Richland beacon., 1877-10-27
RAYVILlE.. LOUISIANA,
Saturday, October 81, 1877.

There was heavy White lrost III
Memphis On Tuesday morning.
Woods museum. at Chicago, was
partly burned on Tuesday. Loss
$4,000.
A gin house and IS bales of cotton.
Al miles below Monroe, were burned
on Thursday night
The fever is reported on the increase
again at Fcrnandina. Eight new cases
reported on Sunday.
The business portion Of the village
of Madison, n. j., was destroyed by
fire last Sunday evening.
One hundred and ninetyone South
ern Apache Indians have surrendered
at Winga,e, New Mexico.
In New York, Oct. 23rd. woman
was sentenced to the penilenlarv for
ten years for abducting child.
A Havana telegram Of Oct. 23rd
states that the President and Secretary
of the Cuban Chambers had been
captured.
The Fancy Cashmere Mills, at
Providence, employing $50 hands,
were burned on Wednesday. Loss
100000.
The papers of abou: all the parishes
are pretty generally of the opinion
that the cotton crop is about all
gathered.
Eighty-sevcn lake vessels arrived at
Buffalo within twerty-four hours time,
the other day, with grain to the
amount of 100000 bushels.
A Cincinnati dispatch says that
when DR.. Bliss reached Indianapolis
be found Senator Morton's condition
less favorable than he expected to.
The African NJ. Z. Church wants
II. Morris Chester appointed to the
Liberian mission. Let him have it
by all means, if it will rid Louisiana
of his presence in the future.
Sixty-fve marriage licenses were
issued by the clerk Of Natchitoches
parish from June 9Th to October 18th,
inclusive, this year. Pretty fast
marrying for one small parish in four
months and half.
At Pittsfeld, Mass, last Sunday,
three brothers loaded an old gun-bar-
rel and fired it off. Result-two Of
them sleep in the grave, while the
third one is minus hand. Moral
,Lev bad better been at Sunday school.
The injunction issued agains: the
School Board in New Orleans, at the
instance of Paul Frevligne, forbidding
the establishing of separate schools
for white and colored children, was
dissolved by Judge Brighton, of the
9th District, on Tuesday.
The Natchi,oches ViDdicator of the
Goth reports heavy rains, the river
rising, the bulk of the cotton picked
out, and O fire, destroying one house
occupied by negroes. Tie same paper
saws the farmers are complaining o
the stealing VI seed cotton.
Nothing has been done in Congress
this week The Senate is waiting fol
n report from the committee OF
privileges aud elections relative to TIT
Louisiana Senatcrship, while thu
House has occupied its time in dis
cussing the Colorado question.
The Carroll Conservative states
that the Bass levce will be rebuilt
which will he great protection Il
Carroll parish. but the break Rich
landers are interested in lies highe
ND the river, and what they wOult
like TO know is whether anything vii
be done for their relief
A telegram, dated Fortress Monroe
Va, Oct. 22d, says: The bark Eos,
which arrived here to-day from
Antwerp, reports that on October I'd
in longitude 43:44, latitude 27:47, sb'
fell in with q wrecked vessel nance
Mary Il. Ward, of Calais, with mast
gone and full of water. The wrecl
seemed to have been abandoned SOM
time.
The owners of the Pennsylvania
eollierics seem determined to force tn
miners into another strike or to s'arv'
them out. A Pittsburgh dispatch o
the 22d says: The employees OF tn
several colleries that resumed at thu
place at an advance Of ten per cent
have been notified of reduction il
their wages of this amount. Ih
miners are at work to-day, but unde'
protest.
The Carroll Conservative report
parish certificates of Indebtedness
selling on the streets at Sc cents Of
tho dollar, and predicts that ny To-
FIRST Of January there will not be an!
outstanding liabilities against las
Carroll. Perhaps not, but will Their
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