The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-04-21
STATE NEWS.

There resides in the western end Of
Moore County, says the Lyncbburg
Falcon, an old negro woman named
Harriet Evans, whose age facts and
circumstances 60 TO prove to be over
ll5 years. Notwithstanding she 10
making considerable advance into
her second century, she is as lively as
cricket and lids fair to live many
more years She doesn't claim to
have seen George Washington, but
remembers distinctly when he died.
A half century ago her hair was
white as cotton, but Of late years has
turned a blush cast, as il the color
was returning She is, perhaps, the
oldest person in Tennessee.
The farmers Of Carroll County
were never farther advanced with
their spring work than the first of
the week when the late cold rains set
In. Some cotton has been planted,
and nearly all the plowing is far ad-
vanced. The heavy rains Thursday
night and since have washed much
Of low ground and will compel farm
ers to replant their crops. Consider
able plowing will have to be done
over again also. Fruit seems to be
promising, and, not Notwithstanding the
present encouragement, the farmers
are withal in good spirits.
Lebanon is to have woolen mill
on broad scale as an experiment.
II, after trial, it payr, additions will
be- made to it.
This, says the Marshall Gazette,
has been the earliest spriDg we have
had In this section for macy years.
Wheat and rye ha5 been rapidly
brought out ty the spring showers
and warm weather, aud many fields
are far advanced. The prospect is
6stter ng for fair crop Our farm
ers have pretty we'll done planting
corn, and much OF it ls up. Some
have commenced plowing over their
first planting. There is some COM
plant OF worms.
Gadsden, Milan, Humboldt, Dyer
aud Rutherford will be shipping
Strawberries within the next few
days. II not injured by frOsts the
yield will be an unusually large one.
Three people were killed by 8
stroke OF lightning during the storm
which swept over West Tennessee
Thursday. The victims were Mrs.
Matthew B0ylan, OF Somarville, aud
two Of her children. The B0ylan
family, nine in number, were sitting
around the fireplace when the electric
bolt did its deadly work Mrs. Boy
Ian aud two of the children We're in
lyi1laI nd n # 10 ahiiH q
stunned but recovered. A dog and 3
chicken under the house were also
killed. The house sustained no ma
terial damage. 4 hsilstOrm pre-
vailed IN Fay cite County during the
cyclone aud destroyed the fruit crop.
A heavy frost fell in West Ten.
nessee last Saturday night, destroy.
ing young cotton, corn and fruit. At
O'clock Sunday morning the Iner-
curry was below the freezing point at
Memphis, Milan, Humboldt, Union
City, at Brownsville, Corinth, Miss,
Little Rock, Poplar Grove, Fayette-
Vile and Pine Bluff, Ark. The
heavy frost coming on the heels of
the recent tornado in the Mississippi
Valley will entail untold hardship
and expense to the planters aud
farmers. Tue cotton crop in many
, sections will have to be replahted.
Col. w. H. Carroll, of Memphis,
, has been appointed Coal Oil Inspec-
tor Of that city. The Colonel has q
a soft snap, az the fees and perquisites
: OF the Office amount to or about
l $3.50 year.