The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1873-12-26
OVER THE COUNTY.

There will be a grand hop on Carriers creel
Tonight.
4 Rev. r. @. Linn, will preach at the Ten.
nessee University, Cloth civil distriet) mex
Sunday.
From the frequency Of trials between col
ored people, it 10 evident that they are not, as
general rule, prompt Id th cir settlements
with each other.
| We hear Of some farmers hauling their
cotton to Nashville over the turnpike, realizing
few cents more than could be obtained in
this market.
Don't forget TO come to the HERALD office
and settle your arrearages, when you come to
town on first Monday. We are needing money.
We have the assurance that there will be
| several marriages during the holidays the
j. T. of the HERALD having been engaged to
| perform the ceremony.
| We are glad to learn that Mr.. Reese Alex
ander, formerly of Carriers creek, is doing so
| well in Rutherford county. He made seventy
| FIVE bales of cotton and seven hundred barrels
| of corn this year.
Now that bad weather and bad roads are
upon US. our readers will probably listen to
| few words from US: Patching up dirt roads
by throwing in few loose rocks into each
mud-hole, and filling up the ruts with dirt, is
| a waste of time, and disgrace to the age
Make turnpike across every big mud-hOle,
and then the work will not have to be done
over every month or two.
Miles Walker, on Mr.. Thomas Walkers
place, on the Hampshire pike, split his left
foot open last Monday morning at about eleven
o'clock. The principal artery of his foot was
severed, which caused il IN bleed profusal y.
Mr.. Walker attemp. ed to take up the artery,
but could not, it being so deep down below the
surface. One negro man went after the doc
tor and, another held the foot, squeezing
it to keep it from bleeding. SCOT was put into
it. The doctor arrived at 8 O'Clock, and soon
took took up the artery. The bandages, etc.,
saved Miles life.
The Rev. W. r, McKennon, a gentleman
who has successfully Taught school for a num-
Der of years in the 14th civil district, has been
employed by the school commissioners of the
10th civil district TO teach school at the school
house in the 10th civil district, known as the
Tennessee University" The selection OF Mr.
McKennon meets the appreciation of all good
citizens, despite the objection of one GOOD MAN,
the self-styled ''house~commissioner."
Major Thomas e. Jamison, OF Carriers
Creek, and Miss Melville Miller, daughter Of
Major Wash Miller, prominent citizen of this
county, were married a few days ago. We
congratulate the gallant and handsome Major |
on his success. Though defeated for tax COL |
lector last year, the MAJ or has been elected to
higher and more important offce-that of
matrimony. When in the thIckest ofthe fight |
battling for his country, be did not forget his |
soldiers or his loved ones at home, and now
when he is surrounded by all that excites and |
unnerves the bravest of the brave. he forgets !
not the printers, but sends them sweet remind |
ers. Heavens blessings on you, Major. and |
your bride.
"A very intelligent farmer of our county |
requests US to say something in favor of turn |
pixies. What can we say, that we have not |
said many times heretofore2 Every farmer |
who does not live on pike. has knock down |
arguments before him every day-ten-fold |
stronger than any thing we can say. What |
are mere words compared to all the bad roads |
in Maury county? flour people will not listen |
to such how can we expect them to heed us? |
Year in and year out they plod on in the mud |
and slnsh, see their horses and vehicles mIre |
in the bottomess things that go by the name |
of roads, and yet never say word, or make |
an effort to improve the condition of things. |
Enough time and money have been expended |
on our old dirt roads to have made them all as
good as the Mt. Pleasant turnpike, wnich is the |
only turnpike that deserves the lme in the |
county. Who will deliver US from the bond |
age of bad roads? Let the county build them |
Let the county issue bonds sufficient to build |
them, payable in thirty years; let a tax be as
sessed to pay the annual interest on them an |
also small sinking fund Of few thousand |
dollars beside, so that when the thirty years
roll round, the entire debt will be cancelled |
TIE advantage to the county will be incalcula~ |
ble 1t will increase the productions of the
county many thousand dollars, and make it
what it should be. the peerless county. in eve
ry respect, in the State, or In the South.