The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-05-23
News In Brief.

United States
Pope Plus IX has gotwell agaia.
and has gone back into his better
days bg ? quarter Of q centny
There is rot drunkard i'd tile I
Texas Legislature, but nearly al i
the members sare moderate drinkers
The Turkish government is pre- /
pairing for war, and has made 2
contract with the Winchester Arms I
| Company, Of New Haven, and a
gan factory Of Providence, to be /
furnished With armaand cartridges.
! HAVANA, May Is. The Gaceta
to-day publishes d decree, pro-
! hibiting white or colored persons,
/ subject to militia duty, from chang
! ing their places of residence, or
\ Receiving passports. unless they
deposit $500 Id the treasury
The Shreveport papers of the
/ 10Th report piautations on upper
4 Red River as all right again and
T free of overflow Very little Of the
land was planted before the over
y how, and no material damage was
doEe. No stock Of any conse-
4 qdence lost Few fences injured.
1 The humber ef vessels belong
Il ing to, or bound to or from ports
I ID the United States, reported to-
taily lost and missing during the
| past month, is forty-eight, Of which
I 18 we're wrecked, { abandoned, ]
burned, 6 foundered, / capsized ]
sunk by collision, and 2 are mis-
sing, They are classed as follows.
5 steamships, 6 ships, 13 barks, s
brigs, ia schooners, and their total
value, exclusive of cargoes, is es-
timated at S2.262, 600.
GALVESTON. Nav ia special
to the News from San Antonio
says, chat adyices from Fort Sill,
Indian Territory, state that Oh
the Cd insiaUt the camp occapied
by United States soldiers near
Red River was fred into Nv 0
party Of about twelve Indians Who
after having been closely parsued
through the deep sands along
the Red River abandoned one
pony and several blankets thg
latter Of which were stsined will
blood.
The New Orleans Times Of MAJ
! Il says. " Washington, May III.
I The River and HarboI bill which
passed the House to-day appro
pirates S995, 200 for the 8lissis
sippi river- AL tn ba expended
above New Orleans, except $3.50,
600 for the mouth; $4,000 appro
priated for removing Red Rive
/ raft; Galveston harbos Texas
\ 100000.
Mi. Spence, Of Alabama, IN
! troduoed the bill for the relief o
\ settlers Oh public lands il Alabs
ma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis
i sippi and Florida. BIT provides
that persons il these States whs
4 have mada bona 6de homestead
y entries, and who have been unahli
/, to keep mp their occupancy Of th,
y same, shall be allowed To purchas,
+ chem at the minimum price hTes
J; by law for the sale of public land
ia other States
Thousands of cattle have beal
!. driven from the swamp 10 tn
bayou ffont, ou the east side of th
Teche, and there is so little vaeaD
iand, and such q small quantity D
grass for these large herds u cat
, tie, that many aro suffering @
food Tie bulk Of them Will hav
to be driven to tho praiFies west I
here, or they viii dla CoGto
q boil.
Since tie water has overflow
the banks of BaYoa Narmilion j
many places. including tha leve
beyond Pin HOOK bridge, owe
which tbe stages and Traveller
eenerallv have to pass, the iasle
has become very dangeron
pInea. At hrsl while water stoo
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