The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1889-03-22
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PrEoHB soE is regarded a sure win
ner as Naval Officer at New Orleans.
e. ]. KURsHEEDT, of New Orleans,
has been appointed U. S. Marsha of
the Eastern District of Louisiana.
THE new Postmaster General is re-
ported to havesaid to his clerks, Boys,
there will be no politics IN this de-
partment, but the sluggards must 60
Let us see if he sticks to the text.
JoHN A. KAssoN, of Iowa; VIM.
Walter Phelps, of New Jersey; and
George II. Bates, OF Delaware, are
the commissioners appointed to repre-
sent the United States at the Berlin
conference, concerning the Samoan
islands.
A RESIDENT of Montreal, Canada,
has patented ID the United States and
Canada a process for making ice, by |
which he claims a years supply can
be manufactured at q cost of seventy
FIVE cents, which is about the cost of
one ton by the present processes.
THBoDAUx is already making
preparations in anticipation of the
meeting of the State Press Associa-
tion there on May Is. Major Grisa-
more, the veteran journalist, is chair
man Of the committee Of arrangements,
and has been zeaIonsIy aided in his
efforts by the generous citizens Of
Thibodanx
The police jury of East Baton Rouge
parish, following the example of other
wide awake local authorities, appropri-
ates money for the purpose Of adyertis-
ing and properly presenting the re-
sources and inducements of the parish.
convinced that it will be as bread cast
upon the waters, CaIcasleu is behind
no section in point OF natural advant-
tages. What is needed is the descent
nation Of these advantages where it will
do the most good
EUGENE SCHUYLER, Of New York,
and Walker Blaine, of Maine, son Of
his father, become Assistants Secretary
Of State. Gen. Cyrus Busy, of New
York, for several years after the war
a cotton factor of New Orleans, Is to
be Assistant Secretary of the Interior
John S. Clarkson, of Iowa, is Wanna.
makers First Lieutenant Bachelor
takes the Assistant Seer etaryshlp Of
the Treasury.
THE administration has so far pro
yided for six second class missions,
Spain, Japan, Switzerland and Italy,
Sweden.Norway and Denmark. Thos.
W. Palmer, of Michigan, is the
first; John +. Swift, of California, the
second; John D. WashburD, of Massa
cbusetts, third; and Albert G. Porter,
of Indiana, fourth; w. W. Thomas,
Jr., of Maine, fifth; John A. Ernander,
Of Illinois, sixth. Col Fred Grant is
pressed for the Chinese mission,
ADMIRAL PoBFER's powerful reason
ing that war is prosperity, remarks
the Courier Journal, will lead men to
reason on other things. They will
find that starvation is fattenIng; that
gambling makes everybody rich; that
the further you 60 in the rain with
out your umbrella the drier you will
End yourself; that the more taxes
one pays the more money is left in
ones pockets. That the citizen who
is to have his cake must eat it, etc.
THE quarantine panic is raging in
Nevada on account of the supposed
prevalence of few cases of smallpox.
A Carson City special to the San
francisco Eganaiaer says: "Mr.
Harris, the hide and leather merchant,
attempted to get into town and was
seized aud stripped naked. His
clothes were burned and be was disin-
fected by being soused in a ditch,
and had 10 stand in the road until he
could send for a new suit, of clothes. d"
Two ex-supeFVlslng architects, be-
sides Schofeld and others are said to
be on hot trail for the scalp Of Will
A. Freret. Col. Fferet is a native
and lifelong resident Of New Orleans.
He Is an Incorporating Democrat,
which the new administration may
consiFne % offensive pariisanship, but
be cannot be charged with being IN.
clean, and bis reputation in bis pro
fesaion il above question Of compe-
teney.
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THE Senate Of North Carolina has
passed, without amendment, a bin
to pensiou ex.Coufederate soldiers
from North Carolina II imposes )
taz Of 4 cents % tie hundred dollars
yslnation Of property, and IL cents
~ tue poll, and will yield slo5,oo0.
There a 20 opposition 10 the bill.
which passed the hopse previously.
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