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Official Journal of Parish School Board. OT .xuu(. ABBEiVILLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, JULY 22, I899, _ -- N. 29._ THE 31ERIDIONAL ADVERTISING RATE s: spACE:. Irmo. 2 mns 3m s 6mos 12iu 'One inch $ 3 0) $ 500 $7 00 $ 900'$12(x TWO inthes 550 803 1000 1600 2201) Threeins 750: 1000 1400 22 001 3000 Fohr ri 1000 1500 IS 00 30 00! 40 00 Five ins 1200) 1800 2.500 3500 50 00 Half colIan 25 00 4000 50)00 65 00 8000 'Oneed~u 4000 6000 7500 1000015000 Local netices, per line $0 10 flne insertion, per inch or less 1 00 Each subseq1ent insertion 75 Death anl inlarrI i3 notices, not exceed ir~ live lines, are piibliaed free. Ohitn r ies are charged at one-half rate ef read 1 ind of Job Printing neatly and c eaply e-ccnted at this office. Strang nmust. ' d money with their orders to , oid delay C rds of a personal character will be a red double rates. Sýa thetmn Pae.tic COxMsENCING MAR01 5, 1896, -WEST BOUND So.20 aT;ipea at New Iberia 2:51 P. M " 18 '" '' ' 10:20 -EASTr BOUND lo. 17 ýa:ives at New Iberia 1;54 P. M. < l " " It 5:59A. M1. *I. &* V. Route. Arrives. ABIHVU?.LE EXPRESS. Leaves 10:30 - - - 3:00 Loco. .DEPAPTURE. "Lowvrs r:0 a..m. ArrivLe4:15 p. Su CiARZ3. Je W. SHANKS, ITTDRWE Y AT LAW. --And Agent for the 3Mutual Life luIsuance Co. +. N. Y. .II EVILLXE. - - LA. O with M1. T. CordI. 'Attorney -at Law, ()FiICI:-IN COIJI',T HOUSE W. P EDVPARDS7 J. If GLFF\FE EIUWARD8 AND GREEN.E AYJ/ORNVEYS Art"LA TV SOUn: 9 A. It. TO 12--i To Id. OFJ' -9!i STATIC SThI ABBEVLLLE.- - - LOLUI NA 1ROUSSBDI kITIE[t 4AI[[Y ATTORNEYS AT LAW. OFFICE-N'AR COURT HOUSE. ' I BEVILLE, - - - - LOUISIANA 7-29-94. M. T. GORDY, JR., (District Attorney.) ATTORNEY AT LAW, Of~ce t Abbeville, Louisiana. 1-t-94. W. B. WHITE. Attorney at Law -A-ND NO'TARY PUBLIX. ARREVILLE - - - ALA. Th)MAIN FRANCEZ, IT. S. DEPUTTY SURVEYOR, Phtrtiej 1e iring hands surveyed .witl be-prnpip ly i econmtndarehd o~penI i'ppiittg to Sientaet Leblawie or J lI. Bdiuxuis, at Abbevi~lp. or liy wil. `lfing me at Crirencico, I.o isiuii'e. Ang. 21-'97. W. W. EDWARDS, AW YER A/bbeville, La. Will attend to all business in the line ? his profession in Vermilion or the 'aloining parishes. Full Stock of Furniture! The undersigned has a full stock of Furniture and invites the public to call and get prices before buying as he will make it interesting. Iron Beds a specialty, also in connection with the abova I have a FullStock of Funeral Goods. Hearse on premises OPHELIAS B URQUE, Abbevr1e, -La. WACCONER& PORTER Wheelwrights Blacksmiths & Machinists. #4c-Special attention given to machinery repairing. Head of State Street. Southern Pacific, "SUNSET ROUTE." DOUI3LE DAILY NE[ OR[[ANS ANn GALVSTON TRAIN SERVICE with Buffet Sleepers SA ATIOJ ADO 6A[![SION ONLY STANDARD CUACE LINE RUNNINC WFHUCH SLFEPEPS TO CITYOF MEXIQO Night and Mornmng Connections New Orleans wvith Lines to 3}< OR: F R L7ED~FLPLU ST. LCKJST, NTA WA`J i CT 7'T,"""' CI NTI MEPi 7 CHICAGO Foar" fiall leaf zrnz iatie ctall ocs Locarz dagen: t 2,or sad ar reya (Jn !"' Pass.: & Tirk t Aý-ed'. As . P A& T. A I La H,,uston, 'ex' SHONEST AAC hINE5 AT N1ONIýT PPI1Cý5 -4. cz~4-v< 9 DD =i°by t ; , ':3^ - i ý ...? proven a winner o.L cn r than, anyý X c2k tto. idnb the non p=': inl y ~ soce,"frbsns or plhasure, it has a reecred ý, :mi. t.. noc+: . Ka~r used i.: its construction, pansrtak:int care i:_ ma-atrn :et aiI, case in running, and hard cme, syar~net-ica1 de; ign are aA ^ x;;s claims for superiority. Reasonabbi prim., coupkd with hh asare characteristics of -the "WHI''TE." Out 1.- e a :li ý €1444tatkio guarantees the excelLknce of our product. AModels A and E-------.$50.0O Model G (SO-in. whiee9--?- .--- 60.00 '.Special lacer"-------------.... 65.00 Models E and F (chainless) --------- 75.00 White Sewing Machine Company, CLEVELAND, OHIO. p* The.Hunter Canal. July the fourth was fittingl3 chosen by Capt. S. S. Hunter of Shreveport, who has been securing the right of way aind making suveys preparatory to locating a definaite route for the canal for the past three mouths, as the occasion to break dirt on his huge irrigating canal. The work was be gun on Vermillion river, ten miles north of Abbeville, in this parish,and where the pumping plant will be located. This canal will be built from the Vermillion river, running ten miles west, thence five miles south, and again five miles west, making in all twenty miles main canal. In addition to the main canal there will be numerous laterals running out along its route. This canal will be 200 feet wide and will have a capacity of irrigating 100,000 acres of rice land. This will be one of the largest irrigating canals in the world. There are at present a force of hands with a hundred and thirty mules at work throwing up the levees, and a train of ten carloads of mules and scrapers are in transit from' Shreveport and will arrive on the canal the early part next week. While'it is to be regrett ed that, the route first selected, start ing fronphe bayou at Adame Boud reaux place, has been abandonei, we are glad to know there is a chance of sotne of our local people taking up the project and building a canal westward from that point. A Book on COge Birds. Containing over J'50 engravrngs and a lithographic plate showing all the different kinds of Fancy Canaries in thier natural colora, full informa tion in regard to Song, Fancy Cana ries and how to breed them for profit. IHints on the treatment and breeding of all kinds of Cage Birds, with des criptions of their ' diseases and the remdies needed to cure them. All about Parrots and how to teach them to talk. Instructions for building and stocking an aviary. The most complete book of the kind ever pub lished, irrespective of price. Mailed to any address on receipt of 15c. by the Associated Fanciers. 409 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia. To Raise Tea, 'It's'only a question of time,"says Sce. Wilson, who lately made a trip in the southern states, "when the south will produce all the tea the people in the United States want. This department proposes to push experiments along that line. We intend to esablish a tea farm in every southern state as soon as that can he done intelligently. We propose to get.the finest varieties of ten to be found, and intend to have the plant ing done where growth can be forced through irrigation, so as to get plenty of tender shoots." The W ishington Enterprise's re porter states that he met Judge Blackman, from Lake Char'e . He informs the reporter that the company that he is interested in to develop the salt deposit in St. Martin Parish, are now receiving tie machinery for bor ing the test wells. The initiative is the application of the people by petition to the le isla tare for certain laws. The referen dum is the returning of the act to the people for its ftial vote; This sys tern is used in Switzerland. The astute editor of the Time# Democrat has made a great discovery. It is that "the people of the Fifth congressional district are particularly remarkable for their political inde pendence of "the bosses "the ma chine" or ?the powers that would be." We aae certainly glad to know it, and the Democrats of the hill par ishes who have been forced to bow to the will of a few 'bosses' in the big nig ger voting river parishes, will no doulft rejoice to hear of their newly found independence. What do you think about it Bros. McMeans and Everett? Why, bless your skul, these river "bosses" are the jim ilandies. Whey they actually had the ConstitutionAl convention under the reach of their lash and they dared to write in that shb Id be sacred instrument the da nable absurdity3-that in all political conventions the basis bf repi resentation should rest upon the popu ration. They might with equal pro priety have declared that l4enceforth circumcision should be a rite of thl Baptist religion. Propositions to buy the bonds to be Ifoated by this town are coming in froit rich men in the north. They are huni= gry for such an opportunity to inveh their surplus spuds.-Bastrop Appeal. This only serves to show how much surphis money there is in commerci centers, which is seeking safe invest ment. And yet while the holders the 'stuff' are anxious to put it if, bonds at even ,a low rate of interest they pre very slow to invest tt in far&i property. Why is this T There is only ope aus ver-,because farm property is not a safe and paying investment. Farthing and agriculture is the prime basis of all real and ultimate prosper ity, and when they fail, the country is getting in a bad shape. When finan ciers arejumping at municipal bonds, and yet refuse to advance money oh lands in the same loealities at much better rates of interest, it shows that the farming industry-the true wealth producing calling-is at a low ebb. Farmerville G'zette. The is some howling going on in dif ferent parts of the State about Foster's ring, but Lord bless your soul didn't we have the Nicholls ring and the McEnery ring ? They were just as bad as the Foster ring. And we wouldn't give A continental for a governor who did not stick to his friends and his friends stick to the governor. The present governor may have kinder looked out for the future too, but there is not an-office holder that does not do that. One thiing ean be said-and that is, that thb State's finances are in a better condi tion to-day than ever -before. Those not in accord with Governor Foster will have to acknowledge this.-Lake Providence Banner-Democrat. By far the most sensible article yet produced on the race question is pub lished in the Forum for July, and it'A from the pen of a colored man, W. fi: Councill, president of the normal col: lege for negroes at Normal, Alabama: Preskient Couocill maintains that. neither wealth nor education will solva the negro p:oblem. Hie conclusions are that the negro will be annihilated; absorbed by the lower and degraded element of-the white race, or c ported: He thinks that the emigration of the negro to Africa is the proper solutioii; of the problem; that there he will 4 in the course of time and found a grea* nation among the millions of his lreth ren in the dark. continent. To cure Depression of spirits, YMllI ing of the womb and weakness, of back usual to change of life take Simmons Siitzaw Vine Wie or Tab lets.