The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

/ Mooney, who comes highly recommend
7 ed as 8 successful teacher has been elect
/ ID as Principal OF. said school, and vii
/ soon open the exercises, due n0Uic6 o
/ which will doubtless appear in the HER
( AID AND MAIL. Ii is hoped that shi
| will meet with the liberal patronag'
/ which she is SO justly entitled to.
/ Willie, the sprightly little son of Esq
/ Thomas b inks, of Thompson Station
/ had his leg broken in two places, on las
! Sunday evening, by falling down The
stair-steps. A little son OF Mack Camp
bell happened to the same kind of acci'
dent recently.
Jim Cloyd, somewhat reckless bu
kind hearted, brave and fearless man
was killed in Il personal difficulty by
man by the name of Davis, on Saturd y
night. 1t occurred i few miles north o
Thompson Station. On tho same nigh
John b rker, constable of the 4Jh dis
Crict OF Williamson county, was shot
and severely If not IuOrtallC wounded
by Ben Hundly. The circumstances
aud facts III these cSSos, have not come
TO light yet.
Esq. b G. Wells, the attentive and
well posted magistrate of this district,
holds his weekly courts regularly, and
has his office frequently crowded with
anxious litigantS. 1t is q lamentaDle
fact that the short crops and hard times
dre exerting a baleful influence on the
colOred population. Larceny, corn steal
ing aud hog stealing are getting to be
! common OttenSeS Our neighbOr, ESQ.
Glenn, who is a practical and sensible
man, must try and devise some plan
while in the Legislature to lessen the
expense OF such prosecutions. IL Is bet
ter for the county and State, and tar bet
ter for the guilty parties, 10 have all
these petty Otfenses finally disposed of in
a magistrates court, and instead OF
keeping and feeding them at the expense
Of the county, make them work out
their time either on the public roads
or in a Worknouse. Remember, Mr..
Senator Boyd, Mr.. Representative
Glenn, and Mr.. Floa-er TOon, the people
will expect each and all OF you to work
for retrenchmeat and reform, and no.
where is it more needed than at this
point.
There is near this town nuisance
that ought to Le abated, perfect sink
Ut IniquiJy, where the Gnwary are
caught and the simple are taken IN.
This place is visited by few vino would
blush to think that il was known, and
yet il is talked about, aud each and eve
nv ono of them in fair way TO be known
and spotted. The owner OF the property
where this den OF denominations is kept,
would serve his own interest and graft
~ his neighbOrs, by ridding the country
Of such pest.
IL IS feared that the cause of tempar~
ance is not advancing much in our
midst OF late. intempelance is grow
ing and crying evil. Tie sons of Tenn
perance once oXerted \ good and saving
influence here. Is there not philuuIhrO-
py enough in the community to reorgau-
iza a temperance ASSOCIATION, under
same name? Although the men who
might take the iritiatOry ia this matter
may not need its benefits, yet it would
he the means OF saying the youth of our
country. Mr.. Il. r. Thompson, OF this
place, and Esq. Ephraim Butler, of Cul-
looia, who were the apostles OF Tens
perance to our people, remember many
cases OF the yOunS, and some few OF The
old, who were rescued from the hands
of the destroyer by the blessed old Dir
vision of the Sons of Temperance. The
meetings of the Division were pleasant
as we'll as profitable. Memory loves to
Huger upon the pleasing incidents of
those meetings, the eXhilarating speech
oS OF Jeptha Paschall and other honored
members, che earnest zeal of Harmon
Smith, the sincere devotion to the cause
OF John ROland. Time would fail US to
mention all, but the old veterans in the
temperance cause can supply the def
cheney. Rally again, yo friends of hui
manity, to The rescue Of our noble young
men. Tell them, Look not upon the
wine when it gtveJh its color Il the cup"
Touch not, taste not, the accurseu poi
sou" Will not soIse friend of the rising
generation move in his good cause, and
start the bail to rolling?