The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-15

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Gently called on a handsome widow, and
demanded her age. Although beautiful
and youthful in appearance she hesitated
| To give her age, especially as the gentle
man was gay widower strongly bent on
marrying. Finally, however, she hung
down her head and acknowledged in
half-audible tones "twenty>five." Mr..
Brooks then said, "That's Just the right
age."-nas' aa -,
w. b. GORDON, Esq, is thought of by
some as our next FIoater. Mr.. Perkins,
the present incumbent, will doubtless be
in Congress, and no better selection than
MIR. Gordon could be made.
JOE Dew, of Rutherford Creek, has
tho old fashioned oats. One of his grains
brought twenty-One fine stalks, one of
which measured five feet and five inch
es. One of the heads measured, ac-
cording to Nick's honest rule, 10 inches
long. Who can beat its iUig1 1tis
Col. n. T. Cheairs, near Spring Hill,
says he never expects to plant another
stalk of cotton on lis place. He has one
field of Boughton wheat, containing one
hundred acres, which he thinks will
average about twenty bushels to the
acre.
WE are very glad to learn that Capt.
dow Akin, the popular and esteemed
merchant of Ashwood, is recovering
from his long and painful illness.
REPORT says there was fist-cuff at
the Culleoka depot, the other day, be-
tween two prominent parties there. The
victor said BY George he was the best
man on dirt.
The Culleoka, the 9Th, and the Kinder
hook, the LIST civil districts of Maury
county, are the most punctual districts
about meeting the Tax Collector and
and paying their taxes promptly. p
WE are informed that Gen. Green
has established his headquarters i'm the
Smith bend, above the Huey Mill.
Two-legged foxes killed great num-
Der of chickens for Mr. VIM. BraZier, Of
the Huey Mill neighborhood recently.
They are black foxes, but not the kind
Mr.. Titcomb saw.
Mrs. III. c. Mcbride, OF Sawdust Valley,
recently found a guinea hens nest with
fifty-nine eggs in it.
A SAwDUsT Valley correspondent pro-
poses to get us fifty new subscribers for
the HERALD if we succeed in marrying
off all the old bachelors in the Valley.
He says they are as Objectionable to the
people down there, and as numerous, as
the frogs were to the Egyptians.
j. NJ. Gardner, Esq, of Mt. Pleasant
in this county, recently sold to A. w.
Patterson, Steubenville, Ohio, 9lS pounds
of wool, taken from 175 Spanish Mericno
and Saxony breeding. Ewes. for which he
is to receive 50 cents per pound, or 1855.
one half of these sheep were last years
lambs, and consequently did not breed
this year. Ninety lambs are the pro-
duce of the flock this year. Mr.. Gardner
values these lambs at from s. to $50 per
head.
"FIsH" of 1Enon Creek 1--WE are not
prepared to say what kind of fish live in
this strean-its turbid waters would in
dictate however, that its inhabitants are
mud-cats and water-dogs, but our fish
seems to be a ''trOut.") says that Mr..
Fount Odil says that he has made or will
make % bushels, pecks and quarts of
wheat to the acre.
There is better prospect for a splen-
did crop of corn this year than there has
been in this county for many years. A
month fdry weather soon after it was
planted enabled the farmers tC keep it
NtEf 50 tlldt WHICH, TIC TdlIlS SCI III,
it Swallowed the weeds and kept ahead.
The poorest land i'm the county, where it
has been well cultivated, has very fine
corh on it. The most galded places have
some very fine looking corn on them.
This bright prospect, however, may in a
few weeks, be blasted, if a drouth should
set in. To reverse an old adage, 1T is
good wind that blows evil to no one,'
and the cotton crop is a good illustration.
While corn is looking thus gloriously,
thesame cause which produced this re-
suit, excessive rain, has had contrary
effect on cotton. 1t is very puny and in
significant in appearance, and the best
farmers predict that it will be short
this year without much use of the hoe,
which has been a great advantage to the
farmers. 1t is the experience of the
whole South, and especially of Maury
county, that one of the greatest differ
ence between slave and free labor, is in
the matter of hoeing cotton. The negro
women and children did most ofthe hoe
ing in slave times, but the freedmen
keeps his wife at home doing nothing,
and sends his children 10 school, O.. lets
them.d nothing and steal. The result is
everybody gets 'swamped' in weeds and
grass.
CHAPPELL's CHURCH, July 4th.
EDITOR HERALD:-The extraordinary,
not to say monstrous, report of your cor
Messrs. Kinzer and Fraser is Smy apollo
gy. 1 was an eye and an ear witness to
the aforesaid debate, and l am bold to
affirm that your correspondent eyre
eiOuly errs in his version of the afOre-
said discussion.
Mr.. X. proved that Immersion is of
modern date, using Mr.. Tanning and
Mr.. Campbell to great advantage, prov
ING the one stolen dip was borrowed
from Tertullion. Mr.. X. then proved by
Moses, David, and Paul that baptism
may be performed by sprinkling. Mr.. X.
showed a familiarity with religious his
by any debater in the country.
Mr.. KS whole speech was admirable for
and cogency of argument;
i'm a word it was overwhelming and
crushing to the narrow platform Oh
which NJ. I. had so detiantly placed him
self.
Mr.. T. did not prove by twelve Lexi-
cographers that Immersion alone is bap- |
tiSm. NJ. F. was sorely troubled when |
Mr.. X. refused to accept his paper-back |
authority, and complained much of the |
unfairness of Mr. X. / am authorized |
to say that Mr.. Kinzer Will, if challe.-
yed, not only cross the Rubicon, out |
even the Alps, and carry the war into |
Italy. n NEARER.
SPRING HILL.
EDITOR HERALD:-It seems that one |
Of our brother correspondents has got
ten excited, and for a little encourage
ment would fight, and the interrogatiOns
made of Sentinel is highly probable to |
cause fuss in ..the family. If that be
The case YOU should chastise both, and
give them each quart ofsweet cider and
IN acre of ginger cake, and send them to
bed. r.. ....E.... ....
We are thinking of starting paper in
our thriving tOwn-how do you like |
hat? Bill Grafton as its editor would |
make it a better local paper than the
HERALD, and hence would be quite ri
here next Sunday in church. 1t will be
, beavy..thing, as the District meeting
will re on hand, and will expect large |
;rowd, but these things must go on, let |
,ome what will. This has been a re-
port for some time but will leak out pref
" soon, SO there will be no harm in men,
Joining it, so no names will be called.
Leaf by leaf &C., &C."
Robt. Akin, Esq, and his fair better
half arrived here last week from Missis-
,ippi, and are stopping at Ever Bright
Bob has no sign of bad health, and she
looks as lovely as May morn. Yours
RATS.
False Report.
Me. EDIToR:-There is false report