The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-04-24
OVER THE COUNTY.

H. H, Razor, of this county, is one OF the
iurors of tha Federal Court, at Nashville.
A portion of Ashtons mill Is lanueG on
Suck island Bend, several miles below VIII
@The new iron bridge was slightly dam
| aged nv the late freshct. immense logs
came against it and slightly bent the iron
rooSS a. p. webster says that Bigbee
| crack lacked ten inches OF being up to the
| mark made in his mill by the freshet OF
&iCapt. Fletcher Barnes has been appoint
ed to carry around the box in the l2th civil
| district, in place of MIR. Howard, VINO is nee
| essarily absent from the county. en-.
Gordon Cecil's wagon and J. II; Se zee IFS
corn planter washed away IN 3 InS as5ain vi
Bigbee, but they finally got them , aga LII,
Cornelius FriersOn, COL, on LICK NleS :9i
has filed pill in Chancery to recover Talis
from Alex. Dobbins. He says me ne saw M, hiS
rails lodge on Dobbins' place. The case Will
probably be arbitrated. -, -. .,,
The lower Sowen mill d1d noL WASH
away Col SoweIl took the precautlon IN
buiIding the mill, to fasten 1t TO trees with
iron rods. The bridge at this mill was sub
merged at this end, but the only damage
ii sustained was the apron being washed
away. ~ 49,, ,,ou,.,,,,
gauge road to Fayetteville, has arrived with
camp equipage, &c, and all the necessary
preparations are about finished for COM
iii N0ne of TG fiftV Candidates came near
being drowned last Tuesday at the Ashton
dam, on Rutherford Creek. He got under
the Dolls ana Kept uQQeT LOT a COnslucIdDlt
time. Runt Hodge looked on and Joe
Herndon went to the rescue.
The freshet did much damage on silver
Creek. The rise was very sudden IN the
creek, and we have heard of one man, wife,
and two children making narrow escape.
When he was awakened by the rush of wa
ters through the house and under the bed,
he bounced to his feet, and to his surprise
the water was high enough to reach 10 ms
breecheS pockets, if he had had them on,
which he did not.
Sid GoodIoe, of the Mt. Pleasant country,
10 a fine mule colt by the rain on Tuesday
OF last week. He says B1gDee creek was
higher than il was in May, 1856, according
to some of the oldest inhabitants. he
caught little of everything on his place,
ter rails than he lost He caught some
chestnut rails, with Almond Barnes name
on them. Mr.. B. marks his rails.
A young mare colt went over the MeD-
ster dam, on Tuesday of last week, having
been drowned above, somewhere.
The other day, Lucius, bright but mis-
chievOus little six year old son of Major j.
NJ. Williams, was reprimanded by his moth
er for diSobedience, and his attention called
to the punishment inflicted on the
boy in the spelling book for stealing apples.
Lucius listened quietly, with ringer in his
tree vet" GLOW do you know" "'Cause,
just saw him in the book just now with his
finger up to his nose, So" ana sultlng tne
action to the word, he put his finger to his
nose, and would have stood for the original
Mr.. Wiley Worley informs us that Doug
lass johnson, who lives near the Blue
Spring, owns calf which has one leg and
a foot exactly like mule. The foot is not
cloVen, and seems to have been made for a |
mule. The calf is about four weeks old, and
looks as it would live to be grown.
The tin roof of the house of Cornelius
FrtersOn, colored, on Green's Lick Creek, in
this district, was recently blown off, He in |
forms u.s. that during the recent freshet, one |
mile of his fencing was washed away.
The Messrs. Orr Bros, OF Nashville, were |
robbed few nights since of valuable jew |
elry, by cracksmen,
Esq. r. b. Allen, has withdrawn from
the canvass as candidate for Sheriff. His
card appears in to-day's paper.
Major Campbell Brown, Ewen Station,
has purchased the following Jerseys from
Geo. +. Warning, Jr., "Anna ROxbury,"
"ROxabel," and "Duchess," all registered
animals.
1t was Mr. Alex. Rummages bales of
cotton caught by Bud Paul. He had it |
stored in AshtOn's mill, but it washed out.
One OF our candidates for County Court |
Clerk, not being satisfied with the number
of voters in this county, went over into Mar
shall, a few days since electioneeing.
Berry Mason, col, was brought TO town |
yesterday, and placed in Jail. He is chaTg- |
ed with having attempted to commit rape
upon a white girl named Alice Gentry, aged |
Il years, on Capt. Thomas Gibson's farm. |
He was committed by Justice Mckay.
We think the County Court did right in |
bonds for the purpose of building turnpikes
and railroads to the vote OF the people. To |
Stunning the responsibility OF speaking for |
the people, which they should not doom such |
i'm pOrtant questions as these are, to the vi |
tai Interests of the county. The cOnstitu- |
ton of the State requires three-fOurths of |
the voters of the county to be given for the /
measure, otherwise it is defeated. The gen. /
tlemcn composing the Association are some |
of the best citizens of the county, and gen. |
tlemen of wealth, and their connection with /
il is sufficient guarantee of the correct |
management of the Association. We un- |
derstand that, although Maj. Campbell /
Brown was not present at a meeting of the
Association, he was elected president, which |
is very complimentary to him, and we
know of no one better qualified to I'LL the
place than he. Some citizens are of the |
opinion that the election, which is under
stood to he in Septem Der next, is too far on.
They argue, with some plausibility, that If |
the vote is taken earlier, some of the roads
can be worked Midsummer and fall, while 1t
if is deferred to September, another winter,
with all its bad roads in train, viii nave 10
be endured; others think it best to put IL on
to September, so as to give the people an
to thoroughly understand the
matter, The Association will issue an ad-
dress to the people shortly, giving all the
desired. The people are to vote
on the proposition of issuing Sl25,OOO IN
bonds at per cent. interest, and redeema-
BILE in % years, to build turnp1l<eS through
out the county. At the same time the pe0-
pie are to vote whether or not to issue DondS
at same rate of interest, and redeemable al.
so, in 20 years, for SlS0,OOO for the purpose OF
constructing a railroad in the direction |
of Hickman county and finishing the same
to Mt. Pleasant.