The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1900-02-10
Personal Mention.

Prof. Holmes has recovered from
his vaccination and has resumed his
school.
Mrs. N. G. Young has been quite
i'll this week with a severe attack of
pleurisy.
Paulin Laplace, of Cheniere aux
Tigre, was in town this week with a
load Of oysters.
Andrew Veazey and Oscar Nunez,
of Pecan Island, were in town this
week on business.
Harry B. Goldberg, representing a
New Orleans paper bag company was
in town this week.
DR.. r. p. Nelson went to New Or
leans last week on business connected
with his fire insurance.
Theodore Laporte and Eraste Mou-
ton were registered at the CONNER
cial Hotel in New Orleans Monday.
Mrs. SEVERN Leblanc, Jr., has
moved into one of Isaac Wise's cot
tages corner of St. Charles and Char
ity streets.
Martin Bagley left Monday morn
ing for Alexandria, where he went to
attend the Republican State owen
ton to which he is a delegate.
High Mass of Requiem will be eel
ebrated at st. Johns Catholic church
in Lafayette on Thursday, February
18th at 8 o'clock a., M. for the re-
pose of the soul of Rev. Father
Healy.
John A. Brookshier an old time
resident of the parish now holding
a job in the custom house spent a
couple of days here last week and at
tended the meetings of the Republic
CdH COLHtlItlc0.
Ferdinand Beckmann, representing
the Stone Hill Wine Co., of Her
mann, Mo-, (and you would take
him for q stone wall. he tips the beam
at 245 pounds.) was circulating
among his Abbeville customers sey-
eral days this week.
Revs. Fathers A. B. Laforest and
L. Leduc passed through Lafayette
Monday afternoon en- route to Car
encTo. They returned to their home
in Ahbeville on Thursday, delighted
to have cen their many friends both
in Carenero and Lafayette.-Adyer-
tiser.
Edward jenkins killed a hog a few
days ago, four years old, seven feet
long, three feet ten inches in height,
two feet two inches broad and weigh
ing 730 pounds. It made forty gal
Ions of lard. This speaks well for
the hog fraternity in Lafayette and
for the care the same received at the
hands of some raisers.-Adyertiser.
The many friends here of DR.. M.
e. Cushman, of Milton P. o., will
be panied to hear of the sad death OF
bis brother as told in the following
dispatch: washington, La, Feb
rnary 2.-Dr. E. W. Cushman, one
of the most progressive and success
full practitioners in this section, died
at his residence this morning at $3.50
o'clock. He was stricken some eight
or ten days ago with an acute attack
Of pneumonia. His brother DR.. Nit
Cushman, of Lafayette. was at his
bedside. Deceased leaves q wife and
four little daughters. lie was a ma
tive of St. Landry parish, and was
forty-six years Of age"
Rev. r. T. Houston was in Col
fax this week, and preached for us
Thursday night. He was parish at
torney in Grant some 25 years ago,
and was a pretty wild chap to tackle.
On one occasion he plugged w. S.
Calhoun with a pistol ball on account
of some difficulty, but he says he has
quit all such foolishness now that the
Lord has given him q new heart
Colfax Chronicle. Houston once
lived in this parish and practiced law.
A good joke is told by the old timers
Of a certain occasion when be was
parish judge AD Hoe. Those were
wild and wooly'' days and the SIS