Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-08-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


$40 900 for licenses this year.
Texas wheat is so high that grasshoP- i
pors have 20 walk on stills.
An Iowa man put $4,000 in the
rag bag for safe keeping. A peddier
came along and his wife sold the rags
Wrap a sheet of foolscap around the
neck Of a mineral water bottle, and you
have the latest style of gents collar.
Should the Turkish soldiers at kars
run short of rations they will probably
fall back on Mush-which is only an
inch and a half distant, on the map.
A Scotch paper mentions that a bot
tie of whisky one hundred and thirty
two years old has sold at Edinburgh ior
forty pounds.
In Turkish newspaper ONCE they
don't allow eight words to line, as they
do over here, but allow eight lines to one
word.
Col. d. G.. Potts, democrat. has been
amounted postmaster of Petersburg, Va.
There were five republican applicants tor
the office.
A righteous Louisiana judge, in a
horse case, ruled out both plaintiff and
defendant, and decided that the animal
belonged to one Of the witnesses.
Puritanism is penetrating even into
Louisiana. The corporation of Bayou
Sara has adopted an ordinance fOrbidding
the opening of amusements on Sunday.
IN Exchange says: A dear old lady
presented her son, on his departure for
sea. with Bible. On opening it during
gale it fell from his hands, and out
dropped a fine tooth comb and the
admonitory book mark: SEARCH daily"
The London Times credits the Ameri-
cans with great shrewdness in invest.
i ments. "They have made their bad
ventures" says the Times, "but they
have made them to great extent with
> other peoples money"
An American citizen was garrotec
and robbed recently while travelin!
from Turkey to st. Petersburg. NJ
. diplomatic correspondence will be neces
sary, as Turkey and st. Petersburg ar
:! two small towns in the oil regions Q
"a Pennsylvania.
The sea holds $4,000, 1000, 90
tons of sat. Should the sea be dried ny
:! there would be deposit Of salt ovor tn
). entire bottom of the ocean four hundre
~, y. and fifty feet deep, and if the salt wei
-: ~ taken and spread on the land it woul
~ cover it to depth of nine hundred fee
70 Great place, that Black hill countr
at Besides gold and silver, "a mountain
I'd isinglaaa," has Just been discovered. II
accounts do not mention the matter, b
ma we understand that there are indicatio
on of type metal and flowing we'll Of hs
ov dye!
,et The following proclamation has be
ote issued by the faculty Of Princeton q
leee: Whereas, the faculty have learne
to their entire satisfaction, that into
LIE eating liquors can be obtained at H
Helleman's, therefore all students
forbidden to enter his restaurant for q
20 purpose whatever"
wv A girl screamed in lecture au
- ence in Lafayette, Oregon. Then all
' I other girls screamed. General const
'NN' nation ensued, and rush was made
:- the doors, people were bruised, clot
20. torn, and the room at length empti
e'' The first screamer had seen rat.
lied It has been pretty clearly demonsta
! n that the recent British demonstration
hen. Petersburg, Va, was organized Tor
we'd purpose of attracting immigration
first that region. The state had previor
. spent $4,000 in endeavorisg to IN
at duce English settlers to locate in
mt: :ns.y' cinia, but with very small success.
was The valuation in Boston is to be
pws duced this year $50, 900, 900, maxim
ne. or reduction of slOO,OOO,OOO within
1d s Of Of YEAR,. 1t is claimed that the valua
for the purpose of taxation OF real es
"aS should be what it will bring at TO
type sale, and that for some years past
ne land of Boston has been much al
col. ..:~
ously '-
bout Inc mayor VI ro" -
from story of Brutus, tho noble Roman,
vt Of his erring son. The mayor ordered
+he unmuzzled dogs to be shot by the pe
eodle Inc hfS' ani.'ai ''0"O e