The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-06-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

1 Onlo democratic state convention
assemblies July 20.
The wheat crop of Tennessee will
exceed expectations.
Oregon went Republican by ma
jority of from 600 to 100.
E. A. Oneal is the Democratic nom
inee for governor of Alabama.
The Brookfcld bank robbers, four
in number, have been captured.
Reduction works are in process of
construction at El Paso, Texas.
The army worm is devastating the
wheat fields in portions of Ohio.
A reduction for the past year of
| $l50,000,O0O in the national debt is
not bad showing.
A new telegraph company, with a
capital of S2l 600, 600, has been or
ganizcd at Chicago.
o. Prentiss, of the Nashville Morn
ing World, has been arrested and Jail
ed for having too many wives.
William Peak, father of the once
famous family Of bell-ringers, has been
sent to Jail at Goshen, New York, as a
vagrant. -. ....
A Georgia paper says the gold-min-
ing interest in the northern portion of
the state is advancing, and the pros
pect has never been SO fattering.
The Irish bishops, while condemn
ing the recent dastardIy murders in
Ireland, are of the opinion that the
government is solely respousibly.
Walter Davis, well-known printer
of Chattanooga, was killed with cro-
quet mallet, at picnic near that place,
on the 10th, by VIM. B. Clayton.
A Colorado man has written to
Guiteau offering to do that little neck
tie jop for him and give him $1,000 for
the privilege. Guiteau is mad about it.
In Cambria county, Pa, there are
two springs only few feet apart, one
of them finds it way into the Atlantic
Ocean and the other into the Gulf of
Mexico.
President Arthur has been spending
restless nights for fear the Maine Re-
publican convention, which meets next
Tuesday, will refuse to indorse his ad-
miDistration.
A number of Russian Jewish refu-
gees have been located at Vineland, n.
J. Land has been purchased for them
and a bill has passed the house to loan |
them 1000 army tents.
1t is reported that Senator Wade
Hampton is weary of life at the capi-
tai and that he will doubtless be can
didate for governor of South Carolina.
His people will humor him.
If Queen Victoria reigns five years
from the goth inst, she will have been
queen fifty years. Only
three English sovereigns have exceed
ed Victoria's reign in length.
The Chicago News estimates that
there is more money spent in that city
for liquor than for schools, churches,
boots and shoes and clothing by the
entire population of the city.
Guiteau says his only hope now is
hat President Arthur will commute
ais sentence. He says Arthur will not
lare refuse. Thirteen days more and
le will suffer the penalty of his crime.
Mrs. Caspar Seyboldt, a well known
ady of Chicago, administered strych-
line to her four children, dressed them
or burial after death, and then fell
lead from the effects of the same drug.
The New Orleans Daily Item closed
he fifth year of its existence last Sun
lay. Though small in size it lacks
,reat deal of being SO in ability. 1t
5 among the ablest edited dailies in
he South.
T. A. Fowler, foreman of the Hous-
on Post, has been elected second vice
resident of the international Typo
.raphical Union. Fowler is one of
he ablest aud best known printers in
he South.
Michael Dayitt wants the British
overnment to put stop to the Irish
roubles by buying the lands from the
,ndlords and leasing it to the people
t reasonable figures. He estimates
lat it would require fl4o,oOo,o0o.
At Homer, La, on the 10th, James
henderson killed his father-in-Iaw,
,ichard Love. uenderson's wife com
lained of her husbands i'll treatment
, her father, and the old gentleman ,,
tempted to chastise Henderson, with
ie above result, !
One hundred years ago last Satur- /
ay Col. VIM. Crawford was burned at :
le stake, near Sandusky, Ohio, by The 4
delaware Indians. The centennial an 1
iyersary was duly celebrated by the /
nople Of that section. Ey-President :
ayes and Generals Gibson and Lee i
ere present.
Saline Valley, Inyo county, Califor- 0
IA, is one of the most remarkable i
aces in the state. 1t is an immense
asin, say twelve by twenty-five miles i
size, surrounded on all sides by il
ountains. At the lowest point Of de i
-ession is found some 1900 acres Of i
Ire salt--milhons of tons of it, glis- 4
ming like crusted snow. b
A desperate miner, named Smith, Fl
ON New Mexico, was arrested at 81 81
aso, Texas, the other day, on some v