The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-15
OVER THE STATE.

Dresden Democrat: "The County Su
perintendent of Education for Carol
county, spells decision, "decission."
F. A. Tyler, Superintendent of Publ,
| instruction for Shelby county, has ap
pointed ffty-one school directors, in &C
cordance with law, there having beer
no election.
Union City Herald: "The Greciar
| henpeck rule is not to commit suicide
for falling to go to Congress from Ken
lucky when it is known that TENNESSEE
has many scalawags on the soil ofou
sister"
Union City Herald: ga man has not
got on the breeches of true manhood tC
abscond from his wife and children IN
Kentucky and f1irt with our widows IN
and among the sweet flowers Of the val
ley of West Tennessee"
The Cleveland Banner states that the
stockholders oftbe Cleveland and Duck
town railroad, at their meeting in New
York on the 26th ult., agreed to issue
bonds of the company to the amount o.
$500, 900 for the building of the road.
Union and American: "Near Fort
Negley may be seen a garden spot en-
closed by pailing fence, the pailings o!
which are made entirely of tail boards
TO deceased Government wagons which
figured during the late unpleasantness.
Atlanta (Ga.) Herald: eve learn from
passengers on the Western and Atlanta
railroad that the Chattanooga Times
morning. We trust that the embarrass'
ment of our contemporary is only tenn
porary, and that it will resume publica-
ton at an early day."
Memphis Ledger: "There are but
four old Memphians alive who inhabited
the bluffs in the eighteen hundred and
twentieS. After 1880 the race of "old
settlers" settled here, but of the Oldest
citizens there are but four alive, and
those are Colonel Mosby, Colonel Tom
Young, Colonel Bill Carter and Colonel
Isaac Moon"
Kingston East TenneSSeeGn: 'Mrs.
Kezian johnson, who had reached the
ripe old age of four score and ten, died
at the residence of her son, Mr.. Isaac
Johnson on Saturday last. Mrs. John
son was the mother offourteen children,
eighty-tive grandchildren, and one great
great grandchild."
A correspondent of the Union and
American writes from JOhnsonYille:
can unknown boy was picked up on
the railroad some miles below here, on
the 9Th inst, by the station hands in
diving condition, and brought to this
place, where he died without leaving
any evidence of his name or residence.
He had set of marbles, few cards and
81 cents in money; also bundle of
wearing apparel. His age seemed to be
between seventeen and nineteen, hair
brown, eyes blush color, very well made
and rather good looking"
Memphis appeal: ''There are still
living perhaps dozen citizens of Mem
phis who came here prior to 1896. Be
NEAo1Nxy Tom NnI1ru Rill Gar.
tar and Isaac Moon, there are Dick Hite,
H. B. Joyner, J. J. Rawlings, Tilman
Belts, William G. Belts, w. B. VALID
ran, James d. Davis (the original "Old
Times" who come in March 1921 Geo.
A. Davis, and there are others, no doubt,
whose names we cannot now recall.
People live as long here as elsewhere,
and it must he remembered that there
were not more than seven hundred souls
here in 1928"
The Bolivar Bulletin relates the follow
ing incident of the Convention of jack
son: "Owing to the small number OF
delegates from Kentucky and the large
number from Madison county, the Mad
ison delegation were assigned the seats
prepared for the Kentucky delegates.
An observant individual, while taking
a mental portrait of the convention, re-
marked, as he viewed the Madison del
iii be id if the Kentucky delegation
amt hard looking set of ROSTERS
Bob Gates SAYS that he was not sitting
with the Madison 'roosterS' at the time"
Ofthe Cumberland and Ohio railroad
the Nashville Banner says: rs. X.
Wilson has contracted for the compile
ton of section Is. In this section two
tunnels only two hundred feet each in
apart, and four hundred feet each in
length, are to be blasted out solid rock.
4 sixty foot fill is to be made between.
The distance from the northern tunnel
to the Kentucky State line is seven
miles. This portion of the road is also
included in Mr.. Wilson's contract. He
now has one hundred hands at work,
and will have two hundred more in the
course of the next ten or fifteen days.
The heaviest rock work on the line is
included in this contract, two or three
of the cuts having to be made perpen-
dicularly through the solid rock, to the
ilioilt of sixty feet. Mr.. Wilson expects
to finish this large contract in fifteen to
eighteen months"