The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-17
NIT. PLEASANT ITEMS


| record the death of one of Maury's
brightest Jewels, Miss Josie Craig. She
| depart ed this life at her home two and a
halt miles West of here, Sunday night,
| September the 18th, in her eighteenth
year. To those who knew and appreciat-
cd this sweet and beautiful young lady,
| the loss is one not to be told in words.
| To the family, where she was sunshine
| and content, there is heart-breaking and
anguish. She has left to her friends and
the world of grief and love, brilliant
record, Patient, kind, loved and loving,
she lived just long enough, to prove that
she was made of such stuff as angels are
made Of She was kind sister, most
loving and devoted daughter, and a bright
christian. She leaves widowed moth
er, brother and three sisters to mourn
loss that time can never supply. 1t is
hard to those who knew her, that she
should die so young, that she should be
cut off just in the bloom of youth.
But in the coming morn,
Stars newly risen, faint and die,
Dissolved IN Gods own light"
While sitting on our streets not
long since, we saw lovely lady, on whose
face great traces of sorrow had fallen,
and the shadows of the deep and holy me-
mories were resting as the wing of death
upon her brow. A delicate oval of the
cheeks suggested the suffering of the
heart, which had robbed them of their
roundneSs; the deep eyes had an express
ION that was too intense for one so fair,
and the lids dropped as if heavy with
unshed tears, and closed heavily down,
as if struggling to repress the tide ofagony
that was bursting from her hearts secret
urn. Her hands were casped and mark
ed the despair, the utter drearinoss of the
young lady's feelings. Il was a sad pic
ture embOdying a world of meaning.
Most women through life, and men too,
have suffered in a deadly combat between
love, reason and ambition, Dives-like, fam
ishing for the one cool drop of water,
which the representative of fate, inexor-
ale withhOlds; but the fire burns secretly
and society espies it not. In the mystic
path of an untrOdden future amid the chan
ceS of life, it were better that a milestone
were hung about the neck, than to awak-
en- to a sense of wasted life. Amid the
many disappointments on one side, and
vanity empty show, and mean ambition
on the other; for sooner or later, Meme
sis and life will have their own. All! how
true the saying, every flower, even the
faire5t, has its shadow beneath it as it
swings in the sunlight
Mr.. Mumford Smith Of River Station,
and Mr.. S. s. Cecil of this neighborhood,
returned from Indiana recently, with a
hundred and-forty two hogs, purchased in
that State, and brought here to fatten.
They lost three in transportation. The
energy of these young men is really wor-
thy of commentator, and they deserve
great success. Among all the Smiths in
this vicinity, there is not one with a
Samuel attached.
One ofthe neatest and best kept coun-
try notels, it has ever been our good
fortune to call at, is the Anthony House,
at Newburg. Mrs. Anthony is the Prin>
cess of Caterers, and the deGcacy OF
her viands, is of a style sufficient to
guarantee the guests in over feeding
themselves Her rooms are nicely fur
nished with downy beds and the clean
est of linen. A traveller can live more
Iuxuriously for less money, than at any
other hotel, in this country.
Mr. j. G. Ingram, who recently visited
Indiana, returned few days ago, with a
fine drove of mules, which he purchased
in the vicinity Of Mitchell, in that
State.
Mss Ellie NJ, n noted Columbia belle,
brilliant and beautiful, paid her relatives
a visit in the vicinity last week May
she continue to charm our society by her
presence Happy the man, who will WOO
and win this enchanting being.
\ party of gentlemen, composed OF
Mai. B R. Harris, Willie Barrow, George
Conner, MIN Williams and others, expect
to leave here next Monday cor the wa
ters of Buffalo, on an angling expedition.
They expect to pitch their tent at the
celebrated fishing resort, known as the
Pine Bluff hole, near the mouth of Rock
house creek. Seasons of relaxation from
the more laborious duties of life, are un-
doubtedly necessary, and we know OF
nothing, which can better answer this
end than the gathering together OF an
intelligent and social party OF friends on
some beautiful rolling fountain, whose
waters bubble up, and send forth con
slant murmuring steam, when the I'M
gering rays of the sun, set forth golden
lustre over the crimson foliage OF the
brown rolling woods and the water, col
ored beautiful with the dead leaves OF the
water lilies, to angle for the graceful,
dashing, swift swimming, hard pulling
cunning TROUT. One of the most deeply
cherished recOlleotions of our life, is IN
the happy remembrance OF hours spent
on beautltul classic DuHaIO, VIII ii hoo'S
young friend, whose life seemed "a ban
Duet, "a song and Dance who has cross
ed the last liver, and taken up his abode
in the silent city of the dead. We were
a partner in his sports, o companion IN
his rambles, and our recollections OF him,
are craven on our heart with an Indell-
bleness, which the flight of years, and the
Gathering of sorrow, will never eftace;
We trust he has gone to country beyond
the skies, in the bright realms OF tadeless
unwithering glory.
The party which left here on thursday
September the End, for the waters OF Pr
Hey, in Lewis County to hunt deer return
ed the following Monday very much DIS
couraged and depressedin spirits, as they
found the reports in regard to deer dy-
ing too true They only hunted one day,
and killed three, which looked like they
might have had dyspepsia, yellow fever,
diphtheria and the rheumatism. The old
doe, that Mr.. Hint K. killed, was the
most perfect wreck of the venison tribe,
We ever saw. When it was brought into
camp, Mr.. r. D. R., by the grace of Reese
T., gifted with supreme catering charac-
teristic, gazed upon this carcass, that
had all of the diseases "that flesh is