The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-29
THE COUNTY.

WE understand that DIR. A. L. ]
Green is in favor of reviving the old
fashioned Camp Meetings, and has sue
ceeded in getting the Santa Fe people t
think OF re-establishing the old Goshe
camp ground. Col. A. S. Goodwin ha
offered to give he ground upon whic
to erect the buildings. Tents and no
cabins are 10 be used, and every famil,
is expected to carry enough to eat 70
themselves only. Strangers and other
must do likewise or fast.
Col. Thos. J. Freeman, candidate TO
Supreme Judge, is native of this coun
! ty, and is akin to James Jones ant
| others.
THE Cumberland Presbyterians hat
Communion service in their church a
Spring Hill last Sunday morning, ant
the other churches of the place, Method
list, Rev. r. G. Irvine, Pastor, and Pres
| byterian, Rev. +. A. Thompson, Pastor
had no service. That is the way they d,
at Spring Hill-a way all Christian
ought TODD.
MIR. Alexander Mckay, one of the old
est and most respected citizens of thi
county, died on Friday evening last, a
the residence of his son, r. A. Mckay, OF
Carter's Creek, at the advanced age o
ninety-four.
On last Saturday, a negro boy on Mr.
Potter's place, near Carter's Creek Sta
ton, got his right foot caught in the
power of a thresher, and it was so badly
mashed and broken that it had to be am
putated. 1t was all through his OWE
| carelessness, for he had been told to stay
away, but he PERSISTED in driving and
thereby lost his leg.
THE colored people had a great July
meeting at Mt. Pleasant on last Sabbath
| Immense crowds met from all portions
of the county, and the elite of the color
ed Sace went dowf from Columbia in
carriages, ETC. Rev. Peter Nelson and
| other ministers preached.
There will be grand Bran Dance at
Carter Creek Station on the 18th of Au-
gust. The people of the neighborhood
will give an old fashioned babecue, and
the citizens of Nashville and Columbia
will send candies, atc., and furnish mu-
sic. 1t will be free and the managers
are preparing about an acre of groung to
dance on. Everybody is expected to go.
"THIs delightful province of the Sun"
is the place for sweet and delicious
things to grow, and beautiful things to
flourish. All the sweetest and most del
icate rays of the SUN enter into the
peach and make it the Queen of fruits.
There is none like it, none. Peaches are
neither as plentiful nor as good as usual
this year, but those recently sent us by
Mr.. James NJ. Alexander, of Carter
Creek Station are an exception. They
were delicious.
SULPHUR Spring on Bear Creek has
become quite a favorite resort for inva-
lids and pleasure seekers. Last Tuesday
the families of Geo. NJ. Cannon, of the
Horseshoe Bend, w. III, Davis, William
Brazier and others, arrived at the spring,
and spent the day. Some of the visitors
remained several days. The medicinal
qualities of the spring are said to be
excellent.
Mr.. S. S. Stone has a very fine crop of
broom corn near Midway, four miles
south of Mt. Pleasant.
Mr.. J. S. Case and Miss Annie Smith
were married at Stones Chapel, below
Mt. Pleasant, on Friday, July y, by
Rev. Joseph Strayhorn, preacher in
charge.
Mr.. G. b. Dishough has fine wool
carding factory at Midway, and is now
carding very rapidly. The neignbors
say it is the best machinery of the kind
in the county.
THE glowing crops in the neighbor
hood of Midway are said to be more
promising than they have been in years.
A FIGHT occurred at Pleasant Grove
last Saturday between a Mr.. Hicks and
Mr.. Joe Mitchell. Mitchell had loaned
Hicks a plane, and on asking him for it
last Saturday Hicks denied ever having
borrowed it. AS Mitchell walked off
Hicks threw a rock and struck Mitchell
in the back part of the head, inflicting
inf I,1 hr1f mr. yrOnnn
IT is one of the laws, not of the Modes
and Persians, but of New Ruin, land
like our hog law that no cattle shall
congregate in the streets. Recently,
however Dalton's male cow, being
very wrathy, came through the town
and committed very high crime. Tom
Jones' subaltern officer of New Ruin or
dered him dealt with, which was
done, to the full satisfaction of the law.
Dalton got very angry and wanted TO
fight, but Tom Jones, of New Ruin, act
ed as umpire between John NJ. Nichol-
son, the eXecutioner, and Dalton, and
agreed to give Dalton the hide. That
settled the difficulty and all went in and
took drink at Tom Jones', of New
Ruin, expense. .ia-
THOMAS S. Pigg of Leiper's Creek, the
man who invented the celebrated clod
braker, has fine orchard. A sample of
his Bell Pears was weighed, and meas
ured. 1t weighed thirteen ounces, and
measured eleven inches in circumfer-
ence He had several as large as this
one.
On the land of Mr.. j. w. Ashworth,
near Santa Fe, is Black Walnut tree
that measures tventy-three feet and
eight inches around, three feet above the
ground.
CORN looks better in the Santa Fe
country than for years past. Wheat is
not so good as was expected.
THE first session of Prof A. j. STAN
fields school at Santa Fe, closes on Fri
day, the 10Th inst.
Alexander Mckay, of Carter's Creek,
died on the 22nd inst, at o'clock, aged
"a years old. He was born in South
Carolina, and moved to this State about
sixty years ago, He had been living on
Carter Creek forty-five years. He was
most estimable citizen, and did much
good during his long life.
JOHN White and an Irishman got into
fight at Parks Saw Mill on Sunday,
and the latter cut the former through the
skull with an axe. The Irishman is
from Mooresville or Culleoka, and for
merly lived in Columbia. At last ac-
counts he had not been arrested.
THEY had a big row in New Ruin last
week. 1t was family quarrel between
Tom Jones, little bit of a fellow, Tom
Sharp, and Mr.. Cavenderlall ofthem bro
thers-in-law. Jones went over to his
brother-in-law's house, and cut up at
dreadful rate, shot off his pistol, etc.
Constable Journey went to arrest him,
but he Swore no one man could arrest
him. The matter was finally compro-
missed. Although clever little fellow,
Jones appears to be a regular hornet
when stirred up.
THE Culleoka Sabbath School Picnic
came off according to appointment, and
was a success. 1t was the largest assem-
bly, seen in Columbia for years. Besides
the programme of the school they had an
address from Elder w. A. Nelson, of
Shelbyvillc, which pleased everybody.
REV. s. c. Evins held his examination
on the 10Th inst, near Culleoka, and the
result did him great credit, as the schol-
ars WED with each other III good lessons
and becoming behavior. The speeches
and dialogues were excellent, "The way
to John Smiths" "Old Bachelor" and
others. 1t was a very interesting and
profitable day to all present.
Miss Maggie T. requests the person
that took possession OF her riding skirt
and gloves on the day of the S. S. Picnic
near Culleoka, to return them where
they found them, and the mistake will
be looked over.
A MAN by the name of Dilaha, on leav-
ing Culleoka eight" the other day, ran
his horse against a tree and crushed his
thi IN very badly, causing painful and
ugly wound. DIR. j. ID. Bennett set the
broken bones and the patient was doing