The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-02

}. several months stay in the neighbol
hood, have returned to Cleveland, thei
: beautiful East Tennessee home.
t Squire Elisha Scott, of the 9th distriC
l OF Marshall, aud acting J. p, has take
2 out lawyers license, and is now pre-
4 pared to practice i'll the north end G
9 Marshall and the 18th district of Maury
He is very successful.
= Mr.. S. NJ. Rogers and his Admirable
wife have been visiting relatives il
Bedford county. They have now re-
| turned.
Mr.. Newt Wilson has returned from
the State of Lewis, to have his whea
harvested. He is well pleased will
Lewis and thinks he will permanently
reside there. There is a young gentle
man in the Lasea ncighborhood, whose
sweetheart made great mistake. She
married another fellow, and not him
and as consequence Of this "slip twiXt
cup and lip" his friends have had tC
keep the pillow lines and raZOrs hid ever
| since from him.
Capt. Ned Neal and Mr.. Joe Ring
have done, this year, considerable gra-
| tuitOus practice in medicine with their
| Farmers Bitters" Preference given to
bachelor Newt Orr, and Mr.. James
| Neathery, who have tried them and ex-
| pei iOnCttl Gu6lE 6lltCISs q olh
| and high wind at Neal and Rings shop
the top of large tree was blown of
and fell on DIR. Meals buggy, that was
there for repair. 1t was entirely de-
mOlished, there not being a whole piece
of timber left in it. AS the DR.. did not
have his buggy insured, it will be a
| complete loss.
There have been several heavy rains,
| and considerable hail with it, along the
| head of Big and Little Flat Greeks, i'm
| pedlng the wheat harvesting in some
| places.
A heavy wind from the north west
| passed east of Rally Hill on the 18th,
blowing down great many fences and
pOstratIng many trees in it's course.
n gentleman by the name of William
son Is said to have been killed in the
ChappeD Hill neighborhood, and one
other body was crippled by the storm.
Some time since the lightning struck
cedar tree near Mr.. John Chunn's
house; glancing it passed through the
back part of the chimney, knocking
out some of the rock, and shivered the
no further damage. Some of the tanli~
ly in the coOk-rOOm were heavily
shocked.
And now they say there is man in
Giles who wants to be Congress- struck
or thunder struck, if he ever helps Co.
mbia's lawyers i'll corn >shucking
again without the Governor will let him
say whose sack ought to have the corn
init
Mr., R. b. Warren, the excellent school
teacher at Ash Hill, at the close of his
school, gave an exhibition that was said
TO be a most entertaining affair by those
who attended. The attendance was
large and the affair was both creditable
10 Mr.. Warren and his pupils.
Mr.. Sam Rogers and Squire J. NJ.
Ellington, two of Fiat Creeks most
scientific farmers and noted corn raisers,
are each cultivating an old piece of
meadow land i'll corn, to see which is
the best corn raiser; Mr.. Rogers corn is
checked and the Sqdire's corn is drilled.
Both pieces are looking very fine.
The ugly man of Marshall, noticing
the Thompson Station correspondents
article on his looks, has this to say about
it: eve suppose the Ugliest man in the
world is now living in Marshall County
He married some time ago; the minis
ter had to blindfOld her eyes before she
could stand up by his side; she tainted
every time she looked at him; he was
so ugly, when he was baby they all
ways had to tie his mother before she
would let him suck" "Williamson
County, while possessing the most beau
tiful, can also lay claim to have had the
ugliest woman in the United States, tie
ing her mother to make her let her suck |
didn't do any good in this case. She |
wouldn't give her milk down no way
it could be fixed. They had to raise !
her by hand, on bottle. When she |
grOwed up she could not milk: the milk |
would always turn sour, before she got |
il to the house. Barnum heard of her, |
and wanted her, but wealthy cheese |
manufacturer of New York. got her; |
they didn't need any rennet in that |
factory; she Curdled the milk by looking |
in it. The proprietor finally married |
her. They did not have to blindfold |
him, for he was already blind"
Two of the best looking and most gal
liant beaux of the neighborhood, Mar
shall b. and George H., have made a
great many trips during the spring over
on Pumpkin Creek. Their ostensible
object was to get Pumpkin seed, as they
are farmers, and tor which they made
numerous inquiries, mostly at two
principal places where the sorrel and
chawing the horse rack, where reside
two of the bellies of Pumpkin Creek.
party of gentlemen from Williams
son county, in the neighborhOod of
COwle's Chapel, came fishingtO Hardi-
On's mills not long ago. They had a
long net to sink in the river stretched
across the stream so that the fish could
|
aad hang themselves by the gills.
Duck river fish, however, were not SIM
pie enough to be taken in that style, as
no sensible fish would stick his head in
such place and stay there to be caps
5ured. They fished with their nets two
lays and nights and caught only one and
that Il gar, one of the patriarchs of his
race. He weighed fraction over elev-
IN pounds. y jury OF inquest on his gar
ship, composed of wheel band fisher
men, with Thos. Adams as foreman,
gave a verdict that the aforesaid gar was
Did and of unsound mind, and it was
therefore a case of deliberate suicide
The party said that would do them, and
hey amt much now in favor of netting
fish.
Mr.. Cal. Hardison, having been sick
Turing red-horse time, is now making
amends i'll trouting it at the mills. Cal.
won't bait for trout with anything else
but belpOmite