The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-24
LASEA ITEMS.

The farmers are picking out their cot
ton with a vim. With favorable Au-
| tumn. some will make an average crop,
but the low prices are rather dishear5-
eninp. aud will hardly pay rents anu
| expenses of cultivation. We would
like very much to live to see the time
when the people of Tennessee. and ess
pecially Maury County, would quit
nIantinp cotton. We could never see
The good and sound Judgment (if there
was anvil in raising cotton, shipping
| it to market ard Investing the returns
| in provisions, when thesame food could
| have been raised on the same farm, on
| which the cotton was raised, ana lnaG
| too, with less than one half OF the OUT
| Law in time and labor. Alas! Tor our
| country, if this system continues to pre-
vail, as the nice cultivation required to
| successfully raise cotton, leaves tho
| soil bare and unprotected, so that what
| little vitality is lett by the WaShlnE
| rains Of spring, Is Parched out py the
| summers sun, and they very sooE Fende!
| ed nOn-remunerative, and hnaliy IRE
| trieYably ruined. Whereas, the sys1
| tenn of raising wheat, oats, mare anG
grass, will improve land, besides beng
far more renumerative than cotton.
The latest style is, when young man
sends a loving communication TO
young lady she sends IN return ms
ring and all of his letters, accompanied
with the following thoughts II not eN-
TAKE back thy proud and faithless heart,
'TiS nothing to Inc now;
Thy smile is but studied art,
lis like thy broken VOW"
Judging from the circumstances con-
nected with tie case we would beileVe
that these feelings OF distrusc wcro ma
tual, and he too could say,
"How fair are all things here below,
How false. and yet how fair,
Each pleasure has its poison TOO,
And every sweet snare"
Thus terminated this case OF lONe,SaNN
ing him the time and trouble OF procur-
ing and having TO return marriage liz
cense; which be has done in two former
instances, with different parties. We
say most aSSuredly that he has luck,
you may call it good or bad
Mr.. Thomas Dooley and Miss Inez
Roam, were married on the 18th inst.
at the brides step father Mr.. j. NJ. AL
LEM A good share OF Thomas tonso>
lation now is, that he can accompany
her TO and from church, and not have
to do as we used to see him do, ride along
by himself while Mr.. II. went with his
girl. Thomas. we assuredly wish you
good luck and much joy.
Mrs. Mollie Allen, who has been pros |
trated with that fearful disease icons |
sumption) is now very low and feeble. |
Mr.. ] L. Derryberry and several of |
his family are sick with chills and bill. |
ious foyer. Also w. r. AdkissOn's |
little Robert is very sick with fever, |
and is attended by DR.. Lee. little |
North of this section. that fearful dis |
case (called d1phtheria) is raging, Or |
Mallard, at one time having twenty |
cases; two of which he lost, anG en- |
more considered dangerous. We DO |
not now remember of our country be~ |
ing SO sicl<ly as it is now. And when |
the river falls, we expect much more |
sickness, provided that the weather con /
'inues warm.
Tho uubleached Americans had "a fos- |
tival on last Friday at Contre 5 ar See
ing some of hem going in that diTec
tiOn we asked 10 know where they wer"
e ling, aud one Of them answered ihAi
they were going To the IS )rit3rie "
{ FESTIVAL
Elder r. Il. Trimble, of Kentucky, de
livered on last Lords day at Laset, on.
of the most eloquent and instruc;iV.
sermons that we nave ever been priVi-
legged To hear. 1t WAS indeed, master
IY one; on one OF the most important
subjects connected with christianity.
''Tne influence OF tho Holy Spirit il
He elucid ited the suhiec.
so that anyone who is not continued
sc optic could not fail to see the teaching
of he Bible on that subject.
Judging from present prospects We
think that one Of our senior bachelors
will very soon marry one Of our most
beautiful bellies.
I. G. Jones and vito arc hoth pr Ostra
( ed with fever. 1t Is very sad thing
tor all of one family to be sick at once.
Elder r. B. Trimble on last Saturday
night preached on the subject of reSen-
ration which subject he handled !"
, most mastery manner and III very
different way from anyone we have
heard before. lie argued very ably
hat regeneration was the resurrection,
that there was not To-
q, nerated one on earth. As startling
as these declarations are, they
w, re forcibly sustained. He ais"
stated very clearly that regen-
era ion as the resurrection is the only
Tree gift of God to man. As
result of the sermon, four persons made
he good confession thtt-c' st the son Of
sod his life; ard which The apostle PAM
declared that his son TinloJhy had
haIOrp many WituC SSpS.