The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-09-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Somebody stole mule from ]. ]. Will
son Monday night.
/ You can get your job work done at this
| office on better material, and at lover pri-
| Cos, than at any office in town. Call and
see, and be convinced.
September has brought with it, so far.
four OF the hottest days of the summer,
wi II pretty good prospects for two or three
more before she departs.
died near Troy, Obion county, on the 18th
ofAugust, 1873. She was a sister of Arthur
CIR afford of this county.
-One-armed Williams sold mule colt to
Esq. j. y. L. ScribneT, Monday, for fifty
dollars. John w. Medley says it is the fin
est colt he has seen in many days.
-Messrs. Scott and George Rainey, from
Columbia, Maury county, are out at Samuel
McLean's on an excursion of recreation for
few days.-NdrshGu Gazette.
Mr.. Harlan, OF Maury, has two of the
finest bullocks in the Western section.
which he is feeding and getting in condi-
ton for the Philadelphia Centennial.
Good for Maury
We ask ed Prof. ]. NJ. Webb to go with us
we might marry him of" al always go
with successful men," was the Professors
The Gilbert Dramatic Troupe will per
form: in Gallatin during the fair, commence
ing the 18th inst. Can't you swing around
the circle and bring Columbia in?
Gen. Bulger Thomas, commanding q
crusade of extermiOators on "black tongue"
deer, passed through Mt. Pleasant last week,
on his way to the unhappy hunting
dying.
REV. Golman Green made the camp
meeting people at Hurricane very happy
last Monday night. He said, "They talk
about my pOverty-I know I'm poor, and l
don't care, because Jesus recognizes his
poor kin-he's no; like US, who don't"
Mathew Green, an old resident of this
county, living near LIZARDS Mills, COM
mitted suicide last Saturday. His mind
had been impaired for some time previous,
and had made attempts to take his life
once or twice before, but had been prevent
ed.-MdrShdU Gazette.
The annual fair of the Maury County
Agricultural and Mechanical Society begins
Tuesday, 2Sth inst. The indications are,
that with good crops on the part of the
farmers and "A corresponding increase OF
confidence in bright future, the coming
exhibition will be one of the most success
full ever held by the Society.
Dear Angelina: am sorry to inform
you that in consequence of a circumscribed
SubCutancOuS Inflammation, characterized
by pointed pOStular tumOr suppurating in
the centre OF a cuTunCuluS, am unable to
enjoy the pleasure of your company to the
hippodromc. Ever, dearest, thine, Angus
TUS.
"A very curious advertisement will be
fOu d in the fair Catal1gue-that of lin and
Russ Andrews. 1t was inserted through
mistake-it was only a bit of pleasantly on
the part of Capt. Jim Andrews. Russ had
nothing to do with it. We mention this In
order that no one may entertain an idea
that Russ is other than most excellent
young business man. He and his excellent
senior partner, w. II. Elan, have a magnfi-
credit to a large city, in size, and the adj
mirahle business-like way in which things
are conducted.
Mrs James X. Polk has presented the
Tennessee Historical Society with a pen
made from an eagles quill dropped by an
eagle in Virginia and presented to PreSi-
dent Polk in 1915. Mr.. Polk signed his first
message to Congress with the pen made of
this quill, the joint resolution of Congress
for the admission of the State OfTeXaS, the
law to extend the laws of the United States
over the State of Texas, the Producing the
duty on imports for other purposes" and
the treaty OF peace with Mexico, July /,
.S4S.
Deputy Sheriff Billie WitherspoOn start
ed Tuesday night last for Franklin, KY, af-
ter George Little and Ben Wilkins, both
colOred. Last week Billie heard of the
whereabouts OF George and Ben, and then
telegTaphed to the Sheriff at Franklin to
arrest them and place them in Jail, and that
he would come alter them. Billie carried
two pair of bracelets, which he will present
tOithem. George, it Will be remembered, is
the person who robbed a negro man near
Joe 1rVine'S grocery gave bond, and Their
jumped the same. Ben il will be Temem-
bered, killed "fatted calf belonging to Ca
to Booker. Judge McLemOre will inter-
view George and Ben at the next term OF
the Criminal Court.
1t was rumored on the streets last Wed
nesday that lheO. LpscOmb was dead; that
he was SO found in the garden Tuesday
cause supposed to be suffocation. On in
quiry we learned that the report gained
currency from the fact that VIM. j. An
drews, Esq, had a hive of bees named in
honor of his particular friend, TheO. ipS-
comb; that the excessive hot rays Ofthe sun
of last Tuesday had melted the comb of his
bee hive, and the flowing honey killed q
sufficient number of bees to close up the
entrance OF the hive, and the remainder
died of suffOcatiOn. In the language of Esq.
Andrews, "he found it an Empty. J0g" ION his
arrival at home.