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student, a close reasOner, and had q
mind of great logical and analytical
| powers, just such as gives promise OF
success in the profession which he had
chosen for his future field of labor.
| But with short notice, he is cut down in
manhood's early dawn, leaving mother,
! sisters and friends to mourn his depar-
| ture. His sufferings were intensely Sc
| we're from the first of his attack, and he
| felt certain that he would not survive
it, and the greatest trouble of his mind
was that his fond mother and Toying
sisters would I've left without his aid and
comfort. To him death bad no terrors.
His contest with the last enemy was q
glorious triumph of the religion which
he professed. His mother and one sis
ter reached him few hours before he
died, in time to catch from his dying
lips sweetest words OF love Ond affection,
blending joyonsly with notes of victory
and peans of brightest hopes of a glori-
GUS Immortality. There is q moral
grandeur in such a death, that must
have made his young college compan-
ions feel, as they witnessed the death
scene, "Let ME die the death of the
righteous, and let my last end be like
his"
The friends of Mr.. Richard l.. Porter,
of the Mt. Olivet country, regret to
learn of his very serious illness, and
will rejoice to hear of his speedy recov-
cry,
Esq. b. G.. Wells has done a good
work i'll buying out one of the groceries
of our town and closing the saloon or
drinking part of the establishment, thus
spiking one of the big guns OF the Dew
IFS Battery. One object of the former
proprietor in selling out was to haYe
the saloon closed.
1t is rumored that Miss Louie Fig
uers speaks of leaving our town for
Franklin soon. 1t is earnestly hoped
that such is not the fact, for she is q uni
versal favorite with all our people, and
the social circle, of which she is one of
the brightest gems, would be felt to be
incomplete without her presence.
Mr.. Eugene Greenlaw made flying
visit to his old home last week, in an
swer, perhaps, to our call in the HER.
AID. Come again, Genie, and bring the
wife and children with you. and then
we may hope to have you with US long
or.
The sacramental meeting at the Pres
byterian church on last Saturday and
Sabbath was largely attended, and the
sermons preached by the Rev. DIR.
Mack were marked by his usual ability
and clearness. They were real intellec-
tual feasts.
The Rev. Mr.. Gray and wife expect to
make visit to their old home in Nir-
ginia, soon. Mrs: Gray will remain
among her friends there several months,
but he will return to the duties of his
pastorate, and devote himself to the |
care and welfare OF his flock, by whom |
he is greatly beloved.
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a visit 10 The PreIIiest Girl in the
COunty-eO.

"a t, Eiuor Of Nh, Heroh aud 4HoA
Being on a visit TO your beautiful and
hOspitable city for course OF days,
took advantage Of the few hours be-
tween church services on Sunday even
ing, and took buggy drive out the
Hampshire pike for few miles. Seat
ed in one of Latta's best buggies behind
one Of his fastest trotters, II did not
take mo long to reach the residence OF
Col. Bowen, about seven miles from
town. 1t being section of the county
never before visited by me, was very
much pleased with il. The broad fields
stretching out as far AS the eye could
reach, with beautiful streamleLs and
magnificent forests, made it a picture
upon which the ego loves to dwell. 4
good deal Of corn has been planted 10y
the farmers, and has come up, but it has
a white siCkly, frosty appearance indi-
weather However, II IA To he hoped
that tho warm spell OF weather aud re-
cent rain viii bring II out and make
ten barrels OfCOTn to the acre. | also
noticed that a large cotton crop has
been planted. II Is lust beginning to
appear above the glUund, and has a
healthy appearance, and looks 40
though the warm weather since last
week, brought IL up. | observed that
some folds OF wheat look like they are
very much injured by frost, while otis
eT5 don seem to have been affected by
il az all. ] attended divine services III
q church thCrc; OF rather, | got there
i'm time 10 hear the doxolOgy az the
preacher couldn't sang and the brethren
Of the church wore rather modest and
the bonedictiOn pronounced by the
preacher. Rev. VIM. boss was the
preacher. ! got TO town about sevon
o'clock, having besides tho pleasure of
a buggy drive, visited the prettiest
young lady in your county. But AZ IL
IS mono Of your business, I'll not tell
you who she Is. Ton,
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| not hear what she said, but we know it
was pretty, tor Miss Nettie looked pref
ty while size was speaking. The Shep-
herdess was nicely rendered by Miss AL
ice Baird. Miss Susie T. LoOney came
in as Venus, the goddess of Beauty.
''Then on her beryl throne by Tritons borne,
Bright rose the goddess like the star of
MORN"
Then came the village school. The
teacher should have been Mr.. j. P.
Mitchell, but he was too unwell to act it,
so it was pretty well rendered by Mr..
e. d. Wilson. The scholars acted their
parts very naturally, and reminded US
of our school boy days long gone by.
Next came the Fairy queen, and Fairies,
led by Miss Ida Latta, which was we'll
conducted, and nicely performed. AS
Thalia, the blooming goddess of Comedy,
Miss Ida Jamison did great justice to
herself and to those assembled. Next
comes ambassadors to do homage to the
fair Queen. The ambassador from
Turkey, Mr.. Sam Cook; the ambassador
from Germany, Mr.. George Dooley; the
ambassador from Spain, Mr.. Henry
DOoley: the EN- AMBASSADOR from Italy, Mr..
John Gardner; all did well. In represen-
ing Tethys Miss Carrie Warren acted
her part to perfection. With yelland
bound the Indian, Mr.. f. D. Wilson,
came on the stage, and succeeded in
soaring all the children in "tits." He
danced the "corn dance" and took a
corner, after enlightening us witha few
choice Indian words. which we of
course understood. Terpsichore, one
of the MUSES., and goddess of Amuse-
ment, was splendidly rendered by Miss
Maggie Brown. Then came the Gypsy
Queen, Miss Annie NJ. Walker, and-gip-
sizes, to dance before the queen, while
they are dancing they are interrupted
by Noema-Pinkie Bryant, who after a
''cross her palm with gold, tells the gip- |
sy Queens fortune, all about dark hair |
ed youth, certain w. P. B., Esquire; |
Noema then says 'sOund the tambour- |
ine," aud they all marched out singing, |
Then came the Prime Minister, Mr. G.. |
T. LoOney, and gives the Queen some |
sound advice. Those that heard his |
speech say that he promises some day |
to make the old Court House ring with |
The Queen did we'll in Sc |
Letting Chris. as her favOrite. And last, |
but not least comes the beautiful Queen |
Miss Naomi Hays Walker, Right roy
ally did she sit upon her throne and |
receive the homage paid heFby her |
subjects, for sat her feet were laid'
The Sceptres of earth exposed on heaps,
70 choose where shewould reign
The god of Eloquence seems to have
forgotten that he belongs TO the upper
regions, for we heard him signing.
Twas but for a moment and yet in that
time,
. She crowded the impression of many an
hour,
Her eye had a glow like the sun of her
cline,
Which walked every feeling at once in pow
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The CuIleOkH Correspondent Once
More.

To the Editor Of tie HeraId ai.d Mod;
In your issue of may 7th, Mr. G.. c.
Taylor avows himself your CulIeoka cor
respondent, and continues to discuss A
question OF fact between him and myself,
and ends by saying, that "Mr. Wilkes has
either made statement without having
investigated the facts or knowingly sta
ted them incorrectly
AS this is, to say the least, an Ugly
charge, you will allow me 10 review the
case. In the Herald of March 10Th your
correspondent said: I'VE have one case
of diphtheria in town, and several
cases of mumps, among Prof. Wcjb's
students" In the No. of April 10th, he
admits Tin replying to my first notice.
that there was no case of dipththeria, but
there mere seven cases" Of BtuH,Us
among the students "at the time OfLe
10riting' Of the article, And now il the
issue Of May 7th, he says there were
more than two cases at the time he
wrote the article in question. 1t will be
seen from the above, that Of the two state
ments made by him, and represented by
me as erroneous, he owns up on one and
changes base on the other--advanciug
from several to "seUen' and retreatiug
from seven to ''m0re than hcO.' Two
other statements of fact made by him,
are pronounced erroneous in the Hcr0Id
of April Both, over responsible sigma
lures, and as their statements are not con-
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SPRING HILLITEMS.

The ladies of the Methodist Church
are engaged in the laudable enterprise
of raising funds for having the interior
of the church renovated. Mrs. Jordan
and Mrs. Laura Brown deserve great
credit for their zeal and industry i'll this
good work, and have been so far sue
cesstul that competent wOrkmen have
been employed to make the necessary
repairs. While all of our churches are
made neat and comfortable, and
while they are all served by an able,
jealous and live ministry, and there is
a steady increase in the mem bership of
these various churches, yet melau-
chOly fact is presented to us by carefully
collated statistics, as shown by distin-
guished divine. The last twenty-five
years shows an average increase to the
churches OF only two conversions to
each annually, while the average deaths
are four or five, 1t seems hardly possi~
ble that such can be the facts, but if
true, how long will it take to convert
the eight hundred millions who are yet
dwelling in the regions of darkness?
One hundred and eighty millions fell in
the Roman wars, fighting for earthly
hOnors and fame. In the wars OF NapOs
leon six millions died on the battlefield
for a name In our country how many
have sacrificed life and fortune on the
altar of patriotism. And yet how few
protesting Christians are willing to sac
rifice even little ease and comfort, to
aid in the worlds conversion. How ex-
ceedinglV few are willing to contribute
of the means with which God has bless
ed them, for this noble purpose, and
who can be found willing to sacrifice
life, health or ease for the salvation OF
dying people? But sermonizing is not
in our line, and we desist. Why may
we not have a real White and Bliss
meeting at our District Conference?
We mentioned in the HERALD last
week the death of Mr.. Reilly Hatton
1t is seldom that SO sad a visitation of
Divine Providence has fallen upon the
hearts of mother, sisters, relations and
friends. Much of his early life was
spent among our people. After the
death of his noble father, his mother re-
burned to this her old neighborhood,
bringing with her her three children,
Reilly and two sisters, where they have
resided most of the time since. As soon
as he had acquired sufficient education
to qualify him for teaching school, he
entered at once into the active and re-
sponsible business, and was remarkas
bly, successful and popular as a teacher.
He soon made enough to enable him to
enter the Law Glass in Cumberland
University, and was in few weeks OF
graduating in the Law Department,
when stricken down by death. He ever
bore the character of moral, polite and
honorable youth. He was model
young man, admired and beloved by all
who knew him, and the idol of his wild
owed mother and orphaned sisters, all
of whom looked to him as the prop and
support and comfort OF their lives. He
was young man ofgreat promise, hard
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Thursday night of last week Mrs.
Annie Philips presented to the people
of Columbia the most beautiful and ems
pertaining "FlOral Coronation ever
witnessed in this locality. Mrs. Philips
never was kpO,OH to fail in pleasing in
any of her entertainment; in this one
she has Gratified the most fastidious.
1t was so well conducted that not flaw
could be discovered, for there were none
TO detect. Everything seemed so real
that one could almost imagine himself
dOmesticated in old England, the "Is-
land of bliss amid the seas" The COM
ing of the Queen was heralded by w.
p. Mitchell, who, with sword in hand,
made room for her Royal Highness.
Then came Mercury,
1.-THE god who mounts the winged wind,
Fast to his feet the golden pinions bind"
In representing Mercury Mr.. L. 2.
Padgett did remarkably well. Then
came Miss Carrie Walker representing
Juno, the beautiful queen of Heaven,
singing "where oh! where's the maiden
chosen to be queen" The queen was
found and taken to Juno by Iris, the
beautiful little daughter of DR.. Joe
HerndOn. Juno then crowned the
queen, and she was conducted to her
throne under garland borne by John
speech Master Stonewall Mayes pre-
sented the Keys of the kingdom to the
queen; then came the Sceptre Bearer,
Mr.. Harry Steele, and presented to her
majesty, the Sceptre with which to
sway her subjects. Miss Bonnie Green
as maid of Honor acted her part splen~
didly. Next came the ''Infant PhenOn-
| enon" by Camille Herndon. She came
waltZing in, and singing "fiOlets,"
which brought down the house in APP
| plause. The "FOresters" were led in
| by Miss Emma Pickens, the goddess of
| the woods, blowing their horns, which
| Just suited the little fellows. Diana, the
! goddess Of the chase, was represented
| by Miss Susie Chappell in a very neat
! little speech. She carried in her hand
| her bow loaded with very sharp points
ed arrow, which came very near hitting
| the "big Injin." Then came Clio, the
| first of the MUSES., and the goddess of
| History, by Miss Mary Young, which
was we'll rendered Then Flora and
| Flower girls, Miss CODY Huntington
being Flora, the goddess of flowers.
Then the goddess of Fortune, Miss Car,
| RE Ruttle, came in to welcome the
| beautiful queen, with a bright aud
! golden smile. The three graces, Aglia,
! Thalia, and Euphrosyne, representing
| sweetness, Civility. and purity, was
splendidly performed by Misses Mag
! gle Brown, Simmie Latta, and Annie
| Gunnell. Then came night.
Fair eldest child of love thou spotless Night;
| Empress of silence and the queen of sleep"
This was represented by Miss Annie
! Dale, in very neat manner; following
Night came Morning by Miss Ellen
| Chappell.
! 1.-THE night elapsed, the morning shines,
Serene in all her dewy beauty bright"
| Miss IS. Young did we'll in represent
| ing ErstO, one OF the muses., and the
| inspirer of light and poetry, The Swiss
ROvers were led in by Willie Hendley
J and Miss Jennie Green. Willie made a
! nice speech and Miss Jennie sang a
! pretty song. Lady Hope was represen-
Jed by Miss Nettie Kuhn. We could
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Personal INTELLIGENCE.

We had the pleasure of a visit Saturday
from Mr. Gilmore, County Court Clerk q
Lawrence.
Major w. z. Ingram has returned from
Kentucky, where he went and spent two
weeks with his parents. His trip did him
good.
Chas. Il. Dillon, of Memphis, arrived in
our city Saturday. He went from Memphis
TO Chattanooga last week, to attend the
Knight COmmanGeTy, and from thence
here, where he is on visit to his mother
and friends.
We are glad to see once more the face Of
our old typo friend, Bob L. Faris.
He arrived in our city Monday, and now
"hoIds cases" on the CoJaa,Jio Journal.
Brother John NJ. Gault, of New York and
Franklin was in town Tuesday and We'd
nesday, selling tickets for n church enter
terprise. He seems devoted to his church ,
and succeeded in selling many tickets
T. She is not connected with the Whittle
and Bliss movement. Attoruey-General
Russell was not in town.
Mfr. John f. Hatcher and wife returned
last week from Iuka, Miss, and have since
gone TO the vicinity of Bethesda, William
son county, to visit his fathers family. Al
ter remaining there a short time be will
go to Louisville, to assume more active ser
vices on the paper which he has largely
helped TO make the greatest in the South
the Cpgrier-,Jou1oL. We regret to lOSe,even for
a short period, such brilliant and sOciable
companion. Ain. Hatcher has made many
warm friends here, and they and her church
will miss her much. She has been one OF
the most indefatigabIe and successful work
ers for the Methodist Church it has had
NF Anllo
for it. She is noble companion for the
gifted journalist We have no fears of their
leaving our town entirely, for they have
ties that bind them to Columbia.
ThOs. b. Malone, of the L,awrenceburg
Journal was in Columbia Saturday. Tom
staid until Monday TO hear Munsey on sun
day.
Rev.J. G. Bolton, Presiding Elder of the
Savannah District, passed through here
Saturday, OH his way to Nashville, TO get
Bishop McTyeire to hold his District Confer
enCe. He Is n young man, but a fine Pre-
siding Elder, an acceptable preacher and a
splendid fellow. He is publishing District
Directory, and il is not whit behind the
foIr,rJia DIRECTORY. His District lies in the
bRrrens, and contains the finest fishing
streams in Tenncsses-ShOal, Horse and
Indian creeks, and Buffalo river. He is
fond of angling, and has been trying for
years TO save enough money from his small
salary TO buy two Meek reels and a Web
ster's Unabridged Dictionary. He has only,
so far, saved enough money to buy one of
these things-whieh did he get, suppose
you? Why, he bought the Unabridged Die |
and has to continue fishing with !
au old fashioned reel. Mr.. Bolton Joined the |
Conference at this place, in the
old Methodist Church now burnt down. He /
and DIR. A. w. Smith Joined at the same
1859.
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DR.. Muns6y delivered lecture in the
AthenRum Hall last Friday night. He
intended to lecture on 1.-The Ideai-Mu>
sic, Art" which is his favOrite lecture,
but by the request of many citizens be
changed his subject and lectured on
Man" After being introduced to his
audience by DR.. A. w. Smith, he said
his lecture would be taken from four
lectures on the same subject, and much
of it would be eXtempOraneous. OF
course we will not attempt to give even
a synGpis OF the lecture, and will have
to speak in general terms of it. 1t was
logical, metaphysical, poetical, grand.
The links in the chain Of his logic were
as solid as iron and as strong SIS truth.
He took the first chapter OF Genesis as
the basis of his remarks upon "Man, -
and made that grand old chapter shine
with power and beauty. Man is three
fold: body, mind and spirit. Without
either he is not a complete man, hence
the necessity of the resurrection of the
body. The spirit of man is that which
came directly from God, and is consci-
ence. DIR. Munsey's description of the
skull OF man was gem, and his perora-
ton, the making of man and the cOun-
ell of worlds, was grand and magnii.
cent four or five times. 1t was such a
picture as only a great genius could
paint. The auditors listened with
breathless attention to the lecture, and
when the lecturer assembled the heights
of Fancy, they assembled with him-on
his wings. Those best pleased were
such as were best able to understand
him. The lecture lasted two hours, and
yet the crowd had no idea he had been
talking that long. 1t is hard to say
where Dr.. Munsey is greatest, in argu-
ment or fancy, for he issupreme in both.
Sunday morning it was known that
t,l:a ~ c,rcl et ~ oia1nnll AND he.
fore ten o'clock people began to crowd
the church. Soon every seat was occu-
pied, and chairs were brought in from
every direction and placed in the aisles,
and yet many went away unseated.
The Presbyterian Church, besides being
very handsome, is the largest church in
town, and about six hundred persons
were present when DR.. Munsey began.
He preached from John 1890, at is flu.
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RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Rev. II. A. Jones has been helping tC
carry on a great revival at Athens, Ala.
There was no preaching in the c. P, and
NJ. f. churches last sunday morning.
The Methodist Church at Hurricane
switch will be dedicated on the 18th OF this
month, by Bish p Marvin, one of the great
est preachers in his church.
There was no lady present to perform on
the organ at the Service of Song in the Ma
sonic Hall last Sunday evening
1t was rainy and stormy last Sunday
night, and the lecture or sermon which Rev.
George Beckett had promised to deliver to
the Young Mems Christian Association, had
TO be postponed.
The new house of worship three miles
east of Mt. Pleasant, to be known as the
Porter Church" will be dedicated Sund ay
May 18th, by Rev. DIR. r. A. Young, OF Nash
VILE. Morning service VIII commence at
TO- o'clock.
DIR. Young Will preach in the Methodist
Church at Mt. Pleasant next Saturday
night, May 18th; also at the same place on
Sunday night, May 10th.
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| reverted by him, IT is virtual conccs
sion that he was mistaken in what n,
! sliG.
To sum up, Mr.. Taylor admits that thre,
out Of four statements made by him., wer,
| erroneous, and it is seen from the abovt
! changes position twice on the other, anC
| that too after he had investigated.
will state then for his benefit that ny
| Information as to the number of students
| SICK at the umein controversy, was derived
| nom some Of the students themselves
! ana from Messrs w. II. and j. NJ Webb
| As The Messrs. Webb keep roll and call
| the same every morning, aud mark the
! aoseutees, and gave me the information.
! 10 VIII be PLAIN to every one who wants
! tO know the truth in the promises, that
| the charge Of Mr.. Taylor named above
may be added TO the number of CHROME.
ou8 statements previously made.
Leaving HIM for the present to enjoy
the reuOwu be has won as a newspaper
correspondent ask the privilege of ad.
dressing a few words
10 THE PUBLIC.
lac tone of the correspondence from
IulleUka IN the HCrdid some time since
had the tendency to make the impression
abroad that the community there was
differing from various kinds of sickness
that was likely to become general, and
HAT Tins was especially the case among
the students Of the Culleoka Institute
Repeatedly and almost every week in
Fco'y and March last, my attention was
called TO this correspondence by persons
who lived IN other communities, and
have reason to believe that the Messrs.
Webb have lost patronage from that cor
reapondeucc. When the article of March
26th appeared, Il request was made to me
rs chairman to call the Trustees of the
Institute together, 10 take some action
with the view of correcting the wrong
Impressions made by the correspondence.
On inquiry it was found that so many of
The Trustees were absent at the time that
10 would be impossible to obtain anything
like a full attendance; as a friend of the
school therefore, | called attention TO
two statements erroneous over my prop
er signature. At the time Of the wri-
ting OF my first article | had no idea
whatever who the correspondent was.
could not therefore have been seeking a
mere personal controversy. thought
then your correspondent was misled as 10
the facts, and in my two former articles
these erroneous statements were COnsd-
cred from that standpoint. It was not un-
till May Jrd, after my second article was
in print that | learned that Mr.. Taylor
was the correspondent. As he is a prop
crty-holderin our town, and as the school
Of the Mcssrs. Webb is the browning
glory ofof the town and ono of its main
supports, am still inclined o regard my
first impressions as correct, and can only |
account for MrT's defence OF bis state
ments On the principle that actuatcd |
the man, who by mistake said, his horse |
was fifteen feet high, and then stood to
his error despite the proof This is some
lines the case with men Of strong and dc
ermiued wills, especially when supper
ed by their right bower"
w. II. WMGEs,