The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-07-14
OVER THE COUNTY.

Miss Mary Stuart Fleming, beauti-
full and lovely young lady of the neigh
borhood of Zion Church, died last Sun
day, after a very long illness. She was
a descendant of the royal IStuart family,
of Scotland and England, and the idol
of everybody who knew her, and espe-
eially her dear Uncle Jackie" He
loved her as the apple Of his eye, but
The angels, her highborn kinsmen came,
And took her away from him.
A vast crowd of people attended her
funeral at Zion church, on Monday, in
sight of which church she lived and
died.
One of our planters brought us cot
ton bloom this season, which was pluck
ed on the 9th of June; but our Marshall
county friend, w. A. Baird, tells us that
he found one in his field on the 18th
IA, Galloway, of the Sd District, pro-
poses to give S500to a turnpike enter
prise, or 81, 900 to railroad from CO.
iumbia to Shelbyville.
&C. SeaIey, of Green's Lick Creek,
is going TO try to make sugar out of sor-
ghum cane, this season.
A splendid rain fell on Bear Creek
Monday. This is not the fiIst time the
GOOD people of Bear Creek have been es-
1eciallv blessed with much needed rain.
That people must be good; but then the
good book says the rain is made to tall
on the Just and unjust alike.
Hawks are very daring around Rev.
J, Ii. RuSsell's, near Mt, NebO.
ESQ. G. w. Kinzer proposes to take
five thousand dollars in the Duck River
Valley Railroad, ifit goes through Saw
dust Valley.
w. 2. Dooley, of Rutherford Creek,
| brought us a cotton stalk last Tuesday,
! which had on it four cotton bolls.
Ashton's mill dam on RutheI ford
| Creek, was turned loose last Saturday
night, for the purpose ofrepairing IT, a
| great number of fish were caught in the
| pond, when il was drawn OFF, by w. L.
| Dooley and John Jones,
Capt John NJ Hickey, our very efficient
| County Court Clerk, has macadamized
| a part of the Hampshire pike, west OF
! the railroad, ut considerable expense.
| He deserves the thanks of citizens and
| travellers for thus improving u very bad
| piece of road.
Esq. w. J. Andrews put in operation
| a steam thresher on Col. ID. +. Wade's
| farm last wednesday. During the day
| a white laborer on the place, named
! Stewart, and a negro man, had q very
] serious difficulty, but tie prompt action
| Of Col. Wade prevented blOOdshcd, and
| probably death.
The "hardest road to travel, " we have
| travelled for some time,ti across Chap
pell's Hill, ON the Columbia and Cen
! treyilIe road, near Cathey's Creek. We
| understand that the County Court has
| failed to appoint any overseer on this
road. Squire Hill should see into this
matter.
Joseph II. Dew, Esq, brought sam
/ ple of his Missouri White Wheat to the
| last meeting of the Farmers Club, and
| Col. l.. u. Myers was SO delighted with
| il, that he bought lot Of 1t for family
use. One of Mr.. Dew's employees informs
us that Mr.. Dew offered five dollars re-
ward, during the threshing, Tor head OF
smut, and it could not be found in a
/ field of IS acres. Only one bushCl and n
! half of chicken feed" was made in
| threshing the is acres. We have spc-
! cimen ofthis wheat in our office.
S.H. Timmons, a well known citizen
| of this county, has taken n number OF
! letters out of the Columbia Post Office,
with his name on them, but evidently
| intended for some one else of the same
name, as the one opened is from wife
| 10 her husband. Our :. IL. IImmons
| has only one wife and fourteen living
children He desires the writer TO give
her husbands christian name in full,
and cordially invites them both to his
home near Duck River Station.
How can a bachelor love beautiful
flowers and lovely ladies, and yet never
own any OF the latter, nor try to get one?