The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-01-03

The supreme Court of Georgia has decided
that an Express Company which pursue, con
tinuouSly, for any period Of time, the business
Of transporting goods, packages, etc., is COM
mon carrier. and in case OF los, the prcSump-
ton Of law is against it, and no excuse will
avail II, unless the loss was occa>ioncd by the
act of God or the pablo enemies of thu state.
The weather has been SO mild in portion, of
Louisiana that the standing sugar cane i all
out in bloom.
The planters in some of the sugar growing
parishes Of Louisiana have come to the con
clh>ion that they cannot pay more than $1,000
a month for first class hands the present year.
The Hon. Eugene CasSrrly. the newly elect
ed senator from California, is a Democrat, and
said to possess ability of high order.
Major .Ars Throcknorton, Il well known
citizen Of Kentucky, died ut the residence Of
a friend. three miles from Louisville, on Christ
mas night.
The civil authorities Of Kentucky are get
ting after Gen. Burbridgc for some Of his high
handed measures in that State during the war,
and the chances are that he will he indicted
and tried for murder in several eases.
John Fcnton, . policeman, was shot and
killed at Memphis on Christmas day while at
tempting to qucll Il street disturbance.
4 locomotive belonging to the Chicago and
Rock Island Railroad, exploded near 10Th
street, Chicago.
John Mcnamara, residing in the suburbs of
Baltimore, hrutally murdered his wife by
beating out her brains with 4 boot jack Christ
mas night. lie has been arrested.
Bryandt Henry, cashier of the Merchants
Bank Boston, is Il dcfaultcr to the amount Of
S50,OOo, and has fled to Europe.
Serious breaks have occurred in the levcrs
below New Orleans. and large extent of
country is threatened with submcrsion.
The Memphis Appcdl says that nearly every
negro that has come into that city from the
country during the last week, had purchased
a shotgun or pistol and ammunition to take
back with him.
The first Quebec Parliament was opened on
the 9th.
Ii is said a good many southern planters are
preparing to cmigratc TO India TO engage in
the cultivation Of cotton.
\ Canadian editor who was attacked by Il
rascal on bridge, threw his aSsailant into the
river and made an item of him.
An exchange says the fashionable women
are wearing carriers with diamond buckles
The observing faculty Of some Of our brother
editors is wonderfully accutc.
4 French surgeon has invented means of
illuminating the inside of Il mans >tumach.-
If he could only Introduce his apparatus into
some peoples heads he would be Il bcmriactor
to the race.
| Ncvci anticipate wealth coming from any
other source than Labor, and never place de-
pcndcncr on becoming poSscsSor Of an inhcri-
lance. "lIr who waits for Il dead mans shoes,
may 20 long time barrtootcd." lie who
runs altcra shadow has 4 wcariSomc race"
\ white man WAS murdered on Thursday
night ut Bright Hope Coal Pits, in Chesterfield
county, Va, by being thrown into Il shaft ont
Thousand feet deep. The murderer escaped.
The New York .StaatS Zeitung suggests that
! both the Democratic and the Republican, party
nominate Gen Grant for the Presidency; but
that each party have its own candidate fOl
/ Vice President, and that the contest he for hi,
election, rs was the ease when Washington
was Il candidate.
! One of the Virginia ConvcntoniStS, who
wears a white chokrr. is compared by an IT.
rcvrr,nt correspondent To altar baby I'M cream
pot.
! Democratic members of Congress will hold
II private caucus Immediately ON the return OF
/ the members. to organize for the Presidential
campaign.
| A special says an estimate compiled from
/ statistics collected by the Governors of the
Southern states places the number of whites
and blacks in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama
Louisiana and the CmolinaS. who are in Il
starving condition. at two millions.
| In Russia 4 woman protesting to be the Wiz
! gin Mary ordered the people not to pay their
taxes. They ohrycd her until the government
officers sent the Virgin to Siberia, shut up her
: temple, and compelled her followers to come
down with the dust.
! The Detroit Free Press thinks Sheridan
ought to be impcarhcd. His onrnsc lies in
kissing some five hundred girls in II white
school, but preserving digniicd rrticcncc
during his visit the next day toa similar col
0rcd institution.
! There are nearly twenty-five thousand acres
/ Of vineyards in the United States, and ths
ought to yield about fifteen million gallons OF
Winc-about two quarts apiece for the popula-
ton.
. The rrImor that secretary Seward has bought
/ Saturn'S ring, Jupitcr'S moons and half Il doz.
IN asteroids is contradictcd.
Ten deaths to one birth is the ratio among
! the negroes on the Florida islands.
Two lovers about to marry, broke oti he.
cause the lady wanted to name their first baby
John, while the gentleman Insisted that Ii,