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The morning times., 1897-02-27

Sugar was to more than usual extent
the feature of the market yesterday, and
seems to he having its usual ante-dividend
rise to around 120. Sugar, which has
been strong all the week started at
ia 5-S and closed at l 16 3-S, point
and thrce-quarters gain, at within IA Of
the highest figures of the day. The divi-
dend is due on March 10, and until that
time sugar is good purchase.
The morning times., 1897-02-27

There is { oUd Ceal to enjoy in finance
I'm addition To the simple elementary
pleasure of iingling coins in ones pockets.
Everyt ody in the street is laughing over
the finding OF the LeXOw committee in
trying to locate a coal trust. II there
is such a trust Mr.. LeXow has SO far
been unable TO discover any combination
agreement among the coal people
From an inside source it is learned that
there are pools now at work in Chicago
Gas and Omaha Preferred. II is suspected
also that there is a Sugar pool Like
Gas and Sugar. Omaha Preferred is
at present an especially good purchase.
Buy on all breaks,
Dow, Jones & Co, say OF st. Paul: wv c
are told that the interest which bulled st,
Paul last year and which sold considerable
stock last spring, has bought moderately
in the last three weeks. They do not
apparently eX pect an immediate advance in
prices. but believe the decreases in earn
ings are nearly over, and that aside from
the continued ill-health OF President Miller
the causes which have been affecting the
stock adversely are in a fair way TO lie re-
moved. They believe the stock will sell
sometime this year considerably above the
highest OF 1896"
The morning times., 1897-02-27
SPECIAL NOTICE.

DISSOLUTION NOFPARTNERSH HlP-Not &c
IL hereby given that the indefinite part
nershlp between Martin l.. I4ittlefield
and Richard Z Evans under firm name OF
LIttlefield & Evans is. THIS TWENTY
FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1897, dis
solved by mutual consent.
All billS payable and receivable will be
settled by Richard p. Evans, Attorney
at-law, 4O2 Sixth street northwest.
MARTIN l. LITTLEFIELD
RICHARD T. EVANS fe27- 81
ATTENTION, PAINTERS-AH II members
OF l.. a, 1898, K OF L. are notified TO
be present at the next meeting, Friday
Feb. 90, Z: 80 p. III. Business ofirnpoTtance
By order of Assembly Itern
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10
Remnants Of the sngar. neSnty

The internal revenue hass pre-
pared a schedule Of the bafarse of
unpaid claims for bounty oH sugar
manufactured and producea J from
August %, 1894, to June So 1896,
under the act approved Marea;l 1915.
Under this act So 900 7s ap
propriated and disbursed, on j. pro
rata basis, which left a balance Oh
approved claims unpaid of 8f.O85,-
1856. An appropriation segering
this amount recently made IS con.
gress in favor of 493 ~claiaants,
which will be available alter ,suly /.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10
The Tariff Bill Passes.

Wednesday evening the tariff bill
passed the Senate by the decisive
vote Of 50 yeas to % nays. The
affirmative vote was cast by IS Re
publicans, 2 silver Republicans and
Senator McEnery who is classed as
o Democrat. The negative vote
was by Is Democrats, Q Populists
and ! silver Republican. Senator
Stewards amendment to limit tho
treasury reserve to $IoO, 900 COG and
retire bonds whenever the excess
reached $5,09C. 900 was defeated by
a vote of 38 to so, our Senator CAT.
ferry voting with the gold bugs as
usual. Senator Aliens amendment,
giving a bounty Of SO cents Ger ton
on sugar beets for FIVE years begin.
ming July /, 1898, was lost by a
vote of IL TO 81.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10
A Parish Poor Fsrnl.


The Police Jary of this parish are
considering the matter of Establish
ing a poor farm to provide for the
paupers and INDECENT poor row
receiving parish aid. In lhis con
Dection it mar be we'll toIstate that
several parishes 10 the State have
tried the plan with greas success,
From the following item from the
Journal We note that I~besyille par
ish is to make the experiment
At q recent meeting of stbe Police
Jury John Deblieux brou 4ht up the
matter of cutting down tie expense
of providing for the poorof the par
ish. Last year it cost id. the neigh
borhoed Of $4,000 to msintain the
parish paupers, which sis quite a
large SUM. Mr.. DeblieuE was of the
opinion that amount ceald be re.
duced at least one-haif BIZ the estab.
lishment Of a poorhouse, saDd he re.
commended that the plave Of Toby
orillion, six miles down; the bayou,
be rented for a year as an experi
ment. The place can be rented for
about 5000 per year. The land is
fertile, and the crops raBed thereon
by the inmates of tts poorhouse
would almost make ting institution
self-supporting. It is Rsorth a TRIAL
and the Police Jury Displayed wis
dom in giving the committee power
to go ahead and make i'll the neces,
cary arrangements for ssne establish.
ment of the poor farm. It will col
lect the paupers undgsr q common
roof and enable the parish to better
provide for them. 1t will cut of
the pension list a greal many wht
are now receiving aid mat is not ap
preciated or actually nseded.
i It is the intention sto have th'
inmates, go far as PRACTICAL, assist tn,
general work of the PLACE, such a
gardening and other: light labor
The farm is pleasantly located AM
its success aid great aying to til
parish is predicted.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10
Sherif's Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA Parish
of VermiIion-17th Judicial Dis'
trict Court-No. 1912.
W. F. Main & Co,
Renly Breussard.

0&AW
By virtue of a writ Of icri faclas.
issued by the Hon. 18th JadIciai
District Court, in the matters q ne
above numbered aud entitled suli,
authorizing and commanding me y
seize and sell the property Of ssla
defendant, to satisfy said writ, ! WV
proceed to sell st public auction y
the last and highest bidder, at go
principal front door Of the coais'
house in this parish, on
Saturday, July II, lSy'
between the hours of II O'Clock y
m, and 4 p. M, the following des.
cribed property, seized to sa1ls'i
said writ, to wit
One brown mare and coll, one Wy
mare and colt. one bay colt, oas y,
rel mare and colt, one brown los1s
and colt, one two-year old COLI w v
dun horse, ten head of sheep, "
head of goats, one bay stallion, Ops
bay horse. IL
sherif's Office, Abbeyllie, =
July 8. 1897.
Terms-Cash. Il
/ GAsroN LEBLANC, Dy-shsl's'
&#a[4A= Ml.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10
An Idea of Progress.

The proposed 6ve-mill tax. in aid
of the Baton Rouge aud Central
Louisiana railway company was de-
feated in Baton Rouge last week by
a majority of 26 votes, and a major
ity valuation assessment Of 500 ,585.
In commenting on the defeat Of
the tax ordinance the Baton Rouge
Truth well says
at is an indisputable fact estab-
lished by recognized precedence,
that the best towns 10 Louisiana are
those that offer every inducement
possible for the encouragement of
railroads and other enterprises with.
in their borders. In glazing con-
trast to Baton Rouge to-day is the
enterprisiug and progressive little
city of Shreveport 10 the northern
portion of the State. Ten years ago
Shreveport and Baton Rouge, ia
point Of population, were about on
par, both laying claim to 10000 in
habitants. Since that time Shreve
port has encouraged the building Of
railroads; has offered inducement tc
manufacturers and capitalists to en-
ter their gates; has beauti6ed hel
streets and thoroughfares and as /
result has doubled her population
aud is to-day the second city CT tht
State.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

When an old time radis like
Demas- one of those sleek, pSy aEd
odoriferous Observation-Disclosures both
in physical and political sensHs-stepa
up, the President adjourns bss cabi-
net to confer with him, gisile the
presidential carriage ands Arivate
secretary are at his disposat q con-
vey him about the city and 40 show
him every imaginable courtefa. Such
a policy as this towards the gentle
men who have lately entessd the
republican party in this STAG is ex-
ceediDgly calling to them, I'D it in
a manner lifts the scales. Sf self
esteem, with which the" hayssso long
been blinded, from their eses ena>
bling them to zee the RI Sablican
party in its true light. Sslen the
Advocate and other desgaocratic
newspapers charged during Che late
campaign that the republics party
was q niger party and thas tits &C.
cesslon to power meant a rfRurn of
many of the most corrurts aigger
politicians in this State to Shce and
power. we we're charged wss disin-
genuousness by the sugar tatsts, who
spoke loftiIy of the formatia of "a
white republican party to Sc com
posed Of the best men in tf@sonth,"
to whom would be entrusted the
management of afairs.-BslR . Ad-
~yocate. .z
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

Here is another sign of the lad
vance agents" prosperity Lowell,
Mass, June I9.-The Massachusetts
Merrimac and Booth cotton mills
have posted notices of a two weeks
close down. About $500 persons
are affected"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

We acknowledge with pleasure
the receipt of the wedding cards of
Miss Cecile Gueydan and Captain
George Fatou Of the 4th Regiment
of Engineers, ct Grenoble, France.
The bride is the lovely daughter Of
our old friend Captain ]. P. Guey
dan.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10
Mills ON the American Girl.

NMHNNS OM &KkC n hkACAA &&AhA ~A
Now Mr.. President, what IS all
this for-this building up of great
fortunes, this enormous fund creating
aud multiplying mtllionaires : Have
we not been witnessing for the last
few years a thing that must be hui
initiating to every lover OF the insti-
tutions of this country? Have we
not seen the daughters of the mil
liouaires endowed with money wrung
by legislation from the pocket OF the
forgotten taxpayers of this country
shipped to Europe like fatteaed heif
ers aud peddled for titles? What a
spectacle to see American women
exported and sold like 50 many car
casses OF mutton or fresh beef for
aristocratic titles forbidden by the
Constitution Of their country to be
worn within its jurisdiction-titles
declared to be at deadly enmity with
its institutions. Aud yet we are
constantly beholding it.
OF what moment was it that the
old forefathers Of the Republic,
whose bodies wore the wounds and
blood stains of the revolution, fought
to secure their liberty aud the liber-
ty of their p~osterity Of what use
was it for them to declare that titles
of nobility should not be conferred
in this country 1t was natural
that they should do 80. 1t was the
Democracy of q free government
that they were creating-a free, pop
ular government, whose whole pow
err came from the governed. 1t was
a government of the governed; a
self government; and there was no
place in our system for titles or title
classes. And yet We see, as soon as
these people get this inordinate
wealth their daughters are shipped
over to Europe and put on the mark.
ct, hawked and peddled and sold
vita American money, to become
p~rincesses and dntchesses, and coun-
tesses and warehouses;, and we are
here levying upon Che pockets Of the
poor laboring people, the forgotten
men, 5000 and $500 and $500 and
$500 on 800 worth of tho necessa-
ries Of life to raise money to enable
our girl to make the trip and buy
the title.
Do You think there is no here
after, gentlemen? Wait until the
swallows homeward fly. There is a
tribunal whose doors are always
open, and We will invite yoa to meet
Us there. If the people Of the United
States indorse your doctrine and the
policy that you write on the statute
books to-day, they are not cit for
self-government. Nor will they dc
it, either. They will bring you tt
an account, and the places thai
know some of you to-day will know
you no more hereafter forever.-N
q. States.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10
Paper MIDI for Crowley.

M. 5. Kennedy, OF Sugarland
Texas, visited our city a few days
ago to investigate the advantages of
this locality for the establishment of
a paper mill. He is Thoroughly con-
versant With the machinery, the pro.
cess and manufacture of all kinds of
paper and knows exactly the kinds
Of materials needed for the manu-
facture of each grade of wrapping,
printing, or writing paper. He has
been at SugarlaBd, near Houston,
Texas, with the Messrs. Cunning
ham, who are the largest sugar
planters in the State, having several
thousand acres in cane, experiment
ing with bagasse as an article of
manufacture into paper. The Messrs.
Cunningham have a paper plant and
are turning out an excellent article
OF wrapping paper from the waste
hagasse Of the sagar cane.
Mr.. Kennedy is satisfied that our
rice straw, with ten per centof wood
pulp, will make as 6ne a grade of
paper as can be found 10 the market.
Ninety per cent of rice straw with
ten per cent of wood pulp, or old
rags, old jute sscks. etc viii furnish
The beet of materials. The gum and
lynn trees will furnish the pulp.
a mill Of ten tons daily capacity.
giving employment to about forty
men, will cost aboat 500, 0OD. There
is an idle plant in New Jersey that
Mr.. Kennedy can get for about fifty
per cent of its value and can be
transported by water to! Morgan
| City. If a Sufficient number of our
planters will take stock to lassare a
reasonable price for straw and pulps,
and to identify themselves in the
success of the enterprise. he can se-
cure other capital to aid iul the es-
Establishment of The mil, here. Ht
has talked the matter over with 8
number Of our leading planters and
has gone north to perfect az arrange
ments in definite shape. We can ge
a paper mill if We want it, and i
means thousands of dollars more
revenue to OR farmers ard to oul
town. Shall we let this opporiunit,
slip? Consider things wei! befor'
declining the venture Signal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

It is said a Mr.. Darwin. of New
York has an option on Belle Isle for
one year, with privilege OF boring
the island to ascertain what mine
rails can be found among its massive
hills. At the close of the year be
can if he wishes purchase it for SIS.
000. The gentleman is now on the
island Morgan City Review.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

The Fifth Louisiana levee board
has donated to the Lake Providence
aud Western railroad company TO-
900 acres of land in East Carroll
parish under certain conditions. 1t
is the intention of the company to
soon begin work on the road be-
tween Lake Providence and Mer
Rouge.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

Florian B. Dicharry, the editor Of
the St. James Interim died on Tues
day evening, June 22d, at 5 o'clock.
in New Orleans, aged so years, ii
months and s days. He was q gen
tleman of talent and many noble
qualities. To bis estimable wife
and bereaved family we tender our
heartfelt sympathies.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
{. l. ADDISON, Publisher.
Saturday, July 10, 1897.

The Meridional, Abbeville, is ~
years old and still onsEdeck as one
of our best exchanges. Morgan
City Review.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

The destruction by FIRE of Ernst &
Co.'S large rice mill 10 New Orleans
last week, was in the nature OF q
calamity to the rice industry of
Louisiana. They were heavy bay
ers Of rice, and were opposed to the
rice mill trust that had kept down
prices 10 previous years. Their
losses in buildings, machinery and
materials were quite heavy and it is
not yet definitely known whether
they can rebuild and re-equip them
selves for the forthcoming crop OR
aot.-Crowiey Signal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

Judge Gunby presided at a meet
ing in Monroe, Sunday last, at which
it vas agreed to hold a Populist
Ga mp Meeting in Monroe on August
18th, continuing for five days,
Among the speakers are Tom Wat
son, of Georgia, Governor Gibbs. Of
Texas, and Stump Ashby, Of Texas
A political camp meeting is a new
thing in Louisiana. M. G. Review.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

Yes, says an exchange, these n
hard times. We let our timber 70,
and buy fencing. We throw ava.
ashes and buy soap. We raise doo.
aud buy dogs. We let our man0,e
go to waste. We grow, weeds And
hay vegetables and brooms, W
catch fish with a $500 rod. Va
build school houses aud send on,
children away to be educated. And
lastly, We send q boy out with !
$40 gun and o SO dog to hant Ten
cents birds.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

The Abbeville (La.) Meridional
has entered its forty.frst year. This
paper is published by E. I. Addison
and every week it is a welcomed
visitor to our. Office. May it live
long and prosper. 1t is a small pa
per, conducted on the intensive sys-
tenn and it's articles, editorials and
otherwise are condensed and foil OF
information and entertainment
Abbeville Is. CO. Medium.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10
Tresp:sss Notice.

ALL persons are hereby warned not tt
hunt upon, trespass upon or pass over
ride or drive through my fields and
Enclosures, in the 3rd ward Of this parb Y
under penalty of beng prosecuted to Ia
fullest extent of the law.
1-2O-'94. ALEXANDRA BRoussyRD.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

The Lake Charles Trih2nDe says it
has excellent authority fa- asserting
that $1,000, OOO. will make Calcasien
Pass the best deep water entrance on
the gulf coast. When il is remem
5ered that more than double this
amount has been expended at Sabine
and that recent appropriations for
Galveston aggregate Sc. SOC, 900, the
natural advantages of Calcasieu
Pass may be better comhrehended.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

-- ~
Captain Jas. W. Bryan, Of L,aka
Charles, formerly editor Of the Echo
died on June IT
Captain Bryan was born in Cal.
casieu Parish. December %. 1924
being therefore at the time Of III
demise 80 years, 5 months and ID
days of age. His education was Oh.
tanned under difficulties, bat HAVING
secured a start he studied and taught
alternately until the war when ha
organized the Calcasien militia and
10 1852 secured the enlistment a
four companies. His own company
was in the famous 2Sth Louisiana
infantry which obtained lasting fame
in the battle of Chickasaw. Ii was
also at Vicksbnrg where Captain
Bryan as ranking officer commanded
the regiment after the promotion Of
of Col. Thomas.
After the var Captain Bryan re-
sumed teaching, extending bis stud.
les in the meantime and in 1869 en-
gagged in mercantile business which
he followed until 1884, From 1871
to March 1890, in addition to other
interests he was editor and proprie-
tor Of the Weekly Echo which dur
ing that time ranked az the repre-.
sentative paper of that section.
a Venetian firm is making bon
nets Of spun glass, which are as soft
and pliable as silk.
A Massachusetts editor celebrated
the arrival of triplets at his house
by printing bis paper in red
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

State Of Louisiana,
Parish of Vermilion.
Notice is hereby given to The
world that | am now applying for
pardon from a life sentence in Tho
State Penitentiary.
OLIVIER RTcHARD.
June 1897.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

The great trusts dom! like sena-
tor Tillman. They say lIe is vulgar,
that his language lacks refinement.
0, yes! he is very vnlgar when he
exposes their crimes; hisaanguage is
the q%uiutescence Of uncfsastity when
he diseloses their thievi5g rascality
10 all its hideous and corruptiae
usefulness. But the people believe
in Tillman, and don't believe thot be
is vulgar or his language ohjectiona
ble.-ShreYeport Progress.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

a Venetian firm is making bon
nets Of spun glass, which are Us soft
and pliable as silk.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-07-10

A Massachusetts editor celebrated
the arrival of triplets at his house
by printing bis paper in red.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-03
THE VICTORY IN NEW YORK.

The Democrats have achieved a sig
nal victory in Greater New York. The
election there was in some respects the
most important of any in the country.
Every one felt that it had national
Importance, not only because of the
fact that national parties were arrayed
against each other, but also because
eX-President Harrison and Secretary of
the Interior Bliss had both declared
that as the city went. it would be a
declaration for or against sound
money" The English papers took the
same view. and they are as deeply in
terested in the maintenance of the sin
gle gold standard in this counAy as are
the goldbugs of Wall street or the adj
ministration at Washington. And now
comes the news that Van Wyck, the
one candidate among the lot who voted
for Bryan, Endorsed the Chicago plat
form and says he has nothing to take
back. is elected mayor. Van Wyck, a
Democrat who voted for Bryan and be-
lieves in the free and independent coin
eye of silver, is elected mayor of the
second largest city in the world Moth
ing could be more splendid In the face
of this, who viii say that the silver
issue is dead: that the Democratic
party no longer lives? The Republican
party. the disafected. the mugwumps,
and the various factions were not able
to down Van Wyck, the Democratic
nominee who voted for Bryan and free
silver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-03
MR.. CLARK ELECTED.


Mr.. Clark is undoubtedly elected
mayor of Salt Lake City. The returns
up to the time of going to press with
this. the first edition of The Herald
this morning, clearly indicate that he
has small plurality over Mr.. Dale.
The official count may change the
figures. but there is no good reason to
believe that it will change the result.
Mr.. Dale has made a most gallant
fight, with tremendous odds against
him. He deserved to be elected; yet he
is made of that manly stuff of which
all honest men can boast. and he will
retire from the field with no bitterness
in his heart, and he can rest assured
that he has the confidence of a host Of
Salt Lakes best citizens
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-03
RAILROADS WANT MORE TIME.


Four years ago congress passed law
requiring ali railroads in the United
States to equip their cars with auto
matte couplers and power brakes. At
the headquarters of the various rail-
road brotherhoods. which are in Peoria,
H.. it is said that none of the railroads
has fully complied with the require
ments of the statute. Moreover. they
are now asking more time in which to
comply with the provisions of the law,
and for this purpose the railroads viii
have a hearing before the interstate
commerce commission on December !.
Representatives of the various railroad
brotherhoods will be there.
What the commission will do, of
course, no one can say, though it is
pretty sure that it viii not insist on
anything unreasonable on the part Of
the railroads, but it should insist on
compliance with the requirements of
the law within reasonable time, and
the commission should not let the rail
roads say what constitutes a reason
able time. They are more or less hos
tile to the innovation and will delay in
auslmating it as long as possible. It
means a large expense also and this
they have to consider. But they appear
to have had no intention of complying
with the statute. The statute should
either be enforced or repealed, and the
sentiment Of the people will be that it
should be enforced and not repealed.
The hearing before the interstate COM
merce committee will be an important
one and the result of it awaited with
interest