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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-01

match; 90 i ended the long agony By
walking eighteen hours without leaving
the track, and that's how I came TO got
the belt. If he had won he would have
been the richest pedestrian that ever
stood In shoe leather
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-01

Ihe empire OF hussla Ii new passing
through mighty religion and educa-
tional change. The present metropolite
was appointed by the car because Of
bis liberal views on religious liberation.
For the first time in the history of the
empire, foreign princess marrying In
the imperial family has been permitted
TO retain the religion In which she was
educated When the Grand Duchess
Maria, of Mecklenburg, was married to
the Grand Duke Vladimir, her Lutheran
pastor performed, on her part, the mar
rage ceremonies In the winter palace.
More recently the emperor has granted
permission to the agents of the British
aud foreign bible society, to circelate
the holy scriptures throughout the
empire. The common mind of Russia
is to be educated. The emperor has
ordered the Reorganization of the dis
trict schools. The standard of learning
has been raised. Education is now com
pulsory among the children of the cos
sacks. Free public lectures are now
delivered for the benefit of the masses.
A female gymnasium has been estab-
lished in Moscow. Reading rooms.
scientific museums, and universities are
now open to all in st. Petersburg; and
ten millions in gold are annually exs
pended for the advancement of educa-
ton.
With a single bound Russia has
cleared o whole century Of European
progress, The spirit of better ciyiliza-
ton has taken possession Of the body
polite, The emperor Is the most en-
hghtened, the most liberal, the most
devout sovereign in Europe. He bias
done much; much more remains to be
accomplished. He has resolved on the
reformation of the clergy, difficult but
necessary task. He is developing the
vast internal resources of his dominions
by which he hopes to render Russls
great and independent. He loves peace
and hates war. But with him an honor
able war is preferable to an inglorioul
peace. He could no longer consent te
be excluded from the Black sea- but
demands for his naval marine access
to the Mediterranean through ths
BosphoTns. He Is now doing single
handed and alone what the great power
should do in combination; he is fighting
for the religious freedom Of the sclayi Q
the Dsnubian principalities. he !
aiming at the overthrow of stupendou
religions imposture; the. disruption Q
an empire founded on lie, and perpetu
ated by fraud and violence; and th,
emancipation OF twsnty-thFes million
| OF Europeans and Asiatics who are KEEP
poor, ignorant, and snperstitious, by ~
intolerant hcsntious, and selfish aristoe
racy. Any rule is better than Turks
rule. 10 witness the despotisn Of tha
rule you must 30 beyond Coastantinople
you must penetrate the interior, wheF
foreign influence IL not protection. Il
, In her war against the sultan, Russi
seeks for additional territory, this is
\ lesser evil than the perpetuity Of Q go5
j ernment without Justice and withou
mercy.---[ National Repository
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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-01
Raw. Mr.. Cook saws that that whic

Rev. Mr.. Cook says that that which
produces the least friction lis the most
natural. And yet if Mr. Cook should
tread on piece Of soap on the stairs and
sail forward like an American eagle upcn
its prey, be could not attribute the CON
sequences TO the unnatural behavior O
che stairs.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-01
An exchange asks:

An exchange asks: ~ here Ia our
boasted yirtue3p The question is easily
answered. You can fad heaps of il in
every patent medicine manufactured.
There Is whore it il gone. See advertise
ment
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-01
O'Leary's Account OF His Great
Pedestrian Exploit i'm London.


Daniei uLeaiys championship Dei'
y On e4niDiIion 20 Droan"ay Wlnuo"
'nis morning Inc siue"aik y ammeo
WIN SPECTATORS, ana 1ne ponce keeP :
Passage cicaleo wItn aic1y Ahe
peit Is = masSive aaAir' ny iesSs nse IA
chee Woe, anu Ms long ~ surcinsie.
oeven iec'anguisr siiveI cAsps arc goaneu
70 2 nuge oisk OF goia' bearing on or'gn'
oiue enamei 'ne following inscription Id
RAISED ieI1e1s: Long distance IMAM
pioh % 'ne world
O'Lsary arrived from England yester-
day, and starts for Chicago to-day. BE
fore we started" says OLesry, "Sir
John Ashley made a speech, saying it
had been said that according to the rules
for entries, fought not to be allowed to
walk. he thought different. Any man
who would come three thousand miles
In good faith, supposing his entry was
all right, should be welcomed to tour
nament, and as his entrance money was
up before the whole amount was raised,
he could not see that the rules
had really been violated, and he had
decided that the American could enter
the limits. He hoped that an Eoglishman
would win; but, If the American was
successful, he would see he got the belt
and money. Eighteen of us started.
had eaten hearty dinner and got up
from light supper of tea and toast.
Just before the walking began ! tight
ened my belt, gripped my corn cobs
firmly, and opened the ball. This cob
business is habit. A Arm grip on them
seems to grid me up and absorbs the
moisture of the hands. ] have the same
two eobs In my trunk now at the hotel,
and always carry some with me. You
couldn't get such thing In England. I
ran and walked the first fifty miles, run
ming around the corners and walking the
stretches, and quickly felt the effects of
the running ia the tendons Of my legs,
and stopped it. Ii also injured my feet,
for in running you spring from the ball
of the foot, while in walking the heel
comes In play. ] walked 208 miles be-
fore resting, making III miles in the
first twenty-four hours, and changing
my shoes twice day. On the 2O9sh
mile rested an hour and a bali,
but only slept twenty-five minutes; In
fact, couldn't sleep, my mind was &C
excited and my body 90 sore that | lay
moaning, groaning and mumbling, and
| could get no real rest; SO | got to my
feet and kept on walking until they tsld
me was twenty-six miles ahead o.
everybody, Then at the earnest solici
tatioD OF my friend Al omith' OF ohl
cago, ! left the track Tor three hours'
didn't think that II was hardly safe iol
me 70 DO 10, for J dlea't ieei liKe sieep
and was afraid OF getting SUN ana sore
and IL turned out Just AZ thought
got q little sleep on the last hour anc
that was all. When again came on the
track nay nose began to bleed, ana
found myself very sore and stiff. The
bleeding at the nose, however dia mi
good. IT seemed to relieve my hsaa
Then anxiety of the mind came up
found that Vaughan hsa gained On M
considerably He was only Ten mile
behind, and Blower Brown was within
fifteen miles. Gradually the soreness
4 and stiffness wore away and my legs go
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-01
A STRANGE STORY.
BIZ AN ENGLISH OFFICER

handful of British troopss lett IN charge /
of the wives, sisters and daughters of |
the actors i'm that most unhappy expe-
dition. And 9 weary, heart-breaking
time it was. The acknowledgements,
who had prayed and besonght the Cal
cutts authorities not to risk the adven- |
ture, had the worst forebodings of its |
fate; and although he did all an able,
kindly, and well-mannered man could do
TO maintain the spirits of Che circle,
those who knew him could read too well
what his fears were. Words could not
describe (indeed it is painful for me
even now to recal) the dreary wretched-
ness of that fatal month, during which
no tidings came of the devoted army.
Evening after evening saw the roads
crowded by anxious women, sitting there
for hours that they might hear the FIRST
news of those who were dear to them,
and evening after evening saw them re-
turn in despair. And when at last the
news came that the sole survivor had
staggered, half alive, back to his eoun-
trymen, with the tidings VI the great
disaster, the wall which assembled from
those heart-broken creatures / shall
never, while live, forget.
There had been q captain in one of the
native regiments, an old acquaintance Of
mine, of the name of Donnelly, Jerry
Donnelly, as he was called by every one.
Gle was careful to explain to every one
that his name was Jerome, and mot Jere-
miab, although why he SO unduly pre-
ferred the saint to the prophet j never
understood. Jerry Donnelly, however,
he was, and as strange and eccentric
creature as ever breathed.
He was a very good looking fellow and
frst-rate officer, but careless, rollick-
ing, half insane madeap of o man, with
an amazing flow of spirits, little eduea,
ton or culture, a great, almost miraeu-
lous talent for languages, with q soft
heart and an easy temper. 1t was
q impossible to make him angry, but in all
circumstances, however unpleasant, he
maintained q placid serenity, which
seemed to imply that be was on intimate
terms with fortune, and knew the very
werst that she could do.
Among the other tricks which the
tickle goddess had played him was that
she had married him. Why he ever
married as be did no one could imagine.
The lady was neither handsome, clever,
nor rich. She was simply passable as to
looks, with the iyeliness Of good health
and youth. 9 quality not unapt to de-
velop itself into yivacity of temper
when those other attributes disappear.
But, on some impulse, Jerry Donnelly
had asked her the momentous question,
and had been favorably answered.
a most uncomfortable couple they
were Jerry, from the very fist, neg.
lected her--not Intentionally, believe.
but simply because for the moment he
forgot her existence. 1t never seemed te
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
One Of the Witnesses.

The character of the testimony which
the Democracy will produce before Pot
ter's revolutionary committee is well it,
Illustrated by the following from the
Washington dispatches to the Inter-
Ocean,
Among the witnesses counted upon
by the Potter committee to make start
ling revelations" of what the Returning
Board did in New Orleans, is Harry G.
Pyles, who was employed by J. Madi-
son Wells as one of the clerks of the
board. Pyles was rewarded by Secre-
tary Chandler with the position of
messenger in the Pension Office here in
Washington About two months ago
Pyles was discharged by the Commits
sioner of Pensions for cause, and sever
al times since then he has tried to get
reinstated, but without success. The
day after the passage Of the resolution
authorizing the investigation, Mr.. Pyles
called upon Commissioner Bentley, and
stated that he was one of four clerks
employed by the Louisiana Returning
Board, and that he thought it for the
best interests of the administration to
keep him in it's employ. This appeal
made no impression upon the Commits
sioner, who was somewhat; surprised to
receive another visit from the applicant
on Monday last, and at this interview
Pyles represented that he knew more
than it would be profitable for the ad-
ministration to have declared. DO |
understand you to say that you were a
party to acts or transactions which
throw discredit upon the action of the
Returning Board?" said Commissioner
Bentley. Mr.. Pyles answered in the
affirmative. 'Then, said the Commits
sioner, you can never be an employee of
this bureau with my consent" and the
applicant concluded to cease his impor-
tunities for government support. Since
then he has been interviewed as to
what he actually knows, and his infor-
nation relates to the alleged attempt to
intimidate voters in the city of New
Orleans by threats of arrest for illegal
registration.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
The West Road Improvement.

At meeting of the subscribers to
the fund for the improvement of the
road running west from the city limits
on the line Of Main st., held at Leytze's
Hall, May %, 1873, DIR. H. Bryant was
elected Chairman and G. ID. Jones Sec
rotary.
Mr.. Kemmerer read the terms of the
subscription and stated that they had
been complied with, there being SO sub
scribers to the fund, and the amount of
the same $5755O.
On motion, MIR. Kemmerer was elect
ed to act in conjunction with Mr.. j. S.
Bouck, Road Master as Superintendent
of the work. w. Il. Kellogg was elected
Treasurer, to collect the cash suhsorip-
ton and to pay out money on the order
of the Superintendent.
On motion, the Superintendent was
authorized to purchase the gravel, as
per contract with the railroad company
employ laborers to do the work, call out
those subsc :ibing labor, and to receipt
to said parties when the labor is per-
formed, paying for other labor by orders
on the Treasurer, as previously in
structed.
1t was voted that the Superintendent
receive $3.50 per day for the time actu-
ally employed in experimenting the
work.
On motion, the Superintendent and
Treasurer were required, on completion
of the work, to make out and have pub
lished a full report of the SINE.
The Secretary Of this meeting was in
structed to furnish copy of the min
utes of this meeting to the papers for
publication.
Adjourned subject to the call of the
Chairman.
H. BRYANT, Ch'rm.
c. D. JONES, Sec'y.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
THE Democratic State Convention

The Democratic State Convention
that met at Cedar Rapids on Wednes-
day, adopted the old regulation Bourbon
platform, in which sop is thrown to ev-
cry fragmentary political organization
that is supposed to have votes to be
caught by fatulent bombast the Tilden
programme of revolution is endorsed,
and the usual dishonest and incoherent
charges brought against the Republican
party. On this platform Of froth and
-imbecility is ftly placed State ticket,
in some respects the most conspicuously
weak and contemplate ever placed be-
fore the voters of the State The NOM
nations are:
For Secretary of state-T. o. Walker. of Da-
Auditor of state-Colonel Eiboeck. of Polk
County.
Register of State Land Object. s. Bard
well, Of Linn County.
Judge Of the Supreme , Court-'"dee D. u
Clerk Of the Supreme Court-A. V. Cannon
o. Reporter H Of the Supreme Court. B. Elliott
of Marion County.
Attorney General-John Gibbons. Of Lee
County.
The Democratic party of Iowa has
never shown more significant evidence
Of it's decadence than the nomination
for places of trust and prominence OF
the men Of the stripe Of Tim. Walker
and il. Eiboeck.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
The Magazines.
SCRInNER EORHNE


The first number of this favoritc magazine
opens with an interesting article upon George
Cruikshank, the English caricaturist, which is
illustrated with over twenty of his ctchings.
Frank r. Stockton contributes Il paper on
coon and 'possum hunting in old Virginia, with
a number of spirited pictures by w. L. Shep-
pard. A second article on Bird Architecture,
from the pen of DR.. Brewer, is cmbelished
with number of cuts of the curious nests of
the weaver birds. ". j. Linton, the engraver,
discusses the question whether an engraver is
entitled to be called an artist. The Story of
Lesken, by Miss Anna Eichberg, finds its hero
in a musician of Wallack's Theater and its
scene in Holland, and is illustrated in silhou-
cite by Howard Pyle. Misery's Pear-Tree, Il
translation of IL Flemish legend, by Dr.. w.
Nichols, has two sketches by Chas. +. McKim,
the architect. The Eleventh Hour story, by
Emma Lazarus, and the two serials, Roxy, and
His Inheritance, complete the fiction of the
number. Other papers are: A New American
Industry, by Chas, Barnard, descriptive of fruit
evaporating; A White Day and Il Red Fox, by
John Burroughs; and Lying as Fine Art, by
W. L. Kingsley of The NeW Engldnder, who eX-
amincs the claims of Rcv. Samuel Peters as an
artist, basing them upon his History of Con-
necticut, from which curious extracts are Civ
en-. According to Mr.. Kingsley, Peters is the
chief authority for the popular misconception
of the so-called Blue Laws of Connecticut.
Mrs. Piatt, Edward King, Caroline A. Mason,
Maurice F. Egan, and others contribute the
poetry of the number.
In the departments, DR., Holland discusses
the political significance of Bayard Taylors
appointment. "Crime is its own Element" and
1.-THE Art of Speaking 1.-THE Old Cabinet"
relates to the principles of taste. Literary
Art-judgments and the Literary Elements in
Art" 1.-THE Academy Exhibition and sum-
marizes and further discusses '"The Recent
Controversy about Engravers." The other de-
partments contain some special articles, such
as Improved Dwellings for working people,
with ground-plan, in the Worlds Work and
suggestions about the planting of ANIMALS, in
''Home and Society,"" Mr.. H. C. Bunner has in
Bric-a-Brac some humorous verse in the old
French metrical forms now attracting atten-
ton in England.
ST. NICHOLAS FOR JUNE.
Opens with striking frontispiece, drawn by
T. r. Kellv depictinR the brave deed jOf q girl
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Postal Absurdiiies.
Utica Republican.

There are some very queer things
about our Post Office regulations. Take
the postal-card for instance, as pointed
out by our contemporaries. If man has
a steady hand and writes close, he mey
put several hundred words on a card and
send it for cent. If he pastes the
least strip of printed matter on it, the
postage is increased to 6 cents, though
he may print on it the same matter, and
by putting it in fine type get severa!
thousand words on the card, and it will
go for 1 cent; and he may paste the
card all over with printed matter then
put it in an open envelope, and it will
go for cent The card and envelope
will go for less money than the card
alone. When will there absurdities and
inconsistencies be abolished, and every
thing 60 by weight at uniform price?
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
wing blind man from being run over.


in saving blind man from being run over
One great feature of the number is the OPEN
ing OF the new serial story for boys, Dab Kim
ger, by VIM. o. Stoddard. There are four
chapters, with two pictures by FL. F. Farney.
Miss Alcotts serial, Under the Lilacs, has a
long and very interesting instalment treating
of bareback rides and other moving incidents
Mr.. c. G. Haskins tells in pleasant way the
story OF the boyhood Of a Mexican emperor,
under the tito Master Montezuma, and with
the aid of nine illustrations copied from curl
Gus old Mexican hieroglyphics. Holland, with
its "firc-women," canals, wind-mills and other
characteristics, comes in for q share of atten-
ton in Nj A. Edwards short illustrated story,
The Little Red Canal Boat.
A clearly written paper, with illustrations,
instructs boys and girls how to make working
telephones for themselves, and explains Edi-
sons speaking monograph. Studious young.
stcrs will find in the third article of the series
Crumbs from Older Beading" pleasant in
PRODUCTION to Thos. Carlyle, from the pen of
Julia Il. Sargent
The five poems of the number include "A
Triumph" by Celia Thaxter, and How Willy
Wally went a-Fishing," by S. c. Stone, the lat
ter illustrated with three capital silhouettes
by Howard Pyle.
The departments are in full force the Very
Little Folks having q lively four-page large
type story, called Fiddle-diddle-dee, humorous.
~ illustrated with seven pictures by L. Hop
kins
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
An Impracticable Proposition.
DEBORAH Republican.


In view of a multiplicity of Congress-
ional candidates, the Elgin Times rec
ommends shat the editorial Union of the
third district agree upon candidate from
among their own number and join in his
support" We object. There is not a
man worth having who can be spared to
60 to Congress. The ones who can be
spared are not wanted. And then we
have an illustrious example given in
1872 that should serve as warning.
Certain illustrious independent" edit
ors put their heads together and re-
solved to dictate who should be Presi-
dent They named distinguished ed
itor, made a ridiculous muss" of the
whole matter, and sent the illustrious
editor to an untimely grave. Who will
dare to try such an experiment again.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

The State Register Of last Friday
publishes communication from lead
ing citizens of Wapello county present
ing the name of Capt. L. NJ. Cooley,
for the last fourteen years the clerk OF
the courts Of that county, as a candl-
date for Secretary of State before the
coming Republican State Convention.
Capt. Cooley is not only vouched for
as possessing the best of qualifications
for the place but his claims for the
nomination are doubly enhanced by the
fact that he was gallant soldier of the
Union, and lost leg in the bloody as
sault on the rebel works at Vicksburg in
May 1863. His nomination would be
every way fitting and appropriate.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

The friends of Col. Chapman, of Council
Bluffs are suggesting his name for the Presl.
lust as well to leave that question for the del
egates to the Conyention to settle?-Mdquohe-
ia EGcelsiir.
The E.rcezsior's suggestion is imperti-
nent. 1t ought to know that according
to the modern style of making nomina-
lions in Republican Iowa the people
or the men they send to conventions
to represent them are expected to take
no other part in the matter than to rat
ify cut and dried programme furnish
ed by the machine politicians. The
slate was made up and closed long ago.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

1t hardly seems probable to us that the Third
District will send back to congress backpay
man. Republican or Democrat after the en-
time Of the passage Of the back pay bill
Monticello Liberal
We observe that the Elkader Registe,
is also stoutly against Donnan, for the
reason that he was a ''backpay man. "
It is pleasant to see such evidence Of
political integrity on the part of oul
Democratic friends. OF course they
both opposed the democratic presiden-
tial ticket, in 1876, and are now extreme.
ly bitter against Speaker Randall, who
not only took the back pay but worked
and voted for the salary grab bill. 1t is
encouraging to see so much virtue
among our dc nocratic editorial breth.
ren.-Manchester Press
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31
Where is the Sense in It?

With only one-fifth of one per cent
difference in value between the green
back dollar and the coin dollar, where
can be the excuse, to say nothing of the
practicability or necessity, for clamor
for an entire reversal of the financial
policy Of the government? At every
center of population, too, the smaller
as well as the larger, money is seen to
be really plentiful idle in the
usual places of deposit awaiting use by
whoever has the requisites for it's en-
ploy: Gradually, but certainly, business
is adjusting itself all over the country,
to the new conditions which return to
coin values, after long reign of paper
currency and fictitious values always
involves.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-31

The A. T. Stewart Hotel for women
has proved failure, and is to be closed
and reopened to the general public.
The high prices and restrictions were
such as no self respecting woman would
submit to, and it is limited that they
we're imposed by Judge Hilton for the
purpose of insuring the non-success OF
the project.