The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23

| During the severe rain last week Col
Made's express wagon was caught at the
Pillow Branch, ON the Mt. Pleasant pike,
and the mule becoming frightened. refused
to go, and had to be cut loose from the wag
on. The mule was washed down the stream
some eighty yards and was taken out by
some negroes. Mr.. Long, of Mt. Pleasant,
says the water ran in his buggy for fifty
yards. The turnpike was damaged 1--WE
Our old friend, Samuel II. Hays, OF the
24th dictrict, comes to time on the wheat
question. He made on nine acres OF his
Tucker place, thirty-One bushels per acre.
This is no guess work, but the wheat and
ground were measured by Billy Burr Sow
ell, John Smith and Joseph Nicholson.
These gentlemen said IL was the best wheat
they ever thrashed, and, of their own &C
cord, and to satisfy themselves, they moas-
Ured the ground and the wheat. II any
body doubts this statement let him call on
Either of these well known and re-
magnificent corn, He says he has twenty
five acres in corn Which he will put against
ANYBODY 5 Twenty-Five acres III the county:
No man has been In 1t who does not
say 1t will make twenty barrels per acre,
Mr.. Hays says if it continues season.
able ii will make fifteen barrels per acre
and if it does not rain another drop, it will
make twelve and half barrels per acre
He also offers to show onions against any
body in the county. The wheat and corn
We're raised ON high hills and htllsideS.
The land is gravelly, and stands wet and
dry weather better than the bottom lands
of the Bigbies. which are thirsty MI. Hays
says all the wheat in his neighbOrhOOd is
nicely threSleu ana saved, except Ben
CranfOrd's. Mr.. Crawford has been sur
rounded Ivy threshers ever since the wheat
was cut, but he has waited for Martins
steam thTcsher, and Ben's got badly dam
aged, and he had to take grounding
thTeshcr at last. lou must do better than
that next year, Ben: Mr.. Hays says his
neighbOrhood would be all right If they
just had hogs To feed their corn to, but
hogs are very scarce. Mr.. Hays has thirty
and Mr.. Evans Jones has one hundred hogs,
which are the only hogs in that country.
Mr.. Jones Is n great hog raiser, and says he
now has the best lot he ever had. The hun
dred will average three hundred pounds.
Jake Orr has bought Jim YOUng's place
on Little Bigby, near Egbert Wright's, pay
ing ten thousand dollars for it. Jake gets
corn, a considerable cotton crop, and all
the stock on the place. Everybody seems
To think that Mr.. Orr has made a splendid
trade.
Esq. james T. Moore, one of the most es-
Unable citizens of our county, Is also one of
expert in the art. From his youth up he
has been fond O. fishing, and in his young
days used to fish with the great preacher, |
bishop Otey, who spent many happy days
favorite resorts being below the Davis |
Ford and at the mouth of the Iauiel
branch, below the then HOrSlCy dam. ESQ.
Moore is building, or digging, a splendid |
fish pond on his place, along the branch be |
low his spring, which furnishes water all |
summer. The pond is to be one hundred |
and thirty yards long and thirty yards |
wide; this will keep the water fresh all the |
time. He intends to dig the pond six feet /
below the surface, and then cover the bot
pleted he will stock it with trout and red |
horse. We advise him to send to ne great |
fish cultuTtSt, Seth Green, and get ii fly cents
worth of salmon eggs.