The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-01-16
WILLIAMSPORTI ITEMS.

Another year, like passing shadow
! IS gone. Like all the past, it lies buried
, IN the cemetery OF Time. Yes, '7S with
us joys, It's sorrows its smiles its tears
IFS sunshine and lis shadows. has fallen
. into that abyss which has swallowed its
predecessors and is fastening to bury
: | Itself in the dark and bottomless sea OF
, OBLIVION! But TO us a New Year is born
as full OF hope, as buOyant with expec-
tsncy, and as pregnated with gloriOus
authorizations and promises, as the
young the gay and the innocent, when
lite is all love, and seems all beauty. all
happiness. 1t would fain do nothing
else, but bask in the sunlight of day and
. the in the dew drops OF evening. Ant
New Year! you know not in the JOY OF
your birth. OF the borrowings and suffer-
Ings you Will witness ere You finish
your short stay in world cursed with
sin, and cursed OF God. Time Speeds
on we must go-farewelI to the Old
Year all hail to the New.
Christmas passed off in our village
| more quietly than usual Much less
drunkenness and rowdyiSm was no
| LIceable, and is attrI but4ule, no doubt.
| to the Immediate and direct Influences
| that have been brought to bear by the
| hourishing Lodge of Good Templars we |
have here, and OF which, we leel we have |
much good reason to be proud, MANY
whose want it b II always been, hereto
| lore, to come to WilliamSport on Christ
mas dAV, and deb4Se and disgrace Them
selves in scottish drunkenness and riot
Ings, were on his day MS mem bers of
he organic ttion of Good TempIlrs. at
.e' dants To Good rempltr's Mass
Meeting held at M. Nebo, four mules
from this place Nay all lovers of goot
hder, and all promoters of good securi
y, speed on the cause OF sobriety
and the cause of morality, AS enjoin-
ed In the glorious Cause OF Temperance,
h a.,fP H., !
during Chris mas week among the
Young folks. The ball was set in mo-
ton by the pupils of Sputhside Male
Academy, OF which our old and expert
enced teacher w. T. Porter, has charge.
and Was Kept moving from house to
mousse, from town to country. on and on, |
I'LL Christmas Was gone, and the New | 5
Year called them from respite to labor.
Our town has quite a respectable
grange of the Patrons of Hub4ndrv: re- 3
spectacle in point of numbers and in
the Intelligence and standing of its :
members. Most OF our best farmers are
taking stock in it, and tits the very d.
thlng-a move in the right direction.
Our farmers are finding but little diff Z
Guilty in getting farm hands. Much L
land Is being seeded, which diminishes C
the demand for labor. r
we are sorry we cannot tell of several L
marriages that ought to have taken I,
place in our midst but didn't. We know f
OF several couples who seem to reckon !.
ihey Will marry, that we hope will mar =
~, and that every body says will marry, :,
but they haven't and they don't, for no Z
other reason than they won't 81
We haye had some decided winter
weather last week S
One of"Faxon's beautiful SHOWS" visited us p
No doubt causing the poor mapv a main. II
Heaven look on them with thy plying m
care, m
Let them thy ever mercy share. T.
1t was of short duration it y
was severe on every creature. 81
Many farmers of this neighborhood, e'
rave good deal of cotton in the fields,
which Indicates that they have over
cropped their hands, else they are tardy
n gathering, which ought to be good -,
nut early, and get the good staple. d'
Rum0r says bachelor OF The 18th dis ST.
riot, is to be married. Success to you, pf
Id bachelor. e.
Barrett, Mcbride & Co., are doing a II
arge business with their steam saw and 1.
rist mill, with gin attached, at Saw "
ust Valley. They are self made zen. W
nd deserve the patronage of everybody. d.
There is dangerous place in the floor w
! the bridge across Duck RIVER, near ~
he village, which, no doubt, is occas NJ
lonally seen by some of the guardians Oh
f the county, or
There are several cases of pneumonia eli
REVEALING in this neigh borhond, other nj
Use this section of the county is WI
ealthy. ris
E. L. Williams, Esq, ear the village. ce'
Tent on wild goose chase, few days m'
go. and killed one. Ed. is good shot. en-
The wit and satirist says no one should
lat so2 We
There were eight births, last week, in col
le Greenfield Bend. All white and all ma
Oys. pa
Peter Cook, col, died on his place.
ear Kinderhook, Friday night last, OF tht
srnla. He was ex-foreman of the scr
reenfield farm. I'm
Buck Thomas. COL, and B1rrel Bid Hr
x, decidedly colored, knocked a few to
unds Sunday, 18th of December. No SCH
,uot, they were both slightly knocked hle
18th bust skull. "a
Capt. D. W. Alexander, of Columbia. Ma
rs rented portion OF Greenfield's ito
snd, for 1874. His family will reside un
Williamsport. The people will well int
me him with hospitsble hands. thf