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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
THE SUGAR BOUNTY CASE.

The decision by the supreme court
Of the United States that The parties
who made sugar in this country in
1894 under the provisions Of the
bounty law of 1890 have a just and
equitable right to their proportion
of The money voted to them by con-
sress is a delivecance of great i'm
%portance. The effect Of the decision
is not merely that some $4,000 900
will be distributed in Louisiana and
will 60 into the channels of business,
bnt 1t redeems the Louisiana sugar
planters from the position of dis.
tress and misfortune into which they
had been plunged by the waBtom
and unlawful interference o. one man
who happened to hold the position
of Comptroller Of the treasury de-
partnent. The decision is sufi
GENTLY for reaching and conclusive
to cover the case that was before the
court. The sugar bounty appropri-
alton is due the sagarmakers Of the
United States, most Of whom are in
Louisiana, and it has got to be paid
without more ado. It means S.,
900 to the people. -Picayune.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
JUDGE.

The Legislature, at its present ses-
sion, will elect a Circuit Judge for
this district to succeed Judge E. T.
Lewis, whose term of office will soon
expire. Among the candidates are
Hon. G. A. F~ournet,of CaIcasieu.
judges E. 7. Lewis and e. North
Cullum, of St. Landry, A. J. Lafar-
que, Esq, Of Avoyelles, and Hamp-
ton Story, Esq, of Acadia.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
"A CHECK TO IMMIGRATION,

The House of Representatives has
just passed by q vote Of 1876 to 26 a
bill restricting immigration to per-
sons between the ages Of Is and so
cannot enter this country unless they
can read and write the English Ian
guage or some other language. This
law if adopted by the Senate will
certainly prove of inestimable bene-
fit in allowing only the better class
Of people to come to this country.
Congressman Buck OF this State
made an eloquent argument against
the measure but it was very proper
" disregarded as the people wait a
check placed upon immigration.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
TAKEN UP

A large fat heifer about 3 years old,
of a yellow red color, has spreading
horns and q white spot on the fore
head and each jaw also some white
under her belly. Has no ear mark
or BRAID. Unless owner comes
forward and proves his ownership
and pay costs | will sell her in Is
days.
May so. W. P. EDWARDS.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
NOTICE.
Land Office at New Orleans. La. !
April Ii. 1896.

Land Office at New Orleans. La. !
April Ii, 1896.
Notice is hereby given that the fol-
loWing-named settler has filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Clerk Of
District Court, at Abbeville, La, on
May 18th, 1896, viz:
Eugene Fevergeon,
who made homestead entry No. 12777,
for the southeast quarter of. southeast
quarter of section II, tip IA, south
range 2 east, La. Mer.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation of, said land uiz:
Jean NJ. Mestepe, Chapman Pierce,
Theall, Aurellien Theall, all Of
Vermilion Parish, La.
G. NOD. BRUMBY,
April IL, lS96.-6t. Register.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

Representative Scranton, of this
parish, voted to go behind the re-
turns. The doctors action will un-
dobutedly meet with the approval
Of the Republicans, but it is hardly
probable that his vote on this mo-
mentous question expressed the wish
of the Democrats of this parish sew
eral hundred of whom voted for him.
It may not be amiss to state IN this
connection that very few Democrats
voted to 60 behind the returns; for
tunately there we're not enough Of
them to succeed in seating Pharr.-
Lafayette Gazette.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
TAKEN Up.

By the undersigned. a red COW
and calf. banded thus: fl has
been ranging in my neighborhood
for the past four years. Said prop
erty after due advertisement will be
appraised, in the meantime the
owner is notified to come forward
and prove his property otherwise
said property will be disposed Of ac-
cording to appraisement.
May 2, 1896. LEVI SARvER.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

The braiDy editor of the Lake
Charles Daily Press, thus discour.
ses on the duties of a newspaper:
"We hold that editors are not the
censors of public or private morals.
1t is a newspapers business to
print the news and to have opinions
upon public matters, but it is not
the business Of a newspaper to ex,
pose wickedness. Policeman get
paid for that job. This city is no
better and no worse than others OF
it's class and size, and there are bar
rels of red hot cussedness on tan
here every day. But we do not
consider it our duty to lug it into
print, Notwithstanding frequent re-
quests so to do. The weather is
too hot to pack a gun, we don't like
Jail feed, and we have no laundering
to leave a certain admirable lady a
pretty widow. O'Malley and his
ilk may enjoy, personal Journalistic
we don't" Reed is a Republican,
but he is unalterably opposed to the
niger taking a hand in politics.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

Senator F. B. Williams has had
completed the strongest and largest
dredge boat in the State. Last week
he started to work it in bayou Long
across fat lake. and will dig a canal
As feet wide and 7 feet deep a dis
lance of about two miles to the east.
ward, afterward running northeast
about one mile. This cannal will
enable him to have access to large
tracts of timbered land which he
owns, and he can utilize his pulling
boats in floating same.-Morgan
City Review.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

Sheriff Broussard has made anoth>
er arrest in the terrible murder case
Of Martin Begnaud, who was recent
ly bntchered at Scott, by unknown
parties. The party arrested by
Sheriff Broussard and his deputy
Thomas Mouton, at an early hour
on Wednesday morning, is Hemp
Benton a white mar who resides
near Scott. When the sheriff reach
ed Benton's house he (Bentop) was
discovered just in the act of mount
ing bis horse. He was arrested and
handcuffed, and brought to Lafay-
cite. The sheriff has considered it
a wise precaution to remove the
prisoner to some other place of safes
ty, and accordingly boarded the at.
ternoon train with him to bear the
criminal to his destination
which is not known.-Lafayette Ga.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

The Cuban rebels have adopted
a novel way of setting fire to sugar
cane fields. A small piece of phos-
phorous coated with wax is fastened
to a snakes tail and the creature is
turned loose to make its way among
the cane. The sun melts the wax
and ignites the phophorous and the
business is done. Military protec.
tion or other efforts are claimed to
be unavailing in the face of such a
formidable foe.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

In the parish of Acadia there are
3,257 white voters, and out Of this
number 1868 cannot write their
name. There are 614 colored voters
and 545 Of them have to make their
mark. An Australian ballot would
play hobs with our sister parish.
st. Landry is bad enough, but pro-
p%ortionately it can't hold a candle
to Acadia. Such a state Of affairs
is indeed distressing.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30


At the last election the good old
State of Kentucky elected for the
first time in her existence a Repub-
Iiesn governor. Now he is engaged
in respiting negro rapeist, and par
doning negro murders. But the
people OF "old Kentuck" can't be
bamooozled that way, The negroes
are found next morning with a rope
attachment. We pity Kentucky,
and rejoice more than ever that
so recently escaped
capped a similar dose.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

Julius Meyers, senior partner oil
the firm Of J. Meyers & Co, the
largest mercantile establishment in
Opelousas, was arrested Wednesday
on three different charges, for 1eec-
ing the St. Landry State Bank. His
bond was fixed at SIS, and was
eigned By D. Ross & Sons
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Succession Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
18th Judicial District Court-Parish
of Vermilion-No. 3O8.

OaNioioi Dio0llOo SOuiG-I dIlS4
of Vermilion-No. 30S.
Succession of Louis S. Landry.
BY virtue Of a commission to me di-
rected from the Hon. aforesaid court, I
will proceed to sell at public auction to
the last and highest bidder, for cash,
to pay debts, at the late residence Of
the deceased in this parish, on
Friday, June 5th. 1896,
the following described property be-
longing to said succession, to-wit:.
One certain tract of land situated i'm
the parish of Vermilion on the west
bank of the bayou Vermilion contain
ing Fifty superficial arpents more or
less, having a front on said bayou of
two and one-half arpents, and three in
the rear, by seventeen arpents deep
more or less, and bounded on the north
by Mrs. Leon Broussard, south by Au-
gustie Galiet, east by bayou Vermilion
and west by Sidney Andrews; l dwell
ing house; | kitchen; | corn crib; | set
of garden pickets; ia pannels fencing
) pleux and l wire; 400 pounds of WIRE;
z hogs; l lot OF cotton and many other
articles too numerous to mention.
TERMS:
Cash to pay debts.
F. VENANCE LANDRY,
May 2, 1896. Administrator.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

There is scarcely any question but
that the Illinois Democrats will line
up in the silver column. A few
counties have already elected dele-
gates on a silver platform and Chi
cago and Cook county will
hold primaries next week.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

An Alabama paper publishes the
following notice: Married, at Flint.
stone, by the Rev. Windstone, Mr..
Nehimiah Sandstone and Miss Will
helmina Egglestope, both Of Lime
stone"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Succession Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
18th Judicial District Court-Parish Of
Vermilion-No. 298.
Succession of Don louis preiean.

Succession of Don Louis Preiean.
By virtue of a commission to me d.
rected from the Hon. aforesaid court. I
will proceed to sell at public auction to
the last and highest bidder, for cash,
to pay debts, at the late residence Of
the diseased in this parish, on
Tuesday, June 9th, 1896.
the following described property be-
longing to said succession, to-wit:
One certain tract of land situated in
this parish on the west side of the bay-
on Vermilion containing Forty-iye 46-
LUZ acres more or less and to be taken
from the northern portion of the west
nall OF the northeast quarter of section
tWenty-one in tip Ii south of n 3
east and bounded north by school land
south BY Francois Hebert, east by Be-
ilzalre Broussard and west by the heirs
OF Joseph Guidry; one bed and bed
ding; n safe; one table and kitchen.
utensils; one armolr; one dwelling
mouse; n corn crib: $50 pounds Of
pleux fencing; 700 pounds of wire with
posts: 2 buggy; one old buggy; one
iot OF implements; two horses: one
branding iron and many other articles
to numerous to mention.
TERMS:
Cash on day Of sale to..pay debts.
- DELZINDE HEBERT,
MAY 2, 1896. Administrators
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Valuable Plantation for Sale

ValuaDIe Plantation for Sale.
In Z of the most fertile regions of
the Parish.
$50 arpents Of improved land,
beautifully situated, with a front of
Z arpents on Bayou Tigre by a depth
of 40 arpents, located partly in Yer
million and 1beriaparishes,, within
two miles from a railroad depot ane
bordering on a navlgable stream
which affords water transportation
to gulf ports. This land is shifted
for cotton, sugar cane, corn and
sweet potatoes; a portion of IT is
adapted to cattle grazing and rice
culture, without the process Of irri-
cation, and the whole can be mad
so by irrigation from Bayou Tigrt
Fruit trees grow well and vel,
abundantly. The land is ell en-,
closed and has 8 Or 10 small build
ings.
For further particulars, regarding
same and terms of sale apply to
Messrs. Broussard & Kitchell, Attys.
Abbeville, La, or to
AURoRE DEFRANcE,
Widow Louis Laporte.
Nov. 1896.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
NOTICE.

Entering my pasture and stock
ranch on Cbeniere an Tigre, without
my consent is forbidden. ANY per-
son trespassing Oh said premises will
be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law. AURORE DEFRANCE.
Widow Louis Laporte.
Abbeyille, January 4, 1896.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
A T. SWEEPS ST.
LGEJES. N

A tornado, blowing at the rate Of
80 miles an hour, struck St. Louis
at 5:l5 o'clock this afternoon, and
ragged for hail an hour with great
furry. The wires being down it
was impossible to get any news.
From reports it is estimated that
fully 1000 people we're killed and
wounded.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
NOTICE.

The public are hereby notified
that ! am applying for a pardon.
and for full restoration to citizen.
ship. ADoLPHE RICHARD.
Abbeville, La, April 4, 1896.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

Our sister parish Of Acadia is
100000 in debt. The parish is but
ten years old, and, we must admit,
is right up to the notch. And
went Republican for boots! Poor
Acadia, we pity you.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

An election has been ordered in
the fifth district by the Governor for
the 10th of June to fill the vacancy
caused by the deposing of Boatner.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

The first white woman who ever
entered Kansas died last week at
lola, in that State. She was known
as Granny Cowden, and was 50
years old. She went to live at a
trading post near Fort Scot in 1889
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Constable Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA-Pa rish
of Vermilion-Seventh Justices
Court No. 4O4
G.. @. Kihbe
VS..
Allen Gamnhal1

Allen Campbell.
RY virtue of a writ of "feri facias,o
issued by the Hen. 7th Justices
court, in the matters of the above
numbered and entitled suit: authorizing
and commanding me to seize and
sell for cash, the following described
property Of defendants, | will proceed
to sell at public auction, to the last
and highest bidder, at the office of
the 9TH Justices Court of said parish,
on !
Saturday, May 3Oth, 1896,
between the hours IL o'clock a. NJ, and
4 o'clock p. M, the following described
property, seized to satisfy said writ, to
wit
One dwelling house, kitchen and
other out houses, $50 pannels pieux
and wire fencing more or less.
Given under my official signature
this 10th day of May 1896.
j. B. MILLS,
Depty. Sheriff.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
Saturday, May 80, 1896

Governor Foster has appointed
John 5. Laaier as register OF the
land Office and the Senate has con-
irmed the appointment.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30
Wanted An Idea 7 :ss e .! se,ss

rTotect your ideas; they may bring you wealth.
write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO, Patent Actor.
neys, washington, D. c.. for their 81, 800 prize OFFER
An04ist or two hundred Inventions wanted.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

The Southern States Exposition
at Chicago is intended to "hold the
mirror up to nature and show the
people Of this populous territory at
whose center the Exposition will be
spread, what the South has in actual
fact to attract the capitalist and the
honest laborer, what 10 fields, what
in crops, what in woods and mines
and in the almost endless variety of
opportunities for manufacture. The
assistance Of every patriotic South
erner is solicited to make this ex.
hibit as newsy as possible, equal in
magnifcence to the natural resources
of this section, and a fitting reflex of
her natural opportunities ard wealth.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1896-05-30

On the 9Th of May copious show
ers of rain fell in Madrid and
throughout the adjoining provinces,
a circumstance which is ascribed by
people to the benefcence of Saint
lsidore, Madrid's patron saint, to
whom the populace appealed to last
Monday for rain and the suppression
of the Cuban rebellion. Thousands
of persons visited the cathedral for
the purpose of offering prayers of
Thanksgiving and were admitted to
the shrine Of St. Isidore, where their
implicit belief in the intercession of
the saint in response to their prayers
was manifested by their destroying
part OF his silver coffin aud CARRYING
away fragments for relics. Had it
not been for the interference of the
police the entire cofin would have
been carried away piecemeal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-21
cRoss-sEcT1oN sELF-cooLING CONDENSER.

situated near large water supply on river bank, for instance-cannot avail themselves of the condensing principle, and profit by it's fuel-saving power. And even where a river is near, land on it's bank IS so often so much more ex pensive that the manufacturer prefers to go farther away where he can buy at 8 lower price, even if he has to use pon-condensing engine.
 But why not cool the heated con denser water and use it again? This has been tried over and over, more or less clumsily and ineffectiyely; and it is ex- actly what is done successfully in the cooling towers already mentioned. Methods previously in use employ shall low ponds to cool the water by surface evaporation, but these are out of the question in a large cfty-or pans on the roof, which are awkward and take up room. The cooling tower, which has satisfactorily solved the problem and offers to the manufacturer the welcome chance of saving a large proportion of his fuel, has been in use for some time in primitive and crude form in the southern states, where the condenser water was allowed to cool by tricklin.. through'a mass of brush. Later in Ger many, the same result was effected by slloMing it to bow over nest of pipes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-21

cooling condenser-one of those nu- merous labor and power-saving Yam kee inventions that have placed us where we now stand as a nation of in- ventors and engineers.
 Everyone knows that there are two principal types of steam engines; the Aon-eondensing, in which the exhaust steam escapes into the air, making the hoarse puffing sound so familiar in the locomotive and the steam tug; and the Condensing, in which it is delivered into condenser. where it is cooled down and turned back into water. In the former type the piston has to work against the pressure of the atmosphere -abont 15 pounds to the square inch; in the latter it has only to overcome the pressure of the vapor in the con- denser, which is much less, as the con densation of the steam causes par iial vacuum. Hence the condensing engine is much the more economical of the two, saving fully 25 per cent. of the steam-and hence of the fuel--re- quired for the other.
 Why, then, are not condensing en- zines universally employed? Some times because the use of the condensing device is not practicable, as on loco motive; still oftener, because it re- quires an unlimited supply of water. Cold water is the means employed to condense the steam, and as it becomes warmer in the process it cannot be used over again. Hence engines that are not
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-21

In the perfected form the steel tower.
 shown in the illustration, is packed with layer on layer of vitrified tiles, set up on end. Through these, from the top 10 the bottom of the tower, the heated condenser water triclfles, while power ful air blast is blown upward through it from rotary fan at the base. When the water has reached the bottom it is cool enough to use again in the con denser. A little of it-from 21s to per cent.-has evaporated in the proc ess, but this loss is more than made up by the condensed exhaust steam that is added as 1t does its work ia the condenser, In passing through the tower the water is cooled from about 120 degrees to at least the temperature of the outside air, chiefly by the evap- oration induced by the air blast that passes through the tiling. The princi- pie is exactly the same as when one cools his moist hand by blowing on it
 Strangely enough, the cooling is greater
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-21

casion. Five ministers and five lay men were appointed committee to perfect and carry out the plan. One minister and one layman, to represent Canada, were subsequently, added; and, before long, the Sunday school union of London, England, appointed two gentlemen of their committee to act as corresponding members with the com 1nittee on this side of the Atlantic. The work of the committee, as laid out by the convention, was ito select a course of Bible lessons for a series of years, not exceeding seven, which shall, as far ss they may decide possible embrace a general study of the whole Bible, alter mating between the Old and the New Testaments semi-annually or quarterly, as they shall deem best" The fourth international lesson committee, now in office, was chosen in 1890, the matter provided by it coming into use in 1894 and to continue in use until 1899. A committee is put in office we'll ahead because of the publishing interest. To insure the use of uniform lessons in so wide field, enormous prepara tions are necessary. For example, the Methodist Book Concern of New York alone sends out million and quarter cf international lessons every week.
 The membership of the committee now in office is significant of the mag nitude of the scheme they represent.
 Bishop Vincent, the chairman, is a Methodist. with headquarters every where on this wide earth where Ameri- can Mehodism has planted itself. Rev. Warren Randolph, D. D., of Rhode Island, who has held the office of secre- tary of the committee from the begin hing, is Baptist. Dr. John Hall, of New York, is the Presbyterian minister who is said to preach to the wealthiest congregation in the world. B. F. Jae cobs, of Chicago, is Baptist, and so is Rev. J. A. Broadus, D. D., of Louis vile, Ky. Besides the chairman, Meth odism is represented by Rev. ". c. E. Cunnyngham, D. D., of Tennessee, and Rev. John Potts, D. D., of Canada. Rev. Il. l.. Baugher, D. D., of Pennsylvania, is a Lutheran; Rev. A. E. Cunning. D. D., of Massachusetts, a Congregation alist. Dr. Hall has a brother Presby- terian in Rev. M. D. Hoge, D. D., of yir- ginia; and Prof. J. J. D. Kinds. Ph. D., is a Cumberland Presbyterian. The United Brethren have one member Rev. H. Berger, D. D., of Ohio; and Hon. s. H. Blake, an Episcopalian, sits for Canada. A venerable and honored member of the committee, Rev. B. B. syler, D. D., of New York, belongs to he Disciples, or Christia1s, as they gre sometimes called; and Rev. J. s.