The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-04-29

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"A 70 tedr thsm talk with 70 much spir
a60uk "a snfespf1se Of 30 much impol
|. tance 10 Columbia and the county .
Ilat6e. 1.-THE leading men Of the Cree
|. ars possessed of sufficient energy thel
nsed be no such word In their vocabular
- all. We intend newer to stop uIgin
upon our people the necessity ct build
iugpikm In the eastern portion Of th
county. Columbia looses thousands q
dollars Of trade every year by reason Q
the bad roads. The land up the river ]
- rich g cream, and the people are a
industrious a. bees, but our city is I'm
accessible to them. Turnpikes can b
built with less labor than it takes t.
keep up the bad dirt roads year afte
year. The country is comparatively lev
ell and rock abundant and convenient
out Of which to construct the pike.
CULLsokA. TExS, April 3sth, ls7o.
kDE1oR HERALD:-I zee in your. interesting
Journal undertb head of s0ver the county,
nsny interesting communications from various
ssetions Of the county, and not as yet seen any.
thing from the Twin Sisters. now write ia
say to your numerous readers that the Twin Sis
ters Is located 10 miles south of Columbia on
the Nashville Z Decatur r. Rs better known
- South and North Culleoka, used to be Guile
Okla and Pleasant Grove, but is now known to be
the Twin Sisters. Well, Mr.. EDITOR, there is
no telling what cannot be accomplished when
self-iuterest competition, and enterprise, are
thrown into the scales. For several years Gull
leoka took the lead in every enterprise, pros
perity smiled, the citizens multiplied. Stores,
groceries, work shops of every kind were erect
ed like magic. After a while the manor of
Please Mt Grove opened his heart, and to use
his own language, said, ''By George, I'll have a
town too" So be offered Messrs. Akin, Moore,
4 Hughes inducements to build first class
Touring and lumber mill near the Depot. This
proved perfect success under the superinten,
dence Of Prof. I. Walker and Capt. L. d. Walk
er, brothers in blood, and in mechanical gen.
ius. The mills are the wonder and astonish-
Of the whole country, grinding 50 bushels per
hour OF corn and 20 bushels per hourof wheat,
making S5pounds offamily -four per bushel of
wheat the Aour being better than any ON exhibi.
ton last fall at Nashville, taking two premiums
at the fair there. This mill gave new impetus
TO the present Grove. Family dwellings, busi-
ness houses, work shops, &C., went up like
magic. The landholder selling lots at the as
tonishing low price of $3.50 per acre. The
Wayside Hotel will soon be ready for travellers.
There Is Smith shop, saddlers shop soon to
b completed. Mr.. John Ballanfant has greatly
increased his stock of Spring and Summer
goods and sells as cheap for cash as any of the
Columbia merchants. Pone johnson and J. P.
walker hold forth opposite the Depot, where
they deal out many good things, and especially
the overjoyful. Business little dull, owing to
everybody being so busy planting. The Twin
Sister of Culleoka boasts as her improvements
the following: johnson & Walker, grocery
store; Polk Renfro's fine residence; Henry
Hughes residence; DR.. Perry's fine residence;
Pone Johnson's fine residence; Capt L. D. Wal
ker's residence, and many others now near
completion. -..-...
Culleoka has caught the fever of enterprise
determined not to be beat by her twin sister;
like magic. Stores, groceries and dwellings,
have gone up and determined to beat her twin
sister all hollow. Her citizens have resolved
to build mammoth merchants Touring mill,
such as will prevent the shipment of good wheat
to Nashville, and arrangements are on foot to
secure the services of Prof. l. Walker to draft
aud superintend its construction, upon his i'm
proved plan of millwrighting, which, as he SAYS
turns all others afoot. Negotiations are now
& ding on for the best power and machinery ever
introduced in this country. This joint stock
company will meet on Satui day the 9TH of Nav, |
for perfect organization, when the enterprise
will commence with vim. Should this fail, |
Wpn. Carpenter ofNashville and VIM. Homer
of Cincinnati, and our mili-ight, Prof. I. Walk
er, will take hold of this enterprise and put it
through. do hope that Culleoka will not let |
this great enterprise slip from their hands and
pass into the hands of Northern capitalists, for
Prof. Walker is determined that this mill shall |
b built if he has to borrow Northern capital. |
have seen the correspondence and know that |
there is a determination manifested that must |
succeed, and know that our men of enterprise,
knowing their own interests as they do, will not |
let such an opportunity slip for turning her
twin sister, North Culleoka, afoot, as the Pro-
lessor says it will. More anon.
SIRUs.
Mr.. EDIToR:-To an observant mind, the |
words of Edwin Young, 'that the man is yet |
unborn who duty weighs an hour" was not so |
far wrong after all, and We are more forcibly |
convinced of the appropriateness of the remark |
when we behold with establishment how little |
an hour weighs 10 the minds of the young men
of our country. What occasions this non-ap-
probation of time? We can answer in no other |
way, than as their pa rents fault; this is grave
charge, and ], who make it am a young man, |
get it is none the less true. As n proof of it |
look to your own children and see what you
have done tor them. You have sent them to
school, clothed and fed them, which was al
right and proper, but then you have also given
them guns, dogs, and ammunition. Now what
haven't you done for them. You haven't seen
that they got their lessons before they went
to bed, nor visited their School to see how they.
recite, nor even asked their teacher how they
were studying, and still further, ycu have not
checked their desire for dog and gun, when you
saw they we're sighting work that must be done,
and in this, You are assisting them to cultivate
habit Of negligence which always begets in
them an undue appreciation Of an hour. If his
physical man were sick, no one would be quick
er to show him the worth of an hour than you.
and were he dying, none more ready to exclaim
as did Queen Elizabeth ssmillious of money for
one inch Of time" Yetin your every day life
how little you consider this poinn Your mind
Is easy, you are sending him to school, and you
are heard to say il is al you can do for him!
Whether this is so or not, I shall not say, but
an sure of one thing. It's all you do do. For
60 with him to school, you do hot The disease
has become contagious, and the boy has caught
the disinterestedness, be goes to his classes
without any preparation and hike the dishonest
filler up of check which is never honored at
the bank. His answers are never correct, he
has put NO money in the bank, he can draw none
out, and has never learned to duly weigh an
hour, % be has entirely squandered his scholas-
tic years: in his manhood he looks back with
regret upon the time he has murdered and can
lay the blame partly to you, but by rigid dis
cipline on your part, he has no such excuse aud
he is forced TO the opinion that his mind is I'M
like the widows cruise of oil and IL he would