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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
letter from Jennings.
JENNINGS, La, July 8, 1885.
Editor Lake Charles Echo:

Editor Lake Charles Echo:
Since last writing you, crop pros.
poets have continued to improve, until
the yield promises to be greater than
it has been for many years. Stock is
dying in some localities, but the gen
eral health of the people is good.
There is complaint in some quarters
of small stock being killed by settlers
whose farms or premises are inclosed
with few wires. Persons killing
stock under such circumstances, havo
no regard for tho rights Of others, and
are possibly ignorant Of tho fact that
they become liable TO prosecution, and
may also bo made TO pay for the stock
killed or injured. Act So, approved
April |, 1880, empowers Police Juries
throughout the State 10 declare in
their respective parishes, that hedges
Of such height ard thickness, and pos
sessing snch other requisites as they
may establish, and fences constructed
with posts and barbed wire, and pos
sessing such other requisites as they
may establish, shall be lawful; and
said Police Jnries may authorize the
use Of said hedges and fences through
out their respective parishes, or in
certain parts only Of the same.
As tho Police Jury Of this parish
has taken no action IN the matter,
(although its attention was called to
the foregoing act some months ago,
by the writer,) no fence or ipclosure
constructed of barbed wire is lawful.
However, those who construct them
may think to the contrary, and they
have no more legal right to kill the
stock Of others fonnd in such in
closures, than they wouid have 10 kill
them at large on the range, where the
owners have a legal right TO allow
them to go; there being no law in
this State requiring owners to fence in
their stock Possibly the Police Jury,
when their attention was called TO the
matter, did not deem it Of sufficient
Importance 10 require action by them.
But as the Legislature has delegated
to thelD the power to act in the prem
ises they should do 50 at an early date.
+. n. Rowe.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
Communicated.
The horticultural Fair.

|
A very successful exhibition, fine
day, large attendance and most ex
traordinary showing Of the fruits and
products Of the vicinity. A little
early for most fruits, yet there was
enough of ripe and green to base a
good Judgment as to quality, etc.
The display of peaches were numer-
Gus, and entirely satisfactory. Some
ripe "Honey" peaches, from trees two
years old, from Onderdank nursury,
Texas, were particularly fine; but for
size and smoothness, our own parish
Seeding took the palm.
OF figs, the display was large, show
ing that our people are already culti-
waiting variety. The plate of ripe
Celeste, by Mrs. +. NJ. Rowe, were
awarded first premium.
Nectarines, apricots, pomegranates,
in quantity, we're on exhibition. Also,
oranges in profusion. Japan persim-
mons of large growth and fine appear
ance, by number of our parish OK
hibitors. But for choice grapes, in
cluding the finest varietics--,such as
Chasseless, German, Delaware, Con-
cord, etc.--we are indebted greatly to
our Lake Charles friends notably,
Messrs. Goss, Founet and Theilman.
We are indebted to Miss M. Gardner,
of Mermenteau, of the Ohio Colony,
for fine display of grapes, including
Delaware Scuppernong, Muscadine and
Guava, etc.
A good display of apples. First
premium taken by VIM. McFarlain,
three and half miles east of Jennings;
specimens ripe and fine. Geo. B.
Spencer exhibited bunch of red clo-
yer the size of a half bushel, second
cutting from one seed; also good
specimens of timothy, A stalk of
cotton six feet nine inches high, by
Tabar.
Buckwheat. chuffus, melons of var
ions kinds. WatermeIons up to 80
pounds weight, the heaviest by VIM.
F. Daniels, of the Iowa Colony, on
NV" I'Hht hl9b NiOl'
The vegetable and cereal display,
in good part by the Iowa colonists.
Mammoth stalks of corn, III to l5
feet high. Samples of low land rice
in head, five feet high. Upland also
three and a half feet high, exhibited
by Cary and by Buford 4 Parson,
A fine display of flowers by Mrs. Cary,
IF her own raising, in her own santa
'ium, (the flower garden),
Irish potatoes in large display and
'ariety, showing peculiar adaptation
If soil and climate to this most valua.
bic vegetable. Potatoes raised here
re of good average size and dry,
nealy and of the best flavor
Beets, carrots, squash, pumpkins,
flax, sage, tomatoes equal
o the finest Northern. The "Trophy"
icing quite prominent. The 80 pound
melon was of finest quality, as it was
ully tested at Mr.. Daniels residence
t his Sunday dinner, at which we're
numerous invited guest. Excellent
amples of the good and beautiful.
Lake Arthur took the laurels on
'ears and oranges. The Derouens,
he Moutons, Heberts, Laurents and
added largely TO the value
nd interest of tho Fair. N.
JENNINGS, La, July 4, 1854.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
LLLACS.
BY CARLoTTA PERRY.


The same sweet blossoms year by year,
Come back with gracious greeting;
This little purple cluster here
Sets all my pulses beating,
Not with the passion typified
By the red roses splendor,
But with the memories that bidc,
With Time, the true and tender.
VITA these dear blossoms in my hand,
Some miracle hath found me,
walk in ehlldhood's happy land,
With sunshine all around me.
The flowers bloom, the waters flow,
The singing birds are mated;
And over wide fields to and fro
The winds blow, fragrance frighted.
And while look, the years glide on,
And /, loving maiden,
Again beneath a summer moon
Stand In lovers Alden;
Upon the bosom of my gown
wear the purple beauty;
While tender eyes in mine look down,
And love is one with duty.
When TO his door, happy bride,
made my glad homecoming,
The little path on either side
Was fragrant with their blooming.
On every path my feet have traced
Their heartsOme perfume fingers;
They were the first flower that placed
Within my baby's fingers.
As all Of life's delight they crowned
With odorous completeness.
So on the brow of death they bound
Their diadem of sweetness.
Above the still and faithful breast,
Where his own wishes bid them,
| placed the flowers that he loved best,
And left my heart amid them.
In all life's storm and stress and fret,
Its working and its waiting,
How light the touches are that set
its sweetest chords vibrating.
o youth! o love! o childhood sweet!
0 dearer days departed!
Within your magic bloom they meet,
o Lilacs, honey-hearted!
-ChicdgO Adadnce.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
A SAGE's OPINION.
Ex-Governor BHOraEiO Seymour
OH the New Administration.

N. Y. World.
On the 3Ist of May IIoratio Sey-
mour filed his seventy-ffth year, hav-
ing been born on May 81, 1910 In
a letter to close personal friend the
venerable statesman refers to his ad-
vanced age, and expresses his graft
tude that his mental faculties are still
youchsafed to him unimpaired, al
though the crOwding years press
heavily on his sight, hearing and his
limbs.
The Ex-Governor says that he con
Times to take an active interest in the
political movements and public ques-
tions of the hour, and he believes that,
standing apart from the strife and the
turmoil of active political life, he can
view matters more calmly than in
former days, and perhaps with more
impartiality. He rejoiees that he has
lived to witness the return of the Dem
ocratic party to power in the Nation
hot that Democrats may en- Joy the
spois of Office, but because it is vim
dieation of the principles OF Democ-
racy, and proves to the country that
the party is capable of governing wise
ly, and is sincerely desirous of making
an economical, honest Administration.
Mr.. Seymour expresses entire conf
dence in Mr.. Cleveland and believes
he will make a successful and in the
end very popular President. The
Administration moves slow y, says the
Ex-Governor, but is it not wise and
prudent to do so2 He might himself
some years ago have preferred more
active party measures than have yet
been adopted, but he contents himself
now with the knowledge that honest
men are at the head of public affairs
and that in good time all the minor
offices will be filled by those whose
honesty is above suspicion and who |
are imbued with true Democratic prin- |
ciples.
On one point Mr.. Seymour expresses
himself emphatically. He can see no
single event of President Cleveland's |
public life which casts q doubt on his |
genuine Democracy, and he believes |
that as man of brain and judgment |
the President must recognize the ne
cessitY Of strengthening the Demo
cratic party, and the folly Of putting
dangerous weapons into the hands Of
any men whose sentiments prejudice
them against Democratic traditions
and who may at any moment be found
in opposition to the Democracy.
Mr. Seymour speaks Of his closing |
life, his entire happiness, his affection
for his old associates and friends and |
bis confidence in the American people |
10 language Of touching simplicity. |
The venerable statesman and staunch |
Democrat ends an honorable public |
career with dignity and kindIiness
which prove that the people were right |
to trust and honor him. The sunset |
of his life presents Its most attractive |
and beautiful colors.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18

Tho Cairo (Ill) Daily Gazette, pub
lished and edited BY colored men,
speaks as follows Of the Louisiana
case:
"The notorious Thomas @. Ander-
son, of that peculiar Institution known
as tho Louisiana Returning Board, has
lost his job in the New Orleans Gus
tom House. He was Deputy Collector
at a salary Of $4,000 a year. 1t was
Anderson who returned the electoral
vote Of Louisiana for Hayes instead Of
for Tilden, as the face Of the returns
seemed to indicate. To strangers who
visit New Orleans he is pointed ont as
the man who made Hayes President
Anderson has held a Federal position
ever since Hayes was President. He
is now said to be quite wealthy, and
can surrender his place with satisfac-
tion 70 himself and with greater satis-
faction to the public. He is relic Of
the carpet-bag days of Louisiana when
a corrnptionist only was allowed to
keep his head above water in official
life. If the Cleveland administration
occomplishes nothing else it will rele-
gate to private life and to absolute
ohsenFity the high-handad political
robbers Of the South who have be.
trayed the poorignorant eolored voters.
CleYoland has given It ont that nothing
short Of recognized merit shall grace
bis Administrations
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
CURE FOR PILES.

Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of
weight in the back, l0ins and lower part Of
the abdomen, causing the patient TO suppose
he has some affection Of the kidneys or neigh
boring organs At times, symptoms of indi
gestion are present, fatuleney, uneasiness of
the stomach, etc. A moisture, like perspira-
ton, producing very disagreeable itching,
after getting warm. is a common attendant.
Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles yield at
once TO the application of DIR. Bosanko's Pile
Remedy, which acts directly upon the parts
affected, absorbing the TumOrs, allaying the
intense itching, and effecting a permanent
cure. Price so cents. Address, The DR.. Bo-
sanko Medicine Co., Piqua, o. Sold by WIN
MEYER, Lake Charles, La.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
J. G. FITZPATRICK.

A
Painting all s varied branches Sign
Writing
airaintnR-n imf
Of Black Red Walnut Mahogany Rose Wood But
MpeMagnoa Walnut ma
MnTbIing White Egyptian and Italian Granting imitation
and Farm Finishing
GRAINED 1 reyarnihed
In public that
full
Charles to be hshed At sp
e,ands ito u instance
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18

East Carroll Democrat, In looking
over The parish for items, We notice
many signs Of improvement in the
homes and prominent among WHICH Is
fne stock, such as pnFe Durham and
Jersey COWS, genuine BerkshiIe hogs,
South Down and Merino Sheep.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18

Remember Morsa's Asue aud Maz
larial Magnets alres BilEiousness, Sick
Headache, Fever ana Aqua Danh
ghillg, and MalaEia, VIZ #EEEH, lleke
Charles, ~.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18

10 the best Christian there Is enough
Of s;n 70 make him the worst of trans-
grassors Il God should leave him &c n
Epaggeo's.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
-This Is d eertify that | hare D

This is to certify that | have ney-
er known XXI Chill Cure to fail in .
single instance. ! have used Il in my
family with delightful results, and
can cheesfnlly recommend it to any
one annoyed with malaria in any form,
especially chills and feyers. Very re-
specfully, j. w. CRkwFoRp, Houston,
Tex. Sold by Dr. w. A. Knapp, Lake
Charles ; NJ. b, conlSlin n Co., Hons-
ton, Tex. novelty
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
Premiums GOr Farmers.


Hmes-DemOcrat.
The National Cotton Planters As
sociation has determined to encourage
the more ski'Ifnl and thorough cult
walton of crops in the Southern States,
and for this purpose will offer pre-
miums to the sum of 100000, to be
given two years hence, or in the crop
year of lSs6-lss7, this due notice
being made in order to enable farmers
to give the subject ample eonsidera-
tion and experiment.
The line of premiums will include
everything bearing upon farm matter
adapted TO the Southern States, such
as model ginhouses, steam and horse
power las nearly tirc.proof as possible),
barns, stables, fences, gates, etc; for
the best general crops, embracing cot,
ton, grain, grasses, stock, etc; for the
best one acre Of cotton and all kinds
of grains and grasses, potatoes, peas
and turnips; for the best gin-stands,
presses and other machinery and i'm
plemcnts for the farm, including cot
ton choppers, pickers and haryesters,
draining machines, ditching machines,
fertilizers, etc.
Nothing at all on this scale has ever
been attempted. 10 Georgia there
have been several very interesting con-
tests over the production Of cotton in
dneed by prizes offered by manufac-
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
nFMYfaFnM
UthIISIKI.

DR. J. Fl. MAYER, OF FRANKLIN,
~ ST, Mary parish, having located in the
town of Lake Charles, respectfully offers his
professional services to the public. Office,
at Residence on Bilbo street, next door TO
Western Union Telegraph office. Eept27-tf.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18

For all diseases arising from In
pure Blood, there is no remedy equal
70 eEXL SaFsaparilla,0 price, 81.
Sold by DR.. W. A. Knapp, Lake
Charles. La, and ". D. Conklip,
Houston, Texas.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-07-18
=. B. Singleton, NJ. ID.

HAVING permanently located at Welsh's
i i Station, offers his professional services
to the public in all of its branches.
mar-22
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-21
Taking Maud SIS Portrait.

PHILADELPHIA, May lS.-Trainer Bair,
who drives Maud s., sat in the stable at Bel
mont Park to-day, near Maud S., while H. H
Cross of New York, painter of fast horses,
sat a short distance off, painting on piece of
canvas 54x72 inches picture of the famous
trotter and her driver. The picture, which
Artist Cross has been working at for nearly
two weeks, will be finished in week Ii
WAS ordered by w II. Vanderbilt, Maud's
former owner, and will be shipped to New
York to him next week. Trainer Bair ia sit
ting at Maud's head holding her bride, while
Grant, the colored groom, who tended Maud
for eight years, is seen in the act of rubbing
her right hind leg Col. Snowden, supprin-
tendent of the mint; William M. Singerly,
and number of others. pronounce the pic
ture an excellent likeness of Maud s. Lean.
over against the wall stood picture of the
same size as that Of Maud s which Artist
Cross has just finished.
1t represents Johnston, Commodore Kit.
sons famous PAGER, with Jack" Splan, his
trainer, and Commodore Kitson's manager
who Is standing in the background. Mex
week Artist Cross will paint large picture
| of Col. Snowden's tretting mare Florence.
Mr.. Cross has at Belmont the original anc
only picture Of the famous English trottel
Messenger. 1t was painted by famou,
French painter of horses. Emil Trayoe, in
1887. In 1888 Messenger was imported with
other horses, and after the long sea voyag,
was the only horse that was able to walk Of
Of the Market-Street Ferry and up Market
Street. He was taken to Bucks County TO
breeding purposes. He was driven in New
York in 1908, at the age of 20 years, and wa
owned at the time by Cornelius Van Rens, ar
old Knickerbocker. Mr.. Cross said to-day
that he wouldn't sell the picture for a.. 600
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-21
A Valuable Lot Of Autographs.


About 80 collectors and dealers in auto
eraohs attended the autographs attended the
auction sale of the Eiy collection by Bangs
& Co.. of Nos. 739 and 74I Broadway, Mon
day. This collection was the property OF the
late Hiss Louisa Ely, of Germantown, fenn'
The sale began With the disposal OF an auto
graph letter of President John Adams to Mr.
Graham for sl2 so, and the same purchaser
Immediately bid sls for one of Benedict Ar
nold's letters. A missive from Henry clay
was worth Sc to Mr. Graham. and one from
James Fepimore Cooper was secured for Sll
by n purchaser designated as IF. ii. rms
latter purchaser bid $40 30 for one of WASH
inp.on Irying's letters, SIG for one OF fresi-
dent Lipcolp's, So so for one of President
Monroe's, sS for a warrant signed by Queen
Anne Of England, So so for letter OF Leigh
Hunt, IS so for a military commission under
the hand of James H., and 50 rs for a
souvenir of Anne of Australia, wife OF Louis
XIII of France. A two-page letter. written
by George Washington in 1897 sold for $40.
TO some one who concealed hiss identity under
a tender of bank bills.
A letter from Charles | to Prince Rupert
was worth s35 to Mr. Forrest, and an order
on Sheriff signed by the same monarch was
secured BY Mr.. Green for Sl6. The latter
gentleman also paid sl3 and sll. respectively,
for commission signed BY Charles ii. while
in exile and warrant for garrison pay signed
bv him in 1874. An autograph score ny
Mozart of trio for pianoforte. clarionet, ana
flute, was sold for S66, to Mr.. Savage.
number Of others were sold, mostly at low
prices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-21
PERSONAL.

Bret Harte is at work upon a new Califor-
MAN story.
Victor Hugo 10 dangerously i'll with heart
disease and congestion of the lungs
President Eliot, Of Harvard, is not going
abroad, but will spend the summer at Mount
Desert.
Henry Ward Beacher saws that henceforth
he proposes to preach the doctrins of evolu-
ton.
Mrs. Rutherford b. Hayes, says the Chi
cago Current, has, at her own expense, pur-
chased and equipped house in Southern
city where colored girls may be taught house
service.
The site for the Garfield statue, in Statuary
Hall, Washington, as selected by Architect
Clsrk,is on the southern side, directly in front
of the fret column, on the left of the corridor
rs one proceeds to the house of representa-
tives. The face will be toward the senate.
This is the most prominent position in the
hall.
Captain Howard, whose bravery saved the
day to the Dominion troops in their recent
fight with the Riel insurgents, is a native of
Connecticut. He served in the war of the
rebellion aud also five years in the
regular army, where he had considerable
experience in Indian warfare. He is brave,
cool-headed soldier.
The house in London which Dickens de-
scribes in david Copperfeld" as containing
an extraordinary staircase, down which David
describes himself as tumbline and having at
the time vague impression that somebody
was falling down stairs, is nov occupied by
William Black, the novelist 1t is the corner
house Of Buckingham street. near the York
Gate, and was once the London residence OF
Peter the Great
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-21

The New York Assembly was recon-
vened for the purpose OF passing bill
providing for the enumeration of the ia.
habitants of the State" Governor Hill
thinks this ought to mean simply count.
ing Of noses. without undertaking to gath
or any other details whatever. But the
republican members of the Legislature do
not agree with the Governor in his inter-
probation of the word enumeration, and
consider that an inquiry regarding the in-
dusirial condition of the people is neces-
sary to carry out the constitution. FIRE.
quently. in reapporhoning the Assembly
districts Of the State. the granting of an
extra member to couaty will depend on
its probable growth in wealth and popula-
ton before the taking OF another census.
A reapporfionment of the Senahniai asd
.ewaMTAN ~ uxa1
XMAR1u q xxAA1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-05-21
What Sheet of Water is That ?
The EXCLAMATION OF FEMALE KIP VAN
WrsKLE WHEN SHE FIRST LAID EYES ON
THE ATLANTIC

A lady past middle age stepped aboard
Conductor COusens train at SacO station,
the other morning, says the Biddeford Jour
nal, who, if the record is true, must be a
lineal descendant of the famous Dutchman of
the Hudson who took twenty years nap
among the Catskil Mountains. She had
worked % years for the York Corporation
and has never stepped aboard railroad train
but once before in her life. She remained
strictly within the corporation limits for five
wears at time. rotating from boarding house
to mill. She did not know, or had forgotten,
that there was such place as Old Orchard
Beach When her eyes caught glimpse Of
the cottages from the car window, she in
nocently inquired:
What village is this ?" and when told the
name of Maine's famous summer resort, she
pazed with newborn wonder. Turning her
face seward she desired to know
"What sheet of water is that ?"
When told that it was the Atlantic Ocean,
and that one could sail over it to England,
she exploded with
"Is-it-pOssible"
She was on her way to Bridgton, her native
town. and every change in the rapidly shift
ing panorama was a revelation of new and
wonderful things to her, upon which she
Toasted with innocent delight. unmoved by
the rapt attention with which she was regard
ed by her amused companion.