The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22
MT. PLEASANT ITEMS.

| conf1agratiOn mentioned q short tim
since. that he did not save the h-hoL
per, nor was he near the tying thing
He says he did not save anything; il
tact, he was hardly able to save himsel
We also apologize to Mr.. Ned Hoge
WHO red~hot about that string of re,
| pehg 2 1t was his flaming craYat
which blazed like quarter store win
| dow filled with cheap jewelry. w
hope these correction will settle tn
| controversy and save any fighting-le
| gal fighting we mean). We were hal
asleep at the time the rumor reached
rs, and only aroused up sufficiently t.
remark, it was very commendable il
the gentlemen to display so mucl
courage and forethought in time of sucl
great distress.
Capt. NJ. N. Dickson and his aunt
Miss Peggy Primer, who have beer
visiting their relatives and friends il
this neighborhood for several months
retu1 ned to their home near Greenwood
Jackson county, West Florida, severa
days ago. We are glad that Miss Pin
ner, who has been in delicate health
for some time, was very much improv'
ed by her visit to this country. She is q
lady Of amiable disposition, and has
the happy faculty of making many
friends wherever she goes.
The great conundrum that is agita-
ting the public mind in this country
is: who feels most complimented, ex-
Governor B., or the man he was taken
for at Gen. Whitthorne's on the night
of the 5th OF Oct. That comes of being
in Good company. A. s. Fl.
We are always glad to meet our
friends, but since j. Handsome Ain
his peregrinations north, tails to call
as his usual custom, we have been like
Mrs. Fezziwig-one vast su bstantial
smile. Metophisically d smile is vOlun-
tary or involuntary. A corresponding
anatomical classification, presents a
smile on this side of the mouth and
then on the other side of the mouth.
The last is generally very mournful
smile at best. Ours is broad grin on
this side of our immaculate moustache.
and therefore we are happy. Shades of
J. Handsome, where art thou?
Mr.. Willis w. Conner, formerly of
this county, but now a citizen Of ITALIA
hatchie county, Miss, left here for his
home on Tuesday morning last. Willis
is great Nimrod, and is equal to old
Misunderstanding as deer slayer, and
Uncle Daniel Boone as bear killer.
Our handsome young friend, Johnnie
Barrow, who is of a medicated turn,
left this place on Monday last for For
est City Ark, He expects to go into
the drug business in Helena this wins
ter. We hope he will meet great success,
which he richly deserves, as he is not
only accomplished in Pharmacy, but a
warm hearted and true gentleman.
Mrs. Judge E. Walker, after visit
of several months to her relatives near
this place, returned to her home, Sa-
vannah, Tenn, last week.
Mr.. j. q. Ingram and f. Regenold,
went from here to the Hardin County
Fair, near Savannah, last week, and re-
turned Monday. They report that
Maury County carried off blue ribbon
by the bolt.
Mr.. Bish Hughes, one of our most
promising young men, who has been
studying the healing art under our wor-
thy physician, DR.. W. G. ]. Hunter,
left here several days ago to attend lee
lures in the medical department OF the
Vanderbilt University, at Nashville.
Our spirited young friend Felix Kim
die, who has been sojOurning in the Lone
Star State for the past year, returned
lately looking very much improved in
personal appearance and health. He is
back on particular business we leann,
and we predict for him pleasant,
bright and sunny future.
On last Sunday, two young men,
while under the influence of Byron and
a desire for romance, seated themselves
in a dilapidated whimadiddle drawn
by an antiquated horse, and travelled in
a Northwest direction. While riding
leisurely along, meditating upon the
chances and changes of life and the
Ohio election, old Jim started off at
Geographic speed, distributing peices of
the old concern and CONSERVATION all
along the road, until finally both wheels
ran off with the horse, and one of the
party received an invoice of bottles in
the small of the back, that covered him
with shooting pains, stars, dust and de-
seased jig-juce. The last seen of the
horse he was going towards the Centen-
NAL, which he will probably reach in
time to be on exhibition at that great
show.
We heard of a gentleman who was
once the most fashionable, easy-going
delightful lady's man, but has become
one of the most active, energetic and
hard working farmers. He could not
accompany young lady to the heauti
ful and classic grounds of the ripping,
whispering, murmuring, sparkling,
smiling brook laughing water last week,
on a grape hunting expeditions; because
he had to cut wheat. We suspect this
to be large crop of wild oats that the
gentleman is trying to harvest before
the fall of another untimely frost.
hack driver from Waynesboro to this
place, of heart-rending accident that
occurred at or near Henryville last
Monday. Mrs. Higgins, the mother,
had left her children at home while she
had gone off to be absent a short time,
two of whom caught fire; one was seri-
ously burned and the other was burned
to death; its body being perfect mass
of charred flesh.
very disastrous to the cotton crop, and
the impression now is, by some OF our
best farmers that there will not be more
than half crop made. We are glad to
notice that our farmers are sowing a
great deal of wheat.
We are enformed by Mr.. Sam Gillian,
that deer are still dying in Lawrence
County. He had quite a number of pet
deer, and they haYe all died except one.
Our hunters are very much diseour~
aged, as they anticipate rare sport this
winter.
We are pleased to note the happy in
telligence that MIR. r. D. Ricketts,, John
Brooks and John G. Briggs, have joined
the good Templars, and taken up quar-
ters in the city of sobriety, whose walls
are MASSEY gold: whose streets sparkle
with diamonds, and whose temples are
dedicated to wisdom. Go on, gentlemen,
III ILLS BIOIlOuS Cdu5e' CnIOIu Win
your own hands that broad banner
which is the sheet-anchor of peace and
happiness. May heaven smile upon
your efforts, and may heaven be your
reward, and remember as long as the
lamp holds out to burn, any other man
may join you r concern. Who next?
We all consider something sweet the
of strength and power,
but how few are aware that it is the
same element in the system that gives
and vigor, and that an INSULT
cheney of it causes weakness and debili- |
ty. Mr.. VIM. Moore is running the sorH
ghum mill of Messrs. Kindle d Grimes,
near our town, and is making the most
beautiful article of molasses we ever
saw. 1t is as clear as the best golden
syrup; pure as the snowstlake, sweet as
honey, and that we eat week or two
ago, fingers about our lips like dreams
of heaven. Mr.. Moore has made about |
fifteen hundred gallons of this delicious
fluid during the present season.
Our thanks are due, and hereby paid
Mr.. ]. G. B., for past favors, and to Mr..
B. D., certain news-paperreporter, for
genial courtesy. But we will have these
gentlemen to understand that they las
Dor under great mistake in regard to
that stampede, caused by the approach
of military cadet in Lewis County.
1t was not sorghum mill, but lot of
cross marked, grassy heels at Nat
Jones' soap factory, that lit out at the
sight of brass buttons. Mistakes we're
the mines that blew the Happiness OF
this life higher than kite 1t was a
that caused Adam to eat the
first apple, and mistake that brought
4hOnt nIGROUnFyT ~ pt1f