The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-07-11
General smn.lE-l.arE. /.


Sir Edward Thornton, the Brit
.sh Minister at Washington, has
zone To Europe fora three month s
vacation.
The political excitement ii
still continues to increase,
and tbs breech between the fac
tions grows wider every day
According to the Claiborne Ad-
vocate three times the usual
amount Of wheat viii be raised in
that parish the present year.
The Israelites Of Baltimore have
taken active steps to raise means
for the assistance Of their breth-
rem in Palestine, who are suffering
from famine
7 The young lady who vowed
eternal constancy to Colonel Els
worth vas refused permission to
be present at the dedication OF his
monument by her oficious bus
band.
The witty wife Of d noted prac-
tising physician advised her hus-
band to keep away from the fune-
rails of his patients, as it looked
too much like q tailor carrying
home his own work.
The factory girls Of Lowell,
Massachusetts,, turn ont seven hUn-
! dred and thirty-nine miles of paper
| collars per month, and are said to
/ weep to think of the countless
! voung men whose neeks they Will
/ embrace.
/ Chicago is determined to have
/ direct trade with England. She
Il has lust sent a car load Of prairie
/ hay over, to experiment with in
making paper, for the special use
of the Grangegs. There IS nothing
/ like energy and enterprise.
a Hartford man keeps q spade
close by his kitchen door, and
/ whenever a tramp comes along and
Ebegs for a dinner, he is requested
to earn it by digging four feet
! square In the garden, bat tho
tramp invariably refnses to pay
/ this price.
1 The Woodyille, BlississtppI, he
/ publican announces the appear
i anee Of the dreaded cotton cater
pillar iii tie fields opposite Fort
Adams. The showery weather
aud The tender cotton are very
favorable to the inroads of these
pests of the planter.
General Schenck, American Akin-
/ Iister at the Court oil st. James, is
, back again III London. 1t was
expected that lie would bring back
d second AIRS. Schenok, ID tho
: shape 81 rich and handsome
: New York widow; but diplomats
{ are professionally unreliable
Boring has been commenced to
ascertain the praotioability Of d
tunnel under the Solent, 50 as tC
) effect d railway communication
i with Che isle of Wight. The Dor
4 ers arc at work at Stones Point
Z near the mouth Of the Beauliel
+ river, on the Hampshire coast op
! posita West CoWes.
2 The prete1t now for d quie
il stroll with ArabelIa, by moonlight
,f ii the Young mans intense scien
\ tifc desire to show her the ney
comet. OF course, mamma wishe
her daughter 10 improve her mind
Papa grumbles q httles but scianc
j. is victorious. Arabella goes o
(, with her beau. The comet is seer
Diptheria has heen epidemic j
the city of New York and the 81
q iacent cities since tho beginning {
II sh6 year, ana the mortality hs
III been double what II was for ga
. same period last year, The phs
sicians attribute the marked 4
y crease in The dreaded maladT
n tho long continued humidity ol ID
ie atm6sphere The remedies "a
IS reported almost as numerous /
,a the doctors
p al correspondent writes to u
's' Scientific American thas ths won
= toothaehe, or neuralgia eo4is
o& from The seeshs may rs sre1l
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