The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-12
RALLY HILL ITEMS.

The Academy and Masonic and Grange
ball, at Lases church, near Jackson's,
on the Franklin aud Lewisburg pike,
is now about completed. A school will
ibe opened there on March the 18th, un
der the management of Mr.. T. II. Mills,
Mr.. Mills has experience and is emil
uently qualified for the position. He
will be assisted by Mr.. VIM. HardIson,
| who has few equals probably in the
| county, of his age, for natural mathe-
NAUTICAL talent; although not yet nine-
| teen wears old, ne has mastered all the
| various mathematical branches, he is
| Also a most excellent linguist.
| 1t would seem from notice in the
| Franklin ReUielC OF skeleton found in
| the stump of tree in the Rally Hill
| neighbOrhood, that some one has hoax
| ed the talented inkNslinger of that pa
| per, as no such occurrence has taken
! place. Empty jugs and bottles have
been found at dryers times III hollow
stumps in the Rally Hill country, one
| lady having found as high as twenty
seven empty Bitter bottles in one hol-
low stump, but nary skeleton.
Joseph HargroVe died on the lst Of
March, aged 70 pears. He was in the
war of 1872. One by one the living arch
es that connect the past with the pres
ent are broken by the march of time,
and soon the last of those gray-haired
paUriarchs who stand the living nlemen
toes of the honest past, will have dis |
appeared from the walks of man Tho |
venerable Capt. John D. Warren is now |
the only surviving soldier of the war of |
1872 in the Fiat Greek country. The |
Captain is still hale and hearty, having |
led bameless life and been long noted |
for his unflinChing opposition to the use |
of ardont spirits.
Farming operations A re now some |
what backward, owing to the weather. |
The wheat Is now looking quite we'll,
having improved very much IN appear
ance in tho last two weeks.
Noticing the comments OF R. the
entertaining CORES pOndent from Spring
Hill, on the Rally Hill correspondent,
in regard to Andrew johnson, Demo-
cratic Senator elected by Il majority OF
the Democratic Legislature, we now
suggest that r. might read with pleas
ure and profit that passage OF scripture,
Paul, Paul, why kickest thou ?'
The supposed dog law is generally
well received by the majority, but there
are some of the minority who think that
at least one dog should have been ex~
empted from tax. If the law goes into
operation. dog skin gloves and mutton
ought to both fall. Hen dogs are not in
demand nov; a Flat Creeker viii not
now have any but rooster dog 10 keep;
nobody will have a hen dog but Jake
Shiros, ST., who pays forty and fifty
cents for their hides; they'll be scarce
by tax-talIing time.
In the 9th district Of Marshall county
lifty-one horses have already died from
OF feed. so says James
Lunn, the merchant of COrlett's Cross
Roads, who is keeping count and will
follow suit.
VIM. Mclean, Jr., has gone into the
mining business, After digging and ;
blowing FIR two days with six hands,
Newt LOvett acting a. chief drill-mas-
-er, thew struck a bonanza of New ;
dogs. After some further ,
blasting vein of red foxes was struck.
As soon as the company get some pow
Ter and fuse the mine will be vigorous !
II worked. They think after getting {
through stratum of gray foxes they ;
win strike one of silver foxes; as silver
skins are worth seventy-tiVe dollars J
each, the mine will be profitable. Mr. {
Mclean has had some experience in the \
up line. He gives his eXperi-
9Ie thus: While on pleasure trip to
rexss. last fall, while sitting around
st0ve, III the town OF Alverado, a fierce
cooking Texan came in, apparently half 9
Trunk. and said TO be "a desperate char :
,cter, demanding whisky. He YVES
POLITELY told that he already had enough
He At once drew out a four pound pack r
rge Of powder and said he would blow
40 the house if the whisky was not set
)ut. His demand was denied him. InN t
SANITY he threw the whole package into
he stove. William says he made race T
horse time out of the door. Looking
)aclI he saw another Tennessean who (
lad gone through the window and car |
led off the sash, on his neck. The Tex
an stood calmly smiling, and enjoying
he scene-it was only saw~dust that he
la1 Thrown into the stove. |