The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-16
OVER THE COUNTY.

| Mr. Jack Fly had a chicken a short time
| ago which had four legs and four wings.
During the past week great many farmers
| have sheaJed their sheep. Mr., w. s. Jennings
of the Mt. Pleasant nefghborhood, has Proba-
! bly, the most valuable flock of Merinos IN The
county they formerly belonged to Mr.. j. NJ.
/ Gardner. The wool shown us by Mr.. J ennings
! is the finest we ever saw. The fierce FROM
his buck weighed IL pounds, and the ewes
| averaged pounds each.
Mr.. Byus Hill, an excellent farmer on Sill
| yer creek, (who was never known to be out
| of sweet potatoe seed informs us that the
| fleece from his valuable flock averaged 90
| pounds per head.
Who is the overseer of the Leftwlch lane,
on Bear creek Is he married or single? He
must either be henpecked and miserable
husband, or crusty, disappointed old b9ehe-
Tor, for, young man who had wife, or what
IS better, a sweetheart, and loved ner
would never allow her to ride in buggy over
such road. Who is heg
young farmer on Knob creek lost his fine
young thoroughbred bull lately, which has ex-
cited the sympathy of the whole neighborhoof
even the young Squire and Polk Allen have
been seen wiping their faces with their ban
dannas, so deeply are they effected at the loss
their friend has sustained death of so
promising YOUNG bull. A letter of condo
lence was written to the young farmer signed
L4ubi every uue IN the Hel2lDOFlOOu.
which they EXPRESS unfeigned SORROW at the
loss of so PROMISING an animal which cost
500 Now that the animal is dead, some ma
hcious person is circulating a report that if
be did not die from OLD AGE, it must have been
by STARVATION, which no sane person, Of
course, will believe. Mr.. John Wisener,
whose generosity and iiberaIity is proyerbiaI
has offered the distressed young farmer FIFTY
CENTS for the hide
Alarge hole was washed in the bottom of
Big Bigby creek, at the crossing of the Mt
Pleasant aud Hampshire roads, during the last
rise. Col Nat W. Jones had occasion to cross
there and did not know of the hole, aud so soon
as his mule fell into it, he was'thrown into the
creek and washed under the mule Nat SAYS
while down there under the mule, with no
way to get out, he thought of several prayers,
but they were all too long to repeat, so he
pulled out of his coat pocket one of Gen.
WElttborne's speeches and he immediately
rose to the surface.
Mr.. Jas. O'Riley Pillow not long since was
on visit to Fayetteville. and wonderfully mar
Vicious are the stories he tells of the place.
Among other things he says be was shown
the hide Of negro man, (who had been hung y
which had been tanned into leather.
Mr. Harris Dark, of the gath district, died
last Sunday. He had been sick in bed, nigh
unto death, for more than year.
A pair of saddle bags were found recently
at the ford OF Big Blgby- creek, near
the residence of Jas Jennings, which con
tanned certificate of Credit Mobiicr stock,
three empty quart bottles, on the sides of
which was the following motto: "None but
Americans should rule America" nd also
several copies of the late Democratic platform.
1t was supposed they belonged to some Con
gresham, but all doubts about the matter
have been removed by Col. Nat W. Jones
claiming them.
t,orcoI oc f,Jya--- ,,,,,, ., I-.o.-1-
on Knob Greek, sometime since, and asked
him to come across the creek. He refused
and they left. He fired five pistol shots at
them. He thinks he knows who they are.
Mr.. G. I. Stone, of Knob Greek, tells his
neighbors that when he had the dropsg, some
time since, he was tapped and three water
buckets of water came from him; and that
on the same day he took FIVE glasses of castor
oil. This is tough story, but Mr.. Stone en-
joys, we believe, good reputation for veracity.
Lately Mr.. Byus Hill had three swarms of
bees in one day