The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
OVER THE COUNTY.

Col. ]. J. Dobbins, of Ca, is now residing
in our county, with Hammond Webster, en-
Bigby creek.
Not long since. some bird hunters, while
hunting on the premises of Mr.. J. Byus Hill.
Silver creek, defaced, with shot, the tomb
stone that marks the resting place of MIR.
Hills son. We indulge the hope that it was
ted scoundreI would knowingly do such a sac
religious act.
W. R. Bindle, an excellent stock raiser of
the Mt. Pleasant country, recently met with
bad luck, His fine Berkshire boar, which
took premium at our last Fair, was bitten
by mad dog several months ago, and died
several weeks since.
good joke was played off on the corpulent
Constable of the Goth civil district He had a
subpoena for Dick Judd, compelling
his attendance on the Grand Jury. Dick
knew of II, and when Polk attempted to
read it, he ran away, and not to be outdone,
the offcer ran after him, not overtGking
him. however, until ne had run about mile,
when Judd stopped, seeing his pursurer was
about broke down and wet with sweat. Polk
thought Judd was In earnest all the time in
lis efforts to get away,
W. J. Webster and W. H. Williams caught
about fifty trout at the Ashton dam on Ruth
erord creek last Saturday. The former
CNuEub Tue ulubOhb ny
night out of Lytle's creek.
At Duck River Station Saturday last, Cliff
Guilty occurred between Jake Partee and Jim
Terrell. both colored. Jake was drinking,
and trying to raise fuss with some one, he
didn't care whom, He came across Terrell,
Tho braced up to him, ran him, and struck
him on the head with the side of AK. Fer
Iel was arrested on a States warrant, charged
with an assault with intent to kill" ESQ.
I I.ac.- 1a1 AIs-
charged the prisoner
An old bachelor in the nsighborhood of
Southport, is preparing to build a new house.
OF course there will be a GARRETT to If.
We are glad to learn that Mr.. Alexander
Mackey, OF Bear Greek. who has been quite
sick a long tim e, is better.
Mr.. Harris Dark, one mile and a halt
southeast IF Rock Spring, seventy odd
years old, has been sick in bed for about
one year. few of the neighbors have TO
sit up with him all the time. All the neigh
bors ought TO help.
! Mr.. Geo. Altman, of Cornersville, is known
| far and wide as one of the best aud most sue
| cessful breeders of fine stock in the South.
| His communications to the press are always to
| the point, and of much usefulness. Recently
/ he petitioned the Legislature to pass dog
law, and, again, his "advice to young men" is
| followed by an article in the Rural Sun, "To
the Stock Men of Tennessee in which he
advises them to publish their experience. He
is very complimentary, too, TO our fellow citi-
| zeus. when he says "Col. Ledbetter is contrib
uting valuable papers on the best of all hogs,
| the improved Berkshires." and says that Mr..
Ben. Harlan, of Maury, sis the most success
full breeder of cattle that know in the State,
and has grown rich by it, and calls upon him
to ''tell us how it is DONE"
/ Mr.. samuel Woody, of Santa Fe, about six
~ years of age, sends us an answer to tn e
/ enigma published in our last. The answer
was chamberlain" Mr.. Woody is old in
years but his mind is quicker than most young
people.