The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-06-12
LOWER MILLS ITEMS

The weather continues dry and the crops
look bad, general thing. There are
good many in our neighbOThood that are
not done planting corn. Cotton has not
come up IL Il good stand yet. Wheat is
looking tOlerably well, 81 this time. sur
work stock looks badly. We have not for
age enough to feed them and they look very
thin. The pastures are not good. There
are very few hogs in our part of the county.
The cholera is killing all of the fowls, and
the fishing season IL over, but biaCkberTicS
will soon come in, and We can do finely for
awhile The kr.Elfn Of this neighbOrhoOd is
good at this time. one Doctor j. having IL
good time nov; he * Always about home,
and is doing good practice in his garden,
considering the dry weather. Mr. BraZicT
thinks his general health is better, but the
cancer in his ear looks very BADLY. | am
glad to know that lie - axle To walk about
the farm. Mrs. Dyer wife OF 4. =. Dyer, Of
Rock Spring, i suffering with a cancer, in
or near IA. T right eye. Dr. Sharber i wait
ing on her, and | hope that he may cure
her, a. he commenced rs soon as he found
it t. bC a cancer.
We had cOfue to the conclusion that the
2lth district was one or ne most OWL in the
county, but last week nj Rock Spring, there
was general knocking spree. II appears
that Bill NeWcQmb was at Rock Spring and
becoming somewhat noisy, Monroe Taylor
tried to command the peace, but that made
"a bad matter worse. Taylor paIted Bill a
mule and Bill concluded to go hOmCward
lie got as far hC could without resting,
aud stopped i'm the road. But his head was
so swimmy that he concluded 10 lie down
and rest. About the time Bill began To rest,
some children came down the lane, and
they saw Bill lying in the road, and cOnclu-
dcd to take r1unduuuv. 8ill well knew that
the children wer, afraid to pass ana couclu-
dcd Ia get up and cross The fence, and let
them pass. The children concluded that
they would cross the fence, and as they
went to cross, Bin went to cross also, which
scared them q little worse. The. got Billy
Rummage, Jr-, 10 come and get BIZ ont o.
the way, 50 they could pass. Billy Rum
mage came down. and he and Bill had some
words, and there was something thrown
by Billy RUmmagc. The children went on
fr-l hon d -
home again. Monroe Taylor keeps grocery
at Rock Spring.
MIR A. j. Hucy is road Uvcrsccr in the Path
district. Andy concluded recently that he
would warn in his hands and work while
the corn and cotton were coming up. Andy
went to warn Mr.. John Edgin, and found
him close 10 ms house. AMY told him his
business, and Edgin told Andy he was over
! age. Andy asked hin. TO show his age and
/ they went To the house, and Edglu got
| the Old family Bible and opened at the fam
! lily record; Andy looked al il and found that
| Edgln was born the Isl of April, 1853. Andy
| told Edgln that according To the record, he
] was not too old. John became Somewha in
suited at Andy and told him he was a liar
| and a rogue. That WAS pIetta rough for
Andy and Edgin and Mrs. Edgiu met at the
| field-they all tend land in the same field,
\ Just turn-rOw between them. Andy asked
John If he wanted 10 fight as bad as he did
the evening before: John told Andy he did
| not, the lady standing listening at the
quarrel. she became ;, mad that she drew
her broad hoe and made at Andy, who did
moi wait for orders To retreat but LEFT the field
/ in good order. John seeing that his wife
had started Andy, got 81 mad that he lust
/ got out OF has shirt ana threw up ms hand
| aud said, Il dOd, I'm here Andy fed III the
| direction of home,
| Hiett s Craig are working most of their
time on old wagons. Ne have quite a pub
/ lie road TO the Leftwich bridge.
| The steam sawmills of TitcOmb & Gordon,
and DOOley x Akin, are IN null blast, max
/ ing fine lumber all sorts, and sizes Eth
/ er mill can Mi q nili on the shortest notice.
/ Wash GOrdOu's sawyer let On Monday, Ihe
/ Isl OF June. If they can find q man TO NIL
! the position Of sawyer well as he did, he
/ VIII nave TO toe a No. /. Capt. Walker Is
/ running Akin \ DoUlGY'S mill. The Captain
! Is at the place he can nil 10 perfection
/ GORDON sawyer had not been gone long
| before the saw came i'll contact with the
| carriage and came near saving OFF one OF
| the carriage wheels. They will not be apt Il
/ turn over piece on the carriage again
| without noticing to see whether the car
! riage is all right on the track,
! TEere were two OF Elliott and Wesley
! Smiths horses drowned on the Cannon
! farm recently. They We're ON pasture, and
| had to get water at the river; in attempting
! to get water they got mircd and drowned
| Hr. Gentry saved his l. Orse by finding him
] in time at the same place The river has
| fallen so much that the stock have to go
| further down the bank where il is quite miry
] and dangerous for stock TO try TO gel
water at the watering place. JEDI REEVES
! stock are taking the same disease that the
/ smiths had sometime ago.
! Bread stun is scarce and high. Every body
! is buying, and that makes il pretty hard on
bushcl ON meal. You know that looks high
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