The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-01-08
RALLY HILL ITEMS

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l. thlckIy strewn with hopes broke
arches. It's trials and misfortunes hay
I! clothed the countenance of the tarmt
with care and filed his mind viii
gloomy forebodings of the near futur
Ehe problem of how to make anoJht
! crop without rations or forage fC
stock, and no money to buy supple
: with, and an impossibiiity To rails
money, are knotty questions that man
OF them will have to face and solve
they can. Facts are stubborn thing!
and the New Years winter di
not probably bring a favorable sOlutio
20 the farmers hard and knotty pro
Diem, how to pay debts and taxes wit
one-fourth of a cotton crop at ten an
twelve cents per pound, and to live Of
an average corn crop of six bushels De
acre, is what more than half the farm
ers will have to tackle. The new yea
was welcomed as harbinger of bet
tor tunes, and the departing year wa
lett regretted by few if any. No brigh
and pleasing "reminiscences gilded it
departure with halo of beauty or lef
its pleasing impress along the walks G
! Time, and memorable only for genera
| stagnation of trade and dc.
preston of the agricultural interest O
the country and the peaceful reversioL
| OF political sentiment at the ballot-box
and the brighter and more cheering pc,
htIcal outlook. Notwithstanding the
above, John L. Secrest, an old bachelor
OF Flat Creek, long proof against the
| ladies' and their winning ways, killed
on wednesday, the 23d ult., small lot
| OF very fine hogs. They were the finest
| that have been killed on the creek.
| They averaged four hundred and ten
pounds round net,
The Changers and Masons will have
their hall and school-house completed
sometime about the first of February.
The Rally Hill Grange is still increas-
ing its membership, and is in a grow
ing and vigorous condition.
There has been more fall blowing
done tor corn and more stubble turned
under than ever before at this time, and
wheat looks remarkably well. Squire
J. NJ. Ellington, one of the most know
ing and best farmers on the creek, pres
diets two fold crop for this year.
Mr.. VIM. Culver is about to remove
his household penates below Column ia.
1t is interesting to hear him spin Hi
nois and Missouri yarns: 1t is perfectly
thrilling to hear him tell his hair
breadth escapes by flood and field, and
surprise to his friends how the Soul b
ever got whipped with Forrest and Will
liam both on our side.
The 18th district in Williamson coun-
ty, that has hitherto been noted for the
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citizens, and the beauty, lOveliness and
Stiffness of the tongues of her ladies,
has had at Mt. Carmel on Friday,
the 18th, at night, school exhibition,
at which time occurred scenes of drunk
ennesS that very much shocked the feel
inSS of the moral community, at which
troops and q missionary were needed,
aud commission of expert chemists is
now desired TO anaIyZa and look into
500 IN ga m no fnT h
ky, that brought it ali about; and caused
them to bear off the myrtle wreath oyer
anything that Rally Hill ever got up in
her palmiest days. After much pre-
liminaries in the way of turning horses
loose and penning them, and turning
saddles, the main attack commenced by
the oldest veteran in the layout at
tempting in person to storm the citadel
of learning, but this was to much for
JOseph--it was too much tor Joe, al
though he made gallant charge, knife
in hand. The grey-haIred NJ. D., the
vigilant dOor-keeper of the temple of
learning, was equal to to the emergency, |
and with stove wood in hand, admins !
tered dose as soothing as morphine !
powder or an opium pill. The leader |
was placed hOrS dW combat and taken, |
and gently placed in a fence corner wi h |
a sand rock for pillow. In the mean |
time, by skillful flank attack with a |
rail, John H., or, "Whisky john" the |
second in command, effected an en-
trance, but was also captured, with five |
others. After it was made up and |
smOOthed down, they were Hospitality |
put 10 bed in the wOodpile, while sever /
al more were with kind and gentle |
hands put to bed in the fence corners, and |
were nicely and Eenderly covered with |
rails to keep them from taking cold. In |
the meanwhile the leader, who had been |
his pious head upon the soft |
side OF the sand rock, in throwing up |
his whiskey :hrowed up his false teeth, |
which being seen by some in the moor
light, they thought at first a bloody |
murder had been committed-that |
his head had been mashed with club |
and his jawbone had been knocked out |
of socket Two have since played |
''smart Aleck" and Joined the Good |
singing the same old song
g Whisky, oh whisky, you very well know, |
You've been our misfortune and sad over |
throw"
More are on the anxious seat, and it is |
thought that the eloquent sermon that |
Judge McLemOre will preach to them |
at Franklin from the text, "LOok not on |
the wine when it is red" will have a |
powerful effect in converting them. The |
exhortation of his able class-leader, Joe |
Russell, will, it is supposed, have very |
moving effect upon the pocket nerves; |
so much so that when the hat is passed !
around, these good boys will contribute |
and donate largely for the |
benefit of the State, and decrease of the |
State debt is looked for and rise in her
bonds. In justice to the people OF Mt.
Carmel, the disturbers of the peace were
from other neighbOrhOOds. Maury was
not represented by any delegate from
the sober and quiet neighbOrhOOd of
al nvhi hjrinp1 will hn |
tried over again on the 23d.
Mr. VIM. HardisOn, son of Mr.. Calvin
HardisOn, the merchant at HardisOn'S |
Mills, while on business trip for his
father in the South, lOde in the cars
with Dutchman that he says was just
getting over the smallpox. Since his
return he has been taken with a mild
and will soon be well. There is consid-
cradle unessiness and fear that the dis
ease will spread.
Mr. VIM. Taylor, the mail carrier
from Franklin to HardisOn's Mills for
the last four years, has not failed or
been behind time with his mail; but
winters SHOWS and rains, and !
summers storms, he has been as regu-
lar as a clock with his mail.
Notwithstanding the hardness of the |
times and the dearth of money, the |
Changers, Masons and citizens OF Flat |
Greek, are going to build Masonic and |
Grange Hall and schoOlNhouse cOmbin- |
ed. The building will be erected near |
JacksOn's store, on the Franklin and !
pike. The necessary funds |
have been raised and the building let |
out on contract, the contractor being |
Mr. HardisOu, the celebrated red horse |
fisherman of the Mills, being very |
successful merchant and very energet-
ic gentleman in other business besides |
catching red horse. He will urge for
ward the building to speedy compile |
ton.
Mr.. John Manner, a grandson of Col. |
Williamson, the man after whom Will |
hanson county was named, is going TO |
move over into Marshall county. John |
is one of the spiciest old bachelors on |
Flat Creek. His starchy old widOwer |
friend S r. attributes his lack OF matri- |
monial luck to his too great natural |
sitting too far Oft from the
Young ladies and not squeezing their |
hands any. Mr.. Newton G. Orr, anoth>
hard hearted, obdurate bachelor, has
had his house renovated and fixed up
in a very neat style. The only thing |
now that it lacks to be set off properly, !
is to be adorned by handsome wife.
1t is surmised that from the frequency
that he now takes chariot rides up and |
down the pike, that he means business,
and meditates an attack upon some fair
damsel's heart, who has hitherto been |
to the shafts from cupid's |
culver. Cage your bird, Newton, If you
can