Nevada County picayune., 1890-01-01
Middling cotton 9ic.
 Some rain fell last night.

Mir. Isham Mack, of Rosston, was in town yesterday.
 The young folks enjoyed many Christmas entertainments.
 Mir. J. NJ. Gage moved his family up from Bodcaw last week.
 Mrs A Mclaughlin, of Paris, Tex is visiting Capt Sidney Parker.
 Miss Kate Jamison, of Hope, vis- tied friends here during the holidays.
 Miss Mary Wilson, of Hope, has been visiting her friend, Miss Mary Byrd.
 Ripe strawberries on the 2ith of December here. How is this for a climate?
 Mir. $. B. Paddock left on the 23rd ultimo, to visit relatives in North 1 Carolina.
 Mir. Britt Burns came down from Little Rock to spend Christmas day at home.
 The book fight is on, at this place. Some interesting reading about it, in this issue.
 MT. J. w. Gaines, of Polk county visited his parents here just before the holidays. Brick work on the Foster X Logan Hdw. Co.'S. new two-story will be completed today.
 MT. Jno. E. Lagrone, of Unlon county, was over during the holidays visiting relatives. 1 Mir. Dwight Blake was down from Philadelphia last week. He is teach ing the brass band there. Collector Hood will have in notice next week, announcing times and places for collecting taxes. Misses Annie and Hattie Goode, of Magnolia, are here visiting their aunt, Mrs. Geo. r. Smoote.
 On Christmas Eve, Mir. Jack Grayson and Miss Belle Pledger were married by Rev. w. T. Thurman.
 Prof. T. J. Crawford and wife are spending their two weeks holiday in Texas. School will reopen Monday.
 Mir. 0. k. r. Whitten and brother are absent, visiting relatives in Georgia. We wish them an enioya- ble trip.
 Mir Nip. Battle and wife, of Elm met and $ l. Bracy and wife of Hope, were up Sunday, visiting Capt. Sid ney Parker.
 Mesdames Florence Park, of Nashville, and l.. F.. Hinton, of Lit tie Rock, are here visiting their par ents and friends. Mir. E. w. Vaughn, of Caney, gave us Il pleasant call just before Christmas. He is selling Buel's great book, "Story of Man"
 will receive car load of good Missouri mules at Prescott, next Wednesday, the Sth inst.
 E. F.. WHITE. Our jovial friend, R. l.. Moore, cashier of the bank at Nashville, was over during Christmas. His full set of whiskers makes him resemble his father.
 Cards are out for the marriage of Mir. K. C.. McRae, of Hope, to Miss Lillian Hays, and Mir. Will Stainton to Miss Ola Moncrief, to take place to-day.
 Some of Emmet's fascinating young ladies have been visiting Pres colt friends the past week, among them Misses Ella and Jessie Phillips, Trudie Marshall and Hattie McSwain.
 Glad to welcome Mir. H. w. Pat ton to our county. He has bought the Wm. Mum farm, near Laneburg, and moved thereon before Christmas, coming from Pike county.
 Esq. J. w. Neill, of Okolona, was over to see relatives and friends in this county. Sorry we were not in when he called at our office. There are few more clever men than Mir. Neill.
 The many friends of Mir. w. NJ. Downs welcome him back to Nevada county-locates out six miles on the Okolona road. He is true-blue Democrat, and good man every way.
 A good one is told on Willie New ton to the effect that he tried to out run the train at Emmet Sunday night, but got left at last. Bob Smith made the train all right, we learn.
 Mir. Rufus Adams came down from Malvern to spend Xmas at home Says he is glad to see his fellow bachelor friends joining the hymen cal ranks, even if he can't ''gct off himself.
 Messrs. II. T. Barksdale and J. NJ .Jetton are two of Nevada's best citi