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Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08
News in Brief.

They had big blaze at Detroit
last week
4 new planet has been discovered
by Lcvcrriere
They have had another severe
wind storm in Georgia.
Trouble with the miners OF Penn
sylvania still continues
Don Alfonzo has been attacked and
beaten by mob in Vienna.
And now Mrs. TiIron wants 20 De
witness against her hGshand.
They had $50 600 fire at Sing
SIM Oh Wednesday night OF last
week
New Orleans is bIochadcd by
vessel. which is aground in PasS-a-
rOuirc.
The monarchal government OF
Spain has been recognized by the
United States.
There was a $4,000 inccndiary
fire at Bayou Sara, in this State the
first Of this week.
In Plvmo,h, Mass, on Monday a
desperate killed policeman who al
tempted 10 arrest him.
Wesley Won pusan, killed his aged
mother and then committed suicide
near Hudson. y. Y, last Tuesday.
Dan Wright. a negro liend. was
hanged in Memphis las, week for at
tempting to outrage widow lady
A telegram of the 3rd inst. reports
that CarliSt troops had gained two or
three important victories over Aiion'
sists.
yalma: cda has issued q proc!ama'
ton of pard, n To all Cuban rebels
who Surrender before the 3Oth o'
May.
They speak Of rebuilding the tell"
craph line between Providence and
Taliulah, which was destroyed during
the war.
The steamboat Luke struck the 81
Charles bridge at 81. Louis Oh Mon
day. Several lives were lost by III,
accident.
The town of Oshkosh, Wiss., wa:
burned on the night Of April 2Sth
The loss Of both property aud iif'
was terrible.
All year old white boy was killed
by negro in Milton county, ia, ol
Thursday of las. week. The Negro
was hanged.
The democrats have carried tn
municipal election in Montgomery
Alabama, Til, week for the first tim
snc, the war.
In Nashville, list week n negr,
named Joe Reed was whipping hl
wife, ana when pol ceman intcrfere'
he was killed by Reed.
The Frcclman's Bank Commits
sionrrs have $500 600, and it require
$500 OGO to make 20 per cent
divided b, tween the $4,000 deros
Urs
4 terrible explosion of collier.
at North Sraffortshire, England, OF
Cured on Friday Of last week, whlc
resulted n tie d, ath Of thlrty-hv
men.
The Georgia Grand Royal Are
Chapter of MaSons has returned t
us allegiance to the General Gran
ROYAL Arch Chapter OF the onlte
States, which was severed in 1861.
In East river, New York, last MOI
dav the steamer City Of Hartford ra
down and capsized a scowT drownln.
four children. Their father and mott
er were saved, but the mother is d.
mcntcd.
The captain CT the Schooner Je
fries. from New Orleans TO L'ndoI
on it's arrival in England, reported
mu,iny on board. in which the fir:
and second mates, were killed an
two sailors wounded.
A huge combination of the oil r.
relineries has been effected for til
control Of the price of coal oil
that we country people may not e!
pect to enjoy the blessing Of chea
light much longer.
The libel suit against the New
and Courier of Charleston, rcsul,e
in the editors proving the charge
murder against ex-congressman 30,
en-. who sued them, and his beiu
placed under a $4,000 bond.
Tho Nv = kinrt cprreSpOnupnt
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08

A PKorosIrloS We propose Ia advertise
land for sale with this understanding If the
land owner VII, give price and terms, and
If no SAFE. no charge aud if Il sale he will
pay a, Ia pei cent of thepurchasc price. Out
OF ih.. cash phEneilt.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08
ItONSTABLE'S SALE.

Wesley Ellison State of Louisiana,
vs. Parish of kichaud.
Harry Jones. 2rd Ward Justice Court.
BY virtue Of writ of SEIZURE and SAL. -
suei from the Honorable Magistrates Cour'
Of tho 2ni Ward Of the Parish OF Richiaud,
and to me- directed, have seized and will
offer for sale, a, the door 81 Ih. court house
ia the town OF RayviIIc, L., on
Saturday, the lst day of May, 1919,
TO the highest bidder, within the hours pre-
scrbed by law, the following described
property. io-wit:
Fifteen bushels corn, moro or less one
sorrel pony, one sweep, one Plo", two r"'T'
gears aud three sin2lc-rrccs.
Terms of sale, cash, with the b" ie't OF
appraiement ,. '" SNl II
April u lN1J.-2t. '"n~'at.'.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08
LAND FOR SALE.

IN hr plantation within tour or five miles OF
prlui known ~ the \iu>un Place, on
In,. : Bayou. Ii contains about 300 acres one
hundred arr,> britcd. about ~ acres can be
pat IN cult yariun with h.!c work, tine
,.ypr,.-, bGIk" iih bc-; pn tic bay"u). fncr
SlJ1J: 1000 ct,h and aiaurr Twelve ,.-onihs
after date, = per c'tr interest.
App,v TO WILEY L. MANGiiAM,
F,i -. I>75- ii Eayvllic, La.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08
The following endorsement should satisfy
all Of the merits of tie soap
OFFICE NEWTON LEDGER,
Nrwinn Nj Jar. /. -. \

Newton, MISS, J"t' !; co.
W. II. McROt EsQ-
DEAR SrR:-Snn.e time since | purchased
y,r of yonT rights To- make the Granger 5
Soap" followed It's directions and made a
larg. kettle of fir-t-cia,s soap at a iriil"t
expense ! am confident parties u>ug TN
soap will save many dollars IN a year, aud |
take pleasure, ia recommending IT To the pub
lie. There i 10 humbug about ".
Yours truly, X. II HENRY,
Aurir pI-1r Editor Newton Ledger.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08
Turkey Red.

T~lse panasl eysr,!s wide, a, the new
rBsancA House ~ Maurice Meyer &C., ONLY
!. IS cents ayard
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08
CHANGERS SOAP.
so pounds for Scots.

The Ingredients to mrae fry pounds will
cost but fifty cents. and can be had anywhere.
No grease or lye required, and can he made
by Il child in ten minure>. Any one sending
me fry cents will receive. postpaid. Il family
r;.,ht. with full directions for making the above
excellent soap. Address
W. H. McROY, Pa;entre,
Newton. Miss
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08
SheriH's Gale.

State Of Louisiana, Parish Of Rich'ani, li'I
District tpurI.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08
The Census of Louisiana.

AS the best means of accomplish
ing the first design Of the writer (the
inducing Of citizens to give tier
attention to the matter) we publish
the following communication from
Col. Il. ii. Mari, which fully explains
itself to the reader
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08

Chairman State Central Committee,
81 CarOndclet Street
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1875-05-08
II. FELIN NICkEhS
l.. Grand X Co \ ]. \. Liddeli, Sheriff. )

By virtue % ii. IA, issued wit of alias
from the Hon'l. liil District { rr' IN and for
the Parish Of RichIanl, Louisiana, in the
above entitled and numbered suit and 10 me
iii. e.-e,l. | have seized "a viii offer for sale
to the Ia, and highes, buider. within the
Il, ar, prescrIb.d 10y law, at the door OF the
Court House Of said Parish, on
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-09-23

hep" That, was just what the little
serving damsel could not answer.
81 must go away this very evening -
she thought to herself as she polished
away at the claw-footed old mahogany
table. Because if he should come
and and find me here-Oh,, good gra-
ciousi''
She dropped her duster in dismay !,
for there stood Ralph Penrhyn before
her, with all his six feet of altitude, his
brown eyes twinkling mischievously be-
meath their long lashes. 8lrgs
.fss Patty. he cried, lis this the story
OF Cinderella and the Little Glass Slip
per?'
ssNo,'' she answered, coloring like a
whole garden. s'It's the story of a
naughty little girl who would not be
satisfied without finding out whether"
whether Ralph Penrhyn really lov-
ed her or not,'' he finished the hesitat-
ing sentence. ''Well, what do you
think?''
The question was, what Aunt Rachel
thought some ten minutes later, when
she came in and found her nephew and
Martha the housemaid whispering be-
hind the muslin curtains. I know
what | should have thought that a
wedding was very inminent.
So. it was; and Aunt Rachel consoled
herself that, after all, $1,000 was a
snug little fortune. ,s
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ANDREW Johnson's Economy.

= ~ - 4Hf la5 s5
Andrew johnson was very close and
saving in money transactions, carrying
the economy he learned in the severe
school of poverty almost to an extreme.
His style of life at Greenville was ex-
ceedingly simple and non-expensiye, re-
ninding one Of the first days Of the Re-
public, and, we may add, the better
days. He would often say: seMy
wants are few and easily supplied .
When he retired from the Presidencyhe
had saved from his salary and interest
accumulations 500, 900. This he de-
posted in the. First National Bank at
Washington, Fl. D. Cooke, President,
upon an agreement to pay him 6 per
cent. interest FIe did not even draw
out the interest, and when the Cookies
exploded he had in their bank $73 600,
the increase being the result of interest
accumulations. OF this sum he receive
ed about. So per cent. and. the last time
saw him he told me that he meant to
have the rest if there was any law in the
United States that would reach the case.
eff / had my way" he added Il
would hang about a dozen defaulting
bank officials who steal the peoples
money and call it a failure, and then
there would be less of that kind of rob-
berry. ."-Ciacinnati Commercial. a
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-09-23
A Girl in the Pulpit.

Miss Annie Oliver, the girl preaeher
whose sermons have been listened to
by many persons at Sea Cliff and other
places, was born in this city, and is a
graduate of Rutgers Female College.
She. is slight-built young woman,
with coal black eyes, abundant brown
hair, and very graceful manners. To
a reporter, who called ON her yester-
day, she said: "Oh, I preach because
I1ove to, and because feel that l have
been called to the ministry. I was
reared in the most retired circles, and
never dreamed of public life when Twas
a school girl. I loved art, and began
to learn landscape painting in Cincin-
natl. When the crusade against liquor
sellers grew strong in Ohio was drawn
into it, and helped them ALL could in
Trnmbull County. Then in Cincinnati
| went with the ladies to the temperance
meetings, and by talking to little knots
OF men | gained confidence enough to
addresssa throng, and I preached to
clusters of the poor of the city. Then
| addressed a throng in the Exposition
Building. l made up my mind that l
could not be contented any more with
out an active work in the ministry and
| began to seek a place to study. Of
course | thought that girls would have
to be educated, if they became preach
ers ] as well as boys. applied first to
the seminaries of my own church, the
Congregational, and they refused
me i. Then / applied to the Presbyteri-
an seminaries, and they were very Dig
nified and exclusive. / applied to four
teen in all, and at last found univer-
sity in Boston which accepted me as a
student. Oberlin College allowed me
to. study languages, and the professors
thought that they were doing great
thing for me, and said that no other
church would do so much. I have a
year more to stay in Boston, when ex-
pect to apply to the Methodists for IL
cense to preach ]"
Miss Oliver is the daughter of Mr..
Snowden, of this city. Her true name
is Annie Olivia Snowden; but as she
was known,as Miss Oliver among the
crusaders, she elings to the latter name.
She relates her crusade experience in
the Fleet Street Methodist Church,
Brooklyn, tonight. .-New York San.
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A Clerks story.

s'When used to tend store the old
man came around one day, and says
he, Boys, the one who sells the most
between now and Christmas gets vest
pattern as a present. May be that we
did not work for the vest-pattern.
tell you there was some tall stories told
in praise of goods, about that time; but
the tallest talker, and the one who had
the most cheek of any of us, was GER
tain Jonah CURES, who roomed with
me. He could talk dollar out of a
mans pocket when the, man. only in-
tended to spend six-pence, and the
women-Lord bless yotl-they just
handed over their pocket-books to him
and let him lay out what he liked for
them. One night Jonah woke me up
with, BY Jove, old fellow, if You
think that 'ere's got cotton in it, I'll
bring down the sheep it was cut from,
and make him own his own WOOL
Twon't wear out, either; wore pair Of
pants of that stuff for FIVE years, and
they are as good now as when / first
put them on. Take it at thirty cents,
and I'll say you didn't owe me any
thing. Eh-too dear? Well, call it
twenty-eight cents. What dye say?
All right. It's a bargain I could feel
Jonah's hand playing about the bed
clothes for an instant; then rip, tear,
went something or another, and / hid
my head under the blankets, perfectly
convulsed with laughter, and perfectly
sure that Jonah had torn the best sheet
from top to bottom When / awoke
the next morning, found the back of
my night-shirt split from the bottom to
the collar-band - Vicksbary Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-09-23
Treading Out the Corn.

In ancient times threshing was a
primitive process. A circular plot of
ground was beaten hard and firm, in
closed by slight barricade, the grain
in sheaves thrown on the earth, horses
or oxen led in and driven round and
round for hours, until the grain and
straw were trodden into an almost in
distinguishable mass. Then, by pro-
cess of tossing and blowing or tanning,
the chaff is separated from the grain,
the latter being afterwards washed to
free it from the dirt, which could not
fail to adhere to it. It was great inn
provement, and he was grand invent
or who introduced the fail. Some of
the unpleasant circumstances which at
tended the use Of animals were then
avoided. The farmers threshed their
grain on plank floor, instead of the
bare ground; the grain was not SO much
injured as before; more of it was saved;
the straw was more useful after thresh-
ing was done, and a general advance
was considered to be made. The East
ern countries, unchanged through all
the rolling ages, still adhere to the
horse or OK threshing, and many ma
tions still use the fail.
Among the queerest anomalies, how
ever, to be found in this country is the
recorded fact that in district in Mas
sachusetts the farmers reject the use of
machinery for threshing out their
wheat, rye and oats, and keep pound
ing away with their fifty-year-old fails
as industriously as did their grand
fathers. The world has gone on; Mas
sachusetts has become the great inyen-
tive State, has sent out vast quantities
of machinery to every part of this
and foreign lands; but the farm
er of that State does not appear
to have moved peg. Sill he is failing.
There are very few places anywhere else
in this country where the fail is used.
The Department of Agriculture says
that a few Marylanders thresh in this
manner, and there may be isolated
cases over the country where small
farmers raise but few bushels and do
their own threshing, but machinery is
almost universally in use. Horse and
steam threshers now do the work hu-
man muscle formerly performed, and
where bushel was formerly laborious-
ly gathered up from the plank floor or
the bare ground, hundred now pour
from the iron throat of the machine.
In Maine and most of the Middle
States horse machines are used which
turn out from one to three hundred
bushels per day. The thresher furnish
es portion of the horses and part of
the gang, the farmer provides the re-
mainder and pays for the work, either
in money or toll on the grain. The
cost of threshing is least when the most
perfect machinery is employed. In
California steam threshers are used.
and the cost is little over FIVE cents;
in South Carolina steam machinery is
almost unknown, and the threshing
costs about twenty cents per bushel.
The Western States-Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebras-
ka and Iowa-use steam threshers to
very considerable extent, and the cost
is comparatively small. Many farmers
in these States own steam machines,
and do not only their own work, but
that of large circle of their neighbors.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
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PATTY'S PLOT.

Loves me better than the whole
world, does she?n said Patty Peronel,
shaking her brown, tendrilly rings of
hair over faded rosebud and knot of
crumpled ribbon. ssOh, I dare say;
but you see, "gravely addressing space, ,
.sI've heard that sort of thing before.
Love must be an awful epidemic nova
days. And all the worlds lottery and
l, for one, don't want to draw a blank.
q dear, dear! how wish could readi-
y see into mans heart! How I wish
had any means of ascertaining wheth-
er Ralph Penrhyn really cares for me or
whether he has heard of Uncle Hutch
Inson's S10,000i O., dear me!'' and
Patty sighed deep enough to stir all the
RED cinnamon roses that were nodding
tWbaned crests at the easement.
And then she jumped up and went
about her business.
Which Glanced to be girl-hunting just
then; for Mrs. Maurice Peronel, Patty's
cousin, was chronically in the suds, so
20 speak, on the domestic service .ques-
ton, and Patty knew the inside of every
intelligence Office in town.
Its cook this time, is it, Bessiep''
said she.
"a cook" said Bessie. SO, Patty,
Patty, don't get married and go to
housekeeping. It takes all the romance
out of one. .
II don't know but what you are
right" Patty assented, reflectively.
And away she went to the Intelligence
Office.
II was crowded, on this hot July day !,
with the miscellaneous assemblage of
foreign femininity who are always seek
ing situations and, like the lover in the
Mistletoe Bough, - ssfind them not. =,
rafty looked around obviously. She
was something of physiognomist, and
sne did not exactly like the looks of the
raw material wherewith she was sur
rounded.
IL had better bide my time little, y
sne thought, and down she nestled into
aeorner of prodigious sofa, to wait
WIN what patience she might.
As she seated herself the shrill, pip
ing voice of an old lady beyond made
silence vocal.
You won't do for me,'' she said.
no followers-that's my rule. NV
A.chen amt place for all the loafing
sliers IN town to smoke in. Ask every
spody IN Darlingville, if you want to
NOW what kind OF a housekeeper Ra-
snei Penrllyn is. Every body in Dar-
mFalle knows me. No followers, no
nooons, no hoop skirts.''
] guess, thin, ma'am, ye won't do
.of me- said the Milesian damsel, with
"a indignant toss of her iockey-hatted
hhsad; II don't go nowheres / can't
nave me young man come and see me
Saturday night. y
ratty Peronel listened with mischiev-
g1y ggasly sparkling eyes and cherry cheeks.
nus, then, was the eccentric Aunt Ra-
IIuei, OF whom Ralph had often told
1.-THE grim old spinster who Except
1s louse'' all by herself in the quaint vii
age of Darlingville, where the elms
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MIDSUMMER.

Tumultnous beating of my heart
Re still and let mine eyes behold
These Summer glories. that no art,
However bold,
Can paint in tints that would not be too cold.
Az on the tangled ferns stand.
With the eternal skies outspread,
And the calm beauty of the land,
And hills o'erhead,
Earth softly seems to say, Be comforted.
IN undulating fields see
The waving corn, the clover blown,
Promise of fruit on every tree;
The valleys mown,
And hope of earth's increase, in good seed
s0wn.
Summer sits smiling, with grace
eodszzling, that hesitate
Yet long ts meet her, face to face,
Knowing how great
Her power to still emotion, or create.
The dreamy days, half peace, half pain,
With evenings shade, and mornings heat,
Bring something of my youth gain,
When life was sweet,
And the stirred pulses knew no aching beat.
vi.
The pale wild roses grew up high
From the green wayside covered with brake:
And butterflies half drowsiIy
Their gold wings shake,
As losth this Summer picture to forsake.
VII.
And grander still. when Nature stops
For one hushed moment, as to know
When the great sun in glory drops,
With overflow
Bathing the whole world in rapturous glow.
WIN.
O sweet midsummer! when close
Ny eyes forever, may wake,
TO picture broader in repose,
Needing to make
But blissfnl step, Gods outstretched hand to
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TX.
When the broad fields of heaven shall lie
In fairer beauty than our own,
No pain shall break life's harmony,
No jarrfng tone;
Roses most sweet, but never over-blown.
Boston Adrertiser. !
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-09-23

SEVENTEEN bears have been killedlin
Mattawamkeag, Maine, this season.
The State pays five dollars for each cap
ture.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-09-23

SPEAKING Of tall corn, Mr.. Cannon,
q farmer in the bottoms, tells us he has
a stalk which it takes his whole family
to look to the top of it. This is nice
stalk alk.-BrunsaOicker.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-09-23
MISS PHILPoTr's BODY REcoyEREp

NIAGARA FALLS, August Is THE
body of Miss Philpott, who was drown
ed below the Cave of Winds, last week
was to-day taken from the whirlpool by
her brother.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-10-09

THE PEACHES IN THE M1DDLErowN RE-
FRIGERAToR.-Thee experiment of preserv-
ing peaches in an immense refrigerator
building, which was made at Middletown
the present season, is likely to prove an
entire success, as to the preserpative part of
the enterprise. But while the success of
this enterprise has been established in one
sense, it has been a failure in another
The peaches now in the building are in
splendid condition, and are as firm to-day
as when they were first put in there, the
old ones as well as the new. The atmos-
phere is kept constantly almost down to
the freezing point, and the fruit in the
boxes, which are stood in columns, one
box being set upon the end of the other,
looks as tempting in its rotundity of devel-
opment as when hanging on the trees. In
this respect the experiment is perfect sue
cess. But while this is true, the fruit is
impregnated with turpentine flavor which
has been absorbed from the building. The
entire structure was built of yellow pine,
in green state, and this has ruined the
fruit. The peaches. however, are being
shipped to the city and sold, which will be
continued, but enough will be retained in
the refrigerator to show that the undertake
ing is just what it was represented to be-
1t is now too late to replace the turpentine
fruit, and even if it could be done there is
no guarantee that that which might be put
in now would not become similarly affected.
Before another season steps will be taken
to prevent this impregnation of the fruit,
and the present feeling is that another re-
frigerating house may be built by the peach
growers themselves.