Nevada County picayune., 1886-09-15
STATE NEWS.
CuIled From our Exchanges.

state Is billed Tor the foft Shilll fair.
 It costs Little rock *4l ,O0O per year to maintain her publlc4 schools.
 A party at Pine Bluff has a pair of imported black pointers valued at S50O each.
 Three miles of the rado-b"d of the Pocahontas and Hoxie railroad has been completed.
 The new Baptist college at Arka delphia opened Monday, Septem- bar 9th, with 100 students.
 The burned district Of Helena is being rebuilt, the buildings being superior to the ones burned.
 Tracklsying commenced recent last on the Bald Knob branch of the Iron Mountain railroad.
 It k stated that AT rkansas prom ises yield in the cotton crop o' 10 to 20 percent. oyer last year.
 The roadbed of the Si. Louis, Arkansas and Texas railroad Is be in. changed to the standard guage.
 Papers in the lower part of the state complain that cotton has been badly injured by the late drought.
 A new Episcopal church IS be- erected at Van Buren, the brick work on it being about completed.
 Mccoy, a murderer from Pope county, was. killed recently while trying to escape from the penten' tiary.
 Students going to and from the A. 1. |. at Fayetteville will be piyen reduced rates o>el the Val Toy route.
 In dig.in. a we'll at Drowerys brick yard near Van Buren, last week, four foot vein of coal was struck at depth offorty feet.
 Rev. E. k, Womack has sold his interest in the Arkansas Evan.el, published at Little Rock, to Rev. w. A. Forbes. The Evan.el is the Baptist state paper.
 Little Rock has base ball asso. citation with capital stock of o2, 800. and an effort is beng made to organize a state association, which will likely be successful.
 The Parls Academy, located at Paris, Logan county, will open it's first session Monday, October 4th, and will continue for tIn months. N. P. Vcnablt i, .he pri l,'ipll
 W. A. Parker deputy sheriff of Boon county shotand fataly wound ed Jesse Terry the other day while the latter was assistin. his brother John Terry, in making his escape from the officers.
 Henry B. Gordon, a prominent citizen of Seveir county, was out hunting the other day when his horse stepped into hole and fell, throwing the rider. In the fall his yun.was discharged and the young man was instantly killed.
 C. M. Neal, of Pine Bluff, is the largest cotton planter in the South. He has 42,000 acres in cotton, owns d national bank and a''26-milc railroad to which be is addin. 40 miles. He came to ArEanSas pen niless in 1860, is only 3S years old aud is worth S3,OO0 ,O00
 Wiley Jones, colored, of Pine Bluff, is worth S1J,O00 and is bnild- ing d street railroad Fred. llavis the colored circuit clerk, is worth s25 ,OOO and his law partner the same, while Pleas Tate, another colored man has fine plantation and big bank account.
 A shooting atfray occurred at Redtield, Jefferson county on cleo ton day in which R. l.. Van Nor, man shot Dr. J. NJ. Reynolds in the shoplder and 2 man named Smith Nas seriously if not fatally wounded in the right side by q stray bullet from NaE Nurman'a pistol. Reynolds and Van Norman quarreled over the result of the election.
 In Boone county d few days ago a desperate theft named James Brown was brought to bay in a cave on White River. John Manus approached at the mouth of