The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-06-19
OVER THE STATE.

A Spiritualist' Association will
meet in Chattanooga July 5, and will
have q continuous session of four
weeks. The meeting will be an en-
campment on Lookout Mountain.
Noted speakers and medium'siwilI be
present.
The Parsons Pioneer ;s responsi-
BILE for the following story: A
wonderful piece of news comes from
the eastern part of III .ckman County.
1t is to the effect that a woman gave
birth to q child near Water Valley,
which has horn, q tail and claws-
veritable devil. The report says
that shortly before the baby was born
Bible seller went to the wOman's
house and tried to get her to buy a
Bible. The woman ordered the Bible
agent out of her house, remarking as
she did so that she had as soon have
devil in her house as a Bible.
A black bear weighing 400 pound
was near Evansville, Rhea County,
the other day. The animal was shot
by Capt. j. Il. Darwin. One-haf of
the proceeds of the meat was donated
to the Evansville Sunday and
the other half went to the Chatt8-
nOOga market. Bear is getting very
scarce in the mountains, and this is
the first seen in Rhea County for
several years.
Humboldt will probably ship 250,-
600 bushels of tomatoes, the estimated
yield of 500 acres. This, at an average
Of so cents per bushel, the lowest
average for which they have ever
sold, will return to the growers $125,
600. The same number of acres in
cotton, at an average of one-half bale
to the acre, would make a return of
about $4,000.
Bob Clark, the negro who COM
mitted an outrage upon the person of
Mrs. John Warren, respectable
white woman, the wife of a railroad
man, last Sunday at Bristol, was
tri al came off Thursday and Friday,
and he was bound over. Saturday q
mob broke into the jail, took the
negro out and hung him,
Last Saturday night the C0ron
Institute at Gardner, near UniO II
City, was burned. The apartments
were occupied by number of young
ladies, who had just time to escape in
their night clothes.
The Chattanooga Southern Rail-
road from Chattanooga to Gadsden,
Ala, was completed Saturday at
noon by the laying of the last rail in
! Pigeon Mountain tunnel. 1t is pre-
| posed to extend the line to Column
| bus, Ga, to connect with independent
lines, giving a new route to Florida
and coast points.
Iron City, Lawrence county, has
determined to have an old-fashiOned
celebration and barbecue on the 4th
OF July. Several committees have
been appointed and are hard at work :.
Invitations will be issued at an early
date.
The committee appointed by the
| Governor to secure survey OF the
route of the proposed canal connects
ing the Tennessee and Mississippi
rivers by way of Jackson, will meet
in Jackson on the 22nd inst.y to make
| preliminary arrangements to have
the survey made in time to bring the
matter before the next Congress, with
n view of getting an appropriation.
The committee consists of Col. r, A.
Allison, OF Jackson, Chairman; Gen.
w. G.. Whitthorne, of Columbia, and
F. o. West, of Chattanooga.
Clifton is expecting to be connected
with the outside world by railroad
4 9 JOr.
The Central Baptist congregation
at jackson contemplate the erection
Of magnificent church building, A
suitable lot has already been pur-
chased.
Houses are being numbered in
Bristol preparatory to the inaugura-
tion of tie letter delivery system.
Tt o Masonic fraternity at Bristol
are taking the preliminary steps to-
wards erecting a magnificent Masonic
Temple.
| The Savannah district of the Ten
nessee Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, have se-
Iected FlatwOods for the permanent
location of q literary high school.
} FlatNNG ods is q small town in the
northern part of Wayne county, near
! Buffalo River. A $1,000 building will
be erected and a good school Is ex.
pected to go into operation at an early
date.