Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-04-07
TRUTHS AND 1RIELES

Large qualities of zinc are being
mined in Union county, Tennessee.
"A negro definition of a bigot-"A
man as knows too much for one niggab,
ard not enua for two"
Men are frequently like ,ea-,be
real strength and goodness are DO.
properly drawn out until they have been
in hot water.
A Texas stockman recently sod 70
parties in southwestern Kansas 10000
head of cattle and 1000 horses FOR $40
600 in silver
The wellknown steamship con
mander, captain Themas J. Lockwood.
died OF hemorrhage of the b.ain al
Savannah, Ga, the 18th.
Cheap non-explosive oil from wood
chiefly pine, Is now extracted in Sweden
in fifteen factories, with 'ayor.S,e ~
suits.
The buildings for the grea: Paris ex-
position of 1873 are making rapid pro-
grcss Over 1000 workmen are cr,-
ployed, with I,2O0 carts.
When the Vanderbilt: viii conte>,
came to lis sudden end ,awver wa.
heard to remark: Its highway rob
berry. !, rob- the profession OF 81 600
600.
"A married man up town had tue
glass put in his wiie's sitting room-;o
match her eyes, he said. She returned
the compliment by having red glass put
in her husbands lbrary-to appreciate
the compliment.
Six girl babies were born in ore
house in Emanuel county, Georgia, in
one night recently, and one poor man
had to own that he was grandfather Of
the lot.
One can get a bath in Jerusalem Tor
nothing in the purest water: bit it :
cheaper 10 pay twenty-five cents for
bath in the rear of an American barJer
shop and then 60 home and rub of inc
mud with dry towel.
Nobody likes to be nobody; but
everybody is pleased to think himself
somebody. And everybody is somebody;
but when anybody thinks himself every
body, he generally thinks everybody el-e
is nobody.
The Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean
railroad extends over 2,195 mics, ard
the whole system, when completed, will
cover 4,42@, greater mileage than any
American road can show.
..FOrtv-twO drOmedarie- passed
through San Bcrnardino few days ago
en- route for Arizona. They are intended
for transporting machinery and provi.-
ions to the mines Of that territory. /: is
the enterprise of some Frenchmen.
OLIVER J. MEADE, FORMER Peters
burger, in writing to his friends in that
city of his marriage in California, thus
tersely describes his bride: "She has
a head as red as a woodpecker's, and
owns sheep until you can't rest.
Two little girls were lately prat.ling
together, andone of them said. 1--WE keep
four servants, have got six horses, and
lots of carriages; now, what have you
got ," With quite as much pride the
other answered: We've got skunk
under our barn."
The presidential family will Consist
of governor and Mrs. Hayes and three
children; Webb c., aged ninteen; Fam
ME, aged eight and Scott Russell, aged
six. The two oldest of the four cons of
Gov. Hayes are away from home, one Of
them attending the Cambridge law
school, and the other is member of the
Junior class of Cornell university.
Though Vesuvius has been in a
state of eruption twenty-six times during
the present century, against twenty-three
in the eighteenth and four in the seven
teenth century, the largest number Of
many hundred years, it is still disturbed.
There are expectation, of speedy out
break, which will be grateful to the
since it will bring an influx
of strangers to their city.
IT is now said that Gen. Joe Johnston
will be United States marshal for Vir-
ginia. When politically disabled he
declined the tempting sffer OF the com.
mand of the khedive's army, with o
salary of $50, 900 year, because he pre-
ferred, as he said, to live and die an
American citizen. He now ekes out