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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-29

Actual cash bal s22s 800 s22i3Ssss Inc saos 334
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS.-Custom re-
ceipts reported from Washington. S42O.S18: in
ternal revenue receipts SSO5,5O6 and the miscel
laneous receipts. S2O21O: total Government re-
ceIpts for the day. 81 246.652; expenditures.
$4,000. Receipts for the month TO date.
sos. 5S4. 613: expenditures. 299l5O0O. excess Of
expenditures S1.33O3S1. Receipts for the fiscal
year to date 1908 1886: expenditures. $3O1.-
400, S25: excess OF receipts. S1739. 75l. Receipts
Of National bank notes for redemption to-day.
1927 461
UB-TREASURY.-The Sub-Treasury was a
debtor at the Clearing House S91.S2l. It's net
loss on balance since Friday was 1911 500,
made UP by loss in coin of S262. 114 and
loss in currency Of 500, 525. To-day's operations
included: Receipts. S3.371666; payments.
S3.2l2 G39 resulting in general balance Of
S104 761. $40. consisting OF Sl4S S54557 coin and
S45 9O7 2S3 currency. Receipts Of Saturday and
to-day, SODA. SG5 payments. $6,SS6.364.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-29
GAS SECURITIES.

Reported by {. l. Hudson Co.. No. 80 wall-st)
BONDS
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
SportiVe Legislators.

A New Orleans weekly is response
BILE for the following account of an
episode concerning some Of our law
makers:
During the course of a banquet
aboard the steamboat which trans
ported the legislative health commit
tee and guests to the quarantine sta
lion DR.. G.. P. Wilkinson, the quaran-
tine officer, took occasion to reproach
Representative Ducros, Of st. Ber-
nard. The doctor was feeling unu-
sually jolly from the effects" and
when he addressed Ducros it was his
belief that the St. Bernard represen-
tative had insultingly interrupted him.
lie damned Ducros and Ducros re-
turned the compliment. Subsequent
~ DR.. Wilkinson extended his hand
and asked Ducros to forget the little
unpleasantness. But Ducros wouldn't.
His reply was that on some other oc-
casion lie would hold the doctor to
account. Then Ducros received. two
smart blows, one on each side of the
face. The st. Bernard nan grabbed
a dish from the table and hurled it at
the physicians head. It went in an
other direction and was shattered on
the side of DR.. Scranton's head
That brought another into the row
and Scranton wanted to click the
Frenchman.' The whole affair was
subsequently settled amicably BY
friends of all parties concerned.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
A Big Deal.

A deal was consumated Monday
whereby the Southern Pacific our
chased $4,000 feet of water front at
Sabine Pass for docks and wharves
and ample gronndsfor yards and ter
minals. The purchase was made from
the Sabine Land Improvement COM
pany, and Joseph Osgood, general
manager Of the land company, who
was in Houston yesterday, was given
a check for $4,000, the purchase
money for the land purchased at
Sabine Pass.
Manager Van Week of the South
ern Pacific states that the extent of
the improvements at Sabine Pass can
rot yet be told, as they had not been
determined upon. All he could say
at present was that dock and wharves
would be built at Sabine Pass and
that the Morgan steamships would run
ther during the busy season, 50 as to
avoid a glut.-0range Leader.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
Deserved Praise.

We find u~nfeigned pleasure in re-
producing from the Baton Rouge
Advocate this tribute to a worthy
gentleman and a warn personal
friend:
Speaker Henry left on the after
noon train yesterday for New Orleans,
where be will spend a few days before
going out to his home in Cameron
parish. Speaker Henry is one of the
purest and most in%corruptible men in
public life in this or any other State,
and he has a record Of public service
such as few people are permitted to
attain in this degenerate age Of the
world. AS speaker OF the lower
house, he has won the esteem, affee-
ton and, we might almost say the
reverence of all who come in contact
with him by his digniiied bearing and
his answering fidelity to duty which
is as sublime as. that which charac-
terized the Roman Sentinel at POM
| pei, or that other Roman who held
the bridge. ..in the brave days Of
DID," The Judge is one Of the most
modest and n~nassuming men in public
life, and when his official duties do
moi call him away he can always be
found at his comfortable home in
Cameron where the climate is almost
perpetually that Of spring time and
Nature lavisbes her ~profusion Of gifts
upon the fortunate inhabitants. Such
a man as Judge Henry can not be al
lowed by his State to remain in retire
ment, hehce his valuable services will
doubtless be demanded by the people
regardless of whatever wishes he may
entertain TO retire upon bis splendid
l@aurels already won
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
Press Association Officers.

The Louisiana Press Association.
which assembled at Shreveport on
July 8, elected the following-named
officers for the ensuing year: Major
VIII H. Faraard d the Shreveport
Times, president; j. Y. Gilmore. of
the Louisiana Planters Journal, first
Vice-president Mrs. M. E. Comeqys.
second vice-president; H. Mouton'
treasurer; L. S. Scott, secretary.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
REGISTRATION.

Notice is hereby given that the oaR..
of registrar of voters for the Parish :
Vermilion, Louisiana, will be Omen froo !,
this day up to the 31st day Of Ana,,a.
1898, for the purpose Of registering . ~
persons residents of said parish ~
are entitled to register under See I
of Article 1877 of the Constitution 4
1898. y
will be at the following polling pra.
cincts on the dates given:
9TH ward 3rd prct, Saturday, July 40
1888, at William Choate. -
The office will then be opened at tba
courthouse and remain open until Anr
ust 81, 1898 when registration pnSs,
Sec. 5 will finally close.
SIMoNET LEBLANC.
Assessor and ExSoficio Registrar.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
A Sweeping Reduction.

The police jury Of Union parish has
done what the politicians in ,the con-
stitutional convention did not have
the courage to do themselves-abolish
the Offices Of justice of the peace and
constable. We ssY abolished Tor taev
have pul The salaries Of ilese officers
at from $50 70 $500 per annttm.
and L tilat Is not political abolition
we Waia1 some one 10 name it.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
Journalistic Repartee.

A few weeks since the Sugar Belt
Vindicator and the News, Two spright-
ly papers of Franklin, consolidated as
the aVindicator-News." A cores
pondent OF the paper then enquired
if there was any danger in prospect,
of The Franklin Banner also being
swallowed. To this the Banner re-
torted that if the Yindicator-News
ever swallowed the Banner it would
have more brains in its belly than in
its head. 70 this sally the Vindiea-
tor-News replies:
Our contemporary, the st. Mary
Broussard, accidently known as har-
monica Of ST. Mary's democracy,
plGngss around like a bad COW, be-
'eanse . correspondent Of the Vindi-
eator-NeWs asked if there was anv
danger of swallowing our contempo-
rafy. to which we replied that an ac-
eident might happen if it came 100
close. Our moving-around friend
said if our designs we're carried into
execution, we would have more in our
stomach than we have in our head.
We take it all back. The Vindicator-
News would not, after sober second
thought. load its abdomen with any
such garbage. And we have not heard
that the Banner had ever been ac-
cused of having any brains either in
its head or in its belly.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
Sherif's Sale.
STATE OF LOUIsIANA-Parih
of Vermilion--l7fh Judicial Dis
tfict Conrt-No. ITO.
Gus Godchaux
Mary Broussard ct ais.

Tg virtne Of an order Of seizlre
and sale isrued in the matters Of the
abave entitled and numbered suit,
and to me directed. fully authorizing
md empowering me in the pfeDises,I
will proceed to sell at public auction,
to the last and highest bidder, atthe
principal front door Of the court
house in this parish on
Saturday, September 3, 1898,
between hours prescribed by lay
the following described property,
seized 10 satisfy said writ, TO Wit
One certain tract Of land situated
in Veunilion parish and being deslg,
mated and known as the north east
quarter Of section "a, tp II, south Of
range 3 east. containing l6l acres,
more or less, together with all ths
improvements situaten thereon.
Said property being ordered TO BE-
seized and sold for cash u satisfy
the snm Of ($l359T0-la0) ihirteea
hundred and iity-nine 7O-lOe dols
lars with interest at the rate Of SM
per annum from May |, 1897, uoill
paid andl0 per cent on said amount
Tor attorneys fees to be c~omputed'on
the whole.
Tprms-Cgah.
sherif's Office, Abbeville, La
July 80, 1898.
20. HEBERT. Sheriff.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30

Among the patients on board the
naval relief steamer Solace is Lieut..
Harrison of the Oregon, the drums OF
whose ears were destroyed by detona-
ton caused by the firing Of an eight
inch rifle upon that ship. He was in
command of a thirteen-inch gun, and
put his head out of q hatchWay to get
a breath of air, so that it vas within
a few feet of the mouth of a rifle
upon the upper deck when it was
fired. The conclusion was SO severe
that he fell insensible, and it was
several hours before he recovered
consciousness. He is still stone deaf,
the membranes of both ears having
been lacerated. The surgeons think
he may partially recover his hearing,
but it is still doubtful.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30

1t is expected that Senator E. B.
Williams will contest the neyt con-
g~ressional election in this district with
Hon. R. f. Broussard, and of course
the campaign will be a lively one.
MI. Williams will be a popular candi
date.-Morgan City Review.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
7 ugane University
of Louisiana.
COLLEGES OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

COLLEGES OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Classical, Literary. Latin-Seientifc and
Scientific Courses.
COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY.
Mechanical. Electrical, Chemical, Sugar
Civil and Architectural Engineering.
UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PHILoS.
oPHY AND SCIENCE, with graduate courses.
Fall trim of the above begins October
I'd, in the new Buildings, on st. Charles
Ave, opposite Audubon Park.
H. SOPHIE NEWc0MB MEMORIAL COZ.
LEGE for Young Women, with Literary
aud Scientific Courses, including Art
and Physical Culture. Boarding De-
partme Mt, Washington Ave. Next term
opens Oct, 3rd.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
In the Richardson Memorial Building, on
Canal St. Session begins Thursday, Oct.
18th.
Law DEPARTMENT.
Corner Tulane Avenue and University
Place. Next session begins Monday, Nov.
14th.
For catalogues address the Secretary Of
the University.
VIM. PRESTON JOHNSTON, President.
VIM. O. ROGERS, Secretary.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
STATE OF LOUISIANA,-l7n|
Judicial District Cburt,-Parish q
VermiIiOn.-No. 36g.

Succession of Cecile Broussard.
Notice is hereby given to all paTtles
interested or having any opposition =
to make to the tableau of debts any
charges against said succession WIN
distribution of net assets of same fled
by Albert 8. Broussard, Natural
Tutor administering said estate to fle
same in writing in the Office OF ING
clerk of the district court within ten
days from the date hereof. !.
Given under my hand and seal Y
Office this 10th day of July, 1925.
ALcIDE LEBLANC,
Clerk of Court.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
NOTICE.

In accordance with the rules OF the
Board of Pardons and law ! do here
by give notice to all whom it may
concern that / am applying for par.
don from the sentence ~prononneea
upon me in the case entitled State ol
Louisiana vs.. Henry Thurman, NO.
sos, Criminal Docket OF the Distrlcs
Court for Vermilion Parish, La.
HENRY THURMAN.
July 16, 1898
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
Santiago Surrenders to Shafter.

Last Sunday wa another red letter
day for the United States in the cal
endar. Just a little singular, isn't it,
that Sundays in this war with Spain
have been the lucky days? Well,
this particular Sunday, July 18th will
be remarkable for the surrender OF
the city Of Santiago and the Spanish
forces in eastern Cuba, under COM
mand Of General Toral to the Ameri-
cans under General Shafter. The
following telegram tells the story in a
few words:
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Jnly 17.-Ad-
jutant-G General U. S. a. Washington:
I have the honor to announce that the
American flag has been this instant,
IL o'clock noon, hoisted over the
house of the civil government in the
city OF Santiago. An immense con-
course of people present. A squad
ron of cavalry and a regiment OF in
fantry presenting arms and band
playing national airs. Light battery
fred salute t~wenty-one guns. Per-
feet orde1 is being maintained by mu-
nicipal government. Distress is very
great, but little sickness in town.
Scarcely any yellow fever. A small
gunboat and and about 200 seamen
left by Cervera have surrendered to
me. DISTINCTIONS are being removed
from mouth of harbor. Upon coming
into the city | discovered a perfect
ENHANCEMENT Of defenses. Fighting
as the Spaniards did the first day, it
would have cost 5000 lives to have
taken it. Battalions of Spanish troops
have been depositing arms since day
light in arnory over which | have
guard. General Toral formally sur
rendered the plaza and all stores at 8
a. IN. w. r. SKATER,
Major-General
Gen. Shafter returned to General
ToraI the latter's sword after it had
been handed to the American COM
mander.
Our troops, lined up at the trenches,
were eye witnesses of the ceremony.
Gen. Shafter and his escort, accom-
panied by Gen. Toral, rode through
the city, taking formal possession.
The city had been sacked before they
arrived by the Spaniards.
At the palace elaborate ceremonies
took place. Exactly at noon the
American flag was raised Owe the
palace and was saluted by twenty-one
guns by Capt. Capron's battery. Al
: the same time all the regimental bands
in our line played "The Star-Spangled
Banner" after which President Me-
/ Kinley's congratulatory telegram was
read to each regiment.
Since 4 O'Clock this morning .
stream OF refugees has been pouring
: into the city, some naked and all hun
cry, skeletons and footsore. Many
had fallen by the wayside.
/, The town of Santiago presents Q
/, a dimal sight. The stores have al
been looted and nothing to eat can be
had for love or money. In the streets
of the city this morning, at the en-
trenehments, at the breastworks and
at every hundred feet or so OF the
barbed-wire fences we're the living
!, skeletons Of Spanish soldiers.
" "
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30

An act was passed at the recen-
session Of the Legislature authorizing
police juries Of the different parishes
to cut bitches through private prop
erty in order to drain the public
roads. This i d good law. No OBJ
staele should be thrown in the way Of
draining the public highways.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30

Word comes from New York that
Speaker Reed has been at Manhattan
Beach. the summe home of Senator
Platt, and that these two interesting
characters have developed a sudden
and surprising intimacy" with each
other thst betokens business. The
suspicion is expressed that Mr.. Reed
IL taking hand in New York politics,
at the instance Of Senator Plat, and
thai whatever fayors the Speaker OF
the House may be able to do for the
Senator II the State campaign, viii
lie returned Hith interest by the latter
ia the next contest for the Republican
presidential nomination in which con-
Test Mr. Reed, the person who gives
ont this story declares, means to be an
important factor.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
Saturday, July 80, 1893.

General Joe Wheeler, after visiting
the barbados, wire netting and other
Notifications at Santiago, said we
would have lost 5000 men before
taking the city.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30

The indications are now that Joe
Letter lost about twelve millions Of
dollars in his wheat speculat.ons. His
father was on his paper and he will
have to put up about y millions
to make up the shortage. Joe had
better take a vacation now and be-
come better versed in u and
effect.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
Railroad Commissioners Convention

-
The Democratic State central com
mittee met in Baton Rouge last week
to adopt a plan for selecting party
candidates for railroad commissioners
in the State-a new office created by
the late constitution. The following
preamble and resolutions were adopt
ed:
Whereas, the constitution of 1898
created a railroad commission for this
State, to be composed Of three mem
bers elected from the three railroad
commission districts, and
Whereas, the interests of the demo-
cratic party in this State require that
its members in the said districts shall
unite upon and nominate n candi-
date in each of the several districts,
so as to secure the election Of a com
mission entirely of Democrats and
Whereas, there exists no commit
tee or any other political organization
in the said districts vested with u
thority to initiate measures necessary
to secure the nomination of such cam
didates and the creation Of the proper
executive committees, therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Democratic State
central committee in regular session
convened, that q Democratic nominal
ting convention is hereby ordered for
each Of the said railway commission
districts for the purpose of nominal
ting a Democratic candidate for rail-
way commissioner. as follows:
The second district, composed Of
the parishes Of Iberville, Ascension.
Assumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne,
st. Martin, Lafayette, Vermilion
Cameron, Calcasieu, Ayoyeiles, st.
Landry, Pointe Coupee, West and
East Feliciana, East and West Baton
Rouge, st. Helena, Livingston, Tan
gipahoa, Washington, St. Tammany,
and Acadia, shall hold its convention
at Baton Rouge, in the parish q East
Baton Rouge, Wednesday, the 21st
day OF September, 1898, at - o'clock
m.
The three conventions above or
dered shall consist Of delegates from
the several parishes comprising the
railway commission district in which
they are elected BY the white Demo-
cratic voters Of said parishes at the
time. and under such rules and regu-
@lations as the Democratic parish ex-
e%cutive committee Ray adopt; provi-
lied that none but white democratic
voters shall be permitted to p%artici-
pate in the election of delegates.
The parish members of the Demo-
cratic State central committee, or in
the absence or failure of any of them
to act, the chairman of the Demo-
cratic parish executive committee of
the parishes in which the said conven-
ton is held, except the parish Of Or
! leans, where the chairman Of this
committee, OF in his absence the vice
chairman, shall act, are hereby vested
with authority to call the said conyen-
ton to order. ana to preside over
them until they are permanently or
ganized.
That the number Of delegates to
which the several parishes shall he
entitled shall be The same as the nuln-
Der to which they were entitled Ia the
last State convention.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30

The legislature has passed the bill
making it unlawful for police juries to
draw money from the parish treasury
other than their per diem and mileage,
and prohibiting them from being in
terested in contracts the payment Of
which comes out Of their parishes, Of
to act as agents for collecting claims
against their parishes, or dealing in
their parish paper.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30

The following Southern States pay
pensions as follows to their veterans
Of the rebellion: Virginia, $40, 900
Alabama, $116, 900; North Carolina.
S113. 900 South Carolina, 500, 900
Florida, 500, 900; Tennessee, $685.
600; Mississippi, SIS, 900; Arkansas.
S42, 900; Texas, $4,000; Georgia.
owe $685. 900.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-07-30
To the Ladies,

Anyone bringing me one dozen
empty glass pickle bottles, I will give
each a bottle of pickles free.
i. IsAAcs, truck farming.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-09
SWEARING TO TELL THE TRUTH
How the Ceremony of Taking the
Oath In Performed in Many Courts.


Oath liz Performed i'm Many Courts.
From the London Globe.
In most continental countries the prac-
tice of kissing the book Is unknown, the
ceremony of oath-taking being more akin
to the Scottish than to the English form.
French witness has a very simple ordeal
to pass through before unfolding his tale.
The Judge, seated beneath a crucifx says,
"You swear to tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the TRUTH" and
the witness, lifting up his right hand,
answers, 81 swear It," In Austria a
Christian witness is sworn before a cru
cihx between two lighted candles, and,
holding up his right hand, says: II swear
by God the Almighty and All Wise that
will speak the pure and full truth, and
nothing but the truth, in answer to any
thing 1 may be asked by the court" jew
ish witnesses, while using the same words,
add TO their soemnity by placing their
hands on the page of Bible on which is
printed the third commandment. A Bel
gian witness swears TO be veracious In
these words: II will speak the TRUTH the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so
help me God and all the saints"
In Italy the form is much the same,
but the use of the Bible ir1parts greater
degree Of seriousness to It, 81 will swear
70 tell the truth, the whole truth and moth
ing but the TRUTH exclaims the Italian
witness resting his hand upon an open
Bible. The Spanish oath is more elabo-
rate. The witness, knelling on his right
knee, places his hand on the sacred book,
and being asked by the Judge, "Wl you
swear by God and by these holy gospels
TO speak the truth to all you may be ask
ed?' answers, yes, / swear" Thereupon
the Judge says: Then If thus you do,
God will reward you, and II not, will re-
quire II of you" In some parts of the
country the ceremony is different. The
witness forms a cross by placing the mid
die of his thumb on the middle'of his fore
finger, and kissing his thumb-a practice
which would probably be very familiar to
some English witnesses-exclaims: by
this cross 1 swear"
The most curious European oath is adj
mnistered In Norway. The witness raises
his thumb, his fQrefnRer, and his mid
die finger. These signify the Trinity,
while the larger of the uplfted finger Is
supposed to represent the soul of the wit
ness and the smaller to indicate his body.
Before the oath IL taken a long exhorta
ton is delivered, the most material parts
Of which are as follows. Whatever per-
son Is so ungodly, corrupt, or hostile to