The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-04-10
SPRING HILLITEMs.

Our town and country has been re-
Gently inundated with candidates.
Both this place and Thompson Station,
and all the regions round about, have
been blessed or cursed, just as the tastes
of the sovereigns may have taken it,
with visits, electioneering in it's various
| phases, speeches OF all sorts, together
with an abundance of whisky drinking,
| which said whisky is paid tor by some~
body, certainly not by the men who
drink il. The quality of the liquor, dis
posed on these public occasions by some
invisible hand, is most excellent, judy
ing from it's effects on those who partake
of it. for it makeg them wise, brave and
patriotic. Its influence upon the Color~
ed voters is very marked, and they soon
so soften in their hatred for the white
trash" that in the absence of a pegro
candidate, they profess to believe that
white man is as good as black one,
and will even cOndescenG to allow some
of their favOrites among the candidates
to lean upon them, while they whisper
into their ears some word which they
think will tasten these gentlemen of
African descent securely in their inter
est. A man, white or colored, whose vote
can be bought or influenced by whisky,
is UNIV orthy of the high and sacred priv
ilege of the franchise; and the treating
by candidates, whether in Ombination
or singly, exerts upon the body-politic,
a most demoralizing influence, and in
flicts upon the good people Ofthe coun-
try "damnum abs que injuria.'
The Williamson county candidates
spoke at Thompson Station on last Sat-
urday, and by previous arrangement,
had fine barbecue prepared, which the
sovereigns, both white and colOred, en-
tioyed hugely, washing it down with lib
eral rotations of the Obe-joyful. There
were many, of course. who did not
drink, and who never do; but it is fact
not to be controvert ed that this accused
evil is on the increase, and like blight
ing mildew, is bringing disease, decay
and death into many OF the best families
in our land, and whitening and forever
blasting the bright hopes and the laud
able aspirations of some OF the nobleSt
young men OF our fair land.
Mai. Ben Harlan passed through this
place on last Saturday with over huns
dred head of the finest beef cattle that
have been seen in these parts for long
time. He intended stopping them on
Gen. Hardin's rich pastures for few
weeks in order to prepare them fully,
and enter them fresh and full upon the
Nashville market or for shipment to
Louisville or some other point North,
Mai. Harlan devoteS more attention to
the raising and fattening of fine cattle
and sheep, and is more successful in
luCSC VI
man in this great county OF Maury,
which is noted tor the enterprise of its
citizens over the whole country.
The greatest fox HINT of the season
came of on last Friday night. Thirty
five or forty of the citizens of our town
and vicinity turned out to join in aud
witness the chase. Expectation was
high, the horn of the huntsman was
heard echoing through hill and dale,
and soon the forest was alive with the
music of the dogs in full cry, alter what
proved to be red fox. Away they went
oyer hills and through deep valleys,
eleven of the fieetest dogs following
close upon the heels of this the swiftest
and longest winded of the reynard tribe.
So closely did they press him that he
was forced to abandon his usual facts
and turns, and to take q straight chute
for the far west, which to him was, per-
haps, somewhere towards Hickman
county, But after a most exciting chase
of sone ten or fifteen miles, more or
less, he was captured oyer beyond
y @, ,,>.,a -Camp~Sround. Very few of the
! large crowd VINO .srt4ad out were sin
at the death" How many and Wn0
! they were, it is not necessary now to
mention. About thirty of the dogs, who
| were 90 badly distanced in the first two