The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-07
Marriage Licenses since Jam. sIst.

w. r. Ramsey and Susan NJ. Short.
Joe McNabb and Mary A. Danley.
Elk Pogue and Mary A. DOoley.
F. B. Sheriff. and Alice F. Jordon.
Henry B. Curry and MOllie G. White.
COLoRED.
Robt. Pillow and Arey Gray.
Hamp Irwin and Priscilla Williams.
Geo. Caruthers and Alice Bonds.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The smallpox is still raging in Har-
din county. OF % cases IA have died.
The Savannah Ne,OS says that Rev. A.
G. Dinwiddie's " ability as teacher of
vocal music is not excelled if equaled
by any in the State.
Mr.. Joseph G. Ussery of Lawrence
county has recently killed large otter
near his house. He says they are quite
numerous in his neighborhood.
Jackson is taking steps for the speedy
Inauguration of public schools. We
hope the "steps will not be as in the
case of Columbia, backward instead of
forward.
Gillie Horne, of Lawrenceburg, recent
ly went bird hunting near the latter
place, and returned at night with one
hundred and nineteen patridges.
A gentleman living few miles from
Lawrencebucg, has a turkey pen, in
which he recently caught nine wild tur-
keys at one time, and day or two after
wards he caught two more.
A white deer was killed a short time
ago in the vicinity of Laurel Hill, in
Lawrence county. 1t was great curl
osity. being perfectly white, except
small stripe of grey i'll the middle OF the
forehead.
Eggs are selling in Murfreesboro at
two and half cents piece. We do
not know which deserve the most sym
pathy, the consumers or the hens that
are compelled to lay them.
Judge w. H. Williamson, of Lebanon,
and Mrs. Gen. John II. Morgan, daugh-
ter of Hon. Charles Ready, were marri
ed in Murfreesboro on the Both of Janu
airy.
Last Friday week, in Murfreesboro,
Will Webb and John Carmichael in
dulged in cutting affray, in which both
were badly hurt. Webb was not expect
ed to live.
Sam Simonton, colored, has been COM
mitted to the Jail of Lawrence county
tor stealing knife, which will prove,
to the State, rather a costly one by the
time he is convicted.
George Foster shot and instantly kill
cd John Stanford in Hardin county re-
Gently, in self defense. The murdered
man was charged with being too init
mate with Fosters wife.
Prof. w. X. Jones, the learned propri-
etor of 6 Melrose, " a f1ourishing female
school at Trenton, Tenn, has sold out
to Mr. G. r. Mckee. Mr.. Jones has
many friends and acquaintance in this
county.
The friends of Mr.. David S. Martin,
at this place, will be pleased to learn
that he has been elected Mayor of Pu-
laski. "DaYid !" is a thorough business
man, and no one would fill the office
better than he:
We learn from the MurfreesbOro NeaCS
that an old woman named Farmer, an
inmate of tho poor house of Bed ford
county, was found recently in the poor
house graveyard, dead. The evidence
was plain that she had frozen to death.
Mrs. Sarah Davis, aged II years, died
in Lawrence county on the 9th of jan
uary. She was the daughter of John
Simonton, who emigrated to Middle
Tennessee at an early period of the settle
ment of the country, and settled in
Lawrence county.
Last Sunday was what some persons
call ground hog day AS the sun
shone out on that day, he could see his
shadow, and retired to his hole again, to
remain six weeks, which indicates that
we are to have that number of weeks
more bad weather.
J. p. Mabry, OF Lawrence county,
caught a large opossum few nights
ago in his smoke house. It had destroy
ed about four pounds OF soap grease.
He caught another the same night, max
ing a raid on his hen roost, but too late
to save his faYorite blue hen.
Unlike some of her sister towns, Pu-
laSki is very uppretentious, and is con-
tent with one police. Upon his election,
he fastened home to impart the crafty
ing news to his better half and was met
at the door with the pleasing intelligence
that otis boy" Happy John Mar
tin
A fellow in Coffee county SAYS he is
opposed to the Duck River Narrow
Gouqed Railroad, as he terms it. He
says that the roads in that county are
too narrow already for him, for when he
gets drunk and starts to walk one of
them, it does not look larger than a
Irvine string.
The Tullahoma Independent has an ac-
count of an ARRAY which occurred on
Monday of last week, at "wild cat :"
distillery on Elk river, eight miles from
IIynohDurg, in Moore county, which re-
suited in the death of John Jean, who
was shot and instantly killed by a man
named Wiley Speck.
The German colony at Loretta, in
Lawrence county, is in a most flourish
ing condition. The Journal says the in
flux of settlers has been so great lately,
that the managers of the colony have
laid ont another town, on the road five
miles South of Loretta, and the lots are
being bought up rapidly by the new i'm
migrants,
A very serious stabbing ARRAY occur
red recently at Newburg, Lewis co., be-
tween Hugh Plummer and VIM. Scisco.
| 1t originated about debt of $40 Plum
| mer disputed Scisco's word, when Scisco
shook him, wherenpon Plummer drew
knife and stabbed him four or FIVE
| times. Scisco was alive when last heard
| from.
The Savannah, Tenn, College is pre-
sided over, as President, by Hon. Thos.
| III. Paine, graduate Of Jackson College.
| Mrs. Fannie g. Irwin, whom many will
| remember as the beautiful and accom-
| plished Miss Fannie Church, is teacher
| of vocal and instrumental music. Rev
! A. G. Dinwiddie, the beloved Presiding
Elder of that district, is professor of vo.
cal music.
The Tullahoma Independent says there
| is man in that town that can snore
in seventeen different languages, anC
loud enough to make saw mill ashan.
ed of itself. John Tucker requests Us
to say that he can find man in Column
bia that can beat the Indepenpent's mar
two to one; that two saw mills and for
ty Chinese gongs are no comparison t.
his snoring,