Richland beacon., 1877-07-28

THE BEACON.
RAYVILLE. LOUISIANA.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
THE twenty-pound Emma mine shares
have been sold in London at ono shilling
each.
A ROY in Salem. Massachusetts,. died
last week from lockjaw, resulting from
the filling of a tooth.
CADET FLIPPER, the colored graduate
at West Point, stands sixty-third in a
class of sixty-seven. And white boy,
the son of an eminent general, too, stands
only second.
THE streets in front of employment
Offices in San Francisco are so Obstructed
with men seeking work that business
firms lately petitioned the chief Of police
to keep passage clear.
GEN. GRANT will not be the first
American to receive the freedom OF the
city of London in a gold box. Mr..
George Peabody received it for his SER
vices to England. and to London par
ticularly.
1T is reported in London that Sir VIII
liam Vernon arcourt, after the close OF
the session of parliament, will proceed
to the United States to prepare the
biography of his father-in-law-the late
John Lathrop Motley.
GA POOR, unfortunate tramp, weary
of life, John J. Wilson, 14S Washington
street, New York-two months in this
state-can not get employment" was
found on a slip of paper, together with a
bottle OF strychnine, on the dead body of
a man on the east bank of lake Merritt,
Oakland, California.
A GROVE of the great trees of the
Yosemite has just been explored. 1t is
of an altitude similar to that of the other
groves-six thousand feet. Instead,
however, of being only cluster of forty
trees, it is a six-mile square collection of
ten thousand. There are trees on it
estimated to be from one hundred to four
thousand years old.
PETRIFIED sea-turtles and cocOanuts
have been found in earth mounds in
southern Colorado. These mounds form
a vast range, and are fifteen miles from
the foot of the Rocky mountains. One
is four miles in circumference at the
base, and has thrifty growth of trees.
Petrifed and agatized wood is beneath
the surface. The mounds are thought
to have ages ago been islands of the sea.
A MAN has been swindling Alabamians
by a new device. He advertised that he
would loan money in sums of three thou
sand dollars on good mortgages, to be
secured by real estate. Many persons
called on him to borrow, and to each he
said he would require from five to
twenty dollars to cover the expenses of
the search. He thus secured about
thousand dollars, and then ran awsy.
A BUGO-LOGIsT in New York state has
discovered new insect, and we think he
might have turned his attention to more
profitable employment. We have insects
enough in this country. When an editor
sits up on a hot night: writing by gas
light, with the windows of his room
open, he receives visits from four thou
sand different kinds of bugs and insects
in less than half an hour, and now this
New York fraud must 60 and discover a
new specimen to help to torment hiT1 !
OF late years the st. Petersburg
academy has endeavored to find second
complete specimen, having sent several
expeditions out for the purpose. weare
glad to learn that quite recently WELL
preserved body, with the flesh and skin
entire, has been fouad on the banks of
the Obi. near the Marinisky gold-wash.
ings, Is announced by telegram OF March
IS, from Tomsk. Further operations in
regard to this specimen have been post
poned until the receipt of instructions
from st. Petersburg.
Miss IDA HAwLE,, wm omnitted