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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18
Iu6r7uEut.
STATE Of LOUISIANA,
Parish Of Vermlliop,
l7th Judicial District Court-No.
1926.
Leonide Lyon
6. W. Gasrard.


To this case by reason Of d pre-
liminary judgment By default having
been regularly entered on motion Of
plaintiffs counsel; in open court, and
two Judicial days having elapsed
thereafter. and no motion having
been made to ret the me aside, and
10 answer having been filed by do.
feudant within the leg ! delay. aud
fill proof of plaintiffs demands bags
ing been made on the cnhfirmstioa
Of said default by plaintiff. aud W
the further reason of the law AID
evidence being iii favor Of plaintif,
Lennide Lyon. wife oil q. w. Gas.
pard, and against defendant her said
husband, C w Gaspafd, ii is there.
fore ordered. adiudged and decreea
that the community of aequels and
gains heretofore existing bel3een
plaintiff and defendant be aud Tie
same is hereby dissolved, and thar
plaintiff. Mrs Leonide Lyon. be aid
she is hereby allowed to assume the
full administration Of her own Affairs
and estate free FROM The debts ADD
liabilities Of her husband, defendant
herein, and of The community; and
free from the control and manage
meat of her said husband Eugsn ".
Gaspard.
1t is further decreed that plsiutiR
do recover from Eugene w. Gaspard
The defendant The full sum 81 -Four
teen hundred and eighty 8l-Iao dol
lars with 5 per cent interest per an
nun thereon from Judicial demand
September %, 1887, until paid.
Il il turiher adiudged ard decreed
that the legal mortgage Of plainiiA
against her said hus and defendant
for the sum Of Fourteen Hundred
and Eighty 8l-100 l$l480 81 l1ol
Dollars recorded In volume No. y
Of mortgages at folio 5l3 ct sea Of
the parish Of Vermilion on The zath5
day Of January. a. D.. 1896. be I.na
the same is hereby recognized ~ hef
favor, the same to have effect IRON
the date of It's inscription aud 70
effect all the immovable pro-
-pertg owned at The date Of ito reeof
dation by said defendant Eugene
Gaspard, in the parish Of VermIlious
and all other property lmulovaple
which be may have acquired u saia
parish since and after the 24th oi
January. a. D. 1895.
Il is further ordered that delena
ant pay all costs Of this suit 70 ~
taxed.
Thus done, read and signed "
open court at Abheville, on this lhs
i2ib day oil November. A D. 1871
Signed G. DEBAILLoN,
Judge l7lh jed. Dist Cours.
4 true copy Dec. IS. 81.
~ Attest, j.. G. LEBLakc
= :. Dep CLERK q o'''''
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18
Death Of Mrs. MCKINLEY.

Mrs. Nancy AllisoG Mckinley the
venerable mother of the President Of
the United States died Sunday morn.
ing at 2:20 o'clock at the family
residence in Canton, Ohio. The en-.
tire people of the country sympathize
with the President in the cad be-
reavement he has suffered. In this
connection we deem it appropriate
to reproduce the following feeling
tribute from the Baton Rouge Adyo-
cate /:
The people Of this country, With
out regard to party, will sympathize
with President Mckinley in the dark
shadow which is now passing across
his life 10 the mortal illness Of his
venerable mother who for some days
past has been lying at deaths door.
AS soon as the news of her alarming
illness had been communicated to
the President he FASTENED to her
bedside to bid her farewell ard re-
ceive her dying blessing, but she was
already unconscious when he arrived
and has not since regained conscious
ness. while the devoted sen was com
PEELED by pressing duties of State to
return to Washington without even
a glance of recognition from his
loved one. There is not a heart in
all this broad land but knows how
heavily such a burden Of bitter grief
bears do wn upon a iliaI heart, and
it is this knowledge which inspires
the deepest sympathy among men
wherever the sad news is flashed
over the electric wires. Tn the
shadows Of his deep affection The
chief magistrate of 10000. 900 of peo
Pile is as helpless as the humblest
citizen 10 all tho land, and his high
position 10 no manner mitigates the
poignancy of his crushing grief. The
heart of this mighty nation weeps
with William Mckinley abont the
couch of his dying mother.
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18
c. |. ADDISON, Publisher
Saturday, December IS, 1897.

We would like to remind our
friend Chavis Of the Baton Rouge
Advocate that the latest Taogipa-
hoa assassination affords another
knock out argument IN favor Of foot
ball. Poor Mullen had started to
church when shot down 10 ruthlessiy
and without warning.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18
TOTRE PUBLIC.

The public, and merchants in par
tlcular, are hereby notified that from
and after this date / will not be res
ponsible for any debts contracted by
Marie Olympic Hehert.
0vE THIBoDEAUx.
Abbeyilte, December 4. 1897.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18

Distributed over the mid. Pacific
in the ueighborhood of the equator
are quite o lot of small islands that
belong to the United States. Most
of them are from 1000 to 1000
to the south and southwest Of Ha-
wall. There about sixty of these
islands. all having been annexed to
the United States under an act Of
congress which became 8 law in
1856. Ia Bebring sea there are
several very large islands, besides
the little Pribylof group, to which
the fur seals resort. This country
owns the entire chain OF Alentian
islands, which separate Behring sea
from the North Pacific.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18
To Hunters.

The undersigned hereby notify
hunters not to hunt within their
enclosures from aud alter this date.
otherwise they will be prosecuted te
the full extent Of the law.
Felix Bronssard,
Benz. G. Hebert.
Alex. r. Broussard,
Pierre r. Bfousserd,
December 4, 1897
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18
Notice to the Public.

Ny wife, Angelique Emily Brous-
card having refused to live with m
as husband aud wife. / hereby notifs
the public that | will not pay aus|
debts contracted BY her or her chiI.'
dren on my account from this dale.
ALEX. BRoUssARD.
December 4. I8a7.-tf.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18

We understand that the recent
visit Of the Morgan railroad officials
to this place has resulted in the de-
termination to place another switch
engine at this point. This is a re-
suit of the increased amount OF busi-
ness which the road has handled
here.--New Iberia Enterprise.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18

People who think they would be
smart If they only had more conf
dence 10 themselves usually are the
only ones who think so.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-12-18
Probate Sale

STATE OF LOUISIANA-Parish
Of st. Landry--llth judicial Dis
triet Court-No.
The evening times., 1897-01-13
/ FRIGHTFUL PROPOSITION.

A grand jury in historic Alexandra is
desirous that the city Of Braddock and
Washington and Frederick Douglass, shall
lose nothing OF whatever ancient interest
attaches to it, In is official capacity this
grand inquisition is also vengeful and blood
thirsty, albeit, individually. its members are
as mild and innocnous as a package of Sec
retary Morton's garden seeds.
The reason for these remarks lies in the
fact that the body in question has Just
made a duplex presentInent, representing
an ascending scale of horror, almost in
conceivable in these latter days of human
itarianism, when larceny is kleptomania,
and homicide emotional insanity. Never
theless the Alexandria grand jury seri-
ously proposes the re-establshment Of the
whipping post "for all such cases to which
it could be made applicable"
The unalterable opposition of The Times
to any resort to that barbarous and deErad-
ing method OF punishment is well known;
but that is or small consequence, compared
with the terror with which it views the
twin proposition that, whenever the whip
ping post shall fail of remedial and re-
formatory effect, the punishment of listen
ing to a typewriter record of the evidence
given, from day to day, in the Alexandria
mayors court, shall be administered. The
first penalty is calculated TO destroy self
respect and perhaps reason; the second
might be equivalent to capital punishment.
The manifest duty OF Alexandria is to ig-
more and resent such blood curdling sug-
gestion, and to appoint commission cm-
power to go back couple of hundred
years, capture some ideals of that time
and drive them up to as near the pres
ent era as the possibilities viii allow.
The evening times., 1897-01-13
THE EVENING EDITION.

The Constitution, OF Atlanta, announces
that it intends to issue an evening edition:
and it promises that the baby, which it
warns all its readers to look out for, shall
be strong and healthy immediately upon
fits appearance. Atlanta is a flouriShing
town, as no one in Washington needs TO be
told, and the Constitution is a flourishing
newspaper. This paper evidently realizes
that the city to which it has been so de-
voted, and to which it has been such
source OF pride, needs an evening news
paper, or needs better one than it now
possesses. The evening newspaper is
needed wherever il does not exist already,
and better evening newspapers than now
exist are also public requirements. The
evening newspaper is a journal Of today,
not publication of yesterday morning or
the night before last. If a daily journal
prints morning and evening editions both,
h thoroughly covers the field OF public
news and public opinion; it is a simple
physical fact that it cannot be beaten.
The evening times., 1897-01-13

Draper will be appointed to some mission
that we are all safe in discrediting any
rumor that he is seriously spoken of for a
Cabinet position.
Gov Morton is having a new house built,
a town house at No. 6S1 Fifth avenue, New
York city. next TO the City Club. The
beauty of his house in Washington is still
remembered by all who ever went inside,
and one may be sure that the New York
mansion will be equally artistic. A good
architect with 81 5000 in his hands can do
almost anything in the way of sumptuous
house building, and that is the sum which
Gov. Morton has set apart for the mere
erection of the house. Then there will be
another small fortune for the people who
decorate and furnish the inside. Mcklm,
Mead & White plan four-story house,
with thirty feet of frontage, in the Ameri-
can basement style, that Is, so far as the
mere utility features of the establishment
are concerned Artistically, it will be in
the lyle of the Italian Renaissance. The
basement will be given up to office, recep-
tion-room and kitchen. The drawing-room
will take up most OF the first floor, win
dining room in the rear. Up above will be
the living and bedrooms. winding stair
case, with wrought-iron balustrades, VIII
he one of the features OF the house, ana
will effectually redeem it from the brown
stone, boX-like effect, of which the Ameri-
can house has too often been accused. 1t
is safe to predict that when New York is
swept over by an Indignantly artistic com
mon wealth and rebuilt, as Mr. Howells
wishes il to be- Gov Morton's house viii
stay still where it is. '
The evening times., 1897-01-13
. wELLKNOwN ATTORNEY
CURED OF DEAFNESS.

Robert Patterson, Attorney -at-I.aw,
st. Mary's, w. Va. While taking treatment
he is with his daughter, Mrs. S. V. King,
All Maryland ave, city. He says: Il had
been deaf for thirty years. l was so deaf
that could not understand a word unless
/ stood right against the person addressing
lie. In court, in order to hear what the
judge or opposing counsel said, or to under
stand the answers OF the witnesses ON the
stand, 1T was necessary for me to put my
ear almost against the mouth of the speaker.
Physicians had told me that my case
was absolutely hopeless. | became so deaf
finally that | was obliged to give up my
profession as a lawyer.
MY Improvement under the treatment OF
DR.. Mccoy hasd been simply wonderful. l
can understand people talking on tile street,
/ can hear the noises made by carriages
and cars, | hear the closing OF the door.
the ticking OF the clock, all sounds that
had been totally shut out from me for
many years.
The evening times., 1897-01-13
West End GOssip.

One cannot help observing that DR.. Tai
mage is having more and more a giddy
wlnrl in Capital City society. Who shall
deny him this great pleasure? He is young
because every man is as young as he feels.
He is eloquent in the pulpit, and. as. often
happens in the cases of such men, is also
attractive in conversation. Many of the
ladies consider him handsome. He talks
frankly to them, and rarely, so far as have
observed, attempts to mix theology withthe
conversational amenities Of tile drawing
room He has not been in Washington so
very long, and cannot properly be termed
an old resident; but he is already one Of
the familiar figures Of the capital, and, if
it is true, as some believe, that this adds
distinctly to DR.. Talmage's happiness, very
good
The evening times., 1897-01-13
WHERE THE SOUTH WOULD BE.

I've long since knowed the war is over,
An that the world is roilin' right;
No red dews fall upon the clover,
An every lily's spotless white
But what / didn't know for certain
Was this: If England crost the sea,
An foreign flags was round us fightin',
Where would the boys of Dixie be?
But yesterday the sunshine streamin'
Upon their curls so soft an sweet,
Me settin' in my doorway dreamin',
The children played around my feet
"An' come" said Jim, my gun is readyi''
AN there's my sword" said little Jack.
"Now, march away there -steady-steady
We're going to beat the British backi'
"0h, wait" said little blue-eyed Sally,
An handed them flutterin' rag;
Here's sumpip' makes the soldiers rally
How can you fight without a flag?"
An then I got to ruminatin'
An all was plain as day TO me,
An IL it's war, I'm clear in statin'
know just where the South would bel
Atlanta Constitutiop,
The evening times., 1897-01-13
THE:!CR0WN|NG HONOR is TRUTH
The Distinction Which Marks the Master the Practice and the Tti
monyCures Upon Which Systems Of Medicine and Theories Of
Practice Will Be Built.

Hewn out of the rock of this testi-
mony of w onderful cures will be built
systems of medicine.
Based upon these cures will be
founded theories of practice, which
learned professors will expound to
fresh-ltpped students in the class
room.
Inspired by these cures, despondent
practitioners will take heart and
achieve fame.
Learning the treatment which
makes these cures possible, medical
men. of business energy, viii achieve
fortunes.
And from the offices of Doctor Nc
Coy's national practice in Washing
ton will go out to all the world not
only the, means which he has sum
moned to restore the lost sense OF
hearing, but Instruction IN methods
of mastering disease which have
made his name famous and crowned
linn with the honor of such splendid
service TO the human race.
The evening times., 1897-01-13
DOCTOR ncCOY'S BOOK
FREE TO ALL.

The most popular or Doctor Nc
Coy's writings ON those diseases for
the cure of which he has become
famous have been for the beneTit
OF his patients condensed into one
little book. This little book con-
taIns his famous MOSOGRAF FH on
DEAFNESS, his MON OGRAPH on
CATARRH and his MONOGRA PHI on
the SKIN. From a careful readtng
of the MONOGRA PHI OH the SkIN,
the patient may learn all that he
needs TO know regarding diseases
of the outer covering OF the body
the skin. From the MOSOGRAPH on
CATARRH the patient may learn all
he needs To know regarding diseases
of the inner lining of the body-the
mucus membrane. Doctor McCoy's
look may be obtained free by appI-
cation at the office or by writing
for it..
The evening times., 1897-01-13
THESE SPANISH NEwsPAPERsl

The Heraldo, Of Madrid, observes that the
Inauguration of Major Mckinley, and the
convening Of the Spanish CoItes will both
occur in March, and adds Consequently
all the indications are that April l, may be
looked upon as the date for a supreme crisis
In our affairs" very appropriate date,
tooi And perhaps the traditional killer
associated with the sentiment Of that par
ticular saints day, may help to cheer the
fuss. Another Madrid newspaper fears that
trouble with rs may occur sooner than eX-
pected AN extra sale Of liquor at the
Capitol may suffice to bring about a rup-
tUre between the two countries The
hidalgos have long endured the Bourbon
yoke and know something Of its strength,
but they realize that it is Apollinaris COM
pared with the fighting spirit which is
openly peddled around the Senate chamber
and committee rooms.
The evening times., 1897-01-13
PLEADING FOR FULL DRESS.

Mrs. Stevens, wife of the new governor
of Missouri, insists that full evening dress
shall be worn at all of the public functions
IN which her husband and herself partici-
pate as chief official entertainers 1t is
tOubted by many Of the social leaders of
Jefferson City whether this rule, or this in
tended purpose, OF the governors wife can
surely be put into execution. 1t is ad-
mitted by many that the gentlemen COM
posing the Missouri legislature viii be
willing in most cases to purchase or
Go hire dress suits; this is a comparatively
easy matter, they say. But whether the
wives OF statesmen will be able or willing
60 procure new evening dresses, and wheth-
er the proper facilities for this will be az
forded in Jefferson City, or indeed in st
Joseph or some neighboring town, is
problem much more difficult to solve. The
weight OF public opinion throughout the
State seems to be that, while it would
doubtless please the ladies very much 20
The evening times., 1897-01-13
AN ECONOMICAL ADAMS.

The new governor OF Colorado is q scion
of the Oldest family in the world; he is one
of the Adamses. Out Of respect for the
prejudices of his original ancestor, his in
aGguration was simplicity itself. only cost
ing $3.50. The expense would have been
even less, but the fig leaves had 70 be i'm
ported from New Mexico. where they
share with the brass spur and the SOM
brero, the honor of being the national cos
tune
The evening times., 1897-01-13
Addenduln,

Editor Times: 1 scarcely expected my
tart communication on the money ques-
ton and Senator Hoar to appear in The
Times, and my heading "Ad Libitum'
was only hint at publication.
But seeing a letter in today's Times
signed Justice" feel more sympathy
than before for the discharged conductor
and more indignation against the Senator
from Massachusetts. When / was an Of
ficial stenographer in the Senate that
State was represented by tie "godlike''
Daniel Webster and honest John Davis.
Isn't the Bay State becoming empt'ings?
W HB
The evening times., 1897-01-13

The Sturges habeas corpus case was
postponed again yesterday. This was
done because Mrs. Sturges has decided to
engage Gen. Butterworth to assist Mr..
Hensey, her counsel, in the presentation of
the case 1t is proposed to make this a
strong fight, and the Board of Children's
Guardians has also decided upon two at
torneys. They have engaged Mr.. j. Ash
ley Gould and Mr.. Woodward to defend
their action in taking little Myrtle Grimse
ly from the custody of Mrs. Sturges, not
withstanding she had beenlegally adopted
by the family.
The evening times., 1897-01-13

There win be hearing Friday before
Judge Hagner in the contest oSer the will
of the late Elizabeth Barber, of Anacostia.
The deceased bequeathed one-half Of Eer
estate to the trustees Of the Anacostia NJ. f.
Church for charitable purposes, and the
other half is to he divided between Mrs.
Ida McLaren and Mrs. Eliza Watson, two
sisters. Mrs. McLaren, who is the wife Of
the pastor of the church, is the party con-
testing the testament. An impression has
prevailed that it was the desire Of the
caveator to break the viii for her benefit,
but tlIis is pronounced erroneous. 1t is eX-
planned that there would be no objection
to the one-half going TO the church proper
if it could be applied to the debt on the
new building In this connection it is un-
derstood to have been Mrs. Barriers in
tention to have il so applied.
The evening times., 1897-01-13

Now that Mr. Barrick has been appointed
guardian of Frank BaTrows, the messenger
boy, released from the reform school, some
interesting Developments can be looked for
in connection with the reported fortune
which awaits the lad. A quiet investiga-
tion is being made by Mr. Walker and Mr..
StUtz, the boys counsel, and it is thought
something Will be heard from New York in
few days which will confirm the report
that Franks fathers will was never pro-
bated The fact that an administrator was
appointed and required TO give over $780,
600 bond, isevidcnce that the estate wasof
no small sum-
The evening times., 1897-01-13
RESTORATION OF
HEARING LOST FROM
LIGHTNING STROKE.

j. +. Doran, 1908 y st. NV: 81 was
struck by lightning about twenty years ago
and became so deaf that l could not hear
the voice OF the priest during the church
service Now can hear the sound Of the
razor on my face while shaving.
After the stroke by lightning / was un-
conscious for some time, and when | re-
gained my senses there were sharp ringing
noises in my ears From that time on /
began 10 lose my hearing. Finally | be
came so deaf that could ot he ar ordinary
conversation or the ticking OF the clock
or the closing OF the door.
The evening times., 1897-01-13
MIR. PALMER'S
HEARING RESTORED.

). w. Palmer. 1905 G. 1T. NV: "For
four years my hearing had been considerably
impaired. / had sought the aid OF
Specialist, who gave ne prolonged course
OF treatment, but without restoring my
hearing. l could not understand ordinary
conversation. | had to keep requesting
people to repeat | COULD NOT HEAR
THE TICKING OF A CLOCK OR WATCH
RIGHT AGAINST MY EAR. l could get
no enjoyment in going to public meetings
or places OF amusement, because | could
not hear At the earnest solicitation Of
friends | went to Doctor Mccoy to have
my hearing restored. Now, as the result
OF his treatment / CAN HEAR the ticking
or a watch near my ear and that of q
clock at distance OF twenty feet. l can
understand conversation in an ordinary
moderate tone distinctly"
The evening times., 1897-01-13
SO DEAF HE COULD
NOT UNDERSTAND
RIIC SPEAKI

Chas. II. KuInmeIi, Cos Q st. NV,
connected with L. s. Coast and Geodeuc
Survey: Il had been partially dear Tor SIX
months, and also suffered from confused
noises in my head. l could not enjoy
attending lectures or public meetings, Tor
il / was seated three or four seats from
the speaker the words would be confused
and i could not grasp the meaning OF what
was being said | had been treated by
one specialist before going to Doctor Mccoy,
but derived no benefit. Under DR.. McCoys
treatment my hearing has been restored,
and | can hear anyone speaking in public
or delivering lecture.
The evening times., 1897-01-13
CURING CHRONIC BRONCHITIS.
Mrs. Catherine Cunningham, l2O2

MIS-. catherine cunningham, ISUS
f ST. NV. aged IS years: -Four years ago
had the grip and lifetime with aterribIe
cough, from which suffered ever sinceantiI
my treatment by DR.. Mccoy. Many nights
could not rest because of the continued fits
of coughing. Ny appetite failed and | lost
flesh and strength ! raised large qUanti-
ties of phlegm and m mucus. Ny right lung
felt sore all the time.
ut was with fearthat my case ewasincura-
BILE, and almost without hope, having tried
many different physicians and medicines,
that | went to Drs. McCoy and Cowden-
Under their treatment began to improve
at once and dthatimprovement has continued
ever since, until now sleep well all night,
my appetite has returned, my cough has al
most entirely stopped, and I am gaining
In every way every day"
The evening times., 1897-01-13
CITY Hall Gossip.

There has been no trouble with tobacco
cliewers since Judge Bradley's order. 1t
seems to be observed diligently, and all
members of the bar who use tobacco are
very careful to throw their guilds away be
fore passing through the judicial portals.
The la wyers do not regard the edict as an
order but rather in the light OF a suggestion
on the part OF the court that tobacco chew
ing is obnoxious OF course, under these
circumstances, no one desires TO offer an
affront by not complying with the wishes
of Judge Bradley.