Nevada County picayune., 1886-01-28
State News Column.
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 Morrillton has shipped 11,50o bales of cotton this season.
 There are ten miles of street railway in Little Rock.
 The criminal docket of Lon0ke county is the largest ever known.
 A four hundred pound bear was killed recently in Jackson county.
 A calf with five natural legs is one of the curiosities of Pike coun' ty.
 Ex.Senator J. E. Gatewood is associate editor of the Des Arc Citizen.
 Phillips county has only 13 sa' looms; eleven ill Helena and two in Trenton.
 The merchants of Osceola have bought 4Oc0 coon aud mink hides this season.
 Fire at Perryville, Jam 18th, de. strOyed the hotel and other build ings. The loss Is about $2 ,O0O.
 Texarkana hopes to have Con- gross appropriate S5O,O00 for a post.oflice building at that place.
 A Logan county farmer gathered 9 ,6O0 bushels of corn from fifty acres, from which he realized sl,- 300.
 One hundred and twenty-five colored labOrers from Giles coun. ,y, Tenn, have located on farms in Woodruff county.
 Andrew J. Hill. a prominent bus mess man of Hot Springs, has been appointed by the President post master at that place. A sixteen.yearold boy and a thirteen year old girl married at Thornton q few days since, says the Fordycc Enterprise.
 Representative Brcckiurdge has introduced a bill in Congress pro yidiny for the sale of the Cherokee 
 reservation in Pope county.
 The ladie. of Helena have orga- nizcd Home Relief Society, the object of which will he to care for the poor and needy of that city.
 Now that the sale ofintoxicatinG i liquors has been prohibited al Rod geld, the Star of the place ia agita, trng the propr,ety of building a church.
 Twenty.nine convicts-almo ost a carload--werc shipped from the US. Jail at Fort Smith to the House of Correction at Detroit, re gently.
 Mrs. NJ. F. Winfield has taken charge of the post.ofice at Forrest City. Her charming daughter, Miss Fannie, is the deputy post mistress.
 T. D. Rutlin. on trial at Lonoke 1 for the murder of Sam Keller, in June last. was acquitted recently The evidence proved that the shoot ing was done in self,defense.
 Frank Roland, who robbed the Southern Express Co. at Brinkley ot s2, 900 in cash and jewclry, has been arrested at Galesburg, Ill. and will be taken back 10 the scene of the crime.
 The Ouachita Lumber Company of Denver, Col, have filed a copy of their articles of association with the Clerk of Garland county. The enterprise will be located at Rock port, near Malvern, and Is capital. ized at slOO, ,0OO.
 Col. Blackburn, of the Little Rock Republican, and Prof. W. D. Leiter, of tho Malvern Meteor will meet in joint debate at Nal vern, March 12, to discuss the teaching. of the bible on the ques' ton of capital punishment. 1 A bill was introduced in the lower House of Congress last week authorizing the Merchants, i National Bank, of Little Rock to change it's name to the First Ma tional Bank of Little Rock Refer sed to the Committee on Banking and Currency.
 The Arkansas Valley Route, comprising the Little Rock and Fort. Smith and the Little Rock Mississippi River and Texas rail' way, has prayed for an injunction to restrain the collection of taxes
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