Nevada County picayune., 1886-01-07
State News Column.
Harrison is to have a bank.

W. Y. LanSly, grocer at Van Buren, has failed.
 Fort Smith is to have a S100,0OO wagon factory soon.
 The population of Little Rock is estimated at 2j,S77.
 Daniel McGahey, an old citizen of Arkansas county, died last week.
 Leroy P. Evans, for sixty-three years resident of Faulkner coun- ty, is dead.
 Cattle are dying in various parts of Howard county from some un- known disease.
 Emigrants seeking homes in Ar kansas arrive on nearly every train from the North.
 The building of the extension of the Swan Lake and Pine Bluff rail- road to Argenta is progressing rapidly.
 A preacher in the White River Conference received a pair of socks, fifteen cents in money and a wife for his years labor.
 The supposed murderer of Ben Lutrcll who was found dead on the road near Walnut Ridge recently, has been arrested ill Missouri.
 Hot Springs News: The war on silver is war of the bondholders and money HhaTks npon all other classes of mankind who are not bondholders anG vast millionaires.
 Augusta Nidette, 2i: The rail- road veying party crossed the river at this place last Saturday, and are locating the road east ward. We understand the con tract for work will be let at an ear ly day, and the work of construc- ton will be pushed forward rapid ly.
 Fort Smith Times: Any proposi- ton to suspend the coinage of sll- yer is simply proposition Co cur tail the supply of money in order that the money lenders and cent CTS of the country may be benefit cd 10 the detriment of every man who owes a dollar. and especially to the detriment of the bread ma kers of the west and south, whose farms are plastered all over with mortgages. Treasurer Jourdan may exchange silver for small treasury notes if his heart is yet in that dl- rection and the people will not grumble, but if congress dares to strike down the silver dollar at the bidding of wall street, the people in the majesty Of their in- dignation will not fail to fill the next congress with new faces.
 Russellville Democrats The signs point to a struggle on the silver question. The enemies of silver feel comforted by the presidents message and that paper has the ap- pearance of containin. some good reasoning on the subject. But it will strike the people at large as spacious. The common people who form the greater bulk of our population and who are struggling with the question of support and how to get it readily take the first dollar handed them and in prac- tice they know no distinction what ever between silver and gold or anything ..else under the sane tion of the government. It is useless to go to these people who arc already pinched with the scar city of money with the proposition to eliminate silver from the curren- rency and shrink its volume to the amount of silver cut off. We say it is useless, becOuse while people are as anxious to get silver or any thing else as they are now, they will never see the force Ot the log ic nor consent for it to be employ ed which proposes to narrow the standard of our currency and re- duce it to silver only. The contest on the silver question is led by the bankers and money lenders on the one side and by the cOmmonalty the other. The former shape their theories with a view to profit, while the latter are driven by their necessities and by the force of numbers. are now, we think, and will remain in command of the sit nation.
 It is q remarkable fact that Mrs. Charles Burkes, living four miles northwest of town, gave birth on n fhrnn