The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13
OVEN THE COURTY.

Mr.. Thomas Dukes house, on Knob
Creek, was burned down on the night, July
slst, at half past I O'Clock. The house was
and was large and comfortable. When the
IRE awOke the family, the flames were In
the second story; coal OIL stand stand o0a1a the
bedroom door, which awoke Richard Judd.
The nre had gone too far 20 be quenched,
lives. Richard Judd was ON o Walt to Mr..
Duke, and opened Mr.. De room and awokc
him. Nothing wa> saved e1ceps some bed
clothing and two feath er- beds, The family
lost all their clothes except what they hid
on. Jennie, Mr.. Dukes ii year old daugh-
ter, was saved rom the names oy Mrs. Msr-
family would probably have perlshed In
the flames. Ali OF Mr.. Dukes papers were
b1Se1 and nd s1mc Teara AGO told him to take
the house and consider u his own, and arter
IL was burned, he told him that as long
with him, and to move into his house and
make 1t his home. Tom and his family
are there now.
shipped. from CulleoEa. by Holding q 90
j. Is. & q. W. wilkes, VIM. A. Bryant Co,
of MoOresvllle. This Is about II, OU bushels
Haley. Russell, aged 50 or 40 years old,
died at his residence, near CulleOka, last
sunday. He was a member of Capt. q. ".
Jones, company. and vas dru nIInt nor f0r
fensive man. His wife died several weeks
previous to- his own death.
H..
We are told that ESQ. Bryant, an indie
fatiRuable dir, ctor OF the Duck River Val
cross-ties cut' and fifIeen thousand mere
will soon be cut. DR.. Mcclure passed
through town recently, and said that ar
will be obtained for laying the track. II
this is sO,the efficient contractors, McCann d
Nest9r win soon nnish the 9So ;rau OK S1P sSa
cOw-catchsr. Great praise Is das PRESIDENT
Mcclure and Col. Lewis, and other directors
the road. its success 10 xreatly due to their
unfiagging eKertlOnR-they would not know
defeat.
turned from williamson, whore IL threshed
wheat for John ID. AcLemors, Th0S. Hunt,
Jack Crowson and Jim Watson. Before 1t
s aaf5 f SGsSea Riaa Whes;Isy, cod FEEDER
threShed three bushels and haII per MN
ute, for thirty minutes, on II. A: Ogilxie's
beats Mr.. Ike Howard, who threShed two |
and a half bushels per minute on the same
machine, lost year. Elias Time In cohslo-
"A miraculous escape happened on nar-
din Maberry's farm on Thnrsoey OF last
week. Sam Clymer w@ olInB . morse
when the tumbiDR-rOd caught his shirt
sleeve. He tried 10 Jerk louRse, but the shirf
WAS SsETt and TGHG mr. SaDere
~ caught hold of the lever and stopped the
machine, other wise Sam would have been
Killed his shirt vas stripped on, and hi. |
down TO his knees. ne was
badly bruised, but not seriously hurt. His |
escape il wonderful, considering What he |
went through he had been with the ma |
chine nve years.
Archie Hughes, Jr., went lasttweek look |
Ing for wildcat dIstilleries, but found none |
Arch, you had better be careful, looking for |
- crooked Juice" mills or you Will meet the |
fate of some of your brother East Tonnes |
see omcers.
Tom Stewart, Merritt Mcdonald, Nell 1
Owen and Jas. RIevee, carpenters in the en-
ploy OF Lamb a Boyd, finished this week, q |
stOre-house 2ox5O NJ DArk's Switch, on the |
Nashville & Decatur Railroad, six miles |
from this CITY. for Judge W o, Gordon.