The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-05
SPRING HILL ITEMS.


ist Church are generally falling short.
g 1t may be true of ministers OF other de-
It nominations also. 1t is greatly 10 be
Y regretted that whenever pressure in
e money matters is felt by the people,
ii the curtailment of expenses begins with
the preachers salary. This may be &C
A counted for i n part from the fact that as
a general thing no legal pressure can be
d brought TO bear in the collection of
a these claims. The people of this COM
munity Lave ever been generous, libe-
raj and just, in meeting the demands of
the gospel, and it is devoutly to be hop.
q ed that this year will not prove an ex-
their "tithes and offerings" and make
glad the hearts of Gods servants and OF
their wives and little ones, and thus
'lay up for themselves treasures in
heaven."s When the lamented John W.
Cheairs was clerk in a store in Nash
vile, in his boyhood days, he was solic~
tied by an old steward of the Method st
Church to give something to the support
Of the gospel. He replied, mot mem
Der of the church" Then replied the
venerable steward, "Your giving to the
cause of God will be laying up treasure
in heaven" Then came the noble re-
sronse, 81 am not Christian, but
want to take stock up there" With
this came a liberal subscription, with
the cash. From that day on, God bless
ed him with the ability to give, and no
man eyer contributed more literally
than did he, not only to the support of
the gospel, but to the various benevO-
lent and charitable enterprises of the
age. May all of us emulate his exam
pie, and share with him the rich inheri- |
lance of treasures IN hcGUcN.
Mr.. Robert W. McLemore, jr., has |
been absent in Arkansas for several |
weeks past, making his arrangements |
for planting in the neighborbood of Hell |
ena, the coming season. MI. Jesse |
| CANT, who has two brothers i'll the same |
county, expects to go down and attend |
to the business OF the farm for MIR. Nc |
| Lemore, who will prob tbly remain at |
his beautiful little home near this place. /
Since writing the above, we find it is |
Bolivar county, Miss.
The rain of Wednesday night of last |
week was the most destructive of any
we have had for several years past. The
injury to the open land is inctIculabIe
Loosened up the late freezes, it was ca
silly swept off, just as if it had been
freshly plowed. 1t seems. however, to
have benefited the wheat crop, pressing
the earth more closely to the roots OF
he plant, much of which had been par
TALLY "spewed" out Of the ground by
the freezes. Capt. H. p. Pointer says
this treshet was less destructive to the
fencing, water>gaps, etc, on his place
than the flood OF 1872 but on McCutch-
en-, Enon, and Rutherford creeks the
damage was heavy.
John w. Cheairs Il Co. have secured
the services of Sammie Caperton as clerk
and salesman in their literally patron
lied dry-goOds store, while J. W AIeX~
ander has James Odel in his house, and
MIR. Albert Alexander has Don MolIoy
as his clerk. Three nicer, better or
more moral young men than the above
named clerks, cannot be found in any
community. All our merchants seem
to be doing a thriving business, and are
standing firm amid the pressure of the
times.
Mr.. Alonzo McKissack, our druggis
has a we'll ordered ami handsome estab-
Iishment, which he manages with the
SungfrOid of master OF the profession
Indeed, take our dry-goods and grocery
merchants, together with our druggists, ,
physicians, mechanics and ali; they
will compare favorably with the same
classes to be found in any other COM
munity in point of intelligence, moral
worth and all that it takes to make good
citizenship, while the surrounding pop .
ulation is unsurpassed.
Last weeks Herald and Null comes /
to us in mourning, on account Of the 5
death of JOHN G. HoRsLEY, Esq. The &
sad event is mentioned in words of ten .
derness and affection by Mr.. Figuers, .
Junior Proprietor OF the paper, which i
meets cordial response and touches a t
sympathetic chord in the hearts of hu ~
dreds of the friends of the deceased in
this county, where by his sterling moral
worth and sound practical sense he lad
gained the esteem and good will of all ,
who knew him, and at the time Of his {
death was one OF most popular mon in
the county. In the vigor of manhood,
he is suddenly cut off by a mysterious
Providence; and removed from a field !
of usefulness, which was steadily ex- c
panding, and in which he bid fair to be e
one OF the brightest ornaments. c
Though painful and unlocked for was the c
In this dark season of his mortal day
Be reconciled-a holy trust reposing
away"
Spring Hill can now boast of two ex- Il
celient schools, one taught by Mrs.
Mooney, a lady of rare ability as an ed
ucator. We hope she will be literally i,
patronized. Prot. Middleton, of Giles
opened male school in the old
Male Academy last Monday. The Pros
lessor comes highly recommended, and
we sincerely trust he will succeed in
build large and tlourishing school.
Ewell Grange, at Spring Hill, is in :
condition. Many new mems
bers are joining.
There VIII be large crop OF tobacco :
planted around Spring Hill this season. c
Before the war this was faYorite crop. Z
The high price of the woed has indu ced {
many old planters to resume planting it. !
Capt. Ben. Rogers recently tapped 7
fifty sugar trees, Oh his beautiful little +
farm, and made molasses and sugar out 1
oft. The trees furnish about a barrel j
of sugar water every day, which pro- j
duces one gallon and a half of the best T
InOlasses that ever rotted boys tooth.