The Nevada picayune., 1885-06-04

A nttle snake five feet long with fourteen rattles, was killed near Sheridan last week
 Bunk" Marlborough was acquitted of the killing of Howard Anderson, at Paris last week
 The Hot Springs Seminal says there ar' not as many visitors in the city this season q: usual.
 The cut worms have been doing consider able damage to cotton in the vicinity of Rus. sellvile-
 Morrilton has had a small pox scare. A negro from Little Rock took vuraloid there l last week.
 | Rust is making it's appearance among wheat in Pope county, says the Russcllvillc pcinoc nat.
 The General Assembly of the Cumberland 1 Presbyterian Church vas n scssion at Ben tonyills last week.
 | The number of polls in Independence county reach 3,S93, and the number of per sons assessed APO
 X mule, carrying the nail fmm Eldopado to Three Creeks, fell down in the road und broke his neck Inst week.
 Brother Blackburn has again changed the name of his paper from the Free South to that of the Little Rock Republican
 R. II. McGowan, of Morsi,en attempted suicide Saturday, by cutting his throat with a razor. It is thought he will not live.
 Gov. Hughes has ordered three special elections in Howard county, for Justices ol the Peace for three different townships.
 The Searcy Beacon says "nany theusand dollars have been brought into our county in payment for strawberries shipped oE.''
 The assessment of railroad property in Arkansas for 1884 WIS S6,352, ,983.l3. This year it has been increased to Sfo,21l, ,sG6. .4S,
 There are l5l newspapers in Arkansas II dailies; l32 wceklies; 2 semi-weeklies and l bi-monthly. They give employment to GSl men.
 Through trains from Van Buren to New Orleans are run dniiy now over tho new Val ley route, via Pine Bluff, Arkansas City end Vicksburg.
 Howald county has gisnt boy, Ke is si \ years old, N eighs ST pounds. can lift an anvil weigeing loo and his mental development is no less remarkable,
 Mineral Springs has base ball club with the suggestive sobriquet of "Dudcs," and Centrepoint one called the "El's" They are to play match game the 18th, inst
 Mir. W. r. Feazel has retired from the Pi- lot, published at Richmond, Little River county, Nr. w. F. Joyner his partner, buy ng his interest.
 Independenco county speaks Of having a county fair. The Batesyille Guard urges all classes to interest themselves in the mat ter, and make it success.
 A zinc mine 30 miles long and one half to three miles wide, containing more zine than is in sight elsewhere in the Union, has been discovered in Boone county.
 The Sunday schools ofMalvern pic-nieked at Potash-Sulpher Springs the 22nd, ut. The party, numbering near SO0, were carried gratuitouslv over the Hot Springs railroad.
 J. A, Carr, colored, the new police judge of Hot Springs, gives evidence of intelligence and it is thought that his conservative course will allay the sentiment ss linst hin on ac- count of race prejudice.
 The Eorrilton Headlight says that its young men visit yeang ladies in sister towns and advises the young ladies there to spot them and when they get lef, at other places toplay the same game on them at home.
 A tight rope walker drew crowds at Cam den last week. The Beacon seems to. think the walkist capable of earning livelihood by honest labor. So say VIC, and such charac-' ters desorvesno patronage at the peoples hands.
 Decoration day was observed at Little Rock Saturday, and the Gazette says a big crowd was in attendance. Col. F. NJ. Gibson and Hon, J. H. Rogers, were the orators of the day, and their orations were appropriate and well received.
 A colored man and his wife, living near Little Rock, locked up their five littlo chill dren in the house and went to church. In playing with some matches they set the house on. fire, and four were burned with the house--the oldest boz escaped by climbing out at the window.
 "Wsnorice few peach tNce whose frni s beginning to turn little One tree on our premcses will ripen early next month.o -CamdsA Beacon. You are ahead of brother Holmes. Will you not mail us uscious one when they are ready to pull.
 The St. Francis County Times tells of the remarkable recussitation of little four year-old boy at Forest City, who to all ap- pearanees was drowned The physicians sp piled Halls Artificial respiratioa, and used she galyanic battery in restoring the child.
 Mir. AT. Ross is now local editor of the Pike County Sentinel, and seems to be chuck ! full of news, k,lt the print is so dim VIC can ! scarcely read it. Set your tyne upon their ' feet, friend Andrew. put on more impres. ! sinn. And don't be stl ,tffr~,- xpth ,n,,r s.a1 !