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XXXU._ABBE VIIJI LO1JIStANA,: SAIRDAY, MAY ý3, 1890.N&4 TO-NIGHT [ TQ-NGHT I TUE =~WILL BE FOR BENEFIT OF THE_ '_h_1)F ABBEVILLEŽLý. jS ONE 01F THE GREANDESTI AFFAIRS EVRR BENI~JN f ABBRViI4LR ý. Orton! ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED SONG AND DANQE ARTflST, WILL APPEAR UNDER SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT!: Pr! Giidrfl THE KIRGOF THE AIR, WILL TJGKE OU THE TIFFJ IS COMf~OS~ Oý ULBIN O}WIH*E BEST. Fr~ EI S. 1N THE souTg. * *GRAND HNLL AFTER SHOW, DUK5IfIITS SilID IN Hilt1. Weekly Wewathbw4rVC º Buletla Naw QutLe is, - 26, 1890. The rainfall: for Noeh; Louiiania for the pail week *ruSE~d 2.47 inches, being ;an vesees of 1.02 lashes, from the non a1 for that periop. tT in sonth L o ahia _e._h average t 4329 inches, , hF' was 8,01 above the wekly >#- for that eeetiOgk ' generally throughout, the at~t ue The. temperature daring thte week was below the normal in North Loalsien& and about the normal' in the southern portion of the state.,. Considerable daniafreto~tbe cotton san>1 vice crops in lowlands has re 'suled from, the-he~y rains of they week; malny flelda" tiaie been floodedd and~ the cotton. is wiaming grassy, the ground being too. wet; for Sold, work. Reports from Ibarville, St.. , lxi, Assumption and neighboring, pariah~ ea state~ that farm :work b~as to a great extent beena*bandoned;: the planters now d~0tion all ..their atninand energe to 't ' Nita and logu cta waitOB.. The~ high water.is fast. enemch iog on the flue .lilnds on the aaddo of the~ I'ece,$ pdtie lute t;.ere are under` gret appreb alss for their clops. The crops. wý; nsot feked by back water trom erslr aUna1. gsan ticuluirly soi t41 .Red RU4azer rail' Iey. AU `crop on thet pans lia. po only emsca , injgyr :qf baclt wat~er u;_ave$ beenA beaifted- by. theai w not proves to avy for; ;l i dto sba eb n° favwre for. aopanej corn.antd Y ve iIa l.. In T ; pg a. pris the .rainy .days iiae. f e, ,ih er pikinug, but it is thougj that the hoary~ rainfall there will -cheek the ravage of dhe. crickets., and bugs Whichi hareo lately itiectad tith crop, The obsereret at;Attite' repo~ts -a rsinfeluf 6»57 {inches d.1 rhours 23rd, arnd at Uun aginud the fall trou-9f»l&a.ý - of -2di : Ro.41 a.. rn. ,of :23rd amo~uinted to 9.05 inches. 'Weekly Iinallaa. 'Shreveport l0'(2, Monroe 2.04, 'V'iosbprg 4.60, f~ibefty Hil1 `2.20, Oeubia 2. 0, Grand ' Cano .0 Chnyivile8 6.5. Alexandria 0.94 Dlhj t.05 Clinton 5.73,° !latmoiid ae6, ~d Cotean `5.36 Atu11 te 64'.55n7-ll~2, 9 1 , andille 2s70i Abbeville 4.50, New' Orleanzs 0.45,. 'Sugr Earijwent Station 0.56. .Yeauerette .0 Bon~ a0.73, . and 'Port leads 1.00 inch.,.' Signal O:rp Director. .'hT¶ Baton ltoug A pcto sas it is announcsed fromn the ¶r suieer's office that tile outstan4ing warrants issued against; the getir . (nod; of 188$7J inder. the. regela spora. ticm ~act of X887. 1it1 be pid. on3 presentation. Titb is the $i' time since the adoption -4 the, C Catitu tion of I $7 ut; ht ~ evenues of the State any year have .boes muffic ient to tapt the aran issueod sgainst it. The appropriations by 'the genesal assembly i,13 " in. the general appropriat%@a. bill esr 25 per cent loss than in previous.years. and that. the. 1 sltare decided wisely is evidene in the :feet that the State 14, for the ret -time- since. the adoption of the :Coetitutiesn of, 1879. able to :pay :o$ the iudebt" editess n@ one year. The gesemal. assembly of 18.,8 was ecpsallyc as economical, if not more-so. and tite State's credit <is the by grea~y strengthened.---4 thern lhdastry. A man mbigtas well a~ttempt to quench the plshaupxreapent ewsnaa Lions from the .tart end of~ a.lgai bog Riiah.squirt gun. tasto try , rjt Ra aew.esapr wei t tvote.. Wiuks a Huma? W W. Stanton, mate of the schooner Addie Shaelter, now lying at the mark~et hduse dock, while fishing for bass 300 miles off St. Augustine yesterday, drew in his tine and found entangled therein the strangest fish, if it is a fish, that *haa over been seen in this section. This strange ereatare, or mermaid, is about siz feet long~ pure white and scalel~ess. Tbe. head maul face are oettlined and) :eerqr muoh rqsesslte those. et a woma#, aand the 'breasts ate well defudo and. show- onsrd-' Arable developuigot while the, lsipe and "abdomen continue the ~hwiin. .resemblance. In a11 there ar-e four 'mppers, two. of which. are placed at the lower termination of the body, asigives the impr~ession that nature made et effort to supply the strange creaturee with. lower lima.. Mr. Stangtosoofeumto q pite a fright on first eight of his qpeer. prize, which, when drawn on boayd,,. gave btterasou t* a maosainge eta whzich maighatearly . be, ýmiatakee for , he wbing of va babhy.. . The. echo wer has beenthronged' all : s by.u r elea visitors, who rua ~ wcader : e4 amtuenu's ~t: the etmsge.o~bj `sMs.!.8tauteu s~er vyeing: a i apport, .4ll e~4 iug hi~ace catcaih, rwil '.donate it to the-Swlthsmeias.al ttuu.: ; `A *es eolt.tTb~m p*. 1. Just West of Qalion,; in a hut rbeilt ofý railway °ties,~ between, theý .truhck* of1 the' Brwe sad ,rbi Fonr toads, live 'a qaeer old easple, who ha~e astractedlrcoselderable _tten. t ion &i' the pat uix~ years.. ¶Wey hs : occupied the ishnkmt .seh 'be fog aIiving going asfi far seat as Kington,: . Y:;, and as ar west as Mh'emurr~ Both arvw' appaeuetly about 74 yearsa old, and° the man is * strong, healthy tookiag tallow. 'errude winter- hoe is fur nis *oondig totheir ideas of eomnfos and witbeeat pnneh enpon. ditare of oapltal. The flor is the 'earth and their beds ate lounges made of' sod.' The intro lof' their domicile reminds nen o!- the setories of the ctifp dwellers, and' the two ýoldxiani~s ;in' a~pparance; b eelong. to sunearlier awe. when men were :bat ibaes. Who they are .and where they cam: from 'originally and 'what led them to adopt this estrange life are mysteries they will Met rec.aI, The people in~ that l~oailty only know that once in two yearn they have made their appear. '#ne, remain aeIl ".piing~ when tle~y again shart mn. their weary `vanderings; which, .from their ate, smuet soon ea-o.Pittsbnrg Disp~tch. Mr. Jam~es Dillon, quaint in char. ;aitr, ieierical in appearance and very reminiscent, tldl me an inter. ting ;story fega dingy ex President : Ceveiand 'yesteedhy: "In :'56," said, be, "f kept .; sort, of country stare,aselling °everything,. no Ninth avence, "between- "Thirty Fl1th and Thirty~slzth streets. Mr. Cleveland ' was then a tutor in they blind asylum on Thity nr~tb street, -between BIghth and Ninth aeenues. Be wee in the habit out of pur'e kiudnem of heart; ?then thought sad' now think) ;of.bringing: hispupl~s to my plaes, leading themn there, T should say. Oi'oeber, Stanley and uoper seemed to be his favorites. 'When he wa4 elected~' i'retuidentr I stopped' M'r. Mahopoy, a blind tan, who was aeud h a e yet_ the orpnist of the alurn, as leI as of some swell ;church and" told. himt $o the fact,, ~te~liiW him, .of mayrse. my name. Well, wehll' paid' the ef~ictoed muia " teve Cfevrlauud is President, Is be? FWell, all the boys at 'the 'asylaum who knew trim will.be glad to heur that. for .there nev~er. was a more k~indly `~m~an thuem."---New. York S~tet Dew.. The kitchen of Mr. Chas Degrp., was destroyed by fire in St. Mar tinville on the 19~th inst. It said that a hotel to cost o million and a half will be erected in New Orteane unnthe site .of the old Maconio Temple recently cold ~at auction. Thibodani Se ntinek: The sound of the jingling bells, bells, bolse, the I t" eerthing, wilt be e lactumeeting of ci' s "n er ~to the public mcoot' buildie. a :committee was selecetd to draw charter eln incorporate the :public school buldding associatien, but theme afar we do not believe saythlnhaco been done in that regard:4 ha ,are you. doing gentlemen? :Show, b i littte mtqre business activity and, not `let' thliip~run looýeýy. ;dmte '. City' I Epedent: The.. eof thý %vorflbwe4. Mr, X r~w. wh b°hs e cabbages 1&rml dbwi ther, lea h . . losee pin aaeenee, ha abssg b water, worth lard . ,~ Th fariner areund ,Spr 'g are :atso bºing 'troubhe, ` to^ the kigbks.4d. IB.L & api4a&l Itemi:: xd eveni~ng that .Mrr8 &-'. LU11, : .,.. ýfbae4 bed.~ .oci4,NsaIb 4rmw at f~ort une. It a enr* t n g uI toy some wiua#s unknown ., $re4. 9;o ,. Three of the par~ clunu tý tb p trued' kiffand r. tl7 attempted to hwim the ssho~re.~ Ih t a weIn pool.ý ._ 1itelh Cresdent; Ws~t*e º' ev'erywbmre. b The t **0 *.. :out last week~ lket.Is i.wssspsl ,of eariy getahlb Tb,'I. sr. decide~in favor of mspoe voting. jProfs, lMcNeese, loýi7J HaptI ton did good "wcrk at I st tab.. *krmere are busy sowiuag rla as putting in their other ;crops esi ness i rather deli a# ow: psatsl are eoiing to. town. Th~qtery Sdrawing lst wee dspoitd several inrestors at Wei:~ A large quantity of barb~ed wig is. sold at W Isb A gretdaldu of. fencing. is being dons this Sprint.. ý.$r L:. S. Eait: will -per in s jt 20O acres in rice. a hab already in over half of it. Thus's <were. 'shipprd'from Welsh last year i9 ea eds ofrice. ¶Thes ears etn taul.M on an versue 25000 lbs.. ito. the car waking .298 ear loads of 2,&)Q lbs., each., This is the lar gest quantity 'shipped `from any point on the road. `Crpwisyceess next wit oas'c1esba oEr3 W0, pound. easib. Thetiaipaod deal of rise yet . usold whc wa ill be sold for seediirise. o s shfpped. If the crop the soitnsn seaon meetst. expsttlons-tterse will bever .150,. (100 barrels. of rioe. shipped; frfszi, here. The Morgan City Freer Priers, ,n paper' of Republican proclivitiIes,. has prepared shill fib, the qc.d' eration of, the anet, Leishtiwe :preseribing certaain. nuat esa .pali.8caticena for suffrage. "The Southern Watobinng indrses the idea, but suggests-tom addition of a property qnalificaticua,,. atnd says. that any. uun without. propurty 'pis. dangerous elemaent irs polities. when. allowed to cuas.a~vote whihsk wilt:duee 'y that ofý an i, 'ut. tsar: payer arid have *rsam~e weight." T ito ea the South is the gr {' p ire that finds many, bi a 1W8Iugora.-TiU V