The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-03-25

they made such looping that old Lie
saps got up with his gun and shot It hin
and missed. He then ran away wit
much speed for half mile, when Il
4 thief dropped the turkeys. R
Mr.. JAMES II. HUEY, of Huey's Nil
having signified his intention of goiu
to Texas, the citizens of that country al
anxious for Col. w. j. SowELL TO tax
charge ofthe Mills. The Colonel's enel
81, enterprise and moral worth are in
valuable to the people around him, an
they are not slow to appreciate hi
worth.
A NEW store house is going up nea
Lock and Dam No. /, and between w.
Gantt's and the river, about eight mile
west of Columbia. A country store gen
orally keeps dry goods, hardware, tin
ware and almost every other kind o
merchandise. T. B. Afford, who has hat
some experience in the business at Lynn
vile, will run the store.
Some of our subscribers frequently
complain to us of the way in which theil
neighbcrs treat them. They are kind
neighbors and clever. They do moi
back-bite, or talk about others, or lei
their mules get into others cornfield, OF
sell people unsound horses. Well, i
this be so, what complaint can our sub
cribors make against them? Why, they
borrow the HERALD every Sunday
morning, before it is read at home. That
is the head and front of their offending
A good joke is told upon some juvenile
I young gents of the pleasant little village
of Neapolis, who, to act after the manner
OF older young men, took 1t into their
heads, a night or two ago, to visit some
of their juvenile young lady friends.
Upon their arrival, however, they were
much puzzled by being facetiously asked
by the lady of the touse if they "had
come to play with the children?"
Our Mt Pleasant correspondent sends
us some items from that pleasant little
town. The Mayor, T. A. Harris, not
withstanding he is Radical, dyed in
the wool, pleases the town in his official
acts. Mr. Weisinger, who recently mar
Rad one of Mt. Peasants fair daughters,
has moved to West Tennessee, and a
number of citizens are going in short
while to Texas. A fine new church edi-
flee is going up under the workmanlike
hands of Mr. Hart. Frank Ricketts, and
A. II. Williams are giving general salts
faction in their official capacity.
Mr.. James NJ. Alexander, a substan-
tial and worthy citizen of Carter Creek,
requests us to say to the Colored Banev-
client Society of Columbia, that he will,
in the most substantial way of contribu>
ting to their charitable institution, take
an old negro woman and young negro
girl, who are without homes, food and
clothing" and will furnish them with a
good, comfortable house, plenty of food
and plenty to wear. They will only be
required to wait on lady who is nearly
blind and very infirm.
On Mrs. ELLEN BcoKER's farm there
is cur dog named "Buck," twenty-six
years old. Everybody knows that dog
takes only two years to obtain maturity,
and that the law of nature allows him
to live only five times of his maturing or
growing period, and he dies at the age
often years Occasionally an old vicious
dog of great vitality lives to be IL or
10 years old, but Buck is the oldest
canine we ever knew or heard of. He
was brought to PETER r. BooKER's, du-
ring that gentleman's lifetime, by ne
gro, and the BOOKER family therefore
know exactly how old he is. Buck is
quite small dog, but we have no au-
thority for saying that in his old age he
recounts to the young pups his triumphs
over the 'possum and the coon in his
early days. He is the Methuselah of
his species.
Vote for the New Constitution.
The Legislature has granted charter
for turnpike road running from Capt.
Blacks, on the Franklin and Columbia
pike, thence by the Sulphur Spring, mp
Bear Crek, by Major Leftwick's and r.
III. Ogilvie's, to the Lewisburg and
Franklin pike. From Mr.. Ogilvie's to
the latter pike the route has'not yet been
agreed upon, some reighborhoods want
ing the road to 60 by Davis X. Hays,
and others claiming that Sowell's Mill
and the old Bethlehem church is the
right way We are exceedingly glad
that this charter has been obtained, be-
cause there is scarcely any public inter-
est in the county of as much Importance
as is the building of good road to Mar
shall county, on the Month side of the
river. While other portions of Maury
county are threaded with excellent roads
and bridges, that part of the county
which lies east of Columbia is scarcely as
good as Lawrence and other thinly pop
ulated, and consequently poor, counties,
in point of public improvement. The
roads are almost impossible in winter,
and the neighborhoods of Sowell's Bend,
Fox's, Hardison's, and M'Clain's, are
compelled to 60 about six or eight miles
out of the way, over a miserable road at
that, in order to get to Columbia. A
bridge at Sowell's Mill would remove
this great annoyance and waste of time
As the matter pow stands, these neigh
borhoods, Inhabited by well to do and
excellent citizens, take their produce to
the Franklin pike, instead of bringing it
to Columbia, as is their duty and privi-
lege. The merchants of Columbia ought
to see 20 it that bridge is built at Sow
ellis Mill. That point would then be
within ten miles of Columbia, whereas
now IL is sixteen miles, and over a road
that would jolt seed-tick off man in
spring wagon.
Go and vote for the New Constitution.
SPRING HILL, March 9th 1870.
Nix. EpIroR:-"To all who shall see
these presence, greeting" BE it known
that on Saturday comes off one Of the
most exciting elections ever known in
the history of Tennessee! lover the lett
Every man that can search his pockets
at all. is hard at work looking up their
certificate for the OCCASION! The vote
will be divided considerably at this box,
and the man that is elected shall think
he has done well at This box. Every
body is taking advantage of the good
weather and are hard at work.
Col. OpILL is going into the Irish po-
tato raising rather heavily, but the Col
is a man Of long foresight and knows
wha:. he is doing. CAM. TERRELL is pro.