The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-06-10
GENERAL NEWS IrESIs.

25, ,546.
The oat crop in some parts of Geor-
gia averages one hundred bushels to
the acre.
A negro murderer at Newbern, N.
c., has been acquitted on the grounds
Of insanity,
The Knights of Labor, of Pennsyl-
vania, have repudiated the Green
back ticket.
For the week ending June 8, there
we're twenty-four deaths from yellow
fever at Havana.
Thenoted Italian general, Giuseppe
Garibaldi, died at his home at Ca
prera, on the I'd inst
Michael Davitt will visit Boston on
the 18th inst, to attend the Centen-
NAL Irish celebration.
The strike among the boiler max
ers in Brooklyn, n. Y, has ended in
the success of the strikers.
Three hundred thousand dollars
have been subscribed in Selma, Ala,
toward building cotton factory.
Postmaster-General Howe favors
the transmission through the mails
of newspapers and magazines free.
A large number Of Jewish cxilcs
from Russia are in New York wait
ing for homes to be provided for them.
Much suffering among the laboring
classes of Pennsylvania will be the
result Of the great strike ill that
state.
Work on the New Orleans and Mis-
sissippi Valley railway has COM
menced aud is being pushed vigor-
ously.
During a riot at Joliet, H., on the
ID, Judge Pittsbury of the Appellate
court, was shot in the head. The
wound is fatal one.
A base ball game played at Mem
phis, betwenn the New Orleans Lone
Stars and the Memphis Reds, result.
ed in victory for the Reds.
Ten Kickapoo Indians living on
reservation in Atcheson county, Kan
sas, have been naturalized by the
United States court at Topeka, and
are now full American citizens.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania
want to run Gen. W. S. Hancock for
governor. The general, however,
has doubtless had enough of politics,
and will prefer to remain where he is.
A negro desperate named Wade
Beed shot and killed Capt. John
Reeves, his employer, near Leesville,
Ark, on the the 4th. Capt. Reeves
had reprimanded him for leaving the
gate open.
Drunken negro rioters set fire to
the town of Epes, Sumpter county,
Ala, Sunday night. The principal
business houses were totally destroy
ed. Nine Of the miscreaDts have
been arrested.
Twenty-Five years servitude in
the chain-gang is the sentence pass
ed upon an American at Fernando de
Noronha, an island in tile South At |
Iantic, 1875 miles east Of Brazil. Muir |
der was the crime.
1t is said that the road from New |
Orleans to Memphis will run through
a portion of the richest country in |
the South. Construction contractors |
have commenced work between ViCks- |
burg and Baton Rouge.
A masked mob took George Ellis |
from the Catlettsburg, Ky, Jail on |
the Sd, and hung him. Ellis had been
seutenced for life for participation in |
the murder and outrage of the Glib
bons girls last December.
A special from Chibnahua, Mexico,
reports a fight between the Mexican
troops and the Apaches. Thirty-seven
Indians aud fourteen soldiers were
killed. Mexico seems determined to
get rid of this portion Of her popuIa-
ton.
Alexander II. Stephen, if he should
live so long, is certain to receive the
Democratic nomination for governor
of Geogia. We don't know what is
to become of the state of Georgia
when Mr.. Stephens lease on life ex-
pires, which can't be very far off.
Memphis has quite a respectable
sized debt hanging over her, being |
-, laes 4ban "a 2nO O0O Al nor