The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-05
RALLY HILL ITEMS.

The cool, frosty nights have knocked
the chills and fever out of time, and tn
| heretofore hard worked doctors hay,
now comparatively easy time of it.
Mr.. Dump Ring, whose house wa!
| burnt some months since, is now re,
building. He is making considerable
| improvements on his old house, anC
| will have when completed much pref
tier and more comfortable house thar
| the one burnt. Mr.. Ring has beer
quite unfortunate in the way of fire
having had in the last three or foul
years three buildings burnt down Oh
his place-all accidental.
On the 18th of October, at his residence
Mr.. Thos. Moore, son of MI. Andrew J.
moore, died of congestive chill. Mr.
Moore was only sick about thirtySsix
hours. BESIDES young wife, he leaves
many relatives and friends to mourn
his untimely loss.
Mr.. VIM. CulYer, who moved out OF
the neig hborhood last winter, will
move back again this Fall, much to the
delight of those who have so often wit
bow and listened Desdemona-like to
his thrilling tales of escapes dire, by
flood and field, and all OF them true.
We have missed William much, and we
therefore welcome him cordially back.
E. J. Williams, the wholesale polecat
merchant of Spring Hill, and Sloman.
ought now to De happy, if they are not,
as the young Urappers along the Mar
shall and Maury line are now placing
the tempting bait under the rock dead
falls to invite the polecat to have his fur
raised for Ephe and Sloman's benefit.
Corn is selling at one dollar and one
dollar and a quarter per barrel, and but
few buyers, as there is no surplus stock
to feed it to, and nearly all the farmers
have, with economy. enough to last them
two years; they had better do like Jo~
seph did in the olden time-laY up
in the years of plenty to do them in the
years OF famine.
Squire ]. M. Ellington will raise four
teen hundred barrels of corn or more.
Corn that will gather to the field ten
barrels to the acre, is not hard to find.
There was typographical error about
the largest cat caught by little Jake
Shires at Broone's Ferry-it weighed
seventy-eight pounds, instead of twen-
ty~eight.
Lawyer Scott, the best posted Magis>
trate in Marshall on law points, is now
absent in West Tennessee on a
visit to relatives and on business also.
Mr.. (Red) Sam Wallace, Inspector of
the loafer law, in the 9th district of Mar
shall, and Mr.. Whitehead, have made up
great deal of sorghum this Fall along
the creek. There have been three evap-
orators at work making up the large
crop of cane, and it will not all be made
up before the 9th of November.
Mr.. David Kincaid, very old citizen
of the 23d district, in his ninety-fourth
year, is Indignantly sick with general
giving away of the system-he has pa
ralysis of the bladder.
There now seems to be quite heal
N a ms a T-ir a ma r yn
as our quondam bachelor friend, Mr..
John Marshall Ellington and Miss
Mollie Phillips were married on the
10th of October, at O'Clock p. M.
On Thursday evening the 2lst of Octo>
Der at Z O'Clock, the ReY. J. G. Rice, at
the residence of the BRIDES father, sol-
emnized the impressive rites of matri
mony between Mr.. James A. Stephens,
of Williamson county, and Miss Rebec-
ca A., eldest daughter of Squire John A.
Glenn. The attendants were: Mr.. Ar
chic Stephens with Miss Ada Lockridge;
and Mr.. James Fleming with Miss Sue
Glenn. A most elegant and bountiful
supper then RECALLED the wedding guests.
A very fine dining was given next day
by Mr.. Andrew Stephens to the bridal
part. Both supper and dinner were
superintendent and gotten up
by, Mrs. Margaret Glenn, the excellent
quite famous for her artistic taste and
culinary skill in such affairs. Ever
may the gallant groom and fair bride
be waited down Times rapid river, by
the softest zephyrs that steal through
loves brightest bowers;
May prosperity S sun ever beam
On their life'S future stream;
For it's bright where e'er love is.
It's fairy spell hath power to bring
Fresh fountains to the wilderness,
nd tn no Cnrt Xn a M