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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

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ALLioAroR iIDks are valuable, and
some Of our people arc combining
pleasure with profit BY shooting ALI.
gators.
KILLED HIS CnIcKEx.-Thc Method
list Christian Advocate contains tie
following: "a story is told II Mi
chigan about one Of the members OF
the Detroit Conference which is too
good to keep. He was spending a day
il the country. and was invited to
dine. They had chicken for dinner,
Of course, much TO the grief Of little
boy in the household, who had lost his
fayori'e ben to provide the feast. After
dinner prayer was proposed, and while
The preacher was praying a poor little
lonesome chicken came running under
the honse crying for its absent mother.
The little boz. could restrain himself
no longer. IIo put his month down to
q hole in the floor, and shouted !.
Peepy, peepy, | didn't kill your
mother They killed her for that big
preachers dinner The amen was
said very suddenlv.''
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15
EOR SALE.

RESIDENCE and ont houses, with lot
III measuring one hundred feet front, ny
two hundred feet deep, on Ryan street, be-
tween Broad and Min streets. The locality
Is q desirable one, and the buildings are new
and finished up In style. For further par
ticulars apply to the undersigned.
PETER BROTHERSON.
Lake Charles, La, June 4, 'S1.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

MErnoprsr SUNDAY ScHooI~-At-
tendance last Sunday: Officers, ri;
teachers, A scholars, 43 visitors, III
total, 81; collection, AS cents.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

PnlcR REpucED.J. w. Bryan &
Co. have. reduced the price Of their
sewing machines five dollars on all
grades.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

TnAxKs 10 Hon. G. b. Darrall for 4
copy of Uriied States Consular Re-
ports to August 1891.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

Thar WIDE AWAKE and enterprising
merchant, n. g. DIN, has 4 splendid
assortment Of general merchandise at
his store on Ryan street, and custoln-
ers ARE snre 10 find there polite attcn-
ton and very reasonable prices.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

JosEpH GEoRcE, of Lake Charles,
left last Thursday for Mobile, Ala, to
visit his father, who is in feeble health.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15
Atrayed.

A GENTLE roam pony or 7 years
~ old, branded about thus J'Q The
owner can get said pony by calling at
my ferry, Calcasieu, Ia. and paying
charges.
RILEY MOOER.
Nat @ 1901 n ~,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

GETTING orr oRossrTiEs for railroads
4 WY profitable and growing indus
W ii orr pine woods, and employs
several hu1dted IAborers, white Apd
eeloved. Last Tuesday eyeuiug forty
Are, snd "Wednesday tLirty-ope negroes
from sk Lsndry parish arrived here.
aad vent into tbe pine woods % cut
ties
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

PnoToGHAPHs all sizes taken in any
weather, at Albert's gallery.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15
MON uM.

4 PFIIGANT6 hi certificates Of
~ qualification h teach III tlae public
schools of Qaiosaien parish, viii pre-
sent alternatives fpf examination IN the
aeeoad of 9Q'lffh haiaFiqX 1T eaall
GhaigI4an ii 9osumiiieas
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

THANKS 70 4, Al, Lacy, Esq, oi Vim
cents Settlement, for present q
some very fine peas
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15
SEND All ONCE.

TIME MONTICELLO TIME6, nemaH
III cratic newspaper, will commence on 0c;
tpber 1T to publish q full and poJnpiete his
tory 81 the Generals af tho Northern Army,
and show them UP IN their true character "
Tho satisfaction 0f al 4 How Grant VIM
Carried on tile Battlefield prlilh, e tpgstfer
with 4 history ~ his 4 Eync.itive Tyranny n
z How Hayes was Counted iii \" 4 How GAR
tletd Waa Elcctad n tt Why Dnrsay was Not
ISN'T Hi tho fenitentlAry, ind otilpF AvaiGieH
Sand your names early VI order NJ get every
number. The greatest history pnbiished tn
tho shape 81 neNspapeF' Terms, on trial,
'''~ iHEy \ /. ANp b, !, ,,I,,,, ~
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

WV. g. FRIcKE, who always tries to
be seasonabIe buyer and reasonable
seller, has an immense variety Of lsitch-
en-, parlor and Office stoves, and il you
want to save money next winter now
i the time to buy them, while the
weather is warm, rs stoves are stoves
in cold weather Besides full line
Of family groceries, MI Fricke has a
great many other kinds Of merchan-
disc, and he sells very cheap for cash.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

cApgs. i, g, IIEasnnsRaEa and J.
G, HUM, LOCAL inspectors Of steam
vessels for Tie district o. Galveston,
Texas. wero IN town this week on on
ciAI business, Az usual, they stepped
Al The Lake House.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

6gEAn ting Alert commanded by
Capt, Horne, brought down tlis week
several hundred logs from Houston
river, which go to Burleson a Bro,
who now own and arc running The Eli
Perkins mill, about twelve miles below
Lake Charles.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15


a Omar GAME. -somc lii months
ago Young man, calling himself
Roland Melville, claiming 10 be New
Yorker and piano tuner agent for
Grunewald, Of New Orleans, landed al
Lake Charles. Claiming to be short
Of funds, his wants were supplied by
Robert King and Johannes Hendrick-
son, OF orr town, until he got employ
mcnt at Norris mills. Last Tuesday
week, while in town, he playfully
snatched twenty-five dollars from the
hands Of Mr.. Hendrickson, and made
off with the wealth. Mr.. nendrickson
thinks he carried the joke too far, as
nothing has been seen Of him since.
just before grabbing The money he
tried to induce Mr.. Hendrickson to
allow him TO take across the lake a
gold watch which was up for rattle,
saying be could get several chances on
IL there. Mr.. Hendrickson held on to
the watch, or Melville would probably
have taken all the chances on it.
--.-4-4---z------
A HuScRr ALLrG AroIL "A few days
ago, at the Kayough place on the Cal
casieu river, about eighteen miles be.
low Lake Charles, while a young lady
was washing sheet IL The river, at
the edge Of the bank, large alligator
seized the sheet and jcrkcil It out Of
her hands 50 suddenly as to pull her
into the water. She scrambled ashore
as soon as possible, while the alligator
swan down the riv@, and finding the
sheet not sufficiently solid food, drop
ped it and returned to tho point of
attack. The young lady's cries Of
alarm had in the meantime brought
her brother to the place, and with
blow with an ak he slew the saurian
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

STEAn tng Alamo brought down
this week from Marsh bayou, about
three thousand llewn ties, which are
sold 10 MI. n. D, Darilster, The eiii-
Client md eoIirteons agent Of The New
York, Texas and Aiexican Railroad
Company.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

OH and faded pictures enlarged and
restored, at Albert's gallery.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

GETTING REApy.--Goos & Co.'s
mills, and Norris mills, owing 10 the
scarcity Of logs, from low water, arc
being put IN thorough order for hard
and steady work when the fall rise
comes and brings down tic logs.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

TnE Steam tug Alert No, 2, com
manded by Capt. John G. Gray, has
undergone inspection this week, and ii
now coming down the main river with
o tow Of about twelve hundred logs,
Most Of them are for IIutci,ins q
O'Neil's, and Ryan a Gcary's mills; the
halanne far Perkins q Miller. N
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

Just received by ]. w. Bryan A
co,, Red Rnst proof oats for seed.
Baggies for sale by
j. w. Bryan e Co,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-10-15

IA Jill fEHB0NH ARE #AiiNiEI3
"A aat IL siepreaaie an Tho fsixfeent q, 1
Snetion' known ~ flsa salsesl SefliaH.
~, 3il IN
FseAidsai raglst spae6l Noaii',
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19
LAND SLIDES IN s SWTTzERLAND.
THE TERRIBLE DISASTER AT ELM-15t
PERSONS BURIED.

THE TERRIBLE DISASTER AT ELM-15O
PERSONS BURIED.
A letter from Geneva, September 16,
says the public mind has been grievous-
ly moved by the news of the catastrophe
at Elm, an Alpine village in the canton
of Glaris, about fifteen miles from the
chief town of the canton. Slate in large
quantities is brought from the small and
wild valley in which the village is stu
ated. The industry which made the in
habitants prosperous has at last proved
their ruin. 1t is now known that the
basis of the mountain which gave way
was lay yers of slate aud schist. The wa
Ter from the recent exec ptional rains
had permeated the soil, and caused the
layers to slide forward till their specific
gravity brought them down into the
valley. From the account given by a
spectator of the event, / gather the fol-
lowing particulars The higher parts Of
the mountain were seen to quiver like a
reed, and the forest to undulate like a
| field of wheat. All at once down came
the rocks and trees flying through the
air with the utmost rapidity, and driv-
| ing the atmosphere before them with
such extraordinary pressure that the
| largest trees, houses and men in the
open fields were carried away like chaff.
The Mayor of the district of Elm gives
list of III names of persons belonging
to sixty seven families of the valley as
having disappeared. 1t is known there
are more victims, many of them italian
workmcn employed in the quarries. and
that the totalnumher will be about $50.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19

AS race, bachelors are abused,
and why? Simply because they
are bachelors. Married men are
continually boasting of their happi-
ness. If they are happy why not
keep more quiet about it? But
they are always talking of the lone
illness Of bachelors. Loneliness in
deed Who is petted to death by
ladies with marriagable daughters q?
invited to tea and evening parties,
and told to drop in just when con-
venient? The bachelor. Who
lives in clover all his days, and
when he dies has flowers strewed on
his grave by the girls who couldn't
entrap him The bachelor. Who
strews flowers on the married man 8
grave? His widow? Well, not al
ways. Who goes to bed early be-
cause time hangs heavily on his
hands? The married man. Who
is scolded and called mean dog for
/ picking out the softest part Of the
bed and waking up the baby turn
ing out in the morning? The mar
ried man. Who has wood to split,
fires to build, house-hunting and
marketing to do, the young ones to
wash, and the lazy servants to look
after2 The married man. Who
is taken up for whipping his wife
The married man? Who gets di-
vorced The married man.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19
GRRER IN MIL KA UKKE
Milwaukee Sun.


By recent change in the curriculum
of the High Schools, Greek has been
dropped from the studies, though Latin
is still retained, and a city paper regards
the dropping OF Greek mistake We
think so too. Years ago we held old
fOgy notions upon educational matters
and though that English ought to be
taught in our public schools. 1t seemed
of the country and the English sciences
the only ones used in business, it could
do children no particular harm to teach
them a little English occasionally-not
too much, so that it would interfere with
their Greek, Latin, painting, drawing
and dancing, but enough so they could
buy two yards of factory cloth at eight
cents yard and feel satisfied in their
minds that the two yards came to six
teen cents. We were running a little
country paper at that time, and work as
hard as ever we might we could no
make any money, and we could not ac-
count for it. One day we dropped in
to a school examination, where Latin
was being peeled off in great fakes and
Greek VISA being talked like q man fl
ing a circular saw. We saw at one
where we were making our life faiIt
Eure and wasting our energies, and we
returned to the office, resolved to remedy
the defect. We opened on the public
in the next issue with plenty of Latin
and Greek, and the effect was wonder
full. The public had been suffering for
fust that kind of thing, and the edition
was exhausted. Subscriptions began to
pour in from all quarters we enlarged
the paper and came to Milwaukee, still
crowding its columns With Latin and
Greek. The public knows the rest.
Money has flowed in upon us $50 that we
have had 20 keep a man with splint
broom at the door to sweep it back.
This is what Latin and Greek has done
for us, and we can truthfully say that
we hadrather see boy able to write a
beautiful essay in Greek, and time, than
to see him hanged for horse stealing. 1t
Is more creditable to him.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19
TIE HILLS.
Communicated to the MorIistown Gazette
BY ELMO WILDWOOD.


Wherein lies the imposing grandeur of the hills
some element there is feasts the Frightening eye
Every sense of the beautiful and sublime, thrill
Every hushed sentiment of the Worshipping soul
In those dark deep realms of air, whose woodeC
SUBMITS roll -
Far ovor the world, and over the verge of EIIne.
Prophets, the wise men, the poets of elder days,
Sang the glory of the hills in their inspired lays
Gave immortality to lightest thought of them,
Enshrined in rapt syIables of celessI Il fire;
invested them with some strange sentiment desire,
Some great pure power, from steepling crown to
wooded hem.
And yet how small the sum those master barGs
have told
Of this magnifcence before me here unroIed!
Never rarest conceptions by great dreamers
Nor holiest devotion of the easel, spoke Wrought
The language of the hills; the hills they are
Gods thought,
That the cadences of time has never awoke.
There is Infnitude in these wonderful heights,
With their bastions, and pyramids, and shifting
lights.
And the bright river CLEANS where their broad
bases meet,
Aud canopy Of white-winged clouds scars above;
In vintage of purple they baths their brown feet,
and the blue heaven bends DER them softly love.
have wandered here, and for many lone day,
Among these hills: why, or for what, cannot say,
Unless for the pure love of them; but this know,
/ the gray of morning, at mid day, in the CLEAN
OF azure and gold of the sundown's last beam,
They hold me, and entrance me, wherever go.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19
orr NEW PRESIDENT.

Chester 4. Arthur, who has, as it
were, accidentally become President
of the United States, was born in
Franklin county, Vermont, October
5, 1880, making him now just fifty
one years old. He is the son of
Rev. VIM Arthur, a Baptist minis
ter, who came from Scotland to
America at the age Of seventeen.
President Arthur was educated at
Union College, Schenectady, New
York, graduating in the class of
1913, Like President Garfield, he
taught school after leaving college.
At the end of two years he had Five
hundred dollars. With that he went
to New York and began the study
oflaw. After being admitted to the
bar, he went West, with the inten-
ton of locating, but not finding a
suitable place to locate, returned to
New York and opened a law office
in the city, in partnership with
Henry Gardiner, personal friend.
Fl Whatever fame he had as a law
yer seems to have been based upon
the negro question. In 1852 he had
what is now the celebrated Lemon
Fugitive Slave case, and four years
later he brought suit for a colOred
woman for being put out of the
street cars in New York City. In
both cases the decision was in favor
of the negro.
He was a delegate to tie Sarato-
ga Convention that founded the Re
publican party. His title of Gener-
al was won during the war, not in
the field, but in equipping volun-
teer soldiers and forwarding them
to the front. In this capacity he
was appointed First Inspector Gen
eral, and then Quarter master Gen
eral, of Governor Morgan's staff. In
November, 1871, President Grant
appointed him Collector of the Port
Of New York. From this post be
was dismissed by his own party in
July, 1873, and went out of Office in
to what promised to be permanent
obscurity. In June, 1880, Mr., Ar.
thur received the Republican nom.
inatiOn Of President at the
Chicago Convention, and was elect.
ed to that office the following No
vember. He was selected by this
convention (and TO conciliate the
minority IN accordance with the
principles which govern political as
semblages, rather than for any
special qualifications in the man
And this nomination was what
brought him so suddenly to the
Presidency of the United States.
Personally, General Arthur il
said to be very popular, and he has
many warm friends He is still in
the legal profession, being the heaC
of the law firm of Arthur, Phelps
Knevals & Ransom. He is a wild
over, his wife having died some two
years ago. She was the DAUGHTER
of Lieutenant Herndon, an officer o.
the United States Navy. He hai
two children, one of them a lad O
seventeen and the other girl o
twelve.
In President Arthur's inaugura
address his assurances implied thai
in the discharge of his official duties
and in his efforts to advance the
welfaresof the country, he will adopr
the general line ofpolicy inaugura
ted SO auspiciously by president
Garfield. There seems to be M
good reason to doubt that Presiden
Arthur willmake complete chang,
in the Cabinet, and that, too, at /
much earlier day than was at frs
| expected.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19
THE WEALTH MR.. GOULD CON-
TROLS.
Springfield Republican

Jay,Could controls 11,714 miles
of railroad whose value, added to
the estimated value of other enter
prises he controls, is placed at $685.
100000. This is probably the larg-
est amount of capital swayed any
where by any one man; but the
fortune which gives Gould power
over it is well below the fortune oi
one man in this country, w. II.
Vanderbilt, and half a dozen or a
dozen men abroad.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19
WAS GARFIELD SUPERs717HOU8

President Hinsdalo, of Hiram
College, in an interview, was asked
as to the story sent out since Gar
field was shot that he always expect
ed to die at forty nine, President
Hinsdale said:
~ never heard anything Of it and
[ don't believeit. know that when
he went into the army he expected
to be killed. [ was once riding with
him from Hiram to Mantua after he
had enlisted and before he had gone
to the army, and he said to me that
he would never come home alive.
Said he:
"The bitterness of death has passed
to me-"
When asked as to Garfeld's re-
ported superstition, he said:.
"There is, [ know, foundation
for such stories but they do not come
from any superstition on hiss part.
He was curious in that way, and it
was curiosity more than superstition
that led to it. He had a long string
of them that wenty by forty-two.
There were forty-twO in the class in
which he graduated at Williams.
His regiment was numbered forty
two. When his little daughter died
in 1868, he measured her for burial,
and told me that she measured just
forty-two inches in length There
were lots of these condolences, and
ne had wonderful ingenuity in
working them out. For instance, l
have been with him at hotel, where
he was given room No. 81. He
would say, DO you see that? Six
tunes seven make forty-two.' He
had q check given him at the depot
numbered 1,246 He would say,
See there again. One and two make
three, three and four are seven, and
six times seven make forty-two.'
But then, any one who has ingen-
uity can get used to things of that
sort"
"Do you think Garfield had an
unshaken and abiding belief in a
hereafter
"I have no doubt of it. The last
time he spoke in Hiram in the
church he told of a conversation he
had had with a noted infidel, and he
went on and gave expression as to
the blankness and darkness an
Atheistic doctrine throws into the
life of man."
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19
1t is surmised by we'll informed

It is surmisod by a we'll informed
newspaper correspondent that Mrs.
Mary McElroy, wife of John E. Nc
EIroy, of Albany, n. Y, will be the
mistress of the White House under
the new administration. She is said
to be a lady of winning presence,
and is noted both for her culture
and her social charms. Mrs. Nc
EIroy is not at all fond of display,
preferring rather her own freside
and immediate circle. OF late she
has been calling often at New York
to look after the household matters
of Mr. Arthur Mrs. McElroy has
two children, a boy and a girl
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19
AN EDITORS ST'RA NGE PRESENT.
INTENT

There was something singuiarly
pathetic in the death of Mr.. w. B.
Horner, managing editor of the
Pittisburg Commercial Gazette. He
was prostrated with over-work on
the day after Gen. Garfield was shot,
and he conceived the idea that his
fate was wrapped up in that of the
President. On Monday night he
heard the bells tolling and knew
that the event which he regarded as
fatal to himself had come. He grew
rapidly worse, and died on Wednes-
day morning,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-19

1t is an interesting historic fact
that since the organization of the
Government there have been ap-
pointed by Presidents but seven
days Of humiliation and prayer and
national mourning, including Mon
day, September Goth. Before Lin
coins time there had been but two.
President John Adams appointed
one, and President Madison one.
At the request of both Houses of
Congress, Lincoln appointed the
last Thursday of September, 1861 !;
at the request Of the Senate, he set
apart April 30, 1868 and in accor-
dance with a concurrent resolution
of Congress, he appointed the first
Thursday of August, 1864, as days
of humiliation and prayer. Presi-
dent Johnson appointed May 25th
cas- day of humiliation and mourn
ing" The day was afterwards post
poned until June 1st. President
Arthur appointed the seventh and
last day in this brief calender.