Nevada County picayune., 1886-04-28
STATE NEWS.
Farmers are busy planting the prospective crop.


 Col. c. E. Tobcy of Pope county intends removing to California.
 The new signal service station al Dardanelle has been completed. Forest City has a new hotel anC it is said to be an imniEse hostel ".
 Nearly every township in Drew couty is said to have an agricultt ras club.
 Heavy rains and high water arc the reports gieancd from the State exchanges.
 The old drug house of Geo. A Hughes & Co., of Little Rock, made an assignment recently. Cnpt. Geo...W. Haibaugh of F el. ena died on the 10th inst. He has been aresident of that flace since 1862.
 A tanncry on a large scale is among Little Rocks probable cr r. terprises. Nothing Is more need ed in the state.
 Lightning struck the residence or a Mir, Waive, af Independence county last Saturday, and killed bis wife and two children.
 New cross ties are being put in and the road bed raised on the searcy.. And West Point railroad between West Point and Kehtett
 The Clarksvillc Herald exposes Laef 0. George as a newspaper fraud and dead beatr and wants him passed arcund.--Nonroe Coun- ty Sun.
 A daily mall service between Camden and Sugar Loaf Springs was begun last week, Mr. G. w. Eibson the contractor, having pat on daily hack for that purpose.
 The directory of the new Little Rock Board efTradc elected Ja,rea A. Zones. president, ". H. Wright, :, vice president; K. H. Farquhar, Secretary, aud l.. H. Roots, treas urer
 An sffray on Bear creek, Searcy county, Iast week, ended by Will. liam Northcut cutting a gash over Melvin Watkins eye and the latter hitting the former in the head with with q rock.
 Reports from several parts of the State indicate that farmers have planted more grain than. us- nal, the idea -feeniny tc prevail that cotton is not so much of Q king as he has been represented.
 As an evidence of a determina- ton on the part of our people to raise their own horses and mules one has only to look at the number of young colts to be seen about our town almost any day. Many of them arc of the very best stock -Monticellonian.
 The occupation tax case of Lit tie Rock has been sustained by the Supreme court. There was con. siderable opposition to it, and es- pecially so by the lawyers and doc tors. The main benefit aimed at by the tax, is the making of good streets for that city, which are 80 badly needed.
 Governor Hughes has commuted the death sentence of James Nc Coy, of Pope County, to twenty years in the penitenitiary. He was convicted Novembea 15, 1885, of being one of the assassins of an man named William McAllister; on January 16, 1874, and was sentenc' cd to be hanged.
 In tho United States land office at Harrison, Boone county, during the month of MarCh last, 1886 acres of land were entered at $J.25 per acre: 12,476 acres were homestead ed, and final proof was mado On BIOS acres. Number of fhom esteads, 9S; number of final proofs, 2S, num- Der of cash entries, 27, number of pre-emptions, 57.
 An old man named Gosling dem- onstrated the proveabial greenness of the bird by allowing himself to be fleeced out of a hundred dol lars by sharpers at Little Rock a few days since. They played the freight bill racket. Thds. Hayman one of the sharpers, was arrested