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Official Journal of the Parish of Vermilion. VOL XXXIV. ABBEVILLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1891. - NO1 19. TOE MERII)IONAL. PRICE OF SUBSCRIPTION: Two Dollars a Year IN ADVANCE. ADVERTISING RATES: SPACE. 1 mo. 2 mos'3 mos 6 mos 12 mo oneinch ..$300$500$?7 0$900'$1200 Twoinches 5.50 800 10001 16 0( 22000 oreeins.. 750 10 001 180 3 00 30 00 Foarins..] 1000 15 1 00 2 200 4)0 00 Fife in.... 12 00 18 00 25 00 35 00 50 00 gali colam 9 00 40 00 50 065 00 80 00 o)nacol'mn 40 00 60 00 75 00)1100 00 150 00 Local noticea, per line...... .....$0 10 one insertion, per inch or less........ 1 00 Each subsequent insertion........... 75 Death and marriage notices, not exceed Sfive lines, are published free. Obitu es are charged at one-half rate of read A n of lob Printing neatly exe mnted at THE UERIDIOffAL office. Strang eia must send money With their orders to avoid delay. Cards of a personal character will be sharged double rates. LASTIE BROUSSARD, Attorney at Law -AND Notary Public. Offiee at Abbeville, La.-Aug.15, 91. L. L. ESRSS ATTORNEY AT LAW. ABBEVILLE, LauIsIANA. Will practice in the United Staten 4ourW and also the different District Qourts of the State. vJ. A. W91T3, Attorney at - Law, Abbeville, Louisiana O!FICg-NEAR COURT ITOUER, Au ust 8, 1894. W. W. EDWARDS, Abbeville, La. Will attpn'l to all bulinTce in the I Tie of b, profession in Vermilion or the adjoin lag parishes. W. B. WHITE. Attorney at Law, -AN D NOTARY PUBLIC. ABBEVILLE - - - LA. Tula.e UJaiversity ofoLalilawa* Tnlane University embraces college h school. H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College for Young Women, law and usedi eai departments. The college has four parallel courses* Classical, Literary, Set eatille and Engineering. There is also a special course of Electrical Engineering. *ext annual session of the academical de partments including the 11. Sophie New comb Col.ege, begins October 1. Law department opens November 16. Medical 4partment, October 19. 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FOSTER & CO., O'.LLAS TEXAS. W. W. EDWARDr), Abbeville, Louisiana. Real Estate Agent. Buys and sells land and pays taxes for non-residents. Now is the time to buy the fertilelands of the Attakapas country cheap. The railroads are coming and It will soon be too late. The following bo4ies of fine lands are offered-f .r sale very cheap : 1. 130 acres in Vcrmilion parish about 10 miles southwest of Abbeville. All in a body and partly timber and partly sea marsh pmirie. A fine winter range cattle, very low for cash. 2. So arpents near Abbeville. All under a good fence and with good cabin, well, et(. A choice' farm. 3. 500 ar ents on Bayou Vermilion, about 12 miles below Abbeville. Fine bayou land, part timber and part prairie. Cheap for cash: 4. 133 arpents of choice prairie land in Mouton's cove. ( 5. 40 acres of fine tsinber land in the rear of T. S. Winstou's plantation. AUGUSTE IUJCASSE. FANCY CAKES AND FRESH' BREAD ALWAYS ON HAND. Orders For Wedding Cakes Premptlg Attended To O' Fresh Bread Delivered At IfHme. Abbeville, May 2, 1892. F, F. FERAY. E. M. FERA.Y. Contractors & Builders. ABBEVILLE, LA. All kinds of carpenter work erected in a most workman like manner and at rea sonable rates. Contraet work a specialty. June 13, 1891. 0 For Male. SPLENDID opening for right man. For I3 sale the official journal of Lincoln parish and of the Fanrners' Union. In a very prosperous condition. Good reasons for wishing to sell. Address. Progressive Age. I nston. La. June 13.-tf. NOTICE. 1MIachinery for Sale. One steel Boiler 42 inches by 18 feet lose, 4 flues. One Eneine, one set of Rollers. Pump, one Grist mill. Fire front, etack, and all connec ions. All fully guaranteed. SOLOMON WISE. Abbeville La., June 6, 1891. PROMULGATION OF THE Proposed Amendment to the Cpnstitution of the State of Louisiana. ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEM BLY OF 1880 STATE OF LOUISIANA. Office of the Secretary of State. In pursuaare of tfe ptovisiuna of the O ostitunion. publication is here by made atd-givet. to the qual Iied electors of rhe Stare of Louisiana of th- proposed atend ni -i to the Constitution of tois State, hieh ha- been concurred in by two-thirds 'i all he membes elected to enci House o the Gun al A-sembly of this State, at t e r gular session th"reof. b-ld at the C ty of Baton Rouge, in the year 1890, and which is reqwred t tepnb1tshed for the informa in of the qu l find electors of this State for three tuntho preceding the g..neral el estioa mtr teoreseunatives and which pro po-ed arnendm-nt more fully aopears in Act NA. 153, of the Regular Session of 1890, wnich is hereafter officially published for the information of the qualified electors of this State, and which will be submitted to them far heir approval or rejecrion at the next general election. which will be held on £'eus .y, tbs l9th day of April, 18921 (it bring. the Tuesday next following the third Mend uy of this month) in such manner and lorm that the qualified electors may vote tor or agalost said amendment, and it a ma jor! y or the qualified electors voting at sad elec ion, snail approve and ra'ify -a d propo ed amendment, then such proposed amendment, so approved and ratified, shall become a part of the Couetitution of this State. ¶O. 153. AN ACT Providing for the submission to the electors of the state, for adoption or re jection, ant amendment to the constitus tion of the state by inserting therein, "An article on levees, schools, charities, pensions,-drainage, lotteries and general fund." Section 1. B it enacted by the General Assemnbly of toe state of Lonisiana, tnat the following amendment to toe constitution of the state be submitted to the electors for ap proval or rejecoon. a-' ptovided In article two hundred and tifty-six of the constitution, nod it adopted the said amendment shall read as foliows: Article on levees, schools, ch rvije, peas'ona. drainage, lotteri-esand general find. In aid of the levees, schools. chariti. s, pensions, drainage and general fund hereinafter named, the following con tract is now itade: In consideration of the sn-n of thirty-one mitlious, two hundred and fify thou-and doltlar, to be fully secured and paid as hereinafter provided, Jobn A Morris, his heirs. agents and asigos, are hereby authoras-d and empowered for the term of twenty-ivde ye-ri eusuing the first day of Januiry,1892, to prepar sctremes of lotteries, to sell lottery tickets and-to draw and conduct hitter es in this state. Said sum chall be pa d to tbc treasurer (it the state by the person- coiducting the hasites- pursu ant to this contract in one hundred equil in stallmeouts, whereof each tntmliment -hell be paid on or before thle tie-t days of January, April, uely and O-thber in each and every year toting said term; and tie treas-urer upon the receipt of each of said installments shall apply the same as follows: To the public schools of the stite: Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars annually. payable quarterly in advance, as above pro vided, which sum shall be distriouted to each parish in the proportion prescribed by article two hundred and twenty-four of the constitution. To levees: Three hundred and fifty thou sand dollars annually, payable quarterly in advance, as above provided, wut'h sum shall be distributed among the levee dis tricts of the state or applied to levee par po-es in the proportions and in the m ,n er provided by law for the distribution ant a, plication of the one-mill tax levied unutlr article 213 of the constitution To chat ities: One huonred end fifty thou sand dollars annually, payable quarterly in advance, as above provided, of which sum eighty thousand dollars shall be applied to the hospitals established by the state, forty thousanil dollars to state insane asylume, twenty-five thousand dollars to state osetitu dions tor the deaf, dumb and blind, and five thousand dollars to the Soldier,' HI')me. To pensions'-Fifty thousand dollars annu ally, payabfd quarterly in advance, as above provided, to the peosionilne of disabled, in firm or indigent confederate soldiers, citi zens re-ident in Lhntsiana. To the city of New Orleans. for drainage and other sanitary purposes: One hundred thousand dotlsrr annually. payante quarfer.y in advauc, -as above provided, the expendi ture of said sum, and the munagemeot -nd control of the same to be determined by the General Assembly, which is hereby directed to carry into effect this provision by appro priate legislation. Ta the general fund: Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars anniatly, payabie quarterly in advance, as ablve provided. The several sums of money above spent fled shall be devoted to the objects and purr poses heretnbefore stated, and the General Assembly is hereby directed to carry into effect this provision by appropriate legtsla 10on. Said John A. Morris, his heirs or agents shall witniin twenty tays Iron the date of the adoption of this article file in the office of the Secretary of Stave a written acceptabce by him or them of this contract. And for the protection of the state and the security of the public this contract is made upon the express condition that said John A. Morris. his heirs or agents shall within thirty days from the date of the adoptiob of this article fie in the office of the Secretary of State a declaration in writing, signed by him or them and six other persons, sianifying their con sent to form the corporation hereinafter named, and the said Joun A. Morris ihail file therewith his bond with good and solvent sureties, residents of this state, in the sum of Eve million dollars, said bond to be in fa vor of and accepted by the Auditor of the state. Toe condition of said bond shall be that the add Morris, his agents or assigns. shall pay to the state of Louisiana the said sum of thirty-one million two hundred and fitty thousand dollars at the date and in the tuitner herein set out, and shall faithfully perform all the obligations herein containet. and thereupon the persons signing the said deciaration ohsll be thereby consuitu$ed a corporation ander the name and title of I.Tue Loutisiana ftttevy Company," whereot the capital stock'sh i be five million dollars, represented by fi'y thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, at least twenty per cent. thereof to be forthwith fully paid up, and which corporation shall be and continue luring the period of this contract, apd shall have all the rights and powers posse~sed by corporations g serally as defined by the present eivil code of tee s'at", and shall be liable for the moneys herein directed to be paid to the Treasurer of 'the state, and for all prizes to be drawn in said lotteries, and shall ne efititled to receive semi-annually tuti the reons conducting the busines under this outract fifty per cent. of the net profits of It said business. And in clnsideration of the payment of said sum of-etbirty-one milli in two hundred and fifty thousand dollitrs in inatt lments as utoreaaid. said corporation'and the shese of stock therein, and the business authorized by this contract, and the revenues and re oeipts thereof, shall beezempt from all taxes, flues, assessments. impositious and Iteneas of any kind whatever, whether state, parish, municipal or otherwise. The powers of said corporation shall be vested in aboard of directors, to consist of seven persons, who may make and establish rules and by-laws for the proper manage ment and regulation of its affairs. The per sons signing said declaration shall consti tute the first board of directors, and shall serve for toe term of one year from the tim of the filing of sa d declara-imn and until their sacees ors are duly appointed. All lotteries other than those authoriz-"i by this article are pronibited in this state. unless by simil ir amendment to tha can ti. tution and fir not lest than one mrilion two hundred and fitty thousand dollars per an num. Al provisions of the consti ution and laws of this state inconsist-nt or in any way conflicting with this article are reclared t. be superseded hereby. I Section II -If, it farther enacted. that it shall be the du y of the Stcretary of State to publish the foregoing proposed amend ment in accordance with the provisions of article two hundred and fifty-six of the o-n. stitution within ninety days after the first day of . anunary in the year eighteen hundred and nine-ty-one. S-etion. Ifl -B- it further enacted, That. at the next general election all Flectors who desire to vote, for said amendment shill wilre or print upon their ball ts the words. "For the Leve'-s. Soho Is, Charities, Pen stone. Drainage. Lotteries and General ,Fund amendment," and all elec ore who. de-ire to voee at said e eotiou against sit atuenwimnt sha!l writ" or pr-ut upon their ballots the words. "Againus the Levees Schoiae.Chiri i-", Pensiias,D:ainaga, Lot teries and Ge oral Fund anjudmeut." See-ion. IV. Be it further enacted;'that all efficee c aiged with -elections or the condic of the returns thereof under the genert I eiection laws, shall at the ti ne they give untice of the said general elec tion also give notice of the election herein ordered for thdtadoption or r, j-cti n of the proposed amendment, and shall withonu other dir-ctitn or authority than is herein contained make due returns otsaid election in conformity with the general election laws in so far as they are not inconsistent with o in conflict with Itis art [Signed] S. P. HENRY. Speaker of-the House of Representatives. Signedj JAMES JEFFRIES. iett Governor and President of the Senate. (- Witness my signature and the seal 1 L.S. of the State of Louisiana at the )- city of Baton Rouge, this '*th day of August, 1891. L. F. MASON, Secretary of State. A dispatch from Clinton, Mo, g v"= an account of an interesting and valuable historic relic. Aboi.t eighteen months ago a netiro, while plowing a field near Ash Grove, Mo., found a silver medal located near a spring of cold water. It is about two inches in diameter, and bears date of more than three and a half cen turies ago. It is a relic of the great Spanish explore' DeSoto, and in all possibility was worn by him dnring his campaign with Cortez and Pi zarro between the years 1531 and 1545. These dates arte stamped up. on the medal On one side is a rep resentation of the Ssviour'swcrucifix ion, and on the other the Last Suni per. It is now owned by Prof G. W. Turner, of Ash Grove. who will exhibit it at the World's Fair. Dispatches state that the Pres ident hopes to be able to announce to Congress in his annual mes age that reciprocity arrangements have been made- with eight countries Brazil, Spain. Venezuela, Peru, Columbia, Gantemala, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. 1MIqrmon In Slexzico. For a long time it has been report' ed that the Mormon Riders were soe eretly working to found a colony in Mexico and build up there the Lion of polygamy that was beicg under mined in Utah by the force of public sentiment and the power of United States law. Whatever object they had in keeping their proposed exo dis secret, they could not be induce ed to admit that any of their numbet* were leaving Utah. Yet now it is an open matter that they have established hundreds of families and thousands of people in the States of Sonora and Chil.uabna, in fertile valleys where concessions have been made to thiemoby the Mex ican Government, and that they exr pect to build up anew in this region the practices for which they were condemned at Salt Lake. They are a thrifty and industrious people, but they cling to polygamy with the te nacity of bigotry, and their exodueg as a people to Mexico would not be any svrious loss to the United States. On the contrary, it would be a bless ing in'removin^ all fear of the revi val here of.the secret practice of theim polygamous ideas. Fish stories being a little dul1g. just now, Bro. Morgan of the Carroll Democrat comes out witl-abig talei He states thata sow in that parish re(ently brought forth a litter of [pigs, ten in number, nine of them be ing black spotted, mostly black, re gular natural little rooters, but the, tenth was a regular nondescript. a monstrosity. On the right side of its' head was a regular flopping over bogs ear, but on the left side it had a well defined hauan ear, with thi. curves inside, standing right up like^ the ear on a child's head lts front, teeth were straight up' and down like a human being, and not standing' forward as in the natural pig; it had no tusks whatever. The body wait white, and with thehind part of hog form, but the breast was flaetand in stead of fore legs it had two human arms and hands or paws; instead of. the cloven hoof, four well defined fin gers with a thumb on each paw; the elbow joints were well defined. It wat somewhat smaller than the rest of the litter. A gentleman agreed to cive the negro owner $20 for the curiosity, and be in his eagerness W'1 secure the money, fearing the thing would be injured, took it away from the sow, and when the gentleman called for it it was dead. This Insua naturae was seen by quite a number of persons, who all declared it the, greatest curiosity they ever looked' at. Mrs. Peter Williams of Honey Bayou was arrested Sunday, and ta ken to Franklin charged with hav ing made away with an orphan girl who has been living with her. A ýear~h was mnside for the missing girl by Deputy Sh-riff Grevenburg arnd others, but to no purpose and he at once left for the County seat having. Mrs. Williams in charge. But nezt Monday morning Mr. Jules Her hart of the Bayou; came to townr bringing with' him the mis ing girl.. whor according to what Mr. Hebert said. was discovered lying under a store house where she had been cona ceded since Friday. M ra. Williamg was at once released and retorued home.-Morgan City Review. The most inhuman butchery on, record was committed at Fort Worth. Tex., on.July 14th. To'I villains having learned that a farmer named George Newberry had a conr siderable sum of money secreted i'' his house, took advantage6of his ahb sence to go to the house strd demand the money. The farner'sr ged moth er and his three children were arous ed from their beds and asked to de liver the motey. This they could ne' do, not knowi7'z where it, was hi. and, the fiendish robbers dragge them one by one into the yard an; with a butcher knife cut th. I throats from ear to ear. They th' fled and have not vet been ca.-ht