Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-02-18

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70 h slave trade is still car
SR 1Eried on surrcptiiiously
xkiEIi to some extent, and
~ S,V efforts are especially
SSS made to proc'lrr i'll
'+rS~- mates for the liaYcGS
of the wealthy. In lSSi, 10 female
slaves intended for the harcm, were res
cued, and provided with homo ri tine
ASYLUM; most of these women were neg
resses, but some ot them wcr' Pretty
Circassian and Ahvssinian girls. All
these women are retained ~ the asylum
until they receive some education. AMI
are fitted to support themselves liy wo"A
provided for then. During TIE year
thirty slave dealers We're found gailty
and sentenced to prison.
AMELIA BARRETT, i'll Auckland. New
Zealand, went walking along the beach
alone one evening, and next day her
clothes were found i'll Il heap, bat no
other trace of her cXccp. the marks of
her bare feet where she had walked into
the water. The police searched along
the ahore for her all the next day, bat
the waves failed to east up her bp!F and
the newspaper set ii down aa II cas- OF
suicide. That night she came hnm"
clothed principally in fern leaves, and
said that rs she WAS on her way home
the night before her hat blow OIL into the
water, and seeing nobody i'll sight and
knowing that no one was likely tp come,
she had gone in after it, The tide WAS
stronger and the water deeper than she
| thought, and when she did MANAGE t.
get back to shore it was not at the same
spot where she went in. In the dark
ness she could not find her clothes, and
spent the night i'll searching for them mp
and down the beach just at daylight
she saw them, and Mt the same time saw
policeman come along and pick them
up. She spent the day in alternating
between the water and the bushes.
The Russians are pushing forward the
Trans Caspian Railroad as rapidly as
some of our own roads have advanced.
The people of Bokhara never saw So nov
el sight before as the spectacle Of the
! 1000 men who are now grading the
road through the country where few
years ago no undisguisel white man
was safe for moment. The road is now
ready for the rails for four-iifths of the
way between the Oxus and Samarcand,
nearly 300 miles, but the track cannot be
laid until the bridge over the Oxus is
completed. This bridge, now more
than half finished, will be three miles
long, and will be one Of the largest
structures of the sort in the world. 1t
will connect the road now completed to
the Oxus with the extension t. Samar-
cand, and next spring the ancient capi
tai of Tamerlane will be connected by
steam with the Western world.
In july last Dewey Ensign. the only
son of Capt. Daniel Ensign and his wife,
ran away from home because his father
insisted upon his going to school. Tho
boy wanted to go into machine shop,
The loss of the lad made the old man ill,
and on the Both of July he was so low
that he called in witnesses and made his
will. 1t WAS to the effect that the prop
erty should be divided equally between
his wife aud his son, provided that the
son was present Mt the formal opening
of the will, which should take place six
months after his death. Ii the boy was
not there he should receive but so, and
the property should go toa nephew The
Captain died on August 9Th. If the hoy
doesn't turn up by February 9th, he
won't get 1886, 900, for that is his share of
the estate. His mother is anxiously
looking for him.
| A SHEPHERD walking over Holmes
field MOors, England, was led by his dog
mile from the path, and there found
the remains of a man reduced nearly to
a skeleton and hidden under the moss.
BY shoe the body was identified as
that of a medical bOtanist, 81 years old,
who, two years before, had stopped at Il
hotel near the moor and asked the way
to FrOggat's Edge. 1t was near night
fall and showing, but the old man re-
fused to stay, and started on again in
the direction of the place he had asked
about. He was never seen alive again,
although wide search was made, and
his disappearance became known as "the
Froggat's Edge mystery" He was ac-
custOmed to walking on the moors in
search of specimens. There is no doubt
that in crossing he wandered and was
lost in the snow.
SOME white men who were steaming
4 up the Itimbiri river, one Of the north
ern tributaries of the Congo, made a
very unpleasant discovery while ago.
They found that the banks of the river
had just been ravaged by armed negroes
who had been sent by Arabs from tho
north on slave hunt Heretofore it has
been the Arabs from Zanzibar who have
brought sorrow to the Congo tribes, but
this time it is the Arabs from kliartoum
whom Gordon nearly drove out of bust
ness, but who have now resumed their
raids. This invasion of the northern
slave stealers is an attack on the flank
that the Congo State authorities had not
expected. The State is now confronted
by unfriendly Arabs both in its eastern
territory and on its northern frontier.
A PHILADELPHIA grocer advertised to
give every thirteenth customer the
amount of his purchase free The plan
, seemed q success mt first, and business
thrived, but one day the boys put up
job on him. Twelve of them walked into
the store, and each made trihing pur-
chase; the whole bill for the dozen WAS
less than dollar. Then the thirteenth
man walked in and ordered IA barrel of
sugar, ten pounds of tea, ten pounds of
coffee, and box of cigars. The grocer
faced the music like man, but at once
took down his sign and put up another
saying that the offer had been with
drawn.
Mrs. HENRY CLEwEs, wife of the New
York banker, is said to he the only
| American lady who owns n chariot.