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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
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1t is such rare opportunity and
such grand and glorious good news
and comes upon so of a sudden that it
almost takes our breath-but they
are coming. They will go the race of
| their lives at the Columbia Driving
| Park next Monday week, the Doth,
and We pity the poor lonesome soul
that is not there to see it; for who
ever, in this county, is not there, will
be by himself. We need not dwell
upon what these greatest Of g eat
horses are, and how their former per-
formaGces have shown that. it musI
be and will be neck and neck race,
and what a beautiful spectacle thiA
will be to see them coming down the
long home stretch (nearly halt
mile long, on this beautiful kite
shaped track. This is a picture each
one of US will color to suit ourselves.
But while we are all enthusiastic
over the sport brought to our door,
let's remember to help along the
man who brought it here. This race
will not only be pleasure to us, but it
will be profit to the county. 1t will
advertise. Maury. County to the world
AS it never has been advertised before
1t will tell the whole world that
Maury County has the only kite
shaped track in the South that here
Hal POinterjwas owned and trained
and his wonderful powers developed /;
that here his great sire left his sons
and daughters all over this and sur
rounding counties, and that this is a
stock county in fact, full Of fast fine
horses and fast fine tracks.
To the energy, the enterprise, the
prOgressiveness and the nerve of w.
G.. Jones, President of the Columbia
Driving Park, this people are il
debted for this great meeting. They
ought to PatrOnize him to their full
extent and encourage him in every
way possible. They ought to talk fOI
the meeting from now until then,
and every one of them be present.
This meeting Will be heralded all
over the land and it's result will b.
known of all men. The people
ought to see to it that the attendance
is commensurate with the occasion.
1t ought to be made a financial sue
cess to Mr.. Jones, who goes to all the
expense and takes all the risk. If it
il, then he has greater things in
store. If he is sustained as he ought
to be, he proposes next fall to give a
weeks meeting and hang up one
hundred thousand dollars worth OF
purses. He says the little town OF
Independence, Iowa, has no right to
lead Columbia in anything, except
cold weather, and that Mr.. Williams
has no license to hang up bigger
puFsea or .more of them OIL
the Independence track than he
(JOnes) has to hang up here If the
people will sustain him Columbia il
another year will be famous for the
greatest tr0tting and pacing driving
park in the whole cUuntry. o
co rse he does not expect TO max,
out Of this meeting, excep;
for his county and hi,
track, and surely the enterprise h
has shown deserves that much.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
Cumberland Park Association.

NASHVILLE OCT. Eff the tates will
only smile kindly ON the Cumberland
Park Association the day Pointer
and Direct meet here We will see
2:lO beaten every heat, B"th horses
have shown their ability 20 beat 2:Qs in
Il race-goOd day and tr-rk. Mr.. Sails
Jury, owner OI Direct, was the most
disappointed man in rerre Haute after
his little black PAGER had Lrailed in after
"Our Pointer" He says the Terrt
Haute track did not SUI Direct, ana
that if the Nashville TRACK suits him he
will turn the tables on Hal Pointer.
This race will probably come oil o..
Wednesday,, the SECOND day of tn,
meeting, and mem ,rahle rage it win
he. OF course, every TennesSean will
have his little ~" on Pointer. We eX
pect Pointer to win, but it will be the
Face of his life, aud then for the tirst
swish of the whalebOue over his head
Not since Maud 5. set the worlds
trOt.ing record at 2:0S34, in July OF 1886,
has her record been i'll such imminent
danger of being lowered, as at present.
over the entrance TO the Cleveland
track still hangs ''2:0S34" in full view,
for Maud SIS mile there in that time
has never been equaled by any other
trOter. Nancy Hanks now has IA record
of 2:09, and will surely beat 2:0SH be-
fore snow flies. She goes to beat her
record of 2:O9, at Terre Haute this week,
and the neXt week trOts her match race
with Allerton, at Lexington, for purse
of $1,000. The following week Budd
DOble will ship her here, together with
the balance of his excellent string, and
Oh Thursday of the meeting she Will go
t. beat the worlds record. Dobie says
she will surely beat it, and hopes to go
mile here in 2:OS or better. If Nancy
Hanks succeeds in lowering her record
here it will be q great feather in the
Cumberland Park Associations cap.
On that day an immense crowd Will
assem BILE at Cumberland Park, and the
whole of the trOtting horse world will
stand with anxious,ears to hear the re-
suit of the little Happy Medium mares
fast mile. The special attractions of the
coming meeting are the greatest offered
by any association of the year. There
will be four races each day, and in every
class fast miles will be reeled off by the
trotters and PAGERS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
HORSES. MULES, AND CATTLE.

Parties having well bred stock are
requested to send items to this paper
for our popular live stock column.
MULE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. quota
tons are corrected weekly by }. w.
Howard & Co. Must be choice and fat,
from to 7 years old, in good flesh.
Ii to AK hands high $S7 to SIP
AZ to 10 hands high 1l2 to 137
10 to l5H hands high 137 to 157
l5& to 10 hands high 162 to III
High grade feeding Steers for sale.
II. A. WILKES, Culleoka. sept4 tt.
Laura f. won the 2:22 trot at
Huntsville. John Thomas is making
Laura pay the expenses of the stable.
"A report and interesting descrip-
ton of the great stallion race, be-
tween AllertOn and Nelson, will be
found in this issue. Also a letter
concerning the Cumberland Park As
ISOLATION meeting at Nashville next
week. By-the-way, the HERALD
gives more space TO horses than any
country weekly hereabOuts, and horse
men will find this paper the very best
advertising medium in this section.
AT Lexington this week MOnbars
lowered the 2year-old trOtting
record to 2:I93I.
AT the Woodland & Shanklin sale
in Lexington last Monday, twenty
seven head of horses brought SAG, AS,
an average OF 81, IlO.33.
Maj. w. p. Ingram shipped five
ear loads of cattle to Louisville from
Carriers Greek and one car load from
Columbia. They were said to be the
best lot of cattle that ever left Maury
County.
Thomas Bros shipped one car load
Of hogs to Louisville this week.
M. E. Allen shipped two car loads
Of hogs and one of sheep to Louisville
Saturday.
j. G.. Harrison shipped his stable
of horses to Nashville Monday.
e. f. Saunders shipped fifteen
horses to Pensacola, Fla, Wednesday.
w. j. Webster shipped four
thoroughbred brood mares to Hop
kinsville, KY Tuesday.
Nancy Hanks has very bad cold
and her race at Lexington this week
was declared off:
-ClOpton won again at Pulaski.
AT Lexington on Wednesday OF
this week Direct paced three exhibit |
ton miles in 2:Il34, 2:104 and 2:10% |
Ii he does that here on next Monday
week, the Goth, the great unbeaten |
Hal Pointer will have met his match |
In the first day premium ring at |
the Pulaski fair, the following premi- |
ums were awarded: For best jack, |
3 years and over, premium to }. w |
81 j. l.. Jones, Jr. For best AlmonI |
fOaI, premium to Co umbia Stock |
Farm. Sweepstakes, best ia, k any |
age, premium to J. w. g. J. L.. Jones,
Jr,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
OVER THE STATE.

john Yates, saloon keeper at Fay
ettevilie, was on a bowling drunk last
Saturday, and refusing to be arrested
was fatally shot by policeman.
To-day and tomorrow party of
English capitalists will visit Clarks-
Vile and that section of country, with a
view to invest money for different
enterprises. Several million dollars
capital is represented by these gentle
man. After remaining there day or
two the party will go to Carlyle, Tenn,
the new mining town on Cumberland
river, in Stewart county. Some ore
specimens taken from the banks at
Carlyle, and iron made at the Cumber-
land Iron Works, also situated at that
place, took first premium at the London
Exposition in 1851. The ore banks of
the Louisa furnace are being worked by
Gracy, Woodw ard u Co., of Clarksville,
and all the hills along the south side of
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

= WHILE Congressman EulOe was
making an anti sub-treasury speech
at SaltillO, a little town in Wesr
Tennessee, last Friday night, an at
tempt was made on his life, by som
Iniscreant who threw brick at him.
The brick missed its mark and struck
Mr.. J. n. Galbreath, crushing his left
cheek bone and disfguring him for
life. The Republicans claim that the
sub-treasury and third party men die
itS and these men claim that the
Republicans did. 1t was most prOba
bly the act OF some depraved, coward
Iy fellow, and ought not to be charged
20 any party. That fellow, however,
ought to be be caught and given the
full extent of the law for assault with
intent to kill.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
Pointer aud Direct.-Fhey are Conf, g
Here.

w. G. Jones, President OF the Co
lumbia Driving Park, went to Nash
vile and from there 20 Lexington la>
Monday, where he arranged for /,
match race between hal Pointer anu
Direct, to be paced on the Columbia
Driving Park kite-shaped track ueXI
Monday week, the goth day of Octo
Der. This sounds too good to be true,
out it's true just the same. There il
no doubt about it. The contract il
-ealed, signed and delivered. TIE
purse IS for $3, 0GG. The positive in
formation has just reached us, and We
connot give the details in this issue,
but will in our next. There will be a
two days meeting, with probably
three races each day. Hal Pointer
and Direct will start the first day
There is no use of dwelling upon this
point; everybody knows what al ex-
ceptiOnal opportunity this is for peO
pie in this and surrounding counties o
see the two greatest and fastest horses
in the world. Half rates will be Civ
en- on all railroads. Such enterprise
and push and nerve as Mr.. Jones has
displayed, in order to bring his track
and his county prominently before
the world, certainly ought to and we
hope will be literally patronized and
encouraged by all the people of this
section who has any interest at all in
the stock interests Of this section.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

The Franklin Review & Appeal
thinks ait is getting high time that
members OF Congress and other de
cent, high-minded men should quit
eOiling their hands with John II. Me
Dowell. In engaging in debates will
him, they are Identifying him far
above his deserts, and are simply put
ting Themselves in an attitude to be
insulted by man whose breeding il
in keeping with his Arkansas associ-
ates, and whose instincts are low and
Nnlgar.u
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
The Columbia Driving Park.

Mr.. w. e. Jones has had his kite
shaped mile track incorporated, H.
order that breeders here may have 4
fast and convenient track to make
records for their horses. The incOr
porated name is "The Columbia Driv-
ing Park" snd the incorporates are ::
w. g. Jones, Campbell Brown, A. B
Rains, Will Polk, Lucius p. Brown,
Il. NJ. Williams, and b. S. Thomas
rhe great pacing match between Hal
Pointer 2:0934 and Direct 2:06, on the
t6tn of this mouth, will make th'
inaugural meeting of this track fa-
nous all over the country and be OF
incaIcuIable benefit to the farmers OF
the cOGptY as a breeding &c ter.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

p. 1T was once thought that Il woman g
name ought not to appear but three
times in public print-when she was
horn, when she married, when she
died. The degeneracy OF the times i.
plainly shown when the publishers
{" Demorrests Magazine find il /,
profitable sensational feature to re-
produce pictures of famous South
eTn Beauties" some of whom are a
ugly as homemade sin. They are all
written up as bowling bellies and pet
ted darlings OF the first families of tn.
land. We are glad these "represen
tative" ladies have approached n'
nearer Columbia than Nashville.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
SuinS for Polk Place.

The expected struggle to retain pos
session of Polk Place on the part of Mrs.
q. w. Fall, and the determination on
the part of the cOnSanguineOuS heirs OF
President James X. Polk, was begun
Yesterday by the filing of bill In the
ChancerY Court at Nashville by the
Polk heirs through their attorneys, Yer
trees Il Nertrees, and associate attor-
news in A. b. Bright, of Brownsville;
HughesI& Hatcher ,jand Fleming Il Son,
of Columbia. The bill recites at length
the provisions of President Folks will
and the will left by his widow, Mrs.
Sarah Polk, and gives the names and
locations of between forty and fifty heirs
TO the property. The bill declares that
Mrs. Fall refuses to leave the premises,
and the complainantS ask that receiv-
ar he appoiuted who shall take posses
sion of Polk Place and collect rents, pay
taxes and take care of the property on
the ground that G.. w. Fall is insOlvent
and that rents cannot be collected from
his wife. The bill states that Mrs. Falls
claim to the property is based upon the
residuarv clause of the will of the dead
President, by which, in case his will
does not 20 into operation, Mrs. Polk
would come into its possession; and, as
Mrs. Polk left everything to Mrs. Fall,
the defendant claims she is the rightful
heir to Polk Place. This will form the
basis of contest in the suit, which, Ow-
ing to the prominence of the parties in
will agitate the social surface.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
Farn for Sale.

On the Goth of October 1891 / win ut the
Court House door in Columbia, sell to the
highest bidder the farm known as the Miner
place, two miles from Columbia, on the
Hampshire pike. Bounded on the north by
said pike, south by Il fence on the line be-
tween this and part OF the said Miner
place; east by lane, west by Walker; being
one hundred and fifty acres in II paritlelo-
gram on the front.
This sale is made to pay Off incumbrauce
on the same, and parties holding same will
join me in the deed and title will be made
clear.
TERMS OF SALE.-Fifteen hundred dollars
cash, balance in one ana two years with in
tereSt from date, lien To be retained for same.
WIN. J. WEBSTER,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
GENERAL NEWS.

A destructive fire occurred in Nash
vile last Saturday night in the large
wholesale and retail dry goods and
clothing house of d. We'll Il CO., corner
Broad and Market streets.
There was a serious revolutionary at
tempt in MontevideO, the Capital of
Uruguay, in South America, Sunday.
The pIoI Of the revolutionists included
the assassination of President Goes and
the capture of the JuntR. Several of
the rebels were killed and the ring
lenders were arrested,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

Pointer, king of the PAGERS, arrived at
Cumberland Park yesterday morning
from Terre Haute, and will probably be
given his work over the track to-day
The champion is in the pink of cOndi-
ton, and when he goes against Direct,
in the match here on the second day of
the meeting, the Tennesseans will back
him to a stapdstill. Visitors to the
track this week will no doubt he ao-
corded glimpse of the greatest racing
harness horse that ever stood in iron,
for Ed Geers is always glad to crafty
the people of this section. Geers' other
horses at the track are Bob Taylor,
Frank DOrtch, n. II. Fl. and Fred S.
Wilkes, all steppers of high degree.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

WE read in the papers how 10000
people stood out in the chilling rain
waiting for the train to cone bring
ing the mortal remains of Parnell,
and how the mighty procession
passed the bier to take last look at
the dead cold face. An equally large
crowd would meet the remains Of
Jack the Ripper, if the occasion
should be given the same amount Of
advertising. ParnelI not only com
mitted the objectionable sin of steal
ing into the home when its protector
was away and rObbing it of its virtue,
but for many months before his death
it was plain to the reading world that
lac had made the cause of Ireland
second to his own personal ambition
aud preferment, and in that he had
shown what he really was, brainy,
imperiOus, courageous, but not great
That was the common verdict while
lac was living; now he is dead there
il no use soldering over a name he
himself disgraced. 1t is better for
the world to know that men OF high
POSITION are like other Of their fellows,
amenable to the laws of virtue and
common honesty, and that the truth
will be written OF them when they
are gone. II they want a clean page
in history they must not blot it be-
fore they die.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

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 FIG SYRUP co.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

THE Nashville Banner says the
straight" Democrats ought to bolt
the next convention ii the Alliance
men capture it. This is another bit of
gratuitOus meddling advice from the
enemy. The difference between ar
oItspOken Republican journal aud the
Banner Is, that the first is an open
enemy Of Democracy, the second II
secret one. The Banner is the Ish-
mael of Tennessee journalism-a Sc
cret, pOlitical. midnight assassin.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
NONRESIDENT Notice.
I


OLEKh AN d NJ All Elk , OF FIOEIT
October -, 1891.
IL. r. Freeman, ct al, Complainant, VS.. F..
NJ. Vaughan, Admir-, ct al, Defendants.
1t appearing from affidavit filed in this
cause that the defendant, George ID. Barker
is n non resident of the State of Tennessee
1t is therefore ordered that he enter his APP
pearance herein, on the hrst Monday IN IAN
nary next. 1892 which is a rule day of this
court and plead, answer or demur TO com
plaiuant's bill, or the same will be taken Tor
confessed as 10 him and set for hearing ex
parte: and that a copy of this order be pub
fished for four consecutive weeks in the CO.
lumhia Herald. ...
ocff0 IL A. ~. AhlNI Z. * IA.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

WARD M'ALLIsTER, the erstwhiIe
leader of the 400 in New York, came
il contact with a large sized chunk of
necessity, and went to work. H is
reporter now on daily paper. Ward
il rising in the world.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
Valuable Property for Sale.
AS administrator of Edward Williams,
deceased, | offer for sale at low prices the
following property:
april1O 1y

Three Houses and Lots on Ninth
Street, between Embargo and South
Main.
Two Houses and Lots on Ninth, be-
tween Garden and High.
Two Houses and Lots on Garden
Street, between Eighth and Ninth.
One house and Lot, corner Ninth
and High.
One vacant lot on High Street, be-
tween Ninth and Tenth.
One House and Lot on Embargo,
between Sixth and Seventh.
Also about Is beautiful lots ON Helm
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

THE reason the fire got such head
way before the alarm was given, pas
seTs-by who first noticed the red glare
thought it was only Ned's head stuck
O6t of the window
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

THE Gallatin Tennesseean is max
ing it rather warm for q mugwump
by the name of Gillespie, who by
s1me mistake or other has been
i,Iaced on the Democratic Executive
Committee OF Sumner County. They
are organizing Democratic clubs IN
All the districts in Sumner, and this
man Gillespie has refused to join his
district club aud asserts there is no
d ference between the Democratic
aud Republican parties. For this the
Tennesseean says he ought to be
kicked not only out of the Committee,
but entirely out of the party; that he
is a pure, unnadulterated MugwumP,
and is not entitled to a vote in the
Democratic prim aries. The Tennes-
seean is exactly right. During the
great fight of 1872 we should put none
but Democrats on guard; plain,
straight, fighting Democrats Inc
uarty in Tennessee has suffered too
much already from traitors in the
ranks. 1t is q popular thing IN Mia
die Tennessee for a man to cGU MN
self Democrat, and a great many
do so who have no more Democracy
fn their bones than berkshire hog
has hair on his hide. There will be
Sreat wall sent up about Reading
men out of the party" Keep your
ay,a ou the man who makes the cry
and regard him with suspicion: Ana
another point you might watchi the
men who wait to see the turn
of the tide, and wait until the
eleventh hour of the last day to speak
ont on the side OF Democracy even
though they become the loudest
shouting converts at the last, are not
tba men to be put on guard.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

SOME OF Brother Carmack's editori-
ais ignited by spontaneous combus-
ton and set the American Office on
fire last Tuesday night.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
ion I'rInIIug.

The people and business men or Co
hinbil and vicinity, have no need 10
send their Job Printing to Nashville
or anyH here else, as the HERALD job
HoOIus have two new presses and all
the latest style Jobtype, and compe-
tent printers TO Othe work. Price Rs
low 81 Nasty lie
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

AFTER an exciting aud bitter cam
paign, Indianapolis, Ind, the home
OF President Harrison has again gone
Democratic, this time by an increased
majority.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
Notiee 10 CORRESPONDENT.

Amy Of our correspondents over The
county who have any important
neWr TO seDG w after they have writ
ten their letters, will please con'mu-
nicate with us by going to their near
est telephone. Our telephone is
No. 10. aoVl4-tt'
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

Arrangements are about completed
r,-,hs building of a 100000 hotel in
Jackson, with all the modern conven-
fences, electric lights, steam elevator,
,SoEst offices, etc. This is something
NAT Jackson has long needed
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

IT seems to be the consensus of
foreign opinion that John Dillon
will succeed the late Charles Stewart
Parnell as the Home Rule Leader.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16

THE Banner is making a big kick
because the American fire did not
happen in time for the afternoon
napers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-10-16
r ID. LANDER. Editor.

PERHAPS the man who threw the
brick at Enloe set the American office
on fire.