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The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02


Our RAILRoAD.--The prospects
of this great enterprise contiune
about the same. The lake and
swamp piling is aearly completed,
and the bridge across Caleasieu
river progresses rapidly Track
laying is done as East as the rails
can be received from the mouth OF
the river. We are informed that
three pile drivers are werking
steadily ON the Sabine, putting
down from sixty to seventy piles
per day.
A strike Cor higher wages occur
red Yesterday jim one small gang Of
read hands. They were paid OF.
Asthis affects only the track laying,
and as the supply OF rails aS this
point is abeut exhausted, Mr. Ad-
anus assures AIS that the strike is not
altogether iaepportune.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02

UNION SUNDAY SCHOOL. Attendance
last Sunday: Officers, 3; teachers, 4;
scholars, 30; visitors. 8: total, 46.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02

Schott's Chill and Fever Anti
eaote is advertised in our columns
rllis week. 1t is to be had at Mum
day & Landry's Drug Store.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02

Read notice of Sheraff7s sale I'm
another c0lQrmn.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02

Two railroad har4ds, John Muir
Eshy and - Curry, died at the
rairoad camp, near Lake Charles,
ahis week.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02
SHORT STOPS

For cheap goods go to j. w.
Bryan & Co.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02

Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy
Tobacco.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02
STOP A MOMENT!

T HAVE just opened in Lake Charles,
i on Pujo Street, nearly opposite Mey-
er's Drug Store.
NEW BAKERY, CONFECTIONERY,
AND
Family Grocery Store.
Families, Sailing Vessels and Steam
boats supplied daily with fresh bread
] will keep none but the very best
Confectionery and Choice Family Gro
ceries, and with full supplies, low prices.
and careful attention to all orders, I
hope to receive liberal patronage.
VIM. G. FRICKE.
Nov. 30, I678.-tf
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02

II HAVE opened q bntcher-shop at
i West Lake Charles, near the store
OF A, .. Perkins, and am selling beef
and natton daily.
ARNOLD SMITH.
July IL, 1879 At.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02

Guaranteed TO cure any case of Chills and
Fever il Directions are followed.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02

The town of Lake Charles has
declared quarantine against New
Orleans, and other infected places.
The regulations cut off all eommu-
aiication with the east, except by
telegraph, aud aal travel from that
direction is interrupted. We would
request our friends along the inter
slicted mail routes to forward CON-
launieations by the way of more
noltherly routes, and we will, after
a little delay, receive them Through
sttr nnthern or western mails, as
these routes are still open and will
probably continue SO.
The Lake Charles echo., 1879-08-02

James Bryant care schooner Daniel Coos.
Walter jennings. care schr. Caroline.
Tn. lockwood, care schr. Daniel Gees.
ID. III. REESE, Postmaster.
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county, Pa, found true hill against the
traveller last winter for abscOn-
ing without settling Il little bill at hotel III
Easton He enjoyed the hospitalities Of the
Northampton County Boarding House at
Easton, Pa. until Wednesday last, the 10th
inst. when he was liberated He then went
to New York to meet his sister. People
were at first divided in opinion whether to
class him rs an impostor or iunatic.
STANCE FIN
81 made the firms happy for little while
with my big purchases, said he, with a
laugh, land they overwhelmed me with
which ! appreciated. As TO my
drafts that came back, they did some poor
devils of notaries good, for you know it
costs II dollar To protest II draft, and kept
them pretty busy. | tell You it was fun, |
had $50 or $40 when | started out on the
18th Of August. and found did not want
much money. Those fellows took care of II
good customer like me- asked nobody for
money. They took me to their houses or to
hotels, and, of course | left them to settle
the bills. went for none but the largest
concerns" lie regarded his course of I'M
posture as ahuge joke.
He is represented as Il most persistent
reader, and remembers everything he reads.
Without college education or regular train
ing of any sort he has been able to impose
himself on learned men as II scholar, on
scientific men as scientist, on professional
men as an expert and on business men as a
man of business His gift" of $1,000 to
LAFAYETTE College after being Hospitality en-
tertaincd by the faculty he refers to with
great relish, as proving his powers of deccp-
ton lie is, doubtless, insane, hut there is
so much method in his madness" that he is
invariably turned loose after detention fol
some time, and then begins again his curious
career of imposition.
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France.

THE Observation-Disclosures JEROME ACCEPTS
THE POSITION OF HEAD OF THE BoSAPARTE
DYNASTY.
LONDON, July lS.-A Paris despatch states
that delegation of Bonapartists from Mar
settles, Lyons and other cities of southern
France, to-day waited on Prince Jerome
Napoleon. They presented him with an adj
dress accepting him a the legal head of the
Bonapartist family and as the rightful lead
er of the imperial party. The prince made
an address which had evidently been care
fully studied and prepared. He declared
himself the head of the Bonapartist party
and dynasty This he said was by no act of
his own. 1t was simply result of the
rules of succession established by Napoleon
First and now brought to bear in his own
case by the deathof the late Prince Imperial.
As the head OF the family and of the
dynasty lie would know how to fulfill his du-
ties and he trusted in the end that the YER
dict of posterity would be that he had dis
charged them well and faithfully. But, he
continued must be allowed TO choose my
own time in all my actions and TO await the
course of events. The republic is AT present
by right the legal government of the country
and so long as its administrators preserve the
confidence of the people by peacesble and
legal means it is the duty of Frenchmen to
support it, As chief of the Bonapartist fam
lily, emphatically oppose and discounten-
ance every intrigue which may be set on foot
for the purpose of placing the Bonapartists
in a position inconsistent with their origin,
duties and their cause The address was
received with many expressions OF approba-
tion. The prince entertained the delegates
and conversed with them informally upon
the prospects of the party
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The Conviction Of Buford.

The conviction of Colonel Buford, the
assassin of Judge Elliott of the Kentucky
Court of Appeals, and his sentence to im-
prisonment for life, will be received with sur
prise by the great public, which was unques-
tionably expecting his acquittal. The result
of the trial may be accepted as proof that the
Southerners are beginning to realize in some
measure the damage which is done to every
interest in their section, by the lawlessness
and disregard of human life which charac-
terize SO many Southern communities. lhe
result may be taken as an indication that
there are limits to the shotgun policy IN
Kentucky-and that when the victim Is Il
prominent Democrat and Judge on the
bench, the murderer may stand chance to
be shut up within stone walls.
Buford was man of most violent temper
II has been said of him that she knocked
down and stamped on somebody about every
month of his life. and that he considered
that all who offended him deserved bullet.
Thirty years ago, differing with his brother
as to the settlement of his fathers estate, he
shot ut him on the street, and the brother
returned the shot, but friends pre-
vented them from killing each other
Having COW run over on the Lexington
Railroad he stood on the track with his
shotgun, stopped passenger train and re-
fused to let it proceed till the passengers had
taken up a collection and paid him Tor ms
cow. A decision by Judges Elliott ano
Cofer, of civil case against Buford's sister
was his sole reason for the ASSASSINATION
of the former, and for an attempt to shoo
the other Judge. The only defence set W
on his trial was insanity; but it seems th'
Jury thought there was altogether to mucl
method in his madness to admit the plea
Buford, being of a leading family IN MI
section, is not sentenced to he hung; but IL
he imprisoned for1ife, and while the sentence
remains in force, peaceable people will prob
| ably breathe frccr in Owenton, Ky.
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NOTES AND NOTES.

The New Haven Register. listening TO Inc
s'yoices of nature" notes that green corn Is
little husky.
A Haclman's Moderate Charging Society,
with main office al Niagara Falls, is talked
of in some Of cities Z. ;. 1t isn't talked
of by the hackmen.
"f Won don't know you had better go home
and read your Bible" said Maine Green
hack orator who had been calling Secretary
Sherman "a Shylock" TO an auditor who in
ouired what Shylock might he.
Ex-Governor Prescott of New Hampshire
has turned his well-known antiquarian tastes
TO the service of the State by securing por-
traits of all of her thrly-six governors to
adorn the walls of the executive chamber al
Concord.
Capt. Paul Boyton comtempiales marriage
He will probably introduce something no"
in the way of wedding tours bv floating MY
miles or SO down the Ohio river with M
wife. The bride would ware watered SILK,
of course. -N0rTistOaon Herald
..Booys prefer, for when not To my MUD
/ shut them up; not with Humankind
'""' ''' " r Cdntiey's Bntbtems.
General Joe Johnston is five feet teh inche:
biph He is slim, with a big round head;
short. broad nose; thick lips, broad fore
head, deep gray eyes. General Johnston DC
Eeyes that the first verse of the Bible say
that in the beginning God created the heaven
and the South.-N Y. Herald.
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Spelling.

The reform of English photography makes
slow pro.ress, in spite of jealous and distin-
gushed advocacy Professor Max Nulers
name now stands side by side with that of
Professor Whitney of Yale College, at the
head of the list of vice presidents of the
Spelling Reform Association, of which Dr.
Francis A. March of Lafayette College is the
president. ''The spelling reform, says MIR.
Dewey, the indefatgable secretary, has
been gaining steadily during the past year,
and will be represented as branch OF the
National Educational Association of Phila-
delphia" at the close of the present month.
The American Pathological Association at
Newport last week gave its sanction to re-
port of progress made by the committee on
that subject appointed three years ago. This
committee, composed of Yale, Harvard and
other college professors, reported atthey had
adopted certain changes for immediate use
making these as it were, the base for future
operations, such as ar, catalog, detna, gard,
giu, liz, har, infnt tho, thru, and toisht
The rules recommended for simplifying the
spelling of many words are these:
Omit from the digraf ca when pro-
nounced as e-short, as in he'd, helth, etc
Omit silent after short vowel, rs in
hav, Civ, etc 3-Write + for phi in such
words as alfabet, fantom, etc. 4.-When a
word ends with double letter, omit the
last. as in shal, elf, eg, etc. Change ed
Anal IN where IL has the sound of l. as in
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POLITICAL.

WISCONSIN, STATE EEPUBLICAN NoNIEATIoHs.
MADISON, Wis, July 2S.-In the conyen-
ton to-day Gov William f. Smith was
nominated for reelection. The other state
officers were re nominated by acclamation,
as follows: for Lieut.. Gov, Jas. VI. Bing-
ham; for Sec. Of State, Hans B. Warner
for Treas, Richard Guenther; for Atty.
Gen, Alex Wilson; for Supt. of Public In
struction, VIM G. Whiteford
PESNSYIviNIA EEPTBLICASS-TnEIR PLAT
FORM.
lIAERIsBrEG, Pa, July 23.-In the con
vention, to-day Samuel Butler, Of Chester,
was nominated for State Treasurer. The
following is an abstract of the platform
which the convention adopted THE first
resolution accepts the issue made by the Con-
federates in Congress, and pledges the party
to renewed struggle for federal unity, po-
litical freedom and national honor, and de-
clares for universal freedom, free suffrage
and honest elections. The second appeals to
the patriotic voters Of Pennsylvania to put
down the attempt, now openly proclaimed,
to subvert the national authority for the pur-
pose of building up the heresy of State SOW
ereignty. The third denounces the attempt
cd repeal Of the laws enacted to secure fair
elections ior members of Congress and
Presidential electors, and maintains
the constitutionality and necessity for
safeguards in these grea. struggles.
| The fourth denounces the failure and neg
lect Of tie democratic party to starve the
government into compliance with other
revolutionary schemes as deserving the stern
condemnation of every good citizen. The
fifth congratulates the country on re-
turning prosperity, resumption OF specie
payments and stable currency, and demand
that these inestimahle benefits be not dissi-
pated by empirical meddling and ignorant
legislation, and pronounces in favor of the
payment of the national debt in coin, accord
ing to the understanding between the gov
enment and the lender, and of paper cur
renoy redoemable in coin. The sixth pro-
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in ,,1;o.,;,,,, ,ror,-,,i,,os Of a., or,,;no,o do
ror,n,so s ,,o ,,,,-o-,,,.,a,,, r,o.,s,ha hoor,,,
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sol;, Nh u,;u -, ,ho,,, .oa.5,- ro,;af
from tho tyranny ., q solid south The
ninth doo,oroo ,h., tho T,;,od S,a,os of
America is , nation and not n league Its
| !, - i, :: -.
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News by Telegraph.
END OF THE cox MURDER TRIAL.


SUMMARY JUsTIC Cox FOUND GUILTY AND
SENTENCED To BE HUNG.
NEW York, July l..-ln the Chastine COX
trial after arguments on both sides, the
Judge charged the jury. The counsel for the
prisoner excepted to several portions OF the
charge. The case was then given to the
jury In about an hour the jury came into
court. and at once all was hustle and excite
ment Then followed II solemn silence as
the Jurors tool. their seats. The foreman in
response To the clerks questions announced
that the verdict was guilty of murder
in the first degree. A low muir
muir ran through the dcnsely crowded
court at the announcement. The prisoner
appeared utterly unmoved but his face
blanched II little when tie verdict was an
nounced. The jury was then poiled. The
prisoner when asked what he had to say,
why sentence of the death should not be
passed upon him, answered he had nothing
to say. Judge Cowing then sentenced Cox
to he hanged at the Tombs on August 90.
The prisoner was then taken tothe TOmbs by
\ the sheriff. followed by Il large crowd
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SOME statistics relating 10 marriages in
New York city, recently published in the
New York Hertld. make interesting reveal
lions Of the men who married during the
years 1874, 1878 and 1873, the proportion of
Americans was oncfiflh more than the pro-
portion of the American population to the
whole. While the Germans constitute but
one-sixih of the population, the proportion
of German adults married was over one-third.
One fifth of the population is Irish but only
one-tenth Of the bridegrooms were Irishmen.
In the year 1870 one-fifth Of the men born in
this country who married were united TO
women not born in the country One-third
of the German bridcgrooms married women
of another nationality One fourth of the
Irish grooms married women of another na-
tionality. The proportion Of brides who were
united TO husbands Of another race than
their own is about the same. These Stats
tics show that the process OF amalgamation
of the various races Of our composite popu-
lation is going on rapidly. 1t appears, also,
that German fathers, the race that shows
most disposition ia contract marriages out
side of their own nationality, have the largest
families. Although the number of married
Germans is less than the number of married
Irishmen, the former have twice as many
children as the latter. In these calculations
those born in this country of parents born
abroad are classed as Americans
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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY %, 1879.

and contain IA green cUlorine substance.
While these plants are growing they are per
fcctly harmless, and give no taste to the
water. Light and a certain degree of tenn
perature are necessary for their existence,
and if they become detached and
find their way into the mains,
then they commence 10 decay. 1t is this
cause that makes the water when drawn
from the faucet taste disagreeable. while that
contained in the reservoir is tasteless. As re
cards its effect upon health the distinguished
professor says that there is n total lack of
sufficient data to enable him to form an
opinion. He quotes DIR. James X. Chiffon
Of New York who wrote Of the Croton water
when similarly affected: "lbelieve the plant
which We lind in the water and which gives
it the peculiar taste, To be of n perfectly
harmless character, and the wholesomeness OF
the water has not been impaired in the
least degree. drank freely of it when ut its
worst, and also partook of the green matter
in its concentrated state without experience
ing any effects whatever" The professor
suggests remedial measures, but AS my letter
is unusually long will refer to them in the
future
D,t<r
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through the edge OF Canada while one
with no heart in the movement, but lore
seeing its triumph and hankering Tor the
loaves and fishes of Office on special mani
festation of patriotism, was heard to growl;
"Shut your clack about the id niggers anu
temperance" No one then present can ever
forget with what whole souled JUNCTION Gen
Walton uttered himself in one of the Mont
pelier May meetings: There seems 10 De
nothing left Of me but Liberty and temper
aace." 1t must be said with all due respect
to Col Hopkins that nothing like justice has
been done the moral sentiment and religious
spirit of the Convention of July. You re-
collect if was n mass. not delegate meet
ing that the old abolitionsts andtemperance
men. in the persons of ministers, elders and
dcucons of all the Christian bodies OF
the State. were on the floor, that
Mr. Brainerd. the nominal President, made
You the actual one, in Difference to your skill
in such matters; and how the real represent
atives of the people sang, preached anu
prayed in that gathering, so that the profess
sional politicians, fitting about the lohnleS
ike ghosts, were trembling like aspen leaves
with doubt and fear as to what all tins might
come to: how like scathing thunder anu inc
whisling of grape and shell on Inc
battle field, j. s. Adams read the resoiutiohs'
and how Hon. DR. Powers stringent prohlpi-
ton plank met with but single negative
voice in that vast concourse of yeomanry.
You also remember with what gravity,
even solemnity of manner, and yet viii
what determined countenances those repre-
scn,atiycs and successors of Allen and War
ner returned 10 their homes after the vows
and conservation of that memorable day
Being secretary of the convention ana mem
Der of the platform committee, l was SO stu
atcd rs to take cognizance of all this ant
much more, nor will the remembrance evel
fade. 1t deserves to be said that some OF INT
stalwart patriots of that convention have
since sealed the covenant then made viii
their blood.
Trusting that the fires of Repubhcanisn
will ever burn brightly upon your mountains
those natural Businesses of liberty-ant
that all movements will, in our present grea
national emergency, tend effectually t
cement solid North"
am truly yours,
G. c. SAMPSON.
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hundred, in the election of 1876, to Ills IN
Connecticut, TO As in his own State, To Id
in New Jersey. But he could not destroy the
proof that this reduction was fraudulent, that
his reported vote could mot possibly have
been cast, that he who has most bitterly ac-
cused the opposite party of cheating him OF
the Presidency, would not, if the election
had been honest, have come within one
hundred electoral votes of the Office Tor
which he worked so desperately.
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pev C,v T. Samnson now of HYDE Park.
III was formerly editor of the Burlington
Govr;er a Liberty Party or Free Soil. and
Temnerance paper published here some
thirty wears ago Having noticed some of
tho rem;r;scences of the formation of the
Renubl;csn Marty in Vermont recently pub
T.hod Mr. sar,nson xr;,es IN our toynsman
H., na,;ol pohor+s IT, n. soma of his
o,,,, r.co,,ec,;ors of ,hat interesting and i'm.
ror,a,, nor;o, in our nol;,;coI history as
foro,rs.
Hymn III Jplv 10 1879
H., n.,;oJ pohe-,s.
no.r S;r tn. or;g;n of the Re
n,b,;c,, Marty If Vernon, was snou,a-
-. 49,, ;,,JJ.,, os similar mova-
o,,,, :, ,,,,,or o,,,ss ,,,. other m.u 81. ,houpb
,h,.o s,,,e, and mo, had meyer existed But
v.-,,o,, ,r.s M, ,I,,. !, this s,op,aneitv
,d;,Jo,.,d.,c. N;chi,,,n Massachusetts
I,r;.o;s w;s,,n.in anil o,ber s,,tes ulIv
IT,, ,, cam. ..N..essi,v know. no
-, ,,,,o IF - ,nahs. ,aw.rd
-, ,,.. o,n,r p, ;,ren,;on Va. ,he
nec...i,v Of s.v;n, TN. country from the
..oi,,,,,, ot Al. and ,h, .,,.,d,,,
,,;. ,od cha poo,,iio., ror,v IN. game
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80. ., ,ho pon,,J;c :, seyer,I of III .
t- I, -. o,,,L nor rrac,i
oat,.. o. ,,;vo ali a., r.u.. and stems ON
,Io,,,.i =, ,or,,;,,, ,h;. Marty in V.rmon,
81 IA u,.; Lotto. o,;.a from,
,ha pos,on Io,rna, into your P,rr ppvss of
,ho ,e,, n, ,;,os 0o,o. Of them I'm, b;s
,;.,; .. ,,,,,,,. avian, shou,d IN, ann
r., WA, ,,- ,,,,,, ,h,, ,,or,oo Of Lou,
-. p-.;n.r1 Con w.,,o, ex Gov
ru.,o,a, IT, p;,,rr, { .d,mo + n
Ro-h.r Dr powers and = + Merrill
daserve = n,ace in the history while many
o,hors -. Uo, II n Stacy Hon VIM
woo,o, ond oon.ci.uv prof q w Rene
dio, sbar,, M, be om;,,.d
In F.b-,arv ~ whom IN. "Kansas- Ne
bras,,, v;llsinvr xvas rife and natriotic indig
nation prevailed in the State, the writer of
this, on feeling the public pulse at Burling-
ton Montpelier and 81. Albaps. proposed in
the Vermont T'r;bua, at the latter place the
formation of -. marty of nj, readv IN onpose
the extension of slavery The Whip and
Free So;I naners cxcep, the Fre,v.aa took
the nronos,l and pushed it vigorously.
From Fcbruarv 10 Julv several important
and SONG hard work interviewed And here