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dbbeviile '+ eriudio Saturday, January 1.1, 1890O .OTICE.-AII parties iidebted toj 'he undersigned are requested to coeIC forwai'd and |ettle. ROUT. J. YOUNG. .The ex-.Efpre4s of Brazil is dead. DHeiry M. Stanley left: for ;Egypt ,on the 30th ult. The recent storm didmuch ida" smage to derriks in .the oil districts Sof k-euagyleania. The retail beer dealers if New .York City, are to erect a $600,000 *.br.owery. -4*4-- 'It is not yet decided whether ,the 'Jnn-Ameriean excursionists -shall Yvisit.the Southe. /Melville Blame, brother ,*f the ,.ý&xretary of State, died -at. Salem, .4. e., last Monday. 'Seretay Tracy hau ramed the ',nw uaval-vessel being oonstructcd Siul Sa 'Francisco, the* Monterey. While %arnmm's circus was at London the largest 6lephant became enragted landmade an -attaek orinits .keeper, goring him in the'hea.t an' .neck, inflicting fatal injuries. --~----4 ~k~ Lewis Jordan,. a deal uate -was .run oferendkilled by iuase. nger train of fle 'Illinois Central rail. roatd bout wo ,miles -from Xenner - vill on the 28t .ltimae. Mysterious losses of money are 'rep6rted 'from the C-hicago post efice. 4 Experl are working. up the matter, but no clue to 'de identity iofl'te thief has been discovered. MA. Q 'O 4holic aoni nary'iaeubout ,to be establiihedm ,i .ew Wrk . -6iwy.-aoe on tb ahtbein border .of.tke cit hare i been purhasedrfo, 470,500. This -seminary will ~c -commodate 3,000 stadens. -.. *mmg the .handsome presentes, e "oeived'by the Ardhbigbop -of .exIo upon the celebration of h't golden .annirersary were-a $L2,OO diamond acroas and a $3000 diamond ring. 'T.he Pope send him a special note of " congratulations and good wishes:. Two yeong girls, Aiwa, aged 1i s.arid Little, aged 2t, 'dauslghtbe of Dlr. COits. :Wilson of St. "Tasm 'manr parish; medefive bales of cot. ton, I'M barrels of corn, $f15 .lworthi of-watermelons,"Tid also foun~d time to pick peas on bharesm'or others. Dr.-(mrances,B. Hiller, near Low. ,eol,' tIes.,,widow of Dr. Hiller, is spen'd;ng a half million of dollars on the buial of hler hushand and in -prepnration of her own burial. Mrs. Miller's burial robes, whidh art read;. :rst $20,000, the casket $O. 5000, :a.:. Imaselmn,."O10000. "Tangipihoa pari~b has gone dry `bya hig majorty. Lft month the ,graud jury of .Tachitehhes paribh. enmtnenting on the good ee.tt of the law in the neighboring parish of tbteie, declared that it would be wise econoeical and Wholesome for Natohletochee: to do likewise. :Miss Amfa Jones, the daughter ,.of Rev. Sal Jnes, eloped on Chris -me day with 'Mr.'Wm. 14.,aGraham Ca.r.terusvile, sGa. '?lie unieo .wrdd strongly.oppo, I by herperente, a it as lore laughs at obstaoles, the1 v-.unc: couple boarded a Ohattanou. ,_-a truil, ard were made one at :.ort notice. Marriage is the usual termination to parental interference. u affairsaC U4fhe'leart. The opposi.. tioui .acts as&a tonic to budding -af. "c.ctions.anod brings about the-step it :gives to avert. How level headed .was the poet *tho sang: "The oreakiog up of faithful.friends re-] aiewigisof love." Race Coidicrts. A number of race conflicts occur red last week in Georgia and South Carolina. They cannot he attrib uted to +the lawless spirit of the Souathern AnRlo"Sxnn fol' the french anid Acddianhocalities of bounisian. are similarly afflicted in turn. They are The ontgrowtlh of'the sen. oeless expecrifoart to -haIve two dise tinct races live together contentedly on tetms 6f political, if not social eq uality: between *hibirh' it is-extrem ely difficult .to daw liues of demar cation. It may be every natural for the negro raee to conteud for these right.'or privileges, snd to be irri. tated at the equally natural dieposi tione of the white people to regaid the negro as his infcridr, yet this does not alter the fact that has been attemptled in the past ,quarter.ofa century has diminished thoe.teasion between tke aces, from -which sprinffg these scenes, of bloodshed. pf the educated negro devo(ted' his errergiss and iontellgence to csseblisb friendly relatians, between tbhe- wlite and-cdlored neighbors, it isquite possible that satisfactory relations between the two races couldbh eesab lished. But the uore hesiss educated the-mo.e doesbhe sight for those pri villegeswhioch he whites cannot concede to.uim; ed be augments.-the irritationby constant appeals to the Northern- whites to compel -with bnstc force the Southern whites' to .viefl tditisdesiresEor potlticsl and for equalpriil ge. Apart from the race',preladiees ttisateither fome nor time have eradieatedetlho negro when upheld in offleeby l e.Irederal .pwer, has demonstrated to 44m grieveus injury ofsthe South, and to all fair minded nen,4rii incapacityto directqpublic affairs. if the egreiwas the ,equal-athdi white- man'in intelligence, he.would are this brie affected same compro' misewwith him by whie :the tensir betiwemtlaemraes would IQae ,, been removed,,else did he Iharve' the same preoud spirit of : the white man, he -wo ld not .be asking the geueral governmenttogive him the assistan e of its wwer to exercis control in these lecaitieswhere he it largely in the majorty. No better illustratio.ef the iafe nio;rity f the . negro 4e the white man nee-bepreeatedi thn the con fession efthatafact, wichbisi conve yed in his-clamor for 'Federal assii bosce to secure himin oi 4is right ." 'The negro has proved an expen sire luxury to this country. Hie liberation from slvery cost ,the white people halhaUs million livesaand billions of dollars. it is tao ,much toexpect them -to cut their tlroats anew to pat the negro politici.ns in Aice and to compel the Southern white -to recognice tihe negro as their .equal. Yeat, this is esactly what the aegre =editors, ,preaohers and politias, are ,slarmriog ifor. pe4(or the eegro there would have bee, no war, no sectional feeling' and the South would, ta-day, - the most populated end richest of the Uaioa. The problem is before the on and it cannot be netled by pi Southern breasts with bayone - isit be settlediby a broad-seat hip which roeGguisee stuhborn and conditiens. Until t is settled the bloody ,colisious every humane person must deplore may be expected to -oourtinue.-City Item. , The Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge puts forward the claim that a law for the Federal sepewvision of elec tions is inthe line of ballot reform. 3it would be natnuhb so as a plebis cite of the, Second .French empire was the ast of a Republican govern tnent. 3Mr.Lodge should not pres ume that the Womntry does aothoow a htuwk frTan Sa,. aw when the pwjaied is.ooe au .ly.-R rovideace Jearu l, .iud. It would 'be well to remind those of our recently acquired eitizens hailing from tax and mortgaged ridden Karsas, who are so :prone, to howl about:;oor school facilities and inadequate provision for their olp. port ht tthe limit, of pelfectiol.has been attained in Kansas, and it doesn't seem'to give general satis: faction;,tds is shown -by 'this ,.from the Clark County Clipper "Why should our schonl tax he s6 much greatrethan -all other tases combined'? .n ma"ny instances be inrg aimost .twico ..le amountt .-of other taxes, As an illustration, the northwest y unarer, section '3, town ship'2, runge 24, is taxed'for State, county, and township purposes $6.0O aid for sohool purposes.$l0.20, 1and this is not an isoiated case." Our friends of the Welsh Crescent and Jonaings Reporter can chuck this dowa, for future reference. Prance neJ has a "sleeping +gi1f.' She belongs' in the "departme*t of the' Oise, and"her dslumber is not that of orie in a peaceful trance, but is agitated like that of a person nn'ler the influence of a nightmare or the "blues." A di-patel says: "For, the pastninedays shedterhbeen plon ged into this -somnoleny, during bhieh she-sometimes beats -hormre'f on the henrat and breast -and utters anintelligible exclamations. ,Bul Ion is now amd than pounred -down her throat iwhen ,she opens her menth, and by this meoms she i. tkept alive. The "girl, who is 20 years'oldercid, a hrm servant, has had brief ts of druweaess bforel buot none df'othem lasteld so leng as 'hlie present one." tDr. J.-William Jotes' closed on yeeterday a acntract with B. F,. lTOhntonI & Co.. of this-City,'for thle putltication atl-n early day of the "Dayvis 'Memerial VXolume ' whih I will be publiihed wi.b the full ap proval of. Mrs. 4Jvis (who wilI 'receive a royalty.en every copy soldt7 end in'Vich witPbe gathereii .boice eelectioeuslrom ttoe editorials, rore. lotinns, -speeeltis,4s-, whlich "lhave made otM'.oxdttdsed's tribute t'ouri dead Chief. The book will 4elo contain a brief oetline of his litfe and charatter, together with retain, iscences, anecdotes, letters, some of] hisbest speeches. ,&c., Vic. It will be beautifully illustrated and gotten up inline style,-making a souvenir which all lovers of the name and fame-of the grtat Confederate will. 'be g'ad to 'lhve.--Richond 'Dis .patch, Dec. 22, 1889. The 'Russian infleirza epidemic has spread with marvelous rapildity over Europe. 'Sixty thousand eases and many deaths are reported in Madrid. It $1em.'to be invdtling America in a marnner to indicate a rapid spread. The high places are strutk'lirst, as if the upper currents of the atmosphere bore the-seeds .1 disease across the ocean. Some eases were reported in New 'Yorkl Boston and W-bTington,!). C. But now comes the news that the isecase lihas developed 'in the Rouky 'Moun tain sleps, and "hreefourths of the eitizens of eanver, Colorado, and many from Cheyenne are sumering t is -reported at Thibo y isseid to at least it is Ts cilans seem tth the Witieese efrst indir.tion tihehe throat of a he room-close; then trite p'and pomwinto it a quantity f tar and turpentine, equal parts. Then hold the cup over a =fire so a t' fill the room with. 'fumes. The little patient, on inihaling the 'fumes 'will couglh up and spit out all "the embranous matter, and the tliph theria wril pass 6ff. The fumes of tar add turpentine loosen the matter in the throat, and thus afford the relief That"has bdled the €kitI of Ohysicians.-Scientific Ameracaa. 'lMan, like the fire, is apt to 'tor weut woman by.goig'outast mi!ght. A-sailor writing to the Washing ton Post says she cause of the mild weather we have had thus far is that the course of the- Gulf-streair bas'ehanged. and that it n :w f. ,s nearer to the Atlantic Shore' ithat fosmerlf, bziunging -with it ;nore tetsperute weainher. 'lVhi is ;'-tmat terihat'muat be left exclusiiely 1 scientists to -settle; but it would seem that some unusual trhenomerimn ihas ocourved, -.by which the fixed routlue of nature has been disarrang ed, for thoughout the entire world do far as eanr be learned. there :thas practieally been ,. winter 'at all bthis season. El'liott 'F. Shophard, 'tihe crafly miHtionaire editor f the New York Mail and Express, has offered to 'subscribe $500 'toward a monumentt to the late Henry Orudy, provided he is-allowed to write the. inscrip tions. Mr. Slhephard isa a aatid whose hatred ot the South is only equaled by his lack of sense, .and thepeeple of Atlanta -will :honor themselves an.q teir lamented ,Gra' -dy's memory by -spurning Demago Slhepthard's ditty propensitio.--Sugar Planter. The new Governor of 't irgin.ua Philip W. MHdinney-was aaOver 1known to utter a profane wotnd,*e# er smoked, never chewed tobacco and never d6atik liquor' in Ihis life. Although these are heisou - offonses thich it is extremely di-liult to forgive, we wil-try to rest satiLied .wiii&he fact that'.he-is inu every othert'repects a gntletnman, a =good i Democratanld arman o'tunimpeaaha ble honor.--New ork Herald. "The trouble is that a boy who graduatea4rom oar public or .higl seboots or'eoHedges would feel it a disgrace toi~tomne a tiptop mrpen, ter or'cabiuet-mtker, and so-chooses to be 'tcouoter, zmper, sett~pins by thel penny's worth and tape ty the yard, e.r anad "scrape- to I-i, lady customers, and delude-.limself w'ith the idea that-he -is in -'ne!.. the1 gentlemaaly' callings."---er Yo. i HIerald. 'The contract *assigned at-1istrep, atu- o y by lythe cntt rutkai.oms pane; f the New' Orleay , Iatcjitz. and Forth tot ·l ail rsi '': t the Q0s, iortand tho people t ioiai trup `onw the other fo.-the constr6ee6 Hmti.laat roadrthrough -Bastrop to ,o Ike'kan emsrine.-- Jonree lEnlleti, One-third of the fools in 1ho4coen try think they can heata ,awyeriiu rzpoonding the law. trndIhamf think that they "ean beatt Hc doctor'Ilhraling the siok. TvwWir4..q thewmtthiuk he.y can put the minister in a hole ia.rr.esebirngi-he gospel; and ,11i-of them think they can beat the editor in running a newspaeper.-JHardwºicke Gazette. 'ToW.n fbmo cil PIweeelbsI . A-uFrviLts, .an.'6, 1890. The town ceuneil of thie town of Abbeville,omet this day at the coert house in eaid town, it -regular ies sion. ,Ji6re r re were eue:: X. Bouwn',mayor,..nd eesraL, Wige, Mills,' Gaet a* 4su iaetbs, aldermen. F'he minutes ot the ecoancU! of Oct. 1et, 1889, weoe read sand adopted; the minutes of the special meeting oC4Oct..15, 1890, were a plso adoted. The'quarterly report of the - ol lector and of the treasurer ,were eid over uuttil the.uneat neet . _ot the council. On motion ofrMr. Wise, reol:ed, that the mm of one hundred-dollars out of the sum which Waa tnresed by resa1tion of The *uncil. adorted Fed. 1aft,, 80,fromr the geuetral fund~to the street nd ga.brid ge . tnd, be and ietranlaered to the -gesesal fund 'from the -street ani- bridge fund, end the treasureris instrsctcd to make said transler from ihe rcteords of his office. r.On'meotieoa~f Mre. -Wise ol- ved that the mayor nd secretarybe and are intuotltedoto issee, liweeses I.r the towp of A'bhbevtlla,for the cur. reot year, atler lic uu. or inance now in farce, adopted on tn. 24, 1889,. nd as-eubseqently saended. O.n motion, the- Clmoutlp r. 'C.-.J. Ewkardefor $I10 agwuima, e town of gbbeyhlle,'for fees as an expert 'fo: c amining one Angel Federick, 'wa idisallowed. On motion of Mr'. Wise, Bsolved, 'tktt :4dbe 'o.15rr 2·1w4'~`$ )'e~.4 keep a cash book, ijtt efttt and keep account , l}tions by him made; prchaseaa book foru' *adds4preseat his bill for next Iteeting of this bd i'he claim of W. B, ' $3 50, for holding speet, anion election Nov. 27, allowed. On motion of Mr.' that tile Imayor appoint a, to draft an ordinancep sidewalks; said commit.te at the blext meetin. of Xtb SMessrs. Mills, Wise ,a were appointed on said The returns, as tabl pecial clction for railr aid &f 'the Kansas'C, and Gulf Railroad, heId.ie at Abbeville, on Nov27.. preseunted by the secretery read an ordered, ito bd -On motion rlof Mr. Wies lowinlg ordinance were AN OI'DINANCE le-j-ipgu 'Of live mills on the dube Upon the taxble property of Abbeville. for a termt iE Aid of the Kansas Citj. Oulf Railroad. Whereas, A petition ain than one third of the pro.ertyo of the townj of Abbevile,-La., - and - value of rperty, was. this council at T&leeting on •preayUg that a special elett aik town to take the sets!bf tyltax-payers thereof, upon of the Iasy pf a-special tat the dollar der annum upon property ofsaid towu for a .years. beginning in 4hb year' of the Kasmsas City, Jolia Railroad, subject to the tained in said petition And wherean at said council, an ordinance w inga special election twa town on Wednetsday, Iovem as prayeddsrr1and sal. oertte under the general the tatre of. Louisana, wetbher or not an e pasted by the town cos of to say such taurfor s psh p Andrwhereasc--saidd petitiea dinaee were piblisaed il. required by law for more t in the i.aitowto&,. newtps weekly iu said town, and the -alt thereof, in the ia t uoasmnbr, 1,5 And, whereas, oanW ember, Io, at l said- E majority of propert l town etntiled to Vote: u.imber amd talne-of for tre ordiaance to lev.y of the Kansas City, ,lo Ihijilroad. ;^t And,.wlereas, de notib w of said election was given b iikou ther natn roinfsawM for utiveolhan tea days id DLO4AL newspaper: ttrefte (asr. let) 'Be it 08alu ed byth e oii of the town of Abbpv''; jal tax of .1we ait e annum be and is levied pr ~orty of the town o for the tern of ten years, year 1891. for the use and .Kanseas C:ity, Louisiana iit 1n !. tuatdl·rc the,· the moany to be.paid over tors of said comnpany ftqsr s4"li la ve been !*uokjiu perathsa `ý: - River, in $he`$tuoteti ut point withia one mrile atise at the own of4 bevk , tha paid oti H ha road be so eomapletsd Ley th Januiry.' Tut. Be it further oeiiu tod tart' and en-othoio ·r of Abbetille. sh~~iu special taxf film a ao ginnig ia t IlK to becol " other tn Iaiei W. ·WuiuYafi The" brSW Beet is y.. " he es, 4n`rownshii" , of ItauF `]Est, i%:tis Acadi~ai*Io (lave tbectieritufthe- fib. leg*1 etraaisttir badb V the-sitf.o 6be 16th 1st ds in ami tow**ip, given aaý act`inr 8 pari1Mruat under autesi 26g56s .ed Revised StaV' dO eonislausa, wIU lands aC· a terra ntat yeeýýzta ihetbiw not 1eW! han forty a c is,'a@, TO~DAY, JA~t3R tthe fonrt House deoor SIa. nts on said 'd i Santun1y every tweve: .date ltlease, excepts s of czA in advause- on tfst eupetm of advertising contNcits, etc.. Security quired of lessees-for the ment of rents and ifor the the )ama freomili and-, wase and injury. In'faith wh5Y4e, ,he1 me offiiafly ltis a th da bet, -A. D., 1889. - H.W (ldays. 'Treasurer, J' ." Del. .A: :Jo jorai la plus lant prixl ue pesux, telles, ne l t dre' hois r, mne ours. cheer i.iketec.ia