The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-02-12
OVER THE COUETY.

| Somebody, probably a shoemaker, cut
James L. DOoley's gin-band last week, and
| took away about ten dollars worth. He
lives in Sheep Neck Bend, and is very mad.
Love Loftin, OF Sheep Neck, and near
"Rigger Island, is again prospective IA
ther-in-law of some nice young man. One
OF his neighbors says that he is raising girls
for Jim Dooley's boys.
VIM. ShackIett & Co., have 8 splendid
new wagon to haul flour from their mill TO
the depot. 1t was built by Lamb & Boyd.
The people of the Frierson settlement
are anxious to have a pOSt-Office at Shack
let's mills.
Old farmers say a severe winter is sure
to be succeeded by good crops, As the freezes
and thawS puIverize the soil, ard fertiIize
it in some mysterious way. II that is so,
we ought to have good crops this year,
for we have had ana are having a
very severely cold winter,
Up to this time a great many negroes
have left for Kansas, and others are prepar-
ing to go. If they don't mind they will
freeze or stagve to death, Maary county
can better afford to lose them than they
can to leave Maury. We trust 10 more Will
leave, because We believe it Is better for
them to remain here; yet We believe their
kOlh5 W III HAl4illdLtlN btLEtEAs the county,
in the fact that it will force many young
white men, who now do nothing, to go to
work themselves, in the field. Hundreds
ofyOung white men in the county do not
work three months in the year, and idle
away their time; and this is what brings on
hard times. Hard times is nothing more
than the failure of people to pay their debts
and young men who do not Work cannot
hope to pay their debts.
Albert Hughes, sixteen year old son of
J. NJ. Hughes, is a trappcr. Several weeks
ago he caught "A rabbit, and baitei his dead
fall for a mink. This dcad-iaI consists Of
log, which is thrown bya patent trigger.
He set it near the river bank, where minks
live. The river rose and got out of its
banks, and over the trap. When the river
fell, 10 and behold, there was an enormous
blue catfish caught fast in 1t, with his head
mashed. Albert took the tail of the fish
and baited the trap, and next morning
mink was found in it.
The hard times have caused the Last
ing Hope c, p, Church, to suspend preach
ing for the present, until they can get mon
ey to pay their preacher.
A very prominent citiECn oi the Santa
Fe country, concluded that times were too
hard to take the HERALD AND MAIL, and
had his paper discontinued. When his wife
was aware of what he had done, she mott
fed the Colonel that if he was not able to
take it for twelve months that he must for
six, and he had to come to time. She is a
good wife, and knows the necessities of
family.
"A great number of negroes have left
Carriers Creek Station for Kansas, and 9TH
ers will soon go.
Some thief entered col. A. NJ. Looney's
corn-crib the other night. He was satisfied
with bag full. The next time he comes he
will meet with a warm reception.
Mt. Zion Grange Lodge, at "A meeting
February 9Th, 1875 appointed r. a. Mckay
and F. A. Polk, Spring Hill, \. +. Cheairs
and Robert Mccormack, BlsntOn Chapel,
John B. Bunch and - Derry berry, Santa
Fe, A. :. Goodwin and Willis Jones, to meet
at Carriers Creek Station, Thursday, Febru-
airy 18th, to draft plans, calculate the costs,
and to select a location tor a large flour
mill, which the Changers belonging to
these lodges are proposing to build at cost
of about $4,000. The mill will be located at
point between Duck River Station and
Spring Hill. The point mostly spoken of
at present is Carriers Creek station.
Col A. y. Goodwin and r. II. b. Johnson
have purchased OF w. o. Gordon one hun
dred and fifty acres OF land including his
residence and the grounds around side
tracks at Duck River station, paying twelve
thousand five hundred dollars for it. Mr..
Gordon retains possession until January
LIST, 1876, after which time he Will likely oc-
cupy the house he purchased OF Il. NJ
Green, adjoining the property sold.
Carriers Creek was almost as high, and
almost as destructive, during the last rains,
as il was in the spring of 1874