The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-08-07
AROUND TOWN.

Mr.. Ed. wiiiiams' mammoth building
on south Main StEe.at is being apidly finish
Ell The two main rooms, on the first floor
fronting on Main street-are ISS feet deep,
5u the clear, and will be Splel.did business
houses. About hali way down one of the
rooms there Is magnificent skylight, fur
y,ishing ample light for the entire room; il
is lighted at each end, however. These two
tins rooms have been leased to Holding &
- - CuIIeoka, for three years. I7pStairs
IN the left is a room made for the Recorder
and the meetings of the City Council. They
Iav.a not yet decided 10 take 1t, however.
There are twenty other rooms up stairs,
suitable for business offices, sleeping rooms
etc. They will be very neat and comforta-
cole, when finished, and viii supply de-
anaud long felt. Under the tEQ large rooms
and fronting Mechanic street, theirs i2re two
cellars, and eight rooms 10 feet long, IL wide,
and about y high. Two of these rooms are
elegantly plaStered, and would make nice
store-cGOmS OF any kind. a good pavement
will be in front OF them, on the outside of
which Mr.. Williams intends to plant row
b of shade trees. MIR. Williams deserves great
credit for erecting this enormous building,
and thus adding TO the wealth and business
iproSpeTity OF The town. Ii has cost him in
1 the neighbOr hood OF $4,000 and in its cree
atOn the middle wall lei! down, which was a
, loss of 5000. Mr.. Williams commenced this
Sbuilding simply on the faith he had in the
Growing prosperity of Columbia. caused by
fThe contemplated building of the Narrow
fCRauge to Fayetteville. Time has proved his
fsagaxity, and to-day new buildings are 60
ling up all over town. If our citizens could
fte induced to take twenty-five thousand
4 dollars more in the Duck River Valley Rail-
road. the town would have population of
item thousand in short tins,
a Colonel y Cox and Hon w ON Per-
sxinS candidates for Congress, did net speak
there to-day, as announced, on account OF
TpubIie distraction, and Gen. Whitthorne 5
MIlnesS.
= -Vr w. \. Alexander, independent can
sidafe for Sheriff, sad ~ his speech here
last Monday, that he supposed that IL he
s,urere sheriff, and had given the HEtIAL LID
las much advertising as Mr.. Latta had, the
fHERALD would probably say something in
tgis favor. The inSipuation was a very
Natural one for Mr.. Alexander to make, and
vet il does rs injustice. Mr.. A. remembers
hat we advocated the Lock Box after il Uas
sgreed upon, and promised to advocate the
Election of its nominees. If MIR. a. had
ono into IL, and had been the choice OF
Che Democrats and Conservatives, We would
Nave supported him. In the next place,
MIR LatCa does not insert advertisements in
he HERALD through promise or expecta-
of our support, but because Il is his
to insert legal advertisements in the
r having the largest circulation. MIR,
"a ander would doubtless do the same.
,dt dvOcate no man for his patrOnage-the
reIALDis the people 5 organ and not of any
10. or men. There is precious little money
AZ ertn advertisements. We have been
PEELED 10 refuse any except they are
r" npanied by the eash-they are such
4 pay. Hundreds of dollars are yet due
Ic ltracted by Sheriiis years ago, and we
clever get our mOney-juSt because of "A
in the law regulating legal adycr-
cuts.