The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-02
OVER THE COUNTY.

L.
Jack Rains, who was sentenced to th
State prison for fifteen years, Monday
TO- horse stealing, has written a lon
statement, in which he sets forth tina
he was only particeps criminis 10 tn
transaction, and represents that Sau
Matthews and one Newton were tn
principals. When the prisoner was frs
arrested he had Matthews subpoenaet
to testify in his behalf. but he fed tn
country, and has not been heard o
since. As regards Newton, we beliey,
his character was attacked during tn,
Rains trial, and proven good. Th'
statement OF a convict impeaching TIE
character of parties ought to be received
with great caution.
Walter Akin had ten acres of wheat
this season which turned out thirty-ont
bushels per acre.
Last week was intensely hot and dry
and corn suffered little. Cotton has
grown very large, and has not as much
fruit as it ought to have. We under
stand that Col. Wade's cotton has about
three bolls to two stalks, although the
stalks are waist high. We hope this
warm weather will develop hollis in
abundance,
Old Uncle Billy Pollard, of Little
A
picture of Horace Greeley. Those who
have sesn the Liberal candidate tor the
| Presidency are struck with astOnish-
ment at the remarkable resemblance.
On the Booker place on Big Bigby
| Creek, four hundred bushels of wheat
were taken from ten acres. Who can
beat this?
Maury county is entitled to send
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| University at Knoxville, tut ion and
railroad fare. free. This institution has
an excellent faculty, and farmers who
| desire to give their children a good edu-
cation would do well to send them
there.
Mr.. George Hodge has planted several
thousand peach and apple trees on one
of his fathers old cornfields, about half
| a mile east of Columbia. If he pays
proper attention to his orchard, he will
be amply repaid for his trouble.
Mr.. J. L. Maxwell raised five pound
beet this year. This is the largest We
have heard of this season.
Mr.. John S. Perry, who has one OF the
largest and most valuable orchards in
| the county. sent us basket of tine
| peaches a few days since.
The premium list of the Eleventh
| Annual Fair of the Maury County Agri-
| cultural and Live Stock Society has just
been issued from the Herald office. Call
| upon the Secretary for copy.
Thursday of last week while Mr.. j.
NJ. DOckery, of the Santa Fe country,
| was absent from home, rattlesnake
four feet three inches long came into
| his yard. There being no man on the
premises, the two daughters OF Mr..
| Dockery brtvely attacked and killed
the snake; not, however, before a faith
tul dog had been bitten by his snakeship.
During the excitement, the ladies threw
rocks of size, it was found impossible
for them to move afterwards.
Polk Allen ssys he had a tomato that
weighed p ounces. ~
If the increase of ones family by
| thriblets is calculated to make man
happy, a Mr. Green, who lives on DR.
Forgey's place, would be, but untortu
nately, two OF them died.
Major John ID. Anderson tells us that
Fanny. one of his mothers old negroes,
| is ono hundred and five years old. She
and her deformed son, lobe, whom all
| COlumbians recollect, are at the Poor
| House. She was an old woman when the
| Major, who is now about seventy, was
little baby.
Our readers will recollect that Major
Geo. Lipscomb, of Cross Bridges, made
at the rate of eighty bushels to the acre
| of wheat. OF course this gave the Major,
who is one of the very best farmers in
| Maury county, an excuse to "talk"
little, AID Col. A. q. Cooper, our State
| Senator, heard of it, and went down to
| his farm on Swan reek, Lewis county,
| to see if he could not beat it. He found
| that his yielded at the rate Of ninety-sev-
en- and half bushels per bushe! sown.
| IL was the "Fultz" wheat sent to him by
| the Commissioner of Agriculture. and
| said to have originated in Pennsylvania.
The Colonel prepared his land very
| carefully, and put it after goober peas.
This beats Marshall, Maury or any
other county in Middle Tennessee, so
far as heard from. Let us hear from
| other farmers.
1t is reported that, Union, Leagues have
been or about to be revived in this
county. We hope this is not so, because
Loyal Leagues are worse than slave
pens to the negroes. -Four or fiYe years
ago they created that monster of hid
eous MEN," kukluxism, and if they re-
organiZe, and tn tten again the peace
OF society by thvir midnight conclave,
the latter will also once more spring into
existence, just as naturally as effect fol-
lows cause. We sincerely trust that We
have seen the last of secret political soci-
cites.
Mr.. r A. McLemore, of the neighbor-
hood offspring Hill, tells us that an old
| negro ON his place received letter from
his son Burke McLemore, col who was
sent to the penitentiary several months
since for killing white man named
Vestai, in which letter Burke advised
his father never TO vote the Radical tick
ct any more. Burke stated that if he
had never turned Radical he would
| never have been in his present fix. The
| old man got one of Mr.. McLeIhore's
sons to read the letter. but when the
latter desired to copy it Off, BuTke's mo-
Their refused to let him,
Mr.. A. J. Mcknight, of this county,
challenges the farmers of Giles, through
the columns of the Pulaski Citizen, to
| beat his crop of wheat, the amount OF
which we pu blished several weeks ago.
His Bough:op yielded 42H bushels to
| the bushel sowp, apd averaged thirty
| bushels per acre. His red wheat aver
aged stwenty-seven bushels per acre.
| We are informed that Mr.. Meningitis
wheat was grown upon an old gravelly
north hillside, in the Bigbyville country.
Cap. NJ. C. Campbell, of Carter's
creek, has sent us an Irish potato, Ear
ly Rose variety, weighing one pound
aud three quarters.
We learn that Hampshire party re-
Gently went in -four wagons to swan
creek, and seined that excellent lrouting
| stream. They destroyed a great many,
| we are told. Formerly, the barrens con-
tanned great sport for the angler, bat the
crystal streams haye been seined until
game fish are scarce.
See the advertisement Of Findlay's
| .sEclipse" Screw, Cotton and Hay Press,
and Sawyers Improved Cotton Gin. For
\ sale by Holding, Wilkes IL Hancock,
cotton factors, Nashville, Tenn.
We Lear from gil parts Of the county
that the cotton is rapidly opening. This
has not occurred in many years, il it eyer
did, before in this country at this date.
Bolls ara not very abundant. tut
squares are.
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