The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-20
MT. PLEASANT ITEMS.

The Rev. Lewis w. Grimes, of Camp
Branch, married him a wife last week.
He looks buoyant and no doubt is
happy, for he smiles and bushes when
congratulated, like an eighteen year old.
Lucky man. Go, widowers and do like
wise.
Mr.. Charley Kings saw mill has been
is supplied with new dress, and again
under full Roadway. The shrill whis
tie invites more food for the saw teeth,
An infant child of Albert Dunlap, Z
months old, was burned to death last
week. The mother leaving the mouse,
fire popped into the cradle, and b. her
timely return, the building was saved.
Mr.. Willie Howard, our wide>awake.
live, industrious and sagacIOus stoc K
dealer, returned on Saturday last, after
an absence of several weeks, looking as
fresh and healthy as a morning glory.
His trade extends from st. Louis to
South Alabama.
Early Saturday morning last, stran-
gers were seen rolling in from the East,
West, North and South. The northern
blast, which was distressinGly uDpleas-
ant, caused the citizens of the village to
house themselves, like old coons. The
few on the streets made frequent enqui-
ry, aCtO are they? as they stood on the
corners, like motherless pigs in snow
storm. About this time Bill Alexander
rounded into port, when one OF our col
ored dignitaries accosted him, "Mas
Bill, who is all desc mems, and what da
want?" Bill, 10 his smiling way, said,
"they are candidates, and wants your
votes, and so do l." Very soon the SOW
ereigns, plebeians and yeomenry, COM
menced tumbling in from the rural dis
tricts. Electioneering business was
brisk and amusing. The independent
raiders and thinkers "a new order) COM
menced crusade upon the candidates,
which created the most social, familiar
and best excitement that has stirred up
our village for many years. All SEEM
ed to be very popular and treated kind
ly. About l o'clock, the Methodist
Church bell called the trustees of our ex~
pected high school together, who transN
acted the necessary business and ad
journed. A call was then made and the
people assembled, and listened attentive
ly to an able, eloquent and pointed
speech of Col. l.. ID, Myers on the import
ance of reconStructlng our railroad, and
other Improvements. We have railroad
on the brain-give US chance and we
will vote twenty TO one for the tax. The
day passed off with the best of feeling
and many made happy. At night some
one of the Independent raiders, as sup
posed, let his conundrum, tas Jim Mil
Ter calls it, fall out of his pocket, or he
fell out himself, and made two unusual
reports, ''like unto a gun, "-harmless. |
however.
The Rev. VIM. H. Hughes. Buck, |
our former fellow citizen and popular
pastor, occupied the divine sanctuary in |
the NJ. E. Church Sunday morning last. |
He delivered an impressive, persuasive |
sermon, as he always does.
While Rev. Mr.. Wilkes was preaching !
on Sunday night last, for the salvation |
of Gods people, the wicked ViolaJers OF |
all Divine moral and civil law were at |
work-the loathsCme workers of iniqui- |
ty whose deeds are evil, prefer dark |
ness to light, knowing their deeds are
evil. You may hide from, and escape |
the punishment of mans law, but Gods |
Just punishment will certainly Overtake
you. These midnight providers and F!
workers hauled an old carriage |
upon the square, turned it upside down,
which INSTRUCTED the walks of some OF
the good people vending their way
home from church. This vehicle is
now the wreck of once famous plea
ure carriage, and we predict that those
engaged in that nefarious decd, will, if
justice overtakes them, die wreck in
some State Penitentiary.
The candidates are delighting the vO~
ters, and the voters are tickling the
Prof. Bennett, of Columbia, with his
efficient corps, commenced the survey of
of the railroad from this place to the
Tennessee River last Tuesday morning.
The modern Daniel Boone, of Lewis
county. r. o. Smith, ESD, is the chief
aid and conductor, and will prove an
invaluable assistant. Old sam Slow
the rear, and he knows well
how to set and drive stakes correctly.
Capt. j. J. DamrOn, one of the oldest
citizens of this place, left on Wednesday
asst for the old Dominion, the land of
MS birth. He is an old bachelor, never
married, but great admirer of the fair
sex. No man was more devoted and
onder of angling for game fish than he,
or he courted and fished-some rhymer
wrote:
Watch Captain Damron, the old harde ned
sinner,
He nibbles at Miss Disc Like trout does a
minnow;
You may fish all your days, do nothing but
try,
At last old man, you will have to root hog
or die. "