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

| The red rose she sent us is almost al
| beautiful as she is, but not half so sweet.
John Iockride and Taylor Pinion las
Tuesday, cleaned out the Jack son Spring.
| Go to John fuckers grocery, and ask hin
to show You the "safety door fastener"
bruce Pickens plays base ball with one
eye In sling-cause poisoned oak. Oh
Five hundred bushels of lime distribu
| ted by the corporate authorities this week
| A good move on cholera.
| The boys who are too lazy to play base
ball or to run after ball have introduced
| ball which they call the 100000 lndla
| rubber string ball" Look out, and don I
| dodge when thrown at by the "Lazy-sll
| iu-the-C Chair Club, " for the ball crawhshes
| Tuesday evening last, any one seeing
Tin ChappeII mixed up in a dog fight, in
| front of the city hall of justice, would have
come to the conclusion that Assessor Allen
| had been cashiered, and that lin had been
| promoted and breYeted.
| City Marshal White and Policeman Friel
| spied a vagrant Amendment TUESDAY last
| sitting on Councilman BOyds fence, and
| started towards the negro to arrest MIN, Out
said vagTant got up and busted, and distan-
| ced both OF the officers in the race for llber-
! ty. The last seen of the negro. he was pass
| ing the store of Sheppard & Harrison, FOL.
| lowing the advice given by the lamented
| Horace Greeley: go West young man."
Every man can't climb a telegraph pole
| with bucket of paint and hold on while ne
applies the brush. Bev White couldn't.
ment where Bev. struck, and BeV Showsa
great shot, about the size of Rhode lSlandp
where he struck his little Deu.
Sunday morning last, at the hour OF
o'clock, at NOah's Ark in this city, Police
man LansdOwn arrested John Laech, Sol
Porter, Tiller Patton and Elijah DopDlns.
all four colored, who were gambling. Judge
Guest last Monday borrowed % from rat
toms "winnin" and give Leech q recon-
incubation to enter City Marshal White
''rockology class, where he VIII remain
until 50 worth of tuition Is paid, Porter
and Dobbins continued their cases until
"A certain man from a neighbOring cOun-
ty, last Tuesday night, insisted that he was
liable to fall in the cistern which STANDS on
the public square, and which was securely
covered, he not knowing 1t. We lett him
crawling around the square on his knees
hunting for the depot, and abusing any city
that cares not for the lives of its people.
Several dogs have died suddenly around
the streets this week. The impression
seems to be that they play base ball on pO-
IatO beds, and that the boys who belong to
the KangarOOs, Quick steps, WhitthOlne
and other clubs in this city, are using
strychnine prOmiScu0usly TO get a corner
on "dOg baSe-ballistS."
The Weaver Bro, who bought property /
near the depot in this city, VIII burn 10000 /
brick, commencing the first of July next.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. ID. +. McEwen lost their /
lovely little daughter, Selma Jane, SatuT- /
day. They have the sympathies of the en-
The perseveriug pedestrianic Amendment /
of Tucker 4 Latta,, shoveth the go-caTt and
tooteth his bazOO, shouting, II scream"
Josh Guest has abandoned the rat busi-
ness, and is now conductor of Tucker d Lat
ta's bread wagon. Jim Tucker is the Jehu of
JOsh's train.
Jim Cherry, the baker boy. dOnned the
first linen suit in this city Sunday last The
gentle zephyrs" played bluff, and crowded
J i'm, making him shed his linen, about dark.
ELAN AZ Andrews Thursday last had eighty
feet Of new counter and fifty draws placed in
their new hardware house, by workmen in the
9 nplOy of Lamb Boyd.
Capt. q. w. Clifford is building beauti.
full little home on ANDREWS Addition
" hich. by the way, is one of the most lovely
spots around town. The Captain, whom Mac |
duff said had mOtiYe-mental temperament.
is sentimental as well as practical and full of
energy, and recently went TO bed thinking he |
would build himself a house like the pretty
one in which r. C.. Cant lives. That night he | {
dreamed r plan for house which differed |
from anything he ever saw, aud he is now car
-ying out his dream to the very letter. He is {
building the house he dreamed.
DR.. MunSey attended prayer-meeting at {
he NJ. +. Church Masonic HalD last We'd q
lesday night, and read the 9Th chapter of LIST
as only he can read. He then /
made an exquisite, beautiful and affecting 7
ak. What a wonderful man he is? No t
Wonder Dick Bullock admires him. s
The Sunday-schOOl of the Cumberland c
Presbyterian Church had delightful picnic I
asst Saturday, in Col: Myers beautiful front '
ard. The day passed of very pleasantly. @
The ladies of the Presbyterian Church
AVE been engaged this week in putting down
new and elegant carpet. Lamb X Boyd, at
ONE changes on tho already handsome pews.
The "StOnewalls," Of Nashville, and the
ksngarOos," OfCOlumbia, will play match
anne of base ball Saturday, back of the y
mob. Seats will be taken out for the ladies.
nd every body isinvited. e
H. p. Seavy, photographer, took DR.. Mum s
keness. The speaking eye, mouth, chin,
nd the entire face, :Rll present the great
reacher to you as if he was before you.
,rian Church next Sunday. DR.. Mitchell, the
aston, has gone to St. Louis, to attend Gener-
Assembly. I