The Nevada County picayune., 1907-03-29


 opinion as to whether a marriage H. cense nay he issued on Sunday without violating the law and whether a marriage consummated on the same day under the license would be valid. In answering the question Mr. Kirby said "It might be violation of law for a clerk to issue a marriage license on Sunday, but the license itself so issued would not be void. nor would a marriage consummated on Sunday under such a license be void. It Is true that the statute says Marriage Is considered in law a civil contract. to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting k necessary (kir~ by's Digest. section 5111) also that ordinary contracts entered into on Sunday are void. This is not true as to the marriage contract, how ever. because 1t Is also a social and domestic relation as declared by the Supreme Court in Dodson vs. State The entire opinion as given by Mir Kirby Is lengthy one and enters into the exact differences between the marriage and other con- tracts.
 Two negro women were shot at Meyers Hill, three and a half miles from McKamie, by unknown par ties, while under the guard of a constable. The young negresses, one % years of age and the other l5, were being guarded in the school house, there being no jail in the yi- einity, when some one slipped up to the window and fired two shots, one of which blew the top of the elder ncgress head off. and the other of which went through the lungs of the younger negress. The shooting of the negrcs.es was the sequel of all assault with a knife made by them on the proceeding afternoon on Mrs. Jack Rhoton and her married daughter, Mrs Nora Oglesby. The assault on Mrs. Rhoton and her daughter was unprovoked and mur- dcrous, and Mrs. Rhoton's life was saved only by the fact that the ncgress who welded the knife failed to strike where she intended.
 R. A. Stockton. one of the oldest residents of Franklin county, and who has lived on a farm, three miles cast of Ozark, continually during the past thirty-eight years, has d record that but few men can equal. He Is now Sl years old. This year will be the first he has missed plow- ing in the field since he was 10 years of age, a period covering seventy years at t." plow He says his first blowing was done in rough, new ground in the state of Tennessee. During the thirty-eight years Mr. Stockton has lived on the farm he now occupies, the same land has pro- duecd crop each recurring season and the land produced d better crop of corn last year than ever before.
 \ horse belonging to W. E. De Yampert, of Wilmot. and driven by Mr> De Yampcrt and Mrs. Harper. became frightened and boItcd. Mrs. Norman and two children were also in the carriage. The ladies were thrown from the vehicle and few moments later the horse ran over Mrs. Norman, indictjng injuries which will probably result in her death The other occupant, of the carriage were more or less seriously hurt.
 Wylie B. Miller. of Little Rock, won the State championship medal in the live bird shooting contest at Pine Bluff. There were eleven con tcstants. Mr. Miller killed IL out of 50 birds. The medal was former Iy held by w. B, Powell, of English, who voluntarily surrendered 1t after holding and defending it for several wears
 Wallace Wright, a young Iron Mountain brakeman, was killed on the Greenwood branch at Van Buren while switching cars at one of the coal unipas IIo ottnunp ptaI tn utnp