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The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-04-10

HENS THAT LAY.--Eighty hens, belonging
to Capt. Thomas A. Norton, Of Yarmouth,
Mass, have laid during the year past, G37
dozen eggs. At the average price of eggs,
that would be about 81 25 tor each hen
Wonder if they are Shaughais, and If any Of
them hatched any chickens in the same time.
1t strikes us that this is decidedly profita.
BILE lot of hens. We wish there were few
more OF the same sort. - Il. Y. Tribune.
Green peas and strawberries have made
their appearance in New York--coming from
Savannah and Florida. The season, south, is
represented as having been very favorable for
the growth Of early fruits.
Lafayette, Ind, is soon to be lighted with
gas The contractors are there, and will
commence the erection of gas works as soon
as suitable grounds can be obtained,
The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-04-10
20 cents.
l2A cents.
What 4?

Another individual bought up 70 tickets
from the operatives in factory, since the
grand humbug of putting the tickets in en-
velopes and numbering them, which can be
changed by every fellow who has the hand
ling of them, and what do you think const-
tuted his assortment of prizes? Easily told.
Just 70 handbooks, and nothing else. But.
Notwithstanding there are II blanks TO a
prize, there are just that proportion of fools
in society to patronize these stupendous
humbugs-IN. Y. Tribune
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

ErGHrEES HUNDRED AND FIfTy-FoUR.-
Eighteen hundred and fiity-four will be one
of the most memorable years, and will occu-
py many pages when the story of ages Will
be written. Shipwrecks, wars, floods, steam
boat and railroad massacres, tempests, light
nings, drought, fires, cholera, yellow fever,
the Nebraska bill fever, Know-Nothingism,
Schuylerism, abolitionisn, the wheat crop
frozen out, the corn crop burnt up, insurrec
tons, earthquakes, rumors of wars, bombard-
ments, Cuba, the Black Warrior, and not
least, nor last, Greytown blotted out by IL
storm of fire and iron; and the future is big
with events of which the next four months
are to be rife And the True Delta, from
which we quote, need not have stopped there
ought not to have stopped until it enumer-
ated the annexation Ct the Sandwich Islands
to the United States, the 'acquisitiOn" Of
Cuba, and several other important events for
the year that are "tOO numerous to mention,'
but which will doubtless soon come about.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

THE CLERGY OF SAvANNAH-The Macon
Telegraph concludes beautiful tribute to
the late Bishop Garland, by the following
reference to the clergy Of Savannah;
In connection with this notice, it is difficult
to refrain from paving the tribute Of respect
and gratitude to the entire Clergy of Savan,
nah. The faithful men have been "good
shepherds" indeed, and avouched themselves
fit ministers of the charities of lleaven.-
They have proved that true christian benevo'
lenco Involving a total forgetfulness Of SELF
is confined to no creed, or sect or churches
and no man can contemplate them, differing
thus widely in doctrine yet agreeing so beau
tifully in works without perceivng the folly
and Injustice of religious intolerance and
birOtry
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

~ few days since We were under tho
necessity of speaking Of the many detentions,
delays and failures, in making connections on
the part Of the Georgia Road with the State
Road. That the Georgia Road should thus
impcach her established character for prompt
running without some good reasons we could
not believe, and the following from tho
Chronicle & Sentinel, will give some light as
to the causes:
We understand that the Georgia Railroai
Company has, within n few days past, had tho
f!ucs Of several valuable engines burnt ont
by some prowing mi>crcant, who stcalthy
turns the cocks after the Engine has been
fired up and let, the water off. The Georgia
Railroad is not alone Interested in this mat
ter-the entire public are also interested TO a
great extent. One who will rerpctra,c such
IN act, will do any thing. lie would not
hesitate TO fire the city to satiatc u petty spite
or 10 rob the citizens. We would therefore
| suggest to the city authorities the proprety
| Of adopting the course pursued by the cner.
getic Mayor Of 1889. No honest man will
remain in Augusta at present, who is ont Of
\ employment, or not bound by some known
| ties of interest or duty. That a man, there
| fore, who remains without such inducements,
is sufficient evidence of criminal intention,
and the authorities should promptly give them
notice To leave the city, or put them in Jail rs
| suspicious characters
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, OCT. 9, 1854.

HEALTH OF AUGUsTA.--The Augusta
Constitntonalist of yesterday morning says
The sections report shows but three inter.
ments yesterday from the yellow fever, one
of which occurred in Macon--leavng but
two for the city within the "a hours ending
at 8, r. NJ, yesterday.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, AUGUSTA,
Sept. 26, 3 p. NJ.
The Board of Healtl, report three deaths
from yellow feyer during the last "a hours
viz:
DR.. Corole Finkskowsky, aged "a years
Poland.
Julia Cohn, aged IA years, Germany.
Mrs. Cecilia Clayton, aged 26 wears, Geor.
gia. E. WILLIS,
Sec'y pro tem., B. II.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

eB Communications appear in the pa
pers weekly, to the effect that lightning rods,
as ordinarily constructed and attached to
buildings, do not seem to accomplish the oh
jcct for which they were intended. The ven-
cradle editor of the Ploughman, Of this city
makes the case much stronger than ! did in
my letter the other day. lie says, from OBJ
servation and experience for sixty years, am
convinced that green tree, ten feet from a
building. and few feet taller, is the best
lightning rod man can have, for the light
ming will spend its force on the tree. and the
house will generally remain uninjured.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

Quick DIGEsTIoS-IIEALTRY FoOD.-Ot
all the articles of food, boiled rice i. digestcd
in the shortest timc-an hour. As il contains
eight-tcnths nutritious matter, il is 4 valuable
substance for diet. Snipe and pigs feet are
digcstcd almost as quickly. Apples, if sweet
gestcd about as soon as apples. Roasted po-
tntoes are digcs,cd in half the time required
by the same vegetable boiled which occupies
mare than 81 hours-moro than beef or NUT
ton. Bread occupies 81 hours--stewed oys.
tiers and boiled eggs arc digestod in 3i--an
hour more than is required by the same arti.
cles raw. Turkey and goose are converted
in - hours-an hour and n half sooner than
chickens. Roasted veal, pork, and salted
beef, occupy ST hours-the longest VI all ar
ticlcs Of food.-Sciemifc american,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

KNOWN by ITS FRUIT.-A tavcrn-keeper
in Rensselaer, county, New York, abandoned
the traffic in alcohol after having been several
years engaged in it. Whenever the subject
of selling liquor was referred to, he was OBJ
served to feel deep regret and sorrow. A
friend one day inquired the cause. 81 will
tell you" said he, and opening his account
book, he said, "here are forty-four names Of
men who have all been my customers, most
of them for years. Thirty-two of these men
to my certain knowledge now lie in the
drunkard's grave; ten of the remaining twelve
arc now living confirmed sots!" These are
the fruits of this dreadful and degrading bu-
sineSs.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

~ BY slip received from the office of
the Columbia Spy, We learn that the cholera
has ceased its ravagos there, only three new
cases having occurred since Friday afternoon
last. The citizens who fled have commence
ed returning TO their homes and veEtilating
their houses preparatory to their re-occupa-
ton, and the streets begin to present a lively
appearance again. The Spy sets down the
total number Of deaths at lO7, but says 9th.
crs suppose the actual number to be about
100
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

NOTHING TO EAT.-The Picayune says
there never was, perhaps, such hard time
to get anything to eat in New Orleans as the
present. There is literally nothing in the
market fit to be eaten. The meats are poor
and scarce. Eggs are out of the question
and command from four to six bits dozen.
Beef, mutton and poultry are Of the poorest
possible kind. Potatoes are 4" small" and
command So and 50 per barrel. Families
know this is all true. Then let not the
boarders at our hotels complain Of bad fare
"There's better day coming" We wish il
would come along.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

PERPETUAL MoTIos.-rho discovery Of a
new perpetual motion is announced at New
York. 1t is on the plan of arms and balls
attached to cylinder, so as to keep the extra
weight always on the descending side. 1t
requires no starting, only needs letting loose
and off it goes. The difficulty is to stop it.
The Journal of Commerce says: "Atter n
careful examination we can safely say, in all
seriousness, that the propeling power is self
contained and self.adjusting, and gives sut-
ficiently active force to carry ordinary clock
work, and all without any winding up or re-
plenisbing"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

YOUNG AMEEicA.-The following is from
the "advancc sheets" of the Forthcoming
"know Nothing Almanac -
Irish Mo,her-"Arrah, Johny, and where
have yces bin, SO long"
Natire Son.-"Why, me and the rest Of
the boys has been licking an Lrishman.."
Mother-"Wait We spalpeen, till yer daddy
gifts home-you'll be atther catching it.'
Son-"Oh, he be blowed. That's the man
we've licked"
(Exhit Mother, with upraised eyes and a
half-smoothered, "Och hone !''-whilc Sonny
stalks off whistling Hall Columbia.)
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

fB-A gentleman of this city, who was an
eye witness of the facts, relates the follow
ing:
Last Monday, on Bowman creek, two miles
from Benton Station on the railroad, num-
Der of men were engaged in digging Il well.
After making blast In the bottom of the
well (about 30 feet decp) n man descended
and Immediately fell apparently lieess. A
second man went down to his assistance, and
also fell. A third descended, and he too
was struck with the noyious gas. TO all ap-
pearances the three men were dead. II hap
pened that a man wis going by with cask
of water on sled, and recolIecting that he
had heard it said that stream of water pour
into well would dispe the noxious gas he
drove up and poured the water from the cnsk
into the well. The effect was instantaneous
The men were Immediately revived and taken
out with every prospect ofcomplete recovery.
The fact is important and oughtto be gener.
ally knOwn.-COr. Jour.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

EMrERoR SouLoouE AND Ills Sr. LouIs
MAsrEE.-lt is stated that Souloquc, or
Faus,n l., the black Emperor of San Dcmiu.
20, WAS formerly the slave of citizen of st.
Louis, who frequently receives friendly
messenger from him. The st. Louis Demo.
crat states that week or two since he VIVA
pleasantly surprised with the receipt of sew.
eral bags of coffee and a package Of sugar,
accompanied by quite an atfrctionate let,c,
from his imperial majesty
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

THE Corros CEor.-Wc published few
days since the statements made in the New
York estimates, of the total crop of the Uni.
ted States last season. That was received by
telegraph. We now have the circulars giving
details. The total exports, are stated at
2,3l9,llS bales, against 2,52s,lOO bales the
previous year. The total supply of the year
was 3,O63,25l bales There had been burnt
at New York and Philadelphia 1913 bales
The stocks on hand are estimated at 1886
bales, OF which S3,739 were 10 Southern
ports.
The quantity consuined in the States South
and West Of Virginia, and not included in
the above figures, is estimated at 10000
bales. II We add this together, the stocks
ii the interior towns, &C., the quantity burnt
in the inferior, that lost on its way TO market,
and the crop, 2,927,GOS bales, already given
rs received ut the chipping ports, the aggrc.
gate will show very nearly the amount raised
in the United States the past scason-say, in
round numbers, 100000 bales, against
100000 for the year 1872, and 2,l5O,O00
for the year before.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

CANDID PoLITIcraS.-JamcsW W. T. Ne.
Callis,er of Philadelphia, declines being a
candidate for the Legislature, on the ground
that the per diem is too small, and adds:
As my notion of honor and honesty would
deprive me of the principal re,enuc of lcgis-
lators, Ito wit, bribcry,) should receive but
three dollars per day for the one hundred
days, and the very questionable honor OF be-
ing a Pennsylvania legislator title which
Gf the press Of this city is TO be belicvcd) is
SYNONYMOUS with villain"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

BANK NoTEs SIGNED BY MACHSERY.-
The notes Of the Bank of England, under Il
new process not long adopted, are signed by
machinery. The engraving Of the whole
note is complete. Formerly the Bank em-
ployed twenty clerks at salary each Of f5OO
per annum, who did nothing else but sign
their names 10 notes. Tho new mode Of
signing, it is supposed, will prevent counter
fritinu.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

The TRUE TEMPERANCE REroRMER.-
Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana, writes thus
from Naples:
IL have not seen man partially intoxicated
since l have been in the city, Of 42O,O in.
habitants, and they say one may live here for
wears without seeing one. All drink light
wines; and am not at all sure If Longworth,
the Cincinnati patron of vineyards, is not do.
ing more in our country for temperance than
any temperance lecturer in it."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

e4y- The Albany IN. W Register says
there arc more than Sl,0OO,O00 now lying
unclaimed in the Savings Banks of that
State, some of which has been there fifty
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

GA return just issued of the population
iiants has fallen oil two millions in the past
five years. In the year 1905 the population
was over 5,0O0.0oO; in 1914, 6,OO0,OO0; in
1924, seven millions, 1887, eight millions; in
1916, S,3S6,9io, and in 1851, only 6,55l go.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

Know NUTHIN.-1'he editor of the Nash.
vile Gazette says that in his travels about
town few days since, he picked up the fol.
lowing mysterious memorandum. 1t no doubt
has vast deal of meaning, if one could find
it out:
U.O. I.FOR1T DOLLARS. sB Little
DoRG with brindle man -As Watch y
your eyes-stump tailed TIME coming
WDo you-Yes we-don't Know NUrH-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06
II e IL M 8:

THE POST is published every Friday at $2 per year,
payable in advance or g. II payment is delayed until
.he expiration Of the year.
Advertisements will be charged u per square
of II lines or less the first insertion and 2J cents for
each continuance A liberal deduction made to those
who advertise by the year. Persons sending aiver-
tisenepts must mark the number of times they desire
them inserted they will he continued until forbid and
charged accordingly Ia .
For announcing the Of candidates for office, 3d.
Cdsh.
lob Work. such as Pamphlets, Minutes, Circulars,
Cards Hanks Handbis &c, will be executed in good
STYLE and on reasonable terms 49,
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be promptly attended to.
Persons at a distance sending us the names Of four
solvent Subscribers will be entitled to fifth copy gratis
No communication inserted unless accompanied by
the name OF the author.
gK Office Main street, next door to the old jack
son Hotel,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

Az AGRICULTURAL PRIycEss.-Princess
Murat, wife Of Achile Mnrat, son Of King
joaquin at Naples, has residence near Tala.
hasa, Florida, whence she recently sent the
Florida Sentinel, n new potatoc weighing ff-
teen ounces. Her husband is Floridian by
choice, but VIC believe is now in Paris.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

one THOUSAND LIVES Losr.-Thc clipper
barquc Mermaid, arrived at San Francisco
from Hong Kong, brought news that two
ships bound to California with Chinese imm-
grants, had been lost in the China Sea, To-.
gcthcr with one thousand of their passcn.
ncrs.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

.vA gentleman was walked in the night,
and told that his wife was dead. lie turned
round, drew the covcrlct closer, pulled down
his night cap, and mu,icred, as he went TO
sleep again, "Ah! how grieyed ] shall be in
the morning" Cool-ycrv.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

o. Mrs. Partington advises all young
people afflicted with preparation of the heart
to apply the cataract of mustard, to draw out
the information, and she says she has never
known failure where this device was fol.
lowed
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06
EWe find the following advertisement
in the Harrisburg Herald:

Notice to Hotel Keepers.-Whereas, am
unfortunately unable to control my appetite
for intoxicating liquors; and whereas, their
use has greatly afflicted myself and family
therefore, this is to notify all landlords, beer.
sellers, and others, who dispose of intoxica.
ting drinks of any kind whatever, that any
person who may hereafter give or sell the
same to me will be dealt with according to
law. l have been the means Of ia good deal
of affection to myself and others, and ask the
pardon of the community for past offences
AUGUSTUS BIcKARD.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

~ Archdeacon Wiibcrforce, man Of
high standing in the English Church, has re-
signed, in consequence of his scruples to re-
cognise the Queen rs the head of the Church
spiritual.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

w- 1t is now one hundred and fourteen
wears since the Mcthodists have existed as a
people. They now number in the world
nearly two millions of communcants, and
preach the gospel to ten or twelve millions.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06
ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED?

This is question which may call forth q
great deal of controversy and speculation,
but it can neither be affirmed or denied with
anything like proof. The Scientific Amer-
can has n very sensible article upon the sub
ject, the closing part Of which is in these
words: "Herschel has suggested that ;he sun
may be inhabited, and that between its lu.
minous atmosphere and its surface, there may
be interposed screen of clouds, whereby its
inhabitants may no more suffer from intense
heat than those who live in our tropical re-
g.ons. This may be so, as we all know how
much the heat of the suns rays, in the hot
test days Of summer, are modified by ali in
tcrposng cloud, or "a swift passing breeze" "
We also know that on the extensive table,
lands of high mountains in the tropics, the
glazer and ice field reigns Us supre.nc ~ in
, the arctic regions and all this although they
are nearer the sun than the adjacent burning
plains. The depth of the atmosphere, and
! its pressure upon the surface of the earth,
| Affects It's temperature as much rs its relative
distance from the sun, and thus it is that
many simple questions must enter into the
calculation, to determine by reasoning the
complex questions, of the probability of the
stars being inhabited. The moon has been
found to be destitute of any atmosphere, con-
sequently 10 living thing can dwell there at
least, none possessing the same functions
necessary to life as the oxygen.breathing
creatures of the earth. AS the sun has not
an atmosphere like ours, we also conclude
that there arc no inhabitants there. These
two orbs appear to pcrtorm-accordng to
scicnce-no other duties than those described
in the first chapter of Genesis, "let the sun
and the moon be in the armament to divide
the day and the night, to be for times and
seasons, days and years, and to give light
upon the earth"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

E The Savannah Courier learns from
correspondent in Liberty county, Ga, that
the crops of Sea Island cotton and rice in
that section, have nearly been ruined by the
late gale. OF the former, not half crops will
be made; and of the latter ten bushels to the
acre will not be realized. The gale appears
to have extended along the entire range of
coast from Florida to Bangor, Me. That
portion of the coast from Georgetown, S. c.,
to Brunswick, Ca, seems to have suffered
,nOst
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06
BREADsTuffs.-Thc New York Herald, Of

BREADsTuffs.-Thc New York Herald, of
the 18th inst, says:
On Wednesday last. flour went down in
our market from fifty 10 scycnty.fve cents ,
barrel. One of our Wall street cschonces
attributes this reduction TO the late rains.
which will set our country mills arain in mo.
tion. Perhaps this may be the case; but wo
are rather inclined TO think that the splendid
harvesis in England and France, and the re-.
duction Of the price of i''u, at Liverpool, have
had something to do with the decline here
Wall street may be wiser; but this is our
opinion,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

H The Louisville conference Of the
Methodist Church convened at Russellville
on Wednesday. Bishops Soule and Payne,
and about one hundred ministers were in at.
tendance.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-06

:ts- Depredations TO the amount of 3d.
O5O, have been committed in the Augusta
post office by negro, who has confessed his
crime and restored m ost of the money.