The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-05-27

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80 9 COLUMBIA be would b accommodated :,
soon ~ be landed. Further your writer .wri.
teth not. Sol TARE.
' NEAR Rock SPRING, May.
Mr.. EDIroR:-while Night, the sable
goddess, from ebon throne, stretches forth
her leaden sceptre over slumbcring
world, the sly old Fox would again scrib-
BILE few lines for your paper. Sir, the
foxes have holes, and the birds of the
air have nests" but / have not time to
| tell you the half / know. Allow. me
then this time to write "naitwm IL. pdrro.
The most weighty item of this communi-
cation is the debating Society of this
neighborhood, which is composed chief
" ofthe boys of the Rock Spring Semi
nary. Joe Nicholson, Willie Barker,
Willie Haze, John Dooley, James Doo-
ley. James Loftin, Willis Brazier, and
Others, are much animated, and though
this society is Of recent origin, yet they
are making huge attaiuments in this inn
portant branch of education. They hold
forth on every Friday night, and Joe
Nicholson says he thinks it would give
impetus to the cause if the ladies would
ettend. Will they not inspire the boys
with their sublime presence? But to
change from the sublime to the rdiicu-
lous, let me say to you that there is some
complaint being made by few who
have invested most largely in our new
bridge-that the wagoners lock while
crossing, and thereby are liable to dislo-
cate the planks, and besides will wear
through before they get the bridge paid
for. "a stitch in time saves nine" and
"a word to the wise is sufficient" but
Mr.. Bill Brazier may always be found
down on the Ever snatching for fish, if
he isn't somewhere else. Yours i'm hopes
of better times. Fox.
NEAR Mt. PLEASANT, Nav.
With all the cold weather we have
been having. 1 was surprised to learn
that week before last large rattle snake
was killed in this neighborhood He
had seven rattIes and a button. His
honesty occasiOned his death, for i'm
warning gentleman sportsman who
passed close by in pursuit of game, of
the danger he was in, the snake received
the load from the field piece in his body,
which killed him. Before the war there
could scarcely be one found in this seq
tiOn of country, but last year there were
four killed in the same woods. II is
thought they follow the ridges and come
down here from Lawrence and Giles.
= Since the rattle snake has come, the
whip-pOor-will, bird mostly found
where there are fewer inhabitants than
here, but mostly in swamp land, has
made us a visit, and there are four or
five about two or two and half miles |
east of Mt. Pleasant, who always remind |
you of their whereabouts by their even |
ing song.
New York is flourishing, and Towards |
mill is doing as well as it eyer did do. for |
since the Major had it worked on he can !
turn out very near if not quite a bushel |
of meal every minute, and twenty bush- |
els of wheat to the hour. With this |
gain of speed he is now able to grind |
for the same toll as water mills, and per-
sons would do:well to give him call.
VEsPER.
CULLEoKA, TENN, May It'll.
EDITOR HERALD:--I have some few
itChio Vi lhtCfcSt anu tuOHguJ YOU WOulu
like to have them. But before proceed
wonld ask one favor of you, and / be-
lieve that you will do me the justice of
gratifying it. That is, to correct the
typographical error in my last commu-
nicaticn.
Where 1 spoke of "wickedness, sin,
and misery" your type made me say
"Gin," &c, &. The next sentence speak
ing of groceries, said land you know
what follows those precincts of sin and
human destruction" and the type made
it unintelligible, to wit: "and YOU
know what follows are houses near those
&c. And again where 1 said
'Wantonly and boldly" was made to
say bodily" Where sid shovel of
the type says shotel," and
there are one or two other errors that it
is needless to mention, but the wrong
has been placed upon the
true meaning and "Chigger'' censured
wrongfully. Now Mr.. Editor, l never
mentioned an bOtel. If had it would
have been in its favor, as / think the
to be high toned gentleman.
have ever held him in that light, and
nope always to do so, and moreover l
want it distinctly understood that there ,
vas no personal illusions intended to
my one. But my attack was OH the
calling Of tipping the fiery elements ,
" misery to my fellow man, and in speak
ng of the whiskey drinking, mention
s nOworse than other places, but deem :
the duty of every one that opposes the !
practice to denounce it publicly and pri- :
'ately, not through any spirit of malice, i
,r personal enmity, but with desire to :
II pOssible) awaken some to the deep
ense of the end to which we, as peo- :
'le are drifting. You say in your COM 9
nent that drinking is only one of the !
evils and that men would have it no |,
natter what are the obstacles. 1 con- !;
end that it is the most potent evil of all 7
he catalogue OF temptations i'm the land.
md though did not intimate or suggest :
he abolition" of the groceries, by law |,
n other than yOu suggested. do con- I I
end that were the number of grog shops
ess, there would be a great number of q
'Oung men who would remain sober and :,
who now spend their means
nd health in midnight carousals Such =
my honest impression and wrote it ,
s such. 2
The s. s. Picnic came Off TODAY. and :,
vas success, all but the balloon ascen-
ion, which was prevented by the state e
4 the air, but the little folks enjoyed q
yourselves hugely considering the kind e
# day, which was cool and cloudy. We :,
lad several nice declarations, inter- y
persed with songs; also one of Rev. A. y
v. Smiths characteristic addresses, but h
10 became impatient for his dinaer, and =
uit too soon. After dinner we had an l,
EXPLANATION from Prof. Walker of how Y
70 he intended to construct an air ship 3
hat could transport us anywhere in the .
World in twerty-iour hours. "Bully for e
i'm" He also explained ballooning. u
Which part we could understand was in L
eresting. You may expect more anon Z
rom A. CHIGGER. !,
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