The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
Friday last the pulse of the thermome

| ter beat I62 degreos-aud il didn't snow.
| -Some person killed ycarling calf las
| week belonging to Mort Hodge. Mort says
| he viii yet land the killer amongst JEFF
| REEVES "ZebraS,"
W: w. Cherry caught twenty-threC
pound catfish Tuesday morning in his new
net The net is of his own invention, and
| never fails to catch fish.
Mr.. John T. GaTtner raised the biggest
irish potato we have yet seen. 1t weighed
one pound and two ounces.
CITY Marshal White las his ditch
class" employed at the present time, repair
ing the sewer near the Cumberland Church
George Sweat was lodged at the Davis dc
hotel, Tuesday last, by Deputy-siheriTB Billie
WithcrSpOOn, for carrying pistol.
About dusk, last Wednesday q balloon
passed over our city, and fell in Billie Lips
combs field opposite this city. number
OfOur citizens thought it was THE lost Don
aldsOn.
Extensive improvements are going Oh
at the Depot Mills. well is being dug to
furnish water for the mill, which Is a con-
siderab BILE Item; it's water now costs fifteen
dollars per month. An addition to the
main building is going up, between IL and
Saturday night about haIf-past eight
o'clock, the atmosphere was very hot and
oppressive, until n brisk wind came along
and in few minutes everybody felt cool
and pleasant.
a certain druggist of this city received
last week, a letter containing five dollars
from gentleman, who said that the five
dollars was for cigars that lie had Gifted
from said druggist some ten years ago.
Last Saturday Judge McLemOre took up
the misdemeanOr docket, and he "trOtted
through" several OF the Eight fingered"
boys.
Brownsville, Tenn, buried at Rose
Hill Cemetery in this place last Friday.
: Miss Lizzie IIudspeth, an accomplished
and successful school teacher of our town,
proposes to take class in wax and hair
nOwersr commencing August 9Th. See adj
vcrtisemcnt.
Last Thursday merning, at five o'clock
marty mnnSnI Vnnnn ladies and n
tlcmCn, who are generally termed "new-
ish," visited Capt. HiclEcy's sulphur well.
The young ladies as usual We're looking
beautiful. Wit, jokes and bushes were
frequently exchanged.
I'D. Stewart. knight OF the plane OF
this city, last saturday, after listening TO the
speech of Gen. Quarles in the StOckard-
Grimes case, asked what was the definition
Of the work corpus deiictu, saying that from
the number of times that the General used
IL it must have meant a "threshing ma
chine"
Tuesday Of last week. in the Criminal
Court, the case of Elihu Grimes, charged
with robbery and assault and battery upon
the person of NJ. l.. StOckard. was taken up
and ended last Saturday. AttOrney-GeneT-
nj Russell spoke first for the State; Nat
Wilkes, for the defence, second; ThOma. of
Nashville, for the defence, third; Gen.
WhitthOTne, Tor the plaintiff, fourth; Gen.
QuaTleS, of Nashville, for the defence, fifth;
Col. Myers, for the plaintiff, sixth. SatuT
day evening the jury brought in their YER
"A young man by the name of ID. l..
BunkS, was i'm our city last Saturday and
Sunday. He had both of his arms cut off
just above the wrists in a sorghum mill,
when seven years of age. He is trying to
raise money to 20 to school on. He writes
q very legtble hand. He went from here 10
Pulaski, where we hope he may meet with
success.
Monday night the midnight air was
made the vehicle to carry delicious music
to the ears of our citizens, many of whom
were in the arms of OrphCus. 1t was the
silver band, which seemed to play all of its
sweetest pieces in front Of palaces where
my love lies dreaming" etc. Florida and
Nashville were visited during the night.
Two eX-COngreSsmen met each other in
the Grimes case, and seemed to have prof.
ted by having been associated with Beast
Butler, the gentle puglliSt OF the Halls Of
Congress. Gen. WhitthOTnc said that that
poor prisoner, Ellhu Grimes, had employ
ed zen. j. NJ. QuaTleS TO defend nina man
renowned as a criminal lawyer ana de-
fender of criminals; whose entrance into
the courts of Justice made the roof OF the
to fall, its very foundations to quake and
tremble; the bricks could he seen lying OIL
into the air, and the Ted-hauded prisoners
walk forth IN freedom Gen. Quarles re-
turned the compliment somewhat after the
following fashion: He said Gen. Whit
thOrnC was great lawyer, and an awful
shTCwd fellow; lie could cheat you right be-
fore your eyes, and you couldn't see him;
Whit always got the best of everything;
and he could make a Jury believe any
thing why, he could take M old, brown,
well baked ginEcr-caEC, with as much
black mOlaSses I'm IT as it could hold; he
could take 1t behind barn, and after
II for minute or two, he could
bring il back TO You looking so white that
you would swear there was no mOlaSseS i'll
il.
City Marshal White requests us to mott
iy all citizens that tn" Reservoir Will be
cleaned out Saturday, and Of course no wa
ter can be had at the MIGRANTS that day.
They must prepare for il by getting "a sup
ply of water Friday.
Below we give the proceedings of the
a q . l. q H.
ing: John Williams, COlOrgd, stealing coat:
eleven months and twenty-five days, i'll
county work house; Jack Davis, white, mule
stealing, ten ye,rN IN penitantiaTy; Calvin
Reed, cOlOTcd, stealing calf, eleven months
and twenty-five days III county work house;
ElIhU Grimes, white, charged with robbery
and assault and battery, acquitted; Luther
white, charged with robbery and
assault and battery, mol pros; ThOS. Wilkes,
alias. Cato London, COIOTedr two years i'll
county work house; Mack EStage, alias
Mack Estes, cOlOred, stealing corn, sixty
days in county work house.
-Jcff. COleburn, speaking ct u new pOrta-
BILE mosquito net, says that the day Is COM
ing when we shall sit under our nets in
church ana SlumbCT peacefully, while the
discounted flies club together and take ii
out of tho minister
The pine raftCrs arrived Monday for the
church, and they are now up. |
Mr.. GholsOn has also commenced work.
Tho young gentlemen of town requested |
the silver band to meet in the AthCnipum
Grove during the vacation, and play II few
dozen pieces, The gentlemen composing
the band have consented, and were to COM
mcnCe last night The gullantN ARE to take
young ladies To the Grove, which is in the
centre oitown, ana is lovely spot to spend
a hot evening II the town were able, il
ought to buy the Grove Tor park, and
erect several fOuutHiuS i'm il, for the henC-
lit of the people, especially the women and
in the summer time. In behalf
of the people ut large we thank the band
Tor consenting TO play III the Grove.