The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-02-27
PEOPLE end THINGS.
Maury County Potatoes

Maury County Potatoes
Maury County is coming to the
front as a potato raiser ana has a wide
reputation. One firm has recently
shipped forty-one carloads from here
TO different points and still has at least
seventy-five carloads among dealers and
farmers TO be shipped. A dealer at
Ashwood haF shipped forty cars TO
Texas and is filling an order tor eight
more for Texas and ten cars TO North
ern points. He shipped a trial order
| to firm at Southampton. England.
this week. and il this gives satisfaction
| it will be followed oy a large one.
The firm Is the largest potato dealer in
England and it's letter head announces
| it to he Potato Raisers to the Royal
Family Another local firm shipped
/ forty carloads to points in Tennessee.
Alabama, Geogia and Mississippi.
These are all second crop potatoes.
100000 Day for Cigars.
do you know said a tobacco
drummer last night at one of the cigar
stands of the city, ''that the American
people smoke an average of $1,000. 900
cigars day2 This amounts to about
81, 600. 600 day. The cigar bill of
the American people last year was
$346, 600, 600 For the fiscal year end
ing June 30. 1902, according to the
report recently issued by the Commits
siouer of Internal Revenue, 9, 300, 794, :
96S cigars were consumed in the
United States. That was very nearly
! 10, 900, 900 cigars for every day OF the
365 In the year. This does not include
the 2, 1855, 176, 1870 cigarettes we blow
in nor the upward of 3l5. 900. 600
pounds of snuff and tobacco we con-
sumo. The revenue Uncle Sam collects
on all this is over $40, 900, 900, and is
On the increase. In fact, the income
increases faster than population itself.
The man who does not smoke contri-
butes nothing to our annual bill OF
$346, 600. 600 for cigars. but .. had
much comfort he loses in not Delng
human smokestack.
Maury Game Chickens.
Mr.. T. E. Lipscomb Saturday ship
ped about two dozen fine game chick
ems to a prominent and citizen OF the
CITY of Mexico. MIR. Lipscomb says
Maury county chickens are fast be-
coming favorit IS with the poultry men
of the southern countries and the
business has already grown to proper
ton unknown by many. Our
chicken raisers are shipping their pro-
ducts daily all over the country, and
Mr.. Lipscomb says the farmers OF
Maury will ship this year from w, QUO
TO $5, 900 worth OF game cocks. Much
Of this business has been secured to
the farmers through the agency OF the
.sDixie Game Fowl, published at
COLUMBIA by Mr.. T. E. nipscomb.
The paper is enjoying large circula-
tion and is proving to be OF great
benefit to the poultry business OF
Maury county.
Justice Shiras' Retirement.
Justice George Shiras. Jr., OF the
United States Supreme Court retired
from the bench Thursday In Washing
ton. If for no other reason, Shiras'
service will be long remembered in
the political history of this country
because Of his unusual course in the
income tax case Shiras, 1t will be
remembered. changed his mind lover
night on this case, stating to the
court one afternoon that he thought it
was a constitutional measure, and
giving his reasons for his belief, and
the next morning voting against it.
His remarkable reversal of himself in
such y short space Of time caused u
tremendous stir all over the country. |
The democrats, many Of them leading
congressman. openly charged that
Shlras had been bribed. The cry was
taken up and hurled from one end OF
the country to the other. The news
papers were full of it. Through it all
Shiras remained client. The bill hao
been tackled onto the Wilson bill over
the protests Of several leading demo-
Gratis, but Benton McMillin, OF Tennes-
see, who, with the gifted William l..
Wilson, of West Virginia, had the bill
IN charge, stood firm and through his
efforts more than any one else's, 1t
went through the house along with |
the tariff bill. When it got to the
senate, however, David B. Hill, then
Senator from New York. and German.
OF Maryland, both democrats. drew
their knives and assailed the bill Wig
orously. Notwithstanding. however.
it became law Then 1T went to the
United States Supreme Court. Shiras
had only been member OF the court .
short while, having been appointed
from Pennsylvania two years pre-
yious-ln the year 1S92-by Presi-
dent Harrison, to pay political debt.
Harrison paid several OF these debts
in Pennsylvania, which attracted
widespread attention, the most notable
being that Of Honest John WanA.
maker to the Postmaster generalship
In his cabinet, because Honest John
coughed up $400, 600 to the Doodle fund
to carry th. election in 1888. Shiras
haa canvassed the state in that CAM
paign as an elector for the state at
large. Fe had never held any import
ant Office, having practiced law in
Pittsburg, his native city for thirty
wears. He had not attracted special
attention as being man Of unusual
ability and he was possibly as ordinary
a LAWYER as ever eat on the United
States Supreme bench-w,th one ex-
ception, that Of Mr.. McKenna, who
was appointed by President Mckinley.
A distinguished Tennessee lawyer.
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