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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-01-03

New Orleans Sunday Delta.

In answer to our request IN last
weeks Delta, Governor McEnery,
who is an attentive reader OF this
paper, favors it's readers with u
valuable communication on the
Immigration Convention mere the
18th of January. Our numerous
parish exchanges will help the
good cause by republisning the
article:
The 18th day of January, 1878,
has been appointed the day for a
State Convention to he held In the
city Of New Orleans, to take INTO
consideration The proper methods
which will lead TO d large Influx Of
honest and thrifty immigrants to
Louisiana within a reasonable
space of time.
1t is to be hoped, and certainly
is expected, that this convention
will prove success, and this hope
and expectation are founded in the
belief that throughout the State 30
deep an interest will be taken In
the matter as to secure the seIec-
ton of delegates to this Conven-
ton whose character and ability
will furnish an earnest that the
people of Louisiana Intend to id
augnrate and establish success
full scheme for immi graLion and
like her sister States of Texas.
Florida, Arkansas and Mississippi,
settle and establish upon her rich
and inexhaustible soil, thousands
OF industrious people from other
sections to help us to build up our
broken and ruined fortunes.
This Immigration movement,
now going ou throughout the State
must be fostered and encouraged
by the planters aud landowners
and it is to this class of our citizens
that We now especially appeal, to
take ap active interest in the Con-
yention to assemble in this city on
the 18th Of January, 1873.
Let them see to it that IL meet
ing is called in every parish, and
that suitable delegates are aecled-
tied to the Convention /; aud oul
word for it, an impetus will be Civ
On to this all-important movement
which will bring from every land
and cline, men with muscle und
brain to help as to rebuild Louisi-
ana, and make her what she ought
TO be, one of the richest States in
the Union.
We hope and trust that not Il
single parish will be uurepresented
in the Convention to assemble, the
success OF failure of which is
fraught with veal or Woe to our
State.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-01-03

The Donaldsonville Triune-De-
moerat succupbed to the hard
times and is no more, and the
1.-TWO Harrys'" find their oocapa-
tion gone.-sSt. Charles Rerald.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-01-03
The Mysterious Case.

CAPT. McCAFFERY-ARRES MADE.
Galveston News.
On the LIST of December, Henry
kohn, one of the owners OF the
schooner Hilas. reported to the
News office and ut the station
house, that Capt. Hugh McCafisry,
of that vessel, was knocked over
board and drowned between Red
fish bar and Half Moon shoals, III
Galveston Bay. Kohn took charge
of the vessel, and. having given the
informatioAa which was deemed
satisfactory, AS to the disappear
ance of the captain, he left this
port for -Calcasieu. At the time
this accident occurred there was
no one on board the schooner ex-
cept Kohn and the captain.
On Saturday evening last Capt.
WEIGH, of the schooner Sea Bird,
picked up the body OF n dead man
floating in the bay between Half
Moon shoals and Red Fish bar,
which he brought into port. AS
has been already published in
these columns, the body had
about seventy five pounds of chain
wrapped around it, and the hands
tied behind the neck with grass
rope. The pockets of the pants
were turned inside out, and evil
dent signs of foul treatment were
apparent about the skull.
On Saturday evening Henry
Kohn, who is now master of the
schooner Silas, was outside the
bar with load of lumber, bound
for Corpus Christi, but the sea was
so rough that he came inside.
The body was taken in charge
by Justice Gilbert, who ordered
the sexton to afford every oppor-
tunity in his power to those who
might be able to identify it. The
news of the discovery of the body
spread rapidly over the city, and
the friends of Capt. McCaffery al
once began to suspect that he had
been foully dealt with. Many of
his intimate friends viewed the
body. but the face was too much
deeomposed for them to recognize
it. In size it tailed exactly with
his person.
Before starting on his last trip
from Galveston, a lady in this city
Capt. McCafery's cloth
ing, and on the pants which he
wore, and which wero found on his
body, she put patch which she
thought she recognizes as her
work. The chain found on his
body corresponds exactly with the
chain on the schooner Silas.
Henry Kohn was arrested yes-
berday and taken TO the cemetery,
where he viewed the body Of the
dead man, but up to the present
time he has made no confessions
calculated to implicate him as the
one who did the killing.
The verdict of the jury was that
Hugh McCaffery came to his death
BY violence inflicted by some party
Or parties to the jury unknown.
AT tho rananf nnnntrnn nf Al,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-01-03

Magnolia Grange No. II,
Patrons of Husbandry meets oh
the 4th SATURDAY., of each month.
T.. N. Nichols is master OF the
above Grange.
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Mr.. Allen 1Gilley is our authorized
agent for the ECHO, and any receipt
given by MIN for dues to the Lake
Charles Echo, will be recognized by US.
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The Control of the Senate.
New Orleans Times.


The admission of Eustis to the
Senate is, to a degree, an antidote
to that OF Kellogg, and is the pleas
ATTEST piece Of news that has come
over the wires for a good while.
There are now no vacancies in the
Senate, every one of the 76 seats
being, constructively, at least,
filled Recent events eliminate
some uncertainties from calculh-
tious respecting the status of that
body, 1t is generally conceded
that the Democrats will have =
majority of Senators in 1879, if not
sooner, but how and why this is to
come about is not SO we'll under
stood. The Senate is now COM
posed of the following members 4:
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-01-03

DIR. WING. was buried Sunday,
in the Episcopal church-yard, Ut
Opelousas, with Masonic honors.
1t is said by those who attended
to have boon the largest funeral,
as wsll as the most beautiful cere-
mony that has been there for
years. Washington Enterprise.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-01-03

Striped stockings cover o multi
tnde of ahias.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-01-03

| poSeu Vi tnS 1OliOWlnS uleuoelS
DEMOCRATS. REPUBLICANS.
Goldthwaite, Ala. Spencer Ala.
Garland, Ark. Dorsey, Ark.
Barnum. Conn. Sargent, Cal.
Eaton, Conn. Booth, Cal.
Salisbury, Del. Chaffee, Col.
Bayard, Del. Teller, Col.
Jones, Fla. COnOver, Fla.
Hill. GA. Oglesby, Ill.
Gordon. Ora. Allison, Iowa.
Mcdonald, Ind. Kirkwood, Iowa.
Voorhees,, Ind. Ingalls,, Kan.
McCreery, Ky. Plumb, Kan.
Beck, Ky. Kellogg, La.
Eustis, La Hamlin, Me.
Dennis, Nd Blaine, Me,
Whyte, Md. Dawes. Mass.
Lamar, Miss. Hoar, Mass.
Cockrell, Mo. Ferry, Mich.
Armstrong, Mo. Christiancy, Mich.
Randolph, N. j. McMillen. Mimi.
Mcpherson, N. J. Window. Mimi.
Herman, n. Y. Bruce, Miss.
Ransom, N. G. Paddock 1Seb.
Merrimon. n. G. Saunders, Neb.
Thurman, OHIO. Jones, New.
Grover, Oregon. Sharon, New.
Wallace, Penn. Wadleigh. N Fl.
Butler, s. c. Rollins II, H. Fl
harris, Tenn. Coiikling, n. Y.
bailey, Tenn. Matthews, Ohio.
Maxey, Texas. Mitchell, Oregon.
Coke, Texas Cameron, Penn.
winners, Va. Burnside, 4 /.
Johnson, Va. Anthony. f. /.
hereford. w. Va. Patterson, S. @.
Davis, W. Va. Morrill,. VT.
IND. DEMOCRAT. Edmnnds. VT.
Davis, Ill. Howes, Wis,
Cameron, Wis.
Total, Republicans, 80, Demo
Gratis 36, independent Democrat l.
OF these, the terms of 10 R4pub-
llcans and s Democrats expire in
1879. These S Democrats are
from the States Of Connecticut,
Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Lou
isiana, MARYLAND, Missouri, and
North Carolina. More If these
States are doubtful, except, per
haps, Connecticut and Indiana
where the Legislatures are now
Republican, and may or may not
be SO after the next election. In
any event, there il ii moral GER
tainty that these States will return
6 Democratic Senators, which,
with 29 holding over Senators, will
give them 3D. assured seats 10 tue
next Congress. Now, turning to
the Republican expirations, we
find that two States, Ohio and
California, have just elected Dem
oeratic Legislatures, which legisla-
lures will choose the successors of
Matthews and Sargent. They will
select two Democrats in place of
those two Republicans. This will
make 36 Democratic senators Ger
tain
The terms of Spencer, of Ala
bama, Dorsey, of Arkansas, Con
over, OF Florida, and Patterson. of
South Carolina, expire in 1879.
The Legislatures which will choose
their successors are not yet elected,
but they are as certain TO be De
mocratic Ms anything in the future
can he. -Four Democrats will go
to the Senate in 1879 from those
States, lbringingup the Democratic
vote to 40. This gives clear
working majority, without oonsid-
ering the chances in New York,
Pennsylvania. Connecticut, Indi-
ana and Wisconsin,, and without
the vote of Davis, of I'll
lineis. One Republican senator
from each of these States goes out
- 1QH0 nnl -, .f ~ok Ill e
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Our subscribers will confer a
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of any irregularity in receiving
their paper.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-05-09

yoke-bearer will grow fat, smooth and
round as silk hat The cattle. of CAL
ifornia are unexcelled for breed and
beauty. @s'''''' % y
The dry spiry grass you see is hay.
You do not think that Balaam's beast
would covet it. 1t was cured without
cutting. There is no rain to wash out
its strength, and it just stands there,
desiccated grass, waiting for somebody
to eat it. You do not have to- tickle it
with fork and toss it about the lot, and
comb it with rake, as they do at the
East. Wheat cut green and stacked is
used in place of timothy. California is
the paradise for laziness and grangers.
There's a field of wheat ripe unto white
ness, ripe unto redness. No rain to
rust it, no thieves to steal it, no touch
to shell it; there it stands waiting for
its master. 1t would stand all summer.
1t is faithful as Ulysses dog. tits; not
logged to the barn, and .tugged out of
wagons and g boosted" in again. In
this field they are threshing. In that
field they are bagging, and those pie
thoric sacks will lie there as safe from
rain as heap of powders. That grain
will never know its owner has barns.
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A New Railroad Pass.

A new style of railroad pass has just
been patented by railroad man which
is something of a novelty. The idea is
to provide a pass which can be used by
none save the person to whom it is is
sued, and the pass seems to meet the re-
quirement. Around the pass proper is
a margin, with description which, by
the use of punch, may be made to fit
any body. After the word "age - ap-
pear series Of figures out of which the
person issuing the pass punches the fig-
ures corresponding with the age of the
one to whom the pass is issued. Then
after the head "shape" follow the
words "slim," medium" "stout,n
corpulent.' After "color of hair
come the designations "black,n
"brown,' gray" s'light, auburn"
After "color of eyes, come "black,n
" brown, !" gray" "blue," " hazel !"
and after 6 beard " the terms g none,''
full, y" side, -" chin, -" moustache. >,
Thus, supposing the man to whom the
pass is issued be dark, slim man, with
black eyes and beard a la Napoleon, the
issuer OF the pass would punch the word
"slim - under " shape," " black - UNI
der "eyes y and !" hair,'' moustache''
and "chin " under g beard" The pass
could then be transferred only to man
CHANGING to answer just the above de-
scription. The idea is certainly a novel
one.-Indiasapolis Sentinel.
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four gallons of milk per day the year
round" was Interested in that report,
for it contains much sound sense. In
my experience-and / have been en-
gagged in raising and selling milk for 80
years, my home being in the Connec-
ticut Valley, in the old Bay State, where
pasture is good and the finest hay is
gathered and carefully housedI have
never seen common, nor uncommon,
cows that could begin to equal this. l
have had some good COWS that gave,
when at their best, % to % quarts of
milk per day. l always found it to my
profit to allow cows to go dry for about
three months before calving; they will
last longer and, as believe, give more
milk during the year. We will assume,
then, that the cow goes dry three
months. For so days when fresh she
gives 80 quarts per day, for the next 80
days 20 quarts, and for the balance of her
period of milk per day, say about IA
quarts. If any of the readers of the
Farmer have ever owned cow that
would any where near do this, I hope
they will report at once. Six and one
half quarts, or thirteen pounds per day,
is good average for any dairy of twelve
or more common cows. If they do
much better than this, one must give
extra good feed. Some picked cows
will do better, if highly fed, but many
more, take the country through, will go
below than above this average. The
reader must remember that we are
speaking of common, not thoroughbred
cows. tits not often that I review any
thing that l see in print, but when a
farmer is encouraged to change his bus
mess from one branch of farming to an
other, he should get well posted and
make haste slowly. This is q subject
worthy of full and free discussion from
those that measure, Or, what is better,
weigh their milk; guess work on this
subject is of no account.-M S. Kellogg,
TN Indiana Farmer.
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Methods in Corn Growing.

[ have been requested by several par
ties to give the method by which rails
ed thirty acres of corn last year. The
land was in one piece of about thirty
acres, and was planted to corn in 1876,
with no manure, but 431 bushels OF
ashes and $28 worth of Bradley's sea-
fowl fertilizer were sown broadcast and
cultivated in; after the crop was taken
from the field / had it plowed. Last
spring, on the 10th and 18th of May, it
was spread over with 200 bushels OF
ashes and $58.42 worth of Bay STATE
superphosphate, and cultivated in be-
fore planting. No other manure was
used, and no ploughing in the spring.
The seed was coated with gas tar and
then rolled in superphosphate to ferti-
lie the seed, also to make it dry to pre-
vent it from sticking, when passing
through the planter. As soon as
the corn was about two inches high, my
son used the Ross wheel hoe over the
piece; soon as he had done with the
wheel hoe, he followed with a
horse and the Ross cultiyator, twice be-
tween the rows, and through the sea-
son. In order to test the matter of
raising corn, year after year, on the
same ground, with profit, I am intend
ing to plant the same the coming spring,
and follow on for years, till l am salts
fled that it can or can not be done.
have a piece which has been in corn for
thirteen years, and the production has
been from Is to 100 bushels of shelled
corn yearly, al d slower in proportion.
find no trouble in raising corn on good
land, for the fodder pays, leaving the
corn nearly net profit. tits only a mat
ter to- be understood as it should be,
with the proper method and implements
to do the work, and men who have an
eye and mind to their own work to ac-
complish that end. Il. Ross, in Neo
ENGLAND Farmer.
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LlsE#E ~ I'll - sFEFrss.s<T sfEE3g
, How q Man Reduced His 81

Banting, 8 Undertaken to ~ e.
and Royal family" recently died ita
age of S. He invented d system u
| ct which became as famous in eufx
as that of Cornaro was three certu
ago. In. q curious pamphlet xlielI
wrote, and which had d cosfnbpolitkaS
sculation someten years ago, Mr. b.
related his sufferings from his enorl
obesity In terms as moving is thd|
= Falstaff.n For years he hsln1tt
his shoes, and he was. Obliged to =
down stairs backward, lest The pt6tl
ant weight of his trunkish0 ulAlpitkh
down head foremost, He -adopta
regimen by which he gradually ~!
himself within such bounds that 4 /
came quite a nimble pedesttians
fact that he lived through this pToeaa|
die at the age of IS may be takn!
show that abstinence from faffhaoe|
and saccharine food worked q N|
his case as living on an egg 8 day ~ 4! /!
the case Of Cornaro. Bot others \
have adopted his system, bare
worse. Still his work has borne w.
fruit, if only in making podp6
about what they eatAadpdsink ini
ilations to. their vitality - Wellas y
appetites; and the man can not b
have lived IN vain who enriched a. y
'tise Language withna neNiHmig
IA F4Ae in ad Him fstAnrfasg shT ~
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A coming event the total 'ell5l
the sun on. the 29thof Jnly4shaalz
tronomers an interest greater even
that Of the transit Of Mercury
nothing has been donetotake adF. =
Of it. The. path of totally Qi
eclipse runs diagonally across 1s =
ter Of the United States, from nfla1
to Texas, and is between 120 "a
miles wide. Many of the. best r.
for observation are directly seos
by railroad, and q dozen exp'!
might be equipped and sent e = III. =
different points with only = 15sc 4.
the outlay often made byEnrop H.
tions in single expeditions foE A =
purposes. Admiral John Roger Il
superintendent of the Naya u, ~
tory, speaking to q Correspondent
Tribune upon the importancs 4 :
matter, said that the sum Of alll'
portunities which all OF the astrono
OF the world can get for observing
eclipses does .sn0s exceed M
hours in century. Recent dia
have rendered It probable that II
not all Of the great nefess
changes going on upon the
caused by events taking place q
sun, and many questions lslsian9 r
physical constitution of that sl
the changes there taking place e. -
be studieddufinga total oefpss
ington Cor: New York Ir II Y
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-05-09
'' ss; .salettiIsasesg.. ssistAls
portions of our Western States 81 !!
Twill do wei t5i'give mors ~.
passing Thought Westerw .Rnrsi
A Theater q Natures B,ild, .,

A writer in the Rocky Mon,,o,.
ist says: JustfAssthsa vi B ~
pie Canyon issA httld prone = -. IS
woods. Fhcir pcndens ~ ~ - =.
meet in perfect arches over6sad ss3!a
tprofusion of their polished h,;IR
leaves render complete the aaaat ~ ~ !
ing OF bowers in which Il u ta{a III Il
day lunch and prepare f5f l6s u. M: !
to Temple Canyon, wIieK MN ~
on foot. Temple is a side carve. +
entrance from Crane CreeE r!s.
some four and 9 !, bali ~! miles frpn ga
yon City, and was discovered MI /
or two agolgtOdee passing threi,.ss i
great riffs of rock,-fsr. 81 m A.,
like the stairway to some GRAND M.
amusement, the body Of tie tsrss .
reached, and, to the teurislA aist.:
ment, before him is a stage with -.
hanging arch, with !. dats'S and aa;..
with dressing-rooms on either IA !.
a scene already set us II fot Soma -.
tableau9sIf SO. Intensely realisio.
the parquet, as the broad circlinc 4.
might aptly be termed, or from M
quet or dress circles, 81 fhe si5
lodges would suggest, the clsmIis
to- the; stage itself renders It an M !.
SO, for there is found ample room n
full dramatic or operate cousi5,9s
disport upon. while in4he pcrpend;:.
Lodges and caves on either sida I; b
80 people might retire and Nj }
observed from the body of IN
The stage is at least 80 feet dtpn',
60 or 10 broad; the arch ADORE fu|ls r
feet from the floor of the canYod y
stage itself being about 40 feet Nv.
the floor. The arch is almost 8 49,
and perfectly proportional as.ii ~
Toned by the hand Of man, and daI
the wet season the water from / M,
above falls in a great broad sheu |.
its face to the floor OF the cannon beIas|
At such time the effect from the ~
of the Temple is, as can BE- iniiril3
exceedingly fascinating, brsthsis
tirely protected FROM tha-x ater.
looks through the silvery sheet opt e.
the scene below. Upon the rear xsl|
the stage quite an aperture hi n
hewn out by some action, and tie ~
it is left in is peculiarly suggessdlinii l
tableaux preparation. Away up I'D
highest crevice underathe aesh apdk1
eagles have mated for years, m M
most daring efforts have been Mill
reach the nest, none have s1ccJ =
There is absolutely not a selitssJ y
of vegetation about the Temple; aIi
bleak, bare and towering Halls u
q more weird spot to visit csn ut III
sibly be imagined. q - g
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THE late Mark Hopkins, of Califor-
MIA, left Great Darlington, Mass, Is
years ago, in coarse clothing and rough
boots, and little money given to him
by his uncle. Last year his wife visited
Great harrington in a special palace
car, with retinue of servants.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-05-09

Fourchette.-Bits Of nice salt pork
about one-third Of an inch thick, 2 or 8
inches square, bits Of Calls liver the same
size; alternate these on long skewers,
beginning and ending with pork, lay in
the oven across dripping pan and roast
as you would bird, basting occasional
ly; when done slide the pieces. from the
skewer upon platter and serve.
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What is an Average Yield of Mi,,.,

In the Indiana Farmer of Feb. %.
page 4, in the report of the .dairyman IS
convention, headed profits in dairying.
l felt surprised at the statement, a
good common cow ought to average
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-05-09

IcEAf ounce Of cs1l| ~
/ ounce of spermaceti, ounce q " Il
or mutton tallow, ounce OF VIM
melt slowly, put away until co0'' 3
use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-09-10

A SINGULAR AFFAIR IN TRENroN.-A tele
gram ;aid from Trenton, n. j., Sept 5, says: Gen.
hnsllng, late pension agent, was arrested
sion OF funds to his own use. The complaint
was made by ID. G. Allison, late pension agent
OF the sanitary commission. The affair caused
hot words in court. General Rushing was dis
charged, no case being made out against him.
Alter the decision was rendered Mr.. Allison
became very violent and threatened General
him on the street. The affair has caused
much excitement, and is the general topic on
the streets. Both parties are well known
pollt1cians In this state, and there is little
attention of the grand iury