The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1889-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

buo EeAb uHN aHAbunGeu Himself eau
didate for mayor of Atehison.
Ex-President Cleveland and wife are
now permanently established in New
York City, and Mr., Cleveland may be
daily found at his law office in William
street @
The withdrawal of Booth and Barrett
from the support of the government to
exclude foreign actors from the United
States, has virtually ended the foolish
agitation.
Oscar Neebe, the anarchist in Joliet
prison, is preparing confession of his
connection with the Hagmarket thugs
and bomb-thrOwers, in hope Of getting
a pardon.
OF the 2l0, 900 people in Utah not
less than lz5 600 are Mormons, yet
only 10 out of SO, 900 men of marriage
ableage have been found guilty Of poly
gamy in the last six years.
Gen. Jacob D. Cox, although a Re-
publican soldier, made an earnest pro-
test against indiserim1nate pensions
and the bidding for the soldier vote in
an address at Chicago on Washington's
birthday.
According to the statement Of the
Cherokee delegates, the cattle barons
pay them only $500, 600 for their leases.
No wonder the cattle barona are OPP
posing Territorial government, They
have got q good thing and want to hold
on to it.
Sir Julian Pauncefot, who will be
British minister at Washington, to sue
oeed the indisoreet Lord Saokville
West, is a fue looking man, six feet,
two inches tall, black eyed, heavy
browed and bald.headed, He has q
charming wife and daughter,
James G.. Blaine has developed into
a great theatergoer. He has attended
every new performance gwen in Wash
ingtOn since he reached that city few
weeks ago. He enjoys low comedy
especially, and his laugh does not sound
as though he were in delicate health.
The latest estimate places the United
States Senate at valuation of $l39,-
100000. According to this caloula-
ton there will be, including Vice-Pres-
ident Morton, uineteen millioRaires in
I the American House of Lords. Only
fourteen years ago there were but nine,
O. A. Henderson, who has been in
the British consular service since 1858,
seventeen Of these years having been
| passed in Boston, saYs the principal
| part of his official duties is to hunt up
lost relatives and heirs to estates,
Every mail brings him letters from
England iuquiring after some relative
who has migrated to this country.
Mrs. Senator Sherman recently paid
the administration ladies u high com
plImont. She said to friend: Il
don t remember tu have met a more
suoiablo, more thoroughly cordial aud
warmer hearted circle of ladies than
those of the Cabinet families and
bureau officials. For my part | shall
be glad if the Indies of the new Cabinet
are as agreeable,
The marriage has been recorded. at
Dublin, on Feb. 5. of DIR. Arthur Yer
non Macon and Mrs Mary Katherine
Lynch. DR.. Macon is son Of the
late Hon. John Macon, @. O., and is
one Of the foremost physicians and
surgeons of Ireland. His bride is
daughter of Mr.. John Manning, of
New Orleans, and the widow of Austin
W. o, Lynch of Louisville, Ky.
The project Of building a lighthouse
on the Diamond shoal of Hatteras,
eleven miles out at sea, has taken def
mite shape. The Wilmington IN. C.)
Messenger says; The placing of a
powerful light on the outer point of
these fatal shoals is the most important
aid to navigation that the United States
government has ever undertaken to
supply, aud it is work that should be
accomplished If it cost $5,000,000 in
stead of 500, 900. "
James O. Floods estate, to which his
unmarried daughter falls heir, is esti-
mated by the San Francisco papers, to
be worth over $50, 600, 900; but John
! Mackey estimates the fortune of the
Bonanza King at only $4,000, 900, OF
which sum the broWnstone palace at
Mob Hill, San Francisco, the most
fl ely decorated private residence in the
United States, stands for 81 500 900,
II Mackey's estimate i, the correct one,
the lady is only half as charming,
In one of tue great canons out West
there is an icicle 1000 feet long A
local paper thus describes it: "a vol
ume Of water unusually large for this
season of the year, is falling over the
perpendicular wal at the head Of this
canon, about an even Thousand feet in
height. The falls are encnsed ina great
tube Of ice, which, when the sun strikes
it, looks like gigantic column Of crystal
standing upright against the preeipioe,
| Within, the torrent fumes and boils
with deafening roar akin to thunder.
The Michigan Congressional delega-
ton are taking time in the forelook
in booming their fellow representative,
]. b. Burrows, for the speakership Of
| the Fifty-Flrst Congress. They held
their first caucus on the 9TH inst, in
| Washington, aud unanimously deter
| mined to support Burrows, first, last
aud All the time The many changes
in the delegation from the last Congress
necessiated the application Of some
| adhesive power 10 prevent the slouging
off which might have been effected by
other speakership candidates.
Last week Coy. John MeEnery hled
bis answer ii thrUnited States Supreme
Court at Washington, to Che suit
brought against him hy Robert q.
lpgersoll md q 5 Pomerag Ipger-
| son and Pomeroy alleged that AlpEnefy
owed them d certain per cent On ludg-
ments won by the State af Louisiana
from lhe United Stalesiu snit ansipg
ont Of the swamp land act. ln liis
answer MeEnetY shows very eoneln.
sigely that lhdngh be entered into
contract With lngersoll and Rdmeroy
q prosecute iae suits IN question theg
lelt Town and abandoned the easess
ibat he WIS Compelled fo engage oilsg
eoanea, who proseeatsa ata N9n tlse
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