The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-06

ingtou, who is spending the summer at Bat tie Creek, Michigan. is writing some very in teresting letters to the Press, and his numer- ous friends in this county are gratifed to learn through them that his health is better than it has been in three or four years, and that he is still recuperating.
 Miss Mattie Roane of Tulip. daughter of, the late Gov, John $. Roanc, came here last week to soc Mir. Dixon Q. Williams, the evangelist, who is her cousin. After having spent three or four days here in the pleasant society of her gifted and dis tinguished kinsman, and in attendance upon the meeting, she departed for home Monday morning.
 Stuart Warren, Will Hannegan, Jim Hicks, and several others, came up from Hope Sunday morning to attend the meeting. They said very large crowl would have came on the same train but tor the heavy rain which was falling there at the time. Well, they can come next Sunday, or somo time during the week, and we hope they will.
 Mir. McRae had intended to at- tend the annual meeting of the Supreme Council of the American Legion of Honor in Boston the latter part oflhe present month. but he fears now that he will tind it necessary to forego the pleasure of that trip to look after his canvass for Congress. To make q thorough canvass of the district, which he ex- poets to do, he will have to speak every day from next Monday until the day of the elec- ton.
 A week ago to be awakened in the early morning by the ringing of the church bell calling them to religious service was a novel thing to the people of Prescott Not so now. They are getting accustomed to it, and becoming to like it. For the past week we have had preaching, or some sort of religious service, every morning at six o'clock, and the congregations find it the pleasantest hour of the day. Their bodies have been invigorated by a night of repose and refresh ing sleep, their minds are fresh and clear, and the time is before business hours, when sll can attend.
 Jim Parr and Scott Lagrone are the night watchmen at the tabernacle Sunday night gay and festive tramp came along and seeing the shed, supposed he had stumbled upon picnic for the night. But the boys informed him that they were not keeping public lodging house down there, and that he could not sleep under that root, vhereupon he fell back into the shadow of the trees and laid on his arms until they had dropped off to sleep when he again advanced and opened frslade upon them with three cornered billets of wood. The boys soon ral- lied, however, and drove him from the field.
 Our readers must not be sur prised if they hear of us making flying vis- t to Chicago soon. A dry goods merchant in that city offers reward of one hundred lollars to any person who will whip :, certain lawyer there named Sutherland, but no one seems willing to accept it. Now if he will throw in q railroad pass, and keep the reward standing until the stub end of our mashed finger grows back, we will make a pleasure excursion to Chicago-by-thc-Lake md bring back that hundred dollars, even il se have to usc four-ycar old thrash pole to get it. We would whip any lawyer we evei saw for seventy-fvc or n hundred dollars.
 It IS reported that wag perpe trated rather serious practical joke on Judge Lawrence Byrne's old neighbors at Lewisville while the Congressional conven- ton whs in sessioh at Iexarkana the other ,lav. He told them that he was just from Texarkana and tha, as the result of q de,rl- Mock the Judge had been nominated for Con- Eess. Whereupon the Lewisvilians, who sf very proud of Lawrence, threw up their hak and rushed of to the blacksmith shop and fired a hundred anvils, and otherwise gate expression to their excessive joy. And u6w the question under consideration is Who should pay for the powder!
 Dr. E. F. Tidwell and Capt. w. c. Thompson, two mute Greenbackers of Jackson township, were in town last Thurs day In the good old days when Dr. Tidwell and Capt Thompson were Democrats they were noted far and near as remarkably fluent takers, but when they became Greenbackers d few years ago they both lost their powers of speech, misfortune to them which the PICAYUNE has always lamented, because the unfortunate afflicted are among the cleverest. best meaning men in the county. Since Clcveand's election, however, they are slow ly regaining their former glibness of tongue. r hey were able, by the aid of signs, to talk a little while in town the other day, and their friends hope and believe that in month lon ger they will be so far recovered that they both can and will vote for McRae for Con gress.
 Call for pr. Bigger's Huckleber- " Cordial at Mcncriefs. It is sure remedy for diarrh6a, ,dysintery and all bowel complaints.
 Go to Dan Wards for your mint tulips.
 Finest brands of whiskies, wines and cigars at Dan Wards.
 Hon. W. F. Atkinson. 1 From the Little Rock Republican,