The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-16
SPRING IIILLITEMS.

Tho 18th Quarterly meeting for this
station embraces the 3rd Sunday in this
month, and being the last for the con-
terence year. is looked forward TO, by
both preacher and people, as u season of
special interest. This 'is the sounding
of the last horn; the time when the
whole sum of sufliciencys lands out con-
fessed; and when the last glimmer Of
hope for the unpaid balance expires"
HARD TIMES.
Scarcity of money and debts unpaid,
all come in the way of the full settle
ment of the preachers salary, but the
bOuntitul wheat crop, it is hoped, will
enable all Methodists whose proachers'
salaries are now falling due, to make
glad the hearts of those who have SER
we'd them, by meeting fully their entire
claims.
TAKEN HIS DEGREE.
Mr.. Andrew Jackson Potter, son of
our neighbOr, a. w. Potter, Esq, has
won upon his merits as scholar, from
the University at Nashville the degree
of Master of Arts, while he has also OBJ
tanned diplOm9, in both the German
and French languages. NOtwithstand~
ing his taste for an advancement in lit
erature and the arts and sciences, he
has lost none of his love for flowers, and
with him the white rose is still the IA
vorite.
y FAST AZ Il.
Mr.. s. \. Pointer, returning home
from ride over his farm Just before
dinner, said to little Sammy, his young
est son, just four years old: LAS soon as
YOU cat your dinner you must carry my
horse to the shop and have shoes put on
him" This was said jocularly, and
nothing moro was thought of it. AS
the shades of evening were setting in,
Sammy was missed, and in a few mos
DAi huI aNui1aI, 10
servant on his place out hunting for
him. SHappening to think othis letting
| Sammy go and have his horse ShOd, he
started boy to the shop, who found
| that he had been there and had the
horse shod. lie had taken three little
| negroes with him, the Oldest only six
| years old, and when found he was on
| his way home, an hour in the night,
quite elated at his success in his first
| trip to the blacksmith shop, but said
he wanted his supper and was getting
| sleepy. Can anybOdy's four year old
| boy beat this?
| STEAM THRESHER.
| Mr.. Will Hugh Brown started his
| Steam Thresher last week and found it
to work splendidly, but the rainy
| weather and the damp condition of the
wheat caused him to stop for few days.
| This week he is at it again with renew
| ed energy-with somewhat better prosS
poets for good weather and dry wheat.
| Messrs. Joe Terrell and Brown Tate
have their fine Steam Thresher busy on
the waters of Carter's Creek, aud are
| kept so busy there, that they will not
have the opportunity of calling upon
| their friends of this neigbOrhOod. The
whistle of their engine is in hearing of
us, and from sending out it's shrill notes
little after dark, on Saturday nights,
it may be reasonably supposed, that
they are working things up with their
| accustomed energy.
Messrs. stephen Porter and James
Bailey have Just received fresh from
| the Factory a new Steam Thresher,
with which they propose cleaning up
| the wheat crops OF any OF their neigh
| bOrs who may desire their services, af-
| ter they have first secured their own
! large and fine crops. All of these are
| energetic business men, and no idle
bread will be eaten around their ma
chine.
THE LEARNED PROFESSIONS.
While there are black sheep in al
most every flock, unworthy members
in nearly every large family connection
hypocrtes in the church, bad men in
the pulpit. dishonest men at the bar,
sordid and selfish men in the medical
profession, yet, it is a pleasant reflec-
ton that these are the exceptions and
that the pure, the good and the honor
able greatly predominant. In coin and
in currency, there is spurious, worth
less counterfeit, SO there are bad men
in the ministry, and in the law and in
medicine, but as the counterfeit is a
mere drop in the bucket as compared
to the good money, so are the dishonest
and corrupt in the learned professions
to the pure the good and the honorable.
This is believed to be the idea intended
10 be conveyed, in an address delivered
} recently in town not thousand
miles from this place.