The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-10-10
CULLEOKA ITEMS.

MI INOD6EL ~ 1t061 SOiu Ills ldInl re-
Gently to Mr.. WilSfOTd, of Giles county,
at fifty dollars and forty cents per acre.
We regret to lose so good a citizen as
Mr.. Reed, but are gratifed his place is
to be supplied by one who comes wells
recommended as an honest, upright and
useful man.
A largo number of beef cattle is
shipped almost every week from this
point, and yet neither our farmers,
merchants nor traders seem willing to
be at the expense of erecting scales for
weighing heavy bodies, so that almost
constantly trades are lost because buy
ers and sellers are apart in their esti
mates of the weight of cattle.
Our town has an active trade in its va
rious branches of business. The dry
goods merchants are daily thronged
with customers, while the grocery men
are busy disposing of things in their
line, and the different mechanical de-
partments seem all to be constantly en-
gagged in their various trades.
Coal as a fuel, is rapidly superseding
wood with US. Even some of the citizens
living in the country, aud owning tim
Der, find it to their interest to burn coal
rather than to pay the high price de-
manded for preparing wood for use.
Rey. Mr.. Evans has been reelected
pastor of the Ba tOtist church, near this
place, for the next twelve months, much
to the satisfaction of his numerous
friends in this vicinity.
Rev. Mr.. Orman announced, last suns
day, that over eighteen hundred dollars
had been paid by his congregation dur
ing the past year, for the various inter-
terests of the church. Eight hundred of
which, we learn, was paid him as salary.
Plat Creek RedivIvus.
To the Editors Of the Columbia Herald:
oil . fcsf 70 Lot ho I'D
pie of Maury county know that l am
still alive and able to write, light in
AS you have not he ard from the Cedars
in some time, and as the HERALD is the
best paper in the world, l will try to
give you the news in brief. AS to crops,
corn is very good, and will make from
five to eight barrels per acre; cotton is
very fine, and will make from eight
hundred to one thousand pOu nds per
acre; tue grass crop was the finest ever
made in this county; stock al fat and
fine. The health of the country is good;
all hands are picking cotton with more
vim than was ever heard of before.
The people OF the Cedars are just finding
out that they are worth noticing, the
HERALD having praised them some this
summer. | tell you it has done them
much good, and they can work when
they take hold, and are all in the har-
ness, and the "brltchin" fits smooth and
right. So you will hear a good report
from our end of the line, this fall, when
crops are all gathered and sold.
l recently saw an article in your pa
per, and another in the MaU, evidently
written by a citizen of this county, call
ing on our esteemed fellow-countyman,
Gen. LuCius r. Polk, to make the race
for Governor, Now, there is no man in
our State l would see in the gubernato-
rial chair than my friend Gen. Polk;
but the question with me is, is General
Polk, plain farmer, able to meet the
great leader of the Radical party, Hor-
ace Maynard, with all his experience
and skill as a debater? / am afraid of
the willy Narragansett, unless we have
leader to meet him who is equal to
him as a skilful and experienced deba-
ter. We have just that kind of man
right here, with the harness On-I mean
of course the great and noble and gal
liant and pure and generous w. Z.
Whitthorne; man that stands to>day
without spot or blemish; a man who,
when touched, rings as clear as steel,
from the end of his toe to the crown of
his head. He is able to meet the great
Maynard and show him up at all times,
and can beat him 25, 900 votes in the
State. We are all for Whit for Cover
nor up here in the cedars.
We have had some fine religious
meetings up here recently. Brother
Kline held a protracted meeting at Mc~
Crory's Corner last week, and had fine
success. Several professed faith in
! Christ and Joined the church. He is tho
man for this people, all like him as
minister, but we had disgraceful affair
on Sunday night. -Four young men
came into church drunk, and cut up
powerfully, and disturbed the preacher
very much 1t is very strange that such
conduct will never cease ia this neigh,
borhood. II is to be deplored, but it is
true, and il is right to let the world
| know il. FLAT CREEK