Nevada County picayune., 1885-12-24
State News Column.
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 Fort Smith now boasts of fou l Democratic newspapers.
 Fort Smith wants wagon ant carriage factory on a large scale.
 Nashville is soon to have tele phone connection with Centre Point.
 Newport boasts of more profess ional loafers tban any other towi of it's size in the State,
 A number of candidates have annouced their willingness to acI as sheriff of Cross county.
 The residence of " II Vaughan near Batesville. was burned las' week. Loss, S2,5o0. No lnsur ance.
 Mrs. Harriet Gamblen, of Rus sellville, has quilt containing Q, 476 pieces, which she made wlti her own hands.
 One hundred and ninety-sereu marriage licenses were issued Ill Hampstead county during the year ending December lst.
 The Headlight urges the county court to refuse issue of license to sell intoxicating beverages in Con way county next year.
 Wheat growers who have tried the experiment of raising wheat m i Western Arkansas, uniformly tes- tify that it is. destined to be..a great wheat growing section.-Ft. smith Times
 Centre Point T0csin, Mrs Pope canyassed the town last Wednes- day with a petition to Judge Bell, asking him not to grant liquor H. cense next year. Nearly every one in town signed 1t.
 The steam mill and gin of Mir. \ P. Johnson of Cross county burn ed last week. The fire originated bv sparks blown from a fire in the yard that some colored men had built to warm themselves.
 The prisoners in jail at Gaines vile, Greene county, attempted to burn hole through the door large enough for them to escape. The firn got beyond their control and they were forced to call for help.
 Mir. George Parker, nine miles south of Lockesburg. Sevier conn ty, found some gold nuggets cling ing to the roots of pine tree that had blown down on his farm. Ii is believed that he has a vein that will pan out gold in payng quanti- ties.
 The poorest patrouized, the hardest worked, the poorest paid, the least thanked and most "cuss- ed' men nowadays. are those who are publishing 6 and : column folio in i column towns and viii lages of this State. lizard County Register.
 Olives there man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, I'll pay before go to bed, the debt owe the printer .'-Rus- sellville Democrat.
 Yes, there are those, we know full well, who never such a tale could tell; but they will go we fear, to-well, the place where there's no wintcr.-Press Eagle.
 And when they get to that red hot spot, they'll writhe and curse their hateful lot, and swear they paid for the paper they got, but the devil will say, q reckon not D;,o D1,y rnn,,,,arn;.l
 Hit 'em again, ain,-Monticellouian.
 While in that realm of red hot fire. amid flames leapihg high and yet higher, they'll sink beneath its sulphurous mire, i've paid,' they yell, but tho devil, their sire, rising up in all his eyre, will say to them "you are a liable to be mista ken."-Swift's Flying Needle.
 Take warning you who are be hind. Come up and settle; east VT nj d Just play trick upol his "Nobs" who runs this red ho thingamabob, that when your rac' of life is run, your work upon th' earth is done, your form laid ou in it's earthly bowl, you'll escap,
 he tortures of sheol.-Rector Ad vocate.