Nevada County picayune., 1888-09-26
STATE NEWS.

lnerc are 4UZ school children Tn the Beebe district.
 Fort Smith has started a fund for the benefit of the yellow fever suffer- CTS.
 The Philadelphia Cotton factory will give employment to seventy-fve hands
 Arkansas cannot have too many school houses and churches. -Inde- pendent
 The Erie Telephone company is rebuilding and remodeling it's plant at Helena.
 A strong effort IS being made to erect sanitarium or hospital at Flu reka Springs.
 Spence Taylor, held for the mur- der of Lon Groves, at Helena, has been acquitted.
 It is rumored that the Catholics will lsoon erect an elegant brick church in Texarkana.
 The Grand Prairie Journal says some thirty excursionists stopped off at Stuttgart in the last few days.
 Jode Spence was convicted of man slaughter in the Greene circuit court last week for killing man named Wall.
 The mayor of Texarkana has or dered strict enforcement of the san itary ordinances and is having the city cleaned up.
 The Lockesburg Tocsin says that the broad gaugers' of Sevier coun- ty are trying to start another paper to down the Tocsin.
 William Saunders, a negro, was arrested at Pine Bluff Saturday night for stealing trunk and several pack ages of tobacco from a freight car.
 The organization of 150 democrat ic clubs has been reportrd to the state central committee, with over half the counties yet to be heard from.
 The Benton Courier says: We will wager anything that Benton has more pretty young ladies and handsome widows than any town or city in Ar kansas.
 The Knights of Pythias Lodge of Marianna had parade and a grand supper afterward last Wednesday at Marianna. The lodge now has fifty members.
 G. w. McCall's little boy, aged 12 years, living on Kings river, Carroll county, accidentally shot himself with pistol last Saturday and died in few minutes.
 Willis Stafford and William Harp were lodged in jail at Fort Smith, Monday, by Deputy Marshal B. M Thornton. They are charged with illicit distilling in Montgomery coun- ty.
 The people of Melville are very much wrought up over the burning of tine Methodist church, and the academy, and threaten the incendi- aries with summary punishment if captured.
 The trustees of the Southwest Ar kansas university met at TcXarkana the other evening for the purpose of arranging to let the contract for the erection of q brick college building on College Hill. in that city.
 Uncle Jas Ciardy, who is 92 years old, on election day, rode into Cen ter Point and voted the democratic ticket. MT, Clardy is an old citizen of Howard county and is possessed with remarkable vim and vigor which few of his age retain.
 Eereka Springs Echo; Word was received in this city yesterday that couple of citizens of Green Forest named Carter and Strand got into in which the former was dangerously, fine fatally, wounded with an axe by the latter.
 The Pine Bluff Press Eagle says Special Agent Pettegrew of the post office department is here collecting to formulate into re- port upon the subject of free delivery. He says his investigations so far lead him to believe we are entitled to let .sr carriers, and he believes when .he facts are presented to the depart nent we will get them.
 Benton Courier: Rabbit Foot nine is on the eve of grand boom. An eastern syndicate will take charge