The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-31
SPRING EIILLITEMS,

SPRING HILL ITEMS.
Friday week was day of interest and
/ a time OF hustle and stir in our town, on
account Of the appointment of the coun-
ty candidates to address the sovereigns
| on that occasion. The candidates were
| all on hand in due time, and at the usu-
al hour, opened the discussion, and en-
| tertained the audience until late in the
| evening. Latta, WhitthOrne, Akin and
| the other nominees of the Democrat
| party, spoke like men who were fully
| conscious of their rights, aud who knew
| they would be supported and sustained
! by an overwhelming majority of the
! voters of the good old county of Maurv
while their opponents looked and spoke
| like men who felt already that they were
| doomed to defeat. II may not be gener-
ally known that the candidate for COun-
| ty Court Clerk is our old neighbor boy.
! famlliarly known among us as Nick
| Akin. He bears the hOnored name of
| our present Chief Justice. Nick is the
son of our old and lamented neighbor
and friend, Esq. Williamson Akin, than
whom better man, and one more uni
| verSaIly respected, never lived in this
! community. Nick is thorough busiN
ness man, polite and accommodating,
and will make tirstrate clerk. Let the
! friends OF the family in remembrance OF
| the days of Lang Syne," give him a
| rousing vote at the August election,
and be sure not to forget the other regu-
! lar nominees.
| The friends" of Mr.. Jas. II. Gregory
! regret exceedingly that he ever deliver
ed himself OF his late prOnunciament to
| as published in the HERALD AND MAIL.
| and his ''enemieS" see in it the force of
the language of Job, where he saws.
| "Oh, that mine adversary had written a
| book" 1t is surprising that man
| raised as he has been, and with family
| in whose veins courses some of the best
| blood of the State, could find it in his
| heart to cherish and publish such senti-
ments. Party prejudice and IancorOus
| hatred of Democracy have, doubtless,
| impelled him TO do what the "sober sec
ond thought" will cause him to regret in
| bitterness of sorrow.
Cayce's Springs, the nearest watering
| place to our town, is tbrOnged at this
time by visitors from Nashville, Frank
| lin, Pulaski, Spring Hill and the sur
rounding country. Mr.. John Cavce.
the inventor of spring power, and the
! present owner OF this property, is spend
| ing the season, together with his family,
At these springs. He is busily engaged
in preparing to light up the springs and
| the buildings attached thereto with the
| Spring Power Gass. Mr.. Cayce has
lately made great improvements in his
gas generators, and hereafter no fears
need be entertained of having constant.
brilliant and perfect light.
Mr.. Glenn W. Wade, of Brownsville, is
up on a visit to his children and rela>
tives in this county. He is looking re-
markably well, and as though the chlls
OF West Tennessee had not touched him.
Col. ID. f. Wade, of the Ashwood
country, with his most excellent wife
and their three lovely children, have
been spending few days with relatives
and friends in this neighborhood.
Mai. w. b. Wilkes and wife, of A ber-
deem, Miss, have been soiourning
fe " days with their son, w. l.. Wilkes,
of This neighbOrhoOd. He reports
drought of unprecedented severity as
prevailing in Mississippi, on theIine of
the Mobile d Ohio r. r., and the reign
of Radicslism as becoming more oLA
presSive and intolerable, and the citizens
ready and anxious to welcome With
open arms, immigrants from any and
all countries. They think that almost
any change would be beneficial, and
more especially so If the Civil Rights
Bill should become law.
Mr.. n. b. Cheairs has gone to the
mountains with Mr.. Marsh Mayes and
others from Columbia. The party ex-
pect to visit the most rem owned watering
places on the continent, and will proba-
bly, delay their return as long as they
are benefited by the trip.
Mr.. Cam Terrill and his amiable
young wife, from their MelrOse farm, in
Bolivar county, Miss, are now up spend
ing the summer. They look as though
the overflow had not hurt them. Cam
reports Tom McLemOre as being indus
triously engaged in pushing forward his
planting interests in Bolivar in spite of
the disastrous OvertiOws, which paralyZN
ed the energies of many more expert |
enced planters than he. Billy Terrill is
also there, and as steady to his business
''as the needle to the pole"
Miss Fanny W., one of Williams |
ports fairest bellies, has been spending |
some time with her sister, Mrs. Col. L. |
D. Banks, of this vicinity.
Rev. John Nj. Jordan and family are |
on a visit to relatives in Fayetteville, |
and will be absent several weeks.
The venerable Henry B. North occuA
pied the pulpit on last Sabbath, at the |
Methodist church in this place, and !
preached d most excellent sermon. His |
subject led him naturally to speak of |
the triumphs of grace in the Christian |
warfare, and in this connection he men |
toned most tenderly his late colleagues, |
Green, Pitts, Maddin and Brown, who |
have recently passed away to their re- |
ward; and while he alluded to the use |
full lives and triumphant deaths of these |
veteran worthless, with whom he had |
been so long Intimately associated in |
the itinerancy, the falling tear and the |
trembling frame attested the deep emo |
ton which stirred his heart.
The beautiful and accomplished Miss |
Rose White is enjoying the balmy att
mosphere and pleasant society of rela-
tives, in the mountain religions of East |
Tennessee. While absent she will visit |
the principal watering places in that
section of country.
The Rev. Mr.. Gray has sprung some |
exciting questions in his Bible class,
which are eliciting warm discussions /
and hard study.
There is a scope of country north,
east, sodth and west OF this place, that
seems doomed. All around us rains are
falling, vegetation is reviving, but just
here cotton is blooming to the top OF the |
stalk and not more than one foot high.
Corn is tasseling and much of it not
more than three feet high. Gardens are
burned up, and our pastures instead OF
presenting their usual green appear
ance, are parched and withered. With
out an early rain, and plenty OF 1t, there
will be neither bread for the eater nor
seed for the sower," and the stock of the
country dependent on pastures, already
suffering for the want of grass, must
soon perish and die. The millet crop
has proven almost total failure, while
meadows and clover fields have yielded
scarcely ANYTHING. This is an exceed
ingly gloomy picture, but is no exagger-
alton of the lamentable condition of
this and perhaps other portions OF the
counties of Maury and Williamson,
valentine NoX," the ventrlloquist,
gave one of his popular entertainments
on Monday and Tuesday nights re-