The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-03
Chips, and Things.
The Tuscaloosa Monitor has been suppressed
by the military.

Ht tS ptultlOh ANN" VI i''h'
turns out to be big hum-the men composing
it were employed to work on railroads.
VIM. II. Harris, Chattanooga, has been
mucted in the Federal Court in $4,000 for
approprating government lumber.
The Arkansas members were sworn into
their seats in the House on the oath.
According to Houk, the luminous, the bond
ed debt of the government is two billion five
hundred million dollars. Will Houk inform
his constituents what billion is2
One thousand persons have gone into thorough
bankruptcy in Massachusetts,. Puritan legis-
lation is being disastrously felt even in Puri-
tan headquarters.
IIeber Kimball, of Norman prominence, Is
dead.
A young lady of Galesburg, Illinois, OF
very respectable family connections, eloped,
last week, with the clown of johnson & Co.'s
circus.
A Pittsburg merchant has made raise of
$500 by false pretences.
Rev. John r. Balm died at GAINESVILLE last
week.
Father Bokum is still laboring for immigra-
tion-with what success is not known.
Senator Henderson and Miss Matte Foot
were married, at the National Hotel, Wash
ington, few days ago.
| Governor Bulloch has issued proclamation
converting the Georgia Legislature on the
Fourth of July.
A salt spring of large promise has been
struck in the Big Poor Valley, near Rogers
vile, Hawkins county.
A collision occurred on Thursday evening,
of last week, between Maj. Kirby, of the
Knoxville Press and Herald, and John Brown
low of the Wing. Nobody hurt.
Wheat is reported good in Roano county
better than anticipated.
Two loil preachers lsby Austin and J. L..
Mann-are Safeguarding each other through
the Greeneville papers.
| The Chattanooga Republican is beslobbering
Bill Stokes with praise, with view to his
candidacy for Governor.
Midnight ba,ols are said to be very common
in some sections of the country.
Some author says that one of the uses of adj
yersity is to bring us out. That's true--par-
ticularly at the knees and elbows.
pa said little friend of ours, 'what is the
use of giving our little pigs so much milk?
they make hogs of Themselves Pa walked
away.
A family in Belfast recently boiled the
leaves of the rhubarb plant for greens and
were all poisoned.
The family of the President are on visit to
his home in Tennessee.
Gen. Mcdowell, who got badly whipped at
the first Manassas battle, is playing the tyrant
largely in Mississippi.
Mai. Frank Manncy, of this State, was stab
bed and killed at New Orleans, on the night
of the 25th.
The United States Circuit and District
Courts at Knoxville, adjourned last Friday.
The Merchants and Manufacturers Insurance
Company, Nashville, has suspended.
The South Carolina Legislature is to meet
on the 9th of July-by order Of the Crane
Satrap. That of Louisiana on same day.
Judge w. S. Allen, of the st. Louis Repub
lican is dead-after doing duty Us an editor
for twelve years.
The Winchester and Alabama Railroad il
fully completed.
The Odd Fellows had grand celebration al
Galatin on the Goth.
Banks--the Cotton speculator--is to SPEAK
a piece at Knoxville on the ga-lorious Fourth
Hon. E. B. Washbufne is about the mos
handy man in the country. lie denies tn,
authenticity of Grants letter in which h,
threatened to go over to the rebels.
Over two-thirds of the public offices in St
Louis are held by Germans.
A Philadelphia minister prays at the rate O
200 words per minute.
Coal is now selling in st. Louis at 6K cents
per bushel, with plentiful supply.
Two quarts of lager beer killed a French
man in Buffalo the other day.
Ex-Secretary Stanton proposes to return t
the practice of the law. He will prove n
honor to the profession.
At Cleveland, Ohio, Mrs. Victor, charged
with poisoninong her brother, has been con
victed of murder in the first degree.
Hunnicutt, the noted Virginia scalawag
was on a big drunk at last advices, and swear
ing like trooper.
The whole amount of gold mined in thi
country since the gold regions We're opened
few years ago, amounts to one billion two hun
bred and fifty million dollars.
Corn is as low at Selma, Alabama, as at s,
Louis, and large quantities are being shippc
, to Mobile.
Mexico declines to give the right of way 70
a railroad from her capital to our Norther
} frontier.
A member of the whisky ring says this lii
is pretty much made up of "abstractions."
The Merchants National Bank of Memphi
2 has suspended.
Ben Garret, police detective, shot and Sc
verely wounded j. j. Kelley, at Memphis, o
the 9th.
John O'Connor, q tailor, was waylaid b
e some negroes ut Memphis, knocked on tn
head with bar of iron and thrown into tn
f bayou.