The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-07-01

A negro rapeist was lynched in St
Tammany parish, recently. This is the
cheapest way to rid the world of sucl
| fiends.
| Tivoli square, New Orleans, in The
center of which will be erected the Lee
monument, is to be surrounded By
handsome residences.
New Orleans will one of these DAYS
be known as the "City of Monuments. .
The latest proposed monument is to
the memory of Garibaldi.
Taken as whole, the farmers of
Louisiana, barring those whom the
floods have visited, have reason to re-
joice at the crop outlook.
The Southern Woman's Silk Culture
association was permanently organized
at New Orleans on the gath. Some
sixty ladies became members.
Notwithstanding the favorable con-
ditions in some portions of our state
for yellow fever this season, the peo-
pie apparently apprehend no danger.
The Tensas Journal reports the kill
ing at that place of Z. S. Stiles, land
ing keeper at Point Pleasant, by Isaac
Bland. The killing was done with a
pistol.
On a spot of ground measuring As
by 60 feet, says the St. Tammany
Farmer, in the town of CoVington, 80
barrels of potatoes were raised from
one barrel of seed.
Last Tuesday at Abbeville, two col
ored boys, aged about twelve years,
fell out over a game of marbles and
one stabbed the ether with knife, in
ficting serious wound.
The Republicans of Terrebonne par
ish are divided into two factions.
Sheriff Cage, the colored sheriff re-
Gently in Lake Charles, is the acknowl-
edged head Of one of them.
Walter johnson, a handsome four
teen-year old youth, was convicted of
murder without capital punishment"
at Natcbitoches, last week. But for
his youth he would have been hung,
The St. Charles Herald chronicles
the marriage of chief deputy sheriff
Martin, of that parish, to one of the
sweetest angels of St. John parish"
Are there many "angels" left, brother ?
Edward Mccormack, while quietly
standing on street corner in New Or
leans, last Saturday evening, was set
upon by four men and stabbed to death.
Two of the murderers were captured.
Cyprien Robertson was killed last
week, at Plaquemine, by one Flowers.
Robertson was attempting by force to
collect rent due him by Flowers, when
the latter stabbed him with knife.
Both parties were colored.
The Daily Item thinks the state debt
settlement will be something for legis-
lators to heneeforward refer to with
pride when the generally very bad rep
utation of the present General Assem-
bly, is discussed upon the stump.
From the Baton Rouge CapitoIian we
learn that $500 tons of steele rails
landed at College Point, recently, for
the Baton Rouge and New Orleans sec
ton of the Mississippi Valley railroad,
while 500 tons more have been landed |
at Yicksburg to commence building
southwark.
The Morgan City Free Press says
More rain is needed for the gardens. |
Vegetables in this vicinity are suffer
ing for the want Of it and from the |
worms. Gardners state that since the |
high water there is almost a total alb
senee of birds, by this they lose valua-
BILE assistance in destroying garden and
field pests.
Says the Algiers Advertiser: When
the water covering the rear Of town dis
sickness will be the unfailing
result of the sun pouring its feryent
heat down upon broad surface of soil
exposed TO its action. Algiers
will hardly escape scourge of chills
and fever or some malarial fever in the
early fall months.
The Courier and Terrebonne Times
are at loggerheads over the parish
printing. Among others the Courier
charges the following; The contract
was refused US at 40 cents per square
and given to the Tsrrebonne Times at
so cents, and, the consequence has
been that the taxpayers have been
swindled out of over $500, and only, as
we understand, fifty dollar bond to
Iool- N for ovarnaid nnneV