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A SAD AFFAIR." RuLY.--From
the Cincinnati Times, is taken an &C.
count Of heart rending affair; the
result Of stealing money from the
mails. The frequent depredations of
this kind, in the State of Ohio, as
well as elsewhere, and the very recent
arrest of no less than eleuen Post Mas
ters, on this account; has called out
the narrative, which we condense.--
The head Of family, consisting of
wife and five children, having bust.
ness to transact in Texas, left St. Louis
and went to Austin, intending to
make permanent arrangements for,
and remove his family. When there,
lie found that he could do better than
at st. Louis, and wrote his wife to this
effect; renting her by mali $780,
The money was never received. AZ
ter long silence in which the wife at
st. Louis, struggled with poverty
amounting almost to restitution she
wrote her husband, complaining Bit
terly Of his neglect. On receiving
this letter, he Immediately embarked
for st. Louis. Here, The found bis
once happy home deserted; the part
ner Of his life in the belief that her
husband had forsaken her ; in a fit of
upon dark and stormy
night, had cast herself and child into
The Mississippi, the turbid waters of
which soon stilled in death the unquiet
throbbings Of her maddened brain.
And no doubt the petty Jogging
official, who robbed the nail, is still at
liberty, if not in the employ Of this
model branch Of Government.
The HEALTH OF CLINTON AND
JACKsoN.-As will b. seen from our
Clinton correspondent, Julian, to-day,
,he health of Clinton in this State is
good, only three cases of fever having
terminated fatally; one of them, Mr..
Law, the Sheriff of East Feliciana,
contracted the disease in Port. Hud-
on. Of jackson, Julian says; the
ever is raging to fearful extent, the
population considered. The work on
he insane Asylum, has been discon-
inued on this account, and not more
han one hundred and fifty persons re-
main in jackson. Should the con-
iteration continue at Jackson, we think
ur Benevolent Association should be
on the spot with small
orpse of the best of their nurses, for
turing the coming week, we expect to
ear the fever in this place, declared
o be at an end.
DEATH OF A DISTRICT JUDGE
IN Tburcdau Loot T,1doo Cusb,,,n ofl
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THE APPROACH OF W1NTER.-We
are ever dissatisfed-ever desiring a
change and are ever fluctuating be.
tween bad and worse, occasionally ar.
irving for a moment at indiferently
good, in order as it would seem, to
draw comparisons. We are either
burning up or freezing to death and
the very elements which give us life,
are ever conspiring to kill us outright.
We come into the world with elastic
nerves and muscles of fine fber-we
expand with heat, and contract with
cold until the sockets of our knee
joints wear loose, and then we totter
off, deaf and blind with age, and STUN
bic at length into the mother earth,
from whose bosom we came. The town
and city has been negotiating for time
past; the rank weeds have grown up,
and the public high ways are carpeted
with the emerald of the field, and now
a blast from old Boreas at the north,
sends US shivering to the fire-side
again. The thermometer has gone
down from 900 to 700 since Tues
day, and the next thing we shall he
frozen within doors, and signing for a
return Of spring time and summer
The sun has been for a time past in
mood, and from which we
have been screening ourselves, now
feels very comfortable, and we find
that we cannot do without his rays,
although he will strike at us and oc.
casionally knock us down.
No one will sigh, that the winter Of
I'D age is already frosting the days Of
Anno donsini 1856. Let it yield the
ghost as speedily as it will, for it is
marked with grief and stained with
'orrow-from the south even to the
extreme north. Let it's memories be
with it; for life is too brief
% fret away in useless sorrow.
How A CHlLENo CAN D1E.-A con-
'ict culprit, named Sebado, was re-
gently executed at Sonora, Cal. He
addressed the spectators in Spanish
rom the gallows as follows
He said if he had been an American
lie would not have been molested, and
,e advises all Spaniards, whenever
hey meet man with a white skin
ind fair hair, to put knife into him
Up to the hilt. He complained much
# injustice, but he would now show
he people how Chileno could die.
lie insisted upon having woman
brought upon the scaffold to play the
larp for him to dance his way out of
he world, otherwise he would die un-
lappy. In conclusion, he said if any
ne present desired to send word or
money to their friends where he was
,oinghe was just the man to take it.
LARGE AUD1ENcE.-It is stated
Int 4ha Knnlnl M.as4.l LII o.
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The Cry Of wolves.

bic; ls APPLY illustrated, just now, in
the cry Of prescription.
The cry of prescription for religious
opinion" proceeds alone from those
who would and do prescribe as may
be seen, by any one who will look
about, after removing the film Of pre-
judice from his eyes. Who are the
parties that make the cry of "pros-
criptiop e. Does not the clamor pro-
coed from politicians of no faith who
are neither Catholic or Protestant, in
their practice Even SO. And the
strange anomaly Gf there we're any
thing strange, in the tactics Of politi-
clans is presented, Of Protestant edi-
tors, crying out Prescription !" Not
against themselves but against the Rom
ish religion, by which they themselves,
are poscribed, ana stand ever commit
ted as heretics. This is practical
christianity, of which we have no ex-
ample in history it is doing unto
a neighbor, not as you would expect
him to do unto you," but doing more
than should be expected in the nature
Of things. We know not how to &C.
count for this sudden embrace Of" In
fdels " by the "true faith" only by
resolving the matter into a simple
sum Of interest, and then it can be
mechanically demonstrated, why the
cry Of" prescription " is raised, when
there is no prescription.
1t would be novel indeed, and ap-
palling to republicanism and the free
dom Of conscience that the American
people, born in the "cradel Of liber-
ty" and nursed in universal tolerence;
should desire to prescribe the stranger
within their gates, for mere opinion
sake. Such cry proceeds Alone.
from the throat Of demagogueism.-
There is no prescription farther than
that, which proceeds from temporal
power, with which no church or relig-
ion. either domestic or foreign has {
right to interfere. The repeated eff.
sorts made by church hiereachies to-
obtain division of .he public school
fund--the issuing Of bills Of excom-
munication, and damnation, from the
other side of Jordan, to have effect on
this, and other highanded measures
has called for, and will we hope re-
ceive attention from this people who
know their rights, and know that the
price ofliberty is eternal vigelehce.
There is a universal squabblc among
all denominations, Of religionists just
now; and desire to centralize wealth
for political influence. Preachers, Of
all denominations Of religion, are too
much given to politics; save the Rom
ish,' which WELD an unseen pow err,
20 potent, that it is to be feared, and
now (withont interfering with the faith
# any one) it is time to look about
is, and calculate .he latitude and
ongitude, that the ship Of State, be
lot dashed to pieces by ignorance and
anaticism in the time to come. To
guard against this, lot the American
,uilt yatcb, be manned by Americans
ct her be covered BIZ American charts,
n the hands Of American seamen7
nd then may she be safely navigated
nd steer clear Of breakers ahead
Jot only this; she may take on her
ecks the oppressed and down trod-
en- of all nations a BID direct them to-
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LARGE AUD1ENcE.-It is stated
that the Kunkel Ministries had an
audience Of $500 persons, at one of
their concerts in Cincinnati last week.
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DE- A letter from Rome mentions
some fresh discoveries Of antiquities,
among which are two columns, one of
alabaster, and the other of marble,
both of admirable beauty dug up in
the Via della scrofa, and a granite
column, 90 feet long, with well pres
eryed Corinthian capital Of marble. -
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10 Fl. Y. ToML1NsoN q Co.,
have just received large lot Of St.
Louis flour, sugar cured hams, and
other articles in their line. Corner
of Third and Convention, SITS. Give
them call.
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% The Thermometer has. gone down
In the past six hours, from 80 to ITO.
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10 The Mercantile Library As
ISOLATION of New York, has just re-
ceived two pieces Of Statuary, order
Cd for the Association; one repre-
senting Silence and the other Truth
Mr. Mozier is the Artist.
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DEATH OF A DISTRICT JUDGE.-
On Thursday last, Judge Cushman, Of
Alexandria, died Of fever,
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TWENTY THOUSAND CATTLE FROM
Texas AND MEx1co.--On recent
visit to Lasalle, says the Chicago
Press, we were informed that gen.
tleman resident there, named Mccoy,
formerly of Kenosha, with three or
four other persons in that neighbor-
hood, is concerned in driving cattle
from Texas and Mexico, and that they
now have twenty thousand on the
way. which will probably arrive with
in the next two or three weeks.
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-------~D
Propensity for Betting.-The Rich
mond (Va.) Despatch tells the follow
ing story, and says it comes in shape
SO unquestionable as to leave no doubt
of its truth ...=..
Two gentlemen who were recently
carried from Portsmouth to the Navy
Hospital with the fever, were placed
in positions SO contiguous that they
each could see and hear each other
One of them, Mr.. J. had a monomania
for betting. When in health he was
for settling every question, small or
great by bet, and the same passion
exerted ruling influence over him in
sickness. Both the gentlemen were
i'll, and Mr.. A., the elder of the two
frequently exclaimed in his agony"
shall die" j., after hearing the ex-
clamation few times, and probable
much excited by bis fever, suddenly
rose up in his bed, and to the aston
ishment of the attending physician,
proposed a bet, Z" IN bet you," said
he, "$l0 you don't DIE I shall die
before morning." was the reply. I'll
bet you $40 you're alive at daybreak,
said J. And SO earnestly was he for
the bet, that be continued bis impor-
tunities until. the attending surgeon
had him removed to another room.
Mr.. A., died in a short time. But J.
recovered and is now well and as ready
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GoDEY's BooK.--True to the ap-
pointed time, as the needle is to the
pole; Godey's 1.ady's Book is at hand
for October, with more than the usu
al number Of fashion plates, patterns,
lace, cobweb, lilly and such other
work as delight the ladies, and give
pleasurable employment to their lei
sure hours. October Number con-
tains a fine plate, "Cromwell's last
interview with his favorite daughter.
We need not say that "now is the
time," for any season will answer to
commence with Cooley.
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NF The Steamer Crystal Palace,
is up, to leave New Orleans on the
End Of Oct, for St. Louis, and will be
here on Wednesday the Bird. Fare
to Memphis, SIS, Cairo, 500, and St.
Louis, $25.
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PorAroE Ror IN; VERmosr.-This
disease, it is reported, has made its
appearance in Rutland and Fair Ha-
ven. Some fields are badly affected,
and the disease is rather on the in
crease, though the crop will still be-
abundant, without doubt.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-26
WISTAR'S BALSAM.

yUNIIE best remedy ever known to man, for Coughs,
Il Asthma, Colds, Group Bronchitis Influenza, bleed
ing Of the Lungs, Difficulty Of breathing, Liver Alice
TONS Pain Weakness Of the Breast or Side, First
Stages OF Consumption, etc.
This medicine, prepared by long-experiened AMI
skilf physician, tested and approved by great num-
Der OF intelligent distinguished aud respectable persons
In various parts OF the country, is now received and
used with entire confidence and with great success by
those afflicted with Pulmonary complaints. II Is also
recommended valuable medicine for other diseases,
such Colds, Coughs and particularly those diseases
whose tendency IL to Consumption. ... -
From TIE Boston Mercantile Journal
This medicine, coming from respectable source, and
carefully prepared by experienced and skhl physi-
clan, Is received by fhe public with confidence Its eff
hcacy has been proved In many obdurate of dis
ease, aud it, fame has rapidly extended. II has been
extensively used IN every part Of the country partcu-
larry in the Middle and Northern States and strong tcs
tmony from Intelligent aud highly respectable persons
has been addlccd IN favor of its merits as remedy for
Colds and Coughs affections OF the Chest, Diseased Liy
er and Dyspepsia,
We would advise those Of readers who labor.
ing under affection Of the lungs to make Immediate
trial Of this truly excellent medicine The most inelli-
gent and respectable families OF city have adopted
It tavortc medicine; and persons prcdlsposed to
consumption who have used II, speak Ia the highest
terms Of It's efficacy, ...
beware Of counterreit~ and mu,itatons -syrups and
all other preparations Of Wild Cherry Remember, they
only initiate in name, without possessing the virtues
buy none but the genuine and original
DIR. Wlstnr's knisam OF wild Cherry.
Signed stanford and Park" on the wrapper around
each bottle.
Sold, wholesale and retail, by rrH
scoViL MEAD, III Charities street, y o.,
between 81. Louis and Cont,
General Agents for the southern States, to whom all
orders must he addressed.
Sold also by p. H. Knri Co., Athens; Cow AZ HAM
NoNp, Charleston; W. H. CR,GuiRs, Cleveland; Mess &
and by agents In every town In the State.
Dec |, lS5i-6m 500
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Fees Tor lectures SIO0 per annum.
The Medical Department,

Fees for Lectures 800 per annum.
The Medical Department.,
Closed its first Session with l2 Students and 80 Gradu-
ateS its second with 1872 Students and 80 Graduates and
It's third with 220 Students and II Graduates.
The Fourth Annual Course Of Lectures will commence
Monday the 30th OF October next, and continue till
the first Of the ensuing March.
ROBERT VI. PORTER, NJ d., Professor OF General and
Special Anatomy.
J. DERRiES IiNDSLEY, NJ. D., Professor OF Chemistry
and Dean Of the Faculty.
X. WINSTON, NJ. d. Professor OF Materia Mediea and
Medical Jurisprudence.
A. II. BUCHANAN, NJ. d., Professor Of Surgical and
Pathological Anatomy.
THOMAS r. JENNINGS VI d., Professor OF Institutes Of
Medicine and Clinical Medicine
W. X. BOWLING VI. d., Professor OF Theory and Prac
tce Of Medicine.
JONI VI. WATSON ". D., Professor of Obstetrics and
the Diseases Of Women and Children.
PAUL p. Eve, NJ D., Professor Of Principles and Prac
tce Of Surgery.
WILLIAM T. BRrGGs, ". D., Demonstration Of Anatomy.
The Anatomical rooms will be opened for students
the first Monday Of October.
full Preliminary course Of Lectures, free to all Stu
dents, will be given by the Professors, commencing
the first Monday OF October.
Clinique has been established, In connection with
the University at which operations performed and
cases for and ectured upon In presence OF the
Class
Arrangements have been made to accommodate all pa
tents requiring surgical operations.
Amount Of Fees for Lectures In this Department Is
fio' Matrculaton Fee (paid only) Is; Practical
Anatomy, 80; Graduating Fee A25
Good Board can he obtained for As per week
The Annual Announcement giving full account OF the
several Departments Of the University may be had by
applying to A. " T. LINDSEY,
Aug4, ls5i-6m' SOC Scy Board Trustees.
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School of Medicine and Surgery.
FOR PRIVATE INSTRUCTION..
Knoxville, Tenn.
PICHIRD o. CIRREY, ~ ID.
A A Ia

PItHiRD %. CURRY, NJ d.
D. FRAZIER, " d.
nUR object Is to afford to Medical Students the re-
~ quisite advantages for acquiring thorough and
practical knowledge Of the fundamental principles Of
medicine.
The method Of instruction will he by n systematic
Of Redding In the best and latest Text books by
experimental lectures, and daily examinations, accord
ing to the plan pursued successfully in the University
OF Virginia, and in the European schools.
Unusual advantages will be offered for the study Of sps
si and Surgical Anatomy and experimental chemistry
The course of study will be continued through the
entire year, and will be divided into two terms.
The Winter Term, beginning the first Monday In
October will embrace the studies Of Anatomy Surgery
Chemistry and Materia Medica.
The Summer Term, beginning on the first Monday In
April win embrace the studies Of Physiology and Path
olOgy Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Childrsn
and Theory and Practice of Medicine.
special Term for those desiring will he entered upon
in January, to continue till the opening OF the summer
Each pupil will have to the cabinets and
libraries OF the Instructors.
Fee for the Winter Term, Alone. $50
For Summer Term, alone, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. w
WI ioi Hc 't'ir' year. '.'' ~
Special arrange nents made with those who wish 10
pursue only n part of the course OF study.
For further particulars apply to either Of the nstrus
tors by letter at their Office Cumberland street,
West Of the Post Office, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Dec. TO- 1SJf-6m 1921
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Jew. David, or Hebrew Plaster.

VUIlE great remedy for Rheumatism, Gout, Pain In
side Hip, Back Limbs and Joints; Scrof,lla, King $
Evil White Swelling, Hard Tumors, sun Joints, and all
hNcd pains whatever.
Where this Plaster Is applied pain cannot exist
II has been beneficial In eases Of weakness, such as
Pain and weakness In the Stomach, Weak Limbs Lame
ness, Affection ~ the Lungs In their primary stages
IL destroys inflammation by perspiration.
James H. Boyd, Pickcns district, South Carolina, tcs
titles that by It's alone he was cured OF rheumatism
In both Of his knees, OF several years standing.
The following was handed us by respectable Physi.
clan In Georgia:
Messrs scovl & Mead--Gents; have been using
your Lverwor and Tar and Hebrew Plaster very
svcy In my practice for three years past and with
pleasure that state my belief IN their superiority
all other articles with which am acquainted, for the
purposes for which they recommended. The He.
brew Plaster especially Is universal panacca for To-
cal pains, have also found II most excellent applcn
ton for sprains and rulses II gives universal salts.
faction wherever used. g. \ OsIIN, NJ u,
Knoxville, Ca, March Ith, 1854 ... |
~ beware Of couniericits and base limitations
The genuine will In future have the signature Of e.
T,YLoR the engraved label on the ton Of each box
Purchasers are advised that mean counterfeit Of
this article Is IN existence.
The genuine Is sold only by us and by our agents
pointed through the Southland M pcdRr l. allowed 10
sell t. Dealers and purchasers generally are cautioned
against buying OF any hut regular agents otherwise
they will he Imposed upon with worthless article.
SCOvIL MEAD, III Chartres st., New Orleans,
Sole General Agents for the Southern States to whom
all orders must Invariably he addressed.
Sold also by ?. " kErrn CO., Athens; Cow,Nk HAM.
soSp Charleston; W u. CnNDNhrs, Cleveland; Moss 4
sIcKlNy, Benton; J. A. 4 &, w CorFiS, M,lisonvile
and agents IN eyery town In the State. Dec |, 1Lly
ININE Chnn,in,, T,hncoo- and No 4 C;yara
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University of Nashville.

guyHIS institution founded by the State Of North
Carolina inl1s5, as Davidson Academy. tbecame
Cumberland coege in 1906 and University Of Nashville
In 1926.
The Literary Dcpn
Win he re.opened under Organization, and with
new Buildings onthe First Wednesday OF October next.
Rev. EDWARD NADswoKrH d. d., Professor OF Ethics
and Bellies Letters. and Chairman of the Faculty.
Rev. J. W. MccULLouGn, D. D., Professor OF Anc mt
Languages. ......
ALExisDEa p STEWART. A. NJ, Professor Of Mathemat
les and Natural Philosophy. ...
Rev J. r. LypsLyY, NJ. D., Professor OF Chemistry and
the Natural Sciences. sd
Tuition SIS per annum-M Naturalization fee e5.
The Law Department,
VIII also be opened on the FIRST Wednesday Of October
next.
FRANCIS n. FOGG, Esq,
WILLIAM D. COOPER, Esq, Professors.
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Strawberry Plains College,


THE Spring Session NJ this Institution will begin on
the 18th day Of February, 1879.
The central College cditce--a large and commodious
buildirg-hns been erected during the present season.
and will be open for the accommodation of Students
The location the main stage road Is miles East Of
Knoxville, at the point where the East Tennessee and
Virginia Rail Rord the Holston River Il one Of
uncommon beauty and healthfuness Nothing like 10.
cal epidemic disease has ever been known here.
The course of study L. liberal and thorough. u en-
braces Dep lrtmonts, the English Preparatory and
the regular Collegiate Tuition in the English Depart
varies according to the studies pursued, from ~
to $40 Session, in advance; in the Collegiate II is si5
n Session.
Boarding can be had at the Boarding House. with the
President, In private families at from VI e5 to 100
II week, quarterly In advance.
Students will be admitted any time during the Session.
II Is to their advantage, however, to eater Mt the begin
ming. Aud student win he charged with Tuition for
less than fourth Of the Session.
1t Is not proposed ut this Institution either to instruct
Incidence or to reform Vice; such unpromsing
tcral is desired here. The System OF Discipline and
methods Of Instruction intended not to superscde
hut steadily 10 did the students efforts for the for
nation and preservation NJ good intellectual and moral
habits. r. l.. KIRKPATRICK, President
strawberry Plains, Tenn, Jan. =, iSiS-3Ir 32S
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ATHENS F0UND DRY
MachIno works.


Machine Works.
VNlIE subscribers would respectfully an
Il nounee to the citizens of Athens and the
public generally. that they are now in opera
ton and prepared Il" do
Q a . II Z NJ O.
of every description in their line. and would
therefore solicit ordersfrum all those who may
want anything of the kind.
They are now casting and have for sale diff
ferent sizes Of the Globe. or Air-tight Cook
Stoves, furnished complete; various sizes Of
Parlor, Nine Plate. Chamber, Office and shop
Stoves. Also, Hollow Ware; Waffle Irons;
Ploughs, right and left hand. -..
Also, the Kilgore Spiral or Incline Water
Wheel which will saw from two to five thou
sand feet per dav. al kinds Of
M a Q H Z NJ "A R Y
fitted up in the best and most durable manner.
and upon short notice. ....
ALSO, Iron Railing Of every description.
They are also prepared to do all kinds Of
Brass casting.
The highest Cash price will be paid for
OLD COPPER s7"Hs M IfH
. .... ZIMMERMAN 4 THOMAS a
P.S. We have connected with the Works
an excellent Pattern Maker. so that persons
wishing castings can have patterns made to
order. . Eat
Athens. Tenn. Oct. 90. lS54-tf 81