The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1884-10-03
Lewis County.

The drouth continues, and the farmers
have given up the idea of making a crop OF
turnips. In our travels we notice the early
corn prospects is good, but we think il will
prove one fourth lighter than it would had
there been more rain The late can not
make more than half crop The gOober
peas can not lie he;vy crop, owing TO the
fact that all spikes that came af'er the
drouth needed St asonable rains 10 make the
pea fill up, but those peas that formed be-
fore the drouth set in will be heavy and
full.
We were called over to Esq. Richard Dow
4 ~, t. act as an associate magistrate with
him upon q case where the State was plain
tiff VS.. Jack Mathis, charged with stealth G
corn from the crib OF T. j. Edwards. The
day set was on the goth inst, at IL o'clock.
The prosecutor and witnesses for the State,
and the defendants witnesses were all
present. The defendant, who was under
bond, failed to appear, leaving for parts
unknown. Mathis is ola offender, hay
ing served a smsll term out in the Peniten-
tiary for violating the law. lie was con-
victed and sent from Lewis county.
Mrs. Condor, who was wounded at the
time of the late Mormon massacre, is still
confined to the bed. We learn the wound
is very stubborn, and Yields to medical
skill very slowly. She cannot move the
limb by any eXertion of le"self.
1t is said the bone is fractured, and little
l.ope is entertained of al early recovery.
is quiet i a the Mormon settle
ment. Unless some one speaks of the mat
ter you would never know anything had
ever happened in the way of masked men
Or massacre.
Mr.. Alexander Templeton, an agent for
he American Bible Society of New York, |
S canvassing the whole county of Lewis, !
selling testaments and bibles. He is very
visiting every abode, and if he |
inds family without testament, and I'M !
able to buy, he presents them one free. |
The price OF the testaments and bibles vary |
rom five cents up TO three dollars and |
cts, which svery cheap for such |
excellent works. The binding is excellent, |
he paper good, aud printing Very neat. |
We bespeak for Mr.. TempletOn the kindest |
treatment and liberal patronage
We were deprived of hearing Mr.. Padgett |
make his speech at Hohenwald, in Lewis, |
On the goth inst, but we learn from those |
who did hear him that they never heard so /
excellent a speech in all their lives before, |
and that the speech was so powerful and |
plain none but fool would make issue !
against it. Mr.. Padgett is accomplishing |
great good for the party, and making |
equation that will be of great benefit to |
1im in the future.
There is some complaint because the |
Senatorial Convention, held at Columbia,
~ AOHiudIC a CSudtuI JOlully IOr M6ury |
md Lewis counties, failed to make a prom
sc 10 Lewis when she MAY be per-
nitted to send one of our citizens to the |
Senate. This matter, if not attended to,
nay prove in the future an error to be re-
;retted. We are for the nominee of the
party, Col. A. II. Looney, this term, and
rope to live to see a good Lewis county man
out in nomination for the next term. Maui
y two and Lewis one, and so on during
'ur joint sisterhood, would be just.
We, in behalf of J. N. Ament, acknoWl-
dge the appointment of assistant commits
Toner, from Lewis county, by Hon. A. J.
State Commissioner to repre-
ent Tennessee at the Worlds Industrial
nd Cotton Centennial Exposition, at New
orleans, La, commencing December l,
8S4, closing May 81, 1885. We hope Lew
county citizens will take some interest in I