Nevada County picayune., 1885-10-08
STATE NEWS.

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 The Fort Smith Fair opens Octo- Der 18th.
 Only one prisoner in the Desha county jail.
 , There are III prisoners in the U. s. jail ai Fort Smith.
 Briek-masons find steady em. ployment at Texarkana. [ Coal oil is selling at 4 1-2 cents per gallon at Fort Smith. i Helena expects to handle 50, ,O00 bales of cotton this season.
 The new jail for Madison county, costing s4,00O, has been finished. There are 592 children of school age in the Malvern school district. ] Twelve brick buildings are going up on Tezarkana's burnt district. The manganese mines of lndepen- dence county are yielding large quantities of fine ore. The Fort Steele school house, at Little Rock, has just been complet- ed, at a cost of S24 ,000.
 Forest City is to have a public hall. and the new hotel is to be treated to an additional story. l Little Rock, says the Gazette, can give employment to 15 or 20 good brick-layers at $i per day.
 A stock company has been form cd to work the lithOgraphic stones found in Independence county. The fruit t-growors of Judsonia have appointed committee to as- certain the cost of a box factory. ] A buck having fifteen points on it's antlets and weighiug 22O pounds was killed in Bradley county a few days since.
 l The Lohoka Democrat lately completed its thirteenth year. It is one of the newsiest and spiciest l papers in the State. 1 W. II, Harper has been foand i guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of a farmer named Sellers, at iaragould.
 The Fayetteville Telephone Co.,, a local enterprise, has procured q charter from the State for go years, running from September Sd, 1885.
 Tke editor of the Van Buren Ar gus advertises for "a few cords of wood and two or three bushels of ripe tomatoes" to be delivered at once.
 Tom Mitchell, son of John Mitch el, of Cleveland county, was run over and killed by train at Cur don, on the Iron Mountain road, last week.
 Claude Wall, charged with as sault with intent 10 kill, has been acquitted in the Craighead circuit court on change of venue from Greene county.
 A shipment of silver bullion from the mines of Montgomery county was made recently from Hot Springs to the smelling works at Omaha, Neb.
 The eleventh annual fair of the Agricultural and Mechanical Asso- citation of Southeast Arkan sas, will be held at Monticello, Drew co un- ty, October 22, 23 and 2i.
 From ll2 letters sent to prom. nent Arkansas planters by Hiii, Fontaine & Co.,, of St. Louis, the responses indicate falling off in the cotton crop of 2S per cent.
 A boiler attached to Montgom-
  ery's steam gin, at Golden Hill, Arkansas county, exploded a few doys since, killing a negro named Harris. and seriously injuring and scalding four other men.
 Hamburg News: All the farmers who have begun gathering their crops, and whom we have heard speak of the yield, so far, say they find the shortage not SO great in cotton as they had expected, but still very considerable. Corn and all other kinds of produce seems to be giving a real good yield.
 Lowman Bros, formerly of Ar kansas City, have filed a suit in the United States Court at Little Rock, against number of citizens of the former place for S50,OOO. Tb be nlaintiffs alleCe that defend