The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-25

Market grocery keeper, has been arrested.
The telegraph informs us that Mr.. Kcllog's
bill regarding the loyal claimants IN Tennessee
and Arkansas, is indefinitely postponed, in the
1 United States Senate. sNfH
a bill has been introduced In the Senate
forbidding civil officers from holding military
commissions. \ left handed lick ut the mill
tary.
The Atlanta Era, radical. opposes any more
reconstruction for Georgia.
| The Government has surrendered ex-Gov-
ernor wisc's farm In Princess Ann county,
Virginia.
Two lawyers had little fight in the Court
Room ut Nashville last week. Nobody hurt.
| Ex-President Pierce Is reported to be again
FRUSTRATED with sickness.
! Opium eating is said TO be largely on the in
crease In the Eastern aud Middle states,
d! though the end In nine cases out of ten Is ruin
agony and despair.
There Is said to be great suffering among the
Spanish pcasantry, and their last state rs like
/ ly to he worse than their first.
Custar's recent massacre of friendly Indians
is in perfect keeping with the inefficient, blum.
dcring policy of the day.
a volume of poems by Geo. d. Prentice will
soon be on the market.
Henry Ward Bccchcr taught school in New
use of the birch.
| Another famous one: Why lisa spcndthrift's
purse like IL thundcr-cloud: Because its con-
tinually lightning.
Boutwell,. of Massachusetts, and not Butler,
is to be the radical leader in the House.
The Grand Army Reunion at Chicago end
cd with regular bender.
Wendell Phillips lccturcd at Philadelphia
last week to bcggarly account Of empty
benches.
Getting drunk once week has been decided
to be "habitual intoXicaton'' in Chicago.
Ben. Butler was seen to smile the other day.
His mouth is said to have rcscmblcd an oyster
with the delirium trcmcns.
A car is building in California for the first
through trip to New York over the Pacific
Railroad.
Fourteen prisoners broke out of the Spring.
field Jail the other day. Shoemaker. the ring
leader. was killed and the Others captured and
returned to the Jail.
The gossips say Grant will appoint General
Geo. B. Mcclellan Secretary of War. to show
his independence Of the party that elected him
Not much. he wont.
Two full grown bucks made their cscap,
frvm the Mucfrrcsboro Jail last Friday even.
ing. by running over the jailor as he entered
their cell.
Baker, the Engrossing Clerk Of the STATE
, Senate. has been whitcwashcd by the Commit
, tee appointed to investigate his ease, and /,
now almost rs good rs new.
9 The employees of the Memphis. Clarksvill,
, and Louisville Railroad are still unpaid.
$ \ white man named Boyd shot and killed
negro named Boutwell,. ut Grand junction, Oh
: the 18th.
\ gentleman. eighty years Of age, in Con
way. recently got married. and the day follow
ing dug his grave, to be ready. he said, for IN!
contingency.
, The old ladies of Richmond are disputin:
: over letter which arrived at the post .oflcc
/. addressed ITO My Dear Grandma
a Young woman in Texas. having adoptc,
the habit OF carryngp pistol for self.dcfencc
first shot of her fingers OFF and then killct
T. II friend.
4 Paris miscr was recently found dead in
garnet with $4,000 in securities in II drawer
= Coppcr-inining in Michigan. it Is stated
employs capital OF $5O,OOO,OOO, and from 10,
600 to 10000 persons are engaged in workin:
the mineral deposits.
: A New Mexican millionaire. travelling Eas
by the overland route. was recently robbed o
= $S9,OOO by the Indians in Kansas.
, The poor hcgrocs Of Washington want Con
grcss to give them $50, 900 to help them through
d. the winter.
Now Is the time to make presents. Youn,
hand to some lady.
Governor Gilpin, of Arizona. proposes +
u sell one of his farms, containing Il million an,
: Il half acres, on accommodating terms.
The local of the Nashville Press and Time
:. is entitled to the cakes. Vile his account G
-, the ''atrocious outrage in Haywood county .
The Republican State Committee is to NEE
: ut Nashville for important business on the l2t
n Of january.
T. Let the radical press either quit talkn
= about immigration or quit lying about Ii,
t kluX outrages.
q Nine to ten millions Of dollars per week ar
leaving New York, mostly for the West an
: South.
'. We notice several parties round town thi
:. morning with Christmas Oh the brain prctt
bad.
The steamer Era sunk IN Red River on til
! 18th, with $50 bales of cotton.
:, The State calendar ut cambridge occupiG
. the entire time of the Court last week.
Maj Ed. Crutchtcld died in Louisville, Ky
on the 18th inst. lie was attached to til
Confederate army during the war.
- The State of New York has good Dem,
r. cratic Governor and the city of New York
:, good Democratic Mayor.
IF Some OF the Nashville papers are still al
il ing Berry, the Southern Insurance man. \
,c he has made his pile and gone he is probabl