The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-20
Chips, and Things.

Baptist paper is to be published at Knox
Vile commencing with January 1st, 1869.
Senator Cate of Hamilton county wants to
60 to Congress.
Seymour carries Oregon by about 1000 ma
jority.
Croton Academy In Monroe county, was de-
stroyed by fire last week. Resulto accident3
Fifty-fve business houses in Chicago have
just failed.
The most popular branch of industry, and
the most active in Washington at the present
time, is cabinet.making.
New Hampshire has decided to revise her
Constitution. She had also better try to mend
her manners and her politics at the same time.
Georgia and Tennessee, 1t is said, will have
100000 bushels of corn for export this
season.
Fitch, of the Griffin Star, has paled his in.
ctlectual fires and ceased to twinkle in the edi
toral sky.
Gen. G. b. Mcclellan has been elected Presi-
dent of the University of California.
Ex-Governor Todd, of Ohio, died suddenly
on the 10th. t..
The Democratic gain in the Forty first Con-
gress is now put up at 50.
Dawes, of Massachusetts,, it is said, will
succeed Colfax as Speaker of the House.
Gen. Lee has been offered the position of
"Supcrvisor of Agencies of the Knickerbock-
er Life Insurance Company, of New York, at n
salary of $4,000 per annum.
An English paper advcrtscs for sale pew
which commands view of nearly the whole
congregation"
Alabama is now conceded to Grant by $500.
In the heavy white counties but few votes
were polled.
The New York Times proposes to increase
: the Presidential salary to 100000 per annuni.
Gen. Fitzpatrick seeks shelter from Forests
challenge behind the usual refuge of the'cow-
ardly bully.
In Wisconsin an Indian shot another, was
formally tried by an Indian jury, and is to be
hanged this week.
There are more than 10000 whites dsfran-
chised in Missouri.
The remains of seven persons We're found
near "a tavern in the vicinity of Bunker Hill
Illinois. 1t is supposed that the keeper, who
was arrested, has been numbering his guests
for years.
The oldest person who has lived in this coun.
try, within the memory of man, died in Ten.
nessee, in 1864, aged 1ji years.
The hotel at Mckenzie was burned on the
night of the 1Ath. A woman and four chill.
dren persisted in the flames.
The Knoxville Wing suggests Horace May.
nard for Post Master General
Bill Mcdonald, colorcd, has been elected q
justice of the peace in Smith county, beating
two white radicals, who are said to be much
disguised at the ncgro's impudence.
Earthquakes are still prevailing along the
coast of Peru and Chill. The shocks kls
: from three to four minutes.
, Winter wheat is reported looking we'll i,
Missouri, with double the usual amount sown
The Goth infantry have been ordered from
Washington to Austin, Texas.
, A New York paper tells General Grant t.
pay no heed to ''thc great tribe of advisers
and then proceeds to administer u column o
e advice of its own. t.J
Late adyiccs from Fort Hays represent Gen
eral Sheridan in active pursuit of the Indians
> Seventy-two persons have already been an
nounced as "sure'' of appointments in Presi
dent Grants Cabinet.
Among the new books announced in Pari
! is volume entitled, "The Reasonable Con
o spiracies in the Northern States during thu
American Rebellion"
On Friday last a negro named Thomas Ryan
was hanged in Williamson county, n. c., fo
!, the brutal murder of a young man by tn
u name of Legget, clerk at GAINESVILLE.
, The mysterious and fatal disease which /
: raging among the cattle in the vicinity 0
u Lynchburg, Va, has, upon dissection, prove,
: to be lung fever.
= General Grant will have control of 5S,0
: offices and officers, whose annual compensation
G amounts to thirty millions of dollars.
# A cadet at the Virginia Military Institut
: accidentally shot and killed himself few
i days ago. He was from GAINESVILLE, Tennessee
: Washington gossip says the tenure of otiic
bill is to be repealed before Gen. Grant is in
augurated.
4 Nv hsuii III NuDu luIllS UuJ W nc
much more formidable organization than wa
:, at first anticipated
d Some cntcrprising carpct-baggers are goin
n through the South, swindling the negroes on
= of their back-pay and bounty money.
: The IIartsville Vdette (Dcm. puts up tn
:. name Of Hon. Baltic Pcyton, Of sumner, 70
, Governor.
The Catholics are making many convert
among the Washington colored citizens.
;. Mississippi plantation, that cost $4,000
:. ten years ago, lately sold for $500.
d Rossina, the great composer, is dead, aged Il
Baron James Rothchlld, the head of tn
great Banking house, is dead.
u Coin in the United States Treasury on tn
~ 10Th, eghty-seyen millions.
Col. Bob. Byrd has been appointed Revenu
II Collector for the Knoxville District.
=, The Democratic majority in Louisiana i
=, stated ut 50, 100. That State needs reconstruC
= ting badly.
A man named Rhea, at Blountville, in thi
State. shot his wife on last Sunday while Ia