The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-11-19


| Mrs. HantE, and Sammy did il all His I'm.
gers smarted with cold, when he picked up
great baskets Of chips. his back sehed when
I he ugged in Mmful after armful OF great
hardwood. sticks for the kitchen and spare
room" fireplace; his hungry stomach eraved
piece Of the smoking pies, which he had 10
drag from the btiek oven; and be loHged for
one "doughnut" from the heapiug painful he
had 10 carry away. Ills little feet aud slen-
der arms were yess ii,s9 s.. q. =; cssss sss sys
| yoking taurts AMI nstdfess faaft 6ndlng, hs
| was silent; bu, when all was done-aud u
was nine o'cloek--.he could not help asking
her il he was 20 60 TO his grandiA,her's To.
morrow; aud when be heard her say, mo! !
want YOU al home be could hardly to;trt up
stairs. when there he dropped into an old
chair, and moancd, oh, so sadly! Another,
mother, mother"
How many childish hearts moan mother
mothetl How many ache and break fof want
of mothers love! All over the world poor
orphaned children send up wall tor mc'hed
Love and Heaven Bitter indeed is the cry;
but does not God hear II, aud shall he not
Justly " ard the oppressors Of little shil-
drenl
Thanksgiving morning dawned eleAr aud
brightly upon lug'enook; bat Mrs Hansr
"wai,ed on herself that day, for after calling
the poor boy many times, she went up stairs
and found him still sitting, white and sh'l,
by the window, with tears frozen upon his
cheeks and his son hair woven With tho frost
work on tho glass.
Little Sammy had gone TO hold his Thanks
giving with the angels.
e%- The Dublin Medical Press asserts
that the pupils of the polyteehnical school in
Paris have recently furnished some curious
statistics bearing optobacco. Dividing the
young men Of that college into gtoups--the
smokers and the non. smokers--ii shows that
smokers have proved themselves In the vart
Gus competitive examinations far inferior to
the others. Not only yon the examinations on
entering the school are the smokers in
lower rank, but In the various ptdeals that
they have 20 pass through in year, ''i'' nv
erare rank OF the smokers had eoflta,tly
man Who a.d NOT smcke Hhjoyed a csfseai
atmosphere Of the clearest kind.
WHAT 1T is TO Bg a COUNTRY Epiron'--
Some of our interior contemporaries have
certainly had their lots cast IN pleasant places
Here is one evidence in the cnso of the Eu'
taw Wing:
Our cabin was visited again, last week, by
n hiph land locomotive, loaded down with
provisions for the editor The load consist.
ed of n quarter OF fine beef, hall of n iai pig,
six or eight bushels OF potatoes, two or three
of peaches, ditto of apples, bag Of meal,
sack of rrits OF "grstis." n peek or 40 oi to-
maioes, ditto of onions, jar Of lelly,a bottle
of ca,sup, two fine fat 'possumS, and other
articles too numerous TO mention
Nrw Dosp or USioS.--We have found,
SAYS tho Louisville Journals new bond of
union for our Republic. The Atlanta Geor-
c,an Acknowledges the receipt Of cabbages
from the New York market, which sell read'
ly at 400 per cent advance on cost, and says
the idea Of people who will not raise their
own cabbages being bored to death by "gl'a.
tors about independence aud urged TO dis
union is prepostetouA u they viii not
raise cabbnges now they will not raise them
then, aud the South would have to import
them from foreign country, with tarlll OF
two or three cents per head tackled on 10
help derray tho expenses OF the government
or for incidental protection to encourage tho
home productionl Dissolve the Union ahd
import cabbages-prepos'e'ou''
KErplys WMrCG ArFLEs.--h cottespon.
dant writes to the Evening POST" have
Tound by experience that the best way o'
saving winter apples is 10 ppck them ~ layere
with rye or uhea, straw. Dat straw shoold
meyer be used, as It IL Hpi to collect damp
ness, Rye or wheat straw has THIS eject
that il an apple becomes rotten, u absorts we
,uoislurc, leaving the apple NJ To remove'
vi,,ruu, any aort rot Mr.. Bcldcn's npplea
observe the best methods of keeping. Tor
they are very large and fine, nnd attest tho
fertility Of the region In which they are pro-
duced, as well us the care of the eultlvatof'
THE VoTg IN CmcAso.--Ths Chicago
"Daily Herald" rive. the following reasons
for the small Administration vote in that
city:
"The fact having become known on the
eve of the election, that the entire catholic
vote of this city, Notwithstanding professions
ia the contrary, would he thrown Tor Doug
elns the National Democrats became ctHspef'
,ted a, snrh wholesale tfenchcry, and despite
of nil tho efforts that could be made 10 pre-
vent il, they voted cn-nasse for he RepuOll.
ran candidate ~ the most ehectual way of
defeating Douglas.
The Washington "Stnies' says OF The
above
"The papet thai makes this statement was
s,art,d "for the occasion" by money seat
from Washington; wns the pet OF The Ohlon'
and was quoted aud held up by tue laue' ~
the organ of the Administration 10 lineage
II Is. moreover, edited by United S~'r'
marshal who supplanled NJ. Davidson, s'
noyed for adhesion 10 the Democratic o,gAhE
,,,ion The Daily IlcrRld, ther, may DC Va
ken as authority on the National peuos,a' n
ry," which rlrans the Wendell Lneo'h 'p''
mocracy Of Chicago.
,.gy- The city Of Tampa, Florida, has been
nlmos, depopulnted by the rvHg'' o'"e
yellow fever and by the fight Of alarmed
ei,lzens The Peninsular says the town
-. ,h. ,,r.s,snee of a ohureh.yard.