Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-06-02
RAYVILLE LOUISIANA,
Saturday, June 2, 1877,
Local BrcVities.

Cool nights this week.
Gratis are still very bad.
Colds are very prevalent.
Advertise in the BEACON.
The overflow is all gone.
Send in your subscriptions.
Garden are not doing well.
Cool time TO keep crops clean.
Bring in your spring chickens.
Biackberries will soon be ripe.
Chess is still the iavori,e game.
Local news exceedingly scarce.
We want a few pounds of butter.
Chickens taken for subscription.
The crops are suffering from dreuth.
The temperance cause still prospers.
Get your neghbor TO take the BEACON.
The dull season is in lis meridian glory.
-Four pages Of reading matter this week.
Advertising is the remedy for hard times.
Is it not a good time for fishing in Bpuf'
Have you ;oIgot you owe your subscription?
Trains will commence running today or to-
morrow
There will 5s preaching tomorrow if the
trains running.
You can get the BEACON the remainder Of
year for one dollar
The thermometer raLses from TO to SO in
the shade these days.
The editor of the O.,sch,a Telegraph has
had his frs, ripe peach.
The editor of the vicksburg Herald has
had nubbin Of green corn.
Dark nights, and the lantern is again brought,
into requisiriou by pedestrians.
The health Of our parish, so far as we can
hear, is exceedingly good; we hear of no
sickness at all.
If we could only see ourselves as others
see US we would find fewer stains upon the
character of our neghbcr.
Mr.. Crawford Selvy is our authorized agen
at Alto, to receive and receipt for amounts
due the REAcoS If. 1
The last number Of the Ell Dorado Eagle
was fall Of tax sale adversements-se full,
IN fact that they ran over into a supplement.
Ii the present drouth continues mach longer
the crops are found to suffer beyond reclama-
ton, we think. for they have about stopped
growing already.
The Mississippi and Aeary all its tributa.
ries are falling very rapidly; so there is no
possible danger Of trouble with any more high
water this season.
We have received the June number of that
popular Agricultural monthly, the Southern
Cul,ivator, published a, Athens, Ga, by w. L.
Jones. Terms, S2.l a year.
There are entirely too many fop.eared.
flea breeding dogs about this town for the
comfort Of sensitive persons. They make
night bideous with their ycping, bowling and
barking.
We take your turtle story, Lewie, without
a grain Of salt, because we have seen big |
ger chelonia ourself which measured eleven |
inches across the head, instead of % around |
it. Next
We learn that there was very interesting
protracted Methodist meeting in Delhi las,
week and a part Of this week, conducted by
Rev. Mr.. Moss, during the progress of which
there were over sixty accessions to the church.
The police jury meets next Monday, and
will, perhaps, remain in session at least two
days, as there will be considerable amount
Of other business to transact in addition to
that of appointing road overseers and appor-
lioning road hands.
We learn from the Ouachita Telegraph that
w. +. Flournoy. Of Trenton, Is years Of age,
was the successful competitor, before the ex-
,mining committee, for the cadetship in the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, from this (5th)
Congressional District.
BY invitation Of on, little friend, Miss Lula
lynn, we attended the Friday evenings exer-
Uses Of Mrs NJ f. Scott, school last evening,
md spent a very pleasant hour listening to
he speeches and compositions of our little
rends We will have more to say of this /
natter "A, another time.