Nevada County picayune., 1888-11-07

Editor PICAYt'NE NE.-AllOw me to tender through your paper my heart felt thanks to friends of my deseased brother, for their kindness to Us in our sad bereavement.
 W. E. RIGG>.
 do all kinds of painting, such as general house and sign painting. frescoing; also paper hanging, dec- orating, etc. Charges reasonable -- Your patronage solicited. My head quarters are at Hope. Address me
 here. C. NJ. SISCIio.
 Mir. !. l.. Gurley. one of the orig inal first subscrib ITS to this paper, called and renewed Thursday. He is one of our best citizens and successful farmers-fat and jolly. weighing 3l2 pounds, and we sup pose is therefore the biggest man in ! the county.
 We regret the sad accident caus- ing the death of Mir. Clark Riggs. Thursday morning. He was cutting saw logs for Mir. w. D. Looms, when tree he was felling, hit against another dead tree. which broke off and fell on him, breaking his neck and leg. His brother and relatives have our sympathy,
 Mir j. B, Murry and family. who have resided near Laneburg in this county for number of years, moved back to his old home, Cherry Ridge. La, on Friday. He was one of Ne vada' most substantial citizens. and an influential, successful farmer. With many other friends. we regret to lose him, but trust he will do well in La.
 Dr. White of Prescott, Ark, has achieved a renown and success in the cure of cancer that marks him out as ono of the most successful specialists in the land today. It Is not news paper notoriety either. His subjects are all through the country and they can scarcely say enough in commcn- dation of his wonderful skill.- Cass County. OLinden, Texas Sun.
 The ''Silver Spur" played here Saturday night by Miss Nellie Free and company, was very well patron izcd. Miss Free completely captiva- ted her audience. ''without the pos Sible chance of the slightest miss take:' in fact, the support as well as the star. was often encured The proceeds of the entertainment were divided with the band boys. who got 1t up.
 DIED Mrs II NJ Dougan, near Prescott, on Friday, the 2nd inst. The remains were buried at Moscow. Rev R M Traylor preached the fu- neral sermon. Mrs D was mem Der of the Methodist church. aNtrue wife and good mother. She leaves husband and several children to mourn their loss, With many friends we deedly sympathize with them in their dire atlliction.
 Say, Sam. whar'd you git dem shoes frum?' Il git dem frum Johnson & Generelly," Any mo dar like emp Law, sake, man, you nebcr seed so many shoes in all yer horn days as dar is in dat house. Why, man, dar is so many shoes in dat house dat when de cows go by and look in, da low and shed tears, for da think all de COW skins is in dat house, 'cep dem on deir back" <"
 Two representatives of the space box" on the road, (wall>ing or beat ing freight trains from Texarkana. gave us call Friday. After doing some work and refreshing the inner man, they resumed their journey toward Little Rock. The names of tho tourists were ]. w. Robertson and A. J. Wilcox. The former claims New York City. and the latter Kansas City, as their places of resi- l dence.
 ! A party of six young people from our town had quite an adventurous trip to Lanesburg last Sunday. Oh, such gleeful party they were when ] they embarked in their three-Seatcd vehicle, hut, bless you, it was no lon gor a vehicle when they reached the turnpike. IL was q chicken coop up- on rails, The boys struck town about ID, n. Their partners were left in the brush. We wonder, if they are much refreshedI
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 Roll of HoNoR.-Following sub scribers have paid since last week ; x 0 Battle, W A Smell, l. II