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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28
NEW ORLEANS CARDS.
ESTABLISHED 1922.
A. Baldwin Sc Co.

Successors. to Slocomb, Baldwin & Co.
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY,
Guns, Iron,
Steel, NAILS, CASTINGS,
Agricultural Implements, Paints. Oils,
Metals, Tinware. Railroad Sup
plies, Blacksmiths and
Carpenters Tools,
Etc, Etc.
AGENTS VI. s. METALLIC CARTRIDGE
COMPANY,
Remington Breech-loading Guns and
Rifles.
"a Canal and 81 & 95 Common Streets,
Adjoining City Hotel
New Orleans, La.
feb 81, 1878.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28

june n, 1879. If.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

When a proud man is rolling out an
ash barrel, horse car loaded with FASH
ionable ladies generally passes by.-Un-
Gle Sam.
The man who originated the saying
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, !"
meyer was chased by bull-dog.-Brad-
ford Era.
Japanese farms average about one
ever to hunt up the cows in the pasture.
New Haven Register
What a host of memories it brings up
to drag forth a last years white vest and
find dime snugly ensconced in one of
the pockets.-New York Express.
A correspondent asks: "What is a
bat?" A bat. my friend, is that part of
brick which will encorage your neigh
boris hens to vacate the bed of peas
which you have just planted.-Waterloo
Observer.
1t is now said by scientific authority
that sleep commences in the feet and eX-
tends to the head. Possibly the custom
of sitting with the feet toward the pull
pit may have something to do with it,
Turner's Falls Reporter.
Pennsylvania is busy trying to find
out the value the average legislator of
that state puts upon himself Thus far
it seems to be in the neighborhoOd of
$500, but most people seem to regard it
too high for common stock.
The weather continues very change
able in central New York. A few days
ago a man in that country was sunstrIick
right at the close of a snowstorm be-
cause he couldn't get his ulster off quick
enough.-Burlington Hawkeye.
Indignant father to his son, whose
picture has not even been skied at the
academy: YOU'RE a nice artist Here
you are 40 years old Christmas week,
and yet no picture of yours has ever
been received" but, sir,'-"Silence,
sir! Don't you presume to but, SIR
me! Sir, at your age Raphael had been
dead ten years."-French Newspaper.
If Congressman Lowe is just spelling
for fight he might grid up his warlike
loins and go out and give Sitting Bull
whirl. s. B. is not the man to refuse to
accommodate gentleman who is anx-
ious to shoot somebody, and his educa-
ton and civilization have raised him
just about to Congressman loves level,
so far as concerns the etiquette and prac-
tice of the due1.-Burlington Hawkeye.
Speaking of ACCORDION fiends and cor
net demons, we are reminded of guitar
affector whose good points should be
blaZoned forth in the broad light of day,
to offset the cruel crimes of the fiends
and demons aforesaid. 1t was the GUS
tom of this amible guitarist to carry
home on Saturday night a full set of
strings. Sunday morning he would be
up bright and early, take down his in
Strument fit il with strings and begin TO
tune" 1.-THE never played, he never
got so far as that. He would screw
away, until first one string, then another,
and possibly third, snapped with sud
den twang. Then would he arise calm
ly, put his guitar away until the next
Sabbath, when the programme would be
again repeated. Never did he attempt
to break the sacred silence of the secular
days with his thumming; never did he
play on Sunday he simply tuned" All,
he was rare One-BOston Transcript.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
CHURCH NOTES.

Leadville, Colorado, the newest mining
bonanza, already has Y. M. G. A.
The 23d, international convention OF
the Y. NJ G. A. will be held at Balti
more, May 1896.
Nine Congregational ministers, in the
last year, in England, have gone over to
the Church of England.
Rev. A. J. Faust, AN Episcopal cler
gyman of Washington, D. c., has entered
the Roman Catholic church.
The parish church at Holyhead, Wales
the foundations of which was laid in the
year $50, has been restored and reopened
The Nebraska state sunday school con
vention meets at Crete, May 1922; Mis-
souri,, at Moberly, May 27-29; Iowa, al
Warren City, June 1912.
The Reformed Episcopal church Of
Louisville, KY, consisting of about sc
members, has disbanded, after several
months of severe struggle with an in
debtedness it could not remove.
Rev. Edward Palmer, father of the
Rev. 3. M. Palmer, of New Orleans, is
still labOring in the Presbyterian pulpit
regularly, though he is 81 years old. His
home and church are at Barnwell, S. G.
Reporters of the English Church
Times recently visited the fifteen nation
al churches in Bethnel Green, London
and found that the actual total attend
ance is only 9O5, while there are accom-
modations for Il, 478, in district where
the population is 1884.
Dean James Smith, of Philadelphia
left to the American missionary associa
ton and the American home missionary
society, $4,000 each; American board
of missions, $4,000; American educa
ton society and the Congregations
union, 5000 each.
The Moravian denomination is agair
in prospecting condition in Bohemia
Austria, where it originated centurie.
ago, and from which it was entirely ex
PEELED. 1t is now tolerated by the Aus
train government. The mission will, i
is expected, be organized by the genera
Synod which meets in MAY.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
THE SAME OLD sIxPENCE.

The Republican gains in Indiana, in
dictated in our kilograms, show that the
people arc coming to the front again.
The sikh weeks of Democratic rule in
congress has plainly developed the aims
of the party, and the people are not blind
or deaf Some have called the acts of
the party compelling an extra session;
and the revolutionary measures, Demo
cratic blunders," when they are simply
legitimate offspring of the Confederate
and Democratic union. The people be
GIN to see the Democratic party is no
more to be trusted with the affairs of the
country now than before the war. 1t is
the same old states rights, "rule or ruin"
party it always has been, gaining no wis
dom from the startling historical events
of the last twenty years, and still plot
ting for the rule of the country by a
handful of southern aristocrats, aided by
northern doughfaces.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
CONSCIENTIOUS WITNESSES.
OIL City Derrick

The interest in the TaImage trial in
creases faster than interest on bank
note. In fact, it is expected the interest
will be compounded at last, or that the
trial will. Our New York reporter is
busy taking down the notes of the testi
mony, and his page presents the follow
ing appearance:
Mr.. Willard to Mr.. Bright, showing
witness a paper-"Who wrote that edi
torial ~
"What editorial ?"
THAT one my finger is on"
(Which finger 81
This finger on this editorIall'
"Yes.n
"What about it 81
"Who wrote it?'
''The finger 81
mo the EDITORIAL
This editorial in this paper, which ]
hold up before you, which is headed
'COlumbine and Harlequin on which
now place this thumb"
you want to know who wrote it?''
'Yes.''
"Why."
ats of interest in this case"
"What case 81
"Talmage's case"
"What Talmage?' 81
"Do you know who wrote that editori
al 81 excitedly.
what editorial 80
1.-THE one just showed you"
''The one in that paper ~
"Yes.''
1.-THE one you put your finger on first
and then put your thumb on it 81
"Yes'
You want to know who wrote it,"
yes
Witness reluctantly replies, q dom
know
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
KEEP AWAY.

We believe some few of our people are
having a slight attack of the Indian Ter
ritory fever. If so, we advise them to
quiet down to business, go on with their
work, and let the Indian Territory alone
In the first place, no one has any right
TO go there to settle. All who do are
simply trespassers. 1t is true people are
going there, and it may be possible that
some of them will stay, but they are liza
bile to be driven off, and their unlawful
entry upon that land may excite the ha-
tren of the wild Indians west of the Ter
ritOry and call upon them a fearful ven
geance. There would be no protection
from the raids of the wild tribes. There
is No doubt but that the adjacent tribes
east, or those of them who are wholly or
partially civilized, desire the settlement
of the 14,000, 600 of acres of land for
the purpose of speculation. 1t would
also be TO the interest of many western
towns to have that region settled. These
are purely selfish motives for urging
settlers to go there.
There is another important reason why
people should not go from here to the In
dian territory, and that is, they will not
better their condition by doing so. 1t is
no better country than this in any re-
spect. 1t will be many years before a
farm there, even il there were no obstruc-
tions to settlement, will be of any par
ticular value. 1t will take years of hard
work, and the endurance of many priva
tions before the country can be brought
to the condition of development and val
ne which Kansas now enjoys. We can
see no reason why any man making a
comfortable living here should want to
leave and join in the unlawful pursuit Of
o home IN that new country.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
THE FRENCH FIVE PER CENTS.

With much hesitation, and after con-
siderable backing and filling, the French
government have decided, for the pres
ent, not to attempt what is called the
conversion of the five per cent, reEtes.
That is to say, they will go on paying
interest on about 81 400, 900 of the ma.
tional debt at five per cent. per annum,
although they could easily reduce the
rate to four per cent
The reason assigned for this extraor-
binary act of financial improvidence is
the unpopularity with the bondholders
into which reduction of their income
would bring the government. The
French national debt is almost exclu-
sively held by the inhabitants of the
country, is widely distributed among
them. 1t is customary for all classes of
French people of moderate means to in
vest their money in government securi-
ties, and with an immense number OF
them the revenue derived from this
source IS their only means OF support.
A reduction Of this revenue by one-fifth,
Therefore, which would result from con-
version of the five per cents into four
per cents, would create q widespread dis
satisfaction which the newly seated Re
publican administration dare not en-
counter. The nation must pay in the
shape of taxes $4,000, 900 annually more
than it need pay, rather than provoke
the resentment Of the holders of the
public debt-NeW York Sun.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
EDUCATIONAL.


There are in Kioto, Japan, siXty-four
elementary schools. Education is COM
pulsory.
Mr.. Henry p. Kidder leads the sub.
scription for the divinity school of Har-
ward College with $4,000.
The school population of Georgia is
433 ,444, and the entire school fund is
only about 800, 000-about 60 cents pei
capita for education.
The Harvard statutes have been SO
amended that there will hereafter be four
grades Of degrees of b. A, two grades OF
degrees of B. L., and three grades of de.
grees of Bachelor of Science and Min.
ing Engineer.
Messrs. ]. b. HOyt, J. B. Trevor, Chas
Pratt and Rockfellow have given $136,
600 to Rochester theological seminary
The money is to procure library and
erect building for it, and TO endOw the
chair OF Hebrew languages and litcra-
ture.
From the city of Tyer, Russia, the alI-
thOrities of Boston university have re
ceived an application for permission to
translate into the Russian language es-
says and records of facts published in
the "Year Book and annual Reports
of the University"
1t is a conspicuous fact that nearly all
the influential men in the L. S. senate
have not had the benefit of college edu-
cation. Among those who note in their
biographies that their learning was
gained in common schools and acade-
mics are Conkling, Edmunds, Thurman,
Bayard, Chandler, Ferry, Window Pen
dleton, Hamlin, and in fact all the lead
ing senator's, except Blaine, who gradu-
ated at Washington college, Pennsylva
mia. Jones, of Florida, who is able and
accomplished, acquired his education at
the carpenters bench, and at nights after
his work was over. Trenty-nine sena-
six academic, and twenty-one common
school
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
shall we. who have borne so many hard

shall we, who have borne so many hard
ships and outrages, and seen so many
changes in our favor, now throw mp the
sponge, abandon our vanta - ground OF
possession, which is nine points of the
law, and 30 among strangers in pursuit
of homes in u cold and uncOngenial eli
mate, rather than remain ON the soil OF
our birth, where we may live down per
secution and oppression If there is any
part of the United States to which the
negro has a stronger claim for peaceful
residence than any other, that part is
lying south of Mason and Dixon's line.
Whatever the south is in point of wealth
and civilization the negro has made her.
His labor has converted the southern
wilderness into fruitful fields, and dotted
them about with comfortable homes.
His arm has leveled the forests. extract
ed the stumps, reclaimed her waste
places, graded her roads, supported her
commerce, developed her resources; in a
word, he has titled her soil with his hard
hands, moistened it with his sweat and
enriched il with his blood, and has Il
claim to remain on her soil against all
corners.
Armed as the negro is now, with legal
and constitutional guarantees, and being
the muscular ana laboFing arm of the
south, | cannot yet believe that with
these advantages he is so destitute of mu-
tual power that he cannot make living
terms with those who want his labor,
and who must have it or accept poverty
and ruin instead. NV counsel to him,
therefore, is to bide his time, To labor
and wait, in the full assurance that time
and events will, sooner or later, establish
his rights in the south upon enduring
foundations.
have seen many attempts to lash col
ored men into schemes of emigration.
am old enough to remember the Hay
tian emigration scheme fifty-four years
ago; another to the British West Indies
forty years ago; another still to Central
America sixteen years ago; and they only
serve to unsettle the minds of the colored
people, deranging their plans of enter
prise for home improvements, and were
transient, as l believe this one will be.
The hundreds may go, but millions will
stay behind, and Will finally have their
wisdom in dolngso rewarded with peace
and prosperity.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
OVER THE STATE.

The Oswego Independent is for sale.
Scarlet fever is raging fatally among
| children in Beloit.
A fine vein of coal has been struck
within the city limits of Lawrence.
Chicken fighting is popular Sunday
afternoon amusement around Empire
City.
lola has young lady with curly eyes
and blue hair, who is reported to be worth
$4,000
Hon. w. A. PETER. editor of the Jour.
nal' has been appointed city attorney OF
Coffeyville.
Wyandotte is at last entirely free of re-
fugees, except those who have perman-
emily located there
The Wyandotte receipts so far for the
refugees amount to $1,6S2O7, the expen-
ditures to $7S52S.
Rev. T. w. Henderson, of Topeka, has
gone to Nashville to attend national
freedmen's convention.
The supreme court docket for July
contains 148 cases, set for various days
from July list to 18th.
The next session of the grand lodge of
the Knights of Pythias will be held at
Abilene, commencing May Goth.
A legal contest over calf valued at
five dollars, in Bourbon county, cost $500,
and one of the contestants had to sell his
farm to pay the costs.
The work of digging the trenches for
the west wing of the capitol progresses
rapidly, under the management of Mr..
Trehey. The earth taken from them is
being used to fill depressions in the
ground.
Rev. MIR. Colly, an old man and pastor
of the Baptist church, was brutally as
saulted on the streets of Beloit, one day
last week, by saloon keeper named
Sloan, because the former made tenn
perance speech the night previous.
The interest due June 1st on the school
district bonds owned by the State perma-
nent school fund, is being received by
treasurer Francis. Rice county, on
Thursday, paid $5,122.O7, of which So
500 was principal The fact that the
bonds are being taken up shows that
Rice county is endeavoring to lessen its
Indebtedness. Other counties have sig
nitied their intention to do likewise.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16

COMMON CARRIER-NEGLIGEN
passenger on a railway left the car in
which he was travelling at station for
the purpose of getting his dinner, land
inquired of railroad employe in the
car whether his baggage would he safe
if left in the car, and was told to leave
it there, that il would be perfectly safe.
He therefore left it in the car, and on
his return found that the car had been
detached from the train and his baggage
removed to another car, where he could
have seat. Upon going into this car
he found only part of his baggage. No
notice of the change had previously been
given to him. Held that this evidence
would warrant finding that the miss
ing baggage was lost through the negll
gence Of the railroad orporation.-Kins-
ley Vs. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad Sup. CT. Mass.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16

An Usage City correspondent of the
Commonwealth states that there is talk
of putting forward j. S. Danford, of that
place, for the next congressman from
this district Danford may be the
best man that ever lived, for all we know
to the contrary, but he cannot he the
next congressman from this district.
The west end has some rights which the
east end will find itself compelled to re-
spect. There is occasionally man out
here who, we are conceited enough to
imagine, is possessed of enough ability
to be congressman.-Peabo Gazette.
We rise thus early IN the campaign
to place in nomination our modest friend
Walker, of the Peabody Gazette. That
Usage City correspondent is just joking
about Danford, of course.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16

The New Orleans Times is trying to
get up "boom" on the immigration N
white farmers from the Northwest into
Louisiana, TO take the place of the ne
groes who are leaving the state. But
when foreign emigrants won't go into
the state and negroes won't stay in it,
how does the Times expect to catch the
Northwestern farmers?
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
Administrators Sale

The undersigned, administrator of the es
tBte of Benjamin Brown. deceased, will on
Saturday, May 2lth, 1879, at the front door of
Kansas, at 10 O'Clock a. M sell at public sale
to the highest bidder, the following described
real estate belonging to said estate to-wit:
Being part OF the northwest quarter of sec
ton twenty four, township nineteen, range
IL, IN Lyon county, Kansas: commencing at
the southwest corner of Rubottom's land /:
thenco south twenty-five rods and six links :
thence west sixteen rods and ono link 10 the
bank of the NeoshO river; thence northwest
eIly along the bank of said river to the place
Of beginning, containing three acres more or
less. The same to be sold under order of the
probate court OF said county, to pay the debts
Of said estate. JOHN WELLS
WISH. mil
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16

John Kerrigan, alias John Dobbs, was
arrested in Philadelphia last Monday,
charged with being one of the principals
in the Manhattan savings bank robbery.
5000 in called SEQ bonds of 1866, be
longing to the bank were found in
his possession. The police are now con
iident of discovering the full particulars
Of this hitherto mysterious robbery.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
The Cincinnati Commercial

The Cincinnati Commercial says
THE golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Hill, who reside about four miles
yesterday. Ira Perrin, of Perin's Mills,
and Mr.. Irving, who were guests at the
marriage of the venerable couple, in
1929, were present at the celebration The
anniversary was happy affair, calling
together the relatives, friends and early
acquaintance of the venerable couple
who received congratulations arrayed in
the bridal costume of fifty years ago
Moses Elstrun, Esq, who married the
couple yesterday, performed the same
service for the venerable couple fifty
years ago. The ceremony was made
more interesting by a second marriage
of the favorite daughter, Miss Rebecca
Hill.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16

The democrats set up a pitiful howl
about Federal bayonets' and 'interfer-
ence by the military" Among the fore
South Carolina, known historically as
Hamburg Butler" and yet he has bill
pending before congress requiring the
secretary of war to furnish the Marion
artillery, of Charleston, s. c., with bat
terry of four Napoleon guns. Are "Fed-
eral bayonets" any more dangerous to
the freedom of elections in South Carroll
ma than the Marion artillery and the or
ganizcd rifle club ami red shirt brigades.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16
Proposals for the Erection of State Capitol.

Notice to Builders:
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF sTATK,l
TOPEKA. Kansas, April 30, 1873. (
Sealed proposals. will be received at this
ONCE until Il O'Clock, Monday June 2d 1870
for furnishing the materials and doing the
the state house. Plans and specific atoms and
details and drawings may be seen at the OF
peka, on and after May 10th.
The attention OF bidders is called to the fol-
loving section Of the law making appropria-
ton for the erection OF said building.
Section I3. That for the purpose OF erect
ing and constructing the said west wing OF
it may be occupied BY the iegisfatnre in Ian n
uary, 1881, there is hereby Appropriated ont Of
any money in the state treasury not othsrWise
appropriated, the sum of sixty thousand dol
lars, and in addition to said direct appropTia-
ton, and for the purpose OF raising additional
revenue for the payment OF the costs and ex-
penses Of the erection and construction Ofsaid
west wing Of the state house, there shall he
assessed, levied and collected, and the proper
omcers OF the state are hereby authorized and
directed to assess and collect, in the wear 1879
the sum Of one-half mill on each dollar Of tax
able property OF this state, and in the year
Of taxable property in this state all Of which
taxes shall be assessed and collected as Other
state taxes levied at the same time are levied
taxes herein authorized and directed to be
LEVIED, assessed and collected, are hereby an
~ 20 sns sxciusye use OF erecting
state house provided for in this act and when
the same is paid into the state treasury shall
be known as the state house fund
Each bid must be accompanied with bond
in the penal sum OF ten Thousand dollars
signed BY two or more responsible parties
conditioned that the party bidding, in ease
the bid ls accepted, win enter into contract 10
furnish the material and do the work accord
ing TO the plans and specifications, and will
Immediately give bond to the amount or con-
tract for the faithful performance of the same.
Envelopes containing proposals should be
plaloiy marked proposals. 1or furnishing ma
terial and doing the masonry and iron work
OF west wing Of state HOUSE, - and addressed
to the undersigned at Topeka, Kansas
The right 70 reject any and all bids e re-
served.
BY order Of the board OF state house com.
missioners. JAMES SMITH.
Secretary Of state and &c c6Cef0 Secretary
Of Board. dI39&Wl0mOl.