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The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

Read the proceedings Of our
Parish Executive Committee, pub
Eshed 10 this issue of the Echo.
We hope that each Ward will feel
the Importance of immediate
organization, and meet in mass
for that purpose, at the place and
time designated in the proceed
iDgs.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

The dispatches published 10 The
New 0rleans papers lately. con-
corning the equinoCtinl storm at
Lake Charles, and in Calcasieu
parishi west Of the Calcasieu river
we're grossly exaggerated. The
storm Was scarcely felt ia Calca-
sieu, and The Calcasieu river was
nowhere overlooked.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

Officers of Sabine Grange, CAL
casieu, La: Thomas Mcfarland,
Master Thomas J. Carol, Secre-
tary. We were furnished a list Of
officers Of tho above Grange but
having mislaid it, wo can remem-
Der the names Of none but the
Master and seOretarys
Magnolia Grange: w. p. Simp-
son, Master Il. M. Nichols, Secre.
tary.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

We give a Weed Sewing Ma
chine valued at SOS for 40 new
subscribers TO the Echo, at 81 so
each. ....
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

We call the special attention of
taxpayers to the card of jacob
Ryan, tax collector, published in
this Lumber of our paper.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

Our able correspondent, Thos.
Klsinpeter, resumes in this paper
his interesting and valuable ar
tioles on the geography and re-
sources Of Calcasieu parish.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30
LAKE HOUSE.
JAMES A. KINDER PRoPErEror
LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA.

TTNHE ABOvB-NAMED HOUSE HAS PE,
Gently been renovated and put Ia ne.n
and complete order, The travelling puLIis.
will find it comfortable and pleasant place n,
stop. A square meal and a comfortable bel
can DO bad at aiI times Of tho day and night.
Of liquors and cigars are constantly kept M.
pains will be spared by the proprietor to mako
those patroniaing the house feel comfortable
and 60 away satisfied.
A Feed Stable attached. Horses.
carefully attended to. no20 "
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

ORANGE TREES FOR SAbE.-Victor
Touchy offers sixty thousand, on
very reasonable terms. Read bis
advertisement. ...
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30
ORANGE TREES
For Sale, Cheap for Cash,

For Sales Cheap for Cash,
Or on terms, with good guarantee.
will give all facilities for payments. I
have some trees from 5, 4, 8 and year
old, at the disposition of purchasers I
guarantee these trees to be of first
quality, for the sweetness and size of
the fruit they viii produce. A reduc-
ton will be made on the price for those
purchasing large quantity. I will ship
them in boxes, one or more trees in
each box, according to the demand.
sept 30-3m ". TOUCHY.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

Those indebted to the Echo will
assist us materially in its publica-
ton by RENTING balance due.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30
DEsCR1PTToN or LANDS.

OESCh1EIION OE LANDS
As I have said, the area of this sec
ton is about equally divided into prai-
RE and wood land, with little or no diff
ference as to the fertility of either, as q
general thing. The timbered lands
constitute what are called the Dinde
woods, the Shoupique woods, the Gui-
drey woods, the Big Woods and Sabine
Dinde, Shoupique and Sabine woods,
are the most fertile of the wooded lands
The underground is very dense, she'd
ding an immense quantity of vegetable
matter, and furnishing an excellent
harbor and food for stock during win
ter. The prairie is made up of dry land
and what are called marshes, which,
though, are nothing more than level
flats, water remaining on them for q
time only. These, though, are in fact
the most fertile of the two kinds of
prairie lands. The wood and prairie
lands as we'll as the marshes, have Tex
cept the Big Woods) a light, sandy,
loamy soil, about one foot deep, and IN
the absence of any troublesome grasses,
which are difficult to destroy. labor of
cultivating them is remarkably easy I;
and though the country is extremely
level generally, aud has an elevation Of
from ten to fifteen feet above tide
water only, its gentle slope southwark
towards the Gulf of Mexico, together
with numerous natural drains leading
in that direction, render ditching and
artificial drainage rarely necessary, AAnd
scarcely ever resorted to, The Big
Woods lands are more sandy than the
others, and though not SO fertile either,
grow corn, potatoes, and all kinds OF
garden vegetables, TO generalize, I
should say: Corn, cotton, potatoes,
sweet and Irish), tobacco, rice, vege.
tables Of al kinds, oranges, lemons,
figs, peaches, ounces, plums, and
grapes Of various kinds, grow on these
lands vigorously, giving evidence Of
greater strength of soil than has been
supposed, existed. would like to give
an analysis of the soil, but not having
the facilities for doing 90, aud in the
absence Of any statement Ia regard Cd
IL by the geologists who have visited
this section, am unable 10 do 80. But
a. seeing, ordinarily, Is knowing, 1 win
say, en- the products 81 this State,
planted here, give as bountiful q har-
vest 81 anywhere, and have seen &C.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

4. That the voting for delegates
from the different Wards to said
Parish Convention, shall be holden
at the following named places, on
Saturday, October 30, 1875:
LIST Ward, at James Coles store.
2d " Lehman store.
Sd Courthouse, Lake
Charles.
4th " O. r, Moss store.
9th " Saxtan's store.
9th b" Shiloh Church.
7th " Hyram Lyles'.
It was further
Resolved, That all true Demo-
Gratis, and all who believe in re-
trieving the country from present
mlsrule, be earnestly and urgently
requested to attend the Ward and
the Purish Conventions.
That all our citizens are invited
to attend the Parish Convention.
Meeting adjourned sine,die.' -
LOUIS I4EVEQUE,
Chairman.
Attest:
j. V. Moss, Secretary.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

Try The Echo to the LIST Of Jau-
nary, 1876, ut so cts, OF to- 1877
At 81.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

T. SKINNER, Liberty .....H. STONE, Galveston
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31
Leading Questions Of the Presidents
Message.

The Presidents message concluded
with the following summing up OF
leading questions for consideration:
AS this will be the last annual mes
sage which | shall have the honor OF
transmitting to Congress before my sue
cessor is chosen, l will repeat or reca-
pitulate the questions which deem OF
vital Importance to be legislated upon
and settled at this session:
First-That the States shall be required
to afford the opportunity of a good
common school education to every child
within their limits.
Second-NO seetarian tenets shall
ever be taught in any school supported
in whole or in part by the State, nation,
or by the proceeds of any tax levied
upon any community; make education
compulsory so far as to deprive all per-
sons who cannot read and write from
becoming voters after the year 1890,
DISTINGUISHING none, however, on
grounds of illiteraey who may be voters
at the time this amendment takes effect.
Third-Declare Church and State for
ever separate and distinct, but each free
within their proper spheres, and that all
church property shall bear its own pro-
portion of taxation.
Fourth-Drive cut licensed immoral
lty, such as polygamy aud the importa-
tion of women for illegitimate purposes.
To recur again to the Centennial, il
would seem as though now, as we were
about TO begin thesecond century of our
national existence, would be a most fit-
ting time for these reforms.
Fifth-Enact such laws as will insure
q speedy return to sound currency,
such as will command the respect of the
world.
Believing that these views will COM
mend themselves to a great majority Of
the right-thinking and patriotic citizens
of the United States, 1 submit the rest
to Congress.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31
James Liok's New Deed.
ITO be continued.I

The following are some of the bequests
contained in this document:
To the city of San Jose for building
and supporting an orphan asylum,
To the Ladies' Protection and Relief
Society, of San Francisco, $751;
The Protestant Orphan Asylum, of
San Francisco, S25, 5,O00.
To the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, $4,000.
For the erection of a granite monu-
ment to the mother of James Lick,
Sarah Lick, buried in Fredericksburg in
1872, $1,000; for the same thing for his
father, $4,000; ditto for his grandfather,
William Lick, to commemorate the
services he rendered during the Ameri-
can struggle for liberty, S., 900; and ditto
for his sister, Catharine, $1,000.
To found an "Old Ladies' Home' in
San Francisco, to be expended by special
trustees, 100000.
To erect free baths in San Francisco,
$150,0OO.
For the erection of a bronze monu-
ment for Francis Scott Key, the author
of ''The Star Spangled Banner" in
Golden Gate Park, S60,0O0.
For bronze statuary for the City Hall
of San Francisco, to represent the his
tory and resources of California, $780,
600.
For the establishment of a School of
Mechanical Arts, $4,000.
To the lawful son of James Lick
John H. Lick, one of the trustees
S150,000.
The use and management of the home
stead at San Jose is reserved. After the
donors death it is to be divided between
the Society of California Pioneers and
the Academy of Sciences. All his ex-
isting debts are to be paid, and what
ever debts he may legally owe, and such
sums as he shall require for the i'm
provement of the homestead property.
Whatever may be remaining of the es-
tate to be equally divided between the
Society of Pioneers and Academy of
Sciences.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31
RING OUT TIE OLD, RING IN THE SEw.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light
The year is dying with the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring happy bells across the snow;
The year is going, let IL go;
King out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress for all mankind.
Ring out slowly, dying cause
And ancient forms of petty strife
Ring in the nobler modes OF life
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the woe, the sin,
The faithless GOODNESS of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride In place and blood
The civic slander and the spite
Ring In the love Of truth and right,
Ring in the common love Of good
Ring out old shapes of foul disease
King out the narrowing lust OF gold:
Ring out the thousand woes OF old,
Ring In the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
Inc larger heart, the kindlier hand
King out the darkness of the land
ring out Ine CHRIST that Is TO be,
-rTeuHyson.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

If Congress wants to do good thing,
there is splendid opportunity for it in
cutting down the enormous expense at
tending the public printing. The great
bulk of public documents annually
turned out by the Government Printing
Office is as so much worthless material
scattered broadcast over the land, and
resulting in no public benefit whatever.
Huge books, gotten up on an expensive
scale, with maps and illustrations, find
their way into every nook and corner of
the country, only to be used as so much
waste material. Hundreds of thousands
oi GOllars are thus anhualIy squSnuere9
be public disgrace and an outrage il
such wanton extravaganza is allowed to
continue any longer.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31
Brave Women.

The newspapers nowadays delight to
tell stories illustrating the pluck and
courage of women. We select couple
of incidents, and leave our readers to de-
eide which style of courage they prefer.
The Wyoming Herald relates that as q
woman at Medicine Bow was about to
deposit her vote on last election day, she
was surprised to hear a trough" sing
out, 'I challenge that woman's vote"
"On what grounds, sir ?"
'She hasn't been long enough in the
Territory"
Did the woman sit down and cry /?
Nay. Her dainty little hand glided
back into the folds of her dress, and the
next thing that audacious man knew,
he was gazing into the muzzle of Der
ringer, while the fair voter said, "How
long have I been in the Territory, sir P'
"Look out, madam Don't That
cussed thing might go off. Take it
awayi l beg your pardon. I-don't
touch that rigger-I-I-Pm mistaken
in the woman. Please point that the
other way. pll knock down anybody
that says you haven't lived right here
in this town for ten years"
He disappeared around the corner,
and she smilingly passed in her ticket
Story No. Mot long ago four girls
in Bridgeport, Connecticut, while re-
turning from school, met eight boys
who had covered poor little kitten
with kerosene oil, and were about to set
it on fire. The girls begged the boys to
give them the kitten, but were refused;
whereupon they offered to buy it. The
young sayages, however, would not sell
the victim; and then the girls entreated
a man passing by to interfere; but he
refused, saying he did not care what the
boys did with the cat The indignant
girls, strong in the justice of their cause,
then attacked the party of boys, double
their own number, and succeeded in
taking away the kitten from them, and
carried it away in triumph.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

Miss Partridge, of Pennsylvania, speak
ing before the American Woman Suf-
frage Association, at its recent session
in New York city, said that her expert
ence in Michigan, where she had spent
six weeks making ''stump speeches. in
churches, school-houses, and court
rooms during the recent campaign, had
convinced her that talking was not use
less. Wherever she had spoken the
room had been crowded with men who
listened attentively, and the vote cast
in favor of Woman Suffrage showed
that those who had listened to her and
to the few others who had spoken in IA
vor of the measure proved that their au-
diences had not been drawn together by
simple curiosity. And she had learned
another thing while on that campaign
ing tour. She had heard, ever since she
could remember, that if women should
mix in. politics they would lose not only
the courtesy, but the respect of men.
She had travelled all over the State of
Michigan, among total strangers, who
knew her only as a lecturer in favor of
Woman Suffrage, and yet she had not
heard word nor received a look that
she could resent.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31
Henry Wilson.

In the death of Henry Wilson the
Woman Suffrage movement has lost an
able and efficient political friend. More
than twenty years ago Mr.. Wilson gave
in his adhesion to the principle, and has
never faltered since. In 1867, when
negro suffrage in the District of Column
bia was under discussion in the U. S.
Senate, Mr.. Cowan, of Pennsylvania,
offered an amendment extending suf-
frage to the women of the District. He
intended to throw ridicule by showing
that every argument which had been
used for cOlored men applied equally to
women. But Senator Wilson accepted
the analogy, and avowed his belief in
Woman Suffrage. He refused indeed to
support Mr.. CoWan's amendment, be-
cause its addition would have defeated
the bill. But he pledged himself, then
and there, to introduce bill establish
ing Woman Suffrage in the District,
and in all the Territories of the United
States, and to vote for it whenever it
should come up as separate measure
in the Senate. He carried out his
pledge next year by introducing a
Woman Suffrage bill, and did so again
few years later. He has repeatedly
attended Woman Suffrage Conventions,
and avowed himself in favor of the
cause. In the fall of 1872 the present
writer consulted Mr.. Wilson, then
named as probable candidate for the
Vice Presidency, as to the propriety of
trying to introduce Woman Suffrage
plank into the National Republican
platform. Mr.. Wilson replied as follows:
lLy Dear Sir Il fully agree with you
that the Republican party ought to en-
dOrse Woman Suffrage, quite as much
for it's own sake as that of suffrage it.
self, and 1 hope you will succeed in get
ting Woman Suffrage into the platform.
Yours for equal rights,
HENRY WILSON.
Mr. Wilson has left will which is in
his own handwriting and dated April
2lst, 1874. By it he bequeathed his en-
tire estate, real and personal, to his
nephew, DIR. VIM. L. Coolridge, in trust
for the support of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Mary Howe, now in her Goth year,
and for the education and support of bis
adopted daughter, Eva Tuttle, girl OF
some ten summers, and other designated
purposes; trusting it all, as he expresses
it, to the frindship, discretion, and sense
of right of William Coslridge. In re-
gard to the completion and carrying
through the press Of the third and last
volume of his history Of ''The Rise and
Fall of the Slave Power in America"
left nearly completed, it is expected that
it will be attended to by Rev. Samuel
Hunt, his lifelong friend and associate
and former pastor for several years.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEM

and pepper, to which the sick mother
did reasonable justice.
Jason Andrews made grave on the
rolling prairie, in sight of the spot Sc
lected by Mark Morrison for his home,
and, assisted by widow and children,
one-half of the once united family head
was borne to its last resting-place, with
no coffin but the rude shakes that Madge
had made, and left to enjoy the last earth
sleep with no monument erected to his
memory save the love and sorrow of the
mourners.
ITO be continuedI
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

Will any one explain in what respect
an incompetent man is better than an
efficient woman as a member of school
committee ?-Ne10 Bedford Mercury.
The explanation is an easy one. An
incompetent man may help his party or
his friends by his vote; no woman, how
ever ''efficient," can thus repay those
who nominate and elect her. A poll
tician who has succeeded by bargain
and intrigue in securing q place on .
ward and city committee will not be
so foolish as to throw away his power
and influence by voting fora woman
Boston Traveller. ~
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

It is worthy of note that Garrison and
Phillips have lived to see the death of
almost all the men who went into po-
litical life In defense of the anti-slavery
principle. May they live to see the en-
Of woman.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

Senator Ferry, of Michigan, President
pro tenn of the Senate, and having the
Vice Presidents right of succession in
case of the death of the President, is,
and has been for more than 20 years, a
pronounced friend of Woman Suffrage.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

What glorious world this would be
if all of its inhabitants could say, with
Shakspeare's shepherd, "Sir, Tam .
true laborer; 1 earn what wear; lowe
no man hate; envy no mans Happiness;
glad of other mems good; content with
nv farm"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

It is doubtless safe to say that we
have as voters in the United States fully
1000, 600 of men who religiouBly hold
that their first and highest allegiance il
due to the Pope of Rome.-NdtioaGt
Protestant.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

The Adalbert shaft of the silver and
lead mines at Pribram, in Bohemia, has
reached the extraordinary depth Of
nearly $500 feet.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

One million bushels of peanuts were
eaten in the United States last year,
and yet there are men who say that the
native American is lazy.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31

Mrs. Clemson, the last surviving child
of John G. Calhoun, died in South Caro-
lima on the 22d ult.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-31
BY MRS. Al DUNIwAY,

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress. in the
year 1875, by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, in the office of
the Librarian of Congress at Washington City.l
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-05-21
UUTs RESPECTFULLY,
GEORGE ROBINSON.
4 Few We as 10 Feeble and Delicate
Women


BY X. V Pierce, NJ d., of the Worlds Dis
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