The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-05-07
CAMPBELL STATION ITEMS.

Mr. w. o. Fleming has moved to
Lawrence county to stay during the sum-
mer, for the purpose of herding cattle.
He has about $50 head, belonging to diff
ferent persons. They pay him about 81
cents per month per head. There was so
much cold weather in April that the grass
was very slow coming on. On account
of scarceness of grass, it takes about FIVE
hands to herd this number of cattle.
A. w. Mcdonald has taken his cattle
to Williamson county to have them pas
tured. He pays $l25 per month per
head. The pasture is blue grass.
The rains of the past week have re-
vived vegetation considerably. Corn is
coming up nicely, and wheat looks much
better There may be few peaches left
in certain localities, and some apples,
but as a general thing they are all Killed.
The poplar trees still look as though
they were perfectly dead Where this
tree is the most numerous the forest pre-
sents quite dismal appearance.
Mr.. Simeon Cannon, who lives between
this place and Lynnville, little west of
the Railroad, in Giles county, had the
misfortune few days ago to have all the
houses on his place burnt, except his
spring house. He lost all his provisions
for both man and beast. The fire occur
| red on Saturday the 18th of April. Mr..
| Cannon was gone to Lynnville at the
time to attend church. There were no
white persons at home at the time except
one of his daughters; suspicion rests up
on anegro man that is living with Mr.. Can
non, of setting fire to the dwelling, from
which all the other buildings took fire
| That morning the negro had taken all o.
| L thInor ho ooh, III for fha
purpose of summing them,' so he said
Miss Cannon was up stairs dressing
when she discovered the fire. The negro
was in the barn: she could not prevail OF
him to help or do anything until it was too
late to save anything, The machine wa!
the only article of any Importance tina
was saved Mr.. Cannon had good i'm
provements. His loss will amount tt
several thousand dollars. 1t comes par
ticularly hard on him at this season o
the year. His neighbors are helping hin
with generosity that is truly commenda
bic.
Before the Railroad was built, what i
now called odd LynnFille,' was one o
the prettiest villages anywhere in MiddI
Tennessee. During the late unpleasant
ness the Federal soldiers tried twice t
burn it up. They succeeded so far as th
business portion of the village was cor
cerned-a few dwellings were left. Tn
village was never rebuilt to any extern
r inhabitants of "Old Lynnville' will nc
exceed one hundred; with this populatio
, they have five churches, three white an
two colored-the three former are larg
nice houses. 1t is literally a village
churches; A number of our villager
! went to this place last Sunday to hea
+ Elder E. G. Sewen, from Nashville
5 preach. Mr.. Sewell is a very abb
, preacher and gets large congregation
4 | wherever he goes.
b Mr.. Cant of this place, has lot
? hogs that are so mischievous that he hs
9 to put yokes on them to keep them o,
r Of his neighborhood Enclosures. They {
: ! ogeF a rail, and through plank fenc
. If they get through a rock fence, the
will have to scratch under.
a Mr.. Ransom Langhum left this vicinit
9 with with his family few ago. for Texa
: Texas, where he is going to make h
future home.