The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-06-23
AROUND TOWN.


Ii rained last Saturday morning, S,
: hard, that DIR. Green had but few at thu
commencement of his quarterly meet
ing.
The Methodist Church was built thir
NJ ty-three years ago.
!, DR.. \. L. =. Green has been Presiding
!, Elder of the district in which this station
D is, and was, twice before his present
r tem.
Just before June Meeting butter
was selling rs low as 10 cents per pound
, and Spring chickens at 10 cents. Now
: butter is lively at 80 cts. and chickens
fly at 20 cents.
The heavy rains Monday and Tuesday
, nights caused the river to be raftable on
Wednesday.
l.. II. Estes, jr., formerly of this place,
is OF the law firm of Hanson, Estes 4
Dashiell, Memphis, Tenn.
Judge Hilary Ward, an eminent law
: yer OF Pulaski, and an eloquent advo-
cate before the Courts of HyInen, every
where, has been staying in our midst
several days.
Charley Gordon, \. H. Brown, Horace
Rainey, Il. q. Pillow, and other students
of the University of Nashville, have re-
turned home.
Alonzo Wood was arrigned before
'Squires Holman and HorSley, one dav
this week, on peace warrant, sworn
out by woman named Shivers, nile dc
j0ic, but was discharged, and the pros
ecutor taxed with the cost.
The "Bon Aqua party" as it is called.
expects TO so to Bon Aqua Springs again
about the first OF July. 1t is composed
of four ladies and four gentleman, and
will go ria Cottage Hin"
"WOodside's Addition" 10 Columbia,
Situated above the mouth of Helms
| Branch, has been surveyed and laid off
in lots, in order to give working men Il
| Gruond rich, and in a few minutes walk
/ of the Square. \ diagram is at J. q.
| Bailey's, and the.title is guaranteed.
/ 1t is said that Mayor McGaw has three
/ of the finest mich cows in town. One
/ has TO be milched three times dav, and
/ two are the very images OF each other, in
/ size and color. OF course thew show
I good feeding. being fat and sleek
Jordan Hunter, who has been trying
/ to keep out of lOck-ups, all his life, has
got into the calabooSe ut last. lie has
rented one Of the rooms OF that institu-
ton for harness and shoe shop and is
/ pegging away.
The Sheriff, in obedience to order of
Court, took Edie COckrill, Sarah ShIvers.
Fanny Hilton, Lou Workman and Mol
lie Workman, cOurtezans, out of Jail
last Monday, and babe them 90 and sin
no more. They were given till Wed>
nesdsy TO leave the town.
Mr.. Arson Wiley has been placed in
the Jail, on account Of being insane. The
Il
take him until August, but Capt lick |
ey, our excellent County Court Clerk, |
has gone or viii go to Nashville to see
about it. Mr.. Wiley is quiet generally, |
but sometimes he breaks out in a terri |
bic manner and tries to kill everybody |
Eli Akin, col, was tried before Squires
Harrison and Holman, few DAYS ago,
on a charge of having committed a rape |
upon d mulattO woman. lie was COM |
mitted TO Jail. but was released upon /
giving $1,000 bail bond.
Capt. Clifford and y. ". Hughes, Jr., |
are engaged in very laudable enter |
prise. They buy good fireWoOd from |
Mr.. ThOs. Stone, and others, up the riv- |
er, boat il down the river to point just |
above the Columbia Mills, where it is |
taken up the bank by means of wind |
lass, and sawed by horse power in |
lclSluS Eedul loI inc StOit-
4 committee appointed by the Board |
of Mayor and Aldermen TO examine the |
Water Works, report that they are in a |
dilapidatcd condition, and the town may |
be deprived Of water at any moment. |
y Ow y the llnIC 10 DuIIU 'rCsCTvUir on 4
the Knob.
Two Sundays ago, strange looking !
woman entered the Episcopal. (St. Pc /
ter's) Church in this city, during the 1
service, and looked in every pew, as if /
she was trying to find some one. Mai.
d.. with that courtesy which so honorS /
and distinguishes him. invited her to |
take a seat in his pew. She replied, |
40. I'm looking for a Presbyterian
child She continued 10 look in each |
pew until she had arrested the attention 4
Of the congregation, when the minister. !
Rev. q. Beckett, paused in his sermon. /
The woman, who is slightly CraZed, soon /
went out, and the sermon was finished. /
We have never read the proceedings /
OF our City Council with a. much inter 4
est as we have their deliberations Of last 1
FRIDAY evening, in relation TO the Knob. 1
Major I. c. Huntington, with that patri- .
OtiC desire 10 promote the interests Of his !
fellOw-citizens, which has ever charac- 1
terized hun, offered TO let the corpora |
ton have the Knob at a very reasonable 1
price. 50 very reasonable indeed. that !
the City Fathers very wisely accepted /
his proposition without DELAY. Even If 1
the present Board OF Aldermen had new /
er made themselves popular bv improv- !
ing the streets, etc, this one act. and the /
building Of the Reservoir on the Knob, /
which must follow as a matter OF course, |
would immOrtaliZe them in Columbia |
literature. Our readers well know how /
lao.
ties 20 build a Reservoir on Mt Parnas- |
sus, and we are still in the same notion. |
Last Monday morning, George Philips /
and Marsh Gordon. both colorcd, took !
one Of ChOate d LipscOmbs best buggies |
to the ford above the river bridge, to !
wash il. The river had risen very con- |
siderably, and hedrivers got into swim |
ming water before they knew it. The 1
swift current of the swollen stream /
caught the buggy, and the horse, a pow
erful and exceedingly valuable animal, |
was dragged, in spite of his heroic Ct /
forts TO the contrary, down stream. |
There they went, swimming horse, I
floating buggy and frightened d1rki"~. /
Strange to say, the buggy did not sink, /
but fiOated on top with the negroes in /
IT, 1t is very fortunate for the negroes |
that the buggy did swim, as neither of
them could swim lick. As they passed |
under the bridge, they stepped out on
some drift, and escaped a drowning. |
The horse gave a tremendous plunge,
and the gear being old, it gave way, and
he came out safe. The buggy, a very
valuable one, went on its way rejoicing,
and Mr.. Ben EpscOmb offered twenty
dollars reward for its recovery. Numer-
Gus canoes were brought into requiSi-
ton. and diligent search made. Late in
the evening, Mr. AdcOck discovered the
buggy near the Big Rock, and Hugh
Cook and Tom Glenn took it out of the
water. The buggy sustained only a
slight damage.