The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-26
SPRING HILL ITEMS.

L GYPSIES.
, Webster saws they are race of vagabond
| which infeSt Europe, Asia and Africa, stroll
ing about and subsisting mostly by theft
robbery and fortune telling. Just at thi
time our country is cursed with the semi
annual visitation of this hoard of thievinl
| vagabOnds. There has been a stream o
this scum passing through our town for sew
eral days. The men engaged in horse trad
ing, racing and stealing forage, mostly from
the fields, while the women are making {
few dimes, by fortane telling and Other
tricks. Like the wild geese, that go south il
the Fall of the year, and north in the Spring
| But unlike these equatic..fowls, VINO, when
tired and hungry, seek their subsistence in
| the free rivers and lakes, this em1gratine
| tribe, light upon our corn fields and hay
1 themselves to what they want, and by
| early dawn, they are gone to seek new adj
ventures and other camping grounds.
| RECKLESS SHOOTING.
| ON last saturday evening, a young man,
| who does not belong to this neighbOrhOod,
| but whose name we will not mention on ac-
| count of his family connection, while under
| the influence of liquor, met negro man on
the turnpike, not far from the toll gate, and
on him with pistol. At the first shot the
negro fed, but two other shots were fired at
MN, before the lndlgnatlon OF TINS gallant
knight was satisfied. Some ladies who wit
messed this bold and reckless shooting, were
considerably frightened. The negro was not
wounded, but it is high time that this sort of
conduct should meet with that punishment
it so justly merits. This, like the shooting
of the negro near Rally Hill, was the result
the way to avoid such foolish freaks is to
touch not, taste not, the accurSed stuff, as
beverage. Shun it as you would deadly
poison.
Brandy, brandy bane of life,
Spring of tumult, source of strife,
Could but half thy curses tell,
The wise would wish thee, safe in hell"
This is old and trite, but will bear repeating,
and as whisky is now the fashionable drink,
instead of brandy, those who wish to be
very precise may, in reading those lines of
the immortal bard, substitute whisky in
place of brandy. To the honor of the young
men of our town, it may be said, as a gener-
al thing, that they are sober, temperate,
moral and love the society of ladies and
avoid all dissipation.
LAND SALE.
our aftable and clever County Court Clerk,
Nick Akin, was in our town on last Satur-
day attending to the sale of a tract of land
on the waters of Carriers creek, being q part
OF the X. X. G. Blackburn tract. In no part
of the county has Nick more true and warm
friends than here. Right here, he spent
chIldhood's halcyon days. from his early
infancy, to his matured manhood, his life
has been without stain or blemish.
our neighboring Town, is Steadily improv-
ing. The venerable Harvey Parrish, the very
prince OF hotel keepers, is now giving his
personal attention to the erection and COM
pletiOn of handsome brick cottage, on the
Franklin and Spring Hill pike, near the res
ldence of Col. Moscaw Carter, which is for
his family.
EVER BRIGHT,
lit DlGuulu TPSluence, VOgeIner WITH the |
lands and farm of Mrs. L. c. Bostick, has |
been purchased by Mr.. Samuel Graham, the |
pr1ncely proprietor of PinewOod Factory
This place is already one of the most ele- |
gantly improved places in the county, and |
yet Mr.. Graham is adjoining 1t with the adj |
ditiOn of several thousand dollars, on the /
buildings and grounds.
MR. JAMES NCGANN,
The efficient and polite clerk of the Circuit |
Court, has built a neat, pretty dwelling,
which is now nearly ready for occupancy. |
The total cost of the lot and improvements |
will not exceed two thousand dollars. 1t is
Senslbly, judiciOuSly and economically in
vested, just as might be expected of man of |
Jim McGann's good sense.
T. W. DICK BULLOCK, ESQ,
The talented editor of the Franklin ReUielp,
IS wide awake to everything pertaining to
5he interest of the good old county of Will
hanson, and gives to herpeople one of the |
most spicy and interesting papers, any
where to be found. He is genial, jovial and
lively and full of energy, and it ever affords
is sincere pleasure to meet him; and in the |
honest, earnest grip of his hands there is
more friendship, than in the hOllOw-hearted |
Dretentions of a thousand sycophants.
TWO FINE BOYS,
respectively eight and eight and |
lalf, made their appearance unHeralded on |
asst Sunday morning at the house of Mr.. |
Whitehead, son-in-law of our old friend, |
Major Jno. E. Tulloss. Mrs. Mary TulloSS |
who has kindly taken charge of
hese noble boys, is well known in Column
lia, having spent much of her girlhood
lays there.