Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1876-04-01
Local EsrcyiticS.

tiei Jour supplies while you car.
Keep your boats ready ior high. water.
pon't get angry if yen are sold today.
Il : predicted %c Will have more frost
The crop prospect is not very encouraging
Industry will e"cr succeed in preventing
want
Railroad oG.,ials are preprlins for auotl.c,
overflow.
Oar young friend Talbo, S,.!!n,an has Or
tAIQk, for fayurs.
People need no, hold back for high.wa;e.
aui cold weather.
Don't be always complaining at Providence
Ii is better than you eau do.
Mr.. Taylor, formerly of Alabama, died
last Tuesday night near ti.s place.
Trains ar" running again, but il is feared
they viii have TO stop sooa asthr water is again
rising.
Mrs. Graham. residing near this place.
died las, Saturday night and was buried Gu
Sunday.
The attention. Of ilose whcm it may con.
Germ i, directed ~ L. 5. special tax Lotce in
ur".lIcr column.
Charles Bofensch,n, of Monroe, died las,
Tuesday, and was buried with masonic
honors on w cdneSday
We regret very much 10 learn by letter
from Rev. L. {. Kells that he is in very bad
health. He, however, states that he will be
here OF Sunday morning to filth: appoint
m,n,.
We present our readers to>day with our
II ST Washington letter, and in doing so, have
tie pleasure of announcing tina, the cores
p 'ndence will be continued through the olit.
cal campaign Of this year
by special arrangement mads with MAJOR
and supper at Delhi next Tuesday night will
lie charged OILY bali fare on the ", S. Il I.
Railroad, and We hope to see large crowd
30 if the trains are runni,g then.
The North Lousisana Railroad bill was lot
squechcd by Mr. Wheelocks sill conduct,
but another copy was enrolled and signed by
The Lieut.. Governor and Speaker Of the
House, and WI in the hands of the Governor
Tor his signature the last We heard Of it,
We Fundamentally committed an error in
a marriage notice last week. Mr. Chcnnaut
and Miss Thomason were not married at the
residence Of the brides father nor 10y Rev c.
McRimmon, but by W. L. Oliver j. p and
AT the residence Of the bridegroom mother.
jeff Thompson (coloretl), who has been a
laborer on Mrs. Bickers farm, adjoining this
place, for several years, died Of pulmonary
affection last Friday night. He has relatives
IN Warren county, Miss from when his
widow, Lou Thompson, would like to hear
licr post Office is Rayvlle, La.
We lean from the Madison Journal Of 2s,h
u,:, that II little coiored. girl was burned to
crnth on the Groves place on the 2lst; and
we learn from the same paper that an old
colored woman was frightened from her cabin
Ivy 4 storm one night last week, and was
found frUzen to death next day.
S. w. Smith informs us that lie buit a
few miles from town, in which oolored
family were living, who Oh Thursday plight
were absent from home, when the house was
burned down. lie is not certain whether
the fire was the work Of an inccndiary or the
result OF caIelessness on the par, Of the occV-
pant.
w. W. Wilkinson has retired from the edi-
,orial management Of the Madison Journal,
to avoid, as he says, giving oiIense to per.
sonal friend in the contest now going on be-
tween the two factions of that parish; ami
the Journal has been taken charge Of by a
whole company, who will perhaps keep up
u fire upon their personal friends" from
masked battery, as 10 names Of editors are
given.
Walker, in whose house that meat was
found under suspicious circumstances, asserts
that the meat was his own: that he was
assi sting in the search for the stolen meat, and,
rs they approached his cabin, his wife became
frightened and hid the meat between the |
beds, knowing they were hunting the meat oil
"bob-tair' hog, which answered the descrip-
non of bis. The question is, how did she
know "bob-,ail' hog had been stolenl