Richland beacon., 1877-04-21
Saturday, April 81, 1877.
HERE md THERE.


l,wa. expected tina, Russia would declare
war to-day.
I, is not certain, after all, that an extra
session Of congress will be called.
Incendiary tramps have been arrested at
Ashland, Ohio, charged with burning hotel.
The Plymouth never left Na,chez until last
Wednesday, and is probably now Mt Vicks
burg
The steamer Dispatch sails shortly for
Cons,antinople, for use Of the United States
Minister.
Frank Heintz. Of 1855 Tchoup,oulas street.
New Orleans, suicided last Sunday night by
jumping out of a third story window.
The amendment to the New Hampshire
Constitution aboshing religious test as a
qualification for office, has at last been adopt
ed
The signal observer at Kitty Hawk report.
ed the schooner Edward J. Herrarty, of Phila.
delphia, ashore ON Tuesday; the crew sup
posed to be lost
Tweed has made wha, is claimed to be a
full confession of the frauds in which he has
taken part. in which he duplicates a grea:
many prominent men of New York.
A crowd of ruffians attacked and badly
beat Col A. K. Mcclure, editor of the Phia-
delphia Times, las, Monday. one of the
crowd attempting to cowhde him on the
street.
Hayes is cutting down expenses by shaking
of some Of the parasites. 200 of the 900
public printers were discharged on Wednes.
day. and 300 more will be discharged the
first Of May.
Il is believed that Packard has made his
last appeal TO the President sfor support and
that he will soon surrender his false claim TO
the governorshp OF our State, if he has not
already done so.
In reply to a delegation of Quakers, the
President said he was peace man, but he
was not as far advanced in peace as tie
Quakers, and must on some occasions resort
to severe measures.
Tie clothes of little five year old girl,
left by her mother to watch a boiling kettle of
water, in New Orleans, last Monday night,
caught fire and she was burned to death be-
fore assistance reached her.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, after such long
contest before the courts has at last gained
her suit against the city of New Orleans. We
are glad of the triumph Of this brave little
woman, whose plnct We have 90 long adj.
mired.
A party Of Crazy Horses band is reported
on the war path. They were deceived by
being told that only the arms captured from
Custer would be taken from them wheE the
Government really demanded all their arms
and ponies.
The New England Me,hodiss have wasted
their tears over the murder Of Rev. S. H.
Scott, a colored preacher of South Carolina
for the Charleston News and Courier reports
him alive. we'll and in the discharge Of his
ministerial duties.
Vienna Sentinel: Reports from some por
tons OF the perish state that the heaviest rain
Of the season fell last Saturday evening, doing
great injury and damage in the way of washing
away soil and washing bitches in freshly
plowed lands besides throwing many behind
in their cotton planting.
The two conspicuous heroes of the day are
Wade Hampton and Safvet Pasha All
Europe could not bulldoze the latter, nor was
the former much demoralzed by the threats
Of jim Blaine, Wendell Phillips and the
bowling idiots of the Methodist Episcopal
Church North N o. Democrat.
The body of c. Schweigert was found dead,
last Saturday night, at the new Lake End,
New Orleans, shot through the heart Every
Circumstance went TO prove that he had been
foully murdered, but whether the detectives
have found any clue that will lead to the dis
covery Of his murderer or not we do not
know. This much We learn from the Demo.
crat.