The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-15
CURRENT MENTION.


CURRENT MENTION.
The snow at Chattanooga the other
day was eighteen and a half inches deep
on level.
A Pennsylvania manager IS to give
WerdeII Phillips 1$l. ono for eight lee
lures.
During the month of November two
hundred and seventy two oil-wels were
completed in Pennsylvania.
John H. Kinnies, Of Lynchburg, Va,
is furnishing that city with mountain
ice at three dollars ton.
The people of Maine anticipate having
good steady sleighing until the middle of
March next.
There were thirty. three failures in
New York during December, with ag-
create liabilities of 81, 873, 293.
Some Of the Philadelphia ice COM
panies are paying only fifty cents day
to men employed in getting out ice.
Nathan Scofeld, a soldier of 1912 from
Connecticut, has recently passed his
hundredth birthday at the East HaddAm
town farm.
A dividend of three and one half pei
cent. for the past six months has been
declared by the Southern bank of the
state of Georgia.
NJ. Rothschild has added printing
press to his establishment on Monnt
Zion, Jerusalem, from which a work up
on the Holy Land has been issued:
Il. Feagans, of Fort Scott, the Oldest
deputy in Kansas, mas been appointed
United States collector in place Of A
NJ. Blair, who failed to qualify.
Governor T1den's pardon report fol
the year 1875 contains list of ninety
three pardons, fifty combinations o
sentence and eight reprieves granted
during the year.
The Mark Lane Express asserts tina
i've hundred tons of fresh American
beef reach England weekly. This new
branch of trade has created considerable
anxiety in the English agricultural dis
tricts of Shropshire and Stafordshire
The Erie railroad company consume
about 15,0O0,0 900 feet of timber annual!
in the constru ction of its cars, trucks
etc. Thislarge amount, including abOu
$500, 900 worth of black walnut year, i
all collected along the line Of the road
In Cobb county, Ga, there are sixt.
white schools with 1924 scholars AM
twenty four colored schools with six hun
, dred and forty-seven scholars, making
total of LII pupils receiving the bene
fit Of public education. The amour
paid is at the rate of two dollars pc
scholar.
Augusta, Georgia, pays her mayor s.
500; clerk, ISL, 900 collector and treasurer
, 81, 800; assistant collector and treasurer
1000; chief of police, $1,000; first lieu
! tenant, $1,000; second lieutenant, 81
t 900; orderly sergeant seven hundred an
t eighty; four sergeants, seven hundre
and twenty; privates, fifty dollars eac
r per month.
The Western Union telegraph con
2 pany, at Boston, has arranged q syster
/ for the transmission and free deliver
within the halEmiIe limit) Of message
/ betu cen any officers of the company
g the city, including the suburbs, als
/ Chelsea, Cambridge and somerville, Il
, fifteen cents for ten words.
/ Keely, the inventor Of the mote
/ bearing his name, is having made, at Il
t Chvster steel casting works, two in
;, mense balls, the larger of which is thirt,
u six inches in diameter outside, 81
weighs $4,000 pounds. The small
e one is eighteen inches in diameter, al
Y weighs $4,000 pounds 1t is suppos,
v they are intended for additional exPel
i ments with his apparatus,
Y Alabama oysters find d ready mark
y at Baltimore.