The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-12-03
SOweHf's Lower Mills.

After long siekly season and many deaths
in our neighborhood, the time has come
again that we are blessed with good health
generally, with the exception of a few cases
of chills. Drs Sharber and Long are recruit
ing after such q hard time as they have had.
We had preaching last Sunday at Akin s
| School house. Our old stationed preacher
USSery, preached one of his good sermons to
| considerable crowd for the day, as 1t
was quite dark and gloomy. We are glad
| to learn that Parson UsSery Is going to come
back among US. He has been gone long
time.
We regret to learn that our neighbor, 2. t.
Akin is going to leave us. He Is going to
| Culleoka and Parson Ussery to his place.
Old Uncle Tommy Akin has been gone
about twelve months; he moved to Camp
bells Station-and he is coming back to his
old home. There is much changing and ex-
changing out here among the mud and
Dooley & Nicholson have moved their
steam saw mill to Joe Hargroves. They will
make a pile of lumber If the mill is furnish
ed with logs. know Billy and Joe both; we
wish them good luck at their new location;
we know the bad luck they had at their old
stand-l allude to their getting burned out.
Mr.. F. NJ. Fuller will keep T1tcomb d Cor
dons mill running until about Christmas
a great many cross-ties on the Narrow
Gauge Railroad. Mr.. Fuller has a man i'll
his employ that has done more chopping for
the last twelve months than any other man
has in the same length of time in Maury
County. His name is Elisha Bradford-he
can do more work with an ak than two or
Ss
The corn crop is good around about here,
cotton not much, no hogs worth talking
about, no beef cattle. Mr.. T. S. and Frank
Speed have lost great many of their hogs
that they had fattening that were brought
from Indiana. Mr.. 7. s. Speed killed some of
his own last week, which, after being killed
did not have the right color. He thinks they
were diseased, but he sailed IL down, had all
the spare-ribs and back-boEes sailed,
Which l1 looked tempting to a hungry fellow fellow
came up the other morning to get some
meat Mr.. Speed went to the smoke house to
show him that he had none other than the
diseased hogs. The old man remarked that
those ribs looked mighty good. Mr.. Speed
told him that if he wanted to risk them, to
he would risk one any way, Speed told him
if that went all right to come back and get n
If that went all right he would
try the balance himself. have not learn
ed how it acted yet, but the old man is hearty
and hale. 1 do not think that anything
short of arsenic would hurt the old man very
feed one half the people in il; we will
have to keep learning to do without so much
meat-it is not healthy for us to eat much
am told that about roasting ear time
one of our neighbOrS had pack of fox
hounds, and bread being scarce the dogs
corn as bad as that many swine, and they
got so bad that the owner had to block each
and everyone before he could stop them
from eating up his crop.
Tell JEFF. Reeves to hurry on with that pike:
this side ofthe creek is getting very bad.
Corn is selling up here at one dollar and a
half per barrel, cash, on one, ten and twelve
months credit. Good flour at Col. SOwell's
mill at three dollars per cwt.
F. NJ. Fuller will furnish Columbia with
fire wood at twenty-five cents per load If
they will haul it.
Cook & Dowell win soon have their Christ
mas tricks on hand. We will have quite a
lively time Christmas day; we will have an
oyster supper in our village-we are all So
Der fellows up here with some exceptions.
We will have some serenading up here; all
flddlers, with some exceptions; Bud Dowell is
the chief clevis-nocker. We have full
string band, some talk of trying to borrow
a drum from town, others say that would
not do, as it would alarm the neighborhoOd.
There are lots Of us up here that never saw
play on a drum.
There is a great deal of talk that we are TO
have a photographer in our village. If we
can get place for his sky-light we will get
him sure; he can get board here cheap, for
our fare will justify us in boarding a
man cheap.
The weather is getting cooler and we must |
go to cutting fire wood. We will tell more !
next time. GABE.