The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-06-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Cincinnati has the smallpox.

best she has ever harvested.
The river and harbor bill calls for al
appropriation of sls,ooo,o0O.
Two, thirds of the town of Kingston
Mo-, has been destroyed by fire.
Jas. H. Berry is the Democrati
nominee for governor of Arkansas.
A Texas cowboy was legally hanget
at Albuquerque, N. NJ, on the 10th.
Republicans concede the next hous
of representatives to the Democrats.
One lynching week has been Ken
tucky's average for some months past
In Pope county, Ark, David Sun
day and wife, coiored, while working
in the field, were killed by lightning
The mountains in Swain county, il
western North Carolina, are said to bt
of solid marble, red, pink, pIaided and
black.
A Mormon elder has been getting
in his work in Bastrop county, Texas
and has started a church with eight
converts.
A monument is to be erected in San
Francisco to the memory of Rev. Isaac
Owen, the pioneer of Methodism in
California.
Galveston had regular prize fight
Sunday, between two local gladiators,
The police interfered aud captured the
whole party.
The great Irish agitator, Michael
Davitt. who has spent years in Eng
lish dungeons, arrived in New York
on the l7th.
The president will likely veto the
japanese indemnity bill, as passed by
the senate, which directs him to pay
over to Japan $785,oO0.
A general strike of freight handlers
was inaugurated at New York, the
other day. An increase of seventeen
cents per hour is demanded.
The Milwaukee wis. authorities,
have opened war on the gamblers, and
say they will not stop until the last
gambler is driven from the city.
Mrs. Miller procured a divorce at
Boone, Iowa, and an hour later mar
ried again, while her ex-husband was
simultaneously united to her sister.
1t is stated that the stalks of the
cotton plant are susceptible of being
converted into valuable food for stock
by cutting them into small pieces or
them.
An Italian meeting, attended by
prominent Americans, was held at
Washington City, recently, to arrange
for the erection of a statue to Carl
baldi at the capital.
An oil well struck in Pennsylvania
last Saturday, has a capacity of one
hundred barrels per hour. 1t hasn't
caused any perceptible tumble in the
price of coal oil as yet.
The trial of the Malley brothers, at
New Haven, Conn, for the murder of
Jennie Cramer, still drags along. The
belief is growing that the alleged muir
ierers will be acquitted.
The eleventh congressional district
of Texas is larger than Alabama and
Mississippi, and will some day raise
more cotton than those two states, and
more wheat than Ohio and Missouri.
California claims the distinction of
oeing the largest wooI-producing state
n the Union. A few years more and
,ur sister state, Texas, is destined to
axe the lead in this great industry.
A street fight, occurring at Llano,
Texas, on the 10th, resulted in the
leath of one man, another mortally
wounded aud three dangerously shot.
rifles were the weapons
Ised.
A terrific rain and hail storm visited
Kansas City last Saturday night. Prop
rty to the amount of 100000 WAS
and two lives were lost. At
.eayenworth, Kansas, FIVE ladies were
;illed.
Galveston is pushing New Orleans
ard for supremacy as a commercial
,ort. She shipped coffee to Nashville
nd Shreveport, recently, thus invad-
pg territory heretofore controlled by
Jew Orleans.
A flock Of l45o sheep, belonging to
Ir. Z. A. Hilton, of Abilene, Texas,
,ere publicly shorn on the 18th inst,
q that town, and the clip averaged I45
ounds to the head. Of course this |
,as a twelve mouths clip.
In Shelby county, Texas, recently, |
lree men fell ont about a dog. TIVE
{ them attacked the third, and shot
i'm; he returned the fire killing his |
ssailants, and in thirty minutes after
ard was a corpse himself.
The Republicans of Maine nomi-
ated Col. Robie for governor, on the
sual platform. The Democrats hold
leir State Convention on the 9th Of
lis month, when H. NJ. Plaisted, the
resent governor, will doubtless be re-
ominated.
The Seventh Day Adyentists Of Bat
Q Greek, Mich, have for several years
cen Withdrawing as much as possible
ON social aud business intercourse
lin other people, and now they are
altered in quarter Of the town by
lemselyes, with their own grocery,
ieat market, bakery, and dry goods
ore.