The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-03


trot-line fisher, found q catfish on one Of
his lines, which he declares was IT,
largest he ever ihad anything to do with.
He could not manage it at all, and It
came very near turning the canoe over.
! The fish finally broke the short line aud
went where the woodbine twineth- "a
WE had a beating, washing rain on last
Tuesday morning. -
I iI eyEE THE, ceEzrx-g
LAST Fridsy night and Saturday morn
ing, the weather was quite cool. IS
The people say they would not have
moro peaches On their trees is they could
HURRIcANE Switch in In tho edge Of
cedars. Il r. owen il the P. n, Among
the neighbors is that sterling J. r., +. A.
Burke, that prince :of good Fellows, w.
B. Kannon, and that gallant soldier,
Capt. Harris. s,fs,, 80
ONE of the truest Christian commni-
ties on this oblate spheroid is the Hope
well neighborhood. IF misfortune be-
falls an honest and worthy neighbor, the
whole heart of the people sympathises
with him, and liberal and willing hands
help him, and raise him up. If q IRE
consumes his substance, they all throw
in little, and set him on his feet again.
Such people are the salt Of the earth
salt which has not lost its saving
qualities. '-.+' "a.
IT is said that Mr.. John w. Mayes, who
meyer does anything by halves, has de-
termined to sell or burn all the rails on
his fine farm, and erect instead new.
and much improved portable fence. -
GEN. r. s. Ewell, near Spring Hill,
has one hundred acres in barley, which
looks promising enough for him to pre-.
dict yield of forty bushels per acre. It
is much better than his barley crop of
last year, which yielded twenty-five
bushels per acre and brought $l.25 per
bushel. Tho seed, blowing, <reaping,
etc., cost $500 per acre, and the land will
reDt:for $500 per acre. The ruling price
is now sl.OO per buskel, which win give
him net profit of $500 per acre, for the
one hundred acres. Gen. Ewell raises no
cotton, and very little corn. He believes
very strongly in clover and blue grass
pastures, having one hundred and fifty
acres of the former in one field, which viii
be moved i'm July doubtless. The field
is level and rich as cream. We are told
that he has about 5000 head of stock,
horses, mules, cattle and sheep. He has
some fine sheep, Southdowns, Merinos
and Cotswold, and about seventy-five
mich cows. So
LAST Saturday night party of trav-
oilers camped near Neapolis, ON the road
side. In the night somebody tried to
steal their horses, and they shot at them
and then moved further up the pike.
JONES' Church on Cathey's Creek was
dedicated on last Sabbath by Rev. w. III.
Vernon, of this city. A largo congrega-
ton was in attendance, and sermon
was preached at night.
THERE will be a District meeting at
Spring Hill on the third Sunday in July.
CULLEoKA is getting to be an impor-
tant commercial point. One firm, How
lett & Holden, sold, it is said, 100000 |
worth of goods last year. Culleokais the
nearest railroad station for large sections
of Marshall and Maury counties. 4
A PROMINENT citizen of our county, |
who is in the habit of leaving his horse |
at Sheppard's hitch-yard while he is in
town, recently went there in the evening |
to get his steed, mounted another mans |
horse, and rode homo before he discov-
cred his mistakeI The cream ofthe joke |
is that the two horses are very unlike.
He was wrapt in the solitude of his own |
imagination.
MAI. Benjamin Harlan is having two
hundred thousand feet of lumber sawed,
principally for the purpose of erecting
on his farm Bosart's portable fence, so
well pleased is he with that great ina
provement. Major Ingram says he
would not give it for any agricultural
implement he ever used. Major Geo.
Lipscomb bought the right of the fence
Gen. r. s. Ewell, who owns about 1000
acres of the best Maury county land, sat
down one day and mlde a close calcula-
ton of the cost of the old style worm and
plank fence to him; and the result was,
that he became convinced that IL the
Posart Combined Patent Fence and Gate
were as represented to him.: they would
save him $1,000 per year. Accordingly
he went down to Col. Fount Wade's, who
had the fence, and examined them
critically. The examination satisfied
him, and he sent his carpenter to Col.
Wade's, to learn how to build it, saying
that if he had had it last year it would
have saved him $4,000.
Gen Achilles Bowen, who has consider
able of the Bosart fence built, says he
will have no more rails split, and he pre-
diets that this great benefactor of the
farmer, Mr.. Bosart, will revolutionize
fencing in Maury county. !
THE rain which fell in the latter part
of last week was mild and gentle except
in one or two localities. A severe and
flooding rain fell in the Ashwood coun-
try, passing on over General Pillows
farm, in the direction of Bigbyville. MI.
Tom Jones, after inspecting his farm
after the rain, said he would not have
had it como for five hundred dollars.
A FRIEND sends us an item from Gull
ieona. J. F. Ramsey was found lying on
a work bench by Ross C. Long, who sup
posed he was dead. A jury of Inquest
was. held over him, and the news spread
like wildfire. The dead man was only
asleep however, and when awakened he
calculated "Shucks!" He had been
asleep so long that everybody thought
he was dead.
SPRING Hill, May "a. 4:
Took myself down tn Neapolis the other day
and went all over the Neapolis Mills, owned by {
McLemore and Rogers. Mr. II. A. McLemore ;
better known among his friends as Josh,
showed me around and being thoroughly &C
auainted with machinery, made everything IN
teresting. These mills we're put together Dy
the best mechanic in the world, and made from
the very best material, and feel safe in saying
that il IS one of the best mills in the State. 1t
has shelter attached, with fan and screen,
which makes the meal clear OF silks ana cnah
II would be 10 the interest of persons wanting
grinding done for market to give them . cali,
as they give special attention to that KIND OF ous
ness. The best -four in the world has been
made on these mills and have never heard any
complaint of it in my life. These mills are SIT
uated three miles South Of Spring Hill, on the