The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-28

weather will permit, it will be duly for
warded, to be placed in the HERALD
cabinet.
A visitor at Bon Aqua Springs is buy
ing up all the dogs in that neighbor
hood. The dog trade was right lively
there one day be bought up nine, pay
ing from two and half to five dollar.
apiece for them, and hired country man
for dollar each, to haul them in his
chicken aOGgOn to the railroad. The
country man said the catEsOpe was moth
| ing to the music they made ashe went
along. They thought it was the BGTrOlU
| gauge coming on the Northwestern rails
road. There are plenty more dogs to
| spare at that price in Hickman.
| Prof. A. J. Stanfill and his family, of
Union City, are on visit to Centreville
among their relatives and friends. An
| dy is live man, and if we had a rail
road in Hickman, no doubt but what he
would come back and live here again.
DIR. j. A. Nunnellee, a very worthy and
esteemed citizen, after protracted sick
ness, died near Centreville the other
day. He was buried with Masonic hon.
ors, and large concourse of people at
tended his remains to their last resting
place.
The number of the rooms of the dele
gates from Hickman at the Maxwell
House, to the Nashville convention on
IH0 1JIu bu5Gs, Is ldll6u 10 D6 given DS
the reporters of the Nashville press
Why this omission, when we are so
much entitled to Goober>natorial hon
ors, as heretofore reported?
The number of visitors to Bon Aqua,
Primm and Beaver Dam Springs, this
year in Hickman is unusually large.
Watermelons, chickens, butter and eggs,
find good market at those places, but
we never thought dogs commanded such
ready price until we heard of the
market reports at Bon Aqua. 1t is a
pity I'll. L. White gave twenty-seven of
his away the other day!
The annual fair of the Hickman cOun-
ty Agricultural Association, is post
poned this year. The Changers have a
grand reunion and speech-making on
the 18th of October at the fair grounds,
on their order and objects, in lieu there's
of. On account of the severe drouth in
the county, the Directors OF the fair
deemed this course most expedient.
III. Clagett went up to Lick Creek, last
week, to catch sic pound trout, but he
came back without getting a nibble even.
He says there is is none there, Tom
Thumb to the contrary, notwithstand-
ing.
The Oldest weather prophets in Hick- |
man this year have become disgust |
ed in telling when it's going to rain. |
Ask them now when it is going to rain,
ana Lhey Will say, "InunQer ana light |
ning!" They get mad. This is as near
a shower as they will venture.
The thermometer stood higher few |
days at CentreYille than it was ever
known before. 1t was at 102 Fahrenheit |
in the shade. Politics and who was GO |
ing to be Governor, was not talked of !
much then. Water-spouts would have |
been more pleasant than either they, or
the Beecher and Tilton scandal to have /
There was but one Tax Collector elect
ed out of the sixteen candidates who |
were running for this Office. To have
heard them talk before the election, one
would have thought that the whole num-
Der would have been elected. There
have been a great many disappOint-
ments this year, besides the failure of the
crops
There are a good many who never
saw the like before, say that starvation
is now staring them in the face. 1t is
strange that thing which is so often
Sc en- never happens in this country.
William McThompson, Esq, sold the
most of his fine watermelons at Bon
Aqua Springs. He received from sixty
cents to one dollar apiece for them.
Everything is unusually quiet III
Hickman since the election.