The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-07-18
OVER THE COUNTY.

| same gentleman that Esq. Il. B. Daimwood
Major Thomas S. Stratton, Esq. Z. Davis, anc
Yoiney Cyrus, are talking of filing bill il
the Ghancery Court TO stop the grass orncer o
the 21st district from selling their land.
On the 25th of last May, Mr.. Thomas II
| BRYANT, three miles east of Culeoka, aud one
! mile south of Scribner's Mill, on Fountain
| Greek, left his horse, saddled in his stable
/ During the night the horse was stolen. de
/ went to Marshall county and inquired for him
but without success. Last week tne
| Ranger of Marshall county advertised IN the
i Gazette that MIR. Divine took up stray
/ horse on the 18th of May, which suited the de
scription of Mr.. Bryant's so well that he went
| ND and found the horse and got it. AIR. bry-
| ant SAYS it is very strange that the horse was
| taken up nearly two weeks before II was
stolen from bis stable.
Capt. r. C. Gordon sold some fine cattle last
week to Capt. Geo. w. MayherrY, an enter
Nayberry says he intends to haye as good
| herd OF cattle as can be found in Middle Ten
| nessee. @
Jas. 7. Moore and Major Thomas J. Crosby
left for Beaver Dam last Tuesday; and Col.
Geo. p. Webster, Capt. r. G. Gordon, Col. 10.
]. Dobbins, Geo. Z. Webster, jr., Cabe Hart,
started for the same place on "Wednesday. We
would like to be with that fishing party.
They expect to fish in Cane Greek.
Little candidates for Sheriff had better look
out for the big candidate for that Office, or he
will distance them all. We have heard that he
is getting on the good side of the mothers,
throughout the county, by carrying their ba-
bies in his arms, whenever be happens TO be
going the same way.
Two successful farmers OF our county, R.
Wilson Dobbins, and Mr.. DRAKE Clopton. say
that their negroes are becoming better workers
aud farmers every year. Both OF these gen
u, II IL, - Rlax
and are therefore competent TO judge when a
negro does good work.
DR.. Walter Parker, Moss Hunter, Man Daw-
son, Billy Howard, Jake Orr, King Rufus Polk,
Billy Watkins, and others, have gone to Beaver
Dam Springs, to have a big deer hunt. We
hope the Beaver Da water will not bsve
the same effect on this party that dish OF
"hasty SOUP had on one of our talented cor
respondents recently. ..
Persons in the neighborhood of Mt. Pleas
ant who want to keep q cholera cure on hand,
will do well to call on Rufus Long, Esq, who
has a very fine recipe, having tried it himself.
Jas. Ii. Hoge, who had one of the best fields
of wheat in the county, thinks his crop will
thresh out eighteen bushels per acre. John ..
Perry made from eleven to thirteen bushels
per acre.
A temperance celebration will take place at
Mt Nebo, August 9Th, 1878, to which all who
are disposed to attend, are respectfully invited,
and especially the enemies of tenn perance, that
they NAV see the error of their way. A. W.
Smith is to be the orator Of the day.
Col. A. 2. Hughes, venerable citizen Of
this county, was foUnd dead in front of his
residence Thursday morning of last week, be
fore day. He went to Columbia on the day
| before, and late 10 the night, or rather next
morning his wife went out and found him ly'
| inc in front of the gate, in a puddle of water
!, h 70 T.
| lieyed he must have died suddenly with some
| disease, or becoming suddenly ill., fell in the
puddle and was drowned. He was born IN
! Henry county, Va, and was always fond Of
| talking about the cold Dominion. DE was
seventy six wears old, and it ia said that he die
| not have an enemy in the world. DIR. james
A. Hughes and Patrick Henry Hughes, the
| latter named in honor of the native county Of
| the old Colonel, are his sons. He professeo
religion at the Hurricane Camp Meeting il
| 1871.
The wheat crop over the county has turned
! out better than was expected after the damage
| it sustained last winter. The acreage soWI
| was small, and although it will fall very much
short of last years yield, it is nearly or quite
an average crop.
The chairman of the county court was no
| titled that the bridge at Harrison & SowelP:
| mill needed some repairs, and he authorized
| Esq. G. P. Whitaker to haYe the work done.
Our modest, but good looking young friend
! Harry Shield of the finn of S. +. Norton i
| Co., went out to Geo. NJ. Cannon's few days
| ago, to put up a new mower be had sold tc
| ESQ. Geo. 2. Whitaker and Eestus NJ. Fuller
| George and Festus have several hundred acres
| in cotton and several more. in corn, and al
| though they were threatened with the Grass
| Officer at one time their crop is now about
clean. and looks promising.
Doctors W. W. Cochran, Nathan Perry, NJ
| b. SmIser, J. G. Williamson, J. A. Hughes!
| and } d. Bennett, physicians of Culleoka and
vicinity, wrote letter to DR.. Z. h winston, o.
| Nashville, asking him to furnish them Wlth
| information CONCERNING the disease which
/ scourEed the State Capital SO terribly during
| the month of June. DIR. Winston replied al
length, taking the ground that it was Asiatlc
cholera of foreign origin and that 1t can DC
prevented and cured.
Mr.. j. w Thomas, of Knob Greek, has
shown us q cotton boil fully two thirds grown
Mr. Thomas informs US that he planted the
seed on the first day of May, and the bloom,
from which this boil came, made its appear
auce on the 26th of June. His neighbOrs say
that be has 10 acres that will certainly make
10 bales.
Mr.. l. n. Buyers brought US an egg yester-
day, which he said had written letters on II
before he got it accidentally broken which
looked like the words, Washington" "Clty,
and Representative.
Early in the spring a twin lamb was dropped
on the farm of Mr.. Jno. Thomas, of Knob
creek, which was quite q curiosity. The
| twins were joined together, had eight legs, two
tails, but mad only two ears, three eyes, one
| upper jaw aud two lower jaws. Two OF the
front legs stood upright from the shoulders
They did not live.