The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-19
OVER TIE COUNTY.

| "A considerable amount of wheat is be
ing sowed.
| -Four large hogs we've stolen out of Mr.
Seth r. Kittrell's pen last week.
| Take care O. your corn-Gont waste j
| because IL is plentiful this year. Take II
| out of the field and save it-need 1t by and
| Practise economy, farmers; do as much
1 of your own work yourself as you can
Practise econo1ny-lt Is the only cure loi
Mr.. Caldwell Brown, a good Presbyteri
| an-theTefOre truthful man-says his
trout have spawned but once since he put
| them in his pond.
| Why does the WilIiamsport man think
| a certain handsome young lady" near Co
| lum bia prefers a Goa(r)d to all other vessels?
We under stand that DR.. w. NJ. Price, OF
Ala, will locate at Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. he
has fine reputation, and is a thorough
gentleman.
Mr.. Caldwell Brown ssys Col. Wade is
right-the short cotton crop is due to an in
sect that did its work In June or July. Mr..
Brown says he will not make over fifty
pounds per acre on some of his best land.S
Mr.. John g. Alexander, of Carriers
Creek, has had eleven cases of sickness in
his family this Fa-l, four with typhoid fe-
yer. No deaths. His son-in-law, Prof.
VIM. Anderson, is getting able 10 go about
Grove is being taught during his illness by
Mr.. Andrew Jackson Potter.
Wonder who is overseer of the road
leading from Hampshire pike TO Mllllams;
port road, between Clark TfndalPs and
Wilson Dobbins? The reason we ask, Is we
would like to whisper in his ear that some
of the Grand Jury may pass that way some
time, and said Overseer may come to grlet
We are informed that Mr.. Sims Rogers,
of the neighborhood of Rally Hill, went TO
Mr.. Lavender's the other day, and asked
two negroes what they would take to wash
off his horse. They replied, laughtngly,
"One hundred dollars" Rogers went into
the house. got gun and shot the negroes.
nOrtaliy wOunding and breaking the arm
of one in two places.
1t was great misfortune to our country
when 60 dberg, the Cincinnati lumber
man, swindled A. c, Thompson q Bro, OF
this county, out of about twenty thousand
dollars. Mr.. John @. Alexander says A. G.
Thorn pson Il Bro, who owe him 81 800 have
acted SO manly and htgh-toned since the
failure that h e thinks more of them now
than ever. James VI. Alexander, long
time ago, after seeing Goldberg at the
mill, remarked, THAT man VIII sw1ndle
some man some of these days"
Capt. L. j. and 5. p. Perry recently sold
one thousand bushels of extra Fl e Tappa-
hammock wheat to Ashton d McGaw, of the
Columbia Mills. On account OF the superb
or quality of the wheat, Sl.30 was paid for
flour made of this wheat reached Ashton q
McGaW from Alabama before the wheat
was all delivered. Capt. Perry say S this is
what blueStOne will do. 1t is thought there
is less wheat in the county than there was
al this time last year. Eat cornbread and
save your wheat.
Not long since the South bound night
passenger train was nearing Campbells
Station, at which point this train don't
stop. SOwell, the agent oil the station, was
on board, but his newly married spouse |
was not. What was to be done? The con-
ductor was ineXOTable-didn't like cigars, |
couldn't stop, didn't stop. But SOwell did, |
and how he braved the dangers of the per- |
ilous leap in the dark is more than we can
divine. No bones broken.