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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17
Mazne.s madaIe-

Augusta, Jan. H.. Ebenezer spronl,
of veazie, has brought suit against Z.
Pillsbury, proprietor OF the Maine
Standard. for libel. The action is
based on an article in Pillsbury's pa
per, charging sproul with bribery.
It is intimated tonight that the
programme of the Fnsionists will have
either Eugene Hale or Prof. Young
arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms, and
brought into the House to make a
uuorum. 1t now seems utterly impos-
sible to get quorum without the aid
of Republicans, and failure to do so
TINS far has only strengthened the Re-
publicans in their position.
The Fusionists viii exhaust every
means of legally slecting Governor
and Council; but how such election
can be had, or how, if had, it viii be
regarded by Gen. Chamberlain is not
known. There is general impress
sion that members from disfranchised
cities win soon be allowed to take
seats. Prominent Fusionists applied
to Gen. Chamberlin on Saturday for
the discharge from duty of the Angus
TIA police in charge of the State-H House,
expressing the belief that the public
property was not in danger. Gen.
Chamberlain replied that if he dis
charged the police he should order
two companies of militia to take their
place. The gentlemen thereupon with
drew their request.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17

We heartily approve of the follow
ing editorial of the N. %. City Item of
the 18th instant, with the remark that
it applies to the election, by the Cen
eral Assembly, of circnit Judges for the
entire State. The idea of candidates
for these high offices laying around
the Senate and House Hobbies, and
caucuses, electioneering for jndgeships,
and being subject to secret caucus nom
nations, is simply monstrous. Itwould
have been infinitely better to have had
these circnit Judges elected by the peo-
Pile, at the ballot box. I'm IN pure, able,
and politically nntrammeled Judiciary,
lies the last hope Of the people for a
constitutional and honest administra-
1ion of the government. Let there be
NO caucns nominations for circnit
Judges, and let the General Assembly
elect them as soon as possible, and let
their election be guided alone by con-
siderations of their competency and
incorruptibility:
q There is great deal of canvassing
with the members of the Legislature
by candidates for the city places in the
Court of Appeals. The usual election
eering lodges and trades and combin-
atoms are sought to be employed in
favor of certain candidates. fact
which in itself ought to be sufficient to
condemn them in the minds of men
who hold proper appreciation of the
dignity and serions responsibilities of
these exalted positions.
(" The General Assembly was entrnst-
ed with the selection of this powerful
and important tribunal of Justice, on
the theory that judges of most eminent
fitness could be more surely selected.
We earnestly tInst that this belief and
hope will prove to be well founded.
Men OF q pure past, of suitable age and
of nndoubted legal learning, alone
should receive any consideration, and
the mere suspicion of connection with
politics! rings or cliquss ought to be
enough to at once cast them outside
the plea of possible selections.
"Above all things, let onr people en-
ter the new era which the present con
stitution inangurates with q pure and
nntrammelled judiciary"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17
Progress OF sIse lRnIlrend 10
Texns.
Louisiana suaar-Bowl.l

Last Saturday MIR. Vim. Cantine re
turned from Lake Charles, and Mr.. Il.
L. Shaw came from west of Poupevilie,
and from them we obtained the follow
ing information:
Between Vermilionville and Mer-
mentau river, distance of about thir-
ty-eight miles, there then remained but
four miles of road-bed to grade-at
Bayou Blanc--and as $50 convicts
were engaged in this work, the work
will probably be completed in a few
days.
Between the Mermentau and Lake
Charles the grading is all complete, and
eighteen miles of track had been laid
eastward this side of Pine Island.
Work on the bridge over the north
end of Lake Charles is progressing rap
idly, and when the cars run passengers
will have magnificent view, embracing
the whole of the round lake and the
town of Lake Charles. This bridge
will be one of the most substantial ever
built. The piers are surrounded with
immense iron tubes, and the masonry
work inside SO thoroughly cemented
that it will be everlasting. From the
shore each end of the bridge is sus-
pended to the first pier.
From Lake Charles to the Sabine, a
distance of about thirty miles, the track
is all laid except over eight miles inn
mediately east of that river, where it
is graded. From the Sabine to the
town of Orange, eight miles, the track
is all laid, but the bridge over the Sa-
bine is not yet completed.
1t is expected the cars will be run
ming from Houston to Lake Charles in
two months, and as the iron to COM
plete the Louisiana Western Railroad
to VcrmilionyiIle is now all at the
mouth of the Calcasien, we have no.
doubt the entire road viii be completed
by June 4, or sooner.
We last Saturday visited the scene
of operations on the Morgan Railroad,
at the crossing of Bayou Vermilion,
and found that Capt. Dowdell has
about fifty men engaged in leveling mp
the old road bed, which has been badly
washed, while another gang are at worl:
completing the bridge. Only the draw
to admit the passage of boats remains
to be erected.
The line from New Orleans is now
to near Broussardville, about
seven miles from Vermilionviile.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17
The AAsarderOsas DecSls of n
Maniac.

Galveston, Jan. a.-To-morrow's
News will publish the following special
from Cambridge: NJ. A. Seay, who is
supposed to be insane, went to the resi-
dence of J. N. ILadd, ten miles east of
here, and shot Ladd dead without the
least proyocation. Thence he went to
Ssnnel Tnbbs' house and shot him five
times. Tubbs is not expected to live.
Seay then went to Logan's farm and
Informed Logan of what he had done,
and before heconld be prevented placed
q pistol TO his own head and blew out
his brains.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17
M e M o RIAL
To the General Accessibility Or
Sxa1e nc Ysnrz - 49,.

aI'he condition and valno =
Public School lands, and fha;a
availability for school purnoaas )
being under consideration II H.
Board of School Directors of nalea
sieu Parrish, La, ait the regnlar
meeting of October 9TH, 1879 4hs
following preamble and resolutims
were adopted:
"Whereas, the Free School land.
or 18th Sections, situated in man.
portions of Calcasieu parish. bara
been of considerable value. ana
might, at any time during several
years past, if judiciously disposaa
of, have yielded q fund which wonld
have greatly advanced the practieal
working of the popular free school mi
system, of this State, in Calcasiep
parish, and are now of some yalna
though much deprecated, and ara
still rapidly depreciating; and
aWhereas, all previous legisla.
ton on the subject of the tlisposal
of such lands has manifested more
zeal for securing the benefits thereof
to legitimate purposes, than wis
dom in providing an economical
and practicable mode of disposing
thereof, and has in reality placed
this vast property In such condi-
ton as to render it altogether an
available, and to destroy the object
Of a munificent donation; and
"Whereas, an early disposal az
said 10th Sections is necessary to
the end that any proceeds What
ever may be derived fkerefresa-
Therefore, be 1t Resolved.
LIST. That a committee off fiFn
members of this Board beappofntea
by the President Thereof. whose
duty it shall be to memosialize The
General Assembly Ell this State, ATT
its next session, ca tine sHhieet of
the above preamble, and desire
early action or THE part of said
Honorable body, tending TO remedy
the great evils existing i'm the pses-
emit laws ON the sahseet Oh lease and
sale of school lamis throughout the
State, and particularly fsE the relief
of the schools Of this parish.
"2dly. That 0nB Representa-
tives in both HORses of said Hon
orable Assembly be furnished with
a copy hereof, iand Ire particularly
requested to use every means IN
their pewer To bsfag about this DO
sired reform in oag laws.
"The President appointed as
such committee Messrs. Allen Gilly,
s. d. Read, Levi Eliender, w. 4.
Gill and i. A. Perkins.
ION motion OF Mr.. Gilly, the
President was added to the COM
mittee."
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17
LAKE CHARLES,
Calrasieu Parish, La,

ban. I4tli, l66U-
To tine Hon. Representatives and
Senatorsof the State of Louisiana,
in General Assembly convened:
We, the undersigned and above
named members of the committee
specially appointed bereumto, do
most respectfully lay before your
Honorable Body the foregoing pre-
amble and resolutionsof the School
Beard of orr fJalcaxien} PARISH,
and earnestly request that the same
may have s1o,,r serious, full ana
careful consideration, and that ~
early and effective action gon may
afford such relief in the premises ~
your wisdom may suggest.
LIN case such action as VIII place
all school lands of this State N
market, for sale or other purposes,
within the shortest possible delay
may be thought inexpedient at ne
present time, then, for the benent
of public schools, we FespeetfnIly
request that all those sections ~
school lands lying contiguous or
convenient to water COURSES, w
made the object Of your special 20
tice and care. We pledglng OUT
Judgment that, as D consequence q
early and eftectivelegisla action q,
i'm this matter, vast benefits WIZ
n - "a Il u IL M
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17

That new cotton spinning device,
entitled the AClement Attachment, =
appears TO be rapidly gaining favor in
Georgia. The attachment is connected
with the gin, and by a single AID sim
pie process turns the lint into yarn,
and doubles the value Of the crop. If
all that is said Of it be true, tits almost
;as important to the interests of the
South as the cotton gin itself. In. o.
City Item.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17
Trapping Rsaas.
ICouutry Gcntleman.l


A Wisconsin correspondent OF the
n. Y. Tribune gives the following mode
which he has successfully adopted:
Having lurcd to destruction many
old Solomons among rats, / wiB detail
my plan: Take pan nearly full of
bran, set small steel trap without any
bait, put light wad of tow or eotton
under the pan Of the trap, which press
down so it is just ready to spring /; put
the trap in the bran, making place
with the hand, so that it may be below
the surface when level; lastly, scatter
few kernels Of corn on the bran
pumpkin seeds are better), and you
are ready for Your victim. i hardly
ever fail to fool some of the ripgleaders
in this way, while younger tenes are
easily caught. If "P." cannot thus
,circumvent that shy and cunning old
specimen, 4 will give him my plan with
strychnine, which is as swift with rats
as with dogs.
So much for the Wisconsin rats.
We cannot but think that the "old
Solomons' out there are not half SO
wise or cunning as someswe have en-
countered at the East. Some years
ago the rats made bad havoc in our
cellar, and we resolved to try the eff
cacy of the steel trap. 1t was set in a
large fiat vessel, and well covered and
hidden with bran. We were more eau
tions than the writer above, for we
nsed q large spoon to move the bran,
fearing the rats might smell the touch
of fingers and keep away. Small bits
of cheese were then dropped over all
parts of the bran and over the covered
trap. The next morning sssi4are were
tracks Of rats all over the surface, err
'cept aoAere the trap a0as buried; and
the cheese was all taken, except directly
.ouer the trip. We were compelled to
resort to a more effectual trap, which
proved quite successful--in the shape
of a fine old tom cat.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17

Memphis, Jan. I. Peter Meath and
Ed. Leonard, firemen, killed at ines
day nights fire, were buried this morn
ing. All the district Offices were closed
from TO to o'clock. "A squad OF po-
lice, headed by the chief attorney, act
ed rs d guard Of honor. "a movement
is on foot to raise q fund for Leonard j
widow, who il IN destitute circumstan-
scas.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17

This is glorions times. The farmers
of Booster parish are making herculean
efforts to pay their debts, and are sue
sceeding beyond the expectations Of
the most sanguine. Many are paying
of old scores Of years standing, and
all seem 70 want to commence the
new year with clean slate. Bossier
Banner.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17
Wax.InOaEass Claim.
New Orleans Picayune.

The election returns, as transmitted
officially to the Secretary of State, for
the office of Senator for the First Sem
atorial District, are being examined
into by experts in the interest of ex-
Gov. Warmoth, who was returned as a
defeated candidate for that position.
The experts claim that they have
already discovered frauds, whereby the
originals were never transmitted to the
proper authorities, and that proof will
be established in the contest showing
that ex-Gov. Warmoth was elected
Senator from the First Senatorial
District.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17
THr MARIE ImHRoan1o.Last Mon

The MAINE IMHR0sLIo.--Last Mon
day evening, after the fusion legisla-
tnre had adjourned for the day, the
republican senators andrepresentatives,
including those counted out, quietly
marched into the State house, organ
lied both branches of the general as
sennbly, and adjourned till next day.
Since then Maine has enjoyed the novel
spectacle Of two Legislatures in daily
session, and IS likely soon to have two
Governors. Nobody hurt.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17
A Large ksesaest to a School

Cleveland, o., Jan. 9.-Leonard Case,
whose death was recently announced,
has left $3.50, 600 for the establishment
of a school to be called the =" Case
School of Applied Science"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17

Gov. Wilt has an opportunity of
sendefing himself popular and oanfer-
ring Ilaating benaiit y the people Of
louisiana
By appointing Gov. Nidh0lIs TO the
supreme bench he will bestow d Mor-
thy compliment aapop Ills Immediate
predecessor, and rcoeive the applanse
mid heartfelt thanks of fourslifths .of
1lae voters who alected him 10 his high
and IeHpanslhle positiep, hihoaaux
Sentinel.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17

Hundreds Of enengaged in politics
are not bad at heart They would be
Wiling 80 get IA honest living If they
could got il without work.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17

When = man il out OF money any
cnange that may come To him Is for
the better
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17

There II something high+tonad abou
HiaIlrsh bells.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-01-17

BASE IEGRATITuDE AND RoBBERy.~--
ON New Years eve, Mr.. Luke Landry,
living near Jeannerette, was robbed of
$500 lprocseds of his whole years
work) by Louis Leblanc. q young man
who lived in his family and had been
treated as one Of its members. The
base villain Ned and was eanght on
.tanene Tnrtnc, the money recovered,
and he was brought back to lie Pianant,
when he made bis escape. LA. Sugar
Bowl.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-29
IN FIRLE PARK.

found . fairy-land to-day,
A wonder>world not far away;
crossed no seas, climbed no heights,
! spent no toilsome days nor nights;
came not to II In my dreams,
Nor fancies born of morning beams;
trod the earth. breathed the air,
The known fields were my neiRhbors there;
Yet such a hallowed place found,
Islanded from the world around.
The trees o'erreach from either side
A moesgrown path, not overwide;
1ts windings seen little space,
Then lost IN boughs that interiace.
Soon as Isaw owned the spell;
Ny feet IN quiet reverence fell;
For there were moses and long grass,
Catching at sunbeams as they pass;
And many leaves, new leapt from earth,
Green from their fresh and dewy birth.
But oh. that I could tell the sight
That flooded all my soul with hghtI
There. mid green leaves luxuriant, grew
Vfolets-a hundred eyes Of blue.
Each cluster seemed q fairy band,
Each nest Of leaves fairy-land;
And all the air was odorous
With joys no words can tell to us,
With every unimagined thing
We dream of in the days of Spring.
Alas how small boon are words,
By the wild rapture OF the birds. ,--I-r F.
Had a blackbird's song, perchance
Zen Imtaht make your spirit dance, 49,
Your You. soul be thrilled little space
With my sweet memories Of that place.
Now, with weak words 1 strive in vain;
Into my breast they turn again;
And, all unwillingly, my heart
Feeds on her heavenly Joys apart.
=. W. BoruQlon, In Spectator.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-29
NIhilistic Revelations.

A Nihilist trial in Kieff has resulted
in q number of revelations concerning
the way the Russian revolutionists go to
work. The accused, who has been con-
demned to death, one Arsaynee Bogo-
slavsky. the son of q clergyman. was
charged with an attempt to rob a mail
van and to appropriate the cash-box of
q regiment of infantry, with manufact-
uring explosive materials, with muir
dering a fellow Socialist, Kuriloff, and
with dwelling in Kieff with false pass
port. The murder of Kuriloff, one of
their own, was decided upon because he
was believed to have been, betraying
his friends. He was fallen upon by the
latter and shot, and his body flung into
the Dnieper. According to one Of the
witnesses, an ex-Nihilist, the chief of
their association is invested with the
right of life and death over the mem
bers. For the first case of disobe-
dience, corporal punishment is the pen
atty; for the second, death. Accord
ing to the same and another ex-Nihilist,
one of their fellow members had been
the son of q Prince. The sum contrib
uted by the laboring classes for the
support Of the association was twenty
per cent. of their wages.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-29
Women Census Takers.

In many parts of the country women
will be appointed as census enumer-
ators, with the probable result some
thing like this:
Neatly-dressed woman, of an uncer-
tain age, with big book under her arm
and pen in hand, rings the door-bell.
Young lady appears at the door.
Census Good morn
ing. Lovely morning. Pm taking the
census. You were born--?"
Young Lady" Yes'm." ,
"Your name, pleaseP What pret-
ty dust cap you have on. Can l get
the patternP It's just like the one the
lady in the next house has. Let's see.
your nameP" t-F sH
II haven't the pattern. Don't you
get awful tired walking round taking
the censusP' -a--
"Oh, yes. it's wearisome. but pick
up great deal of information? How
nice your dinner smells cooking. Plum
puddingP"
"In Maine. No, Haven't plum pud-
ding to-day. I'm looking for new re-
cipe-"
"Pve got one that I took down from
lady's cookbook across the way. Are
you marriedp" .a. ~ 4
"No. Want an invitation to the
wedding, don't your 1t will be long
time before you get it. You can keep
your plum-pudding recipe, thank you"
81 sh'd think 'twould be a long time.
This hall carpet is just the pattern of
Aunt Prudy's. She's had it more than
twenty years. How many are there in
the familyi" % 'si.---a a.5s's5
"If this hall carpet don't suit you,
you can get off from it and go about
your censusing." =. =.
"Well, you're an impudent jade,
anyhow. You haven't told me when
you were born or what's your name. or
when You expect to get married, and
there's ten dollars fine for not answer
ing census tskers' questions, and if l
was you wouldn't be seen at the door
in such slouchy morning dress, so
there" ...-H. sod 'r..s-rr - .
"Oh, you hateful thing. You can
just go away. I'll pay ten dollars just
to get rid Of you, and smile doing it.
It's none of your business, nor the CEN
suses' either. No, it isn't. You can
keep your pattern and your plum pud-
ding and your saucy, impudent qucs-
tions to yoursef-I-I-"
"Good morning. / must be getting
on. I haven't done but three families
all the forenoon" and an energetic
bang of the door just missed catching
foot of her trailing dress skirts
NeD HdUcn Register. 40
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-29

them gain on him. and then time the
speed till they collidedp 1t was q
desperate experiment, but he would try
it. Slowly and very carefully he took
off the steam, and ran slower. In
moment he had the speeds Just alike.
Then he made the pace of the engine
little less, and q little less, while the
roaring and swaying train came nearer
and nearer. Both were still flying
down the grade at a fearful pace. The
men on the cars watched the engine
sharply. They saw what the engineer
meant to do. II he succeeded, he
would save their ives-provided he
could let the cars strike the engine,
could hitch on, and then pull ahead be-
fore, the train behind smashed into
them from the rear. On and on flew
train and engine. Slowly they drew
nearer, and at last they bumped with a
gentle jar. The fireman was on the
pilot all ready to couple on. He drop
ped the pin in the coupling, and the
men on the car gave a ringing cheer
that was heard above the roar of the
train; and the engineer a opened the
throttle wide, and away they dashed
down the grade. just in time to escape
the train behind.
Ihe men wanted TO climb down on
the engine to shake hands with the en-
gineer;- but he motioned them back.
The danger was not over. One of the
men stood on top of the caboose, with
his back to the engine and his arms ex-
tended. One of the others held him up,
for the cars swayed frightfully in the
terrible pace they were going. He
watched the train following behind, and
with his hands made motions to the en-
gineer to run slower and slower, till,
with crash, the two parts of the train
came together. The feat was not so
successful as the first, as the engineer
could not see the rear cars. The en-
gine was reversed. and the brakes put
on, and they came to a stop--nOt q
wheel offthe metals, and not a man hurt.
Two of the cars were badly smashed,
but that was all. What had threatened
to be fearful disaster, with q loss of
men, engine and cars, was only q slight
splintering of two cars that the carpen-
tiers could repair in day. They had q
general shaking of hands alone there in
the woods over the engineers splendid
feat; and for months it was told to list
ening men in every fiag-station and
freight-house along the line how the
brave and cool engineer brought his
engine down the seventeen-mile grade.
Charles Barnard. in Rarper's Young
PeODke
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-29
The Planting and Care Of Trees.

There is no use planting trees and
thinking they are going to take care of
themselves after being stuck out; they
will do no such thing: they must have
else' they need feeding. pruning; scrap
ing.perhaps-and the general over
plant trees this spring, make up your
mind just what you want. and get the
experiences of your neighbors as to the
kinds that succeed best in the neighbor-
hood. Send your orders to some re-
sponsible nurseryman. Take time, and
do the work thoroughly. as it is the
--Chyistinn at Work,