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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13
TEsTIMoNIALs
WATRRs, PIANOS & ORGANS.

Waters New Scale Pianos have peculiar
merits.-LNeW York Tribune.
The tone of the Waters Piano Is rich, MELEE,
and sOnorous, They possess great volume y
sound and the continuation of sound or singlaS
power Is Que Of their most marked features
New York Times.
Waters Concerto Organ is so voiced a. y
have a tone like full rich alto voice. Nn
especially human in its tone, powerful yet swe'"
(Rural New Yorker oct Idly
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13
THE ....
" PHILHARMONIC" PIANO.

This entirely. new instrpment possessing AZ
the essential qualities Of murs exPeus We and
higher priced Pianos Is offered nj lover price
than any similar one nav in [ market. Itb
durable, with u ma niRcenGo of tone hardly
surpassed and yet G n he purchase at prizes
aud gu terms wit in the reach Of all. This
instrument has all the modern intpl ovemcns
including the celebrated . gFaao treble aud
is fully warranted. Catalogues mailed.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13
THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES.
STOUTEMYER s. JUDSON,
PROPRTETORS.

ISAAC N. ST0UTEMYER....... EDITOR.
WM.H.H. JUDs0N..BUsINEsS MANAGER
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13
NOVICE.

4 Ii persons indebted to me FOR past
IN medical services will please come
ion ward and settle either by payment
or note. Further, / will inform my
friends that owing to the cash system
adopted by the country, / viii be com
PEELED to adopt the same system and
hereafter no call viii DO responded to
unless some satisfactory arrangements
arc made for the payment 81 s8mo.
Nv. H. KIRKMAN. M. ID.
Lake Charles, January 8, 1876,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13
The following q a lilt Or Styles.

The following Il a Int Of styles:
No 5O--FTvB OeTAvEs, Two and one half
R#sf sets Of reeds, six stops--DiaRasoa,
Principal, Flute, Dulciana, Forte,
. Tfemolui Knee Swell Patent Music
Rack Solid Walnut cases. :.
No. bs-FTYE OCTAVES, Two aud one half
SITS Of reeds, eight stops-Piapasnn,
Principal, Flute, Duloiana, sNoE Co.
lsste, Tramolo, Principal Forte, Ire
bic Forte Knee Swell; patent music
rack solid walnut oases.
No. GIVE OCTAYES, Two nna Qng half
sets 81 reeds. nine stops Diap0sun,
Printipal, Flute, Duleeana, Vox Re-
lesto, Sab. base, Tremolo, Principal
Forte, Treble FOrtei Knee Swell;
patent ma ia rack solid walnut cases.
No. Gs--FIVE 90 AYES, Two and ono half
sets Of Feeds, ten stops-D iapason,
Principal, Flute, Du eianhi Vox Ce-
lesta sab-baso, Octave Coupler IRE.
molo, Principal Forte, Treble Forte !
Knee Swell patent music rack solid
walnut cases.
No. 72--sIX OCTAVEs, Three sets u reeds,
eleven stnps--Diapasont Principal,
Flate, Dulciaua, VOK Celeste, Sub.
base, Clarionet, Octave Coupler, IRE
molo, Principal Forte, Treble Forte,
Rnoa Swell, patent music rack, solid
walnut eases.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13

Persons DESTROYS Of having Job Work
done neatly, expeditiously and cheap,
are invited to call at the Office Of the
Lake Charles Weekly Echo,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13

Job Printing Of oil descriptions care
fully executed, with neatnesa and dis
patch.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
Sad But True.

H. V. R, correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, writes the
following to that paper in relation
to Tennessee. It can not always
be SO:
"The trouble in every Southern
State is over buying and under pro
ductiOn. Then the waste is dread
full. Unless a man has lived, say
among the farmers of Western New
York and then among the farmers
of Tennessee, he cannot appreciate
the great difference in this particu-
lar. The New York farmer fattens
his hogs upon what, in Tennessee,
is thrown to the dogs. The yearly
waste in the Southern States is past
all computation. The refuse from
the table is wasted; kitchen slOps
are wasted; stable and barn yard
manure is wasted; wheat straw, in
fact all straw and corn stalks are
wasted. There is no saving any
where. 1t is a carnival Of waste
from the Ohio river to the Gulf
And this is one of the things that is
the matter, and the chief reason that
we hear the eternal complaint that
there is no money in the country
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
what's The Useq

What's the use?" is the com
mon saying of the young in regard
to hard, distasteful studies. They
mean to do something in life far
different from anything that will re-
quire their dull dry studies to be
brought into play. But, leaving
out of question the mental discip-
line got from them, which is, after all
the main object of study, these very
things may be turned to excellent
account in after years. MY teach
er made me study surveying TWEEN
ty-6ve years ago, and now am
glad l can get a good situation by
such means and a high salary, -
said gentleman who had lost his
propert y. A certain French king
used to regret, with great bitterness,
the deficiency of his education when
surrounded by men of great learn
ing and highest cuI,ure. He re-
preached the memory of those who
had been so indulgent Of his idle
ness, and said, with bitter sarcasm.
WAS there not birch enough in the
forest Of Fontainebleau: Better
a sharp, strict master, who insists
on thoroughness in all that child
rem undertake, than a frivolous,
superficial one, who permits them
to slip over their lessons in an easy
way, which they will regret with
like bitterness in latter years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
Lincoln and Ladies Dresses.


1t was during the war that the
women felt the incongruity of ex-
pensive toilettes while the soldiers
were suffering from privation on the
field. So they began to form an
Order of the Bee" which bound
its members to purchase no foreign
dress goods while the war lasted.
\ committee called on Mrs. Lincoln
and asked her to join the order.
She was much interested and ex-
pressed her willingness to join il
her husband were agreed, and went
with the committee at once 10 con
suit him. He received them kindly,
listened patiently and replied: "But
what about our revenues, ladies
The Government needs every dol
lar we can raise. A larg part of its
revenues comes from the very goods
with which you propose to dis
pense; and in what way are we tc
make up the deficiency you propose
to createT So that was nipped in
the bud. OF course the ladies were
glad to think that wearing expen
sive dresses was aiding the govern
ment.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
farm and 1onle.
what Constitutes a Farmer.

To be a perfect farmer, q man
should combine reading obserya
ton and practice. A man may
work in the fields all his life and be
a poor farmer. We should gain
knowledge By reading and study,
and also BY what we see around US,
and then our knowledge should be
put into practice. Our views. if
they Wiz not stand the test Of expe-
rience, are worthless. All sound
theory is based upon practice, and
all sensible practice is the result of
accurate information, whether learn
ed By our own observation or from
the experience of others. The the
ory which will not stand the test of
experience is worthless, and that
practice which is not IN accordance
with sound theory is equally worth
less. Having been born and brought
up on a farm, and having in former
days been actually and actively en-
gagged in the cultivation of the soil,
naturally feel a deep interest in
whatever concerns agriculture, which
is the basis of our wealth. The
occupation of an educated, intel
lectual and practical farmer, whose
home is the abode Of comfort. and
who so improves his land as &c
make it yield more from year &c
year, is inferior to no other in dig
nifty and importance. Such u mar
is one of the worlds beIefactors.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
Don't CrOak About Hard
Times.

Standing on the street corners or
moping around like chickering's
and grumbling about hard times is
nov one of the conspicuously dis
gushing practices of the day. Thous-
ands do nothing else. Lazy, trif-
ling people are glad to cloak their
incidence under such a Icover. and
the more trifing they are the louder
they grumble about hard times.
This viii be a year of excitement,
a year Of Jubilee, SO 90 TO work and
make it also a year industry and
general prosperity. The times are
always just what the people make
them.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
A Wife's. Power.

A good wife is to a man, wisdom,
strength and courage; a bad one is
confusion, weakness and despair
No condition is hopeless to a man
where the wife possesses frmness,
decision and economy. There is no
outward propriety which can coun
teract Incidence, extravaganza and
folly at home. No spirit can long
endure bad influence Man is
strong; but his heart is not adamant.
He needs a tranquil mind; and espe-
cially if he is an intelligent man,
with a whole head, he needs its NOR
al force in the conflict of life. To
recover his cOmposure, home must
he a place of peace and comfort
There his soul renews its strength
aud goes forth with renewed vigor to
encounter the labor and troubles Of
life. But if at home he finds nc
rest, and there is met with bad tenn
per, jealousy and gloom, or assaulted
with complaints and censure, hope
vanishes, and he sinks into despair
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
LADIES COLUMN.
- HAnoLD, EDIFoa.

tits said that Birmingham Eng
land, turns out each week, ten tons
of pins and five tons of hair-pins,
hooks and eyes. Just think of it
10000 pounds Of pins in one weeki
and what becomes of themf 1t is
impossible to imagine so many of
these little things being consumed,
yet thousands of ladies spend for
such trifes as pins, hair-pins, but
tons etc, sum sufficient to furnish
as many poor woman with comforts
and necessities that they cannot af-
ford. There is not one woman in
twenty who knows how much she
spends, where it comes from or how
made. 1t is ''come easy 90 easJr
with them to use an old saying)
and they seem 70 think it the same
way with those who keep their
purses supplied. No woman's edu-
cation should be considered com
plete till she has earned her own
support for at least one or two years.
1t would give them a better idea of
the value Of money and time, and
teach them how to feel for those
who are forced to labor. 1t would
also prepare them for self maintain
ance should that ever be a necessity.
There is fully as much sense and
reason in this, as there is in boys
leaning a trade to 'fall back. on
provided they fail in any profession
they may choose: and what care
full father will let his boys grow up
without such a proviso: Many
women are daily being thrown up
on their own resources, unprepared
and unfit for labor, and yet they
are forced to work harder and with
less remuneration than men.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
MRS. RODDY
The Mystery of Whitthorne's
Woman Witness Cleared up.


The Mystery of Whitthorne's
Woman Witness Cleared up.
Washington Special to the Chicago Tribsa.e-
The mysterious woman whom the
Sergeant-at-Arms of the House had
in close custody at Williams Hotel
turns out to be Mrs Gen. ROddy,
of New York. She was examined
by the House Committee on Naval
Affairs last Saturday evening II
appears, upon inquiry in this city,
that Mrs. Roddy, soon after her ac-
quittal of the charge of having
stolen a bracelet from Gen. Roddy,
demanded trial OF the action which
she had brought against ROddy,
Brooks, and Everett. who had been
indicted for conspiring to rob her
of important papers and documents
while in Chicago. District Attor-
ney Phelps, however, entered a nolle
prosequi, and the cases were drop
ped. It has since transpired that
Roddy and Brooks have been for
years past engaged in collecting
what are alleged to have been bogus
cotton claims. 1t is also claimed
that they have been interested in a
patent automatic pump, which,
through influence in Washington,
they managed to have placed upon
nearly all the vessels in the navy.
Mrs. ROddy was taken from her
house in HakettstowH, Lear Jersey,
last Wednesday, by the Sergeant
at Arms, and appeared before the
House Naval Committee and Dis
trict Attorney last Saturday night
Her testimony is said to be impor-
tant, and, in connection with the
pump, duplicates several prominent
/ persons. ROddy and Brooks have
been indicted in Washington on
account of their connection with
bogus cotton claims to the amount
of about Dispatch.
Some of our earliest recollection:
are associated with Dale Roddy, the
tailor, afterward the sheriff of Law
renee county, Ala, then captain OF
a Tennessee River steamboat, ther
/ Confederate brigadier General O.
cavalry, then broker on Wall Street
Y. Y, then ibertine and adulterel
and now thief The above viii b,
curious reading to those who re
member the obscure tailor boy o
thirty years ago at MOulton, anC
who are acquainted with the fac
4 that he has an excellent wife anC
two accomplished daughters living
in Tuscaloosa, Ala, totally igno
rant Of the high and wicked life thil
treacherous husband and father hai
been living. 1t is said that the wo
man above alluded to has cost tn,
general the most of, if not all
his fortune-a cool hundred thou
sand or two-obtained by illegiti
mate cotton transactions during anC
since the war.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
Make Your Children Happy.

Make your children happy, and
they will be the better men and wo-
men for it in years to come. New
er deny them any possible pleasure.
Life at best will have enough of
privation and sorrow for them to
bear; and childhood is the only
season when the laugh comes from
a really happy heart. Make the lit
tie ones happy, and you viii be the
happier for it yourself. Do not fall
into the error that they had better
learn young what self-deniaI is.
Trials viii come soon enough, just
as they have come to YOU, and they
viii be none the easier to bear, be-
cause their youth was not as happy
as it might have been. But their
hearts will be the drawer for the
memory of love and kindness.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

For Dyspepsia--A correspOn-
dent of the Boston Globe offers a
remedy for a very distressing com
plant as set forth below. 1t is
given for what it is worth: VIII
you please insert for the benefit of
those who suffer from dyspepsia or
indigestion, that four tablespOonfuls
of lime water, mixed with a glass OF
cows milk, will cure the worst form
of the above distressing disease in
few days. know by experience,
being sufferer for three years.
The first dose acted like magic, and
| have felt like a new born man
ever since, which is some weeks
ago. saw the recipe in the Scien-
tific American, issued a few weeks
ago. If you knew the terrible sui
ferings of this disease you would
rot hesitate to insert it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
Popping Corn.

And there they sat popping corn,
John Stiles and Susan Cutter
John Stiles a. fat As any OK,
And Susan fat IS butter.
And there they sat and shslled the corn,
And raked and stirred the FIRE,
And talked Of different kinds Of ears
And hitehed their chars up higher.
Then Susan, she the pepper shook
Then John, he shook the pepper,
Till both their faces grew as red
As sauce-psns made Of copper
And then they shelled, and popped and ate
Ali kinds Of fun pOking,
And be haW hawed st her remarks,
And she laughed AZ his joking.
And still they popped, and stiIl they ate,
Johns mouth was ike hopper
And stirred the fire and sprinkled salt,
And shook and shook the pepper.
The clock struck nine and than struck ten,
And still the corn keFs popping
It struck elsven-shep struck twelve,
And still 20 sign Of Stopping
And John he ate, aud Susan thought
The corn did pop and patter;
TIL John cried out, tsIhe eOrn's G1re
Why Susan's y hats the matter p
Said she, John Stiles, its one o'clock
You'll die Of indigestion;
I'm sick Of AL this popping corn
Why don't you pop the question -
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

A Christmas BOqaet.-Choose
such flowers as you wish to pre-
serve-such Us are latest in bloom
ing and ready to open; cut them OF
with stem at least three inches
long; cover the stem Immediately
with sealing-wax. When the buds
are little shrnnk and wrinkled,
wrap each of them separately in a
clean, dry piece OF paper and put in
3 box as nearly tight as possible.
When you wish the flowers TO bloom,
take the buds at night, cut OF the
ends of the stems sealed with wax,
put the buds in water, in which a
little nitre Of salt has been dis
solved The next day, they viii
expand into full-blown blossoms.
with all their fraganee.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

Did you ever break q yoke of
four year old steers?'' asked a Rock
county Iowa. farmer of a young
GAINESVILLE chap who wanted to mar
ry his daughter. mo, never
was the meek reply; shut l have
rode a mule in a circus, and had a
good deal of other experience in the
world" No other experience said
the Granger, "could qualify you,
young man, for trying to handle
that girl" and the sad youth de-
parted.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

Eighty acres Of valuable land with
a comfortable house on IL five miles
north Of AIoulton, sold in this place
last Saturday for 81 Real estate
in this latitude is 500 degrees below
zero. s25 viii purchase a very
good home in this coanty.-Koal-
tOs ala } Adssrtissy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

New impOrtatiOns of black silk
show the cashmere finished silks
which are now the first choice by
reason of their softness and their
subdued lustre. The best manufac
turers, such as PonsOn and Bonnet,
have done away with the harsh,
heavy stiffness that caused their
silks to tall into set-looking folds,
and have given this cashmere finish
to an high priced silks made in
their factories. This is q welcome
reduction in the price of silks.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

Those Radicals who are pressing
the claims OF Gen. Bristow to the
Presidency, should be more patient;
he Is one of tae men yet to be in
vestigated, in connection with cot
ton CLAIMS, and it is premature to
assert the honesty Of any one sp-
pointed by Grant and in full fel-
lowship with the Radical church =
If Bristow is honest he is a fool,
or he would not associate with
C2arksuills CRrOnicls.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
No DoLLAR Bills

DR.. Corlew, of Cedar Hill, was
heard sOliloquising thus, one morn
ing last week: by George! that's
lucky. I'll make a doctor of him.
Finest boy in the world" This in
cipIent Esculapius kicked the beam
at s., ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Rec.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
sHERIFFs SALE.

DT virtuTs ola vendi exponas Issued to ne
u from She ChaHeery Court Of Giles county,
faveT Of a. Cox CON-, ose-, cause Of Smith
vs. smith. I viii sell for cash 70 1ha highest
bidder At the Court-houze door in Pulaski,
On Saturday, April lst, 1876,
two tracts Of land, lying and being IN Giles
county. Tennessee, one IN the nth evil dis
sriet Of said county, and bonnde5 IS folIozs-
North By = u ThVreat.sast BY ths same south
BY J. n. Edwards, west By y. II. Gardner,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
weights of Various Kinds of
Produce per Bushel.


weights OF various Kinds OF
Produce per BusheI.
Annles dried-ner husbeI % Ibz
Peaches dried. 33.
Rarlev a.
Reans- "a
Ran On
Charcoal, 80.
Coke, b.
Corn, IS.
Corn IN ear 90
1oAI' ~
tommy. ~ -
o. a
Onion sets, p.
Onions, 80.
Peas. 40.
Potatoes. 60
sweet Potatoes Sc.
Rve- e.
Rve malt including sacks. az.
Sslt. s..
seeds, Clover, so.
Timolbv a.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
County Papers.


Your county paper can not be as
able and newsy as one published in
some Commercial! center, but it ought
to be just as valuable. The wheels
of wagon are much Shower, and
are in their places wholly indispen-
sable to its movement, but not more
so than the hidden coupling pin that
keeps the wagon together. Their
duties are entirely different and yet
one is not more important to the
wagon than tie other. So with the
papers Your great journal treats
of subjects entirely foreign To that
ofyour home affairs, but of great in
tererest, while your home paper
comes along with local gleanings
you would never gather. and in
which you are directly Interested
1t doesn't compliment 4 mans judg-
ment to hear him say that he takes
a paper from New York because he
gets it for the same that is asked
for his own paper. As well might
he say that because a bookseller
asked him two dollars for a school
book, that he would by a copy of
Kuklux Report for a nickel, because
it was the cheapest The truth is,
the papers are in no sense rivals,
and to people living within reach of
papers each are Indispensable
GTlasgol0 ines
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

A young minister, somewhat dis
tinguished for self eoneeit, having
failed disastrously before = crowded
audience, was thus addressed by an
aged brother; If you had gone into
that pulpit feeling as yoa do on
coming out ofthat pulpit. you would
have felt on coming ont Of that pulpit
as you did when you went into that
pulpit.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

We hear of a Washin gton lady
who appeared in company in a cali
CO dress the other evening. She
supposed everybody would shed
tears over her goodness and econo-
my; but instead everybody looked
grieved and said, Good gracious!
what's your husband been doing?''
-RocIester Chroniele.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

The Empress OF japan is full CT
interest in all educational matters.
She has decided on the erection Of
a college for young girls who wish
to devote themselves to teaching.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30
Business Notice.

Mr. J. B Stacy. Jr. from this
date becomes the financial agent of
the CITIZEN, and viii receive and re-
ceipt for moneys due this Office.
He will soon be round for a settle
ment with you, and he doesn't want
the sheriff TO follow him either.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-30

indicating that the papers con
tanned intelligence from the four
quarters Of the globe. And from
this practice finally came the term
newspaper