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PITBLISIIED EVERY SATURI)AY. W. P. EDWARDS .................. Editor, ". H. LABIT, ...................... Publisher. SATURDAY, JUNE 3. 1893 We haveo received the World Fair edition of the Monroe Evening Times. It is handsomely illustrateC with excellent picturce of the leading business men and hnildings of the thriving metropolis of No:ti. Louisi sna. Messrs Cheney and Nixon deserve great credit for their enter prise in getting out such a paper. Messrs. Freeland Bros, on Wed eceday shipped two car leads of leaned rice to Denver, Colorado, the output of the Pickett mill. The rhipment of rice to Denver from this point is in the nature of an ex perilment and it is to be hoped that the returns will prove fully satis factory to the shippers.-Crowley Signal. Daring the past year there has been no drunkenness, no disturban ces, no fires and no crime in Brat tleboro, Vt. Those who suffer from insomnia should go to Brattleboro because it is evident that the town to se dull and quiet that a person can not help going to sleep. Brattle boro is known' as a complete town and such a town is about as near 'dead as a thing can be. A meeting of the Sugar and Rice Protective Union is called at New Iberia, Jque 7, 1893. The meeting will be called to order at 4 p. m. It is placed at this late hour to accom modate planters arriving by day trains. There will be an afternoon and evening session. All sugar and rice planters are requested to attend, as matters of great interest will come before the meeting.-Crowley Signal. -' ...o - We are of the opinion that a rail road excursion to Abbeville would pay. We have heard a large number of our people express a desire to pay a visit to that town, now that it is in easy access. Let us organize excursion to Abbeville -St. Martin Messenger That's right. Come right along and you will find our town ready to recive you. An excursion from St. Martinsville to this place wobld have more than the ordinary plea. aure of such na outing because of the many acquaintances the excursionists would find here. Get up an excur sion to Abbeville by all means. Mr. Higgins and other repre sentatives of the National Rice Mill ing Company, of New Orleons, were in our City on Tuesday for the pna pose of selecting a location tor the new warehouses and elevator which the company proposes to erect here. The site chosen was immediately west of Messrs. January & HIoelzcl's warehouse, and we understand that work on the new structures will be commenced within a few days. The size of the buildings was not stated by the representatives who were here, but we understand they are to cost fully $10lf.00,--Urnwley Signal. The Deuk.t of-a Wortb CiSeR. Wc'arxe pained to. chronicle the death of Dr. H. O. Dead. who died suddenly at his home at Chataigner,. St. Landry parish on the 24th ult. Dr. Read was born in. St. Landry parish where he was reared and re ceived his educatioti, While quite young he took up the study of mel icine, and in 1849 gradnaatcd wits fi t hoacrs at the umedical Depart went of the University of Louisiana. He then located in the town of Lafayette and remained them.e sever al years, thence moving to Abbeville where his success as a pbysician was eminently successful. When the yellhw fever broke out here in 1867 and all the other phy sicians left town. Dr. Read remain ed and battled with the malignant disease faithfully and successfully, rendering incalculablc services, botb as nurse cud physician to the suffers. He himselt was take down and came near loosing his life in the dis charge of his duty, Shortly after his locating in Abbeville he wedded Miss Eugenic Guegnon a most esti mable and intelligent lady well knowa Lere. Four sons of their marriage survive, three of whom are physicians, and the youngest, Steven, is now tax collector of St. Landry parish. Dr. Read enjoyed a large and lucrative practice while located in this parish until the seventies, when owing to his health moved to Grand Chleniere. A few years past, his health being better, he located at Chataigner assuming active practice up to the time of his death He was a frequent contribater to the different medical journals and several papers -The MERIDIONAL extends sympa thies to the bereaved family in this hour of distress. The Dice M en Happy. The rice men are happier to-day. The Southern Pacific has acceded to their petition for a reduction in rates on rice. The full request was for reduced rates to all Pacific coast points. This was not granted in toto but as the cut has been made to San Francisco, the grant made by the railroad people to the shippers at this point is a very desirable one. This morning, Traffic Manager J. G. Schriever, of the Southern Pa cific road, informed Chairman S. A. Traufant of his having received a* telegram from the higher officials stating that they would make the; reduction to San Francisco. , The reduced rates will go intb ef feet on June 2. This course cannot prove otherwise than extremely ben eficial to our rice market. San Francisco will, of course, become the distributing point, but the demand that will be opened up therefrom will be unlimited. It is natural to suppose that those who are now receiving rice from New Orleans may reject the rice now in transit, in order to take advan tage of the lower rates that are about to go into' effect. Sueh rejections, however, will not amount to very much, as, according to the statement of a prominent rice man on 'Change this forenoon it will not affect any more than about ten carloader -City Item. AThe Manly Art. In speaking of "a grand glove contest" which took place in Opelous sas on the 23 ult between two buck negroes the Courrier says; "On ac count of limited space we refrain from giving names of those who took such an active part in this noted contest, but may do so in our next issue" If the space of the Courrier is at all valuable the world should never know "the names of those who took. such an active part in that noted contest." Prize fights are not elevating when fougbh and conducted by, ipen who have spent their lives in lehIning to clip such contests of brutality. They are degrading, indeed, when. indulged in by raw and unscientific roughs: but when white men take active part in the making and man. aging of a brutal fight between burly negros the lowest of their low class, the act floats as a swolen bub ble in the slongh of indecency. AatrnJ~'las Rabbit Ilague.. In 1862 an English resident of Tictoria imported several pairs of common rabbits from his own countrCy and set td work breeding them in the interests of Australian sports mansltip. His friends and acquauin tance applauded his public spirit, and the people of the colony regard ed him as a public benefactor. As his stock of the rabbits increased, fre quent requests for a pair or two came-to him from all parts of the country. In a short time several dozens of Australian sportsmen were enlisted in the good cause of replenishing in this manner Aus tralia's failling supply of game. They met with such pre-eminent success that within twelve years rabbits had become sc numerous as to be universally rcearded as a pub lie noisance. The custom grew up among the farmers and sheep own ers of organizing rabbit drives, and a common result was the killing of from 5,000 to 10,000 of the pestifer ous animals in a single day. Thc rabbits, nevertheless, went on in creasing at a prodigiocus rate. So destructive to pasturage and vegetation generally had they ba cooke in 1880. and so universal was tli ,complaint against, them that the Australian Goverment passed " an act to provide for the suppres sion of rabbits," appointing bailiffs whose duty it was to destroy them on crown lands, and to see that all walls, brush piles and whatever of like nature might afford them har borage were removed. They were also empowered to do likewise with all other lands at the cost of the oc cupants, provided the occupants failed to do so. The killing of cer tain carnivorous wild animals hither. to considered unquestioned evils, was likewise made illegal on the ground that they assisted in the ex termination of the pest. But the measures proved utterly futile. A large unoccupied tract of country supposed to be their main breeding ground was fenced off in 1888 by a woven wire fence 3j feet high. The bottom of this fence was buried to a depth of six inches so as to pre vent burrowing under it. To stop jumping out a barbed wire was stretched six imche s above the top of the fence. It required 197 miles of this fencing, and two year later it was extended 150 miles further to cut off ingress from another direc tion. That this expedient brought little relief appears in the fact that in 1887 the government of New South Wales offered a reward of 2 5, 000 to any person who would divise or suggest a method or ex pedient for ridding the country of rabbits. A commission of twelve from the several Australian colonies was appointed to pass upon the 1, 400 plans subrimitted and rejected every one of them. Mr. Austin's weakness for English rabbit hunting has cost Australia enormously in public money expend ed in fight the pest, not to speak of the enormous losses suffered by in dividnals frtm its devastation. An oficial report on the snbject piaces the amount of public money thus ex pended by Victoria. New South Wales and South Australia down to December, 1890, at nearly £4,000, 000, or $20,000,000. Private ex pendeditures in the same direction must also have been considerable. One gentleman so used £8,000 • on his own plantation within six months in destroying 350,000 rabbits. It a fair assumption that the residents ot Australia, including Mr* Austin, if he is yet alive to witness the out come of his game breeding enterprise regret that they did not content themselves with hunting kangaroos. Ned Answ-ers. Pat. Mr. Editor-This is no season for a political discuosion, nor did I in tend such when 1 made mention of the viait and speech of Mr. Galvin of Calcusieu at this place in your paper several weeks ago-And were it not that be said "meet a state ment of facts" with "personal abuse and innu endo." I would consider the matter as the mother advised her little son when he complaiuea of be ing kicked by the Jack-"Consider the source."' He claims that he did not come under the disguise of the Farmer's Union. That can be as he chooses. It was published here that there would be a, Farmers Union meeting and an address by Mr. Galvin. And I am confident that the vicinity generally understood it that way. A prominent Alliance man and a Third partyite, claims that Mr. Gal via injured the Union cause at this place, and since the Union passed into oblivion in a toew weeks after he left, we have reason to believe that he did the cause no good. His article clearly fails to show where he was misreprcsented. But such schemer as Mr. Pat's "Cleve land Bond effort" and "The recor ded vote of our Coniressman against the Anti-option Bill" showed to his heaven that he was truly correct when he said in substance, that his brain callibre was small. I have always found the people of Vermilion Parish broad shoulder ed, and intelligent enough to cast an honest ballot, let it be Democratic, TLiird party or any other party, But I have never found them so stu pid as to support a fusion ticket with the Republican-and now, they are too intelligent to accept the pre tended theory that it was all unau thorized and packed up oy two of "our fools" as Mr. Pat expresses it. And they are too intelligent to stick to a man when he asserts that his leaders have fooled him once, but "they'll never do it again." "Chap" as I am. I am aware of all the organizations for honest gov ernment etc. And I am also aware that there are men at work in the reform movement that keep better posted than the ex-preacher of Cal casieu. My youthfulness may not have cropped into manhood as yet. My originality mray be doubted-all the same, I was rocked in a Demo cratic cradle, raised under Demo cratic parentage and will live a Dem ocrat, so long as the party clings to its old principles. I am open to conviction, but such fictitious and falacions schemers as the saintly pa triot of Calcasieu puts forward will never change my opinion. It is indeed a recomendation for the gentleman abroad to assert that more than half of our farmers have to depend upon the egg as a medium of exchange. The fact is, Mr. Pat, that this is a natural poultry country, and the wealthiest farmers here are the largest poultry raisers. So poultry raising is no sign of poverty. If there is money in poultry, it is certainly no disgrace to raise poul try, and to say because' a farmer raises poultry, that he has no other means of medium of exchange is simply absurd. "OLD NED." Henry La., 5-31-'93. As an instane of what energy and progressive ideas can do when combined with small capital, the St. Martinasville Mesenger notes the fol lowing; ,,We have been told that two young men, the Thibodaux broth ers, living some ten miles north of this town, on the east side of the bay* on, have built a small sugar house to make syrup that is remarkable in its construction and almost astonish ing in its production. The rollers are a small horse-power mill that was bought, we believe, at a cost of $45. The kettles or pan is hbme or plan tation made, the bottom of the pan is aitoet iron, and the sides and par titions are made of wood. The furnace is made erntirely of mand and this establishment, is making just as nice and good syrup as can be made in any sugar house. Two tons of cane give about one barrel of syrup, which is sold for $15, which gives them a large profit. This model' sugar house makes from three to four barrels of syrup a day, and two men can run the hole thing, and vet have an easy job. The expense of fuel is very light. We congratulate the Messrs. Thibodaux on their indus try and energy and the success with which they have met. Rice Brea4. The writer recently bough t ' package of rice meal from Mr, Tar.. bell, who was peddling it in town 2 and after trying it was surprised at - the result. The dough was made up with eggs water and salt, exactly like the dough of of corn bread, and it was baked in a thin pone. Wbe - brought on the table it had the ap-. pearance of ordinary "egg bread. made of corn mea', but was superior, in every respect. It had the pena. liar flavor of well made flour mufmo fine, and at the same time is without the stickiness of the muffin. Try it. Cook. m...4. .h- One of our exchanges says; "Why y not work our convicts on the public highways? Let our parish have something to show for the expense of convicting and the cost of grub af. terwards. It would be more pro fitable to have them put in more time working the roads and less time working the treasury." We have not thought much over the matter but at first flash the idea. seems a good one. There are at present in our jail some six or more prisoners who if their time was spent in working ioP:: roads would feel bet ter and be lesa expense to the parish. Of coarse when there would be only one or two prisoners in jail the expense of" 2 watching and making them work would be greater then the fruits-of. their labor but that could be proper ly managed. We believe that if a laew making persons sent to the parish jail subk:, ject to work on our roads could he passed it would prove satisfactory in its result. It is given out as a certainty that the rice milling trust of New Orleans will erect three rice elevators in this section before the harvesting of an other crop. One will be built at, Lake Charles and one at Crowley] and the third the of junction of the new branch road west of Esther, wood. It ever there existed a fei. son for the erection of independent mills here they are certainly now evident. If we set with folded hands and make no efforts to protect our own interests, we must not feel sur prised if we find ourself in a worse position the coming season than we were the last. We welcome the the erection of the elevators, but itil wise policy to place ourbelves in a position of independence. If there has been an over production of ricp and it remains a drug on the market why this willingness on the part of the trust to make such heavy in. vestment on an uncertain future? Boom the new mill of the Crowley Rice Mill Co. and let us get work btarted on it, that we may be ready this fall to gather npa few of the crumbs dropped from the tables of competition -Crowley Signal Constable Sale. STATE OF LOUISIANA, Parish of Vermilion. Fifth Justice Court. J. J. Thomas vs. Edward Foreman Jr. No. 65 By virtue of a writ of fleri facas is sued by the Hon. aforesaid court in the matters of the above numbered and en titled suit and tome directed. I will pro ceed tq sell, at public auction, to the last and highest bidder at the front door of the aforesaid court on SATURDAY, JUNE, 17th 1893. between the hours of 11 a. m. and 4 p. m. the following property to wit. One blue Creole heose. Terms, cash. Columbus Spell, Constable. Succession Notice. State of Louisiana" Parish of Vermilion. 17th Judicial District Court. Succession of Victorin C. Hardy. No. 266. Notice is hereby given to all pr ties intcrested in said succession or having any oppo.ition to make to the tableau of debts and charges of the succession of Vietorin C. Hai dy filed by Marie E. Boudreaux Natural Tutrix, to file the same ia siting in the office of the Clerk dCourt within\ten days from the notice hereof. Given under my hand and seal of office this.30th day of May A. D. 1893. Alcide LeBlane. Clerk of Court.