Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-11-06
NUMBER 10.
BREvTTTEs.

THERE are no sweets in family jars.
Could not tho doctors fee he Justly
.alled ill-gotten gains?
A FIELD of jute in Sampson county.
n. c., averages twelve feet in height.
SIR GARNET WoLsELEY, the British
taller
Mrs. Prudence LAKIN, of Newburgli.
y. Y, died the other day ut the ripe old
age of log
MAYOR We'll, of Paducah, was fined
| cent i'll the City Court for engaging IN
:. street disturbance.
The Sophomores of Bates College have
chosen as their orator q colored student,
the son of former slave.
A NUGGET Gf gold weighing two and
half pounds has been taken out of the
Christian mine, in North Carolina.
An infant at Hickory, n. c., was bap-
tized Jesse Filo Ringtail Fillmore Han
cock Jarvis Dowd Harper, and is said to
still live.
The population of Florida is 271, 764,
an increse Of "a ,0l6 in ten years. The
whites number l43, ,s2l, and the coiored
l27 ,943.
A 6-YEAR-OLD son of prominent mer-
chant at Grenada, Miss, attempted to
hang himself on account of disappOint
ment i'll love.
UNDER the laws Of Illinois what a per-
son sees through a key-hole cannot be
accepted as evidence III court. But no
sewing society in the country would re-
lect such testimony.
SENATOR BLAINE wears nickel plated
watch that cost him $3.50. He says he
refused to take SO for it, and that he
means to carry it to the Senate as o
product of American skill.
Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES, the indie
fatigable, Is living in retirement in
Washington. Although she is 73 years
old, she is still as brisk and clipper as
Young widow Of 40.
Az old man in Virginia jumped into
the well to spite his wife for running into
debt. She let him stay there in three
feet of cold water until he agreed to
deed her the whole farm.
A CHANGE is coming over Venice.
Travellers who wish to see the old CITY
Of palaces, logs and lagoons, as it was
seen and sung of by Byron, must hie
there speedily. The gondOlas and gon-
doliers will soon have passed away.
The venerable Lucreia Mott is re-
ported i'll rapidly-failing health. Al
though confined to her room, her mind
is strong and bright. She resides with
her son-in-law, Edward NJ. Davis, on
Cheton hills, Philadelphia, Pa.
AT length the long history of the
United States, by Mr.. George Bancroft,
is drawing toward completion. The au-
NAM so far back as 1925, and has, with
little intermissiOn, been laboring on it
vcr since.
Mr.. II. Fl. MCDONALD, of San Fran
cisco. offers SlOC, 900 toward an endow-
ment for Christian University, on con-
tlition that an equal sum shall be raised
by the Baptist, Presbyterian, Episco-
i,alian, Congregational, and Methodist
denominations.
AFRIGHrENED horse ran into q crockery-
ware store at Bangor, the other day,
going the whole length of the floor be-
fore he WAS captured, and, although sur
rounded on all sides by crockery, he
was led out without having broken q
single piece.
A NEW process of using up old steel
has been patented in England. BY it
new metal of extraordinary strength and
ductility il alleged to be introduced,
which is expected to prove of great
value. Steel remade on this plan has
sold rapidly at 1925 ton.
SIR +. ROBERTS, the conquering hero
of Candahar, and so-styled "Savior of
Afghanistan, is the son of Clergyman
of the Established Church in Waterford.
Ireland. His brother, Samuel U. Rob
erts, is one Of the Commissio lcrs Of the
Board of Public Works in Ireland.