The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-12-20
OVER THE COUNTY.

s. walker Scott recently lost &. fint
Jack and JenDett by the epizooty. He
says he has lost about $r;OO worth o.
stock this year. The dogs haze killed
many of his sheep. He thinks his Gait &
are afflicted with something like the ep-
izooty.
Mr.. Wilse TrousdaIe recently Icss 9
Jack by the epizooty.
Mr.. Robert Craig fas lost a Jao., Tor
which he paid $500
The epizooty has killed several ami
mails for Mr.. Elias Armstrong, we under
stand.
Mr.. NJ. Gardner has sold his farm,
about two miles beyond Mt. Pleasant,
on the pike, to Lewis Pickard, at about
fifty dollars per acre. We trust Mr..
Gardner, who is breeder OF fine sheep,
will not leave our county.
Marriage seems to be as contagious as
small pox, in the Rock Spring country.
Those who are not married, are reported
to be preparing.
1t is reported, and believed. that a
wedding will soon take place i'm this
county, the bride being forty years old,
and the bridegroom twenty-oue.
Capt. n. J. Vaughn has sold to Mr.
D. A. Digger the Maury Mills, on Ruth
erford creek, recently purchased by him
from the Ashton estate.
marriage license was issued yester-
day for the union of Mr.. II. T. Akin and
Mrs. G. p. Erwin, OF the Rock g ring
COUNTRY; and although raining incss-
sanity yesterday evening, we were mi
nus minister from this place, which
Is glorious omen of another marriage.
Walter Pillow, a successful young tar
Ter, near Columbia, has embarked in
the dairy business, and purposes fur
nishing the citizens with pure and una
dulterated milk. Situated on one of
the finest farms the county affords,
and knowing bis imdomitabie viii, we
undertaking success.
Thos. III. Williams, an intelligent
young farmer, and Mr.. r. 7. Ledbstter,
the noted breeder of Berkshires, both of
this county, correspond for that excel
lent agricultural periodical, the Rural
Sun.
yerv interesting debate will take
place on Friday in Christmas between
Il. p. Fraser and w. H. Timmons, at the
Knob Creek Christian church, four
miles from town, beginning at 10
O'Clock, A. NJ. Subject, "Resolved, that
it is inconsistent with the Christian
character, and contrary to the teachings
of the Bible, and therefore sinful, for a
Christian to hold Office in human gov
ernments." Fraser afiirms, and Tim
mons denies.
Esq. w. A. Bailey has removed from
the vicinity of Spring Hill TO Culleoka.
The Squire made an excellent niagis-
trate, We learn, and his neighbors were
sorry to part with him. His successor
-...l L.
elected, but we understand that a great
many candidates are in the field, or
threaten TO come in when the race be-
gins; ard among them, q negro.
An accident occurred on the Railroad
on Mrs. Ellen Booker's farm, about
three miles south OF Columbia, last
Wednesday night, about o'clock. The
construction train WAS coming north,
and one OF the wheels having a defect,
it broke down at the place above
mentioned, aud six cars were thrown
over. A negro named Dock @of Aths
ems, Ala, had his leg broken, and can
not possibly live. Mr. G. O. Harrison,
conductor of the train, was injured, but
not seriously. The wreck was cleared
by ten o'clock yesterday morning, and
the train running regularly.
In another column, our fellow-citi-
zen, Melville Williams, ESQ.,, offers for
sale lot of fine Ayrshire cattle. TIL Sc
cattle are the defendants of herd im-
ported by Gen. Ct. j. Pillow before the
war, and are known to be best suited to
the Southern farmer. In recent num-
Der of tho Rural SUn, that paper refers
10 this herd in very complimentary
manner. DIR, Williams, a prominent
farmer Of Davidson county, bought a
few of Gen. Pillows herd. Those of
our friends desiring first class mich
cows should not fail TO call on Mr.. Mel
Vile Williams, and buy some of his
herd, Ms they can buy them cheaper from
him than by sanding abroad.
Nessrs T.. II. Spencer and VIM. Nc
Coy, gentlemen long and favOrably
known to the public as experienced
have purchased AZ interest
in the Gregory Hills, On Rutherford
creek. They guarantee fiour of the
finest quality, having purchased rIaehi-
merry OF the latest and most improved
7 atterns, for its manufacture. Tie
sui ut machine, RS every farmer knows,
is OF great importance, for if it be an in
ierior make, il is impossible 10 get good
4 our, however well the grinding may be
cone. These gentlemen have the Van
dergrif Il Potter s-ciut machine, ac:1norg-
ledged ti,o cess manufactured. They
faTe corn shelter that will she'll a
thousand bushels per DAY, which they
have for sAo use OF customers.