The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-01
letter from the Hills of Hickman
County.
PRINM's SPRINGS, LrLY 30ru., 1873.
10 he Editors OF thc Heratd

10 he Editors Of The Heraid
This popular watering place is now in full
blast. We have Ovcrthree hundred person
here at this time and still they come. Ev-
cry hour in the day you can see them COM
| ing in. From the indications now there will
be 8S large, il not 8 larger crowd than We
had last Season. At one time last year there
come nVe hundred persons, some OF
were -.,,......,... live ia the immediate
neighborhood Since your iasU ,see-,
has been quite a number moved in; below
We give you the names Of a part OF them;
capt kinzer and family, Mai. Gray ana
family, Mrs. Gen1. Williams and family,
AIgie Hodge and family, Jesse Bingham
and family, Dan1 Estes and family CraW-
ford Irvine and family, sidney EIel4lng
and Wife, Clark Tindal and family, JOSH
Williams and family, BROOKS barnes anu
family, George Dixon and family, Henry
FoulkCS and family Mrs. Cunmins and fam
lily, and many others.
Last night. the first time this season, there
was grand ball given. Every one seemed
to enjoy himself very niUch' we mao
music ana dancing iii Il late hOui. 4heIc
viii be another ball on next Thursday
evening, given III Mr.. 10. Vines new build
ing. This will be IN elegant affair. The
just exactly thirty OF the prettlesl
young ladies Nnu can ind IN Middle 1 en-
ncsSee, ana OF COURSE We need not say tlitt
han Iing around, There areSOme very gal
IqnI young men here. Young ladies are not
apttu 80 walking through or streets, With
wonder we have SO many young men, Tor
certainly this place is great resort for The
fair daughters OF MaurN, hickman and
| Williamson counties. Maury is better rep
resented than amy other county. We have
ont ofthe thirty young ladies, some twenty
from MaUTN. There i still some improve
meHt going on, Cabins are being built. We
|'thiBiI Of building ui oRs4, a large ball room,
which will add greatly. The iced stable
good business. Some young poet has writ
ten in large letters the following, which is
very true:
Cash for horses when we feed,
Fog we are the best feeders you ever seed,
EjSoniy one dollar, for each day.
viii give plenty Of corn but no bay.
We are frequently asked how we spend
our time. By pTOmenadiug and playing.
dancing and horseback and buggy riding,
&C. The gentlemen very often by fishing,
deer and fox hunting, the latter mostly
We have generally some 10 or 90 well trained
dogs. You Jet,we have some rare sport after
foess There Will be some half dozen races
for the benefit Of ladies, after catching the
fox and giving him good rest, turn il
loose in camp. Last season at some Of the
races the ladies get very much excited, you
could hear them hallO to encourage the
dogs, as though they were fox hunters.
The scenery around is very fine. Young
gentlemen and ladies take frequent rides to
Pine Bluff which is the finest scenery any
where near. strangers Who visit this place,
can always find some one who will go with
them to visit these romantic places. Mr.. d.
T. Chappell and Thomas Williams, are tho
roughly acquainted with all these noun
famous paths, and il is remarkable how
soon thes' learn the different courses, &c.
MIR. Chappen, like his aaB,e-sohc, Nh. Fount
c., is no bad iOrager, and Is IN the saddle
early and late.
We have within mile and half of us, q
very large cave, that we think VOC could
travel at least day in and find something
new and curious. The writer of this. and
another gentlemen tray eled half day III it.
and still there before stood, it seems,
miles OF uneXplored cave. We wish you
would send us Mr.. Scott Mayes down, we
would like, rs he is a great explorer, to fol-
from the time we were in, and the way we
walked, we must have travelled three miles.
Any person who may doubt this, VIII please
come down and they can be easily satisfied,
as to the correctness of 1t.
Since writing the above, we must say that
the young poet is no longer correct, for Mr..
James Erwin, who is quite a nice gentle
man. has received a large quantity of good
Maury hay. So he changes the sign.
Corn for your horses, as well as han:
Will feed them well, while you stay.
We would like for our friends to send us
the papers. DO you know that they en-
uuire for the HERALD more than any other
paper? They do, all of them, young and
old are anxious 10 get il. Any one coming
down in the latter part of the week they al
ways run and meet them, and ask tor the
HERALD, and if they don I get il, they seem
disappointed. No more this evening, rs /
see Mr.. Clark Tindal and Mr.. Gus McMil-
Ian, and others, with a couple of fine strings
oftrout Trout fishing very fine since tile
rain. Yours,
SPOTTED TAT,