The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-26
LAsEA ITEMS.

| There have been several pOrkerS killed re-
Gently, some of which were very fat and fine.
Hogs have fattened more rapidly this season
| than for several years past, owing probably
| 10 the extra good quality of the corn this
l year, and also to the fact that the number is
comparatively few, and consequently the
I attention has been much better than usual.
| None have yet died of cholera in this neigh
borhood. The sales of pork have been very
| limited SO far, and at figures much below the
I snt1c1pat1ons of many who had 1t to spare;
| as consequence of which the major portion
VIII be baconed before being put upon the
Housekeepers are losing their fine turkeys
very rapidly; and thus their prospects for
| feaSt1ng during Christmas holidays are being
| blasted. We have seen some old LADIES
whose patience is nearly overcome with the
gloomy prospects thus portended.
Simon Sowell, COL, was complaining and
grumbling last week on account of losing a
calf He also stated that the last time he
had seen it, its head was in a pumpkin of
huge dimensions. We have since learned,
however, that he has found his calf, and is
as happy over it as the shepherd was over
lost in the pumpkin or somewhere else
about four days.
Mr.. David jackson is the owner of an old
English razor, that was carried by his father,
in his knapsack, through the war of l776,
when he belonged to the First Battalion of
Virginia Infantry, under the immediate
command of Gen. Washington. Its metal is
as good as any razors in the land.
Green Lockridge, col, says that majority
ney, and that it will be filled to overlooking
on that account. We asked Green what
they would do with the surplus, and he re-
piled that they would pack them off in pur-
gatory until the others are burnt up.
The health of our neighbOrhood is very
much improved, there being but few cases of
chtlls at present, owing to the incoming of
cooler weather.
Our reporter tells us of person trying to
put an end to his miserable existence by
swallowing a phial of laudanum, which
proved to be an overdose and produced vom-
iting; consequently failed to accomplish the
DurnOSP designed. (AuSp-0OmPStiC from
bles.
DR.. Ruclzer, of African descent, who lives
in the neighborhood of Bunch's mill, on
Rutherford Creek, has been practising some
in negro families in this vicinity. He inva-
riably pronounces his patients bewitched.
He says that they are thus influenced by in
carnations, smoking pipes belonging to 9TH
er parties, and in various other ways too te-
dious to mention, for the alienation Of
abundance, and varieties ad hnitum. A few
weeks since, he had a patient not mile
rom this place. and as Is his custom pro-
nounced her bewitched, and that too by an
old negro preacher who lived in the family, |
and who also Is very badly manned, so |
this they drove him out |
of their house, and he lay in the woods all |
that night. Some time since, he had anoth- |
er patient in the person of q colOred preach |
er's wife, whom he visited several weeks, |
his herbs and roots without |
called in q NJ. d. of the neighborhood, who |
asked DIR. Fuckers name for the disease; and |
was informed that she was p-1-p-e-d:ah: 1t /
being technical term never heard OF by |
him, and up to this good hour he has not /
been able to translate it notwithstanding he |
Is well versed in physic. He now has pa
4 lizard in her flesh, caused by witchery.
He collects closer than any doctor we have
nent of his bills. We saw him the other
lay pack his horse with barter that he had |
1eeced his ignorant victim of.
Mr.. S. Barclay Derryberry has returned |
rom Onion Comfy af which Mace he has
been living for the past twelve months;
whom his many friends welcome back to
in their ma list. He says there is
abundance of wheat and corn in Obion; but
,otton is falling, and hogs are very scarce,
md those few are dying rapidly with chole-
On last Sunday Mrs. S. E. Derryberry
wOOned with heart disease at LaSea; but re-
over sufticlently TO travel In an hour'
Miss Hetty Long, who Is fast travelling |
Iown the shady side of fifty, is visiting rela-
While young she was engaged to be married,
nut her lover was killed by a falling tree; |
Consequently she vowed never to engage to
mother. She lives with her sister, Mrs. DR.. |
DEL Hardison of Cedar Creek.
Now that tobacco is plenty, we notice
hat several who swOre off last summer, are
low maSticating with as much aVidity as
yer the food prepared by nature for the
uStenance of some of the Vermine creation. |
1aried and strange are the excuses made by I
hem for returning to the filthy practice.
ONE have bad teeth, some have good teeth, !
nd wish to preserve them, whilst we have q
cen one who says, that il is not for the nat
raj (naturaD love which he has for the I
reed, but because his wife says his breath is !
D bad when not using tobacco. Some eX- ;
use is better than none.
Mr.. James T. Moore levied an execution on
Ome sorghum belonging to a tenant on Mr.. |
OShua HardisOn s farm, and sold them, but | |
hen Mr. HardiSOn surveyed the situation 1
e replevied them; and Mr.. Moore stood a I
Lwsuit before Esq. Andrew and recovered | +
hem. Whilst the lawsuit was pending, the
egrO, true to the instincts of his race, ate
early all the sorghum up. Not enough was
1T to pay half the bill of COSTS I