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Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

Best quality of Spring Steel Machine Nee
die, for all kinds OF machines. al the machine
agency of J. f. Behen, Monroe La. nanl.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

House. TO RENr.-A small house, with
brick chimney and two room. to rent A
good, honest wash. woman can make excel
lent arrangements with the undersigned
None but honest perssns need apply.
Wiley P. MAxGHAx.
Rayville, La. Dec. 80, 1876 IT.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

Insure in the Home Of New York, es'ab
lished in ls45. Realized assets Jany /, 1876.
over $5,5oO,O00. J. E. Behen, Agent. Mon.
roe, La. tiaul,77.
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NnI- NNnI, IIInI, TT,

YOU CANNOT HIDE 1T, "Tha, Cstarrh
spoils your voice. DR. J H. McLeans
Wonderful Csr,rrh Snuff sooihes and heals
all irritation in the nose, head or throat, sure
cure. Trial boxes soc. by mail. DR.. J. H.
Mclean, 3l4 Chestnut, ST Louis.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

C000 eres Of land sold to .mit purcha
ZOOO sers. II in the Gods. For
particulars apply at this office IT,
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Land Warrants.
II. s. 4 A. r. LACEY
WaSGyNCTOND 4

Any person desiring information as to the
standing and responsibility of the members of
the Arm will. on request, be furnished with
satisfactory reference in his vicinity or Con-
gressionai district Jan. 6, 1S77.-tf
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ESTABLISHED 1869.
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329 S,rsnfh Street, Washington, D. c.

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We conduct our business in separate bu-
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Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

We have long Since discovered that the
men who f,.d the most fault with the man.
asement Of a newspaper are the deadbests,
who either read it without subscribing for i,
or let their subscription. run three or four
years and then refuse 10 pay.
Col. c. H. Moore, our ex sheriff. has been
appointed tax collector for this parish by Gov.
Nichols The colonel is fully capable of
making an efficient tax collector, and we
hope will give general satisfaction, If we, the
people OF this State, are allowed TO have the
government Of our choice.
Rayvile needs good wheelwright, black
smith, shoemaker, gunsmith, jeweIer, timer
and harness maker. We believe that good
sober, industrious mechanics Of all these
trades, who will locate here permanently.
advertise the fact, work reasonably and stick
TO their business will prosper.
The law card Of J. W. Willis, Jr., will be
found among our new advertisements TODAY.
and we call the attention Of those who wish
10 assist in giving young attorneys a start in
the world to the fact TINT Mr. Willis is one of
that kind and 4 worthy young man.
Make Your Sister . Nice Pres.
emit Of one Of Coleman Smith. snkee
Clocks, TO put in her room. II you nave no
sister. some other fellows siste. will thank
You for such an evidence Of Your regard
See advertise meni, and order of him or OF
Publisher Of the BEACON, and have i mailed
TO her address.
Indians peddling cane baskets and blow
guns on the streets seems 10 have become a
regular feature Of the business of Rayville Of
late; at least they have appeared on our
streets 50 frequently within the las, three
weeks that the novelty has worn OF. and
they are no longer the objects Of attra,iou To
gap e crowds Of children.
A few days since Eve men were over,aken
At or near this place by man named Hurd,
who had them arrested and confined in Jail.
on a charge Of stealing blanket, from him.
Their statement, which was no doubt true,
was tina, they had been working for Hurd;
,h.t the blankets were bought for them; that
worth Of the blankets for work. which lie
wos>, no, pay, and they TOOK them in part
pay HI left him. On Wednes lay evening,
when .'.-y were brought before the Parish
Judge. he dd MT appear ssains 'b-rn AMI
fncy were released
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

go acres land-70 acres in good state of
cultivation with good comfortable houses
will he sold Cheap for Cash. or iwo-rhirds
Cash, with mortgage retained for balance -
There is also on the place Horses and f.rminR
implements. and two good yokes Of oxen
For further particulars, apply TO J. J. Os'een,
on the place.o to Wiley p. Mangham, Ray
vile, La aug 22-,f,
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To The Trade.
ei NAIL, POSTAGE PA

CAA ACRES wood land, so acre dog
ZOO wood ridge, some sweet-gum land,
will be sold al 81 50 per acre. on easy terms.
ten miles southeast Of Rayvile. For -..;hses
particulars apply a, this Office (no 226tfJ
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

nNE Halfinterest in large body of land
" but will be sold in lots to sui, purchasers.
For particulars apply at this Office II.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

The Liverpool. London and Globe Fire
Insurance Company pays losses Immediately
on adjustments. without delay and without
discount J. f.. BEfEs Agent,
Feb 20, lST6.panl. Monroe, La.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

Who wants a good Sewing Machine! We
can give you choice OF any You desire and
sell for 30 per cent less than agents prices
Call and see US before buying elsewhere. If
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

VALUARLE SEEDS FREE-Prof Stelle, sgri-
cultural editor Of the Mobile Register, and
editor Of rhe Jownai of Progress. is now
sen''ins out in dollar parcels hundred. Of
packages Of rare garden and tree seeds.
chufas, etc, free. Send your name on a pos
tai card addressed Journal of Progress, No
bile, Ala, and he will send you a copy of his
valuable Monthly containing his listof free
seeds.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

For the the season Of 1876 in The Old and
Reliable Insurance Agency Of Jno. L. Byrne,
Monioe. La. The best companies and lowest
rates given
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

Masonic. I Regular communications Of
r. F Mcclure Lo'ige No. FOG the End We'd
nesday IN each month.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03
DEALER
IA AN1sl.n

Ia every town in
the South for the
ceiebraied
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03
RAYVILLE. LOUISIANA,
Saturday, March 3, 1877,


Advertise in the BEACON.
Lookout for March winds.
Some frost again this week.
Have you planted your corn:
Plant plenty Of peas for stock.
The hooking birds are singing.
Don't you owe rs for this paper'
The peach trees are in full bloom.
The cool snap chilled garden seed.
Be diiisent, hopeful and industrious.
Keep out of debt as much as possible
Keep stirring NIL you get your crop in.
Have your Job work done al this office.
The Mississippi IS falling all the way mp.
Il will soon pc too late 10 set out shade trees.
Never do an act of which you will 5e
ashamed.
Times are hard, bu, you should pay the
printer, nevertheless
The newspaper editor who tries TO please
everybody is failure.
Sewing Machine Needles, Soc. per dozen
a, J. +. d ! J. Behen's, Monroe. nov2O-tf
II your wan, people TO pa,ronize home
business, Sc, them the example by pa,ronizing
your home paper
Many of our. people will be hard run for
supplies this year. The fruit Of the all cotton
system and going in debt for supplies.
Why 20 to New Orleans to have your prin-
ting done " hen you can have II done just as
cheap and good at home, an then complain
because people do not paironizs home bus-
ncsss
Your labor is vain to try TO make people
believe il i. 10 their interest TO buy goods of
merchants who do not adver'ise-they know
they can ge, better bargains from the man
who advertises.
Two Italians, with harp and violin, were
wandering abou, our streets Wednesday. but
they met with such poor pecuni.ry enoouT-
agement that they dscoursed but little ususic,
to III. modification of small children and idle
darkiea
For some reason or other there - declre
in the number of tramps asking for assistance
daring the past week or two ieAsbsTg
Herald. ~,
They havs 1sw.rned over onto our side Of
the branch.
We had perfect deluge Of rain on We'd
nesday night, which continued good portion
Of the day thursday, and would have caused
some apprehension Of an overflow il it were
no, e,r the fac, that the Mississippi is behav-
-fnYfserlf az admirably.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

Rayville, La. Dec. 80, 1876 If.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03
United States General Land Office.

Contested Land Cases, Private Land
Claims, Mining. presumption. and Homestead
Cases, prosecuted before the General Land
Office and Department Of the Interior.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-03-03

All officers. soldiers and sailors wounded
ruptured. or injured in the late war, however
slightly. are entitled to, and can obtain pen.
sion
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-08

The delegation of Sioux Indians to visit
Washington cannot be got together before
the 10Th of September. Washington tele-
grams state that Secretary Schurz is very
much opposed to receiving these periodical
visits from the Indians of the west. This
is where his Judgment is sound. The gov.
eminent pays the expenses of lot of bar.
barians who visit the east for no other pur.
pose than to crafty their vanity ard make
a useless display Of themselves. The com
ing visit will accomplish no purpose, anG
President Hayes will do the country a ser
vice by giving these painted murderers the
cold shoulder.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-08
PAYING CLAIMS.
LDeadwood champion.

Niger Gulch, which derived its name
from he fact that it was taken up by four
'sg, mmen' of color, is now proving to BE-
quite a bonanza. Yesterday there was ex-
hibited in this office some of the gold du t
and nuggets, taken out by the present own
ers, johnson brothers from claims : and s,
which were the finest specimens Of yellow
lucre we have seen in the Hills-being en-
tirely free of all black sand, and the nuggets
varying in size from a bird shot to a pea,
About one year ago, and after taking OUT
some $4,000, these negroes became fearful
that their wealth would be taken from them
or they become victims OF the a~ssassins
knife, and so sold out for about $4,000. De
spite the lack of water in this gulch, which
is a mile or more in length, obliging the
miners to only work from one to two hours
per day, over 100000 has been taken out
One of the men personally interested in thes
claims recently offered $500 per day TO
water sufficient to operate his claims. Th'
idea that the placer mines in these gulches
have all been exhausted is a preposterou
one.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-08
The Washington Republican of the 4th

The Washington Republican of the 4th
says it was reported that the attorney gen
eral had directed a civil sult to be institu-
ted on behalf of the United States against
Mr.. Mckee, Of st. Louis, for 100000, and
that one of the principal witnesses for the
government is to be the notorious Joyce,
who will shortly be pardoned out of Jail.
In the same connection it is said that Joyce
has in. his possession a large number of
letters from prominent public men, which
he had consented to surrender, and that
these letters implicate the writer's in the
whisky frauds. Later advices state that a
civil suit for damages was filed Monday at.
%ternoon, in the United States circuit court
at st Louis, by the United States govern
ment against VIM Kee. The action EN-
braces 1854 counts for 81 400 each, aggrc.
eating $~2,314,200. These counts are all
alike 10 form, except that the name of diff
ferent distilleries are inserted in each,
charging the unlawful removal of distilled
spirits, and also charging the defendant
with aiding and abetting in the remoya OF
said spirits which act rendered him liable
to the above penalty of 81 400. Assistant
District Attorney Denison says ii is not ex-
pected that judgments will be obtained on
all the counts, but it is expected that about
5000, 600 will be recovered. This suit will
probably reopen the entire proceedings of
the whisky ring from 1871.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-08
CALAMITY JANE.
[Deadwood Champion.

1t is fact that cannot be successfully
contradicted, that newspapers make presi
dents, senator's, generals, politicians and
'sscns Of guns" The best specimen in sub.
stantiation of this assertion is Calamity Jane.
So far as real solid merit is involved, she is
q fraud, a dead give away. A hundred
waiter girls and mop squeezers IN this gulch
are her superiors in anything the reader can
name; but the newspapers have picked her
up and made her famous. That's all there
is about it. Suppose she strikes out and laws
around with a lot of road agents on the
prairies-what Of it? A sqnaw does the
same thing. Why, then, is she entitled to
more consideration than a squaw? Yet, she
is. she is a character. Everybody who has
been in the Hills knows Calamity; simply
because the newspapers have thrown her up
on the surface Of public notice, like a volca.
no throws up the bowels OF the earth. She
IL nothing in the aggregate of nature. The
old ma lam was not generous with her when
she cast the die that moulded her. Her form
and features sre not only Indifferent, but
repnlsiye. 1t makes US tired to see SO much
written about her, and, to be honest, this
item makes us sick, too.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-08
CUSTER'S BURIAL PLACE.

The widow Of the late Gen. Custer has
gone east, and is in New York on her way
to be present at the final interment of her
husbands remains in the West Point Gene
terry. The gallant Indian fighter is to lie in
the historic little burying ground next to
Major Gen. Hartsuff. Two generations Of
Indian fighters are thus brought together
Hartsufl fell in the Florida Everglades
pierced by three Seminole bullets, about the
time Custer was born. He lived to be
washed ashore in the Lady Elgin disaster
and to receive another bullet at the head O
his division at Antietam; but he carried the
Seminole bullets, as we'll as that from Ante
tam, with him to his grave. The time fol
the ceremonies connected with the fina
burial of Custer has not yet been fixed.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-08
JUDGE WEST.
Tho Republican Candidate for Governorin
Ohio Expresses His Views on
Labor and Capital.

Labor and Capital.
Judge West, republican candidate for gov
ernor in Ohio, was interviewed by a cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial. In
regard to the labor question of the platform
he said:
1t is my purpose to set forth at length my
views on the subject when l start out in the
campaign. Briefly, | will say that capital
Being thus mutually dependent they are
alike entitled to the fostering care and pro
lection of the state, in so far as it is practi-
cable to extend the same. To trammel either
by unwise legislation would be destructive
to the interests Of both. If either be without
its reward sufficient to nourish and sustain it
both must perish. Capital cannot continue
to employ labor, and must necessarily ex-
haust if not enumerated. LABOR cannot re-
numerate capital unless nourlshed and sus-
tained by adequate compensation. Todevise
some method by which their proper relations
may be maintained is more the work of
practical wisdom than Of theoretical states
menship. Personally, | have supposed it
practicable in the operation of our great
railroad thorough fares and mines to adjust
by voluntary agreement between employer
and employee, a kind of sliding scale of COM
pensation, whereby the latter might receive
a certain agreed minimum of compensation
Tor a stated period, and in addition thereto a
certain agreed percentage of the net earnings
and profits realized during the same period.
| do not know that such a system o compen-
sation is practicable. | understand il TO
have been successfully applied in some Of the
great industrial establishments of England
and also of this country, and, have, therefore,
believed that if our railroad corporations
could apply some similar plan to the solu-
ton of the existing labor problem, by which
they are now SO much embarrassed, all the
differences between themselves and their
employees might be amicably and satisfacto-
rily adjusted. Some of them have already
adjusted on the promise that if their future
receipts justify it The compensation shall be
increased, but this leaves matters open 10
future controversy. An agreement to pay
a stipulated percentage of the profits in addi-
ton to the fixed minimum compensation,
would give greater assurance to the employee
that he would certainly receive such addi-
tional remuneration in the event of the COM
pany's ability to pay, while rendering him
entirely content with the failure TO receive
it in the event of disability. These are only
personal opinions of my own, for the utter
ance Of which no one is responsible but my
self. FL, as the operator of a railway, had
the power to apply these suggestions in prac-
tiee l should certainly try the experiment,
for the laborer is undoubtedly worthy of his
hire. All this, however, should be ~volunta-
rily arranged becaus e it is beyond the scope
of legislative jurisdiction.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-08
The people Of the Black Hills complai

AEE eEE lEELeHE
The people of the Black Hills complain
Of hard times and say there is no money
in circulation. The Deadwood Times at
tributes the ssrigency to the embargo laid
upon the country by road agents, who pre-
vent the shipment of bullion and the receipt
of greenbacks. The probable true cause is
that the DAYS of the big rush to the Hills
are over and business is settling down tic
it's legitimate basis. Things have been run
on the high pressure principle and the re.
action which has ensued is simply the pro-
cess of getting down to the business which
the u Of the country will warrant
The Hills have a future Of steadily %increas-
ing prosperity before them, but full develop.
ment must come in advance oft.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-08

Reporter-What are your views, Judge,
with regard to the reduction Of income, by
competition, below the ability ofthe employer
to pay a fair compensation.
Judge Vest greatly fear that has been
the principal source and cause of the recent
unhappy disturbances which the country has
Witnessed with such alarm. Cheap trans
portation i much to lie desired, but cheap
ness secured al the expense Of the laborer
upon whose muscle the products of the
country are borne TO market, is not generous.
| do not believe the magnanimity and gen
crosby of shippers would il, they understood
such to be the effect, require or tolerate it.
| have to high an estimate of the sense of
justice which CONTROL the business transac-
ton OF American operators tobelieye thatthey
would willingly impose such mighty burdens
for inadequate compensation. such %ruinous
competition can and ought to be averted,
because of the fearful consequences it has
wrought, and will continue to work.
Reporter-Do you think a bureau of in
dustry, such as proposed by the republican
plat olm, would facilitate the correction of
this injustice?
Judge West-I have no doubt but that it
would. The intervention of he proposed
bureau to correct an evil OF this character |
think is entirely competent. The statistical
information which it might autho, i|tatively
demand would enable tito point out the eau e.
es OF grievances, and suggest, if not compel
their correction.
On the subject of the silver plank of the
platform, Judge West said:
"My idea, with regard to the remonetiza-
ton of silver, has been that if proper to issue
it at all, it should be only as a substitute fol
our outstanding legal-tender circulation, Sc
that our volume of circulation should not be
increased in amount, but rather in value
that we should have better money rather
than more money. If we are to lave tn,
silver dollar, it should be made as nearly
equal in value to gold as practicable, SO tina
it may be subiecs to the same degree of duc
%tuation, and yet the difference between i
and gold be not so great as to work an APP
parent injustice"
In bringing the interview to a close, Judg
West expressed great confidence in the re
publican cause, and said he would take til
stump in about two weeks.