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

At a meeting of the Nashville Medical
society held Tuesday night, the late
epidemic was freely and extensively
discussed. 1t was the unanimous Opin-
ION OF all present, only one dissenting,
thaI the disease was nothing more nor
less than Asiatic cholera. 1t was most
emphatically denied that it arose here
from local causes. Its course had been
clearly defined. 1t had passed from Rio
Janeiro Ia New Orleans, from New Or
leans to Memphis, ard from Memphis
to Nashville. 1t had been brought here
from the two last named places. 1t was
greatly aggravated by the use of stale,
decaying and rotton vegetables sent
here from the south. All were of opIn~
ion that it had about spent its force in
Tennessee NdShUiJLe Banner.
The Pulaski Citizen says: ga Pulaski
lawyer rusticated in Lawrence during
the cholera scare, and while there spent
his time in angling. One day friend
came across him quietly sitting upon
the bank of one of the beautiful streams
that meander through the county, his
pole firmly wedged under rock and his
eye fixed on the cork. The usual ques-
tons elected the facts that he had been
fishing there three hours, hadn't got a
bite, and that he baited with frog. The
friend sat down to talk and help watch,
and during the time noticed a chunk
quietly summing himself on it. did
you say you were fishing with frog ?"
"Yes and It's powerful poor bait, or
there's mighty few fish here" well,
yonder's your frog on that chunk" The
lawyer raised his pole, and sure enough
the frog fell from the chunk and came to
the bank with the hook"
1t is with great sorrow we chronicle
the recent misfortune Of our esteemed
friend, Maj. Altman, of sCornersYille.
No man in Tennessee has lahored more
zealously to introduce and propagate
the thoroughbred no man has been so
untiring in his endeavers to foster and
encourage a spirit of emulation among
stock breeders, and to cultivate REIN
ed and elevated taste in farming gener-
ally. Yet it seems that some devil in
carnate, some 6end unknown, has en-
deavored to thwart his good purposes,
to beggar him and his children, and to
stop the breed of his fine stock. On
Saturday evening, 21st., Major Altman
fed his stocEain person and found them
all right on Sunday he went to church,
according to his well-known habit; but
returned in the afternoon to find that an
enemy had visited his premises. Inn
ported Canwell, by the great Stockwell,
was found to be almost blind-his eyes
closed ard running; Watson. by Lex
a similar manner; seven head of fine
cattle, his Shetland stud, and many of
his fine sows were found dead. 1t is
feared that Canwell and Watson will
lose their eyes. Thus the tiend, for what
reason Major Altman is entirely ignoH
rant, resorted to a mean and cowardly
attack upon poor dumb brutes to injure
their owner. Words are too poor to
paint the deep and damning blaekness
of the heart that would perpetrate such
a crime.-PuLGSki Citizen, JULy 10.
The GAINESVILLE Tobacco Leaf of the
9Th inst. has the following from Erin,
Houston county: "There have been
twelve deaths from cholera since June
"a, eight whites and four colOred. Thos.
A. Gilman, commission merchant, died
there OF cholera last week. w. j.
Thomas, freight agent, was attacked
with cholera, but is recovering. Rus1-
ness houses are nearly SlI closed. The
doctors have fed the place and left the
people to take care OF themselves"
Sixty-three persons died OF cholera at
Shelbyville; nineteen whites and forty
four colored.
Representative Willis Worley, of Giles
county, held the ticket in the Louis
vile Lottery which drew the second
prize, $4,000.
Nashville Union and AHIeIiG 18th ::
Miss Barbara Rhinehart died of cholera
at Decatur, Meigs county, on the night
of the ID inst.
Shelbyville Commercial, 18th: We
learn that near Unionville the families
of Mrs. Hendon and Mrs. Mcdowell,
who went from here to escape the chole-
ra. are all down with it.
ShebyVilIe Commercial, 1Ith: We
learn that Mr.. Fkon,aa Erwin died of
cholera in Pennington on "wednesday
last, making the fourth white person
that has died of cholera in that place.
Several new cases are also reported.
waverly Journal: GA nicely dressed
gentleman applied for marriage license
at Dover, Tenn, last week, bHt when he
spoke the lady's name, the polite county
clerk suggested that, if it was all the
same to him, he would prefer that he
should name some other party, as the
one mentioned had become his wife the
previous evening"
Gallatin Examiner, 18th: The alb
sentees are daily putting in their ap-
pearanGe, apd usually look like they
saw something white" as they first en-
ter.
The total deaths from cholera from
May so to this date at Gallatin have
been l0i, OF which 50 were cholera.
The deaths since our issue last Satur-
day have fallen to two. The general
health of the town is good and if our
people maintain their present habits of
prudence, there is no good reason to fear
in the feature. We again repeat our
caution to absentee citizens Fsturning to
be unusually careful as to their diet.
They must learn to do as our citizens
here have done aud exercise the most
rigid Marshall Gazette,
What could have been the matter with
some members of the court this week =?
Ansrer.-(hic.) What? 1t is absolute
ly a shame that those whose duty it is,
To inspire with awe
The majesty of the law,
should become SO thick tongued That
they cannot speak intelligibly. Who
said Forty Second Congress ?-MdrshGU
Gazette.
Cholera has almost entirely disappear
ed at Pennington. There were only two
deaths, Mr.. Arch Baxter and and Mrs.
Allen Coffey. A large proportion OF the
citizens were attack ed more or'less seri-
Ously, but by prudence and skillful
medical attention, they recovered.
Quite an excitement prevailed in this
place last Monday, on account of the re-
port that cholera had made it's appear
ance in town. a number of our citizens
have been affected with symptoms of
this dread epidemic, but in no instance
have they proven fatal Marshall Ga
setfe