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

There arc 662l voters in Maury County.
ST. of them are white. and 2V9i colored. There
are ?1i white men, and Ill negroes. who do
not pay any taxes.
\ cotton bloom on Mr.. d. J. Estes farm
opened Oh the 3Oth of June, and was
brought TO US on the LIST day of July. 1t
was large fine bloom.
Nearly two years ago in the Carriers
Creek country, a boy Is years old got
lost, and was afterwards found and mar
ried a smart young lady. AT the birth
Of his iirst-born, which took place re-
Gently, there WAS present, the childs'
two grand mothers, and two ofits great
grand>mothers. The boy was named
Franklin Alexander.
ON the 50th of June there was hawk
killed by IL. o. Alexander, in the 9TH
district, which, measured four feet four
inches from tip TO tip. IL came from the
egg this year. Who can beat II?
w. NJ. Murphy, of Carter's Creek,
found three very red cotton blooms in
his field on the first day of July, and
sent them TO us.
Leroy MeKcnnon, an esteemed citizen
of Sawdust Valley, met with very Sc
rious accident last Saturday evening
He was miller in the Sawdust Valley
Mills, and while engaged in putting
a band on the Shutter, his left hand and
arm was caught on the cogs. The wheel
was thrown out of the cogs and the
mill stopped. Mr. McKennon's hand
was cut through and through in several
places, il is supposed by the cogs, and
his arm up to his elbow badly injured.
No bones, however, were broken, and IL
is believed that he will recover.
The wheat crop III the Sawdust Valley
country, is averaging about five bushels
per acre. Corn is splendid. Cotton IS
doing very well. Peach crop abundant
and excellent; apples short.
A short time since, Mr.. Samuel III.
Burket, in the neighborhood OF Culleo-
ka, saw a dog killing w. j. SCOTS sheep.
Burkett knocked the dog dowd with a
rock, and jumping ON him, pulled out
his knife and attempted to cut his throat.
The knife proved TO he too dull, howev-
or. and after saving across the dogs
throat for some time, he KILLED him with
Il rock.
During the Club Dinner at Coz. ID.
4. Wadc's some time since, 1T was
agreed by Col. CIV. Folk, Col. Wade, and
other eminent judges of fine animals,
that Major J. Minnick Williams had the
finest flock Of lambs they ever saw.
The people in the ncighborhood of
Isom's store, Cathey's Creek, have sent
a petition TO the Post Office Department,
asking for mail from Columbia, via
Hampshire.
The wheat crop Oh Cathey'S Creek is
estimated TO average five bushels per
acre. ON Cartcr's Creek the estimate is
= little larger, seven or eight bushels per
acre The quality is also superior in
that section. Major w. w. Miller,
wcll-known citizen, had field of TWEEN
ty acres, i'm which there WAS not a single
head of smut, or cheat. In the Will
Transport country, wheat is estimated
80 Weld this season, five bushels per
acre. \ very sorry crop, indeed.
The Nashville Banner some time since
gave an account of the wonderful per-
I"rmauce of Squire Macy, OF Davidson
county, who spoke no less than 20 times
in one day, and minutes each time.
We can beat that. Squire McCaw, one
ofthc most worthy and intelligent men,
beers of our County Court, last Tuesday
spoke 81 times, averaging > minutes Il
apiece, and Squire Wilkes, another gen
iieuan equally as intelligent, arose
from Els seat TO speak - times.
Tho open field just this side of James
Hodges residence, which was selected
by several of our prominent citizens for
Trotting Park, WAS found unsuitable
and one nearly opposite TO il, belonging
10 Col. \. NJ. Looney, has been chosen
in its stead, and under the efficient man
accment of Mr.. II. II. Jamison and 9th
ers, il is being rapidly and appropriate
" finished. The Park is beautiful
grassy lot, with magnificent forest trees
IN il. and the tract is about thTee-guar-
tiers oi mile long.