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Nevada County picayune., 1886-09-22
STATE NEWS.
CuIled From our Exchanges.

Pine Bluff is to have a savings bank.
 Pulaski county went ''license" by large majority.
 The Lockesourg Chronicle is boy cotted by the Whe elers.
 A county immigration society has been organized at Lon0ke,
 The Van Buren public schools will be opened on the 26th inst.
 The Supreme Court of the State convened Monday.
 High license carried the day in Garland Co. by smal! majority.
 A S2500 school building is near ing completion at Nashville.
 An elopement epedemic is pre- vailing throughout the State
 There are 16O different varieties of apples grown in this State.
 The Fort Smith base ball club is said to be the crack nine Of the State.
 The school census of Van Buren shows d scholarship of 162-5ll white and 252 colored.
 Since the lst of January last there has been 319 marriage licens- es issued in Jefferson county. RussellvilIe merchants are fight ing the Fort Smith railroad and doing their business by river.
 About twenty families from Ohio purchased land and settled near Heber recently.
 The cotton seed oil mill ana com. press lt It. Smith is said to be the largest in the wo.,a.
 It is estimated that the cotton crop of Arkansas this year will ap- proximate 750,000 bales. The Woodruff oounty grand jury returned seventy indictments for violation of the liquor law. ltis now thought the yield of cotton this year will be but slight iy ln eNcess of that of last season Continued dry weather damage cotton some in Johnson county, and great deal of sickness was reported throughout the country last week.
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To Our Subscribers and Patrons

The recent improvements made in the PICAYUNE office, consisting of an eight column power press and % inch Paragon paper cutter, which were bought in August and cost us about S1,000, has caused the paper to go in debt several hundred dollars. These improve. ments were absolutely necessary to the successful running of such a live and well printed paper as we expect to give our readers, and we hesi.ated not in making the purchase, even if it did necessitate our going into debt somewhat, which is contrary to our rule, therefor, thinking that onr pat rons and friends would come to our rescue early in the fall. As the notes given fall due in Octo. Der and December, we earnestly ask all who are due Us money for subscription or advertising to come forward as early as possible and help Us out.
 Many of our best subscribers live in the country, and they gen erally pay ul in the fall and winter, we running them through the spring and summer. We ask them to come forward q little earlier this year, if possible, so as to help us out of this strain, which we went into for their benefit.
 1t is our purpose to make the PrAYTNE second ro no weekly in the State, in every respect. But we need the encouragement and help of all our patrons, and all others that can be induced to be- come such, to accomplish this. Let all of our merchants advertise. remembering that it will pay them in more ways than one. And let all good citizens who are not al- ready subscribers, take the PICA- YUNE. If this is done we stand ready 10 make good our promise to naapa fopkVarI onI naE p tha nn. per as good as aLy in the state. A large press was purchased so that the paper could be enlarged if nee essary.
 We close this article by again appealing to our subscribers and patrons generally to come up and help us.
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GEN. NEAL Dow, of Maine, is in pressing need of the commisera- ton and sympathy of his friends, the Prohibitionists, in the merci- less overhauling he is HOW subject ed to at the hands of his former al. lies, the Republicans When Gen, Dow was a Republican he could not say enough in favor of the manner in which the prohibition law was enforced in that state, but since he ceased to be a Republican and entered on the task of destroy ing that party and substituting the Prohibition party for il he cannot say too much against the name: in which prohibition has not been enforced. Six months ago he wrote letters declaring that 95 per cent. of the rum traffic" in Name had been suppressed and that tee tOtaliSm was a success; now he makes speeches asserting that "there is not a city or town in Maine where the law is not entirely ignored" The great Prohibition leader finds some difficulty in mak ing these statements fit into one another, and the cause he repre- sents is suffering in conse quence. St, Louis Republican.
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the Fair Association of Western Arkansas, located at Ft. Smith, have our thanks for kind invitation and complimentary ticket to same winch opens October l2th, to con tinue five days. It promises to be great success. This is it's seventh annual fair. Some of the attractions will be: A competitive military drill and sham battle, in which ten OF twelve military com panies and two batteries will take part, the U. $. artillery company at Little Rock being one of them. Three racy balloon ascensions take place during the Fair, with trapeze performer on each of them. Races every day of the Fair. Finest fruit display ever made, over $500 in premiums being offered on fruit alone Cotton premiums amount to 'S200. The attractions in the city will be grand illuminations, fire works, trades procession, etc., on the night of October 13. Gov. S.P. Hughes will be in attendance and deliver the opening address, and while all the military companies are assembled here the State militia will be properly organized for the first time in the history ofthe state and will be reviewed by the gover- nor. Excursion rates given by railroads from all parts of the State.
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Public Speaking.

Hon. Thos. C. McRae, the Dem ocratic nominee for Congress IT the Third District, will address the people at the following times and places, to.wlt;
 Malvern. Monday, September 2n Princeton, Tuesday. September 2S Hampton, Wednesday, September % Johnsyilc. Thursday, September 50. Hamburg, Friday, October l,
 Monticello. Saturday, October ,. Warren, Monday, October 1.
 Camden, Tuesday. October }. Eldorado. "Wednesday. October C. Magnolia, Friday, 0ctohcrS. I.ewisville. Monday, October IL Texarkana, Tuesday, October l2 Bright Star, Wednesday, October E. Richmond Thursday, October II. Rocky Comfort, Friday. October l5. Washington, Monday, October Is. Hope, Tuesday, October 10,
 Nashville "Wednesday, October 20. Murfreesboro Thursday, October T. Center Point, Friday, October -. Lockcsbnrg, Saturday, October g. Dallas, Monday, October 25.
 Amity, Wednesday, October v. Arkadelphhia Thursday, October 2S. Gurdon, Friday, October 29.
 Prescott, Saturday, October 30.
 A full turn out of the people IS earnestly requsted.
 All opposing candidates are in vited to meet him at the above mentioned appointments, and a fair division of time will be ac- corded them. II. G. BUNN,
 Chm. Dem. EX. Com, Camden, Ark, Sept. s, 1886,
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WE hope this county will rally to the support of our present Con- greSsmah, Hon. Thos. C. McRae, who is an honored citizen of this county, and re-elect Lim to his seat in the next Congress. He has done his full duty, as is well said by the Washington Press, in an article we copy from it else where, and should be sent back. He carried this county before now let us so honor him again.
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Hon T C McRae.

The nomination, without opposi- ton, of this gentleman for re-elec- tion to Congress was q graceful recognition of the earnest, active and efficient services he has rem dered the district during the first session of his first term. It was the writer's pleasure and good for tune to be associated much with Mir. McRae during the recent ses- sion, and he can bear personal tes- timony to the everfaithful manner in which he discharged his duties and looked after the interests of his constituents.
 He entered the Hall of the House of Representatives d new member and a stranger. He left there eight months later re:oeniz ed by his colleagues as a success ful legislator, an earnest and ln- dustrious worker and a member, al- ways present, to be relied upon in every emergency. The duties that fall upon a member there are con- tinual and almost without end, yet, while he neglected none of these and responded to every demand, both public and private, made up on hIm by his constituents, he was always in his seat when it was nec- essary for him to be there. The work of Congress is done in the ommittee-rooms, rather than upon the floor of either house. AS a member of three important com mittees, Mir. McRae was always prompt in attendance upon meet ing and efficient in shaping the work of Congress there mapped out.
 His homestead bill, which he managed with the skill and suc- cess ot an able and experienced legislator, is worth thousands upon thousands of dollars to the home stead settlers of the country within railway limits. It enables them to increase their entries from so to i60 acres of land without addition al expense, and many of them in our own county and throughout the District are availing them fselves of it's benefits. It was through his efforts in the House that Howard, Little River and Se- vier counties became a part 0t thls federal judicial district-an act of inestimable benefit to the citizens of those counties. Through his efforts a bill passed the House re- curing a term of the federal court to be held at Texarkana for the benefit of tue Southwestern cOun- ties, though, unfortunately for us, the bill still slumbers in Mir. Ed munds' cOmmitteeroom of the Senate. He secured liberal appor- tionments for the rivers of the dis trict; and,..in private way, ren- dered valuable services to hun- dreds of his constituents in mat ters involving land, pensions, claims, etc., etc.,
 He is sound on every important issue of the times. His vote was cast not only for continued coinage of silver, but for unlimited coinage of silver, for reduction of tariff taxation, for the Blair educational bill, the regulation of interstate commerce, the payment of the surplus in the treasury upon the national debt and the improve ment of our rivers and harborS. He has been tried and found wor thy and ought to be returned with. out opposition. Washington Press.
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TME temporarN secretary of tho

THE temporary secretary of the so called Wheel and Labor Con. vention, informs us that there were six townships in this county rep resented therein. instead of three as stated by the Gazette of last week. Well this does rot take in half of this county, there being l3 townships in It: yet "that famous conyention'(l got out a caudi. date for the whole nineteen coun. ties composing this congressional! district.
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THE THREE PER CENTS.
Statement of the Bonds Called,
 Redeemed and Outstanding.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. l4.- A statement has been prepared at the treasury department in regard to the disposition of the three per bonds at the close of business yes terday. from which the following figures are taken: Called, S19S,- 4S5.6jO; redeemed, sl73,459,96O' outstanding, S25,025,60O; amount of past due bonds outstanding, S2,- 696, ,550; amount of bonds purchas- ed and redee,aed under the circu- lar of August 30, 1886, S7SS,00O; amount of bonds uncalled, sl06,- 235, ,4JO: amount of bonds received to be paid at maturity under the 14Oth call. S2,S62, 400, and under the Hist call, S22l 200. There were redeemed to-day S944,997 in bonds inclusive in the 13Sth, 139th and 14lst call, and of course the proceeding figures will be changed accordingly. Itis expected anoth' CT call for three per cent bonds will be issued in a few days. The receipts have been very heavy this month averaging over Sl ,000, ,0OO a day, or over s6,0O0, ,0OO in excess of expenditures for the same peri. cd. The treasury, is estimated at S7O,00O, ,O00.
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All of our present members of Rogers, McRae and Breckinridge have been re-nominated Tn their respective districts, and will be triumplantly elected in Novem- Der, to again take their seats in the fiftieth Congress. Well, this is as it should De, they are all able men and good workers, and bet ter selection could not well be made, They are all simon pure democrats, and stand with Morri- son and the tariff question. Hm' rah for our Arkansas delegation in Congress.
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TUESDAYS Gazette contained OuI article of last week, about "that ia nous cOnventionD that nominated Rev. l.. H. Hit tor Congress, and credited it to the Dispatch. Bro Brewer, you should correct at once this great error, as the "wild tempestuous AnsleS" will fath' CT this chick, though the conven' ton was evidently matched at his office.
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That splendid and ably conduct, paper, the Prescott Picayune, made noble and manly fight in the cam paign inst closed. The Democratic ticket lest there from head to foot but the manly editor comes square ly out and accepts the verdict and says: Let Us dwell together in unity."-M Malvern News.
 Thank you. Bro. Story. We cer- tainly did our best for Democracy in the late campaign. but was de- feated, and "like a little man." we take II as our part, and now say let us stop agitating the people politically, thus stirring up useless strife.
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TIE entire Democratic State tick ct was elected by about 10000 plurality vote, and about 10000 over the Republican and Wheel vote combined. The official vote show this. Hughes received over 90,000 votes, Gregg 54,OOO and Cunningham l9,00O. Paul M. Cobbs, and Dan Jones, Democrats received about 9j,O0O votes each.
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A MAN, who, in Arkansas, un. der anything like favorable circum- stances, fails to make a support and more, may be put down as a little slothful or d bad manager. Our resources are so numerous and varied that the road to a compe. tcncy is so plain that "a wayfaring man though a fool, need not err therein. ."-Conway Log Cabin.
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S1O0, 1000 ,000 of bounded indebted ness, and yet demagogues and sim pletons all around have been cry ing down Democrats, saying noth. has been done. Wonder fl the Dispatch man will re-publish the article we refer to above!
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lN another place we publish a press report sent ont from Wash. ingtOn, showing how the public in debteduesSis being paid off. The Democratic administration has so far called in and paid off oyer a
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Another Sufferer.

For six years I was aftlictep with chronic rheumatism, part of the time perfectly helpless, not beng able to walk at all. For while my left leg was drawn backward until nearly doubled. 1t had q number of running sores on It. Physicians gave me no relief. l tried every patent medicine rec omended for rheumatism, being a druggest myself, but to no proflt. At last | commenced the use of Swift's Specific. At first it seem- ed to make me worse. My leg was much swollen, and ! had a physician to lance it. l soon be- gan to improve. After taking less than a dozen bottles of SWlfts Specific, l found myself sound and well for the first time ill six years. That was five months ago: l have felt no symptoms of the disease since: 1 believe Swifts Specific to be the best of all rheumatic remedies made. 1 commend 1t to all who are suffering as 1 have suffered.
 JOIN k. PEEL,
 With C. k. Obmchain, Druggist,
 Pilot Point Texas, Jan, 1886.
 Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis eases mailed free.
 THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,, Draw CT 3, Atlanta, Ga. l51 ". 23d St, x. Y.
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TIE deaf mute Institute for the education aud practical training or the deaf mute children of the state will begin it's session on the 2oth of this month.
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TIE large government e1perl' mental factory for the manufacture of sugar from sorghum, was start ed at Fort Scott, kansas, last yanE
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FIFTEEN MILLION MORE CALLED.
 WAsHINGToN, D. C. Sept. b. The acting secretary of the treasu' ry to-day issued the 142d call for the redemption of bonds. The call is for 15,O00,000 of the three per cent loan of 1882.
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TIE first snow of the season fell at Ishpenning, Mich, on tho l2th inst. but It melted as fast as It fell.
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MEssRs |. C. PARKER. President and s. A. Williams, Secretary of
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Products.

The principal product. are corn. cotton, wheat, oat. rye barley, milIct, broom corn, sorghum, sweet and Irish potatoes. turnips, in fact vegetables of nearly every variety grow here to perfection. Experienced fruit growers assull l,s that Ya hazard nothing in saving that no locality can grow greater variety oftruit, and to greater perfection, than Nevada county. Tho genial climate of this county, neither too cold in winter nor too hot in summer, is peculiarly adapted to the culture of the grape.
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Soil and Climate.

The soil of the southern and southwestern portions of the county s sandy Ioam, well adapted to corn, cotton. potatoes, vegetables and grapes. Fine springs abound in thi, re- zion. fn the central and western portions the soil is gray dirt, 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 i- gray dirt, and adapted to small grain and grasses the native grass on the open prairie welding from two to three tons of fine hay per acre. There k some very fine black hand on the southwest side of the prai- ric, though the red dirt land prcdomnates The climate is salubrious and hcalthful. The thermometer never goes below si1 degree. above zero in the winter. and ranges from 20 to lOO in the shade during the summer months
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Railroads.

The tt. Louis, Iron Mountain & southern Railway, the great Southern route from St. Louis and the North and East through Ar kansas and Texas to Mexico and California. penetrate, the northern part of the county, entering it on the east side, near Boughton station, and going out on the west at Emnct. distance of fifteen miles. The Ounchith X ChoctaN Railroad. proposed road now be- ing surveyed from point on the Ouachita river, near Calndon, to q point on the line of the Choctaw Nation, near Ultima Thule, rnust, by stipulation in the charter, pas. by the town of Prescott, and through the county from the southeast to tho northwest.
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Timber.

The county i, remarkably well timbcrcd Its most valuable woods are yellow pine, ey- cry variety of oak and hickory. sweet, black and tupelu gum. maple, mulberry. ash, wal nut, birch, beech, sycamore. linn. dogwood, hac>bcrry, holly, red and water elm. per .innon, cypress, beach, boi- dare, black locust, honey locust, wild cherry, rcd bud ouI .assafras
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GENERAL AGENTS WANTED

of extra ability and experience, to take gen crd appointing agencies, to find and start other canvasscrs on fast. selling books Ex- traordinary inducements Applicant. must show they mean business by stating by letter (uo postal cards) IN FULL, their experience, otc. HENRY BUCKLIS X Co.,,
 POI \. Sec St.. St Louis, Mo.
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stock Raising

Noportion of the Southwest is better adapted to stock raising than Ncvcda county On Prairie De Anne and along the streams, cattle, horses and mules thrive and dc well tho year round on the native gras>cs Hog. can be raised here almost without any care at all They lattcn readily in the fall upon thn abundance of mn.i in thn mnr,d.
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For Congrcss--Third District, re McRAE. of Nevada County.
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SPACE. I1Mo 3 Mo 6 Mo P Mo

SUBSCRIPTION, l.50 PER YEAR. Job Work Neatly executed. Local notices Toe per line each inscruon.- 5c per line to regulate advertisers who run them all the time,
 Say All advertising payable monthly or quarterly. unless otherwise agreed on. Ad- dress all communications to
 THE PICAYUNE,
 Prescott, Ark
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Water-Courses.

The principal water-course Is Little Ms ,ouri river, beautiful stream which has it's source in the Caddo mountaiSs. It flows in n southcastcrly direction, forming the boundary line between Nevada and Clark counties for a long distance. Before the rail- roads penetrated this section, small steamers navigatcd the river during the winter and spring seasons The land along the margin
 of the river ts fertile and exceedingly well tiinbered The bottom is valuable stock range It has few lagoons and bsyous, and is not considered -cllly stream. The Tcrrc Rouge creek is the next largest stream. It
 crosses the northern part of the county from
 the west to the east, emptying into the lIttlo Missouri river. The Caney creek drains the central portion of the county, flowing into the Little Missouri river from the west, south of the Terrc Rouge The Bodcaw i, A l small creek in the southwestern portion of county The land bordering on il is very fertile. IL flows south into the Derch"at, Il tributary of Red river.
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Prescott, tho county scnt. vn. Lid m, and settled in September, IS78. It is sim. atcd on ths St Louis, Iron Mountain A. southern Railway, o6 miles south of IittIn Rock, aud Ina, population of 1000. Ab"n, i3oh bales of cotton are received por annu,n The public buildings consist of a 6nc '',,,' "a,,' brlck Court House, finished below and oLnyo stars m native pine oiled. the buldin. cn,t lns near S2oo0o splendid new ini tb, Glhttcut "hurch ldiiars; and the finest nnL. hc school house in tlio -tate. and :, hi,d,t,. cred'table school house for the blacks'
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Post Offices.

Tue county is reasonably well supplied with mai facilities, only d few of the interior neiGhhorhoods heinz remote from post of- ,icr,. The post offices in the county are BLII'4 store Bodcaw, Boughton, Bourland's < store Blnf CIty CaneN Clayton. Eelta, Elm. met, Falcon, iIouoavilc Lanc.brr.,' ana Prescott Prescott i, a money order o-'
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NEVADA COUNTY, ARKANSAS.
ADescriptiou of Its Location S'"'' Climate, Schools, Churches, Railroads. Water-Coursrs'
 Timber and Agricultnr-
 al Resources.

NvEVADA COUNTY was created py IN anact of the General assembly March 90, 1871, and is situated in the southwestern nart of the state, being bounded on tho eas. by Ouachita county, on the northeast ana .1 north by Clark, from which it IS separatsu by Little Missouri river, on the west D. Uempstead. and on the south by Colump'a;' Ii has an area of about 610 square n''e7; ana in 1880 had population of ia,ooo lnh"o'- tants.
 Topography.
 The surface of the country IS generally uh- dulating; few places being too broken ITO Tor cultivation, or too level for drainage me southern half of the county covers the apex of the watershed between the Ouachlta ana Red rivers: the small streams on the east tide flowing to the tributaries of the ouach'- ta, and those on the west to the tributarles "i the Red. All the branches and ryuletS oi the northern part flow to the Little Missouri, Prari De Anne. a beautiful little inland prairie. seven miles long from east to west, ls situated in the northern part of the county closely surrounding the town of Prescott on the east north and west.