The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-22
OVER THE COUNTY.

GO4Elu, Suufcu e ". 81 Dltchemltu
shop, on Snog Greek, was burned down
one night lsat week. 4 dog was acci-
dentally fastened up In the shop, when
=. :. wss cinssd at plight, aud was burned
to death. Loss about sixty uo..ars.
Wheat is beginning to look better. An
excellent Snow Creek farmer tells us
that be thinks we. are going to have
splendid crop OF wheat il Aiaury county.
The grain was sown in the dry dust last
fall, and the cold, dry winter has been
very favorable to it. We have but few,
if any, hard beating rains this winter or
spring, and consequently, the ground is
as mellow as an ashbank, and breaks
that the ground would he in better con-
dition to rvn of and plant corn without
breaking UP, than II was last spripk
after being broken up.
On the ninth day Of last January, Mr..
George NJ. Martin, of this comfy, WAS
ninety-four years old. We are told
that on that day, or a few days after
ward, he walked to town and sold his
cotton.
The Roberts Brothers, of Roberts
thirty and forty thousand pounds of
bacon. to Col. 7. w. keesee last week.
One of the middlings weighed one hum
dred aud twenty-iouT and three-quar-
ter pounds. A large portion OF the meat
was almost as large as this side. We
put the Roberts Brothers and Evan
Jones against the world for raising big
hogs.
We learn that every body in this
county is making preparations 10 plant
large area in cotton this year, out the
laborers are scarce, great many OF the
colored people having gone to the Cot
ton States, where wages arc higher. Ii
people would do more of their work
themselves, instead of hiring it done,
and overseeing 1t, cotton planting, and
| farming generally, would be far more
profitable than it has been heretofore in
this county, Nainr Cheairs, who has
recently returned from Arkansas, says
that the Southern planters will, IL they
get laborers enough, plant the largest
crop of the skiing" ever put in.
A great many RATS have been waiting,
up in tho cedars, all the winter for q
freshet to bring them down the river.
4 few weeks age, when ting 'iYer rose
1 four or five ieet, 6 raftmsp turned five
RATS loose, and Diet ,rmined TO come as
far as he could, having despaired OF ever
having enough to bring them down.
Three OF them lodged on Lillard's Dam,
which bursted them, and the timberss
| were scattered all along the river. MIR.
II. G. Harris, of this city, has had q
largo Hallber If Safts OF telegraph poles,
up in the cedaFs, waiting patiently for 9
rise in the river. He has one in Flat
Creek, We are told, which has over thir.
teen hundred telegraph poles In It,
which makes it probably the largest
raft that ever went down Duck River
On last Friday, Mr.. Davis, the accom-
modating agent at the Spring Hill Depot
4 observed, en- his return from dinner
| that his m0nsy draw 81 had Leea aeuter.
ed by violent hands, and all the money
1 IL contained taken therefrom. He LEFT
q Young negro man, Alfred Brown
standing near the depot when he started
for dinner, and his suspicious naturally
rested on him. Two colored nen also
saw hinI tpsrs iufiag Ut. hayiss alb
| seuce, and other circQulstances pointing
4, to Ai t;osx e the Thief, DO vas arrested
and tried before Jus..v-, -. a.. i,aii,
and X. d. Allen. Jack Mckissick ant
/. n. Buyers, Attorneys at Law, aP
peared for the State, and enough evi
dence was ELECTED to convince the Cour
that tho prisoner was guilty, and he
was committed to appear at the Crimi
nal Court, which is now in session q
this place. Constable Tisdale being I'M
well. Esquire Baily and Orve McKis
sack brought Alfred to Columbia, AM
} had him put in Jail. He is only abou
seventeen years old. The number O
colored people committed for theft /
largely on the increase, and is reali,
, alarming. Can nothing be done to pre-
, vent itS II is q debatsble Question
whether rigid enforcement of the Law
against stealing or a display of NOR
charity and mercy toward the igsoran
creatures, Is the best policy to pursue
because, they do not seem to fear tn
| Jail or head punishment. What is to b
done?