The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-29


~ Bacon is selling Il, this place at from
9so 10 cents per lb-Wheat 81, 80 cents pei
bushel.
oF Our commercial letters from Atlanta
and Augusta both failed this week, and no
papers from Savannah and but one from
Charleston since our last issue. The yellow
fever still prevails ut boil, the last named
places and passengers report the disease rs
prevailing TO u fearful extent at Augusta
Business in that direction is all derangcd at
present, and there is no probability OF the
disease being arrested until frost comes 10
the relief of The afflicted cities.
EAST Tenn. e. Ga. RA,LHoAD.-Thcrc
will be called meeting of The Directors o.
the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, at
the office in Athens, on Wednesday The 4.h
October. Important bushes, 10 transact, and
a full attendance is desired.
DEARTH OF NeWs.--Tilerc is n great
dearth OF news ut present. The Eastern war
drags heavily polite, loom small, and the
subject Of "shor cops" i, well nigh cx.
haustcd. The democratic papers arc filed
with invcctves against that hotrid spectre The
Know Nothings-trc wing papers discus,
only Cuba and the Sandwich, Islands, and
the neutral and religious papers are about rs
usual, like = adys stocking wi.houta lee,
nothing in them. 1t is thought, howcve,,
that something will tuin up before tong 10
vary The universal monotony now rci.ning
over transportation.
CHATTANOOGA MAEKETs-Somc OF our
subscribers aIon. The Tennessee river, desire
us to publish The Chattanooga mruLcis We
will comp y rs soon rs we can make arrange
ments with some persons thcrc 10 send them
to US in 4 reliable shape. The statement,
that rcach us through The papers are incor-
rect at times, or else prices seldom vary.
o. The Circuit Cout Of Nei.s county.
convened at Decatur last Monday-Jrdgc
Gaut presiding. We were pleased to find
the spirit of improvement had been ut ork
in Decatur. With the exception, perhaps, OF
Cleveland, Bradley coun.v, Dccaur is one OF
the thril.iest interior towns in East Tcnnes.
see.
CHATTANOOGA GAZerrE.-Ths paper has
reached lis 18th volume When first COM
mcnccd Chattanooga WAS y mere "Boat Land
ing" surrounded by bac'watcrs, fro. ponds,
M ne nd r,iih ,ni u
halng yapors, but the Gazette has lived 10
see all these disappear, and 10 accompany the
place in lis growth 10 n large and prosperous
city. When friend Plllam located nj what
Is now Chattanooga, he must have been
blessed with LARGE amount Of filth and :
hope; and right well and ndu,irious'y lias be
labored for that which hes i:tr-Sccinc mind |
then predicted The Gazette is IN excellent !
journal, albeit there is took of Iosysm
about it which we would gladly see removed,
and we trust its editor will long live 10 wit. |
ness the fruits OF his energy and enterprise.
caF" Common rumor says splendid for.
tunes have recently been made in the copper
regions of Virginia. 1t is said 10 be great
country for realizing pIe-all one has 10 do
is to dip in and he has il. There is nothing
like riches ii you would be respectable,
put money in your purse, boy. Baron Roths.
child is n famous man the world over, and so
will be some of the copper diggcrs if the
wind continues to set in the right direction.
1t is thought by the knowing ones there are
more fortunes slumbering among The hills OF
Carroll county. Persons who are pining for
''filthy lucrc" should bear in mind that there
is tide in the ailAirs of trade which, taken
at the flood, leads on to fortune. Now's the
time 10 strikc-so say the spectators.
HEARTH OF KYoXvILLE.-Wc find the fol-
lowing in regard TO The health Of Knoxville,
in the Register, Of Wednesday:
"Sincc Friday morning last, there have
been only two deaths. We hear that there
was 4 new case on Monday night. 1t will be
seen from our article on the outside, these
two arc all the deaths thai have occurred in
the last six days. We ;ccl safe in saying the
health of Knoxville is nearly restored. The
late change in the weather has operated f,-
vorably, and If our citizens will be careful in
their diet, the disease will speedily disappear.
MACHINE FOR SETTING TyrE.-Evcrv few
weeks we meet with paragraph going The
rounds of the papers that some inventive
genius has perfected Il machine for setlin"
type, which is to work wonders in the "art
Drescrvativc of all arts" Within the las; J
cn years some dozen of these type-settcrs
nave been invented and "perlccted," NIL of
which have turned out 10 be failures, and Ill !
such inventions will continue 10 lail-a "type q
setter" is one of The "maciincs" That can't Z
DC made by man alone. We arc gctiin. along
n life, lived fast for a good many years, and
lime and other things are beginning to tell
lpon us, but we will WAGER five hundred dol
ars that we can vet distribute and set more r
ypc in mont, than any machine that has s
,een or ever wi be invented by man. We C
re opposed to every species of gambling, l.
but would like 10 get 4 bet of that sort.
t4s-Thc Cherokee Sentinel, Texas, is out
or General Rusk for the Presidency. 1t says
lis Democracy is Of the pure unadulterated v
tripc, and that his great military services II
would make him very available candidate. =
General Scott was some in the military line l.