The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-30
MISCELLANEOUs ITEMS.

| Nobody knows the trouble / see." For
| balance see Capt. James Handsome.
| Col. J. w. :. Ridley brought seventeen
ounce potato TO Col. Myers, and rejOiced
| over having beaten him. ''Oh but" re-
piled Col. NJ, "Your's is Il Russell and mine
Is an Early Rose"
MIR. Joseph HendIey started for Beaver
Dam Springs last Friday night after sup
per. The only accident he had was getting
In quicksand on Cathey's creek. lie reach
ed Beaver Dam next morning at 7O'clOck.
Capt. r. {. GOrdon's excellent wife, of
Cross Bridges, sent Mr.. y. n. Akin, of this
place, Wednesday evening" a basket of the
finest tomatoes we ever saw. Mr.. John
StrattOn would have envied them.
Major Minnick Williams gave an ele-
CANT entertainment Wednesday night at
his splendid mansion, on Little Bigby, in
honor of Miss ). F., of Nashville.
We hear of the county canvass being
opened soon. For goodness sake don't,
gentlemen. Besides, "it's too long for you
to be clever" as Major Jim Akin would
say; it will kill any ordinary man to be
clever from now until the election.
Henderson, the man accused of killing
Tom Holcomb, near Forrest City, has been
arrested, we learn.
Rufus c. Reynolds found his horse last
Saturday through the aid of advertising and
Capt. Black. Behold the beauties of adj
vertising!
-Read-headed humanity will rise up and
whOOp themselves hOarSe when they read
that drinking warm milk from a Texas
COW will turn their hair black.
Some ladies, this season, wear wings
on their hatS-and some old wrinkled up
bachelor says ii is the nearest they will ev
eT become angels. Such impudence is de-
serving of severe punishment.
When you see a Columbia couple, late
at night, chewing and biting, and eating
each other up, over front gate post in the
beautiful moonlight, Just let them alone;
{. ey amt half so mad as you think, and
before they separate will be as good friends
as ever.
We notice from the Richmond, (Ky.,)
Register, that w, II. Downing, who was re-
Gently trainer at our Fair Grounds for the
TrOfT inc ASS &c M N 10
reinS over the tTOtteTs at the otter Creek
TrOtting Track at Richmond, Ky:
MIR. TheO. LipScOmb has one of the very
best houses and lots at Primm's, which he
will dispose of on reasonable terms. 1t
has four excellent rooms, is located in the
best position at the springs, has nice shade,
and altogether is the best bargain we know
of.
Al. McKimmon in the last issue of the
HERALD AND MAIL, does injustice to I. w.
Keesee, the President of the TrOtting AssO-
citation. Mr.. MckimmOn entered his horse
in two races on a published programme, and
then requested the President to change the
programme to suit his interest. The Pres-
dent nor the Association could make this
change without the unanimous consent of
parties making entries in the races. Find
ing opposition to any change of the pro-
gramme, the President very properly de-
clined to do SO. -
out agents over Middle Tennr sSee and Ala
bIma to ascertain the condition OF grow
ing crops, and especially of cotton. Mr..
Joseph b. WOOdSide was the very proper
person they chose to represent them in this
section, aud our friends tell us they saw
him moving along their part of the line,
making diIigent observations and careful
inquiries. The agents report the corn crop
the best ever seen, and cotton promising;
some, however, think the rains have made
the cotton run to weed.
W. Il. Russell, +. G. Thompson, Esq. q.
w. StOckaTd, j. p. Walker, Henry Z. Har-
Ian, expect TO go TO Swan next Monday,
hey will strike camps at the mouth of
Blue Buck. Willis Russell has been having
fine sport on Lick, and expects to beat his
party, bus DIR. Thompson will see him about
that. Willis caught a four pound trout out
of the Galloway hole, and a nineteen pound
cat at the mouth of Lick. The line was
very small sea-graSS, and 1T required fine
generalship to land him. Willis let him go
whenever he made a lunge, and then broke
him up gradually, like the speed Of train
is broken. The old cat would OCCASION
ally come to the top, and then make ter
rible tOunce and start for Duck S deepest
bottoms. After worrying him for quar-
ter OF an hour, he concluded to bring him
to the bank, and broke his pole. He then
"niggered" him, Jack Miller calls it
that is, he caught hold of The line and pull
ed him to the bank. When he had the
fish half way out of the water, the line
broke, and il it had made one hutter, IL
could have gotten away; but quick as
thought Willis caught the line below where
il broke and saved him. a neighbOr boy
blowing in the field close by says Willis was
greatly excited.