The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19

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Anne horse was stolen from waite
Pillow. ON Lyle creek. Sunday night.
Hon. Barclay Martin had some FIN
Irish potatoes this year. Ono dug o.
his farm weighed Is ounces.
i VIM. B. Johnson claims to have tn
finest orchard in the 21st civil district
He has five hundred trees. For tn
very fine peaches given ust BY Mr.. John
son he viii accept our thanks IN
Wheat, It is reported, was not quite *
good in the Ashwood neighbofhood al
in other parts Of the county. Mr.. Davl
} Watkins on Bigby, sowed nine bushels
on ten acres, and The yield was So
; bushels, IS to the acre. Mr.. Walker
Akin reaped 81 bushels and q neighbol
of his 80 bushels TO the acre. It il sup
posed that the average yield in Thu
county is from is to 20 bushels to tho
acre. ,.-s - b. 8
Amanwas found lying near the Fail
Grounds yesterday, in a helpless and
speechless condition. and unable to walk
He was allowed to lie there several days
and nights before he was taken up; the
people who passed him by thinking him
i'only drunk. He is about five feet and q
half high, black hair and whiskers, reg
ular features, dark swathy complexion,
| and weighs about oneihundred and twen-
| ty or twenty-five pounds He has so far
refused 10 eat or drink anything. EIe is
supposed to be the man mentioned in our
last, as ''the man of the Rough" He is
in most pitiable condition, and we
| trust will pass into the hands of some
good Samaritan. ~
Candidates for Office are standing very
much in their own light when they resort
to bitter personal accusations against
their opponents. The people are tired
seeing candidates get up an exciting
canvass in any such way. We make
this assertion neither for nor against
any candidate, directly or indirectly.
We only desire to give publication 10
the universal, expressed opinion of our
dulged in by large number of candi-
dates. Rest assured that the best man
will always be elected. r~sst .,r .5,i.
The grape vines everywhere are loaded
with fine fruit, and there is the promise
of a superior yield, if the rot, which is
now making its appearance, does not
thin them too much. Rev. C. F.. Will
liams, of Ashwood, has a vine, "Bald-
win Lenoir," which has over GOO large
punches on it; and on another "Isabella,"
between 500 and 500 punches on the
single vine. This vine has never been
pruned; but the non-bearing have been
cut out as they appeared. This is what
we should call "prolific," and we are of
opinion that we prune entirely too close
ly as both these vines prove, the Bald
win Lenoir, having been only slightly
pruned. Other grapes on the same
trellis that were pruned closely, hang
full, but nothing to be compared with
the two mentioned.
The Wilson County Court has passed
a dog law. We congratulate that county
upon having such wise magistrates.
This step will yield the county many
thousands of dollars. In all of the Mid
die Tennessee counties the sheep inter-
est can be made one of the most import
ant branches of husbandry to farmers.
Especially is this so in regard to Maury
county. Nowhere else does] grass grow
more luxurantly and universally. 1t
literally covers our hills and valleys,
forests and meadows, and greater por-
ton of it is wasted because we have no
sheep to grow fat on it. Dogs are so
numerous in this county that it is not at
all profitable to raise sheep. Farmers
cannot afford to raise sheep unless we
have dog law or they are able, like
the late Gen. Ewell, to have several /
thousand, and empty shepherds. %
A large number of gentlemen have
announced their willingness to serve
Maury county in the next Legislature.
All of them are good Democrats, we
believe, and we have expressed no pref
erence for any one over the others. Our
advice to our readers is to vote for the
whom they believe to be the |
best fitted for the position, by reason of
superior intelligence, integrity of char |
acter, energy, and devotion to the public |
They should rise superior to
that feeling which prompts all OF us to |
vote for a man because he happens to |
belong to our neighborhood, or is our |
friend. He is our best friend |
in this matter, who is most capable of |
serving us at Nashville ina way that |
win benefit and honor us. We deem |
our words of caution last week worthy |
of repetition: send no man to legislate |
for you, if you do not deem that he is /
above suspicion in relation to corrupt |
rings and monopolies. Let him be a
strong man, else the insinuating tempta-
lions that will be held out to him will
prevail. Great ability, one of the things
needed in a legislator, cannot be OBJ
,ained, because it requires too great
sacrifice of money; and it is
yDeT6lOTc oil Tue iiOTc tSSeuhldi tustI |
we procure the other needful things,
honesty and energy. Choose the best
and most capable man.
The excessive rains within the past
month have greatly injured all the
wheat that was not threshed out imme-
iiately after being reaped. In many
places it has begun TO spront, and much
Of it is ruined. We fear that much of
MIR wheat crop is i'm this condition. as
The cotton crop cried aloud for help just
about harvest time, and caused many
to postpone threshing. Much of
his disaster is.owing to the fact that our
usually adopted the lazy mode
Of putting their wheat in small shocks
Of ten or dozen bundles, aud rain has
but little difficulty in finding the dryest
bundles, and Immediately preparing
hem to rotten. No doubt many farmers
will lose enough wheat this year to
more than build large shelter i'll the
middle of their wheat field to protect
t against all weather contingencies. "A