The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-21

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The longest speech on record rs
believed to have been made by Mr.
De Cosmos, in tho Legislature OF
British Columbia, when n measure
was pending, the pasSageot winch
would have taken from great
many settlers their lands. DE Cos
mos. was in hopeless minority.
This lob had been held back until
the eve of the close of the session.
Unless legislation WAS taken before
noon of the given day, the act OF
confisc,,tn,n would fail. The day
before the expiration OF the llmlta-
-tIon, De Cosmos got the floor about
10 a. M. and began speech
against the bill. Its friends cared
little, for they supposed that by l
or 2 o clock he would be through,
an, the bill could be put ON its
passage. One O'Clock came, and
De Cosmos was speaking STILL; be
hadn't more than entered upon his
subject. At two O'Clock he was
saying, "Iu the second place" At
three O'clock he produced Il fearful
bundle of evidence, and insisted on
reading it. The majority began to
have suspicion of the truth; he was
going to speak until the next noon
and kill the bill. For a whllethey
made merry over it. but Ms it came
to dusk they began to get alarmed.
They tried Interruptions, but soon
abandoned them, because each in
terruption afforded him chance
to digress aud gain time. They
tried to shout him down, but that
gave him a breathing space, and
finally they settled down to watch
the combat between strength of
will and weakness of body. They
gave him no mercy, no adjourn
ment for dinner, no ohunee'to mose
than wet his lips with water. no
wandering from the sui,pet no sit
IIting down. Twilight dnfkened, the
gas was lit, members slipped out
10 dluner III RELAYS ansi' retained to
sleep in son d.; but De Cosmos
Went on with his speech. The
speaker, tawhomhe was add essing
himself, was alternately aoZhg,
snoring aud trying to Iaok vide
awake. Day dawned, aud the ma
| ioritv slipped ont in squads 10
breakfast, and the speaker still
Iheld' al.- iii ctnnh be sad that 1t
was y very logical, .eieau-llt or sus-
tanned speech. There We're digres-
sions ia it. rep-titious also; hut
still the speaker kept On. AT last
noou c'lAle to u iafffed najatity,
iivid with rage and impctencn, aud
to II single man who wasirlumph-
ant, though his voice had sunk to
a husky whisper, his eyes were al
most shut, aud were b!earea and
Il,IoodsIiot; his legs itotseted under
thim. and his baked lips We're
cracked aud smeared with blood.
De Cosmos had spoken itweuty-siA
lihonrs, aud had saved the settlers
their lands.
/ MURDER -Ou Friday night, the
9th inst, Joseph Dupuy, a teacher
of q colored school, WAS killed on
the plantation Of Mr.. Zenon Brous-
.sard at Carancro, liz this parish,
lby two Young negroes Toussaiut
aud Jim, aged is and 20 Years. Ii
seems that they Welt to the mouse
of-the deceased about 81 O'Clock
p. NJ. aud called him out behind
IN clubhouse where they put in
their work. The weapon used was
a lknif,:; two wounds We're inflicted,
one in the left breast and another
liz the head just over the left ear,
causing ,deathiin about fifteen min
utes. The accused were appre-
hhandad the day following and
placed in Jail. The preliminary
examination will take place next
monday. 10th inst, when all the
facts relative thereto will be
Wrought orth.-I,afavette Adver-
tiser, 14th inst.
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