The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10

| Monday last the different schools i'm oul
! city commenced. Now for kept in" and
| hockey"
-Chinch Truett painted the front Of E,l
! Williams unoccupicd store house ON thu
| public square last week. -
| The new sessions of the AthenRum and
usually good attendance
/ living TO the intense heat last Saturday.
| me hands employed in roofing the new
| Methodist church had TO abandon work for
| a short time.
! Postmaster Hughes says that Saturday
| Iast n small box came through the North
| ern mail W li"h contained neat jet buckle,
| used by ladies on belts. No name was on
! the box. 1t is now at the pOSIoffice.
| The school children made it lively for
| a while on our streets Monday last and
passed under the rod with smiling faces. It
is hard TO tell how long the smiles will be
kept.
Last Sunday night George Fleming was
married TO Annie Martin la Rev. James
| Rhodes, all colored, of this city. IL was
"A few days ago an old negro woman was
| sitting in chairin an express wagon, and
while the wagon was turning, the old wo-
man fell out backwards on the ground and
cut a severe CASH over her eye. DIR. II. =
Cox was sent for, and he dressed the wound
Col. Nat w. Jones was in our city Tues
day and Wednesday last. He requested
Judge Gordon of the County Court, to order
an appropriation 10 build fOOt-lOg, three
feet wide, across Cathey's Creek, four miles
from Hampshire, for the benefit of ESQ.
Tyre Noles' friend, Gen. sam BEAST Butler
The Shakespeare Club expect to give
some public entertainments very soon. The
entertainments viii probably consist OF
readings, essays and addresses. The audi
ence viii be invited, and the entertainment
will be strictly of literary character.
sunday last We noticed at the colored |
meeting two negroes, one of whom had Cd |
u I9Ii confederate suit, and the o her who 1
had on a full Yankee suit, with two stars on |
i ms shoI'Iders lie is from Georgia and his |
We were shown few days since some
Itallan queen bees, received by w. j. An /
Is taking great deal OF interest in the bee /
culture and has Italianized all his stock. /
lie intends getting some pure imported i
queens from Italy, and is determined to /
have as fine a stock as can be produced.
The bacchanalian Tevels of some lovers
OF the juice of "JOhn BarleycOTn," were
loud in the air last Tuesday night near the /
corner of y. ROSenthGl, emanating from
those who were pleased to make the still |
ness OF the night hideOus by blowing old |
tin horns. Look out, tor either Lev, Jim OF
Houst will run up on GU and take you in
then yOu "will blow"
Sunday last our reporter attended the
meeting held by the cOlOred people at the
White Springs in this city. There were al |
least eighteen hundred cOlOred people in |
attendance. Preaching was held in tht
church, which held about four hundred.
Ministers from Georgia, Mississippi, Ala
ba ma and this State were i'll attendance
he meeting commenced last Friday and |
continued Saturday and Sunday. Sunday |
morning negroes commenced coming in on |
horseback, express wagons, two horse wag- |
n.
The Rev. Woodbury. Mitchell has been |
requested to preach the regular monthly |
sermon to the Young Mem Christ ian ASsO- |
citation on next Sunday night At the Close |
OF these sermons it has been the custom 10 |
take up a collection, and we hope that OuI |
citizens will respond literally, winter il |
coming on, and this Association has quite |
"A large number that are depending on the |
cold charities of the world for a support. |
On Monday night the Association hold theil
regular monthly meeting, 81 which meeting
Nr. Lem Padgett is the CssayiSt. Let every
body attend.
w. G.. Lawrancc. late of Ky, went to the |
store of J. Z. Street Il Co, Wednesday last,
and bought pistol, worth Sl3, and had il |
charged To Mrs. y. j. Stantield, in whose
employ he claimed to be. He went directly |
To the depot and put the pistol in pond 10
r. W. Fulwiler, the express agent at this |
place, for SlO, and came back down in town. |
Mrs. Stanfield happened to come town |
during the day, and on enquiry she denied
having sent for the pistol. Mr.. Barkley, OF
the lower house, soon found Lawrence, |
and after much ialk, the pistol was produce
ed and Lawrence told to leave. He came |
down town, however, and cut up so that |
he was arrested and placed in jail, charg- |
ed with getting goods under false pTPtenSeS. |
When Lawrence first came mere, he claimed
to have been Confederate soldier, and W.
J. Whitthorne helped him, and Mai. Akin
placed him on his sisters place, with the |
above results. Lawrence lisa man OF intelli- |
scncC and good address,