The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-02-20
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SENTENCE OF POsT OFFICE CLERK
James Vassar who was arrested in New
York, about year ago, for opening letters
in the Post office, where he was employed in
the capacity of clerk, was on Monday, sem
fenced to five years Imprisonment in the
State prison.
JENNY LIMBS MARRIAGE.-The Springfield
Republican says: Nobody thought Jenny
Lind was going to marry Mr. Goldschmidt,
vet it was natural that she should be smit
nit Mr. Goldschmidt, and that Mr. Gold
schmidt should be gOldsmit nit Jenny Lind"
A resolution is before the Senate of Ohio,
authorizing the Governor to loan all the
undistributed arms and materials of war
belonging to the State TO Kossuth, TO be
returned after the restoration of Hungarian
liberty After warm debate, it was referred
to a committee of one. The members gen.
orally doubted their power to make the pro.
posed loan.
EXTENSIVE CORRESPONDENCE The last
steamer from Europe brought Kossuth one
hundred and forty letters. Kossuth employs
two secretaries, one English and one Hunga-
rian, to attend to his voluminous corrcspor-
dence.
THE ATLANTIC FRozEN.-A Sag Harbor
paper SAYS that the Atlantic Ocean, on the
south side of that island, was frozen during
the late severe weather, and that nothing but
ice could be seen as far as the eye could
reach
FROZEN PoTAToEs.-It is stated that if
frozen Potatoes be thrown one by one into
water constantly boiling, they are no way at
fected, and are as edible as when first taken
from the earth.
Punch says "A man who goes to Church
to chew tobacco and spit upon the floor
ought to be taken by the head and heels,
and scrubbed upon the soiled spot until it is
made clean"
We protest against it; it's unconstitutional
A private letter received at Boston from
Spain states that the American prisoners who
were engaged in the invasion of Cuba by
Lopez, and who have been pardoned by the
Queen of Spain, were to have sailed from
Vigo on the 10th of January, for Boston, on
board The ship Prentice
The New York Tribune of Friday an
nounces the failure of Messrs. Moulton, IIar-
ker and Heller, in the dry goods trade in that
city, Their liabilities are estimated at $780,
600.
A BRAVE MAM--One who isn't afraid to
wear old clothes until he is able to pay for
new.
Two Hungarans, brothers, named Skupin-
ski, were fully committed at Philadelphia OH
Thursday to answer to the charge of murder
ing young Lehman, the pedlar boy The
testimony against them is all circumstantal,
but very strong.
LADY--A female with her head stuck in
silk bonnet. her waist puckered into the cir
cumstance of Junk bottle, and an enormous
b-b-b-bustle, and hole in the heel of her
stocking.
ANN is very unpopular in Roxbury. Ann
who! Why Ann-Exation!
To MAKE SHORT WINTER Give n note
in the fall payable in the spring, You will
find that spring will be here as soon as you
are ready for it.
The Fluid extract of Apples is advertised
for sale in Bangor
PUNCH-a good authority says Barnum is
in active treaty for the purchase of the cee-
brated House that Jack buiL''
A hand-saw is good thing, but it will not
do to shave with.
STRIPED PIG.-The "od square bottle" has
found its way into Maine, under the name of
"Wolfs Aromatic Scheidam Schnapps"
Thirteen of the twenty three delegates to
the Baltimore Convention, from Ohio, are
said to be in favor of Gen Cass
A bill was reported in the Virginia House
Of Delegates on Friday, to allow the Banks
to issue small notes.
The Wings of Virginia are to hold State
Convention at Richmond on the l4th of April.
Democritus, who was always laughing, liv-
we'd one hundred and nine years. IIeraclitus,
who never ceased crying, only sixty. laugh
ing, then, is best; and to laugh at one another
is perfectly justitiabe, since we are told that i.
the gods themselves, though, they made us as
they pleased, cannot help laughing at us.
A. B, Underhll, of Huntington, L. /. few
days since, found in an oyster taken from the
harbor of Huntington one hundred and eigh-
teen pearls. They varied in size from pins
head to pea.