The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-04-14

a TRAGIcAL AND MOST SINGULAR Occur.
REScE.-A correspondent of the Cleveland
pl"inaealer, writing from Wampacca county
Wisconsin, says:
A tarmer sold yoke Of oxen to an inii.
vIdun in the neghborhood, and received his
pay IN paper money. The man who purchas-
cd the oxen, being in hurry to start off, re-
qucstcd the farmer to assist him in yoking
them up. lie accordingly went to the yard
with the man for that purpose, leaving the
money lying on the table, On his return to
the house, he found his little child had taken
the money from the table and WAS in the act
OF kindling the fire in the stove with it. From
the impulse Of the moment, he hit the child
slap on the side of the head, 50 hard as to
knock it over and in the fall it struck its
head against the stove with such force ;,s to
break its skull. The mother, who was in
the act Of washing small child in Il tub of
water, in IN adjoining room, hearing the fra
cas-, dropped the child and ran to the room
whence the noise procecded-and was so
much terrified at what she there bclleld, that
she forgot the little child in the tub for Il
time and upon her return to the room found
the little one drowned!-Thc father after a
few moments reviewing the scene before him,
seeing two Of his own children dead, without
further reflection, took down his gun and
blew his own brains out.
Cribs story may be true, but it requires 4
good deal of faith in ''things not SEEM" to
believe it)
QUESTION BEFORE A DEBATING CLUE-
The question before the meeting is this If
Il fellcr-wlIat is Il tcllcr--and his gal-are
about to be parted for lime-and they pro.
pose to exchange ACKNOWLEDGMENT for
that purpose the Teller goes with his gal to
the dagucrrcotypc shop-and is to pay for
having the 'pictures took"-and he only has
money enough to pay for one picture in or.
binary case, and the other in Il magnificent
casc-which picture Should he put in the
magnificent casc--his own ugly mug, or hern.
Would it be gallant in him to put her mug in
the ugly case! Would it be jincrous in him
to put his mug in the ugly case which she is
to keep! THAT'S the question before the
meeting. We are open for the discussion.
~ How small our knowledge is. how
narrow our minds. We float about in sea
of error, and catch here and there pearl Of
truth: and each knows nothing of the treas.
urc which another finds.
~" Everybody has hobby, the riding Of
which, in their opinion would gallop ail crea.
ton TO unbounlcd happiness. Grcelcy's great
medicine is High Tariff: Col. Bcntons, Rail.
road to the Pacific. The Mormon finds ter
rcstial bliss in dozen wives, while Mrs. Blks
Smith imagines that all that is necessary to
degenerate the human family, is to allow wo.
men to vote and work at the blacksmitll's
business. Great country.
80 A merchant, being hurried, called up.
on II waggish nciyhbor the other day, and
asking if he had Il spare clerk to lend him,
was referred to very hin young gentlemen,
with pen behind his ear, rs being the spar
est he had!
w" Among the lIottcntots, if widow
marrics again, she is obliged to cut Off the
joint of finger for every husband she mar
rics after the first; this she presents to her
new husband on her wedding.day, beginning
at one of the little fingers first.
.E5" l'radisc Lost has just been dramatis-
cd for the National Theatre in New York
The next thing in ordcrwil be "Euclid's Pro.
blcms' and the "Psalms of David" Great
country, that, New York.
Adviccs have been received to the effect
that SantaAnna has ordered additional troops
to the Mesila Valley.
~ Some Of the foreign journals hint
that matrimonial alliance is about to take
place between one of the princes of the Ma
polcon family, and Princess Mary of Cam
bridge, cousin of the Queen of England.
~" Papers and correspondence from the
city of Mexico up to the 10th ultimo show
that the rebellion of Alvarez, the Mexican
Pinto chief, is entirely crushed.
~ Some idea may be formed Of the re-
sources of the works at Woolwich Arsenal,
Enrlund when it is stated that three tons