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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-11-29

the Office Of Clerk Of the District Court OF
Calcasieu Parish, and respectfully solicit your
support. j. B. KIRKMAN.
We are authorized to announce OSCAR 8.
LYONS, as . candidate for the Office OF Clerk
Of the District Court OF this parish.
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Returnine stolen Money.

A burglar entered William q. Stansbury's
house at Westfeld, N. j., last week aud stole
81, 400 in money, and when Mr. Stansbury
woke up and tried to stop him he drew pistol
and threatened to blow Mr.. Stansbury's brains
out. Then he escaped. On Monday Mr. Stans-
bury received a letter through the mail written
in large characters as if the writer wished to
disguise his or her hand. The writer claimed
to be woman and saiG that on the night OF
the robbery her husband came horne drunk,
When he went to sleep she searched his pock-
cts and found that he had in his possession
over 81 900. AS she knew that he had no such
amount of money when he left home she ques-
toned him when he woke up He gave eva
sive answers, and when she learned OF the rob-
berry shs became convinced that he was the
burglar. She wanted to pay back the money
and promised to work and save in order to
be able to return the $400 which her husband
spent The writer concluded by informing Mr..
Stansbury that If he would look under certain
stone in place near his house which she des-
crbed, at or after certain hour that night, he
would find the money she had taken from her
husband. He was warned, however, that If he
looked before the appointed time the money
would not be left there. Mr.. Stansbury was
| inclined to wait until the b ,ur named, but his
| wife said ''that no one would be fool enough Il
risk detection by putting the money under the
stone after the letter had reached its destiDa
| tion, and he might as well look at once" HI
| accordingly went to the place found the stone
| turned it over, and there carefully wrapped nj
| in paper was 81 900 in greenbscks. Mr. Staus
| bury SAYS he will make no special effort to re
| cover the missing $400. He also says that thu
| man who robbed him was not drunk, and that
part of the story is regarded as an invention t
| diver. suspicion from the thlef.
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unw to Select a Good Husband.

A writer in the Baltimore Every Sunday has
been giving adr,ce to females in the matter of
selecting husbands, as follows: SIT has been
profoundly remarked, shat the true way of tell
ing toadstool from a mus broom Is to eat 1t.
If you die it was toadstool, J.. you live' it was
a mushroom. A similar method 10 employed
in the selection of husband; marry u'u' IL 10
kills you he is bad husband; if he ma es Sou
happy he is good one. There is really u"
other criterion. As DIR. Samuel johnson re
marked, the proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing thereof Some young men that seem un-
exceptionable, indeed very desirable, as long as
they are single, are perfectly horrid as soon
as thew get married. All the latent trute there
ia in the heart comes out as soon as sensitive
and delicate being seeks her happiness IN DIS
companionship. The honeymoon lasts very
short time, the receptions and the found OF
parties are soon over, and then the two sit
down to make home happy. If she has mar
ried q society man, he will soon begin to get
bored; he will yawn and go to sleep on the
sofa, And then he will take his hat and go
down to the club to see the boys, and perhaps
| not come home till morning. If she has mar
| ried man eDgrossed in business be Will %
| tagged out when he comes home. lie may 10
| a sickly man that she must nurse, mo,ose
! man that she must seek to cheer, uruhken
man that she must sit up for, anu sloiens
/ man that she fears, fool whom sne leslns' 10
| dispise, a vulgar man for whom she M ust apol.
| opiZe--iu short there are thousands OF ways or
| being had husbands, and very few ways OF be-
| ino GOOD ores And the worst of it IS, shat the
| moor sillv women are apt to admire In single
men the very traits that ensure their unhapp'-
ness in wedlock.
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The Same Old Coon.

Eighteen years ago the Democracy went
into minority in Congress. Their last act
was an attempt to dissolve the Union. This
year they are once more in the majority and
apparently minded to take up business where
they dropped it, and their first act is an at
tempt to embarrass the Government, to over
ride the veto power, and withhold appropria-
tions until the President yields to their will.
The work of blocking the wheels of govern
ment is undertaken by the same men who
were engaged in the other attempt to destroy
the government.
The same mischieyous and dangerous
spirit is exhibited now that was displayed at
the outbreak of the Rebellion. The Democ-
racy is determined to rule or ruin. Consti-
tutional provisions are to be ignored, and the
freedom of elections destroyed in order that
the Democratic party may in 1880 get con-
troll of the executive branch of the govern
ment. The attempt now made will fail to-
day as the Rebellion failed. But the people
will learn that the Democratic party has not
been changed by its long and enforced absti-
nence from power. 1t is the same dangerous
organization, unscrupnlous in its means to
bad ends, a foe to popular freedom, and a
menace to the prosperity of the country.
| The enforcement of this lesson is worth the
cost of struggle in Congress. People were
| beginning to forget the nature of the old
organization that first submitted to the slave
power and then sympathized with that
| la Ill -
Union; they were almost persuaded that
adversity had purified the party. and that
it had become new and clean thirg.
That Illusion is dispelled, and the Democ-
racy stands revealed as the same old organ-
cation that the country has repeatedly re-
| jected, having the same vices and follies that
led to its overthrow eighteen years ago.
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belfast Journal.l
legislative Coercion.

To forcs the passage of party measures. by
Withholding the annual appropriations, is q
plan which is sometimes threatened, and some-
times executed for a brief space when the gov.
ernment is not in actual need but 1t certainly
is very questionable one. Though not with
out precedent, both in this country and in En-
gland, it is wholly foreign to the conditions of
this country and our form of government, and
cannot bs maintained practically or theoreti-
cally. The analogies drawn from English
history are false and misleading. Though in
the reigns of some Of the Stuarts supplies were
withheld, nothing of the sort has been at
tempted in Parliament. for nearly two csntur-
les. Notwithstanding in England the theory Is
correct, people would not for moment toler.
ate Its exercise. But under our form of govern.
ment the theory is wholly unconstitutional. IL
is not within the constitutional prerogative of
Congress to withhold the annual appropria-
tions. Ii it were, what is a Coordinate branch
of the government would be rendered supreme,
and either house would be able to override all
the constitutional checks and Limitations.
Neither one nor both houses eau omit what
they are constitutonally bound to do. For ex-
ample, the constitution requires that the SAL
aries of the President, Judges of the Supreme
Court, etc.. shall be paid at "state ed times,'
minished during their terms of office. Con-
gress, constitutionaly bound, has fixed BY
law the times at which they are to be paid.
By the constitution the regulations concerning
these salaries cannot be changed during the
term of the President, or "during the continu-
snce in Office" of the judges. Congress is there
fore without power to alter or change these
conditions, and by the oaths OF members it is
under constitutional obligations to carry out
/ the mandates Of that instrument That salsr-
les should be paid at STATED times" Is as ohli-
gatory as that they shall be paid at ALL 1t is
I not then within the discretion of Congress to
/ refuse the necessary appropriations.
/ Consider then the practical effect of the stop
page of supplies and blocking the wheels of
! government. With the closing of custom
| houses, the courts, the State Department., the
banks, and the post Office, anarchy and '.chaos
would come again." The measure would be
revolutionary, overturnng the foundations Of
the government If continued for any length of
time. The indignation of the country would
overwhelm any party that should persist in
| any such madness.
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Two weeks ago the Ne,g Era made a state
ment of the currency in circulation in 1866,
taking the figures, it said, from the Treasur-
er's report of that year. Being told that the
pretended extract did not appear in that re-
port, it shifted its position last week, and
said the figures were taken from report
made in 1868 and signed by "John
Sherman, Treasurer" 1t was again
accused of a misstatement, inasmuch
as no such report is in existence, John
Sherman not being and never having been
Treasurer. This week it changes position
once more and now says it found its figures
In tabulated statement prepared at the
Treasury Department in 1878. Which of its
three statements does it ask its readers to be-
lieve?
The Ne,o Era also says, this week, that
the Treasurer's report for 1866 contains ev-
cry one OF the items given by it. Yes, the
report contains these items in the same way
the dictionary contains the words of the Neio
Era article. The Greenback organ has taken
what it pleased of the figures setting forth
the national debt, interest and non interest
bearing, and arranged them to suit ITSELF
But it cannot find in any report of any Uni
ted States Treasurer or Secretary of the
Treasury the statement that the amount of
currency in circulation in 1865 was 81 ,92O
467, ,59S, and in saying that it has found that
statement it is guilty of deliberate misrepre-
sentation OF facts with the intent to deceive
its readers. In the annual report of the Sec
retary of the Treasury for 1865, the report to
which the Neao Era appeals, is this state
ment:
The paper circulation of the United States
on the 31st of October last was substantially
as follows;
United States notes and fractional
currency ......... ........... $4-4.21 ,03e 20
Notes of he National Banks ....... Ie5OgO 900 90
Notes OF State Banks including out
sanding issues of State Banks con-
verted into National Banks s.,.... 65,OOO, ,OCO 90
$7O4,21s,038 20
These are the official figures. If the Neao
Era says Secretary McCulloch or Treasurer
Spinner or any other Secretary of the Treas
ury or United States Treasurer in any official
report stated the paper money currency of
his country in 1865 or any other year to be
$1,92o, ,467, ,59S, it is guilty of falsehood.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-03-28

A STRAW: A special election held Tues
day for the election of New York State
Senator to fill a vacancy caused by death,
resulted in the election Of Edwin G.. Halbert
of Birmingham, Republican, by about 5000
majority, This is nearly four times the ma
iority his deceased Republican predecessor
had in 1877
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THE conclusions regarding the centem-
plated action Of the Democratic Congression-
al majority drawn by an able and conscen-
tiOus Democratic newspaper are elsewhere
set forth in an article copied from the Bel
fast Journal. 1t is good reading for all of US,
and especially good for those Democrats who
have been misled by their leaders into sup
porting a movement to cripple the govern
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SENTIMENTS of the New York Times
Should Congress compel the President to
make a choice between depriving the coun-
try of the protection to free and pure elec.
tions now existing, and throwing on Con-
gress the responsibility of stopping supplies,
it is our conviction that he should accept the
latter alternative.
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THE Cleveland Herald says: at is 10 be
hoped there will be no unnecessary delay in.
setting day apart for congressional eulogies
of Wilkes Booth. II is only fair, after giving
jeff send-of, that Wilkes should come in
for his share"
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CIVIL service reform in the New York
custom house has slap in the face at the
start. Colonel Charles Tricehel, a brave
Pennsylvania soldier, the Springfield Repub.
ican says, who has served in the custom
house six years and risen to well-fll the posi-
ton of auditor, is now asked to change
places and salaries with an under.clerk, Bel
cher, brother-in-law of Vice President
Wheeler's, who has been in the service one
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THE PRESS
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH ss.

We DO not read anonymous letters ana communi.
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
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IN. Y. World.l
Fluff.
uirtna Is its only reward.

Vlftu6 IbWuIut
A woman's weeplns--reafs.
"How is that for eye2" was originally said Of
Argus.
The favorite resource Of the Turks Is pro-
crsstination-their national weapon is the yet
again, as it we're.
in Greece.
The comedy Of "Caste'' is much older than
people think. Did not Bottom" say, II could
play 'Eccles' rarely?
solomon was the first man to suggest parting
the heir in the middle. The suggestion was
made to two women in q famous lawsuit
Ii the Socialists keep on shooting at the mon
archs OF Europe, 1t might pay for some Ameri-
can to go over and copper the kings.
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PEAKS ISLAND.
Unien RSuse-W. It. Jones. Proprfstsr
sACCARAPPA.
fresnmpscot HOuse,-W. 9. Pratt, PrOpri-
sKOWREGAN.
Farmer House, w. G, HeseIton, PEeurr.
etOY.
ELM HousP.-F. A. Dore Propriesor
is hereby given, that the sub,criber n

NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has
IN been duly appoi0ted ard taken upon himself the
trust Of Administrator of the Estate of
WILLIAM s MURRAY, late of Brunswick.
In the County of Cumberland deceased, and oiven
bonds as the law directs All persons having de-
to exhibit the same and all persons indebted 20 said
estate are,called upon to make payment to
CHARLES s. PERKINS, of Portland, Admir-.
Brunswick, March 18th, 1879, mh27d1aw3wThs
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TIE Boston Transcript regards the Lynn
trunk tragedy as due to the war. The
Transcript is of much the same mind as the
Southerner who declared the other day that
the moon doesn't shine as bright as it did be-
fore the war.
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PELToN has gone back, and all is forgiven.
The rash youth is living at Gramercy Park,
and the doting uncle even trusts him with
latch-key. What farce Tilden's professions
of ignorance wereI
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EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersgned by Stanley T,
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent our
nurnal.
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The British government doesn't think Sir
Bartle Frere did quite right Had he sue
ceeced it would now be loading him with
honors,
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SF;NToR BlYARD is not an unqualified
success when it comes to the courage OF his
convictions,
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New Two Story House for Sale.

HOUSE No. s Ellsworth street. 10 rooms, good
IL cellar and drainage. Lot 38x75 The most lib
eral terms offered viz one-third cash. balance on a
term o. years at 6 per cent. interest. Apply to G.
PATTERSON, Dealer in Real Estate, or Canal
Nationa Bank. mh1dtt
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FaeR SALE I!
For Sale or to 10,

fHvHE Three Story Brick House No. 6 Gray Street
4 Can be examined any day after 10 O'clock a. m
For further particulars call ON
j. f. RANDALL & CO.,
sepl0f 126 Commercial st.
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The New Era Again.

AZ the Union was worth fighting for il is
worth paying for.
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FOR SALE.

g.. One or both OF the elegant Brick Dwelling
Et;;, Houses on the corner OF Pine and Carlton
-Qlaaes.A Streets. in this city.
inspection. 0fSN
For particulars apply to
X. III. FAssETT, Architect,
Centennial Block, Exchange Street,
Portland, Aug. s, 1873. au5dtf
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EORRIDGEWOCK
Danforsh House, ID. Danforth. Proprzo
, 1879-08-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON d. c., July 25, 1879.
A loud comment on the democrat
ic cry Fair and free elections" the
"stop thief" cry of the democratic
thief comes up very loud just now
from Mississippi. The armed mobs
of Democratic law breakers, so fear
full of the lay out when in hands OF
honest and loyal citizen, are again at
work to prevent the $4,000 Republi.
can majority in Mississippi from hav-
ing chance to express itself. It
appears that an independent political
movement was started in Yazoo
county, Miss, where 1000 Republi-
can majority had been overcome by
Democratic shot guns, whips, torches
and halters. There was danger in
this movement. 1t might result in
preventing the success Of the fraud
and force with which the Democratic
party carries elections. Mr.. Otto r.
Llngleton, who now represents a
small minority Of the voters of that
District in Congress, got out their
shot guns, whips and bowie knives,
and halters and other democratic
symbals of freedom and fairness in
elections, and held a'meeting. The fol
lowing, which exhibits the result, is
froma special dispatch from Yazoo
city:
"The best men of the county-the
merchants, the planters, tho farmers
aud those engaged in other occupa-
tions-gathered together in town to.
day to the number of several humid
red, and considering as they did that
the longer continuance Of the indie.
pendent party in YazOo was detri.
mental in the highest degree to the
interests Of the county (seeing race
issue had arisen in consequence OF i,)
u committee was appointed to wait
upon Capt. II. NJ. Dixon, the head
Of the independent movement in this
, 1879-08-21
EDITOR ARGUs:---

EDITOR ARGUS
Men who arc advanced in life neel not
read the following lines about the filthy
practice Of using tobacco. 1t is addressed
to young men, and boys especially. They
may read, or sing if they choose, and ir
will make them wiser and better men:
Air. -s.Susanna.-
I've thrown away my qlid and plug,
Ill bid my pipe farewell;
am resolved will be free
From all tobacco smell.
[cHoRUs.]
Farewell tobacco;
I'm no more your slave
A free man hencetorth shall be;
My cash I'm bound to save.
The man who chews for twenty years,
Has hard task 10 do;
Full hall a ton of this vile suff.,
The man has got to chew. [CHo.]
The guilds, II all we're saved, would be
A mountain pile to view!
The juice would fiji nine hogsheadS full;
Hear this, all ye that chew!! [CHo.]
Two hundred dimes year twill cost
Me. to support this vice;
| cannot stand such figures now,
| will not pay the price. CHo.]
1t costs so much, 'tis nasty too;
The practice | abhor!
And all that use the weed do look
As tho they were sent for [CHo.l
Come, one and all who hear my call,
And sign the pledge today;
Twill save your dimes IN these hard
times,
In sure it's going to pay.
Fare the well, Tobacco, SC.
Trhe piece may be sung. without the
chorus, to Aud Lang Sine.'l
A. J. SMITH.
Quileut. W. T., Aug. 6, 20.
, 1879-08-21
COMMUNICATED.
PoRT ANGELES, W. T., Aug. S, 70.

PoRT ANGELES, w. T., Aug. S, 70.
EDITOR ARGUS
As .ttle has been said about the funeral
of the old ship Washington Libby,
think SHE deserves few passing notes.
AT one time she was considered fine
slip, and many watched. her departure
and arrval-some with hopes OF gain,
others with hopes of seeing long absent
friends. A wise Providence picked out
place to rest her old bones, so that none
who composed her crew would loose their
lives. When will our government take
notice OF the many old ships that are
condemned by the assurance companies
and then fitted ont to carry coal or OTHER
cargoes which will founder them the first
gale they meet? have no doubt but that
the sweet little cherub that sits aloit was
wide awake, and took the first opportuni-
Nv TO save the life oil poor Jack, for, hdd
the vessel continued In the coal trade, you
would have SOON been called upon to
chronicle her loss with ''all hands on
board, - like the Grace Darling and many
Others could mention. 1t is time all
those old huIks had general ovcrhaulihg
aud were sent to the ''boneyard' Instead
Of being painted aud puttied up to be-
come coilins for many poor fellows.
Many old vessels are being fitted out from
our various sea-ports, with no care TO their
safe return, or tor the many poor sailors
who may be drowned. There will be
terrible reckoning some day, when all the
murdered sailors and passengers meet
their ship-owners and agents before that
tribunal which takes no bribe.