The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-29
HICKMAN COUNTY ITEMS.

The farmers say they need little
rain. The ground is becoming hard anC
they need shower to soften the bottom
| lands to finish breaking up.
John Johnson, near Centreville, has
| twenty acres planted in peanuts, and is
| going to plant twenty-five acres more
On an average of forty bushels to the
| acre, it will just cost him $4l400 to gel
them to the Nashville market. This is
a pretty heavy tax on one crop.
The dog-fennel crop on the square al
Centreville, is very promising. 1t seems
to have suffered no damage from the
late rains
Five wagons with returning irnmi-
grants passed through Centreville last
Sunday on their way back from Mis-
souri,. They left Hickman last fall to
seek their fortunes in the far west. Old
man Johnathan Toll lead them off and
he returned leading them back. At the
age of ninety years he started out to be-
gin life anew, and in ten years he eX-
pected to make fortune, he said. In
less than one year he made a mis>tor-
tune-of 81, 200. They were from Swan
Creek. Tells voted against the railroad
before he left.
II, Clagett went to West Tennessee,
last week, with his family, on visit 1t
is thought he would like to live in that
county, if he could only carry Swan
Creek down there with its beautiful
trout-and big black perch-with him.
Mai. Douglas would have something to
say about moving the latter.
Two tanners, at McClanahan's tan~
yard, fell in one of the Yats the other
day. Corn Juice put them there. After
the whisky was pretty we'll tanned out,
Mort helped them out.
Since Grant vetoed the imitation bill,
Duck river has contracted to very
small current-cy, and we are happy, al
so, to learn that a contraction OF the
Mississippi current-cy is taking place i'll
Louisiana and Arkansas. The evils OF
initiation are verify demonstrated there.
The cord of contraction needs drawing
very high with drop. We apprehend-
ed in some localities in those States
though particularly ARKANSAS con-
traction Just after an imitation there with
some would be particularly beneficial;
and we can readily understand why it
is sometimes some people are SO bitter~
~ opposed to a contraction just after an
infi9tion. A contraction of the B. B.
there now would relieve the distressed
people of that State almost as much as
the contraction of the Mississippi river
contraction at this time We think the
better policy; therefore we endorse the
Administration veto.
The farmers in Hickman are planting
more peas anu 1SoS SOtbOu IAiS y Od4s
Every fellow thought she would plant
him few"
The candidates in Hickman are as
..,....vIUus as ever, enough IL IS thought
there will be contraction after the
June term of the court.
John Whitson, a colored orator, in adj
dressing the Sunday-shcool at RhOdy's
Chapel the other Sunday, in complains
ing of some disappointments, said:
They always had the Li-be-ler locked
up, and they couldn't get the books out
when they wanted them. John ought to
tote the Li~be-ler key. This is enough
TO make q man fret.
Johnny Brown has commenced catch
ing some of those big catfish again in
Duck river. Willie Moore and Henry
Nixon are helping him. Willie and
Henry get up early now to go to their
lines. They expect to catch ghale be-
lore long.
1t is refreshing now to see man from
the country at CentreVille. The drowsy
denizens of that village have exhausted
every subject of conversation over three
times, and they want something to keep
them awake.