The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-11-25


OMINous.-A letter was received by a.
gentleman of this place, yesterday morn
ing from Greenville, Ga, dated day be-
fore yesterday, from which the following
extract is made;
Nothing new except great excitement
about Aboltionists and fire-20 Gin
Houses burnt in Talbot county last week."
We clip she above from the Lagrange
Reporter of Thursday last. We believe
the larger portion of our servile popula-
ton is contented and happy, and should,
as heretofore, be treated with confidence
and kindness. Doubtless many of the
gins reported to have been burned, is at
tributable to carelessness, not design
Still, as we have before urged, all srspi-
cious characters should be watched, and
a prudent and unwearied diligence OBJ
served.-Jomnat d Messenger.
SECOND MARRIAGEs.-Judge Stump of
Baltimore, in sentencing William Russell
and wife for cruelty towards one of Rus
sells children by former wife, takes oc-
casion to say:
The affair has resulted from-the Court
thinks-the reprehensibe practice of
parties with children marrying too often
A man marres one wife and has children ;
that wife dies, and he marries another
woman with children then she bears
| children to him, and we find three sets of
children in one family. These conglom-
| erations of heterogeneous mixtures will
| invariably lead to quarrels, which de-
strOy all matrimonial felicity.
Now, a Mussulman, by the laws of his
country, is allowed to have plurality of
| wives and would. consequently, have a
family of mixed children but we seldom
| hear of discreet Mussulman having more
than one wife, although the social law in
| Constantinople allows it. The Court does
| not say that you had more than one wife
| at time, but refers to this to show what
evils may come of having many families
| in this way joined together. From the
| evidence which the Court heard, it is OF
| opinion the woman was endeavoring to
destroy the child witnesses said that
| they heard her express herself in that
way, and the Court believes them.
A SIGHT WORTH SEEING.-At the Glib
son county (Tennessee) fair novel spec
tocle was seen. 1t is thus described by
the Clarion:
about three o'clock, Mr.. Stephen
| Meads and his wife entered the ring, fol-
lowed by their twelve sons and two daugh-
ters, each on a fine gray steed and in
the order of their ages. They proceeded
around in the ring, while the band struck
up Hail Columbia, and drew up in front
of the executive, when the President
made some very appropriate remarks, at.
ter which the mammoth family was voci-
ferously cheered from one side of the
grounds to the other. We give briei
statement of this family: The old gentle
man was born in 1893, and came to this
county in 1919. Mrs. Meade was born
in 1903. The two were married 1921
The oldest son is 80 years old, and the
Youngest IA. The oldest daughter is 49,
and the youngest II. Eleven are mar
ried, and have twenty-five children
The fourteen children of Mr. Meade
were all born in Gibson county, and all
now live here but one, and are the best
of citizens. None of the family have
died, and all now look hale and hearty
Two YEARS AMENDMENT IN MAssAcHU-
SETS AND IN South CARoLINA.-It is re.
markable that while such clamor was
made about the amendment to the consti-
tuition of Massachusetts, requiring oi
naturalized citizens q residence of two
wears before voting, a similar amendment
was made to the constitution of South
Carolina, and nothing was said about it
This amendment was ratified by the
Ierislature of South Carolina on the Goth
of December, 1856 In that State, amend
ments to the constitution are not sub
mitted to the peorss.-Rcsss"ss Jes7nal