The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-09-16
AROUND TOWN.

THERE are some persons in Columbi;
so extremely sensitive that yOn cannot
ask a person in their presence, what's
the news in Pulaski, but they become
offended. Well tell you the reason
why, as Price Williams used to say
"Jess Chess cause"
| ADAM HOLMES, an intelligent colored
man, is the pastor of the new congrega-
ton of colored Christians that hold theil
| meetings at the old church at Greenwood
Cemetery.
GEORGE JOHNSTON, col, has been
| caught at his old tricks again. This time
he was not allowed to pay out, and now
| lies in Jail.
BETsEY SCoTT, who killed her huS-
band, the plasterer, last winter, has had
her trial at last. The jury brought in a
verdict on last Saturday of guilty, and
she was sentenced 10 five years in the
| penitentiary.
REV. VIM. Doss preached in the Meth
| odist church in Columbia on last Sab
ence of the Devil. The sermon was
learned throughout and orthodox.
WE learn through our very efficient
! Circuit Court Clerk that the present
Grand Jury is doing animmense amount
ofeffective work in the way Of indict-
| merits, etc. A great number of truebills
have been found. The gentlemen COM
| posing the Grand Jury are working and
energetic men, and never did any indus
/ trious BODY of men have more appro-
| pirate leaoer tEan Col. w. NJ. VOORHEES,.
| Mr.. James Cook, of Santa Fe, is the con-
stable appointed to wait upon the Grand
Jury, and we confidently assert that that
laborious office was never more worthily
or efficiently filled.
THE young people of Columbia have
been very much excited this week over
the new Skating Rink, at Corinthian
Hall. The many hard falls, incidental to
the beginner, are the subject of many
witty remarks aid merry laughs. Mr..
Hubert, the gentlemany manager, sees
to il that the Hall is always a suitable
place for young ladies' The ladies are
enraptured with the rink.
PEACHES have sold readily at Sl.5O per
bushel in Columbia nearly all past sea-
son.
SEVERAL charming ladies from that
cha ming place, cottage HILL" are in
our city. They are at "Peach Orchard"
THE contract made with Mr. F. NJ.
Vaughn d III. Zellner for the building of
the bridge over Duck River at Columbia,
is this, to-wit: Said Vaughn and Zellner
agree and promise on their part to build
first-class double track wooden bridge,
on the "Zcllner Model" Said bridge to
be raised two feet at the abutments
above their present position or height,
and four feet i'm the centre, by hewn &C.
dars filled with rock. The tracks on
said bridge are to be 10 feet wide each, in
the clear, by twelve feet high. The
| bridge is to be built of first-rate poplar
timbers principally, covered with first
rate heart poplar Notwithstanding to
within about two feet of the top, and
first-rate .,oplar hand-drawn shingles.
The floor is to be laid with good sound
plank one and a half inches thick, and
laid double, diagonally. The Whole
structure is to be built of sound mate
rails of suitable size, and in workman
like style, and warranted in these parti-
culars and as to the success oftAe mod
ell for five years. The app caches to the
| abutment from the pike are to be prop
erly graded, and said grade properly Sc
cured by rock walls, to suit the j creased
elevation, and the waole work, bridge,
approaches and all, to be completed by
the LIST of January, 1871. The Commits
sioners appoi ted by the July Term OF
the Maury County Court, on their part,
agree, that on the col ,pletioL OF said
brit &c by the said Zellner & Vaughn, in
the manner and style as above specified
and, the warranties therein given, they
shall be paid the sum of fifty eight hun>
dreG dollars out of the taxes of eighteen
hundred and seventy one, assessed upon
the property of Maury county, and that
also in addition the3 shah have the pres
ent bridge now standing, with all its ma
terial and fixtures.
Signed by f. NJ. Vaughn and III. Zell-
ner, Contractors, and Jas. III. Wilkes, III
b. Daimwood and +. S. Butler, Commits.
sioners.