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Dollar a Year. SATURDAY, FEB. 2l, 1902. 7tew3 and Parish. Thursday was damp and cold, 'with sraw westerly wiid and min Dr.

Halstvad, the veterinarian, be here Tuesday. 'See ad dl'ebGbere. There was a big, heavy frost this brorning and the day dawned bright sand fair. FoR R.Tr.-At new hbibe containing three large rooms, barn 'ad cistern. Apply at this office.

feb22 2t. Mrs. S. J. DTavies securing from her ad of b'lhck Minorca egg aiid had already received two the first of this week.

This shews that advertising pays. Mr. Chauvin, of the Daily et'rald, ha been circulating a dtock subsucdption list this week to organize a with a capital of $5,000 to iprchasc that paper and issue a 'weekly in addition. MEEND RICE OR BALEt I have a choice lot of Japan Sloe for sale. For samples and price 'esquire at Godchaux's Independent Warehouse or at my home place, cashmere.

JOHN A. WATHEN. "eoo8 tf. Winter Should not last much longer I If the old sayings 'are true. Wedneaday afternoon we bad the frst i.utiderrtotm of the year and it' billed long and loud, which they say ia sign that spring will soon be Crowley is to habe another rice mill.

It wilttike a calacity df 1,0.0 barrels daily and will be built by A. Petty for the Hunter! Brothers of Shreveport. The Mark's 'kiiehbOsi has been secured as the lite and will form a of the mill which will be ready for this 'seasons Crowley will then have nine tice mills. Be sure and read our great blubbing rate with The Nashville American On the fourth page of this tuae and subscribe for both at once. nist think of it-both papers niDe defr, i beautiful picture and a guess contest in which $2,500.00 is for $1.25.

Sampl. 'oples of the paper are to be had less at this office. The premium pictns areto be seen st this Qplte a lveiy blow occurred here wedaeeday evening about 3 o'clock. It had been warm iend cloudy all day, hatl about that hour when a thuneartorm came up from the south.ut. quick as a flash the wind nhfted north and for a few minutes tug rain poured down and the wind blew a small hurricane prostrating baesand trees and siiiashing windows.

The cornice on Adam Braihea's saloon was damaged and the heat door of the courthouse utnl JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA. btBugarated an agents' contest .3 the months of January and FebIV, 1902. They are going to diamd "ong their agents $160 in cash t.eO.lld on the first of March, $50 ithe frt prize. DaIEember they gave $100 to fitl eStst. For terms and a ddrees BX.

I.rWEUELy JOUtRAL, htlanta, GBL Bad Whisky Killed Him. sA hort teinperance lecture is oubnd in the melancholy death of Gedrge Pierce'the uith who carried 'the U. S. Mail from Abb i'ille to Cossineid. Wednesday afternoon when he got back 'frotm his trip he wandered up ittbo "the Styx" as Valcouriville, coonburg, the collection of huts shihtles northeast oif called.

Hdre he dhet Baptiste Hebert, Cestna and Anastasie Conuer andila gallon jdg of 40 rod whisky and right there is where Pierce fell down. He was not a drunkard or a hard drinker, but a ride made hinb thirsty. Hebert and his coni.oanlons Wiere drinking deeply-they had a big goblet holdIng a pint'and they poured it half full. When 'they had taken 'a half ilozen rounds, the party moved over 't6 Emelie Conner's shack and there 'the thesaes before the inquest swore that Pierce on a wager drank two full gobl), of si raight whisky. Just as he the last alss te dropped dor- ia a stopor outside the door, dead 'irithk.

The men picked him up and laid him dn a pallet on the floor to sleep off the druaken dobanch. But alas, that sleep his 1h.t, for in the morning when they 'went 'to "arouse him, he was cold and stiff in death. The Shbiff kld Cdorher were at once notified, khd lah i'qlnest held. The jury after a eareful hearing of the witnesses "examiination of the corpse reached the conslusion that eath had resulted from acute alcoholisth, or a 'atal dose of whisky. Doea' Take Calomel.

IT 'iY The new liver medidine, Takesthe place of caloiel, without the evil effects. Pleasant -o take as lemonade, acts mildly ani efflectnally, cures all liver diseases, bliousness. constipation, indigestiou. sick headache, clears the complexion and prevents malarial poison. Price.

85 cts. lbttle. dold and guaranteed by A. Abbeville. La.

he 'Piew a- Success. A. F. Maxfield, who is the patentee anmd inventor of a new plow attachment has been trying it this week rice land imnd it does the work adinirably. In fact the attachmeiit wheti placed on a plow does the work of both plow and barrow in irepirfig tBh land at oee operation.

Next week we shall endeavor to -give a better accoont of the attkchtnetit and the trisis made with it. A Fireumam's Close Call. "I stnrk to my engine, although every joint ached and every nerve was.racked with pain," writth Bellamy. a hlco. moti firemian, of Burlington, Iowa, "I was weak and pale without any appetite andall run down AsI was about to givs up.

I got a bottle of Electric Bitters, and, after taking it. I felt as well as I ever did in I.y Weak, sickly, run down people gain new life, strength and vigor from their Try themr. Satisfactiotn guarant'eed by A Godard Price 50 cents. The Abbeville Building and Loan Association has opened A new series of stock and now is the time for people to secure stock, borrow money and build a home. One thousand dollars ($1,000) can be borrowed at a cost of $14 per month.

A person owning a lot can build a house for $1,000 which he could iiot possibly tent for less than $15 to $16 per knonth. By paying $14 per mouth, (less than i'ent will cost) in about eight years he would have paid his $1,000 indebtedness to the Loan Association and the house would be his. hMiorcias. Choice Strain 'Eggs $1.00 per sitting. Apply to S.

J. Davies, Abbeville, lit-Sta: 1 WRDB P.H1ALSTAB1, VETERINARY SUR'GEON AND ANIMAL MEDICINE SPECIALIST frdih Hereford, located 'at New Iberia, begs to inform the public generally that he will attend AT Mx. EWELL'S STAiBLE, TngUdy, abriarI tNE DAY ONLY, for the treatmient of Lame and Sick Horses ind Mules. Mass will be celeb.a.ted in the church, as usual, Sunday. Low mass at 7 a.

high miass ait 10a. m. Low mass on week days at a. m. Rev.

Father F. A. B.Laforest, rector. Epworth League meets in Meth9dist chudrch -Sunday afternoon.t'3 Reiv. J.

E. E. ixson will preach in the Baptist church Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p.

m. Rev. S. J. DaVies will preach the Methodist churdh Sunday, tnoorning and evening, at usual hours.

PERRY Editor MERIDIONAL: Dunno feel) somewhat complimented over what you said and he will pick up courage and write Well, weather has beeh pYetty pair for the last few Miss V. C. Delaune, of Perry, has left for a visit to Shreveport and we all wish her en enjoyable visit for Miss fDelaune is a very. Young to hr occupation 'which is at present kesping.a fruit stand. Her nephew Albert Clemant has'tak'en possession until her return.

Broussard, wife of J. A. Broussard died last Thursday, 13, o'clock, b. at home on Vermilioni bayou, near Petry. She leitves a hasbhand and elevein children t6 mourn their loss.

She had but one married child who is a Mrs. Adonis Rousell, of Estherwood. 'l7e dece he'd was a sister of J. O. Lemaire of this rish.

She wias buried at the Perry cemete'rn 6n )Friday, 'eb. 14, 4 aid Mss. 1). T. 1oups wdh reside at the Abbeville pumping, plant passed through Pirry Sunday liorning on their way to their old home at Esther postoffice to see relatives and friends.

They were accompanied by their little daughter. Miss Emily Toups is on the sick list this week with il grippe; but we: Sall hope she will soon recover and be out amongst us The work at the Abbeville 'tiijing prlant ii iistill going merrily on aid it will riot take -mubh time in gettia.g dhrohgh if good weather keeps iin. Holin Portel is putting down the to commenice putttIng the brickwork around the liollet. Frenzel, an empioyee of the electric light plant, while at work yesterday evening assisting assisting in raising the smoke stack got a severe fall, cutting hiis face and head badly and bruising his chest. It was a miracle that he was not killed.

A Cashiter TesIdes. twenty years of aches and pains caused by constipation brought on by habits, I hate found more relief in two bottles bf Dr. Caldwel's Syrtp Pepsin than all of the hundredsof other remedies I have tried, and I take pleasure in giving you this testimony. you have the finest preparation made for stomach troubles. Very trulty vn i bashiPer Wabaih L.

Eaitt OtI Louis. gold byA I Personal Mentiou. Geb. W. Sumtmirs tae been oh the sick list this 'week.

F. 'G. 'Cole, the Inhdiah 3aybu merchant was in town Saturday. Miss Laturence LeBlano whb has had an attack of lagrippe has recov- I ered. John A.

Brookshier, bormerly of this place has been granted a pension. J. M. Giutierrez, of Erath, called last Saturday i'and subscribed f'or this paper. Joseph Molaisoh, of New Orlekans, is here visiting his datghter, -Mrs.

J. N. Greene. S. A.

Pipes, of the "News, riid Archie Rose were over'frort Gueydan last Monday. Win. Lo'their, a piroinfilent don-i: tractor and builder df Gheydah was over here Sunday. Mvr. and Mrs.

irrinet J. Lyons, df Melville, were here several days this 'week visiting relatives. George Hayes, the'energetic them- ber of School Boird from the FWard was in town S'turday. Dr. J.

E. Kibbe, of Erath, was in i1 town several times this week, hlaving i 'been called to see 'little Flets White. We add the ehame if Adolph I. sext to ohir subscriptioh list this week and still they coime every week. 1 Who Mrs.

A. J. Godard returned froxh New Orleans this week and has unfortunately been confined to her room with mumps. Dr. H.

B. White, accompanied by his wife, and her imother, Mrs.Smitbh, cameoVer from Gueydan, Monday, and returned the next day. J. O. Lege who has been nursing a'z big car'bdunce dn the back bf 'neck for some time has got out again and is ready to serve all who want Harper whisky.

'll Lolande, the town marshal of TGueydan who has been in jail some 'two months for shooting Paul Broussara, a saloon keeper of that town aIs 'released Monday on a bail bond for $500. r. 'a nd Mrs. t. C.

VaiWee 'nd little daughter, from Abbeville, visited the city and the Enterprise during the carnival. Mr. Vallee was foribitty in the eattTe business, but is now engaged in the real s'tbati ean rice business in Vermnilton orleans Live Stiock Enterprise. Jos. G.

LeBlan has subseribed for two copies of this paper bMneb last issue. He had Tafi MEREiIOnAL sent to his athier, Alcide LeBlanc, at Perry, and his sister, Sister M. Alexander, at Mt. Carmel Convent, Plattenville, La. This.

is a good present, and one that will be appreciated by almost anyone lnterested in Vermilon. We eveh. nspect- that one of our young gentlemen friends is having this paper sent to his "iest girl" and from what we can understand she appreciates it; but we Won't tell tales out of school. Is n't, there someone you would like toi sehd it to? Mr. and Mrs.

W. B. White are, tai recipients of nitich sympathy in the series of misfortunes and gontre temps which have befallen them this week. On Monday they were to have celebrated their crystal wedding and had made extensive preparations to entertain their guests. Sunday their eldest daughter Fleta taken seriously ill with typhoid and is very sick now, thus necessitating a postponemient of tli affair much to the regret of all.

Monday night one of their serivant accidentally set fire. to some paper on the kitchen shelves, and in attempting to extinguish the flames, her dress caught fire and she wiis fatidly NEW 90o Mbnday next, the rat roA will be -old by the ItA 1MarshaltAlid J. B. Watkina, it is st.r piirchabe it. From reioits ji 'the hw Orleans this means great'dea fCor Abbeville.

The road 'is 100 'miles in length 'a6d e'xtends firom Alexandria t(w Lake Charles. This railroad sale is 6nly 'one o' lieveral business 'matters that taker Mr. Watkins to Calcasieu parish. will meet the prmnoters of the nea rice 'road, known as the Lake Charleand Rice Belt Railroad, the 'ona projected fir6tn Lake Charles 'to Ah beville, toudh' ig Laccasihe, Arthlir, Lake ide and Gheydan, apb talk over the p''oposition. It is said Mr.

Watkins 'expects t9 take bhold of thibentldrri.e, and people of that section are awaiting his visit and fhispection with the' greatest of interest. The line would open up a country virgin 'in resources, and 'would eventtially get sa New Orleans. The btilding of 'thle ew 'railroad 'to Abbeville means thist we will have a new line ihto New 'Orleans at no far-distant day. Other roads "already have an eye on them. The talk isthat t1Ye Kansas dity and International aqqd ('rest Northeri are both vatchihg the deal, and 'tha't both have eye oh New drlekn's.

I -DIED. her home five miles west of Abbeville, on Friday, February 14, 1902, ALTa AA. FAUL. wife of Joseph Harrington, haged 69 years, 8 months and 1 day. Mrs.

Harrington was one of tiBe old settlers and had many in this and Acadia parishes. The were broiught to 'owt "nl a fhneral service was held inthe Methodist church Saturday noon at 8:30 o'clock, intermen'k taking place in the Masonic cemetery. THE BEA.UTIPUL Silver Bell Shrub A Disirable Plant for the Lawn Beautiful, be lshaped flowers the tree iito finPss loveliness in eirly spring. Very attractive. Highly ornamental.

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