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

MIR. Henderson Pigg, highly esteemed
| citizen of the Santa Fe country, has been
seriously sick for several weeks.
| Mr.. John Baird died Monday morning
at the residence of his father-in-law, near
Hurricane, of erysipelaS. He was a son OF
the late John Baird, a well-knOwn and tx
cellent citizen -four town.
Capt. Joe Irvine cut his wheat Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday last. He will
make about fifteen hundred bushels.
Mrs. Akin, wife of Mr.. y. J. Akin, OF
Bear Creek, died last Monday morning, at
ter long illness, She had been a cripple
and blind for many years. She is said To
have been an eStimable woman.
JEFF. REEVES, Superintendent of County
Work house, observed that Yates, put to
walked quietly up to Yates and taking the
hammer with which he ought to have been
beating rock, laid il on the fence near by,
remarking as he did so, The poor hammer
is tired; I'll let il rest awhile" Yates look
ed up in amaZemcnt.
Ii. J.. Kitchener brought us the first cot
ton bloom of the season, pulled Wednes-
day. Sam HOge, col, pulled it, and told
Mr.. Kitchener that he saw one the day be-
fore. The cotton is cultivated by Albert
Cain and son, Sam HOge, and ii is very
fine. The bloom is a large fine one.
allow is your neighbOr Mr. NJ. I. jugs
cotton, Mr.. Kitchener" We asked of our
good friend Il. j.. Kitchener. bad enough,
according TO his own report. / asked him
the same question to-day, and he replied,
Don't talk to me about cotton. WedncS-
day my cotton was full of blooms; next
morning they have all fallen OFF My cotton
is all ruinedn" Mr. is first years expert
enCe in the farming business,
Mr.. Calvin MOrgan-WhiCh is a strong
Presbyterian name-iS very anxious to
have a tunnel under the railroad near his
beautiful house. The railroad company
agrees to let him build il he will be reSpOn-
sibIe for damages. Mr.. NJ. Offers FIVE hun
dred dollars to any one that Will undertake
the job. Henry White agreed to do 1t If
Mr.. NJ. will be responsible. Its very diff
fcult undertaking,
the most accomplished scholars of his age
in the State, is responsible for the word
MISUNDERSTANDING which is supposed
to mean, in substance, Professor of the Art
of Making Saddle-bagS. This art is to have
a chair in the Vanderbilt University. Prof.
Webb's extensive and thorough learning Is
only equaled by his great and unaffected
modesty and genuine worth as a man. We
are astOnished that every girl in the county
does not "set her cap for him-that is the
only way he is to be had.
Our friend Squire II. TimmOnS tells us
an incident that is so marvellous that but
for our unbOunded faith in his Veraclty, we
could not implicitly swallow it. y few days
ago his son, 4, j. TimmOnS, killed large
chicken snake, and started of. y negro
man happening to pass, asked him why he
didn't kill that snake, and Jack replied
that he thought he had. on going back,
however, he found the snake moving, and
several inches of tail sticking out of its
mouth. He hit il again, whereupOn it
threw up another snake, of the same kind,
and which measured fifty inches long, two
lnHDtlS longer IMAM the one WHICH, SNhlION-
ed It,. inst think of 1.-THE swallowed
snake was ffty inches long and one inch
and a quarter in diameter, and the other
fOrty.eight inches long and one inch in
diameter.
The meeting of the TTOtting Association
to-day will be the thing of the summer. No
doubt many fine horses will be present and
good trOtting will be had. The ladies are
invited free.
j. w. RushtOn, Gen. Bragg and the I'M
derEiRned, threw, unaided, tOrty-tOn rock
down high bluff below JohnsOn's ford
last Saturday. IT was grand sight, tear
and lashing Duck River into a miniature
storm at sea. 1t shook the big earth like
an earthquake. Oh, il was grand! Bragg
begged to save it until y. b. shepard came
from Kansas. The rock stood like a col
umn, almost as high as tree, solitary and
grand, having been there, according to the
biologists, miIlienS of years.
We understand that q portion of Col.
Ridley's wheat yielded twenty bushels per
acre. Charles n. Naught went to Nashville
a short time ago, and sold his crop in adj
bushels, and chartered eight cars. He was
TO get one dollar per buShel II Is thought
now he will have TO get one thousand bush
els from his neighbOrS. We hear that j. II.
Parrish and TheO. LipscOmb have sold at
the same price. The mills ought to buy all
they can ana sell the flour, and thus enable
our county to realize ti.C .sJl value of this
years product. We have HS hnG mills as
can be found anywhere almost 1t is good
idea for farmers to sell enough to pay of
their debts, and thus make times easy. If
YOU can get a dollar per bushel, we advise
Won 10 sell enough Mt least to pay your
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