The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-10-02

It grew on the top of a big hill, which has
been in cultivation for fifty years. The two
weighed three pounds and a quarter, and
sixty ike which Will shell out bushel.
They are just about as large as w. b Cor
don's,-probably few grains larger.
ON saturday Oct. 10th, DIR. Maxwell,
Master OF the State Grange, will address Ine
Patrons of Maury county at the fair grounds.
Inc public generally is invited. In The al
ternoon the Master will instruct the mem
bers of the order in private. Other d1St1n-
guished speakers may be present. Let eV-
cry Patron turn out and make this farm
ers' holiday.
Adam Cox an old Virginia negro, of the
Mt. Pleasant neighborhOod, is supposed by
those who know best to be one hundred
and twenty years old. He formerly belong
ed to John Cox, who was murdered during
the war by federal soldiers. Mr.. Seth r.
Kittrell has known Adam forty years, and
he says he was an old, old negro when he
Mr.. Abraham Need lays upon our table
pea two feet inches long.
-ThOs. Childry, a white man, lives on
DIR. D. Davidson's place, and Albert Harris,
cOlored, lives on an adjoining plantation,
belonging to F. Fl. Watkins. Several days
ago Mr.. Childry's horses got into Albert's
cornfield, and he took them home to Child
ry, who accused Albert of having ridden
them. Albert went back home, got his
to within about sixty yards of Childry's
house, and shot him as he sat in the yard.
One bird shot hit his eye, but did not hurt
him very much. Childry went into his
house, and Albert fired another shot at him
and hit the door. Childry got his pistol and
fired five shots, but did not hit Albert, who
was in the bushes. Albert fled, and has so
far bafhed all the energies of the Sheriff. 1t
Will take time and patience to catch him.
While on the subject of trees, we will
mention, that a few days ago, Judge Elem
ing told us, he saw, in 1870, a poplar tree,
standing on the lands of Sheb Marsh, Esq,
near the head of Blue creek, and some three
or four miles from COrnersville, which he
was informed, had been measured and was
in diameter 10 feet. He was at the time in
with Mr. James Nance a reliable
gentleman, who gave him this information.
He saw the tree himself and it was green
and hOurishing and its body sound and SOL
Id. The Judge says he was not much sur
pr1sed to learn its diameter by measure
ment; for not very far from that tree, and
upon the same character of soil, he saw an
other few days after, which had been cut
down near the road leading from Lynnville
to COrnersville- This tree was so large that
the first cut and it lowered above him with
his stOve-pipe thrown in. He did not like
lest some tncredulous people might think
he was casing. 1t was not, however, as
large as the first named one, by some sever
al feet. But, the Judge says, when he was n
boy, and spent good deal of time in hunt
Ing foxes, raccoons and opossums, he made
all that region OF country now occupied by
the Folks, his "happy hunting grounds"
and he remembers well to have often pass
ed the remnant of a large poplar, which had
been turned out of root many years before
his day, which tree lay not far from the
present residence of Alb. Shacklett, Esq. |
Looking back through the mists of some |
forty years, the impression he now has is |
hat it was the largest poplar he ever saw. |
1t was down and greatly decayed when he |
first saw it, and was but SHELL, being al |
most entirely hollow; and furnished
splendid retreat for hogs in wet and wintry |
weather. What effect the miSts afore said |
and the magnifying powers of time and dis |
lance may have on his imagination he was
not prepared to say, but that tree looked |
like it must have come from California, |
and from good part of California for big |
trees at that. Ii this statement needs con- |
frmation he referred us to James A. Flem- |
ing.