Richland beacon., 1875-07-17
Local Brevities.

The thermometer ranges from 50 to 100
degrees in the shade.
Wa,ermclons and can,clopes are plentiful
Injuries just now.
Tomorrow, (Sunday Jnly ~ is the tenth
anniversary Of our married life.
X. S. Boughinl has our thanks for some
large peaches-,he finest We have seen.
We go to press too soon to report the occur.
rencies Of the picnic at this place yesterday.
The Grange and Temperance Council al
Oak Ridge had PIC mic OH Thursday, which
we know was a pleasant affair.
While assisting in clearing OF the pie ME
ground on Thursday, Mr.. A. n. ChiIdress
was bitten on the finger by a snake
Mr.. L. NJ. Brs'er has brought to this office
some very fine samples of onions, one OF
which, grown from seed, measures twelve
inches in circumference.
We will commence publising an origina
story in our next issue, which our readers
will find very Interesting no doubt. 1t will
be continued in several numbers.
Don't forge, the Grange dinner and ball to
be given at Delhi on the 22nd inst. We know
i, will be a pleasant affair, which you will
Iegre, no, attending if you fail to do so.
The health Of our community continues
very good, considering the excessive heat ;
though we hear Of few cases Of intermittent
fever, and cannot expect but to hear Of others.
We are requested by Rev. B. F. Alexander
TO state that beginning services at the Church
on Friday night he will continue the same on
Saturday, Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday
night.
The rain has ceased, and If the weather
continues as it is many days, we expect soon
10 hear universal wall of distress from the
planting community ON account of the drouh
and the shedding of cotton forms.
The interest in pic-nics, barbecues and
balls does not seem to have abated, notwth
standing the excessively warm weather We
are having but we hope the young people
VIII Nlt tdlIStI ~ Which, tkCt-s
will expose them.
The boiler Of the locomotive Ouachira on
the v. S. & +. r. r.. exploded a, Delhi on
Tuesday morning. The locomotive was pref
~ badly wrecked, bu, nobody was hurt we
believe. We have failed tins far to obtain
any information about tie matter
Many Of our planters are complaining Il
good deal and badly frightened at the n, pear.
ance Of the grass worm, which they say is Jes.
we hope they will soon find that they ere
unnecessarily alarmed. by the Disappearance
Of the insects.
The new Sunday School books have been
received, and as it is the intention of the su.
perintendent to rearrange the classes in dis
tributing the question books, all the teachers
ent tomorrow in order that all may &c, an even
start in their lessons.
Application has been made to Majn Greer
for halEfare tickets on the railroad to thos,
attending the Grange barbecue and ball a
Delhi on the 22nd inst, which request vii
no doubt he granted; SO tina, those desiring Il
attend need have no hesi,ancy about comn
with such understanding.
We have received a half dozen Encrymia
Belts advertised in this paper. and thei
merits are being tested by numbers ul on
families, but those who are exposed TO Il,
dangers Of malaria should no, wal, for a r,
I port from us. les, they he too late in derivin
I any benefit ,herefrom. Let them ties, ia
\ matter for themselves by ordering fe,
4 belts.
II Two highly colored individuals jeff Doric
l and Ann.Crozier, were this week sentence
III by the Parish Court TO jill for sixty days f.
II hog stealing. This strikes Tvs as very e,
nj pensive means Of punisi ment for crime, bl
we presume was the only resort If the Cour
unless it had sentenced them To the peuiiei
tiary. We think some provision should |
made by which the parishes could avoid III
bother of these petty offences, which has Ill
appearance Of Furnishing taxpayers for Grim,
of law breakers, ly providing means
making them pay heir own expenses by SON
kind of labor.
To-day the Grand Coancd Of the u. F.
]. meets in Delhi, for the purpose of ,ansao
ing the business pertaining 10 the duties OF I'll
body. and il is hoped that mrcr good will r
suit to the Oder in this and Adjoining parish,
/. therefrom, and that the delegates To the Cou,
Gil will gain much valuable information toucl
and earnestly hoped has become peri. ane,
institution in our land; for 1t is impossible
estifna,ethe good accomplished by the Ord
IN in this State. We have only TO look aroun
US in our own parish TO see what a uon,le
1 fni influence IL has exered in the great nae
l al reform Il has accomplished ti.as viii,
l all other institutions have apparently been "a
able to do, and seems to have raised hiyl,
4 standard Of morality even in tie Chusch az
4 the old and honored Orders OF Masonry al
Old Fellowship. Therefore all true Friem
OF Temperance should feel proud Of the Ord
and put fourth their efforts 70 perpe,us,e it
4 one of the most importaus mean. of Il
Hill achievement OF the moral reform atipn a,
4 elevation Of the human family