The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-03-21

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aged So years
III Utah, d criminal condemned
Is death may choose whether Pc
viii be slot Of hanged.
The Central Pacific Railroad Is
again open, having been blocked
with snow thrae days only
Iondonand its snbarhs maintain
It's theatres, 295 music halls and
2000 professional voealists.
Capt. VIM. e Elder 2 veteran
Of the war Of 1872, died ID Phila- I
dalphia. he was so years Of age. /
Two attempts were made lately /
to burn tie townof BeGo, Nevada. !
The incendiaries were not cap
ltured.
The City Solicitor of Boston has
again decided against the right Of
women to serve on the Boston
School Committee
The caulkers md ship carpept-
| ers In Buffalo struck for an increase
Eof pay, Oh the wages received pre-
vious to the panic.
Massachusetts, House Of Repre-
sentatiyes, by 4 vote Of 81 to Oh,
refused to consider d repeal 81 the
reading and writing qualification
for voters
One hundred and fftY-one stu
dents received diplomas KS Doctors
Of Medicine st the commencement
of the jefferson Medical College
: in Philadelphia
! The California Assem- hlY passed
d bill making it d naisdemeanor to
invite any person to drink, on to
accept on invitation to drink liquor
at any public bar
/ Tn Illinois husbands are on an
equality with their wives in rela-
ton to property. Instead Of cDbE-
tesy, the widower is only to have
i his dover right OF thirds,
8 Iowa raised more wheat in 1878
{ than any other State il the Union
In Indi0n corn Iowa is second
Illinois leading, and next comeF
? what used to be the great corr
i growing State Of the Union, Ohio
. ia Nevada, the silver mines d
+ the Comstock lode are now worth
I aggregating the market value q
\ the stock, sixty-fye millions D
9 dollars. During the year the
have divided twelve millions.
ii The Ohio Constitutional Conyen
t. ton refused, Is to 80, to submit
4 ito separate vote the sectiol
= allowing woman suffrage. Fifty
y three votes we're required to seeurl
y such submission 10 saperRtg vote
d There is a deadlock in the Com
!, mon Council Of N6wburgh, ther
being four Democrats and fou
= Republicans. The board was un
Sc able to elect a presiding officer 8
a. Tuesday night, and adjourned t
he Thursday.
Z, In Reno, Colorado, there is
" war Of races Chinese against Iii
Y dians. 1t began with q Chinama
re refusing to buy fish from an Indiai
in and an attempt BY the Indian t
Ill force d sale by his lists. Thei
u was 4 great fight, and the end
not yet,
sY At Tho annual meeting Of I'll
4
Ply Union Pacific Railroad Compan
liz Ill Boston, Oliver Ames was chose
II. president and u. TIL. Rollins seerl
\. tarY. Al report tn the stockholdei
for the year ending Dec, 8l n IA
Il gives the gross earnings az $40
il 266, 103 66, and the operating e.
penses at $4. 974 ,S6l OF
NJ The Executive Committee III Ii
~. Cenhennfal Commission met
'sss philadelphia, and after d COME
wv enca with tho Board of Finanl
n resolved TO continue The yigorol
IA prosecution Of tho preparation
for the celebration III 1876, Al
,;Il that all the steps thus fall tak.
" forbid the abandonment of 4
~ International character Of the Q
~ hibition.
the Soiourner Truth has mortgage
air her house and lot ID Winoansin
nt- travel about ind got sigpars 70
.vs petition praying Congress CD s