Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-04-14
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RAYVILLE. LOUISIANA,
Saturday, April Is, 1877,
Local BreVitkS.

Ddu uine lof picnicklhS.
Subscription price, s. 90.
No preaching Tomorrow.
Mud ard water everywhere.
This is bad weather for cotton.
Pay yonr taxes to Col. Moore.
No green peas in our gardens YET.
Plenty of lettuce and turnip salad.
Temperance cause still prosperous.
Spring chickens in demad Just now.
Yes, we will Ia le few dozen eggs.
April floods, instead Of showers, prevail.
Don't forget you promised us that butter
Why don't some one bring some beef 10
marketa
Trains pass here an hour earlier than here
tofore, going both ways.
Remember that an Y pencil mark on your
paper is request 10 pay up.
If these heavy rains continue muci. longer
we may have an overflow yet
The acts which we publish to-day reduce
parish expenses nearly one>half.
The creeks, sloughs and ponds are brim
full and the ground thoroughly saturated with
water.
Friday morning was as cloudy, damp, cold
and miserably disagreeable as an April morn
ing could well be.
The Selma (Ala) Argus is one of the very
best papers published, for giving the news OF
the State in condensed form
The first and most important object of the
journals, Should be to elevate the moral and
social standing of his community.
1t would be a great pleasure TO us to see
cur young people organize literary society,
and they would be greatly benefited by it.
Who will start it,
And now croquetplayers sit with mallet in
waters, with here and there a wicket peering
above their muddy surfa e.
That levee cas-: of the church keeps the
rain water in town, as tight jug, but we
dom know how 1t will 90 about keeping the
overflow water out if it should come.
A private Letter from Calhoun county, Ala,
states that there was an unusual rainfall there
last Saturday and Sunday, and that the water
courses were higher than they had been for
two years.
If you want your home paper to compete
in size, interest and appearance with the big
Northern city weeklies, give it just half the
encouragement they receive, and we guaran
tee it will do it.
We call the attention Of all who may need
the services of a dentist to the notice of Dr.
S. L. Bracy, in another column. He is well
known to our readers as ski!lful dentist and
polished gentleman.
Verita graces and enlivens our columns
again this week, after a long silence. The
only fault we fird with our Floyd correspon-
dent is that she does not write ofen enough,
as her letters are never without interest.
Those who complain that we do not pub
lish telegraphc news are informed that, if
they will look under the head of Here and
There" each week, they will find the latest
news from all points ~5oiled down. with that
which is unimpor,ant left out.
The attention of those who may need the
services of legal counsel is directed TO the card
of the new law firm of Potts & Hudson, to
be found among our new advertisement
They are both pretty well known throughout
the district as trust worthy gentlemen.
Those who desire to see a United States |
war vessel can gra,itiiy their curiosity by going |
10 Vicksourg today or tomorrow, where they |
can see the steamer Plymouth. Commander
Barrett courteously invites citizens to visit tie |
vessel, and states that detail will wait on |
and conduct them through the ship.
Vicksburg now has two daily papers, morn
ing and evening, Of which her people should |
be justly proud. The. Herald has long teen |
the paper Of all our people in search Of late |
news, but the Commercial is destined to di- |
vide honors with it. We are under great
obligations to both these papers for daily |
exchange.
We do no, think the city council of Monroe |
has dealt justly with the Telegraph. 1t has
been struggling lard for years for the party |
that elected the council, without any chance |
Of official patronage. and now that the party |
has uiumphed the opposition organ has been |
given the official patronage. while the Tele- !
graph is left to its own privae resources.
Tie letter of Or. Hill gives very flatter-
ling description OF Fort Worth and the sur
rounding country; and our readers who are
acouain,ed with the doctor know that the
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