The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-05-16
AROUND TOWN.

Witherspoon, soprono hute; John Dobbins
I'd vlolinist; H. p. Figures, alto futist; Rob,
Wilson, guitar; Jesse Bickneli, bass VOL
Last Monday night they went serenading ant
made the midnight air musical with swee
sounds, for q while.
Owners of pigs had better keep them away
from the foundry lot, where there is an oper
! we'll, into which they 20 10 get water, and are
drowned DIR. Bicknell recently rescued sew
eral from watery grave therein.
The question bias been frequently asked
"Arouud Town" why the corporation taxes
were being collected so much earlier this
I wear than formerly; On inquiry, we are in
| formed that the reason is, that since the time
| was changed for electing the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen, from March to November, il
is rendered the duty of the collector to make
all collections in the spring in order 20 pay
for all work on the streets, (Which has to
be done IN the spring and summer). Hereto
/ fore money had 10 be borrowed at ten per
cent to pay for the work, as the tax was not
| collected until fall. Ii is a good change, and
| it is hoped no taxpayer will refuse TO pay
now, what he will be forced to pay later.
Maury County Court, says the jackson
/ Wing, voted the first Monday in April to put
| a clock on the court house in Columbia. The
| County Court did no such thing. At the JAN
nary term. however, they did give the corpo-
I rate authorities permission to erect cupola
| and clock on the court house.
dog owned BY an attache of this Office, re
| Gently showed the strongest symptoms of hy-
| drophohia. The dog was killed.
| Mr. Grundy Hendrick, the greatest ladies'
/ man Of the place, deserves the warmest thanks
/ of the trustees of the Library Association,
| for the interest he took in the Fancy Hop. 1t
was his endeavors alone that made it sue
cess.
Only the other day, an inquirer after scien-
tific information, asked an apothecary clerk,
/ dick FriersOn,) what is this new disease,
| this Cerro-G ordo- final McGinnis the papers
say 20 much about?' Dick answered Are
| YOU aware that the JSolutoed elementismus
Of being echoes or reappears By analogy with
in the Ielatald and concretold alebOrismus ~
Quite large crowd OF Columbians went
TO the Nashville Exposition last Tuesday.
Four persons joined the NJ. E. Church last
Sunday.
An amazing amount of brick and
brick bats have been taken from the site
wherein Mr.. TitcUmb is preparing to erect two
business houses. Quite a sensation was pro-
duced last Friday or Saturday, by the work
men discovering large wooden box buried
amidst vast rocks. Bones and other things were
in it, which gave 6ne display for the imagina-
ton, Mr.. Nathan Vaught one OF our old
est citizens, and who is probably better &C
quaiuted with the early history of Columbia
than any other living man, says il was vat
used by Elisha Ezell and !Alex. kirkpatrick,
hiatt ers, in which to dye hats. The vat was
dug shout siyty-two years ago.
Messrs. Timmons and johnson Davis re-
Gently sold ten building lots on Galloway street,
as follow 1st, sth, 5th, and L tn lots, to Da-
vid Sarven, for S1,112.50, $3.50, $255, and
$500 Sd and 9Th TO w. IL. Timmons, for 81,
l25, and ESQ 4th, J A. Irvine, for Sl,1l5;
9Th to johnson Davis, for $3.50; 9TH, S. II. Tim
mons. for S220. These lots are located in one
y 6
for private residences, and we congratulate the
purchasers upon having made good bargains.
SATURDAY. last Dick Brown, col, was driving
hs wagon near the Columbia bridge, and it
came in contact with horse on which the wife
of Philip Cooper, col, was riding. She was
thrown to the ground and severely hurt.
Dick was arrested and brought for trial before
T Is7s. Clear and the case continued May '''
4 colored female was baptised in the river,
above the bridge, last Sunday evening.
The Literary Society meets tonight We
give the programme: Miss Rosa Barnett will
sing selection from Casta Diva; Miss Emma
Harrison will read selection from some au-
thor; Madam Esteve will Using or play; DR..
". b. Harrison read an original essay or
selection Mrs. r. ID. Smith to sing; MIR. +.
Y. Pillow TO read from some author Mrs. Col.
J. W. Huntington 10 sing or play.
Agreeable to appointment the colored PEG
pie held meeting at the colored Presbyterian
church, in this place on the evening OF the
9th inst, for the purpose of devising some
plan whereby means could be had for buyiOg
a suitable piece of ground for graveyard.
Elder b. ETierson was called to the chair, and
John 3. Webster acted as Secretary. Levi
Euless delivered short address upon the ne
ccssity Of a new graveyard. The books were
opened and a very liberal subscription was
had. Washington:Keunedyw was elected treas
urer. Thanks were returned for the sympa-
thy and very liberal donation on the part of
white citizens. The meeting adjourned TO
meet again Ito-night, at the Missionary BAp-
list Church,
Bcv White has Just returned from painting
the neat cottage home of Mr.. Henry GoOdlOe,
at Beech Grove, near Mt. Pleasant. From
Bev's looks, We know he Jared sumptuOusly
every day. He SAYS Mr.. Goodloc, who is ia
nous for raising fine watermelOus, has the
largest patch in the whole country.
We regret 10 lean that the Board of Mayor
aud Aldermen contemplate abandoning the
project of erecting a cupOla aud clock on the
court mouse, on the plea that II will cost too
much. Mr.. Kuhn informs US that it will cost
some fifteen hundred dollars. The county
court has ordered son very important i'm
proyements ON the court house, which will
shortly be commenced, and We do hone the
corporate authorities will erect the cupnla
and clock, as contemplated, and for which
permission was given by the court. The
Board OF Mayor aud Aldermen are at no ex-
pense for a hall to meet in, and place for
the Recorder TO hold his court in, as the coun-
" court gives them permission to occupy
room in the court house free Of charge, and
is willing to continue to do so, if they will
put up the clock.
Mr.. Josh g Bailey has shown US some early
peas grown in his garden this spring. Mr.
Bailey is invariably ahead of all Others in hsv-
ing early vegetables.
We arc indebted to Mr. Horace Rsiney-one
of the most go-a-head-ative young men in the
county, for some magnificent Strawberries.
Horace deserves wife as luscious and beauti-
ful as the strawberries.
We are requested by the Board of Trustees
of the Library Association to return their
thanks TO Mr.. K. 6. HendTick and the ladies
who so kindly donated the proceeds of the
Fancy Hop, amounting TO sos, to the Library,
Mr.. A. J. Walker has sent us some fine veg
etabIes of this years growth. Although be
has Just started in business, he Is receiving a
lGrge custom, because he keeps emphatically
a family grocery. Everything consumed by u
family can always be found at his establish
ment The cabbages, beans, peas, squash and
cueumbeTs, sent US were very large and nice.
The Stewards of the Methodist Church, Co
lumbia Station, resolved at their last meeting
TO begin the work of securing subscriptions to
build parsonage Immediately. The Board
appointed It. Ii Williams and W. A. Latta a
committee to solicit donations for this noble
work. We do ardently hope that so worthy
and necdful work may lind favor in the eyes OF
all the people, and let the committee be untir-
ing in their labors. A committee was also
appointed to select lot for the site of the
parsonage. A building committee was APP
pointed. We hope these gentlemen will use
their energy IN this enterprise;
Vim. Cherry caught a catfish the other
night, which is said to have measured as
long as Henry Cox, begun and all.
WI Williams has bought the interest of
II. b. Titcomb, in the drugstore formerly
owned by Titcomb & WILLIAMS, and in the
future viii be the sole proprietor Of the es-
Enlistment. Mr.. Williams has been in
the drug business a number of years,'and il
one OF the safest and best business men in
the place. Va wish him the. success he merits
and will achieve.
Gas Eight.
Col Sims was in town last week with the
new Cayce Spring Power Patent Gas Genera
tor. lie exhibited it several nights at DR..