The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-15
OVER THE COUNTY,

CRoPs are looking finelyfn the Hamp-
shire neighDor hood, both cotton and
corn. The wheat crop is saved, and it is
very good.
NAT. w. Jones d Co. have bought j.
l., Isom's fine thrashing machine, and
are no doubt now engaged i'm thrashing
out the farmers wheat.
JAS. III: Akin will be round in few
days to collect tee taxes; and neighbOr
of his hints that he will also be on the
lookout for a wife. Take care, ladies;
put i'm your good looks, for he is a nice
man-in short, Major.
Al. PUGH IL Co., have n fine steam
milling establishment, and are prepared
to saw, grind and gin for the Hampshire
people.
MIR. III. +. Fariss of Hampshire, has a
pony known as "Mazeppa." He keeps
a standing betting proposition that she
can pace faster than any other pony in
the State of her size and age.
IT is said that Cathey's Church can
beat the world for young babies.
A YOUNG gentlemen and lady were
riding out a few evenings since i'm the
Hampshire country, when the gentle
mans "mulican" got frightened and ran
against the lady and "butted" her off the
situation. She laughed, and asked the
gentleman not to ride that animal again,
but to ride his bob-tail bay.
MAI 7. A. Lcftwich, of Bear Creek,
sold his fine wheat last week at IS cents.
when other wheat ouly commanded %
cents.
One day last week Martin Z. Erwin.
Jr., down the river, above Williamsport.
came to Mr.. Hamp. Tmmons' house on
the Santa Fe road, and determined to
get one of his horses and come to town.
lie therefore took out one of the horses
and put saddle OH it, and turned the
other loose with this inscription written
on piece of paper and tied to the horses
name: Please let this horse pass on
The horse was seen by three jockey fel>
lows of Knob Creek, Crawl Irvine, Billy
and Green Witherspoon, who took offthe
inscription and placed on another, which
read: tom Duke, please take up this
horse, feed him well, and when ] come
down L will pay you WELL" Signed,
G. J. McKissack.' This man lives in Giles
county, ami besides being Dukes cousin,
is very wealthy, prompt and liberal.
Tom therefore put up the horse, solilo-
quizing thus: Yes, this is his hand
writing, and / know / will be well paid
for nv trouble A few DAYS afterwards.
somebody told him of the trick that had
been PLAYED off on him, and he was so
mad that he refused to sec his friend
Crawl when he called. The::cream ofIthe
joke is, that Duke is the most successful
joker i'm the neighborhood, and hereto
fore nobody has ever been able to get
one off on him, which makes everybody
enjoy it il so much--espccialIy Jack
TimmOns.
Mr.. J. H. Wilkes, If the euterprising
firm of Wilkes Bros, of :Culleoka, is alb
sent in Nashville on business and will
be for some weeks, but the senior is on
hand and has learned to wrap up
things by this time.
THE Founder of the thriving little
tie town Pleasant Grove depot, propos-
es to give ten or fifteen building lots to
as many families as will build on them.
JIM Fair has run away from his wife
ard Ellis Dodson. He lived on the ridge
beyond Partee's, on the Santa Fe Pike.
and bought his wife from another man
He and half dozen more men came
from East Tennessee, a year or so ago.
and settled near Ellis Dodson. One Of
the party, a married man, told Jim Fain
that he would give him his wife for his
sister. Jim took him up, and the trade
was made. About n week ago, Jim
Fair and younger brother took their
guns and went hunting in the woods
Afler reaching the woods they concluded
they would come on TO Columbia, so
they left their guns in tree and came
to town. At last accounts they had not
returned.
OH corn, which was five and six dol
lars per harrel during the gloomy DAYS
of the new maize crop, in our county,
has come tumbling down, under the in
fluence ofthe good wheat crop and the
fiattering looking young corn crop.
About a month ago everybody said corn
was high becaus it was so extremely
scarce. Then the cry was, i want some
corn, who has any to spare?' Now it is,
who wants to buy corn7' Monroe Sow
ell, of the Cedars, where we had suppoS-
ed everybody was in the condition of
Jacob when he sent to Egypt after corn,
has old corn to sell.
GREAT preparations are being made ct
Spring Hill for the big District meeting
on next Sabbath.