Nevada County picayune., 1886-03-24
STATE NEWS.

The spring fights have opened at Newport.
 Parties in Logan county are pros pective for gold.
 Snow at Mt. Ncbo on the nor. ming of the 9th instant.
 Helena is behind time-she wants'a town clock. Horse thieves are doing some stealing about Van Buren. Poor Chinamen-Pine Bluff is to have steam laundry.
 Okolona wants to te made tic lcounty seat of a new county.
 Pine Bluffs euriositv--a chicken with three well developed legs.
 Kate CarrOll' wields the social pen of the TeXarkana Independent.
 The perpetual motion crank Is getting in his work at Forest City. Dr. NJ. NJ. McGuire of Dardan ellie is candidate for State aud itor.
 Joe Thcm asson oi Murfreesborc fell and broke his left arm recently while practicing on roller skates. Mir. l.. B. Fea; ;herston is a candi- date for representative of St. Fran cis county to the next general as- sembly.
 Judge c. N. Becker Of eeachi- ia county is candidate for the circuit judscship of the Thirteenth judicial circuit.
 \ private telegraph line is soon toAe put Il? between CTat, and Barker. Mir. T. F. Price of O2an IS the inc0rporator.
 The temperance men of Washing. ton ceunty, have called d meeting for the 20th. They mean business. Ozark Democrat.
 Gen. Ben Collins of Drew county died early the present month, aged - years. He twice represented the county in the legislature.
 Gov. Hughes has offered re- ward of SljO for the arrest and delivery 60 the sheriff of Puliski county of John George and Dr.. John Driver, who killed Dr. J. C. Flake at Pa1arm on February 10th.
 Mir. James Barrett killed an owl last Tuesday, which is the largest one we ever saw in this country. l. was a horned owl and it's wings measured four feet and five inches from tip to tip. One of its claws now adorns the Alls of oul sane tum.-Quitman Light.
 The BaS4sville Pilot says that NIT. James Mears on old citizen of Little River county, aged S2 years, while trying to eXtinguish some fire that had reached the fence en the w. NJ. Freeman place, last Saturday, was caught by falling timbcrs and burned to death. Fse. Harrison attempted to car ry Col. Met l.. JOues of Pine Bluff, to Toledo on last Monday in a hack Alas for that hack. It IS unnecessary to say that Mir. liar rison soon returned with bis hack in a precarious condition and laid it up for repairs.-RisOn lmmi- grant.
 The total cotton receipts at the three stations on the Arkansas and Louisiana railway to yester- day arc 16 570 bales. Of this amount Nashville received II ,496, Ozan 145j and Washington 36l9. This is 40I more bales than was shipped last season.-Washinston Press.
 Mrs. Barham, on the Long place, came near being killed Tuesday morning by a young bull. She had gone in the lot to milk and the animal attacked her, goring her down, and bat for the timely as sistance of MT. Robert Elliott, who was near by, she might have lost her lifc.-Carlisle Departure.
 Paragould Press, F: On last Friday Sheriff Morris of Hood county, Texas, arrived in this coun- ty with a requisition from the gov ernor. authorizing the arrest of \. II. Counts. It is charged that Counts murdered man in Texas nine years ago, though for some reason an indicement was not got