Nevada County picayune., 1890-10-23

1 Col. Lee Giles, of the Pike Coun ty Courier, was in the city Tuesday His paper did yoeman service for the Democracy in the late contest, when such glorious victory was achieved in Pike.
 Mir. Colby McRae, a brother oi Hon. Thos. C. McRae. is here visit ing relatives and old friends. In the past few years he has visited the Pa. cific slope States, also Indiana, Hi nois and Missouri, of the Mississippi valley.
 Our expenses are light-have nc house rent to pay or high priced clerks and can afford to sell millinery dry goods, shoes, etc., cheaper than any other house Tn town. Try us.
 BRYAN & BRYAN.
 Large stock of heating and cook ing stoves just in. Have the Char ter Oak and Bluff City cooking stoves, the best and cheapest for the money. J. NJ. DENMAN X BRO.
 Now is the time for business men to plant their fall and winter ads, if they want ilourishing trade. This paper offers the best medium to reach the people of any paper in South Arkansas.
 k. L. Blakely begs to ask his friends, customers and the trade generally, to call and examine his superb stock of dry goods, dress goods, clothing for meE and boys, mems furnishing goods, hats, and the best stock of shoes in Arkansas.
 A false report has been put in cir culation by my enemies that l am running Republican barber shop. l have always been a straight-out Democrat, but politics has nothing to do with my business.
 BOB BoYD.
 Instead of going in to help make other fairs a success, our people should get up one of their own. Ne vada county should have prosper ous fair of her own, located at Pres colt. What say our people as to getting up one before next falls
 Prof. w. S. Johnson, of the Emmet High School, was in town Saturday. Glad to hear the school is prospering-has number of boarding pupils from other sections. The Professor made Us a pleasant call and subscribed for this paper.
 Mrs. s. E. Hodge died at the resi- dence of her son, Dr. J. K. Hodge, Princeton, Ark, on Sunday, Octo- Der 18th. Had long been in feeble health. She was Christian woman, a consistent member of the Metho- dist church. Relatives have the sympathy of many friends.
 Hon. Jas. II. McCollum, of Hope, Prosecuting Attorney-elect, was up Friday, circulating among relatives and friends. We see from the Hope papers that he will qualify on the 3Oth, hence will be inducted into harness at our Circuit court, to open on Wednesday, November 9th.
 Our farmer friends will do us a favor by remembering us when they sell their cotton. It takes money to run a wide-awakc, newsy paper like the PIcAYuNE. Date printed with your name shows to when your sub scription is paid; see if you are in arrears, and if so, please pay up.
 We regret to heat of accident by which Mr. Ike Garrett had q leg bro- ken, Friday. II, was logging for the Prescott Lumber Co.,, at their mill in the country, and, late in the afternoon, while unloading wagon, a log fell and caught his leg crushing it. Hope he will not lose the limb.
 It is not the mission of the PIcA- YuNE to be constantly advertising, free of charge, any other paper. We attend to our own business. One thing we have not done, and don't expect to do-continually finding fault and picking at a Democratic contemporary, even if other papers do so.
 Work was begun on the Prescott X Northwestern railroad Monday. About fifty hands then started at work getting out ties, besides large number put to grading the road-bed. A bright future lies out ahead for Prescott. It is expected that rail- road and saw mills will be running by January.
 Rev. K. II. Mitchell, clerk of the ] Union Baptist Association, was up Saturday, and left manuscript copy of the minutes of last session of that body to be printed. We will have them ready for the clerk to send out by the 10th of November. The PIc- AYUNE job office is prepared to do all kinds of job work neatly.
 No country paper in the State IS better equipped than the PIcAYUNE. With power press, paper cutter, Peerless jobber, mailing machine, new type throughout, costing about 5000, it is no trouble to get out a