Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1876-02-28
THE RICHLANO BEACON.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Local BreviiieS.

De.ia has been incorporated
Coo! frosty weather tin, werk.
Trains have stopped running.
No train on Thursday morning.
Gardening Is gong on quite brlskly.
The water continues To rIse. they say
Don't predict the worst consequences.
Attention is directed to sheriff 5 sale ads.
The cotton Of 1879 is not all shipped yet.
The ladies' are beautifying their yards and
gardens.
Don't be always looking a, the dark side of
the picture.
Planting will be delayed on many places
by the overflow.
No overflow water in sight Of Rayville on
Thursday morning.
We will drop our market report until the
waters subsidc, at least.
The overflow will furnish fine sport for the
deer hunters and boa,men.
Tramps are nouhed that if they enter this
Office they he Killed on the spot.
We issue the BEACON on Monday this time
for the accommodation of the sheriff.
We notice a good many Of our legal friends
in town tins week attending parish court.
To have gondola or no, to have, is the
question tina, sgitates the RayviIle mind just
now.
Parish Court has been in session this week,
bu, we have not informed ourself as To pro-
ceedings
Young man, remember that honor is viz
tue and the only true badge Of { gentleman;
don't forfeit ii.
The Morehouse Clarion thinks Pat Barry
received justice, although il is not an advo-
cate OF Lynch law.
Those who persist in lighting fires by pour
ing coal oil ont Of cans onto the fire are not
all in heaven yet.
Several Of our parishioners and their fami.
lies have gone 10 New orleans, to attend the
FAIR and Mardi Gras.
II you would preserve your selfrespect and
meri, the confidence of others, do not violate
your temperance pledge.
VIVA, pity if the cruel overflow should
come creeping into our gardens and destroy
The fruits of our honest toll.
Il is siated-we do not know upon wba,
au,hori,y-ihat the Lincoln parish horse thief
arrested here was hung beyon Monroe.
Vic Woodruff and Tennie Clafiin are in
New Orleans, telling the people what they
know about woman rights and free.love.
Some persons predict that the overflow
will remain until summer, bu, we do not
know upon what theory they base such
gloomy predictions
We regret that We could not attend the
festival Of the Modocs, in Nicksburg, on the
2ond, but we are all doomed to disappoin,-
menrs and perplexities.
The high water is creeping up on us slow.
ly. Ii has made its appearance in town, and
IL
use boats for locomotion, a Ia Venice.
The man who is so unpat.lotic as not 10
want to serve his country in an official capaci-
" has been found, and arrangements are be-
ing made TO secure accommodations for him
in the luna,ic asylum.
hn 40 he
country stealing Bibles and other church
property, have certainly lost all hope and de
sire for future happiness, and sold out, body
and soul, 10 the devil.
Allen Pritchard, son of J. c. Pritchard, OF
,hi, place, died Of pneumonia, a, the resi-
dence of J. J. Thomson, in the southern
par, of the parish, on Tuesday morning, and
was buried at this place on Wednesday.
Those who attend the fair in New Orleans
this week will have the pleasure Of hearing
a speech from the eminent statesman Cover
nor Hendricks, of Indiana, as he accepted an
invitation to address the people on that occa-
sion.
|, is rumored about town that bill Great
ing the new parish of West Carroll had pass
ed the House. We have seen nothing of such
bill in the proceedings OF tina, body, as pub
l.hed in our city exchanges, though it NAV
have escaped our notice.
The men and patriots who are willing to
serve their country, with selfsacrificing devo-
iion in any position of honor and profit
especially pro6t-it is supposed will step for
ward in large numbers during this centennial
year of our national existence
The New Orleans Picayune credits the
Madison Journal with onr remarks, on the
10Th inst. about the overflow Tins is matter
of small consequence, but If j, should get to
using our political articles in the same way i,
might snake Iooble init de Shou.nal."
H. J. Hearsey, Of the Shreveport Times
has accepted the position of associate editor
in chief Of the New Orleans Democra, Col.
Tyler will have an able assistant through the
campaign, for Col. Hearsey is an able and
vigorous writer, as well as staunch Democrat.
1t is with profound regret that we announce
the death Mrs. Emalne Archibald, relic of
the late ]. /. Archibald, Of this parish, which