Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-04-19
GENERAL ITEMS.

in the matter vi tiuHuci-shoWco'
CONCORD is proud of citizen WHO has
voted at every election since $500.
MISSISSIPPI papers, in publishing mar
rage notices, put the name OF the vlctlm
last.
FIFTEEN women have been qualified as
electors by the Selectmen OF Windham.
Conn.
A BOsToN gentleman keeps the small
pox hospital literally supplied with
flowers.
THE latest problem for civil engineers is
TO make one Of the keys OF a piano hit the
lock of canal.
A FRENCH commission has reported in
favor of prohibiting the sale OF abslnthe
in that country.
IT is not an uncommon sight in EuSsa
to see women working with men at paw
ing the streets.
PAGE county, Iowa. is going to try the
anomaly of an agricultural fair without
horse-racing.
The Supreme Court of Vermont has
set aside a verdict which the jury reached
by means of a ratlle.
GOLD is at a premium of only thirty
thousand per cent. as compared With pa
per currency III ildyu.
OxE member of the Constitutional Con-
yention of Pennsylvania, has called an
other Oily Cannon, Esq.
PENNSYLVANIA proposes to found cnh-
nary college AS Soon as it can get srillc-
lent rooster of stewgents.
Noyi SCOTIA yielded, in the ten years
ending January l, 1871, about eight tons
of gold valued at S3.GiO,356.
A NEW town is Just started in Kansas,
i'm which no one is to be allowed to settle
who smokes or chews tobacco.
TIE epizootic has temporarily stopped
work at the SutrO tunnel, it being impOs-
sible to haul fuel for the engines.
A PARIsIAN gun-maker advertises IA
select assortment of revOlvers for those
disappointed i'm love-" Little things like
this indicate the approach of the mil
lenium.
The women schOol-teachers of Detroit,
Mich, are on strike for higher wages.
They haven't stopped work, but intimate
that they must do so or starve at present
prices.
A MICHIGAN girl drew a $1,000 farm al
gift cOAcert recently.And now the local
poets describe her as a"beautiful being
although she is lame, has red hair and
no teeth.
Ir is estimated that over $4,000, 0Ot
have been loaned on Chicago property
since the fire. The money has been
drawn mainly from New York, Boston
and Hartford.
THE number of persons out of employ
ment in Philadelphia is appalling. On,
insertion of little advertisement for ;
clerk in a railroad Office brought 9S5 ap
plicants in single day.
A SMALL boy in New Haven made :
sensation for short time by quietly tIans
ferring card bearing the words. TAX,
one" from a lot of hand-bills in front of ;
store to basket of oranges.
A BROOKLYN real estate auctiOneer, ben
on surprising his rivals, advertises il
fiaring posters, that he has a great NUN
Der of ''superb, gilt-edged, A No. lots
tor sale. GiLt-edged is good.
DIFFICULTIES have existed for som,
time as to the exact boundary line between
Virginia and Maryland. Virginia claim
portion of Maryland as within her fer
ritOrv, which has taxable value of so,
100000.
IT is stated that the old hand presses
on which so many fine books have beer
printed, are again coming into use il
France. 1t is found that I'm small editions
requiring much care, these presses ar
much better than those worked By ma
chinery.
IT is said that pigeons can be nurture,
to the fairness and delicacy of ortOlans. n
feeding them with wheat STEPPED in cod
liver oil. Those who have partaken o
pigeons thus fattenei say that it is tn
pleasantest way Of taking cOd-liver oil ye
tried by them.
THERE is happy land. and We call tn
seX's attention to il. 4 letter written b
a San Francisco gentleman on a yoyag
10 the Navigator Islands. dated at Apin
in speaking of the inhabitants says: "A
the white men here have native wives. an
are really slaves to them
A SACRAMENTO lawyer remarked to tn
Court: 1T is my candid opinion, Judge
you are an old fool" The Judge Above
his mildly-beaming eye to fall upon tn
lawyer brief moment; then, in voic
husky with suppressed tobacco juice an
emotion, said: ut is my candid opir
ion that you are fined $780,"
ROBIN redbreast has hard time of
in the sunny South, according to the Mul
freesbOrOugh (Tenn.) Ne,os, which say!
Ever since last Christmas millions
robins have been roosting In the cedars O
the Pickett place, about four miles we.
of town. Hundreds of people visit tn
roOst nightly, and bag as many as the
want. Up to this date thousands of thes
birds have been caught. but there appear
to be no diminutiOn of their numbers
A REMARKABLE INvENTION.-One
the most important improvements eve
perfected In musical instruments has lat
ly been introduced by Geo. Woods & Co
in their improved Parlor Organs. 1t COZ
sists of a piano of excellent quality whiC
will never require tuning. The instr
ment was lately introduced at music
sOiree in Baltimore, and received the co
dial applause and Endorsement of Il
many eminent professionals present.
Boston Journal.
DIR. E. 5. CARR, of Oakland, Californi
maintains that gOld.mining in CalifOrn
Is not only not profitable, but carried
ut actual loss. He affirms that every de-
lar of gold that has been dug there h
cost from one to one half dollars. FIT
thousand people, he estimates, were e
gagged in mining i'm 1872, and the produ
was twenty million dollars. Reckonil
the labor at two and half dollars .
day, DIR. Carr calculates that the mine
wages would amount to thirty-seven a
a half million dollars, making an agg
gate loss to the community. in sins
year of seventeen and half million d