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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-30
The UpshOt.

/ And l heard q voice saying,
! prophecy, oh, man, concerning tlft
| Mt. Pleasant pike.
>. Write and write quickly the
thing that shall shortly come to pass
5. "The day is at hand when the
song of the turtle will no longer be
heard in the laud, and when the
summer is ended and winter drawth
nigh and old Boreas whistleth.n
4. And 1 looked and 10, l beheld
three commissioners with a salary of
six hundred dollars, who sayeth to
the county court, ahem! ahen! ahem I!
D. Behold the thing doth not pay!
And the road hath gotten bad; for
doth it not require some money to
keep up the road in the winter time
when the snow falIeth and the slush
is bad.
6. 1.-The evil day draweth nigh; be-
hold we will give up the road, being
a. how the outgO will be greater than
the income during the winter
months.
:. Come! go to! Now let us away
with it. For we will have to tax the
people to pay our commissioners and
the three gate keepers, something
over a Thousand dollars a year.
5. Besides the county cOnvicts
can't peck rock fast enough to fill
up all the md holes.
9. And he that rideth in fine
coach and payeth full fare will have
| to walk and carry fence rail to prize
out of mud holes. Selah.
10. Aud looked again the second
time aud / heard as it were the
great Sanhedrin of the county court
saying one to another:
IL. "BehOId il is necessary to in
81 !, 10
II. ibid not the commissioners
with salary Of six hundred promise
an income to the county and to
lower the taxes of the people and to
keep up the pike for favored ones to
travel on? u | ,-i .rTr q.
Is. "HOw can these things ben .-
IA. And looked yet again the
third time and 10 L 1beheld all the
people, the rich and the pOOr-except
the favored ones who pay no toll.
saying one to another: -
q 15.IaCome, let ug go up to the tenn
pie of Justice and in the name Of
the people and the tax PAYERS S6f
MallfS County declare the Mt Pleas
antpfke a. free road And all the
people said amenl -rs coz sr-f "a
Ii And 1 heard the voice OF HOT,.
ace in the wilderness saying; "NOw,
Egentlemen you. have tried the eX-
pertinent. Give me back my road
again and I viii fix It up according
to Gunter and according to law, ct IA
Ozlf32e 6eS1Sfs 55-'f-51 .CfGEl -... 't~ Gps57-As
lT9fRadI Deheld and 10 all these
things doth quickly come to pass :
WlHe1R the winter com eth and the.
ground hog seeth not his shadow and.
the moon exalteth her horn. is1.,-.g ~
r. ISe And when the mercury, freezeth
in the, Thermometer and the Coal
Creek miners wArfeth no 'ffiores,
and the ::wI1ang dootl ~ fieeth to the
mOdntafns sud et g. WIFI be scffe1i
naffEgh8h ID pdhy fo4inS no fifOEe9
T0e4Aaaa an tIdesf people SAY. $50
moteft belp anaeu.S Gre s~I-YT 81
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on for Texas.

The following people of the Isom's
Store neighborhOOd stopped in Co
lumbia Thursday, and left Friday
for WaxAhachie, Texas, which place
they viii make, their future home:
]. II. Davis and wife; fhOn1as DAvTF,
wife and children; Joe Kirk and
family; Mr.. VIM. POgue and Mr.. Guy
ThofaPson, of Hampshire. Miss
Annie Kennedy, daughter of Squire
J. ii. Kennedy, accompanied her sis
ter, Mrs J. II. Davis, for visit to
the Lone Star state, and Miss Ida
Akin ALEC went for the same purpose,
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AROUNDLrOwN.

Marriage license were, issued Sat
dAy To- Samuel NotmrsAne !, and Miss
License for marriage we're issued
Saturday to Frank II, ,Ralston and
Mrs. NJ. f. Shots.
Mr.. IT,. Robin son, foreman, is at
the depot with his crew of painters
for tse Louisville and Nashville Rail
road Company, painting and working
on all the railroad buildings and inn
proving the looks OF things generally.
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W, TAYLOR.

A note from Mr., w. c. Taylor, who
lie at the Sanitarium in Washington
City, under the treatment of one OF
the most eminent physicians of the
country, brings the glad news that he
and his friends may hope for his ulti-
mate recovery. He writes: i-2'FThe
doctor says have tumor on my
brain, and that he can certainly cure
me-" We truly hope that his :recOv-
cry will be quick and complete.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-30
A WOMAN IN 1T.
Two Arrests Made for Wednesday
Nights Awful Fire.

Nights Awful Fire.
Martha Hodge and Elk Pigg, both
cOlored, are behind the bars charged
with burning the Fair Ground
The warrant for their arrest was
sworn out by Join Jackson, of
Overton & Jackson, detectives, before
Judge Coleourn last Friday morning.
II was placed in the hands of Officer
Love Webb, who made the arrests
promptly. He found Martha Hodge
at her home, immed lately across the
Pulaski pike from the street car
stables. She and her sister, Ida
Hodge, live in a small house owned
by Kale Porter. They have children
but no husbands. Martha is mulattO,
about p years old. She has n hard
reputation. She made no trouble
about the arrest, but claims that she
can prove that she WAS ut home in
bed when the fire occurred.
Elk Pjgg, alias Henry PIgg, is a
heavy set mulatto, about "a years
old. He lives in the Elan row, in the
edge of Macedonia, and works for the
corporation of Columbia. He was
driving one of the city wagons when
Webb arrested him. He protests his
innocence and says that he can prove
an alibi.
The HERALD reporter has gathered
the facts that follow from various
sources, most 0f them reliable. They
are to the effect that Martha Hodge
is o bad woman. She was too int.S
mate with one OF the colored' boys
who worked in the stables Of Chaffin
Bros. She and this boy fell out and
the boy broke off his relations with
her. She threstend to get even with
him and said she would burn him
out of q Job. This was too or three
days before the fire which occurred
on Saturday night last. In the mean
time she was keeping company with
Elk Pigg.
On last Saturday night she and
Pigg were seen in town together, she
having an oil can. A few minutes
before the fire they were seen to-
gether at the Fair ground gate, again
having the oil can, The presumps
ton is that they used the oil in start
ing the fire that night and that
they repeated the act on "Wednesday
night. II all these charges were
true they would not constitute proof
positive, as they seem to us to fall
far short OF being satisfactory. 1t
hardly seems probable, that ra-
total william, would make his oil
can so conspicuous while making
'his preparatiOnsito, commit arson--a
crime which the law publishes with
its sexeFest penalties
Z 1t il devoutly 20 be hoped that
strong and co6vfncing proof will be
,dsvefoped If these are the guilty
parties, and IL they Sre not that the
Feal perpetrators OF the fiendish crime
will be discovered and brought to the
swift &nd condign punishment which
they deserve. -:'i1 p" '..f '
A reward Of 1900 dollars has been
guaranteed by the Fair Association;
$500 Tor arrest and positive proof, and
800 additional on conviction. The
large have already sub
seribed $lOO OF this amount and will
swen their contribution to $3.50.
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OVER THE COUNTY.

The ladies of HOpewell Church
will give All ice cream suppe- in toe
parsonage of the church, on the
church grounds, on the evening of
September 1. The proceeds will go
to improve the parsonage. They ex-
tend cordial invitation to all their
friends-in town and cOuntry-to at
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IMPORTANT BILL FILED.
Tie Bethel Hotel Property the suject of
Litigation

Tie Bethel Hotel Property the Suject os
Litigation.
y bill was filed this morning with
the Clerk and Master, as ing fl IA de-
rec for thu sale of the Bethel Hotel
property with the exception OF the
hotel proper. which is the property o.
Mayes u DOdson. The colnplainants
are J. Milton Parker, of Lawrence
County; George T. Hughes, admin
istrator OF Mrs. Annie Jackson and
her children; the Second National
Bank, A. n. Akin, w. NJ. Nays, w.
+ Nil-On, Walter Steele. John w.
Frierson, administrator of Mrs. Ellen
X. Mayes; and Mrs. $. Il. Fraucir.
The defendants are the Bethel Hotel
Conn any, J. NJ. Mayes, Lucius Fri
erson. trustees, ct ais. The bill asks
for receiver, if one is found n-ces-
SarN
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Died AZ Surfing HiII.

Miss Mary Thorn psoI1 died at her
home in Spring Hill ON Saturday,
after long attack of bilious fever.
She was the sister ofathe we'll known
merchants, = Thompson Bros oCOi
Spring Sill. Her remains will be
inferred this afternoon at Mt. Car
mel, the family burial ground neat
Spring Hill go --Gs - ...,.s.zf-. 4. &
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Died:

Il Mrs..J. wv. Jacobs died Saturday
morning at o'olOck;at her home:near
Carriers Creek, of, consumption, aged
fifty years. The remains win be
Inferred tomorrow at 10 O'Clock, at
the Eochridge bury;ng ground. feot
The Progress., 1892-09-03
PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH.

Rudyard Kipling believes in ghosts.
wilhelm Busch, the German caricatur-
list, has made a million dollars from the
sale of his funny books.
Landseer's famous and most popular
painting, 1.-THE Monarch of the Glen" was
recently sold for So, 225.
Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian poet and
novelist, can handle farm implements as
we'll as the pen, and is withal a skillful
shoemaker.
1t is pretty certain that Corot, the French
artist, did not paint more than 7OO
sketches, and yet there have been 1900
examples of his work palmed upon pic
ture buying public.
FL Tesoro del Hogan Fireside Treasure
Is weekly published In Guayaquil, Ecua
dor, by Sonora Dona Lasteni Larr'va de
Llona, a Peruvian woman who has won
some fame in South America as poet.
Carl Rosa, a landscape painter whose
works failed to secure prize at the Paris
Salon, went to the exhibition and with 9
pocket knife cut one of his pictures out o.
the frame, rolled it up and carried 1t away
with him. The jury Of award had ignored
It, and this was cut for cut.
The Progress., 1892-09-03

feather edged chiffon, with an osprey. Tho
crowns OF good many Of the new hats are
either Of lace or jet. A novel trimming
for broad brims is an overhanging frill OF
lace.
A passing fashion in French blossoms
for millinery is for hydrangeas. Women
Of fashion, too, are showing prediction
for lavender.
Tiny pyramid crowns rise amid a bank
OF cherries, and even shells are called into
the aid of fashionable millinery. A nau-
titus shell IS an excellent setting to n
pretty face, the brim rounded In a curve
on one side, the point Of the shell almost
hidden by sprays Of yellow laburnum; the
upper crown resting on an under one
makes hat look charming, for beneath
this upper crown there Is generally vista
of flowers.
A leghorn hat with a wide brim Is
crumpled up In most picturesque fashion,
two white wings, placed like those on the
cap Of Mercury, covered where crown
should be, and green velvet bow, clasped
with diamond buckle, formed the back
ground.
The Progress., 1892-09-03
TABLE ETIQUETTE.

Hold the knife by the handle and never
let the fingers reach up to the blade.
The old method of eating cheese with a
knife has been given up, a fork being used
in its place.
Olives, celery. radishes, Strawberries
with stems, and asparagus are all eaten
from the fingers.
The use of many small dishes for vegeta-
bles is not good taste; indeed many vege-
tables should not be served at one time.
Glasses with handles are held by them.
A goblet should be caught by the stem.
the fingers not entwining the bowl part.
Whenever 1t is possible fork must be
used In place Of q spoon, and that same
spoon, by the bye. must never be left In q
coffee or tea cup. but politely and securely
laid to rest in the saucer.
Don't butter large piece OF bread and
take bites from It; instead, break your
bread In small pieces, one at time, and
butter it-that Il. II you are eating butter
and convey 1t to your mouth by your nm
rers.-Ladies' Home journal.
The Progress., 1892-09-03
WHIP AND SPUR.

Two oddly named horses are Wooloo-
mooloo and Rululu.
August Belmont has named his colt by
Mr.. Pickwick- Henlopen. Pecksnif.
Prince Menshikoff, n wealthy Russian,
recently purchased the mare Alectra for
$1,000.
Sanders thinks Frou Frou (2:25LO can
wipe out all 2-yesr-old records save Arion's
(2:10sO.
The Lorillard stakes were worth 81, 100
to Tammany. 5000 to The Pepper and
q, 900 to ARA.
One OF the highest prices ever paid for n
weanling In Kentucky was 81 $50 for full
brother to Prince Karl. 2:34.
At meeting OF the owners and lovers Of
horses held in London 1t was unanimously
resolved that Of all the materials for paw
ing roads asphalt is the worst for horses.
The sum of 800, 900 is being expended in
improvements on the Twin City race
course. The SIS, 900 grand stand will, when
completed, compare favorably with any In
the country.
Common horses sell in Australia fol
fourteen dollars per dozen. In New South
Wales they are so numerous that property
owners have them shot. Within two years
between 10000 and 10000 head were de
stroyed.
Snapper" Garrison says: MANY race
are thrown away by inexperienced boys. II
three races out of five where the field II
large the jockey wins the race. Old MAJ
Hayward, Taral and Mclaughlin ar
worth Fan nounds INV dayn
The Progress., 1892-09-03
FOR SIXTY DAYS ONLY.
BARGAINS
..IN--
CITY :. PROPERTY.

Lot Ground on Jordan street, on
Belt Line, 140x150 feet extra, fine
for family residence.
l Plat of Ground corner of Texas
Avenue and Murphy streets, en-
bracing an area of 185x208 feet,
and opposite Yards store
2 very Beautiful Lots on Crockett
street, on one of which is a nice
and comfortable two-story resi-
dence, supplied with sewerage and
good cistern.
2 Good Lots on Murphy street, in
the rear of Hospital, on one Of
which is a tenement house which
brings a certain rental of IS per
month.
6 Lots on corner of Sprague and
Lawrence, on two of which there
are three tenements which bring
$40 per month.
3 Lots on Donovan street, ON Belt
Line, on one of which are two
small tenements which rent fol-
Sc per month.
II Lots on Davis street, on one 6
house which rents for So per month
2 Lots near Buffers Hill.
IA Lots IN rear of Judge A. w. o
Hicks home place.
l House and Lot which rent for s.
per month.
The Progress., 1892-09-03
Attractive Designs In Jewelry.

A pretty conceit in engagement jewel
ry- Is a bracelet with two hearts entwined,
each holding within it an initial letter
formed of pearls and both surrounded by
a true lovers knot. Between this and the
attractions of bangle" ring, where two
Jewels are set, the initial letters of which
signify the first letters Of the lovers Chris
tian names, as, for example. emerald and
amethyst for Edwin and Angelina" n
heart OF diamonds transfixed by a diamond
arrow, a brooch formed Of a spray OF for
getmenots in pearls and turQuoises. on
The Progress., 1892-09-03
Tho Calm and Correct Thing.

Pink shirts frilled down the middle al
ways look pretty with morning dresses,
and are generally becoming. Worn by
men they are. l believe, mark of respecta-
bility, and II you see man wearing one
with a black tie and pearl pin you may
feel quite sure that he is perfectly calm
and correct" sort of person, says an English
authority ON dress.
The Progress., 1892-09-03

it would be risky to trust the making OF
. Il to any but first class modiste.
Fine white pique has been revived for
dinner and evening gowns at fashionable
resorts, and for thin white dresses chiffons
and mulls are much used. Fancy crepons,
striped materials, organdy muslins and
lowered sateens are all worn, and 1t would
be difficult to say which of these looks the
daintiest.
Some of the prettiest cotton dresses are
very simply made. A dark blue cotton
patterned In white, that looks very nice,
has large sleeves covered with lace as far
as the elbow. and plain deep cuffs. The
yoke In of lace and cut square back and
front.
Quite the newest form Of trimming for
muslins Is five little narrow frills around
the bottom, all edged with narrow lace.
Our cut represents a fete costume-pretty,
smart and practical. 1t is In cream cheviot
serge, with full shirt and long sash ends OF
pale green bengaline. A graceful anc
novel feature Of the Elton jacket is the long
falling frill. The hat Is in fine cream
straw with full bows Of the same tint as
the shirt
The Progress., 1892-09-03

which rests the lady's name formed in gold
letters, and innumerable fancies OF ike
nature. the most fastidious hancee can
certainly be pleased.
The idea, much In favor, Of concealing
watches in various articles whose appear
ance would never lead you to imagine
they ever had anything but decorative adj
vantages has been carried out a. here
sketched In handsome bracelet. Awatch
Is concealed beneath cover Of diamonds
and blue enamel, which is set In flexible
band Of diamonds to form q bracelet.
The Progress., 1892-09-03

gray and white
have come into
favor. A pretty
instance is a white
satin gown. the
front covered with
silver embroidery.
having large full
gray satin sleeves
and n gray bind
ing to the skirt.
all softened by the
lightest make Of
silk lace. Gray Is
also worn for tea
gowns, for it is
I. durable and GER
tainly becoming
to fair skins.
The new accor-
dion plated bodice
for gauze dresses
Is a very pretty
thing to wear, but
The Progress., 1892-09-03
Millinery Items.

Hats are not easy to distinguish from
bounets, since both have strings
Very pretty ones are OF lace and flowers,
with . JET or paste ornament OF two, or Of
The Progress., 1892-09-03
aE6 2sNa -
STYLES OF THE DAY.

Cut and Color In Skirts and Bodicos-He-
vivaI OF Piquo-Cotton Gowns.
Very large sleeves and bodices, with full
fronts OF distinctly different material let
in, are well worn.
Every effort is being made to make some
variety in skirts, and in France they are
arranging double skirts, not at all like the
double skirts we used TO wear, but actual
Iy one skirt over the other. A good exam
pie of this was dove colored cloth over
vieux rose, which was cut on the cross
throughout, diagonal border placed on
the front. The swathed bodice discovered
a shot silk uDdervest. This had a nova
BILE Zouave, and, in addition, mantle
made Of Fittings crossing in the front.
Another new French skirt has two deep
lace edged founces-one falling from the
waist to the knees. the other from the
knees to the hem.
Yellow and white has always been &C
cepted a. becoming mixture, and of late
The Progress., 1892-09-03

Call and see me at my Office, No.
205 Milan street.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-16
RETAILING LEAF TOBACCO.
A Decision That Will Be of Interest in
Clarksville.

A recent Washington dispatch
gives the following piece of news
that will be of interest to many peo-
pie in Clarksville:
"The Internal Revenue Commits
sioner has just rendered very i'm
portant decision. He decides that
leaf dealers can sell to consumers
leaf tobacco in unsealed packages,
without the payment Of any tax.
The application was made by deal
er in Tennessee and the package sub
mitted consisted of four hands Of
leaf, weighing about one pound, and
was tied at each end with piece of
red tape. Otherwise the leaf was in
a perfect natural condition, the pack
age being about fourteen inches long
from tip to tip. This is one of the
most important decisions of the year
and will no doubt arouse a strong
pre- test from manufacturers"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-16
Clarksville Tobacco Market.

Our receipts are increasing steadily
and are now entirely of the new
crop. The sales this week will be
about 200 hhds., mostly old tobacco,
sold at firm prices. The figures
asked for new tobacco are considered
high by the buyers. The loose tobac.
co market continues very active with
full purchases by the stemmers and
dealers. The prices paid have been
very satisfactory to the planters, who
will be rid Of their crops early, and
be encouraged to pitch another crop.
Tobacco now pays much better than
grain or stock. As all factories will
soon be full, we may expect lull
in the loose market.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-16
DR.. Thos. Matthews.

Friday morning Dec. 8, 1892, about
2 o'clock, at his home near Cedar
Hill, the soul of DR.. j. T. Matthew's
passed peacefully into the Great Be-
yond, after long and severe illness.
RE was widely known aud univer
sally respected, and his death is much
deploreds His wife and iam,I ' have
the de pest sympathy Of wide cir
Gle Of relatives, friends, and OF Il
public who sincerely appreciated the
great worth of the deceased. .-Spring.
field Herald.
DR.. Matthews had many friends iu
Montgomery county who will regret
10 learn of his death. He was one
of the widest known and most useful
men in Robertson county.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-16
DIR. LYONS LECTURE.
Goal, Natural Gas and Petroleum Ex-
planned at Stewart Hall.

A small but appreciative audience
assembled at Stewart Cabinet Hal
last night to hear DIR. j. A. Lyon de
liver lecture on "Coal, Petroleum
and Natural Cas-"
II is not the intention of this arti
Gle to follow DIR. Lyon through hi;
lecture, attempting to give synop
sis of the same. The lecture would
not be interesting unless all the
charts and appliances used in 1t could
be seen and explained, therefore the
lecture must be seen TO be appreciat
ed fully.
DR.. Lyon, however, began by say
ing that many valuable things were
hidden beneath the earth. The dia-
mond is generally conceded to be the
most valuable, and coal is diamond,
That is, it belongs to the diamond
family, is carbon and is known in
science as the black diamond. The
lecturer assumed that the black dia-
mond was the most useful of all to
man. What would the world do
without coal?
DR.. Lyon took up the history OF
coal in Europe, finally coming to the
coal fields of Pennsylvania, where
the greatest interest in the lecture
centered. A large blackboard had
been placed on the stage and DIR.
Lyon had drawn a diagram, show
ing the coal veins as they existed
and explaining the deposits in very
lucid manner.
OF course the drift of the lecture
carried him into the coal mining
business. It's dangers and hardships
were shown up as they exist to-day.
Appliances had been brought into
the hall to illustrate every point
made by the lecturer, and the audi
ence was very much interested in
this part of the lecture, 1t was
scientifically demonstrated how fire
damp or gas caused mine explosions;
how wire gauze lantern could be
taken into this gas without causing
an explosion, and dozens of other
circumstances along this line. After
DIR. Lyon had gone through with his
demonstrations, both as to gas and
petroleum, or rock oil, he recited
very interesting experience in the
mining and oil regions of Pennsyl-
vania. To the scientifically turned
mind this lecture was very interest
ing, and it should have been heard
by more people. The lecture was
one of a course of scientific lectures
that will be delivered in Stewart
Cabinet Hall during the winter. The
public should take more interest in
them, for they are worth hearing. A
man will learn something by attend
ing them.