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XOL. XXXiI. ABBEVILLE, LA., S4TURDAY, JULY 13, 1889. NO. 4. j ýr Ijý T 7y ,j ABBti V lltgrY sill Two i) ýý. ° >ý"3 f -*j Year. I-º: 'L inch°9 4 TNT f, i°; ý`: lTr(1(1 ? ý(M) v iLY.IlC' r 1(t n 1'1 4 i'; 't+T ,e rNl `; YY1+T C C! %1ic5CS t u !J. :,11es jow !.,z r e5 0, In iu,;L(A 3'""!'Y "L Tier Uolt :1i:t:r:Y11li'lli''il'.Tt" .: _.. C'.:'-'. 31(1.0(: I(,' :ili'" ý1r;Yti(':i 710:, Val 1 ý:ý lil,(;:., pi. LT .:' .- lýfrýf". -_ bitýur.:icr.. 44 8llll"li'1t31Q 1'-.Fp:c', ca., 'Vii} :iY t'i:af":;eý.: lo: it rl giill'r pY1-'iLif. will L/! r "..":,l jý -Ca- If, iýYr lt-ice ( .. (! 2- r!nlll l1i(:Itiutta. I; ,wri(i i/Ytl ýiir ".l:'1 `i: °. ::ti:, :i ý,. ""'!:i1\' dur liit171t1 r.t:s i , ',7.I. -t: ? ;:ter- of $i.(Yli f i'ih. s;' ' ýC:1i iiii A. ý Y..i ... ' ý_:, it 4- ,el"i"'1' will we 5e ;iee:s .1 nil (iliui(mSUf -0111 ý C(tr-et 1[7^_IiC)1 '. E i 'irut at the .'o; sO ti, e, bhevil!k, L.. /ýy NASHZVILLE} ý" SOUR AL 1"r yi:. . l ei: i~E rri C.S. PSlIGUS, M. D., EDITOR. Only £' per Vta wun. U'u I.'" r j l;ýr H.A.91./ KSS'LOC Xs PubhicAtrr, Mledical anud ?Uir "L( rl .Yournal, Oiiice: 35 Ca 'onuelet~t. Nv')JI~e:ui3~. E1ATTORIAtL 6: !),le'WrlY 1i)", eji ! n .: :i. + r n. II. L;<Lk% HT. P.. %V~ . E.P AIdiinrsTI. ~1-. A. "'it:..;- a" Z., 1 T1he or'2*e' N.e;iaii w' t ? in t . '"oiih wt',t. A ,: ,f . . rpi!nler e'tntpeplr:iv :l 'J ''( .t.. . i - ý r ,li bA a i:" -'iY te Ne I-ii~u PL31&IIi ~ii . Ai, u!AS P. 0. Ba"fts ROBERT P. O'BRYA N, tony a a LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA. Bee Uouth Side Court flotuqe. Wl rýtt(li lý tiItlofCawe"rOxi and V,'nnj0"i..i, }'romip!. tLt r.- tqMA giveis to all L~ueiuit; initrusted tos l~,, curdapril 13. 1S9~ 13-. '. A. WUTET. LASTIE 3ROUiAPD. WHITE & BROUSSARD, 4oFren at Law QFFICE-NEAR COURT HOUSE, Abbevnte, .......Louisiana. January 12, 1889. W. W. EDWARDS, LAWT~rEI. .Albbeville, La. 'Will attend to all Ibninces in the I wne of hprof.esion in Vermilion or the adjoin l parihles. LASTIE BROUSSARD, 111 oy and CunseIor at law -AND Notary Public. Ofice at Abbecille, La.,-jne3O '88. 13 WEEKS. The PO TOE GAZETTE will be sailed, securely wrapped, to any 'ldress in the United States for three months on receipt of ONE DOLLAR. Liberal discount allowed to post tMlsters, agents and clubs. Sample Wopies mailed free. Address all ordcra to RICHARD K. FOX. Franklin Square, N Y. F. F. PLLAV. 0. W. W ALL. FERAY1 &pWALL IL UM BE! In Oorjt~ectiun wrii th e rttI*vo we wvill s( 'in i~vk es 'ahl~i,4t a Cal penters b hop fsivc=:n0,cal at; be c~.iivinced that ABBEVII, ! , 'LA. 1r'Lo1'AL Gig JDE. p3t-4i'_lre? £ .e&I C aa'Aotgu of A.ýeTIOR. "crwIk lto n:ny Cte 4rtAAoI-ue Virnted. 3 a't1! r"",r:r1! Cr wu. ar.4 arornltr~p!e. Er"tri IOJLI1 uo WL ftI t ,o ": C7.,~ I-,7"o VC .t Fl'W~ 5% V.11.. .ays 3. CvsW JAMES VIt u lil)fAN, JOS. '/. EC.{AtRT, SALt.c aker and J.weler, : a i . Kr: Cf3?;.t Puy!e of Tji. t ily l U fa LE E _ ,` .LA. 1AEPi~ 'S ./9 CERT./UjVREMIEDY -V(Mn ALL-. uIS0iBD[RS of th~ e i? -SUCH AS SICK IIEADACi1T~, INDIGESTION, AND DYSPEPSIA IN ALL THEM. FOI:MS T' !ts clins are only1;°^e~ies of J Fr(, A PT.tI' :: Je'lcrette, La. s ept. 1, '88. 4Op'cial NotiLc 1 ALT PI.S. jo itdebted to the undersigned are rezpectfi'lly req est ed to liquidclie the'r.ar counts no ': before the FlIPT TDAY of Jannary 18S9. All acconots renraining un paid after that date will be handed over to the MAGISTRATE and proceedings immediately instituted. Bear in mind that this is earnestly a business principle and will be strictly adhered to without any exception whatever. Very respectfully. N. C. YOUNG. Abbeville. La.. Oct. 20. 1888. RICO I "A r*WýtI;7 then act u i £ e.: ploymetnt tit `tu ; *o !? st,-s[. their homnis " i "' a +_ large anl sin- y, , 7s_ iw 'trn:; noll nnovv h t. ':"~ -1 d r. E 1 io. u la't p'' seceral hi'tidr "itr tor "t . :i ensv for at is: t. it. *. ,n't i'" "i per 'ay. who i, - i ?' I ii: sex. vet: ,'g tr' ') : I.' 1 am L. Ott"! t start el . x.t rt. t.iu ::'tZ lal il~ tyrererbel -. Oe oer.a ''o wo-!'` :`' one U :-: to us at or i -r:', full r~icalar~s. whi h ,e rmail 'r: " d d esi Stuimon & Co.. i'ortlanl .li .a 1iar on lVid1.owa. Chinese paper give the particulars of an atrocious cuotom of the sac rifice of widows in a district of the Fod Chow preleetire. If a woman's 1 husband dies bid` relatives insist upon her committing suicide so as to follow him into another world. Three days beffre the appointed date for this enfoated suicide a feast is given at whid iall the man's re lations use evesy rgument to make bor coptply wits. t vutom. Should she consent, as she is invariably compelled to do, she is placed in a sedan chair 'and carried in proces sion to the - sound of musical in struments through the principal streets to a platform previously pre pared, about thirty feet in height, upon which sbe is carried and placed in a chair. The relatives and friends below salute the victim, and it is customary for the officials to pro ceed ti±ither to make a salutation. When this ceremony is over a rope is suspended from a beam, the widow places it around her own neck, and one of her brothers pulls the end with all his strength and strangles her. This done she is buried and an application is made to the Emeperor for some mark of Ilihonor to commemorate her sacri fice, which is falsely reported as a voluntary one. Hence there is scarcely a famly in Lien Klang which can not bonst of a virtuous widow, and the whole country is studded with monuments erected in their honor. About ten years ago a new prefect gave orders to abolish this custom, but the order was obeyed only in the immediate neigh borhood of the city, and recent instances of the saeRlce have called attention to its ,barbarity.-Chi. cago News. ' ae Claareas ofi Lsic. A very curious story is told of Sir John Hawkins, in support of the theory that insects as well as animals are susceptible to the charms of music. He begins by stating that a French captain had assured him that, during a tedious imprisonment, he had obtair:d permission to prac tice upon his flute, and that after he had played a few days, not only did mice come out of their holes to tiescn but, the spiders descended from their webs to form as strange mu audience as ever a man had. "I did not cease doubting the truth of this story." writes Sir John, *until it was cut)firmed by a man of pro iiitv and merit, who played upon several instruments, and told tue that upon one occasion, he went up to his chamber to refresh himself until supper timerwith playing, and he had not played more than a quarter of an hour, when he saw several spiders descend from the ceiling and come and range them selves about the ta'ble, wheme they remained until he ceased to play, upon which they returned to their webs." A waiter in a restaurant had a pet spider which, he asserted, would always come out of a ho!e in the wall when he whistled, and several anecdotes are told which attest the fact that spiders are infinenced by the sound of music or singing, although it is not possible to ascertain whether these sensa' tions are pleasurable or the reverse. A writer on the subject suggests that they may be thrown into a trance condition by music. The ingenuity, the skill, the wealth and the intelligence we have given us above our fellows is riven of God for a wise purpose. If we use these splendid mewns to the furtherance of His kingdom in the earth, we shall find His gifts to us' yet mor&: abundant and gloi ious. We are His stewards, and if we nue His talents for :iaw, He ,s ready to open vet mare the secrets of nature that have so euric'cd our for life--Golden Censor. Gen. Bonuta:ger seers to have the ai~lity to interest women of wealth in hMimnwf and his cause. The Bar on ss Eiurdett-Uoctts i3 his latest conquest Pro ibit o ino Two Phases. Right here is one of the strongest objections to prohibitory legislation by constitutional amendment. It is a perversion of the functions of a constitution, and it takes away from the people the right to change their laws when they change their minds as to what the law should be. It i deprives the majority of the right to make its will felt in the statutes. Constitutions are very properly made diicult of alteration, because1 stability is essential to security in the foundations of government. But for that very reason constitations should include nothing but the nec essary provisions of fundamental law. They are the compacts ,of the people with each other. not as to what the laws shall be from time to time, but as to the manner in which the laws shall be made and the limi-! tations that shall be set upon the law-making power. When they go beyond that they cease to be char. tere of liberty and become it stra meets of tyranny. The regulation and restraint of the liquor traffic is peculiarly mat ter which cannot be wisely settled by any rule of thumb. It requires the constant exercise of jodicious care. It is a problem the factors of which vary with time, place and cir cumstance, and the attempt of the Prohibitionists to take its solution out of the hnnda of the people by fastening prohibitory amendments upon State constitutions is the con-, scious effort of a des, .tic will to! make unchangeable law out of that E which at best is only the decree of a temporary popular judgment. Six States have recently voted down proposals of prohibition by constitutional amendment, among them being some in which the ma jority of voters strongly favor pro hibition by statute, a fact from which it is fair to infer that even among Prohibitionists there is an awaken ing sense of respect for the nature I and functions of constitutional law. In Rhode Island the sentiment in behalf of repeal rests upon the ex perience of the last three years Observation and experience have shown the people of that State that prohibition does not prevent the sale of liquor, but increases its evils; that it puts the business into the hands of criminals, deprives the lawful au thorities of the right to regulate it in any way and robs the State of the revenue justly doe from that source. They have tried prnhibi tion and are tired of it.-New York World. r City Va. Country ¶ewspapers. Many unthinking people are apt to coripare their local paper with its metropolitan cotemporary, in regard to quantity of reading matter and subscription price, greatly to the local paper's disadvantage. They are apt to regard as an imposition the attempt of the country editor to charge $2.00 per annum for. his six or seven column folio, when for half that rmount they can get a great ten or twelve page weekly, contain ing the general news of the whole world. There is as much sense in making such a comparison as there is in comparing the price of a keg of nails with the price of a cask of beer. The local paper occupies a field distinctively its own and this field, is one which the metropolitan papeL' has neither the ability or the inclination to fill.-Bunkie Blade. A poor corn crop means poverty of soil and poor cultivation, or both combined. Land can not be too rich for corn, as it may for almost any other grain. It can not be too thoroughly tilled. Knowing this the poor corn crop is all through the season a standing reproach to the careless, eh:ftless farmer. Some iimee the carele snýtr? begins even wi;t tbh seed. If that i? poor noth ing after cai uJe done to remedy tie defect. Wl~iam i)awsont, vice preaident of thec 'I''al Abstiiience society of 1Er-gland, was recently arreLete for L'ing druIck. aITATE ITEM.TK Home Journal : The grape crop this year is an abundant one. Maurepas Gazette : Weather hot; too much rain; crops doing well. Bunkie Blade: We are having too much rain. The cotton in many places is scalded and much of it is dead. M. C. Review : If the first of July be rainy weather, it will rain more or less for three weeks together. Fruits of most all kinds alr abun dant in market. Farmerville Gazette: Crop pros pects are good. Destructive forest ,fires, sweeping over an area of about one hundred square miles, raged in. Montena last week. Vernon News: A shower every day during the past week. Our farmers now have a surplus of rain and some to spare. The amount of rainfall since our last was 1.73 inches. Shreveport Times: We received a full grown cotton boll on the 3d, and if the size of the bolls indicate the condition of the crop, the pros pects are encouraging to the gentle men interested. Teche Pilot: We have been bless ed with several fiue rains which were a godsend to many poor people who went out of water. The crops and gardens have improved wonder fully since the rain. Delightful weather again this week. "Too much rain" is the universal ory hereabouts, and yet it was not long ago that everybody was pray iog for rain. How hard to please we mortals, be. Many of our riew planters have discarded their pumps and now irrigate through their flumes.-Thibodeanz Sentinel. St. Martin Messenger : The corn crop which was considered damaged to the extent of 33 per cent. by the droulh, has by the recent rains taken a new vigor and growth and will make a full crop. The ears are large and full, which is gratifying to the planter. St. Landry Democrat: Crop re ports from various sections in our pariah are flattering. The late rains have materially advanced the pros pect, and unless untoward and unex pected circumstances occur, the crops of last year will be equalled, if not surpassed. Sugar Bowl: The crops has great ly improved since the rains set in, but recently it has en hurt some, in places, by an etcess of water. Cotton continues to grow rapidly, but unless the rains cease soon, forms and bolls will shed. No worms heard of yet. St. Mary Banner : The crops are all flourishing and give promise of a fair yield. Too much rain, however, prevents the fields from being work ed, and the crops of weeds and grass will probably equal that of any thing else. The fields are wet and mushy and need three weeks dry weather. Town Talk :. Mr. James informs as that his first crop of bay this year was not good on account of the drouth. In a few weeks he ll cat his second crop and figures on press. ing 101) tons of hay. He thinks the farmers in his neighborhood will have one of the largest crops of corn this year they ever gathered. Welsh Crescent: The local rains still continue. Many of our farmers have all or more than they want, and some rice fieldV have sufficient water to insure a crop, while many have not fared so well. Ia some sections the rainfall has not been one half what is needed. Ripe peaches are becoming plentiful. The crop is very large this season. Plaquemine Protector : Labor is -carce in this parish. Rice planters are offering $1 per day and board and cannot secure laborers even at that price. The cane crop in this parish has turned out much better than was expected. The recent :ains have been very beneficial. The rice crop at Pointe Michel is as aromising as usual.