The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-21
AROUND TOWN.

iHl anu i'ltsASFtlil Lllt Os1NiS
is not time that CoIumbia proposed Il
have "A WhiStIing club, and give us a rest
from bJSU-bawling?
The wife of Moses Moore, col, died last
Saturday night and was buried Sunday.
The smith Bros. felled and topped sew.
uraI locust trees in the Athenpum front
yard
Il child of Caroline Allison, col, was
badly hurt 10y falling from porch to the
ground, one day last week.
"C-O-u-n-t-e-T-y' is the way East
Market Street grocery mans sign reads, i'm
this city.
Just now IL would be i'm order in Column
bia to stop base ball on the streets rather
than on tine fly.
= Mae CaTIer has Just finished an addi-
tiOn to his residence on the corner of High
and Bennett Streets.
Garden street, in front of Lamb & BOyd's
machine shop, iS being raised some three
feet by Tia" Migrants who are in the rock
OlOEy Glass;
O'Clock, heard the report of gun, and
it being on the sabbath day, we naturally
went in the direction of the report, and
found that gentleman was being annoyed
10y THDmaS-Cats; consequently he gave
one of them lesden dose.
If the city Dads do not want to pay for
- broken neck or leg, they had better get
atty Marshal White to examine and fix the
bTidE" ON the alley near Peter BeckenbaT,
between south Main and Embargo Streets
ON saturday night some party unknown
entered the residence OF Bill Pap Brown,
Ia this city, and stole two or three bushels
lac had killed and intended TO have for his
dinner in the shape of a squirrel pie"
Mrs. Bryant has had very nice iron
tCuC" put in front OF her new residence on
High street.
Ed Gamble has nearly finished the dig
,-Ing OF the cellar on the corner of South
Main and Mechanic Streets. Now, we don't
know what the numerous bosses will law
ish their suggestions upon. Look out for
Fourteen men and boys were seen sit
ting along the romantic shore OF the classic
bend, last Monday, each holding fishing
rod ia his hands. "NOw Jerk
Listen To the mocking bird" every
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights,
by the IIcIicOns.
-WorkIncn were engaged last Saturday,
in removing the real estate" under the
carpets of Nick Atkins office. Nick says
that several acres of good soil suitable for
gardening, was shook out of the carpets.
-PuhaIu Smith, who in days gone by, as
mnuy of our readers will remember, was a
clerk in the different livery stables in this
city, is now badly afflicted with paralysis
i'm HI~ left side, and in his speech also, and
has been for two years an inmate of the
county pUor-houSc. He was i'll the city Sat
UrdHy.
saturday evening, when the "gcntle ze-
phyTS' wCr" blasting, Uncle Tommy re-
marked, 81 gh, get out my OvercOat and
pack that buster in two and a half pounds
Ut ll"urNNIllC bay lee
Hiram Erwin, last week, for twenty-five
cents paid him by Jim Tucker, undertook
the Job Of killing Jim's dog, "Taffy." Hiram |
led the dog to the bend and threw him
down the blum, and that not killing him,
Hiram then commenced stOning the dog;
that falling, he substituted the hangman'S |
rope, tied II around the dogs neck and |
threw the other end over q sycamore, and
in a few minutes Tally" was no more. Any
one who may wish to see "Tatfy's" skele- |
ton, can be gratificd by stepping down to |
the bend. Assessor Allen, place Hiram on |
-Jno. Baird has just finished a neat |
iron fence in front of his new residence on |
Free Street.
our city authorities may propose cleans |
ing Commercial Alley between South Main
and Garden streets of its nuiSanCes, but we |
have not been appriZed OF ~ through any
channel Certain 1t Is that TINS alley
pleads most cloquCntly to the nOstTils of ev-
cry paSScr-by for general cleaning up.
And the near approach OF the not summer
DAYS when pCStilCnCC rides on every wind |
up and down Helms Branch, reminds the |
tumId that steps taken too late are as bad as |
steps never taken.
Col W. J. SowelI, the owner of the mSi- |
ser mill on Duck River, was in our city last |
large lot of Shcllcd corn, paying one dolIaT
and four cents per buShel. The Colonel |
says lac intends grinding the same corn, |
aud selling the meal at one dollar per |
bushcl
hearing before ESu'S WithcTspOOn and Clear |
brought bN Bob Douglass, col. our readers
will remember That some three or four
week, ago Bob Douglass prosecuted Fauik |
for Es~SluE "A i've dollar counterfeit OH OF
the Traders aud Farmers Band at Chicago,
aud FHulk was, from the evidence at that
time, required To Civ" bond which ne
did promptly To- answer said charge at the
nest tcru ot tn" Criminal Court. The civil
case wa, dismissed for want of evidence.
FauIIl - well spoken of 10y every one who
knows him. as an honest and upright man,
aud We aUr pleased to know that he was
acquitted.
written examinations have been going
on at tIl, columbia Male High School in
this city tor the last two weeks.
VIM. shirley, e marble workman oil TINS
city, received 10y rail from Louisville, last
Friday,a marhIc->Iab which weighed one
Thousand three hundred pounds.
Ike sullivan has now at work several
Iahurcr~ removing dirt from Black q
Mpprv'~ livery stable.
Chiurh TruCtt, "a "hOuSe artist, has
been Tor the past few days, painting j. I.
l.. Cochrln'S residence on Free Street
Policeman Haynes killed i've puppies
aud the mother of the same, last saturday,
aud then placed them in the corporation
hcarsr, th" "BIue Maria" and hauled them
tn thu wharf, below Greenwood Cemetery,
and Their" gave them a watery grave.
-titN Marshal White Is busy collecting
'''' Frank Cox killed Ed. Philips black
au,i-tau dog. ANDY Johnson last Friday
mirhf. Frank says he will Kill nybOdy's
purp hat plays base ball in his Irish potato
Martin 4 Embry have had a substantial
plauIl fence built around their ware house
ON Ttl~t Market Street
,ruIutrd for last sunday evening in the Ma
sonic HAIL, did not come of, because no Ia
viii attend next sunday evening at i've.
Mr.. ~ravy, the Levy of Columbia, Will be
there with his cornet.
pT. Mitchell took occasion, last sunday,
To- rrtutc pr. MunSey'S opinion of Adam:
lie said IL was impugning the Justice ana
goodness Oi God to suppose that he would
maxi" man, who was a mere bdbU in MIND
and vi IN power, responsible for an act that
required both intellect and will TO under
stand and resist. lie did not call DIR. Mum
The Young Mons Prayer-meeung is
held at tn" Masonic Han every MONDAY
night. Young man, 20 next Monday night
There were eighty scholars at the South
Column bia ~uunay- school, last sunday even
ing, and several visitors. ms looks IKE
the good work has begun in South Column
some burglars entered the kitchen of
Mrs. EIckuell, near the depot, one night
last week. The burglars were heard, anu
were run OF before they had time to steal
LAST Monday evening, while MesSrS.
Irautham. Afford Co. were running their
machinery at their large machine SHOP
near the depot, the roof of the building took
ire. and had il not been discovered by Po-
liCymau Haynes at the time II was IN ali
probability it would have been entirely de-
Struycd. II Is thought that the roof caught
Iir, from spark from the smOke-stack.
Three wagons loaded with "Hickman
fruit pea -nuts-was on the public square
NThfs evening al four o'clock is the time
suggested tor decorating the graves of the
confederate dead at Rose hin Cemetery.
.t every boy and girl carry flowers. No
,,rTrar4fi0uS have been made for speaking,
ma ,..TbabIv there will be none. We have
All irrsttny enough, and a quiet assem-
bIstg,. Will bC Inotr appropriate
The ladies OF the Cum GHTlapu IreSDyte-
viaU church will have an Ice cream anu
strawberry festival for the benenl OF tnelI
church at Hammer Hall, on tuesday hlEht
next the s5th inst. The entrance lee Is nA'
81 m TWENTY-FIVE cents, and each one enter
ing will toe entitled TO sirawDeIIles ~
cream, aud for extra Saucers nfteen Sents
kill he charged. These LADIES are epusaE
rriuc to raise fund for fitting up theli
church and We trust that the com9uhIlS
will turn ont and assist them IN thelF lau.
able undertaking.
\ stranger, Judging from the business
signs in this city, would conclude bnat thul
lar Columbia has escaped the "spelln
SEuls-" ON "a sign in This place can be read
UnN~TcrS SerNCdD in all STILES"
One. OF two things is certain, either the
.fr.ytS in our city must be Eldencd, OF
tHrr., must he less of 'tangle-foOt' IN some
1f mo merchandise sold. Now on sat
ur,I;rv night last three quiet gentlemen
nom the country found II utterly lmposSi-
IE.t0 IVORY" up East Market street, eacn
with "a quart vial of this same "tangie-loot.
nm, ,f them sat down in ditch, and so dis
.rtStrf was he with things in general, thal
he declined To get up again until aided
Nuot,rr fu0oCeutly wal ked over Black 4
Moore-s Iamp-pOSt, and then lay down tC
think and curse a spell. The third walked
through Sloman's fTail garden fence ana Ialo
ms weary head upon cabbage hill, while
he mildly called CITY Marshal Whites at
f.utiuu to the streets being so marrow
Now aIl this is very sad, and we hope City
Marshal White will widen Fast Market