The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-08-20
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From our Regular Correspondent.
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d sttS a aiofo or iAbuunkftt vi mug uSI In
], were commenced Immediately after tn
!, close of the Salon, and are now bein
:, actively carried on. Hundreds Of work
: men are engaged in erecting the nee
e cssary seandH, and already an enormou
: lighthouse rears it's head from the mid
]. die of an artificial basin, on which vii
5 float number of miniature craft. pro
: PEELED by electricity The Frcncl
railway companies will make an ilnpos
r ing show of Geographic apparatus
: Half the building will be occupied b,
| foreign exhibitors The most interest
ing feature of the undertaking vii
r doubtless be the illumination of the
palace by night, when every known
system of electric lighting is to com.
pete for supremacy. A tramway,
worked by electricity, will run from
the Place de la Concorde to the en-
trance of the Palais de I'Industrie.
! Henri Rochcfort is not at all en-
barrassed by the communication of Jessie
aelfmann's death sentence, although
weeks ago the Isstransigeant had in
formed the world that the unfortunate
woman had been murdered by her
gaslers. Now NJ. Rochefort declares
in his modest way, that her respite is
simply due not to the Car but TO him.
krapotkine, the Nihilist, told him so.
An INSCRIPTIONS swindlcr, whose
plan consisted in working on the SYM
pathies of the French. for the poor
inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine,
has been captured by the Paris police.
This man, named Escbenbrauncr, had
procured a list of benevolent persons
who habitually supported Asatian
charities, and, armed with forged
letter of recommendation, gave himself
out as collector for various funds. By
means of this system he had for some
weeks realized about twenty dollars
daily, but his manpuvres having
reached the ears of the authorities, he
was arrested while on one Of his nefa-
rous expeditions. This ingenious
swindlcr was in the habit of hiring a
cab by day, and leaving it in front of
a house with two exits, thus cheating
the driver of his fare.
NJ. Jules Simou's important amend
ment TO the Compulsory Education
Bill, running as follows: School
masters will teach pupils their duties
towards God and the country" came
on for discussion in the senate TO-DAY.
NJ. Ribiere opened the debate on be
half of the committee by urging the
senate to maintain the text as proposed
by the committee, in preference TO
the amendment introduced by NJ.
Jules Simon. NJ. Jules Ferry took an
active part in the debate, opposing the
motion on the grounds of its "incom-
pleteness and danger" The Minister
of Public Instruction objected to the
words "duties toward God" as being
at once too positive and too vague.
NJ. Jules Simon's text, lac declared, I
would naturally lead to the question,
"What God?" This argument of the
Prime Minister was too much for the
Right, who displayed great agitation,
and member exclaimed, ''Frenchmen
have only one God, that of the Chris
tian," The proposal, NJ. Ferry con
thu cd, would result in endless confu-
sion, and quoting Lord BeaconsGeld,
he said that to allow school teachers
TO comment on the Bible would be to
create an independent and very pow
erful sacerdotal class. NJ Jules Simon
replied in clever speech, urging the
senate TO insert his amendment 10 the
bill, in order that the duties of children
towards God should not be omitted,
which might be the case with the
original text. lie concluded: "In
voting for my amendment ] shall be
an act of profound re-
spect and alteration towards the God
whom / have proclaimed during fifty
years of teaching, and j am happy to
have this opportunity. Those who do
not like to initiate me arc free not to
ioso." The house then divided, and
BY amajority of thirteen votes adopted
NJ. Jules Simon's amendment. The
result Of the voting created much sen /,
'ation on account of the ,ardor with
which the amendment had been OPP
posed by the government.
The census showed a large excess Of 1
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