The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-11
COUNTY cULLINGs,
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Flowers and BRYANT.
MIscEILANEous RREvIr1Es.

W. ~ LLlNG0H
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Flowers and Bryant.
MISCELLANEOUS BREvITIEs.
Mr.. Hill Benton is confined to his bed
with an abscess on his leg, just below
the knee.
Miss Anna Benton, while riding brisk
ly few days ago, had a narrow escape
from being seriously hurt. Her horse
fell to its knees, throwing her danger
Gus fall over its head. She escaped
unhurt.
VIM. Bird has deceased since our last
items were sent to the HERALD. He
was buried at the Haynes grave yard.
! MIR. Bird WIS born and educated in
North Carolina, and was a graduate OF
one of the best schools in mat state.
He was seventy-one years of age at his
death. The deceased was a very re-
! spectacle old gentleman, and bachelor.
A very touching and impressive tribute
was paid to his memory by Rev. John
McKelvey, at the grave.
John +. Bryant received a very large
stock of goods few days ago. Come
and see.
Misses Flora WEIGH aud Blanche
Vincent spent last week with frienC in
Columbia. Misses Florence GipsOn and
Anna Benton were also in the city last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Allen will move
to their farm in Giles county, soon.
preacher at Flowers.
AN EVENT MUSICAL.
Last Saturday night a number of
young people called at the residence of
Mr.. Hill Benton and enjoyed them
selves till late hour. Those present
were Misses Sarah Parrish and Sallie
D. Freeland; Messrs. w. o. Freeland;
Pink Gresham and Brown Parrish.
Excellent music on the violin was
furnished by Messrs. Gresham and
Parrish. Esq. Samuel Fl. Denham was
also present and entertained the young
people very highly by reviewing some
| of his schOOl-bOy life while at Masonic
Hall in CulleOka. Get Sam to tell you
| about what good time he had when
Prof. Webb went off to get married.
THE GRAND SMYRNA DEBATE
comes off next Saturday night at
Smyrna Church, half mile from Bry-
ant. The question for discussion is;
ResoLUed, "rhat man goes direct from
death to his final judgement" Those
who wish to hear this interesting sub
ject ably discussed, are invited to at
tend.
Prof. T. NJ. Hogan, of Water Valley,
was in this vicinity last week, and
spent night with your humble serv-
ant.
Miss Dora Denham visited at Mr.. Hill
Benton's last week.
Mr.. Andrew d. Bryant, and his bride,
nee Miss Martha Revis, of North
Carolina, arrived at Bryant last Mon
day at four o'clock, from the home of
the bride in Carolina.
John f. Bryant went to Nashville,
Monday, on business.
SARAH JANE COMMITS MURDER.
On last Saturday morning, stimuli
taneously with the dawlling of the
tWinkling rays of the morning sun as il
rose in all the brilliant loveliness OF its
Orient splendor, like a tidal wave, from
lip to lip was heard to bound suspicious
notes that whispered family of foul
cOrnmittal in the city of Bryant, while
the dusky wings of Egyptian kindred
obscured the light.
AT first, light rumorS of uncertainty
were skipping around like unto in an
Observation-Disclosures, but later on as the
sun skipped higher IN its appointed orb,
the rumOrs became more confined and
exciting, till anon the fearful truth
spread far and near that death in all its
midnight terrOrS, had ragged and foamed
in its mad career and at last had con
quered its victim in the person of Ben
Agnew's saddle mare. The poor thing
with only its ribs and backbone LETT,
lay in state in the hall of DR.. Bill Orr's
barn, where it was viewed by the sur
rounding populacf, and many tear of
mirth was shed over the sad remains.
After viewing the remains, the dear
people filed on in crowded columns to
the store of John +. Bryant Il Son,
where they bestowed all their sympa-
thetic kindness on the berieved Knight
of the Yard-stiCk and StatiStician of hen
fruit. Coroner Ernest Holt was at once
informed of the exciting discovery and
forthwith proceeded to organize a jury
of inquest. The statements ofwitnesses
before the jury were marvelOusly con-
t1icting. MIR. b. f. Agnew testified that
on the night of the calamity he perched
himself, the Knight of the Yard-stick
and Statistician of Hen-fruit, on the de-
ceased, on Sarah Jane, the buck jump
ing mare belonging TO Mr.. Will Bryant,
'the ball headed man" you have heard
acclaimed so often by youngsters in
school, and rode the deceased, recOg-
nized by the ribs and back bone, from
the livery stable of DR.. Bill Orr to the
residence of the bright eyed beauty
an abel" of the city of Silver Creek, of
the county of Marshall-to the residence
of "MabeP' the Jennie" whose "Joe"
he claims to be. This much, the jury
accepted as true. He further states
that, when he started Lonesome time
between shutdown and sunrise, Sarah
Jane proceeded to amuSe herself by Try
ing to form Missionary Ridge; where
upon he, having performed bis Mission,
thought the Ridge unnecessary and
unpleasant, and got of of Sarah Jane.
Sarah Jane finding herself flee, and the
deceased swinging by the grit where
the Chinese Empire would have been
situated, should map of her surface
been drawn to correspond with the map
of the world, and finding the late rider
of the deceased situated at the North
pole, she proceeded to revolve in the
direction of the city of Bryant Station.
Mr.. Dan Barron testified that his
father had a young jersey of the NJ ascu-
line gender whose Masculineship was
accessible to the road travelled by the
Counting Knight; and further stated
that he whereabouts found red nand
kerchief hanging in a cedar tree just
80 feet and IL inches from the ground.
This statement, to the minds of the
jury, contradicted the statement of the
Sf..fr e5fT aTn - IlnRN frTNf hn
determined to straddle the situation, |
and after remaining out just 10 minutes |
and 2 seconds, handed in the following
verdict; To His Majesty the Coroner |
your humble jury after hearing the |
evidence, have come to the conclusion |
that the deceased came to it's death by |
com bination of events that would |
stronger constitution than that pos |
sesseo by the deceased; namely: !
"Joe's'' irresistible desire to see his |
"Jennie;'' the frail venerality of the |
deceased; the sudden desire of Sarah |
Jane to form a Missionary Ridge about |
the Equator of her surface; the nom
Suitability of the subject of Sarah |
James amusements; with possibilities
of collision with the Masculineship OF !
Mr.. Barron's jersey. Services were
held over the deceased, in John F. Bry
ant d Sons new Turkey Hall, where
DR.. Bill Orr made the following Grafton:
My friends, we have met to pay our
last tribute of respect to the deceased.
We have met to honor the venerable
dead whose life has been spent in the
services of the most heart-enlisted cause
of the human race that of bearing
many a proud and anxious rider on an
errand of courtship. The honored dead
has been subject to many straddle;
but right nObly has it born its oft-time
troubled burden. On it's cross bearing
back, many visionary dreams and
ITtOniAn fanriaS have first heaaTt horn a |
youthful thought, but to find themselves
soon buried IN the dark cells of disap-
pOintment and oblivion. For long years
the deceased has born the anxieties of
its grief-stricken straddler; but its
labors are over, and the sadess thought
is the fact that i5cane to its death in so
aged a condition, by the wicked acts of
Sarah Jane. q. c. b.
Depot Demolished.