The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-17
AROUND TOWN.

Tho financial Steward of the N. r.,
Cburch informs us that he has been very
Snccassful in collecting su descriptions. 1hose
yVhom he has not visited VIII pIeaSse BS'
raady-he will give them "A call. -, a..
Iii is expected that there Will pc tMo
,,.,,eTs raad before the Tennessee Philosoph-
zeal Society at its next regular IneeIlH :;
One on comets, ana what ~. w oniioJ Nv
them, and the second on MIltu 4. - StailSu 70
rather extensive technicalityp "Dacry ocy >
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. A. Att. c,ats
some impecunlous co tilS TT,aSI ,s7itb
sIni 81 dead who never TO himself mas
said. IN paw before go to bed, the ueDt l
owe me printer? Yes, there are some VINO
SnO,- AMI we'll who never such a tale could
tell, but they, 1 fear, will go to-Well' the
place where there's no winter. ,......
ing n fty-four apples, all in a bunch. He got
the tree from Vim. Shepherd. -,
In the language of a cotempOraryt the
weather is so hot that items are scarce on
the streets, and so are we. $1,000. =.
-Theo. Lipscomb has concluded not 70
mt his vOung alligator in the river YET
awhile and Will wait until IL Is larger ana
better able TO hold its own with Ihe DOy ;.
There was no preaching in the Presoy-
nS distingufshed member fthe bar came
into the court room one day last week
looking as happy as an acre OF suhnoIW ven
and his brother lawyers sat by IN sonlDei
silence, and in awestruck astonlsIIihlehI
AT last ne could hold in no longer, ana DrOke
forth. HCIentlemen, I'll tell you Wnats tne
matter with me-Ifm grand-Papa TINS morn
Iafions were shOwered upon grandpa.
The case Of Long, ct. al, Vs. gran D ~
ct. al noticed in our last issue, Mts on u ~
day, decided by Chancellor cooper. ne ne He-
IiVcred "a full and able opinion, concLudlng
in refusing application OF petitioners TO ME
a bill OF review. As a colncldence. the utty
mi, nm was the anniversary of the death
of W. Ii. Boddie who died on that usy %
wears ago. The difficulties arising from a
division of his property was not until 1ues-
Uncle Tommy has been reading the
4sScottish Chiefs" He likes sweetmllk
$'nI CoIunnbians are fleeing to the country.
we-haVe heard of no one taking passage on
Mark Twain's comet-they prefer 0 4I
nasSiansH are rusticatlng at that uellghLLIuL
place, Cottage Hill" Hickman couniYS,i tne
brfIIiant inhabitants OF maple Hail are
at the old homestead on the Hampshire
nike: the fairy Queen of sugar Tree race
Is expected TO flee to the Allegheny Noun
tains; several families nave gone 20 bettEe
dam Primm's and Bon Aqua, anu we rear
that we will soon be left alone.
Wash Haley brings Us a nmD taken
from one of his paper mulberry trees, con-
tanning ripe fruit. It's the hISt We eNSt 81
saw The berry FIRST appears IN the shape OF
the sycamore ball, and then rlpens INTO d
reddish looking berry. -.
-EliZa Thomas who was once a servant
of the Hon. James II. Thomas, mas min IN
eral substance which she says Tell rom the
meteor on the night of July 7th. IL Is
white chall1y substance and seems not 10
he cOnglOmerate. The woman says Ihat
she picked il up soon after IL fell in her
ward. and that il was hot, as several wit
nesseE can testify. This meteorolite Is
surrounded by sulphurouS substance
There will be preaching at the CumDer-
land Presbyterian church next SUNDAY
morning and night by the Rev. ). +. McF er-
rim. A full attendance OF ali the heihpeIs
Young men have a habit of lettering on
the steps IN front OF the L. r. Churcn' on
SUNDAY night after service begins, and ire
quently during the entire service.
Capt. j. B. Murphy picked up stone
one night last week, prObaO4y the nlSlt Vi
neteOTic display, which smelt of sulphur,
and looked as If il just had fallen there
''O-i III was Md at the district meeting of the
NJ E Church at CulleOka, that COLUMBIA
station had the best parsonage IN tennessee
Mrs. Nan Glenn met with painful acct
dent last Monday. MIR. and Mrs Glenu
were gathering peaches anu IN u ~ y Id
limo entered one of her eyes II was Ie'tIeu
~ the time that she would lose her eye
but fyzsa,Eetting better now.
Last Tl1tcsday night several persons,
mainly bachelSrS, went out to the residence
of Mr.J- II. Jame5 co get a view Oh 1ae c9 Tbe
niSht vas cIoudy. bst they finally got a
view of the comet. Tn. bachelors appeared
TO be more interested ia the brilliant ana
GsantiftT Venus, who looked unusually
lovely on the occasion, seeming 70 know
who We're looking at her. When me MgJoI
took peep at her, however, she DLusne9
and ygiled her face with an ash-colOreu
cloud As one of the party was trylng IN
vain to get the telescope on SAIe. . -. -
chievOuS smoker put ms Wen III clsHI az llle
figend, when the wOuld-be star-gaZer eN-
claimed, There she she Is! See now Drill
Iiantly beautiful she is Mhen ne ulscoN
cred the hoax. he looked like grlm-Nlsaged
war, with wTinkled front.
-Dr TOWERS new Office, above ms resi-
tlence. is the handSOmest in town. ana
would be hard to beat anywhere. Ihose
who wish to rent il are seven deep -
1t was miStake-JOhn NewcOmb ulV'
not kill the big trout. He killed a great
many large ones, but Hugh Grimm killed
the one which measured twenty-seNen
inches i'm length. 1t was so old that 1T was
grean-a regular old "minnoW-eatert az
John DOwell calls the black trout ana the
yellow trout. This trout would have weigh
ed at least eight or ten pounds. Mr.. Grlinh
ought 10 have taken IL to Major Chealrsi
who has a standing offer Of $40 for ten
pound trout, and - per pound for each ad-
ditional pound. -
The second number OF Inc Novelty, a
sDrigbtIy, littIe monthly, published by the
enterprising firm OF COmstOck huslloh,
has made its appearance.