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ABBEYJILLE MERIDION ALi _SATURDAY, ?SE~T. 6, 1 890 T1he bhiowing made by the New1 Orleaus dailies on their trade edi tions gives the lie direct to the rtajement of the lottery organs that the State is a pauper and tict pros pering. The trade editions of the Tilneb Democrat and Picayune of Septem 1~r 1st, are very creditable produc tions. That of of the T. D. was of 24 pages, and a handsosne map sap plimnwt showing the locatiozk go all crevasses oeCnfring this year. The Shreveport Caucasian i9 authority for the statement that iesq thtan tweity-$ve out of every twandred men in eaddo parish, are }teorable to Via lottery, said forty. iaine' out of every fifty in North Lonliaiaa are opposed to it. A few weeks ago we published' nn article on the Arkansas ond Loni~iana labor war. The plucky editor ot the Chicot (Ark.) Press asya Bro. Todd, otf the Clarion, who soouedtd the war whoop, will not be urt if ithe roads remains good and his wind holds out. The States evidently wishes to be boycotted, as it is always harping on tfe boycott resolution introduced in the Auti.Lottery Convenition3 at Baton Rouge, and ýloelarirng wit1h mDuck vehemence that the resolution was passed and that it is under a boycott. It really is very hard to please some people. The trade Committee of the New'l O~eaee Board of Trade have adqptod, and are putting into prac tice a unique plea to extend the ooeimerceiof the city with esuntry merchants. The schemee is to ad dress cisculars to z r'bamts in L~ouiaiana4 Arkansas anal . Texas, inviting them to the city, and of feting to pay their fare botb ways. The Times-Democrat says the resnlis so far have been most satisfactory The editor of the Monroe Tele graph-Bulletin rgports a curiosity in (hat sectioo, iii the way of a canta. loupe'. Froi,' Fis color, odor, flavor and shape it is termed the banana cantaloupe. Tb. one sent him inotaured one foot ten inches in length, and was superior in delicate' tiess of flavor and taste, to any we ever~ate. Tho seed were obtained from a seed house of Philideiphia and bhe experanient in growing them ttjer* has been a success in every way. Last Spring, when the raging floiods of the Mississippi was sweep iog. leveee before it as froth, we con 1 sded that the safety ef the people in the valley was to be had in more nntlpts and not in higher levees. 7'o dsy so lees a personage than Gen. Comstock, president of the Mississippi River Commission, takes ;wactisally t:Ie same view of the matter. Etisewhere we prodaeý a clipping freer the New Orieans Evening News, which calls spon "the dwellers in the valley to~act."ý ~essic. .Pri~ce, Rob ertson and Wil kinson, nmbeflors of Congress from Louisiana, voted for ~ie bill to alter piostmnasters to open all letters so poscid to be addressed to the buttery ctdrpanies or their agents. We find the above campaign lie in the Iast inane of the Manrapas Gazette. Bro. Benjield. its editor fioes not take any stook in Cbris. tianity aid a revealed religion bat asn it strong on the love of eternal' ratrh. He cer tainly has broins nougha to know that the lottery bell ll~aded to contains nio Bach provis on Lit one ahich expressly sape: but nothing harcie shfall authorize ýyposineeter to I~pso any ihail i~t tdreuaeed to himi." Firs! for ehamne, Bcnftel d. I PLEASE DON'T FORGET U'S. Of the carious trade editions is.. sued by the New Orleans daily press this season, that of the 'City Item is, to our way of thinking, the most valuable, by reason "of the promi nence given to the agricultural pro~ Iductions of the State, which neces sadily cosastittute the bed rock of that city's commerce. Admirable as it is, there is room !or improvement, and in a spirit of most kindly criticism, we feel it our Iduty to call attention to the neglect to accord Vermilion 'garish the position it occupies .as a producer of sugar and rice. Repeated and 1f.at tering allusion is made to our sister parish of Acadia in its rice crop report, and while the yield of this pariah fully equals if not surpasses that no mention whmtever is found of the industry is this parish. It is just possible, of course, that being off thie line of tra~vel and in a measure cut off from tlae world by pthe lack of proper and quick trt~s* 11portation facilities, Vermilion parish is hiding its importance and re" sources tider the bushel measure of modest obscurity, just as it did its wonderful increise of 70 per cent. in population daring the past decade, and when some en~terprising statistician pods the sleeping giant with his wand the world will again stand amazed etnd admiring. Dou't forget us next year. Come over and see the promised land. fRoyville is afflicted just now with the presence of a hair~brained idiot, who, under the nonsenical nomae deplume 'CBest I. M," weekly con tributes to the Lafayette Vindicator abo~ut a cot n~an of the most sicken~ ing gush and drivel, interspersed with impertinent and familiar aimn alone to the young ladies and citi zenve of that pretty and highly cultured little town. Mr. Alpha, the editor of the Vindicator, was requested by an indi.gnation meet ing of the citizens of Royville, to coneiga these objectionable com" munications to~ the waste basket, but he evidently wsa too deeply in" tereesed in hounding down the Mex i#an lottery and Louisiana lottery opponents to heed the request. Last Saturday we ire informed that at a' meeting of the regulator captains of Lafayette, the matter was brought up, and strong resoiritione were passed, denouncing the course of the Vindicator'in persisting in publishing these communications, and a com mittee appointed to wait upon the editor and demand that he desist. Morriltov, Conway county. Ark is rapidly comting to the front as a place where more political hell and ra~scality is raisg than anything else. The following account of the occurences at that place on election day, if correct, will not do the Democratic- party any good in the November election : A large body of men awaited the arrival of the train from Little Rock, upon which was J. B. Mc Laughlin, a labor leader, and Geo. Small, a white Republican worker, who had in their possession the Fizer election tickets, which were to be distributed in the different pre cincts. As the train slowed up at the station the mob surged in the 'coach and beat Small until he lay 'semiseles in, the aisle of the car. ,Even when he was in this helpless state some of the more vicious as sailants entiumned to maltreat him. M Luughlin got off with a little lig hter punishmenit, having his shoulder dislocated, and teceiving oilher pwmnislmen~t about the had and body, but lie r-etained conscious ness. While this was going on other members of the party took the package containing the tickets and carried it away." JWe-- Wat do you suppose baby is lbinking about ?" Tb brute--'I 'spose he's thinking what to cry about to~nig~t."-..Life. Once established in that way, a] corporation of that character, and we shall have amorg us a concern with all its, interests and instinCts tending to wrong and to the em ploynment of pliant and dishonest agencies. 'I'o permit representatives to be selected and electe t throughont the State on their merits and as the free choice of constituencies-men who would take their seats untrammeled and cast their vote fr.:n a sense of1 duty and their convictions of wrong - would seriously. jeopardize the interests of a legalized lottery i om pany; hence it~is forced into taking a constant, active interest in the movements of not only one, but afll po~ticai parties, sending its paid agenlts ano ng thue taasaee to corrupt end deceeive thema, buying them up, throttling, -silencing and mnuzzliag the press whenever it can be doat in the cities and in the country, breeding treason and disaenaiou among leaders, fomenting fac tion and' ,-.independent move mients when fastion auits its pur poses, using all expedients and halt ing at nothing necessary to compass 'its ends. With such a concern, private and public virtue and honesty and hap" piness go for nothing, private and public welfare go for nothing; the sole thought which controls and the miy factor. which determinins its action is its own moneyed interests and its cold andi selfish aims The very necessities of its position force such an institution into selecting and placing corrupt men where hon-' est men sheuldd be, pliant and cor-ý rupt tools employed and paid to bej thrown, into any combination with' any party, on any subject by which, its interests are to be eubserved dir ectly or indirectly. No political party can trust it, for althcwgb itý constantly takes part in politics, i acts with all and opp~ose all. Its~ own wants and exigencies measure and determine its politic l and moral creed-Extracts from Gov. N'ichollm'j message, May 1890. ____ I From the sprightly New Orleans' Evening News we elip the following interesting items of St. Mary News: There is a howl at Morgan City because a colored man named Tuck er has been frppointed postmaster. The representative of the admtini. tration, Warvaeth~ wanteb to get rid of F. W. Liggirs, a colored man fromt the position of depuoty collector here, and asked Jolley, the collector; to appoint 'B'cker. aolley' not notwithstanding he secured his own appointment through Warmnoth at the request of Natili and Hutchinson of the S. P. R. R.,' refused to do this and put in !. B. Mentz, who is not in very good favor with the people here. 'Tucker is the most intelligent of the two and would have ficted the position well, and would have pleased cur people better in that place than as postmaster. As it is, Jolley now comes in for a share of jill feeling. There promises to be a lively old time at the meeting of the Repub. can congressionhd committee at Morgan City on the 27th. Cage wants the nomination, and so does Ilarrall, Fontelien, Beattie and several others. Cage will probably get it and all hands get left. The lottery, factions are at war in St Mary. The antis have settled in Mr Joe Laret, o1J'atterson, for sheriff, and the pros n Mr. Lewis, of the same town. There will 'be a slip somewhere and'Frere will lanvd again. Dr. J. H. P. Wise is talked of for state seflator to run against Mblbphy Foster. The Abbeville MERIDIONAL is do ing some pretty vigirous kicking fovz having been, as it claims, cheated out of the parish printing; and it calls the police jurymea hard names. The Meridional in anti-lottery, and as such, is putting in some bard licks.--Monroe Progressive Age. The little Abbeville MERIDIONAL is always on the warpath when it gets on the Lottery. Bro. Breaux surely wields an able pen, and when he starts out after the lottery he takes his tomahawk with him and the opposition generally takes to the woods.--St. Mary Banner. ý "After being dist~barged, I am lead into bad company,"as the bul let remarked when it Ipdged in a tram~p.-.Jester. The great advantages #Btilting to a towm from railroads, are graphically depicted in the follow ing article from the Monroe Tele graph Bulletin:. Monroe has been on a t cided boom during the past 1C days both in railroad and commercial circles. The chief officers of both the Q & C. and Missouri Pacific systems have beeni here and the rivalry for ad.1 vantages in securing switch faciliti~ea at the compres~sand ricer landings ~and in railroadl rates liay been great. The result of the latter is. that Monroe now enjoys the best' freight rates she ever ltad. St. [..nia freights b~eing delivered at 10 oents { per hundred. It iti need~ess to say tbM our merchants have taken ~advantage of these rates and laid in large stocks and that they will give the adraut~gme to their dusto~sers and consumers. In the matter of switch facilities the V., S. P" hast continued its spur to the bead ofi ~Pine street and the H., C. 4. & . headed off there, wilt comie into the compress yards and reach the river through Olive street. Th~e switch is now being laid and will be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. 'In addition to these evidences we hear it oi every baud that tUe prds. 4~ects for the approaching businessm ason are the brightest hi the histo rv of Monroe--our bankers, c'nm press men, cotton buyers, ,ncrclotnte and all holding to this view. It is confidently estimated that we will handle net less that 75,000 bales of j cotton. 'This is a most rtiftiin[g I and cheering outlook sand the 1I dce graph-Bulletin laeartly shares in the t general elation of our people. j r v t o l e sColonel hIandler, ef Georgia tells a good' Crory on h~e tirat meet ~ing with private J.hii Allen, of IMississippi and how the pr ivate worsted him in a~k ock down a'bd draw out fight. "1 was dowq near Tnp eloio com" wand of a Georgia @osipaIry," s ý "M .r. Chandler. One inot-utrirg r lean lana, gawky laoy who looked as if, bad you held ham up to he light you could see the tadpoles in him, walked up to msy tent. and drawled out, 'Cap'e one o' your d-_-n men atirle my bleanket aýrd J'ýn (oiog io frail h--- out's sorobody. Akbout this molbent one ot mb men oame ap and said: "Oajpiri.. it is my blanket he refers to. Yea kanow ttl~t blanket for von have slept under it many times." "Yes,' I replied; "1 remnemberIt Of co~urse it is yours."'ha' "Yes," said the boy, 'htsjust like you d- -n Georgians. One of you will tell a lie sod t'othar will swear to it. Nowt Cap'ii if you will list shed them stripes I'll whip~ you qnu ker'n b'--l will scorch a lea thei "I couldn't stead that challenge", said the Georgian. 1 quickly threw off my coat and lit into the fight. Well, if it had not been for my men I 'eli~e that fellow would hive beat me to death. He snmply plow. ed up the earth with me, and then offered to 'whip all my men one by one, but none of them would try him. That boy was Pri mte John Allen, the Mississ.ippi Congress. uiau."--Gree;,viiie Thnes. The following from thie Mfor~ra City Review a Republ~cas paper, showg clearly that' the repiblkans >o this District have given up the. ghost: Will the Repnblicans of the 3d, Congressional District place a can didate in the field, is th~e question now being, discussed by party lead era, and will perhaps, ba scttled at the meeting of the u'~ ae in this place on 27th inst. It ou~r opinion that a campaign will re ult as those in the past, and it ;cmem useless to incur the expense and worry of one. Had the election b~ill passed Congress, there would have been many aspirants foar the. nomination in this district, but as isias, available caadidatma are scarce, and it is probable that no notnina will he made. The only persu.] that has signified a disposition to sacrifice himself onk the party at is .fudge Fontelieu, of ~w Iberia. Others h'owever, may in the future desire to make the race. As' tt requires a plethoric ,purse to coin 'pete for Cowggressiosn 1.hroiorh those I ýºho maiy be provided with that neEcessa~y ad unct do not seem dhs posed to take sly risk.` Henry wsa a , scarcely dared tut lHe loved hecWlt4 worthy of his affectkai5 " mnodest, iutelligent oratile; but like all goo4j yearned for the tea that are the evideuce, oft feotion. She, however, vain. Henry WorehlI might kiss the hem of but to kiss her lis ` W~rvOndoijyof the. him tremjble. f. Yliey eat together lookinu' one ou the tpioon'st light which . yachts were croseing £4-was a witchinghi for hive and cahea deli Suddenly she e~ away from himi. "Please, Henry, dog& she said. "What ?" he ase, surprise. - " "Oh!I you needn't. replied, "yoa.were ja yo~ur arm aroitand e you were going to trt L "D~ear Lillie-+-" "Oh! you needb't teet ecut; you were going to after all, I suppose you 'blame. It is just " V would do to his $W auppose would not if you do do it." And Henry grasped - anid did eyactly what posed he would do, at grinned and the staret the wavelets laughed,'s quito that was about tg inaiden', cheek flew tied on the nosw of gra was sitting near the Boston Cpurier. ' An exehange aays, Blackburn,. editor of the Republican, summariaw sitnat(n in Arkansas,' "If the. solid end. unite pf Arkansas, backed e erv decent white eeneible and thocughtMt in the state, can not his cha'tic, rat-tail erg; srinlitical odds ::" at nVa fo d ista noe by rorost R~epublican at~te, by. a.4ciear su of. at least from thousaund, thten. let. claimed that virtue et4 rtsa riI'lea this onuuiry. t.~ When the contr a passed at tfle detheact~ the new Congregntio M~oorland, Is., last single person arose On~e reason vu.be on the seats was n .0 dried, and the eatirs was tightly glued coeoth sevcitquarters of an ters to prisoners. All the were ruined, and e Is *them still decorate th nished pews. We stdind by (I. D. McEnery when he tneasnge in 1882: The constitution . bling to be a form, not to breeches of faith sad went ie the offortlto get: turn of s wheel, but society, corrupting impeding legislation. in years gone by jonil, kissed away frt~n oroe. troubled tear; els has petted you when all . against you; she has and nursed you with a, known only to a mothaWi sympafbizcd *rith you ins she has been proud of your Wili! cats have numaeriouS9 on the outaklvl ha La., and ttave ilk, serious inroads uponi Dr. R. S. carter is settit them ad sneeeeded in large one other u Democrat Chap's. i^~ Franklin. It it 'arte~ry sideand¶ De D ej ~ Baton Rongp A beý^ C&cen p. git