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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-04-12

SENATE.-Bills passed to create the
Eighth Justice of the l'eace Court OF
Orleans relative to harbor-masters In
New Orleans for the protection OF
game !; for an exhibition by the Fruit
Growers Association to authorize the
city of New Orleans to revise its bud
get the general revenue bill.
Joint ballot for q. S. Senator Jonas
25, Gibson 81, Ellis IL, Lewis 2, Ed
mund Abel 1s, Billings 2, Perkins ,,
Pinchback /. No election.
TWENTY EIGHTH DAY.-HoUsE.- Bills
passed the game bill.
SENATE. Bills passed: relative to
salaries of clerks of State officers; /"
authorize police juries to fix compensa-
ton of sheriff, for Keeping prisoners ;
to authorize the City Council of New
Orleans to ill vacancies III city offices,
except those of Mayor and Administra-
tor.
Joint ballot for Z. S Senator Jonas
%, Gibson 1e, Lewis l, Kenner 9, j..
Davidson Hill 40, Billings 2, Crane ?.
No election.
TWENTY NINTH DAY.-HoUsE.-Bi
passed the registration bill to repeal
the ten per cent tax on foreign heirs ;
to authorize the city of New Orleans to
revise her budget of expenditures rel
alive to the University OF Louisiana.
SENATE Bills passed none.
Joint ballot for g. S Senator Jonas
81, Gibson 90, Billings i, Lewis L.
Hardy Richardson 81, VIM. Colt .,
Paul Waterman 3. No election.
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line wire may be of any given length
provided the insulation be good. Pro-
lessor Bell further says that soft tone
can be heard across the wire even more
distinctly than lond utterances, even
whisper being audible.
The same authority tells us that a
company is forming, or formed, for the
purpose of manufacturing the 1nstrll-
ments on a large scale for general in
troinction. We will watch the develop.
ments with an awakened interest, and
report progress.
The New Orleans Democrat of the
informed the citizens Of that
city, that Prof Bell would exhibit and
lecture upon his wonderful Invention
April LIST, inst, in New Orleans, and
should they have entertained any
doubts of the good faith OF the lecturer
or aunuuncer, the date fixed upon
should he their sufficient warranty.
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A Few Diseases Of the Oranr

YELLoWs. - This is generalle
caused by deep planting of youn,
trees. We would recommepd|
when setting out the plant in oul
alluvial soil, to spread the roots
immediately on the surface with
out digging any hole whatever
Heap up the soil around the tree
as high as You think necessary,
and afterwards finish off with tia
turning pillow, leaving Il wLter fur.
row between, for drainage.
CoCCUs, OR SCALE INsEcT--Muy
be prevented by flashing gunpow.
der from II shot gun, or placed Oh
a bard, among the branches or
foliage, choosing the early morn.
ing for the purpose, while the
leaves are wet with dew. A strong
copperas wash is also recommend.
ed rs extremely beneficial. Il New
Delta.
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Contested Observation-Disclosures
From the Graphic.

From the Graphic.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-.Tht
following is II list of the contestet
seats in the House of Represer
tatives of the Forty-hfth Congress
which will be convened in special
session on the 4th OF June
Alabama-Jere. HARRISON, re-
publican. against c. NJ. Shelley,
democrat.
California-Pcter W. Wiggen-
town, democrat, against Rolando
Pacheco, republican William G.
Piper, democrat, against Horace
Davis, republican.
Colorado-Thomas Wuterson,
democrat, against j. G. Belfort,
republican.
F.orida-H. M. Davidson, dem
ocrat, against William J. Purman,
republican Jere. j. Finley, 1emo-
crat, against Horatio Brisberjer,
republican.
IlliDois-John III. Hungate,
democrat, against b. F. Marsh,
republican Benjamin T. Wiley,
republican, against William Hart
soil democrat.
Louisiana-J. II. Acklen, demo-
cfat, against Chester B. Darrall,
republican u. B. Elan, democrat,
against George l.. Smith, republi-
can Edward w. Roberts, against
Charles c. Nash, republican.
Massachusetts Bepj. Dean,
democrat, against Walbridge A.
Field, republican.
Missouri--Robt. G. Frost, dem
ocrat, against Lyon T. Metcalf,
republican.
Oregon-Lemuel Mcdowell,
democrat, against Richard Will
liams, republican.
Penrsyivania--James b. Dut-
ting, republican, against James
B. Riley, democrat.
South Carolina--L. Cass Car
penter, republican against C.
Wyatt Aiken, democrat; J. Z.
Richardson, democrat, against ].
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W. Rainey, republican Lilln.
democrat, against Robt. Sau
republican.
Tennessee-W. M. RandolpS
against Gary Young democrat,
Virginia-Josepii segar, repubH,.
can, against John Hoode, D.
democrat w. J. Houston, derpol
crat, against james j. Jorgense.I
republican.
In two States, Louisiana and
Florida, there are double sets 4
certificates, which agree ON Som.
Of the names and disagree q.
others. In South Carolina oDI,
one set has been filed.
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OUR LEGISLATURE.
EXTRA SESSION.

TWENTIETH DAy.-HousE.-Bills
passed : incorporating the Bara-
taria Ship Cannal Company ; the
New Orleans Water Works bills.
SENATE.-Bills passed allowing
coroners in the country parishes
five dollars for each inquest.
Joint ballot for Y. s. Senator {:
Jonas l6, Gibson 8. Wheeler 5,
Garland 9, A. B. George 81, John
A. Breaux 20, Tbos. P. Leathers 2,
Capt. J. Cannon l. No election,
TwENTY-FIBsT DAY. HOUSE.
Bills passed relative to inspection
of Coal Oils relative to police
courts OF New Orleans for the
appointment and election of the
Eighth Justice of the Peace of
Orleans for an additional justice
peace in Claiborne parish; to
create two additional justice of
the peace in Uuion parish to au-
therize the Common Council of
New Orleans to fill vacancies in
city Offices to authorize tax col
lectors and the administration of
Finance in New Orleans to bring
certain suits before justice of the
pence ; to authorize and require
the city of New Orleans to make
certain appropriations for city ex-
penses for the election of officers
OF the New parishes Of East and
West Carroll to authorize police
juries to fix the fees and COM
pensation of sheriffs for keeping
prisoners in Jail to exempt landed
property in New Orleans from
taxes for drainage.
SENATE Bills passed Board of
Health and QUARANTINE bill for
the election OF officers of East and
West Carroll parishes Tor the re-
lief of Thos. III. HANDY, Civil
Sheriff of Orleans.
Joint ballot for u. S. Senator ::
Jonas ri, Gibson 12, George l.,
Sartain 4, John Smith S, Louis
Texada 81, John e. Breanx z. No
election.
TwEETy-sEooNp DAY.-HousE.-
Bills passed /: none.
SENATE Bills passed none.
Joint ballot for II. s. Senator
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The Telephone.

A powell sensation has been per-
mi,ted to boil to the surface of the
scientific cauldron at the Hub "
in these latter times. The New
York Sun of February 23d is re-
sponsible for the following in sub
stance
Prof. A. Graham Bell, of the choir
of Vocal Physiology, Boston Universe
ty, about five years age. conceived the
practicability of transmitting vocal
messages over Geographic wires by
means of what the professor has since
termed the Telephone" Having Sc
cured the assistance of a young operator
in one of the Boston offices-Mr
Thomas A. Watson-about eighteen
months ago he began a series of expert
ments with two miles of wire, between
Boston and Cambridge-others between
Salem and Boston. The greatest dis
lance yet overcome through means of
the Telephone, is 143 miles, between
Boston and Moth Conway, New Hump
shire.
A lecture delivered by Prof. Bell on
the subject of the Telephone, was by
that instrument reported to the Boston
Globe Monday night, Feb. III. this
being the first newspaper dispatch of
the kind ever received. Modulations
and infections are said to be accurately
transmitted. as also manifestations of
applause. Vocal music, instrumental
music, have been so faithfully conveyed
to distant auditorium, that the merits
of the performers, and instruments
could be pronounced upon. In the
transmission of sound everything is
claimed for it, in an egual or snpe-
rior degree that has been accomplished
by batteries and points, with the excep.
ton of capacity to overcome distance.
'The wonderful little instrument of
whose future value to civilization, the
inventor is so sanguine consists of q
powerful compound permanent magnet,
to the poles of which are attached or
binary telegraph coils of insulated
wire. In front of the poles, surround
ed by these coils of wire, is dia-
phragm of lion. A mouth piece whose
function is to converge the sound upon
this diaphragm Substantially completes
the arrangement. The operation of
the instrument is thus described by
Prof. Bell: The motion of steel or iron
in front OF the poles Of magnet ere
ates current of electricity in the coils
surrounding the poles of the magnet,
and the duration of this current of
electricity comedies with the duration
of the steel or iron moved or vibrated
in the proximity Of the magnet. When
the human voice causes the diaphragm
to vibrate, electrical undulations are
induced in the coils around the mag
nets precisely similar to the undula-
tions OF the air produced by the voice.
The coils are connected with the line
wire and the undulations induced in
them travel through the wire, and
passing through the coils of another
instrument of similar construction, at
the other end of the line are again re-
solved into air uDdulations by the dia-
phragm Of this instrument. The voltaic
battery is entirely dispensed with. The
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Especiul attention is called to
the very large assortment OF boots
and shoes at Bryan & Clements.
and The extremely low prices which
they are asking for them. Give
them q call.
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A man living near San Antonio,
Texas, recently cut $4,000 shingles
from ue cypress tree, which be
sold fol- $3.50, enough to pay for
the whole tract of lund upon which
the tree grew.
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When our subscribers wish their
paper discontinued, they are ex-
pected to pay mp all dues, for Sub.
scription and advertisements, and
notify us to stop sending the
paper.
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Bargains at Bryan Il Clement
in ready made clothing.
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Magnolia Grange No 3l2
Patrons OF Husbandry meets on
the 4th Saturday, of each month.
J.. M. Nichols is master OF the
above Grange.
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"a 1ODu .. ollicf Gor ooah
Smith l. No election.
TWENTY THIRD DAY. HOUSE,
Bills passed the homestead ex-
emption bill relative to taxes in
Orleans to incorporate the Factors
Warehouse Bank.
| SENATE. Bills passed: for the
relief of o. NJ. Tenpyson the
election bill ; for the liquidation of
the debt of New Orleans relative
to sales of Sewing Machines and
pianos to confirm the charter OF
Dorchete and Red River Plank
Road Company for the transfer
to Lincoln parish of papers from
parishes ont of which Lincoln
parish was formed.
Joint ballot for U. S. Senator !:
Jonas 10, Gibson 7, q. John
Ellis s, E. q. Randolph 26,
Sheldon 4, B. H. Ryland 26,
james Louis 1,-Watkins l. No
election.
TWENTY FOURTH D AY.-HoUsE.-
Bills passed : relative to inspection
of cotton in New Orleans to regn-
late terms of parish courts, and to
fix salaries of parish judges to
repeal sections 1928, 1929, $3.50,
2747, 274e, and 2749 of the Re
vised Statutes, and part of article
625 of the Code of practice the
general appropriation bill for the
taxation of property belonging to
church, school, benevolent and
charitable institutions, and to fix
licenses or private banking houses,
and on groceries selling liquor by
the glass.
SENATE.-Bills passed appro-
priation bill for expenses of the
extra session to grant physicians
a privilege in certain cases ; to
extend the limits of the town of
St. Martinsville to provide for
new assessment rolls in place of
those lost or destroyed.
Joint ballot for U. S. Senator
Jonas Is, Gibson 9, Sheldon 2.
M. B. Muncy 10, J. d. Watkins 20,
Hardy Richardson 20, f.. John
Ellis l, D. F. Kenner 8. No cleo
ton.
TWENTY-FIVE DAY.-HoysE.--
Bills passed: appropriation bill
for expenses of the extra session /;
the election bill +; relative to the
Funding Board /; for new assess
ment rolls in place OF those lost or
DESTROYED.
SENATE. Bills passed the gen
eral appropriation bill for the
of additional police
jurors.
Joint ballot for q. s. Senator
Jonas 33, Gibson Is, George /,
Billings l, Hardy Richardson 6.
Kenner l, E. John Ellis s, VIM.
Rufus Crane 2, James Lewis 10,
l.. G. Perkins Is. No election.
TWENTY sixth DAY.-HousE.-
Bills passed the revenue bill /; to
authorize the Governor to remove
his appoiutees to Office.
SEsATE.-Bills passed: 10 au-
thorlze the Governor to remove
his appointees to Office the judg-
ment tax bill (; to authorize coun-
try merchants to sell drugs with
out druggists license when there
is no licensed drug store within
eight miles the education bill to
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-04-12

Tweuiy-eight counties of Texas
have vot, d Tor and fifteen Against
prohibition.
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Congress will be convened in e1trs
session about the l4th of next month.
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SOUTH GAkULINA -fhLL-
We are informed by private tel
errsna that South Carolina is free.
Echo saw. Louisiana mast be
freed.
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ReVaccinatiOn.

FL ON the London Lancet.
There is no evidence to show that
revaccinatiOn, once efficiently per-
formed at or after puberty, need ever
be repeated. On the other hand, the
frequent repetition of revaccination,
which has become common during
alarms of smallpox, is distinctly to be
deprecated. Such repetitions are, as a
rule, futile they are wasteful Of vac
cine lymph when lymph is most pre-
cious they tend to unsettle the minds
of people regarding some Of the best
established facts as to the preserva.
tive power of vaccination, and they
are unnecessary. The official memo
randum of the Local Government
Board on revaccination says: IRE.
vaccination once properly and success
fully performed does not appear ever
to- require repetition" The nurses
and other servants of the London
SMALLPOX Hospital, when they enter
the service, are invariably submitted
to vaccination, which in their case is
generally revaccination, and is Dever
afterward repeated !; and so perfect is
the protection. that, though the nurses
live in the closest and most constant
attendance on smallpox patients, and
though also the other servants are in
various ways exposed to special
chances of infection, the resident SUR
geon Of the hospital, during his forty.
one years Of Office there, has never
known smallpox to affect any Of these
nurses or servants.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05

Five Thousand Books Given Away foraq1
Asking.
While DR.. H. James was attached to the
British Medical STAFF In the East Indies, his
high Position enabled hin to call Ia about him
Of the day, and while experimenting with
and among the natives, he accidentally made
the discovery that CONSUMPTION can be pos
itively and permanently CURED. During
the many years of his sojourn there, he de-
voted his time to the treatment If Lung Dis
eases, and upon his retirement he left with US
allowing that every one can be bis own physi.
clan and prepare Ills own medicine, and such
information d We have received We now offer
to the public without price, only asking that
that each remit three cent stamp for postage.
Address CRADDOCK & CO., 1852 Race street
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.
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Bringing Tn q Worn Farm.

Bringing Up Worn Farm.
Prof. Kendzie, of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College, in an able address de.
livered before the Michigan Farmers
Institute, lately held, concludes as fol-
Ows:
l believe the easiest and cheapest
way to bring up worn-down farm is
by green manuring. Suppose your
farm is too poor for clover, and grass
makes only feeble growth put on it
a manfred crop that will grow, such
as rye: Turn this under with your
plow, and you can then raise some.
thing better. Keep feeding your soil
with everything your shovel and lyour
team can command ashes-leached
ashes, if you can get them by drawing
them within Eve miles-muck. mari,
anything that will bring a green man.
tie over your fields. Soon you can set
the clover-pumps at work, pumping
up to the surface the inexhaustible re.
sources of your subsoil.
If an animal dies, don't stop to be.
wall your luck and exclaim; "Every-
thing goes to the dogs on my farm"
Don't send it to the dogs at all. but
compose it with muck. or even soil,
and thus secure most valuable ma.
nure. Samson performed a wonder by
taking honey from the dead carcass of
q lion. You can Guido that wonder by
extracting wheat from the carcass of
your dead COW. Put up all the bones
you can find, put them under cover,
and mix with them two or three times
their bulk of ashes from your kitchen;
moisten them with enough water 10
that the potash may act on the gela.
tine Of the bones; stir them over once
q week, and in month or two you
will find the bones 50 tender that you
can cut and crush them with q blow
from your shovel. Beat the whole in.
to . powdery mass, and you will have
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05
Peace in Europe, Perhaps.

1t is officially announced in London
that the protocol has been signed. A
London Times leader says: We cannot
but see that Turkey is in the back.
ground; behind all these fair arrange.
ments of the powers so much depends
on what the Porte will do or decline to
do, and Russian disarmament is prom.
Used IN expectation of so many things
which may not easily be fulfilled. On
the contrary, the dominant feeling in
Constantinople is still defiance. In
the pl esent temper of the two empires
the suggestion that negotiations for
common disarmament to be carried on
by a Turkish delegate at St. Peters.
burg, does not appear promising. It
may be said that the success or failure
of this new attempt at pacification
mustbedecided at Constantinople. The
government is in the circumstances
fully justified in sending out Mr..
Layard. The Turks are full of ami.
mostly against Russia and distrust of
Russia's seeming abettors and may be
even less reasonable than three
months ago. Many interpret Russia &
overtures as signs Of pusillanimity and
weakness. Layard has had tho expe'
rience of the Turks, and perhaps there
is no Englishman to whom they would
more readily listen than to him and to
the other ambassadors we must look
to impress on the Porte the pendency
of doing nothing which may be repre-
sented as multiplying the protocol.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05

AFTER an experience OF over twenty five
that the Graetenberg MarshalTs Uterine
Catholicon is the only known certain remedy
tor diseases to which women are subject The
Graetenberg Vegetable Pills, the most popular
remedy of the day for biliousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases Of digestion.
Sold by Ill druggists. Send for almanacs.
Graefenberg Co.. New York.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05
The Paris CORRESPONDENT of Harper's

The Paris correspondent of Harper's
Bazaar says: The bonnets of the pres.
ent day are fortresses; they rise above
the head like mighty towers. and, like
the coiffures Of the days of Marie An.
toinette, place the face almost in the
middle of the entire statute of the
wearer. The coiffures of the hair are
still 80 overloaded and complicated to
such a degree that it would be impos.
sible to make them of the natural hair.
Aigretts of metal, arrows and daggers
are worn with these coiffures when the
style Of dress does not admit Of the use
of feathers and flowers. But flowers
are worn on almost every occasion and
with simple toilets at the belt in the
hair and everywhere are placed sprays,
touffes, or cordons Of flowers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05

A Positive Cure tor Rheumatism--Durang
Rheumatic Remedy Send for circular to
Helphenstine & Bently, Washington, D. G.
PAINTERS AND GRA1NERs, send tor new
prices OF metallic granting tools, for ''wiping
out" J. J. Cal.ow, Cleveland, o.
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important.

When you visit or leave New York stop at
the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central
depot. $50 elegantly furnished rooms. Best
restaurant in the city; prices moderate. Bag
gage taken t. and from said depot free. Cars
and stages pass the hotel for all parts Of the
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05
Money in Poultry.

Prof. A. Corbett, of No. Warren st., N. Y,
has received the Centennial and several gold
for Matching eggs and raising poultry BY means
of horse manure. This valuable discovery
will give $500 yearly profit from IL hens.
Catalogues, circulars and testimonials sent on
recent of POSTAGE.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05

For ten cents we will send scientific book
rom the poeticai works Of Byron, Moore and
Burns also fifty selected popular songs and
other writings. The poetry Of these authors
is true to nature, and the finest ever written.
Desmond Il Co., sl5 Race street, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05

At home or abroad get DR.. J. H. McLean's
Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier,
recognized all over the world as the best tonic,
invigorator and purifier Of the blood. Fol
puny and weak children, or delicate females,
an absolute necessity. DIR. J. h. Mclean,
3l4 Chestnut street, St. Louis.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05

DR.. A. Johnson, one of the most successful
now called Johnson's Anodvne ointment.
The great success OF this article in the cure of
Bronchitis and all diseases OF throat and lungs
will make the name OF johnson not less taV-
orably, If less widely known, than that Of
Ioni9 NAn0le0n
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05

The public are hereby assured through the
columns OF this paper, that Parsons Purga-
tive Pills contain no Injurious principle, but
that they may be administered to children
and the most weak and shattered constitut-
ions in small doses, with great certainty Of
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05
NATIONAL DISEASE.
IS IT DURABLE?

NH0SEw ho have su9e!ed from the various and com
and have tried many physicians and remedies without
Eeei Or cure await the answer this question With
conSlderabie anxiety. And well they may; for NO
disease that can be mentioned universally preva-
lent ana 20 destrucye to health 40 Catarrh. Bron.
fetal s6setons ofhe follow. many cais
affections, such % deafness Impaired eyesiEnt and
loss Of sense smell may referred 70 minor but
enough in themselves, but % nothing compared with
the dangerous affections Of the throat and lungs
20 fill
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-04-05

Rheumatism cured at once by Durang's
Rheumatic Remedy. Send for circular to
Helphenstine & Bently, Washington, D. G.
BuRxErr's COCAINE is the best and cheap