The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12

is also one of our most sensible farm
ers. He never travels without seeing some
thing. a week or two ago he had occasion
to 90 over to Williamson county, and he
gives it as a melancholy fact, that on his
way there and back-about fifty miles
| he saw but two men engaged i'll farm work
! Frank Alexander and another man whose
| name he did not know or had forgotten. Ia
| two days. in passing over some of the best
neighborhoods in the State, he saw only
| two men at work, and they were repairing
their fences. And yet men will complain
| of hard times. mo wonder" pertinentIy
| remarked Mr.. Stott, 'they have hard times
when they do nothing to make them good"
Mr.. Scott thinks much of the hard times
has been brought on b. the credit system.
| Ii the present hard times succeeds in get
ting farmers weaned from the miserable
credit system, it will have proved bless
ing in diguise. Mr.. Scott has observed what
is not noticed by every One-that the coun-
try is being filed up with crossroads gro
ceTies, and that they are curse to the cOun-
try. Now the men who patronize these
places are even more to blame than the |
men who run them; for without patronage
they could not exist. Make whisky shops |
impossible, don't go in debt for dime, |
don't go to law, and go to work, and your
last years small crop and this years hard |
times win prove blessings in disguise.
The rejoicing over Johnson's election |
must have been loud and prolonged in Co
lumbia. The reports oftheir cannon were
heard distinctly at this place.-MarshaU ca
sete.
He was in the battle of Nashville, in
December, 1864, and was captured by the
FederaIs. Andrew Johnson, then Military
Governor, saw him, and hearing his name
and home, came up to him and gave him
ten dollars. Nearly eight years afterwards,
in 1872 he met Mr.. Johnson in Columbia,
and handing him fifteen dollars, remarked
that there was his ten dollars with interest.
Ex-President Johnson Strengthened him
self up, and looking several inches taller
than usual, refused to take the money and
said: 81 gave you that money without de-
sire OF remuneration, and solely out of re-
spect for your grandfather, Esq. Joseph
Herndon, whose name you bear. Esq.
Herndon was my old tried and true friend"
The young man spoken of is DR.. Joe =.
Herndon, popular and skilltul dentist OF
our town.
There has been great deal OF suffering
among the very poor people during the re-
cent severe weather.
James CIife, a son of DR.. ID. B. Cliffe, of
Franklin, committed suicide by drowning
himself in Big Harpeth, last week. He left
a wife and one child. His father has been
for many yeas one of the most prominent
men in Williamson county.
Mr.. Amos 7. HasseII, who keeps an ex-
ccllent hotel at Waynesboro, offered, last
to give any man a months board
who would beat him one game of drafts
He was not beaten. When Major Wilson
was down there, several weeks ago, he
him one game each sitting. Judge Ward
says Casino is a very "aggravating" game.
S. T, Hardison, John Wallace, r. w q
Montgomery, George Craig, John Evins, d. !
l.. Cunningham, S. Martin, 5. Mclean, OF (
Berlin, Marshall county, came down on a :
aft last week.
Prof. John 7. Agnew and Mr.. a. N.
Tombs. of Troy, Tennessee, have been
pending few weeks with their old friends |
md relations in Maury. The Professor, :
yho is a sOn-in-law OF Esq. J. w. Sewen, of q
'adar Creek, says that VIM. Harris chick !
ms have scratched dowr mile of the mar
ow-gauge railroad.
Major John l.. Wilson left for Washington /
lily last Wednesday. Mote and the Judge e
re discOnsoIate. II
We call attention to the advertisement
If Cot. J. W. Huntington. He has gone into .
he coal business in earnest; and intends to
Keep the best coal i'll the market.