The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-23
OVER THE COUNTY.

Sunday last there were number of col
OTcd people baptized IN rutherford creek.
PROF II. y. McknlEhi' VINO mas bGeh
teaching school at Pleasant Valley, Giles
county, has pulled up stakes and contem-
plates opening a school Mt Broad View, near
br. Nathan PcTTy'S, in this county. The
back to his old home il MauTy-
Al. Atkins sale took place on the 18th.
Charley Jones bought the home, ninety
acres for 5000; TheO. LipSCOmb bought the
COW, $500; Hugh Akin the old gray horse,
SlOI0O. and the DoOley boys the furniture.
Mr. Akin left for Texas last Monday.
Several negro merchants of Nashville
make money by buying mOcking-birds and
sending them to the North for sale. There
are thousands of these delightful SOngsteTs
in our COunty,and especially along the river
banks, where the wilds are laden with rich
perfume. There is nothing more enchant-
ing than to get in canoe, In the summer,
and especially in June, with great wild,
rugged, bluffs OvcrhaIlSinE, and covered
with beautiful and delicious flowers, and
hundreds Of birds singing aS brilliantly as
If they had large ana cultivated audience;
however II may be that they do have an
forts of the singers more fully than human
critics. Jack Miller and Nat Holman
think the rich fragrance along the river
bluffs came from the grapevine, but we are
not satisfied on that point
Last sunday morning, gentleman Of
the 18th district was seen, wit h en- unbrcl-
La over him, chasing wild horse around
an open lot. Around and around they
wcnt-thc high-hcaded horse prancing and
snorting away as the man and the umbrcl-
la approached. Now Mr.. II. is nearly up TO
him, but Just as he is in the act of catching
hold of his name, the horse looks up and
sees the umbrella, and with terrific bound
he flies away. After trying this experiment
tor u quarter of an hour Mr. Ii. put his UNI
brplla in the corner OF the fence, and walk
ed up and caught his horse without any
trouble.
The grains are large and fine, and old
NirginianS say 1t is the genuine Tappahan-
mock wheat. \ few grains are on our table.
w Whit horne sent six hounds to
John w. Medley thTe" years ago. John
sOwcd 10, and next year sOwCd all hut fifteen
BILE quantity, and gave the balance to Tom
Perry, John y. Alexander and others. Mr..
Medley says the entire produce will amount
to eighteen hundred bushels, and probably
more John y. AleNandCr's turned out at
the rate of forty bushels per huShCl sOwH.
Mr.. y. has been offered SIlO, which Is a
| fancy price. Every farmer ought to buy
| some Oi II for seed, and not let buShel go
| out of the county. It Will not be many
years before the BOughton wheat will give
| out, and the TaPpahannOck will do well Ia
| succeed it. The Boughtun is doing SPLEEN
"Thcy don't call Capt. Frank Burton
| CTaigc "PaTsOn' on account of the white
| collar he always wears In the summer
| time but because he once made most adj
| mirable talk at a Sunday school festival on
| Knob Creek. \ darkey, W 10 happened To
| Toe present, said. "MaIsc Frank talked
| about everything like the great and be-
| loved DIR. Green used to talk to children.
| -Maury county, the richest in the state
| in natural resources, needs pixies ana good
| roads worse than any other county. All eff
] forts to get the county rs a county, to build
| pixies seem to come to grief, and ii is a rare
| thing to ind a man with sufficient nerve
| and public spirit TO undertake to build one
J nv himself. Liberal men live for years Oh
| miserable roads rather than undertake tC
| build a good pike himself. When men are
! found brave enough to do II they ought Il
! be encouraged. We have several such IL
! MaurV-F. NJ. Vaughn, Col SOwell, :. ii
| Timmons and Sons, J. NJ. Hickey, Judge
on 10Th
| have done thousand dollars worth o
| work on the Santa Fe pike, and, II unmO
| Tested, will have nine miles IN a splendid
| condition. They have been getting grave
| from ihe river, which must Toe done in the
summer time. Last week the County
| Court ordered the Chairman TO confer will
MeSSrs. TimmOnS and those building the
| they must pay for the Old bridges erected
| by the county over the Santa Fe and Hamp
| shire roads. This has pat a stop 10 tht
| work on the santa Re pike. Tor Mr., =. ii
| TimmOns says he VT. lose all the wOrl
ne has done before Ee Will bUy the ole
bridge Indeed ne viii lose money any
- aud Il be were 10 buy the bridge, /
ICT IA entail n ~ tGH4 eg pm. We ar
| sure This Is shOTt-slghted IS."V II -!
1 County Court, and they should abandon /
| nj once. We need good pixies and citizen
! shOuld be encouraged 10 build them. How
| many pixies would be bulttr do you sup
| pose, II the County Court continues TO per
| sue such policy We know the motives Q
| the Court are good, and That their desire J
| TO protect the peoples money but in thi
instance their action is very unwise.
A big Temperance barbecue AT bIan
1 ton : Chapel to-day