Nevada County picayune., 1886-03-31
STATE NEWS.

ACA"i Adiid, AIh', lidS l. Odld1Ce of g., 1tr in her treasury. : It is is estimated that there are 5000 visitors at Hot Springs.
 There are three Knights of La. Dor assemblies at Hot Springs.
 A bicycle club has been organiz- ed at Little Rock with seventeen wheels.
 , J. F. Garner has become one. half owner of the Magazine Hogan county Serpent.
 The Grand Lodge Knights of Py. thias meet in annual cobvention at Little Rock, May 10. | Judge Halliburton is a candidate fer reelection as representative from Arkansas county.
 The Army and Navy Hospital building at Hot Springs will not be formally opened until fall.
 l.. C. George, editor of the A gf,- cultural News, at Ozark, has skip ped cut for parts unknown.
 J. II. Shelton ard F. H. Griffith X Co.,, doing business at Bolivar, have been closed by creditors. Seven prisoners escaped from the Clay county iaii few nights ago, and three rere re-arrested.
 A recent assay at.thc New Or, leans mint of ore taken from the Montgomery c5tnty mines aver. aged SSi0 to thc ton. James Emerson Chisolm of Ar kansas was one of the 149 gradu- ates of the college of physicians and surgeons at Baltamore last week.
 The Chronicle thinks H'ittsburg, Cross ceun:v will move up to wh ere the new railroad proposes to cross the Bay road and abandon the present site.
 A terrible shooting affair occur red in Red Fork township, Arkan- sas county, last week, in which a man by the name of Hattie Knott. lost Lis life, at ;he hands of Y, k. Bates.
 l The city marshal of Fay ettc>ille accidentally shot and killed a ne. gro named Wesley Mecklin. last week, while Shooting at q negro outlaw and rspist named Henry .'an Winklo.
 | Nashville, Ozan and Washing ington, the three principal stations an the Arkansas & Louisiana rail. ray, have, up to date, shDped r. O54 more bales of colt )n than was shipped last season.
 An excursion of thirty persons from the North passed over the Iron Mountain road last week They visited varlous points iu Arkansas and Texas with a view to making investments.
 Farmers Herald: Searcy county is to be commended, there IS but one resident tax-payer's name on the delinquent list of lands return. ed by the collector. This is an unusually close collection for such hard times.
 Miss Maggie McCord, the talent cd organist of the Methodist choir, at Pine Bluff, has been presented with q fine gold watch and ch ain by the ladies of that church in appre' cation of her valuable services and as token of their personal regard
 Harrison Times: We are indebt ed to our friend Wm. Mills for 2 fine sample of copper ore taker from his Searcy county mines He claims it to be so per cent pure copper andshe appearance of this specimen certainly justiies such an estimate.
 Circuit court convened last week in Jefferson county: Tho docket is smaller than usual Judge Will Hams made one of his characterist ic impressive charges which vii probably bring forth good fruit States Attorney Elliott is looking after malefactors with his accus- toned zeal.
 Cross County Chronicle. 20; All other murder occurred near Colt, St. Francis county, last Monday A Mir. Dan Johnson married a wid ow the same name, who had three children. Johnson had repeatedly threatened tue life of his wife, and