The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-10

J death, where is thy Sting!" BuG, Mr.
Editor, when. they'd call on us to settl,
our bill, 1 expect it would almost kill us
for they would spare no pains to make
frequent visits, neither would they spare
any pains in making heavy charges.
We are having great deal of rain OF
old Knob-it is washing our soil will
the growing cotton and corn in a dis
ressing manner. Two very heavy
washing rains fell last week. Our corr
is badly frenched. Nhil plus.
- KEDRoN, TENN, juno 1870.
Mr.. HERAED:-1 saw in one OfyOur is
sues sometime ago, of one of your cores
pondents going among the Germans to
get news, and may not say few words
about the Fifteenth Amendment, for the
encouragement of probably some of your
readers? Well, sir, 1 read "ArieI'' on
the Fifteenth Amendment closely. /
have done my best to disbelieve him,
but experience and dealing with the
Fifteenth Amendment will. incline al
most any one to Ariel's views on the sub
iject, save the "soul" part. don't ex-
actly agree with him that the amend
| believe they have bit more soul than a
roguish mule. 1 tell you Mr.. Editor,
come very near believing that all the
| time. This may be wrong, but still it is
nothing more then an opinion, and /
| would be glad if some of your correspon-
dents or readers would convince me that
.'Ariel" is wrong; nothing short of Bible
proof will do me any good. DIR. YOung's
shot at "Ariel" in English, was clear
| miss, so I think. Latin and Greek
1 know nothing about, in an unknown
fDv~ 10 h., sa1f
given the Fifteenth Amendment a soul
and set him on footing with the gentiles.
can find several Latin and Greek schol-
lars that say Young touched "Ariel"
only on one point, Baptizo and Baptiazo
| is all know anything about. Isuppose
everybody knows that that can read.
Well, we will drop Young and Ariel,
and take up experience. Can you say
the Fifteenth Amendment is all right
1 answer no sir! Look at them in their
meeting lyon cannot say devotions) to
worship. don't think 1 ever saw one
that / thought was sincere in religious
duties, or anything else except stealing
he is at home then. w. w. Miller, on
Carter's Greek, says when you find an
honest negro you will find a patch of
hair in the palm of his hand All ftheir
sO>callcd religious acts are done ''tO be
seen of men," which every observer will
admit. How many of them will take adj
vice of white men? How many of them
can white man convince of beingkin err
rOr, when it is so plain that an educated
hog will see it? Get the experience of
all good and substantial men who have
been with the fifteenth Amendments
all of their lives, and it will not be any
thing to compare with that of white
man. My experience is, what you get
out of the Fifteenth Amendment you
will have to get by force, like all other
mules.
will now quit the above subject as /
cannot give it justice, and for tho beDe-
fit and encouragement of some of our uu-
married class, will give them the pro-
ceedings of a. Fifteenth Amendment
wedding that took place above US short
the bridegroom a coquette) and Mira
Crawford was the bride. The day and
the hour rolled mp, the bridegroom came.
and all was ready; they formed process
sion and marched to the brides employ
er's yard where a colored minister met
them with tho papersi of authority.
When all was in position he proceeded
with the usual ceremony and when he
got to that part that said, "ifthere is any
one that know any cause why they
should not be united, speak now or for
ever afterwards hold your peace, &c."
One young amendment dressed in bridal
array, stepped forward and said, "Here
l is" On being INTERCEPTED what she
was there for by the parson, she said,
ale gagged me fuss" The parson did
not know what to do, gave John his pa
pers and proposed to suspend marrying
him until he could get more information
on the subject. One of their guests then
spoke and said he was gagged to twenty
nine, and then married the one he wan
ted to. (He must have been a popular
youth or dealt in common stock). How
ever the bridal party went to another
married The disappointed did not fol-
low. So young men mind how you: gage
yourself. -
One more for the benefit of some doc
tors. DR.. Lee had a colored patient in
our neighborhood, and was doing well,
so we'll he dismissed him. In a few days
he became worse and DIR. Ewing was
sent for on Sunday night, who Scommen-
ced the treatment. On Wednesday
morning DR.. Jake, a colored doctor liv-
ing at Flock Spring, was sent for, (his
any Of the whites). He came and went
through an examination of the patient,
to whom he said, "My son you got it put
to you heavy. (Poisoned). Had I been
called in two days sooner / could have
saved you, now it is doubtful, but will
try to cure you, and will be certain to
throw the disease on those that are en-
gagged in poisoning you, who are four in
number" Here DR.. Ewing treatment
stopped and DR.. Jake's commenced.
DIR. Jake administered some medicine he
had in a little satchel, and proceeded to
throw the disease on the prisoners,
WV, sol, dom int Id
for new needles, Is new pins, (neither
must never had been in cloth, } also 9new
10 penny nails; all of which he put into
black quart bottle with another article,
that DIR. Ewing will take pleasure in
telling you at any time. He cOrked it
up and made small hole in the cork,
and buried it with the cork down, in the
fire place, with orders for it to remain
there until the the patient got well or
died, and said, however, that he thought
that process would cure the patient, and
the patient died. (Dr. Ewing thinks I'M
der his treatment). Saturday morning
DIR. Jake ordered that the bottle be taken
up, which was none, and examined, and
four needles was all that could be found
in it. He said those four We're the four
that did the work He also said that the
nails and pins turned to Lizards and
scorpions, and would go into the four that
did the work, and kill them. The 9TH
or five did not learn what become of
them. He ordered that the bottle be
thrown into running water which was
done promptly. In a few days Jim Blair
col, was taken and died precisely like
the other patient. DIR. Lee treated him
and pronounced it Pneumonia. The
other case was also pronounced Pneu-
monia. The Fifteenth Amendments are
expecting the other three to die soon.
Look out, doctors, light ont for tall tim
her, DIR. Jake aint no cricket hunter
Sol TARE.
N. B.-Dr. Jake did not treat Jim
Blair. ST.
SPRING Hill, in June
C. HERALD:-The scholars of Col.
PEBBLES school were to have had a pic
mic here on last Friday, but didn't. The
day was splendid, with the exception of
little clouds lining in the Jumps eff silver
here and there, about the sky. The
grasshopper clicked about in the warns
ing verdure, and the fields and hedges
were in full bloom, with the clover, and
the still more exquisite wild honeysuckle
and the wild rose which bushes through
all the gradatiOns of delicate red and
white. Everything had the prospect of
its being splendid affair, and this day
of June would compare with what the
poets have tabled MAY to be, "Tne Cas-
tie of Incidence" and can be very aptly
applied here, ''Halfpranked with Spring,