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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
A Move for Primaries.

The question: of nominating candi-
dates for the April election is begin
ming to occupy some attention just
now. How the nominees shall be
chosen is the point of disagreement.
In Lafayette and Acadia the primary
mode of selecting candidates seems to
be quite popular. A despatch from
Crowley, dated the 18th instant says
Crow Girard, C. c. Brown, A. Gui-
dry, DR.. Leslie and W. B. Torian,
representing the Girard faction of
Lafayette, were here to-day to confer
with Acadia Democrats regarding the
pooling of issues for the judicial Off
GERS in the coming election. After
canvassing the matter with local
Democrats they proposed that Aca-
Ola take the judgship while Lafayette
be given the district attorney. The
Girard faction say they will make an
out and out Democratic fight strictly
within the party lines, and are hearth
ly in favor of a straight primary for
judicial officers as advocated by the
executive Democratic committee of
Acadia parish. There are two fac
tons at Lafayette. The Girard and
the Broussard factions. The latter
are fighting for a convention and their
reason for this is obvious. Should a
convention be held the representation
therein would be based upon the cen
sus OF 1890. This gives Lafayette
six delegates to Acadia five. This
representation may have been all right
for 1890, but at the present time the
vote of Acadia exceeds that of Lafay-
cite.
A mass meeting will be held at La
fayette Saturday to select candidates
for parochial and district Offices
There are two for the attorneyship-
Crow Girard and Ralph Elliot. The
supporters Of Girard are confident he
will win. Heretofore Lafayette has
been claiming the right to nominate
both judicial officers while Acadia
only claimed one, and she is deter
mined TO secure this one.
Acadla's candidate for the judge
ship has not yet been announced pub
licly, but it will in all probability be
Hampden Story. The answer has
not yet been given the Girard faction,
but will be in a few days, and it is
more than probable the arrangement
proposed will be carried out. So far
as the Broussard faction securing a
convention there is not a remote pos
sibility of their being successful.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
NOTICE.

In accordance with the rules of the
Board of Pardons and law we do hereby
give notice to all whom it may concern
that we are applying for pardon from
the sentence pronounced upon US in the
case entitled State of Louisiana VS..
Desire Hebert, Jr., and Laodice Lam
dry, No. 59l, Criminal Docket of the
District Court for Vermilion Parish La,
Charge: Grand larceny.
DESIRE HILBERT, JR.,
LAODICE LANDRY.
Abbeville, September 2, 1899,
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

While digging an artesian well five
miles from Lindale and fifteen miles
northwest of Tyler, Texas, A. G..
Lesterjeate struck a solid bed Of salt
at a depth of 200 feet. The salt as
says SO per cent pure. Digging will
continue, and it is probable other
wells will be sunk at once. The In
ternational and Great Northern Rail-
way has agreed to put in a branch to
the salt mine. Salt works will be
built on the grounds.-Lake Charles
Press.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
Partition Sale.
STATE of Louisiana-17th Judicial
District Court-Parish of Vermilion-
No. 1874.
James E. White ct ais
L. E. Lyons ct ais.

JAMES ~. WllG6 GG ais
VS..
L. f. Lyons ct ais.
By virtue of a decree of sale to effect
a partition, granted by the Hon. Judge
of the 17h Judicial District Court afore-
said IN the matter of the above enti-
tied and numbered cause, and a COM
mission to me issued Hereunder, there
will be offered for sale at public auc-
ton, to the last and highest bidder, at
the front door of courthouse in the
town of Abbeville, La, on
Thursday, November %. 1899,
between the hours prescribed by law,
the following described property, to
wit
One certain tract of land situated in
said parish on the west side of Vermil-
ion Bayou, containing seventy (70) su
perficial acres, swamp and prairie land
and on which is IN orange grove, it be-
ing particularly described and designa-
ted as lot No. 2 of Edwards survey as
per plat annexed to act No. 1887 of con-
veyances of said parish and forming
part of irregular section No. "A, for
merry section 18) of T. IL, S. of R. 2 W.
On the following terms and conditions,
to wit !:
One-third of the purchase price to be
paid cash on the day of sale. and the
remainder to be paid in equal annual
instalments in one and two years from
the day of sals, creditors to furnish
their notes for the credit portion paya-
BILE one in one year and the other in
two years from the day Of sale, condi-
toned to bear eight per tent per an
mum interest from maturity, and ten
per cent additional as attorneys fees in
case of suit or in the event that they be
placed in the hands of an attorney for
collection after maturity ; said notes to
be made payable to the order of the
purchasers and to be endorsed by them
in blank, and to secure the same a ven
doris lien and privilege AMI a special
mortgage is to be retained On the land
sold which is to be adjudicated subject
to the pact de non 0tienGRd0.
Sherif's Office, Abbeville, La, Oct.
q, 1899, j. @. HEBERT,
Sheriff.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
Sherifs Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA-Parish OF
Vermilion-l7th Judicial District
Court-No. 1889.
Laura Bodin ct ais
VS.,
j. A. Gibson.

D.. "A. UlDSO1.
DY virtue of a writ of fieri faeias issued
y by the Hon. 18th JUDICIAL District
Court in and for the parish of Vermiiion
in the matters of the above entitled and
numbered suit, fully authorizing me to
seize and sell, / will proceed to sell al
public auction, to the last and highest
bidder, at the principal front door of ths
courthouse in this parish, ON
Saturday, December 2, 1899
between the hours prescribed by law, the
following described property seized ia
satisfy said writ, to wit
One certain tract of land lying and
being situated in the parish Of Vermil-
ion, containing one hundred and twenty
four arpents, more or less, measur-
ing four arpents front, more OF less, by
thirty-one arpents deep, more or less,
together with all and singular the build
ings and improvements thereon situa-
ted and appertaining thereto being the
Schexnaiider tract in the Marin Mou-
ton grant. and bounded north by Chas,
Baudoin tract hereinafter described,
east by t'leophas Vincent, south by
Primeaux tract. west by Amilda Glib
son, wife of lack Griffin, being the
same property acquired by said j. A.
Gibson from John Lemaire and Joseph
Lemaire by act of sale executed before
Leo Ferret, notary public.
An undivided one-eighth interest in
and to that certain tract of land lying
and being situated in said parish being
the Chas Baudoin tract in the Marin
Mouton grant measuring four arpents
front by forty arpents deep, being
bounded north by Mrs. Beloni Baudoin,
south by the tract described above I'M
der item thereof, west by public road
and east by
Terms-Cash.
Abbeville, La, October 81. 1899.
j. @. HILBERT. Sheriff.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
NOTICE.

La accordance with the rules of the
Board of Pardons and law / do here
by give notice to all whom it may con
Germ that | am applying for pardon from
the sentence pronounced upon me in
the ease entitled State of Louisiana VS..
Joseph Goech ct ais, No. Gil, Criminal
Docket of the District Court for Yer
million Parish, La. Charge: Burglary
and Larceny JOSEPH GooCH.
September l6. 1899.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

Our valued contemporary the Dom
jacksonville Chief recently entered upon
its 29th volume and fittingly celebra-
ted the event by enlarging the paper
to eight pages-of 6 columns to the
page. The Chief is @ model news
paper and Bro. Bentley is to be con-
graduated upon his unbroken success.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
1.-The Artful Dodger."

The "patent medicine candidate,
who seeks to annouce his candidacy
Through the medium of q tWo-bits
circular, is not really entitled to
party support. The party organs
are expected Sin seed time and har-
vest," to defend party organization
and uphold its principles, and these
days Of Office seeking are due and
have a right to expect the customary
pittance for properly placing the
name of party candidates before the
voters, and ye who seeks to eyade
this time-honored custom of support
ing the party press, is worse than a
political hereto and an infidel.
Equal, in gall, to the 's1addy-buck,''
who dances the night through and in
the wee sma' hours cody turns his
back on the weary fiddler; or under
the friendly cover of darkness crawls
beneath the canvas while his more
manly neighbor pays his way at the
circus door.
He who refuses to invest $40 in a
$4,000 office would not make a safe
oficer-he loves the dollar too well
the average wholesouled voter
{who takes an honest pride in his
ofieials1 will be slow verify, to con.
slider his claims when he realizes thai
he is trying to "slip up on his suf.
frage.
We do not refer to the careful.
man, who is celebrating on the pro.
priety of entering the race, or is
waiting for special occasion, this is
~excusable; but don't rely on the de.
testabie dodger, the voters will infer
rightly too) that you + tan artfu.
dodger'' yourself, and "dodge'' you
accordingly. Don't be a "Patent
Medicine Candidate. "-Bienville Bell.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
Notice.
Notice.
LAND OFFICE AT NEW ORLEANS. La, !
Sanfonhar 81 1900 {

LAND OFFICE AT NEW ORLEANS. La, I
September 81, 1899. s
Notice is hereby given that the follow
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim. and that said proof will be
made before the Clerk of the Dist. Court
of Vermilion parish, at Abbeville, La, on
November6, 1899 viz: H. E. Ne 1874.
LAWRENCE B~ROUssAsD,
for the lot ], Sec. 9. lots l and 2, Sec. 1e.
lots l and 2 Sec. 3. lot /, Sec. 2. Township
16 S., r. / E., La meridian.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: Aladdin Vim.
cent, Edmond Vaughn, Jacob Vaughn,
Livodais Vincent, all of Vermilion par
ish, Louisiana.
WALTER L. COHEN.
September 80, 1899. Register.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
EhsriH's Sale.
State of Lonis:ana-Parish of Lafa-
yette--lst Justices Court-No. SO.
Leon Plonsky
L.uc Bfeaux,

ASA1 ElNGtQAs
By virtue of a writ of seizure and sale
TO me issued in the matters of the above
entitled and numbered suit, and to me
directed, fully authorizing and empow-
ering me In the premises, I will proc
coed to sell at public auction, 20 the
last highest bidder at the principal
front door of the courthouse In this par
ish on
Saturday, October 81, 1899,
between the hours prescribed BY law,
the following described property, seized
to satisfy said writ, to wit
One certain tract of land lying and
being situated in Vermilion parish on
the west side of Vermilion River, being
bounded on the north by Marquart and
Dunlay, south by Alcee Benoit, east
BY Paul Broussard, said tract contain
ing 80 acres OF land.
Terms-Cash.
SheriFs Office, Abbeville, La, Sept.
Is, 1899. j. o. HEBERR, Sheriff.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

An American in Jamaica has built
a plant for e%vaporating bananas. The
thoroughly ripe fruit is placed in a
heated oven for not more than forty
eight hours, during which time the
sugar crystalizes. 1t takes six pounds
of fresh bananas to make one pound
evaporated. The process prevents
decay and cuts down the freight
charges.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

The Portland Telegram remarks !:
The young man who said that the
81. r." on the revenue stamps meant
~@sInfernal Robbery was not far from
the truth.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
If the barbarous Mahomedan Sui

If the barbarous Mahomedan Sui
tan of Sulu is capable OF governing
his subjects with no interference from
US, r not the Christian inhabitants
Of Luzon at least as capable? Yet
President Mckinley makes a treaty
and pays annual subsidy to the bar
barian, but offers bullets the others.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
THE BEST PIANOS.

The Mathushek is so much superior
to similar makes, in durability design
and artistic excellence, that it stands
in a class alone, representing the
highest excellence.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

We are indebted to the Louisiana
State Board of Agriculture and Immi-
grafton for 8 crop report for the
month of June, July and August of
this year. The chief subjects taken
up are:-'tLouisiana Needs" an
ex; ellent article by General Leon
Jastremski who chiefly advocates the
holding OF farmers Institutes, etc.,
throughout the State for the discus
sion of good roads, the development
of stock raising and many other
equally iaudable objects, "Hygiene Of
the Home and Farm by DIR. Fred j.
Mayer, of Opelousas. This article
the title of which is self explanatory
lis full of truth and lays down the
preventative for 80 much suffering
among man and beast on account of
unsanitary conditions. "Beef Rails
ing in Louisiana is the third and
last article and is from the pen of
DR.. W. Fl. Dalrymple, N. r. C. Y.
S., Of Baton Rouge.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
NOTICE.

In accordance with the rules of the
Board of Pardons and law, I do hereby
give notice to all whom it may concern
that l am applying for pardon from the
sentence pronounced upon Cleopnas
Laborde, Criminal Docket of District
Court for Vermiiion parish, louisiana,
Charges: Manslaughter.
G.. j. LABORDE,
September lis. 1895. His brother.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

STATE Of Louisiana-17th judicial
District Court-Parish OF Yer
milion-No. $50.
Succession Of Celima Broussard.
Notice is hereby given to all parties
interested in the above numbered and
entitled succession to make opposition
if they think fit within ten days from
the day this notice is published to the
tablean of debts and charges and Of
distribution among the heirs; filed ~
Elodie Broussard, Administrative, o.
said succession, and to show cause III
writing according to law, within ten
days from this notice, why said tableau
should not be homologated and ap-
proved.
Given under my hand and seal Oh
court this 30th day of September, 1889.
ALCIDE LEBLANC,
Clerk of Court.
Edwards Il Greeae, attorneys.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

We have received with the compii-
ments of the Parry Manufacturing
Co., Of Indianapolis, Ind, a most
complete map of Cuba, Puerto Rico,
Philippine ahd Hawaiian Islands, the
recent accesslons to the United States,
and return our thanks for the same.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

I have withdrawn from the firm of
Leleu & Co., doing a general merchan-
disc business at Deleambre, La, and
will o be responsible for any debts
contracted by said firm.
MARTEL LEBLANC.
September %, 1a99.-4t.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
TAKEN Up

Near my residence about 6 miles from
Abbeville, near Grand Marais, one
American bay horse and one large
brown mule, not branded, both gentle.
JULES HEBERT,
Abbeville, September %, 1859.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

Registration books for the munich
pal election at New Orleans show
White registration, 1926; colored,
1858: or total, SO ,584.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

The land Office at Washington is
having made a new map Of the United
States which will show all her colo
nial possessions.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

1t is reported Dreyfus has accepted
the offer of an American publisher to
write his impressions of his last trial
at Rennes.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

The public school in Lake Charles
is now supplied with fine water from
an artesian wei. A good flow was
struck at q depth of $50 feet.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

Corn and beans from the United
States will be admitted into Venezue-
Ia free Of duty for the next so days.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER q, 1899.

Admiral Dewey has pulled down
his flag from the Olympia, and is
privileged to roam at will ashore.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-10-21

State of Louislana-Parish of var
milion-17th Judicial District Court
No. $50.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-16

can in every fiber of his being.
He differed with his party on the
silver question; that was all.
Now things have taken a turn
whereby the policy Of the Repub-
lican party will have a strong
tendency to solve the silver ques-
ton as Mr.. Borah believes it
should be solved. He, therefore,
inevitably becomes in accord with
the party to which he naturally
belongs, and into whose councils
and affairs he may rightfully and
conscientiously enter without fur
Their announcement. Such men
as Mr. Borah are an honor to any
political association and Republi-
cans will welcome him home
Malad Enterprise.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-16

this trial, especially as regard lis
the jury. Whisky and beer was
served without stint and the jury
was not without visitors of dis
reputable kind. That a case Of
SO much import and expense
should be disgraced by such pro-
ceedings is matter calling for
the condemnation of the whole
country. Technicalities as 10
whether Forney was eligible to
practice in Shoshone county Or
whether Cheyne died in one
place or another matters little, but
an enlightened people will not sub
nit to have its courts of Justice
besmirched by the dregs of in
famy.-Kendrick Times.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-16
A WAY to Read the Newspapers.

1t is easy-perhaps just-to
criticize the newspapers of the
day, both for what they do and
what they do not contain; but
there are few of them that do not
contain something worth reading,
and it is commonly not the light
and frothy matter which the in
telligent reader glances over be-
fore breakfast or on the way to
business.
But every one has odd mo-
ments, and there are waits in the
whirl of the wheel of industry,
commerce, professional occupa-
ton or study. A Chicago man
who has been interviewed" by
one of the newspapers of that
city tells how he utilizes these odd
moments:
81 glance over the headlines
in the morning paper at break
fast and on my way downtown
in the car" he says, "and read
ing only what is of immediate in
terest to me in my business.
When ! see an article on some
matter of general information, !
clip it out and put it in my pock-
ct unread. One pocket of my
coat is given up to these clippings.
"When l have to wait in den
lists, lawyers or doctors office,
in a barber shop or anywhere
else, l pull out one of my clip
pings and read it. In this way l
have always something to read
in which l am really interested"
This works a triple advantage
to the man who practices it. It
prevents this waiting time, which
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-16

received from Primo de Rivera
to mention him in the same breath
with Patrick Henry is to insult
the intelligence of the American
people.
The Democratic party cannot
and should not win on the issue
of running up the white flag and
showing the white feather to the
FilipinoS or to anybody else. 1t
need not and should not abate
one jot of its demand for Philip
pine independence. But that in
dependence cannot be forced
from the people of this country,
though it may be and should be
granted by them. The people of
the Philippines islands must come
into camp, lay down their arms
and ask for terms. There can be
no parley short of that consum-
nation, And if the Democratic
party goes into the campaign Of
1900 advocating anything else it
is doomed to disaster.
No party has ever won in this
country and no PARTY ever will
win on the proposition that the
American people should "quit''
in the face Of the enemy.--Chi-
cago Chronicle Dem. j..
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-16

in a week may amount to hours,
from being wasted; it stores the
mind with a great deal of infor-
nation and the product of discus
sion, and prevents the vice of
merely idle reading. 1t is worth
the pains Of everybody --or at
least of everybody who has a
place in his clothes for one--to
maintain clippings pocket, and
to devote it rigidly and exclusive
ly to good articles from the press.
-Honth's Companion.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-16

Last week we read with great
interest the open letter of the
Hon. w. E. Borah to Mr.. lift,
editor of the Pocatello Tribute.
Mr.. Borah, at some length and
with clearness and fairness, sets
forth his views on the political
situation in Idaho. His method
is entirely free from assumption
OF self-importance; he speaks on
ly as plain unassuming man and
his utterances bear ample evil
dence of sincerisy. He takes the
view that fusion of any kind is an
absolute failure, viewed from the
point of expediency or trick in
machine politics. He character
ICES it as ga puerile, characterless
system of politics" and adds, "No
measure of reform, however
great, can succeed by or through
its aid" This is certainly com
plete condemnation of fusion and
had Mr.. Borah carefully studied
the political history of his country
ne would have come precisely to
the same conclusion three years
ago. But, beg pardon, we think
Mr.. Borah must have studied po-
litical history closely, because,
come to think of it, he never did
take kindly to the fusion business.
Mr.. Borah pays his respects to
the Democratic party in scathing
terms, but every word of his in
dictments are truths that cannot
be successfully contradicted--
they are bold, clear truths, told in
language that cuts to the quick.
1t is plain that Mr.. Borah wants
nothing to do with that institution.
To sum up his views in a few
words, we would say: He utter
" condemns fusion, denounces
Democracy, declares that the Sill
yer Republican party has disin-
tegrated and ceased to have any
identity; that the Republican par
ty is sound on all things save sill
yer. In this connection is the
notable and significant parts of
Mr.. Borah's letter. He annouc-
es himse'f II earnest expansionist
and gives good, solid reasons tor
his faith. He then states that
the Republican policy of expan-
sion "7uH 60 tar tozva,ds settling
The alsey question ITSELF" Now,
then, it seems to US that Mr.. B Or
alb has completely argued hi m
self into the Republican party. a
naturally logical and honest m nd
has brought him to a concIusI on
which possibly he did not intend
to reach. But look at it. MIR.
Borah says: 81 am unaltera bly,
opposed to any kind of FUSION
am thoroughly Disguised Win
Democracy-it is party with put
honor or any political princiP le,
save Office getting; the Silver Se-
publican party is totally disrup ted
and no longer represents a pc 1T
ical force; believe in the Rep b-
Iican policy of expansion and pc
lieve that. policy will go far TO-
wards solving the silver question p. F"
AZ. porob in fact is a Republi-