The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-06-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


-Chancery and Criminal Court are in
session at Franklin.
Charley Gordon, Charley Nicholson,
Dick SAMSON, Abe Looney, IT., Hammond
and NelSe Rainey, will start for ShOal
Creek next week on "a fishing tour.
Wash Haley, deaf and dumb, brought
had on it a cotton squa' e"-the first of the
season. II was taken from the field of our
efficient County Court Chairman, w. O.
Gordon, who lives near Duck River Station.
One day recently Scott stephens, of
Bear Creek, ran after a young squirrel and
caught it. but hit il too hard and killed it.
\ few days afterwards he shot another
young one, caught ii, and it got well, al
though some of its brains came out. He
brought it to town and gave ito his friend
John p. Brown.
UVolney cyrus says Allen Powell was the
best "forager' in the 9Th battalion. Allen
/ was a mere boy, and when he would 60 TO
house, the old lady would ask him what a
boy like him was doing in the war. Allen
would reply that he was a lone orphan;
| had no home, brothers or sisters. The old
| ladies would say, Poor thing" Allen new
er went away from that house without
haverSack full of ratiOnS.
the-way an orator, has lately been visiting
| fhe Concord neighborhood in the great
cause of temperance. During his visits
there he has been greatly Smitten with the
charms of a lovely lady, who he says has
stream of quickSilVeT courSing through her
veins, and her voice is like that OF canary
| or mocking-bird. Young man, go West
and xii! grasshopperS.
MI. Foster, W no resided ABOUT one ana
| half miles from Wayland Springs, Law
| renee county, was struck by lightning and
/ killed. on the nth uIt., while in the field
| hOcing cotton. Mr.. Foster leaves awlte and
| three children, and a host of friends, to
| mourn his Loss WUyHesboro Citizen.
| Capt Russell, our able and efficient At
| torney General, says that it is harder to
| geta Williamson county jury to convict
| and punish a criminal than in any other
4 county in his district. The people OF that
| county are religious, good natured and well
| fed, and hate TO take the blood or liberty of
| their tellow-mrn even for murder.
| Let Us have an ln:er-cOuuty spelling
| match. Shall IL be in Giles or Williamson
| first? or, suppose all three counties engage
| in il and meet ON middle ground-COlum-
| bia? What say you, Dick and LutheT?-CO-
| We do not know what Luther thinks
| about the spelling tilt, but as for Dick, il
| can be safely said that he engages in no
| more speNs. In truth, II is rather a sore sub
| iect with him. He does not want that mat
| ter referred to in his presence. "Ah! No
| more of that, Hal, an thou lowest me- he
| rietT and Journal
VIM. Is. Chappell, of Wayne county, at
| tended the examination of Webb's school
| at CulleoNa, and called on us. His son, Ed.
| K. Chappell was probably the brightest
scholar in CullcOka Institute. He expects
to enter Vanderbilt University next Fall,
and the prospect is that he will be an ac-
compllShed scholar and eloquent speaker
| r franklin has a military company, the
| "Mctwen RltieS,' in honor of Col. John Is,
| McEwen, one OF FTanklin'S leading men
public spirited and euterprisiug. Jas. 7.
tain.
| -NOlney Cyrus says Major J. II. Akin is
| mistaken about he and mis- horse eating
| SeNentN-tive ears OF fifteen inch corn in one
| night. II the Major had said that he and
| Joe Patton had eaten that much, NOIney
| says he would have believed him more read
+ | lily.
Geo. C. Miner Ed, SAMSON and James
| Metcalfe, three of our incest young men, re-
. | turned from Wilson's Factory, on ShOal
| Creek, last Saturday night at twelve o'clock
! having been gone all week. They caught
| about one hundred and nifty fish, mostly
| trout, some of which were quite fine ones
| Mr.. Mttcaite let a large string OF the best
| ones get away, Just like Mr.. Scott Maye>
| did on memorable occasion. Ed. san
som caught the largest number and George
| Miner the biggest one.
{ Col. J. W. =. Ridley, OF the Mt. Pleasant
| country, sent MS several heads of barley
! | We learn that Col Ridley'S barley crop viii
| turn out two thousand bushels. He is q
? | model farmer, and everything he raises Is
! | of the best quality. lie has fertile farms
! | the latest i'm prOvementS in machinery, and
: | superinUends everything himself. He hires
| his hands, pays them money, pays them
? | according TO merit, treats them kindly and
| courteOusly-like frecmen and not as slaves
and the consequence is he can get as