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Two Dollars a Year Saturday. Octoicr 15 1g98. Town and PFf'ri..l. The roa d: thilb hout the pal i'-h are in e tEl Ible t(;Oi(tti(,nl. A valuable cnitniiat!on from '.Sextus" lays . r"! ti. next week. District court nill reopen Monday for the transaction of civil business. Take your home paper, keep posted on what your neighbors are doing and don't fail to pay the printer. .-...--- ~-. Tuesday eveling the train was 3 bours late due to hilve accident on the bridge at Moirgau Clty. ---~t Rlepairs hare been made to the plank sidewalk on Mlain street frcm Catholic Church to the Convent of} Mount Carmel. The residence o1 D. W. Wall in the: Edwards addition is rapidly approach lug completion and will be a decidedly handsome building. Work has been resumed upon Adam Brusseaux's trick building. It will be two stories high. One .ato yis up and the dooring joists are in Jposition. LUST.-A silver medal, with the ijscription "Mt. Carnmel Convent." Finder will please return to Miss Laurence Leblani. Abbeville, La. Oct. 15, 'ib. Decaived by the continued warm shonery weather of the past two weeks the pear trees have put forth blossouls which will soon be nipped by a blight jng frost. ---o * *-- Horses have ceased to die of the staggers and it is to be hoped that the disease has exhausted itse:f. The loses in this parish entailed uy this disease has been E.awothing stupen douls. The best spoecid horses in L uisianu will be se. n in u . rut-'s an. 1:u:1 events daily at the JAmp:: ,: Oct. 26 .29" ' Tie tra.: . best anu holds the state fco.di o, a: 0 milo and ualf mile trucks-2:iMi. New syrup is now on the market in; sufficient quantities to 'suppl the demand. We are told that the cane is very green ano guniy, owing to the .heavy rains causing the, canes to t.tke on a fresh growth ,nrd lose their saccharine let';ec:t Dr. Edwards. iHea;til .oier, rec'ived a dispatch Tuesday morning from President Souchon of the State Board Qf Health stating that yellow fever existed in Lake Charles and that the town and parish were quarantined under the Atlanta regulations. Tuesday morning was warm and cloudy, shout S o'clock the wind sud denly shifted to the north an: for a little while blew.quite a gust. follow ed by.a brisk shower, after the sun came out bright and enthused every one with the idea that steady pleas ent weather had set in. By far the buntisomest turnout in town is the new coach received this week by Dr. F. F. Young. It is a beautiful peace of w9rk, with plate glass windows in front and in the doors making it easily convertible into a vehicle within which the occupant ma safely laugh at the cold and rain. .W Malar'on is devoid of bitter taste. Cares Chills and Fever; acts on the li er and regulates the system generally. All -raggis~t Deat'c f a Pioneer. Abram Lyons, one of the oldest cit- I izens of of the parish died last Friday evening at 8 o'clock at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. W. 1). White. Ili had been inill health for several years, and death was a relief to him. Ho was" buried Saturday evemng in the Mason ic cemetery. 'Th correspondent ofi the Tinmes-Democrat pays this tribute to his nme.uory: -Mr. I. ynswas eighty-seven years old, and has resided in Vermilion j'ar ish nearly all of his life Ile could tell of the parish in its pioneer days, when the revolver and Bowie knife consti tuted juldge and jury, and lawaund order were unknown, but he was permitted to live to see it d!evelope into a law-i abiding and one of the finest comenu nities in the State. His family, coni sisting of children, grand-children and great-grand-children in this and ad joining parishes, is one of the largest in the State, and their host of friends !join with them in sympathy in their presount bereavement." The opening of the Louisiana Indus trial Institute has been pospined till further notice on account of the yellow fever situation. It is the same with the State schools at Natchitoches and Baton Rouge. The Ale xandria lair is also postponed, and if the Baton Rouge fair has not been it will postpone itself, as they have fever in that city. Joanerette has a sanitary ordinance forbidding merchants and shopkeepers from throwing their garbMge on the streets, and couipeli rig those who throw oyster sheils on the street or on their p remises, to cover same with a minxtuie of lime. This town is in need of stome sanitary measures, that should be Strictly cnforced. "TIHE Negro as a Soldier" is the title of a two page article in the issue of COLLIERS \\VEEKLY for October 8. There are half a rdozen pictures of the negro troops ill various st nitutions, and the wholesubject is treated in a nan ner worthy .f peculiar interest. Somewhat moie than a page is given up to "i'bte Tiras-Mississiplri Exposi tion,' o h 1!!:stratiotns, from pholto gra'phs, of various representative Iudlmms. "The Mountain and Plain" e.:iv;al hich occurs in Denver, Col., , L t.i..:o; er 4, 5, and 6, is tie subject of I.-:i:l:': scriipitive matter, and this arj;e C is to be followed by some strik ,;g iiustr tions of the scunes during tulorauo's Festival W'eek. Porto Rico Under American Regime "While the Porto Ricans disp!ay their share of worldly wisdom, and the S pani rds are little better, there are i~~aucces wheire the true mln speaks. T!'if in :speaking with a leading mer baul t ,a." .Pt n:e,"' writes the war corres .!n lenrt, Peter 31acqueen, in the '"N;ti:nal Magazine" for October, "I asked him it the people were really so delig< i new regime, 'Well; franl, ' ,. :, ! . 'the mass Mill welcoi : ~, a. t it i; quite a questi':n C:Lei.ir w:e shall gain by annexation to t.e :nitd States. i have lived ii . :,ric:. Noow the Spaniards taxedi ut he ,vily, but Mhen they got their nay:: they went o .iln;i let us alone. Thli c.,'-:am hi,mise oilicers stole nearly everye,;: fr.:n the gov ernient. But tri: we have yet to see how the Amieric.an cu; to: house officers will act. Spain knew us and we knew Spain; there were f:w comn plaints. The chnreh tax was not heavy, and I n.',:er want to service. We do not wanr the negroes~ enfran chised till they are btter educated Then the money qiestion is gping to be bad for many of us here. We shall suffer cidrerit'lit if the American Gor ernment makes our dollars worth only fifty e:r:s.' The min who uttered these w-ords is a highly respected citizen, speaks English well,an(t under stands A -nerica as well as Spain." Personal MIention. Dr. C, A. Schilling and wife of Hmnry were in tow, Wednesday. Misi Ida Y'onnra returned Monday from her visit to, relatives inl Crowley and Ray.e 1Mr . r:,. of New Ibe-ria who as been visiting Mrs. Willie Maxtield,return ed homue Tuesday. Frank Godchaux left fr Nashville Thursday with Dr, B. White, and will enter Vandlerbilt University. Sam. Poiutes, the jailor of Iberia parish prison. and one of the linest cooks in the ' country was over here a etple of days this wek. Its Capt. Mike Pickard now. He ha been promoted from first Lieutenant Co., T. McCoy, Pickard is an able young manu and has woiked his way up from the ranks. Isaac Wiseý telograplhcd last Saturday from St. Loris, enquring if he would be admitted to to the town. 11o comes from IHambur;, by way of New York anid St. Louis. Dr. II. Bascomb White left Tuesday morning for Nashville, where he willI complete his comilvo of medical lectures and return next spring with a big diploma. Mrs. F. L. Wall and 'W. P. Miller went i over to N ew Iberia last Sunday to attend lie fneiral of thle son of Robt. H1. Cag(e. The ysoung lad was kiilled ,last Saturday by falling under a freight train. Manuel Shermian, a first cousin to Gen'l. John iSherman; was on our streets. It was Mr. Sherman into whose arms Genl. Mouton fi'l when shot. This geutleman now lives at Erath.-Iberian Dr. E. M. Cuihm:an ai leading physican of Washington, La., was in town last Tuesday in company ~h his brother Dr. M. R. Cnshnipn of Milton, P. O. whose I guest he Ilas been for several days past. After considerable dodging of quaran tine Isaac Wise reached here safely 'rues,':y night He came from New York to Ft. Lomts. thence to Texarkana,Shreve port and thence by the Watkins road to I Lake Charles junetion land thence home by the Southern Pacific. Win. Erwin who had euh:,: ., Ii tc war in Co , C 1st. Louisiana Volunteers returned home Friday. His command was innltereil out at Jacksonviile on Monday last adid after a trip of four' days and ni hts by a circnitons route, hy way of Mfontgo:iewrv Meridian. VieX b ura. Monroe and New llb.ria, he rieached his tinal destination in safety. altitoeuh 'sonae tron ble was experiened with gnararmtine etlieers at dtiffret points. iThe Monroe, Restrn, Lake Charles and New Iberia companies were all travehling toi.etlier. Bill decltares heis a better man Sphysically than when he joined and that he lIikes soldering. Word received here Sa turdi'y evening that Robert Cage, son of R. If. Cage, a well known and popular. New Orleans counnercial man w.ais killed by a freight train at tlhe Sezura l etinery abont noon. Seg.nra" Rtineryl is three miles west of New Iberia. Yminz Cage, with several boys. walkd iii Ihere about 10 o'clock, and after edain:. ;ne from the surround ina fieldls boarded'i a freight train for home. Cage fell and the wheels passed over and fractured the bone of his right leg, rendelri ng ampllutation necessary above the knee; frnacturcd his skull and the wrist of his right arm and bruised his leg. He was immediately brought to this city, his home, where lie received medical attention. At first there was strong hopes of his recovering, but the ininry to his brain was fatal and he died about 7 i'clolk that night. Mr. Cage has muiry friends here who synmpathize deeply with hii ii: this sad adictiion. Wie or,,r , ie I ii Poi i. ' l:d:^, lewsard for u'" ci.- 4('i;n:h Ith -t elliot be l li'i f (:1)'" l i ll (',tarrhu (Olre. i'.. ('-I.NY , io., Props., Toledo, 0. W.e, the un','iir;i1l,, have known F. J. ('h,,,tN y v o'r to h l:.!s \l W ars, "andbelieve hi, !err" hi,,'sl h " le-.)hh ' i l :ll husiness i rt.:!'ns i il i i niiuanc-i,! ini! :h Ino carry ",,: a y.t ,.hli_ iti, n 1. blt t"' t fir t mlt. 'West, &. Truax, Whi les:ale dir;gis s. To I Waliiug, Kininni &. Marvin. Wholesale dri-'is*. T.r1 ei. O(i Hall'I C'tirri iiu'( is tskenn inIrnally. ntig d ir.tlyv iu On the ,. ilo.] -ind mucunal sirfic::es of the s's 'o:u. i', Pe ri 75r:. ,er bottle. Sold by all '1t'u 'gts. T ,;im uo - ial's flee. Atdlrtes- F. CHENEi & CO-, T.,le I ,, O Solid by dr;uis.t; 7.c. Hall's tarnily il;', are the beet. - * O- t Visitors to the Jennings Fair, Oct. 26-29, will see many new, interesting and instructive sights. " Not only will the departments tbe ahead of any for mer year,but there will be new features to surprise and please everybody. Write the secretary for premium lists or programs. ,i -NEW 6PRING SODS.s A FULL LINE OF FRESH STOCK R CEIVED - AT .E\1 'S EMPOR\UM Some of 1N. 0. Bourque's Prices. T adies' 14K Watches fitted with I1 jeweled movements Elgin, Waltham, or Hampden '$23.25 Ge ;t's same as above -32.50 Ladies' Solid 14K Gold long watch chains from $8.50 to $15 fPlated, Filled and Silver ones also on hand Silver Lock Bracelets $1.25. Silver Friendship Hearts 25c Sterlng Silver Tea Spoons at $4.75 per set. SChild's Sets 4.00 to 6.00 " Waterbury Watches at 2.50 former price 4.50 Gold Neck chains, Gold Watch chains. Gold Bracelets 4 00 to 10.00 Gold Scarf pins 1 00 to 510 ' link adl:. cuff buttons 2.50 to 7 50. Gold studs $1 to 4.50 Gold cuff pins, Bracelets, and Twin pins at corresponding low prices. Fancy Souvinir Spoons, cups, and Trinklets in abundance. Late 'it Hat pins at 25c. I have also Scarf holders, Gold Fins, Manicure sets, writing sets, Albums, Baby Rattles Stamp foxes, Paper cutters, vases, Fancy clocks, Ornaments, pia t:ays, Jewelry and dressing cases, fancy pictures in giut frames, Spectacles and a large-assortment of other goods 'tob numerous to mention. Fine watches and Jewelry carefully repured on short notice. il lll I l ! I l | High License Knocked Out. Tuesday was quite an important Smeeting of the Police Jury. The mat ter of raising tne liquor license came op for dicussion and the proposition to h . he license for retailing intoxicating liquors for next year at $1,000 was defeated by a vote of 4 to 3. those vot ing for high license were Messrs. Eldridge, Miller and Quereau, against Theriot, Delano, Picard and LeBlanc. ITh president Hon. Martin Sarver oily .oting in case of tierhad no oppor tunity to exercise his opinion, though we hear that he is in favor of increas ing the liquor license. Malarion is endorsed by best Physicians and guaranteed to cure Chills, Fever and AgSe. All druggists or from Moflit-West D)re'g Co., 6t. Louis, Mo. The tew Leslie's Monthly. Beginning with the next (November) number, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly will be changed in teorm and dress. Its price will be reduced to ten cents per copy, on? dollar per abnum. Mrs. Frank Leslie, whose association with Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly has been the chieffactor in its success and fame, now resumes direct editorial control of the magazine, after three Syears' rest and sojourn abroad. This congen ial work will occupy Mrs. Les l;e's exclusive attention. Under her, skilled and sympathetic guidance. the ehaoges inaugurated in the long-time favorite illustrated family magazine will be in the line ot (levelopment of the popular pictorial and literary feat uros a hich have characterized it here t,,fre. At the same time, various novelties will be introduced. The to:e and potlicy will be more than ever distinctively American, in the new broad "imperialistic" sense. ANTEI)--SEVE A I. TR'STWOIRTHY PEIR son l.i, this 4t.' :"',iina ag our bus iness in the'ir o',. n at:i t.'arb- nounties. It is mainly ,)tV;a - 'k *o ndti, at lioie. ' alary stt :ut t00 a .t 5 rear ant, anld ltentse,. .ti- - t0, ouat 'ie, o more tno less salary .Monthly $75. Referenees. i'EncIose .self-addresstd envelope. Herbert L. Hess Prest., Dept. M, Chicago. An old hen with one chick is proba bly the biggest fool on earth. The man who thinks he can keep on sin ning without losing his soul comes next. Malarion With Malarion Tablets Guaranteed Core for Chills, F'Vver and Age. or mtoney reflrndtedl. 50crents. All e~'t~"' DR. HENRY E. READ. Dr. Read, who died on the-2nd inst, was born in Abbeville on March 2, 1861, being the sle t son of Dr. Henry 0. Read and Marie Eugenie Gaegnon. He ehrly manifested a desire to :folloI his father's profession-that of :iedt. cine,and attended the Medical Depart meA of Tulane ,Univetsity 'and tbl Galveston Medical College, graduatini with honors from the latter institutioh in 1881. He first practiced at Granr Cheniere, Came)on parish, where blhs parents then lived; later he removed tb Lake Charles, where he remained for several years. From there )Dr. Reah came to St, Landry, locating firs iii Faquetaique, and finally settling i1h Mamou, where he was at the time 'f his death. He was married in 1886 to, Mick Alcina Fusilier, a daughter of, Mr. Honore Fusilier, one of the most pros perous and best known residents of tlib " Bayou des Cannes section. Dr. Road%' Rife and four sons survive to mourn his loss. For several years prior to his death, he had discontinued active practice, perferring to devote his time ank energy to his extensive rice interest, as he was one of the largest and moit successful planters in Maroon. His death occurred after a lingering and painful attack of gastrio trouble, his wife being critically ill at the timb with the same complaint. lHe wao interred on the morning of the 3rd4nst, in the family burial ground near Eunice, where loving hands will Watch over and beautify his last ,resting Splace. Mr. Read's father died In 1893, bdFt his mother is still living and has long been recognized as one of the 'most earnest teachers of our parish. Tw& brothers also survive him--Dr. W. A. Read, of Pearceville, and Mr. Stepbe6 F. Read, of our town. There are also large family connections throughouft' Southwest Louisiana. Possessed of a keen intellect. a sympathetic insight and an uprights character, D)r. Read made 'many friends, allof wlhym grieve to know that he is no more. To his bereaved family we offer heartfelt sympathy,ar 4 most especially to the doeoted wife, whose severe illness deprived her * sacred privilege of being with hits during the la.st sad honrs.-O.pcloun