The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-07

JAS. A. MOORE will build the new
bridge at Williansport, Capt. Fike hav
ing accepted his proposition. Frank B
Craig. linear the Hickman lline,sD fur
nishes all the saw logs, nom his placeal
the river. -, I, - 1 =
On the 18th ct September. Mr., C. 8
Brown, and Miss Fannie g. Miller, vers
married by Esq. w. r. Mckee. non, one
of the Magistrates of6awdust Valley.
DURING the terrible freshet in Ruther.
ford Creek last week, our Postmaster
J. T. Baird, In attempting to cross, was
washed under seven times, and narrow
y escaped drowning, and Col. T. II.
FeeDles was washed down the creek In
his buggy, and had to get ont and save
was .booken, and he had to ride back to
Spring Hill horseback. Hurry up the
bridge. T---'.. -
WE are glad to learn that oar former
fellow-citizen, w. e. Green1nw, who has
lived at Memphis for some time past,
has determined to return to his beauti-
full home near Spring Hill. .s-@sy
AFTER long and painful illness, Jesse
w. Evan. stepson offs. 81. Tmmons, Of
this county, died on the 26th of s,eptem>
Der. The disease which caused him
much suffering, and finally death, was
diabetes. He was about l6 years old,
and was very good boy.
SEVERAL years ago our felluw-citlzen,
Joseph II. James, planted the old Vir-
ginia sweet potato '.Nancemond;" and
they grew to be large and beautiful. But
before he got ready to dig them they
very quietly and mysteriously left his
patch without his consent. The same
thing occurred the next year. This sea-
SON he determined to watch his patch
and see where his fine potatoes went to.
At last he grew tired Of watching, and
set gun loaded with Is buckshot, to
guard his potatoes. A wire was stretch
which would cause the gun to explode.
On last Friday morning the gun was
found empty, it having gone of ct the
potato thief. There were marks on the
ground and fence of q scramble and
scuffie. No bloody signs were left.
ONE .fthe greatest religious revivals
ever known in the Santa Fe country has
just closed. It was carried on at the
Methodist church for sixteen days, the
brethren of all denominations assisting.
There Were about forty professions, and
about thirty-five additions to the church.
Ministerial Sci vices were by Rev's. r. G..
Lynn, Wesley Irvine, ]. p. Sebastian,
and J. J. Bingham. -
CoTToN is coming in slowly in the
Sante Fe country, but oae bale of new
having been shipped from there yet. 81
Mr.. THOMAS MONTGOMERY, near San
ia Fe, has trained his two dogs to worm
tobacco, and this year they have each
done the work Of an average hand in rid
ding the tobacco field of that great pest.
THERE is considerable competition
among the Santa Fe farmers this Fall as
to who can show the finest samples of
corn in the ear. Some fine corn is on
exhibition witch w. o. Gordon & Co., but
so far, the premium is given to Uncle
GOOding Mays, Tor choice seed corn.
His corn was raised ON land that has
been in cultivation sixty-ive years.
SANTE FEE has lately had quite novel
lawsuit. A neighb0r was sued on note
OF hand over year ago, and the judges
ment was entered against him. 1t lay
thus until a few weeks since, when the
officer went to make his money. The
Leighbor said he owed nothing and
would not pay it, but after consulting
some of the Legal starr Of columbia, ne
paid off the Judgement, immediately
swore out. . guarnishee, and stopped the
money in the officers hands, ordering
him not to pay IL over. Thus it has lain
for month. The officer has the money
and does not know what to do with it.
Can some of our young lawyers who are
wanting votes at some future election, go
down and help solve the difficulty?
A RICH joke is told on two of the good
brothers of the church, at Santa Fe, said
to have happened during the late. grea.
revival. They are prominent men and
good citizens, and each considers him
self champion draughts, or check
player, and during the hot, dull days for
this Summer, many hours did they
spend playing with each other that in
tereSting, though innocent game, often
causing their good ladies to ring theisup-
per bell more than once before they
could quit their favorite ampsement.
Now for the joke. One night in the heat
of the revival, when they and all around
were enjoying its influence, one of the
mourners in whom they were both inter-
ested, professed, when one Of the good
brothers, excited at the scene, exclaim-
ed to the other, Grown that one, BROTH
or! Crown him! he is in the kingdom!'
thus using the familiar words of the
checker board In his earnestness.
PROF /. WALKER made, a knife in
Capt Beans Blacksmith shop, near Gull
ieoka, which took premiums at the
Marshall, Williamson, and Maury coun-
ty Fairs. We have seen this knife, and
1t is beauty. 1t was made with no
other machinery than blacksmith's
tools. ~