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The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01


The assurance just given us that
the interests Of the Texas Railroad
are ii capable and energetic hands
ought to crafty and encourage
every well wisher Of New Orleans.
IT needs but a glance at the names
OF the officers and directory to
satisfy the most skeptiGal as to the
solislTty aud substantial easnest-
ness Of the movement, and in or
der to tix this impression more
firmly iii tie public MUD We pub
lish them
E ls. Wheelock President Dr. Ha.
Kennedy, Vice President s. n. Ken-
nedv, Treasurer y. j.. Ranlett, Secre-
tory,
Board Of Directors S, III. Kennedy,
John Phelps, Cyrus Bussey, Emory
Clamp, John I'll Kennedy Louis
Schneider, Geo. JONES', Julius Weis,
ii. Ii. Ranlett, David Wallace, u. III.
Wheelock, Ct w. ri Bayley, Dir. HUI.
Kennedy, W. II Schmidt James
GaEdmBf.
Messrs Kennard, Hove and Prentiss
we're elected attorneys Of the road.
The charter and specific plans
of tie company are, for obvious
reasons, not made public vet, but
they shortly will be, and mean
while it is quite safe to believe that
the enterprise is being vigorously
and intel6gently pushed. - viii
be an unspeakable satisfaction e
the people of New Orleans To know
that they ate To have q Texas rail.
road, and that, too, under the aus
pieces and management ot then
/ own fellow-citizeus. III Will per-
suade them thai Louisiana has a
| last entered Upon the era Of pros
I perity 81 long delayed vet Away
looked and hoped for by heF stead
fast children. N. O. Picayune
! june 10.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01
State Os LDaisiamas
z ARISH on GALGASLEL.

SUoCEssfoN on CKIFsTE JANlssE No.
EKTHEREAs, Charles Bei has made
EF application To be appointed Ads
ministrator of the above Succession, al
parties interested are hereby notified
thnt my opposition thereto must be
hied in my oiaec Within san days from
the FIRST publication hereof.
Witness nY hand apd seal ~ Office
tllla l9th day oi june. al ID. 1870.
ASA RYAN eienk Of Court
sally Y 1870
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

Gen Grant Was nof drunk at
Shiloh. says Con sherman i
have never seen him drunk on tho
Geld 81 battle And there sher-
man paused but i he bud coatin-
nsd 20 speak g leW momanas
longer ih6 world mlgas have
Ieatnad just whore 10 had en
him drunk Cour Journal
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

Joseph Rog, who wae 50 severely
wounaed somo mouths ago by Jim
shocRy il able to move about a
little, and sic are glad 70 state that
be win probably soon be entirely
wei.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

a & Duson Esq. Che popular and
efficient sheriff 81 s. Landry parish,
Il III town on brief visit relating to
hs contract for carrying tie mail from
lake CHARLES to Yermilionyille. We
ata also glad 70 see here the late sub
ooatrantog on this nRil route, David
Roy, ESQ, 81 ~ Landry Mr. Roy
reports abundant rain and splendid
crops in 81. Landry
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

we otll special attention to the
article ftom tho \. I. Sun, on our
third page, proposing q national
contribution 70 President Grant,
in order 10 furnish him with the
emolnmonts bB 40 much needs.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

We acknowledge with pleasure the
receipt az tie first number Of TIN 9o-
OrenariyF NNwa, weekly paper inst
started III New 0deans, aud devoted lc
agriculture, manufactures and thc in-
auatrial interests 81 the country
Judge .. ~. nobertson y Tho editor.
It's largo, eighll,age journal, end j.
pnldiahed IL Tie very low price u two
tollars per year. We heartily welcome
SD sued recruits h the works Of ionF-
6aiimn III Louisiana The time Is
coming visn, II point 81 varied agr-
culture. Louisiana win De the Empire
state 81 me Union It d aiFeady he-
coming tin rice grnnary ~ the Missis.
slppi valley, aiid when thc e3hausties
fafsilily Il hor sol, md the matcllesa
aemper ii haE elimase, heeomo knowr
abroad tlsey ean Only heeoms
known. sAs sheagencF 81 lailFoaa com
nnnia,ien heF agricultural and indus
fslal lsspnsr VIII assoniah and gfasils
sho world. Aid iuss smell eufnals v
1he as Operative New aee needed Y
accomplish this eault
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

"a piyaie letter from Hickory
Flat, III eastern Calcasieu, states
ihat lie crops there ire better
than il Fifteen years previously
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

NeW Orleans seems 20 he talk-
ING railroad talk ID earnest lately.
wa hope il wont be all talk and
no cider
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

AVr Your IlIIEs !

Duriug die MOI ths q July and
August 1875. A H Moss wishes IS
CLOSE ibis sUnmer stock aad WA
elI at low figures with 2 detlueiion
ai ito per cont lor cash, % all bills
III DIS Goods, Notions, Hardware
ANA Clothing iyI 81
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

Abraham says lwhite) and Frank
Wikon. tcolored who we're sentenced
Is che penitentiary ~ orr lust term Of
enc District Court, each for four years
raesntly escaped from the guard,
together with two other ooayicts.
Tikoff has been, arrested and lodged IN
iail 81 0nelonss, and viii return g the
penitentiary. we learn this from
sheriiI Dsison, and from tic 0pelousas
journal
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01

--LA-JIJ UINJTLISJI y 50II7E - -
eral Commission
Merchants
STRAND, GALVESTON, TEXAS.
ORDERS ftr allIinds Of Merchandise,
filled at lowest prices, with cash IN
band, at 2 rs per cent, commission for
buying Prompt attention given TO
receiving and forwarding A stock Of
Corn, Outs Bistn. EEay and Corn Meat
always ON hand nov 14-ly
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-07-01
G. SCHNEIDER,
(ihnipman ma tim.

Attest
Gro. H. Wells, Secretary pro TEN.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10

Philadelphia Times Everybody has
heard Of the newspaper paragraph
which spoke Of "Daniel Webster, the
great American Statesman, and the
author of 'Webster's Dictionary who
was hanged at Boston for the murder
of Or. Parkman," but the compound
bIupder of the apochryphal writer was
scarcely more amusing than that OF u
writer In the British Quarterly, for 90.
tober who, In reviewing Professor
James Dana's work on "Corals and
Coral Islands, gets Off this extraordi-
nary paragraph
PREDECESSOR Dana, who IL another
Hugh Miller, made his mark as q wri'
ter many years ago, by "Two Years
Before the Mast" The man who could
write that was clearly marked out for
something better than the life of an
able-bodled seaman but few who
have risen In life rs he has have been
able to turn to such use the lessons OF
seafaring life learned 10 earlier years"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10
a nodci Poiyga,his,.

A will ease is looming up in New
York, which promises, in almost in
credible details, to leave the great
Ward case far behind. The Chicago
Tribune says of it:
"The will which il now about to be
contested il that Of Isaac NJ. Singer,
the inventor of the Singer sewing
machine, and the contest is made 10y
his second wife, Mary Ann Singer,
know N as Merry Ann Foster 1t APP
pears, from the preliminary hearing,
| that Mr.. Singer was model poly
gamist, He has had three wives, as
many paramours, and twcnty-eight
children, and he leaves fortune of
in lSi0, from whom he was divorced.
His second wife, the contestant In the
case, bore him ten children, and from
her also he was divorced. The third
wife, Isabella Eugenia Singer, whom
he Is said TO have married in England,
and is the residuary legatee under the
will, bore him six children, and TO her
and them he left the bulk of
his fortune. He also provides
in his will $4,000 for the use Of two
children by woman, Maria Heley
two equal portions of his property 10
five children by u woman, Mary Me
Gonigal; and two equal parts to u
child by one Mary II. Walton, His
whole property is divided into sixty
equal portions, and is apportioned be-
tween all the living children, whether
legitimate or illegitimate. All the
claims of the numerous legatees are
adjusted with the exception of those OF
the second wife, who now comes in
and claims to be the real widow, and
hence seeks TO break the will II Is
hardly possible that she can succeed,
rs the will seems in reality to be an
unusually just one. The third wife is
acknowledged as his wife throughout
the will, and was recognized as his
wife throughout long series of years.
Every one of his children, both leglti-
mate and illegitimate, are also ac-
knowledged by name in the will, aud
the property il equitably divided
among them. The trial will be
one Of extraordinary interest, grow
ing out Of the complex clrcum-
stances surrounding the case. during
his life Mr.. Singer sustained good
reputation. He was church mem
Der, and gave literally to religious en-
terprises, aud was esteemed rs moral
man 10y the whole community. No
suspicious attached to his during life,
and IL is not until after his death that
1t appears his life was anything but an
irreproaohable one. How he succeed
ed in entirely concealing the fact that
he was acting the part Of husband to
six wives, and had colony Of twenty-
eight children is mystery. The
charge of insanity brought against
him can hardly hold, unless the curl
Gus and very rare fact Of acknowledge
ing and providing by will for illegiti-
mate children Is proof OF insanity.
Most people, however, will be Inclined
to credit this to a sense of kindness,
generosity, and impartial justice on
the part OF the testator, and Will offset
II against his polygamous conduct. 1t
will certainly go far to sustain the
soundness and equity Of his will.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10

shall be sold under regulations at such
times and on such terms as may be
prescribed by law, aud the Legislature
shall not have power 10 grant any re-
lief to the purchasers thereof, provided
that the actual settlers on said lands
stall have the same prior right 60 pur-
chase rs Is provided in section 6, vt
this article in relation TO actual settlers
on county lands. The Comptroller
shall invest the proceeds OF such sale
and OF those heretofore made, rs may
be directed hy the Board Of Education
herein provided for in the bonds of
this State, II the same can be obtained,
otherwise in United States bonds, Had
the United States bonds now belong
ing to said fund shall likewise be in
vested in State bonds ii the same can
be obtained on terms advantageous to
the school fund.
Fifty.seventh Hay.
The Convention met at the usual
hour and opened With prayer by Eey.
DR., smith, Of Dallas
The following gentlemen wero APP
were referred the memorial relative 10
the extension of time for the eonple-
ton of the Texas Pacific Railroad. Va;
Messrs. Darnau. Crawford. Waclder,
Dohoney, Killgore, West, Ford, Card
is, Nupent Wade, Mckinney of Dem
ton, DeMore, Nowell, Blesslngame
and Flanagan.
Brown presented petition from the
citizens Of Dallas county, eskioa that
their county be made a judicial district
and that one branch of the Suureme
Court he located there.
Russell, of Wood. offered a resolu-
tlon providipp tbnt onn million ncrrs
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10

ions In regard to race or color OF prl.
soners, witnesses or jurors.
The conclusion arrived at, after a
careful analysis of the opposing forces
IN the approaching struggle in the
French Assembly over the change In
voting system is that scrutin d'arron.
basement, voting by districts, will
command majority, as the scrutin
laliste, voting by departments, which
now prevails, is strenuously supported
10y Republicans. The ministry is likely
to have triumph in the coming
parliamentary battle.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10

Marshall Herald. The trains con.
tinue to be crowded, from day to day,
with immigrants bound West of The
present tier Of counties. Such an in-
lluN of people was never before known
in the history Of the state, There
must be perfect hegra from the
Northwestern States 10 this land of
promise, which, il will prove to bo, II
these emigrants are as substantial as
they seem. Yesterday the train was q
sea of faces, ln the ears there was not
sitting room for way passengers Let
immigrants come, They will find a
cordial welcome.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10

This is funny all the way through
The confusion OF james u. and Rlrn.
ard III. is sufficiently absurd, tut when
the critic graVely goes on TO point cut
the germs of the great geologlst In the
story Of the young sailor, il Is almost
too much; while the assumption that
the author Of "rwo Years BEFORE the
MAST was IAN able. bodied seaman, y
who was TO "risep IN life, makes Il
combination of stupidity and gno.
rance moro complete than Anything
we have lately met with, and shows a
degree 0fcritical acumen that only the
Quarterly can attain.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10
JAe 11]ailp Afrala
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THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL
OF THE
CITY and COUNTY Of DALLAS.
DALLAS, TEXAS,

WEDNESDAY MORNING ;::; NOV. 10.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
'Thomaston.'


 The town meeting passed off very quiet. ly. It was voted to grant licenses for the ensuing year, the majority believing that an equal amount of liquor would be sold whether licenses were granted or not and that by such grants the town treasury would be better of by several hundred dollars. It seems to us hardly the right principle to license Qor dollars and cepts) a business which is generally acknowledg- ed to be so hurtful to the financial and social interests of our town, thus making rum selling as legitimate as any other so long as the rumseller shall comply with the requirements of his license. .......
 Father Gaffney's new residence near the Catholic church is approaching com pletiOn and presents fine appearance.
 We understand the choir of the Cong. church intend giving number of concerts during the fall and winter under the di- rectorship of Mir. F,-T BidwelI. We hope the report is true Mir. Bidwell ranks very high as a musician and his concerts are always good. -.., i,t Notwithstanding the dull summer, building has been largely carried e. in this place. Mir. Thomas Morris has just moved into his new house on Prospect St., abd Mir. James McCormick's house on the same street is nearly completed.
 --Ths clock factories have commenced running on full time this week and busi- ness in general seems more lively. ,...- !
 Plymouth Hill can boast of seventeen new street lamps. We are reminded of a little boy with a new whistle who wants to blow it all the time. Our Plymouth Hill friends lighted their new street lamps at three o'clock Saturday afternoon and we suppose. they will. continue to burn night and day through the winter. z,r !
 B
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
NATrcK. Mss, Oct. 8, 1875.

NAIcK, Mss, Oct. 8, 1875.
 MR. EprToRa-Your paragraph heinserted in yoursissue of laa week felatife to tHs discovery of tLe rosnains df the Eold Lib- erty Pole in 0osheh. awakened smy curi:. osity greatly. sand led mo to anticipate just such n statement from your Goshen correspondent as appears in your paper of the present week. confess to a great interest in this whole matter-for six days in n week during nine months of eacf- year of my boyhood passed that little hollow at the roadside, on my way to East Street School house. but never dreamed of what would be brought to light then. by my brother, in 1875. am glad of the discovery which he has made, and so carefully described in your paper The writer of this has received by mail a small piece of the old Pole exhumed after more than ninety-nine years; and it is sound yet. like the principles it helped to set forth almost century ago., and per petuate. And is not the present a good opportunity to raise and press the ques- tion. fought not the Stars and Stripes to wave over that spot again on July 4th, 1876?" Goshen. like Litchfield and all the other towns in your vicinity, was early committed to the success of the Revolu- tion; and after this new proof that Liber- ty has wonderful vitality there. may we not hope and expect that that old town will do her part in the coming Centennial? There are Revolutionary relicts in all that region, for there were were heroes and heroines on those hills in 1776. The wal nut staff of one of them, Ebenezer Nor ton, grandfather of your correspondent, may be seen at the house of his grand daughter, Mrs. Eliza Norton Gaylord. This patriot, it is understood, did not go into the service in person, but he made muskets for those who did. his forge and and shop having stood upon the ground now occupied by Mrs. Gaylord's flower garden. And throughout Litchfeld County just such men seem to have given the tone to society in those trying days. Men of industry. of great mental and physical resources, of genuine coinage, of noble patriotism; and if the discovery of the remains of the old Liberty Pole ip Goshen shall end in calling public atten. ton to their merits, and in honoring their memory in 1876, their descendants scat tered all over the land will rejoice.
 -. JOHN F. NORTON.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14

THE WESTMINSTER OF NEW YoRK.- Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and many other distinguished visitors to New York, have made their home at the Westminster hotel. from which fact it may be inferred that the Westminster is one of the most select and comfortable of the New York hotels. The rate of charges, however, are not higher than those of other first-class houses, but the unexcelled accommoda. tions, the excellent and convenient loca- tion, an the comparative quiet of the neighborh6od, give 1t peculiar, decided advantages It Is conducted on the Euro pean plan, and located almost in the cen- ter of the city, On 18th Street and Irving Place, but one block from Broadway, and Union Square, near the great stores and theatres. See card in advertising col umns. --
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
COUNTY ITEMS,

r. CoLEBRooK Grangers continue their meetings. They are very distrustfui of market fertilizers, and discuss wisely on other agricultural points. ',.' ... T-.
 HARwrNroN had an excellent fair this year as usual Their base ball club play ed the Nameless of .Winsted and were beaten, but the Nameless proved unequal to the Red Caps of Northfe1d, who took the honors on. a score of 24 to .19. ..-...
 About half way from THoMAsroN village to Waterbury. says the American, there is peculiar house, formerly gate house. We are told that the Thomastoh line runs just at the back of the house. Some contemplating man has built on an addition that stands in Waterbury, and all can see that there is bar in it; now that eondi- tions as to license are reversed; will it be necessary to move the addition We wait developments. Mr. Burr lfas opened law office here.--A large black eagle was seen near Mir Wefton' 8, Sunday. The repairs on the Hartford & Fishkill road are going rapidly forward. a
 wooDBURY appointed Judge, Hunting Hayward at its last weeks town meeting. That is the most important and difficult office in the gift of the people of a town, and man who can perform it's duties can do anything in. the official line. The State Attorneyship will be real recre- ation for the Judge, after clearing the streets of Woodbury of their vagrant kline and swiuesg rs.' lasses re,.. !. s.s..r BARKHAxsrED has voted a fifteen mill tax and appointed committee to, exam. inc into the selectmen's accoants and make full report to another meeting. In spite of a q cent tax there seems to be an increase of town indebtedness. The appointment of an auditing committee, says the Wihsted Press, is the first crush ing blow given to the ring of bummers who have nearly driven old Barkhansted into bankruptcy. rso aaT .#fseb ail 1e
 . NogrHFELD listened to. Lo tue Poor Indian, on Monday night of last week.
 He rshearsed the wrongs of his race, des. cribed their burial ceremony, chantsd funeral, ,dirge. and was as cheerful as large audience could make him.-A little daughter of Watson Morse broke her leg, recently, while trying to get into wagon. There has been talk of starting a Division of Sons of Temperance, here. Some Ten- perance movement is greatly needed.
 Ar NErAUe, Messrs Forbes and Clark whose works were burned short time ago. have erected a temporary structure and resumed business again. I-sez TERRYyrILE has several cases of typhoid fever.-Dr. Platt retires on account of. iii health and Dr. Wright of the center takes his practice.-wm. ". Clemence is school committee again. ,,.r zei...,, so;,.., TWISTED young fellows who love to dance are arranging for a
 Complimentary Ball, on Friday eyen;no of next week, at Music Hall.-The Ra9,' l.. H. Hallock ofthe 2d church is reported as quite improved since our last issne and likely to get ont soon. - Herald. We are greatly obliged for the special notice we had last Sunday from the pulpit Ne,rs Potatoes are selling for 40 cent, d bns;,el The new iron bridge is not anite readv for use but it is sufficiently we'll along to indicate it's future appearance. It will cost
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14

s FoREias.-Turkey and Servia have agreed Ibn mutual withdrawal of troops.
 The King of Bavaria refuses to accept the resignation of his ministry and dis solution is probable.
 The Carlist General Saballs, has with drawn fromSpain.
 noaEEsrIc.-The North Carolina Com vention has adjourned after enlarging tie powers of the legislature.
 Messrs. Moody and Sankey Will begin work in Philadelphia. -s i
 Tweed has been required to give s. COG, 900 bail. - H. B. 0lahin has been sued for {, + 500. 900 for dealing in smuggled silks.
 Wendell Phillips and Carl Schurz have been having controversy on the Cur rency. ss
 The murderer of MT. Noe has been dls- covered.
 The late trouble in Mississippi origina- ted in 8 rascally negro sheriff.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
EastLitchHolei. '

On Wednesday, of last week, the ball players of this place were intending to play Wolcottvllle club. but were prevent ed by the stormy weather. ..f t-
 A game of wicket ball was played on Pratt's meadow. about a quarter of mile below the paper mills last Saturday. The contesting parties were to be from this place and Campville and the south part of Harwinton, but the latter for some reason or other backed out and the game was played by choosing sides. The defeated side provided for an oyster supper to be eaten ln the woods. s.-' .-s...t ,-,.
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14

reported as having made 'sfn scholarship and department. the grsatest improvementl of any visited during tbe year.' An ads joarned meeting is to he held this5 week, to direct in regard to tho support of paul. pers. and management of roads, md we trust for the credit of the town, some ac- tion will he taken to raise the standing and condition of our schools: if not it will soon cost this town moro than $i26. to
Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
Morris.

The Preasuresls report At last weeks town meeting shows $7,555 receipts to $5. 427 expenditures. The town has built two new bridges at an expense of about $4Oc for both, and has made sundry im- provements in the highways, in building new portions, grading and leyelihg down steep hills. which our honest forefathers patiently dragged their loads over, believ- ing that Providence, ordained hills and valleys in his wisdom, and all for our best good But we have attained 0 fast age and have fast doings, some perhaps for better but tSs.iuk not all. ..- NJ.