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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-05-28
TAKEN UP.

/ have taken up a red COW with
brindle head and white belly, no
brand visible. Owner will please
come forward and identify her and
pay costs.
May %, 1898. j. E. WHITE.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-05-28


One thing to the everlasting credit
of the convention, stands out lumin-
ously. This is a commercial and
hence a corrupt age. Corruption is
common among public men and in
legislative bodies, and such things
too generally escape serious censure.
Bot 10 this large convention, before
which have come innumerable
schemes and jobs with immense CAPT
tai to push or buy them through; yet
not a breath of scandal from any
source has come against the conven
ton, or any member Of the conven-
lion. Honor and probity have char
acterized this body; and if it has not
done all that Democrats desired, ii
has been 10 its cleanness an honor
and a glory to our party.-States.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-05-28

After winning the case fourteen
times, the Crescent City now loses
the Warner cas- The O. S. Cir
cult Court decided against the city.
Some s75o,OOO involved, with inter,
est for twenty-five years.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-05-28
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
Saturday, May %, 1898.

Application will be made TO both
houses of the General Assembly to
pass an act to lay out and define the
lines between the parishes of Acadia
aud Lafayette.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-05-28

President Mckinley Wednesday
issued a proclamation calling for
rs 900 additional men.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-05-28
SALE.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish OF VermiIion,
Third Justices Court-No. ISL.
Eli Wise, Treas'r School Board of
Vermilion Parish, La.
J. II. Beauxis ct ais.

j. II. Beauxis ct ais.
By virtue of a writ Of ieri faciaa
issued in the matters Of The above
entitled and numbered suit, and to
me directed, fully authorizing aud
empowering me in the premises. |
will proceed to sell al public auction,
to the last and highest bidder, at the
principal trout door of The court
house in this parish, on
Saturday, June 4, 1898,
between the hours prescribed by law
the following described property,
seized to satisfy said writ, TO wit !:
One dwelling house,
One kitchen.
One corn crib and fencing.
J. q. THEALL.
May 2l-'98. Constable.
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NOTICE.
Passing through my Enclosures i
strictly foI hidden.
W W. EDWARDS.
Abheville. May Z, 1898.
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

The Blossom, (Tex.) Bee thu
soliloquizes: eve admit we are
not running this paper just right
but if you dent like it, just come
around and buy US out w
never had anything in our lif
t1at we wouldn't sel'. So if you
think you C IAN do better than We,
come and We'll offer the outfit
a most reasonable price. How
ever, while we are in control Of
this sheet we intend to run it as
we see fit, when we get tired Of
the job We'll call on some tf Jbeso
jack -at-all- trades who feel sure
they can make a New York world
out Of it,"
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

have controlled it since that time
In literature, politics, religion,
the arts and sciences, in fact, in
everything that goes to make up
a great commonwealth, Arkansas
is a blank. Its people think the
necessities of life are corn bread
and bacon, and the luxuries of
existence drinking whiskey and
whipping negroes. Nearly all of
the people of Arkansas believe
that the world would be flat were
it not for the Ozark hills. Sena-
tor Jones the most enlightened
man in the state, actually believes
that this way to make a nation
rich is to coin cheap money, and
that the government fiat could
make q dollar out of a coon skin.
A few years ago few of the
slaba sided residents of Arkansas
reached New Mexico. 1t was
when Cleveland was president.
He made them federal officials.
All they learned here in the four
years was to drink cocktails in
stead Of whiskey straight. There
are sections of country in Ar
kansas where the people are so
densely ignorant that they do
not know that a war with Spain
is in progress, and do not know
whether Spain is in Texas or
Mexico. The rate Of illiteracy is
frightful. The Democratic party
holds the state in its deadly grip
by stuffing the ballot boxes and
now and then removing opposition
leaders by assassination, Arkan-
sas is not fitted to criticise any
body on self government, and its
man Jones is not big enough to
know the first rudiments Of politi-
cal economy. and no back talk
from such a piD~headed states
man will be permitted. .-,Albu-
querque IN. N.Y. Citizen.
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26
RATHER HIGH LIVING.

JOHN Crawford, the Capital
hotel chief, received an interest
ing souvenir yesterday from his
brother, who is connected with
the Regina Club cafe at Dawson
City, being a short order bill of
fare Of that establishment. There
are not many dishes on the menu,
and it is fortunate for the guests
Of the house that there are not.
The prices Of the necessaries of
life in Havana are supposed to be
outrageously exorbitant, but they
are not in it with those that pre-
vail at the Regina Club cafe in
the Klondiks region. Unless a
man has money to burn or to eat
he would display good sense by
steering clear of this fashionable
resort. .... ...'... .....
One good square meal at the
Regina cafe costs as much as a
weeks board in any fashionable
boarding house in Little Rock.
A pJrterhouso, sirloin or tender
loin, steak costs S5, while $3.50
is charged for a plain steak,
Fresh oysters served in any style
costs $3.50 per dozen, Three
eggs served in any style is worth
$3.50; two eggs, 81, Two poach :
ed eggs on toast can be had for
So; ham and eggs or bacon and
eggs, $3.50. Potatoes, bread,
butter, tea or coffee are served
without extra charge with oil
meat or egg orders, A Spanish
omelotte made Of four eggs costs
$3.50; hot chicken tamales, $3.50;
chicken salad, with dressing, 50;
hot cakes with mush and coffee,
! $3.50; beef steak and onions, So;
French fried potatoes, so cents
corned beef hash, $3.50; Ham.
unger steak, $3.50; Goldfish cake,
= 20.
The Regina Club cafe does
'agge business and it is said tho
ihr proprietor seldom hears 6
COMPLAINT on account Of his
Nri'e9, A popular meal viii
Chose Nny IRE able to pay ior il
consists q u porterhouse steak,
spani.h omelette and French
'riol potatoes, the bill for which
ia 80. Some of the regular pat.
r]u oI lAe Regina pay as high
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

Mr.. A. C. Cohn, ..of the Pull
man Hotel, had q very pleasant
surprise yesterday, He received
a communication from an old
time friend whom he had loaned
$3.50 about seven years ago. He
disappeared rather suddenly and
mysteriously from Sun Dance,
Wyo., Shortly aftoI he borrowed
the money, and Mr.. Cohn had
had no tidings from him since.
Believing he was dead, he had
given up all idea of ever getting
the money. The friend assured
Mr.. Cohn that he had been at
tempting to locate him for years
and learned at last that he was
in business in Hot Springs. lie
requested him to answer his
letter at once and indicated that
he was prosperous, and his readi-
ness to pay back the money upon
hearing from him. Mr., Cohn
lost no time in replying to the
letter, r,-Hot Springs Sentinel.
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26
-" AN ENGLISH VIEW,
A London paper SAYS:

A London paper says:
"The fact that the war was
brought to such speedy end is
due \ marily to the single cause
of SPANS naval collapse. The
yigor shown by the American
naval authorities and the high
quality Of the naval officers
qualities inherited from the moth
er country-sufficed to counter
act the effects of Americas un-
readiness. The manner in which
a large number of warships and
auxiliary vessels were rapidly
equipped and manned, together
with the CONSPICUOUS ability in
which the large naval force was
supplied and handled. is extreme
ly significant.
''It is impossible to speak in
the sars a terms of the military
measures. The causes of the
failure Of the war department to
rise to the emergency are not
yet fully known. 1t will be inter-
esting to see whether the Ameri-
can people will demand an in
vestigation. Before Santiago, as
before Sebastopol, in the Crimean
campaign, unnecessary sufierings
and hardships were inflicted up
on the troops, and in both cases
disaster was everted by the gal
lantry of the officers and men,"
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

Old lizard is still ahead on Curl
osities. r. L. Landers informs
us that he saw a cabbage stalk in
Price Campbell's patch, Lafferty
Creek township, a few days ago
which had twelve well developed
firm heads. Jud Sheffield alsJ
said he counted % heads ol one
stalk in the same patch, Price,
you ought to preserve and sel d
some Of these stalks t. III Omaha
Exposition. Melbourne Register,
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26
SENATOR JONES ROASTED.

New Mexico has borne many
indignities With patient fortitude,
but there is \ limit TO human en-
durance. Senator Jones, Of the
backwoods state Of Arkansas, has
lail tho last straw on the camel's
back, He says that Spanish
Americans are not capable Of
self-goyernment. Several Of US
may have said tho same thing,
but that WAS ameng ourselves,
A sneer Like that from a man
named Jones is equal to a kick
from man named Smith; and
coming from q man named Joroa
from benightod Arkansas is duu0.
ly insulting to our CastiIli0n blood
The idea Of a man from Arkansag
talking about anybody not being
capable C self-goyernmenti iy s9
wildly prepasterous that itresc' .1
tho sublinily of the iidiculo9s
and especially from q man namo.
Jonesl Who ever heard Of Az
kansas eHcelCin n disrepataJ,a
way? l;9 Logroog were its geo.
tlenon before Tho war, mi
NNNnLnanN-r. Lr-M n.-NA-D---
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26
The treasury bureau Of statis-

The treasury bureau of statis-
tics shows that the exports of
manufactures of iron and steel
in the fiscal year 1898 We're live
times as great as in 1880, more
than double those in any year
prior to 1896, and % per cent
greater than in 1897 1t further
more appears by the same indis-
putable authority that American
manufacturers have since 1880
taken possession Of iive-sixths Of
that portion Of the home market
which was held by foreign manu-
lacturers Of iron and steel, and
have at the same time increased
their sales in foreign markets 200
per cent. With the markets Of
the far east opened up to US this
phenomenal commercial eXpan-
sion will be as nothing compared
to what it will then be.--EX,
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26
OFFICIAL.

OFFICIAL.
I'm, First District-P. D. McCulloch
fianna, Lee County.
eond Dist-A' j witt PoGahOntas
Judicial Dist-John B. MGCaleb
e.
10th Dlst-R. p. Maxey, Man,
TY-Representatlye-T. /, Herrn.
NG, Murphy.'
per Justus,
Er. wilkins Har y.
'Thos. II. McCaleh.
C. W. Shaver.
her-D ID. Spurloek.
A THE COURTS.
rt, N.'Dist-First Monday in JAN
d In s. Dlst-SGcond Msnday in
August.
nrt-lst Monday IN January, Aprl,
fObeF.
l'lrt, S D!st--2n ! Monday in March
nbeF and December.
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26
A NEGRO MO5BED.

- -A@A->S
Naely, a negro aged % years,
Was lynched by mob yesterday
morning at II o'clock, about one
male north Of Sheridan, in Graat
county, fifteen miles west Of Pine
Bluff. 1t is not definitely known
who composed the lynehipg
party.
The particulars of the affair are
as follows:
During the month of April
Neeely attacked and criminally
assaulted Mrs. Rhinehart, a we'll
to-do and respectable white wo-
man, at her hcme in Grant coun-
ty, near the railroad station of
Hensley, on the Iron Mountain
railroad, He made good his es-
cape and remained at large for
over three weeks, when he was
captured at Kerney by the sheriff
Of Grant county. He was placed
in the jail at Sheridan the same
day Of his capture, but the feel
ing against the negro was so
hard that he was brought here
and placed in the county Jail.
Before being placed in the jail
at Sheridan he was carried before
Mrs. Rhinehart, who identified
him as the fend, and he then
made full confession. During
his incarceration here c slight
attempt to get him out of jail
was made, presumably by some
of the enraged people of Grant
county, but when it was dis
covered that they would have to
60 through a brick wall to get
their man they gave up the idea.
During the night of the 4th Of
August officers took Neely from
the jail here and carried him to
the Jail at Sheridan. So careful
were they in their work that the
fact Of his being in Sheridan was
not known till yesterday morning
when he was brought into court
to stand trial before Judge Duffie.
The attorneys for Nicely asked
for a change Of venue to Saline
county, and it was granted. 1t
was at this point that the enraged
people began to realize that
Neely might get a lighter sentence
by being tried in a foreign court,
but there were no demonstrations
in the court room.
The officers in charge Of Nicely
then left with their prisoner for
the nearest railroad station for
the purpose Of carrying him back
to prison on the train When
about a mile out they were met
by an armed mob; the prisoner
was demanded and after a brief
parloy he was delivered to them.
He was safely chained to a large
tree. The members Of the mob,
about ten or twelve, then stepped
off some distance and fairly per-
forated his body with shot, both
pistols and shotguns playing an
important part in the engage
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

According to a supplemental re-
port of the commissioner OF
internal revenue the internal
revenue collected in the various
southern statos during the fiscal
year is as follows Alabama,
S201, ,280.77; Arkansas, S10i, ,570, E
81; Florida, $t37, ,046; Georgia,
S453, Isl, ,04; Kentucky, SIS, ,2S3, e
olS,09: Louisiana, 81, ,40S, ,30b If;
Maryland. S2,oo5,eo2 II; Mi9gou"
ri, 50, ,0i0, 1881; North Carolina,
SO, 250, ,2l3, ,0G; Tennessee, ST."
1856, 1872, ,55; South Carolina, Sl3l, .
203, ,06; Texas, S523, 700,62; Vir-
einia, 50 t08 7e26i' Waa. fr.
ginia, 58t5,305, ,5i,-Arkansa5
Democrat,
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26
Directory.
DEJlGJOLS.

REhGIOUS.
Ithe Methodist church first and
i IN each month Rev, W c.
II Everybody invited.
1 1.-The Christian church Saturday
Ia second Sunday in ca ch month
Giholland of BatesVtlle.
|ool every sunday morning at
,NIotbodist church. Everybody IL
y e. j. WILSON,
Biz, Secretary. superltsendef
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

as $50 day for their meals
Ark ansas Gazette.
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

ENTS OF LEASE. acknowledges
'Nlls TO accounts, Dispositions aNd
kW mortgages taken, A6StraGtS Oi
'cu, Bllls Of sule, bonds for title,
USI-personalP md rrHlty-dceds, 4,
nW,oNhus, unmarried persona, wilgs
KY, with rchnqulshmrnt OF dover,
wy, mortgages -.reNl estate, Chatli
~ powers ot attorney, written aud
on reasonable terms.
'ns Tor homcstcads and prescriptions
"' prepared and ptacnts procured
lor redemption of lands from
u'ohs to refund taxcg erronconSly
nV homestead now hayc ak months
homeslcnls from date OF RegIstor's
Et = receipts.
Ynurhcr solicited Al
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

EzlZ>/ EVENING SHADE LODGE
Xfo>< No. 2490, X. of II
'HlV-- meets first Tues
day nights in every
ISsts,.2----. month.
tTSSS W. Carroll SHAVER, D
w ca Wilson r.
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26
SOCIETIES..

-,NG SHADE LODGE No. l43, f. 4
/ holds regular communications on
|turdy before lst Sunday in each
4, S. BACON, W, n.
. sec'y.
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

H. CHAPTER No. SO, r. A. NJ
Regular c0HyecatiOns at Masonic
4 Evening Shade, the Sd Saturday
JN0 B. MoCALEB. II. P.
,idsen. See,
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

E1NG sHAp CHAPTER, No. II, o
|meets at Masonic Hall lst Thurs
Peach month ut 2 o'clock p. m.
Il. KNTEHUDDLESTCN, W. NJ
4 AuLT, Sec'ty.
Sharp County record., 1898-08-26

BEREAR LopGE, No. 62, J. 0. G
4, nolds regular meetings every a
tnate Friday night:
4 L. T. MEDLEY, n q.
lins. Sec'y,
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services in the event of war and the
| same has been placed on file
Respectfully,
A. G. Crowninshield,
Chief of Bureau.

To John G. Chapman, New Haven,
Conn.
Captain Chapman has had long ex-
perience in sea faring life having be-
gun as cabin boy on his brothers
packet boat at the age of ten years.
Before he was twenty years old he was
captain of a packet and for many years
afterwards he served as captain of
various vessels, among them the Taut-
boy, the Humming Bird, Cornelia, Lu-
clan and the Valley City, which in 1861
he sold to the Federal government, and
which was used for a time as flag ship
by Admiral Farragut. Although of late
years Captain Chapman has not been
much at sea, he is we'll acquainted
with the coast of New England.
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THE KALMATHEAN.

The regular semi monthly meeting of
the Kalmathean club of West Haven
was held yesterday afternoon at the
residence of Mrs. S. ]. Bryant.
After the transaction of routine bust
ness, most interesting paper was read
by Mrs. j. e. Reynolds on the Red
Cross society She gave brief sketch
of the origin and object of its work,
and of Miss Clara Barton's noble eff
forts in the cause of humanity, with
special reference to her efficient SER
vices in the Spanish-American war.
Miss Rose Galbraith then presented a
valuable paper on the subject of kim
dergartens, in which she showed the
labors of Froebel, the originator of this
system of the instruction Of children,
illustrating the literal meaning Of the
word, viz: the culture of little chill
dren; also, showing the improvements
which, in the lapse of time, have re-
suited from experience, in adapting the
methods of the system to the wants of
various countries.
The two papers were followed by a
general discussion of the topics under
consideration.
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AN AMATEUR PIRATE.

Early in the eighteenth century there
lived at Bridgetown, in the island of
Barbados, a very pleasant, middle-aged
gentleman named Major Stede Bonnet.
He was a man in comfortable circum-
stances and had been an officer in the
British army He had retired from mil
itary service, and had bought an estate
at Bridgetown, where he lived in COM
fort and was respected by his neigh
bors.
But for some reason or other this
quiet and reputable gentleman got it
into his head that he should like to be
pirate. But besides the general rea-
sons why Major Bonnet should not be-
come a pirate, and which applied to all
men as we'll as to himself, there was
a special reason against his adoption
of the profession of a searobber-he
was an out-and-out landsman and
knew nothing whatever of nautical
matters. He was fond Of history and
well read in the literature of the day.
He was accustomed to the habits of
good society, and knew a good deal
about farming and horses and cows
and poultry.
But notwithstanding his absolute un-
fitness for such a life Maj. Bennett was
determined to become pirate, and he
became one. He had money enough to
buy ship and to fit her out and man
her, and this he quietly did at Bridge
town, nobody supposing that he was
going to do anything more than start
off on some commercial cruise. When
everything was ready his vessel slip
ped out of the harbor one night, and
after he was sailing safely on the roll
ing sea he stood upon the quarter
deck and proclaimed himself a pirate
He ran up the black flag, girded on a
great cutlass, and folding his arms he
ordered his mate to steer the vessel to
the coast of Virginia.
Bonnett's men were practised seamen
and so when this green hand came
into the waters of Virginia he actually
took two or three vessels and robbed
them of their cargoes, burning the
ships and sending the crews ashore.
This had grown to be a common
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THE EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK.

An enlightened official Of New York
said. the other day, THE happiest peo-
pie in town live on the east side" The
east side is associated with misery, and
is looked upon as consequence of the
imperfect apparatus now in use for dis
tributing money. To sink layer by lay
er down the strata of society, and final
ly to bring up in an east side tenement
is the conventional well-to-do New
Workers. conception of an awful fate.
Persons might live in a good part
of town, and who, from pious motives
or because they are tired Of eonven-
tional society and manners, go over and
take up with the east side, and live in
tenements there, are looked upon as
people who have made an enormous
sacrifice. No doubt it is true that the
majority of east-siders don't live on
the east side absolutely from choice,
but because life there best suits their
incomes and occupations. Most of the
people who live east of Broadway and
south of Houston street are poor and
live where they do, not much from any
special prejudice against the Fifth ave-
nue. side Of Central park as to be near
their work, or because in the tenement
house streets they get more for their
money. They are not all poor, by all
means Some east-siders stick to the
east side because they are used to 1T,
and belong to it-yes, and because a
good deal of 1t belongs to them, as is
the case of that east-side woman whom
report, which seems veracious, cred
it's with owning Qast Year, no less than
,txy+x, In,, <Jn n,f !, M
rents Of which are said to run up to six
ty thousand dollars year Their own
er manages her own property, collects
her rents, bosses her tenants, and per-
sonally postpones repairs on her prop
erty; and it suits her convenience as
well as her taste to be a resident land
lady and to live where she has her own
under her eye and can better appreci-
ate the blessings of means.
There is misery on the east side, of
course because there are a great many
more people there than should be, and
because there are sickness and extreme
poverty there, as well as evil passions
and sin, and all the painful things one
finds wherever human beings are gath
cred in considerable groups. But there
is unquestionably unhappiness also on
Fifth avenue Among all the wretched
people in New York it would be hard to
match the apparent wretchedness of
some persons whom one sees driving
in closed carriages in Central park in
winter. They look as if they never
had any fun, or known any emotion of
real happiness They look stunted and
comatose. No doubt many of them are
sick people; but many Of them, too
are overfed and overcoddled citizens
who have missed the joy of living from
too great solicitude to retain the COM
forts of life.-E. S. Martin in Harper's.