The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Mrs. Amanda Foxall died near this
city Friday last, of heart disease, and was
buried at Greenwood Cemetery saturday
' sit used to he in this country trade, bust
ness, improvements and religion, Now it's
amuSemcnts, dull times. What next?
We regret to learn that II v. j. D. Pun
kim Davis, of Hickman county, Is still Ia
boring under mental alteration.
Buck Howard says the baby mania
broke out on Double Branches last week.
Gen. WhitthOrne is counsel for the juror
who was fined In the Circuit Court IN TINS
city by Judge Martin, some two weeks ago,
and appealed to the supreme Court.
Green Foster, col, who we mentioned IN
our last issue as being arrested and charged
with Stealing an ACCORDION and corset, was
discharged for the want of evidence,
Hen, John V, Wright, of Columbia, has
been appointed special Judge of the Ninth
G Ster The 10 recovery Of Judge " r Martin
why SIbeTt B1rch, clerk at Black & Moore's
carried several hundred dollars from TINS
city to section l., on the II. r. V. R.R., for
Nestor & McCann, to be used TO pay the
railroad hands.
of Wayne county, an assessor was elected,
and resigned Immediately. The same court
elected a second assessor, and he being in
formed of his election, declined to serve,
Wayne county is now without an assessor
and the dogs in that county are now ozark
ing happy" over it.
The following is the amount of revenue
collected by A. n. Akin, County Court
Clerk, for the month of April: state reve-
nue., 1891; county revenue, slS3.2s school
revenue, 1851; corporation, 81 %. -.
An apology is due Miss Virginia FRAN
ces Bryant from US Last week in speak ing
of her as 'tNnrna,h We called her "Finkie,"
II She will excuse this mistake of our COM
i ~ sit| we will not let il occur again.
Mr. VIM. Morrow, OF the First National
Bank, has gone to Pulaski to hear DIR. Muir
SeS + seems that the patient silence of the
imperturbable angler has been Just so much
stiffness wasted. The old notion that you
can't catch a fish unless you keep quiet,
must now go down TO oblivion along with
| that other time-worn delusion, the bellef
| thatspitting on the bait makes fish bite bet,
| ter Seth Green, who knows a great deal
about fishes, and has spent much time II
| STUDYING their habits, thinks they can not
| hear He once asked a band OF music to
| range themselves around tank of fish, and
at given signal TO blow their loudeSt blast.
| This they did but not fish stirred. they
| arg, however, very sensatlEe 10 lats, anI a
| slight tap on the bottom Ofope Ofthe tanks
| made every fish dart of like flash.
came to town Tuesday; and discussed the
| dog law. He said the man who voted for ii
| would never be elected again. He said,
| "Hou may IalR apuur all yout laws-SOur
bankrupt laws aud all other laws, but the
dog Jaw tsraatS Them all. Frank Moore hs1
eighteen dogs, and isn't going TO pay dol
lar, and Will carry 1t to the supreme Court,
DIR. William Clark, paie9ntalogist OF
| digging INCUBUS +4GsAl LdhhAln recently,
! made a remarkable discovery of chalk
| beads, once glazed red, two copper bobbins
| with hempen or iaXen thread around
| them and the representation of an idol in
| denied on copper plate metal, much zorro
| ded. He says these must have been the
| work of Aztecs, or at least of civilized peo-
| ple. All were found sixteen feet below the
| top of the mounds.
John Tucker and Frank DOOley, two
| Nimrods of this city, walked twenty-five
miles Saturday last, through the woods
and killed three squirrels each. John, you
aGe better on "cOInering' peanuts than on
squirrels,
Golden Haired Bob FrierSon, Raven
| Haired Bob FrierSOn, went 10 Laurel Hill
| Factory two weeks ago, and fiShed about
| one week with the hOSpitable Jones fami.
IL. They caught great many fine fish,