The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-06-16
EDITORIAL. NOTES.

at Donaldsonvillc, La., died at th,
place on the 9Th inst, of smallpox.
Sunset Cox denies that he ever OF
posed the river and harbor bill, an
refers to his record in congress t
prove that he favored it.
Homer Witzell, a popular conduc
tor on the Texas and Pacific road, wa
run over by the cars last week, a
Marshall, Texas, and killed.
1t is said there are exactly thirteen
seats to be contested when the ncN
congress meets. In the list cnumcr
atcd none arc charged to Louisiana.
In Russia, the collection Of a poll
tan from the poorest people has beer
abolished from January next, and the
tax from the remainder of the people
reduced ne-half.
For the week ending last Saturday
there were 80 deaths from yellow fever
in Havana, and 81 during the month
of May. The disease is said to be
slowly increasing.
SuIieman Daoud, the gentleman
who fired Alexandria, Egypt, during
the late unpIeasantncss in that coun-
try, was hung on the 9th inst, in the
midst of the ruins of the great square.
A complimentary dinner was given
Senator Jones of Florida, in London
last Sunday, by the Irish members of
parliament, which was presided over
by Mr.. Parnell. "The Irish at Home
and Abroad" was one of the toasts.
Orth Slime, alias John Bell city ed
itor of the Kansas City Evening Star,
has achieved notoricty by killing Geo.
Fredericks, proprietor Of the Theatre
ComIque and proprietor of a pretty
female about whom the difficulty
occurred.
The CapitoIian-Advocate and the
Truth arc making things lively this
hot weather down at Baton Rouge.
We can see nothing to be gained by
quarrels The patrons of
either paper don't care a continental
which is right.
Francis S. Street, the rich publisher
Of the New York Weekly, died about
Two months ago, and recently his wife
lied of what the doctors pronounce a
Jroken heart. She said size had no
iesire to live. The affectionato couple
lad been married q years.
Judge Foraker is the Republican
nominee for governor of Ohio. The
Impression prevails that Foraker will
lot warm the governors chair very
much. If the Democrats make iu-
iicioUs selection for stauIard-bearcr
hey can sweep the state.
The negro hung for rape not long
go at Richmond, Ark, was pronounce
ID dead by the doctors and the sheriff,
n his return, said he had been cxocnt-
d, but he still lives. His neck was not
rokcn and lie was rcsuscitated. We
upPose lie will now go free.
Gen. Crooks command in Mexico
5 very anxious for a fight, but the
.paChes won't stand aud wait for the
oyS to come up. The Baltimore
Imerican says Gen. Crook should load
is muskets with buckshot-the
Apaches seem to be very much scat
cred.
Timothy Kelly, one OF the Phmnix
ark murderers, was executed in the
liImainham jail, Dublin, Oh the 8th
Ist. Poor Kelly makes the fifth Of
lese brave but misguided men who
ave gone to the scaffoId for the hor
ble double murder Of Caycudish and
urke.
The West Baton Rouge Sugar
lanter chronicles the death last week
that parish of Miss E, Julia Cum
ings, aged SO years. This lady was
with some of the most
Iustrious families in the state, and
as loved and honorcd by all who en-
yed her acquaintance.
Iowa is coming into prominent |
2tice lately. The latest from that :
ate is the hanging of the Barber
Others by mob, at WaverIy. They
ere imitators of the James brothers !
I'd other cut-throats. One was 23
ID the other 25 years old. Young
years but old in yiIIainy. |
That neat Texas paper, the Boerne {
dvance, of Kendall county, has the {
lowing neat compliment in the last G
sue; "Ope of the most prosperous :
okiRg and well gotten up of all the =
untry papers We have seen is the Off
81 organ Of Calcasion parish, Louis :
pa-the Lake Charles EcHo.' y
A Dallas, Texas, dispatch says: :
rhe cattle drive so far this season =
S exceeded all expectations. Over
o hundred thousand head of cattle
We already passed over the traiI that
ads through Albany, ard this docs v