The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-09-18
Flowers and BRYANT.

ONCE not later imam tuesday night.
Never write to fill up; when you have
given the news, stop.
Flowers and Bryant.
a GHOST ON THE FENCE.
Recently John Sherman Cheek, who
lives near here, just over the line in
Marshall county, on the farm of Mr..
Wash Welch, went to Bryant Station
alter DIR. Billy Orr, at night, for a kiuS-
man OF his who was stopping with him
for few days. Though the man was
very sick, the doctor could not go until
next morning, and Mr.. Cheek had to go
uack as he came, alone. As he was rid
ing up the lane near Newt PinkstOn's,
his mule suddenly SHE'D to one side of
the road, but, alas! he SHE'D to the
wrong side, as perhaps mirSht have
been testified by the direction which
John Sherman's hair pointed, for 10;
and behold! poor John suddenly. and
without warming discovered that he
was near enough to lay his hand on a
woman sitting on the fence, dressed in
white gown with hen hands laying III
her lap. The night was dark and the
road lay between corn field on one
side and glade of young cedarS on the
other. The woman sat on the top rail
of the fence, while her spotless white
gown bore quite q contrast to the dark
shadows OF night that fell thickly
around her. She spoke not, moved not,
but sat n;cOntented silence while John
Sherman's hair reVerentiy pointed to
the star-decked heavens that shone not,
and his mule moved hOmeward under
the unconscious lash.
John says positively 1t was woman,
and Johns wife says John is truthful
and is not given to seeing strange
things. Where this nocturnal ghost of
the gentle sex sat on the fence in her
white gown, alone, on that dark chilly
night, is near the late haunted woods
that surround Smyrna, the Campbellite
church that was burned several years
ago by a supposed crowd of Marshall
county boys, because they were ra-
ported for misbehaving there at a pro-
Jracted meeting. Many and various
were the strange things seen and heard
in those woods, by various persons
Some were forced to 'git up and dust"
to avoid being Overtaken by presumably
large scarry looking animals.
A hunter, with whom am well &C
quainted, told me that he heard strange
things in those woods, and his dogs re-
fused to hunt under the satanic nolIe.
He heard, as it were, great noise OF
chains falling from the tops of lofty
trees to the ground. Another young
man fired five shots from his revolver
at a scarry looking animal, with eyes,
be said, like balls of fire, as it stood on
its hind feet in front of him. Another
fellow told NE, (and know him to be
an honest man, that he was riding
through those woods one night, alone,
when suddenly he caught up with
two horse wagon driven by an ordinary
looking man, he rode along behind the
wagon for few hundred yards, per-
haps, thinking nothing strange of the
event, till suddenly he lost all trace of
it and was totally unable to account for
it's disappearance. He had no conclu-
Sions formed in regard to the strange
occurrence, not believing in ghosts and
visions.
The church is half a mile South of
Bryant, and stands where the old one
was burned, in the heart of dense
woods, interspersed with hickory bush
es. About the tune when such strange
| things were. occurring there, 1, with two
other boys, prOwled all through those
woods one of the darkest nights that
ever Swallowed the earth, i'll order to
hear something, but in vain. The hun
ters said they could never see nor hear
/ it when more than two were along.
| For some time nothing has disturbed
the natives, until Cheek saw the woman
/ in white.
The Uncle Tommy Garrett home
| stead was sold few days ago. 1t was
| bought by Mr.. J. Van McKibbon, the
| land king of this vicinity, at 1920.
| Arthur McCord will return TO Texas
soon, after spending several weeks
| here. He will be accompanied by
! Misses Sallie and Ella Beatty, who are
| going on a visit to their brother.
| am informed that the protracted
Il
third Sunday in this month; Elder
! Sewell, of Nashville, is expected there.
Yes, was at the MoOresville Stock
show. So was ice cream, Lemonade,
4 watermelons, candy and my girl. Also
4 fine stock of every description horse
1 races and drunken men. So was Bill
/ Moore, the mule buyer, and Bill ker-
| cheville, OF the Marshall Gazette.
Ny readers will please pardon me for
observing just here that it is not good
/ to be too kind and courteous to GER
| tain class OF people, for nine times out
of ten, they will, after receiving the
| whole-souled generosity can bestow
| upon them, betray your confidence ana
| insult you, should you ever be placed
| in such an attitude that you would APP
precisLe chs favor were your former
| kindness to b6 reciprocated.
Mrs. Vannie Rsnton Pinkston, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Hill Benton, of this vicinityj
has been very sick at her home, Luira,
| Ark, where she has lived since her
| marriage four years ago. Sp6 Is conVa-
descent at this writing.
| Through the Kindness of friend,
was very much pleased to receive The
| following from Miss J, - a
young school mistress; "GeOrge, MISS
j school to come on, there is only two
| things for you to learn, the first is, to
| learn to love your teacher; the sec,
ond is to love nobody but your teacher"
i
| looking for. Yours truly, Miss j., and
| would you exchange eards3
In letter from Orland, Cal, Butler
| n. Scribner, of Columbia, informs me
| that he reached there in due time, and
| is very we'll pleased. He was wonder
| fully impressed with the grand scenery
between Dever Col, and Ogdeny Utah.
| congratulate Colorado" on his sue
| cess in the "model wife" contest. he
4 deserved the prize, l think.
] I suggest that "Jennie joe" of Bry-
l ant, and the lovely "Mabel," of Silver
l Creek, consolidate their correspondence
l to the Marshall Gazette, AS there is only
one mile of railroad between them, and
1 further that they write over the TeGttS-
4 tic nom de plume, "Jennie and her Ben
4 jamin." They could evidently write an
I Interesting letter, AZ ever and anon they
| looked, with a lingering fondness,
I across their writing desk into each
l others eyes, with magnetic twinkle
/ suggestive Of 'twO souls with bat q
/ single thought"
There'n be grand Alliance picnic in
| the grove of the haunted Smyrna, on
the 10Th instant, JRNNIE's PUPIL.
| When you are sieepiy, sleep; when
| YOU are tired, rest, when hungry eat;
| when chilly take CheAtham'S Tasteless
| Chill Tonic and your days in the land