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

OVER THE COUNTY.
! The lodge of Good Templars, at Lasting
Hope Church, will have their celebration
on saturday night, August Sth. Lee BulIocB
| and Robt. Nj. Mckay have been invited ano
| sion.
| A good joke is told on one of the Repub'
, l1can candidates, Col. Blackburn. he IN
| CURED for Esq. Andy ID. Bryant, and Tecela u
dld not get correct Information, ana pitSSseHI
! Esq. Bryant's and went over into MaIsnai1tIi
| county. He met wag, Berthe, at ShGIltl
| Champs place, who allowed him to cleo
| uoneer with him, and then told MIN 81.
| ant lived further on. The candldaL9 ke 5j
| on, with instructions which, II ne IoIlOWeu;,
| led him to the Baxter neighborhooo, hOI
Two negro men, on the John Nicholson
| farm, at the "PreSS Cheek" place, got lnlO a
| fight last week, and skinned each oIheL
heads with rocks. They fell out while play :
ing marbles. Two negro women on d tnT
John Gillespie river farm, fell out anu
gOuged each other considerably.
A fight took place at Rock Spring re
Gently between DR.. 1: Long ana Z. Il : our
ney-all about the election. Monroe Taylor
says neither of the gentlemen got any OF MS
"ighting whisky"
along to town last Monday, he saw Dr.. Long
chasing dig black snake. After despe-I
rate race, the black racer was killed anu
hung up, ''tO bring rain" That's what the
Doctor killed the snake for-to bring rain
And the rain came.
Monroe Taylor says that vast number
of snakes are hanging up on Bear Creek "
ESQ. w. H. BIanton died quite suddenly
at his residence last Monday evening. Late
in the afternoon he complained OF severe
pain in tthe stomach, and then went w
stairs to lie down. A few minutes atterWtIu
his wife went up also, and found him iylhS
on the floor, dead, with one shoe nan on
and the other on. ESQ. BlantOn was mos
estimable man, and everyone loved ana re-
spected him. For many years he was aS q
prominent member of the MethOdlSt
Church, and always led in liberal donaLons
to It's enterprises. He gave one of the most
beautiful spots in the county, in sight OF
on, and then gave more literally than any
one else to the erection OF a beautiful church
and q commOdius shelter for camp meet
ings. Truly the Methodist Church has IoSt
one of its most faithful members.
Harmon ID. sanders, of upper RuthGI-
ford creek, says his neighbor Payson MltcI-
ell has a forty acre cotton field, in which
the cotton is waist high all over.
One of the most highly esteemed citl1
Zens of this county, q. Whitfield Mayes, dled
last Saturday. He was born in 1911, on the
very place he died. For many years he was
a faithful and Jealous memb Der OF zion lPes-
byterian) Church, and dld mucn gOOu IN uis
day and generation. He never belonged,
during his entire life, to any secret society
nor to any kind OF society or ASSOCIATION
except the Presbyterian Church.
The following persons OF TINS county
have been allowed the amount opposite
LlelT names, DY Ine COMMISSIONERS VI
Claims, which has been ratified by Con-
greSS: - -,
John NJ. Francis, ................ 5 1850
Henry e. Francis 80
Aaron GhOlSOn, ............. -CJ'oy
Anthony GhOlSOn, ..................... 4OgW |
James 90 so SS
NJ. u HlnlOn, J'9
william b. ta9.yg
j. b. gSlZV
Thornton Chaffin and Cyrus Webster, 10000
There are two cOnStableS to be elected III |
this district Holm lamar and Jesse =, Iar- |
ris, are candidates for reelection. They |
are good officers, and responsible:
Wise TrOusdale sued Mr.. Putnam tOr |
damage to his stock, and got a judgment |
tor so.
There are some four or five wheat |
threSherS in the neighbOrhOOd OF Love |
Loftin. Jim DOoley, John Smith, and Others
and they threshed all TIE wheat they could
1t is significant fact that the owners OF
these four threshers are all kinsfOlk.
An old farmer says plant your turnlp !
seed during the dark of the moon in July.
"A good many families of late, have been
spending the day at the Sulphur Spring.
Billy Joyce has attached steam to Hope
Mills.
sold last Monday by the Chancery Court for
81, 900, Mr.. John Ashton, becoming the pur-
chaser. He will commence to rebuild I'M
mediately.
An Interesting meeting was in progress
at Pleasant Mount meeting house, therr
old mill last week, and much good accom-
plished. Rev. Mr.. Mcdonald and Others
OBLIGATED. Rev. Mr.. Jones preached last
an interesting sermon in the C.P
Church in Columbia.
The minister that Othc1ateS at ItOek
Spring is a young minister of much prom
Use, and well liked by the congregation.
Sometime since, Mr.. George Barker
after returning to the house from the nelq
where he had been threshing wheat, pulled
off his shoes, and walking from one room to
another he stepped upon a needle cushion
one needle entering his foot and breaking
off in it, which he was unable to extract.
When cotton lies in the field until the
fall and winter rains beat upon II, 1t Is then
called dOg-tail cotton by cotton buyers, ana
will command very little, in comparison to
what it would have done, had it been pick
ed out at the right time. So great Is the
difference in the price that it has induced
some one to request MeSSrS. Marlln " En-
bry to live quotations for dog tail cotton,
that farmers may see the difference in the
price of good and bad cotton, and thereby
be induced to use extra endeaVOrs in getting
the crop out of the fields in the fall.
1t will be remembered that Morris Grli-
fin and Richard Curtin had feud OF long
which resulted in killing of Cur
rim by Griffin, by pistol shot, grimm nav
ing shot Curtin when Curtin least expected
it. Griffin surrendered and employed some
of the ablest talent of the Columbia bar, TO
defend him. The jury that tried him gave
in verdict of murder in the first degree.
He was granted new trial, and the jury |
after long elaboration, asked to be dls-
There were eleven for cOnVlcJlOn- !
and one of the Jury d. w. b. Thomas |
would not agree that Griffin should be
hung, for the murder. Strange to state ihaJ
though indicted for murder in the first de
gree. At the July court, just adjourned,
Griffin did not come to trial, but has heu
the country, leaving his bondsmen, w. A.
and Gen. l.. +. Polk, to pay the
bond. We understand that the securities
are amply secured by mortgages on real eS-
tate. Griffin had been successful man up
to the time he killed Currin, and by hard
work had bought and paid for an excellent
farm, which now has to be given up, and be
a fugitive from Justice. What a comment
upon the laXity of the laws.
Among the arrivals at Nashville, we no.
tice that of John Wright and AlphOnSO
White of Maury. They made visit to the
Blind Asylum before they left.
The candidates for Senator, Col. a. ;.
Goodwin and Capt. J. NJ. Hickey, were at Big
byville last Saturday, and addressed the
large crowd assembled there that day.
On tdpis-a double wedding in high life.
John w. Medley brought us several pic
lures of Prim's Springs, taken by HAL Paul
5eavy,, who is now enjoying the pleasure OF
that popular summer retreat. We also re-
ceived by the same mail a gossipy letter
from Prim's but it came too late for this