The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-05

TuEI.O. o. +. organized a Lodge at
Culleoka, on the night OF the 2Sth inst.
They will doubtless soon have q strong
Lodge. -., bi,t,. 80 - ).
THE Fall session of the Culleoka Insti-
tute will open the Sth prox. Tho servi-
ces of Mr.. w. II. Webb, A. NJ, has been
secured as Principal. Mr.. Webb has
been connected for the last four years
with the leading schools eff North Caro-
lima, and comes highly recommended. sa
THE road from Culleoka to Hollis old
mill has received its regular Summer
working, but not before it was needed,
however. Te
THE people all want pike from Gull
leoka to MOoresville. Why don't some
one agitate tho question, as arrange
ments are being made to repair the old
pike from the latter place to Lewisburg?
Corn crops around Culleoka are very
| fine, (where they were cultivated) in fact
the best, known for years, and cotton
pretty good. .aissi II har liz
MR.. Ross Long is tho leading light! OF
| fun and frolic ut Coffey's Mills. 1t is a
wonder he has not grown phat. When
he GETS so Jim Eawrcncc is going to
take his picture. \ ~
>PRop A. J. Stanfield, Principal of the
Santa Fe school, is spending vacation at
Bon Aqua Springs to recuit his health.
His school will be very largo next ses-
sion. 81
THE unccasing rains raised Duck
River very high this week. Indeed it
was scarcely ever so much swollen at
this season of tho year BEFORE. Tho dam
was loyel, we are told, and a nuunbor of
large rafswent sailing by, one of which
was destined for st. Louis. tt is hard to
correctly estimate tho amount of dam-
ages demo by this rise along tho river.
Floats, bridge trcstles, etc, were doubt
less all washed away.
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r- Death OF Dow Akin.
AFTER a long and painful illness, our
esteemed fellow-citizen, Captain a. l..
Akin, died at Ashwood ON last Friday
evening at o'clock. His remains were
taken to the old burying ground on
Carter Creek Saturday. He was born on
Carter Creek, and was "a years old. His
relations with the public were such that
he knew almost every man in the coun-
ty, and was favOrite with all Of them.
Possessing one of those rare natures
which prompted him to do kind acts to
those around him, his untiring energy
and fertile mental resources were much
of the time employed in benefitting 9TH
ers. He volunteered at the begin
ming of the late war, in the Brown
Guards" a company raised on Carter
Creek, commanded by Capt. George w.
Campbell, and named III honor of Mrs.
Brown, now Mrs. Gen. Ewell. During
the arduous campaign of 1861 in the rug
ced and never dry mountains of Western
Virginia, under the great r. T.. Lee, he
co ny Of
and filled that responsible and labOrious
office with such fidelity and ability, that
his comrades elected him their first
Lieutenant at the reorganization in
1862. For several years he was COM
marding officer OF his company. Dur
ing several months, however, he was
acting Adjutant of the regiment, the
duties OF which position he discharged
with great credit to himself and honor
| to the First Tennessee Regiment of In
fantry." lie was finally relieved by the
regular appOintee Lieut.. Mckinney, and
he gain assumed command OF his COM
faithfully discharging his duties, not
withstanding he was severely afflicted
with sickness q great portion of the
time. In tho trying and terrible cam
paign from Dalton to Atlanta i'll 1861. he
was very painfully wounded IN one OF
his shoulders, and it is the opinion of his
physicians that his late illness and death
were greatly aggravated if not caused by
this wound he received at Atlanta. lie
was highly esteemed by his superior
officers, and his name is indissOlubly
associated with four years of the life of
hundred men. During his long and
severe sickness, his neighbors were very
kind, and one, AN old comrade, scarcely
4. L. ..N -nnl- n,,I
lecting his extensive farming interests
to be with his friend. Everything was
given up to tho service of his friend in
sickness, Such was the love no created
by his noble nature and generous ac-
tiOns.