A Live Little Town – The Fourth of July Celebration – Personal Mention.
Occasional Correspondence of the Appeal.
Covington, July 7, – Your correspondent paid a short visit to the little town of Henning, about nine miles from here, on the Chesapeake, Ohio and South western railway, this week. It is a nice looking place, having about twelve or fifteen stores, quite a number of residences, some of them being real handsome, and two churches, one of them Methodist and the other Christian. In a business way of course it is dull now, but in the fall and winter, a large trade is done there. It is backed by some of the richest lands in the State, being only a mile or two from Hatchie river. The crops along the line between this place and there are looking very well, the fair weather of last week enabling the farmers to get out of the grass.
Fourth of July was celebrated here by the young folks, who all went picnicking. The party was taken in charge by Sheriff Taylor early in the morning and conducted to Hatchie river, where the day was spent in frolicking generally. After bringing them home safely, he released them upon their giving bond to appear before him next year on the same day to go through the same programme.
The colored people were also patriotic enough to go in for a big picnic near town, which they kept up nearly all night.
The first bricks were laid in the rebuilding of the Presbyterian church this week, and the walls are now going up rapidly.
Mrs. L. J. O’Neal, of Bartlett, Tenn., who has been visiting relatives in town, returned home Tuesday.
Mr. Ed Paine left last Sunday on a visit to relatives in Jackson, Tenn.
The Hon. Jesse Norment, State Senator from Hardeman county, was here this week.
Col. Humphrey R. Bate left for the Springs to-day.
J. Bull
[Memphis Daily Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., July 8, 1883]