The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Eayette county has negro magistrate
Sarah Mcdonald, aged lbs years, died
last week in Scott county.
A Somerville merchant received two
twins as a New Years gift.
Mr.. John Shivers has been elected
town constable of Lynchburg.
A baby, weighing fifteen pounds, has
been born in Moore county.
The Grand Lodge of the knights of
Pythias meet in Nashville on the Sth of
next month.
Mail routes will soon. be established
from Law enceburg to Centreyille, and
other points.
A. J. Simpson has been elected Chair
man of the County Court of Moore
county.
Mr.. l.. S. Goodrich, of Waverly, has
received a patent for Rotary Pudding
Furnace.
A prolific wife in Madison county has
given birth to four babies within the
last fourteen months.
A fellow at Cleveland Hotel, last
week. ate "a biscuits, cups of coffee, -
hard boiled eggs, ETC., for his dinner
His stomach has no memory.
Sheriff Garner, while trying to quell
a disturbance i'll Lawrenceburg a few
days ago, came very near being shot by
his pistol being accidentally discharged
in his pocket.
IsSac a. Tennison, of Pennington,
Marshall county, died in Nashville last
week. He had suffered for long time
with a tumor on his foot, and when am
putation was performed, he died.
Wednesday of last week, J. r. Thorn
as, formerly of Warren county, was ar
rested in Moore county charged with
Ill
Mississippi in December last. He has
been taken to that State for trial.
The Moore County Pioneer says that a
little boy in that county named An
drews, after drinking freely from bot
tie containing aSsafntida dissolved in
whisky, died instantly after drinking
the draught. 1t was thought he was
strangled to death.
Mr.. John A. Johnston, who lives on
the military road, in Lawrence county,
lately killed large catamOunU near his
place, which measured three feet four
inches in length. Mr.. Johnston SAYS
borhood, and that they are very destruc-
tive to young pigs.
The Fayetteville Netcs mentions Judge
w. p. Martin as one of the Criminal
Judges of the State. This is a mistake,
and the NetUS should hasten to make the
dbe1tde honorable, as the Sheriff of our
county did lately, who, in adjourning
the court, said by mistake: go, yes, the
honorable Criminal Court is adjourned
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