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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

Cruelty to animals is offense de-
nounced by the statutes of the state,
and if the grand jury viii only inves-
tigate i little they will discover the
need of applying the law here. Two
horses we are told were driven to
death this week, falling dead in the
larness a few miles out of town.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

Wednesday broke the record for
4his season 81 degrees in the shade.
wednesday was a scorcher, the
mercury climbing up to 81 degrees
SIP. m.
Police jury will meet Monday in
reoular session in theirtrooms in
the courthouse.
Peaches are scarce this year and
very few are on the market. But
tbey are Of better quality than usual.
Our streets are getting a cook work
inc now. Contractor Arthur Leblanc
is using his convicts to good advant-
sge.
Work is progressing very rapidly
on the Hunter canal and people now
have an idea of its mammoth proper
tons
Fish are biting well. One day this
week j. E. Nettles and Willie Hooley
caught a fine string of fish enough to
iced a multitude, in a few hours.
The Summer Normal opened on
Monday with SO teachers in attend
ance, and more have arrived, Prof.
Byrd is conducting the Institute.
Money was sold at the Building
and Loan meeting Wednesday night.
/. j. Broussard got $1,000 at 30 per
cent, and Willie Maxtield took $500
at SO per cent.
Charlton is dying out In the coast
country and in the vicinity Of Lowry
and Lakeside. Vaccination has been
generally practiced in that section and
with favorable results.
According to a table recently pub
lished in the Tines-D Democrat, there
are 136, $50 acres of land in rice
culture in Southwest Louisiana-that
much under irrigation.
The town of Cue, dans III the 8th
ward of Vermilion parish, is now in
corporated, and w. O. Pipes, editor
of the Gueydan News, is the first
Mayor Of that lively little burg.
DIR. e. i. Hall has purchased S. B.
Carpenters 486 acre farm situated
between Lakeside and the Sherman
homestead, for $4,000. The farm
contains $50 acres of No. rice land.
Cane is growing rapidly during
this rain spell, q little more rain evenly
distributed is about all is need for
next six weeks. 1t is jointing rapidly
we will soon hear of stalks with 10
and IL red joints.
The Building and Loan is on q
boom. Over so shares of new stock
were subscribed for during the month
OF July and the rush is not over. 1t
is q safe and convenient way Of invest
ing small sums proftably.
The Central Pharmacy, in the
Bonrque building corner of South and
State streets, will open up next week
and will be in charge of W. r. Me
Henry. 1t Is handsomely fitted up
and viii be very attractive.
While the temperature was 95 in
the shade at Jenning on Monday, the
day was fearfully hot in Texas. At
Dallas it was lo4, Weatherford 1o6,
Lopgview 1o3, Abilene, Beeville and
Corsicana each lo2.-Times
The row between the Banks and
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

Work is progressing very rapidly
on the Hunter canal and people now
have an idea Of its mammoth proper
tions
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

The assessment roll of the parish
has been completed and counts up
s2,o96.43Qt Next year it will go
way over the three million mark. In
asfew days assessor Simonet Leblanc
will leave for Baton Rouge to file the
roll with the Auditor and it will be the
neate5t and likely the first roll recefy-
ed this year.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

Fish are biting well. One day this
week j. E. Nettles and Willie Hooley
caught q fine string Of fish enough to
feed a multitude, in a few hours.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

The Central Pharmacy, in the
Bonrque building, corner Of south and
State streets, will open up next week
and will be in charge of W. R. Me-
Henry. 1t is handsomely fitted up
and viii be very attractive.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

Sheep are being purchased here for
shipment to Kentucky and South
Carolina. It is said that worthless
cur dogs make the bu siness of sheep
raising improbable in this parish.
strychnine and buck shot applied in
liberal doses would abate the nuis-
ance considerably. Mutton is more
valuable than dog bowls.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

The row between the Banks and
anti Banks factions of the Pleasant
Ufeen Baptist church has not Gained
down, the contrary a lot Of the Banks
faction have been prosecuted for
sresspass for burying a corpse in
ne church lot.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

One OF the IA la.5es in town,
the old veazg resi- ice on Concord
street is a.ng .at new. Its present
owner Loris Lee saud has had it haul
ed around to the adjoining lot and put
in the Southwest corner, on jefferson
street fronting the engine house and
Madeleine Square. The roof has
been raised, and new portico added
to the frame and when John Erwin
the contractor gets through with it
il will be a new house to all outward
appearances.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

While the temperature was 95 in
the shade at Jennihg 0 n Monday, the
DAY was fearfully hot in Texas. At
Dallas it was lo4, Weatherford 1o6,
Lopgview lo3, Abilene, Beesille and
Corsicana each 102.-Times
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

The much dreaded and greatly
talked Of kissing bug has made its
arpearace in Abbeville, E. NJ. Steb-
bins a few nights since captured a
strange looking bug a sort of a cross
between a wasp and a cockroach
which bears a perfect resemblance to
the pictures Of the bug which is
creating such a furore in the east.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1899-08-05

The cutting of weeds on the streets
of town is in order and since the re-
cent rains the work becomes more es-
~sential than ever. Our town authori-
ties have = ger 0 dinanees compell-
ing weeds ! n, why does not
our council ! . Il up with en-
forceme-G. L be good move
and largely &C 9 general ap-
pearance of t ~.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22
)ISGRACED THE PRESIDENT.
Bricklayer and Mckinley Mem
bers of Same Union.

Chicago, Nov. p. Frank Al
fred, brick mason of this city,
discovered yesterday for the first
time that be and President Nc
Kinley were mem bers of the same
labor union When he learned
the fact he at once began to cele-
brate. When brought into the
police court this morning he said
Il have disgraced both myself and
the president, for he belongs to
my union. | will never get into
such trouble again" The court
dismissed him.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22
DEWEY EXPLAINS
HIS POSITION.
Intended His Son 10 Have the
Dewey Home.
HE Is GREATLY DISTRESSED.

Washington, Nov. Admiral
Dewey was interviewed today in
regard to his having transferred
his house to his wife. He talked
of the matter freely, and showed
sorrow and at the same time ex-
pressed some resentment at the
manner in which the fact was re
ceived by the public. He ex-
pressed surprise that his motives
were misunderstood and that there
was no one to defend him.
He said it was his intention to
have the house 90 to his son in
order that il might remain in the
Dewey name, aud that he made
the deed to his wife in order that
she might have part in making
/
the gift
rhe admiral is very indignant
over the breach of promise story
He said no person on earth had
any claim upon his property, and
that he owed only two bills and
that they were for household pro
visions.
He said in conclusion, all L
have to convey to the public is
that ! am greatly distressed by its
attacks upon me and Icannot help
feeling some resentment.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22

Cape Town, Nov. 22.- large
body of Boers are at Belmont on
the railroad below Kimberley.
evidently prepared 10 receive the
British flying column when it ap-
pears to relieve Kimberley.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22
The Roseberry Suit.

As THE TRIBUNE goes TO press
this afternoon, the plaintiffs wit
nesses in the Roseberry damage
suit are still occupying the atten-
ton of the court. and it is not
probable that the case will reach
the jury today.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22
NEWS OF GENERAL YOUNG.
His Cavalry Troop in Hot Pur-
suit of Aguinaldo.

Manila. Nov % Reports from
General Young, commanding the
cavalry troop in pursuit of Aguir-
aldo, were received here today. 1t
took the news two days to reach
San Jose.
Aguinaldo with 200 insurgents
was at Asingay, north of San Fa-
bian. General Young with the
cavalry was in close pursuit.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22

Durham, Nov. Y. A Boer COM
mando with heavy guns has ap-
peared at Willow Grange, fifteen
miles south of Estcourt.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22
Pueblo the Seventh in Increase.

Pueblo, Nov. 22 The statistics
recently compiled by the labor
bureau at Washington show there
are but seven other cities in the
United States which have increas-
ed in population more rapidly than
Pueblo since 1890, these being the
cities of Galveston and Houston,
in Texas; Norfolk. Va; Indian
apoiis, Duluth. Los Angeles, and
Portland, Oregon Pueblo's in
crease was 71o7 which classes II as
the 10th in population in the
United States
Take the DAILY TRIBUNE
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22

Take the DAILY TRIBUNE
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22
FATAL TRAIN WRECK.
A b. & o. Train Kills Five Per-
sons and Injuries Others.

Auburn. Indiana. Nov. % Bull
letin l:lo p. M A Baltimore q
Ohio passenger train is reported
to have been wrecked forty miles
west of here few minutes ago
Five persons are reported to have
been killed and several others in
jured- Details have not yet bean
received.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22

Cape Town, Nov. q. The trans
port Kildonan Castle, the largest
transport ship in the world, arrived
here today with 5000 troops on
board-the First Welsh regiment
and the Second Dublin Fusileers.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22
A NEW CHAIRMAN.
Jones Will be Succeeded d
by a Better Man.

Chicago, Nov. 22,-The Chroni-
Gle today says that Jones will re-
tire from the chairmanship of the
democratic national committee,
and that his successor will be a
man in harmony with the various
factions of the democratic party,
You get the news fresh through
the columns of The TRIBUNE.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22

Durham, Nov. %. "A British ar
mored train while proceeding north
of the Mooi river yesterday was
attacked by the Beers and forced
to retreat.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-11-22
BOERS CLOSING
IN ON ESTCOURT
Another Armored Train RepuIsed
by fhe Beers.
REINF0RCEMENTS ARRIVE.

London, Nov. %. One definite
point in the situation in Natal
seems to be the fact that Estcourt
is isolated. A dispatch from Dur
ban says that the Beers are devas-
tating the country north of the
Mooi river.
1t appears now that Estcourt
will have to be relieved before help
can be gotten TO Ladysmith, and
that if General CIeary does not
soon get started he will have TO be
relieved.
The age-herald., 1899-01-05

to ascertain and report if due and proper corfu was made to feed the beef to the troops in Porto Rico. and to fix the re- sponslbility if due and proper effort was not made;' and more to the like effSct
 Mir. Alger proposes, in other words, to punish Gen. Miles for not issuing the re- frigerated stuff after he was able to pro- cure in Porto Rico fresh beef for his troops. As to this matter, the report of the commission of inquiry will not be final, if it be adverse to Gen. Miles; for the sol- diers in Porto Rico were entitled to fresh beef if fresh beef could be procured. It may not prove to be another whitewash board, but as each member of the commits sion, except one, is directly under Mir. AL ger, who expects to serve six years longer a full and fair inquiry and report is scarce- ly to be expected. It now looks as if the new board was packed to acquit Eagan and convict Gen. Miles, just as the white wash board was packed to acquit Alger and convict tho volunteer officers that have been mustered out.
The age-herald., 1899-01-05
Embalmed Beef in Court.

The esteemed MT. Alger and his over zealous lieutenant of the commissary de- pertinent, Gen. Eager will now have a chance to defend the canned beef they fur nished the armies in Cuba and Porto Rico before a board of inquiry, headed by As eistant Surgeon General Adler. Gen. Eager has of late been trying the case in the newspapers, but now he will be compelled to discuss the matter before board consti- tuted regularly from the regular army.
 The court is certainly not unfavorably constituted. MT. Alger selected its mem bers, and three of the four members of the court were taken from the general staff of the army. Col Guenther alone represents the men in the field who ate the embalmed beef. or were asked to eat it under the penalty of going hungry if they did not.
 The Miles-Alger issue is to be fought out fin some part at least, before the new com mission of inquiry; for the chief object of inquiry is defined by the secretary of war to be "the responsibility for the loss of about 100000 pounds of refrigerated beef the property of Swift & Co.,, of Chicago;
The age-herald., 1899-01-05
The DreYfus Case.

The court of cessation is not trying Cap tain Dreyfus; 1t is simply considering his appeal for new trial. The ways of French courts are past finding out, but it seems that an appellate court in that country has the right to call in new evidence as well as points, but it may go deeply into the facts of the case And that is just what it seems to be doing. Captain Dreyfus is repre- scented before 1t by a lawyer and by Mrs. not allowed to be present in his own be- half. It is not known where he Is. He may be on Devils Island, or he may be in Paris itself-no one knows outside of the inner circle of government of France
 From the nature of the investigation that the court of cassation is making it is plain that-its determination will be practically final. If it grant Captain Dreyfus new rial, it will be because it finds that an army conspiracy has caused the conviction of an innocent man. In addition to the na- ture of the investigation, new trial would create more or less uproar in army and anti-Semitic circles, and it therefore follows that if new trial be granted, Captain Dreyfus is as good as freed and vindicated.
 The rascals who were chiefly instrumental in procuring his conviction should in that case be punished, and the chief conspirator was beyond doubt General Bosdeffre, who not long ago resigned the chief place in the general staff. Colonel Paty de Clam, an- o,aer conspirator, is in jail. Captain Drey- fus had an army friend in Lieutenant-Colo- mel Picquart, who has, too, become victim of the army ring. He is in the Cherche- Midi prison, ostensibly held on trumped- up charge, but really held because he is friend of Captain Dreyfus, and is ready to give testimony in his favor. The vindica- tion of Catain Dreyfus will, it is widely hoped, be followed by the award of even- handed justice in the three associated cases.
The age-herald., 1899-01-05
LESSON OF THE MOBILE TRIAL

From the Mobile Register
 We hope our home people will read alright the verdict returned in favor of Louis Reese, the negro who killed the soldier. Hugh Collins, near Frascati, last summer The jury was composed wholly of white men, the accused was of the poorest of his class, and a negro, while the man who was killed was a white man, and one, moreover, who was engaged in serving his country in time of war Yet the jury found unanimously that the accused was guilty Of no crime and ordered that he be dis charged, free man. We attribute this acquittal to the high standard of our courts and in secondary manner to the good bearing of our population There is no race antagonism in Mobile The whites and blacks live side by side with as much friendship as is possible between people of different races. We have here the old, before-thewar, white element, and quite A number of blacks of the same period. al- though there is a large percentage of new blacks, people who, as the saying is "do not know how to behave" As rule how ever, the blacks pay that respect to- the whites that the difference in the intellec- tual and material position justifies. and the whites have for the blacks sympathy
 
 generous in time of need
 The crowning glory of a free state is the justice administered within its borders Where justice reigns there all other vir- tues are to be found. We think that here We may find the secret of success in solv- ing that problem of race association which vexes the students of our condition The wiser men of the negro race concede that the white man must rule in this country One of the wise says to us, and says it with the firmness born of conviction: sir this is a white mans country" But this does not necessarily imply that the white man and the black may not live in it. Let the white man show the black justice and that discontent that Is used by our poIit- ical opponents, to their own advantage and not to the negroes profit, will disappear We have only to look at our local situation to find proof of the truth of the statement Here we have a population of whites and blacks living in harmony. Nothing of the troubles that have harrassed the people of North Carolina are known here; the blacks are industrious; they are accorded fair treatment, and in the courts they get jus tice; and We find that in all local matters the blacks are with the whites for a per- petuation of this order of things. Let us give the race credit for it's good sense, while at the same time congratulating our selves that we offer opportunity for the exercise of such good sense.
 We commend our condition to the atten- ton of others who have not found the so- lution. If it be studied there Is much to be taarpad from
The age-herald., 1899-01-05
A HUMBLE CROESUS

From the London Times.
 James Tyson, the wealthest man in Aus tralia, who died recently was as lad and remained to the end of his life bushman pure and simple. Though he accumulated great wealth he recognized none of the or- dinary civilized uses of money, but main- tained throughout his career the frugal habits of the beginning, working no less continuously at seventy than he had worked at seventeen, wearing habitually a shabby suit of ready made clothes, with a silver watch, of which a bootlace formed the guard, and eating only the same hard fare that had served him when, as young laborer, he took the position of Heading cythe" on the station of two brothers of the name of Vine.
 His life was lived in open air, and as man of over seventy years of age he was able to say of himself that he had never entered church or a theater or a public house, that he had never tasted beer wine or spirits, that he had never sworn and that he had never washed with soap-he used sand instead-nor worn a white shirt a glove.
 He was of splendid though Somewhat spare and hard phys que, and at seventeen stood six feet four inches in his stockings His figure, as known more familarly of late years, was that of square shouldered slightly stopping but active man, with 6 keen face set below a crop of iron gray hair and distinguished by particularly bright, deep set gray eyes.
 His money did not interest him. He used to say of it: q shall just leave it behind me when go. I shall have done with It then, and 1t will not concern me after ward. But" he would add, with a charac- teristic semi-exultant snap of the fingers, "the money is nothing. It was the little game that was the fun,' Being asked once, "What was the little gamer" he re- piled with an energy of concentration pe- culiar to him.
 ''Fighting the desert! That has been my work! I have been fighting the desert all my fe, and have wonl I have put water where there was no water, and beef where there was no beef. I have put fences where there were no fences, and roads where there were no roads. Nothing can undo what I have done, and millions will be happier for it after am long dead and forgottetn.'
 Tyson was entirely Australian, and had no experience beyond the limits of the Australian colonies. At seventy-one years of age, having never had a holiday in his life, he entertained for a time the thought of winding up his affairs and starting to see the world before he d'ed, but finally condemned his own project as being too idle and self-indulgent.
The age-herald., 1899-01-05

upon the wire rope. The iodine in seaweeds Is destructive to iron, and in the shallow waters the cable is attacked by the teredo and by small shrimplike crustacean that bores holes in the gutta percha envelope
 The cable stations at Ualan and Guam will require no elaborate plant. For such purpose it is necessary merely to build little house and haul blight of the wire rope up on shore. Once established, it VIII be no great expense to maintain the cable across the Pacific Breaks sare rare, and usually are near shore; the wire rope embedded in the ooze of the depths will last for centur.es Marine animals are not disposed to interfere with such contriv- anees. though cables have been bitten by sharks and cut by swordfishes. One break in transatlantic wire was caused by whale which got entangled in it. When the line is completed it will be practicable to send a message around the world in three seconds The plan contemplated is that when fin shed the cable shall be handed over to the postoffice department, to be operated as part Of the postal service. All net proceeds will be covered into the treas- ury, and in this way the cable will be made to pay for itself in course of time. One thing worth considering incidentally is that the future commercial interests Of the United States in China and elsewhere in the far east will be enormously benefited by this trans-Pacific wire. Some day, inevit- ably, all the islands of Polynesia will be connected by network of cables.
 RENE BACHE.
The age-herald., 1899-01-05
The Lawyers Split Up.

When lawyers disagree who shall decide? Captain Ward and Colonel Denson seem to reach common conclusion, based on dec- sions of the courts of th.s and other states. Other equally able lawyers reach differ ent conclusion by the logic or superlaw one of doubt.
 Pretty much all agree that the people can elect whom they please. and that the con- Vention can seat whom they please; but then two perplexing questions arise, first, as to whom the convention will seat, thus precipitating in it struggle and a debate, and, secondly, as to the effect upon the for mer office rights of seated delegate, or rather sworn-:n delegate. As the people will vote with their eyes open, no more need be said over the strictly legal aspects of the case.
 The ethical questions are however before the people, and will be before them until the ballots are cast next summer. It is not unreasonable to say that constitutional convention, which Is the people acting through representatives, should largely come from the people-fresh from the ranks of the unofficial masses. The delegates should largely come directly from the ranks, instead of the captains, because they should represent the hopes and ambitions and desires of the masses. A convention of officials, or a convention of lawyers would not be comprehensively and accurately rep resentative. The great industries would not in that way. be adequately represented nor would the all-important question of public education have the place in the con- vention it should hold. Practical manufac- turers. practical educators and practical planters and small farmers are needed in the convention, and every senatorial dis trict and county should see that such in terests are represented by practical pro- gressive fully-alive men.
 The popular errors of the period seem to be these, namely, that old men and law yers are chiefly needed in the convention. There will be enough of each in the con vention. The popular effort should be di- rected towards the sending of progressive practical men to the conventions; because there cannot be too many of such men in the convention, and there assuredly will not be too many of such men, for such men are not politicians and will not push them- selves. They should be pushed into the convention by the people. Select the men who will best represent the agricultural, industrial and educational hopes of the state and you will select, beyond reason able doubt. the men who should hold seats in the coming convention.