The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-05
OVER THE COUNTY.

-Thos. H. Williams has 81 young lambs
and Tom Jones 80 or 40.
Col. ID. F. Wade thinks this is going to be
the best crop year we have had since the
war. We hope and believe so.
ESQ. n. r. Holden, of the Bigbyville
country, N N bad health, and he fears that
he is becoming ParalyRSG; he cannot move
one side.
Why don't you put up apples for the
winter, and sell them? Hundreds ofdollars
are sent on annually for apples during the
winter.
John L. Isom, one OF the most excellent
young men in the county, has been very
i'll with pneumonia. He took a start for the
better last Monday morning at one O'Clock
Young Sam Beast Butler, of Bear Creek,
was in town a few days ago, and inquired
of Holding, Davis & Co., if they had any
"Mardi Gras" seed, who not having any on
hand, referred him to L. NJ. Matthews.
Kansas emigration fever has died out
In the Big Bigbee neighburhoOd. The ne
grOes say that they have sent Rev. Balaam
FriersOn, col, TO Kansas, to see that coun-
try and report. That is a good idea, and
our coloTed friends would act wisely if they
would all remain where they are until
they know from reliable sources exactly
what klnu OF country lneS are going 10.
One day last week, Esq. James T. Moore
went to SOweIl's Lower Mill, and had fine
luck catching horse and suckers. He
reached there about eleven o'clock, and in
hnnr two he had twenty-oue fine
| ones. He thinks he caught eleven of them
in eleven minutes. Esq. Moore is one of
| the oldest and most successful of our an
gIers, and fishes earlier and later than al
most anybody.
| Some time since Mr.. Ira Hardison felled
| a great many trees along the river bank
/ where IL sweeps his magnificent farm.
| These trees were washed downin solid COL
| umn in the late freshet, and going along by
| SowelI's upper mill, they struck his big
| mill wheel, lifted it up and carried it away.
| Another wheel cannot be put in until sum
mer, and Bill Addison, the excellent mill
/ er, will have TO work ON the farm This
/ may destroy good fishing at the dam.
| An article recently appeared in the
| Franklin RerieV and Journal in which II
| was stated that Gen. Andrew Jackson cut
| out the old NatcheZ Trace road in 1872. Ma
| jor John u. Fleming, venerable citizen OF
this county, who was in the war of 1912, says
this is a mistake: he came here in 1907, and
the Natchez Trace road was already built
then, 1t was probably made in 1902 by Gen.
> | Sdluos anu OlneFb. Nnens jackson nduC the
military road 10 Florence. Major Fleming
! was 50 years old last Tuesday, and is still &C.
| tive and cheerful. He is genial old gen
tleman, and is enjoying a lovely old age
with youthful heart.
, Col D. F. Wade had about seventy col
ored people on his splendid farm, and III
! to last Monday all had gone to Kansas bu
three, and they were expected 10 60. Tn,
Colonel, who is one of our best farmers, wa
: talking OF going to Memphis TO make ar
: rangements for a hundred Chinese, H
: thinks this hegira is bad for the negroes
a ! but will prove very beneficial to the whit
= landowners, in that il will force them, ii
q g great measure, TO quit cotton, which
{ wearing out their II &SS% 1t will bear heav
e on those farmers, however, who are in deb
I and cannot walt on the slow income de
rived from atock-raising