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LAKE CHARLES, CALCASIEU PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1881.
NO. 15. *
pm. A. WARNET, Attorney
' ?,»v, Lake Oiarh'K. Ijh., office
hr «<e<-npied by Louis Leveque, on
(«we Snare.
, 1881.-It..
.(MC H. WELLR, Attorney mt
S', Lake Charles, ('alcawcu Tar
Prafatm&e in Chfcaffieu, Cainer
Fernon itinrielK-w. and in Orange
bmcm combes, Texas.
; itiwii ■ iimSm w
OALLACj^rHER, Attorney at
!<#., (vn'W -priitftt'O in Udr anrl *d
parishes, and before the Supreme
at -OiielouHas.
», jp iL-ty.
KF.AfiXEY, Ihstrict Attorney,
"Hi JndirLi! ÏM strict, practices iu
nil jMsrifibes «f the District,
i Lake Charles, at the Haskell
, in ILccslmr", at his rcridcnce.
,M8S..-1t.
NOTICE !
. .venons tvishinp to have Dental
:k done will idea«* call before the
Krtbber, as I ciqicct to he absent,
"cssirnial tour, after that date.
Da. ». CRA IX, Dentist.
Sharles, Oct. L MW •
MÜNDAY, M. I)..
, l'hjhlrtan aitf. Obstetrician.
IXCEM to larartice. his prüfe«
mid c.MiU he eonsultod at Ids
•e, on livuu street, at ail hours,
Harten, La., July », IKK] ,-lv.
.JX It MAlKEll,
»XMIKJAL .AKTIST,
IjoUc CUnrlca.
J ©tit ting. Shaving, Khampoon
juii't Hair Dyeing done in the
h ies. ' '
JjH8L-tf.
0:1 '/iBlüEN.
lUMW UL AIK.
IRIEN & BLAIR,
cions and Builders,
UÈE CHARLES, LA.
3K*3.-3v.
P uni I> 1 N G.
till
HKPAJBING.
ifi*j.urtorH, &c.
(it.li Bank of Lake Charles.
|. 3881,
litiLi-« I iepi i ir< id.
U ] term aient !v located in the
i>f Lake Chartes, 3 aui pre
clude .all kinds <jf furniture, at
ee, and ou l'uanouahle ternis.
«1 for past patronage, 1 solicit
ice of the wruir.
■ revin iiisUev! at t he house of
I ivinbv «tree!, lieaa JUyau, T«u
Lng. ' C. 31. BlU'CJi.
§p3, ly..
i. Ce«
as ij- 1—^uos'V utecuem 1
TIME TO BAVE MONEY !
injovud flu rh/iii hi, an iu the
xfvr f év'if an d Uhniji H ori!
i»nt any work done in the hue
Jug, tiüfteriugtU'Ä'pairing, or
turttuisut of h is ow n unuHUi«'.
gare.'W anv okl stoves repair
to ,108. YOLTZ'e Tin shop,
rail street, lu-tween Hill »»<3
s, opposite y ■ A, <jaJlau;:her's
Sign of the Big Coffee Dot.
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—or a\ax—
kMER NI^ITIE
Hid after J uly 3,1881. the Kteum
So will make regular trips be
? Charles, W ust J.aket 'hartes
.1, viz :
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5.15 ............ If- M
hake Charles far
8.30 .......... • • • A. .M.
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t Lake Charles far lake Oh wies.
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New Orleans
CREAF CASH STORE.
E. KAISER & CO.,
—DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING,
I
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BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS.
CROCKERY AND TIN
WAKE.
ILL ILKm 01 STAPLE GROCERIES.
We are also Agents lor the
Ne w Home Sewing Maeliine
-and
\\'jilt]jia33i teile«.
thr /n order to m ake room
for our Fall Stock, we wilt
dose out our Summer stock
of goods at ten per cent, less
tha n our former prices.
wr W tot* TIME W SELIttE
BAHGA 1 XHÎ
Come and see for yourself!
LAKH CHAH PSA, LA.
Aug. 13, 1883 .-tf.
HASKELL HOUSE,
Ryan Btreet, iwke Cfeaaies, La.
H AYING Ji-AHC'i the above mum'4
House, 3 propose to run it in first
class style. The table will be kepi on
the ReitauriUit plan, au4 no exertion
Wflj he nonaiiAerea ituo great, to render
guests coiul'ort ii 'ole.
mm. ». UBYXMLB8,
uug 00, '83 .-tf. iaissee.
LAKE HOUSE,
Opposite the Court House,
iaake Charles., La>,
limy , »*4 tempi* Remu.
Bar Room a.vd Billiard Saloon
Attached.
GBEEN HALL,
BejpL 18, *#l. Fropidetor.
ÄISU'8 RESTAURANT,
1<> MS *><.-, larrJUAt t.'hur-le».
M RAf* at ab jtwww, and customer»«
lua v rest aeKUiv.'l that riieir
tifies vviil be mitiatud
July V, 3883,-3y.
M. J. ROSTEET,
-DEALES IN
ID Il Y GOODS
CLOTHING, BOOTS AND
SHOES, HATS AND
CAPS.
GROCERIES,
—AND
( 2 E\E 1 AL MERCHANDISE,
Lake Lu.
July», 3881.-3y,
j H. D. NIX,
GENERAL DEALER,
Nix's Peary, Calcasieu
Hh er, Lu.
MA HE CLOT HI NO A
_
My stock <»f Boots, Mme« and Hat« is
ty. rn 8 * «by , .
I HAVE countantly on hand a large
and varied assort men t of
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY
GOODS, AND HEADY
My stock of <irucerii'« is an complete
an «'an lie, and being replenished weekly.
From m.v long exm-ilence in merchan
dising in this parish, 3 M confide#)! of
being able to wtiefy ali « ho wiU do UUI
the favor to give me a rail.
ÄiäÄvÄ'ÄSXÄ
j and for taking ear« of tireur, bal ing just
i coiuiJeUed a
in which are plenty of gras«, »«ter and!
shade.
First class, hand made
G Y PR MHS SU l NG LE8,
always on hand, in any quanUfica.
3'rompt uml aHridumi»« attention tu the
F F II II Y .
LAUGH l>A*tTDHE,
, Highest rnarkel prir'e pan! tor
tot ton, Wool nod Hides.
jive me a call. li. 33. XI %■
Lannibals Shipped to Europe.
[Ixmdon Globe, Sept. 1.]
Captain G. Sehweers, of the Ham.
burg steamship Thebes, one of the
Cosmos line, who arrived in Ham
burg on August the 20th, from the
western coast of South America,
has brought with him a strange, hu
man cargo. During his passage
through the Magellan Straits he
obtained eleven "Feuerlamlers"—
four men, four women and 'three
children—veritable cannibals.
Some difficulties had to be over
come before he conld persuade
them to undertake a voyage to*
Europe, and the problem as to
their food on the passage was also
the cause of a good deal of anxiety,
as it was impossible to lay in a
stock of some kindred tribes for
their sustenance. The captain re
ports that he was highly satisfied
with their behavior as passengers.
At first he laid cooked meat before
them, but the whole company
sickened; hereupon they were
provided with raw flesh, and they
recovered their normal state of
health. They were offered tallow
candles first in fun, but they re
garded this sort of food as a very
choice European delicacy and the
women invariably made their chil
dren partake of it. All the mem
bers of this curious company show
ed a remarkable capacity for learn
ing and acquired a number of Ger
man and Spanish words and senten
ces with facility and employed them
to good purpose. The visitors
are to be sent to Paris lirst,V-hencc
they will be exhibited—or exhibit
themselves we should, perhaps,
rather say—to their civilized breth
ren iu the Jardin d'Acclimatiou.
They are next to be forwarded to
Hamburg and after a. short stay in
that city they will make the tour
of the great cities of Europe.
A loung Bachelor's Plight,
[Charlottesville (Va.) Jeffersonian.]
Thdre lives nota thousand miles
from town a fascinating young
bachelor, who tills hill ancestral
acres with his own hands. During
the recent heated spell he was en
gaged in plowing his corn, and the
excessive red-hoteduess of the
temperature constrained him to
shed more than the regular amount
of clothing, in order that he might
extract as much comfort as posai
ble from the sky breezes that oc
casionally flitted about his uu
draped extremities. While the
amount of jiis drapery was limited
to that one snowy garment? which
the lines of Hood have immortai
ized, some evil spirit moved a bevy
of fair maidens to call upon the Jn
dusfrious bachelor. Finding his
mansion locked they proceeded to
the Held,
At the turn of a row the unfor
tunate plowman caught a glimpse
of the fair invaders, Ilis panta
loons were at the other end and
terror seized him. What should
he do 1 Should he meet the maid
ens at so great a disadvantage, or
should he escape to the friendly
shade of the neighboring thicket 1
Discretion finally gained the mas
tery, and hie two stout and unen
cumbered legs hore him homeward
with the velocity of the wind, At
a convenient distance his torment
ors followed, and as they reached
a crest overlooking the bachelor's
Ml *«(!"«•
jn a robe of flo wiug white disap
^ through the window of his
rustic lodge. They lrird come ; they
had seen ; they had conquered,
impertinent fop wjrde sport
ofarr old farmer's large nose, urouth
and ears, hut tine obi farmer si
loured him, sajingt "Your nose,
urouth and chin all had to be made
small so tirât tber e'd be material
left for yonr cheek."
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H,e who thinks himself the wisest
?S generally the greatest fool.
A Stiff Subject,
[Atlanta Constitution.]
A curious case has been brought
to light through the exercise of the.
veto power by Governor Colquitt,
It is not generally known, but it
is nevertheless true, that there is
upon the statute books of Geor
gia a law making it a felony for
any surgeon, physician or other
person to dissect or cut up iu any
manner a human ftody. This law
provides that the punishment for
snch dissection shall be $500 fine
or imprisonment for a certain time.
This law has remained a dead let
ter upon the statute books simply
because no one has seen fit to en
force it, and because it was univer
sally acknowledged that, dissection
served a most useful and beneft
eent purpose. At the late session
of the legislature several promi
neut physicians being unwilling to
allow this law to stand when it
was simply a menace, and not an
active statute, framed a law legal
izinff dissection and turning over
to colleges the bodies of paupers
or convicts not claimed within
twenty-four hours after death. It
was thought that this measure
would provide them with a suffi
ciency of stiffs, and stop the rob
bing of graveyards and despoiling
private graves. Governor Col
quitt, after considering the bill put
his veto on it, and it therefore fail
ed. There is considerable feeling
among the physicians, and the mat
ter is discussed very generally.
Spontaneous Forests.
[Scientific American.]
A writer iu a West Virginia pa
per combats the opinion, held by
.mr.y arboriculturists, that an open
country is u«er converted Into a
rrii'OHl. ill will Oil that Aiwii'iitimi £\i
forest through the operation of
natural causes, and, as establish
ing the fact that such change does
sometimes occur, brings forward
the case of the Hhenandoah Valley.
When first settled, about 1(10 years
ago, it was an open prairie-like re
gion covered with tall grass, on
which fed herds of deer, buffalo,
elk, etc., and having no timber ex
cept on ridgy portions of it; but in
consequence of its settlement, the
annual fires were prevented, and
trees sprang up almost as thickly
and regularly as if seed had been
planted. These forests, having
been preserved by the farmers,
cover now a large part of tjie sur
face with hard wood trees of supe
rior excellence. These facts would
also seem to substantiate the
ory that the treeless character of
the prairies of the West is due to
the annual burning of the grass by
the Indians.
llciicielcul Ken Butler.
A correspondent of the New
York Hun is responsible for tho
following bit ot romance:
ft is a secret in a narrow circle 1
ot his friends that since he hang
ed Mentfort at New Orleans tor
pulling down the United Htnte8
flag from the cupola of the (»onrt
House, <>en, Butler has cared for
Montfbrt's widow as though «he'
were a relative. TJie exigencies
of the cruel period of the war
marie the taking of Mootfort's life
necessary, lint Gen. Butler took
his family under bis care, cleared ;
off a mortgage upon the widow's '
home, and obtained for her a posi
tion *in one of the departments at
Washington. Home time ago she!
was displaced. As soon us he heard
of it he took the next train for
Washington, und did not return uu
til sh* was reinstated. The widow
and her children feel that no harm
will gome to them as long as Gen. j
Beu I M!»* ^ j
A correspondent writes to in- ;
quire if he can secure a berth ou J
hoard p courtship.—-Toleijo Amer
'
Prairie Rice Crop.
[Louisiana Stigar-Bowl.]
We have watched the introdtic -
tion of the rice culture on our
prairies with great interest, for,
' where it can be flooded, it will eer
taiuly be more profitable than cane,
as fuel is there expensive, and is
j far better adapted to these lower
tier of parishes than cotton,
1 Mr. W. W. Flood, a gentleman
! who had been cultivating rice on
the Mississippi river for several
| seasons, two years ago came to
Iberia parish, found a suitable lo
cation for flooding land from the
j outlet of Lake Peigneur, near Jos.
{ Jefferson's place, and made a good
crop the first year. Others became
interested, and this year planted
««« also—among the number, Mr
Louis Delcambre, who has 400 ar
pents this season. We met the lat
ter gentleman, a few days ago, and
learn that he is now engaged cut
ting his crop,' He employs a reap
er to cut the rice, and it is bound
by baud, as it throws it ou the
ground in bunches like we recent
described is done by the same
»'»chine in the wheat regiods.
lïowever, Mr. Delcambre intends
getting a cord-binder, and then
one man, with four horses, can
cut and bind the grain as fast as
the horses can travel. However,
the rice self-binder will have tobe
narrower than the wheat self-bind
er, as the grain is heavier than
wheat. Mr. blood employs the
header ■—that is, cuts only the top
half of the grain, to avoid weight
of straw, and deposits it in buuch
es on the field. He has about 200
acres this year. Mr. Flood expects
to get an improvement on his ma
chine, so as to handle the grain to
^ "weThrtüefer
tf) ^ 8llbjoet aiu .
*
The Berwick Railroad Bridge,
[Louisiana Hugar-Bow!,]
Going to the city last Sunday,
we observed that the work on the
Morgan railroad bridge over Ber
wick's Bay was progressing rapid
ly. Most of the piers have already
been formed by driving piles downi
in clusters, and securely bolting
them together. The [dies have
ll ** been thoroughly impregnated
w ^' creosote, so that they look
uw black as tar, and are rendered
""» 1 « durable and proof against
bijury from water insects. Home
() f the piling had to be driven to
great depth, and the plan was to
continue to splioe and drive until
the-1g™»" 1 penetrated to a
safe depth.. The process of creo
soting the pile» is very interest
ing. They are first placed in long
boilers, and by some means the
sap is all driven from the wood.
The pores thus heilig left Open,
they are next placed ip other long
iron boilers, when the liquid creo
sote is forced iu to such an extent
that every pore of the wood is Hil
1)() wbb jj
ityoig present indications, we
p rogu ,j, e y, e vviil lie passing
0 vertheiiewbridgebeforeOhrist
The bridge will be entirely
0 f iron, except the piling, and
(|uU() lmiu , 8rtU10 . H hw a i ttl , go
awW) to a | low «teamships and
0 (|, 0l . water crafts to [mss.
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According to Baron Kolb, a Ger
>"an philfiscpher. Idleness is fur
more in,jnrious to health than tha
most intense industry or even easo
and opulence. Go to work, my
boys, if you would keep healthy.
laod stick to it if you would live
long and be happy. An idle mind
* a the devil's workshop, and his
Satanic majesty sticks close to tho
simp. The only way to drive him
off is to pitch i n an do something.
t) hj policeman had left his re vol
vor at home, and he needed one to
shoot a mad dog. In the emergeu
çy be exclaimed, ''Great ifeav
is there a Texas man picseut
n