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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-05-08
CURRENT COMMENT.

DR.. John A. Wyeth of 294 Madison
avenue, New York city, published all
article entitled Gold Cheer in Camp
Morton" in the Century Magazine
for April 1891, 1t is round, I'M
vanished tale of the horrors and
miseries visited upon Confederate
prisoners confined there during tue
war. A plain, blunt statement VI
the atrocities, indtgnites, and out
RACES maii9iously perpetrated upon
defenceless prisoners OF war. The
facts he Darrates, though told in plain
and simple words are enough TO fire
the heart. But he does not write for
this. He is q plain, blunt man that
speaks right on, tells thousands wha.
they themselves do know. But he
wrote this article, he says, as $ con-
tribution to the history of great civil
war, and for the benefit of the future
historian. This is timely work.
The South has suffered much from
the fact that her enemies alone have
written her history, but she has
suffered more that her enemies alone
have been their own hiEtOrians. The
horrors of southern prisons are tOuted
in the face of southern mel aud the
younger generation, AMI nave been
given to the world by our calumnia-
tors in such iuFid cOiOrs that the men
who fought our battles to protect our
country from invasion, our cities
from being sacked and burned and
our homes from pilliage and desOla-
ton, are looked upon as unciviliZed
rebels and merciless baIbarians. The
world at large learns slowly that
large part of the suffering iii southern
prisons was due directly to the in
human and barbarous rules of war
adopted by the Government at Wash
ingtoQ. Medicines were made
the history of the civilized world;
and a cartel for the exchange OF
prisoners was deliberately and
wilfully refused. They used every
barbarOus and inhuman measure to
wear out and exhaust the sOutI ern
confederacy. 1t was by the process
of inanition that they hoped TO con-
quer us, and it was by this process
that we were conquered. Grant
fought it out upon this line" and
the Government at Washington did
the same, Exhaust them," was the
order in the prisons as well as in the
Geld.
While our calumniGtOrs have pub
Iished their own mendacious accounts
of Outrages in Southern prisons, they
have omitted to give the history of
their own, or they have given ac-
counts. that bear not the semblance o,
the truth. While history is being
written let Us have it ali. Let OuI
caIumniators know the facts, if they
do not know it already. DR.. Wyeth
has issued a circular postal card to tue
surviving prisoners OF Camp Morton,
and other Northern prisons calling
upon them to give him a statement of
flnaf nd of of
incidents that came under their inn
mediate observation. He asks them
to sign their names distinctly, giving
their command, present occupation,
and any position they hold or may
have held. He wants these state
ments for publication. By all means
let the world have the facts.
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SnriD1 Hill.

DR.. Burke Bryant, of Louis lille, Mrs
Mary Bryant and daughter Miss a lice
| of Columbia, are the guests of Mr.
Henry p. Wade and family.
visiting her daughter Mrs. Alonzo Nc
| Kissack.
Mrs. DIR. Martin and little child are
now in Kentucky With relatives.
Mrs. Smith, of Bessemer, who has
'een in this place for the past week
was in Columbia one day last week
Mrs. Nicely, of Guntersville, Ala,
came last Tuesday to spend sometime
| with Mrs. Ed Geers,
Mr.. c. X. Wade, of Nashville, spent
Sunday in this place.
Rev. Mr.. Dixon was called 10 Mt.
Carmel on last Sunday.
Miss Birdie McLemOre, after a pleas
mt visit to Mrs. r.. w. McLemore, Jr.,
mas returned to her b Ime in Franklin.
Miss Mary Roberts has been out from
Nashville for the past week.
Mr.. Robert Smith of Pulaski returned
riday to his home.
Mrs. Hodge is back from n visit
Columbia.
The Ladies Missionary Society and
District Conference will convene at the
let hodist church in this place on the
2nd of this month. ChiLdren's Day
will be celebrated at the Presbyterian
church on the first Sunday in June.
Also at the NJ. E. Church on the third
Sunday of this month.
Miss Mary Thompson went to Mt.
Carmel Saturday to be absent for sew
eral days.
Mrs. Burke Bond, who has been in
Bowling Green, KY, for some weeks,
is expected home this week.
Miss Mary Lou Wade after being alb
sent for six weeks, is again at her home
near here.
Mr.. Ed Campbell has sold his resi-
ience and store to Mrs. Nellums of
AK; The store will be occupied by her
1C n Mr.. Baxter Nellums. Mr.. Camp
JelI is having a new residence erected
IN the lot joining the Caperton House.
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NASHVILLE, TIE EkEssE Ell
March 81. 1921.

The grand opening OF Conn ELL
HALLrMcLEsTER Co., Nashville was
an immense success.
Thousands were delighted by the
dazzling and rich display of merchan-
disc from nearly every CLINE, surpass-
ing in point of elegance and variety
anything ever seen in Nashville.
Ladies pronounced their Millinery
show a grand exhibition in Millinery
Art.
In Dress Goods and Silks they
showed all that is new and desirable,
embracing the highest novelties from
Europe and America.
All their other departments, viz. ::
Gents Furnishing Goods, Boys Cloth
ing, Carpets, Drapery, Shoes, White
Goods, Wall Paper, etc., ETC., showed
that much care had been taken in Sc
Letting goods for these departments.
Their Lunch Room and Parlors
were crowded all day, and many
thanks were expressed for the polite
attention shown by the management.
Samples sent to any address on re-
ceipt of postage.
All orders receive prompt atten-
ton. Address Order Department.
CoNNELL-HALL-MC Co.,
Nashville, Tenn
ectlsly
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OVER THE STATE.

F. L. Davies & Bro, for many years
prominent jewelry firm in Nash
Vile, made an assignment this week.
Their assets and liabilities were
about the same.
Mrs. Elizabeth Read, the mother of
Opie P. Read, of the Arkansaw Trav-
eler, died Monday after long ILL
ness at her home at Portland, Sumner
county. She was 79 yerrs of age and
the mother of eleven children, only
four of whom are living-G. d. Read,
of Gallatin; w. b. Read, of Portland ::
Mrs. s. ID. Butler, of Hen 'ersonville.
and Opie Read, OF Chicago. She wa
native of n, nth Carolina and a wo
man of exceptional intellect. Thu
deceased had been life long anG
consistent member of the Baptist
Church and was universally loved by
the people of this section. The bur la
took place at Gallatin Cemetery Tues
day afternoon.
Tom Smith, now under a $4,000
bond in the Circuit Court of Lincoln
County for killing young John
BROOKS about three years ago about
young lady. is reported to have kill
I'd James Wakefield, whom she mar
lied since the first killing. Wake
iieId and the lady were on their way
20 McDowell's Mills to visit her
father, and Smith is reported to have
net them, killing Wakefield and fir
ng twice at his wife.
Sunday night about IL o'clock the
dwelling of John G. Burton, near
Brick Church, eleven miles north
last of Pulaski burned, together with
the kitchen, smoke house and out
houses. There was no insurance on
any of the property.
The barn OF S. p. White, who lives
a short distance south of Pulaski, was
burned last Monday morning. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
Meagre reports that Mrs. Fannie
Whitman, living in West Tennessee,
being on a visit to relatives down on
Sugar Creek, in Giles county, sui
cided Monday morning before day
break by setting fire to her clothes
and burning to death. No cause
known.
Governor Buchanan has been quite
sick but is now improving.
James B. Mcbride, formerly one of
the most popular society men in
Memphis, is in Jail there for brutal
and murderous assault committed
Wednesday morning about 10 o'clock,
upon his wife and aged mother, Mrs.
Phillips. Mcbride was crazed with
rink.
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Rem:nist ences Of War.

Mr.. ]. c. McGaw brought into the
| HERALD office this week some very
interesting old papers published durin
the war, which he carried through these
times that tried mems soul, and OF
! course prizes very highly. They con
tain much interesting reading; accounts
OF battles, Gen. J. Z. JOhnstOn'S re-
1 ports, some of Lees, the Laws of the
! Confederate States, a speech of b. II
Hill, and many other things OF peculiar
interest. One thing in pa ocular that
awakened lively and patriotic emotions.
1t was joint resolution of thanks OF
the Confederate Congress for the noble
conduct of the soldiers of Tennessee for
their exalted patriotism i'll that dark
and critical hour. 1t as resolved that
"the thanks of congress are hereby
cordially given to the gala mt soldiers of
Tennessee, who have in advan"n of the
legislation of Congress, and re their
three years time of service has expired,
voluntarily rendered their services to
t he country during the war, with the
heroic det"rnIiUHtinN - ~. :. -,h:.n
the field ii tn - vsCe q
driven f. ur
won nee b.,
sPer a. f. tt.f. r,..-.... Int, $40 .
"rcnneesr= i.t .ii.c Wa 90 the '.. /
glorious movement ct "-Jts..lic Ter ,
Tenne~>ec, this j. our r'cs.d in VA,
let it be ne less glorious IN !eace.
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Andrews.

On last Friday morning bright and
early the families of Messrs. w. l., II.
w., and f. g. Sowell met by appoint
ment, and with a nice lunch previously
prepared, started out to take their
mother, widowed sister, and bachelor
brother by surprise and to spend the
beautiful May-day with them in quiet
enjoyment; and right well did they sue
coed in surprising them, though We
doubt not it was II pleasant surprise.
After few hours pleasantly spent i'll
various ways the cloths were spread
upon tie grass beneath the spreading
BRANCHES of the ancient apple trees, and
we doubt If any feast, though far more
elaborate perhaps, were ever more en-
jOyed, than by that party seated on
that carpet of green. But all too soon
the sun began to sink toward the West
and though 10th to leave, we babe them
adieu and turned our faces homeward !;
all feeling they had been benefited and
hoping to enjoy many more such pleas
ant days.
Mrs Emma Reynolds went to Pu-
iaski Tuesday. She was accompanied
by little Miss Carrie Scobey who had
been spending sometime with her aunt
and grandmother.
Mrs. Wilbu1n SowelI aud children
are with her parents in Spring Hill.
Miss Myrtle SowelI is with her grand
mother.
Miss Johnnie Nicholson visited her
sister Mrs. Maggie Rome recently.
Miss Leila Sharber has been Visiting
friends in CoIu bia.
Mrs. Helen Harrington from Shady
Grove was with her sister here the first
of the week.
Mrs. w. f. Scott and little Mary have
been quite indispOsed, but are better.
Mr.. Ed Long from Pennington Was
with old friends here Sunday.
L notice quite a number of peach tree.
heI infected with u kind Of Slieh;.
W hich, if gene raj, we fear will cut Ih-
peaC b crop short. Vegetation is greatly
in need OF rain. NOVICE.
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GENERAL NEWS.

Nearly l 600 people are thrown out
Of employment by fire in the steel
works at Breaker Island, near Troy,
n. Y, which caused a loss OF $4O0, 600.
Ex-Governor Thomas ]. Critten-
den, OF Missouri, was stricken Mon
day evening, at Kansas City, with
what physicians pronounce a fatal
illness.
The latest returns from Saturdays
conventions in Kentucky leave the
situation about as it was. Brown has
a good lead Hardin is second; Clay
is close third, and Ciardy last.
Italy has decided that she is too
poor to take part i'll the Chicago
| Worlds Fair.
The twenty-ninth international
convention OF the Y. NJ. @. A. con-
vened in Kansas City, Mo-, Wednes-
day. A membership of 225 900 was
reported and the Association owns
$12, 600, 900 worth of real estate.
The Rev. S. Pennington, Bap.
fist min .ster of note, has been found
guilty of Iewdness by jury at Cleve
land, Tennessee.
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Arrested and Carried to Nashville

The Sheriff of Davidson County
sent a warrant here for the arrest o
Virgil Douglass charged with writin.
letter to Ed. Pohl and Lewis Driver
of Nashville, try to eXtort money o
them by threatening to indict them
for selling whiskey on Sunday if they
did not send him stipulated amount
of money.
Fanning's circus showed here
Saturday. Deputy Sheriffs Joe Park
and Love Webb found their man a
the circus. He was drinking and
abusive and resisted the officers, bu
after a tussle was landed in Jail.
He has been here only few weeks
but has once before been jailed auO
fined by the Recorder for being drunk
and d sorderly. The warrant from
Nashville was issued under section
1913 of Milliken 81 Vertrees' Code
which fixes the punishment at from
two to five years in the penitentiary
w. w. Douglass, father of th'
young man, has been working in this
county for about three weeks, max
ing barrels for John NJ. Gray, and
bears good reputation.
Another young man, by the name
II Edward Petre, was present at the
trrest and claims that he saw tn
etters referred to; but Douglass
'laiiLs he is innocent and says he
an prove that he can neither read
nor write. The Sheriff of David
IOn County was telephoned that his
man was caught, and came out and
took him to Nashville.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-05-08

The New Orleans grand Jury inves-
tigating the recent killing of the Ital-
ians, has reported and filed their rea-
sons in full for not returning any in
dictments. From their report it APP
pears another band of "avengers is
badly needed. They find that the
Hennessey jury was fixed by hired
band of professional jury ixers, with
detectives O'Malley and Adams at
their head. And they find that the
Malta does exist, with a large memr
bsrshIp OF professional murderers,
robbers and thieves. These findings
being true, the law-abiding but self
protecting citizens of New Orleans
ought to band themselves together
aud hang these jury-tixers and Malta
members as fast and as long as one
of them can be found. They should
be dealt with as plague, and crushed
out by whatever means may be the
surest and the quickest.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-05-08

No QUEERER convention has ever
been held than that of the Republi-
can League at Cincinnati; after de-
Iiberately insulting Mr.. Harrison and
yelling hoarse for Blaine it elected a
man president, VINO had, in a long
letter read to the convention, slurred
at Mr.. Blaine aud reciprocity and de-
clared himself in favor of making the
Force bill the issue next year. 1t
was the advice of this same man..
s. CIarkson-that led the republicans
into the Waterloo of last November;
We are pleased that he was elected
president of the league, and we hope
that he will be allowed to run the re-
publican end of the campaign next
year.
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NEWS AND EDITORIAL COMMENT.


The trouble in the coke mining re-
gion still continues. There was an
other small riot Monday, in which
one miner was killed and another
wounded. The mine owners are light
ing the Devil with fire. They are inn
porting large numbers of Italians to
take the place of obstreperous Hunga-
rians, and these in their turn snail
follow them.
The latest dispatch is that Governor
Hill is a candidate for the Guberna-
torial nomination. He thinks he
made a mistake in accepting the Sen
atoriaI election. He still has his eye
on the Presidency, and thinks that
his point of view will be better as
Governor than as Senator. Mr.. Hill
might as we'll keep his seat. The
American people do not want him
and the State of New York can't thrus
him upon US.
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, wh'
| is looked upon as probable successo
to Senator Walthall, in letter de
claring his position upon the vision
airy scheme Of our farmer statesmen
denounces it as q delusiOn and
snare, and exposes its fallacies afte
the straightforward manner of goo'
Democrat. Stone is made OF tina
material which his name indiGRtes
Neither the Alliance nor John l.. Sui
livan intim date him
|
The report is that Justices Bradle.
and Field, of the Supreme Bench o
the United States, are to retire, an
Mr.. Harrison will have to fill the va
cencies. Besides being esisIRity t
the American people, it may be
slight Inconvenience to Mr.. Harrison
for it may trouble him somewhat I
find relatives or law partners VIII
have not already been provided FOL
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Cnrter'S Creek.

EDITOR HERALD:-Ssveral items OF
interest came to us last week but We
were too much shaken up" to jOt them
down.
One night last week some hung v
thief entered the smoke-house of MIR.
VIM. Jones and carried off about thir-
cen pieces of meat, mostly hams. So
ar Mr.. j. has no clue to the sneak
thieves.
Mrs. Steve Jordan is quite sick at this
writing.
Miss Jennie Southall, who has been
suffering with dropsy, is slowly i'm
proving.
Mrs. DIR. Terrin and little grand
daughter Maggie May have returned
from Memphis.
Rev. j. G. Jones and bride have re-
turned from their bridal tour AID are
boarding with Mr.. Joe Gray near Shaw
town.
Miss Jennie Jordan reports a fine time
turing her visit to Franklin, Gordons-
Vile aud Lebanon. Mind Miss Jennie,
we fear you may become an (of) Fem
Ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes of Williamson
re visiting Mrs. HIS parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wln. j. mes.
Mrs. Ophe ia Kinnard of Neapolis.
spent last wet X with her brother Mr..
Jas. Polk.
Mss Movie Kinnsrd IL visiting her
.ousins the Misses Polk, this week,
Mr.. Will Tel GA u eutsrom Memphis
The Kitchen o. n p. EsssAli eaasA.
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Grin.


Grip seems to be the most prevail
ing and most common as well as the
most popular disease that affects the
people. l have seen but few people
who acknowledge they never had it.
AS q general or common thing they
are complaining of it, or just getting
over az unusually severe attack.
Strange you never see man with a
cold. Bad colds, influenza, and even
pneumonia are things of the I as5-
diseases that affected us only a few
years ago. We ought to feel mighty
thankful to think we will not have
any more cold. A young man may
come in late, go to hiR room and bed
with cold feet, get up next morning
hoarse, head heavy, throat sore, anU
cough until he'yanks up his socks,
still he is not troubled with cold; oh!
no! It's grip! You may take your
bed with your lungs sore and an I'M
ceasing pain in your side and your
head almost bursting-there is moth
ing the matter but grip.
L met a young fellow a few days
ago from away back in the cedars-a
regular "jahoO," a typical tough, a
hardy, stout, red looking, healthy
man. 1 am satisfied never suffered
fifteen minutes from sickness in his
life. l asked after his health-a
foolish thing to do. He put his big
band down on his knee, shut his of
eye and growled; "I've got the worst
case of this here grip I've had since
the war" If had been big fellow
and my hero a small man / would
have cured him directly. know he
could have whipped me, so L drove
On after extending to him my sin
"ere(?) sympathies, and feeling con
WINGED that If we all took cold and
then say we have nothing else, thu
health Of our county would rapidly
improve. RICHARD.
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THos. NELSON PAGE will deliver in
Nashville tomorrow night his new
famous lecture upon "sOuthern Lit
erature." He is one of the most pleas
ing men on the platform. His re-
marks are not only intensely inter
esting, but they are intensely South
ern as well, and cannot but fire the
enthusiasm and ambition of Southern
men and women to learn the South's
true history from the pen that knew
how to write it right. Mr.. Page
knows so we'll the SOuth's dire need
of an impartial historian, that it is
hoped his gifted pen will undertake
to right its wrongs. All who can,
should embrace the opportunity to
hear a gifted man and one who
promises to be the SOuth's his
tDrian.
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The HERALD.
Friday May s. 1891.
r. ID LANDER. Editor.
An Extra Session,


1t appears that an extra session of |
the legislature is unavoidable. By |
an inexcusable blunder of the Gov
ernor and his legislature, the state is
put to this unnecessary expense,
amounting to about $4,000. This ia
the third extra session in the last two
years; aggregating a cost OF some
$50, 600; all of them made necessary
the ignorance or carelessness of Ten
nessee's Governors and Legislators.
The present trouble grows out OF the
fact that there were men who wanted
to pass law requiring voters in the
large counties to register, and they
made it apply to counties "having a
voting population of fifty thou
sand" AS there are no counties hav-
ing that large voting population,
OF course that law is a farce. Some
of the members are quoted as saying
they don't know how that word 'vot-
ing got in there. Well, the public
will always believe it got there just
like any her word in the bill. II
was no accident or mistake, it was
pure careIessness or ignorance.
But when it is called, let the cal
embrace as few subjects as possible
The legislature has passed on the
Worlds Fair appropriation PROPOSE
ton once, there let it rest. Let the
coudties that wish to display, spend
their money that way, but d. moi
force it upon the State. These min
eral lands are largely in the hands o
spectators, let them pay the fiddler
The masses of the people would no
be benefited, and the masses SHOULD
not pay for an advertisement they dc
not need and do not want. Public
roads are more needed than public
displays. These big displays cos
more than they come to, at best. L
gives a few fat salaries to few men
and the general effect is not much
felt. Tennessee is developing prett.
fast. Appropriations mean taxes
and we have enough taxes. Beside
if we had more mines we might hav
more Italians and Sicilians, and W
don't want them. In short Tenne
see is not stuck on the World
Fair, and don't want to pay for it. !
is mainly those who have axes t.
grind who want it; the averag
farmer and merchant is not nit.
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AS little as you might think 1t, the
political pot to be dished out in Au-
gust 1892, was simmering quite audi
Div last Monday on the Public square.
1t is a little early to begin to train,
Int il YOU Will commence, why the
first thing to do is to have your pedi-
grees all clean AMI straight; for you
must be by "Old DSmocracy" out o!
Convention" or you can't hold Of
fee in Maury coun ty and, don't you
forOet fhOf
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Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re SNRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE, kK REV FoRk, M
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Spelling Bee.

The spelling match at Stephenson's
Academy several weeks since was
such a success the ladies have been
persuaded to repeat it. This second
one will be given next Saturday, Ito
morrow at 3 O'Clock P. NJ. at the same
place. The Captains for this occG-
sion will be Miss Jennie Carthell aud
Miss Mary Embry. The admission
will be the same as before, ten cents.