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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

THE Sabine Valley Record speaks
of Mr.. Robert Policy who got drunk
and then committed suicide. OF
course we regret such All occurrence,
especially as be bad a widowed mother
to support. But if he had TO kill
some one how much better that he
should kill himself than TO hunt up
and kill some respectable, sober eiti
zen who has a loving wife and sweet
little children at home. Nine.tenths
of men when they get drunk think
they must kill some one right away
a notable case of this kind was the
killing Of Jack Harris in San Antonio
by Ben Thompson. Thompson was
drunk when be fired the fatal shot at
Harris, and drunk when the original
quarrel occurred which resulted in the
killing.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03


TuE Chronicle, published at Flor
esyille, Wilson county, Tcxas, is re.
sponsible for the following. AS cdi.
tors always tell the truth what the
! Chronicle says mustbe trHc:
/ BY actual count there are Is old
bachelors in FloresYille and not one
cid maid.
Miss Kate Garrett, daughter Of Mr..
g. w. Garrett, we learn picked in one
day short time since 4O5 pounds Of
seed cotton. Who can beat this
Were we a Young man---single man
we should say, for we by no means
intend to convey the impression that
we are old, oh, no-and expected 10
make cotton raising a speciality, we
should have an eye on the iEcleto.
We learn there is quite quantity
of cotton yet to pick in the eastern
part of the county. Why our farmer
fliends will pay s cts. per pound for
pork now and 20 cts. for bacon in the
summer, and then plant cotton sufii-
cient to take them all winter to pick
out, is something beyond our compre-
hension. A little attention paid to
the Stopping of the old razor-haeBed
sow and pigs, thus keeping them out
of the wrong brush fence, and saving
their poor ears from many a hard pull
by Watch; the planting of little
more corn, potatoes, peanuts, and in
fact anything that will grow that
razor-back will cat-Nhich we have !
always found to be anything We didn't |
want her to eat-all this VIC say would |
tend to make peace and plenty at
home, without the necessity of crap
pling all these cold mornings in the
frost TO gather the feecy staple, that
when You have finished and counted
up the. cost there is precious little left
for the hard-istcd farmer and his little
ones, who have looked forward with
no common interest to the happy day
when cotton picking is over for this
season.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03
NOTICE,.
- QEEIaE Ar-A - go

LAND NEEIQE AT D NV lHIlE,Ass, I.A,sIl
December ~, 1852
NTTOTTgE Is hereby given that the follow
In Ing named settler has fled notice Of his
his claim, and that SAD proof will Sc made
before the Judge or stglzfk gsf Court az Lake
Charles, Id. 81 JanEaFy 10 1888, VIZ: Paul
I.afarqiie, ri, HpEestead No, esa8, far tiie
Fl. * 81 81 III. and VI. X Of 3. E Soc.
III. q. r 81 4 gE Louisiana meridian
H. names the following Illnesses u prove
his Continues residences upon, and culliRa-
Langley, Leon AaFeanfsl md lsli i.apgiey, 81
(aioaFiau ei, -0uiSiana
Ec bA Begisief
fAeGeSnaak
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

u W. BOARD was murdered in the
town Of Heuma, on the 23rd nit, by
Robert bIangEam, negro. ar. Board
had large sum Of money in his pos
session and tho negro killed him in
order to get hold Of it. The murderer
WAS arrested ard has probably been
ilynched before this.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

The Z, S. supreme court has sus'
tanned the state law of AIabamaagainst
miscegenation. The case was that of
Alabama vs.. Toney Pace, a colored
man. He was convicted under the
state law of living in sexual relations
with a white woman. The court held
that the state law prohibiting misceg-
enation was not in conflict with the
fourteenth constitutional amendment,
because it made no discrimination as
to color
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

We have received the first number
OF a handsome SIX column paper from
HemphiH, Texas, called the Hemp
hill Reporter. 1T is neatly gotten mp
and ably edited BY MIR. Henry Potts
and, with proper encouragement will
no, doubt succeed.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

ROCKS have been engaged in New
Orleans, by telegraph, a week ahead
Of time aud at four Or five dollars =
daY, BY parties intending to visit that
city during the coming week, from all
parts Of The country Aisrdi Gras is
worth thousands and thousands Of
dollars 10 the Crescent city.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

THasE papers which stated that
Treasurer Polk had stolen 100000
are expected 10 apologize. The sum
taken was something less. than $500,
900.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

CONGRESSMAN D4KBALL Will please
accept our thanks for valuable CON
gressional documents. Senator KEEL
logg's autograph has not been seen in
our aanctam for some time-if not
longer.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

AN least one VI oar Isonisiana ex-
change came 10 hand this week with
editorial leader exaetlya column in
length, wish = aighssoapdiag caption
over il, while On The local page tllere
WAS l0t All item. We like 70 cory
from oar exchanges that's why ne
azebanga eith them -bnt that leader
was loo lllasli lor as and besinles &c
jl.sgc Faint FQeQlieian NJ haTiag
arep ie 4H ariisiR qtaHe
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

The Jersey lily has been in New
Orleans all the past week, and SO has
Freddie Gebhardt. The beauty and
her shadow do not traveltegetber but
manage 10 arrive in the same cities
about the same time.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

lOuR esteemed correspondent, fIac-
itus,,8 las a.lepgthy and carefully pre-
pared article pr the first page oflthis
paper which the gentleman under
whose eye these few lines come is re-
auestea 10 read. "Tacitusp figures
at q lively rate and proves shat he
knows what he is figuring about. a.
almost made our editoFiaIlheal whirl
This talk aboutsO many millions and
billions Of dollars.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

AGooD chance for some enterpris
ing inventor to make $4,000 is offered
IN the following from the Times,
Democrat, telegraplred from Wash,
ington City:
"Mr. &c. Morehead, president Of
the National Cotton Planters associ-
alton, has been making some investi-
CATION Of the jutc industry within the
last few weeks. Hon. John West, of
New York, q member of congress,
offers to place $4,000 in the hands of
Mr.. Morchead to be given as q prize
for bale of jute, prepared for market
by any machine, that will compare
with the Jute imported from India"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

HANGING may be played out in some
Of the states, but every low and then
Illinois works Off a citizen-jast TO
keep her hand in. George Traaghber,
at Taylorsvillc, was assisted across
the dark river few days since.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

TwENTY-sEvEE legislatures, in as
many states, are in session, grinding
cut United States senators, constitu-
tional amendments, tax laws, legal
statutes Of various kinds, and thou
sands Of minor measures.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

SHERIFF DusoE, Of st. Landry, has
arrested and lodged in Jail to await
trial, a man named Vallerene Simon,
who is believed to be the assassin of
Dr. a. j Booke, at Rsyne station, on
Decsnaber 18th last.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

JoHE JusFUs, Of Fillmore, Bossiei
parish, was killed on the 20th ult. by
X. A. Williamson, a Texas cattle
dealer. The Texas man was too qaiek
for John who thought he could draw
bis pistol ustus quick as any one.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

The New Orleans Pieayune has en-
tered upon the forty-seventh year Of
its existence and looks as fresh and
vigorous as iteyer did. The Picayunc
is the old reliable" always right,
never lodges an important issue, and
is one of the best papers published in
the United States. Long may it con-
time to wave.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

BENsEFT HINTON has severed bis
connection with the St. Charles Herald
and fails to say what for who sue
eeeds him, or give any particulars.
Sorry to partwith him but The bestof
friends must separate.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

a DfsPATcH from St. Martinsville,
La, says z. 7. Fournet died at A
o'clock Monday last and his sister
Mathilde Fournet, wife of Aurelien
Olivier, died at O'Clock. They were
buried together.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

ANBw YORK dispatch says that the
schooner Henry S. Wilson, lO4 days
out from Jacksonville, Florida, is be
Iieyed TO be lost, and that all ON board
nerikhed.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03
PLAIN
TRUTHS

The blood is the foundation Of
life, it eirculstes through every part
Of the body, and unless it is pure
and rieh, good health is impossible.
If disease has entered the system
the esly sure and quick way odriVe
It out is 10 purify and enneh the
blood.
These simple facts aSe well
known, and the highest medical
authorities agree that nothing but
iron will restore the blood TO its
natural condition; and also that
all the iron Preparations hitherto
made blaeken the teeth, cause head
ache, and are otherwise injurious.
BRoWN's Iron BiTTERs willthor.
oaghly and quickly assimilate with
the blood, purifying and stTengtheo-
ing it, and thus drive disease from
any part Of the system, and it will
NOT blaeken the teeth, cause bead
ache or constipation, and is poE-
lively essf injurious.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

THE 81. James hotel, New Orleans,
has been purchased by the Produce
Exchange for $4,000.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

Coy. McENERY has refused TO par
don the aotorious shiP-burner, John
son, notwithstanding the lengthy pc
tition presented.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

In is a great treat TO a country
editor tofhaye on his desk, ready to
be opened and read, three such papers
as the TimesiD Democrat, Picagnne and
Galveston News. Ne get these pa
pers every morning and to they
furnish ns with delightful reading
matter faintly expresses it. We may
and do have al hard time but there are
some fragrant flowers among the
tlorns along the editorial wayside.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

The Baton Rouge Truth is wrathy
because some of its exchanges have
been Stealing original articles from
the columns Of the Truth, emitting to
give. credit. Nonsense. That simply
lis evidence that the articles stolen
were good and really worth stealing.
We receive quite a number Of ex-
changes at this Office that we should
not like to be accused Of stealing
from.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03
Saved his Child.


I7E. EatsR St, Baltimore. Nd.
Feb. II, 1850.
Gents Upon the EeeoEnmend&-
kion Of Eiend tried BRowSss
IRoN BIrTkRs al d ionic and re-
atoEstiye for my daughter, whom
Ess thoroughly convinced mas
wasting away with Con8umption.
Having lost three daughters BY the
seEEihle diSease, aadeF the care 81
<miReHt physicians. / was 10th 70
believe that anything could arrest
che progress Of khe disease, but, 10
any great surprise before my dalgh-
ser had taken one bottle Of BRoHNs
kRoN BirrxRs, abe began TO mend
and noE is cutie restored TO former
heath. a Efth daughter began 10
shoN Aigns Of CONSUMPTION, and
Nhen the physician Was eonGnlted
he quickly GAid "Tonies were re-
quirad !" and when informed thas
ske eldeE Eisier was taking RRowNs
ARoN BEETzhgs, responded Z Ghas Is
q good tonic, take il
ADoEAaE PKELF4
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

TuRoUeH passenger and traffic rates
have been arranged from New Or
leans to San Francisco.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

ArFAIRs are still very much unset
lied in France The old ministry have
sesigncd and another enc formed.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03
NOTICE.

TO THE TAX-PAYERs or THE TOWN
OF LAKE OIIAIlLEs.
sT11IIE CORPORATION TAX ROLLS, for
IL the year 1882, are on tile III my office,
become delinquent since the FIRST day Of De
eember, 1882. Parties wishing to avoid costs,
etc, will do well to come forward and pay
the same before the FIRST day Uf Japnary, 1888.
sSHIS.AEN Aek&lAAAHKaD,
Corporation Tax. C0lleetor
LAKE CHkkI.fis lee 81 ilSS2--5t
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

TINS is the way. the Thibodaux Sen
tinel gives one of the distinguished
citizens of Thibodauxa "send of, on
the occasion of his appointment to
office:
Marcelfn a. Ledet, our own Maree-
lin, has been appointed consul to rep
resent the United States Government
at Tuxpau, Mexico. If there is any
act of President Arthur for which the
people of Lafourche will be thankful,
it is this one. For 10 years the new
appointee has been sacheeing around
this parish doing any and all dirty
political work required by the purely
pious and virtuous Republican party.
He has finally got his reward. For
the position to which he is assigned
he is utterly unfit by education, tai
ent~ experience, or dignity, and his
appointment is disgrace 10 the pres
ident who made it. Marcclin, how
ever, gets his reward. He is happy
in that; the people of Lafourche are
happy in his going away, but may
God be merciful to Tu1pan and her
people.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

THr Rullsdge PuSasalDg company,
Easfon, sa., who sent % s.RaFis with
Pen aud EsuciI,n ii consideration Of
quite lengilly advertisement, will
please seAd pr come and take their
book aWa1 III i aid a weare and.
wasnlt aaela~accoant Al iFst Terms.
ashsin Tile future pr no trade.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03
LAKE CmA1sT.Es. LA.

Entered Of 1he Riasfoaieo al Lake Charles, LO1t-
isana, as second Glass Matter.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1858.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

H0RTNdANiS FERRY,
NzAE RAapAp,
On TIVE GAA4CAsAMsK RAEKm..

The travelling puhlie ara heseaE informed
3ilat have strong, laaw tat, 81 fa1iiose isi-
sgrlng perfect sat ety u those Rao pats1Ilize
Hly 4elsg. fasstlage, stable faeilisics and 4
5isiist iias SaillEiag Purposes free any acri-
Qent Occurring through earalassness OF feffg-
ssan N Y le a. Iay axpense Feriage Is lisi1ai
Af9nPt alieatlen ~ oastnnleTa Rsalrai and
ifD-23ft p EpaEAN
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03


EYERToNE knows something Of the
history Of the old Spanish missions or
churches III Texas, and especially those
in and around San Antonio. The
following extract Is from the Flores
vile fyYilson county Chronicle and
speaks Of a mission which at least one
Of the EcHo staff has seen, and a bell
which one Of US has heard
A'The old mission bell, that IN time
whereof the memory of man runneth
not TO the contrary, summoned the
Indians TO mass and other religious
ritesat the old mission opposite and
below FIoresvillc, now calls another
class of learners. Judge Worsham
uses it in his school at Lodi, and
though cracked and sadly weather
beaten, aye has no doubt added won
derfnlly to the sweetness of its tones.
1T is said that no living. man reunem-
bers when the old mission was last
occupied as a church establishment,
and twenty-four years ago hackberry
trees eight inches in diameter were
growing inside the walls Of the old
chapel, which yet, however, showed
clearly and distinctly rude paintings.
A hundred years ago it is likely that
bell was used to Toll the knell of de-
parting day, and its mission is not yet
ended. 1t has sounded many a note
of alarm when hostile tribes made war
against the converted Indians, in the
days when this whole country, except
around these old missions, was a will !
derness. 1t is used now for more
civilized purpose, and if it wears as
well in the FIXTURE as in the past, itwilI
go down to the goth century Is relic |
Of this barbaric age of superstition"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-02-03

Have now on hand and to arrive
Daily globe., 1883-08-08
A New Story of Thad. Stevens.

Ex-Speaker Grow was telling me
some anecdotes of Thaddeus Stevens,
who once, defending the public schools
that had with difficulty been legalized,
said that the Pennsylvania Dutch cared
nothing for educating their sons and
daughters provided they could import
and breed fine pigs and cattle and
horses. This was made the most of by
Stevens enemies and he had to defend
himself publicly when he got back to
Gettysburg, and did it with the a1gat-
n1e1atatnl ad homjr1en. isn't it true 2"
he said. you, Jake Snyder, have got
a ram that cost you 1000 and none of
your daughters can read. You, Hans
Deitlnan, paid $4,000 for a bull, but
make all your sons work winter and
summer. You, Jimmy Lootman, own
Westphalia boars and brood sows, and
can't read yourself. Don't you love
your beasts better than your children
and your mirds?" The honest Dutch
men began to confer: "That is right, +"
they said; "he only told the truth. :"
Stevens, instead of Muhlenberg, should
have a monument in the capital. l.
"Gata, IN NelC York Tribune.
Daily globe., 1883-08-08

nearly ali the TIN used In europe unuI
this ore was discovered in Germany in
1910. 1t was discovered in Northern
Africa, in the Barbary States, in 1910;
in India in 1740; in New Spain in 1882.
Tin was mined in Mexico before the
Spanish conquest, and used in T-shaped
pieces for money, and in bronze COM
position for sharp tools; the principal
mines being at Tasco Peru has valu-
able mines of this metal; so have New
South Wales, Australia and Banca, and
Malacca in the Malay peninsula. Tin
has been discovered In Pennsylvania,
Missouri, California and other States Of
the Union, but not in quantities to
tempt capital to engage in mining it.
The chief tin-producing countries are
the following, arranged in the order of
Importance: England, about 10000 tons
year; Malacca, about $500 tons; Au-
stralia, about 5000 tons; Banca, about
1000 tons, and Billion, about 5000
tons. Both of these last-named places
are islands of the Dutch East Indies.
Daily globe., 1883-08-08
The DigestibiIity of Oysters.

Why oysters should be eaten raw is
explained by DR.. William Roberts in
his lecture on Digestion" He says
that the general practice of eating the
oyster raw is evidence that. the popular
Judgment upon matters of diet is un-
usually trustworthy. The fawn-colored
mass, which is the delicious portion of
the fish, is its liver, and is simply a
mass of glycogen. Associated with
the glycogen, but withheld from actual
contact with it during life, is it's ap-
propriate digestive ferment the
hepatic diastase. The mere crushing
of the oyster between the teeth brings
these two bodies together, and the
glycogen is at once digested without
any other help than the diastase. The
raw, or merely warmed oyster, is self
digestive. But the advantage of this
provision is wholly lost by cooking; for
the heat Immediately destroys the as
sociated ferment, and cooked oyster
has to be digested, like any other food,
by the eaters own digestive powers.
"Niv dear sir. do you want to r1lin
Daily globe., 1883-08-08
SUNLIGHT Not White but kiae.

Since the time of Newton it has been
assumed that all the radiations Of the
sun we're to be found in the spectrum.
and that these reunited make white
light. There is also a tacit assump-
ton that white light is pure sunlight.
Some OF tie early experiments at Ale
gheny have been mentioned which
showed that the light, as We receive II.
has been somewhat altered by the suns
atmosphere. The change is an abserp-
ton of rays from the blue end of the
spectrum. It follows that our sunlight
is more red and less blue, and far less
intense than it would be if the solar
atmosphere did not intervene. But we
are concerned with something nearer
home. Our own atmosphere repeats
the performance, strangles many rays
at the blue end of the spectrum, and
comparatively few at the red end.
What does this mean? Let US shake
hands with our friend who wears green
goggles. We, too, have all our lives
seen things in false light. If we
could place ourselves outside our at
mosphere-say on the moon-we should
find that sunlight is not white that the
sun itself is really blue. To the In
habitants of "other worlds than ours
the sun may be bluer star than Vega.
-WiIliam c. Wychof,i11 HaYpeT'S s
| Magazine.
Daily globe., 1883-08-08
A Tragedy.

I had seen him frequently on Wash
ington avenue, fair-haired, laughing,
handsome boy. Within five years he
grew to manhood, and I often thought
of him as the idol of his parents
manly, brave and true. The other day
I saw his fathers tottering form walk
ing slowly up State street hill. He
looked haggard and worn, as though
some great trouble had come upon him.
I saw his sisters blanched face and
downcast eyes, and knew that a great
calamity had befallen the family.
asked a mutual friend the reason.
"The son, he said, mournfully, and
gulped down sob.
'How sad," said unto myself. He
so young and full of promise, to be
carried away. No wonder his people
were crushed with grief, and then, in a
sympathetic tone, I inquired:
when did he die?"
"Die?" quoth my friend, in tone of
inquiry and sad surprise. "Die?" he
repeated. Hes not dead; worse than
that; he's become a dude. ."-Albany
ETDTeSS