Richland beacon., 1877-08-18
RAYVILLE. LOUISIANA
Saturday, August Is, 1877.
Local BreVities.

Sporting men report fish plentiful
In Bee bayou.
No serious damage yet to any one
from the cotton worm.
The nights and mornings have been
quite cool most of this week.
The weather is growing rcrceptibly
cooler, the thermometer registering
only about $40 in the shade at noon
on Thursday.
The first bale of new cotton from
Ouachita parish went Off on the V,
S. 4 L Railroad ON Tuesday morn
ing's train.
The Ouachita and Bapou Macon
Colored Baptist Association convened
at Holly Grove church, six or seven
miles south of Rayville, yesterday.
We will be absent when this mum.
Der of the BEACON is issued, and if it
should DO little behind time we hope
the good people will bear with the
boys.
Our young friend Thos. +. Davies,
of Delhi, brought out another cullud
individual the other day, to take up
board in the parish hashery. Charge,
larceny.
There was quite religious awaken
ing at Girard last week, under the
ministra,ion of Rev Messrs. Moss
and McClcndon, Methodist divines,
and we learn there were eighteen ac-
cessiohs to the Methodist church there
during the meeting.
We had the pleasure of meeting 10
our Office this week Judge Norwood
and Mr.. Shredder, Of Bastrop, ard
having quite pleasant chat with
them. The Clarion being tied up by
injunction, Mr.. Shredder is having Il
little rest from bis editorial labors.
Rev. J. Lane Borden has issued
his catalogue of the Ouacbita Female
College, at Monroe, and we notice !
that he has an excellent faculty, and
large school. Our advice to those in /
this parish who have daughters t6A
educate is to send them to this school. |
We forgot to mention the fact, last
week, of the arrival at our parish Jail
Of former occupant. John Strong, =
who escaped from Jail in 1875, with
Felix Hines He was brought in bv
Henry Arduin of Delhi; but was
admitted to bail in q short time. The
charge against him we believe is grand
larceny.
Winnsboro now bosts n colored
IMAM with the iron jaw" who can
lift sack of salt with his teeth and
we would advise dentists who may be
going to that town to ply their avo-
cation to provide themselves with a
small engine to which they can at
tach their forcebs. There is plenty Of
salt in that, Lewie.
The New Orleans Democrat seens
to think that our planters have made
a false report concerning the worm, {
10 the hope of raising the price of !
cotton but if the editor should go
through some of the plantations he
would discover that be has misrepre- .
sented the planters. AS to the report
raising the price of cotton, the planter Z
has learned long since that it has 10
such effect.
The special artentin Of those who own cows
and make butter is directed to the advertise
meut of Mr.. Ell. Myrick to be found in this
;.me We have seen this new invention aud j
pronouuce it a success. Those who use 1t |
o,.s will never use the Old fashioned churn =
ing apparatus again. e.
There was an excursion train cat from
Monroe to the colored tournament AT Tins place !.
on Thursday, but the excursIonisls were Jew c,
..a a, be,ween,'' the crowd being composed N
r ono woman and a fellow with an ice-crcam II
o...u., II the managers OF the Tournament q"
,.,.J The train, as we learn they did. the
= ,s,;meu, did not prove very profitable y
one.