The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-09-04

page. It's all right.
An interesting letter from "Sunhow.
er" is crowded out this week.
See change of Levy's add on the &c
page. Read it, go there, buy and be
benefited by it.
A perfect avalanche OF amusements
at the Great Scott Church Fair and
Worlds Exposition Oct. 9-l0th.
Mosquitoes are having their inning
these days and they make it lively for
whoever is out after dark on the prai-
RE.
The town council met Wednesday
night and among other business elect
ed Lucius Dutel town constable for the
balance of the term of the present city
government.
Percy Summers left at this office the
champion sugar cane of the season. 1t
is 81 feet long, has is red joints, is 81
inches in circumference, and was grown
by Alex. Davidson.
The courthouse lawn looks very pref
ty since the rains. It is being moved
regularly and with a little more atten-
ton to defective spots will be some
thing to be proud of.
Caterpillars are making their ap-
pearance throughout the parish and
the farmers are preparing to extermi-
nate them with paris green as the
present hot showery weather is favor
able for their growth.
The race last Friday, between George
Summers on a bicycle, and Morris Mills
and Johnny Robinson on a tandem,
come off on Calico Guidry's track in
the presence of a large crowd and re-
suited in a victory for the bicycle,
Abbeviile will be well supplied with
oysters this season. Theodule Theriot
has put his schooner in the trade with
P. G. Addison as captain and chief
navigator and they will make regular
trips to the bay, bringing up the finest
oysters to be had.
Varmj]inn ctraat from 7 N Roa-v:aJ
grocery to the Lyman G. Lyons place
on the eastern limits of town has been
graded up and filed in this week. B.
Frank Lyons had the contract and has
certainly given the corporation a good
job for their money.
Big sport is expected on Sunday af-
ter next, Sept. II, at Ledanois' track
about y miles above town or the
bayou, j. Gabriel Leblanc's horse,
Talton will run a half mile with Bessie
June. The Abbeville and Pilettes will
play a game of ball in the afternoon.
Saturday night SO it is reported+there I
was q small war in Africa wei the
squabble in the Baptist church. The s
faction who are trying to depose Par
son Banks had a racket with his sup G
porters and as a result a number of the
anti Banks crowd are nursing sore
heads. "You'se amt SO warmw. (
Ernest M. Feray has recently fitted c
up the rooms in the Derouen building
on Port street, recently occupied by
Archie Rose as an ice cream and soda
water saloon and has opened therein
a first-Glass restaurant and oyster !
stand, where meals will be served in Il
the best style at all hours. Ernest is a G
good cook and knows how to get up ,
appetizing dishes. =
AbbeVille's champion bicycle rider, t
Gilbert BONN, has been playing in n
hard luck lately. In the Fourth of t
July races here he won the gold medal a
but the medal has never been given to c
lin. asst week in Lafayette, he en- c
.ered the bicycle race in entertainment II
given by the Century Club, was de- r
the successful winner but failed l
receive the medal. y
The mysterious disappearance of Mr. g
Jas. P. Golden. chief clerk in the Office n
If the Southern Pacific, at Algiers, re- v
mains unsolved despite avigilant search s.