Richland beacon., 1877-10-27
Local HrcVities.

Local Hrcvities.
Squirrels are plentiful.
Frost Tuesday morning.
The rainy season is mere.
The river has risen a little.
Mosquitoes are not all gone.
Industry is always honorable.
TO to preaching 10 morrow.
II you want custom, advertise.
Subscribe for your parish paper.
The hickory nut mast is abundant.
The chickens are dying OF cholera.
Ducks plentiful in the cypress brake.
Cool and cloudy nearly all this week.
We are waiting patiently fer that corn.
Planters are nearly done picking cotton.
If you want the news. read tire papers.
Cotton hauling still aoing on quite lively.
Bilious aud malarious icveIs still prevalent.
Proceedings oil School Beard published this
week.
Dr. Winter wants to buy few porkers.
See adj.
Pretty moonlight nights are over for this
month.
Mrs. Manglnm, after long Illness. is con-
vslescins.
See sheriff sale advertisements among new
Advertisements.
J. Newt. Pitts, IS recovering from an attack
Of swamp fever.
Over one hundred excursion tickets sold at
RayvilIe last Saturday.
October peaches are still in the market, and
We notice some fine specimens
The migratory birds are agaia vending
their way 10 their southern haunis
We are glad 10 see Capt T.. Conner on,
again in the enjoyment Of his usual health.
The attention Of parties interested is direc-
ted to the notice changing the time of holding
Parish Court
George Williams and Nathan Weaver (col-
ored) killed a beaver, at the ChennauIt brake,
on TUESDAY evening"
A Richlander wants to know "what in
thunder the Monroe Observer has got to do
with locating the court house of Richland
pa:IsiI, any how
Mr.. J. w. Simms having rendered bis
resignation as postmaster, and II. B. Newlall
having applied for the appointment, the post
office has bee removed to Jones store.
Rev. d. A. Campbell has several packages
of orchard grass seed for distribution among
those who may wish to sow. The seed
should bc sown at once to insure success.
The editors and printers of some Of cur
Louisiana exchanges seem TO think that the
arts OF punctuation and printing are separate
and distinct, and that the first is useless.
Several days ago the corn crib and cotton
men of Mr.. J. L. Gaugcr of this parish, we've
burned. and nearly all his corn and cotton
crops Of this year were destroyed The loss
falls very heavily upon him.
We have received the first number of the
Press News, pretty little monthly, published
a, ST. Louis by r. 2. Yorks,on, and devoted
nc the interests of the printers Of the South and
Southwest; price, Scots year.
The ladies-God bless them-are always
more apprecative than the men, Hence they
n, wan, TO read the BEACON, and those hns-
hands and fathers who are not perfect Doors
crafty them by subscribing for H.
IF any persons wish to pay for the BEACON
with fire wood, corn. potatoes. beef pork or
..,,., household necessities, now is a good
,;,,. ~ do it. One cord Of good fcnr'foot
~ood will pay for it whole year.
W. prin, on our first page to-day letter
r,,,, our sifted Floyd correspondent, who has
wandered off to St. LOUIS, and gives our
..,.,s q graphic account Of what she has
Ian durins her visit to the Mound City,
p.,,;cula, attention is directed to the card
IF The we'll known and deservedly popular
v;ct.bure cotton factors and commission
-..,,,s n. W. Lamkm Il Co, who have
49,, oDIv bull, up a reputation for themselves
49,. ,h.;, CITY also. You could not en'rus'
ss 10 better hands nor find much
49, marke, to ship yo"r cotton to than
v;.l.,,urp. Give these gentlemen a trial. a"'
, of ,le,u is not true.