The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-12-16

| A cabooAe car on the Morgan road
was robbed at Tigerville, on Tue 7th
inst, Of all the valuabies ID NE car
The State Central Express thinks
the next governor of Louisiana should
come from the vicinity Of AlexapdFia.
Mayor Behan's choice for chief of
police Of New Orleans, Canl. Rowleys
has been elected to thai position by
the city council.
The Grand Council Of the United
Friends Of Temperance Of this state
will meet in VermiIionyilie on the 17sh
Of January next
R.R. Psrry's plantation, Al Perry n \
bridge, VermiIion parish, was recsntly
sold to Messrs. G. B. Shaw and ". 2.
Lyons, for $500.
The st. Landry Democrat says tho
cotton crop is turning out finely and
the farmers are taking advantage Of
the good weather 70 gather i il,
Several parties supposed 10 BE- i'm
plicated in the recent hanging Of pa
vid n. Lee, Franklin parish, were All
rested last week and the matter il be-
ing Investigated.
The Baton Rouge Truth says For
the week ending December Sd, 4so
bales Of cotton were shipped, with 2e
hogsheads and l24 barrels Of sugar;
also 5o7 barrels Of molasses.
Eight hundred and eighty-fso par
sons wero jailed, five hundred and for
ty-one paupers lodged, and six children
restored to their parents, dnring tie
month Of Novenbor, ii New Orleans.
A destitute and sick stranger named
Dayson died one day last week. a.
Morgan City, from neglect. After
death It was discovered that he was
Mason and his home in San Jose, H.
Gen. Leon Jsstromski has taken the
field to work Up boom for Che con
gressional nomination for himself III
the sixth district. The General Il al
able man and an indofatigablc worker.
The Desoto Democrat says sixty.
four and half bales Of cotton per day,
during the past week, was good for
Mansfield, when the bad weather ia
the carly part Of the week is con
sidered.
John Morgan, 4 blood-thirsty white
man, shot and killed tive negroes On
the 9Th inst, near Miadcn, one for
asking for money due him and the
other just for the fun Of the thing.
Morgan escaped,
Col, Z, w. Robertson declines to
be candidate for reelection to con-
gress from the sixth district. He says
he has been recipient Of the pargs'a
favor long enough y CRAFTY thc am
bition Of any reasonable man.
", T. Curry, 4 clerk at Casopyille,
Morehouse parish, was assassinated on
Ihe 9th inst. BY Tom Roboraeu,
drunken negro who had been whipped
during the same day BY Curry. The
negro escaped, Curry was a nephew
If Senator Morgan Of Alabama.
Thirty-fve clerks IN the dry goods
store Of p, II, Holmes, New Orleans,
recently abandoned eirposts ef duty
because one Of their number had been
discharged, The proprietors Of the
,tore reinstated the clerk and tho
strikers went TO work again
The Capitolian, Advocate says there
IRE four persons in the little town Of
Jackson, whose ages average 4 little
,ycr 90 years. All four Of them use
obacco in its various forms, one q
hem Is tetolcr, ono seldom drinks. n
,hird drinks when he feels disposed
md the fourth whenever he can GET
he wherewith.
The Federal grand jury il session
n New Orleans has been raising
errible racket among the halIot-box
tnffers and illegal voters. The gem
lemsn who engaged in this kind 81
irookedness viii find out before the
ouFts are lhraugh with them that il
sp't such a terribly faany business n
hey supposed \ was,
DR. Hamilton, the supervising aaR
,eon.general, Is anxious 10 cemmence
he building Of tho IT s, marine hos.
'ital at New Orleans, but there Is
mortgage Of $4,000 on The proportv
ghicll i is proposed e purchase and
N which the hospital is 10 be erected
This will sooR be arranged aud baiIa
ng commenced Ny February lst.
james q Sheridan, postmaster II
ifosler station, On Tie NAV Orleans
nd Pacific railroad, was rup nreF ansl
iIlcd % shs night Of slla s4ll int 81
freight train, ile was standing near
be tFain NAea i moved of, and tlIs
ind blew the corner Of 4lia9 be
Nd ep agsinst q wheel, which hnpaee
ptaaglad and threw him nadef llle
fain
Ihe British steamship GaflAal's
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