The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-06-30
STATE ITEMS.

Factory.
The wife of Judge George Brown Of
Knoxville, died last week.
Nashville is soon to have an i'm
mense Cotton Seed Oil Mill.
The fine residence Of Timothy Wal
ton, near Gallatin, was destroyed by
fire few days ago.
The wheat crop of East Tennessee
will not make over half the usual yield
from that section.
The Upton Record records Upton
raised potatoe Of this years growth,
that measured eighteen inches in cir
conference and weighed two pounds.
Tie Bank of Franklin has been con-
verted int a National Bank.
The Jackson Wing and Tribune says:
Dog-fennel, three feet high, has FORM
ed an arch over the plank walk on
Lafayette Street, west of Liberty,
which we suppose leads to the EDITORS
sanctIlm.
The Knoxville Chronicle is publish
ing lengthy exhibit of the doings of
the Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad.
VIII it not continue the work and en-
tighten the public ON the Mineral
Home, 1t would make cOnsidera-
bic Jdck-stir in affairs in that end of
the State.
a. i. Estes, ESD, editor of the
Huntington Courier, was sworn i'll by
Judge Porter, as Attorney General pro
tenn. at Dresden last week.
A lead mine in Jefferson county,
East Tennessee, is being successfully
worked The specimens exhibited are
said to be equal to the Galena lead.
Hart and Hensley, the enterprisiDg
grocers and produce dealers in Nash
vile, the other day shipped large lot
of the hams OF their own curing, to
Chicago.
The Lebanon Herald brings MS ac-
count of clover three feet four inches,
growing upon land which would not
produce four barrels of corn per acre.
Cause why: well plastered.
Capt. J. L. Coker of Knoxville, was
shot and killed near Kingston q few
days ago by Captain Frit's of the steam
er Hugh Martin. -
Thos. II. Hardin, Sr, venerable
aud highly esteemed citizen of Mar
shall county, died near Lewisburg last
Saturday.
w. n. Cowden and c. H. Brandon
have purchased the sprightly Lewis
burg Gazette, and will hereafter con-
troll it. ...
J.D. Smith has issued the first num-
Der of the Tullahoma Times, a neatly
printed and we'll conducted Democrat
ic journal.
Through mistake of the Nashville
Union d: american, we published last
week the announcement of the death
of Washington b. Cooper, the distin-
guished artist of that city; when it
was w. Cooper, an old Commission
Merchant who died.
Enoch Ensley proposes TO tear away
the City Hotel at Nashville, and build
a magnificent block of business houses
in its stead.
McMinnville is improving more rap
idly than any interior town in the
State. 1t is thoroughly alive to the
progress of The times and the spirit of
Improvement. 1t looks more like
some of the towns rapidly springing
into city proportions in the Northwest,
than any place ia the South.
THE Law School of Cumberland
University, at Lebanon, under the
supervision of that eminent jurist,
Hon. ROBERT l.. CARUTHERs, and
NATHAN GREEN, Esq. is in most
prosperous and fourishing condition.
Hon DAVID A. MUM, eX-Member
of Congress for the Memphis District,
was married last week to Miss Ten
NEssEE WHITEHEAD of Brownsville.
WHY does the Lebanon Herald
standing idle all the day, while every
country paper in Tennessee is spelling
gauge with the cart before the horse,
thus, "guage?"