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Library of Congress1883

Image 2 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), January 27, 1883, (French)

NEW YORKS GasLit Life Illustrated The ahove is the title of a serie of sketches of the shady side of life and character in the Great Me tropolis now being fully Illnstra ted from authentic sketches in the National Police Gazette of New York which are realistic and faithful portraitures from real life The illustrations are by the best artistic talent attainable and the discriptions are from the pen of the most gifted journalist and brilliant writer in America who it is conceded has rivalled that master hand at word painting Charles Dickens It is snfliclent to say that New Yorks Gaslit Life will present the most stick ing vivid and truthful pictures of the undercurrent of life in New York City that have ever been presented to the public The National Police Gazette of New York is for sale by all newsdealers price 10 cent per copy or it can le ordered direct from the publisher Subscription price 400 per year The National Police Gazette of New York has no connection with any other publica tion of its clas who for gain as far as possible copy its tithe and appearance CAUTIONThe public are cautioned against buy ing weak

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Library of Congress1886

Image 1 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), January 16, 1886, (English)

r aYIu ABBEVILLE LOUISIANA SATURDAY JANUABY 1o 1880 NO 80 H J EDWARDS X D TOUNG EDWARDS Physicians Surgeons BBEVILLB LA opposite ýadeleine Square 1 T C Youngs Drug Store at N C Youngs mug Store given prompt attention M SALOON 1M Proptietol ABBEVILLE LA lbrte resort of pleasfrs and will be found one of the most in the town to while hours in rocreation Good K ES LN4j D CIGARS oad and also a Pool and lil Kind and polite attention eivery one Oct 3n51y IBEAUXIS ABBEVILLE LA geonst4aatly on hand a fresh and spply of Family Groceries of all f ned and J erred Gends of a full and Couutly Produce of every and the very best brands of yeWiucs and Cigars Unaidies aikes tsh retails Liquor by the drink bargnis and fresh goods I claim srpjeed by any other merchant placeOct3d51y AL PRODUCE AND CoxwIssION MEPCHANT DRALutR IN AR MOL4SSES COTTON AND ALL KINDS OF RY AND WESTERN IROD U C E 61 Poydrats Street NEW ORLEANS L V Boi 3215 promptly attended to W W EDWARDS LAW Y E3R Ah ville La WIllatteed to all bnsines in the line of gouduulo in Vermiliou or the adjoin

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), June 6, 1891

4GENTS for Dr TALMAGES 4 i New Book coveriag ANTED his lifes woe Ahro San From the ChristLaud en tleod ho FROM MAN4ER TO TIHltDE E Embracing a new Life of Christ and a Story of Palestine and its People illus trated with over 400 wonderful engrav ings of scenery in Holy Land copies of old masters and famous pictures from the Land and 1imes of the Savior also a grand picture of Jerusalem on the day of the crucifixion in 12 colors and ton feat in length This is Dr Tslmages life work and his greatest book Orders are now pouring in from all parts of the civilized world You will never havean other like it 1000000 copies will be sold the first year Agents should drop allelse and secure terriVory Such chanceseome only once in a life time Exclusive ter ritory givenfull protection The most remarkable and wonderful of all books about the Land Time and People of the Bible Go to work Now and von will make hundreds of dollars Territory goirg with a rush act now no capital needed Name territory ymi want and write at once for particulars to ND McDONALD CO 81 Oarondelet Street

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), June 20, 1891

There is considerable excitement among the Louisiana oystermen on account of the unnecessary and un justifiable destruction of the oysters along the Gulf coast by parties who come from elsewhere to collect the bivalves Near the Balize the citi zens threatened to take their shot guns and use them upon these de predators bult they took the hint and left It is an outrage that should not be permitted The oys ters shoeld not be foolishly or imaliciously destroyed and such vandalism should be stopped in some wayThlibodeaux Sentinel GOOD LOOS Good looks are more than skin deep depending upon a healthy condition of all the vital organs If the Aiver be inactive you have a Bilious Look if your stomach be disordered you have a Dyspeptic Look and if your Kidneys be affected you have a inched Look Secure good health and you will have ood looks Eleetric Bitters is the great alterative and Tonic act directly on thesevital organs Cures Pimples BlotchesBoils and gives sood com plexion Sold at Ni C Young and A J Godard Drugstore 50c per bottle Oa If you know of any man who has sold his vote or his influence to the lottery

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), June 27, 1891

The steamship El Sol on her last trip from New York to New Orleans made the run between the bars on the ocean and gulf course in four days and twentyone hours the quickest on record She ran from Eads Jetties to New Orleans wharf in sevenl hours making six teen miles an hour against the cur rent a speed equal to that of the great R E Lee when she made her famous run from New Orleans to Cairo and St Louis in July 1870 now nearly twentyone years ago It costs one of the swiftest ocean racers 85000 to make a round trip voyage from Europe to America and return and the coal expense is from 15000 to 18000 A Womder Worker Mr Frank Huffmao a young man of Burlingtdn Ohio states that he had been under the care of two prominent physicians and used their treatment until he was not able to get around They pronounced his case to be Consumption and in curable He was persuaded to try Dr Kings New Discovery for Con sumption Coughs and Colds and at that time was not able to walk across the street without resting He found before he

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), July 4, 1891

Sahara Desert Dispatch from Oran says that an enormous reservoir of water 120 feet below the surface has been dis covered at El Golen a small cara van station in the midst of the Sahara desert The reservoir was discovered while a number of work men were engaged in sinking a well at El Golea She shaft sunk already gives forty gallons of good clear water per minute and it is expected that this amount can readily bt found that a larger quantity is necessary The discovery is of the highest importance and will un doubtedly tend to develop the cara van trade of El Golea which is one of the stoping places in the Sahara desert of caravans which travel across that region This is the first time that water has been found at so alight a depth in Sahara ForMalarla Liver Trou ble or Indigestion use BROWNS IRON BITTERS ALITTLE GIRLS EXPERIENCEIN A LIGHTHOUSE It1r and Mrs Loren Trescott are keepers of the Gov Lighthouse at Sand Beach MIch and are blessed with a daughter Aur years old Last April she was taken down with mea alesfollowed with a dreadful Cough and turning to a fever Doctor at

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), July 11, 1891

They IAke UepwbIier We Jews like republics said an intelligent Russian Jew in this city We are well treated in all the republics of the world In the republic of France we enjoy all our rights and likewise in the republic of Switzerland In the republic of the United States we are on politi cal equality with citizens of other races and creeds and are at no dis advantage in business life The re public of Mexico protects the Jews and we are protected in all the re publics of South America In Eng land which is as liberal as a repub lic the Jews areunder no disabilli ties and you have heard of the Jewish lord mayors of the city of London It is despotic governments only that have persecuted the Jews and Russia is now the only autocra tic government in Euprope We want to see republics established in all the countries of the world for the Jews feel that they can live safely in any republicNew York Sun A SAFE LVVESTMERT Is one which is guarantee to brina you satisfactory results or in case of failure a return ofpurchase price On this safe plan you can buy

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), July 18, 1891

Endorsing The system of endorsing is all wrong and should be utterly abol ished It has been the financial ruin of more men than perhaps all other causes BoolcKeeping a jour nal devoted to merchants clerks and business men advises our young men especially to study the matter carefully in all its bearings and adopt some settled policy to govern their conduct so as to be ready to answer the man who ask them to sign his note What responsibility does one assume when he endorses a note Simply this He is held for the payment of the amount in full principal and interest if the maker of the note though misfor tune mismanagement or rascality fails to pay it Notice the endors er assumes this responsibility with no voice in the management of the business and no share in the profits of the transaction if it proves profit able but with a certainty of loss if for any of the reason stated the principal fails to pay the note LA GRIPPE AGAIN During the epedemic of Ia grippe last season Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds proved to be the best remedy Reports from the many

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Library of Congress1891

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), July 25, 1891

She Wore the Ring A sharming girl had a fine pair sof solitaire diamond earrings and she lost one of them to her infinite sorrow She could not find it any where and after months of grief and spasmodic search lhe resigned Therself to doing without diamond earrings Having lost the mate of it she did not know what to do with a single stone but she was full of womanly invention She was en gaged to a struggling young mati without money except what he earned and unable to bestow dia amonds on his fiancee One day she was walking with her sweetIheart and and suddenly pausing she pointed to a point of light in the street and said What is that a diamond He stooped and picked it up with delight and surprise I suppose whoever lost such a tem will advertise it he said Well you keep it said she until it is ad vertised for and if it is not you can have it set in a ring for me She wears the ring now and he does not know yet why that diamond was not advertised for or that his sweet iheart dropped it in

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), March 2, 1895

A VENDRE Une coupeuse a riz de seconde main Sadresser a GILBERT LABAUVE 20 octobre 94 Abbeville Lne LABEILLE DE LA NOUVELLEORLE ANS Journal quotidien avec une edition hebdomnadaire paraissant le sarnedi matin et contenant toutes Ies ma tieres publies pendant la semaine dans Iedition quotidienne Ledition hebdomaaaire reunis sant en un seul nuut1ro toutes les nouvelles de la semaine compte beaucoup dabonnes et de lecteurs PRTX DE LABONt5EMENT Edition quotidienne Un an 13 Trois mois 3 Six wmoiq I Un mois I Edition hebdomadaire Un an 3 Quatre mois 1 Six mois 1 50 Trois mois 75 Bureaux et ateliers No 73 rue de Chartres entre Conti et Bienville FOR SALE One hundred and sixtyfive or pents of land jrst below Perrys Bridge having a front of 51 arpents on the Vermilior river by a depth of at arpents This property is intersected by the public road leading directly to Perry and A beville has several beautiful building sites is finely wooded and will make a rich sugar farm It is partly improved having considerable fencing upon it a dwelling house and other buildings Terms Cash or time granted as pur chaser desires Any further information may be had

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), May 4, 1895

The Old Friend And the best friend that never fails you is Simmons Liver Regu lator the Red Zthats what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine and people should not be persuaded that anything else will do It is the King of Liver Medi cines is better than pills and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel It acts directly on the Liver Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to the whole sys tem This is the medicine you want Sold by all Druggists in Liquid or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea sEVERY PACRKAS Has the Z Stamp in red on wrap r J H ZEIL1SI i 00E Piiaddp ja FOR SALE One hundred and sixtyfive are pents of land just below Perrys Bridge having a front of 5 urpents on the Verimilion river by a depth of 31 arpen ts This property is intersected by the public road leading directly to Perry and Abbeville has several beautiful building sites is finely wooded and will make a rich sugar farm It is partly improved having conEiderable feucing upon it a dwelling house and other buildings Terms Cash or time

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), July 20, 1895

Besides hundreds of bells weigh ing from 10000 to 25000 pounde Nankin China has four bells which each weigh 50000 puunds They are nearly 12 English feet each in theight and are aknost 28 feet in diameter The metal in thesemon sters averages about 56 inches in thickness throughout being about 8 inches on the lower lip or rim In Pekin there is a chime of seven bells each of which weighs 120000 pounds Deaifless 4amt be Cared by local applicatikous as they cannot reac thodisinease port on of the ear There one way to cure deafness and thatbyn ecy constitutional remedies Deafness is aned by an intitmed condition of the mu cous lining of tbrhFustachian Iube When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing and when it is entirely closed Deafoess is the resalt and unless the iOflamation san be tiken eut and this tube restored so its normal condi lion hearing will be destroyed forever nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucons surfaces F J CHENEY CO Teledo4 Sold by Druggist seventy five oente The Abshire Reprieve Much has been said

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), August 10, 1895

The Hlorr Harvey debate on the slyer question which has been going on in Chicago for a couple of weeks camne to an end on Monday Case Waterman was sentenced last week to thirty years imprison ment for attempting to wreck an express train on the Detroit Grand Haven and Milwaukee road on July The Great Falls Manufacturing Company of Sowersworth New Hampshire have notified their help of an eight per cent increase in wages to take effect August 1 The company employs ahrl 2000 men Solicitor Reeve of the Treasury Department has decided that a Chinese restaurant keeper is not a merchant within the meaning of the Chinese Exclusion act and is not entitled to reenter the United States Nineteco lodges of puddlers at Youngstown Ohio decided on Sat urday night to withdraw from the Amalgamated Association and form an exclusive puddlers union They are dissatisfied because the base of the puddling scaie is not fixed at 450 per ton It is the best patent medicine in the world is what Mr E M Hart znan of Marquam Oregon says of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy What leads me to make this assertion is from the fact that

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), September 14, 1895

State Finances The highest test that can be ap plied to the administralon of public affairs in the condition of the State finances the manner and method of their handling and the results that followed as the expiration of a term of office approaches We propose to submit some facts concerning the management of Louisianas finances that willI be startling to the enemies of the ad ministration and that will rove to 9 arguments more potent than any idle words of praise that could be bestowed arguments unanswerable to the minds of all lovers of wise or good government At the beginning of this adminis tration there were outstanding 486000 of past due unpaid coupons every dollar of which has been retired asd provided for There were outstanding warrants for 1884 85 and 86 amounting to 840000 and this entire amount has melted away under the present administration There have been retired and paid dn full 512400 of interest bearing tate bonds maturing in 1914 thus reducing annually 20480 in in terest alone which the State would have had to pay and aggregating a total saving in interest of about a half million dollars Today there in not a dollar

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), September 28, 1895

The Phe ix Wheel nadue of structural steel is 125 feet in diain ere standlirg on Midway Heights seventy five feet above the lake The upper rim rising two hundred feet above the lower part of the grounds cuts a respectable firure against the horiron The wheel carries twelve cars with a capacity of twelve people each On Saturday the concessionaries invited the Ex position Lirectors to take a trial trip on the structure Dont Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away is the truthful startling title of a book about NoTo Bic the harmlecs gauranteed tobJbacco habit cure that braces up nicotinized nerves clim mnates the nicotine poison makes weuik men gain strength vigor and manhood You run no physical or financial risk as NoToBac is sold by druggists everywhere under guarantee to cure or money refunded Hook free Address Sterling Rem edy Co New York or Chicago As to tho TimnesDemocrat it is a great newspaper It has spent time large money and earnest efforts to make itself that But Burkeism does somehow attach to its skirts and instead of forming and moulding public sentiment and public opinion it seems oftener to have a weather eye to the

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), October 5, 1895

dome unfounde i reports have spread misinforination ab nt the rites to he charged by hoteis and boarding houses at Atlanta during the Cotton States and International Exposition Mr Alex W Smith Chief of the Public Comfort Depart meat makes this statement tor pub lication Atlanta Ga ug 25 1895 Mr Walter G Cooper Chief De partmcutlf Publicity and Prom otion Atlanta Ga DEAR inReferring to the ed itorial comment of the Savannah Morning News to the effect that boarding house keepers have an nounced an increase in their rates I beg to state that this department has received no intimation of any such intention and not one single person who has registered accom wodation with the department has given any notice of an increase I take pleasure in announcing through you to the public at large that sufficient accomodations have been secured through the efforts of the Public Comfort Department to adequately and comfortable care for the average attendance upon the Exposition The rates for such accommodation at the regular hotels will be from one dollar to three dollars per day European plan and from two to five dollars per day American plan In the lodging and boarding houses

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), October 12, 1895

Coutona During the week under review the only signi ication change in the con dihlns surrounding the cotton market has been the appearance of Eiglish and Continental spinners as large buyers of actual cotton Sales of spot cotton in Liverpool since Friday the 13th inst are estimated at 54000 bales as against 43000 bales for the preceding week This icreaie in the demand for actual cotton is attributable to a disposi tion on the part of spinners to give inore credence to the reports of crop damage on this bide the water The result of this increased demand for cotton has been to stimulate pri ces and yesterday the high water mark for the week namely 8 27 for January was reached On Friday last January contracts sold at 8 19 but mnder liquidating sales induced by the lack of speculative demand jfr cotton prices gradually receded until on Monday the 16th inst enlee were made at 796 Snite that time however Europe appears to have awakened to the fact that perhaps after all there is more truth in the reports of crop damage then they have heretofore be willing to acknowledge This fact is evidenced by their increased purchasea

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Library of Congress1895

Image 4 of The Meridional (Abbeville, La.), October 26, 1895

It is a ingular coincidence that itii South Dakota a week or so ago it was necessary to close the schools on aeount af the intense heat and two dys later they were cloed again because of the excessive cold Evi d ntly the elements would pay io attention to compulsory laws in South Dakota Bro Gray of the Morgan City Indlepenient Democrat is trowlug dangerous in hise old age Just lis ten at him To hades with these infernal Spaniards Their history is a re cord of oppression written in the blood of martyrs They should have no place among the enlighened nations of the world and it is to he hoped that this government will pay no more attention to their yelpings than those of ayellow cur dog Tne intelligent compositor this time its the editor was the cause of trouble a knockdown and law suit in our last issue Of course everybody reads the price list week ly of NIr T Lehmann at the Peerless grocery In setting it up the fool printer the boss sail in type Magnolia milk 4 cans 25c There was a rush for it but of course could not be sold at

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