The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-21
RALLY HILL, March S, 1879.
Ia tie Ed itors Of The CoLutahin HcrnLd.

RALLY HILL, March S, 1879.
To the Editors Of the Columbia Herald:
As ! have not been able to go to town, to
see you, and as you never come up here,
propose to drop you a line. Well, sirs, health
and honesty are improving in this neighbor-
hood We have had one death in the 25th
district. Uncle Tomm, Peay, one of our best
citizens died on the Isl day of March. II {
was devOut member of the Methodist church.
South, and died as he h I'd lived. We'll, all
the farmers have ali gone to work in dead
earnest; cotton is "ali the gO'' this year.
Wheat looks badly it is badly frozen out,
but we hope it will yet make crop, if NOT
as full one as common. We had one of the
coolest winters up here in the Cedars you
ever saw, Politics is virtually played out
you can't find out which SIDE man belongs to
now, as on never hear it named. We
working our farms, we cant stop to see what's
the matter with Hannah, just now, Well, sir l
am gong to tell you something that will aston
ism you, and all the good people of this good
county. We have Lodge of Good Templa
up here in old Rally. Brother T jeff Dixon
came up here and made one of his best Tenn
perance speeches, and be had fine success
We have just closed our third meeting, and
we have So good members, all ip earnest. So
you see we are progressing. G. p. Straley is
G. w. G. I. of our Lodge, T. w. Gray, +. "
q. I, and we have the best officers in Maury
co nty, aud the most attentive members you
ever saw. We Will have the best Lodge in
this county IN six months from to-day. We
mean business. We are going to have PIC
MIC in May, and wi invite You, Don'tf4il to
come up to see us then. Keep the HERALD in
motion. Flat CREEK.
RALLY HILL, March Is, 1878.
ASH promised | would let YOU hear from me
again, / stop to give you the news in brief
Well, we have had one Of the best weeks for
the farmers you ever saw IN your life. Ali
hands went to work in dead cold earnest.
sowing oats and turning over the land for
corn and cotton. You never saw such de-
termination on the part OF the farmers as we
have in this district. Well, we are very
much fiattered with our wheat crop-it has
come out so much in the last week. We have
some live men in this country. | will give
you the names of few: Capt. j. NJ Billing.
ton has one of the best farms ID this district,
and he keeps it with its Sunday clothes on all
the time. Mel. David Shyers is one of the
"Old Reliables," and ha- tine farm, Mr..
Calvin Hardison has fine farm, and is one
of the best business men in Maury county.
He has one of the finest mills on Duck River.
Messrs Hardison, Cheek and Montgomery are
deserving men, as they have made this dis
trict more character in the mill line than all
other mill men have for fifty years. They
Lave fine water power and the improved
turbine wheel. Mr.. HARRISON Is building
fine new storehous e, one that would be ''nn
bug eater in Columbia, when finished. Pol
itics is sui dead, only hear Gen. Whitthorne
spoken of for Governor in the next race, and
johnson for Sheriff. So you see there is life
in the old land yet. The Good Templars are
going to have public day at I.asseer Church
on the Franklin and Lewisburg pike, IN he
2gth OF this month. and will have a dinner
The State Deputy, W. NJ. Medley, will deliv
er an address on the occasion. Messrs. Lee
Bullock and Hugh T. Gordon have promised
TO come up and give US talk; send them up
here, cet tain We need their help in IT
great temperance reform here, as you know
the character of Rally Hill.
We ali join in with you in your turr pike
scheme, and will keep 1t before the people, as
we want to do all our trading in Columbia
| If we had pike from here to Columbia we
| would patronise our home-folks. Columbia
| should wake up on this important subject,
| and build our road, if no other, as we cannot
| now come to see you all, and bring our wheat
and cotton, because we have no road to rayel.
! Keep the HERALD amnving around, so we
/ may know you are still alive. / will write
| you again, and give you some news that will
interest you. Flat CRKEK.