The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-22

district court, and stand an examiroa
in chemistry, anatomy, physioIopv n5
materia medioa, before they can b s1'
legal assistance in collecting their b,M S
The population of the globe acoa.5
ing to the latest Statistical account
!, 100000. Europe has 3O9 1884,
inhabitants; Asia, 1874, 448, 500 Afr ,S.'
1921, 800; Australia and PoIvnosfs
4,748,6OO; America, IS, $3.50 Tbois
crease in this country for the pastvaors
given at 100000.
A Boston dry goods firm was cIevo,,
swindled out of 5000, recently Nv
fashionable dressed woman, who oas,.5
a good 1000 bill for a 800 shawl .r5
when the clerk sent to the bank sr5
found it genuine, said she was inspIto5
and left the store, but finally came bacE
took the shawl, and got the change on,
bad bill.
The Chicago Journal says that durinc
the season OF navigation on the great
lakes, now closed, AT marine disaste,,
we're reported, involving a total loss NJ
property estimated at 81, 173,26O The
total deaths Of seamen recorded wp,o
1856. New crafts were set afoat HAVING
an aggregate tonnage of 1851, a faIIjng
off from last year.
There is now living at Norwich, Enc.
land, an old lady who was present at the
battle of Waterloo, and took a passive
part therein. She was the gardeners
daughter at the cheateau of Hougou.
mont, and at the time was five wears Of
age. Her father did rot leave the
chateau until it was shelIed by Jerome
Bonaparte.
The corn crop of the United States
this year was ,295, OOO,0 900 bushels. At
an average price of forty cents per
bushel, this crop would be worth $685.
100000. The estimated yield of our
gold and silver mines for the year is $685..
25O,00O. The corn crop alone, therefore,
was more than six times as valuable as
the entire product Of gold and silver.
One of the Wide-awake professors of
Ashtabula Co., o., in writing of the
Educational exhibit" at the centennial
expressed himself as greatly surprised to
find in the Japanese display (educa,
tionaI) everything necessary, from kind,
ergarten incentives to university demon
yet they were pre-eminentIy
oriental and truly educational. In fact,
he was forced to admit that they were
no more heathen-unless they adhere to
the practice of making their teachers
board around"
A youth, fifteen years of age, named
Samuel Giberson, one day last week,
went into floating saloon, on Miller8
slough, down some ten miles southwest
of Carrollton, and drank enough of the
vile stuff sold there, and denominated
whisky, to Supply him and while in that
condition, he laid himself down on a
porch of a house near by, and when
found, some time during the same night,
he was frozen stiff and dead.
A few days since twelve masked men
made dash on Piedras Pintas, Texas
but they got off without doing any HARM
only soaring the women and bringing out
the fighting qualities of the citizens. The
maskers lost one horse killed, and it's
said considerable blood was found on
their trail. Soon after they got away
from Piedras Pintas, they met Mexican
and relieved him ofhis horse, saddle and
Winchester rifle. No clue as TO who
they were or where they came from
The pursuing party had not returned at
last reports.