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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28

F'irst-Wnitewash, it is weIl kno.
passes to carbonate of lime in 4 I
days by absorbing carbonic acid e.
the air, and being soluble to ce,ns
extent in water, is soon washed on II.
exposed to the rains. To prevent FL
wash prepared as follows lasts NM.
longer: To half bushel of good M,
add enough water to Stake and be ahm
the consistence of thick sirup NJ
while hot add half a gallon Of Ijns.,
oil and Stir well. To this mixture a,
half pound of common glue, dialvsa
in gallon of boiling water. Aftabt
ting it stand few hours, thin it Win
water TO the proper consistence for n.
plying, and it is ready for use. Son.
parties recommend the addition Of vi
and others sulphate of zinc, but | ,n
not see any plausible theory to satin
me that there is any advantage in tbs,|
use. With the linseed oil an insoIuN|
soap is formed (oleate of lime, andas|
glue forms an insoluble cement vbid
protects the lime from the dissolving NJ
fuence of the water. It is imposibs
that tallow will answer the same uun|
pose, as the resulting compound waH|
be the same-oleate of Eme-the glyepl
inc OF the fat being set free. Second
To every four quarts of slackened lind
allow one-half pint of boiled glue, q luna
of alum about twice the size of q hioioJ
nut, and one teaspoonful OF salt, will
just sufficient bluing to give pun
white tint. Third Slack lime in III
usual way; mix q handful of -four wild
cold water, taking care not to have a
Jumps; then pour on boiling water uni
it becomes like common starch pour|
while hot into the slaked lime; add ID
pound of whiting and two ouncea
powdered borax; stir all well togstk
in q bucket. Whitewash \
outside exposure is made by slakingon'
half buahel of lime in q barrel, add1
one pound of common salt, oneal
pound of the sulphate of zinc and q
Ion of sweet milk.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28
Ed. Stokes and Joaquin Mile
San Francisco Letter.

=
Among the notabilities recently ata|
Palace hotel was Joaquin Miller, =
poet of the Sierras. He seemsd o
tressed both in body and mind. \
crossing the plains he had ffeaueal
attacks of bleeding of the lungs, wy
his mental troubles arise from the atsas1
OF his ex-wite, Minnie Myrtle fhr0aa
the press. As she is some oneelses Y
now, he thinks she might let him GO
now, especially az, under the sorest B
vocation, he has never said one WORD
reply. His daughter has got int Co.
trouble, and his ex-wife finds Q VIII
press to aid her in her malicious af'ss
on the now sicg and suffering p
Among the other prominent perssnsss
to be seen around the bar Teom q I
Palace hotel is Ed. Stokes, the slayer
Jim Fisk. Stokes is now quite 81
but he has become stout, and looks'
though he enjoyed lie. ] upde's, =
that he is engaged in mining in inc I
carora district, and also intefesteo X
stone pavement which IL to be usso
the fashionable part of San Ffapcls'0'
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28

place in December, 1882. As III.
be viewed in the United States i y
awaken a greater interest than the ~
sit which Rittenhouse and otba, - J,
served more than a century apo. ~ ~
four transits of Venus have haen !,
served, and after 1882 one hundred !. y
twenty-one and a half years will el,..'
before the alternately morning 4,
evening star viii pursue its sesr;-'
pathway across the surface of the v,..s
orb of day.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28

,nvself from the folds oil the shawl 1 had
oone Under the water twice. The second
time i rose to the surface 1 swan toward
the hank. but the current was 30 swift
7 vould inevitably have been drowned
if Mark had not come just then In time
tn save me. Davis had run away as last
as he could, and he did not know that ne
had failed in killing me, after all. Inc
sheck was q dreadful one to me, and
INV fear of Andy Davis was 60 great that
I begged Mark to hide me from him,
and from every one, and let it be sup
posed that I was dead. So then we
were married, and went away from TINS
part OF the country for several months,
till we heard that Davis had gone away,
when we returned. But I kept close,
and let no one but my folks know was
alive, for ] was determined that Davis
should be punished in some manner. 30
never went out without thick double
veil over my face, for I was afraid Of
Davis yet.
"Then, one evening, was riding along
in carriage with my husband, when
saw Mr.. Sharpe sitting st window
He was disguised but ] recognized him
and remembered. that he had once
promised to help me if ever ] needed hi
services. So i went up to the window
quietly and spoke to him, and told him
about Davis, and that is all. j didn'i
want the man hung, of course; but
hope he won't be allowed to murder me
as / am sure he viii want to when hi
finds I'm not dead"
But Davis was past doing any one any
further injury. The wretch went from
one fit into another and finally died, lit
orally frightened to death. And 80 hi
sin had certainly found him out.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28
Female Drunkards.

A London letter says: In the UniKI
States you rarely see girl or womanl
into q drinking bar. 1t is commoui
England. In the slums of Londah
great deal of the drinking is donsl
women. This kind of promiscuous u
pling used to be pretty well confined
the lower classes. But our Gladstos
from the highest motives, no donbt-a
all he does lie, of course, eminently al
scientious-made every drug stoss q
grocery store, every sweet.shop "a
fancy bakery, bar-room and drinking
shop for women 30 that the girls Al
their mothers of the upper and midd1
classes could 60 ON" round the corner
like Eccles, in Caste" and Triple 4
well as their poorer sisters. And tha)
avail themselves of the privilege to 4
alarming extent. Mr.. Gladstones y
nous free-trading measure in drink !
increased drunkenness among the wons
of England until it has to be treated \
the faculty as special disease. Esd4|
doctor will tell you that the miscells1]|
ous drinking among women promc'a|
and extended by enabling women 4
take wine and spirits at the grocers
confectioners, and to order it in w
her vinegar and sugar, is exercising i
awful influence upon the British fenai
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28
$tori.. for tn. reside.
CALLED TO ACCOUNT.

Some years ago, when was quite
Young man, ] was sent down to Eyan's
Corners about big robbery that had
occurred, and while was there working
the thing up, my attention was attracted
by pretty girl I used to see at the hotel
where ] stopped. Nobody could helps
noticing such beauty. Her hair and
ewes were dark, but her skin was fair q
a lily, with Just dash of red that came
and went in her ckeekg. Her form was
slender, but well rounded, and her hand
was as white and finely formed as any
lady'e hand in the land. Her name was
Rose Wynne, and of course, she had
plenty of admirers, but she coquetted
with them all. However there we're two
who were long way ahead of the others.
] used to wonder which she liked che
best, but ] could never guess for while
she smiled sweetly on one, she would
fling merry word at the other, and 30
on. Both young men were good looking,
one fair, the other Oakland both were
carpenters. One was called Andrew
Davis, and the other Mark Sheldon.
Sheldon was jealous fellow, and
showed it. Davis was jealous, too, but
didn't show it SO plainly. Sheldon was
always in quarrel with her. Davis, /
fancied, was angry enough at her coquet''
teries sometimes to eat her, but he never
let on.
Rose Wynne knew ] was detective,
and had sort of awe and curiosity
about me. Many yarn ] told her ;
ome true, some not. 1t was SO pretty
see her big eyes kindle and grow
bigger.
used to joke her sometimes and try
and discover which she liked best, Davis
OF Sheldon. But she would never tell
me.
"See here, Rose" / said to her one
day when she had been playing those
Two chaps off against each other pretty
lively, you'll have those foolish fell
lows fighting about you If you're not
careful"
"I'm much more afraid of one of them
fighting me-" she laughed.
(Which ONE" j asked, laughing
too; but thought of Davis glowerine
locks.
"Guess," she said.
They've both got temper, too much
of it,"
Andrew Davis hasn't much temper,
she said.
i shouldn't like to be in your skir
il you ever Jill him Tor the other"
answered.
"1Why not ~ she asked.
Never mind" ] said; shut if yot
ever make up your mind to marry any
body beside Andy Davis, don't do il
while he's around--that's all"
Bose glanced to where Davis wa
standing, at the other end OF the We
randall. watching us, though be pre-
tended not. Then she looked hack at me
Well, you're solemn enough abOu
it" she said; anyone would think 20,
meant it,"
We both laughed, but j said, shakinI
my head:
You know that j do mean ever,
word"
Well, III tell you what III do
said Rose. "If any harm ever come
to me through either of them, IN pro
mise to come TO you, Mr. Sharpe, o
send my ghost to tel you who did II
And you must hunt him down for il
Will you promise M ttlat?"
+" Ies- will ssi END there
my ha'a upou i Y
A v sil,ok hands had a laugh owe
it, aad Thought that t,se last of Il. q
s,nrae. We'll, ! well away soon aftes
and It was 8 Near alm stito day tefor
! ever saw th4 piae' NJ ~ Then 4 Ia
almost orrb rts VA ~uct perso
as R0se Wynne
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28
Wonders of Venus.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
Many who admire the beautiful star
which now adorns the western sky until
more than thee hours after the CONS
mencement of twilight may not be aware
that its splendor is derived from the SUD
that in it, like on the earth, night cur
tains the landscape, morning dawns, and
the seasons in quick succession come and
go. Lofty mountains show that forces
similar to those which upheaved the Alps
and lifted the submits of the Andes
above the regions OF eternal snow have
ridged its surface and covered it with
hills and wales. Variable spots prove
that clouds float in it's atmosphere, and
CLEANS OF light, which dart across its
sky, afford evidence that in it lightning
seams TIE sky and the thnnder's roll re-
verberates through the valleys.
But 300 miles less in diameter than
the earth, and revolving ON its axis in
nearly the same time, Venus makes thir-
teen revolutions around the sun while
the former makes eight. As the inclina-
ton of the planet to the plane if its
orbit is at least fifty-four degrees, its
torrid zone is double that extent, or
10B degrees, and its polar circles
ffty.four degrees from the poles
It therefore has tive frigid
and q torrid, but no temperate zone.
Since the sun must arrive at the equator
and depart from it to the distance of
fifty -four degrees twice in each of its
years, there must be two summers and
two winters annually in the torrid zone,
and winter and o summer in each of
the frigid. Venus becomes the morning
star after its superior conjunction, when
it appears, through the telescope, ores.
cent shaped like the new moon. The
orbits of this planet and of Mercury are
within the orbit of the earth, and coNse-
quenLly they are never seen in opposi-
ton to the sun, that ia, in tine east when
the sun is in the west or in the west
when the sun is in the east. At its in
ferior conjunction Venus is nearer to the
earth than any other planet except the
moon, and sometimes when approaching
the greatest distance which it seems to
recede from the sun, casts q shadow and
is visible in the full light of day. If. at
the period when it ia nearest to the
earth, the enlightened part were ully
turned towards the latter, this planet
would appear twenty times as brilliant
as it now does, and almost vie with the
moon in dissipating the darkness oi
nigl t. Being situated at about one.
third less distance from the sun
than the earth ia, Venus receives
more light from that great lnminary
than is received by the former planet
and seems not to require the aid OF the
moon. Nevertheless, several astronomer
have affirmed that they had noticed
such body, and have even gone so a
81 to calculate the orbit of the supposed
satellite, but their observations have no,
been verified.
| The transit of Venus or its passag,
between the earth and the sun, when il
appears ASA round dark spot moving
4 slowly across the solar disc, have beer
made TO assist in determining the dis
tance of the earth from the central In
minary. The last transit occurred i,
december 1874, and the next will tax,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-06-28
THE mAuDEN AND TINE LEAR.


dead leaf drifted along the snow,
A poor brown leaf with edges torn;
lgow here, now there, blown high and low,
An oateast, and thing Of scorn.
AlasI AIasI
So life drifts ON 70 hearts forlern.
Once in a bower, tresh and bright,
Kissed by the sun-rays and the dew,
A maid, to Zee the hot SUMS might,
Prone on the ground her fair limbs threw,
10 sleep, to sleep,
And dream OF some one that she knew.
she slept and dreamt horrid thing
That he she loved from her would STRAY,
And star ting up, deep sorroEing,
Resolved to seek him out that day.
Alas Alas
Twas all too true-he'd fed away.
Her last love token-just leaf
OF syeamore-~love's emblem bright,
She threw away, then prayed that griei
Might bear her of from mortal sight,
Alas Alssi
Whilst the dead leaf drifted through the mig
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22
]. &B., B. e., and ". RAILROAD.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE
OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENTS.


On and after WEDNESDAY, July It'll, 1872 ISL
days excepted trains will run as follows:
JUNCTION BREAKwATER RR.
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22
GBe Smprna Gimes,
Smyrna, DeI.,
Wednesday Afternoon, Oct. %.
.Ag2'ScaIIItr'uL.
Improving Soils.

J. E. Esom of ForestviIle, New York,
writes as follows to the american Farmer:
The person who has sufficient means at
command to enable him to purchase ex-
hausted lands at from S., $40, $50, $50 and
even $40 per acre, may, by judiciOus APP
plication of lime, mari, plaster and other
mineral fertilizers, aided by green fallow
crops, plowed under to form a mould, soon
resuscitate farm, and render it again
highly productive and valuable The fol
lowing facts will demonstrate the practical
bility of what is here asserted.
More instances could be produced, for
we have written a great many letters, but
this, being an unquestionabe authority,
is ample for present illustration.
An old-time friend and former neighbor
purchased a farm in Delaware, containing
about POO acres. The land had been under
cultivation for half century or more, and
| the soil SO completely exhausted as not to
compensate for the labor and expense of
seeding for any crop. 1t had nevertheless,
been rented up to the time of purchase,
and one of the conditions was the payment
annually of two-fifths the corn crop. From
thirty.acre field, the rent paid the year
previous was only about 80 bushels. Clover
refused to grow upon this land, and wheat
would not yield much more than the seed
Sown. The soil was a sandy loan. The
| first step taken 10y our friend toward the
restoration of this land to fertility was to
SOW one bushel of ground plaster per acre,
flush it up In the spring, and spread upon
it 70 bushels OF Stacked lime per acre. Oats
were then sown at the rate Of two bushels
to the acre, and in July, when nearly fit for
harvest, the straw being partly yellow and
partly green, they were plOwed under,-an
OK chain having been rugged in front OF
the coulter, so as to turn them down before
the pillow. Previous to this blowing !
bushels more of plaster was sprinllled upon
the ground.
second crop of oats sprung up in a
thick mat from those plowed under, and
about the first of October these were turned
under like the first growth. Wheat wa.
now sown, about bushels to the acre, ano
narrowed in,-followed by clover early il
the spring. The crop of wheat averaged
about eight bushels to the acre, and this, i
will be observed, without shovelfull 0
stable or other kind Of animal manure
The clover had bushcl OF ground plastic
sprlnkled on it in the spring, and yielded
the second season of its growth about on
ton to the acre at the first moving. Thus
land from which the vegetable mould hat
been entirely exhausted, was in compara
lively short time, and without the assistanc
of barn.yard or any other kind of manure
brought into condition to yield compensi
ting crops Of wheat, corn and vgorou
clover. BY the assistance of the Ordinar
quantity of barn-yard manure the produc
Of wheat would average about % bushels
and corn 40 or so bushels to the acre.
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22

The quickest way to expel foul air from
a we'll is TO heat bar of iron red hot, and
lower it down into the water; the sudden
formation Of steam is effectual
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES"

4lSPosIToRY OF THE KENT COUNTY BIBLE
~ SOCIETY,
Ast the Corner Of Main and Commerce Streets where
A%Dles ana 1estaments rnay be found at New York
st prices Also for gratutous distribution The
ooclery mas Tor It's object the supplying of the Word
OF God 70 every family without note or Comment
A. II. HOBBS, Depository
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22

PEELING PEACHES WITH LYE.-J. A. D.,
st. Joseph, Michigan, in the Country Gentle
man, gives the following process of peeling
peaches 1t is necessary to have the lye
as strong as for soap, and boiling hot, in a
large kettle. Put the peaches in four
quart tin pail that has been perforated
thickly with half inch holes on side and
bottom; sink the pail into the lye deep
enough to cover the peaches; let them
remain few moments, then lift them out
and sink the pail in q tub Of cold water,
and stir them with your hands in the pail
while in the water, which will rub off the
skins and rinse off the lye. The peaches
should be left in the I've just long enough to
eat off the outside skin, and no more. The
lye has such affinity for water that it leaves
the peaches at once, and does not affect the
flavor. Success depends on keeping the
I've hot, and in having plenty of fresh water
to rinse them in. After the I've has become
thick with down it can be cleansed by
filtering it through ashes. The size of the
pail may be large or small, according to the
amount of work to be done and the depth
of lye in the kettle. 1t should be largest al
the top to be convenient"
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22
Wheat Crazy.

We observe that several OF our aIriCul
tural exchanges are saying just exactly
what we said Il year ago, that the farmers
of this country are going stark mad on the
wheat question. Now we have not the
slightest doubt but that wheat will advance
on its present price in spite Of the i'm.
mense crop we have harvested; but it must
be remembered that an extraordinary de-
mand is and will be made upon us by
foreign countries, owing to the partial fail
ure Of the European wheat crop. The
status of our wheat trade for the past three
years has not been normal but exceptional.
With full crop of wheat in Europe next
year, and even a good crop here, American
farmers will find wheat glut on the
market. Perhaps with improved facilities,
forty or fifty cents bushel is a remunera.
tive price to the farmers, but we doubt it.
Yet this is just about what wheat will be
worth if the wheat raising epidemic con-
tinues and Providence is unpropitious
enough to grant another immense crop.
Notwithstanding the most palpable fact
that our wheat farmers are just now
making their money out of the misfortunes
of their European brethren, and that the
present state of affairs cannot we'll last
much longer, some public journals, with a
SIuplulIy InaI WOulu DC aSlnlno were III is
not criminal, are advising farmers to SOW
more wheat. The reason for this advice is
certainly unique 1T is simply because
some one has prelicted something called
the Perihelia Crisis, which is, that owing
to the planetary conjunctions we are about
to enter on o seven years stretch of pesti-
lence famine, etc., including, we supposed,
among the list of evils, another Beecher
scandal and Cochrane suit We have our
private opinion of any one who will pre-.
dict such a thing, and would like to be
constituted a committee to revise the In
QUESTION for the particular benefit of all
who, like him, are trying to brighten people
out of their wits and think they are second
Elijahs divinely appointed to see cyclone
in every cloud no larger than n mans
hand. But that aside, the so.called pre-
diction of a crisis beginning next year and
lasting until 1887 rests on the fimsiest oil
reasoning The very best astronomers, in
Guiding Mr.. Proctor, declare that so far as
planetary influence is concerned neither
man nor his crops will suffer any more in
the next seven years than in any ordinary
period of like duration. Mr.. Proctor stig
matizes the prediction as savoring of as
trology and charlatanry. Yet some of oul
contemporaries imaging that second JOSEPH
has risen amongst us who sees seven year,
of famine ahead, and therefore urge the
farmer to plant wider area with wheat
They ought to be made to eat the surplus
American Miller.
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22
Phila., Will. & Bait. r. r.
DELAWARE DIVISION.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
NORTHWARD.

On and after MONDAY May 10Th, 1879, SUNDAYS
eXcepted) trains will leave as follows:
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22

Hamilton county, Ohio, has had a cook
ing contest, and prize has been awarded
to young woman who prepared a good
dinner in sixty.fve minutes. Another CIR
cooked dinner in fifty-four minutes. But
1t was not good.
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22

SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINS.-Additional TO those
above leave Smyrna for Clayton 22O and 745 p NJ
Leave Clayton for Smyrna 7.25 and LOO A. NJ . 40
and 535 P. NJ. to make connection with trains North
and South from Clayton.
H. F. KENNEY, Sup't.
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22

The rice crop of South Carolina for the
year is estimated at $4,000 tierces, and that
ofGeorgia at 10000.
Smyrna times., 1879-10-22

IL is claimed that more than fifty per
cent. of this years cotton crop lin Mississippi
was produced by white labor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-19
LORD LORNDS TOUR.
A FFsTfyE DAY IN CHARIOrTErowY.

A FESTIVE DAY IN CHARLOTTEToWN
CuARLorTETOwN, p. L. l., Aug. 17.-From an
early hour special trains poured thousands of vis-
tors into the city on Friday from every point ot
the island. The centre of attraction throughout
the forenoon was the grounds Of the Caledonian
Club situated on st. Peters Road about mile from
the city, where the annual sports and games OF the
club are taking place. The Marquis of Lorne visited
the grounds about noon. AS the Marquis entered
the grounds guard of honor and volunteers pre-
scented arms, and the band of the Eighty-second
Battalion played God save the Queen" He was
received with hearty cheers by the immense crowd
present which number about 10000. The scene
was brilliant and beautiful beyond description
REPRESENTATIVES of nearly all classes were present III
Highland costume, and thousands OF fashiOnaOIy
dressed ladies and gentlemen occupied seats III the
grand stand or promenaded on the grounds.
On Saturday night the Marquis OF Lorne and
Princess Louise were present at a dinner given In
their honor by Lieutenant-Goyernor Haylland az
the residence of his sOn-ln-aw, Geo. Peake' a
drawIng-rOOm was held at the Government House
The vice-regal party entered at 10 O'CLOCK AS
many as pa persons were presented WITHIN twenty
minutes. The ladies costumes were rlch, chaste
and elegant, There was also a tiremens torchlght
procession and general Illumination, and the CITY
was one blaze of light. In the forenoon special
train of five ears left for Hunter River stat on with
the MARQUIS ana suite. AS the tram turned out OF
Cbarottetowu station the wheels passed over tor
pedoes uged to give a royal salute.