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Rustic Stumps.

In certain retired parts of gardens
or grounds rustic stumps," when
clothed with creeping vines, give a
pleasing impression. The important
point is grouping. The mass should
not be raised too high above the sur
rounding level. aud vet be sufficient
in area to proven, an insignificant
appearance. Light fbrous soil sboulc
BE- filed in among the roots. allowing
the later 10 jut out here and there
fer the vines to chamber over As
suitable plants for this purpose. an
English periodical suggests the ivy
and clematis, as the former will give
a cheerful appearance to the work
during the winter months, when the
latter is taking its rest and then
through the summer nothing will
exceed the clemstis, with its bright
verdure and splendid flowers /; and
not only these, but it has grace
peculiar TO itself. decorating every
thing it touches with the most charm
ing Of garlands. Another vine might
be added which would impart still
greater interest 10 the mass of foliage,
aud that is the Ampelosis Veitcbi, one
of the newer class Of vines, very
closely related to our American ivy,
but with a smaller leaf and more
slender growth. In the autumn We
should then have a brilliant tint of
crimson minglIDg with the deepest
green. Ferns, such as are willing to
endure o little sun. would not bs out
of their place. their graceful fronds
hsrWonizing well with ,be dropping
character OF the vines; but eschew
Towering. shrub-like plants as too
uniform and stiff for such q hslf-wiId
spot as We have endeavOred to de-
scribe. A group of un'rimmed shrubs
might act as q background, over
which an occasional vine may Chamber,
but care must e taken not to have
too much of this feature.
Richland beacon., 1877-03-17
Opinions Of the Press.

The teachers of Neophogen College have
the highest national reputation both as teachers
and authors 1t is the cheapest college Of the
kind in the world, and is the best one for the
males and females of the North and South.
1t is located in beautiful section of the State,
which was selected with great care-Repub-
lican Banner, Nashville, Tenn.
Neophogen is the cheapest college of like
grade in the world. There are five schools
divided into departments which are thor
ough in their detail of study.-Buletin, Nash
ville Tennessee.
President Walton, of Neophogen, deserves
the warm support, not only of the people of
his section. but of the entire Union.-Boston
Courier, Mass.
Neophogen is not only one OF the best, but
certainly one Of the cheapest colleges in the
Union.-Brandon Republican, Miss.
Neophosen is one Of the most charming and
salubrious spots on earth. The generosity of
its honored and philanthropic President has
not gone unrewarded. 1t is successful and
rapidly claiming institution. Age,
Texas.
Neophogenis four dedupon right principles;
has adopted the right course; is imbued with
the right spirit; aims at the right ends, and
uses the right means-San Antonio Express,
Texas
1t offers to youth Of both sexes thorough
and complete education in every department
of science and literature. 1t is, in the full
sense of the word, anti-sectarian.-N. D.
Times, La.
1t is pre-eminentlJ healthy.-N. D. State
Register, La.
His reputation as an educator is co-exten.
sive with the South-JouInal, No.
Richland beacon., 1877-03-17

Returning Board Hayes may be personally
honest, 20 far as actual mercenary theft i con-
eerned, but he can never escape the odium of
stealing the presidency.
Richland beacon., 1877-03-17
No. 2.-.Female Scholarships
l.GOO-To Parents and PhifdnthroDisfs.

l,G00-To Parents and Phiiaathropisfs.
Ten female students will be received into
the family of the President of Neophogen
College, and trained as his children. boarded,
clothed, books and stationery furnished, and
graduated in a regular Collegiate Course, for
1000 each, payable in advance by the LIST of
September, 1876. They must no, be under
twelve years of age, and able to read and
write. The chief inducement in presenting
this, is to give the President an opportunity to
train remarkable characters, to the honor of
the College, and to enable him TO verify his
views in regard to the development of any
youth of medium organization, when full
control is given and implicit confidence re
posed.
Richland beacon., 1877-03-17
Law School Faculty.

S. F. Wilson, Esq, Dean of the Faculty
Professor of the Law OF Real Property and
Criminal Law.
B. F. Allen, Esq, Professor of Equity Law
the Law of Wills and Executors, and the
Law of Domestic relations.
w. S. Mundy, Esq, Professor of CONNER
cial Law-the Law of Contracts and Constitu-
tional Law.
Jas. W. Backmore, Esq, Professor of the
Law of Misunderstanding, Corporations
and International Law.
1t has been determined that the advantages
given shall he second to no Law School in
tie land.
Law Students will be permitted to receive
the highest training in Execution and Oratory
gratis.
One academic year necessary for graduation
in Law School; Board and Tuition per year,
SlS6 90; per Term, S93 90.
For catalogue, address John NJ. Walton, A.
NJ, LIZ D., President.
Richland beacon., 1877-03-17
No. 3.-Male Scholarships. $1,000.

Board and tuition perpetual to one student
for $1,000, payable in advance. The holder
of Scholarship can introduce one student
after another, from time to time, free Of charge
for board and tui,ion. There are only TWEEN.
ty Of these Scholarships for sale. Address
JIM WALTON, LID, President.
Gallatin. Tenn
Richland beacon., 1877-03-17
LAND FOR SALE.

IN he plantation within four or five miles Of
Delhi. known as the Vinsun Place, on
Joes Bayou Ii contains about 300 acres, one
hundred acres beited. about 50 acres can be
put in cultivation with little work, fine
cypress brake 1.-THE best on the bayou. Price
81 100 cash.
Apply to WILEY P. MANGHAM,
Feb 81. lS75.-tf Rayville, La.
Richland beacon., 1877-03-17

Advertisements inserted ~ the rate Of floO PET
square for the first insertion and IS cents for each
subsequent one. Ten hnes or less constitute Q
square.
~ Professional Cards. 5000 per alum: fs
six months, 81. so In advance.
Richland beacon., 1877-03-17
No: l.-Scholarships, Male and Femal,

N0' Il 0o"0f"1S"1PS5 ""1c "Hu : efustc'
Scholarships in Neophogen College can be
purchased for 100 each, which give ,aiton
free to the holder thereof for ten years.
These Scholarships reduce the expenses 80
year, or during the ten years 500.- The
said scholarships can be represented by stu
dents as soon as purchased, and may be sold
and transferred by purchasers.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-14
The PLANET Jupiter.

This noble orb, which is 1,400 times
larger than the earth, being but little
past its opposition, is now in It's best posi-
ton for observation, being about AGO.
100000 miles from the earth at this
time. If its distance from the sun is
495, 900, 900 miles as computed by as
tronomers, the earth's distance from
the SUI being subtracted from its dis
lance from the sun, gives our distance
from the planet. 1t has four moons,
easily seen through the ordinary street
telescope. These moons, as well as the
planet itself, revolve very rapidly. The
planet revolves on its axis in about nine
hours and fifty-siX minutes. 1t some
times has two or more eclipses within a
few hours. These moons are usually
in a line with the planet; sometimes two
on each side of it, and directly in n line
with its dark belts.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-14
Admiral Porter's COurtship.

Apropos of Lieutenant Logan's re-
cent marriage with Admiral Porter's
daughter, and the fathers opposition to
the match at first, this pleasing story is
told of the old Admiral's own court
ship: He is said to have served a eve
years. probation before he was allowed
to claim his bride. Commodore Patter-
son took his three daughters with him
once on a long cruise. The girls were
fairly effervescing with the gay spirits
natural to youth, health and good looks,
and turned the heads of officers and
middies alike on their fathers vessel,
and he found discipline of no avail.
No sooner would the vessel touch at a
port than off would go the young ladies
with a train of admirers, IL when the
Commodore called the roll not an officer
or midshlpman would be ready to an
swer. At last some of the latter rank
were sent home, and among them were
Porter and Bache, each of whom sub
s%equently married II of the distract
ing creatures who had brought him to
grief. Both marriages were %singularly
happy, but Lieutenant Commander
Bache was lost at sea after only ten
years of married life. Admiral Porter
has been a most devoted husband to a
WllC WIN lltliy ihciibo iho uhSSeioh,
and during her sever illness of the past
few months he has been her patient,
untiring nurse.
Now that the Turks have abandoned
the contest in Montenegro, the result
of the campaign can be summed up in
a few words. The fighting through
out has been desperate and bloody, and
at a great sacrifice of men and money.
The Montenegrins maintain their ter
ritory inact, and the Turks have moth
ing to show but the remnant of their
army, many of whom are wounded.
Eleven thousand Bashi-B azouks are
dead or missing, out of $1,000 which
entered Montenegro with the Turkish
forces. The loss of the regular troops
is not summed up as yet. AT Scutari,
there are 1000 Turkish wounded, and
more are expected to arrive. 1t is pro-
bable that a quasi-defensive warfare
will be maintained on the part of the
Turkish Government with Montenegro
during the hostilities with Russia, but
the situation on the Danube is so press
ing that the Porte has at last come to
the conclusion to put an end to the
folly of wasting the lives of its soldiers
on the mountains of Montenegro, and
will put its troops hereafter where they
will be likely to do the most good in
opposing the invasion of Bulgaria by
the legions of the Car.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-14
Planting White SKIN on q Black Man

There is a coal-black negro man in
our vicinity who will soon have a
stomach covered with as white Demo-
cratic skin as ever grew in Edgefeld.
This no doubt sounds very ridiculous
and alarming, but we will explain.
Some weeks ago Doctors Walter Hill
and Wallace Bland cut from the stom-
ach of this negro a huge tumor weigh
ing many pounds, and upon the large
bare spot left by the operation they
have planted numberless little stars of
skin nipped from their w arms.
These stars have taken root and are
fast spreading out to meet each other,
30 that the black man will soon have a
white stomach. Abbeville Is. CO.
Medium.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08
OPIUM IN CHINA.

According to information recently OBJ
tanned from native sources by Consul
Robertson, of Canton, opium, which
originally came from abroad, had towards
the close of the Ming dynasty, A. d.
1914, the name Of va Fu-jung, or A-ju-
yung At that time it was not known
that the drug could be used for smoking
purposes; its properties were cooling and
astringent, and it was used for diarrh@a
and fevers, but with what admixture is
not known. Subsequently it was made
into paste and smoked, with an astrin-
gent and antifebrile effect. But it is
stated that it is relaxing and reduces the
system. At first the only sort was Patna,
followed afterwards by Malwa, then Be
mares, and finally Persian, all imported
from abroad. Tradition describes Per
sian as hot and acid, and liable to cause
dysentery; it is all sent to the province
of Kwangsi, as the chilly climate there
is said to permit Of it's use. When China
first begun to cultivate the poppy it was
called "Yung-su-hwa" (the jar-shaped
flower or capsule), and when the juice
was distracted it was called white smoke
or white tobacco. Chinese opium is not
50 rich to the palate as Patna, but it is
barely more than two-thirds of the price
of FOREIGN opium. Opium is now very
commonly cultivated in China, and all
the evidence obtainable is to the effect
that the native production is increasing,
and the foreign drug becoming more a
luxury for epicures and men Of taste.
Consul Robertson says that Patna is
chiefly consumed in Canton and Shang-
hal, Malwa on the north river Of Canton,
Benares in the four lower procedures of
Canton. Yuman white circulates every
where.-L0nd0n Times.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08
INNICOATI ISLAND.

1t is believed that the Canadian gov
eminent will renew its efforts to colonize
Anticosti island-that barrow strip of
land which lies between the coast of
Labrador and Quebec. The surround
ing waters TEEN with fish, and the land
is said to be fertile in most parts Of the
island. At present there are nearly a
hundred fishermen living in rude but
comfortable cabins on Anticosti. These
have earned an ample livelihood by cur
ing fish and taking them in skiffs to
Gaspe bay, where their supply mer-
chants are located. A Quebec steamer,
the Napoleon ILL.,, runs to the island
once month with fresh supplies for
the lighthouse keepers and employees
and for the agents OF the Anticosti colo
nization company. Three years ago a
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08
RUSSIA,S TREACHERY.

A German paper points out the strik-
ing similarity between the assurances of
the Russian government in the present
crisis and those it gave one hundred and
ten years ago, at the very time when
negotiating secretly with Prussia for the
partition of Poland. Empress Cath
crime then declared as Car Alexander
does now, that she was only asking
guarantees, because she was anxious
"for the maintenance Of general peace, "
adding: II will never make any claim
to the territory of Poland. l will even
secure its integrity if any other power
should attack it," Soon after the Rus
slams entered Poland, the czarina de-
cIared it was only for the purpose OF
preventing disturbances which might be
caused by concessions to malcontents.
The spoiIation and partition followed,
nevertheless.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08
WHAT 4 CHILD WINES.

When child begins to read it becomes
delighted with newspaper, because it
reads Of names and things which are
familiar, and it will PROCESS accordingly.
A newspaper, in one year, is worth a
quarters schooling to a child. Every
father must consider that information is
connected with advancement. The
motherofa family, being one OF its head,
and having a more immediate charge OF
children, should herself be instructed.
A mind occupied becomes fortified
aginst the ills of life, and is braced
for any emergency. Children amused
by reading or study, are Of course
more considerate and more easily gov
erned.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08
DANIEL WEBSTER'S CREED.

A fortnight before his death Daniel
Webster dictated the following inscrip-
ton, which may now be read on his
monument:
"Lord, believe; help thou mine unblief."
Philosophical
Argument, especially
that draw from the vast.
ness of the Universe, in COM
parison with the apparent insignif-
canoe of this globe, has sometimes
shaken my reason for the faith which is in
me; but my heart has always assured and re-
assured me that the gospel of Jesus Christ
must be divine reality. The sermon
on the Mount can not be merely
human production. This belief
enters into the very depths
of my conscience. The
whole history of
man prOvesit.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
The above was, in brief, Mr.. Webster's
confession Of faith, or testimony in favor
of christianity.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

unless Of a size to inspire respect, or OF
strength to exact it. The wolf takes
kindly to dogs flesh, notwithstanding
the dogs horror OF wolf flesh and, when
rendered bold by hunger, the wolf ap-
proaches the village, his lure is not 50
much the farm live stock, which he
knows to be we'll guarded, as the stray
cur which he expects to find at large and
unprotected. In some parts Of Europe
scarcely a winter passes without visit
from the wolves, and the smaller dogs
are nearly always the first victims.
Sweeping through the village at dusk or
daybreak, they snap up and bear off,
without stopping, some bowling mongrel
unable to get out of their way in time.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

The postmaster general contemplates
important recommendations in the mat
ter of the bonds of postmasters at the
larger cities. In the cases of New York
and Philadelphia, for instance, the bonds
do not cover one quarters business. 1t is
proposed to require separate bonds in
smaller sums, and to compel the post
masters to make returns to the depart
ment monthly, instead of quarterly. 1t
is believed that this will give the depart
ment a more complete knowledge Of the
business of the large Offices, and enable
the officials to more promptly detect any
Irregularities.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

OF the fifteen thousand men who are
wearing away their dreary lives in the
mines of the SchuylkilI coal region, ten
thousand at least are unmarried, and five
thousand live in miners boarding-houses
They call them all men, these gnomes,
but many of them are boys. Not less
than five thousand are boys, little fel-
lows, who in any other community would
be in school, but who here are kept day
after day in filthy, black kennels, muftled
up in old coats and scarfs to shut the
cold out, till all the young life is worn
out of them, and they are dwarfed little
men before the first signs of beard
break through the black crust on their
faces Philadelphia Times.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

PEOPLE who are afraid of an Eruption
of Chinese cheap labor will learn with
alarm that the latest estimate of the pop
ulation of the celestial empire is 405,-
100000. About half the inhabitants of
Asia are under Chinese rule, Japan, too,
has 33,2s9,O14 people, a considerable
share of whom are just now engaged in
making articles Of beauty and elegance
for us, 80 that japanese wares have grown
as familiar in our shops as the products
of Lowell and Manchester.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08
JOHN BRIGHT FOR VAR.

Formerly the advoca e of peace a
any price, John Bright has become an
advocate of war at any price. At Birm-
imam he recently expressed himself in
the following belligerent style: "Why,
seven hundred years ago the people of
this country, with one of their heroic
kings, joined the crusaders and went to
Palestine for the purpose Of hberating
holy places from the possession of in
tdcls and Mohammedans What do we
now do? We give the blood and treasure
Of England to the support of the Turk
ish government. We give Bethlehem
and Calvary and the mount of Olives,
through the blood and treasure Of Eng.
land, and the power over all these vast
countries, which are almost Il wilderness
under the Turkish sceptre, we do all
this simply to prevent Russia passing
any war ships from the Black sea to the
Mediterranean"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

There exists in Nuremberg, with
affiliations in Bavaria and Austria, a
branch of the Washington family, which
settled in south Germany long before
the original Washington crossed the At
lantic. One of these south Germany
Washingtons, baron Macmillan Won
Washington, is married to a princess OF
the imperial blood Of Austria.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

In every family that is much of a
family there is a favorite child, which
does pretty mnch as it pleases, and gets
the bulk of all the goodies; but over in
Europe the afectionate parent rather
overdoes herself. The foreign items tell
of a French mother who has strangled
three of her children that the fourth
might have full marriage portion.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

DOGS AND WoLvEs.-Unlike the fox
the wolf when overpowered by numbers,
becomes cowed and dies meekly. A wolf
surrounded in this way suffers himself to
be killed by exhausting his strength in
the struggle. But woe to the lucKless
cur that meets him alone in the forest
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

THE oldest member of the United
States senate is Simon Cameron, Of
Pennsylvania, VIII first took his seat in
IS45. His service, however has been
rather ftlul, and amounts altogether to
only seventeen years; while Mr.. Ham
lin, of Maine, whose first entry upon
senatorial life was in l848, has seen
twenty-one years of work upon the floor,
and four years additional in the chair rs
vice president. Mr.. Anthony, of Rhode
Island, comes next, having entered the
senate in 1859, and had a continuous ser
vice Of almost seventeen years. Messrs.
Lot VI. Morrill,, now secretary Of the
treasury Sherman, of Ohio, and Howe,
of Wisconsin, entered the senate together
in 1861.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08
CRATE AND GAY
CHARITY,

The pilgrim and stranger who through the dou
holds over the desert his trackless way,
Where the terrible sands no shade hay We kro,-
No sound Of life save the cancels moan, H.
Hears at last through the mercy of Allah n or
From his tent door at evening the Bpdonin' ui
" Wh0erer hou art 1chose need Is oTe9t '''''
In the name Of God, the Cor1DaS,fo1o,.
Ajsd MerCitui One for thee / lraj,
For gifts in his name Of food and rest
fhe tents of Islam of God are best.
Thou who hast faith in the Christ above.
Shall the Koran teach thee the law Of love-
Q christian open thy heart and door,
Cry east and west to the wandering poor
" Wh0erer thou sTt JchOae need IL area,
In he UHne Of Christ, the CIon6as,iooo,
-41td MercUuI One, for thee / trnV
John G. E6;,,.,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

THERE is nothing dispels the dreams
of youth and skaters the ambitious
hopes of the noble boy like having a
young lady remark in his hearing that
he would make with study, good ba
rack.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

EX-SENATOR NYE, whose death in a
lunatic asylum is recorded, was, in his
palmy days, one of the brightest and
most genial of public men. The good
things said and the clever retorts made
by him in the senate and elsewhere
would ell large volume. He began
his career in New York. As delegate
to the Chicago convention he WAS IA
warm supporter and advocate Of Mr..
Seward nomination. From Mr.. Lincoln
he received the appointment Of governor
Of Nevada, and when that territory be-
came a state be was elected one Of its
senators, and WAS subsequently reelected
to serve ultil 1873. His health then
began 70 decline in a manner which fore
Swallowed the lamentabIe death which
has just been his fate.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-08

Always HoPE when there is life the
hope is DR.. }. II. McLean's Strengthening
Cordial and Blood Purifier; it will impart
life to the body, strength and vitality to the
muscles and nerves, purites your blood. DR.,
J. II. Mclean, Sl4 Chestnut, st, Louis.