Richland beacon., 1881-04-02

.b'Ii ; -Hpfl 'l-l5flCc away.
An Oneida Indian. who i, an ordained
clergyman, preached in New York Sun.
| lay, and in the course Of his sermon
| quantity rchuked the sin If profanity.
| He laid he was thankful that the
Creator did not give the Indian enough
language to allow him to bc profant
without first learning English.
Speaking in the West Virginia House
If Delegates Wednesday. on the dog bin,
Mr. Lowry presented Il table sent him
by Gen. Walker, Superintendent Of the
Census, showing TIE number of ,kcep
killed hv dog, in West virginia in l>79.
and the total number j. 10 POO. Tie hill
was passed. Yeas, sixty nays, three.
Wilmington (\. c. star: Lane
North Carolina brigade, during the cam
parn of 1863. lost in killed, wounded
and missing $40 men. In the campaign
bevond the Potomac the brigade num-
hered but | .355 men. II lost 13l men.
This tells the story. There were few
such brigade, in the army of Northern
Virginia.
About 500 laborer- are employed in
the rolling mill, furnaces and foundries
Of Birmingham. Ala. about 100 in the
coal mines Of Cnketpn, six mile, distant.
and about 100 AT Oxmoor, also six miles
distant. The country around Brming-
ham iS said 10 produce more corn, cotton,
wheat, oats and potatoes, acre for acre.
than the cane-brake.
Mrs. Schneider Of II. Charles, No.,
slapped her twelve -vear-old son Willie
because lie Wa naughty, and when Nr.
Schneider came home to dinner he
whipped Willie. Willie then went TO
the barn cryine. When they found him
an hour or two later he was hanging
dead, suspended bv leather strap from
beam in the hay loft.
The Atlanta Constitution The rail
road, leading south from the Ohio river
are blocked with corn, pork, weat, NAY
| and other articles destined for Southern
consumption. all of which should have
! been produced in the South itself. The
very fact Of the blockade is sad com
mentary upon the agricultural enterprise
of the South. The railroads cannot sup
ply lis with articles that our own soil
would gladly produce if it WAS tackled
with the plow and the hoe.
Chattanooga Times: The project for
a new railroad 10 the top of Lookout l.
succinctlv this: \ horse track 10 the
foot go up on an incline TO the point hy
>tationary-cngine power, taking car,
horses and all; then a horse road back
from the point TO say near Chickamauga
bluff, which has many advantages over
the point as hotel site, being well
watered and having large tract of fine
surface in the vicinity. The matter Is
in the hands of live, energetic men OF
means.
The proposed prohibition amendment
10 the State constitution Of TcXa, read
As follows: The inn ortation into and
the manufacture or sale within this state
of Intoxicating liquors as beverage l.
prohibited; provided, that the Legi-la
ture may exempt beer and native wines
unmixed with alcoholic liquors, from
the provision of this section, and the
Legislature shall at the first session aftc,
the adoption of this amendment enac'
laws to carry out the provisions hereof
The President Of the New Orlean
Board of Health says that part of III,
sickness and mortality in the rear Of th'
CITY must be referred 10 the cultivation
of rice. and that the Legislature of Lou
i,iana, the Board Of Health and the Cit,
Council Of New Orleans should conside
the subject of rice culture in its relation
10 the health of the city of New Orleans
/ and such ordinances should be con.idere
and passed as will protect the inhab
/ tants from the effects of the destructiv
emanations of rice field..
: The condition of the levees on the Lou
isiana side of the Mississippi river fror
: the Arkansas line. down as far a Pen~a
parish, is reported precarious. Al \
satia the caving has cut out the ape
!, Of the triangle made by the levee, bu
e the fall OF the water prevents immedia'
: further damage. At Nillikin's Zen
the caving has cut 20 the top of Il
g levee for three-eights of a mile, and
9 three places has cut the levee half
two. The town of Millikin's Bend is
). the active process of removal. A lars
= force is throwing up second leyte.
e Americus ga. Republican: The men
bers of Georgia in the United STAT
70 Congress OF lS43. were: Senators, tof
n Mcfherson, Berrien and Walter +. CO
): quit; Representatives, Edward y. Blac
Q Hugh 4. Harrison, John Fl. LumpFi
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