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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15
Probate Sale
STATE OF LOUISIANA
l7th Judicial District Court1Ns
35S-Pnrish Of Verm;i;on Nv

oIAih " LOUISIANA.
18th judicial District Court-NS
358-Parish Of Vermilion. W
Succession of Theozime Topcbos
Notice is hereby given lbat L.
virtne Of an order Of sale granted n,
the Hon. District Court aforess;d =
The matter of the successiop eni;sl'
and numbered as above, and ~
commission issned to me t-herepra.a
there will be offered for sale J, ~
lie auction, IL the last and hiphest
bidder, by The undersigned, or i.
duly authorized auctioneer. Il ! ]
debts Of said succession, on 1
Thursday November 10. 1909
between the hours of II q. m. ana
q. m at the late residence Of tba da
ceased, in This parish the hereinaf,s.
described property belonging to Nil
setate. to wit
One certain tract Of land lvino i.
Vermilion parish, La, on the VA
side of Bayou Vermilion, c~ontainiDg
80 78-10o acres Tor 100 arpentsS
designated as the south half Of tbs
northwest quarter OF section two. 4
township twelve, south or range three
east, with all the improvements there.
on situated except the corn crib and
all the pieux fencing which il spe.
eialiy reserved.
Five head of horned cattle.
Rice binder, and many other arti-
cles too numerous to mention.
Terms--Cash.
AbbeVilie, La, October s, 1898.
VIcToRE E. Conner.
Administrative.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

safe L0UISIANA-Parish ol
Vermilion-s7th Judicial Distrle!
Court--No 2g9.
Succession Of Mary Jane Lang
Application of Elijah Wise % %
discharged as administrator.
Notice is hereby given 70 all wnom
may concern, including the ne'.s
Of said succession. to make oppnsls
ton, if The, think fit, within ,en
days from the day in which 'hls
notice is published, showing ne fea'
son if any they have. why said appl,-
cation for discharge fled by Bllah
Wise. administrators Of sald suc-
.cession and his bond Cancelled ~
such to file the same in writing y
the Office Of the clerk of court WHINE
len days from the dale hereof.
Given nndcr my hand and seal q
court this l7th day Of September
1898.
ALcIDE LEBLANC.
Clerk of Court
III. B. White. atty.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15
TO TIE PUBLIC.

From ard after this date the pub.
lie is hereby warned not to eilter for
aug pitfpose Oh the property ksowll
as The Old Peter Lee tract. SITUATED
in he 2nd ward Of Vermilian parish
sitEmut consent Of the overs there.
al. Any one found tfespassing on
sold premises will tie prosecuted II
Tho fall extent OF The law.
Justillien Thiboleaux,
Ursin Primeauy,
Iosetfh Dapny,
Frank Moss.
0cteher l, 1898
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15
SOUTHERN FARM MAGAZINE

A Monthly Illustrated Journal,
Published by Manufacturers Record
Publishing Co., Of Baltimor, Nd,
devoted to Southern Agriculture,
dealing with all matters related to
General Farming, Live Stock, Poul-
try, Dairying, Truck Farming, Fruit
Growing, and every farm interest and
pursuit in the South.
1t is widely read by Northern and
Western farmers contemplating NOV
ing South.
It ought to be in every Southern
family, for it is "Tof the South, by the
South and for the South"
Editorial Contributors: Chas. w.
Dabney, Jr., Ph. D., LII. D. Ex-
United States Assistant Secretary Of
Agriculture, Ex-Director United
States Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton in North Carolina, President
University Of Tennessee and Presi-
dent of I. s. Agricultural Expert
ment Station in Tennessee.
J. B. Killebrew, A. NJ, Phi. D.
Ex-Commissioner of Agriculture for
Tennessee, author of "Culture and
Curing of Tobacco for q. S. tenth
census, Tobacco Leaf, asheep
Husbandry," "Wheat Growing
sGrasses,'' and other agricultural
Warks.
The regular subscription price Of
the Southern Farm Magazine is 81 a
year, but we offer it and the Meri-
dional together one year for $3.50.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15
Where the Shoe Pinohes.

Last week we published an article
from the Crowley Signal, making
the accusation that the newspapers OF
New Orleans were systematically sup
pressing the news about yellow fever,
and that the merchants Of that city
had forced them to pursue such a
course. The Picayune, Ilmes-Demo-
crat and States all promptly denied
the charge and denounced the Crow
lev merchant in most unmeasured
terms as a scoundrel and q liar and
demanded that the Signal publish his
name that he night be pilloried in
public e~xecration. In the Sunday
Times-D Democrat we find the follow
ing letter:
New Orleans, Oct. s, 1893.
To the Editor ofThe Times-Demoefat
Dear Sir-Since reporting my sons
case of yellow fever to the City Board
of Health, a report which | was com
PEELED by law to make, | have been
abused and villifed throughout this
city and made the subject OF many
false and malicious rumors. all of
which, save one, are too eontempti-
BILE to deserve notice at my hands
The one rumor which seems to have
made some impression upon thought
full minds is that / wired Surgeon
General Walter Wyman and notified
Surgeon H. r. Carter that there was
yellow fever in this city.
The absolute f~alseness of this aecu-
sation IS clearly shown by the follow
ing correspondence. Respectfully.
II S. KENNEDY, N. D.
No. 1742 St. Charlessayenue.
This letter proves conclusiyely that
the people Of New Orleans or a great
number of them are abusing and vii
living a mar for telling the truth.
1t follows then that they are IN favor
Of suppressing the truth about the
yellow fever. The newspapers whil5
denying the charge Of the Crowley
Signal, all admit that they deem i
wise to discontinue reporting cases o.
yellow fever as they did last year
Now we do not believe that the news
papers have entered into any contract
to suppress the news about yellow
fever, but it is plain that they r do
ingNit for they admit it. Galveston
successfully played this game las
year but New Orleans is only a bung.
ling imitation. We are sorry thai
yellow fever exists in New Orleans
and regret that the people viii be SC
panicky about q mild disease, buf
New Orleans people and papers should
remember that Honesty is the best
policy"
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15
TO THE PUBLIC.

| hereby forbid any one to trespass
on the following tract OF land in any
way, shape, form or manner, to Wit:
The southwest quarter of Section one,
township thirteen, south Of range four
east, Louisiana Meridian, containing
one hundred and fifty-seven 96-l00
acres. ALEX. GEoEFRoY.
Oct. 8, 1898.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

The Sunday law violators of New
Iberia were given s25 for the first
offense and $3.50 for the second this
second dose was such that we pre-
sumo the yiolators viii not risk the
third time, and now On eyen t1e back
Daak3oors vii ba closed tight tie.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

The vote cast in the Fourth con-
gressional district primary has been
canvassed by the committee and is as
follows 1913, Suther-
lin 1918.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

Lake Charles has quarantined
against all infected localities, and re-
quires all persons from the east and
northeast outside the parish to pro-
duce health certificates before they
will be allowed to enter the city.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

Martial law has been proclaimed at
Pana in the coal mining district Of
Illinois, on account Of the rioting go
ing on between white miners and
negroes imported from Alabama.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

The Republicans of Oregon have
elected Hon. Joseph Simon, of Port
land to the United States Senate. lie
is a Jew and was born in Germany.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

There is, says the St. Martinville
Messenger, a great deal Of distress
and hardship among the poor people
of Franklin, which town is stricken
with yellow fever, and for more than
a month, it is encircled with shot gun
quarantine. The fever is epidemic
there, and up to this date nearly two
hundred cases have been reported,
with, however, a low death rate, only
five deaths having been reported.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

According to the Lake Providence
Banner-D Democrat cotton is being
ginned at Mansura for rs cents per
bale. This is very cheap ginning,
but the producer is unable to pay
more at the present prices.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15
The Fear Of Yellow Fever.


yellow fever inspired the New York
World says:
tThere has been precisely one case
Of yellow fever among the 1000
troops at Ponce, Porto Rico.
"There are 1858 cases of other
diseases, most of them quite as dead
" as yellow fever.
"Yet one yellow fever case has
excited more alarm than the 1858
other cases.
"What is the mystery Of this alb
surd fear of a disease which new
yet killed in any one year half as
many people as unfamiliar consump-
ton kills every year?
THAT disease has 100, coo deaths
to it's account every year in the United
States alone. The highest mortality
ever recorded for yellow fever was
less than $1,000.
aAnd in this Cuban al anybody
who can read plain figures must see
that dysentery, malarial fever and
other diseases are UNNECESSARILY more
deadly than yellow fever.
why then should there be a panic
whenever a case OF genuine yellow
fever o~ecurs?"
The question propounded by the
World has been asked before, but has
never been answered in a manner en-
| tirely satisfactory, but that people
lose their heads and stampede when
ever any mention Of the yellow fever
is made a fact that a not be dis
puted. 1t is not necessary that the
fever should be yellow fever, but a
bare report that d suspicious case has
occurred is sufficient to cause States
and towns to establish senseiess shot
gun guarantees and throttle business
, Of all kinds. This little spell Of fever
of an exceedingly mild type which
occurred here last fall, and called
yellow fever cost New Orleans s25,-
600, 900 and yet the percentage Of
deaths was remarkably low. There
nevertheless exists 4 fear Of the yell
low fever in this country greater than
that inspired by any other disease. In
all the large cities and towns typhoid
fever. d far more terrible and deadly
disease than yellow fever, claims its
victims by the tens o. thousands every
year, but nobody seems alarmed by
the fact that the disease is raging,
and the result is business goes along
as usual, and we do not hear of peo-
pie packing their trunks, closing their
houses and ~crowding outgoing pas
senger trains. The same is the case
whenever an epidemic Of smallpox,
the most ~loathsome of all diseases, or
diphtheria occurs.-IbervilIe South.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

BY a decision rendered bytheU .. S.
District Court the Southern Pacific
Company viii be obliged to deliver
the Cumberland Telephone Company
polls. This will insure an early con
nection between Morgan City and
New Orleans.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15
Saturday, October Is, 1888.

J. r. G. Pitkin has been appointed
and commissioned a postmaster at
New Orleans.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

The following Democratic Con-
gressional nominations have been
made:
First District-Adolph Meyer.
Second District-R. G. Davy.
Third District-R. F. Broussard.
Fourth District-Phanor Breazeale.
Fifth Districts. I. Baird.
Sixth Districts. M. Robertson.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15
ALcIDE LEBLANC,
Clerk of Court.

TAKEN UP-By the undersigned, =
creole sorrel horse, aged about eight
years, has been ranging in my neigh.
borhood about three months, ana
branded thus asE
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

A doctor over at Crowley says that
the disease among horses is not char
bon nor blind staggers, and he don't
know what it is. He is a good deal
like an old dutchman, a horse doctor,
up in Iowa. A man had a sick horse
and called the doctor and asked him
If be could tell what allied it. He
examined the horse critically, and
then said: ''Shentlemens, | yusht tell
Yot it ish; der is Something's ter mat
ter nit dot horse.-Jennings Record.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15

The owner is hereby notified to come
and prove his property, pay costs Y
fifteen days from this date otherwise
the same will be disposed of accord
ing to law. HENRY ABsHIRE.
September II, 1898. 9th ward.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15


On Wednesday afternoon at 3
O'Clock, says the Iberian, . current Of
lightning struck simultaneously the
cupola of the High School and a tree
in the yard of Mr. C. c.. Weems on
the East Side. The two objects must
be at least half a mile distant in adj
rect line, and the double stroke was
exceedingly peculiar. At the High
School some of the states on the roof
were broken and repairs to the extent
,of from twenty-five to fifty dollars
will be necessary. 1t il extremely
fortunate that so little damage was
done to the building. Although 200
children were in the school at the
time but two, Master Luke Fridley
aud a companion, were slightly
sstroeked, but they sustained no real
damage.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-15
STATE OF LOUISIANA,-ITth
judicial District Court,--Parish of
October /, 1898

fGfulifl0H.-NO. 600.
Succession of Theozime Touchet.
Notice is hereby given to all parties
interested or having any opposition 70
to make to the tableau of debts and
charges of said succession fled by
Vic. E. Conner administering said
estate to file same in writing in the
office Of the clerk of the district court
within ten days from the date hereof.
Given under my hand and seal Of
Office this oath day Of septembe,
1898.
ALcIDE LEBLANC,
Clork nf Corirf.
The times., 1898-12-06
CITY BREvIT1ES.

William L. Magee appeared at the EmerSehcy
Hospital late last night with badly fractured
nose, the result OF fall. The fracture was re-
dueed and set and M9gee returned 10 ms hoh'ef
No. 22l1 VI Street northwest
The charge OF larceny again.t Mrs Priscilla
Crsbtree was nolle prossSd yesterday by Assistant
District Attorney Mullowney. N's. CrsotTee was
charged with stealing lamp from Mrs Taylor
on Saturday last, but as the latter did not ">h 4"
prosecute the case was dropped.
Mrs NJ A. Coleman. f1rty-eght years old. sus-
tanned a badly spraintd ankle last ngnt a. the
result of fall into hole in the sidewalk n hoht
of 24Is Pennsylvania Avenue northwest Sne was
Immediately placed in cab and driven TO ner
home. at JO2 d Street southeast
A dinner will be given the new home Of
the soldiers, Sailors and Marine Department. OF
the W. C. T. L., No; 80 street northwest; TO-DAY
from to p III. All friends Of the b-ys in blue
and the bows themselves very cordially invited
This benefit is for the benefit of the new home
George johnson. plate printer. stuck his hsi
through plate glass window yesterday afternoon
cutting an artery in his wrist He WIS taken 10
the Emergency Hospital. where the artery was
tied and three stitches taken in the wound. Later
he returned to his home.2lo5 g Street northwest
Major sylvester yesterday received telegram
from Capt. Mason, Of the Memphis. Tenn. police
department stating that he was on his way
from Memphis with Billy CoTnell2. clever Crook
who was captured there last week. Cotnella j.
wanted in this city to answer 10 4 charge OF lAr-
ceny.
As the result OF gefting ms manu- Sausut N ~
elevator yesterday afternoon NJ. J. NeArdie,
railroad foreman was taken to the Emergency
HOSPITAL and suffered the amputation of one
finger while two others were stitched and dressed
His hand was badly crushed. While the injury IS
painful il is not thought that serious comph-
cations will result.
George Douglas, eolored, twenty-seven years
! old employed as driver by W. :. Thompson, the
| druggist got into argument with bicyclist
yesterday Afternoon to determine who should have
| the right OF way on an uptown street The bi-
| cyelist, IN the argument, used brick and Doug
| las repaired TO the Emergency Hospital 10 have
| three stitches taken in his scalp.
| While assisting in setting a large plate glass al
| a downtown store yesterday afternoon W b.
| waltzel. an electrician thirty years old. met
| with painful accident In some manner those
holding the glass let it slip and it fell on Walt
zers wrist. cutting an ugly cash. He was takeI
| to the Emergency Hospital, where 1t was fount
several stitches necessary to c.ose the wound
Suit was filed against Percival NJ: Brown
George II. Plant, jr., and George W Heisley b.
| Louis H. Emmert yesterday for the purpose o
compelling Plant and Brown to restore to hin
| a note Of s., 600 and to cancel it. Pending III
final disposition CT the natter the complainan
asks that the defendant he restrained from pro
eeeding to procure Judgment at law agains
the plaintiff.
The times., 1898-12-06

ment. Without health, all the talent, all
the genius, and all the ambition in the
world are worthless. boy should be
taught that success in any walk of life, that
happiness, and life itself, are dependent
upon his care of his health
When a man feels that he is losing his
health and vigor, when his checks no long
er glow, his step is no longer elastic and
the sparkle of health is no longer in his
eyes, he should work less, rest more and
resort to the right remedy to restore his
bodily vigor. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery is natural medicine scientif-
ic medicine. It does no violence to nature.
1t works with and not against nature. 1t
promotes the natural processes of secretion
and excretion. It imparts vitality and
power to the whole system. 1t gives
plumpness and color to the checks, sparkle
to the eyes, steadiness to the nerves,
of health to the whole body. 1t makes the
appetite keen and hearty. 1t is the great
blood maker, flesh builder and nerve-tonic
and restorative. Medicine dealers sell it
and have absolutely nothing else "just
as good"
q l was afflicted with pimples and boils. and
running sores on face and neck, writes Robert
S Vert. Esq, of No. 6rS Galloway Ave, Column
bus, Ohio. " took DR.. PieTce's Golden Medical
Discovery and Pleasant Pellets and was cured"
Constipation is the commonest beginning
and FIRST cause of many serious diseases and
it should always be treated with DR.. Picrce's
Pleasant Pellets used in connection with the
Discovery" These are the most perfect
natural laxatives and permanently cure.
The times., 1898-12-06
FUTURE LEAVES OF ABSENCE
The Existing system Revoked by a
New Order.

The opinions Of the United States At
torney General and Judge Advocate Gen
er.,l Lieber. Of the army. in reference to
leaves of absence of employees in the Ex-
ecative Departments. were embodied in
general order form and promulgated at
the War Department yesterday. by the
Acting Secretary OF War.
These opinions overturn existing regu-
lations In most of the departments and
re-establish the former custom OF allow
ing each employe thirty days leave of
absence annually. and additional leave TO
the extent Of thirty days in case of sick
ness.
The Acting Secretary approved the
opinions as applicable TO the War D.
partment. and. in the future, leaves II
be granted on that basis. Similar acton
VIII be taken, it is said, by the heads of
the other departments.
Brig. Gen. Lieber. whose opinion is APP
proved by Attorney Gen rdl Giiggs. h=ld:
I'm my opinion, clerk may b. granite
as much as sixty days leave, with pay.
in the whole year, provided that as much
as thirty days of it was made really nee
essary by his personal illness. In other
words, he may be granted as much as
thirty days without any cause given,
tcalled in the statutes annual leavsD
and he may be granted this. notwith-
standing he may have had not exceed
ing thirty days sick leave, and If te
shall take his thirty days annual leave
and then become sick afterward. he may
be granted leave on account of his SEX.
ness for as many days as he may be ci
up to thirty days.
The times., 1898-12-06
MURDER OR SUICIDEe
The Peculiar Death of James q.
Harwood. Near Baltimore.

Baltimore. Dec. 5.-James G. Harwood.
n well-to-do clubman and an artist Of
of some ability. either committed suicide
or was murdered between and o'clock
this morning. al his home, at Arbutus,
Baltimore County. lie was found by his
colored man servant lying on bed in
the second story front room. A bul'et
hole in his right temple showed where
he had been shot. A peculiar circum-
stance is that while he was shot in tie
right temple, his right hand was lying on
his breast. and his left hand hung down
his side to u point where the pistol was
found near his knee. 1t is said there
was no reason whatever why he should
have committed suicide. as he had sut-
ficient income and had no personal
troubles.
The servant who found him said that
he left the house last night. after having
been refused permission to stay over
night by Harwood, who said:
'.You had better go home. II You stay
here you might get shot
Harwood was a brother of Henry Har
wood, the gentleman rider who was kill
ed some years ago by fall while riding
in a race.
The deceased had always been consid-
cred an eccentric character. Alhoush
worth from $4,000 to sl75,0oo, he lived
alone in a small house. sparsely furnish
ed. and spent his time looking sitter his
stable, In which he had number of fast
horses. He also had a lot of fancy
chickens and a lot of valuable dogs. A
colored man prepared his meals for him.
Harwood was only twenty-five years of
age
The coroner, after az investigation. de-
cided an inquest unnecessary, believing
1t case of suicide. but Harwood's S
| friends think he was murdered.
The times., 1898-12-06

ron had pistol Mr.. Keyworth called
Barron in the card room -
The state next produced W. Brook as
witness He testified that while he was
at Keyworths, on July 6, Barron entered
and asked to join in a game of cards.
Keyworth cursed Barron some time after
ward. His further testimony brought out
no new details.
Elias Kent, colored, who heard the
quarreling corroborated the other wit
nesses and testified that he heard Barron
say: Il will have to hang for that fell
low"
Hathaway Redmond, colored gave unim-
portant evidence and Thomas Randall.
colored, testified that Barron had asked
for the loan of a pistol. William Beckett
said on the witness stand that he had also
refused to loan Barron a weapon. J. II.
Johnson gave similar testimony, and Ed
ward b. Garges said that he had loaned
the defendant a revolver on the day Key
worth was shot.
Katherine keyworth, widow of the de-
ceased, was then produced. Mrs. Key
worth was very composed throughout her
entire testimony. She said: "On the day
of the shooting l was in the sitting room
talking to Mrs. Brooks, when l heard
shot fired. / ran to the bar and saw my
husband with his hand upon his chest,
,
what was the matter and he said that the
coward had shot him and that he would
kill the coward before he died. He stag
gered TO the cupboard and got his pistol,
which took from him. ] then undressed
him and put him to bed
In cross-eXamination the witness denied
that her husband was violent in his lam
guage to Barron.
j. II. Stevens and Benjamin Kaplin. a
laIa htty
concerning the shooting. At this point
as with all other witnesses a lively legal
battle was fought as to the States right
TO ask witness leading questions. The
State was permitted to ask the question.
Alfred ID. Bailey testified that he saw
Barron directly after the shooting, and
| that Barron said: Il shot Keyworth and
| If you had been in my place you would
have done exactly the same thing"
John F. Hickey. member of the jury
| of inquest, testified to the character OF
the wound William Magruder gave SIM
| iliar testimony. The case will be resumed
| tomorrow morning at $3.50 o'clock.