The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-04-02
RALLY HILL ITEMS .

Mr.. George White, son of Blue Grass
| White and merchant at COrlett's Cross
Roads, in The 9th civil district of Mar
shall county, has made out of wood and
mostly with Ills penknife, an attach
ment for clock that keeps correctly the
month, day and date. 1t changes each
night at midnight the day and date.
The idea is not new, but Mr. White
work has originality and novelty about
it.
Mr.. T. H. Mills opened school at the
Lasea Academy on the 18th of March,
with over forty subscribed scholars and
many day scholars. May success attend
him in his efforts to build up number
one school at that place. The citizens
are all determined to have a hOurishing
school.
A gentleman on the river some time
since bought a handsome chariot in
Nashville, with some side lamps, etc.
His carriage was stalled on the way,
and it took four mules to to pull it out.
He now has it housed for summer time.
We need pixies.
A sewing machine agent has been in
the Rally Hill neighborhOod with ped
al appendages so lengthy that it is sup
posed he is related TO the LongtOOt fami-
ly,
Red foxes were seldom heard of on
Flat Creek seven years ago. They have
increased so much that they have run
out nearly all the gray foxes. Increas-
ing in the same ratio, they will soon be-
come a nuisance from their number.
They have already begun to make quite
free with the farmers pigs and lambs,
There is black fox on Little Flat creek,
said to be a very large one, by Mr..
Houston Pratt and WIN. Culver, who
have both seen it.
The Hon. r. A. Glenn was out at
home on the 18th to see his brother, Mr..
Archie Glenn, who is very low with
dropsy. His many friends are fearful
that he is fatally sick.
Mrs. Mat. Reynolds is now slowly re-
covering from a dangerous attack OF pa
ralysis.
A prominent miller on the river, it is
said, not long since wrote to Dayton,
Ohio, for some castings for a turbine
wheel. Owing to his bad chirography,
the firm failed 10 decipher it correctly,
and thought he wanted a Gast-iron ca
noe. They wrote for him to send the
length and other dimensions of the iron
canoe.
A great hairy looking object on horse
back was seen few days ago going up
the pike towards Glenn's Store. 1t
proved to be E. j. Williams, the Whole
sale Polecat Merchant of Spring Hill,
with oyer two hundred coon, mink, otA
ter, beaver, fox and poleeaC skins. AS
trapping in Maury and Marshall has be-
come the means OF bringing considers
able amount of money into the two
counties, it may be of interest to some OF
the fair readers of the HERALD to know
what the cheap fnrs are made out OF,
and they will be surprised to learn that
most OF the cheap brands OF furs are
really polecat furs; and they get no cred
it for it. When the polecat merchant
| gets hold OF sufficient quantity of cat
skins. thew are ssc"rtad and put in bun
dies, according to color and quality, and
then sent To Cincinnati and New York,
to the manufacturers, who pay from
81 25 to S1.5O apiece tor spotted and white
ones, and from S1.75 to S2.25 apiece for
the black ones. Alter the polecat's jack
ct has been thoroughly deodorized by
the manufacturer, it is then made into
| capes and branded as Alaska mink
and Coon, and Canada wildcat, lynx,
white mink, ohinohills, ETC., and sent
back here for the use of the ladies. The
fur, especially that of the black ones, is
said to be very ine and durable. The