The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-23
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matrimony on an Erie express n,
while it was humming at the r.t.
forty miles an hour.
"A curious will was admitted n
bate in Albany, lately: II, Bri5
Reilly, in my solid senses, villa =.
house to my husband. House md
all belonging TO, and furniture
was written on the back of a reeai,.
bill for groceries. NV
"A large satchel was picked In :;
Central park last week by one Of H.
patrolmen, who shook it to see what
contained. He found out, for strai,b,
way a baby began to cry. Whipe,
out his knife he cut the satcheI on,,
and found in it pretty little girl bah,
1t was taken care of.
"A personal advertisement in Gin
cinnatI paper says: GA young blond,
widow would like to correspond with
middIe.aged coal.merchant." Evident,
for the purpose of making a coaltim
But what kind of coal does she prefer,
Evidently not anthracite, for she wishes
marriage bit-u-men.
And now shall brains of the good po
pie of Connecticut be strengthened A.
cordingly. A school Of mackereI nje
long and a fourth of a mile wide wa
struck not long ago by the fishing smact
of New London, and at a single draw Of
the nets 100000 fish were taken, which
in their turn netted $1,000 cash.
There is a disagreement among III,
San Francisco physicians over the mes
tai condition of the late James Lick h s
a considerable time before his death
some of them holding that he was ID.
sane and Others that his peculiarita Of
behavior were only evidence of ecun
tricity.
After reading Sitting Bulls madet
application to the agency for moro an.
munition, we can't but reflect what
splendid lightning-rod agent or sewing
machine canvasser had been lost
America by the failure to catch him
when young, and thus bring him up un.
der the genial influences Of our modern
civilization.
The returns of the Metropohtanp
lice at the GuiIdhall court, London,
shows that in 1875, six hundred and
seventy-six persons were apprehended
for cruelty to animals and five hundred
and sixty-four were summoned, out Of
which eight hundred and thjrty,eign
were convicted. London has the lead
yet in the above business.
mot long ago the bonesOfa mastoa@
were found in Washington Territory the
skull bone of which alone weighed SO
pounds, and contained when found
quantity of gold and silver quartz The
tusk8 were twenty feet in length aDdh'
leg stood twenty feet high. They an
said to be the largest fossil remains e7a
discovered.
..Captain Williams, Of the New You
police force, is in trouble again. He ~E
his men out the other night to arrS
night-walkers, and all but two that thy
brought in we're respectable UorEDs
girls; nevertheless, they were kept
the station house all night and put ITO
court in the morning, There is to
vacancy in his precinct.
Whitelaw Reid, of the New loH
Tribune, who was afflicted, early in The
summer, by the painful death OF H,o,
tie neice and ward, has now been caI7
upon to bury his only sister She aI7
last week at White River junction, 'H
mont, where she has been sinking wiz
consumption. Mr.. Reds venefao'
mother, nelce and NEPHEW "''
only remaining relatives.
There was a sad accident at Hoooh'
the other night. A young mother, Mr.
Stanton, who had lost her chlIo' W.
watching by the body and was worn lou. o.,
with grief and sleeplessness. Some ''p'
during the night she threw herself '''Yg
the inanimate body and cried hef%.
to sleep. A gust of wind blew hetcl0' K,
against one of the wax tapers at the "%
of the coffin, and she was horribly OuFD''
There are faint hopes of her recovery
r ,a,J ,,ottprY on