The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-10-20


CENTREvILLE, HICKMAN Co., TENN,
- Oct. 9th, 1871. !
EDITORS HEnALD:-As 1 have not
seen anything recently in the HERALD
in regard to the Duck River Valley
Railroad, I thought would ask permits
sion of space in your columns in regard
to its movement in old Hickman; and
by way OF introduction, will ask: If the
people of this county will bring it to
the Maury county line, from this point,
will your county carry it to the Nash
vile & Decatur Railroad? am happy
to say that the feeling and sentiment Of
the people 1.re upon this important
subject is undated, and the agents with
the books for subscription Of stock are
meeting with encouragement, and OBJ
tanning subscriptions every day, and
inevitable signs indicate. that the stock
will be OBJ ,ained on this end between
this and Christmas, SO as to begin
work on the road in the Spring. The
report here is that Col. L. D. MYERS, Of
your:place, will deliver an address in
the town of Columbia on the first Mon
day in November, on the manufacture
ing interests Of your city. / hope he
will not failto connect the Importance
of the Duck River Railroad with your
manufacturing interests, as cannot see
how it could he avoided, looking at the
resources of this county and the points
which this road is designed to connect,
bringing the coal Of the Cumberland
mountains together with the iron ore
of this and adjoining countless. think
the subject good one and OF vital Inn
portance to the growth and improve
ment of Columbia. Notwithstanding
our enterprise is receiving encourage
ment beyond our expectations, yet we
have few old fossils among Us, from
whom ideas crop out that they would
be classified as far back as the Selurian
period, were it not that few living
species bring them down to a more re-
cent date, and for the sake Of uniform
ity, we will put them down in the ter
tiary formation-as their species are not
quite extinct yet. a.
Major B. GORDON addressed the peo-
pie on the subject Of the railroad on yes
terday at Shady Grove, at which time
and place number Of able pamphlets
prepared by Col. FALcoNNET were dis
tributed and placed in the hands of
those who will go to work and do good
in forwarding the enterprise. Major
GORDON is an active friend Of the road,
and is doing much towards its success.
Col. V. T. BIBB has also walked up, and
has consented to address the people en-
this subject in different parts OF the
county.
The local news, otherwise, of our
county is unimportant, and hardly af-
fords anything on which to write to in
terest your readers. The staple-to
wit: The pea crop-this year here is an
unusual yield, and will run as high as
I5O, 900 bushels. Some have already
been placed in the market and brought
81. 80 per bushel. The farmers are very
busy now in getting them out, and are
doubling their efforts to get them saved
in this delightful weather, and before
the Fall rains set in. AS we had no re-
porter at our Fair for your paper the
world is ignorant that such thing ex-
lists in our midst, almost. Will we new
er come out of this Egyptian darkness?
Never, fear, until the s."iron horse"
makes these hills re-echo with his shrill
whistle, and wakes from their slumbers
a people long ago entitled to equal adj
vantages of this progressive age. Prov
idence has blessed us with a bountiful
crop, and before another ingatheing we
expect to hear the snort of the locomo-
tive in our midst, carrying off the pro-
duce and bringing back supplies for our
people. The agents in Maury must be
more active than what I hear they are,
or "old Hickman" that "they are just |
waiting to see what she will do" will
be ahead of them, and the anxiety felt
will be Just reversed. What will old |
Maury do? and will she build the road |
TO the Hickman line? I pause for a |
reply. PEA Nut.