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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

The Teche aud Vermilion tele.
phone line will probably be extended
from Abbeville through the Garland
and Gueydan neighborhoods to Lake
Arthur, Crowley and possibly Jen-
nings.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01


John A. Morris, the millionaire
capitalist and race horse man, who
attained great prominence in the
last state campaign by reason Of his
famous lottery OF "~reyenae amend
ment" died of apoplexy last Sunday
at 7:l6 p. m. at his big rancho near
Kenville, Texas. His remains were
taken to New Orleans for intermeut,
and after services at Christ Church
they were placed in the family vault
in the Notary cemetary, Thursday
afternoon.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

z. B. Broussard, who has been
attending the E. A. Seminary School
at Arcadia, La, returned home last
week.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

ThecorD crop all over the parish
IS in splendid condition and if no
unforeseen calamity occurs the yield
this fill will be something enormous.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

Mrs. o. G. Jones private school
will give a public exhibition next
mouth in order to assist in raising
a fund to procure the necessary
outfit for a kinder garten. 1t is
generally admitted that this system
of teaching the little lots is by for
the best known and we hope that
Mrs. Jones will be successful in her
efforts to establish this praiseworthy
enterprise.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

The posts for the telephone line be-
tween here and AbbevilIe are up and
inc line will soon be in operation.
We are told that DR.. W. G.. Young.
Oh this city, and Mr.. John Abshire
are the owners of this enterprise
Crowley Signal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

District Court will open here
next Monday for a civil term. The
docket we understand is tot very
yoluminous.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

IF any one has noticed our pub,
Usher putting on any extra airs and
stepping higher than usual this week
they must not think that il is his
way of rejoicing oyer-the income tax
law knocked out by the y. S. Su-
pleme Court. Oh, no /! he is all right
on that score, but the real cause of
his elevation is that our good friend
and neighbor Ophelias Bourque, of
the State street mercantile emporium
has presented him with a fine meer-
schaum pipe. Want somebody give
him the tobacco necessary to cure il ?
The different public school of the
parish assembled here last Saturday,
scholars and teachers, with a good
number of the parents of the little
ones and had a very pleasant time
at the courthouse. We regret our
inability to furnish a detailed ac-
count Of these proceedings, but
content ourselves by saying that
they reflect credit and honor upon
Parish Superintendent j. r. Kitcheh
and his corps of able teachers. The
threatening weather caused an aban
donment Of the picnic at Conlee
Kinney Bridge, but everybody en-.
joYed themselves equally well in
town.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

Miss Laura Haynes, the handsome
school teacher of the town school
left for her home 10 Mississippi
Thursday.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

+. w ' VIZ Ho ~
Of Sheriff of the parish of Vermlllon at the
election in April 1896.
Town and Parish. RI
TO the Citizens of VerIniIiOn
Parish.
IT. il rather embarrassing to apply to
+ba voters at so early Il date. but seeing
sn many applicants for the office of sheriff
and at the solicitation of my friends,
announce myself as a candidate for the
on Iuno 1-,95. E. W. GAspARD.
Rene Boudreaux is visiting Pat
tersou this week.
The weather has been very close
for the past few nights.
Miss Mary Theus of Arcadia, La,
is visiting our town aud the guest
of Mrs. S. P. Watts.
-~e-
Col. Moses Mayor, is in town
This week in the interest of the
tobacco and cigar trade.
Miss Marie Broussard OF Maurice.
vile, who has been visiting Patterson
returned home last Sunday.
Gabe Leblanc went over to New
Iberia last Saturday 10 attend the
races and returned Monday.
z. B. Broussard, who has been
attending the E. A. Seminary School
at Arcadia, La, returned home last
week.
Miss Laura Haynes, the handsome
school teacher of the town school
left for her home 10 Mississippi
Thursday.
District Court will open here
next Monday for a civil term. The
docket we understand is Tot very
y%oluminous.
ThecorD crop all over the parish
IS in splendid condition and if no
unforeseen calamity occurs the WELD
this full will be something enormous.
The Teche and Vermilion tele.
phone line will probably be extended
from Abbeville through the Garland
and Gueydan neighborhoods to Lake
Arthur, Crowley and possibly Jen-
nings.
The advent of warm weather has
stirred up The bile Of several of our
citizens and scrappiDg matches have
resulted. The town treasury and
the constable have accordingly been
benefited.
The posts for the telephone line be-
tween here and AbbevilIe are up and
the line will soon be in operation.
We are told that DR.. w. G. Young.
OIL THIS city, and Mr.. John Abshire
are the owners of this enterprise
Crowley Signal.
The steamer Assumption, arrived
here at daylight Sunday with a fine
freight. She is a handsome boat,
equipped in first class st,l lie and is
100 vide to pass through the bayou
oridge at this place. She left for
new Orleans, Monday.
80
Those Of our people who went to
houston report having had a pretty
GOOD time but had great difficulty
IN procuring acceptable lodging.
soons were very scarce and but
,,'''e system prevailed for providing
wy visiting strangers with accommo.
cations after the hotels were filed
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

List of unclaimed letters, remaining
in the AbbeVilIe postoffice, May 81,
1895.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

The Houston I. o. o. F. lodge
nas arranged for q grand excursion
new Orleans on June 8 from all
.eAas and Louisiana points along the
s1ae Of the Southern Pacific and
ieHas Pacific roads. Tickets will
oe good for three days and the fare
.'oh crowley will be $3.50 for the
QUAD trlp.-Crowley Signal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

Parties calling for any Of the above let
tiers, will please say He -er Aafver-
Gased.
ERNEST j.. LYONS,
Postmaster.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

The steamer Assumption, arrived
mere at daylight Sunday with a foe
freight, She is a handsome boat,
equipped in first class ST., lie and is
100 vide to pass through the bayou
ofldge at this place. She left for
New Orleans, Monday.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1895-06-01

Those Of our people who went to
houston report having had a pretty
GOOD time but had great difficulty
n procuring acceptable lodging.
Rooms were very scarce and but
n''e system prevailed for providing
Wy visiting strangers with accommo.
oa1lons after the hotels were filed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-21
ODD FELLOWS.
The Kennebec Valley Lodges Hold District
Meeting in this City.

The Odd Fellows of the Kcnncbcc Val
lev he'd a grand district meeting, Friday
evening. in the rooms of Asylum Lodge
of this city.
There were visitir lodges from Vassal-
boro, Coopers Mills, Winthrop, Hallowoll,
Gardiner and Richmond, and the quarters
of the local lodge was crowded with the
merry gathering.
The several degrees were excmplified by
different degree staffs, and received in
structions from the Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Maine, Clarence NJ WIT
son OF Biddeford.
The initiatory degree was performed by
Asylum Lodge the first degree by Sanhorn
Lodge of Hallowell, the second by Crystal
Lodge of Winthrop. and the third by Asy
lum Lodge.
After the exercises the mcmb, rs ad-
jonrned to the banquet hall, whtre at the
long table they enjoyed in way for which
Odd Follows are fam Ous.an oyster supper,
served in W. II. Johnson's best style.
There were Address and speeches and
the evening was pleasantly passed with
general Sociability.
There were many officers present from
the neighboripg lodges, and in all there
were 800 Odd Fellows, one Of the largest
ootbnrinps which has over come together
in this section.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-21
Christmas Time Notices.

Mrs. T.. c. leighton S north window is
attracting good deal of attention. A
beautiful Christmas tree is the back
ground OF the picture and here we have
the sight of real Christmas winter scene.
probably the only we shall enjoy this
Christmas. Little Jack Horner does not
oppear in his usual selfish role OF
picking out ali the plums for himself.
Maybe he has grown older and more
generous at all events. We find him
in this case with his pretty sled drawn G
an immense plum pie, which he propos Is
TO distribute to the good children Of
Augusta under ten years of age. The
first fifty children who put in an appear
anca on Christmas eve at p. NJ, will
have the privilege, without cost, of putting
in thumb and drawing out of this
huge pie a'.plum" which will when re-
vealed prove to be q neat little present.
The Guppy drug store, &c. E. Hutchins)
have in its window, ard show case,
some very desirable Christmas presents.
The cut glass perfumery bottles, the
odd shaped shaving mugs, and the fine
line of perfumery. become doubly at
tractive, when You consider the low
prices at which they are sold. Expenses
being less on the hill, prices should
naturally he less. Test this, and save q
longer walk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-21

her head the characteristic bandanna, on
the other the face of a representative
negro familiar to the American public.
that OF the late Frederick Douglass, who
honorahly filled the important positions
to which he was called.
We have seen and heard enough to
cause US TO believe that, in recognizing
the colored people and their work, and in
allowing them to demonstrate their ad
vancement along the line of moral, in
tellectual and material progress, Atlanta
did more nobly and won for herself a
better place in history, than did Chicago
VINO refused to extend TO them a like
privilege
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-21

Cony Sturgis. Bowdoin 30. arrived
home. Friday, for the Christmas holidays.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-21

Bright fresh holly received, today, for
Xmas at Partridge, opposite post office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-21

Arthur Mason Of Bowdoin College, ar
rived home, FRIDAY, TO spend the holidays
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-21
MEDICAL CLU6.
Organization Of Augusta Medical Men 'ol
Discussion OF Medical Subjects.

A meeting was held Friday evening. In
the common council rooms in Opera
hous, block for the permanent organlza-
ton of local medical society. which will
be known as The Medical Club Of Au-
gusta.
The following officers were elected
President Oliver W. Turner, NJ d. vice
president. r. b. Hrl, N. d. secretary
and treasurer. G. NJ Randall, NJ. ID.
standing committee O. 5. G. Davies,
NJ. D.. J. f. Tuell. NJ d, 6. K. Brick
EFT, NJ. ID.
The purpose Of the society is for the
mutual advancement of the medical pro-
fession in Augusta and monthly meet
ings for the discussion Of and reading
parers on medical subjects of local ard
general interest.
The meeting was well attended and
much interest In the movement was man
ifsetcd.
MIS-. Isaiah Halves of Riverside who
who has been critically i'll at her daugh-
tcr's home on Winthrop street, j. reported
to be improving,
Bright fresh holly received, today. for
Xmas at Partridge, opposite post Office.
Cony Sturgis Bowdoin 30. arrived
ho,,o Uridav for rhs Christmas holidays
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-21
Children Cry for
Pitchers CaStorias
Died.
KESSEBRC.

Augusta. Dec. II, Miss Eunice Fletcher. aged
o. wears months, aud g days.
HalIowell-Nov. II. John w. Stockwell, aged
Il wears, months and day,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25

Gone day she excused herself for taking
wine, saying, i have to take it to keep up
She told me she always used stimulants
and drank sherry especially, because DIR.
Agard wouldn't let her take strong opiates
for the pain in her head.
"She used to complain about that pain
and said, There's a roaring in my head,
and l sometimes feel like running away
from myself, the pain is so great
"She said the roaring in her head
seemed like great wheels going round
r. G. Brown, an old acquaintance of the
Merritts. occupied the chair for few mo-
ments, and then the defense assured Judge
Hawley that they had no more witnesses
to introduce.
Editor Bartlett, the man who resembles
the late Frank NJ. Pixley, laid aside his
editorial cares for another day and came
into court again to tell of Mrs. Garcelon's
managerial ability in domestic matters.
miss Mcclellan had an imperious tenn
per-" said the witness, "and would have
controlled the house if it had not been for
Mrs. Garcelon.
"She was very polite old lady and
would often shift responsibility on to Pur-
rington. But she was always the control
ling mind"
'Why do they call you Dr.. Bartlett?"
asked Philbrook, recalling his feet that he
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25

rit, well, suppose. you boys will get
this house, and he said, No, captain we
have got all we can get; if we get any more
Well have to fight for 1t. T"
who paid your expenses to come down
here to this trial?" asked Rodgers.
Some one did; [ didn't pay my way,
ana | didn't come down here for nothing,
that's sure"
The defense received permission TO in
troduce witness who had been unable to
attend earlier in the trial. and Mrs. S. G.
Wyand, Mrs. Garcelon's dressmaker. was
put on the stand.
''She told me-" said this woman who
had lived in hopes of a comfortable COM
petence, repsssedly referred to by Mrs.
Garcelon, but which the will made no
mention OF, "that she was saving nest
egg for me, as she termed it. She told me
that she would pay off the $500 mortgage
on my house, and after that she said
Stephen objected that she was spending
too much money, and added, but I'll pay
1t just as soon as | can
No; the money was never paid"
u used to see her a great deal and she
was very confidential with me.
"Once she said, i have great response
bility with this property and can't sleer
nights. Ii the doctor had only let me
know what he wanted done with the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25

offer. Levy wired and wrote his principal,
who demanded better terms. An immedi-
ate acceptance of her proposition was tele-
graphed her and signed contract for a
two weeks engagement forwarded by mail.
Then an account of the transaction was
printed in THE CALL, as the contract was
considered to have been definitely closed.
The next day the story appeared in the
Los Angeles papers. That was where the
trouble began. T. Daniel Frawley was
showing in the southern city with his
company. He called upon Lady Douglas
and found, as he had expected, that she
had not yet signed the contract with the
Peoples Theater. Mr.. Frawley offered
her twice the amount Mr.. Levy had con-
tIacted with Mr.. Clayton for, and Lady
Douglas and ernobIe husband succumbed
to the superior pile of ducats.
Lady Sholto has never done anything
but songs and dances, but her stage ex-
perience has been limited and her musical
education of the most superficial character.
She has never essayed anything in the line
of the legitimate drama. which she will
have an opportunity to do in Mr.. Fraw-
ley company.
The story of Mr.. Frawley's coup was
telegraphed to San Francisco at once.
Neither Mr.. Clayton nor Mr.. Levy could
believe it. They at once telegraphed the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25

ing, but as we had just answered Mr.. Levy's
telegram an hour before thought it unneees-
sary to answer yours. My wife, Lady Douglas
has already signed contract at salary of
$500 week, engaging herself to the Frawley
Company. Yours truly, SHoLTo DOUGLAS
AZ consider that Lady Sholto is under
contract to appear at my. theater next
Monday" said Mr.. Clayton yesterday. II
engaged her through her authorized agent
and refused engagements to other people
on that account. | shall certainly hold
her to a strict legal accountability"
What steps will you take ?" was asked.
~ will first have an injunction issued to
stop her from playing with Frawley next
week After that viii bring suit for dam
ages for breach of contract"
CLAYTON is not the only one mourning
the fickleness of the pretty Lady Sholto.
The dispatches state that on October I last
she signed a three months'icontract with
George G. Thompson and Edward Shea of
Boston. This contract does not expire till
December IA. Thompson and Shea
threaten suit, but Mr.. trawley says their
contract contains a defect that renders it
worthless.
Her ladyship evidently thinks as Fraw-
lev does. At any rate all her preparations
are being made to accompany that man
ayers company Her last move was to
send to a local gallery in this City for a
hundred of her latest pictures. They are
being printed as fast as the recent cloudy
weather will permit and will be sent on to
Lady Sholto, who will probably not be
seen in this City till she comes with the
Frawley Company.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25

them. T. Daniel Frawley has the young
woman in his company now, though, and
the other two managers are threatening
lawsuits and injunctions and all sorts Of
costly legal expedients to win the peerless
to their respective stages.
George L. Clayton of the Peoples Thea
ter is the local manager to suffer. Lady
Sholto had empowered Archie Levy, the
amusement agent, to book her here and
for route to the East. She wrote her
agent a personal letter, which was repro
duced exclusively in THE CALL, in which
she gave him full power to contract for
her, reserving only the right to refuse to
sing in places where the actresses had to
solicit drinks in private boxes
Clayton recognized her ladyship's value
as a drawing card and accepted Leyy's
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25
ASSOCIATED CLUBS.
Committees Appointed by President
White for the Ensuing
Xaar

President Harlow Fl. White of the Cali
fornia Associated Cycling Clubs has an
nounced the following committee appoint
ments for his term of Office:
Membership and interclub relations-W. o.
Johnson, chairman, California Cycling Club;
H. W. Spalding, CALL Bicycle Club; C. j.
Leighton, Olympic Club Wheelmen
Rules and regulations-George Hum phreys,
chairman, Acme Club Wheelmen; w. D. Shea,
Olympic Club Wheelmen; w. E. Bouton,
Liberty Cycling Club
Political action-Sanford Plummer, chair
man, Bay City Wheelmen; W. w. Earle, I'm
perial Cycling Club II. 81. Price, Crescent Ath-
letic Club, Berkeley:
Championships A. Alexander, chairman,
Garden City Cyclers; c. c. Williams, San Fran
cisco Road Club; j. S. Conwell, Waverly Bicycle
Club.
Road racing and records-George II Stratton,
chairman. Olympic Club Wheelmen; H. F.
Wynne, California Cycling Club; J. S. Egan,
Imperial Cycling Club.
There will be meeting of the San Fran
cisco Bicycle Track Association next Tues
day evening at o'clock, at the rooms of
the Bay City Wheelmen, AL Golden Gate
avenue, and President Kerrigan is DESTROYS
of full attendance of the delegates, as the
important topic of bicycle track for this
CITY will be discussed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25
CLEANING BUTCHERTOWN.
The Board of Health Has Begun yfgor-
Gus Crusade.


Health Inspector Kline, under orders
from the Board OF Health, has issued the
following notice on the wholesale butchers
of Butchertown:
You are hereby notified that the practice OF
keeping hogs beneath the floors OF slaughter
houses or rooms where meat is dressed and
prepared for market has been condemned by
the Board of Health as prejudicial TO public
health.
Your attention is also called to section of
order 1887, general orders OF the Board of Su-
pervisors, which prohibits the dumping of
butchers offal, garbage, manure, ETC., on the
water front, or from any wharf or bulkhead,
and section of order 1887 which prohl bits
the feeding of swill, refuse, garbage, butchers
offal or any putrid or sinking animal or vege-
table matter to animals In the City and Coun-
~ OF San Francisco. On and after the 18th
day of November 1885 any person or persons
found keeping hogs beneath the floors OF
slaughter-houses or rooms where meat is
dressed and prepared for market, or any per
son or persons found violating sections and
OF order 1887, win be promptly arrested.
his is the beginning of the movement
10 clean up Butchertown. The dead-horse
ana iertlilzlng factories have been ordered
condemned and removed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25

had thoughtlessly allowed to get up near
the top of vacant chair.
80 b, that's just a complimentary title.
Doctor of laws, guess"
There is such thing, Mr.. Philbrook,"
ventured the courteous Hayne, "buU per-
haps YOU didn't know"
Three of the men with whom Mrs. Gar
celon was in the habit of trading were the
last witnesses of the day. Frank w. Scar
ing, fruit and produce dealer, told of the
old lady's frequent complaints of high
prices and of her driving off, saying she
would see if she couldn't do better else
where. j. B. te Mogue said that once she
bought twenty sacks of potatoes at one
time. but that that was not unusual for a
person of her means. Several times she
was about to pay twice for goods, but she
never once repeated an order.
James Cahill had sold Mrs. Garcelon
paints and fixtures for the house, but de-
MED that he had ever taken advantage of
her wealth, nor could he remember that
she was forgetfuI.
The trial goes on again this morning.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-25
NO SURCEASE OF DURRANT.
M innie Williams Case to Be Tried
as Soon as the Lamont
Trial Ends.

cA0 SOOii VIC Ic1iilOIil
Trial Ends.
Durrant will be called to account for the
death of Minnie Williams almost as soon
as a verdict in the Lamont case is reached.
That decision has been arrived at by the
district prosecutor. 1t does not matter
what the verdict in the Lamont case may
be, the Williams case will be called in
Judge Murphy's court.
Should Durrant be acquitted he will
still have to be tried for the murder of
Minnie Williams. Should he be con-
victed the procedure will be the same, for
the Lamont case will undoubtedly 90 to
the Supreme Court, there to remain pc r
haps d year and half or two years before
a decision is handed down; and should
there be a DISAGREEMENT of the Jury the
Williams case viii still go on.
\ Mr.. Barnes has several very good rea-
sons for his decision, chief among them
being that in the event of a disagreement
it would be next to impossible to secure
another jury TO try the Lamont case in San
Francisco.
The court ruled in the impaneling of the
present one that persons were not eligible
10 sit who had read the newspaper &C
counts of the case. The testimony has all
been published and most people have read
it, and in view of this fact jury could
hardly be secured competent to try the
case.
The only rest therefore the public may
expect from the reading of Durrant and
his troubles Will be a breathing spell of
perhaps month. a delay of at least that
length will be necessary, as Judge Murphy
is 10 try the case. it having been assigned
to his department along with the Lamont
trial, and as he has had no vacation he
feels the need of rest after the long strain.
The District Attorney and his assistant
also feel they should take a rest, and will
require some time to prepare their case.