The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-28

j Johnnie Holman will give an icc-Cream
II and strawberry supper tonight. at his faith.
n a nice supper, as that prince good bakers
Il Felix Scriner, baked the cakes, and Min
II dow Davis will freeze the cream.
e The Rev. James A. Orman, the preacher
| for Douglass Circuit, we are glad TO see, has
| recOVe cred from his fall, in which he broke
D | his ribs, sufficiently to preach two very
0 good sermons last Sunday morning and
5 evening in this tOwn-EraHIiin ReUie,r
Is it a joke upon our lar, q slam on our
Governor or people, or an honor to Column
bia, that no Office can be filled for this part
of the legal vineyard by any man outside of
time we have chance and either shuck
{ some OF the corn or eat none of the bread
@T TIE Her@id and Mol, paper from Co
lumbia, which is sway down in Dixie
having left its home the 18th. 1t speaks OF
the wheat being badly injured, but that the
corn:is coming up finely. we ar are at loss
| il will not be the last-DoyLesto0n Ohio
| 1t is told of Prot VIM Athenmum Smith
| that during the entire war he never ate any
| mates.
| here last Friday and Saturday, looking out
| for home. One of his eyes We're frozen
last winter and he is anxious TO move to
| a warmer climate. He is pleased with our
| county, and may return
| Col. p. w. Crawford came all the way
| from Pulaski last Friday to hear Munsey.
Geo. c. Taylor and his accomplished wife,
| of CulleOka, also came down to hear him.
Judge Ferriss has thrilling history hid |
behind the Davidson County JudgeShip. |
When about fourteen or fifteen years old, |
he got in McGaw'S wagon, q merchant from |
! Columbia, and left Trenton in this State, to |
push his fortunes in Middle Tennessee. He |
was runaway lad. While on the road TO |
Columbia McGaw advised the truant to dig |
up cedar trees to sell when he got there, and |
realize some small change. Bill Polk saw |
him standing over his shrubs and to en- |
courage him gave him a dollar for a tree.
he a n is nj a nj
ed by the purchasers to plant them. From |
Maury's capital he went to the State capital,
with but few friends and less money. To |
make a long story short, John, by his ener-
gy, industry and native tact, has reached
aforesaid. 1t is universally conceded that
he fills it with zeal and abiity.-Ertract |
from B,lioc|s Pulaski Letter.
The article we copy from the Pulaski
Citizen in regard to the appointment of Cir
cult Judge from Columbia, seems to leave
the impression that the people of Giles
ing OF jealousy toward the people of MauTy. |
We are reliably informed, however, that
such is not the fact; that Giles has a warm
r. gardfOr Maury-we kHOr that the senti-
mCnt is rcciprOcated. We deeply regret to
see Brother Lapsley endeavOring. to create
unlIindly feelings between the two noble
counties. He seems to forget that the ap- |
pointment of Judge Wright was an exceed
ingIy appropriate one, imaSmuCh as he is |
merely to fill out the unexpircd term of a |
Maury county man. Besides, Maury never
"cut up" when one of Giles talented and IA
Gov. Brown to fill the Office of Criminal |
Judge until an election could he held. Our
recollection is that Brother McCord
thought that was all right.
Let us have an inter-cOunty spelling
match? Shall it be Giles or Williamson |
first? Or, suppose all three counties engage
in it, and meet on middle grOund-COluIn- +
bia? What say you, Dick and Luther? :
Rev. Mr.. Mitchell and lady, OF Zion
church, Maury county, spent last Sabbath l
and the day preceding in our town. They |
We're the guests of Prot. H. IL. Smith. whose =
was. H. preached sunday and Sunday
night ut the Presbyterian church.-SFctby-
-Wc COMMERCIAL. c
Lush Matthew'S Mezcppa grey horse t
was one of the four grey that was attached q
% the band wagon Friday last. Lush says +
he kept time to the music TO Concord
church and back. d
Mrs Penelope Bronson Hickman, wife of t
zen. L. w. Hickman, of Nashville, died at )
IcT residence, near that city, the 18th inst u
Bragg, an Amendment attachee of the n
HERALD office, has been for the last week | -"
water from the Bear Creek sui I
Dhur spring to different persons in this city. b
cave your orders at this office if you wish o
sulphur water every morning.
our young friend and popular artist,
Billie MahoH, who has been catching shad-
)wS for the lads and lasScs of Thompson
station, has come home to take a rest, a
when he will return. We beSpeak for Bill | n
ic a rush of business, as he takes pictures n
IS natural as life. =,
Felix c. Matthews, brother of Lush u
Matthew's, of this city, died ut Forest City, I
Hiss, at o'clock the 9th instant, He was | Ii
or several years n constable in the Bigby- | :,
lille district. He married Miss Mary Agnes 4
Davis, daughter of Alex Davis of this cOun- | y
'. He leaves a wife and two children to u
MOURN his loss. He was an honest man. tG
'eaCe TO his ashes. tf
James Hodge, says even the spiders 20 "
II "mOurniEg" on account of the dog law, g
" weaving webs all over the ceiling and 81
'alls of his shop, in memory of the many g
Oor dog Trays, that are poisoned. 81
We call the especial attention of the 81
tockholdcrS ofthe Depot Mills TO the adj h,
of the Secretary and Treasurer. AZ