BY washouts and bridges are swept away.
II is impossible to reach Scottdale, where
the worst of the trouble is feared.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-23
BANN0CKS ON THE WAR PATH
Further BlOOdshed Expected Before
JacksOn's Hole Troubles Are
Finally Settled.
Indians Evidently Preparing to Fight
Many Have Gone to the Scene
Opinion at tAgency that Federal
Troops Must be Used.

Pocatello, Idaho, July 2s.-As the Ban,
mock Indian agency, twelve miles north
here, those in authority do not believe
that the trouble in the Jackson Hole
country can possibly reach final settle
ment now without more bloodshed. The
Indian police as a rule are Indians first
and police afterward, and evidently have
made report to their brother braves,
for almost every able-bodied Bannock
has decamped for the scene of the trou-
BILE.
From some of the most respected po-
lice, it is learned that many Indians who
are apparently returning to their homes,
have said that they we're taxing their
squaws and papooses home to the reser-
vation, and would return to- see the white
men in the Jackson Hole country. Agent
letters has gone on a trip through the
jackson Hole country on horseback. 1t
is the general opinion at the agency that
the Bannock braves can not be brought
WASHINGTON VIEW OF BANNocK TROUBLE.
Wash1ngton.-The Indian Office is still
without recent official information re-
garding the alleged Bannock outbreak in
Idaho. The Bannocks are we'll known as
peaceful Indians and the officials are sure
they can not be guilty of the outbreak.
If, as dispatch states, thirteen Ban
nocks have been shot by the settlers for
no graver offense than killing game, it is
not thought wonderful that the others
are in an excited and threatening state.
1t is not believed in this case that there
is any danger of their making war on
those who do not molest them. 1t is
freely stated at the Office that there is a
class. of men in jackson Hole country,
who make practice of systematically
exaggerating all Indian troubles with a
view to securing the presence of U. s.
troops on the scene.
PRINCETON STUDENTS SAFE.
New York.-B. Forsythe Little, father
Of B. Forsythe Little, jr., one of the party
of Princeton students, now in Wyo-
ming, has received the following dis
patch to-day from Capt. A. s. Anderson,
U. s. A., in command of the troops in
Yellow Stone park: Fountain Geyser,
July 23.-The Princeton party is all
right, no trouble, everybody here
perfectly well.-(signed) A. s. Anderson.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-23
ASSAILED BY BRUTES.
shocking Outrage Perpetrated by
Fiends lncarnate in Nebraska
Three Farmers Arrested.

Shelton, Neb., July 23.-Sheriff Dean,
of Grand Island, last evening arrested
Samuel and William Hough and Solomon
Oswolt, on complaint of Miss Emily
Caterlin, who lives with her brother on a
farm about seven miles northwest of this
place. Miss Caterlin's brother was alb
sent from home, on Saturday night, and
she heard some one knock at the door,
and, supposing it was her brother re-
turning, got up to admit him. Upon
opening the door she was struck over the
head with club and dragged into the
yard by three men. who. after outraging
her, forced pointed stick about three
inches in length into her person and left
her. The girl claims that she recognized
as her assailants the parties now under
arrest, who are all farmers and we'll con-
nected. They claim to be greatly as
tonished and say they can easily prove
an alihi.