The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-26
OVER THE COUNTY.

S OVER HI Z COUNT.
Mr.. Hill caught some fine trout in Bi
( Bigbee last week.
= Gen. Sam BEAST Butler says that OF
= Friday night last, he and Jim Beasley dane
ed all night at party given at Ed. Brazie
t residence on Bear Greek.
! johnnie Allen, the miller at Nicely
mill, has so far recovered from his injurie
as TO be able to sit up, and will soon b.
ready for active service.
WIN. ShackIett & Co., pTOprietOrs of tn
! Pearl Mills, recently bought ten carloads o
corn in Indiana, and shipped four of then
TO their mills here and sold six in Franklin
at a much lower price than can be bought
here. Corn is worth one dollar per bushe
in Maury county. Watkins Fleming say
there is plenty corn in this county, but it is
in the hands of few me-, who hold it fol
a higher price. They tell you they will
take a dollar per bushel, but when you &C
after it, they rise.
| One night last week, a negro baby, about
six weeks Old was lett on the door-steps OF
Mr.. Nat Wilburn, in the HOpewell neigh
borhood About eleven o'clock that night,
Mr.. WilbuTn was aroused by whOOping and
yelling, which attracted his attention to
| the door, when he heard the cries of the
| baby. He made negro boy bring it in and
| take care of it until morning, when he gave
| it to an old negro woman to raise. 1t is
| supposed that it was left there by negroes
| going to Kansas.
| Miss Jennie Brown died at the residence
/ of her father, Mr.. Caldwell brown, near Zion
1 Church, on the 10th inst.
| There is a somewhat remarkable fami-
| " living in the Mt Pleasant country, in
this county. There are four sister all now
living. They were married in early life,
and their husbands are all living. The ag-
gregate age of the eight is six hundred
| years, averaging seventy-five years each.
-Four young men went up 10 the famous
dove field, on VIM. Cheairs' farm, Saturday.
| They were elegantly entertained by Mr. C.,
| had lots of fun, and brought home large
number of doves. The most inexperienced
hunter in the crowd brought home the
| most birds. The rest OF the party ashamed
of being beaten by "greener," are trying
to make people believe that Capt Campbell
gave him the birds, and that he didn't kill
any.
A week ago, a pOckCt-bOol5 containing
sIa.7O was stolen from one of the students at
Prof Webb's school, at CulleOka. Friday
night a negro named Tom McClary was ar
the theft. While one of the students was
guarding the prisoner, he went te 81 ep,
when the darkey got possession of his pis-
tol and silently stole away. He has not
since been seen by those interested in find
ing him. Union and american.
-FSu, w. o. Gordon made two other
trades last week. He first traded for F. Il
Mays Black place, on the Franklin pike,
(oId home of w. r. Porter, deC'd1 and then
traded it off to Jack West for the TOm Len
cave place. 1t is thought that Esq. Gordon
has made about three thousand dollars in
his three trades.
An old negro woman, named Edie
Cross, formerly owned by Ed. o. Cross, of
Mt Pleasant was recently found IN Col j.
W. RidIey's stable-IOft, nearly frozen to
death. She said the other negroes had driy-
EN- her out from the cabins, a4d would not
let her come back. Col. Ridley had cabin
fixed for her, something to eat given herr
and wood hauled to the cabin. A few days
afterward she was found lying on the hearth
dead, and all her clothes burnt off.
There are four sisters in this county
whose aggregate ages are 30 years, whose
husbands are all living, and whose aggre-
gate ages are 30 years. Their names are:
Mrs. james Cranberry, %; Mrs. DR.. JOIdOnS
ris, e.. Their mother, Mrs. Lawrence, met
her death by accident at the age of 81; she
would probably have been one hundred.
The ages of the husbands are as follows: j.
NJ. Cranberry, y; DIR. ). p. Jorion, 20; b. II.
Harris, -; John NJ. Francis, - This would
be good family for insurance companies.
Adam Cox, col, died near MI. Pleasant
last week, from want of attention. He was
said to be 100 years old. John Cox bought
Adam forty years ago on the stump. He
was too old to work then, and he bought
him just to feed his hogs. Mrs. Avis Will
liams, aged about hfty years, says that
when she was girl She used TO run from
old Adam; he was so old and ugly. Esq. Jas.
Cranberry says he has known Adam for
fifty years. and he was an old man when he
first saw him. J. II. Bond says Adam was a
clever old negro, and kept his mind clear
up TO the end.
Frank Lawrance, col, of Mt. Pleasant,
made up his mind to go to Kansas, but as it
turns out he misses about as far as Dent
Pennington did in going to the Legislature.
Shelf Cross, white, had his house broken
into Christmas, and his saddle and bride,
tools, etc, stolen. Recently these things
were all found in Franks possession. Frank
is now in Jail, boarding at the expense of
Shelf Cross and other white men of the
county.
MIR. Thomas Bradshaw died at the resi-
denCe of his nephew, g. Wash Gordon, last
Tuesday morning at / o'clock. His funeral
services were conducted by DR.. VIM. Mack,
Wednesday evening al O'Clock, and his boz
dy was inferred i'm the old family graveyard
in rain. Mr.. Bradshaw was about e. years
old, and vas one OF the few remaining
links that connected our county OF to-day
with its early history. he was a son OF VIM.
| Bradshaw, who was Sheriff of MauTy cOun-
| ty up to 1878, when his kinSman Nimrod
Porter took the Office. Mr.. Thomas Brad
1 shaw was born at the place now occupied
| and owned by Mr.. Calvin Morgan, in sight
1 OF where he died. The preacher said he
| was modest, unaSsumiug and kind, and led
a pure life In carly life ne eas crossed
| in love-" and never married, nor afterwards
| attempted to marry. He was born about
4 the same year that Maury county was
formed into "A C0GHJs, end has seen it grow
1 from wilderness and Cane-bTake lnTo a
| county of nearly forty thousand people. 1t
is sad indeed to see these old men, born and
| reared in purer and better age than ours,
pass away, one by one. Soon they will all
be gone. This death leaves but two mem
PeTs of this old and honored family-Amer-
icus Bradshaw and Mrs. Bernard Myers.