The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
General Summary.

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| a row'occurred at Savannah on the 9Th be
! t"eeh the negroes and the police, in whicl
ri Iirc arms and other deadly weapons Were free
y used. Two Of the police and several he
Stoes Were wounded, though none of then
fatally. ~ ,rG
ven. Meade has notified the Georgia Con
VeItlon that he will give that body $40, 900, b,
the hrst of March, but not another cent
At Augusta, Ga, few days ago, a difficult,
offk = between white boy and a freed
mber or which the former nortapy woand
If the Seatters ~
:lS votes orgis, Coyyentson hos pa sd, tie re
fNtNasdse-yeas 81; nays is. 1t denies thu
| Jurisdiction to recover all debts contracted
pior to the surrender, but leaves it discretion
any with the Legislature to confer iurisdic
tim in all cases except as to the purchase O.
slaves.
The number of votes polled in Mobile fol
theCOnstitution on the 4th and 9TH were 3,53t
colqed, and Sc whites.
A New Jersey grand jury has indicted
some thirty or forty prize fighters for bruisne
each other, or aiding and abetting their com
paniOns tie do so, ON the sacred soil of thai
| State.
Mrs. Gen. Robert Anderson having petition
ed Congress for reimbursement of damages
done to the plantations of her father, Gen
Clinch, in Florida, thirty years ago, by the
Seminole Indians, the Committee ON Claims
have made report in her favor.
The Good Temrlars of Wisconsin are exer.
cised On the ''sweet cider question: About Z
score Of lodges are nearly ready to go to pieces
| in consequence of the mania of the members
for appe juice. The Chief Templar has no.
titled them to let cider alone, no matter how
sweet.
James Reagan, who robbed the express of
flee at Jackson, Miss, about one month since
and ESCAPED, was caught at blowing open a
safe Of an express office i'll Texas, ON Sunday
night, the I'd instant.
committee of the Iowa Legislature, to
whom the Subject was referred, has reported
that the exclusion of colored children from the
public schools is as much violation of law as
murder or theft.
General Gilem has issued an order reyoking
General Ord's order for the arrest of Colonel
llcCardle, editor of the Vicksburg Times, and
cancelling his bond.
In the Virginia Convention, on Thursday
two members quarrelled, and started out Of
the Hall for fight. but the Sergeant at rms
stopped the Array by closing the doors.
Robert II. briggs, one of the wealthiest far
mers Of Auburn. Maine, committed suicide by
hanging himself on Sunday evening. jeremiah
n,J-l NJ
mtted suicide on the same day, by hanging
himself in the cellar of his house.
4 fire occurred ut Rome, Smith county,
Tennessee, few days ago, which involved a
loss of from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars.
Richardson, member of the Georgia Conven-
ical named Timoney, died at the American
Hotel, Atlanta, on the 9th.
On New Years day eight thousand Partisan
working men and their families were turned
out of their houses. They were unable to pay
the rent.
A party of Navajo Indians attacked some
herders near Cubero. New Mexico, on the 9th
ult.. and killed one and wounded two of them
and ran off between three and four thousand
sheep, about fifteen hundred of which were
subsequently captured.
A newly welded pair arrived on the Lafay-
cite train at indianapolis the other night, OF
which the husband had, as Judge, sentenced
former husband of his wife to the peniten-
tiary.
The Spiritualists claim that there are eleven
millions of people Of their persuasion in the
United States
The lower house of the New Jersey Legis-
lature has passed resolution instructing the
congressman from that State to vote against
the supplementary reconstruction act.
The Negroes in Fayette county, Missouri
aver that the ''devil'' has actually made his
| appearance among them, and are so frightened
that they are fleeing from their homes in larg,
numbers.
''Geo. Washington Bricks says: '.Geniu
! scars too high TO turn downward ear to tn
voice of applause.'
Louisville, KY, has population Of 10000
souls, and covers an area of p square miles,
The value of the mercantile business transact
ed during the year, is estimated $3.50, ,00C
The estimated value of manufactures is S13O
900, ,O00
There are q, 900 men in Chicago out of EN-
ployment, $4,000 of whom are recipients {
private and public charity.
''It is great misfortune,'' says La Bruyert
''not to have mind enough to talk well, nc
Judgment enough to be silent.''
Mr.. Evan Hopkins, of England, is satisfe
that the crust of our globe is slowly travelin
northward, and that, in few centuries, NeN
England will be at the North Pole.
The New York Republican Convention las
week instructed its delegates to vote for Graz
for President, and Fenton of that State ft
Vice. ........ ....
a large number of blacks in North Carolir
are petitioning Congress for aid to emigrate
Liberia.
A man named Aldritch, who had stolen
horse, was shot and killed near Jonesborc
East Tennessee, one day last week.
A colony is being organized among the n
groes OF Hancock county, Ga, to go to Liber
in the month of May. About forty have a
ready Joined, and it is thought the list will /
swelled to hundreds before the time of depa
ture. .