The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-29
AROUND Town.


Butter is scarce and in demand.
A large snake was killed in front of the jai
| last Tuesday.
Master Jimmie Hughes will accept oul
thanks for some nice Damsons.
Last Saturday, Sunday and Monday Wer'
hot days.
AL Hall is building neat house in the Wes
End.
It is said that there are more mosquitoes II
this section, this summer, than eyer before.
| Mr.. Thos. j. Stweart, who sometime since
broke bone of one of his arms, has got well
One of the most brilliant ladies 10 this OF
any other place is reading law. II she sho9iu
take notion to practice wouldn't she Wheeuie
the juries
Mr.. f. A. Leonhard is putting the town
clock, on Corinthian Hall, in order. 1t mas not
been used since the war. 1t can be heard 70
| strike all over the city, and will be great
| convenience to the public,
AID. Wood took the premium last week for
having made the most rapid progress in im~
proveInent in penmanship. He ls son OF our
| fellow townsman, VIM. Wood, Esq.
! Albert Dunlap was placed in jail last Fri
! day night, by the Sheriff, on capias, on a
/ charge of assault, with intent to kill Albert
! lives in the neigbbOrhOod of Mt. Pleasant, and
/ had been living out of the reach of the Sheriff.
| He was caught at Cross Bridges.
The large beautiful sign, "COLUMBIA HER
ALD,' that fronts our office, was painted by
Robt Cross, one of the best of painters north
or south.
A caravan of babies passed through the
prir cipal streets of the city Saturday evening
There we're eight little buggies in crowd.
! Master Morgan, son of Lucius Frierson, and
the king among babies, led the van. Master
Percy, son of S. P. Norton, commanded one
division, and makes princely officer.
Last Friday, Barbara Laney. Ella Howe, and
| Eugene Woods residents of East End" were
| before the Recorder on charge of disturbing
the peace. Although they were ably defend
ed by two OF Columbia's most talented young
lawyers, the Recorder imposed fine on each,
which they paid as though 1t were "trlnes'
light air."
A woman was put In jail Friday, by the Pc
lcemen for Drunkenness and obscene Ian
guage, 1t took three of them TO manage her.
She and her husband were haying drunken
spree together. They were confined in the
same cell
Every Saturday large crowds assemble at Z.
W. Candles grocery for the purpose of horse.
| swapping. Most of the animals have
zone eye out, the other blind,
Fore leg stiff, and lame behind"
Farmers have brought in their peaches and
apples this week, and find ready sale for
them even at high figures. The real or sup
do not our farmers cut down their old scrub
trees and get good ones and cultivate them
properly? Good fruit can always be sold for
a good profit.
All over town signs of improvement are to
| be seen, Ed Williams's mammoth business
| house on South Main street Is going steadily
up while the brick work Of II. B. TtcOmb's
| two stores on North Main street is nearing
! completion under Anthony Gholson. Gordon
| q Parish'are doing the bTickwork for Mr.. Will
| liams, and John Lancaster the WOODWORK
| George d. Hodge is building a residente on
| Commercial Avenue, and adjoining the par
sou8ge lot
The Methodists have bought lot from
} Josh G. Bailey for their parsonage, paid him
for it, and received deed therefor. They
have also engaged W. D. Trantham to build
| the parsonage, providing that the work COM
menCe at once. The house will be quite
handsome one, in the modern style, and the
location is all that could be desired. The
preacher that succeeds DR.. Smith, the present
pastor, will have pleasant and comfortable
| home.
Capt. Stone brought the Columbia and Nash
Vile Accommodation out Monday night, and
made his first regular trip on Tuesday morn
ing, starting at G;30. We are truly glad to
chronicle this fact, and also glad that Capt.
stone will again have charge of this, the most
important train to Columbians.
A young man named Lem Wright, got his
leg broken last Friday morning, on South Main
Street, just below Mayes i DOdson's stable,
where Mr.. Ed. Williams is building house
He was engaged IN hauling dirt from the eel
lar when the embankment caved in upon hun.
His leg was broken in two places-at the an
kle and bali way between the knee and ankle.
He was carried 10 the residence of his brOth-
in-law, Rev. Mr.. Ussery. 1t will be several
months before be will be able to walk again.
great many persons have examined the
skull left at our office by Mr.. John DOwelL
majority of them pronounce it turtle
skull, but none of them can understand how
such an immense creature as it must have
been could have lived in Duck River. Accord
ing to the very lowest reasonable calculation,
the turtle must have weighed one thousand
pounds, and according to the knowledge OF
those best acquainted with the relative sizes OF
the turtles head and its body, il is more likely
il weighed two thousand or twenty-five nun
bred pounds. The head was found Just be-
low Col. SOwells lower mill, on a sand-bar
No one that knows Mr.. John DOwell will for
moment doubt word he says in regard to H.