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THE MERIDIONAL, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY E. I. ADDISON. $2 50 .... PER YEAR. ....$2 50 TERMS, The MEXIDIONAL, is published weekly ina English and French, at two dollars and fifty cents pet annum payable in advance. Advertisements will be inserted at 51.00 per square of ten lines, or loss, for each insertion. Advertisements published In English and French will be charged for both Ian. guages. N~o advertisement will be e~aerted for less than two dollars and fifty cents. Payment of all advertisements is con s idered due immediately alter theit first publication. Advertisements not marked wlth the number of Insertions required, will be published until otherwise ordered, and charged for accordingly. Tus dollars in advance is required for announcing candidates for office ; and election tickets or other job-work must be paid for on delivery. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Alladvertllementfl and communications Intended for the MERIDIONAL, must be handed in by 12 o'clock Y. on Thursday to ensure publication. This is an impor tsnt business rule, which should not be overlooked or neglected. Blankets of the finest merino wool at Constipation is tbc bane of American people. Thousands of remedies have been offered and used, but none have given satis faction until Bailey's SALINE APER IENT came into use. This new remedy, as a laxative or gentle purgative, is a white powder and is pleasant and never-failing in action. Our streets are beginning to present a respectable appearance once more. Cashmeres of all description at extra ordinary low prices at Martin's. After a severe test of twelve years, by many leading~ physicians and thousands of females, it has bees 4iMoutaVf..- trated cird a6oP?'elieved more'sickly fe males, than all other remedies combined. All monthly defects, excesses or weaknesse~s, affecting' married or single ladies, are promptly relieved by its use. The Fnller passed down last Tuesday .vmping with a fine freight, and will re turn about Tuesday next. The Grand Jury was in session all of last week and the better part of this. They adjourued Thursday. A WONDERFUL CURE. Says Jean Louis to his friend Ber trand : "I wouldn't give a strawv for these Moss Collars ! where did you buy tbem?1" "Well I got them at Martin's and they are paid for and I am going to use them." Bortrand interviewed a year after and asserts that Jean Louis ei'ery week borrowed the collars. It takes Martlnse Patent Moss Collars to cure Fog sia weU],a Bore an a hors~' -shoulder.. M DO- d(r old friend and boy. hood chumn Lion. Leon Jastremski 4has."struckit fat" in receiving the 'npfointment of 8tttte Printer. In order to plae himself on a broad foundation lhe has purchased the LDaily Advocate and consolidated it with the Dazily Capi4ai~ ubder the title of the Caiola Bringing to the pew gptel rise ~ill of his vim and ability, together with that of-the editorial corps of the A,'dvocate, Bro. Jastremski may well congratulate himself *uothbright prospects before him. With Jasftemski as editor in chief, Col. K. 4. Kross asso" ciate, T. Satnbcla Jones, city edi tor, and W. A. L*Sucur to pre side over the typographical de} parturent, the CapitoliafIdjdvo ale will be a journal creditable ali~m to theO Statc arid its capital city. "Wiseo is a mocker, nua strong drink is raging." Take PRICKLY AsH BrrTTEii. It is not a beverage but a remedy for all ill effects 6f an excess pf intoxicating stimu Iatit's. flon't take a drink before breakfast "just to wake you up," becaiuse you -feel so stupid and languid. You are sure tor feel worse as soon as the meIt w~rs off. Take a half wine glass of PRICKLY Asn Birru88. It will brighten you up for the whole day. Oar young friend Lucius Dutel has opened a saloon in Lab~it's Row former ly occupied as coffee house by Messrs. Lyons & Ellis. His bar will be found stocked with choice wines, liquors and cigars. Wednesday morning, February first, 1882, dawned cool and clear, with the housetops, fences~and green sward, car peted with Old Jack Frost, fairy tapes try of spotless white. It is to be hoped that the damage done to the prospeo tive fruit crop will be trivial. From present appearances there is every rea son to anticipate a season of agreeable, settled weather dnring the present month. So mote it be! NOTICE !-The officers and members' of the Abbeville Literary Society are requested to attend a special meeting to be held at their rooms Thursday Feb mnary 9th 1882, at seven and half o'clock P. M. A fall attendance is much de sired. ISA~AC WIsE, President. NOTICE !-The miembers of Abbe yulle Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1 are hereby notified to attend a meeting of said organization at the Court House, on Monday evening February 6th at seven and a half o'clock sharp. JoTIm A. BRooSSHIER, Secretary. Woman's health is dependent upon regular monthly uterine ac tion. Interfere with this grand function of female life, and dis ease will be the legitimate result. Nature demands regular action, and her laws cannot be violated unless at the expense of health. This function, this monthly secre tion must continue from the age of puberty to the "turn of life," without unnatural obstuction ; and inattention to this fact has con signed thousands of females to un timely graves. A remedy for all these troubles hns been prepared by the medical profession, which will relieve old and young of these monthly excesses and weaknesses ; will rcstore nature ; will strength en the weak and debilitated ; will give rotundity n'nd shape to thie lean and haggard, and will impart iron to the impoverished blood. Dr. Dromgoole's ENGLISH FEMALE i'BITTERS is the remedy and will Ido the work to~satisfa~M Z AtabUsbud U47 IU2l!N Uth 8rST. Lam W.U1 gUA Physictana in chargeof this old and well known Linsyttit nur raguýltar grad :ie in mecdicineau I Clhronid Diseaees have made their skill and aDH y en much suaperior to that of the ordinary practitioenr. tý patth ~Ave acquiredoat anainn reputationthl:ilgi Eeinr mct of compicrated caes.L fotomne of the blood am~lmor bun~s, tr~ta th alts ( case, without unoar \Itrrrurv or Pi to~ Meidicines. YOUN MENnod thyo of midd apewho are su fom f trm the effects of n savie itb at unisits victims tar iuaamneessrnianiage. permanently cared. at moderate epMnse. dEar. .1. List e ,rytarr t, romterred ty fatlrl.tm deenirigteat gent mailerd trert a, }" a,'- rC er " C tt ,P nerson umfeuriltafroraii~ttirerr-anal rendther ldidtrest) Ceenaeeirattnams.it;ýrteI' !'"-1 I. .aoaii be thlronged h1R. BETT~s. tt: Nrttt Slimt.,hit. Lisle.11 School Bowrd ABBEVILLE, January 7th 1882. The School Board t~ this day 'in regular session, members ~pres ent :-A. D. Martin, president. J.. Nugier, J. Morgan, N. Perry. N1. ~. Broussard and J. N. Williams. Asn,+J .P~ap On~ moition th~ minutes of last meeting were corretetd so as to read two ail, instead of mill school!. tag. On to *i6, the rninuth of lhst r meeting-Ae adopted ~.s corre~cted. Resolved, that comrnit~tee appointed to build and select a site for a school house in. 1st ward are laoteby re-; quested to recbnsit~er their action in reference to tbo~ location of said school house ; and report to this' Board at its next mfttig. On motion Mr, L. J. Smith was allowed the sum of $3(COO0 for ,teach ing school Jiiriig the month of' Sgpterr 1881. Onmeau'n resolved that M~r .G.1 .Shd axCollector be reque d to appear before the Boardi and set tle the Poll tax of 1841. In com-~ pliance with Ajiis reqjucst Mr. Shaw' appearad before this Board in open. session 444 was as.ked if he had col lected ; ntie amount of Polt tax : for the yst~ ot 1881, a.id lhe replied he had'only collccted about $820 00 of the P'oll tax for said year. rJ'Iha Board then wished to hear what reasons or excuse he bad for not having colleg d the entire amount (about,~ 501 when help 4s he hai iot had timie, 'b n asked, jhe' blad any .other rea~ont3ber Iplied tlis~t he had too - #taft Pall tag of 1880, wvhen he answered he had hnot, asnd saiil it could not be c~ected but did not name rir desig nate airs' person, or persons frol whom :t would not~e ccl leeted. ~ On motion the Board adjourned' to meet Saturday.. January 14th 182J. N. W~ILLIAir~ -Secretary. t ABBEVTLLE, .Thnuary 14th 1882. fThe School Board met pursuant to adjournment, members present : A, D. MitrUn, President, J. Nugier and J. N. Williamq, -there being no quol Im present, they sdj,,u'ned to mect Saturday Jautiaryt'Ist 1882. J. N. WILLIAMis, "Secertary. ABBEVILLFr, January 21st 1882. The School Board mnet pursuant dt to adjournment, men,bers present :e -A. D. Martin, presideint, J. Nux gier. J. H. Pptnam "+nd J. N" Wil- to hiams. Absent :--M. C. Broussard, J. FMorgan. and N. Perry. On motion the minutes of last meeting were adopted6* striking I2 out the resolution in reference to the distribution of the funds to the credit of the 4th ward. The Finance Commitfi'e having a submitted the following report of C settlement with Isaac Wise, Treasurer ir of scho^1 funds the same was adopt ed. To the (Ton. Presidenzt and memb~ers P of School Board of the Parish of Vermitio*. We. the undersigned, appointed by your Hon. Body, a committee to settle with the Treasurer of the School Funds, beg to submit the en closed as our report and settlement t'. with sakid Treasurer np to this day o January 21st 1S82. xa As regards the amounts of money t, paid the said Tfreasurer ~y M. C. I Broussard ex-tax colleet'r cf this I parish, and ex-treasurt rl of school funds, we were compelled to us-a Mr.C Wise's books, its we could find no other data by which we coul b gt erned.idbgo-t The report fur13iebed.4 I~y Mr. Fay State Sopt. of P'ublic Educa-e tion. of amounts Fad ou'r treasurer C from March 13th IS79. 4o August 25th 1881, by Sttet Tfreasurer was 77 also very incomplete anti we were again o l iged to use Mlr. Wise's hooks to arrive at,the corree+ amounts I so paid him. His book4j showing some $603.29, more~thau lr. Fay's repot t called for. I We respectfully c'sll th0.attevntion 1 of your Hlon'l.. Body toY:ihe above facts, and suggest. that yell take im.-. mdaeation ie. devieina some other systemt by wr'ieh future finance (.Offloitees can arrive at all "amounts p:aid into ;he' vr~asurer'8 hands than through sai'! trea.urer''s 1own books, as we consider !hat a I settlement under such cire.u'stkjnces eat t~e acirtrate~ol &L..h In the present instwtw _Mr. Wise volunt~nri~v ccr.'eu !d to. our com o m itt ; ~C' sr" twelve. lti#"red do!.. ýv lars of A' we had'l -mtirfn its whatever. You w:11 see tv Pq'c'se . figure' that since la~ch 13&1 1.S,), up to~ J near" 14th 1882. the is su'etpf s ho .1 f nd-l qrAr=r ived ;ri Treasurer the .tin .t $4,47154. anad fron Parish tax c 1e ~torA$5,2tJ2 75 and iron ex-treasurer of s~t mnhi iun'Is $9037,65, ntot from ý*eauof schovol 1lands $209,63, tmakingj rtotai 2of1 $11.321.57. and that d* g srd~ period he has disbursed= as tier; vouches enclosed and %rjrhich we have given him-?eOeipta'tfre sum o! 8,945,55, leating an app rent bail ance on baud of M2376,02,. but' there are actutally'$16, 80.~.met oCj hand thann above aw'n of 'bia can find no trace ear pt. in Nit WVipes -own statement mn~ki'jg a cas av,.ila~leo sum) ~l mha' d of f' ;392 3 ?:ving t Comapleted rntdabo º we n'mt resraeemfulIy ask +a to cevi' ~itier and ipke L~cion po h san'e: Jrj JH~iKN4v PUTNAM ) r~',. ,c J. N. WILLIAMs, m f*,t~ a. of J. Nuerugn, 5 ohi J~oardki On motion the ci.ima of m asujt * for d;shuising rands, $>14ýto Jahl iuarv 1st 1882 was alloiwed`# *On motion resolved, thast11 moo-' e3+ renraini'ig in the trsasuty on Itt day of.Janu;?ry 1882 he cF~ated" d common fund and after p`y~ng allt indebtedness for the year of'41881 be divided "pro rata" nnmoug the dif ferent wards. The report of the eoomur~ttee ao pointe). to ;locate and build"'a echoji house in 1st ward was c~ccepted. Riesolved, tt a, the *'pro rata" Of the.unexpended balance of ti a funds of.1881 to the credit of the 8dd ward' is appropi ated for the putpose 'of~ purchasing a '~site" and m.4e}ial for a sc11.ol house ii the 3d ward. Tl~ie; fol~oving named~persons p: re ~P pointed to take oh~rge of sad fn ds and endeavor to secure d,,uatiuons from putic spirited citizeo imj ad if the samew if possible, .1, i , 'ti~n, said coim~iAtee~to me goy-1 e, odby the foregoirg °es ttmons. lnwteuitiil raa -.. a all' akbol~ she1 be cIg ed ;whura funds becotne ex~hausted. ' ./ reeolvd tatthe sec~fehry of Schol Bord jad~aS ,tod Posit 4 V reeeived frog M". Ne asurer)" in "$e safe W.W. Edwards, after fiaving canceled the same. Rsehclvudu- thatteh Treatsured ,. esholveudw --t herey Treaquiredrn reCeiv~flg m m*ti) partie's tfr rcal on school landlli; ive a reetipt in duplicate on.. webC tol ti posited with ii- l"tesidentos t Board. On inotiou the slum of $200.00 or!I so much thereof as .,ay be ne~es :ry be appropriated out of the local tax as a contingent fund for the year 1882. Resolved that the sum of tr~ee dollars be appropriated to tlefiay the expenses of the finance eomwditee. On motion the Board adjounried to me'et Saturday April' 1st 1882" * A. D. MARTIN, President. J. N. WILLIAMS, Secretary. 'Police Jury Proceedings. MONDAY, January 9th 1882. The Police Jury of said State and parish met this day at the' Court House puirsuant to adjouwn-, inent. Were present : Howard Hoff.! panir, Esq., President, and the following named members. viz Messrs. Broussard, Primeaux, Nunez. Thibeaux, Trahan and Vanslyke. The minutes of last meeting ~were read and approved. Mr. Primieaux presented a peti tion from the citizens and land owners of the 1st Police Jury ward asking that a change be made on the public road -leading to the Iberia parish line in the 3d Road District, the same was read and considered. On motion of Mr. Primeaux. Art. 1st Resolved,.that E. Mon tagne, jr.-,"Pat 'sh Suiveyor, be, and he is hereby authorized and appointed to trace, survey and lay off the public road mentioned in the petition above referred to, provided he does so free of cost to the parish, provided, also, that the owners.. of the lands on whose. slands said coptenmplated road may pass, shall make a donation of the ranecessary width of land for said road which do-ation shall be made I o by Notarial act in due form of Slave, in case said road is changed and accepted by this body. e Mr Suvenne Primeaux being ll present agi'eed and consented in ease said road is changed, not to ,sremove hethe bridge built on t. apr~eset road on his land witho# ;sgiving six wonths pry wja notii~e 4h~tIi 4cif fhias4t4. so ic ~On motion of Mr. Bj-oussard: 1Art. 2d 'Resolved, that the re, 14 port of the jury of frehlders ap pointed '1iy Art. 4t adopted-A.i 15th 1880, to trac aeday.-off a re public road from the foot of the toBridge atAbbeville, noi-th end to 9f!the Lafayette parish line, in the officwald and 10th road disti-ict r ~of this parish, be published in the' ofiiljour-nal foi pablic informa ol. tion ; that the road therein mefi tioned as traced and laid off, be (of} id ;and the sam~ is hereby declared er 10 be a public road to all in ten t r and -purposes. - ' I~ULCRGAD"IN TIE TH PLC -Report of Juory of Freeholders. Teundersigned appointed .by your Iou.Body, to trace and lay lhkb road districts froiu, Abhbe vi~lT6y to-8the parish of Lafayette, beg Ieav t t. a fe~ o r eo h ;T~ayon Vermilion atý- Abbeville, u'nning. west between the lands of Desire- Leblanc andi Qf David Frank, then,. north :l etwe b those! of the said Desii' i.brac 'and tbose of Dr Wm'r. Kibbie, run ning still perch crossing the-iaod:. of Desire Leblanc- tli n west o61 the-land of Bwni~ce Thc'at until ;it' intersocts, the;"the public load given bY the ?nPrmeauz.; rannJing north on the laud of saia Uosiface Rigat and-,those of the Primeauz and Mre Evariste Dartez ; .,eat between , e lands of Mrs Evatiise llartez aund those ot. Mrs. John ~ WIheal l; slime dir-ection between the. - ands of Friu~k WPall and those of Capt. Blercoard, : livier1 Blanchet, Albert Laborde, Ferigus Lege. and Frank Wall ; same di. fcct~oa at twenty d1¶euft . `fom the bayoui.V ejmili n, crosainug the; 4lands ofr. Mr'1snk Ing between_ th " ndds a Pt. Maci and those of Frank Wall and, ;Francois Marcengx , a4.'rossingi the rands of John Conned; Des- 14 panet Lege, John (Qonner and W. F. Aiea passing between the lands ofWº. P. Areai. d tiiose of; W. R. Rieher'don ; 13,etween the landp Of Mrs. N'ul Toups and.,W. R. A]'chardson.; between the lids of mneal tege sadf those of the, Broussard ;- crossibg the lands o Francis Palomnbe, Belisaire Levy`I ]and Melanie Tfouchet, runnaing north-east between concession iand thandtoe dieton Wintil Wite i~nd and thoe ofdicien Whilite trikes the Linea that separate thel Nqoe 5pe 'USE thaest A WOINDEBJUL And SCIENTIFIC DISCOVE; IThese Glasses are chemically treated In the process of possess the property of keeping your ey es in good conditi you use them. They have been carefully examined and ican and European oculists, who claim that the MEDICA , have no equal, and can i n some cases restore the sight if ue no case can the eye become i zipaired by their use for the foll ;o i. The chemicals soften the light to the eye, comnpi with that tiresome sensation that is usually experience hi.: after one or two hours' use. S2The chemicals make the glasses hard ; they rehain t "t" RiJce you will always see through them as bright and clear as . 3. The chemicals beep jhe glasses cold, and the relaltis nerves are alwvays cool, doin Uay with any feverish messe ,t. With these glasses you can read, write or sew a having no effect on the e3'e, with no distressing or Ejnecessarily improw*s the eye. BE3WARE OF COZTT The MEDICATED GL ASSES are al stamped on th. frame H. H NONE GBUiiNUB UNLESS STAMPED. WIE DON'T SELL TO P *Dealers Supplied Wholesales at ibp ALL EYES SUITED. Persons residing at a distancegaip Y procure these Spectacleircan send for a circular containing etc., and directions toripsnrn~ e n addressing ,r..pe t4, n w eCRESCENT CITY SPECTA&CLE 00* Y' 6 t.Charles street, ne~r Grauier, -N6r 6 A: D. MARTIN, Age d __ _ _ _ _ I ads of Elise Toucehet and thou of F. D. Lege, Arena ILege and Zeolin Lor'nant crossing north the lands ~of John Conner until it strikes the road now travelled, and passing on lands u~frnown until it comes to the lands of ~larien Dartez leaving his first tract on the east, and his second tract on the -west which join un mnown . lands; leaving the land of the said Valaricen IY-rtez. run -ning north west on other lands be l rate the lands of Joseph Brioussard Sfrom'thak whose ,owners are tin It own ; running west oot a por lion of the lands of said Joseph 3 lrouss i'd-.U$il it cotues to a. line, t runnning oath whi4el*par-ates the 11 lands of Ozem 4 Vinenert rNow those of Desire. Vinccot- those-'o - Emrsi1- lBandoin from those, of 1 T TbeduleBronssard ; same dlirec i tioilbetween the lands of Duplesis tTrahan and those of Michel Meaux those 6f M rs. Lessin Trahan and thosg J D. Trahan, Jos. Duhon aid Ar-isti'de Picard ; cast between the lapd of said A. Picard and those of MJrs. Chatie ; north be twedn the lagsa of Mrs. Chatie 'and those of COolumbus Brioussard and J. T. Broussard ; between the Ilands of Maurice Villien an those belonging to the 'heirs oif C. J. F.'Broussard and those of antine -,ga;o s. rshz. .ai~ ronvsar47jr., those of Joh~n. Clark from those f of Gregoire Broussard ; east on the lands -of said PIre~goire Broussard following *the Coulee IGrange and passing between the -lands Qf Treyville Guidry and those ofat Achille Broussard:`ot be Stween the -lands of Trevilie Gui l dry- and those of Achille 'Brous Bid- f; 4-The following named. persons -have refused to give to sell or Seven to permit said road to be t traced on their lands. The udr uner signed, jury of freeholders have Urefore traced the said row ~.running on and crossingtheir said I lands to the greatest advantage rofthe 'inhabitants in particular, s and the public in general in inoer -curing the least damages possible itq ~the owners ti~ereof, as well as ; tG #aeir enclosures, fencing &c., .We awardedlo Mr. John Coq: I. ner,, the .sum of..!" dollars ;to SMis. John 1B. ThealI, tha sum of .$15 ;to Mtrs. F. P~alomU' , the sum I of.. dollars ; jo -Mr. Gregoire aj Broussard tbemuap 'of tee dollars f as indemnity,. a The other land 'rowne~s on whose lands the said` read pas, sand womay be entitlel1 to,ýa-j agshaeall sigtied respectively f and individually an act byv which f they give a gratuit6us-; to the p ish the land" iicessatry forsad a road on the premises and in the manner it has been traced and t laid off by us, the others selling. ea The said acts are hereto an n'-xed and mnade a. a, which special refere Besides that V. the said pull V traced ast lines of the land fore we did no any damages~t to the pt.ish for $5; M David P. Mean. I.Brousaardt sum of twent-five d Pecapitulation of t allowed :is dama es yril Mrs. Jolla B. .John (ourqp. MIts. Da YSid D. bMest;r ,T, 1. Broussard ~ Irlisaii 'c Levy f;reroire Brotissard I'. Liespa net [Leg% Ltespectfti1 (Signd~ Aid. F. D. M~arch I~2Lýd.18$ table for Tutu~ Nvme report adopted:~ * .Jaauary 9th report ordere4 theofical Jury this 14thdt D. 1882. S AMBROIS M Clerk P Art.~a es~nt~l..} e and t to draw war Treasurer, in a v~ sf owners on whose lands. mentioned road paw`e,~ amounts awarded themf Se ges by said jury of freeh the Pailsb were ail dered to be paid out of petpe tfunds~d Geo E Lyons, jailor Jos Bloch assign ... Rogers elk S C G ( eo E Lyons, j i" 1ss1 Ge Go E Lyons LaJ~g S5 to January 5t 88`_ H I Bland repairs t * The Jury a joG .,, term 1st Moaday HowaRD HoTFPAj