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Nevada County picayune., 1886-01-07
CORRESPONDENTS.
E. E. White in the Indian Territory.

Muskogee, l. T., Dec. 3I, 1885.
 EDITOR P1CAYUNE:-I arrived here three days ago. This place, Muskogce. is the seat of Union Agency, the Agency of the five civilized Nations, the Chickasaws, Choctaws, Chcrokees, Creeks and Seminoles. It is pleasantly situa- ted on high ridge in broad prairie six miles south of the Ark ansas River.
 I will prolong my present visit to Muskogee but day or two. l will probably return here several times before l complete my duties at this Agency. l am charged with very important and inter estin. investigation here, and will visit great many places in the Territory and Kansas, l will go to Yinita tomorrow. From there will proceed to Tulsa, Red Fork the Sac and Fox Agency and Ock muIgee, in the Territory, and Lawrence, Wyandotte. Leaven' worth and Ozathe, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri.
 The population of the five civil ized Nations under the jurisdiction of the Union Agency is 92,OO0 These Nations are considerably advanced in civilization, and are making great progress at the pres ent time. Many of them are peo pie of really fine intelligence Some of them who are unable tc speak good English are exceeding | ly bright and vivacious. One O this class-Mr. Runabout Pig paralyzed Col. Wisdom clerk of the A gency, and myself. this morning Mir. Ruuabout Pig is full blood Creek. l was in the Agents Of ice this morning when MT. Pig en tered, and the following dialogue between Col. Wisdom and himsel ensued:
 Wisdom-"Good morning, Run about"
 Mir. pig--''Ugh!'
 Wisdom-"What can 1 do fol you'"
 Mir. Pig-"You try Parson Lode Him steal horse me-
 Wisdom-"Well, l can testify that the Parson has bad charac ter.n
 MT. Pig-"You no try him fol character. You try him for stea horse me-"
 Wisdom-"Did the Parson stea vour horse?'
 l MT. Pig.-"Ughn' Wisdom-''Why you will have to civilize the Parson. Can't you civilize himH'
 Mir. Pig-"No. Him Arkansas man. Can't civiixe Arkansas manw
 Col. Wisdom is from Ft. Smith
 EUGENE F. WHITE.
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TIE officials in Washington wers surprised two weeks since, when John l. Morton, of Arkansas presented himself for appointment tot Sl.000 position in the First Asst. P. NJ. Gems ofliue, he being the first colored man to fill such an office. He stood 13 in the exami- nation, and is the only colored per son ever appointed in that office. The Civil Service law is evidently heinz strictly enforced, and a2. pOintments would seem 10 be has. ed entirely upon examinations, without regard to sex, color or previous condition Of servitude.
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Educational Department.
J. w. CeNGER, Editor.

'Tis not an easy task to show How O. u. <. h. sounds; since hroagh An Irish lostgh. an English slough, And cough, and hjccough, all allow, Differ az much as tough and through, There seems no reason why they do.
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We again urge the patrons ofour school to visit ns. The teachers would like 70 see the fathers aad mothers of the pupils. We need your sympathy in our work. We cannot do our full duty towards your children unless you do your duty towards teachers and school. If you will come and see our work, it will be a source of inspiration to al. Treat us as you would like to be treated under similar circum- stances.
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Supt. Cole, of Albany, x. Y, recommends a most excellent prGc. tice of having morning recita's s, y In the elementary schools. of gems committed to memory. He says: Have the child give the name of the author. his birthplace, and state some work he has written. By committing to memory eight or ten lines each week, the teacher care fully developing the thought of the passage and pertecting the delivery by concert drills and individual recitations, the pupil will have ac- quired in a full course of our pri- mary and grammar schools not less than 5000 lines of the choicest names of literature. By requiring the name of tho author to be pro- nonnced at the close of each quo. tation, the child will become famil far, at an early age, with the names of very many of our greatest vii ters. What sources of inspiration to lofty and noble deeds, what fountains of high moral principles, these exercises might provel What safeguards they might be- come in warding off the insidious influences of the dime novel and the sensational weeklyn
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CONGRESS re assembled Tuesday ahe 5tl.. pursuant to adjournment, Ii will not be long before it has a tussle with important measures, We will keep oar readers informed as to its most important doings.
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The PICAYUNE will fight for e principles of DEMOCRACY which alone afford peace prosperity and to our people will the right that arise the bat will do ill nc and outside the The Democratic has been the the people, the organized and the best interests of all will holding While conenng the principles of the party the P1CAYUNE will personalities those will endeayor to be conservative as possible
 The will be weekies the Sae Will do all that possibly be oo to advance the rial prosperity of Nevada and adjoining counties.
 Tie ICAYUNE will devote special attention matters all of the will he through correspon. dent Every citizen will have full opportunity of furnishing tens from section.
 The PIcYNE believing agricultural the whole and the backbone thereof will devote special department to it. who fell disposed bute
 this department Will be glad to receive contributions for
 The education of the this A peca Educational Department, of Prof. J. w. Congcr, will be kept Other Ialts may contribute it, they desire
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An Exchange says: A teacher in Arkansas, in response to an in- qniry, what is most needed in his school, writes: 'branes, branes branes'. p
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Always give a papii credit for any element of correctness which his answer may contain. If time will permit, show him why he is wrorg and what is wrong.
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SPRAYED OR STOLEN The Nls- iting Committee, appointed by the Board of Directors. It was last seen about four months ago at the High School. A large reward Is offered for it's recovery.
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9th day Of January, l&SG,

between tue hours for judicial sales, et the Court EIonse door of Nevada county. the following lands, to-wit; The east half of the southwest quarter, and the northwest quutter ofthe southwest quarter of section 2N, town ship 9, south in range, 22 west, the property of John Cutler, to satisfy a judgement in favor of frathrr X fipkin, against sad Cut Ter for S55q3 and costs ot suit.
 Said sale to be on credit of three months and purchaser to give bond with good socur- itv for the purchase money and lien retain. cd on the property for the same.
 GEO. ". TERRY, Dee. 18th, 1885, Commissioner
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The executive committee of the Arkansas Press Association will meet in Little Rock next Wednes- day, January 18th, to determine npon the time and place for hoid- ing the next annual meeting, and 10 transact other business.
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PATENTS
Caycat-. Trade Mnrks and Cepyrlshts

Otained. and all other business in the U. $ Patent Oilica attended to for moderate fees Our off ce is opposite the U. <. Patent Of fec, and we can obtain Patents in less time than those remote from Washington.
 Send model or drawing. We advise as to patentaIiity free oi charge; and we make no charge unless we obtain patent.
 We refer here to the Postmaster tho Supt. of Money Order Div, and to officials of tho |. <. Patent Office. For circular, ad- vice. terms and references to actual clients iu vour own state or county, write to
 C. A. SNOW x co,
 Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. ( Subscribe for the PICAYUNE.
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PRESIDENT Cleveland has signed the bill giving the widow of Ex. President Grant an annual pension of s5, ,000.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-01-07

A right word tomorrow in an ob- scure school room, by an obscure teacher to very unpromising scholar, may change the destinies of life, perhaps a nation.-The School Journal.
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Notica |,

Is hereby given that |, virtue of an order and dccrcr of the Nevada Circuit court, rcn- dcred at the Novwnbcg term, of 1885 thereof l will offer for sale at public outcry, to the h;,rhnst h;11nr nm the
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o.i ;,ny of ,;nuuary. 1SSG.

between the heur. for judicial sales. the roi- lowing lsad,. to v,t: rbo south-ea-t quar- ter of the northwest quarter of section 70, township i@, south m uug, = west. Said sale will b. on a credit of ihron months, the purchaser being required to give bond with approved personal security for the purchase money, and a lion retained on the land there for NANCN A. JOHNSON.
 Guardian of said minor. Prescott, Ark, Dec lAth, lSS5
 Atkinson ,e TomrkHS, Att'ys.
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Every solitary kind action tha. is done, the world over, is working briskly in it's own sphere to restore the balance between right and wrong. Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, elo- quence or learning; and these three never converted anyone unless they were kind. also. The contin. ual sense which a kind heart has of it's own need of kindness keeps it humble, Perhaps an act of kind ness never dies. but extends the invisible undulations of it's intlu: ence over the breadth of centuries. F. W. Faher.
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Iiailroad-,

The St. Louis, Iron Mountain < southern Railway, the great southern route from St. Louis and the North ana East through Ar kan sas and Texas to Mexico and California, peretrates the northern psrt of the county entering it on the east side near Bnughton jon. and going olt oa the west at Emmet, d distance ot gttecn miles. The Ouachita X Choctnn Railroad, q proposed road now be- ing surveyed from point on the 04aelntal river, near Camden, to point on the hne "t the Choctaw Nation, near Ultilna Thule, must, by 2 stipulation in the charter, pass hy the town of Prescott, and through the county from thn snnthcn-t [. the northwest.
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Hold your tongue and your pen, my boy. Every time you are tempted to say an ungentlc word or write an unkind line, or say a mean, ungracious thing about any body, inst stop; look ahead twen- ty.fve years, and think how it may come back to you them -R. J. Bar. dctte in Brooklyn Eagle.
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Old Santa Clause has come and gone. New Year dinners and greetings are over, the days for earnest work aad greater interest have arrived and We are trying to "ring in the true" as we ring out the false"
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Soil and Climate.

Tlac soii of the soetkern and southwestern portions of the county is sandy lo0m, well adopted to corn, cotton, potatoes. vegetable, and grapes Fine spring. abound in this re- zion. in the central and western portions the soil i> gray drt fertile and susceptible of easy cultivation. The soil of the northern part of the county s varied, but is mostly red dirt and very fertile. The soil of Prairie De Anne is gray dirt, and adapted 10 small grain and grasses, the native grass on the open prairie yielding from two to three tons of fine hay per acre. There is some very fac black land on the southwest side of the prai- rc, though the red dirt land pr-dominatrs The climate is saldbrious and hea!thlul. The thermometer never goe4 below siN d'g'ccs above zero in the winter. and ranges from 90 to 100 in the shade during the summer months.
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If the illiterate population of the South should be educated accord ing to the plan proposed by the Blair bill, it is estimated that the increased industrial Yalue will be s2n, 727 900 year.
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Completely Used Up.

From ali quarters the same tes timony comes as to the virtue ol Swift's Specific After trying all ol the mercury and potash nostrums, a man from the mountains of West Virginia has this to say:
 l was completely used up with blood and kidney disease; 1 used Swift's Specific, and in two months I was perfectly cured. For the benefit of those who are suffering with these diseases, lrccommend s. $. as far better than all other medicines used in such cases, as have tried them all. Any mforma ton on this subject asked of me l will gladly give.
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Be sure 10 get the genuine, and send for Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases, free. For sale by all druggists.
 THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,, Draw CT 3, Atlanta, Ga, 157 w. 23d St. New York.
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NEWSPAPER, j
DENO2ATIG
Nevada and contiguous counties.

COUNTY has population, shown by the of lG0O of s number she has voting capacity of 2So The valuation opropery in the county given i'll at S2, ,00O0O0. PRESCOTT, the county scat,
 has a population of nearly 2,000 and gets
 trade than town between
 Little Rock and TeXarkana.
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Timber.

The county i, remarkably well tilnborol, its most valuable woods are yellow pine. cy- cry variety of oak and hickory, sweet, black and tupclo gum. maple, laClherry, ash, val nut, birch, beech, sycamore, linn, dogwuod, hackbcrry, holly, red and watrr elm. per Simmon, cypress, beach, bois dare, black locust, honey locust, wild cherry, rc4 bad and sa,safras
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Water-Courses.

The principal water-course is lAtte Ms souri rivca. a beautiful stream which has it's source in the Caddo mountains 1t flows boundary line between Nevada and Clark counties for long distance. Bcforethc rail-
 roads penetrated this section, small steamer; nnvigated the river during the winter and spring seasons The land along the margin ot the river Is fertile and exceedingly well
 timbcrcd. The bottom is valuable stock
 range. It has few lagoons and bayous. and is not considered a s;cl>ly stream. The Terge | Rouge creek is the next largest stream. Il ] crosses the northern part of the county from
 the west to the cast, emptying into the Little | Missouri river. The CGuey creek drains i the central portion of the county, flowing i into the Little Missouri river from the ~cet south of the Terre Rouge. The Bodcaw is q
 smal creek in the southwestern portion ot
 county. The land bordering on it is very ! fertile It flows south into tae DOreheat, | 1 tributary of Rcd river
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Are agents for tue following
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Notice.

I, hcrchy given thlt, in obedience to aa or. der and judgment of;h Prohete court oi Nevada county. Arkau.as. rendered at its October term, lSSj, of the property of Mat fife Joe White minor a' her guardian, l will offer for sale. at the Court House door of Ncyad. county. ArlNnsa-, at public ont- 1r1. tn lnn LiLhn.t Lill.r. on tnn
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Products.

Tho principal products are corn, cotton, what, "at. ryg' barley, m''', ' brrom ; corn, in fact vegetables of nearly every variety grow here to perfection. Experienced fruit growers assure us that we hazard nothing in saving that no locality can grow a greater variety oftruit, and to greater perfection, than Nevada county The genial climate of thi, county, neither too cold in winter nor too hot in summer, is peculiarly adapted to
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Stock Raising

Noportion of the Southwest is better adapted to stock raising than Neycda county. On Prairie Dc Anne and along the streams. cattle, horses and mules thrivc and do well the year round on tie native grasses. Hogs can be raised here almost without any care at all. They lhtten readily in the fall upon the abundance of mast in the woods.
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Topography.

The surface of the country is generally un- duloting: few places being too broken ,,i, for cultivation. CT too level for drainage. Ihe southern half of the county covers the apex of the watershed between the Ouachlta and Red rivers: the small streams on tine east side flowing to the tributaries of the Ouachl-l ta, and those on the west to the tributaries or fine Red. All the branches .and rivulcts of the northern part flow to the Little Missouri; Prairi De Anne. beautitul little inland prairie, seven miles long from east Co west, is situated in the northern part of the county closely surrounding the to VII of Prescott on the cnst north Anl west
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Schools and Churches.

Nevada county is divided for educational purposes into forty school districts. Prof. J, W. Cangcr. the county examiner, is most etiic cut officer, and has the system of free common school, in good working order throughout the county The free schools are maintained by state teX of one-fIth of one per cent, poll tax of Sl on every male citi- zen over the age of twenty -oue years, a local option tax, which cannot exceed onc-half oi one per cent interest on the permanent school fund, and fines and iortcituros in certain cases. 1hercarc crcditable churches in al most every ucighb0rhood in the county. The leading denominations are the McthodiSts, Missionary and Primitive Bap;i,ts, Prcsby- ;crians Cumberland Presbyterians. Christians and Epsuopai'.
 The Graded Free Schools
 Of Prescott: for thewhitcs arc pronounced by the State Superintendent of Pnblic lnstruc- ton and others, the best in the state. except ing those Little Rock only, and visitors from the Northd rclare them equal to the schools in towns of like size in any of the Northern states. Besides the healthy and nc- ccssible location, a moral and cnterprising town. and amagniiCent modern school build ing with its seven large well lighted and ven tilatcd rooms seated with the brst folding and loci, desks and all arranged to be heated with furnaces, we claim the special advan- tage of having an abie and experienced tacul tv, n large assortment of maps, globes and charts: chemical. hotmi ,al. philosophical. mathematical uli 3s rpn,iNi 'd apparatus; :, larg, ecn'og:td oeirr;omoioL.b cahuc1 a large u'll well ,cl"ctri aTJty free tu pu- pils; systematic prnmalsMjW frequent @cicn- tiGc lccturc-, excellent advapt'-'. in music, painting ual irawng1 Voc8, music and cnlis- theme. as a daily exercise, nld m interest ing normal class for the irujnu% of teachers, The enrolment during thc present scolastic year rul> upto near %d0 pupils, al.j the daily attendance abou, 2N0.
 Post omees.
 The county is reasonably well supplied with mail facilitc., only q few ofthe interio, neighborhoods beiag remote from post of- fees. The post offices iu inc county arc Bells Store. Belcaw, Bouehton, Bourlmd's Store, Bluff City. Carey, Clayton. Delta, Em- met Falcon, Ioneavile Lancsburg and Prescott Prescott is a money order oillce
 Prescott
 Prescott, the county scat, was laid out and settled in September, 1878, It is situ- ated on the St Louis, Iron Mountain X Southern Railway, 96 miles south of Little Rock, and has a population of 1000. About l20o0 bales ofc0tton 0re received per annun. The public buildings consist ot fine new brick Court House, finished below and above stairs in native pine, oiled. the building cost ing near S20,010; a splendid new jail; the different church cdifces; and the finest pub lie school house in the state, and a highly creditable school house for the blacks.
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W. NJ. RAIL. Wheeling, W. Na,, Oct. r., 1885.
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NEVADA COUNTY, ARKANSAS
A Description of Its Location, So't' Climate, schools, Churches, Railroads. Water.COurses, Timber and AgricultHr-
 al ResurceS.

N-EyADA COUNTY was created by
 anact of the Cen, ral assembly March 70, 1871, and is situated in the southwestern. part of the state, being bounded on the east by Ouachita county, on the northeast ana north bv Clark, from which it Is separated bv Little Missouri river, on the w'St oy Iienpstead, and on the south by Coiumoi''I, It has an area of about 610 square miles; ana in 1880 had population of l3,0oo lnh"oi- tantS.
The Indianapolis journal., 1886-02-03
Elsewhere.

ST. LOUIS Feb. 2-Cattle-Receipts $50; ship
ments 16O. Market stronger with an active demand
tie So 80; common to medium s3. l So a. .65;
butcher steers So 25 D4 25 cows and hefers So. .25
03.7O; stockers and feeders, 10015c higher $4,000
Hogs-Receipts $500; shipments, 1000 Market
active and 90 1Oc higher closing strong butchers and
best heavy, "a 2004.4O; mixed packing, $3.9O q
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, 400; shipments. 200.
AIS; choice, $4.5O05.0O.
CHICAGO, Feb 2.-The Drovers' Journal reports:
Cattle-Receipts 5000; shipments 1000. The mar
ket was steady; shipping steers, $50 to 1.5G0 TBS,
3d. 80; stockers and feeders, $2.5005.2O;
cows bulls and mixed, $l04; the bulk of sales were
Hogs-Receipts, % 900; shipments 5000. The
market was strong and a shade higher; rough and
4.5O light $s 5o@4f 10; skips, So 7dg35o =
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, 3OOO shipments,
3, ,OOO. M The market was firm; natives, So. 049O;
Texans, $203.75; lambs, $4O525
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 2.-The Live Stock Indi-
Gator reports; Catte-Receipts. 700; shipments,
g9ne Market strong and shade higher exporters
mon to medium, So. 9O04.4O; stockers and feeders,
81 60 75; cows, $203.2O.
Hogs-Receipts, $780, shipments. 500. The
market frmer with light 1Oc higher and heavy
DC higher; @ good to choice, $404.15; light and
Sheep-Receipts, 6S7; shipments none. The mar
ket was firm good to choice, $3.2504; common to
medium, 81. .5O03
NEW YORK, Feb. 2-Beeves-There was no
trading in beef cattle; receipts except twenty five
carloads of export steers for shipment alive Liver
pool Dressed beef dull and prices unchanged at
bl20Sc R tb for sides. Exports, $40 beeves, 265
sheep l. 74O quarters of beef and 100 carcasses of
mutton.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts, 1 200 head. The mar
ket was steady at So. ~ cwt for sheep and
$507. % for lambs.
Hogs-Receipts, $500 head all for slaughterers
direct. The market nomnally steady at $1,000
4.20 W cwt.
BUFFALO, Feb. .-Cattle-Receipts, 1O2. The
market dull and nominal
Sheep-Receipts, $500. Good sheep in good de-
mand and steady; common stock very dull: good.
$4. 25@4 IS; poor to fair, $3.O004.o0; Western
lambs, $4.000625
Hogs-Recepts, 100. Market stronger and high
er; Workers, good to choice, $4,000 15 light mixed
$39O04.O0; good medium, 81. 80; choice
heavy, $4. asa 40; heavy ends, 1856 0405;
roughs, So. 15 $3.50.
EAST LIBERTY, Feb. 2.-Cattle- Receipts la
head; Shipments 10 head. Market slow and un-
changed from Monday. No cattle shipped to New
York to-day.
Hogs-Receipts, 800 head shipments, 1900 head
Market firm: Philadelphas $44O04. so; Workers.
$40410; skips. So. so. Eight cars of hogs
shipped to New York to-day.
Sheep-Receipts, 2, 800 head; shipments, 1000
head. Market firm and unchanged from Monday.
CINCINNATI, Feb 2.-Hogs frm common and
light. So. 504; packing and butchers, $40135.
Receipts, l, 754 shipments, 139.