The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-07-24
HICKMAN COUNTY ITEMS.

A large crowd of the yeomanry of ole
| Hickman were at Centreville on the 6tt
! terly court. Gen. w. e. Whitthorne adj
dressed the SoYereignS in q powerful and
effective speech The county candidates
| dld nothing towards agreeing upon any
plan as to who should be selected for tax
| coIlector-tO run out the race. There are
| nineteen still on the track in high spirits
| every fellow believing he will be elected;
| surely their faith is exceedingly great. On
| Monday the 10Th was the day appointed for
| the county candidates to commence then
| grand rounds. They began at Little Lot,
| on Lick creek. The force of their oratorical
| powers on that occasion was fully dis
| played. and felt. The shock of Coggia s
| comet was a mere circumstance to the
| pent up powers of some on that occasion.
The farmers have been blessed with fine
rains within the last week over most every
portion of the county; at Centreville and in
its i'm mediate neighbOrhOod, it is still very
dry. Shade trees and all garden vegetables
Thomas Whitson has sued Tom Bates for
damages for personal injuries. Damages
laid at thirty dollars, A compromise is
trying to be effected. Tom Bates cut Tom
WhitSOn with knife.
Jim Nix's ''stratagem" of coal, he says is
six inches thick. Tom WhitSon and Jim
N1X's prospecting for aS-phdbum is one of
the richest things in modern science. If the
'posSum had not have been found in the
cave, the mystery would never have been
Drought TO llghtlI ana npeY ~ tl n
zzPqe9 ltt fi if 1ff9ffrfd Of biologists.
Sam POore, residing on Beaverdam creek
III lillS county, Il lew nights ago. alIeT eat
ing supper and retiring from the kitchen,
entered his bed room preparatory to retiring
for the night, He came in the room, set the
lamp on the table, when he called to his
wife to know what rafting that was. She
remarked she did not know. After a few
moments the rattling commenced again.
He replied that it was q snake, and set the
lamp down on the floor and discovered a
very large rattlesnake, making his escape
days after, he discovered the snake coiled on
fiat rock of one of the pillars of his house
and shot him. He was very large and sup
posed to have been about the house for
some time. Before this his baby had been
sleeping upon pallet on the floor all sum-
mer.. Guardian angels must have lowered
around those infant dreams OF sleeping in
nOcence. Sam says he has moved his bed
away from the wall, and no more pallets are
made ON the floor at his house.
5. H. Williams, aftera protracted absence
Nashville, under the medical treatment of
DR.. Eve; has returned to Gentreyille. 49ok=
ampdtated, his case, which FequIre'
surgical operation, Wac oIe - - this
old at.ft,~t ..lence. His friends and
>..,lntances are glad to see him back
again. He has suffered great pain since it
became necessary for him TO put himself
under medical attention. He is up and 60
Tne gloomy cells of the Centreville Jail are
now enlivened by two full grown law
breakers; one white, of the masculine gen.
der; the other cOlOred, of the feminine
gender. Both are charged with breaking
Moses.
Sam Easily, colored, known as old Sam
had a very clear, ocular demonstration the
other night, OF the beauties of heaven and
the miseries of hell. The sights he saw in
the latter place have made him very penl-
tent and he is almost persuaded TO DO ike
John the Baptist, go preaching in the will
derneSs, to his cOlOred brethren. He was
happy to find his old grand mother in the
elysian fields of a better world.
II. Clagett is preparing to catch some OF
those fine trout recently discovered in Lick
Columbia fishermen nabbed that six
FOUNDER" He can't bear the idea OF being
beaten on his native heath.
John Broom killed in Duck River at Cen
trevilIe, the other day, a very large deer. 1t
was the largest buck that has been killed
in this vicinity in many years. Jack Moore
er has demOralized his ceryine energies so
much that he wouldn't have walked down
many wild geese as you could count. Deer
meat must be very dear before you can
move Jack in mid-Summer's sun.
The showers in tn is county since the
heavy rains in the spring, have beea very
partial, some neighborhOods having plen-
ty for all purposes, while other localities
are literally scorched up and the field crops
are very nearly destroyed, and nearly all
the tender vegetables in the garden
have died out. All things-especialIy the
drouth-being considered, the crop pros
pect in Hickman is quite gloomy.
= Our colored folks had a Sunday School
celebration and barbecue on last Satur-
day near CenUreville. There was an i'm
mense concourse of colored people from all |
parts of the county, with a considerable |
number of white sovereigns were in atten- |
dance as lockers on. There were four
John II. Moore, Esq, Rev. Jerry Tyler, from |
Maury, and Rev. Burnsides, from Pinewood |
One of the small sunday school chaps was |
asked by one old darkey, who was not as |
fortunate as others in being present, who |
were the speakers, and he replied, he "only |
knowed two of 'em, Mars Jack and Mr.. |
Nixon. but der6 was two more n12gefS |
spoke after DEM" The candidates were all |
present at the barbecue, and like others,
did ample justice to the nicely barbecued |
pigs, mutton and other edibles, SO bounti-
fully spread by our colored citizens. There |
was one candidate who was somewhat be-
lated, and arrived all covered with dust.
After the speaking and dinner were over, he
made many apologies for not being on hand
earlier.
The Hon T. P. Bateman, of Savannah was
the choice of the Clifton nominating Con-
vention, which met on the 10th inst, for
man county delegates report that Judge
and Esq. Huddleston, both from
PuTdy, withdrew, or would not submit their
names to the convention, and are still can
which gives the Democrats three
Mr.. Doughertyy OF Linden, is
the Radical candidate, and If all continue
in the field, he will secure the election. 1t
is very unfortunate that at this particular
time, we have So many qualified men for
office, and such few number of offices to
The fishing season for the angler is pretty
well over. There are several persons from
Maury county on swan, near the mouth of
Blue Buck, fishing now, but we do not know
their success. The neighbors on the river
near the mouth of Swan had bush drag
last Friday and caught great many fish,
the most of them small drum and buffalo.
Only four large ones caught, and they were
lack of immense size. Has there been any
more six pound trout caught in Lick creek?
What is Major Cheairs' opinion of fourteen
pound trout in Indian creek?
The board of directors of the Hickman
County A. & NJ. Society met recently and
appointed a committee to have the / air
put in order for the next Fair,
which meets on the 10th of October andcon-
tinues four days.
The Grange Council, composed of dele
gates from each grange in the county, met
at Centreville on Saturday last, and held a
long and interesting council on the affairs
Of Tie nrdar Ynn can already see the fruifS