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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
EXPERIMENT WITH DrS4urrE.

An account appears in the London
papers Of some remarkably successful ex-
periments with dynamite. In the first
test, a three hundred pound bIockof iron,
on being raised to a height of twenty
four feet, was allowed to fall on a wooden
boz containing fifty pounds Of packed
dynamite; as the result the box was
smashed, and although several Of the
cartridges were compressed and burst, no
explosion ensued. With a view of show
ing the intense local action Of the explo-
sive ten pounds weight was placed at a
distance of nine feet from a temporary
wooden fence, and after the explosion il
was found that fully one-haf of the
spars had escaped damage, whereas it
appears inevitable that, shad an equal
quantity of gunpowder been fired, the
paling would have been entirely de-
stroyed. In order to prove the effective
use of dynamite as fog-signal at sea,
experiments OF a different kind were
made. 1t could be fred from a spar
without the slightest danger either to
the spar or to those on deck-as was
shown by two cartridges being placed at
the end of fshing-rod, which remained
intact-or the same effect would follow
if the cartridge were attached to a small
piece of wood and thrown into the
water. In anether%experiment, a car
fridge was sent to the bottom of a pond,
the explosion sending theaspray in a col
umn forty feet high. With "a view to
test the effect of an explosion of gun
powder or a box of dynamite, twenty
five pounds Of powder were placed in q
hollow closely covered by large half
inch plate of iron, on the top of which
was laid a plate containing ten pounds
of dynamite. On firing the charge, it
was found that the plate had been
thrown distance of nine feet, and had
smashed the box, without any explosion
of the dynamite having taken place,
notwithstanding the force of the shock
to which it was thus subjected.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
THE CAUSE of THE 'SPLOsTON.

"Iwould invite you to my house, brud-
der Jackson" said deacon johnson, as
he emerged from church last Sunday
evening, but dunno as we'll get any
supper dis night, the cook stove am 50
dredfully out of repair"
Whats de matter wild de stove"
"Why, you see cold wedder am comm
on and woods gettin' skese an high, an
I've 'structed de folks to be berry eknO-
vomical in de usin' OBJ it. We'se bin
buvin' in small lots, an last night, bein'
out Oh fuel sent one of my boys ober
to 4 neighbors to borrow a few sticks
De man or his family had gone to bed
OWN to de lateness OBJ de hour, an dat
boy, VINO would splse to do an unIOnest
transaction, wrote out his note for de
value ob de wood, an droppin' it in q
prominent place in de woodshed,
shouldered an armful an brought it
home"
Jess so.
"Well, fire was kindled de kettle put
on, de ole woman she is gettin de supper
All OBJ sudden, puff went de stove,
zoom keswish, kuslush went something,
and as tumbled over | saw de ole wO-
man maxim for de roof wild de tea kittie
and the stove plates folowin' her, while
de boys an de gals was as brack wild
smut as de ace of spades, De stoves
goose was cooked for fact"
"What was de cause OBJ de'sploshun ~
I'm strongly 'clined to believe dat dar
was powder in dat wood, an dat de pow
der was done put in dar by dat white
man to ketch some thievin' darkeys wat
nebber buys no wood, an Dressed ef I
don't think dat man spects me, kase he
couldn't ind dat note, and won't make
any 'pologies."
Dat am an outrage"
For fact, an de cbildren's supper
was spilled, too. "-Keokosk Constitution.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
B0GGX AND rag HORNETS.

Old man Boggs wished to make some
slight repairs on the top of his residence
near Cincinnati, and for this purpose had
occasion to tear up q few shingles. In
doing so in a quiet and inotFensive man
ner. he was astonished to find that he
had disturbed hornets nest. The hor-
nets swarm, Il out upon Mr., Boggs, They
made it hot for him at the very frs. on
set. He rushed to the ladder, attacked
from behind, when, horror of horrors
a neighbor had borrowed his ladder! Mr.,
Boggs cavortcd, he tumbled, he rolled
from one end OF the roof to the other,
screaming as he went. Ladder, ladder
The hornets continually increased; they
flew at his nose, his ears, his cheeks
they danced on his forehead; they
crawled down his back they flew up his
brooches leg; they met half way and
fought each other; they stung here and
there and everywhere. Boggs wilc
pesticulations and terrific shouts at
,racted the attention ofthe whole neigh
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
QUE FIRST GRAY HATR.

b. the first big pattering drops that fai,
/ With splash on our lattice pane
Arate rs shiveT and start, rs they warn US all
az d storm or Of coming rain:
:. il with life when we're growing old,
Ard age steals on unaware
H. sbiver and art, If the truth were told,
Al the sight Of our first gray hair.
70 mark not the light Of the monday hours.
4 Tikp the first stTcaks the dawn doth bring
- hail not the Oirth Of the slumber flowers
Ia we do tire first snow drop Of spring,
H. The bleak wintsT wind we look not with grief
Ir5nugh it howl through the branches bare;
bat We sigh when we witness the brown autumn
nj behold tI11 Natures first gray hair.
.,v hairs may come when tie beaning eve
Has none Of its brightness lost,
srbon with buOyant heart we would fain deny
Youtb's RubicOn had been crossed;
] # The ivv-clad tree looks young and green,
Though a sapless trunk be there.
nd naught Of decay on our cheek may be seen
Wien we witness our first gray hair.
h. noble crewn to a noble lite
i Ia head of silveTy gray.
nd Ills well if tired with the struggle ,and strife
4 # finds rest at the close Of day:
Inf headed sin is a crOwnless curse,
And the parent Of dark despair,
nd it gives us a pang, OH dOubIy worse
4 Than the sight Of the first gray hair.
e,me early, come late, like knock at the gate
4 +, mat first SOFT silver thread,
nd it Joins with its silence the years that wait
With the years forever fed;
4 silently tells US we're jOurneying on
It silently questions US Where.
ID faithful milestone, were the truth but
known,
Is seen in our first gray hair.
- ''''' 40 Waller c, IIorcden.
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borhO0d. His friends mistook the shouts
of Ladder ~ ''Hornets" for "TiIden
and Hendricks" and thought he was
ratifying, but 50 much seriousness was
depicted on his face that ladder was
finally procured'and a rescue effected,
Mr.. Boggs is laid up for repairs now,
and his face looks like the newspaper
pictures of a defeated prize-fghter.-.San
Franciac0 CgU.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
A Dubuoue girl PLAYED Copenhagen

A Dubuque girl played Copenhagen
at party the other night, and yelled,
and shrieked, and howled, snd ran be-
hind the door and scratched the young
mans face in seven places, and upset "A
Kerosene lamp, and kicked over. the
piano stool, and screamed for the police,
and finally, when he kissed her just on
the tip of the ear, she tainted dead away,
and said she could never look anyone in
the face again, and they led the bashful,
modest creature sobbiny home. The
next day she ran away with a married
fcbtning-rod peddIer with hare lip
ond xix Children Hu~teye,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF RUSSIA,

4 great deal has been said OF the i'm
possibility of Russia making war, owing
10 her financial embarrassments and the
difficulty of raising loan. The inan-
eial embarrassment is considerable, and
large loan outside Russia Is probably not
to be raised, but a national loan on 1he
Napoleonic sprinciple would produce
some millions, and Russia has one OPP
pressiye and extravagant but effective
resource. She can procure nearly every
thing ~ issuing inconvertible Paper.
An issue of thirty million pounds ster-
ling tone hundred and fifty million dol
larsl would only increase her psptr
currency one-afth, and probably only
raise the agio on gold twenty per CEN
tum, which As America has shown US,
can be borue without paralysis Of fn-
dustry. 1t is most ruinous exPedient,
but Russia ha resorted to it twice al
ready, and each time has survived
L0ndon Spectator.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
roo LATEFORTHE TRAIN

When they reached the depot, Mr..
Ian and his wife gazed in unspeakable
disappointment at the receding train,
Fhich was fast pulling away from the
ridge switch at the rate OF thousand
niIes minute. Their first impulse was
b run after it, but as the train was out
/ sight and whistling for S2getown be-
Ore they could act upon the impulse,
hey remained in the carriage and
lisconsolately turned the horses heads
iomcward.
It all comes from having to wait for
woman to get ready" Mr.. Man broke
be silence with, very grimly.
I was ready before you were" replied
lis wife.
81 Great heavcns!" cried Mr.. Man, in
frepressible Impotence, jerking the
lorse5' jaws out of place, 'just listen to
bat. And I sat out in the buggy
en minutes, yelling at you to come
bong until the whole neighborhood heard
BE-"
Yes acquieSced Mrs Man, with the
srovoking placidity which no one can as
sDme but woman, land every time /
tarted down stairs you sent me back for
Dmething you had forgotten"
Mr.. Man groaned, "This is too much
u bear" he said, when every body
snows that l was going to Europe; l
foull Just rush into the house, put on
clean shirt, grab up my grip sack, and
q y, while you would want at least six
lonths for preliminary preparations,
Ind then dawdle around the whole day
Il starting until every train had left
pwn."
Well, the upshot of the matter was,
bat the Mans put off their visit to
aurora until the next week, and it was
greed that each one should get him or
erselt ready and go down to the train
I'D go, and The ,one who failed to get
eady should be left. The day of the
batch came around in due time. The
Pain was to go at 1920, and Mr.. Man,
after attendingIto his business.went home
il 945.
. And away they few. Mr. Man buIged
hto this room and rushed through that
sne and dived into one closet after an
ther with inconceivable rapidity, chuck
ing under his breath all the time to
pink how cheap Mrs. Man would feel
Fhen he started off alone. He stopped
- the stairs to pull off his heavy boots
p save time. For the same reason he
pulled off his coat as he ran through the
lining room and hung it on a corner OF
she silver closet. Then he jerkcd off his
geSt as he rushed through the hall and
PISSED it on hook in the hat rack, and
y the time he reached his own room. he
Fas ready to plunge into his clean
slothes. He pulled out & bureau drawer
nd began to paw at the things like a
cotCh terrier after rat.
Eleanor" he shrieked, "where are
Ay shirts?"
In your bureau drawer" calmly re,
Piled Mrs. Man, who was standing
RlacjdIy before glass, calmly and DELHI,
rately coaxing refractory crimp int
Pace.
Well, by thunder they amt"
hOuted Mr.. Man, a little annoyed
I've emptied everything out of the
Arawer and there isn't thing in it
#ver saw before"
Mrs, Man stepped back few PAGES
acId her head one side and after satisfy
hg herself that the crimp would do, ant
Pould stay where she had put it, re
Ried:
These things scattered around OF
he floor are all mine. Probably yol
eaven't been looking in your owl
lfawer."
II don't see" testify observed MI
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things out for me when you had nothing
else to do all the morning"
Because" said Mrs. Man, settling
into an additional article of raiment
with awful deliberation, "nobody put
mine out for me. A fair field and no
favors, my dear"
Mr.. Man plunged into his shirt like
bull at a red flag.
Foul" he shouted, in malicious
trump. "No buttons on the neck!"
Because" said Mrs. Man, sweetly,
after deliberate stare at the fidgetting,
impatient man, during which she but
toned her dress and put eleven pins
where they would do the most good,
because you have got the shirt on
wrong side out"
Where are my shirt studs ?" he
cried.
Mrs. Man went out into another room
and presently came back with her gloves
and hat, and saw Mr.. Man empting all
the boxes he could find in and about the
bureau. Then she said:
"In the shirt you just took off,"
Mrs. Man put on her gloves while Mr..
Man hunted up and down the room for
his cuf-buttons.
Eleanor" he snarled, at last, II be-
lieve you must know where those but
tons are"
II haven't seen them" said the lady,
settling her hat; didn't you lay them
down on the window sill in the sit
ting room last night?"
Mr.. Man remembered, and went down
stairs on & run. He stepped on one of
his boots, and was Immediately landed
in the hall at the foot of the stairs with
neatness and dispatch, attended in the
transmission with more bumps than he
could count with Webb's adder, and
landed with q bang like the hell gate ex-
pIOsiOn.
care you nearly ready, tlegernon ~
asked the wife OF his family sweetly, lean
ing over the banisters.
The unhappy man groaned. "Can't
you throw me down that other boot?"
Mrs. Man pityingIy kicked it down
to him.
My yaIise?" he inquired, as he
tugged away at the boot.
Up i'll your dressing-rocm," she an
swered.
Packed?"
~ do not know; unless you packed it
yourself, probably not, she replied, with
her hands on the door-knob; "I.had
barely time to pack my own"
She was passing out of the gate when
the door opened and he shouted:
"Where in the name of goodness did
you put my vest! 1t has all my money
in it,"
"You threw it on the rack" she called
back; "good-by, my dear"
...oot ,,,o ,ro, ho;rod oro;n
''I =, L,i s,,s vs. TlnaaoS 1ron, Al va,
,,.,,- t ooatS5
"'a' 0'' NY
She paused ana turned, SSter signaling
the street car TO stop anu cr'ea;
"You threw it on the silver closet
And the street car ehg"Ited heF grace
full figure and she was seen no more
But the neighbors say they heard Mr.
Man charging up ana down the house
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07

4 MASS of 10000, 900 tons Of pure,
solid, compact rock salt, located on an
island one hundred and eighty-tive feet
high, which rises from q miserable sea
marsh on the route from Brasher to New
Iberia. up the river Teche, Louisiana, is
one Of the wonders of the world. How
this island containing over three hun
dred acres of excellent land, ever came
into existence in such locality is mat
ter Of conjecture. Vegetation is prolific,
and the scenery is beautiful and varied.
Here is an immense bedof pure rock-salt,
whose extent is IS yet only estimated,
and scientific men are puzzled
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-10-06
GNbernGtcrial.

At last the Republicans, and
Independents have a candidate
for Governor that they can vote
for. That gentleman is Gen.
George Nancy, Of Nashville. He
is now undoubtedly candidate
and is stumping the State. We
will lay before our people his list
of appointments as soon as they
are published. Gen. Nancy has
plenty of nerve, and if Governor
Porter draws a pistol on him, it
will be his last draw. Nancy has
tn: "grit" to show up the corrupt
Democracy from one end Of the
State to the 0 her, and he will do
it. He is a fine speaker and will
make a fine impression wherever
he goes. If the Republicans and
Independents will stand to him
he car be elected.
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Reform.

This the battle cry Of Democra-
cy. Now let lis see how they
practice it where they have the
power. First take Tennessee.
Six years ago when they went in
to power the State debt was only
eighteen million, and our bonds
in the East were worth So cents
on the dollar. Now how is it
Our State debt is about twenty
three millions and our bonds 90
ing slowly at IS cents-a decrease
ofnearly one half. Let us look to
our own county. The Legisla-
ture appropriated thirty thous-
and dollars to build a bridge
across Canda's Creek, and turn
pike to Georgetown. The bonds
were issued and put in the hands
of agents-a majority Of whom
were Democrats--the bridge was
built, but where is the turnpike?
Now let us go back to State af-
fairs. Look at the Hobbs Burch
transaction-$l2,000 paid for the
Office Of Comptroller; still the
Democrats claim there is nothing
wrong in that. Bu on the other
hand Mr.. Belknap sells a trading
post and the Democrats get very
indignant all at once and demand
his impeachment-the Republi-
demanding that he be sent to the
cans pcnitentiary Then why did
not the "rcformcrsn demand that
Hobbs be penitentiaried? Simply
because they love their thieves;
and to prove that we will site the
reader to John N. Bright, a Dem
ocratic Congressman who is a
SALARY. .grabbeE' to Samuel j.
1ildeQ, candidate for President,
who Was the insligator of the
Credit Mobilier'' swindle; and
to 7. A. Hendricks, who is also a
SALARY grabber." What is more
necessary to show that their pre-
tentions Of reform is a sham.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-10-06

A gentleman who attended the
speaking at Charleston last Thurs
day says he conversed with the
laboring people through that sec
ton, and they will not support
any man for the Legislature who
is in favor Of convict labor or the
dog law. lie says a large major
ity Of the Democrats up there are
for Thomas, and the Republicans
both white and black are for
Nancy. lie says dog-law Porter
Will not set 20 votes iii the
Charleston district.
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man lnat wants His own Wal
! whether right or wrong. llaye,
is a firm man. In the war he re
ceived many wounds in his ilesl
but not a scratch on his honor
Tilden received wound aftel
wound in his honor, but not {
scratch in his flesh. Rutherford b
Hayes is a man of spOtless char
acter-a character which rests
upon record, not upon a pros
pectus, applause. Good char
actcrreSts on what you have done
not on what you say YOU are go
ing to do. Good character rests
upon a fulfillment and not upon a
promise. ! will tell you some
thing: Hayes will be the next
President of the United States.
Renewed and protracted APP
plaGse. Rutherford b. Hayes
carries at his belt three political
scalps: one of Thurman, one Of
Pendleton. and one of Rise-up
William Allen. Laughter. Next
November we will have another
scalp at that belt. Laughter and
cheering,l If Mr. Tilden will feel
the top Of his head he will have a
realizing sense Of who furnished
that fourth scalp.
THE KIND or MAN TO VOTE FOR.
Now, my friends, want YOU TO
vote the Republican ticket. A
yoice-"We will do it" want
you TO swear that you will not
vote for any enemy Of human pro-
gress. Go and talk to every Dem
Ocrat that YOU can see. Get him
by the coat collar; talk to him,
hold him like Coleridge's Ancient |
Mariner, withyour glittering eyes;
hold him; tell him all the mean
things his party ever did. Tell |
him kindly; tell him in a Chris
tian spirit, as | do, but tell him.
Applause and laughter. Recol-
rect lnerc never was more I'M !
portant election than the one you
arc going to hold in Indiana. |
want you every one to swear that
You will vote for glorious Ben
Harrison. Tremendous applause.
| tell you we must stand by the
country. It's glorious country.
1t permits YOU and me to be free.
1t is the only country in the world
where labor is respected. Let us
support it. Il is the only country
in the world where the useful
man is the only aristocrat. The
man that works for a dollar day
goes home at night to his little
ones, takes his little boy on his
knee, and he thinks that boy can
achieve anything that the sons Of
ihe wealthy man can achieve.
The free schools are open to him;
ne may be the richest, the great
est, and grandest; and that
thought sweetens every drop Of
sweat that rolls down the honest
ace Of toll. Applause.l Vote
o save that country.
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-1---7H-Nb------
NASBY.
Mr. NasT,y has Some Trouble
with his Flock ON the ques-
tiOn Of Reform, etc, which
lie Settles I'm IliS Usuah Way.
CONFEDRIT X ROAD3,

CoNFEDRIT X ROADS,
wICH Is N TIE STATE w KENTUCKY,
Sep. Is, 1876.
II takes n great deal Of wear
and tear to be a leedin Dimocrat,
more than | feel | kin stand, at
my time NV life, pertickerly ez
Bascon is watrin his likker more
and more every day. On INSULT
shent sustenance it's impossible
to watch all the pints and keep
all the sheep safely in the fold.
Pm longin for the elecksun and
inoggerashun of that great refor-
mer, Tilden, SO that in the post
ohis | kin enjoy the fruits Of my
laber, and by gittin my likker by
the gallon, insted of in desultory
and infrekent drinks, | kin be
shoor of both quantity and quail
ty.
My last trubble wuz my wust,
and it took me an entire day to
git it straitened Pollock and Joe
Bigler had got hold ola Moo York
Democratic paper, one which |
he'd been quotin as authority,
and went from ono bar-room to
another and red it to every Dem
ocrat iu the village. They even
penetrated Bascom's, and before
| got in he'd defoosed ther pison
in that sacred precint. 1t con
tained long articles showing that
Tilden, our Standard bearer, wuz
committed, sole and boldly, not
only to hard money, and imejit
resumpshen, but that he was a
rcformer Of the reforminist kind,
goin so far as to pledge himself
never to pay a dollar NV Southern
war. claims, never to e.establish
niger seryitood, in any form, and
never t. appint to offs any but
them cz wuz fittid for it, and sich
ez wooden't steel.
They did this while ] wuz out
organizer n hundred Dimocrats
to 20 over into lnjcany to vote in
the interest Of reform in Octo-
Der.
When returned there wuz
irubble. | wuz surrounded by Il
hundred indignant Dimocrats de
mandin ny mo what wuz goin to
do about it.
IL am for reform" scd Deekin
Pot ram, "but ] am goin to be
paid for them swcot potatoes, and
them fence rails wich Fedrcl pix
kcts scCzcd $
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-10-06

If the Republicans fail to car
ry Indiana next Tuesday with
such a man as Ben. Harrison, they
need not have much hopes for
that State in November. They
seem, though, to be confident Of
HaYrison's success, but they have
a majority to overcome, and we
fear they can't do it.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-10-06
oDsT1NAcY AID r1EMyEss.

When Tilden refused to give
his name Hayes offered to give
his heart. Hayes is a man Of learn.
ing, II man Of talent, Of iirmnoss;
| do not say obstinocy. | say firm
ness. DO you know the differ
once between obstinacy and firm
moss? A firm man is a man that
stands up for the right because ii
is right; an obstinatci man IS a
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First District.

Mr.. Sam. Hunt has been up in
the first district spending a few
weeks among his relatives and
friends, and says Randolph's
friends are conf cnt Of his elec-
ton over McFarland. ----
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one o. "Ulu
Aby.a ou. is stump!ng Illinois
Il asIat oi Hayes d Wheeler.

Accounts ir,M the grand rally
at Tip pcc noe DIttlc grounds last
week say there were twenty
Thousand people come TO hear
III Jt.I. @. Blaine speak.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1876-10-06
The Fair.

As we are continually being
asked when the Bradley county
fair will begin, we would state
again ,ha there will be no fair
this year, for reasons best known
to the directors.
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