The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-26
OVER THE COUNTY.


| and blacksmith shop, Marion Ham,
blacksmith and Runt Hodge will soon
open Saloon.
-'' OVER THE COUNTY.
4 THE Goober crop in Perry and Lewis
counties is not good. Corn and cotton
were never better, considering tie worn
1 condition of the soil.
Col. Fount Wade reaped some clover
last Spring, which measured five feet ten
| inches in length COLI Wade is not a
| cotton raiser. hence his soil retains its
original fertility ard vigor. 1-isf
MIR. Daniel J. Estes, who probably has
| the finest crop of corn on Lick Creek,
says this is his last year in the cotton
business. Ef.4sss. = t.,- ~ +
PRoTRACTED meeting was commenc-
ed at Hopewell on yesterday, and will
cont inue until next Sunday. "a
THERE is some complaint about horse
stealing around Midway. Some six or
eight have been stolen since crops were
laid by, we understand.
ABOUT one mile from Midway there is
| dog that will bark and howl, when q
religious song is sung in his hearing, and
pays no attention to any other sort.
A NEGRO woman passed school house
at Enterprise not long since, and hollow
ed ssSchool b@!" She was dealt with
right, SO her husband says. s1qsss
| Mr. Hardy Mathews teaches writing
at Midway on every Saturday.
A FEW days ago Mrs Pollock, a wild
ow lady who lived in the Greenfield
Bend, below Williamsport, dropped
dead suddenly while she was engaged in
churning. 1t is not positively known
what was the cause Of her death, but it
is supposed that il was appoplexy or
heart disease. No one else was at the
house at the time. She had cent her lit
tie son to the spring after water, and
when he returned she was dead.
NEGROES report that an old negro wo-
man was recently found dead ON Leiper's
Creek, on the Williams place. Cause OF
death unknown.
A new school has been started at the
Smyrna church, near New Ruin, by j. j.
| Underwood, an experienced and success
| full teacher. He has about 40 scholars.
Our informant says that the children
like Mr.. Underwood very much.
THE crops all being 'laid by the
overseers have mustered their men, and
they are working away on the roads.
JOGIf NlSuOlSOI, ofClSOOi III thO W."
Ruin country, has his road in extra
good condition. He has kept one man,
John Rodgers, all the time painting fine
! fancy sign boards. One of these boards
near Mr.. Nat. Nicholson's has on it the
picture of negro pointing with finger
and saving, "Half mile down dar to dat
place, New Ruin.'i All the other, sign
boards have pictures of trains of cars on
them. iE t'st''' ~ tt 1851
THE New Constitution at r: Ii. iJami-
| sens. ,,-,,.,... .....,.
A DEBATING Society has been formed
at SMYRNA Church, near New Ruin.
Underwood, Frank, Tom Jones, of New
Ruin, VIM. +. Hayes, and VIM. Adkis-
SON. are the principal speakers. The
next question for debate is, "Will a
| right fat heifer make bully beef"
THE New Ruin people are very joyful
over their crop.prospects. Esq. Lisenby
thinks he has 20. acres in corn which will
make 200 barrels. The land has been in
cultivation sixty years at that. Bill Adj
kinson, in the same neighborhood, has
also an extra crop of corn and cotton.
ELISHA Bradford, formerly a member
of the Maury Grays, LIST Tennessee Regi-
ment, but recently of New Ruin, is going
to Obion county, West Tennessee.
In 1871 u IltSIO Ddll ndu-
non, formerly owned by James Ramon,
now of this city, deliberately threw his
infant child on the floor one day, and
stamped the life out OF it. The mother
of the babe saw the inhuman deed, and
made great fuss about it in the neigh
borhood of Bigbyyille, where they then
| lived. Dan was arrested and tried for
the murder of the child. His wife by
this time had somewhat recovered from
the hysterical state which the loss of her
babe had thrown her, and swore that her
husband never killed the child, but let it
fall to the floor accidentally, which
produced its death. Dan, upon this evil
dence was turned loose, and shortly af-
| forwards he and his wife separated, and
lived apart for some time. In this inter
val the wife gave birth to another child,
and shortly afterwards she and Dan re-
| sumed their conjugal relations. 1t is ru-
mored that he came to the conclusion
some time ago that the babe was not a
lineal descendant of his, and proceeded
| to seek vengeance. He killed his wife
and the child, land really another child, }
with an axe, it is supposed, as he was
seen with that instrument shortly after
| the murder, by his brother, to whom he
acknowledged the black deed. He told
his told his brother where be could find
the bodies, and also where he would find
his own body hanging to atree at a GER
| tain place, intImating that he intended
to hang himself, He has not yet been
| found. '''i',f'"
In giving an account of tie fight near
New Ruin, some time since, between
Bryant and Houser, our reporter stated
| that the two houses were at enmity.
| We are glad to learn that they are now
"in love and charity" as christians
should be, and have always been so.
The fight was caused by Houser having
mad a hand in writing letter to Bryant.
REV. A. G. Haygood, the Secretary
of the Sunday Schools of the NJ.
| +. Church, recently left his post of
duty at Nashville, and went to his home
| in Georgia to attend q District Confer
ence. We extract paragraph from
his letter to the Christida AdrOcdte, upon
his return: s'After going with Dr. Green
| through his District-after riding, from
| Columbia to Mt. Pleasant with him, and
hearing all his strong words about Mid
die Tennessee, / really felt my spirit fall
| within me when 1 thought of the red
hills and persimmoi ridges of Georgia,
and wondered how they do make a liv-
ing down there" Now see how he takes
his revenge on DIR. Green,r Somehow it
happens that one poor little Circuit, with
thlOC 1uiuolC pCOtSld,
takes-Nith.n few dozen copies-as
many Sunday School Visitors as the
whole of the Columbia District-the
garden, as it is, of Middle Tennessee ~
There now, that is the first time we ever
heard of DIR. Green being run over in
that sort of style.
A DIsTINGUE marriage will take place
at st. Johns Church, Ashwood, in a few
| weeks.
D-P-, one of the keepers at
.'Pluck-em-in," recently drank him
self out" and broke up grocery keeping
at that point. He bought a bottle of
whiskey at Casey Spring, and said he
was not drunk He did not reach home
that night, and camped out. When he
found himself he was within a mile OF
home, having lost his hat, coat, and sew
eral dollars. His hottie of whiskey was
safe, however.
y BIG meeting was commenced at Me-
Crory's Corner, last week, Rev. Mr..
Doss administering sacrament and or
ganizing the church. Rev. Frank Stone
| Kept up the meeting, and seven profess
sions and thirteen members added to
the church, were the results.
r.. JIu. T. Moore, near the mouth of
Flat Creek, says he has corn eighteen
feet high.
JoHS;H. stsiiiaih. d good farmer and
reliable gent leinan,s OF the, Evan. ,Jones