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

Tho new Chancellor 0flce is being rapidly
finished. The Registers old Office, VIM; Woods
old Office, and the passage between those two
and The County Court Clerks once. are 5elng
promises ID be a very handsome room most
" to be occupied by our good looking Clerk
and Master. and his mostly by ASSISTANTS, and
accomplished Chancellor.
An entrance door has been made in the
Southern side of the County court Clerk
Office The gallant Captain and his excellent
assistants keep their rooms in al almost par
Tor like condition.
A reader, Though not subscriber,
veare sorry to say OF the Herald, re-
quests Mr.. Saln1. Cain, 70 give to the
public his views upon the mlstletoe.
I'VE tender Mr., Cain the use of our col
uuIns.
Mr.. Jamc. Oakes, sou of our fellow
citizens w. j. Cakes, Esl, was married
at Pulaski, on the 18th Of June, to Miss
Josie Pedcn. We congratulate our
friend, and wish him a long life OF
prosperity.
Mrs. DIR. A. III. Brown has great GU
riosity in the shape of an egg. 1t is 80
entirely shapeless like Milton's 'Death)
that we cannot describe il well. 1t is
long, slim and crooked, with neck TO
IT.
"Noah's Ark" is rising ,gaiD ii is now
new two-story brick, with NICE front
owned by Il. w. keesee and Z. Williams.
Alta stated council-Gre of Chicamau-
IN Tribe, No. 4, Improved Order OF Red
Men, the following Chiefs We're elected
for the ensuing six moons:
Joseph n. Walker, Sachem; Charles
Clear. Senior Sycamore; a. NJ. Hughes,
Jr.. Junior Ssgamore; III. p. Seavy,
Prophet; Robert III. Jainison, Keeper of
Wampum; J-.:..cs i. Guest, Chief of
Records.
Master Alex Brown Parks gave pic
mic at the residence of DIR. 4. III. Brown,
last Tuesday, it being his birthday, there
we're 30 Juveniles present who helped
little Alex celebrate his birthday. They
all enjoyed themselves by playing 'Pres-
byterian Billiards." better known as
CrOlluct, andseversi other games.
Major Vim. Golloway's accomplished
lady will please accept our thanks for
basket of the finest plums we ever saw
-aSato. They were almost as large as APP
-, =, and were delicious. They are cali
tu The "Wild Goose Plum" rather SIN
hisr name for plum. The name was
sceived in tho Following ne.nner: 4
I'm Ster i'm this section killed wild
go$e, and found in its craw plum
sefa, which WAS planted, and after COM
JnS Up was named 1.-The Wild Goose
2'lum."
Last Tusday, officer Marsh Renfro,
brought TO our city, Thomas Butler, mot
Captain of the "One's') from the neigh
borhood of Spring Hill, and placed him
in Jail. Tom had true bill found against
him by the grand Jury, at the last term
OF court, for carrying pistol "And
the colored troops fought nobody"
NsTTIF, a sweet little girl OF three sum-
yners-daughter OF Mrs. HACKNEY, Milliner,
Hssl Main Street, came very near losing
.icT hfs on last Wednesday in the following
inner: Mrs. III. had sprinkled several
as.ccs Of meat with arsenic and placed them
nt rs a bait for rats. Soon afterwards the
,orror-st ricken mother discovered that her
only child had fonnd and was in Its mo
cence eating the poisoned meat physl-
clan was at once called, and an eineiic
promptly administered, followed by Inc
recognized antidote, ProNide OF Iron, The
child is thought 10 be out Of danger.
E.Ievi and Sam1. Hyams, two jew
I,et!dlers drove their team into the river
ut this place, during the recent rise, not
KNOWING IL was so swollen, and in his
effort to rescue the horse from drowning,
and the goods from loss, Mr.. Hyams
jumped into the river, and succeeded IA
saving the wagon, llerse ana goods, but
on an examination of his jacket, he re-
Allied the fact that roll of Incney, s6S,
Belonging to the firm, had been washed
fresn his pocket, and was lost. Hyams
dhoUgiIt that Levi ought to bear
.caLal share in the loss, but Levi didn't
think 50, and would not satisfy Hyams.
Hyams then had the property of Levi
attached, they having dissolved part
ncr.hip. anG the case was brought be-
fore Squire Horsley, for trial, but the
friends of the parties took the matter n
hand and effected a compromise TO the
satisfaction Of both litigants.