Nevada County picayune., 1888-09-12

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 A pet alligator, who had escaped from it's owner stampeded pedestrians on the streets of Newport last week.
 Many of Arkansas citizens are in attendance upon the G. A. R. en- campment. at Columbus Ohio, this week.
 The prohibition vote of the State has decreased considerably in the past two years, as shown by the cleo ton just over.
 Garland county went for license so Hot Springs will have open sa- looms instead of blind tigers on and after Jan. lst.
 i Fred Harris. notorious negro l burglar ofJefferson county. has been 1 captured and now langushes in t!e l Pine Bluff jail.
 i The Melrose Cotton mill at Rus sellville. Pope county. has had to shut down temporarily on account of the supply of fuel giving out.
 MT. James Nancil, of Clay county, reports an apple on one of his trees which measures l6 l-2 inches i'll cir conference. and is still growing.
 The Washington Press came out on the half shell'' last week. May be the republican victory in Hemp stead made our contemporary sick.
 Texarkana had to jubilate We'd nesday night, over her Democratic victory, and she had two fires the same night. She is a bustling town anyway.
 An exchange justly says; It always turns out that when a man thinks all of his neighbors are thieves, that he is the biggest rascal of the lot
 The Ouachita Coal mlne will soon be shipping thousands of tons of coa as it expects to finish the branch railroad to the Gurdon and Camden branch this week.
 i Frank Watson, q white boy, re- gently disappeared from Newport under very mysterious circumstan- eos. and his brother, J. II. Watson, offers q reward for his whereabouts.
 The people of Helena have held q meeting and appointed committee to communicate and cooperate with other commercial organizations in breaking down the cotton baggin9 trust.
 Miller county redeemed herself last week. by electing all Democratic county officers. Much of the credit for the result is due Col. F.. A. War ren of the Independent, now q good solid Democrat.
 The Courier, at Benton, tells of the departure of three of Arkansas most lovely young ladies, for Millers- burg Ky. to enter college, towit : Misses Edna Asby, May Hughes and ! Clara Shoemaker.
 The cotton crop is said to be St 1 least two thirds of sn average though few counties report ravages from catcrpllars, and some from the boil worm, but this is not general, being confined to small sections, principal ly in bottom lands.
 The latest al in the Times office Is a young lady; she is unusual smart , quick wittcd, q good conversations | list, medium size, good looking and blonde. She learned the boxes in just three minutes by the watch, and how to make ''pi' in great deal less time Eureka Springs Times.
 The Hot Springs Sentinel says: {: The nasty, i'll judged and unscientif- ic report of Prof. Kramer 80 far from destroying interest in mining mat ters here, has apparently given it a new impetus. Men who are really interested are going ahead just the same as if our pseudO-scientis had taken the trouble to investigate be- fore reporting The only difference made by the report-if it made any was to make them little more confident than they were before. While others. who had never paid much attention to the matter have now become interested. Work is steadily progressing, and more work [ will be done in the next year in de- veluping the mines than has ever been done before.