The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-06
OVER THE COUNTY.

| "A lamb was born on j. w. CaIdwelll
place last Friday, which had two distinct
heads, four good eyes, four ears, two
mouths, and one neck. 1t was fine, wei
formed lamb, up to the head 1t lived abOu,
"A life insurance agent, whom we shall
call Eddy, travelling near the residence o.
| Mr.. +. NJ. Vaughn, in company with
friend, discovered in the middle of the road
| a large pool of blood, and the ground show
| ed also, that whatever was killed, had
been dragged to the river bluff, and thrown
over. The thought naturally occurred to
the agent, that some one insured in his
| company had been killed, ana II SO, he
| would find out the name, send for the mon
| ey, and take ii to the widow and orphans,
! in person. 1t is q very high bluff, but he
and his friend managed to get down, only
| to find the carcass of dog, which, he found
| on enquiry, Mr.. Vaughn had killed for sheep
| killing.
! lin the Davidson county poor house,
! they call it county Asylunll is one Maury
| county women, named Mrs. Mary LoNet'
| One OF the young woman employed at
| the Nashville cotton factory, is the daugh-
| ter of "a Maury countian, and related to some
| OF our best citizens. Her father was killed
| in West Tennessee, where he was living at
| the time. After the death of her father, her
mother removed to Nashville, but soon after
| died, leaving the daughter and little son.
The girl, aged about ID or 10 years, smart and
good looking, bought a cemetery lot and
mad her mother buried decently, out of
money earned by her own labor. Not long
since, she carried her little brother to Judge
FerriSs and asked him to secure good
home for him, as she had not the OppOrtu-
nifty TO give him that attention she de-
sired him TO have, though she regretted the
necessity OF being parted from him, as she
loved him only as sister can love. The
Judge, who is a humane, and upright gen.
tlemaD, found a good home for the orphan
boy.
we learn that the celebrated horse, "Reck-
less the property aft. l. IsOm & Co, will
make the present season at the stables of
w. Thomas on Knob Creek.
MIR. J. O. Griffith, Deputy organized Gran
ges at Santa Fe, Concord, Mt. Pleasant,
southport, Rock Spring, Smyrna, and Mil
IaRFs n f1RTE mt in
past week.
Rev. Il. g. Linn, is able to be up and
about. He has been on a visit to his friends
at AshwoOd. We are very glad to see him
once more doing well and hope that he may
recover from his recent wounds.
DR., ID. b. DObbinS, is hard at work on his
artillery, and he has been bombarding the
woods to see how his piece will work. The
DIR. pronounces it success. He has applied
for patent.
The roads are in a terrible condition,
and if they don't make saints "cuss," they
make preachers think hard words, and ell
ders and deacons do sometimes "boll over
The recent hard rains have carried off Il
great many rails in the Ashwood neighbor-
r. y. Mckay, has sold his home farm on
Carriers Creek, of l66 acres for 5000 TO Robt.
II. LOckridge, an adjoining farmer.
Miss Mamie Evans, who has been en-
ployed by three or four citizens, conmenc
ed school at Lasting Hope Church, near
Carriers Creek station, Monday, March "a,
1874
Farmers are getting alarmed about their
wheat, tearing IL VIII De klIleu Dy frost. II
is very high, and some fields ready to joint,
Capt. Bethel has procured sheep to Craze
his wheat down, and many farmers are do
ing likewise. Col. j. W. s. Ridley is going to
risk his. 4 citizen of this county, just re-
turned from Washington City, says Col. Je-
rome Il. Pillow, of AshwOOd, has the finest
field of wheat he saw between Bigbee Creek
and the POtomac-and he went through
East Tennessee and Virginia, two of the
finest wheat sections in the Union.
Capt. Joe \. Irvine takes paper that is
printed in Indian Territory, and part of ii is
printed in Choctaw. Joe is not a ChOctaw,
nor kin to ChOctaw, but he takes ii as Curl
Osi;y.
The Louisville COuricr-.JouradI says John
NJ. Francis was late Minister to Greece. We
think il is mistaken. He is a well known
and esteemed farmer of this county.
Harvey Cecil says the roads down his
way have got no bottom, but he managed
TO bring his cotton to town. He says Co
lumhia is "A better market than Nashville
tor Hickman county, especially for those
who have bacon 10 sell.
Last Sunday morning, about daylight,
dogs were caught eating Mr.. James Davis
sheep near McCains Academy. The dogs
killed about dozen, all he had, the dogs
having killed out his flock some time ago.
\ week so previous, dogs killed a sheep
belonging to @. NJ. Galbraith, who informs
us that the dogs have killed out nearly all
the sheep in Maj. Joel StOckard's neighbor-
hood. That section of the county is strong
ly in favor of dog law. Mr.. Davis buck,
which the dogs killed, was worth alb out $50.