The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| Chancellor William S. Fleming will de-
| liver his lecture on 'Man and Wife," at the
| City Hall tonight. He is graduate OF
| Yale, and was at that renowned University
| when EvaTts Chief Justice Waite and Chan
cellOr w. Il. Cooper were there, and is reck-
oned among the most accomplished bellies
| ictfres scholars in the South. We hope eve
ry lady and gentleman in town will be on
| hand FrGRkiin ReUielc, JttHe nth.
Deputy Sheriff Billie WitherspOOn,
Thursday of last week, with his fiery and
untamed black Mazeppa steed, chased three
Maury county law-br eakers into Hickman
county and arrested them.
One day last week about seVenty-fiVe
COlOTed men, Graders and binders, went to
$. a. Pointers to see if he wanted his wheat
cut. They were very hungry, and Mr.. POin L
er told them to go into a shade near by.
After awhile long table was spread, and
cooked ham and others meats and eatabIcs
put thereon. He told the negro men to
pitch in, and they did pitch in with vim.
When they all had enough, he said, "NOW
boys, go over and cut wheat for my neigh
bOrs and then come to me next Monday"
York said Mr.. Pointer would have two
hundred hands. Mr.. p. has six hundred
acres, and his wheat will turn him out
about nine thousand dollars. He always
seems to know what crop TO sow and when
to SOW it,
George Meredith, telegraph repairer,
last Saturday removed forty telegraph
poles near Mr.. Calvin MOrgans farm, to
give room for the bed of the narrow gauge
Capt. Austin C. Hickey returned from
LaWrenceburg last Monday, and reports the
crops in Lawrence county as looking per-
fectly splendid, and the farmers in joyous
spirits. He saw Mr.. StTibling, who reported
that Charley GOrdOn'S fishing party are
quietly fishing in ShoaI, and catching
about as many as they can eat. 4 three
FOUNDER is the largest they have caught.
They expect to return home the latter part
of this week.
We are permitted by Capt. Ed. Kuhn to
make an extract from a letter written to
his son John c. Kuhn, by friend in indie
pcndenCe, Missouri. The letter SAYS: "NOu
Thought q had 6nll times when
here, but they were fiouTishing times The
Internal hOpperS have eaten everything
that is eatable. Our gardens and fields are
as bare as in the dead of winter. l had just
bought and put out five dollars worth offruit
Trees in time for the grasshoPpers to bark
them for me-" Mr.. n. b. Sh- pard, well
known in this place, sends us a gTaSShOp-
per from Fort Scott, Kansas, caught, to use
his language, from the prairies, among in
theIn, busy eatlng. You would be interest,"
ed to see a whole district of country ate ut
terly naked of vegetation ColOred emf
grant and brother, do you like the pros
pect? Next week Jim SaundcrsOn, col,
promises to let us have letter from Gran
Vile Gordon, col. who left for Kansas
among the first emigTants.
-MT.J. Il. HaTahan, the very efficient
ROad-Master OF the Nashville and Decatur
Railroad, will please accept our thanks tor
Bun ker Hill Centennial papers, one fac sim
lie of one published one hundred years ago.
MIR. II. is native of Boston, and is gratified
at toe noble way in which Boston treated
the SOuthernerS at the Centennial. Mr.. II.
has been I'm the South ten years,
We learn from the President of the
TrOtting Association that everything bids
fair for plt aSant and good entertainment
on next Friday, July ID, as all three of the
rings have three or more entries. The man.
ayers are doing everything in their power
10 make the meeting a success. The track
is IN perfect order, all arrangements COM
pleJe. a. j. McKimmin and Ewing and
Williams viii be here with their stables.
Mr.. John Baird is very dangerously
SICK with erysipelas; not expected to live.
Mr.. Daniel FOrsythe has lockaw,
from an iron nail, and cannot possibly re-
cover. Mr.. Jim Douglas is the only case
cured on record in this community.
One dollar and thirty cents is offered
for Depot Mill Stock; Sl.40 asked.
Harry d. Martin, of Nashville, and
Prof. W. X. Jones, of Pulaski, have been to
see Us. The latter goes to Swan with Major
Capt. Redman, Ben Chairs and other
Spring Hillites, passed through here the
other day for Swan Creek, to catch our
Ben Crawford sends US the biggest rye
head we ever saw. Nine or ten inches long.
Mr.. Currey, of the Rural Sun, called on
uSyeSterday in cOmpanywith Albert James,
both of whom wore fragrant and beautiful
flowers upon their lapelS.
Calvin VOORHEES,, of Memphis, is IN
town. He is spoken of as fine business
young men.
The HiStrionic Society played Honey
moon" at the Athenaeum last night, in
honor of distinguished guests, Rev. I, A.
HOyt and lady, lately married.
by request OF many ClJlZenS, inc Op6Tebbh
Of Little Red Riding Hood, !" will be repeated
at the Athenaeum, Friday night, July ID.
Admission fifty cents, children under ten
years, half price; Reserved seats at K. NJ,
Frierson's drugstore for twenty-five cents
extra.
Mr.. n. r. Wilkes and Miss Mamie Baird
were married Wednesday night at the resi-
dence of Cant. j. NJ. Hickey Mr.. Wilkes is
one of our very ablest young lawyers, and his
bride is one of the most highly accomplished
young ladies of our town; aud one of the first
amateur singers in the State. For four years
they have been desperately in love, and now
We wish them a happy married life.
Miss CObie Huntington and Master Willie
Fleming gave a brilliant reception at theRys
House, last Wednesday. About one hundred
children, aud fifteen or twenty grown persons,
were present. 1t was a very happy occasion
to the young folks. Miss Cobie is Temarka-
bic girl, and will one day be a queen in our
society; and Master Willie is just such a noble
boy as such parents as the Chancellor and his
estimable lady would naturally raise-with
such assistance as a brilliant sister would
Land