The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1888-01-06
years ago.

iftcE was TnnReu iast aoatufuaS ny ~
masked man.
One hundred and forty carloads of
erasins have Iheen shipped this season
from California.
Tipe town of Wakefield, Wis, was
sst1on fire last week by a monkey and.
almoss DESTROYED.
Tbe unusually rold weather in the
lsattbalsalt Of Ta1ss promises greatlpss
a1Uoag the herds
The Indications are thst the crop of
wazasa IN Texas, fqJ aSsS, will be
6o1bAo thai 81 Iss1,
nsatiRg tlae Llsss Sold spell an ioe
fRstssy in 4ESip, e'Sa., froEe up and
deprived - baEn Of ice.
Tise Young tuties aDonnd San. An
tonia, Texas, wear .ueokties made out
Of The skins OF ratilesnalRes.
Last Saturday q woman was burned
to death in Fort Worth, Texas and one
burned also in Helena, Ark.
Nine British Missionary Societies
now laboring in Africa, with an an
nual expenditure of 81 100000.
The New York Maa and Express
says on an average 100000 people
cross the Brooklyn Bridge daily.
A woman living in WatkinsvilIe,
Ga, has become the mother of five
children within the last eleven months.
There is a law in Waldeok, Germany,
forbidding the granting of a marriage
license to a person addicted to the
liquor habit.
The Emmanuel Presbyterian
Church .edifce costing 100000 in
Milwaukee, Wis, was destroyed by
fire last week.
One hundred and eighty poor wild
ows in Boston, each received a silver
half-dollar on Monday of last week, as
a Christmas present.
1T is announced that efforts will be
made TO have Iowa divided into two
Episcopal dioceses, and have the new
Bishop located at Dubuque.
Major J. N. Wright, of Louisville,
Ky, has been appointed Marshall of
the Supreme Cont of the United
States, TO succeed Col Nioolay.
There are nearly one thousand wo-
men who own farms in Iowa and give
them their personal attention. Only
eighteen ofthese are mertgaged.
An explosion of gas injured six
persons seriously at plymouth, Pa,
last week. Also five persons fatally
injured at Lima, Ohio, from q similar
explosion.
The Virginia Legislature elected
John s. Barbour United States Sena.
tor last week, to succeed heidelberg.
or. Barbour received 81 votes and
Malone 4s.
At an entertainment given in Phil.
adelphia, the admission ticket was a
vegetable. Each person entering was
required TO hand to the .door-keeper
some kind Of . vegetable.
1 One Of the dellOaeies of Governor
Hills Christmas dinner was frozen
watermelon. This melon was sent b.
Commissioner Blackboard, Of New
York, who also sent President GIeve.
land one.
The American Merino Sheep breed,
eFs' Association, while il session al
New York last week, passed vesolu.
tons copdemning President CleFe.
lands message, ID 50 far as Ii fayorcd
the removal Of the tariff fFem wool.
During The year inst ended, ibo fol.
lowing industries have been started
il tins State: Three cotton ard Wool.
en- mills one blast fufnace. six oil
mills, eight rice mills, five Augar mills,
and twenty-five woodworking estab.
liahmaHsa.
An exchange says fourteen years
ago 4 bottle Of milk placed ID 4 wall
81 Greensboro, Kg, u cool. fell into
Ne water The Well vas cleaned ont
aud under abpus ~ feet " mud WV
found llle bottle and the milk Was
appaseuily aaswast ana good al ihe
day i vas put fl.
he moat liaassEens collision thal
agsl p0eafsed pa tie incinnagi South
sn ailsoad happaned al alavda
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