The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-06-27
OVERTmE COUNTY.


Sam Henry Armstrong, of Ashwood, had
q cotton bloom four or five days ago.
Esq. Turner Hunt, the Scion of Culleoka,
who was considered dangerously i'll last week,
is rapidly recovering, we are glad TO learn.
The vicinity of BigbyYIlle is blessed with
good preachers. The Bigbyville congregation
have such implicit confidence in their minister,
that many of them go to sleep during service.
Capt.!sT. ]. Perry brought US the finest
squash and beans we have seen grown. They
were grown by Mrs. Simpson Perry. The
squash is extraordinarily large.
friend wants to know, after reading the
letter from Bigbyville in the last issue of the
Mail, whether there ever had been a wedding
in that town before.
Prof. j. s. Perry, of Snow Greek, wishes to
hear the opinions of farmers upon the follow
lowing question, (Which is the most porfita-
Bile, in ginning cotton, to weigh out his toll, at
the time the cotton is delivered, or to let the
cotton all be ginned together, and he receive
his toll in money, after the cotton is sold p
White is the popular color in the Bigbyville
neighborhood at present. Indeed, such is the
love manifested for that color, that there is
universal desire to change the color of birds
to white, such as blue-birds, red birds, bats,
and martins etc., ETC., etc.
certain well-known old bachelor Of the
Ashwood neighborhood, who has always been
large cotton planter, finds himself at the
present time overstocked with corn, from the
fact that young lady near BigbyvIlle has occu-
pied so much of his attention for the last four
years, horse feed has been no expense to him.
Consequently, he is gamer, if he never gets
the girl.
DR.. A. T. Boyd, near Bigbyville, has be-
tween sixty and seventy bee gums full of Ital-
ian bees. He is importing other Italian
queens, and this week his bees are swarming
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church even. He also has several hundred
fine turkeys, and few fine imported ones.
He has imported Black and White Brahma
chickens DR.. BOYD, before the war, was one
of the first physicians in the country, but on
account of i'll health could not practice, and
turned his attention to farming, bee culture,
poultry, etc. And best of all, he is still q
bachelor.
Warren w. Jordan, Grass Officer of the 21st
district, has great deal of business on hand.
His duty is to go around and inspect all crops,
and wherever he finds unlawful work, and cot
ton and corn full of grass and weeds, it is his
duty to raise the flag of truce over the field,
which gives the farmer three days of grace in
which to clean their crop. After the expira
ton of that time, if he finds the condition of
the crop unimproved, he sells it out to the
highest bidder, for cash, Confederate money,
aud hires out the hands. Last year the Grass
Officer was fooled by the outside rows, which
the sharp farmers had worked and left the in
side rows untouched. The officer would ride
along the road and look oyer the fence, and
seeing none but clean rows, pronounce swell
DONE" This year, however, he rides over the
field, and inspects every row, from end to end.
Capt. Black has been tagged, and it is charged
that Jim Beasley and Volney Cyrus will have
to surrender also in few days. Indeed, the
Grass Officer has so decreed. Gen. Samuel
Butler considers himself out of danger, but
the Grass Officer says that the General has two
fields hid away which he will have to flag in a
few days, if something is not done to extract
the grass from them pretty soon. The pro-
cess of "hagging" is done thus The Grass
Officer finding foul" field, paints the owner,
holding hoe, on a white flag, and writes these
words under it-"Oh Lord. have mercy,
surrender:
Not that | am a coward,
But because am OverpoWered."
One farmers friends tied switches to his
pillow handles, and left word for him to whip up,
or the Grass Officer would get him Maj.
Stratton and Esq. E. DAVIS, are considered
in great danger of the Grass Officer. This is a
warning to all farmers to be industrious in
good weather and not to hang around the
streets of Columbia. The Grass Officer moved |
up through the district few days since, and
sta: ed that he had $27, 900 in Confederate mon
ey, which he had obtained by selling unlaw-
fully worked crops. Squire Beasley, COL, was
asked recently how he was getting along, and |
he replied, 81 don't know master, this old |
Grass Officer, Jordan, is not out of my mind ii
minute in the day." The Grass Officer an
nounces that he will proceed next week to visit
and inspect the Booker Bend. Wei learn
ed since the above was written, that one of
Gen. Buffers fields has been tagged