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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Thursday was the first fall day. 1t
was cool and pleasant, the thermome-
Ter standing at $50 at daylight.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10
Notice TO Teachers.

ABBEVILLE, La. Aug 81, 1898
Notice is hereby given to all appii-
eants who desire to obtain license to
teach in the public schools Of Vermil-
ion parish, that an examination will be
held for that purpose for two days be-
ginning Monday, October 10, at Alb
b~eville, La.
Z. L. BoURGEs,
a. j. GOLDEN,
j. II. KlTgHELL,
Com. en- Examination.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Horses continue to.die Of the prevail
ing epidemic. From all appearances
it is a form OF cerebro-spina meningitis
and is very fatal. Very few animals
recover despite the many modes OF
treatment employed. Many small far
mers have lost all their work stock and
are actually afoot and unable to har-
vest their crops.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

We are informed that the total reg
istration of this parish under section 5
win amount to about 100.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Johnny Frank is having a very pref
ty cottage built in the grove at the
west end Of the bayou bridge. The To-
cation is an admirable one, and with
his energy ard good taste we feel safe
in predicting that Johnny will soon
have one of the most desirable homes
in the west end.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10
MaEarion With Malarion Tablets

Guaranteed Cure for Chills, Fever and
Ague, or money refunded. 50cents. All
druggists.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

We have received a fetching poem
covering the matters in section 5, and
will publish it next week.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

MaIarion IS endorsed by best Physicians
and guaranteed to cure Chills. Fever and
Ague. All druggists or from Motif West
Drug Co., St. Louis, Mo-.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

- w q dI6 lDlbi l1Ca ti1Geb ~ tobAA v
istration of this parish under section 5
win amount to about 100.
Thursday was the first fall day. 1t
was cool and pleasant, the thermome-
Ter standing at $50 at daylight.
wednesday three good showers fell
in town and we're very welcome for lay
inc the dust and cooling off the atmos-
phere.
Local showers are of daily occurrence
and they are beginning to seriously in
terfere with the saving of the. rice and
cotton crop.
The sugar planter smiles a broad
grin these shoWery, warm days for the
weather just suits the cane which is
growing l%uxuriantly.
JOS. S. Ewell has just received g
large consignment of buggies and har7
ness and the east side of his livery
stable has been foored and fitted np for
their reception.
Adam Brasseux's new building is
waiting for the arrival of the pressed
brick for the front wall, They are
coming from slidelI, La, and are said
to be very pretty.
Considerable excitement occurred on
State street last Friday evening due TO
a little fracas that took place in front
Of Minors store, in which IN x
handle was asweapon of assault.
By the last of this week the rice har-
vest will be fairly ushered in, and dur
ipg the next two months the work Of
cutting, threshing and marketing grain
will make everything lively on farm
and in town.
By far the most %pestivnrous insects
we have to deal with in this country
are the miserahl4 little day OF house
mosquitoes. They are so small you
never see them until they have bitten
yoa ard gone.
The old JOS, S. Nunez residence on
Main street adjoining stebbins lumber
yard is being thoroughly repaired and
the roof ~reshingled. 1t will be quite
an attractive place when the improve
ments are all complete.
-eo-
Fernest Duhon is having a neat cot
tage erected on his lot OF st. Charles
+, street adjoining John Abadie. When
completed the building i'll be occupied
by his mother, Mrs. Emile Duhon, who
leaves her country home to reside in
town.
d. w. Wall has begun building his
residence on East street in the Edwards
annex to the north Of the old town. III.
Z. Robinson is the contractor and this
is in itself a sufficient warranty that
the house will be neat and stylish in
appearance.
Griffin q Fuller will move into the
Bourqne building now occupied by 5.
P. Won1ack when he removes to his
new brick store which will be about
Sept. Is. Rene Broussard will also
move, going into the store now oecu-
pied by Griffin & Fuller.
A great many horses are dyiGg in
the vicinity of Roanoke. The trouble
is In the throat. The arteries become
filled with a fatty substance that when
withdrawn is of a stringy nature. So
far no remedy has been found for the
ailment which is pulling in the ex-
rem e.-Jennings Times.
-sN-
Maxwell & Putnam have moved the
cotton exchange around on Jefferson
street next To the bank. being located
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

wednesday three good showers fell
in town and were very welcome for lay
inc the dust and cooling off the atmos-
phere.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10
MaIarion is dnoid e litter tasse.

Cures Chills and Fever; acts on the live
and regulates the system generally. all
Druggists.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Local showers are of daily occurrence
and they are beginning to seriously in
terfere with the saving Of the rice and
cotton crop.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Last Friday evening a very ugly
looking cloud appeared in the north
west, and for a time a storm was i'm
minent. Fortunately, however, it
passed up by, altho' a heavy rain fell
north of here. Ont in the neighbor-
hood of Gueydan we are told the wind
blew very hard and much ripe rice was
laid fat which viii give trouble IN har-
vesting.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Our correspondent "sextus" falls in
to the common error Of confusing salary
with fees or emolument. The eonsti-
tuition Of 1879 prohibits the reduction
of the salary Of a judge during his term
Of offie e, but is silent as to fees. The
Constitutional Convention of 1898 lack
ell the manhood and the courage to
abolish the criminal jurisdiction Of JUS
tees of the peace, so they TUNED the
job over to the police j@uries.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

The sugar planter smiles a broad
grin these showery, warm days for the
weather just suits the cane which is
growing luxuriantly.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Jos. S. Ewell has just received g
large consignment Of buggies and har7
ness and the east side Of his livery
stable has been doored and fitted np fol
their reception.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Adam Brasseux's new building is
waiting for the arrival Of the pressed
brick for the front wall, They are
coming from slidell, La, and are SAID
to be very pretty.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Maxwell & Putnam have moved the
cotton exchange around on Jefferson
street next to the bank, being located
IN the building lately occupied as an
Office by DR.. P. 4. Leblanc. By the
way Jefferson will soon be the local
~Carondelet street, where the brokers,
money lenders and cotton factors re-
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

The old JOS, 5. Nunez residence on
Main street adjoining stebbins lumber
yard is being thoroughly repaired and
the roof reshingled. 1t will be quite
an attractive place when the improve
ments are all complete.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

BY the last of this week the rice har-
vest will be fairly ushered in, and dur
Ing the next two months the work OF
cutting, threshing and marketing grain
will make everything lively on farm
and in town.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Considerable excitement occurred on
State street last Friday evening due TO
a little fracas that took place in front
Of Minors store, in which an axe
handle was a weapon of assault.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

BY far the most pestivnrous insects
we have to deal with in this country
are the miserahl little day OF house
mosquitoes. They are 70 small yot
never see them until they have bitter
yoa ard gone.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-09-10

Town and Parish.
Evening star., 1898-08-20

past four hundred years, For when De
Leon arrived here, about 1900, many of the
rivers poured down sands of gold; yet no.
body has ascertained theH source.
The 'Historia de Puerto Rico says:
Signs of Gold have been found in many dis
tricts of the island, and auriferous sands
in such rivers as the Luqnil1o, Sebuco, Da-
guao, Mayaguez, e6Manaroa and many
others. Traces of gold in the neighborhood
of San German. Yaucosf at the port of
which, Guanico, our troops first landed in
Puerto Rico. and throughout all the terri
tory OF Coamo, in such quantities as pre-
suppose vast abundance in reserve, but
mostly in the south and west. Now, this
report was made in the year 17Ss, or more
than one hundred years ago. yet it holds
good in substance, and prospectors who
purpose going to Puerto Rico will do well
to paste this in their hats for future ref
ereGce.
Inough there may not be any large area
OF crown land thrown open to newcomers,
ana though much If not most, of Puerto
ftlco lands are taken up, yet there will
be chance for the prospector, and possi-
Dry great discoveries may be made. His
only expense. If he pursue the primitive
operations of the natives. will be a wooden
dish, costing few cents, and the food
necessary for his subsistence while wadfng
tae tropical StreamS.----- F. A. -OBER
Evening star., 1898-08-20

River OF Gold. 1t is known today as the
Yaqui, and the place wtere Columbus an
ehored Is not far from Monte Christi, on
the north coast of Santo Domingo.
He did not stop then to explore the river
valley, but continued on, finally arriving in
Spain. He returned with large feet III
rison massacred he had. left at Navidad and
the Indians dispersed. In December he laid
the foundation of the town of Isabella, on
the north coast of Santo Domingo, select
ing the site not because it was favorable or
its harbor good, but because it lay nearest
to Cibao, or the gold region. AS soon as
possible an expedition was sent over the
mountains to the valley of the Yaqui. and
the gold it brought back was sent to Spain
by the returning fleet in 1494.
The city was not long occupied, and little
remains now to tell of it's existence; but /
myself have found on its site the ruins of
the king house." where the treasure was
kept, and fragments of the crucibles in
which the gold was smeited. Early in 1891
Columbus took 400 of his choicest troops
and set out across country for the valley
of the Yaq.h,' anG after desperate march
finally reached the land of Cibao, or Ci-
pango-the country. of the golden stones. -
1t is more than four hundred years since
these forests rang to the music of drum
and trumpet, since the gay cavaliers of Co-
lumbus pranced through them on their merry
chargers-the first time horses were ever
used on an expedition in America. The gap
in the mountains through which they made
known as "El Puerto de los Caballeros, -
or the Hidalgos Pass, and through it today
winds the narrow trail which l was COM
PEELED to follow in order to reach the same
region of gold they then discovered.
They had called the Yaqui the Rio del
Oro, or River of Gold, from the circum-
stance of finding there the gold of the year
before, and soon they proved it to be well
named, for in the streams constituting. its
headwaters they found. besides jasper and
pCrphyry, flakes and grains Of gold
When the resident Indians learned that
Columbus desired gold they conducted the
SpaniardS to the various water courses and
from the sands sifted large quantities, one
of the red men bringing nugget an ounce
in weight, which he joyfully exchanged for
hawksbell, about an inch in diameter.
When | visited Santo Tomas not long ago
| found the few wretched inhabitants there
living in as shiftless a condition as their
aboriginal predecessors, for when they
wanted little gold they merely went to
Evening star., 1898-08-20
THE SHINING METAL
Spain's First American Gold Taken
Home by Columbus.
RIVER OF GOLD In SANTO DOMINGO
Centuries of Colonial Conquest
Have Impoverished the Dons.
ERTO RICO KLONDIKE

Written for The Evening Star.
Now that the last of Spain's possessions
In America has been wrested from her;
now that all save the Spanish habitudes
language and traditions are to be b1otted
from TIE western hemisphere, leaving ner
material holdings she may we'll believe
that Columbus was her evil genius. rather
than her benefcent saint and savior. She
has battled and toiled poured out treasure
and sweated away the very hfe blood of
her people, for nearly four centuries past;
yet what remains to her now?
Nothing, worse than nothing; for she has
impoverished her land that her colonies
might thrive; a land itself rich in material
resources, capable of supporting a vastly
greater population than it does; yet cover
ed with deserted estates, filled with beg
gars and perishing with the dry rot of cor
-upt bureaucracy.
When the first gold arrived in Sra:n
taken thither by Columbus-some of which
may be seen today on the high altar of the
CarthuS.an convent at BurgoS- the rulers
took IL as fn earnest of millions to come.
Millions more did come, but were spent by
Isabelle and Ferdinand. Charles ard last
ly by Philip III. Toward the end OF the six
teenth century 1t ceased to dow into the
Golfers of Spain-that golden stream: but
while il lasted that country revcIed and
rioted in extravaganza. INDUCED in costly
wars that coEvuised all Europe and scat
tered broadcast what had bce1 gathered at
the expense of thousands OF human lives
Meanwhile. the resources of the home
country had been ne elected, the people had
become GemoraliZed and Spain became de-
pendent upon her colonies for everything
When these were taken from her, one by
Evening star., 1898-08-20
A REAL HEROINE,
The Man Who Goes to War Does Not
show Finer Cournre

A Detroit Free Press reporter was sitting
at a counter of a Woodward avenue store
the other day giving a very fair imitation
OF a man trying to match piece of dry
goods, when his attention was attracted by
the very earnest manner of an oldish
| farmer who had incidentally mentioned the
upper peninsula in the course Of. his re-
marks TO the young lady who was waiting
on him, albeit most of her time was oc-
cupied in listening TO lot of interesting
things be was telling her. Evidently she
was from that part of the state from which
he had brought her such a budget of news
Il just got back from a week In the up
per peninsula, part of the time at Negau-
nee" he said 'and you know Mrs Blank
that lives up there2 Yes, she used to be
Sarah Jones. She was married about two
years after you come down here, wasn't
she? Well, the man she married was the
no-countest chap that ever followed a dog
ra bbit hunting, and he didn't do any more
toward supporting her than he could helm,
Nobody round there knew how they mar.
aged to get enough to eat 10 keep body and
soul together. The furniture they had in
| the little house they lived in was hers and
the clothes she wore was what she had
managed to save up from her wedding OUT
fit Just the same, though, she loved the
good-for-nothing slouch as much, IL not
more, than she would have done if he had
been real good provider and nice man.
She praised him to the skies and lied about
how kind he was and what he was going to
do after while, and a lot more talk like
that, and people just pitied her Her
mother began to suspect that she was not
being treated right and went up to see her
stayed at her house week and came back
perfectly satisfied that her son-n-law had
been Hbois4- She knew as well as any,
thing that her daughter had plenty to eat
and she kew of four new dresses she had
been making while she was there.
That's what she told us down home
and We believed IL she did but when L
went up there / found out that the wife
traded her watch for extra things to eat
for her mother, ana as fer the dresses she
had simply had the goods sent up on exam
fnation, telling the merchant that her
mother wanted to see them. and then took
them back herself and told her mother
that she mad taken them to the dress
makers. who was busy that she could
not possibly get one of them for two weeks.
or course the old lady thought IL was all
right, but amt ii dreadful when a nice
woman like Sarah is viii tell lies for the
sake of such a miserable excuse for a man
that husband of hers is? It's a kind Of
immortality. in my opinion that the Chris
tian religion never was intended to grapple
with"
Evening star., 1898-08-20

assured Columbus that if that was all he
wanted he would guide him to a region
Where the very stoLes were of the precious
metal At the same time he pointed west
ward, and told his most that the heart of
the golden country was Cibao-by which
name II Is called today, and the subsequent
hndng there of god to the amount of mil
lions proves that old Guacanagari was no
mar AT the banquet which he gave to
columbus on the following day he wore a
golden coronet (acccrding to reporD and
rothing else. until the commodore present.
ed him with shirt and pair of gloves.
Guacar agari proved the truth of that old
proNerb about q crown beng particularly
cumbersome when you want to rest by
shucking hic coronet, after he had i'm
bibed several draughts of fire water and
his two subchiefs did the same: SO that
when Columbus wrote his sovereigns, sew
era1 days later, that he fully expected the
men he left there to collect ton of gold
curing mis- absence, he had every reason to
believe they would do so.
The wrecking of the Santa Maria threw
Evening star., 1898-08-20

one, she sank lower and lower until now, it
would seem, she could toucn 10 greater
depth of degradation. Yet it was a sailor
In the employ of Spain who carried the
hrst American gold to Europe; a soldier of
her army who discovered the largest mug
get ever found in the new world, and OFF,
GERS of the royal command who plundered
the palaces Of Montezuma and the lncas
Last January-the 24th-we celebrated
'he hiteth anniversary of the discovery
of gold. by Marshall. in California | have
seen the veritable nugget-so il vas claimed
to be-and it was then in possession of Mr..
Gunther, the famous candy man of Chica-
go, who added il to his collection of curiosi-
ties. have also seen the rivers and
streams whence the first American gold
was obtained. which was taken by Co.
lumbus to Spain, in the year 1893.
The first glimpse cf gold was obtained at
San Salvador. in the Bahamas. and when
the natives were asked whence il came
they pointed to the south and west. So
Columbus. when he later made the north
coast of Cuba, was ever mindful of the
Evening star., 1898-08-20
ia Maria threw

all the crews-save the forty men left to
garrison the fort they had constructed
into the small caravels, Nina and Pinta
and as Columbus feared they might run
short of provisions on the homeward voy-
age, he did not accept the invitation Of
the subchiefs to visit their province of
Cibao, but instructed the men in the fort
to 90 so after he left.
Taking Anal leave of the gallant Guacan-
agari, the Spaniards sailed westward, and
on the evening of the 4th of January, 1893,
343 years before the discovery of gold In
California, while filing their water casks
az the mouth of river, they noticed par
ticies OF gold adhering to the hoops of their
casks. The sands also giittered with gold
some of waich Trey collected, and Column
bus named the stream Rio del Rio" or
Evening star., 1898-08-20

gold region. and gave instructions to the
captain Of the expedition he sent into the
Interior to be sure to ascertain from the
Grand Khan (whCm he supposed to re-
side there) where it was located. But he
discovered no gold in Cuba, other than
few pieces wrought into ornaments, and
II was not until he and his caravels had
arrived of the coast of Hayti. in the lat
ter part OF December. l492, that he heard
OF the region rich in gold.
He had been all along. and still was. sail
Ing towards what ne supposed was the
country mentioned by the learned Marco
Pclo Cno relative of our recent visitor of
that name) as the kingdom OF the Grand
Khan, and known as Cipango. And when,
in the bay of AcuI. on the north coast of
Haiti. the hospitabIe Guacanagari, cacique
Evening star., 1898-08-20

of the Indians of that section, made Co
lumbus present of a cotton girdle at
tached to which was q mask, with ears
nose and tongue of beaten gold he felt
sure ne had reached, at last, the country
of CipaIgo. For, when questioned as to
the location of the region whence they got
the gol 1, the natives pointed westward and
uttered the magical word, "Cibao" 1t NAV
have sounded like Cipango; at all events
Columbus took it to be the same, and made
all haste to reach it. He was in fact. on
his way to visit Chief Guacanagari who
lived on the shore of Cane Haitian's great
bay, when his flag ship, the Santa Maria"
ran on reef and became a total wreck.
The Indians saved all the wreckage possi-
Evening star., 1898-08-20
Gave Gold for Jinglinc Bells.

Thus the Spanards passed their first
American Christmas on shore: but in the
afternC ON Cacique Guacaragari made 4
visit Of state to the little Nina. and while
he was aboard his simple subj cts dressed
in the garb of natme, swarmed around the
caraVel in their dug-outs, holding up mug
gets of gold. and crying out ''chug chug,"
thus irtimating that they W shed TO barter
them for the hawks bells which made The
tinkling noise that ravished their unsophis-
ticated ears
Seeing that the gold gave the sailors
great JOY in its possession, Guacanagari
Evening star., 1898-08-20
Lincoln's Fondness for Grant.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
An amusing and possibly instructive an
ecdote, in which Lincoln and Grant figure
and showing the latter's estimate Of cay
airy, is related by Mr.. William o. Stoddartl.
for some time one of the formers private
secretaries. The general had not long
been in command of the Army of the Poto-
mac when one day \ :. Stoddard asked
Lincolns opinion of HIM. Grant" re-
piled the President, ''is the first general
I've had. He's a general Remembering
the high esteem in which Mcclellan, Burn
side, Hooker and Meade had been held. Mr..
Stoddard asked Lincoln to explain and
this is what he said:
You see. when any of the rest set out
on campaign they'd look over matters
and pick out some enc thing they were
short of and they knew l couldn't give
'em, ard tell me they couldn't hope to win
unless they had it. and it was most gen
orally cavalry. Now, when Grant took
hold l was waiting to see what his pet i'm
possibility would be, and i reckoned it
would be cavalry, as a matter of course
for We hadn't horses enough to mount even
what men we had There were $4,000 or
thereabouts up near Harper's Ferry, and
no horses to put them on. Well the other
day. just as / expected, Grant sent to me
for those very men; but what he wanted
to know was whether he could disband 'em
or turn EN- into infantry! He doesn't ask
me to do impossibiities for him. and he's
the first general I've had that didn't"
Evening star., 1898-08-20
Looked That Way.

From the Somerville Journal
Little Ethel-"what kind Of a boat is that
one out there with sails?''
Uncle Tom-'Thacs a catboat"
Little Ethel-"And is that little one trail.
ing on behind a kitten boat?"
Evening star., 1898-08-20

She is Learning Subtraction, Also.
From Puck.
"Yes, SIR proudly exclaimed the naughty
Castilian. Spain is adding nobly to her his
tory these days.
That's true" remarked a mora thought
full senior; but doesn't it strike you that
she is not doing the same thing by her
geograrhy?"
Evening star., 1898-08-20
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The following is a list OF advertised letters re-
naming In the Washington 3D. c. Pest office sat
urday, August 20. 1SgS
To obtain any OF these letters the appieaat
should call for Advertised Letters"
III not called for within two (2) weeks they viii
be sent to the Dead Letter Office.
Evening star., 1898-08-20

bic and the cacique took the Spaniards to
his village and entertained them with
dances and feasting, in order to divert their
calamity.