The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-29
Flowers and Bryant.

by mail, for 90 cents. Dr. SWayne q son,
Philadelphia. oct9 6m.
Flowers and Bryant. - e 9,
Miss Mollie Gipson has the measles,
Capt I'd Cooper has been uneommon-
| ly ilf for the last few days. Hope he
will rally again.
MIR. and Mrs. J. f. AgneW have had
"the prevailing"
Charly Beatty will return from Texas
in few days. His brother Tom died q
few weeks ago, near Silver Creek, and
Charles is coming to take his place on
the farm of Bill Watson.
Miss Della Gillian is spending sever
al weeks with her aunt, Mrs. E. j. Ash
ton.
Peter r. Pinkston visited Mr.. J. G..
Watson, of Pulaski, last week. Mr..
Watson has been very sick, but is about
Mr.. VIM. McKelvey and bride, nee
Miss DOna Denham came down last
week from their home at South Pitts
burg, on a visit to the old folks at home.
A few nights ago, the train killed a
fine milch cow owned by our worthy
neighbor, Mr.. J. w. Beckett. He will
milk.
Mrs. Hill Benton has been quite ill for
the last two weeks, but is conValescent.
E. J. Ashton has been confined to his
IOOlll lOI d WOOh VI oOJ Oub 10 SoOeSAA
better now.
Mrs. Mary Freeland has been very
sick, but is up again. Mr.. Freeland
was also indisposed.
MIR. j. w. Beckett has been on the
sick list for several days. so has Mr..
John Arney.
Miss Critic Scott has been seriously
| i'll for several weeks. Hope she will
| pull through yet.
| Our worthy merchant, J. F. Bryant
has moved his always interesting wife
and baby to his new dwelling near the
store.
Marshall Gazette sour worthy and
handsoffi young friend, b. f. Agnew,
of Bryant Station, was here last Mon
day on business, and while in town
dropped in and renewed his subscrip-
ton TO 1888" Ben quite often has
business in Lewisburg; and he has
been badly Salli(e)vated by one OF
Decherd's Champion girls. am not
certain but he blOwed out the Dech-
erd Headlight when he was up there
Christmas.
OF MIR. and Mrs. Jack Jones, of Rock
! Spring, was buried here last Saturday.
| No part of the child seemed to grow
(any except its head, which is said to
have been as large as common water
/ bucket.
Miss Melissa Welch will probably ac-
| cept a position as teacher i'll West Ten
nessee soon. Her services as teacher
would nc doubt be highly appreciated
| by any people who love good morals
Will Bryant killed eleven partridges
| at one shot last week.
| Mr.. Tom Stacy came out from Texas
| last week aud carried Miss Jennie Nc
! Knight back as his bride. This is the
fourth time Mr.. Stacy has taken to him
/ self rib. Peace to their hearts; and
| may she live to see him dead and de-
| hYered to the Saints.
| Mr.. Editor, hear rumor that some
of the candidates are likely to be de-
feated. Really do you think any OF
them will have such an evil fate?
L think rybody has married in the
| last two months; except me. True
| there is one other person not married ;
but that person is young lady, and
| this is leap year. So you see-Sh6 is en-
tirely mistress of the situation, and l
am left hOrS de combat. think fshe
1 would succumb to the ineyttahle and
MAKE my heart leap for joy. as her. only
informative, were It not for jintentiye
greatness. think the prospect of war
with Chilli is having some diplomatic
bearing on her action. Though l have
not the privilege to pop any 5seTrt OF san
Interesting question to her, I,.Was bold
| enough to call on her one day Last week,
and 1 am sure she was every moment
expecting the Chilian navy to invade
i this country, from the fact that she was
so very much disposed to listen TO some
| far away sound or Imagination. Per
chance she has her leap year cap set for
a gallantChilia officer; but l propose
to makeit chilly for any OF those south
American heathens whose hallucina-
tions may prompt him to invade this
country, eiLher for love or blood. If /
capture any Chilian dude hankering
| around the only marriagable young
! lady left in this country, l Will eliher
swing him up by his great toes or Sill
exile nim to the Feegee Islands an let
him melt. E~z
BY the way, if there is much more of
this impudent sullenness on the part OF
that little South American sGake-pole
! Republic, / am half way IN the notion
to go there myself with a great army
and warm the jackets of those chilly
men. Perchance this young lady with
| such q far away loOA in her eyes could
SEQ me, were l at the head of great
army disturbing the peace of Chlli's
Pacific coast. L have a great desire to
warm that chilly country; TO smell gun
powder in the Stack-pole Republic OF
| the distant South, ana TO hear the can
/ mons roar echoed back from the Andes
mountains in reply TO Calimas volcanic
| thunders. These, and dreamS-like OF
these, elevate my dropping spirits and
/ till my soul with the spirit of patriot
ism. When had wiped that little slip
i of impudence from the face of the earth
aud added its territory to our own great
1 Republic, l would be styled, the Chill
| ian hero, and would no longer have the
only boy in the country unable to
marry.
have no ill will toward those who
! are more successful than | in matters
hymenial. May their ships of love sail
/ on down the streams OF welded bliss;
NAV the golden strings on their harpS
of love ever respond 70 atfectiop's touch
1 and give forth sweeter strains of ely
sian music than the Alpine Shepard s
eolian harp; peace to their fading
beauty and may all their troubles he
! little ones.
/ / know that you do not like to "listen
to a tale of VICE." but it does my heart
| good to confide its sorrows TO the sym
pathetic. Itwas therefore natural for
me, during the slippery dependence, oi
last week TO lay my head on the bosom
of our dear old mother who has been
rocking the sons and daughters of our
family in the cradle of time for six
thousand years. But that dear old
mother of fallen race, on whose bosom
our elder brothers rested theiI
weary heads, had grow cold and desc
late as a waste bowling wilderness.
of all the blessings the world has
ever had or ever Gan have, the greates
is woman. ] mean woman in the mos
correct and refined sense of the term
She is beautiful in the infant days
lof her childhood sweetness; she 1:
? beautiful in all the yicissItudes of life
She smiles on the man who is good and
pure and model. She loves for love anC
marries not the libertine for his money
, which she never gets. She would dis
. dain to have her siniess soul pressed *
: the bosom OF hsathsn to civilization
, seveaN plaques Of Egypt. In these day