The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-11-07
AROUND TOWN.


his coat and gloves will bring back the glove:
he may have the coat and welsome.
Mrs. Fanny E. Ba ldwin has fled a petition
in the Chancery Court for divorce from he
husband, r. E. Baldwin.
The Circuit Court Clerks room has beef
enlarged and nicely fitted up. 1t is now jus
such an office as the gentlemanly clerk anC
good looking unmarried assistants deserve.
The Nelson House has a new dinner bell,
| which sounds like an old country church bell
The regular meeting of the Maury county
| Teachers's Association is tomorrow morning
at II O'clock at the Masonic Hall. All teach
| ers, both male and female, are expected to be
present.
Mr.. Sims, of Franklin, has succeeded in
| putting up gas pipes in Sheriff Latta's fine new
house on West Main street, on the Cayce
| Spring Power plan. Mr.. Latta has about sc
Jets.
An exchange says Chicago has set a good
exa nipple in establishing at one of her railway
depots, a free reading room. The room is
large and pleasant, and is ornamented with
pictures and flowers. Persons having occa-
sion to get on and off the cars at the Columbia
depot, would feel thankful if there was enough
shelter to keep them from the rains.
Lamb & Boyd, who usually employ thirty or
forty hands, in their machine shop, and car
penter shop, stopped opera tions, and dis
charged nearly all their hands. Cause-hard
times and no money in circulation. This is
the most perceptible result of the panic we
have had yet in our town. II is bad on the
employers and especially on the employees
They are now in operation again.
family of German immigrants returned
from Henryville, Lawrence county, few
days ago, where they went to buy cheap land
and homes-saying that they could not find
any cheap land there. Our Lawrence county
friends should not ask an extravagant price
for their lands, if they want them bought up
and stheir county settled with Industrious cit
liens.
The Editor of the Mail has never given his
readers a word of information about how he
started to his home in the country recently,
and how he didn't get there and how he got
DdSh u lOWu, anu Wu6IueI uS IOuC pSAOA y Va
behind, on the old gray horse, with that old
negro and whether it was he or the negro
that made it difficult for the horse to so
straight; and what became of the canary bird
and the buggy. He did not tell us chow all
these things can be, and not overcome US like
a summers cloud"
The merchants of Columbia, and all other
business men Of the town, are complaining of
their inability to collect accounts, and Of the
very inadequate amount of money IN clrCula-
ton. Trade is almost staGuatlng, and all be-
cause the farmers have not sold their cotton
and paid off their debts. Cotton is low, we
know, but farmers ought to sell few bales
and pay oil their most urgent creditors
Great good can be done with a small amount
of money in this way. A few hundred dollars
from every farmer in the county can in this
way pay many debts and relieve much distress.
A small sacrifice in the price Of cotton Is Moth
ing compared to the good it will do. We are
glad to hear of one or two of our farmers
offering in any way in their power to help
their merchant creditors.
S. P. Norton & Co., hardware merchant of
this place, have contracted with Capt. n. J.
Vaughn and Charley n. Yaught to sell them
their stock of hardware, etc, on the 25th OF
December, 1873. s. 2. Norton u Co. will
until that time sell hardware at cost, for strict
ly cash.
Our County Court has made Ii beral dena~
ton to the yellow fever sufferers, and our
citizens feel inclined to do better, but money
Is so scarce in the county that they cannot
A few leading thoroughbred stock men are
talking of making up car load of thorough
bred cattle, and send to Memphis, to be sold
aud the proceeds given to the poor people
there.