The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-11-29

AlDCELLANEOUs IFEN1.
The telegraph Office In Pulaski, is :.
oe removed to the Public Square.
Rev. Mr. Booth Il the new pastor O
the n. E. Church, ct Lawrenceburg.
Savannah College IL in . fourishinf
condition.
T. w. SCOTS Hotel, at Purdy, was de
stroyed by ire rev weeks ago.
Almost every horse and mule in Gle.
county 10 suffering from Epiaooty.
Rev. A. G. Dinwiddie has been return
ed to his former work on the Savalnat
district.
The capital If Moore county, Tennes
zee, has only 800 inhabitants, and eigh
Of them are lawyers.
The election for representative from
Lawrence and Wayne counties, resulted
In tie, which necessitates Few cleo
ton.
The cotton gin of John Churchwell. o.
Hardin county, together with fifteen
bales Of cotton, was destroyed by fire Oh
the oath ult.
The Ne,cs is delighted with the prs
poets of Savannah, Tenn, there being q
good many new buildings in course OF
erection, and old ones being repaired
Two large droves OF mules from Will
son and Maury counties, passed through
Lawrenceburg few days ago, on their
way South.
Tho Pulaski Citizen says that Matthew
jasper, who resided near Columbia, COM
mitted suicide on the Sth inst. Who is
Mathew Jasper?
A railroad meeting was held in Pulas-
XII last Saturday, for the purpose of TAX
ing the proper steps to build Marrow
Gsuge Railroad from that point to
Huntsville, Ala.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Quintard has advanc-
ed to the Priesthood of the Episcopal
Church. the Row. Augustus o. Stanley,
NJ. D., Rector of the Church of the Mes
slab, at Pulaski, last week.
We suppose the horse disease has
rea ,hed Savannah, Tenn, as we see one
OF her enteprising citizens has a team
which we take to be oxen from their
names, "Bully" ami "Brindle."
Two Justices of the Peace of Law
renee county are trying to effect a COM
promise with an old farmer of that coun-
ty, for having killed his ducks while
quietly swimming in the cresk near his
house, installing them for wild ones.
Some friend, pitying the appearance
Of the local editor of the Pulaski Citizen,
has presented him with bar of soap.
His most intimate friends are now able
to recognize him.
A man near Lawrenceburg, a few days
ago, attempted to assert his authority as
lord and master of his own house, by
choking his wife, but she refusing to
submit to his brutal treatment, he now
has broken thumb to nurse.
We have received the first number of
the Tennessee Rirer News, published at
Tenn. II is neutral in poll
tics, and is neatly gottenup. We gladly
add 1t to our exchange list, and wish
1t an abundance of success.
A great many persons in tho vicinity
of Pulaski have had serious attacks of
influenza during the last two or three
weeks. 1t is OF the same nature of the
horse disease, and very painful. though
readily yielding to proper treatment.
The Pioneer says Moore county prob
ably produces more hogs for market
than any other, and that Lynchburg.
the county site, is the best market.
That's claiming good deal for one 80
young!
Thos. Dunn, of Luxembourg, has
been solicited to become q candidate for
Representative from Lawrence and
Wayne counties, at the special election
to be held in those counties shortly, but
declines to do so in the event the two
former candidates again run.
Messrs. Bunyan Frierson and Wood
son d. Davis, join the other members
Of the Grand Jury of tho Federal Court
in rendering to his Honor Judge c. F.
rnRg, "their most respectful regards for
mis- kindness to them and his efficiency
in filling the high position he now oc-
,upies."
Thursday afternoon. of last week, as
Mr.. VIM. Simonton, of Lawrenceburg.
Was returning from Pulaski, accOmpa-
MED by his daughter, in a buggy, some
part of the harness broke. frigh' ening
he horse and upsetting the buggy, the
narrowly escap: ng serious in.
ury.
A horse belonging TO the editor of the
Pulaski Citizen having taken the hip
oophalgia, he has boon placed under the
ARE of the neutrality-suspicious.
-ium Society, and is now undergoing an
application OF Tumbleronicanligno
nentum. The editor has no fears OF
osing him, as he Is only saw horse.
The Shelbyville Commercial gives q |
ew interesting incidents in the life and /
character of Col. VIM. Smith, of Moore |
county, who has subscribed g., 1000 20 the |
Duck River Valley Railroad. He is a |
nan OF progress, and we wish there |
we're more like him, for then the road |
would be built speedily.
The Lawrenceburg Journal thinks |
here is but one thing lacking to make |
improve more rapidly
han it does, and that Is a railroad. The
same paper says, however, that it is real |
y gratifying to note the Improvements
under way and finished
a that town. From morning until
evening, the sound OF the hammer, saw
Ind anvil ring out the march of i'm
Droyement.
A young man named A. q. Ewing, of
committed suicide in Pulaski
Tuesday morning of last week. He ar
lived in Pulaski that morning on the
,ars, aud after calling for his breakfast
It the hotel, and taking three or four
thinks of liquor, he went to drug store,
where he purchased three-iourths of a |
pound OF chloroform, with which, after |
le had retired to his room, he saturated |
hree pillow slips, and lying down on |
he bed, placed the slips upon his face,
md then put an inverted wash bowl !
,ver his head, thus effectually retaining |
III the fumes of the deadly liquid. He |
belonged to Confederate cavalry conf |
,any during the war, from Marshall |
county, and was wounded at Fort Pill
ow in the right leg, which neeessitated
Is smputation above the ankle.