The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-31

VIM. Ragsdale shot james Short, at Frank
lin, Tennessee, on the 22d. Wound not mortal.
A young woman in western town has been
fined ten dollars for kissing II young man
against his will. Young man was slowly con-
valescing at last accounts.
A silver lode 5000 feet long and averaging s
feet in thickness has been discovered within
nineteen miles of Cheyenne.
More than ten thousand persons were pres
ent at the Democratic ratification meeting at
Cincinnati on the night of the oath.
The military districts of the South arc to be
recognized at an early day.
Georgia has been turned over to the civil all
thoritics, such as they are.
a negro was run over and killed by a loco
motive at Nashville on last Thursday. He was
attempting to jump on the tender to steal
ride when the accident occurred.
Captain Phillips, the hummer who COM
manded the negroes at Gallatin at the late cleo
ton, has swindled them all out of their pay,
and put out fora Free State.
The radical oflice-holders in South Carolina
are advertising for some one to go security on
their bonds. An exchange thinks it is fine
opening to invest with the certainty of losing.
The Columbus prisoners are to be released
on bond of twenty thousand dollars each.-
1t is now pretty certain that Ashburne was
killed by members of his own political party.
Eight hundred and thirty-thrcc persons died
in New York from sun-strokc during the late
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same cause that were not reported.
The yield of corn and potatoes in Kansas
will surpass that of any previous year.
A man in Poland, Me-, has an apple tree
with four large and full grown roses on it.
Governor Patton says that Alabama will
raise four hundred thousand bales of cotton
this year.. This will be worth SIC, 100000.
During the month of May the municipality
of Durango, Mexico, paid for the killing of
32,G& scorpions. Pleasant place to livein
Mrs Fanny Jones formerly Miss Fanny
Nash) died in Dyersburg last week, aged ia.
Radical editors labor to prove the negro
their equal when no one disputes it,
Since Thad Stevens announced his determi-
nation to quit the radical party in a certain
contingency, the radical editors all say the old
man has outlvcd his faculties.
Some thirty thousand dollars were received
at Kingston, Roanc county, last week, to pay
Bounty Claims.
Both houses of Congress have passed the
Frccdmens Bureau Bill over the veto.
Cliff, Prince, Edwards and Grove, of Gcor-
gia, have been admitted to seats in the House
of Representatives.
The North Western Railroad difficulty has
not been settled.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of
the Hon. Sam. Milligan, Of this State, as Judge
of the Court Of Claims.
In the South Carolina Legislature the color
ed members have snubbcd the Northern MEN,
bcrs, and have determined hereafter to put
only natives in office.
Both North and South Carolina have been
turned over to the civil authorities.
Prominent radicals at Nashville are signing
the memorial to repeal the franchise restric-
tions. Some five thousand names had been at
tached to one memorial in single day.
We never in all the days of our life knew
single vote made by sitting on the street cor
ners and cursing the opposite party.
The combat deepens in the Nashville Con-
gressional District. Two sets of delegates have
been appointed to the nominating Convention,
and two radical candidates will probably be
the result.
Mr.. King, editor of the New Orleans Times,
is dying of Il cancer. His physicians long ago
abandoned all hope of his recovery.
Mrs. Haley, of Madison county, KY, en-
countercd large rattlesnake near her resi-
dence II few days since, but instead of scream
ing and fainting in the approved manner, she
attacked it with Il club and quickly dispatch
ed the "ugly varmint."
Mr.. j. T.. Alexander, called the Seattle
King of Illinois," owns $4,000 head of cattle.
A negro charged with committing rape on
a white woman, was hung near Moulton, Ala,
last week.
Capt. Edward A. Clark died at Nashville on
Saturday last.
The sensation about the terrible state of af-
fairs in Williamson county, has suddenly drop
ped out Of the papers.
Ohio will produce this year over 20 OOO, 900
lbs Of wool.
Capt. b. T. Saunders, who served with dis.
tinction in Forests command, died very sud.
denly at Asheville, North Carolina. His wife
and paramour are suspected of poisoning
him, and have both been arrested.
Miss Kate Keathley, the giantess, weighing
S12 pounds, died on Saturday at her home,
twenty miles from st. Louis. ..
Three young men of Haverhill, Massachu-
sets, have been sent to Jail for stealing tomb
stones out of a cemetery.
Uneasiness is expressed at Washington about
Mrs. Lincoln's visit to London under the es-
,ort of Minister johnson, lest when she reach
rs the Court circle she will propose huckster-
ng her old clothes to the crowned heads of