The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-04-14
WOULD CONS|GN TO
WAVES Of OBLIVION
! ALL|PARTYP
THAT WAS THE ADVICE TO
MAURY COUNTY DEMO.
Gratis OF 1868.
WHAT an OLD HERALD REVEALS
Issue Of Forty-One Years Ago Con-
tains the Names Of Very Few Who
Are Now in the Flesh.--Accouns of
jeff Davis Trial Postponement.

Nothing will more surely impress
one with the remorseless flight of
time than the examination of the
columns of an old local paper. A
copy of The Columbia Herald of June
6, 1868 shows how the grim reaper
has worked increasingly for the past
forty years in this city and county.
Few are the names that then appear
ed prominently in the columns of
the paper which are now seen in
print. The bearers of those names,
practically all of them, sleep the
peace that knows no awakening.
The Columbia Herald OF that time
was four page weekly, eight col
umns to the page and carried a big
line of advertising Most of the ad-
vertisements were of the old type,
set single column and ran for a year
without change of copy. The rates
then received would paralyse the
average Columbia merchant of today
The publisher, the lamented Alfred
S. Horsley, calmly announces the ad-
vertising rates as $3.50 per inch for
the first insertion and $1.00 for the
subsequent insertions Advertise
ments to be set double column are
charged for at twenty-five per cent |
extra.
Probably the most interesting item
in the paper is the account of the |
Democratic county convention held |
on the first Monday of June to elect
delegates to the State convention
which in turn sent delegates to the
National convention that nominated
Horatio Seymour as Gen. Grants OPP
ponent, OF the long list of dele
gates appointed from the then TWEEN
ty-five districts of the county very
very few are now living. Among
those still in the flesh are: Geo.
Parks and r. Gresham of the old
fourth district Charles Williamson
Of Culleoka. Lloyd Cecil, of Mt. Plea
SAINT, Frank B. Craige, Of william
sport, Flaw Ewing, of Columbia; Nat
W. Cheairs, of Spring Hill, and " B.
Gordon, of Columbia.
Capt. Jos. Russell was one Of the
of the convention; M. 8.
F'rierson, long dead was chairman Of
he convention and the following
extra from his speech to the conven-
lion would not be inappropriate ad-
vice to the people of Tennessee at this
lime:
"A few moments were then occu-
pied by the Chairman In making
lew remains suited to the occasion,
IN which he discussed the propriety
If sonsigning to oblivion's waves all
party prejudice and party feeling and
ct the dead past be numbered
among the things that were. He
unanimity of purpose and
If action"
The following resolution was un-
adopted by the cow en-
ion:
Resolved, That no member of this
ever was opposed to a
Union under the constitution, rs it
vas. They went into the rebellion
because they believed that the party
n power was usurping powers not
conferred by the constitution
The head line over this conven-
ion is a single line of eight point
lack face type. And the biggest
story" in the paper is special from
Va, to the effect that the
rial of Jefferson Davis has again
'een postponed. This is also hon
red with an eight point head.
There is not a single firm adver-
Used in the paper of that date do t
ng business in Columbia that 10 here d
low under the same name. Maj J. a
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