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The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-11-07

ClArvFroS. Ocio5ar rs. 1874
EnnoR WEEKLY Echo
DgAR sIR MY trip from The
Lake IS this place WIS much lon-
oef than wits expected, owing toI
tbe misfortune if striking o shell
bank near Gle canal 10 Caloasieu
like. gBe Were fortunate, however.
81 eEqricaling ourselves as quick
ana as ven IS we ala, and this
NAV be attributed solely TO Tive
energy sud good arrangement q
CAPTAIN j. b. York, Of the Edith
Belle. Tire Schooner on which 4
came. Captain York viii please
re- he thanks 81 The ECHO for
lis attention sud due conaid-
Grafton ended to me.
Our run from Lake Charles
down the river to Calcssieu lake
being ~ daylight, afforded me q
very good opportunity Of viewing
the natural scenery and The late
improvements going ON on each
side 81 tie Calcasieu river. Here
and there We beheld to our view
Cue aud neatly finished residences,
nice little farms, and Young orange
orchards which bid fair to future
prosperity III addition to tbs nu-
melous saw-mills ull along the
stream aud judging from their
noise and rattle, one can mob help
butseo The signs Of prosperity
pictured throughout orr whole
larish. When we hear the nU-
meroue cries Of duh times and
scarcity Of money in great metro
polists like New Orleans 1
can not help but think that we, Of
Calcasieu, are living in a little par
adise; and how it il that 50 many
Will live and lang around cities ID
idleness, when SO gnuny adyanta-
Gee aud opportunities are offered
10 the poor man, seeking for home
comforts end future prosperity, IN
our section of country, is some-
thing remarkably singular to me,
particularly when lands are 80
cheap, the country healthiul, and
the means on obtaining \ good liv-
ing, easy. Yet il seems that city
life, with All ita disadvantages
and merely for the name OF tbs
thing. is much more preferable
than country life with al its luxu.
RES, pleasures and comforts
surely there ase thousands Of oul
people who do not study their Owl
welfare, on else they are laygarC
90 conceive their own interests.
Galveston Is improving In loca
appearance some 6ne store
houses and family residences hay
ing been built since my last visi
here. The public sidewalks
throughout the eity as we'll as thl
streets, are being aisad and vel
and neatly paved Commercial,
speaking, buapes Is dull here a
least, that ii Che cry with Che prin
cipul merchants, those who 1 hav
visited. There ii fully as mucI
cotton II not more coming 10 thi
month, of this year, than Their
was this time lest year. II is sal
that the dull trade Il owing
the iact Of the late summe
rains. wliioh prevented I'd
farmers from gathering the
cotton, but tho yield, and shiE
ment III cotton ID this place,
supposed will De- IS great as Ia,
year.
G. Nv. +.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-11-07
BARBER SHOP,
BY CELESTIN ROTUBIER,
Lake Charles, La.

1 take pleasure in informing the pub
lie that / am now prepared at all times
to receive gentlemen who require the
services Of Tonsorial Artist. Shaving
Shampooing and Hair dressing done at
all hours, from sunrise until bed-Uime
Ladies needing my services Will be
waited on at their residence.
April 4, 1874 nay
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-11-07
For SIC.

ONE HUNDRED POUNDS OF rnow
Y of OLD TYPE, which is ueful for
saw mill purpose, such rs boxing ma
chinery, etc. which we viii sell cheap.
Apply ut the WEEKLY Echo office,
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-11-07
T ~ fnAyyYc1Ng
~ Ne ~ q ~ ~ es3 aAMa
Lake Charles, Loslisiama.

COPPER, TIN AND SHEET IRON
NJ worker Johbing promptly attend-
ed to 90 reasonable prices and allWork
guaranteed
i. s. VIII remain ct this place but
q short time, Send in your orders i'm.
mediately R29-2t
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-11-07

OUR MILLS ARE SUBS 5TANIEAL-
" " built, expressly for the purpose
If Rice Milling, with all the new i'm
provements and appliances, with sutfi-
cient warehouse capacity to meet any
demand for receiving and forwarding
RICE, centrally located to railroads,
shipping, ferry and steamboat landings,
We viii guarantee our milling and
Weld, both asto quality and quantity.
10 be unsurpassed by any rice mill III
this Stale.
Our turn out" has always been from
1O4 to ia lbs. cleaned Rice to the bar
rel Of rough, which is about twenty
per cent over any mill in this city
and country
We win pay particular attention TO
the separation Of all lots of rough Rice
received by his.
Our charges for milling are as follows;
Ii per pound, cleaned, for Nos. ] and 2
1Ze - q No. g.
5c III for polishing horse mill
Rice
No deviation on the above prices un-
der any circumstances.
Sacks furnished free of charge,
EIEWERD ~ KIP,
Address, Lock Box 386,
aug8y1 New Orleans, La.
f.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13
THAT LITTLE BILL.

In 1871 a new form of govern
ment was instituted for thu. District
OF Columbia. One Sheperd was
made Governor, and The District
started on its new career rejoicing
~. But the investigation now in
progress is not calculated to inspire
the public in the belief that he is
the "good Shepherd" His wagon
load OF reply to The Congressional
committee will convict him of
Tweedism, beyond a doubt. In
two years the enormous sum of 49,
So, 685 have been spent for public
improvements, the greater portion
OF which has been spent on streets
and avenues. Add to this sum the
81, 446, FOG appropriated by the U. S.
government, and we have the sum
ofS20,0O9, 1871. Things ought to shine
about our capitol. Ten millions
per annum would, in course of
time. pave the streets with gold.
But this spendthrift is not satisfied
with the above; he wants the Uni
ted States to appropriate the addi-
tional sum of S4,OOO,37O OF course
we want to see Washington improv-
ed; and the people are willing to
do their part toward keeping things
in trim about the national capitol.
But they are unwilling to have
money squandered by a clique who
may have personal Interests to
serve. And now the people will
expect the committee to go through
this matter and find out for what
their money has been spent. Ne
one outside of Washington could
expect that millions of public mon
ey would be given to Il ring for the
benefit of local property holders.
Governor Shepherd himself can
hardly expect the public to indorse
= system OF Improvement which
has exceeded in two years by oyer
one hundred per cent, the eXpendi-
lures of the United States, for SINH
lar purposes, for sixty-nine years,
Under the old regime the govern
ment spent, in the time above nam
ed, for public improvements in
Washington, S9,l99,432. Shall we
have $4,000, 900, intwo years, or 3d.
los, ASP In sixty-nine years? We
rather like the good old way.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13
NIX. FIREY's LIQUOR BILL.

The representative Of this district
had the honor 10 introduce and car
ry through the house = bill which
proposed to throw greater restraints
around, and afford our people better
proteetionagAinst the whisky traffic,
than now exists. Next to q pro-
hibitory law 1t was, perhaps, the
best: We arc certain that it would
have dried up many a drHnkard
shop in the State.
The bill passed the House by q
vote of 70 to 49,; but the Senate
straDgled it by refusing to pass upon
it. Petition after petition poured
in upon that grave body of Sena-
tors without effect. They needed
not the prayers of the people. The
whisky sellers had full control of
the leading men of that body. They
cared nothing for the people
so they pleased their ma sters. We
except a few honorable gentlemen
OF that body freas the odiums at
taching to the contemplate course
pursued by the majority in refusing
to have that bill placed at the head
of the calendar.
We should not attach so much i'm
portanee to this matter If this same
Senate had not refused to act upon
similar bill the year before. Their
course has been contemplate and
cowardly. If they are opposed to
such bills why not come out like
men and say so? Why not meet
the issne fairly and squarely? But
those honorable gentlemen propose
to ignore the people, and therefore
affect dignified silence. The popu-
lar House passes a bill at the earnest
request of great majority of our
best people; and the Senate puts the
document in a pigeon hole, winks
at the "Whisky Ring" and laughs
at the peoples petitions until the
bill is dead. But, gentlemen, your
little game is at an end; the people
will speak this fall and you will
have to find your holes. You have
ignored the people, and they will
bury you under hay seed so deeply
that you will never rise again. They
will have q new Senate, one that
will respect them. See if they do
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13
Z RELIGIOUS MEMS.

A protracted meeting, under the
auspices of the NJ. L. Church al
BelleVille, resulted in the conVers.
ion of eighty persons. They are
building a new church.
Rev. Jacob Knapp, the famous
Baptist reYivalist, died on the 81
inst, at Rockford, Illinois, aged "a .
A movement has been started in
Brooklyn, N. v, irrespective of sect
or denomination to invite Rev. DIR.
Porteus to take charge Of new
Episcopal church. 1t is said that
the doctor is favorable TO such Or
ganization, if they will adopt lib
eral and catholic platform, with
broad church doctrines.
The ladies of Lawrence hold
prayer meetingsin the Jail.
The Presbyterians are building q
small frame church in Parsons.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13

acT is third-rate forest tree, being
ahead of any for common use, for
instance, man can cut down a tree
and manufacture itup to anything
he wants and 1t will not shrink. l
know of thousands, of acres on
Red River, brush undergro with ,
that has no inclination TO grow
tall.
Mr.. j. 81. NJ, in all probability,
has never, seen = herd of several
thousand head of Texas cattle STAN
pede or he would not have written
SO. AS the saying in Texas Is,
''They would shake the earth SO as
to make a hedge ny, and rattle their
horns together SO IS 10 be heard
like thunder storm"
II yOn deem this worthy OF
room in your much admired paper,
You will confer q favor Oh
HIRED MAN.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13
MORE IGNORANCE IN HIGH PLACES.

In the CommonWealth Of Satur-
day March 9TH, lS74, ! find the. fol-
lowing: A
The revenue bill, the. action on
which will be found in our legislative
report, provides for levy as follows:
for current expenses four mills on the
dollar; for the payment of interest
four-fifths of mill on the dollar,
and for the sinking fund one fifth of
4 mill on the dollar. This with the
regular constitutional levy for school
purposes win make the total rate of
state taxation six mills.
Will the "Great Kansas Paper
please point out the Article and
Section of the Constitution wherein
"the regular constitutional levy for
school purposes" is made?
Article six, section three, Of the
constitution, after enumerating
some Of the sources of . perpetual
schoolIfund, adds, Sand such other
means as the Legislature may pro-
vide, BY tax or otherwise"
The first State Legislature pro-
ceeded to provide by tax" (Chap.
76, Article s, Section 5, Page 27l, of
Laws of 1861 as follows; and
there is hereby levied and assessed
annually, the said one mill upon the
dollar, for the support of common
schools in the state, and the amount
SO levied and assessed, shall be coll
lected in the same manner as other
State taxes." -. "a
l have no doubt that IL is the
general belief that this one mill tax
swiHdle is fastened upon us by the
constitutions. a. z
/ stated in a former article, that
there were good reasons for this
law at the time it was passed.
At that time we had no school
fund from any source.
| Now if the school lands had been
sold, or could be sold in accordance
with the constitution, without &
vote of the people; there were nc
estates of people dying without
heir or WILL" no equivalent for
exemption from military duty" NJ
proceeds of estrays," and no "pro
ceeds OF fines for breach of tn,
penal laws"
1t seemed no more than just tina
the older and richer portions of TIT
state should assist temporarily tn
weaker and thinly settled portions
These reasons ceased to exis
years ago, and the law should haVl
} been repealed.
=. The practical working of it now i
about this. Nearly every district, a
far as.my knowledge extends, make
its estimate of expenses, and levy o
school tax, without reference to tn
amount 10 be derived from the gen
eral fund, consequently they hay,
more money during the year thar
J is really necessary. This state o
] affairs leads to wasteful expendi
|. ture, and extraVigance, and often Il
speculation on the part of schoo
, officers, with the money which
should remain in the pocket of TIT
. taxpayer until it is needed. lie
this law be repealed, as one stel
: towards REFORM.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13
TRLEGARPHICS.


CIVIL SERVICE REFoRM.-The civ
il service committee has agreed TO
report the following bill to the
house with favorable recommends
tions:
!. That no officer of the United
States shall directly or indirectly
receive or be paid, for his own use
or benefit any money or property
whatever, to be used by officers or
persons, for any purpose whatever,
except salary to be fixed by law !;
aud that no public property shall be
used by officials, or by any persons,
for private purposes.
2. That this act shall not be so
construed as to prevent payment
from the treasury of all actual and
necessary travelling expenses of u.
S. Officials when performing legi-
mate and necessary duties pertain
Ing to their Offices. .is . 80
Outstanding legxl tenders $780,.
OOO, coo. s'.SSs- +vsS
The Senate of California has
passed bill authorizing juries in
trials for murder to say in theil
virdfc whether the penalty be deatt
or imprisonment for life.
1t is said that the natives among
the Spanish volunteers of Cuba arr
constantly deserving to the insur
gents. -.-E
The Mexican women have opened
fire on the saloons. What next?
The Danbury News man is goin.
to Europe. Going to see Punch
we presume.
One Underwood, shot and killed
q Miss Pridgeon, of Detroit, becaus
she refused TO mary him. She wa
one Of the most beautiful and accom-
plished young ladies of the city
He is a divorced man.
Caleb Cushing sailed for Spain
last Saturday.
Sheffield foundry, England, wa
demolished on the 18th inst, by al
explosion of molten iron. lively,
working men were destroyed.
Col. G. G. Foster has been con
firmed as United States distric
Judge for Kansas.
The election returns from fifty
two towns, in New Hampshire
give the democrats q small majority
The returns from the remainin!
towns may turn the tables. Thl
election, as usual, is very close.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13
BOOKS.

The American people are
great readers. Newspapers lit
orally flood the whole land. One
would think that there was but lit
tie room for books. But some in
quiring mind has counted the num-
Der of patents taken ont for books,
bound and unbound, during the
past year. We have in bound vol
umes, 3,l47, unbound, 2,543s
Much of our literature belongs TO
the light order, bat we haye a very
fair showing of books on history,
biography, science, arts, theology
and education. And the most of
American. books are prominently
practical. els aEEa
The publishing Interests of our
country are immense. There are 3
number of publishing houses in
New York and Philadelphia which,
in peint of capital, employed aud
elaborateness in organization, sur
pass anything you can find in Eu-
rope. The Methodist Episcopal
church has the largest religious pub
fishing house in the world.
There Is no excuse for ignorance
in this country. Books, good, and
comparatively cheap, can be bought
in any town. Every man is able to
buy q few instructive books, and |
take enc or two live papers and |
thus furnish himself and family !
with > fair amount of inform alton.
IgnOrance.in this land of books aud
periodicals is = crime.
Nor is there any kind of use in
our people trying to feed their
ninds on chat and 9th. Good
books and papers, tesming with
lseful knowledge, are Just a. easily
obtained as those Of an evanescent.
" obssne character. Cultivate . Ii
aste for useful reading, buy the
'est books, and put in your spare
ime reading and SLudin& tO.acauirs
hat wisdom which is "better than :
old" and you will never regret the 1
inc nor means thus expended. ii
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13
.TnE COMING IMPEACHMENT TRIAL

The Impeachment of a state
official for high crimes and misde.
meanors Is not so frequent an &C.
curence in Kansas as to render
some Information on the subject to
our readers impertinent. The i'm
parchment of Treasurer Hayes is
now, to all intents and purposes.
an accomplished fact, and some
knowledge of the legal details of
the proceeding, is desirable to those
who may not be Informed as to
what an impeachment is, and how
it is brought about.
Section % of the second article of
the State constitution, declares that
the governor and all other officers
under the constitution shall be sub
ject to impeachment for any mis-
demeanor in Office" but it further
provides that Judgment Id all such
cases shall not be extended further
than to remove from Office or dis.
qualification 10 held and Office OF
honor or profit under the constitu.
ton" though it does not remove
the liability from the impeached
person of indictment, trial, juds.
ment and punishment according to
law" The process to be observed
in cases of impeachment as provided
in chapter 49 of the general statutes
is this: First, the house votes tC
impeach on charges duly made, and
articles of impeachment are drawn
up. When these articles have beer
approved by the house, q board O.
managers, composed of its owl
members, is appointed by the
house, whose chairman shall, with
in five days, lay the article before
the senate. The senate appoints
day for hearing the impeachment
is sworn in as O court, and is en-
powered to summon the appearance
of persons and papers, either at TIL,
instance of the court or the accused
The senate may sit as court of i'm
parchment after the adjournment O.
the legislature and may adjourn
from time TO time. They shall re
ceive the same per diem and mile
age as when sitting as senators il
the legislature. Tho attorney gen
eral shall be associated with thu
board of managers III the trial but
without additional pay for sucf
service. The senate shall determine
what amount of absence during the
trial shall exclude any senator from
voting on the final decision. If The
accused is acquitted lie shall be en-
titled to his costs, to be taxed by
the secretary of tho senate and PAID
by the State, but if convicted hi
shall pay the costs unless absolyed
therefrom by the senale.-Common
| wealth
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13

About the beginning of this year
we were pleased to make the ae-
quaintance of the Rev. VIM. Stew
art, in charge of this circuit, NJ. Z.
Church, whose residence is four or
five miles south of this place. Our
attention was called more particu-
larly to little Mile, the only daught-
er OF M. and Mrs. S., aged 3 years
and three months. we shall not
attempt to describe the lamb.like
innocence and beauty of little Mile.
She has gone home. About six
weeks since she was taken with
symptoms of typhus fever, which
was speedily arrested by the skill
full treatment of DIR. Walters. Dur
ing her illness a small pimple, on
the gums inside the mouth, on up
per Jaw, was discovered by her
faithful mother, which gave no
cause for serious approximations at
Tho time. 1t was promptly treated by
the attending physician, but with
out success. In short time dark
or black spot made it's appearance
ON the outside of the upper lip,
which spread with alarming rapidi.
ty, until the flesh dropped from the
bone. Her front teeth also dropped
ont. The upper lips were soon
gone. For three or four weeks this
dreadful disease spread in every di.
rectlOn, until all her little nose and
the whole of one side of her face
were gone. When We saw her the
flesh was loose from the bone far !
above where it had dropped or been
cut OF; one eye closed and |
very black. Yet she would sit M.
play, eat, drink and talk quite well, |
and really looked cheerful and |
pleasant opt of the other eye. Att
the same time more than half of her
face was q bare bone, winch pre-
'ented the singular phenomenon of
} living skeleton. She was perfect.
y rational, and had good appetite
lntil Sunday night, February a2d,
Vhen death relieved her.
This disease, whatever it was,
seemed to commence on and follow
he bone, the flesh becoming black,
Try and spnngy, and when removed
eft the bone perfectly clean and dry,
which gave 1t the appearance of q
keleton. We are told that several
,laces on her body and limbs were
imilarly affected, to what extent
We are not aware. Can't some of
'ur learned physicians explain the
ause of this singular disease, and
~ to give 1t q name.
Poor little Mile bore all this ter
BE 5.S main and affection with scarce
y . lnurmur, often requesting her
1ther to sing for her. She had
areful nnrsing and skiliful treat f,
lent. Nothing was left Endone
hat pleased or relieved her.
he parents have passed through
his trying Ordealwith that patience,
ope and fortitude that none but
christians will eyer know. They Il
ave the sympathies of this entire
Dmmunity in their sad bereave- !
1ent. WIT.
WILTON, Kansas, Feb. %, 1874.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-03-13

MURDER IN ToPEKA.-A most
yillainous murder was discovered
in Topeka, this week, A Mr.. Fer
riss who kept small store on the
outskirts of the town, was MUIR
dered and his body hid away under
some potatoes In the cellar of his
store.
A man by the name of Odds and
his son were in charge of the store
at the time of the discovery, and
have been arrested as the probable
murderers. We are almost warren
ted in saying that they are guilty
of very foul murder for the sake
of little money.