The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-02-20
SPRING HILL ITEMS.

| The Rev. Robt. Gray, successor OF
| Rev. F. A. Thompson, as pastor of the
| Presbyterian church in this place, gave
to his congregation, on last Sabbath, a
| most edifying and comforting sermon.
| He announced that on next Sabbath he
would give his people a sermon from
| the following somewhat singular text:
| Jer. l2thch 28thv.-"The prophet that
hath dream, let him tell a dream; And
| he that hath my word, let him speak my
word faithfully" As the design of this
sermon will be to teach, to indoctri~
| nate and to establish in the faith, the
members OF his church, it is hoped and
expected that all will attend, and not
permit, as is too often the case, little
! bad weather or muddy roads. to prevent
them from coming out. 1t is a lament
. able truth that our people Of the various
congregations in this place, from some
| cause or other, are not as regular and
constant in attending upon the minis
try of Gods word as formerly. Even
on sacramental occasions, we rarely ev-
or see either of the churches filled.
Our fellow-citizen, Dr. G. G. Crump
and his excellent wife, had with them
| to dinner last Sunday, four young mar
ried couples. all nearly related to the
Doctor and Mrs. Crump: Mr., Norfleet
Figuers and wife, Mr.. Robt. Bailey and
wife, last couple blessed with beauti-
full baby, and both of Franklin, Mr.. Joe
Alexander and wife, of this place, like
smiling boy, and Hardin P. Figuers and
his beautiful and accomplished bride,
of Columbia. There is joy and
happiness in these family gatherings to
which the uninitiated are perfect stran-
gers, and to these young mothers COM
pairing and talking over these infant
buds, these tender pledges of mutual
a.. 4 &c,
an inspiration in the theme upon which
each and every one can speak words of
eloquence and poetic beauty.
"They are idols of hearts and of households,
They are angels of God in disguisei
His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses,
His glory still CLEANS in their eyes"
Col. Martin T. Cheairs is again threat
ened with return of erysipelas in his
leg, disease from which he suffered
greatly last summer. He is still able
to walk about, and his familiar face is
seen upon our streets on every good day
in the w eek and at church regularly on
the Sabbath. He is the Superintendent
OF the Sunday-school of the Methodist
Church, and a most efficient teacher of
large Bible class, between whom and
himself there are some lively discus
sions connected with the lessons.
DIR. A. G. White is visiting, profession
ally, Mrs. Judge Turley, of FRANKLIN,
who has been in bad health tor several
months past. He is also visiting one or |
two other patients at the same place. |
He has two of the finest saddle horses |
in the county, and it taxes their power |
of endurance to the utmost to stand his |
riding. 1t he does not exercise greater |
prudence in saving himself from the ia |
tigue and exhaustion ofhis heavy prac |
tice, his fine constitution will be broken |
down, and the country thereby, be de-
prived of his valuable services.
The greatest fox hunt of the season,
came off on last Saturday night. Mes
sieurs Sam Pointer, Mack Campbell and |
Alex. Mckay, were the leading spirits |
in the chase, with their fine packs of
hounds. Many others joined in with |
them. So near did the fox approach the /
town with the whole pack in full cry, |
that it is said all business was abandon
ed, and every man and boy in town,
either on horseback or on foot, turned
out. The excitement was great, the
music of the dogs superb, and the chase
splendid jim Porter liked to have /!
killed his horse, and Malk Rountree /
came near bursting his boiler but the
poor fox could not hold out long against
such odds, and after an hours run, was
caught by the dogs. They had three
other fine chases, and the sport wound
up in the capture of four foxes, one OF
them red fox. No one retoices more
at this result than Major Brown, upon
whose fine estate most all of these
little animals were caught.
They had been making great havoc
amongst the lambs OF the Majors fine
hoeks of sheep
Prof. Redman's school is progressing
finely. The female department is I'M
der the supervision of Miss l. Figuers,
a young lady of high scholarly attain
ments and rare accomplishments. Un-
der its present management, this school
is maintaining a very high reputation:
Mrs. Marsh Mayes, of Columbia, with
her little daughter, Annie, was out on
a visit to her mother, Mrs. Susan T.
Cheairs. this week,