The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| No marrying, TO cake, hard times and
| base balliSt and spelling match talk.
| Duck River is getting rather thin
! though il is predicted by Farmer Ben
| Bridgeforth that we viii have plenty OF
| Bill Tally CoIquitt and Ed. stewart
| two knights fthc plane of this city, are
now at Primm Springs building two ten
| pin alleys for Daniel Estes.
| Jeff. Reeves County Iebras" are doing
| good work on the pike opposite Mrs. Re
| becca Padgett'S residence. jeff. SAYS he
| will have this good road when finished.
| %. II. i. Bennett, Jas. l.. Guest, Dick
| BeaVenS, Hugh Cook, Ed, White, sam
1 Walker and Mrs. Lou Daney, all of this city,
| went to Nashville last Tuesday as witnesses
| i'm behalf of the Nashville and Louisville
| Railroad. man 10y the name of aTwater
was run over and killed near this place in
| 1873, and his wife is now suing the railroad
| company for damages.
| -BiIIic Lipscomb has one hundred and
| fifty acres in wheat opposite this city, and
| smiles in anticipation Of two thousand
| bushel yield.
Monday morning last the little daugh-
| ter of James 'ShugI Jones, who lives near
HardisOn and NontgOmery's mill, on Duck
River, which is about fifteen miles from
! this city, accom- panied a negro woman to
| the river, and while the negro was engaged
| in washing clothes, the little girl fell in the
| water which was about three feet deep.
| and drowned. The child's body was found
| about one hOur afterwards.
| The Chattanooga Times learns that Mrs
| L. Virginia French has been offered a tn
| torShip in DIR. Eecictt'S Female Academy al
| Columbia, and Will probably accept.-BGa-
Russell Estes will start an express be-
tween Columbia AMI Primm Springs dur
ingthc summer. This is n worthy enter
| prise. Tally Culquit has built ten-pin al
| ley for John Estes at PFimm's Spring. Hen
| ~ p. FOwlkS, of Franklin, Is building
house at the Springs. Timber is on The
ground to build Othe. cabins.
A. G.. Thompson shipped three carloads
of mbeT-2i,OpO tret-fTOm COlum bia last
week. He bought il from George Thomas,
and il is splendid lumber. Some of il was
walnut lint most il nOnI1T MIR.
Thompson left foT the North Tuesday night
Of last week.
Col. Geo. W. Polk, ofthis county, and Mrs.
Kenneth RayneT, Of Mississippi, are the on
~ living grandchildren OF Col. IhOS. Polk,
OF Rev olutiOnary memory, who read the
NecklenbuTg Declaration 10 the public one
hundred years ago. which is said to have
been written by Ephraim Brevard, Col.
ThOS. Folks s0G-in-law-
on Thursday, May goth, the Mecklen-
burg Centennial day, q party OF gentlemen
met at the RattleSuake Falls. In the party
were the sons, gTaudSOnS and great-grand
sons OF men who. one hundred years ago,
proclaimed the Independence Of tie Amer
lean Colonies. one Of Them Mr., Sid
ney Fleming, who Is a native of south Car
DINA, and descendant OF Revolutionary
sir ;, remarked, I'VE are celebrating the
Mecklcnburg Centennial Capt Rufus
Polk, great-grandSOn OF Col. Thomas Polk,
who, one hundred years ago, read the Dec
!aratiOn from the cOurt-h house door in Char
lOtte, y. c. proposed a health "to the Band
Of Heroes of To- in cup of sparkling wa
ter. other descendants the old heroes of
u
among whom we mention Clark Tindalt and
wife; sam Il. Watkins and family; John J.
Wilson and family; Gen. Luctus f: Polk. :
family: Col. Geo. W. POlk's family; Col
Wade : family; Col II. L. Ncatman'S family.
\ rain came up and drove the party home,
and many of them got wet.
The following is a bit of the biography OF
uncle Jimmie orr who lives near MOOTeS-
vile. 1t is furnished the Pulaski Citizen by
! its Ash Gap correspondent, from which we
copy: Uncle James orr was born in Da-
wilson county, Tennessee, several miles
from Nashville, in the year 49,; moved
TO Williamson county and was married in
1909 to Elizabeth Lawrence; i'll 1911 moved
to MauTy county NOW known as MAJ shall
county,; in 1911 Lc settled on the farm on
which he still resides, near MOOreSville,
Marshall county. Tennessee He cleared the
cane away to get room to build
The graves of Confederate soldiers at
Nashville, were decorated last Friday.
From the BdtEer's account OF II we make the
following extract To DISTINGUISHED sons OF
Maury, and General Rains, brother of our
townsman, Or. I. Il. Rains:
General Rains resting place was the CEN
ter of a thTOug during the whole evening.
The iron frame that is erected on the grave,
was covered with cVergrecnS, and on each
flowers. \ rustic baSSc containing flowers
was at the foot and from the top of the
frame flowers were suspended. A honey
Suckle Overhung the whole.
A monument from his comrades and adj
mirerS erected over the grave, would be a
a General.
on the monument To General EweH and
wife several bO4UCtS, wreathS and an abund-
auce of flowers had been placed, and many
a friend to the gallant General removed his
hat as he stood silently reading the few
lines inscribed on the stone.
Some ardent udmirCT of General ZOlli-
Golfer had laid a large and beautiful cross,
formed of flowers. on his grave. On the top
of the plain tombstone was an artistic
wreath, while from the low mound of earth
q rose bush in fun bloom reared Itself and
east a fragrant shade over the grave of Gen
| oral ZpIIIrDUar