The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1869-03-06
Kentucky.

city Yesterday lfOIt 41tbE4tu Couu'
ty, brings some stirring news from
| that quarter of the State. His
statements are believed to be en-
! tirely true, and from what is al
ready known Of that section, there
can be little doubt but that affairs
there have assumed d very serious
aspect. ~ f. IS 1ol2S.H'r !. ~.
It is said By this gentleman,
that the Loyal League, under the
Leadership of 5Hige Baker, Rice,
and others, gathered at Mt. Pleas
ant on Public days, and with
drums, flies flags, nauskets and
pistols, drill and parade, and reck-
lessly shoot into the houses of per-
sons known to be of Democratic
| principles, for the purpose of
frightening and driving them from
the place. Mills and other prop
erty are destroyed, hen roosts rob
bed, and every conceivable mis-
chief is practised that may serve
to keep honest citizens in constant
dread. Democratic merchants
have stopped the shipment of
goods already purchased, and are
afraid, at present, to risk anything.
A few days since, the leaguers
encountered Mr.. David Middleton
on the road, and literally riddled
him with bullets. Such was the
terror everywhere reigning, that
not even the friends of the murder
ed man dared venture to under
take his burial. Some kind-heart-
ed women of the neighborhood f.
nally assembled, and digging q
rough grave, performed the last
sad rites, which otherwise would
have been denied the victim of the
murderous gang. No arrests were
made, although the murderers
were well known. Middleton was
o good, peaceable citizen, and du-
ring the late war, was not engage
ed ON either side. Il
Most of the Democrats remain
ing, are hiding in the mountains, 1
Or have fed to Virginia. 5l.2 @-'|
Harlan County is on the Ten
nessee border, and is very rugged
and mountainous, affording u safe
asylum for assasins and murder
ers. An effort will doubtless sb6I
made to secure the presence of
troops in the neighbofhood where
the recent 6ttrages have occurred,
though it is said that sonie Of The |
members Of the aLegisla-d
lure have promised Governor ste4f
tehson that all 6utrhges aud deplF
iedations shall be stopped, if thg1'
troops be kept away. 1aa4 1921 Y
/ REGULARITY OF HANDWRITING. ~ i
ltis o remarkable fact that no man
ian ever get rid Of the style fEt
handwriting peculiar to his, ooun- Il
rye Ii he be- English, he always !
writes in English style if French. :
n French style if German, Ital- {
an or Spanish, In the style pecu- II
lar to his nation, II am acquain- Z
cd, says q correspondent, with /
Frenchman who speaks English j
ike one of our own countrymen Ii
ind writes itwith ten times the i
orrectness Of ninetY-nine in a hun 4
!red Of us, but yet BE cannot. for \
he life Of him, initiate our mode D
4 writing, / knew q Scotch D
outh who was educated entirely IN
q France, and resided eighteen |,
ears IN that country, mixing ex-Ib
lnsively with French People, but y
Tho, although he had q French 3,
'rltng-master, and probably new M
/ saw anything but French wri- ).
ne IN his life, yet wrote exactly Il
the English style it was really n
atlonag instinct, In Paris, all the Il
rltng- masters profess to teach 81
le English style Of writing but W
nth all their professions and all 81
leir exertions, they can never n
u their pupils to adopt any but es