The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-10-17
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GENERAh NEWS.

instantly killed Robert Gaffney, q clerk
in E. J. Barrett's store, one of the
towns prominent merchants. Cause,
too much whisky on the part Of that
deceased, and the too hasty use Of .
pistol on the part Of the officer.
THAT venerable Republican organ,
the Boston Adverfiser, does not hold
the personnel Of the Republican party
at the South in high regard. That
journal says, eve do not expect TO
see, do not hope TO see, any Southern
State again controlled by a Repub-
lican majority until that majority in
cludes fair proportion of the intel
ligence, the property interests, and the
honorable character Of the people."
TAKING the average estimates Of the
most competent authorities, tho corn
crop this year will reach ! 100000, 900
bushels, as compared with 1900, ,000,-
900 bushels last year and 1891, ,0oo,-
900 bushels ten years ago, in 1875.
The yield to the producer last year is
said to have been twenty five cents q
bushel, and on this basis farmers who
raise corn will be better off 10 the sum
of $25, 100000 than they were in the
year 1884.
The children of the poor through.
out United States, says the Thibodaux
Sentinel, should have the means Of ac-
| quirng practical education. These
means can only bo supplied by good,
public free schools. The people, espe-
cially in the former slave States, can
not maintain free schools but few
months annually. Congress should
pass the educational bill, aid the peo-
pie in giving the children of the poor
the means to battle with the stern
realities of life. Members Of Congress
in Louisiana should urge its adoption.
The nine living ex-Senators who
were members Of the United States
Senate at the beginning of the war and
who took their seats at the memorable
first session of the Thirty-seventh
Congress, on July 4, 1851, are Will
lard Salisbury, Of Delaware; Lyman
Trumbull, of Illinois; James Harlan,
of Iowa; Samuel G. Pomeroy, Of Kan
sas Henry NJ Rice and Morton s.
Wilkinson, of Minnesota; Daniel
Clark, of New Hampshire John Sher-
man, of Ohio, and James II, Doolittle,
Of Wisconsin.
THE Boston Globe believes in civil
service reform, but it wants fair and
square start. The Globe wants, along
with all other good Democratic Jour
nails, to see one-half Of the ofice-hold-
ers changed and filed by Democrats.
Then we can start square and place
the civil service on square footing.
Fitness, not favor, should be the rule
in appointments. The Globe does not
want men appointed as reward for party
service. On the other hand, 1t does
not think because man has rendered
party service it should debar him from
holding office,
REGARDINa tho Blair educational
bill the Baton Rouge Truth closes an
article by saying; "The national gov
ernment, having presented the colored
man with freedom and enfranchise-
ment, has but two-thlrds accomplished
its great purpose; IL should still give
him enlightenment to rightly walk in
the one and to sensibly use the other.
To do this, and at the same time
to contribute to the education Of
tho whites impoverished by the of
feets Of civil war, ON the part of the
Federal government, is simply an act
of justice, while on the part Of the
Republican North il is an act OF jus
tice and beneficence which should be
doubly appreciated, coming as it does
ca proprio MOTIF
AT recent meeting of life insur-
ance officers Of the City of New York,
the question of insuring the lives of
Presidents of the United States was
discussed, The proposition was that
as two out OF 22 Presidents had been
assssinated, or about 10 per cent. the
risk is proportionately extra hazard
GUS. 1t was stated that Arthur had
policy Of $4,000 on entering the Office
Of Vice President, and that, after be-
coming President, he applied for and
obtained q second for the same amount.
Five thousand dollars was lost on Lin
,oln and $l2, 900 on Garfield, Clevo-
and has policies for 10000, all issued
before his election, and month ago
,ue Of the New York companies re-
,oiyed through its Washington agency
N application for $4,000 more. This
will be promptly granted, and the dis
,ussion here was merely speculative,
hough 1t was conceded that the Gle.
aent Of risk in President is above
be average.
In an interview in New York Few
lays age Ben Butler, among ether
hings, said: sThe mistake | made
. running for President was like run
ing against stone wall 7 Knew
hat the people In all ages had failed
themselves in every crisis Of import.
'nce to themselves. II ia the history
i the age. Bat | was foolish enough
0 think the people had grown wiser
nd better-that the world had pro-
5ressed IN the direction Of hnnan
and understanding ana pow.
y and concentration. / thonQhf the
ahorers Of The new republic were more
They we're afFaid of me
'ecallse ! had lilile propariy They
we're 1nat aa foolish as 81 oId. Rat