The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-28
WILLIAMSON COUNTY ITEMS,
From the Franklin Review, Nov. 2oth-l
DIR. MuNsEY's LECTURES.


DIR. Muusev lectured here last Monday night
ON G.The Ideal-Art-Music," and last night On
GsMan." to large and highly appFeclatlVe aud. /
encPs We had helrd him preach on several |
occasions and were satisfied that be was me
chief OF American Pulpit Orators easily. We
have seen men who have heard the English
Punshon and the American Beecher, and they
pronounce DIR. Munsey their superior In MS
lectures he develops an element OF the orator
which we did not know he possessed-tnst OF
humor His humor, too, Is refined ana ex~
ouisite He is our beau ideal of an orator.
He is the grandest man in the realm OF mag
iuation we ever saw or heard Of. He IS the
most memorable logician we know o.. dis
bumOr, as before stated, Is exuoerant ana Irohc-
some as the laughter of children his patnos
is melting and overpowerinR. be Is oeyon9
comparison the greatest and most nnisDea
| orator America has yet produced. True, some
men have edualed him 10 one or two polnis'
but as a whole he is without rival In our MS
| tory Bascom was Ike cataract-out now
empty his stately periods beside the soilo
| links of Muusey's logic. Haskell was an lme
nerial taIker, but with an intellect untameo
| and unframed as the steed of the desert.
Haskell never studied. Munsey1 when boy
started on his first circuit, three hundreo
| miles in length, with but three dollars ID MS
| Docket and got but two meals on the ROAD
| lie Travelled the distance ON foot. While go
| irg throuoh the mountains of East Tennessee
| as Methodist circpit rider, he mastered the
curriculum of the University Of Virginia,
fat which ask never would have perform
ed if he had been pressed WIN Tue IonReFlt9
of Methuselsh.
| Munsev is q workers. glorious WORKERS
senius-a glorious genius. most royalty en-
dowed with Heavens richest and rarest gifts
| On account of his energy and application he
| bas discinliued intellect which meme of the
never saw his like, and we never read of hi
ELe He does not think like anybody else
and does not talk like anybody else: II n
, we're to lecture in thu cities of tn North h
would please better than Dickens, Collins
, Emerson, Cough, or any man who has eve
aDpeared among them. He outst'ips all rival
2 nv on the score of thought. He has though
, | mill" as expressed by a gentleman OF oar &C
= | ouaintance, and he grinds out the grandes
conceptions of any man living.
The base calumuies which were reeenti
4 heaped upon him will but make the public 10
terest much keener; and the large crowds
: Nashville here. and all along his route, wi
n stamp the author as a villalnous ana lou
y mouthed slanderer of pure and gente Chris
L tian.
Is We noticed on our st reefs Mr.. James Neel,
l. fresh from the Mississippi Bottoms. lie IS u
l. on a short visit to his friends and relatives
Is this county.
II The "Lterary-Music Club" composed
,f the young ladies and gentlemen OF Frankli
- and vicinity, effected permanent orRaniz
e tion last Saturday night by tn election of tt
u following officers: w. NJ. Allison, Prasider
,s Ed. Perkins, Vice President; NJ. P. G. VIII
|, stead, Secretary; Il. A. McLemore, Treasure
N Much interest and zeal was manifested, an
lie the club bids fair to be a complete success
Our informant saws our City Judge preside
At admirably; indeed, as the meeting was con
~ posed In part of the gentle sex, he presid'
:, with peculiar grace and dignity.
- On the third in St. our clever Sheriff emp
ia &mtxy
G | the last one to the penltentiary, and sin
s. that time until day before yesterday it
al been entirely vacant. On that day Mr..
:; | fus Wall wss committed on charge OF hors
10 sealing, and is now necessarily in solita
u, | confinement. Verify this speaks well for !
nj morals of Williamson county. Is there 6
IN other county in the State that stands as b.
IN in the scale of morality . ....
N The lectures of DR.. Munsey convince
7! that he is orator without peer, either
ln the pulpit or on the rostrum. They exhibit
I'd him, in the highest perfection, all the elemeI
tie of what we call elOquence. What glOru
in being he is! How many sided. Laugua
fails us to give our impression of him,
10 An exchange very appropriately remar
10 that no man ever gets his moneys worth
Oh | of newspaper unless he reads the advert
OF ing columns attentively. They inform
he who are the live business men of the town, g
az he also finds out where he can obtain the b
m bargains.
' Died ut his residence, six miles nOrtl
IT, Franklin, on Saturday, Nov. 18th, 1873,
no Lanceott johnson, aged about IS years.
Die The debate on Christian Baptism and w
re. Of the Holy Spirit, between Rev. Dr. Ditz
er- of the Me hodist Church aud MIR. Brents of
nj Christian Church, which was to have &C
ia menced in this place on the fist OF
cember next, has been postponed until
18th.
KTTIEn nv 7 LIGHTNING.
asa During the storm Sunday night, I
Ellis. a son of Hat Ellis ESQ, living on
Mcpherson farm, eight miles east of town
stru OK and killed by lightning. He and
sister were sitting in front of the fire at
tn uma, and the Lightning struck the chimrr
lIy and passed downward Into the room.
81; Young lady's foot was badly burned, but al
'! from this and the shock, she sustained no
~ iurv.