The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-03-20
RALLY HILLITEMS,

The farmers of Flat Greek have been
quite busy Of late sowing oats and pre-
! pairing for another crop; about the usuaI
crop of oats has been sown. 4 great
! deal of blowing Las been done. The
! wheat crop never looked better or more
| promising than now. The cotton crop
| will be slightly increased over last year.
More German millet will be sowr than
ever before, and a very full crop of corn
will be Planted. If the weather is favor
| able, planting win be forward, provided
the candidates do not bother the dear
good people too much Nobody as yet is
carrying his arm in sling, from
much handshaking with them, though the
sovereigns are looking out for the Goths
and Nandals to be down Oh them soon
There is no division in this part of the
county in regard to organizing and Sc
lecting strong Conservative candidates,
by primary election or any other wa, to
keep republicans out of the Legislature
and county offices. The wayfaring PEG
pie ofthis part of the country hal;;1177e mat
INC con"'1 S.nces can be run without Rad
zeal assistance.
Our esteemed fellow-citiZen and con-
stable, Major James I. Moore, has been
quite Upwell for some time. He has
made one of the finest collecting officers
in the county. By the way, one of our
young men has had his saddle levied on
so often that he has locked it up and pad
ded his breeches, and intends riding bare
back until he gets out of debt.
One of our worthieSt fellow citizens, j.
NJ Ellington, is proposing to sell several
thousand pounds of bacon, at IL cents
per pound, hog round, on November
credit. He will have TO sell to those be-
nighted farmers who persist in raising
cotton, 10 the exclusion of hog and homi-
ny. This shows the financial advantages
of raising grain and stock over cotton
how many men are there in the county
who raise cotton exclusively, that are able
to sell it at ten or twelve Per cent, over
cash, and wait until November for the
money?
The people here would be glad to see
something done in the way of turnpikes
by the county. A pike is badly needed
from Columbia to intersect the Lewis
burgh pike at or near Rally Hill Such
a road would be a great advantage to the
citizens here, and of Columbia, and the
country between the two places. Owing
to the impossible condition of the roads,
thousands of pounds of cotton and bacon
are sent to Nashville that would be sent
to Columbia if it c0ald be got there, as it
is better bacon market, and as good for
cotton, minus the hauling. One or two
hundred thousand dollars spent BY the
county in building needed turnpikes
through the county, would be good mon
ey well spent. While we have got one OF
the best counties in the State. we have al
SO got the worst of roads. We should be
proud of our county town, as well as of |
our splendid county. 1t is weak argu-
ment against roads to say that |
they only build up towns; for good roads |
always build up fich and thriving coun-
ties, where they have soil as fertile as it |
is in Maury. Agricultural people are
certainly benefited by good roads and by
populOus and wealthy cities in their midst,
as near and easy market for their pro-
duce. No county can be permanently
prosperous and flourishing without good
and perfect road system, to reach the
towns and cities that are the great con-
sumers of their surplus It'll to be hoped
that our magisterial fathers will have Ro-
man frmness sufficient to inaugurate a
system of well built roads, that will re-
dound to the future prosperity and wei
ARE of the county, and that the people
Will endorse their actions for the needful
amount Of money.