The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-03-19
SPRING HILLITEMS,

SPRING HILL ITEMS.
Major Cam. Brown is fortunate in
having secured. the services of Captain
Backwith, late of Mississippi, as general
superintendent and business
manager Of his magnificent do
main Capt. Beckwith is an energetic,
thoroughgoing business man, and
sprung from the best Virginia blood,
being a lineaI descendant Of Patrick
Henry. His excellent and accomplish
ed wife is niece of john Y. Mason, one
of Virginia's greatest statesmen. Capt.
B sold out his possessions in Mississip-
pi, on time, add is delayed in the col~
lection Of bis clsim, which is for large
amount, and like true man, as he is,
goes to work to make expenses and to
be independent, until he can reach his
means by due course of law. Major
Brown is a man of generous impulses,
and ever eady as lac is able to extend
a helping hand to these who need
friend. In this case, and one other, at
least, that could be named, he will
doubtless get Qltjd pro quo.
Noticing The stotement OfOur esteem
ed and venerable friend, Major John d.
Fleming, in reference to the Natchez
Trace road, the writer is reminded of
conversation which he once had, with
Esq. Isom, then OF Mt. Pleas aut, while
we were crossing Tennessee River on a
bridge over Muscle Shoals, at place
called B9llview, near the mouth of
Blue Water This bridge was 2250 yards
long, AMI built on trestles, which were
secured to the rock bottom by sills and
bolts, b u owing to some deficiency in
the plan or work, a mile of ii fell down
and was meyer rebuilt. The water at
this place was very shallow, the rock
bottom being visible all the way across.
Esq. ISOm, who was with Jackson in
march to Now Orleans in the war OF
1872, pointed out the ford below the
bridge, where the army crossed, and re-
lated many incidents and accidents in
crossing. Horses and riders were some
times submerged by plunging into a
deep hole between the rocks, and seve-
raj horses were left in the river with
their feet and legs fastened in the crew
ices of the rocks. This place is the first
crossing above cambridge, and some
twenty or twenty-five miles above Flor
ence. Our old friend Major Fleming
can toll whether our recollection of Esq. |
Isom's report is correct, as to Ehe place |
where JacGsou's army crossed the Ten
uessee river.
: woInan's hair in the biscuit, which |
Mote Patten didn't like, was better |
than that which Rev. Garrett Martin
once encountered while waterhound, |
in = cabin III Humphreys county. While
at tie dinner table, partaking of the
very plain fare of the poor people with
whom ne stopped, a little tiaxen-haired
boy said, "Mammy, here is a hair in
the bread" His mother said, ''bush;
lis only corn-sllk." His stunning
reply VS., Did you ever see a nit
on a c,rn-silk?" Mr.. Martin did not
eat any more bread at that house.
A learned gentleman of tho legal pro-
iessicn was trying , cause before JUS
tice B., an acting magistrate of noigb-
boring county, He had a similar
case before the same magistrate not long
bafore, This time the interest of his
client required tuat in his argument he
should take the opposite ground from
what he did in the first instance. The
Suuire's mind was somewhat obtustica~
Jod from q drink or two OF conn uiCe,
but he saw that the learned counsel
was arguing against the very points
which he had previously advocated, and
turning to him in sharp reprOof he said:
80 Mr.. H.. want you TO understand dis-
tinctiy, that Il man can't argue both
sides Of question before me-" he
eventually relented SO f"r as to permit
{ he iavvyeTt0 90 through with his speech.
The report that K. a. McLemOre. Esq,
bad bis meat house broken open and
half his bacon stolen by masked men, is
without a shadow OF foundation.
The wheat crop is looking well, and
bids fair now to make a full average
Weld. Major Cheairs, Capt. Gibson,
Capt. Pointer and Major Brown, who
are among the largest and most sue
cesstul wheat growers of the county, ali
have promising and encouraging pros
poets Of a bountItul harvest.
Farming operations are commencing
IN good earnest. II is refreshing to see
in every direction the plOwman turn
ing uD the rich and mellow soil and to
see the various kinds Of farm work
pushed forward as in days of Old. The
cO!ored labOrerS seem to go to work
cheerfI!ly, aud work as though the on
Iy civil rights" which they wanted was
the right 10 ba let alone in their present
c )nditiOn. \ few discontinued fools
may have desired civil rights" and So
cidI equality, but the masses of the me-
groes are not blameable for the agitation
of these subjects. In conversation
with a leading Radical of this county,
who had seemed to favor the idea of So
cial equality between the races, he
was asked if he would tOlar tie negroes
in his parlor or in his house as visitors,
He answered, Il would not; l have no
taste for such intercourse, but am will
ing for any who have taste for il, to
enjoy it." There is not white Radical
in Maury county, who is worthy of the
respect of his white neighbOrs, w 20 is
at heart in favor Of the "civl rights"
abOmiu3tiOn.