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Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08
One Popularity of 1872.

1t is habitual with great many persons
to pronounce the weather during the
winter the worst they ever saw. AS
these persons naturally manage to pre-
serve their lives for a great many years,
Notwithstanding the unchangeableness of
these untOward circumstances, it follows,
according to their own testimony, that
the seasons are successfully changing for
the worse.
1t is reasonable, however, to suppose.
that when a person persistently complains
of the weather throughout long life, he
must, once or twice at least, tell the truth.
This was the case last year. From a mass
of statistics furnished to the London
Times by a number of correspondents, it
appears that the rainfall, as observed at
different places in England during the
year 1872, was greater than i'm any year
before since IT'S. the amount being sew
enty-five per centum above the average.
The year ranking next in this respect is
1852, the amount of rain during that year
being thirty-eight per centum above the
average.
A comparison of the rainfall of the last
TIVE ty-five years at nineteen stations in
England confirms this general statement.
At two stations 1913 was the wettest year:
at three stations 1852 was the wettest: at
one 1861 was the wettest and at all the
others, thirteen out of nineteen, 1872 was
the wettest.
Combining the comparison to the last
thirty years, ana to the last four months
of the year. it appears that the rainfall of
1852 was the greatest by nearly four
inches-the total amount in September,
October. November and December of
1872 being 1894; in 1871, 14:9s, while in
1852 it was 1S:40.
Persons of more than thirty years of
age, therefore. who SAID at the beginning
of the present year, :" These have been the
wettest four months we ever saw" I'M
Willingly spoke falsely; while those of
less than p years of age, who asserted
the same thing of 1872, probably without
much thought, told the truth. This
shows, in its moral aspect, the need of
being particular in our use of divisions of
time when we grumble at the weather.
~ y. Erening Post.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08
Electricity in Colorado.

ACOlOrado paper says: "One thing
peculiar in Colorado has not been especi-
ally noted, which is the great amount of
electricity aflOat. In mill and in machine
shops, where there is constant agitation,
electricity is in excess. Cattle, horses,
and all animals have a full supply, and
when they are hustled around lively they
frequently give off sparks that can be
plainly seen like sparks of fire. Some
men and their families are more charged
than others. One gentleman states that
when he sits in the house with his feet on
the stove, the sparks runs along his limbs
and his hair rises. We may under
stand from this why people generally
feel so well, and often like those partly in
tOxicated. II would seem, then, We have
far less need for stimulants than people
have i'm the States. and that those who
wish to leave off drinking can do so with
less difficulty here than elsewhere"
For some years past efforts have been
made to render electricity an aid to agri-
culture. Batteries have been fixed, and
wires led among the roots of plants-some
who have observed imagining good re-
suited, and others failing to appreciate
any benefit whatever. The subject has
been suffered to sleep, and we were about
giving it up altogether, when the above
attracted our attention. The results as
given are wonderful. Yet we must be
careful. The town where this occurred
is founded on temperance principles,
and the reference to "alcOhOlic stimu-
lants" is suggestive. In New Jersey
they have bottled lightning" and it IS
not at all unlikely that peculiar form of
"electric fluid" might produce these as
k4,, scI &c In,
This is the more likely, as many a fellow
East has found his chair to stand on end"
after copiOus and repeated drinks of
whisky, without any one supposing cleo
tricity had much to do with it.-FOrney's
Press
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08
The Hand.

Neatness is the first consideration which
makes hand attractive. No matter how
long. bOny, or large.jOinted and unshape-
ly, if it is clean, and the tinger-nsils prop
erly cared for, a hand can never look dis
gushing.
A soft, warm, pliable hand has great
power and fascination. There is a char
acter in large hand, many times far great
er than in a tiny one. A hand cores
pOnding i'm size to the rest of the body, is
much finer than the little fat, dimpled
hands, so many are proud to possess, and
others envy the possession. 1t IS equally
as nOnsonsical to squeeze the hands into
gloves size too small, as to pinch the feet
for tight boots.
A very small nose is considered insig-
nificant, while a large one is said to indi.
cate nobility of character. Why not the
same with hands and feet? Ii, with
changes of time, the idea should prevail
that small noses only were fine, while
large ones were something to hide, and Of
which to be ashamed, would not the van
ity of humanity attempt to reduce the
proportion of that member by lacing, or
inserting in a close net? 1t would be
equally as sensible as stopping the circu-
lation of the blood in the other portions
of the body.
A white flexible hand is desirable, but
not ut the sacrifice Of duty. Many a
hard, rough hand has done enough good
in the world to look beautiful in the eyes
of the-appreciative. Girls who shirk all
the house-work, making drudges of their
mothers, rather than soil their dainty
white hands, need not expect to be loved
by those who know it. The callOus places
and other signs of labor would be far
more to their credit.
The best hand in the world is an honest
hand, be it hard or soft, white or brown,
smooth or rough, angular or shapely; an
honest palm that takes the hand Of friend
with a warm, hearty grasp, as if there
were nothing in the heart to conceal, only
warmth and kindness towards all. This
is the best and most beautiful hand in the
world.-Erchdnge.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08
The Utah Troubles.

The President, on February IA, sent q
message to Congress calling the attention
of that body to the condition of affairs in
the Territory of Utah, and to the dangers
likely to arise during the coming recess
from threatened conflict between the
Federal and Territorial authorities. The
President says:
The organic law creating the Territory of Utah,
passed September 9, 1859, provided for the ap-
pointment of supreme Court, the Judges ofwhich
an attorney, and to these federal officers is con-
fined the jurisdiction In all important matters. But
rs decided recently by the Supreme Court, the act
selected in such manner as the Territorial Leg
islature sees ut to prescribe. 1t has undoubtedly
oeen the desire Of Congress, so far as the same
might Dc compatible with the supervisory control
OF tne Federal Government, to leave the minor de-
tails connected with the administration of the law
to regulation by local authority; but such de-
osss ought not to govern when the effect win be,
70 produce conflict between the Federal and the
Ierieoriai authorities, or to impede the enforce
nssc OIL tne iaw or IN any way endsDger the
y VA never intended to trust the Territorial
LegSlasurc with power which would enable il by
SreaenS 1udicisries Of its own or Increasing
Territorial authority, although recognized by
Conrees, 70 take the administration Of the law
Out q ne hands Of Judges appointed by the
y. - AAehe Win tnetr ACTION.
The President recommends that the
selection Of grand and petit juries for
the district court, II not put under the
control OF Federal officers, shall be placed
In the hands of persons entirely indepen-
dent Of those who are determined not to
enforce any act Of Congress obnoxious to
them, and also recommends the passage
Ofan act which shall deprive the petit court
or any court created by the Territorial
Legislature Of any power to interfere with
or Impede the action of the Courts
presided over BY United States Judges.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08
The Asian Mystery.

There is probably nothing in modern
history more curious and more inter-
esting than the part which the pOpu-
latiOns of the mysterious, and, until with
in the last thirty years, little known, ia
ble-land on which Russia is now Operat-
ing, have played i'm the aft lirs Of the more
civilized nations around them. Although,
properly considered, vast desert, it APP
pears for two thousand years at least to
have been the source from which great
swarms Of men flowed in every direction.
The uneasiness of the German tribes I'M
der the Roman Empire, and the impulse
which fiually carried them over the bOr-
der, are supposed to have been due to the
pressure from behind of the mounted
hOrdes of Central Asia; and in the first
historical glimpse we get of the modern
world we find the Tartars raiding i'm ev-
cry direction in great multitudes. They
overwhelmed eastern Europe and pu, he'd
across the French frontier in the ninth
century, and during the following five
centuries they cOntrived to Overrun Rus
STA and Hungary every two or three
years in vast hosts. Under TimOur they
descended into India, captured Delhi, and
founded Tartar empire, which extend
ed from the frontiers of China to the Med
iterrahean, and from the Frozen Sea to
Cape COmorin, fighting great battles, and
suffering tremendous losses, apparently
without in the least degree diminishing
their resources, either in men, horses, or
courage. In fact, combined with the
Turks, who are only another branch of
the same great family, they may be said
to have been for five or six hundred years
the scourge and terror of Christendom.
They have within the last two centuries
been gradually driven back and cOOped up
by the growth of Western science, and
nothing that one now sees, either of them
or their country, reveals the secret of the
great organizations which conquered UNI
der Genghis Khan and his successors. In
fact, they, rather than the Jews, cOnsti-
tute the great Asian mystery."-N. y.
Nnfinn
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

MANY persons say that they have tried
almost every remedy that has been recon-
mended for humOrs, and they are no better
now than when they commenced them, and
they have no confidence in anything that is
advertised to cure Salt Rheum. Erysipclas,
and all similar humOrs. We would say to
these that there is now a remedy that as yet
has never failed of curing those diseases. 1t
acts upon an entirely different principle from
anything ever offered for them; it throws
humor out of the blood through the skin,
which is the only channel through which the
system can be entirely freed from them. II
you will try it, you will not say of this as
you have by the others, for it will cure you.
We refer to DIR. Viewers Salt Rheum Syrup.
For sale by all Druggists.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08
The Philosophers Stone Discovered.

Practical experience has demonstrated
that MAGUIRE'S CUNDURANGO BITTERs Is
the true antidOte for Small POX, and that
persons under the influence of il are not liza
bic to re attacked by any contagious dis
ease. Many citizens of st. Louis during the
prevalence of Small PoX. have become con-
WINGED of this fact by using it. No COM
paint of the Lirer. BLOOD. Kidneys, Bo,rels or
Stomach can resist the effective action of
this wonderful medicine. As purgatire or
aperfent it is superior to the Spa, Nichy, Ki>-
singer, SeidlitZ or Saratoga waters, and Ope-
rates freely without pain, nausea or gripping,
acting as an Alternative in place of CALOMEL
without any danger resulting from exposure
after taking. For'kidney affections it far eX-
GELS Buchu. J. Il e. Mcguire, Druggists,
and Sole ProprietOrs, st. Louis. Sold by an
druggists; price % cents per bottle.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

For real practical utility, commend us
to the Cincinnatians. They are going to
send to the Vienna exhibition three his
torical paintings in oil, each eighteen feet
by six, representing-the entire process
of butchering hogs and packing pork !.
The art connoisseurs Of the old world
will undoubtedly attribute them to our
"old masters" and understand that they
are intended as memorials Of the early
warfare for the subjugation Of the abort
gines and destined for the rotunda of the
caDitol.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08
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RorGu WINTRY, CHANGEAELE WEATHER,
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nc which DR. Jayne's EXpectOrant as prompt
iv cures when faithfully administered
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08


KILLED BY FALsEHOOD. lie Il
dead said a friend of ours the other day.
i'm answer 10 an inquiry after the health OF
amutual acquaintance. Dead! you don
say so. OF what did he die = "Of cre-
dulity," was the reply; ''he believed IN
patent medicine of which the chief ingre--
dent was forty-rOd rum. and it proved
the death of him." This was true; the
unfortunate man had taken for liver com,
plant, a compound of fiery alcohol ana
root Juice. and II had killed him. Now.
did that misguided invalid require tonic:
He did: but not spirituous eXcltant.
The writer of this brief statement l. conil-
dent. from his own experience. that II the
Martyr to Dragged Alcohol, had resorted
to DIR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERS, IN
stead of to the poison NTH medical name
which proved fatal to him, he would to-
dav be in the land of the living. The
Justly popular vegetable specific contains
no destructive element. 1t is tonic that
does not excite. tathartic that does not
weaken. an antiseptic that neutralizeS the
seeds of disease in the blood and other
fluids of the body. and a general alternative
which arrests diseased action in the secre-
tive organs, and restores the functional
regularity indispensable TO health and Wig
or. We are no friend of indiscriminate
praise. and believe that many patent med
icines are merely poison. but the expert
cnce of thousands has proved the VINE
GAR BITTERs to be all they claim.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

THE discharge of fluid in Diabetes is
something very extraordinary, having been
known to reach the amount of thirty pints
in twenty-fOur hours, each pint containing
over two ounces of saccharine matter. In
the early stages of this disease, no remedy is
SO prompt as PARKER's COs4,OUND FLUID
EXTRACT BUCHC. Try it. and you will
never regret it. Soldby sll druggists, every
where.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

A CARPENTER writes to the AMERICAN
BUILDER as follows: II struck, ont for my
self last year and cleared nearly $1,000, using
the plans and details in your magazine,
which were better than an architect. Count
me subscriber for life." Our subscribers
can get the BUILDER on trial four months by
enclosing S1.00 to CHAS. ID. LAKEY, Pub
Usher o Murray Street. New York.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

Senator Sumner, although able to sit
up most of the time. is still quite feeble.
and it is doubtful if he will appear in his
seat again this session. His attending
physician still visits him twice daily, his
last call being at ten O'Clock p. m, when
he injects morphine into the Senator's arm
to enable him to sleep.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

SCENE in Cleveland. A large party of
ladies and gentlemen assembled in the
drawing-room. A little girl examin-
ing book on natural history. A pause
in the general conversation. Little girl ::
ma! you called pa bear the other
morning when he kissed the chamber
maid. Was ne polai bear, MAJ" Sem
satinn.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

ABOUT two-thirds of the suits decided
by the female justices of Wyoming are
appealed and the verdicts set aside. Wo-
men may be marching on" as Miss Ed
Carton says in her lecture, but they are
certainly not in sight politically yet.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

For COUGHS AND THROAT DISORDERS,
use "Browa's bronchial 7roches," having
prored their efficiency by test of many
wears.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

'RHEUMATIsM Discussed is the theme
of an editor. A neighbor suggests that he
drop the first syllable from the last word
and go on with his harangue,
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08

A MEMBER of the Ohio Legislature pro-
poses bill forbidding the Smith family
to chriSten any more babies John.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08
Spiritualism.

TIE London Saturday Rerie,o meets the
question of epritualism squarely ana hlr-
" as follows: ''If there is anything N
spiritualism nothing could be easier than
to demonstrate its truth. Why do we
believe. it is asked, i'm the revelations OF
the electric telegraph? Because we sub
nit them to crucial experiments every day
and every hour of the day. why don.t
we believe in the revelations OF meul-
INNS? Because they always evade cru
cial experiment. Take simple case
President Iincoln's assassination was
known throughout America within an
hour or two after it had happened. SUP,
seouent evidence, of course, confirmed
the truth of the report. If ? splritliaiiSt
had announced the event in England De-
fore il had come to us by any ordinary
means 1.-THE submarine telegraph was not
then laid down., we should have Deen
cony inced instantaneOusly that spiritual
lists possessed some mysterious power:
If. in fact, they possess the means Oh
knowing what is happening at distant
times and places, they can place the reai-
itv of their claims beyond all coHcelvaDi'
cavil. They can prove their power III :
times dav, But any one PROOF woul''
be suflic ent. II a single revelation Were
made, such as that of Lincolns assassl'
nation, it would be enough. why mas ho
such proof ever been given? For the sun
pie reason that the power does not exist
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WHEN whiting 20 advertisers please mention the
w nameei this paper.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-29
TrS0ps Ma.saoEsdByIndIaas.

A despatch Feceived in New Orleans from
Waco, Texas, sive1 . report that large body
Of Indians surprised and captured Fort Sui,
maesacFeing the women and children and ~near.
y half Of the Fourth United States Calvalry." {"
The report ia discrediled In the War Depart
msnt and Indian Bureau, for several reasons.
The Fourth CalValFy is not at Fort Sill, but Al
Fort CLARK, 500 miles distant; the force at Fort
Sill includes two companies OF the Tenth Calval.
~ and several companisJ Of infantry; and il q
massacre had occurred, II 10 considered certain
that information would have promptly reached
Washington by a nearer route than via Waco
The report is also totally disCredited at Geo.
eTal Sheridan's headquarters.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-29
Tho Smashe1 Dlone PIer.

q The extraordinary amashIng Of q new stone
Pier' a. New YorlE, on Wednesday, by the steam
ship City OF Limerick, when moving at tbs rate
Of mile and hall, an Hour, IL referred to by
the Herald as follows:
Hardly an impression was made upon the YES
eel and not passenger on board felt the collision
Yet seventy-ivc feet Of the dock, 1t Is reported,
has aeen 90 badly crushed that the work Win have
10 be done ever again. The damage b estimated
1t ten thousand dollars. Not only was every
BLOCK Of coping either dlSplSced or crackcd, but
even the seyoral courses derneAth were severed.
THIS would seem to be Incredible II not actually
seen. What sort Of engineering and work mast
oe thereI Evidently q thorOugh investigation
INTO both the engineering and quality Of the work
z needed. We have beea dlspOsed 70 boast oi
thls new pierre and the general improvement a The
battery, 80 well did 1t appear, and have urged thG
vigorous prosecution Of like tmprovements alOhl
the front Of our riVers : but II such feeble wori
3 execHted Il win be necessary t. reorganIEo tn
department OF docks and TO subject every foo
constructed to rigid scieutIfc inspection.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-29

ALRx. II. STEPHENS ON THE P0LITIcAL SITUA-
TIoN.- "A correspondent Of the New York Herad
writing from Gainesville, Ga, processes to give
the opinion Of Hon. Alex. H. Stephens on the
political situation:
According to this correspondent Mr.. Stephens
does not think there is any more danger of Cesar.
ism from Gen. Grant In being elected President
third lime than there was in his second or first
election, especially ii he confined the exercise
OF bis executive powers hereaf er to the same
limits as heretoiDre-that CRsalism does not
consist la who is the Executive nor how long,
but in the disregard ofth. checks and balances
OF the constitution-that there can be no Cesar
ism while each OF the three departments Of the
governments remains Int It and while the reserve,
rights OF the StaseJ are respected. The create
danger to the republic in the judgment of NJ
Stephens, Is consolidation, more Familiarity know ,
a. Capitalization. It's, he holds is the oniywa7
from the republic to the empire which is now u
be feared. He holds, too that there are nc
evidences of any desire on the part Of Ger Grant
looking in this dircotio1, but that the only
app:oaehei o consolidation are to le found IN
those obnoxious laws of fCongre ,s trench ng upon
the rights OF the SSatcS, passed through the sctivt
eN 'rstons of tho Q malcOntent republicans who
now yle Themselves lIbrra,s. In brief Mr.
stephens believes that there Is nothing TO b.
f91red from Gen. Grant being 81 led = thir,
time, and that the-e is no tlc.elness in tn
example of Wa7bins ION in limiting himself u
President to two terms.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-08-29
DAILY GAZETTE.

THE.GREAT CUEIosIrY is the Fourth street
paving machine It Is costing the city seven to
t'n dollars day, Wh:!e waitiug for the cOntrac-
t'rs 10 get zach square covered with stone SO lar
not full square has beeh m1cldamized; and the
mlchinc when rolled on that which has been Gov
cred with stone sunk about six inches down on
the loose material without efFecting any good. II
Is about s'x weeks since the work was commenced
50 that the cost Of "Baker'S English Bull," as the
mlcAne has been termed, because Of Its origin, Il
likely TO prove very uAplessant to the taxpayers