The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-09
OVER THE COUNTY.

Mr.. ThOS. &. Walker said he had four
cotton blooms last Saturday.
Aaron j. Akin, cstimablc citizen OF
Bear Greek, will sell out OH the 18th, and 20
to Texas. We are sorry he is going to leave.
Esq. Jas, n. Sanders intends to give Il
Granger Dinner, and have nothing on his
table that is not raised on his farm.
The only bad corn crop in the Rock
Spring country is owned by Joe Nicholson,
caused by yankee Lice" eating il up.
"A big quarrel took place at wheat
threshing on Widow sam Journeys place,
between John w. LittlGiOhn ana Newt
Leftwich. No harm done.
r. o. Alexander brought us a red bloom,
Saturday. He said the boil bIoomed on the
9th of June. His boil was the first brought
tOus.
"A cotton blooInau boil were sent us from
I. c. Webster's farm, which We're pulled on
the LIST day of July. Charley Naught sent
one last Friday.
made l,IOo bushels of wheat from
thiTty-three acres, which is thirty-three
bushels per acre. This is ahead of Mr.. Har-
vey Cecil.
ESQ. Scribner, of Fountain Creek, made
fifteen bushels per acre on hts frOzen-Out
wheat. He claims that he will make fifteen
barrels of corn acre. He had the finest corn
in the county last year, you know, unless
we eXceps Mr.. c. MOrgan's.
Buck Howard made between fifteen and
twenty bushels Ofwheat per acre. The sam
pie sent us is splendid. He boasts of having
the finest watermelon patch in the county.
"A good Sunday-schOOl has been organ
lied at Smyrna, by electing w. a. Buck
Howard superintend' mt. The school started
in an old schoOl-house on Esq. ID. X. Hays
farm, by Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Mrs. David
G.. HOlcOmb and Mrs. Fanny Wheatly. The
school is now, since its removal to Smyrna,
in a fiOurishing condition
Major Dabney GOOdlOe, of the Mt. Pleas
ant country, tells us that Mr.. j. Harvey Ce-
Gil recently thTeShed his wheat, and forty
acres of it averaged thirty bushels per acre.
He has twenty other acres which is nearly
as good. This is the best yield we have
heard of so far. Major GOOdloe's own wheat,
when Ii is threShed, will probably yield as
much as Mr.. CecilS.
A widow and the son of another widow,
in the Rock Spring country, had terrible
fuss last week. The son Ota widow wouldn't
let the widow haul her wheat on his place
to have ii thTeshed. She heard that Mon
roe Taylor wouldn't fresh her wheat, and
ray. "Mr. Taylor, did you say you wonldn I
thresh my wheat?" mo marin, no marin"
"Wil you thresh it?" Yes marin, yes
marin. Thankee, marm."
Mr.. j. NJ. kittrell, of the Mt. Pleasant
country, says that Col. Webb Ridley has
three hundred acres in corn which will av-
eraEe fifty bushels per acre. He says the
Cecils don't raise cotton, and that is the
reason their lands bring thirty and thirty
three bushels of wheat per acre. w. i. Cecil
bought his farm about twenty years ago,
when IL was worn out and considered
worthless. Now il is the richest land in
all the Countrywide result of sound farm
ing. He has corn which Will make ten or
fifteen barrels per acre.
One of the model farmers of our county
says that one of the very best young farmers
in the county is Mr.. Melville Williams. AL
though raised in city, he has applied him
self to his new avOcatiOn with a diligence
that will always command success. He
owns one of the very best farms in the COun-
ty, and Is doing what only a few farmers
are dOing-making money out of it and al
SO taking care OF his farm We predict
that he will not grow stalk of cotton in a
few years. He married Gen. Pillows daugh
ter, Miss SaIlie Polk, who in her girl days
was one of the queens of Southern society.
Every hOlN nrnnOnnppS the nTeSpnt
of wheat the largest that was ever rCaped
in our county. Nearly half of the cleared
lands in the county was SOwed in wheat,
and the yield is unusually good. Farmers
are anxious to know exactly how many
bushels have been raised. Capt. W. NJ. Ir-
vine suggested good plan to get at the
amount: let each constable get the accurate
amount of each crop from those who have
run thTeshCrs, and report TO the HERALD.
The Changers OughtfO go to work and get
the amount thrcShed also. Major Ingram,
Cashier of the Bank OF Columbia, says the
surplus crop of wheat will bring about
quarter of n million of dollars into the coun-
ty,
A ten year old son OF Mr.. Eli Harris, who
lives at Duck River station. was drowned
brother, BeauTegard Harris, and boy
OF his own age were in swimming at
the r1TPaG otidgS no Fan SIi ItaIrS ' rom TGd
swim TO the new railroad pier, where the
water is about eight feet deep. The other
two boys endeavOTed to persuade him not
to go; but he persisted, and got nearly to
the place when he became StIangled. The
other boys swan to his relief immedi-
ately, caught hold of him, and tried to
bring him to bank, hut he came near
drowning them both, and with desperate
efforts they struggled loose from his drown
ing graSpS, and escaped. He sank and rose
no more, His body was found next morn
ing about twenty yards below the pier,
where he sank. Boys should not be allow
ed TO go into the river without an expert
swimmer is along. The jury Of inquest
composed of Col. A. :. Goodwin, VIM. Mic
Coy, Mumford Smith, G. ID. VOORHEES,, j. Il.
Akers, Il. A. Gotbtield, James Hood, with
Esq. w. q. Gordon acting Coroner, found
waist, and the current was SO strong that it
carried him under and into deeper water.
His brother testified that he went to his re-
lief, but was caught by deceased and carried
under twice, and was compelled to free
himself or perish with him.