The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-22
OVER THE COUNTY.

FRANK B. Craig, of the 18th civil dis
trict will not consent to run forcthex OF
fee of Magistrate, and we understand
that Jesse j. Bingham has announced
himself as candidate for the office.
THE Quarterly meeting for the SAINT;
| Fe circuit was held at Goshen, on Satur
day and Sunday before last. The T. T.,
DIR. A. l.. p. Green, was present, anf
preached two of his good sermons. AL
though the church has recently been en-
larged it did not hold the vast crowd or
Sunday.
WE learn that Mr.. Byers, of Leiper's
Greek, (Byers' Store), who has been dan
gerously ill for the past ten or twelve
days, is slowly recovering. Ygte,sf
WE understand that s. Pitts Perry
has been down in the Williamspori
country looking out for himself. He
was seen over at Goshen last Sunday by
several young ladies.
THEY had wind in the Hope Mil
country on Thursday oflast week, which
blew down corn very badly. L. b
Whites corn was blown and twisted. in
an ugly manner.
NJ. d. KING, of Hope Mill, win shortly
move into his new store house. @
Nor long since one of the negroes in
the employ of Beard & Dooley, farmers
near Hope Mill, forged an order on theil
employers, but they arc unable, strange
to say, to find out the negro that did it.
One of their negroes has left them and
gone off to work on thRj11road.
THE Maury County Agricultural, Me
chanical, Horticultural and Live Stock
Society, has appointed their next Fair to
be held at their Fair Grounds near Co
lumbia, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
September 26, q, %, 20, 80, and October
LIST, 1870.
AT party given at Bon Aqua Springs
recently, there W. twenty-three ele-
CANT ladies, and two men and half pres
ent. We call him half man, because
he is married His name is Col. c., OF
this county.
CoPIoUs rains continue to come down
from the clouds, and corn feels under
obligations to grow. Theo. Lipscomb
and Garrett VOORHEES, found stalk of
corn few days ago, raised by j. III,
Porter, (which they started to bring us, but
they lost it. 1t was eighteen feet and
half long.
The lordly halls of Ashwood were
thrown open on last Tuesday night, and
the youth and beauty of Maury county
chased the glowing hours with flying
feet until Miss Aurora, fair goddess of
the morn, awoke from her pleasant
dreams. In other words, the chivalry
danced all night till broad day light, and
went home with the beauty in the morn
ing. t a...
CULLEoKA is about to lose several of
her good citizens and best mechanics
n h. &asT l,a
shoemaker, will start for Texas in Sep
TENDER, and several young men, Jim S.,
Andy X, ard Judge &C." are talking
of going with them. We dislike to lose
our citizens in any such manner, but we
wish them Success in their wanderings.
The farmers around Culleoka are al
most through thrashing their wheat
The yield, as general thing, falls short
of good average crop.
THE Old School Presbyterians are
maxim arrangements to build house
of worship in Culleoka.
THE Friendship Baptist) Sabbath
School will have grand Picnic celebra-
ton to-day in the grove near their
church. All the neighborhood schools
are invited. f.- ..E ....
IT is said the reason why Culleoka is
"
years ago Mr.. Ballanfant was asked to
sell some lots around his store to men
who contemplated building whiskey
shops, and he emphatically and persist
emily refused to sell to anybody who in
tended keeping whiskey. WhereupOn
the whiskey men grew indignant and
went Oft to the present site of Culleoka,
and set up shop, around which flour
ishing town has sprung up. "a Hurri-
cane man told us these facts.) Another
report is that the new town sprung up
because there was no good water near
Pleasant Grove. There is magnificent
spring in Culleoka.
A HUSBAND and wife, living on J. X.
p. Timmons' place, across the river,
have "parted," and on last Monday they
divided spoils." He is seventeen years
old, and she is about Is. Strong hopes
are entertained of their coming together
again. He has a very poor crop, as he
went fishing during the pretty weather.
He is excusable. however, as it was du>
ring his honeymoon.
THE brilliant party given by the son
of the Memphis millionaire at his beau
tiful Maury county home, was one ofthe
social events of the season. The fair |
bnphis bellies, to whom the party was |
ylven, were the cynosure of all eyes.
THE young men Of Center Valley, near |
Sawdust, wear broadcloth, boiled shirts,
paper collars, kid gloves, red top boots,
and the young ladies' wear silks, long
trails end sun-ups.
SOME of the New Ruin people think
that Mr.. f. M. Frank is our correspond
ent at New Ruin. They are mistaken /;
he is not our correspondent.
JOHN S. Cases School at Stones Chap
Ell, four miles west of Mt. Pleasant, will
open on the first day of August, and con-
tinue three months.
A COMPETENT nurseryman says that |
Capt. j. b. Murphy of McCain's Acade- |
my, has the best apple orchard in Maury |
We recently saw twig, zone |
foot long, from his orchard, which had |
on it % good sized English Russets.
THE Packard farm, cultivated this year |
by Lewis Pickard; the Smith farm, cul |
tivated by AID. and jeff Pennington; the |
Lasley farm, titled by Robert and John |
Vincent, all near Mt. Pleasant, have |
crops of corn on them not to beaten in |
the county, it is said. While the Daily |
farm, adjoining, cultivated by negroes, |
has very sorry crops on it, although the |
land is as good if not better than the for
mer, are very sorry.
Mr.. f. l.. Williams, near Williams
port, has some last years sweet potatoes. |
He keeps his potatoes OH the top of the
ground, uuder a shelter, and covered |
with dirt which has not been wet in ten |
years. He finds no difficulty in keeping |
them wear and half, and consequent |
ly sells about SI15 worth for seed every |
year.
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