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IPBIA L,41A) iN;FI.Y SATURD~ iAY. E . I. A1 EDII)O.N... I~r4PprIetoF. 4'. W. H'E~L'PR......... ... SýJdttn. SATURWAY. AUGUST 4, 1888. NAITIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President: P ~ OVE1t CLEVELAND, of New York. For Vice Prrsidexot.: ALLEN (; THIURMAN, of O'hia. Knute Nelson, a Minnesota Re publican, voted for the Mills bill. Sickness will prevent any of the MN:IuIDIONAL Corps of attending the convention of Northern men to be held in New Orleans on the 7th instant. An artesian well is being bored in (Lalveston which is supposed will, when finished, yield from 400,000 to 500,0)00 gallons of water daily, the contractor to receive $S0,000 for the work when completed. Arrangements have been made in New Orleans for the reception of the Archbishop elect Janssens. The committee of reception are to meet him at Convent station, fifty miles above the city, on the Mississippi Valley Route, and then escort him to New Orleana. We received this week the first number of the "South Western Lum. ber World," published at New Or leans, in the interest of manufactur ing industries and the trade of the Southwest generally. It is a well edited and neatly printed journal, and will, no doubt, prove a valuable enterprise to the interests of the Southwest. It is published monthly at $1 per year. An immigration movement was re. cently inaugurated at Houma, and the prospects of raising the necessary funds to defray. the immediate ex penses are said to be beyond a doubt. Vermilion parish is quiet on this subject, at least from all appearan ces. We have good lands and plenty of them, but unfortunately we have no railroad to this place, which makes travel and freight expensive compared to other sections. The steamer Edward J. Gay, which was recently destroyed by fire at New Orleans, is said to have been worth in the neighborhood of $100, {100, but was insured for only $25, 000. Thus another one of our float ing palaces has passed away. Those on board barely escaped with their lives. The Picayune truthfully re marks: "There are only left a few of the great pilots and river mariners of the olden time. The day will soon come, apparently, when there will not be a man in the land who ever stood on the deck or bossed the * crew of the floating river palace." We are pleased to notice that At torney General Rogers is making a rigid investigation of the irregulari ties by which act No. 69, of 1888, better known as the "concert saloon act," was tampered with to the in tcrest of the concert saloons. This is as it should be, for if the law making powers of the State are sub ject to the whims and wiles of a few petty enrolling clerks, we may as well repudiate the idea of popular government and the form of a . con stitution. This incident smacks so strongly of the "ways that are dark and vain," which were such striking features of radical rule in this State, that it can not pass unchallenged. The Times-Democrat is informed that the law will be enforced as it was passed by the legislature, without any reference to the sections omitted by the enrolling clerk. This certainly is the only honest couras to puraue. Vermillon Parish. The crops of this parish at present most generally cultivated are sugar cane, cotton, rice, broom corn, to bacco, sorghum, grass, corn, oats, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, peas, etc. All these grow well, and be sides thls many other crops will no doubt do well, when once tried. These crops are easily cultivated and yield a fair return, and profit to the farmer for his care and toil. Sugar cane will yield, on new land, from one and a halt to twfo and a half and even three hogsheads of sugar per acre, according to the sea son. This sugar will bring in the market from $40 to $50 per hogs hcrd, according to price and quali ty ; besides the sugar there will be about four barrels of molasses, worth from $12 to $15 per barrel, made on the same acre. Twenty dollars per hogshead will be aboutthe cost of making up, shipping and felling the crop. Cotton is more of an uncer tain crop here, and varies from one half a bale to one bale per acre, worth from $40 to $50 per bale, ac cording to the market f1uctuations. Rice is profitable. The crop is easily raised, and produces from fif teen to twenty barrels per acre, in' the rough, and worth about $3.50 per barrel, besides the straw which makes excellent forage for cattle in winter. Broom corn is a profitable crop, and grows finely here. A man who understands the business would do well to raise broom corn and make it up into brooms. Tobacco does well here, and the floe Cuba or Havana maybe pro duced in this parish, by renewing the Havana i'd each year. One, great desideratum of this region is the want of a more tender and nutri tious grass, like the red clover of the Northern and Middle States. Our native grasses are as good as the South affords, but for fine stock and dairy purposes, they are not what is required. The white clover ,has been tried and grows well here. All the other crops mentioned above do well and are grown profitably here. Among the fruits that flourish here may be mentioned the peach, pear, plum, and a few varities of apples. Of sub-tropical fruits, the orange, fig, banana and pomegran ate do well. Thd mespilus and the almond also do well. All the varie ties of grapes flourish. Strawber ries, blackberries, dewberries are fine. The walnut, hickory nuts, pecan, almond, hazlenut, chestnut and chincapin also grow to perfec tion. The cultivation of any of these fruits and nuts, on a large scale, could not fail to be profitable. We can see no reason why, with proper skill, all the finer qualities of grapes could not be grown here to perfection, and wines made from them of as fine a quality as those of Italy, Greece or Spain. The South ern grape contains mose sugar and makes a stronger wine than the Northern grape. Dairing might be made a very pleasant and profitable business, in the neighborhood of all the princi pal towns. With good cows and meadows, with an abundance of tur nips and sugar cane, to feed on dur ing the fall and winter, together with the high price of butter at home, a handsome proAt would be the result. Hedges are the proper thing for a prairie country, and many farmers in this parish are planting hedges of the osage-orange, chickasaw rose and pyracauthus, all of which do well. A good osage orange hedge will, after a few years, furnish the farmer with an' abundance of full, of the very best kind. Feoces are made generally of either plank or pieun. Everybody knows what a plank or board fcu49 is, A. pio fence is what in some countries is called t} post and rail fence. Picux are broad strips or rail of cypress, about eight to twelve inches wide and one inch to one and a half inches thick, and nine feet long. Some of the heart timber is split out narrower and thicker, which serves for the posts. The Crowley Signal indulges in some uncalled for abuse of Senator A very, whom he acusee, among other things, of having "strove hard and long to unseat C. C. Dason, purely becnase he was a McEnery sup. porter." Senator Avery may have madec mistakes, but we know his op losition to seating Duson was based n the belief that he was not honest ly elected. We of the third con gressional dist.iet think sufficiently well of his state manship to favor his election to congress this fall. We are pleased to learn that the police jury of Acadia parish, at its last meeting, accepted the report of the road committee tracing a road from Crowley to Bayou Queue Tor tue, at Jacob Hays' ground bridge, where they have located the bridge. A committee will soon be appointed by our police jury. to trace a road from the public road leading to Ab beville to Hayes' bridge, thus giving direct communication between here and Crowley. From the Crowley Signal we learn that Major J. J. Hannan, who has the contract for building eighteen hundred feet of trestle work over Bayou Plaquemine, entertains friends and visitors right royally at his camp. The police jury of Acadia, at its last meeting, gave him a vote of thanks for the prompt and satis factory manner in which he executed his contract for building the court house. Our talented young friend, Arthur W Escudier, former editor of the Iberia Farmer, has a fine article on the "Creoles," in the last issue of the St. Bernard Progress, written in his usual trenchant style. Prescription of Accounts. Act No. 78 of the late session amends article 3538 of the Civil Code, so that it will read : The following actions are prescrib. ed by three years : That for arrearages of rent charge, annuities, alimony, -or the hire of movables and immovables. That for the payment of money lent. That for salaries of overseers. clerks, secretaries, and of teachers of the sciences, who give lessons by the year or quarter. That of physicians, surgeons and apothecaries for visits, operations and medicines. That of pariei 'eorders, sheriffs, clerks and attorneys for their fees and emoluments. That on the accounts of mer chants, whether selling for whole sale or retail. That on the accounts of retailers of provisions, and that of retailers of liquors, who do not sell ardent spirits in less quantities than a quart. That on all other accounts. This prescription only ceases from the time there has been an ac count acknowledged in writing, a note or bond given; or an action commenced.-City Item. When such prominent personages as Rev. Dr. Coyler, of Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church; Rev. Dr. Lyman Albert, of Plymouth Church; Rev. Dr. Storrs, of the Church of the Pilgrims, and ex. Mayor Low, all of New York, be sides many other leading Republi cans, desert the standard of Radi calism, it seems a strong argument in favor of the present adrministra tion.-Donaldhonville Chief. The disappearance of the small pox epidemic' has been officially announced at Havana, St. Jago de Cuba and Cienfuegos, whilst several new cases have been reported from Matanzas and Manzanilla. Oriental combinations of color are in vogae, - A Beautiful Seal Skin Cloak is a becoming garment to-a lady. If she has an elastic step, an air of grace and modesty, and the glow of health on her cheek, shl will always command admiration. Without these, no woman can appear to advantage. With sickly countenance, painful gait, and listless air, she is an object of pity. How many American women daily drag out a wretched existence, ignorant of the blessing of perfect health! All her weakness can be cured by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, the great speci fic for prolapsus, leurcorrhea, ulcera tion and unnatural discharges. The only medicine sold by druggists, tinder u positive guarantee of giving satisfac tion, or money refunded. Read guaran tee printed on its wrapper. Dr. Pierce's Pellets, or Anti-bilious Granules; in vials, 25 cents; one a dose. After all, what does a man lire for if it is not for his family. A million dollars would not buy hisir weakest and most helpless child. Shall he not consider what their des tiny is to be after he is dead and gone ? Who is to take care of them when he ceases to labor, or who will help them to ready money so they may get a start at helping them selves ? A benefit certificate in the Knights of Honor helps, and helps at the right time, too. The copper mines of San Fernando and Santa Rosa Company at Santa Clara seem to be progressing ; after suffering so many disappointments and overcoming many obstacles, the mines are now in a fair way of production and several lots of copper in bars have already been remitted to Cienfuegos and thence will be shipped to the United States. Laciness travels so slow that Poverty soon overtakes him. STATE OF LOUISIANA. Twenty-fifth Judicial District Court. Parish of Vermilion. No. 214. Parker Foreman vs Edward Foreman et als. To Edward Foreman, Ilenajah Foreman, Volney Foreman, Elmira Foreman, wid ow of Athanas Meaux, Louisia Foreman and her husband Erastus Perry, Lucin da Foreman, Henry Foreman, Asa Fore man, jr., Celestine Foreman and Susan Spell, of the parish of Vermilion, Asa Foreman of the parish of Iberia, Isaac Foreman of the parish of Lafayette. and Parker Foreman, ir., of the parish of Calcalsien. You and each of von are hereby notified that the plaintik in the above enti tied and numbered case will proceed, either in open court or at chambers, at Abbeville, La., on Tuesday, September 25, 1888, at 10 o'clock a. m., to revive and re establish the title and sale under private signature duly authenticated and record ed in the year 188i, by which he acquired the interests of the aforesaid parties in and to the following described lands, to wit :-The Southeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southwest quar ter, of section six, in township eleven, south of range three cast, containing one hundred and ninety-four 85-100 acres, as per oflicial survey; at which time and place you will be present if you see proper. SMEDaS & W IV TE, Attys for Plaintiff. Abbeville, La., August 4, 1888. NOTICE. Land Office at New Orleans, La. July 30, 1888. Notice is hereby give? that the following named settler has tiled notice of his inten tion to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge, or in his absence. the Clerk of the District Court, at Abbeville, La., on Saturday, September 22, 1888. viz: Paul Lapointe, who made Home Entry No. 7085, for the El of W* of Sec. 10, T. 11, SR2 East. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of. said land, viz: Statlord Morgan, Alexandre Abshire, Jules Campbell, Thos. I. Hlotfpauir. all of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. THOMAS J. BUTLER, Register. August 4, 1888. NOTICE. Land Office at New Orleans, La. July 24 1888. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his inten tion to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge, or in his absence, the Clerk of the District Court, at Abbeville, La., on Saturday, September 8, 1888, viz : Demas Leblanc, for the Heirs of Jules Le blanc. Sr., who made Home Entry No. 5853, for the NW qr of See 8, T 12, SR 3 E., S. W. Diet. of Louisiana. Hle names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said land, viz :-Ernest Moutagnc, Guy Deblane, U. E. Montagne, Theophile Abshire. all of Vermilion Par ish Louisiana. Tsios. J. BUTLFR, Register. Juiy 29, 1888. Constable's Sale. STATE OF LOUISIANA. Parish of Vermilion. First Justice's Court. Homer Lemaire VS. Theogene Richard. By virtue of a writ of tieri facias issued by the lion. First Justice's Court, in and for the parish of Vermilion, in the above entitled and numbered suit, and to me directed, I will proceed to ell at publicant tion, to the Iast and highest bidder, for cash, w' th benefit of appri smniput, it the office of the First Justice's Court, in this pa i h on Saturday, Augaut 4, 18Sf, between the Loui> of 1! o'clock a. m, and 4 o~'clck u .., and continuing from dlay to day if er essary, all the right., titles. Interest:; and d(Cma-ti s of the defendaut, in and to the foliowiug described ptoperty seized to satisrv said writ, to wit Term. Cash. Three trCole horses. ELIAS BROtSSAnI. Constable NHSly 21, Ida8 Loullsama State FPar A ND SHREVEPORT E (third annual fair) takes. Shreveport, La., November5thi clusive. $25.000 in premiums and will be awarded. Liberal premia parish exhibits. The only fuily tj fair grounds in the State. lute programmes each 'lay. Some of &. race horses in the United States vs ready been entered. For preml and general information addres . M. L. SCOVELL, Secre July 14, 1888. Shreveport,; .5OO0flookAgentrnantedjt, -. THU WI AND PO3LIC Bizlja p Loi.with prsonal rsuinlesessssss hiaw Pro~sslv lllustsOod with steel -o~lhr woog Yb. book lslotsonfider £ superb ostmJt Ands" elt u LIE OPf UB8. CLEVU.ALA2pNegsr witbmgh biography of ALLEN G. TUM.This Is 69Ohslo ibnet eIe~ t h a ppooaybe eauthoshiad LUn., Pat tisOs rihtme lb t, .551 its, to AU. Addosi., WIAN'#R £C6'I U6prlngfleld. Mass. AUX BOURD5. Une personne gutrie de 2 - odes de surdit6 et de bruite d'orei par un remdde simple en env gratis la description d quiconque j fera la dernande a NicuouLP. 177 MacDougal Street, York. July 7, 1888;.t FOR SALE. Fifty barrels first quality o kettle molasses, cheap for cash, f terms ahply to W. L. VNi8aLYKL ` Abbeville. La.. Feb. 18, 1888: CARRY THE NEWS TO MARYT! fifty DoIIarsiven ajwina -AT THE SIC NAL STOI°. 0. BOURQUE, Proprietor? To every cash sale or' colleel of one dollar a free ticket will given, which will entitle tb# ceiver to a chance on the foil prizes : I Parlor tamp yalhed 1 Chamber set 1. 1 40 pieces tea set TO I Chamber set 5 I Nickel clock L r I Lady jersey8 I " " I Tin set j Doz. heavy goblets 1 I Pair figures (bisque) I I Pair flower vases`, & Doz. nappces OPIHELIAS BOURQT.J_ Ahbeville, April 21, 1888. Sheriff's Sale. STATE OF LO IS!ANA. Parish of Vermilion. 25th Judicial District Court. No. 209. L. C. Jacob Francois Chappnis. BY virtue of a writ of lien facias by the Hon. 25h Judicial Dist. in and for the parish of Vermilion, above entitled and numbered smt W me directed, I will proceed to sell at pubis lic sale, to the last and highest bidde, AM, cash, without benefit of appraisem64U the court-house door in this parish,oaA Saturday, September 1, 1W,1 between the hours of 11 o'clock a. m., 4 ocleck p. m., and continuing from 4$ day if necessary, all the rights, ti interests and demands of the defend in and to the following described p seized to satisfy said writ, to wit: A certain plantation situated o01 East side of the Bayou Vermilion .in *s parish of Vermilion in this State, ha a front of ten arpents on said bayou V milion by forty arpents in depth with buildings and improvements, bound west by Bayou Vermilion, 'east by pnbl9 land, south by property of Euclide together with said plantation, m s horses, milch cows, carts, wagons, tools of husbanbry, and the whole of t. judgment, rendered on the 11th of nary, 1886, for the sum of Fivo The Three Hundred and ten dollars by Circuit United State Court weston dis of Louisiana bearing No. 33 of the of said Court in favor of Mrs. Jea Caroline Cave in the suit entitled J Car,1ine Cave, widow, vs Cavaillez, widow, et al. Given under my official aignaturetb 16th day of July 1888. A. L. LEBLANC~hhP NOTICE. Land Office at New Orilea, La Notice is hereby given thatthef ol named settler has filed notice ofbisinta tion to make final proof in support of ° claim, and that said proof will be mid before the Judge, or in his absence Clerk of the District Court, at Abbe La., on Monday, September 10, 1838 V1: 2 Alexandre Aube. who made HomeL No. 7241 for the W half of SW qr. Sec and E half of SE qr, Sec 15, T . Wetst.. He names tim following witnesseef prove his contrnuousr residence upo cultivation of, said land, 5i1: Lam Broussard, Valerie Broussard, Onet Hanks, Polive Manceaux, all of Vemik Parish, Louisiana. THos. J. BrTrEx. RegiMt July 28, 1888.