Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1885-10-03
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ted the a'Hrutation Of two hn%crs.
Bro. Pierce, in the Cuiiyrqjh OF
2ith wIdeo into Bro. Drew. Of the
Arcadia -idr1nce for prcsuming to
claim for Arcadia more business than
Euoton has. The Il. H. books DO
not bear the -dirqHce ont in this
assertion. That Huston Is the next
town 10 Monroe htiwrcn Nickehurt
n Il Shreveport in point trade AID
enterprise We think there can be no
dou' t.
In a recent decision Of tho supreme
court, dchyci by JUDGE manning. in
Tire suit of State Of La ". Victor,
tax collector of st. Landry, it WI
held Ivy the court that Ill taxes on
movaby property must be collected
before the first II November, and
that tax collectors must lie in the
recorders Office atalulated statement
of all taxes on movable property that
cannot be collected after cXlauStinr
the law, before they can claim relief
from the same. Sheriff G3ole
Informs us that he will proceed i'm
mediately to collect taxes on nova
bic property III Grant parish, as
under this decision he has no
recourse but to enforce the law TO
the letter As he was somewhat len
lent i'll the matter last wear, We make
tins statement SO as to warm our cit
iXens that il will not do TO daily over
the payment Of their taxes on nova
bic property now due Chronicle.
From the above it will be seen
that the Collector must file in the
Recorders Office q tabulated state
ment of all taxes on movable prop
erty that can not be collected &c.
This is important to every Sheriff and
Tax Collector in the State rs we
understand the decision the Sheriff
must make out III detail and file in
Recorders Office the names and
amounts he fails to collect of taxes
due upon personal property, where
oil legal means have failed. This
must be done before he can claim
credit on his roll. tits fact we'll
known that people who only own
personal property are hard to get at
rs they Will sell or run otftheir stock.
In case the horse or mule is sold and
not III the possession of the tax debt
or, then the Collec or should be cred
tied with the amount of faxes due.
provided he had used every diligence
N collecting the taxes, as it is only
justice to force him to pay that which
he has actually collected and failed to
collect on occount of negligence.
The Bienville Nec Era saws a
Band of Hope has been organized il
Gibsland. This band aud w. c.. T..
L. certainly should make the deui-
zens of the town temperate, if organ
cations can effect such result.
The MOrehouse Sentinel of 25th
says Sam Ward, colored was tried
under the indictment for the murder
of Nathan Harden, colored. They
failed to agree. He was defended
by David TODD, Esq.
This is the colored man arrested
here some time since.
That sterling old democratic Jour-
nal the Ouachita Telegraph has enter
ed upon its twenty-iirst year. The
Telegraph IS one of the most ably
edited and neatly printed papers ! III
the State. We are pleased to see it
looking so neat and fresh upon enter
ing its twcnty-first year. Twenty
one years more and its veteran editor
will have arrived at near his three
score-and-ten. Long may the
Telegraph live to baltic for the demo-
cratic party.
The West Monroe post Office
was opened last Monday week.
The Madison Times says the
cotton crop estimate of Madison has
fallen off from 80 to GO per cent since
the first of July and the fear Of low
prices can safely be dismissed rs the
filling off is general, and the crop
will undoubtedly be far short of the
estimates of two months ago.