The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-16
RALLY HILL ITEMS.

| RALLY HILL ITEMS.
The first session of school at the new
Lasea Academy, under the direction o.
Professor II. Ii. Mills, closed on Friday
the End Mr.. Mills has given general
satisfaction to the patrons of the school
Mr.. Calvin Hardison delivered two
hours speech at the close of the school
on Education and the subject of Farm
| ing. His address was very interesting
| to the large audience.
DIR. ]. Burney, from near Vicksburg.
and Professor a. NJ. Burney, of Nc
| Minnville, are now on a visit to their
| brother Mr.. TbUs. Burney. The Profess
| Sor is well known in the country as hav-
| ing long been one of Maury's most pop,
| ulOr school teachers aud one of the
| thoroughly educated men in the State.
| The Professor is self made and self ed
ucated, almost entirely.
Mr.. Henry f. Williams, of Lee COun-
| ty, Miss, is now on visit to his IA
| theirs family. Mr.. Williams is a pop
| ular young minister of tho Christian
| Church. He preached an interesting
| sermon at L4sea Church on June the
| 24th, to very large audience. Having
| had his hands taken off in a sugar mill
while a nero youth, no has always had
| the best wishes Ofhis numerous friends,
| He will soon leave for Texas, TO make
| it his permanent home.
Mrs Fannie Rogers, whose health is
| quite delicate, has been visiting her ia
| theirs family at MurfreesborO Nav she
soon be restored to her wonted health.
The whirr and buzz of the thresher is
| now constantly heard. The railroad,
| grounding, selI-Cleaner, egitatOr, and
vibrator, all sorts and sizes, are now en-
gagged in getting out tho remarkabl
| fine wheat crop It's to be hoped that a
| new era of prosperity is now dawning
uEon us, and that hard times will now
plume itself for farewell flight, never
again to return.
Since the abatement ofmeasles, health
has been excellent i'll tho community.
DrS. Boyd and Neil are now having quite
an easy time in the practice of medi-
cine, owing to the entire absence of the
diseases that usually accompany the
spring and summer,
There has for a long time been an un~
usual stagnatiOn i'll tho matrimonial
line. Cupid's shafts are seemingly
bunted, or the gentle maidens' hearts
are impervious to the tender attacks,
and entrance of the fatal missiles The
tall and comedy form of bachelor Bob of
Pumpkin creek, on his pacing brown
Bucephalus, is often seen of late on
Flat Greek. He comes up to talk
Granger talk with prominent farmer,
There will be two bushels of wheat
raised this year to one OF last year, and
it is generally of fine quality There
is complaint of smut where wheat was
not properly soaked before sowing.
The market for dog skins is now re-
markedly dull, caused by the fact OF
Uncle Jake Shires giving out the idea
of digging another vat. Having as
many now as he has vat room for, he
will only take one more extra large size
hide, to tan, TO make pair OF No Is
boots for his brother tanner Clayt Moore,
to wear when he runs for Trustee.
The opposition to the dog law is fast
subsiding, and it will not be long before
many who have been previously oppos-
ed to the law will be warm advocates of
it, as it undoubtedly will in the future
be ofgreat benefit to the farmer.
Shug Jones says Cal. Hardison re-
Gently, i'll fishing for cat fish, baited
his hook with live frog. After pa
tiently fishing for tour hours, he found
his frog had swan ashore and had been
quietly sitting on a chunk under his
feet all the time. What will Jenkins"
say? somebody will have to defend Cabs
reputation.
HOW THE LAZY LAW WORKS,
There is a young bachelor who lives on
Little Flat creek, whose name is jeff.
He often sat on his plow beam, in the
shade. The old farmers said that
was not the way they used to
hold the pillow when good corn was
made. He somehow heard that the in
spector was going to cage him, and that
Mai. Jas. Il. Moore was coming after
him sure with writ. To have heard
him ripping around and cursing you
would have thought the house was afire,
and that if the inspector and Maj. Moore
went there to take him, there would be
hearts, livers and entrails enough cut
out and left in the yard to bait a bear
trap with a month. But he went to
work and now he has the best crop on
Little Flat. He says he is going to Tex
as in the Fall where no arbitrary laws re-
strain a bachelor from sitting in the
shade and thinking OF bright-eyed
maidens as pretty as hollyhOcks, with
steps as graceful as the yenison walk in
in its native forest.
Pride goes before fall, but the last
fal! on the creek, whisky, was before,
and he fell afterwards. He has not
been proud of it since.
Having read the interesting and
amusing defense of Colonel Puryear's
reputation as an angler, by his long
time friend Mr.. J. b. jenkins, who us
es law phrases and reasons as profound
ly as first class lawyer, we would say,
in answer, that as a Chronicler of local
news we did report from hearsay about
the fish that were bought and put on
the COlOnel's hook, while the Colonel
would be playing euchre or otherwise
engaged in his tent; that was the party's
Joke, causing several fine fish to be
caught on the ColOnel's set hook. The
Colonel, however, turned the tables on
the party on leaving. lie said, "Well,
boys Ito these 80 year old gentIiSmenI
the fish have bought for the party to
to eat have paid for; tho fish ] have
caught will carry all of them home"
| Neither i'd we have the pleasure of Wis
| tting the party while at the Mills, all of
whom we have known and esteemed for
many years, and of course did not have
an opportunity Of sampling the contents
of the Mexican gOurd or willow-covered
Jimmy John. There was no intention
| OF attacking the reputation of the Colo
| mel as fisherman, for that has been too
well established for the last fifty years
| to be assailed nav. From the time
| when he first, with pin-book and cotton
! line, took the squealing mud-oat in out
| of the dampnesE on Ruthertord'S creek
the Colonel has been recognized as
worthy knight Of the pole and reel, and
none are more welcomed than lie
and his party when they go to tie Mills
| fishing, The attach on Jack Miller bv
! correspondent Jenkins was unproyokS
| GU 1S q dtlA - " Oh NOV IL Oh inc river
as an expert angler, an as log fisher
man he has no superior.
A portion OF the song as sung by the
| Colonel on leaving EXPLAINS their luck:
| "The best fishermen in the land,
| With singing reel OF Wheel-band,
| Who fish in Harpeth or in Duck
HaVe had some bad Streaks of luck,
McEwen and Gault, OF much fishing fame.
! Have been known to sometimes seine."
|
lanes b Smith of the nOnular finn M
| Smith x Metcalfe, has gone to New York
| City, after a new stock of goods.