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O +FICEALI JOUJRNAL OP H V E$6 FvRMIILION A 2 Oa AsBBv A7VRThO 1 M$E 0 1878. NO 40. yolcC Jury. State of Louisiana, Parish of Vermilion.' The Police Jury of said State and parish met this da!, the 4th of February, A. D., 1878, purse-. ant to adjourni went. Present : Hon, Nathan Perry, 'President, and Messrs. Broussard, Leleu, Hoffparir and Wise. The minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted. Mr. Wise on behalf 'df the Fi nance reported "verbally, that they were unable to effect a settlement with the tax collector and treas urer in consequence of the former being in the city of NeWr Orleans at the time the settlemient should have been made with hfin. Mr. E. I. Addison, publisher of 'the Meridional, being present, pro posed to the Jury to do all the parish printing in the same man ner as he did last year, such as publishing the proceedings of the police jury, all the necessary blanks for the use of si&d'jury, the jury list of the District Court, and such other Matters as 'may by ordered to be printed ir published during one yesr froim the 1st of January, 1871, for the price and sum of one hundred and twenty five dollars-payable 'qharterly. It was thereupo Air. 1. Eesolved, That the pro position of E. I. Addison' pubhlish er of the MeridioiiAl, as above sta ted, be and the same is hereby ac cepted by this body. An Ordinance Relative to Fences. SEC. 1. Be it ordained by the Police Jury in and for the Parish 'of Vermilion, &e. That hereafter aii rences enclos ing land for pnrlioses of cultiva tion shall be made .'t least four feet high, with not, less than four pieox to the panel. The lowest pieur to start at a 4isAtce of not more than one foot -from the level of the ground, and there shall be a ditch twelve incliet deep, twelve inches wide, and efghteen inches from the outside of the fence; the space between th'e bott6m pieux and the level ground to be filled with din. Sac. ý. Be it further ordained; Ac. That the respective owners of any animals of whatever species which may break into a field or fields protected by such a fence shall be held pecuniarily liable to the parties damaged for the amount of daniages caused by said breaking, and to a fine of ten dollars for each offencq1ie same to be collected before Mny court of competent jurisdiction; the damages to be sued for by the party entitled thereto, and the fine to be sued for in the name of the parish by the District At torney pro tem. SEC. 3. Be it further ordaitied, &e. That no one whose fence does not come up to the standard abbve established shill be entitled to damages on account of stock or other animals bi eaking into their enclosures. Atid all such er- sons who shall be guilty of shout ing, hurting, or in anyways injiti ing aay animals breaking into their fields, not provided with suuih !a fence, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars, to be collected by the District Attorney pro teot; as above, and shall be liable to the owners of the animals so shots hurt or imjurbd, for any didhages by them sustained thereby. SEc. 4. Be it further ordained, &e., That ill fines collected upder and by tirtde of this ordinance shall, after the fees of the District Attorney pro tem. tre deducted be paid ode half to the parish treasurer for road purposes alid oue half to the parish board bf school directors for the su83ort of the public schools of this parish. SEc. 5. l3e it further ordained, &., That all ordinances or part of ordinances passed heretofore and in confifct with the provis lons of this ordinance, be and the same are hereby repealed, Iýalteo A. White, esq., was dii ly elected as pat ish and district attorney pro tern. to serge, one year from theist of Jariunar, 1878, to the 31st of December, 1878, fixed at three hundred and twen ty-five dollars per annum, payable quarterly. ART. 2. Resolved, That the parish tax collector be and he is hereby ordered to make a full and final settlement-or all parish taxes and licences by him collec ted to the 1st of January, 1878, with the finance committee on or before the 20th inst. . ART. 3. Be it further resolved, that in case of the failure of said collector to make said settlement by `,aid date, that the president of the police jhry be authorized to institute suit immediately to enfoice said settlement. AR r. 4. Resolved, That the par ish treasurer be ordered to make a similar statement with the fi nance committee to the 1st day of January, 1878, for all moneys re ceived by 1ii as such treasurer on or before the 24th inst., and in case of his failure to do so then the provisions of the above krt. 3. shall be also applicable to him. ART. 5. Resolved, That the fi nance committee be and they are hereby required to make an esti mate or budget of the probable expenses for the year 1878, and make their report to this body at its next meeting. ART. 6. Resolved, That war rant No. 1796, dated April 4, 1877, in favor of Nicholas Boo dreaux, and drawn on the crimi nal prosecution funds of 1877, be exchanged for one of the same amount to be drawn on the con tingent fund of 1877; when there shall tbe sufficient money io the treastiry to the credit of such fund; the said warrant to be drawn in favor of Solomon Wise as trans feree. Mr. Martin Bagly was appdint ed road overseer for the 1st road district, vice E. W. Huff, excus'ed. The following claims were a1* lpwed and eidered to be paid dut of their respective funds O'tleetor Aiid assessor's fond for 1878: Vilmont Breanx, $90 25 Printer's Alhd stationer's fund for 1877: E. I. Addison, $25 00 Isaac Wise, 8 65 Solomon Wise, 52 00 Oub of same Funds o' 1878 : Isaac Wise, $6 10 Out of the contingent fdihd of 1877: Joseps S. Nunez, $47 00 Leo Peiret, 13 00 On motion of Mr. Wise the jury adjourned sine die. (Signed) N. PERRY, President Police Jury. AMBROISE LACOUR, Clerk Police Jury. REMARKABLE SUCCESS. The success of the leading literary paper of the West. The Chicagb Ledger, is truly remark able. Since its introduction to the readinif public; six years ago, the Ledger has steadily advanced in favor, and is now acknowledged second to no paper of the kind in the countnr. Its circulation is national, and has been <btained through the efforts bf its publishers to produce a paper of high moral character, and at the same time sell it at a price consistent with the present hard times. Tlidh tlihy have subceeded, aid well; too; the thousands of . readers~, ot the Ledger scattd~eie from MOine td Texas and frdm Oregon to Florida will bear testimony. The Chicagd Ledger is a large forty-Night column weedly paper, which cob tains stories both complete a col. tinued, in each number, written by. the best authors of the day, and a great variety of information in teresting to every one. The sab scription price of The Ledger is only $1.50 per year, postage paid, and it is equal iti every particular to other papers of the same char acter which sell for $3 a, year. Three copies of this valuable paper will be sent to any one who wends 10 cents and their address to the Ledger, Chicago, IlI. TH'E undersigned has Two (2) Plantations on hand for sale : One situated about six miles southwest from Abbeville, West side of bayou Vermilion, contain ing about two hundred and forty (240) superficial arpents, with a Fine DWELLING HOUSE ° AND KITCHEN, and about three (300) hundred pannels of new fence thereon,-one-third of the land is timbered. ANOTHER Plantation situa ted at Grosse Isle, about three (3) miles East from the toWn of Abbe ville, having three-and-a-half {3k) arpents front by forty (40) in deleth, with about fifty (50), ar Pents of WOOD LAND thereon, ai ,a right to cut wood on the Alexander De TIyiousaye tract; gwhich tract is a community properAy of eight ar ped ts by forty. For prices hal conditions < , the above plan'tations (which wil be in accordance with the herd times), apply to F. FER&Y, in the town of Abbeville. Im ilediate possession can be given in both dises. F. 'ERAY. N. B. bne of the above plan tations delongs to a lawypr of the parish of Lafayette. The party purchasing from me will have to pay expenses of sale, record, &c.' &c., in this parish fro the La fayette Records. Title perfect in both caebs. feb14 '77 F. F. The Confederate 'oldier' Return; or the Lost Cause. The Confederate sildieir9s re turn, 61 t e Los's CAUSE-A i g nificerit picture, beautiful in design and artistic in execution. It rep resentsA Confederate saiier after the wA~r returning t6 his home. which loe finds ruined b' ilhot and shell, looking lonely $id desolate. In front of the ruiqd cottage, telling a sad tale of the miseries of war, are two graves with rude crosses, on one of which some friendly hand has hung a garland. The graves are overhung b7 a weeping willow, in the shadow of which stands the returned soldier with bowed head, as if thinking of the past. To the right the cahl river and rising. moon indicate peace and rest. The stars seen through trees represent the South= ern Cross, draped over the graves, an embletn of the Confederate lnag as well as a harbinger of brighter days to come. The flood of glorious moonlight streaming through the trees and reflecting on the peaceful river adds to the sentiment and beauty of the scene and its surroundings. No description of this gem of art will do it justice-it must be seen. It is a picture that ivill touch every southern heart and should find a place in every southei-n home. It is 14±18 -inches in size, on heavy plate paper. One copy will be sent by mail, in a pasteboard roller to ady address, post-paid; on re ceipt of 25 cent three copies for 60 cent or six for $1,iti currency or pdstage statips. Agents want ed everywhere, to sell this and a variety of other popular cheap pictiies. No miloney required until they orb sold. No trouble to sell them: Sbnd stamp for our catalogue and trriis. Address, A. GREGAR & 6o. Pub lishers. 168 Mi4et St., ClId4tgnoogg, Tun. Nttice. Succession" of Elijah Ewing. All persons indebted to the gbove auceession will please come forward and settle the samje, those having claidhs against said, sijces ajon will present them duly aU thenticated. EmEwMN EWiNG. Natural Tutrix. Oct. 20th 1877. DOWN WITH HIGH PRICES. OLD F'THER TIME CAUGHT AT LAST. .rl Xunmber One Reliable Clock for $3 OWING to dull times and great sbrinking in values, have determined to reducq the price of our eight dol lar Thirty Hour Stem Winding Clock to Three Dollars-sent to any address in the United States by express free of ex pense to the purchaser-"each and every Clock warranted for two years." This offer only remains good for 60 days from date of this paper. These Clocks are our own manufacture. Now is the time to secure a good Clock for almost nothing, NoTs Than IhsauScriovs.-Clocks can be returned and money will be refunded if purchasers are not satisfied. Give full name, post-office, county and State, and nearest express office, as we send goods exclusively by express. The safest man. uer to send money is by postoflce money or4er or registered letter. The postoffice depprtment deliver no registered letters or money on money' orders to only re epopsible parties, consequently this would b tse safest way of ordering out Clooks. Addre all orders to L. FRYER & CO., Clock Manufacturers, feb23-'78. Cincinnati. Ohio To the Public. I would respectfully inform my friends and custoniers and the peo pTe in general, that I have just se lected with the greaest care, a 1 general assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, which I am now offering at the lowest cash price My stock %omprises a large va riety of Domestio Dry Goodp, Fancy Goods, Fine English, I French ind American Casimeres, Ladiqs Dress Goods, Cloaks, Shawls, Notions of all descriptions, Calicos, Best American Brand. Cotton, OTleached and Brown, Alpacas o all shades, Flannels, c Opera, Plain a Colored Checked. f Ladies are respectfully solicited z to call and examine my stock and c no trouble will be saved to, show e All articles which they desire to t examine, to price or purchase. r Clothitigs of all descriptions : G'etlemen's bhirt, 1 Uniderwear, a and all kinds 1 of Furnishing Ladiqa, Goods, r Misses, Men and Boys a Bdots & Shoes. I Hardware; the latest improve- a mentes in utensils. o Saddfory, Crockery Tinware, A fine stock of fresh family gro- y ceries. Tobacco, chewing a smoking, segars, pipes, &c. Sole agent for -the celebrated WEED SENING MACHINE. the simplest. cheapest and most durable of the kind. My stock is now entirely .1Vew and complete, and every one rich and poor, white and colored are welcome to enter and see for them selves. Believing that it would be great ly to the interest of this parish to establish a Real Estate Agency in the town of Abbeville. I have assumed the position, and inform all those who have lands, planta tions or town lots for sale, or those who desire to purchase the same, to call at my store where I shall always be ready to give full particulars and make agreements. eving now communications with different parties in the United States who are desirous to locate in this conutry there are chances to effect sates or purchases at early date and on satisfactory terms. Eespectfully. A. D. MARTIN. biL W. W. VAN PELT, ECLECTIC PSY5IO1AN. ABBEVILLE, LA. Treats all forms of Diseases, either acute or chronic, according to the principles of SPECIFIC All female diseases successfully treated. Leucorrhea. Fluordlbus or Whites a Specialty. June 2,_'7? TVE MERIDIONAL, Widow E GUEGNON, Proprietor. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY E. I. ADDISON. $2 50... .PER YEAR... .$2 50 TERMS, The MERIDIONAL. is published weekly in English and French, at two dollars and fifty cents per annum pay able in advance. Advertisements will be inserted at $1.00 per square of ten lines, or less, for each insertion. Advertisements published in English and French will be charged for both lan guages. No advertisement will be inserted for less than two dollars and fifty cents. Pay' twt of all, advertisements is con eidered'le immediately after their first publication. Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions required, will be published until otherwise ordered, and charged for accordingly. TiNs dollars in advance is required for announcing candidates for ofce; and election tickets or other job-work must be paid for on delivery. ./1 NOBLE RE VEXGE. The coffin was a plain one-a poor, miserable pine coffin. No flowers on its top; no lining of satin for the pale brow; no smooth ribbons about the coarse shroud. The brown hair was laid decently. back, but there was no crimped cap, with its nice tie beneath the chin. The sufferer from cruel poverty smiled in her sleep-she had found bread, rest and health. "I want to see my mother," sob bed a poor little child, as the un dertaker screwed down the top. "You can'f; get out of the way; why don't somebody take the brat ?" "Only let me see her one min ute," cried the helpless orphan, clutching the iside of the box; and as he gazed into the rough face, agonized tears streamed down the cheek on which a childish bloom ever lingered. Oh. it was painful to hear him cry, "Only let me see my mother-only once 1". Quickly and brutally the hard hearted monster struck the boy away, so that he reeled wits the blow. For a moment the boy stopped. panting with grief and rage, his blue eyes distended, his lips sprung apart, a fire glittering through his tears, as he raised his puny arm; and, with a most unchildish voice, cried : "When I am a man, I will pay you for this 1" There was a cofflin and a heap of earth between the mother and the poor forsaken child. A mon ument much stronger than granite was built in his boy-heart to the memory of the heartless deed. ** *** The court house was crowded to suffocation. "Does any one appear as this man's counsel ?" asked the judge. There was a silence when he had finished, until, with lips tight ly pressed together, a look of strange intelligence blended with haughty reserve upon his hand some features, a young man step ped forward with a firm tread and kibdly eye to plead for the erring and friendless. He was a stranger, but from his first sentence there was silence. The splendor of his genius en tranced-convinced. The man who could not find d friend was acquitted, "May God bless you, sir-I can not." "I want Do thanks," replied the stranger. "I-believe pee are unknown to me." "Man, I will refresh your mem ory. Twenty years ago you struck a broken-hearted boy away from his mother's coffin. I was that boy." The man turne-U id. "Have you rescued' me, then, to take my life?" "No, I have a sweeter revenge. I have saved the life of a man whose' brutal deed has wrankled in my breast for twenty years. Go! and remember the tears ,if a friendless child." The man bowed his head iI shame, and went from the preserved of magnanimity as grand to Lini as it was incomprehensible. gii In a letter written by Col. Daniel Dennett and published i« the Picayune of the 26th ult., wo find the following words : "This is the third year that I have called upon the l4gislaturo in advertising the rich domain of Louisiana. I have "asked bread" and they have "given me a stone." I shall never trouble them again. I have given the State twenty years of the prime of, my life, and have doneothe best I could for it4 under the circumstances. I retire with no complaints. but I beg to be permitted to close my 14. bors and efforts t6 promote immni gration without the painful humil iation of being,. loaded with re proach for what I have not done, and could not do, instead of re ceiving a moderate amount of credit for the good I tried to do. Whatever judgment others may pass - upon my labors and my mo tives, I shall drop quietly out of public life with clean hands and an approving conscience." Col. Dennet hasbeen a faithfui friend to Louisiana. He has work. ed for her with a pure motive; and an honest .desire to better her condition, develop her resour ces, and make her great. His sobeme of immigration is the only means of redeeming Lou isiana; none will gainsay that proposition, but then it is not a big-moneyed scheme-it would on ly bring benefit to the people, and of course it has received a cold greeting. Would that men like D. Dennett in the majority of this State-men with pure motives, and patriotic hearts-then would Louisiana be truly redeemed then would she glisten among the brightest in the galaxy of States: -Frankdin Enterprise. A young man was arrested in a New Jersey town, a few days ago, on the charge of carrying concealed weapons. On search. ing his person a bowie-knmfe was found i0 each boot leg, a seven shooter in his hip pocket, a slung shot in 14s inside coat-pocket, a cavalry sword slid down his back; a "billy" in each coat-tail pocket, and a dagger up each sleeve. That was all. He was discharg ed when he explained that he was on his way to Princeton college to enter the freshman class, and had merely taken precautions to protect himself from the attacks of the sophomores. Two card sharpers unwittingly picked each other up in a train from Bath to London and played ecarte. "It's very singular," ob. served one, "that I have'nt seen king yet." "Not at all," replied the other; "you have one in your Pleeve and I have the other three in my boot." When old' Jubal Early heard of Lee's surrender he war Mog in an ambulance, racket with rheumatism; he swore li.. a pi rate for a moment, and then turn ed in his uneasy bed with a groan and exclaimed, "Blow your horn, Gabriel?" Youth has its matrimonial fol lien, but when old age goes a courting, the doors of lunatic say. lums straightway begin to creak on their hinges. It has been discovered that the same drug is used in coloring whiskey and making striped stock ings. Whiskey, however, more visibly affect the legs. Though some men develop into monkeys, apes never rise to man hood. Grapes contain more sugar than any other ripe fruit.