The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-05-14
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The Joliet Qll.) Sentinel says thn' over
seventeen hundred teams have passeG hat
place for California within the last 'h-,e
weeks. Most of them were from Mich !, an
and Northern Indiana.
A person being asked the other day whr'h-
err he was in favor Of the Maine liquor law,
replied, "Pdrtly-I go for the iiqUor-bating
the law"
Gov. French, of Illinois, has called an extra
session of the Legislature of that State, to
meet on the first Monday in June
The man in Jail who looked out of the wifi
dow Of his cell, and exclaimed, This is a CRATE
country" is now generally admitted to have
spoken Within bounds
The sum of $4,000 has been received in
Boston for the sale of Kossuth bonds.
Counterfeit Gold Dollars are in circulation
in Philadelphia. They are lighter than the
genuine, and poorly executed. Several per-
sons have been arrested for passing them.
Gen. Taylor, on one occasion, being besieg-
ed by office-seekers, made the smart remark,
that "some were doomed to appointment, and
some to disappointment"
Jeemes says that the letters A. NJ. attached
to mans name means after money.
A committee of the Virginia Legislature
has reported against the adoption of the
Maine liquor law.
A New MODE OF TRAvEL-The earth re-
wolves once in twenty-four hours. Go up in
balloon wait till the place comes underneath
you that you wish to go to, and then descend.
The Mississippi Legislature has adjourned
without passing bill to district the State for
Congress under the new apportiOnment, by
which it gains member
A Texas paper IN speaking of one Of our
Presidential asprants, says that rs he has got
no morals he had better 60 in for the Vice
Presidency.
The increase of the manufacture of beet
root sugar in Prussia is enormous Within
the last two years it has almost doubled
The quantity of root passed since last autumn
is said to exceed a million TONS the quantity
of raw sugar gained therefrom being 10000
tons.
John Wentworth, ex-M. c., has been elected
pound master at hicago
Old Mrs. Pilkins was reading the foreign
news by q late arrival. "Cotton is declinipg!'
enchanting the old lady. "Well, thought as
aiuicch-the last thread used was remarkably
feeble"
IeaIcAL DEDUCTIONS are unlaw-
full. Marriage is q lottery: Ergo marriages
are unlawful.
fluctuations are ridiculus Love is infatua-
| ton: Ergo, Love is ridiculous.
The Mobile Advertiser says that business
men in Mobile who are well informed on the
subject express the opinion that the proceeds
of the last years cotton crop of Alabama will
be required to pay for the provisions that
have to be bought.
The receipts into the U. S. Treasury from
January list to March 81, 1882 exclusive Of
| Trust Funds were Sl2,75s,377 GO. Expendi-
lures SIC, S7Sl60.
An Iowa paper says the village where it is
printed has recently been visited by Bloom
er freshet' On being asked as to what he
meant, the editor says: The water was knee
high in the streets
A horse shoe that is put on without nails
has been invented by Herr Driesbach.
A Medical writer in England is endcavoring
to prove that salt was the forbidden fruit
and that if it was no longer used by the hui
man race, their beauty, bodily perfection and
power of mind would exceed any era before
known in the world.
Two children died recently, in Sumter Dis.
trict, in consequence, it is supposed, Of chew
ing and swallowing portions of the root Of
the common yellow Jessamine vine.
If we reprove or chastse before we feel
painful regret on account of the necessity for
it, the proper season for doing it has not yet
arrived.
The Ohio Legislature have passed law re-
stricting the employment of children under
eighteen and all women in the mechanical or
manufacturing establishments more than ten
hours day; and making ten hours legal
! days labor in all cases in which the contract
is silent on that point.
If your fiat irons are rough or smoky, lay q
little fine salt on q fiat surface, and rub them
well; it will prevent it from sticking to any
| thing starched, and make them smooth.