The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-04-22

OVER THE COUNTY.

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Mr.. j. NJ. GARDNER, who came L
Maury county about a year ago from tn
Pan Handle, West Virginia, has return
ed from a recent'visit to Virginia, an,
brought back with, him three fine sheep
a mixed breed Of the Saxony and Span
isb Meril 10, besides a Spanish rooste
and dog. The wool of the sheep is
rich, golden color, long, silky and beau
tiful Mr.. Gardiner, besides having
farm well stocked with fine animals, ha
a house in Mt. Pleasant, where he keep
all kind of improved agricultural i'm
plements. -
THE Boiler belonging to the steam saw
mill of Mr.. VIM. J. Vestal, near SAINT,
Fe, bursted on Thursday evening of las
week with a terrific noise. The rem
opened in the underside of the boiler
raising it several feet inthe air, tearine
away the engine, scattering the frag.
ments in all directions, and lodging some
of the roof In the tops of some tall trees
some distance from the spot. The boile,
was thrown some thirty feet and fell on
the hopper of the grist mill, crushing
even the large mill-stones in its fall
The fragments eff the building were
thrown hundreds OF feet into the air and
fell around in confusion. Strange to
say, nobo dy was killed. The sawyer and
the engineer were some distance from
the mill at the time of the explosion,
moving some logs. Had they been al
their usual stations they must have been
killed. The report alarmed the neigh
bors for . mile around, who hurried to
the scene Of the accident, expecting to
find the workmen all dead or dying
The boiler Is a wreck. The cause Of the
fearful accident Is not known, nor the
extent of the damage done.
THE Spring Sacramento meeting at
the Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe
begins on Saturday the 30th inst, by the
Rev. A. A. Baker, pastor.
THE Union Sabbath School at Santa Fe
has been re- ORGANIZED for the ensuing
Spring, Summer and Fall, with quite
fattering prospects of becoming a fine
school
JOHN T. SPARKMAN, Esq, OF Santa Fe,
has been dangerously iii, but under skill
full medical treatment and good nursing
he is improving, and there is now cheer
ing hopes of his recovery.
CORN planting has been interrupted in
the Santa Fe country by the severe
weather, and the prospect of fruit, here
tofore SO fine, is now quite gloomy.
THE candidates for Magistrate in the
Santa Fe district are, L. @. johnson, J.
I. Sparkman, Esq, and Thompson Elem.
ing, Esq. b..
THE Santa Fe Academy now has be-
tween fifty and sixty pupils. Professor
Standfield is building up a fine school,
and will soon add to it female assistant
and music eacher. if
Mr.. EDIToR:-Is see you use an express
sion in your paper often which. / would
be very glad to know the meaning of.
1t is, gone where the woodbine twin
eth-' Please answer in your next issue
CARTER CREEK.
n. b. L suppose il 8 like the one about
Wards Ducks.
1.-The expression received its notoriety,
and much of its point, from Jim Fisk,
at the Gold Investigating Committee.
When asked what had become of the
money with which Mrs. Grant had been
specializing, he answered that it had
gone where the woodbine twineth. He
had read small rural poem ofthat name.
The same idea would be more forcibly
expressed were we to say, "Gone where
the School Fund went" All it lacks of
becoming equally piquant is for some
Jim Fisk to give it notoriety.l
BEAR CREEK, April -, 1870.
MIR. EDIToR:-I am a little brown
house cricket. I know you never OK.
pected to hear anything from little
creature like me, but since the Mice
and the Rats have become so bold as to
give you history of their fertile lands,
gallant gents and gay girls, don't think
there would be any improperly in my
telling you few things about my neigh
borhood. l was raised in neat country
villa, situated on Bear Creek; though I
call this MY home / do not stay here
more than half the time. 1 have visited
almost every house in the vicinity, and
few out of it, especially where there are
girls, for am as fond of their company
as a married man up the Creek who
gives them nice little parties at his house
occasionally. Well, you know, being
cricket, am allowed the privilege of
sitting in my cosy little corner, and lis
tening to the family conversations, se-
cre's, etc, during which time sing in
cessantly. Now you see have good
opportunity of hearing all the gossip and
chit-chat of the neighborhood. know
what it means when Bill Daimwood says
he is going fishing to Niger Island; and
when Bake Mackey starts off before
breakfast ''to preaching;" when Gen. B.
lights his pipe after dinner on Sunday
to have Il talk with neighbor; when
Jim Loftin goes to Blanton's Chapel end
when Tom Sowell goes to Lasseer, Pitts
Dobbins TO Rock Academy, and James
Beasley to Rutherford Creek. tit
i see that our farmers are planting
less cotton and more corn this year than
last; that there is more land sown in
wheat, clover and grass, than ever be-
fore; that farmers are gradually but rap
idly turning their attention TO raising
stock, and the Improvements of their
land Mr.. Rutherford Greek said their
girls were better than anybody's girls
He is badly mistaken, so think. Peo-
pie are always judged by their looks,
and everybody knows that the Bear
Creek girls are the best looking.
CRICKET.
Mr.. EDrToR:-The people of Bear
Creek would like TO know what has be
come of a certain Livery man, whJ used
to flourish his fine stock on the Creek
once or twice week. He has not been
seen on the Creek since the swarm
weather" left for Nashville, followed
by somebody with his coat off the coolest
day last winter. BRCIN.
Colo 4, Rosenthal & Bro. for bargains.