The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
RAAE.Y Hell ITEMS

The most noticeable feature OF hard
times in the Rally Hill neighbOrhOOd,
and useful barometer i'll measuring
the StagnatiOn Of trade, is the way horse
swapping he's dried up. Balaam never
could have prOphesied much on Fiat
Creek without he had taken ii afOOt, for
the horse Jockeys would have cheated
him out % his mule before he could have
got out of the neighborhOod. You can
now ride from GleBn's store TO Hardi-
sons mills without receiving banter 10
swap horses.
The wheat crop has all been put in
and in better fix than ever before. The
people have generally taken unusual
pains this tall in sowing their wheat.
If the crop should prove to he good
one next spring, the gentlemanly pro-
urietors of HardisOn's mills Will be
very much taxed TO do the grinding aud
supply the wants of their constantly in
creasfng custom. The enterprising gen
tlemen have built up one OF the finest
mills on the river. They keep but few
fat hogs around the mill, which Is II
good mill sign.
Major James T. Moore is not
improving in health. His recovery
will be necessarily very slow. The
Major says he has ielC better ever since
the HERALD told how bad Gen, Whit
thorue had summed old Hannah's moe
casins. He thinks Hannah can now
tell what "hornsnoggled" means With>
out looking i'll the dictionary.
Corn is not turning out as well rs eX~
pected. There was d considerable
amount of late corn damaged by the
frost, that Will not do to crib, and Will
have to Ice fed to hogs or cattle. Cot
ton will not make oyer Two hundred
and fifty pounds Of seed cotton per
acre Tom Peay says he has ginned
and put in one bale about sixteen acres
of cotton this fall, and could have put
in more.
There was but very small turmoil
ut the election. The Democratic party
voted but little over half their strength.
ANDY had sharply the go tor Senator.
believe that l.. d. Myers would lie
preferable choice, and would probably
suit the people better than any of the
candidates spoken ot for the position.
His massive intellect and splendid
abilities will, undoubtedly IN tie future
commend him 20 the people as one
whom it will do to honor and to trust.
Mat Reynolds has been investigating
the railroad feeling in tho north end OF
OF Marshall county, Being liner,
ard therefore we'll posted, a. he il
half Marshall county man, he has found
ont the people OF the9th district are so
opposed 10 railroads, that there IS al
least half OF them that would not vote
for man for Otlic5 if they knew he had
ever ridden CT railroad.
There was Qe5ata At a4CCrc-y'5 Cor
ner on Saturday night, NOy. 7sh. The
debatants were Messrs. TOmInie Mills,
Cal HardiSOn, SamI Doyle and John
Montgomery. The subject for discus
sion was whether woman ShOuli be ed
ucated equally with man. A gentleman
who was there and heard the speaking
said that it reminded him very much Oh
the DAYS OF Polk, Douglass, and baskeI.
Flat Greek has plenty of raw material
out of which TO supply Aaury for some
time to come with Congressional ami
Legislative material.
Messrs. Newt and Jas. l.. Wilson
have smigrated to the State of Lewis.
The people al lewis will gain two most
excellent citizens,
Jas. Moore and Joe Mangreni, Jw8 o.
the most industrious and energetic
young men of the neighbOrhCOd, have
gone to Texas. IT thorough working
ability he a good capital to emigrate
with, then they l@a0 al the requisites OF
success in their new home. May nrOS-
perity attend them with most FTOpttiOus
smiles, Several families are preparing
tOIeturn with General Knight to the
wide, rolling prairies OF Texas. The
General is very enthusiastic about his
new uOillty anu PEAKS III RlON lilS5 LOI Ms
of the beautiful scenery and the many
agricultural advantages, as well as fl
nancial, that the country around Fort
Worth possesses. He thinks there Is no
place that the farmer can live easier
than theTE.
The season has closed at Hardison's
mills tor fish. jeff Peay and Little
Jake Shires express surprise that the
catching OF seven pound trout should
raise an excitement in Hickman, or
that Franklin should raise a commotiOn
OF doubt about it, they having often in
their time caught brOI.G tat Weighed
seven pounds and upwards, J6h Peay,
in September, caught at the mouth of
Fiat Greek, in one day, five large trout,
weighing from five pounds to seven and
half pOunds-Which he vOuches for as
a fact. jeff is one OF the best fishermen
on the river, taking it all round, though
like Peter of old, he has quite penchant
for the net: and generally gives the
young tyrOs on Flat Crock their first les
sons in drawing the sein. Cal. Hdrdison
is the boss F6a-h0rse fisherman about
Hardison's mills, having worn out, on
one rock, several pair of pants catching
them. When trout commences biting,
he leaves his rock and quits fishing.
Jake Shires, jr., is great catfish fisher
man, having caught one during the sum
mer, that weighed fifty-tiVe pounds, and
nothing said about it.
Mr.. Granville Straiier and his beauti-
ful and accomplished wife have return
ed from Cleveland, East Tenn, on Wis
il, and will spend a few weeks in the
neighbOrhood with Mrs. Strailers rela-
tiOnS.
Several Log pens in the country ROUND
about here have been visited il the night
and from one to two hogs taken out.
Horace's "COuutrymen" were the dnpre-