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

make this years crop. o. A. Nixo
says he intends to stop this traffic mex
spring by supplying the demand
home, if no body else will. What mex
will be imported by our farmers ant
producers for the sake of making cot
ton and peas?
A little daughter of Capt. Il. s. Easily
at Centreville, came very near dyinC
the other day from the effects OF corros
i've sublimate, which she got hold OF
| in vial that had been accidentally left
within her roach. She complained of
| her mouth burning up, was the way in
| which they discovered she had taken
| il.
| VIM. McThompsoD, near Centreville,
| has planted a large watermelon patch
again this year for the benefit of the
pleasure seekers at Bon Aqua and BeaS
yer Dam this summer. There is not q
man in the State that can beat the ESQ.
IN raising fine large watermelons-he
knows just exactly how to raise this
great luxury.
Mr.. Dayid w. Peeler, of Williamsport,
is on visit to his aged father and his
many other friends in Hickman.
j. ii. Moore Esqr., sent to Marble
head, Mass, this year for his waters
melon seed. He got the German.
They are almost the size of Apple seed,
bugs having destroyed his Hubbard
squash, his great hope and expectation
now rests upon his watermelons.
We have had delightful week of
spring weather, gentle showers and
warm sunshine. Crops are looking
well, wheat almost ready for the scythe,
and in larger fields, and greater NUNS
Der of them than we have had for any
preceding year Oats are growing fine
" WIG N4yill ha 70 a m a hIIn of
corn, cotton, barley, vegetables, in tact
everything in an agricultural way looks
thrifty and grows well except peanuts.
The stands of the peanuts are poor, and
a great many OF the farmers are blowing
up their peanut crops and substituting
something else. We have large breadth
of land sowu in the different kinds OF
millet, and in forty or fifty days we
will have quantities of hay to feed our
work stock, and assist in keeping the
plOws going. Our farmers are working
with a will entirely different to their
former mode and the country and wills |
lage stores look like deserted places; |
no losfing, nor lounging around now. |
In Centreville, our county town, you |
scarcely see enough of idlers to play a |
game of croquet or marbles, and it is |
common now when game of either |
is played to see a gray-headed man or |
one on clutches engaged in 1t. Our |
colored population are doing better |
than they haye ever done, have dis
posed of a large number of their dogs, |
are not able to buy shot, powder and |
caps, and have settled themselves |
down to hard work, and will doubtless
make better showing at the end of the |
year, than they have since tho fall of
Fort Sumter.
Elder BOYLE, one of the Latter Day
Saints, preached in Centreville on Sum
day last, from the 18th and Goth verses of
Of the last chapter of Matthew. lie said
he was called of God through an apos>
tie TO preach the gospel, and was en-
to carry out the orders of his
Divine Master. He had quite large and
attentive audience.
The school at Centreville, under the
able and efficient control of Prot. Eich-
baum, is closed. The commencement
Of the next session will be advertised, at
which time we hope large number OF
pupils will be continued.
Mr.. Perry, VIII 0 resides in the COun~
I'll Bend, says he set out a fishing rod
Oh he banks of Duck river, on which
he caught an eel eighteen inches long,
and large cat fish came along and at
empted TO swallow it, but it slipped
through his gills, and the eel tied knot
IN the line so as to secure the fish. The
ish weighed fOrty-seven pounds. What
20 Mr.. Dick Bullock, of the Franklin
paper, and Driver of the WdCerIy Jour
1dL, think of that fish?
Mr.. Reaves, our polite and Btfarble
,lerk of the County Court, reports a
brisk sale in marriage licenses for the
asst two or three weeks.