The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-05-26
EEprroIsnAL NOTES:

Jefferson Davis, who has recently
been very i'll, has recovered.
j. Proctor Knott is the name of
the next governor of Kentucky.
Jcre Dunn, who killed The ,pugiIist
Elliot, at Chicago, has Been acquitted.
Star Route KelIogg's case was set
for Tuesday, Of this week, in WASH
ington.
The Duke Of Edinburgh. brother
in-law of the Gar, is going to the
coronation.
Dan CurIey, another of the Phoenix
park murderersj was hung on the 18th
INST, at Dublin.
The next session Of the supreme
lodge of the Knights of Honor will be
held in Chicago.
w; Yandell, of the Seguin Times,
is the new president of the Texas
Press association.
A cotton compress company has
been organized at Marshall, Texas,
with capital of 100000.
A lawyer named Burgess was killed
at Henrietta, Texas, last Sunday, by
cattle-king, Mr., VIM. Curtis.
Minister Hunt and his wife will be
present at the coronation or death of
the Czar-whichever it is to be,
The Galveston News says an under
paid teacher is standing argument
to the young to despiso education.
The widow of Louis G. Hammorsly,
of New York, is the sole heir of her
late husbands estate-worth $5,oO0,-
600,
A little son of Mr. MCGOWAN, engi-
neor at the Beaumont Lumber compa-
ny's mills was drowned at Beaumont.
on the 18th inst.
Six of the Irish prisoners at Dublin
plead guilty to the charge of melting
to murder, and we're sentenced to ten
years penal servitude. q "
Old King Cetewayo, in trying to
quoll some of the insurgent cLiefs a
short time since, was bady whipped
and lost about 5000 men. .i.s.
Prof. Geroardeau, editor of the
Houston Post, delivered the annual
oration at the meeting of the Texas
Press association, in Dallas.
Bishop Jesse T. Peck, of the Meth
odst church, died at Syracuse, n. y,
on the Nth inst, He was born III
the state of New York in 1871.
A dispatch from Hartford, Conn,
gives au account Of the burning at
Goodspced's Landing Of the steamer
Granite Star. Five lives were lost.
A live English duke has come over
to see the sights of this blarsted cuun-
try. If he goes west he will see
enough in a short time to last him a
life time,
The czar has reached Moscow and
was received by an enthusiastic popu-
lace. The ceremonies of the corona
ton will be on scale of magnifcence
grander than ever known before.
Mrs. Lydia Pinkham, of proprietary
medicine fame, died last week at
Lynn, Mass. She spent $l80,00O
year in advertising and secured
trade netting $500, 600 year profit.
Carey, the Infamous Irish iuformer,
has been released from the Dublin
Jail. The police are guarding his
house to prevent the fellow from being
murdered, and they had better guard
it well.
The Beaumont people are mad at
the man who sent the dispatch to the
Houston Post saying there were twen-
ty cases of smallpox at Beaumont
There was only one case reported and
that was doubtful.
A visitor to the Dallas, Texas,
Sengerfest dropped his pocket-book
containing $500 in the hall and was
agreoably surprised when it was hand
ed to him next day by the man who
found it. a
Mr.. W. J. Smith, of Selma, Ala,
recently married the widow of his de-
ceased uncle. They were compelled
to 90 to Tennessee to be married, be-
cause there is no law in that state
which forbids, as technically incestu
Gus, man to marry his uncle's widow.
The Italian lieutenant who shot
himself because Miss Aver looked
coldIy upon him, did not die accord
ing to the programme advertised, The
young lady says he never proposed to
her and never saw her except in the
presence Of other members Of her
family.
Rev. Mr.. Stoddsrd, Jersey City
pastor, killed his wife accidentally on
the 18th INST. The poor woman was
shot through the head. As the best
Of feeling existed between the compile,
and there were no WITNESSES, the inty