Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1877-06-02
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II is said the deb, s,ttemen. will show a
decrease OF S6,5O0,0oo.
zen. Grant arrived in Liverpool last Sun
day, ANA was received with suitable honors.
HAYES Is dispensing with the services OF
army officers about the White House. Right
/, is sen-otlicialy announced that the
Administration is pleased with Hampton and
Nichols.
The steamer Essen, owned by T. K'upp,
If Kcil, loaded with Krupp guns for CTon-
stadt, loandered of Sweden.
Over a million dollars in legal tenders were
DESTROYED last north, being 50 per cent Of the
amount of National Bank notes issued
The Cnmmissio., to inquire into the New
Orleans Custom house has in view a large
reduction Of hangers on TO that institution.
4 frcsh, train backed into hand car on
tue Pennsylvania road last Tuesday, killing
the four men that were ON IT,
A dispatch, reporting the loss Of the Pacific
mail steamer Civ of San Francisco, was
received in New York last Monday. No lives
lost
Thomas Grape and his wife sailed from
New Bedford for London, last Monday, in
boat 20 feet long The las, that viii be heard
Of them probably.
We could fill our paper with news from the
sea, of war in the East, out do not choose to
do 20 unless our readers were interested in
tie matter.
The British Government has demanded an
investigation Of the kemper county (Miss)
affair, one Of the men killed (McClclland) be-
my British subject.
lydia Sherman, sentenced to the Connects
cut state prison for life for poisoning her
husband, escaped prison, after serving out
one year of her sentence.
Gov. Hartranft has signed seventeen death
warrants within four weeks. "A petition Is
circulating to commute the sentence of the
Molly Maguires TO Imprisonment for life.
An Arizona paper says that immigration 10
that Territory is overdone. Scores of penni-
less men are rushing into the Territory hoping
TO realize fortunes by mining discoveries, OF,
IN the event OF failure, 10 earn a subsistence
by their labor, and are disappointed.
Preparations for closing national armories
and work shops are in progress at the Ordi-
nance Bureau of the War Department This
llNOIFts lnt Vi D'O ehitlcu "oih
men. Sufficient men will be retained to
guard public properly aad Keep the machinery
in order.
The Vicksburg Herald of last Tuesday
says: Julia Lend. who resides with Mrs.
Dora Elmore, on Walnut street, back of the
Lamadrd House, accidentally shot herself in
the right side, yesterday morning, while
handling a small cylinder pocket pistol. We
understood, last night, that her physician con-
lcrs her in a critical condition.
Five Hundred TONS Of new steel rails will
soon be laid down on the " d NJ. X. Il. This
important road is determined to keep up with
the times If it takes every dollar of the receipts
of .ihe road. 1t will form an important con
Meeting link in the great Southern trans-con-
tinental route.-Vicksburg Herald.
WV. SKEIY CAPTURED Cur Sheriff re-
ceived dispatch from Gov. Miller, a few
days since notifying him that VIM. Skein had
been captured, and we learn from the Dallas
Crex) Mail, of recent date, that the arrest
was made at the Union depot, in that city by
officer Clemmens-El Dorado Eagle.
A Cincinnati dispatch of May Goth says
Yesterday afternoon, young man named
Nudgins, driving buggy near Harris, in
Hamilton county, Ohio, ran into another bug
2y occupied by man named Brce and his
nephew. An alteration ensued, in which
Nndgins was beaten TO death by Brice, who
used the but end of his whip as club.
A Chicago telegram of May Doth brings
this news of an Indian fight Lieut. Alfred
Nj. Fuller, who brought news to Bismarck of
Gen. Miless Indian fight, says fourteen dead
lr.liapx fal oYf tialI a,,I
others are known to have been killed and
wounded. Five lolgcs with con,ents we're
taken. The cavalry found many new Agency
goods AID saddles, guns, officers clo'hinu. etc
taken from tie Seventh Cavalry in the Custer
fight This band e Indians were Mmnecen-
joins, led by Lame Deer.
The Cabinet on TUESDAY instructed Fvarts
80 address letter to Minister Foster, at
Mexico, TO communicate tie determination of
this Government to stop predatory incnrsions
into Texas. Mexico must restrain her people,
or Gen. Ord will be instructed TO follow and
punish the mamuders on Mexican soil
Among the causes of delay in reaching an
undt rs;anding between the two Governments
will toe .he translation of Mr. Evartss English
into Spanish. and in the meantime Cen Ord
is TO be vglant under the new system
4 Galveston dispatch Of May 2Sih says:
Tie Newss Corpus Christi special says word
was received to-day Of the murder Of Fran
cisco G. Flores, prominent citizen of San
Diego. and lis son TeLuicio. The robbers
were eight in number all Mexicans. They
ob,a;ned seven hundred dollars in money.
lie same party captured L. Lau President
ol the Corpus Christiand Rio Grande railroad,
MIR Lewis, and driver named Mays. and
,bbed them of al the money and jewelry on
their persons, and stripped them Of their
clothes. The country is alarmed and hnnting
for robbers.
A school teacher in Fon Wayne. Ind. fills