The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-16
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,oored individual became greatly elated.-
Dress de Lord" said he, "ngger's time hab
,ome ut last, and now Yves gwine to hab
black sun" II
Will one of our classic friends furnish
translation of the following line Of Latin poe
Try: 81 ". II D. ~ :. -
"Cana nybo dy lendusa dolla rorso"
Chief Justice Chase authorizes contradic-
lion of the statement that he is for Grant and
Colfax. -
Judge C. w. Jones has resigned the Presi-
lency of the Knoxville and Charleston Rail-
road. NJ. d. Bearden has been elected to fill
the vacancy.
Report says the frost on the night Of the Sth !
injured the late corn in the upper country.
A negro has been sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for two years for attempting to violate
the widow Of ali ex-Confederate General in
South Side, Va. |
. a New York paper reports four cases at
of cholera morbus and two
of Grecian Bend" The same remedies are
applicable for all.
The census of 1860 showed the population
of the United States to have consisted of
3G,973,S43 whites and 4,44l,73O blacks. ,.,
Hercules Dousman; the wealthest man in
Wisconsin. recently died. leaving S7,00O,O0O.
Five persons are candidates for Congress
from Wyoming Territory something less than
half the male population. ~ + d.
They have n ffer in Boston who has been 10
in thn I at nJ NJ hns
teen stripes of honor en- his coat
A portrait of DR.. Gullotinc is for sale in
Paris. 1t would be good ornament to hang
up in one of the United States custom-house.
Dennct, of the Planters Banner, advises
everybody to let Planchette alone. There is no
good in it. 1t is a spiritual scallawag, and
won't "do to tie to-"
Two gentlemen fishing; sharp boy appears
"Well, sir, git any bites:" "Lots of 'em."-
eyes, under your hat Race between the
boy and stones-boy little ahead.
Hon. Jesse A. Bynum, formerly a distin-
guished member to Congress from North Caro-
lima, died in Louisiana last week.
John Perkins was executed in the Jail at
ortsmouth, Va, on the 9th, for violating the
person of Sarah Ford. He was q white man.
Horace Greeley has been nominated for Con-
| gress.
The celebrated stallion Bob Johnston died
at his owners stable in Giles county last week.
The local elections in Delaware resulted ia.
vorably to the Democrats.
Hamilton C. Jones, author of the best hui.
morous piece in the entire range Of American
literature "Cousin Sally Dillard," died al
Rowan, n. c., recently, at he'good old age O.
seventy lone. ~
The new government in Spain proposes t.
abolish slayeryin the Spanish colonies.
The President directs the Secretary Of TIN
Interior to restore to Louisiana the statue o
Washington brought North by Butler.
Mrs. Jilcrs laments the state Of her husband
Says he is dropsical He naturally takes to it
, takes drop whenever he Fan set it.
a Southern paper propounds Il conundrur
why certain judge is like necessity, and an
swers because he knows no laW- st .,g.
A man in MarseillcS noticed that fly. whic
tasted the soup prepared by his wife for him
tumbled dead on the table. lie changed plate
with his wife, and the woman shortly aftc
died.
Nathaniel Laurence Lindsey, died at hi
residence, near Lebanon, Tennessee, on las
G. Saturday.
The Ducktown Railroad is to be built b.
You'd peradvcnture.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Tennesse
closed its labors last saturday.
The Tennessee Conference convened at She
. byville on Wednesday.
Il, superb lot of Ready Made Clothing, hat
Y ETC., at Horizons.
c The New York Sun, radical, says the Der
i ocratic majority in that city will be over &c
t 600.
The Dyer case has been postponed, and &c
u Thomas returned to his command.
q Gov. Boreman, of West Virginia, wan
. troops till after the election.
n 1t is reported that Senator Fowler is =
e stump Tennessee.
G The United States have recognized the ne
Re government in Spain.
u The New York Sun, radical, predicted b
= fore the election that if the cheating was eGu
u in Pennsylvania its party would carry t
= State. 4 = '.t
= Col jim Shelley has been appointed Indi
, agent for New Mexico. Good by, JIM.
,e Pennsylvania claims more railroad than a,
As other Statc-four thousand miles, or one m
A. of railroad to every ten square miles Of h
territory. % a. j.H'.. '...r,
Let the youth who stands with glass
liquor in his hand consider which he had b.
- ter throw away-the liquor or himself. 4"
~ Shot in potato patch, is becoming q CO
h mon epitaph for negroes in the South.
I'd Every farmer ought to know that cut mai
y heated red hot and dropped into cold wat
- will cinch as well as wrought nails. I.
S, The New York Sun says there is such I
k. mand in that city for children for adoptiC
Il, that even cripples and other unfortunates /
cr not refused. t1H a
According to the old sign observed in EI
Pm land, the extraordinary abundance of ha
ID thorne berries this year bctokens a winter