The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-14
OVER THE COUNTY.

Glib Frierson caught about half a dozen
trout at the Ashton dam last Tuesday.
The County Court Clerk gives notice to
Those interested should give the matter i'm
mediate attention.
Mr.. John wisener, who has a store on
Knob Greek, had a colored man named Henry
Huff, arrested on the charge of attempting to
steal a coat from his store. Esq. Witherspoon
did not think the proof was sufficient to jus
tify him in committing Henry for trial, and
he was discharged and the prosecutor taxed
with the cost.
Mr.. Charley MeVay and Mr.. Will Shacklett
caught several fine trout at the Webster dam
last Monday.
Geo. Martin, an intelligent young son of
Mr.. Thos. G. Martin, met with painful acct
dent one day last week, in the vicinity of
Mt. Pleasant. He was on a wagon, and fell off
and hurt one of his arms, painfully but not
seriously.
A very old couple live on Mr.. NJ. B. Der
ryberry's place, Esd district, named RobeT-
son. Mr.. Il. is aged "A and Mrs. r is 81 years
old The old lady predicts that this will be a
good fruit year because the sun did not shine
on old Christmas day.
Rev. W. E. Burr, Presiding Elder, held
Quarterly Meeting at Macedonia, near Flat
Creek, last Sunday. During his sermon, a
young man of the neighbOrhood, disputed his
word, to persons in the audience, winked and
blink ed his eyes, and In various drunken ways
disturbed some of the wOrshipers. We
trust the young man, who belongs to an eX-
cele1t family, will take warning and not be-
have so any more, and in this belief, we will
not publish his name.
And here comes a feline story which taxes
all of our credulity. A respected citizen of
the neighborhOod of Mt. Pleasant, 7. H, had
a cat which was torn all TO pieces by the
dogs, .and was frozen stiff by the extremely cold
weather, the next day the cats head was sever
ed from its body, aud in this condition Mr.. II.
saw it. What was his surprise on going back
into the house to find the self-same cat! OF
course it was another cat, but it will be long
time before Mr.. II. is convinced of the fact.
We have been requested to call on the fruit
men of our county, to write ESSAYS ON the cul-
tivation of fruit trees, etc., and present them
to the next meeting of the Farmers's Club.
Messrs. Andrus, Wilkes, Rsiney, Mcclure,
Sheppard, and others, will please respond:
Prof. W. /. Jones, who recently sold out
his school at Trenton, is staying with Major
Friday, with fine fishing pole; from which
we imagine that Messrs. Willis and Spoon"
Fr1eTson will have some assistance this season
in landing trout at the Webster dam.
Mr.. Thos. J. Whitaker, of the vicinity of
Hurricane, gave an elegant little party at his
house last Monday night. Quite a num-
Der of beautiful young ladies were pres
ent. "The Poet' was in fine condition. JEFF
RieVes, of "Paradise Regained," "tripped
the LIGHT fantastic toe" so long and late that
he became sick.
Mr.. James Hanna, of Bigbyville came down
recently with his pack of hounds, and had
fine sport running foxes, near Chumbly ford,
in connection with Messrs. Crosby, Gordon,
Maxwell, johnson and others, each of whom
have a large pack of hounds.
We had the pleasure, last Friday evening. of
visiting Prot. Webb's school at Culleoka. The
Professor was sick in bed, but was ably repre-
scented in the school-rOcm by Mr.. John n.
Webb This young gentleman certainly I'M
stands the art of teaching; but probably we
should call it gilt. The speetatator is first
impressed with the fact that the instructor is
full of the lesson himself-that be does not
simply know it as it appears in the book, but
that his knowledge of the subject is wide, ex-
teusiye, and thorough. The pupils are not
embarrassed, but seem to feel assured that
the teacher is friend endeavoring TO instruct
them, instead, as is often the case, of being a
tyrant to pUnish them. A lesson in Natural
Philosophy was recited by class of young
girls, and when 1t was over, If any OF them
did not more thoroughly understand it thai
il could ever be obtained from the book, it was
because they were not old enough to compre-
bend it. The teacher did not confue himself
to the book, but made plain many technical
| questions BY familiar illustrations. The class
| in MUGuttey's Reader was instructed by exam
/ pie how to read and prohounoe. Rev. Mr.
| Orman was not pleased with the pronunciation
! of the word BENEATH, by Master Sims, and
called attention to it.
| Mr.. S. NJ. Neelley's smoke-house was
| consumed last Friday, on the Pulaski
! pike. Loss about Isl 500. Supposed tC
/ have been .on fire. Mr.. Medley has
met with many misfortuHes of late
! years he lost thousands by the war
and was severity wounded and crippled
for life.
The new bridge that is to be built cas-
| of Columbia will bring great quantity
| of tirewood into market. 1t would bt
| best to build 1t of iron
4 schoolmaster told one of his patrons
that his daughter would DO better il
! school if she only had the capacity
| Let her have it" said the father, 'tn
matter what it COSTS"
A southern doctor says that whel
Episcopalians live on fish during Lent
they are almost sure to suffer with net
tie rash.