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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-02-14

flour Town Council does not en-
force the town ordinance to prevent
hogs from running atllarge in the
corporation, we will have but few
vegetable gardens this spring, as
gardens are being visited nightly
by this nuisance (hOgs) in Lake
Charles. The hog law was enacted
by Our Town Council for the public
good, and many of our citizens dis
posed of lin fact sacrificed their in
tterest in hogs to comply with the
hog ordinance, and to serve the.
public good. AS our Town fCoun-
Gil is disposed to do Justice to all
their constituents, we feel confident
that this evil will be remedied soon.
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OFFICE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD,

Our terms are Cash, orits equivalent,
on the spot. But where an account is
opened it must be closed at the end OF
the month. This rule will in no case
be varied from, as,we expect to do our
own work and can not afford to employ
% book-keeper. We buyfo cash.
Our motto, sell qnietl
-J.W. BRYAN & Go.
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Our Legislature is wasting a
great deal of valuable time in spe-
cial Legislation allowing the police
Juries OF certain parishes to levy
special parish taxes in excess OF
the ton mill parish tax limited by
Act 96 of the acts of 1877. 1T
seems to be generally conceded
that the ten mill tax lis insufficient
TO cdefray current expenses, and
pay past indebtedness, of many
country parishes; but this is no
excuse for this special Legislation.
Haihighertax Unnecessary itccould
be provided for by general law,
limiting ,parochial taxation to
fifteen or sixteen mills. Those
parishes where tive highest rate
Was necessary could adopt that
rate; others, any lower rate noe
essary.
The sixty days regular session
OF the Legislature costs the tax
payers sl5o,0oo; shatlis, s9.50O per
day. There is no necessity nor
prspriety in wasting this valuable
time in introducing, referriag con-
sidering. reporting, amending, de-
batting end passing q dozen special
statutes on this subject, when one
general statute would be sufficient.
Special Legislation ON subjects Of a
general character cannot be TOO
carefully avoided.
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Burke and Chandler.
TEXT OF TILE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN
MAJOR BURKE AND ". u. CHANDLER
A MOST UNSATISFACTORY AND UNooM-
ELEMENTARY REJoINDER.

NEW Orleans Pioayune, Jan. 30.l
We publish this morning the
telegram of Nv. Il. Chandler to E.
A. Burke, and Major Burke,s
scathing reply to the same, which
is richly deserved by the imperti-
inenoe Of the original dispatch.
In reply to our inquiries Major
Burke disclaims any knowledge OF
any disreputable bargains, aud as
serts that any assurances given
Republicans during the count, or
afterward ION behalf of the Nichols
Government were openly auGhor-
lied, were the same which were
ratified by q grand mass meeting
which the Picaynne was instrp-
mental in assembling last winter,
and regularly adopted by the Leg
islature, AS will be seen by refer
rence TO the cots of last session.
Whichever assurances received from
Republicans were openly submit
ted TO the Demooratic and Con
servative members Of the Legisla-
ture, voted upon and approved by
the eighty1Gye membars thareof,
Ihsnoe could 10 no wise be Donald
erred q secret. Major Burke may
yet publish a full statement Of all
the facts known to him. but it IL
very evident from his raply to Mr..
Chandler that he vail seek some
more reputable method Of reach
|ing the public thap thEopgh silittle
Billy
IHE DIaRAEqHEs.
10 Major n. A. Eurke. New Orleans:
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State, State University, and Agri-
cultural and mechanical College
libraries; amending act incorpo-
rating Lake Providence; author
ing police jury of st. Landry to
levy annual tax of l41a mills.
HOUSE.
Bills passed: relative to evil
dence in criminal cases; to author
.ize Governor to appoint two addi-
tional police jurorsin Bossier par
ish;; to create an additional Justice
of the peace in Oaddo parish !; rela-
tive to registration of voters; to
amend the game law.
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The same paper either has the
advertising patronage of all the
good people in Franklin, or don't
think it worth asking for, for it
says
"Hasten sinner to be wise,
Come forth now and advertise
In the Franklin Enterprise"
The Denaldsonville Chief fairly
earned the championship Fast
week, for amount and variety OF
editorial matter.
The Attakapas Register says
if the members of the Return
ing Board are convicted, Gov.
Nichols will pardon them, and then
the Bourbon democrats, under the
lead of Lit. Gov. Witt, will secure
the Governors impeachment. If
the Returning Boarders are con-
victed, anderson is already, Gov.
Nichols will not pardon them, and
he will not be impeached.
The Washington Enterprise says
the steamboat Lessie Taylor struck
a tree in the Atchafalaya river, on
Sunday the Sd inst, at S q. M,
while on her way to New Orleans,
and in five minutes sunk In seventy
feet of water. A oolored woman
and heriinfant child, and four roust-
abouts, were drowned. The pas
sengers, and the rest of the crew
were saved, but all baggage was
lost. Only few days previously
the same boat was wrecked, at the
New Orleans levee, by an ezplo-
sion of her boiler.
The Rapides Gazette is down
on circus advertisers, and agents"
who want much space for little
money. There is no doubt the
country press is shamefully i'm
posed ON in the matter of adyer-E
tisements from abroad.
Several papers in different parts
of the State, noticing the death at
Lake Charles, Jan. 1. 1878, of
Thomas Mullett, pay a high tribate
to the many excellent qualities of
the deceased.
The Rapides Gazette says if aI
fire were started in Alexandria or
Pineville, under favorable ,condi-S
tons, the inhabitants could do
nothing but &c, out of the way till
the town was burned, and then go
back and build another. Where
fore it urges the necessity of eau
tion, and the purchase of afre
boat well supplied with hose.
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LouisianaEII legislature.
UNSATISFACTORY DAY. Feb. 4, 1878

/ Message from the Governor an
nouncing his signature to sundry
acts, of no importance!in this Sec
tion, except one, viz, an act to
regulate the terms of the District
Court of tCalcasieu. eve ander-
stand it fixes the spring term for
| the irst Monday of April,)
1 HOUSE.
( Joint resolution adopted, favor
ing passage of bill before Congress
to establish a new 10. IS. District
Ceurtlin Louisiana.
Waterworks bill passed. The
bill to repeal the Louisiana State
Lottery act was indefinitely post
poned. '(Sorry to hear it. The best
interests Of the.State. demanded its
repeal)
OVERWHELMED DAY, Feb. 2, 1878.
SENATE.
Bills passed: to regulate terms
of Distric6t Court, Fourth Judicial
District; to require police juries to
investigate indebtedness of par
ishes prior to 1878, and to provide
for payment of same for relief of
20. LEI. Moore.
Bills passed /: to amend section
474 Revised Statutes; to require.
officers to give bond, take the oath
of Office, ETC.; to provide, by suits,
for test of sufficiency of sureties on
official bonds; for relief of Charles
tGayarre; relative to municipal
taxation in Bastrop.
.TwEETy-FoURTH DAY, Feb. 4, 1873. I
SENATE.
No bills passed.
HOUSE.
Senate Joint resolution in favor
of the Bland silver bill, before
Congress, adopted. Bills passed /:
to fill vacancies in Office of Justice
of the peace relative to records of
District Courts abolished: to re-
peal act requiring evidence of pay
ment of taxes before passing no.
'tarial acts of sale; to incorporate
Attakapas College, and Crescent
City Fire Company of New Or
leans /; to amend act relative to re-
corder's courts in New Orleans
relative to registration of voters
authorizing T. G. w. Ellis to sue
the State.
DAY, Feb. 6, 1873.
SENATE.
Bills passed: authorizing Gov
ernor to appoint a commissioner
to visit and oenfer with authorities
of Arkansas, relative to formation
Of o !levse district for relief of Ju-1
liam FL. Levy. i
HOUSE.
Joint resolution adopted for APP
pointment of q committee to make
an superintendent of the State, re-
ancing the number of senators
and representatives. 4
Bills passed: making an appro-
priation to pay first quarter OIL,
salaries of constitutional officers
Tor 1873; police t(New Orleans)
bill.
TwENTT-sIxTH DAY, Feb. 6, 1878.
SENATE.
Bills passed: to dispense with
preliminary examinations in mis-
lemeanors; (a good law q joint.
resolution instrncting the Chief
state Engineer 10 report as soon
'sIpracticablethe amount rseairsd
q place the Capitol at Baton
Rouge in good order.
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What the Papers Say.

the Louisiana State LOTTERY Com
pany with buying republican
and democratic members of tn,
present State Legislature tx
vote for the bill proposing certain
amendments to the State constitu
ton, and against any measure
providing for the call of a ,cOnsti
tutional convention. 1T says the
lottery company always has con.
trolled the Legislature, and now
threatens to organize a new po-
litical party if its demands IRE moi
complied with. These are toe
serious charges to be pigeon
holed, and if true the people have
q right to know tho names of their
unfaithful servants in the Legisla-
ture, in order that they may have
an opportunity at the election next
fall, to try conclusions with this
great monopoly, and see if it is
really stronger than the true de-
mocracy of Louisiana. 1t is q sig
nifcant fact, right here, that few
days ago q motion to postpone
indefinitely bill to repeal the
charter of the lottery company,
was carried by a largo majority !;
nearly all the republican, and a
great muny democratic, represent
atives, voting in favor of the mo-
.tion.
The st. Landry Democrat says
that iOpelousas has two converts,
and eight schools. The same pa
per says that parish has 10000
children entitled to attend public
The tOpelousas Courier says, in
substance, what ,we said two weeks
ago, in our report of the proceed
ings of the State Legislature,
about Senator Robertson's bill to-
restrict" the police jury of st.
Landry in the matter of Ilevying'
parish taxes.
The (Eaton Rouge Weekly Ad-I
vocate tcommsnds democratic rule,
by saying that the cost of carrying
on its city government last year
was less than at any time for
twenty years previous. The same
paper, however, complains that
the public roads ofthat parish are
in terribly bad condition. We
are pleased to know that the Adj
vocate is about to issue q daily
edition. IL is one of our best ooun-
try exchanges.
The (Abbeville) Meridional som-
plains of the bad roads in Yer
million parish. It's . good time
for bad roads, neighbor.
The Pioneer of Assumption, in
an editorial. over . column long
on the question Of q future state
81 punishment, intimatas il Is best
to contend there is such o state,
but tails TO say whstheriit believes
there is one or not.
The Franklin at. Mary's) En-
terpriss, quoting from the Dan
bury News Lydia Thompson is
worth 4 quarter Of million Of dol
lars says slSo mpch fer dressing
economically Which is heavy
on The queen Of the opera boufs.
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BURKE's REPLY.

BURKE's REPLY.
To the above the following n
ply was given:
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 20. a87S
To w. e. Chandler, Washington d,i,,.
Before considering the spbjsc.
matter of . telegram received fIn
day, signed w. e. Chandler, / Il.
sire to ask if the author il tbe
Chandler who, as Assistant Sscw.
tary of the Treasury, travelling tls
South in 1866, corruptly partci.
pated i'm the spoil gathered ~ su.
pervising treasury agents engaged
in robbing their Government and
in defrauding the distressed psspls
of this and adjacent States2
Is it the Chandler who, 40 Sac.
Rotary of the Republican Nationd
Committee, with certain Republic
ans from LoRisiana, at . cc.fer-
enes or conferences at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, concsru-
ing Louisiana affairs, about Oclo-
Der, 1872, secretly and corrapty
eonspired 10 take advantage Of tho
absence from Louisiana Of ths
Governor thereof, TO ASSEMBLE ss-
cretly the Legislature, impsseh
the Governor, seize the Govern
mentand assits machinery to carry
tho election Of 1879?
il it the Chandler who esrnsa
and received q fee from Kelleggof
three Thousand dollars 10 1878 and
the eneonium, "You had done
more for him than any one excspt
Attorney General Williams" in
maintaining his foul end impiOss
nsurpation ofthe office of Governor
of this State?
lis it the Chandler who eneour-
aged, abetted and eonspirsd with
iDfamous allies ia this city - rep
$4,000 citizens of New Orleaus Of
their franchise and drag them bs-
fore the Federal courts on or abouf
the day of the late election; who,
in November, 1876, by telegraph
guaranteed kellogg that tho whole
power of the Governmept would
sustain the Returning Board "
counting the vote Of LIouisians -.
the Republiean candidate, 60
then hastened to Elorids to na-
nipulate the frauds Of that 6tafS
count I?
Is it the Chandler who 49, q
late been vainly seeking II etF ap
the hell broth Of sectional he1a
and foul bis p0itical ned, 70 the
disgust of decent citizens MOI
and South?
II yea, permit me to ~ ~ \!
the inquisitorial powers n pelel'
cal tramps Terminated IA Meel@
last. Such persons ere sabjsak
OF inquisitien.
If Ray, the impertinspt te!aeEe
shall nave anOh copsideIatiop -
it deserves. ~. IA. BURK
When . man threeteps ~ H
Won OF IN uo,.v nxwn ,fnsn 1asese
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Referring to dsnials !, .
published interview If r ani!y
have the honor rsspsctfulisv s |
You this question: Were ~
the representative OF the NM =
Government, with other Eo,s lOA
men, and Messrs. STANLEY T NV !
ews, John Sherman, Charlsss s y
ter and James A. Garfield, II ~
any OF them, and other NJ. n =
men, present at q Gomez
conferences at Wormleys ~ +
in Wash.9gton, about Fsbrn.s.' !!
last, concerning Ilouisiana a "A. =
If 30, was any written rs.'
whether signed or unsicned
whether with or withont - saQ
affixed as Witnesses of ia 60 49, !,
ness, made then or subsaors.'.l y
embodying or pnrportinr 4 ~
the whole or any part of sny -. -
ment, understanding or ints ss;ss'
resulting from such oonferep,s' 's !.
conferences, concerning IL .;s;.s !.
affairs, or concerning the PaeI..s
or the Nichols Government )
the Federal troops in New Orless =
Ii SO, have you now, or haye - ~
ever had that paper, or 1 ~ ~
thereof? Is it in existenc, III e
where is it now? If NOT. VII,
where and by whom WAS u ~
troyed; and will yon or not msL,
it or . copy of 1T public, If Won ha,,
FTP w. E. CHANprrp
Dated the 28th January.
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The Latest imporssnt ipEepF'e
- that Of glass type.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-02-15
CHANCERY SALE.

In pursuance and by virtue of decree in the
Circuit Court for the county OF Van Buren,, In
Chancery, in the state of Michigan, made on
the 28th day Of August, 1877, in q cause therein
pending wherein Eben @. Beach is complainant
and John w Reynolds, Franklin b Adams, Lu-
cinda Adams, CHARLES ID. Lawton, Anson H.
Hathaway and Experience Hathaway are de-
fendants. Notice Is hereby given that shall
sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, at
the front door Of the Court House, in the VII
lage of Paw Paw, In said county and state, at
three o'clock in the afternoon, on the I'd day OF
April. A. ID. 1878, all the following described
lands, situated and being in the county of Van
Buren, in the state OF Michigan, viz: The west
part Of the south west fractional quarter OF
section ten (10) in town four (4) south of range
thirteen IS west, being sixty acres OF land
Also the north west quarter of the north west
quarter Of section fifteen In town four 4 south
OF range thirteen IS west, except school house
grounds IN north west corner OF.
Dated February 14th. 1873.
1857 JOHN KNOWLES,
Circuit Court Commissioner.
JOHN d. CoNELY, Complt's Sol'r.
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MORTGAGE SALE.

Default having been made in the payment
of a certain indentuIe OF mortgage, bearing
date the twentieth day OF January, A ID 1874,
executed by William Ulrey and his wife Nancy
Ulrey, OF Van Buren, county, state OF Michigan.
to William II Hawkins OF the same place, and
recorded in the Office OF the Register OF Deeds
and Mortgages of Van Buren, county, state of
Michigan, in liber No of mortgages on page
No 634, on the Goth day OF January, A ID 1874 ;
and the amount claimed to be due thereon at
the date OF this notice being one hundred and
fifty one and 70-100 dollars (S151 70) including
an attorney fee of twenty five dollars provided
for in SAID mortgage, and no suit at law or in
equity having been instituted to recover the
amount now due and unpaid or any part there
of, Now notice is hereby given that by power
OF sale contained in said mortgage there will be
sold at public auction to the highest bidder on
Saturday, the twentieth day OF April, A ID 1873
at the front door OF the Court House in the
village OF Paw Paw, in Van Buren, county, state
OF Michigan, at twelve o'clock at noon or said
day the premises described in said mortgage or
so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy
the amount due on said mortgage with interest
and cost; said premises being described as fol-
lows, to-wit A strip of land on the south side
OF the south half OF the south west quarter OF
section thirty, in town two south, OF range fif-
teen west, in Van Buren county, state OF Mich
igan bounded on the west by the town line, on
the south by the south line of said section 80,
on the east by land owned by S Stoddard and
on the north by land owned by T. Drake. the
said described land to contain eighteen acress.
Dated January sd, 1878. 1192t13
WM. Il. HAWKINS, Mortgage.
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CHANCERY SALE.

Notice is hereby gwen that IN pursuance and
by virtue OF a decree III the Circuit Court for
the county OF Van Buren IN the state OF Michi-
gan, In Chancery, made on the Sth day OF No.
vember, one thousand eight hundred and sew
enty seven, in cause therein pending wherein
Nancy Hill is complainant and Benjamin r.
Shively, Homer II. Hill and Joel Giles are de-
PENDANTS, shall sell at public auction or VEN
due, at the front door Of the Van Buren, county
Circuit Court House In the village OF Paw Paw
in said county and state to the highest bidder,
on Saturday. the thrheth day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy eight, at
twelve o'clock noon, the following described
lands and tenements, or so much thereof as
shall be necessary TO satisfy said decree, with
interest and costs to-wit parcel OF land IN
the west half Of the north east quarter OF sec
ton fourteen in town three south OF range
fourteen west, in said county Of Van Buren,
Michigan, commencing at the angle in the Paw
Paw and Decatur highway at or near the north
east corner OF the suth west quarter OF the
north east quarter OF said section number four
teen thence south on the east line OF said sec-
ton seven chains and seventy four links,
(S 0o 40' W) thence westerly. parallel with d.
vision lines OF said section IN SO 15W) seven
chains and seventy four Inks to the center OF
said highway, thence north forty five degrees
and forty minutes east On AS 40 Ed along the
center OF SAID highway ten chains and tgeuty
two links to tho place og beginning, containing
three acres Of land.
Dated February 18th. 1878.
1857 JOHN j. SHERMAN,
Circuit Court Commissioner.
JOHN KNOWLES, Atty for plaintiff.
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CUANCERY SALE.

In pursuance and by virtue OF a decree IN the
Circuit Court for The oountyof Van Buren, In
Cbanccrv. in the state OF Michigan, made on
the 9Th day OF November, j 1877, in cause
therein pending wherein Carl Comentz is COM
nIainant and John Crogal and Henrietta Crogal
arc defendants, Notice IS hereby given that /
shall sell at public auction, 10 the highest bid
der. at the front door OF the Court House. in
the village OF Paw Paw, in SAID county and state,
at ten o'clock IN the forenoon on the 3Jth day
of March. 1878. the following described real es-
fate. to-wit: All that piece or parcel OF land
in the county OF Van Buren, and state OF Michl-
gan known and described as the north half Of
the north west fractional quarter OF section
thirty one (31) in township one CD south OF
range sixteen Q6) west. containing sixty two
acres OF land.
Dated Feby 12, 1873.
1857 JOHN hNOM LES,
Circuit Court Com'r Van Buren Co., Mich.
RICHARDS & MILLS, Complt's Sol'rs.
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MORTGAGE SALE.

The sum OF one hundred and seventeen dol
lars and fifty cents is claimed to be due at the
date OF this notice on mortgage dated Novem-
ber 22d, 1876, made by Silas A. Cole and Mari
ette Cole, his then wife, to Mary A. Garfield,
and recorded on the twenty third day OF
November. 1876, in the Office OF the Register OF
Deeds of Van Buren, county, Michigan, in hber
20 OF mortgages, on page 2. Pursuant to the
power Of sale contained in said mortgage. the
promises therein described substantially as the
west half of the east half OF the north east
quarter Of section twenty nine, town one
south, range thirteen west, Van Buren, county
aforesaid, containing forty acres, will be sold
at the front door Of the Court House. in the
village Of Paw Paw In said county, on Wednes-
day, the 9th day Of February, 1878, at IL o'clock
noon, to satisfy the amount due on said mort
gage, together with the attorney fee OF fifty
dollars mentioned In said mortgage and other
costs Of foreclosure. 1lSltl3
Dated November 8, 1877.
MARY A. CANFIELD, Mortgage.
CLAPP & FYFE, Att'ys for Mortgage.