The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-21
Chips, and Things.
A son of Secretary Scho1eld died ut Yves

"Great Expectations with Correspondence
Small Results" is the name of new radical
story now going through the press.
South American letters describe severe flood
on the River Platte. which destroyed many
lives and devastated large region.
1t is reported in Washington that Jcn' Will
iams and Charles Sutherland, negroes, have
been appointed inspectors of naval stores at |
Wilmington, North Carolina.
Adah Isaacs Mcnkcn, the American actress,
died in Paris on the 18th.
The death of Thaddeus Stevens leaves Thad- |
deus Stevens. Jr.. doctor of indianapolis, the |
principal heir to lsis large fortune.
Two thousand Germans, residing in the up !
per portions Of Philadelphia, have formed a
seymour and Blair CLUB. These Germans
have heretofore acted with the Radical party.
At the recent charter election in South Bend,
Indiana, the home of the smiling ColfaX, the
Democratic gain was one hundred and seventy
nine.
A Belgian challenges the world to CASTRO
monte duel. lie proposes to eat a hundred
dozen oysters and finish with becfstcak.
English COURTS utN Z utclutu tldI tUllOi
may call a lawyer 'long-eared, tlat-shoul-
dered and cut-hammed breed"
DR.. Bcccher says "War is Gods method of
spanking the nations" piece of frivolous ir-
reverence of which he should be heartily
ashamed.
The divorces granted in Indiana number on
the average, 5000 per annum.
There Is man in a lunatic asylum in Eng
land who believes that the British Govern
mcnt wishes to build an iron foundry in his
stomach.
Docs propricty allow fashionable gentle
men to appear without waistcoat when the
mercury is at 90, is IL question.
| The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
purchased large tract Of land about nine
miles from Philadelphia, and will build town
there
The daughter of Canadian banker eloped
with one of the house servants, and now her
father is trying to have the marriage annulled
IF Adam were alive, he would be i, SG3 years
old the 18th of next month.
An Ohio exchange says something is the
matter with the bees this summer. They re-
: fuse to send out swarms or make any honey.
Dies Moines. Iowa, is excited by virtue of
the fact that Augustus Monroe. who has been
in Jail there for larceny some three months, on
his discharge on Saturday eloped with the
Ijaicr's daughter. .. .
A young man was shot by fellow whom
he was cowhiding at Springfield, Tennessee
, a. 81,
John Putnam extinguishcd gaslight in
Portland, Maine, with his breath, instead o.
, the stop-cock, and died from its Inhalation the
other day.
: Any person allowing Canada thistles t.
= grow and mature upon his land in Illinois il
= liable toa fine of $50.
0 An old gentleman at Saratoga, who has beer
e regular in his attendance there for sixty years
claims to have imUibed in that time 500 bar
rcls of Congress water.
c The marriage portion Of Princess Elizabeth
of Spain, is 3G.0OO,O0O reals, which is pleas
ant reality. -....
The dry goods house belonging to the Ros
0 well Manufacturing Company, Georgia, wa
, destroyed by fire on the morning of the 10Th
: Loss $1,000
+ The Internal Revenue receipts for the pres
ent fiscal year, commencing July LIST, is csti
y mated at ;25SUO,OO0.
y The Peoples Bank, Baltimore, was robbed
= on the night of 10Th.
:, A fight occurred near Wnrtracc few night
. ago in which woman was stabbed to the heart
V The prospects for crops in West Florida ar
e reported bad.
It General Candy assumed command Mt Wash
: ington on the 18th inst. lie expresses it as hi
opinion that all will be quiet in the South Il
long as civil war is averted, and that may
IL aycrteC if the people are let alone.
It Mrs. Amelia Passmuck. n wealthy lady, wa
. killed in st. Louis. on Wednesday. by the ey
'e plosion of q coal oil lamp, which she attempt
p ed to cXtinguish.
ii Bradley, the negro Senator in Georgia, hi
been declared ineligible.
'g Private cable dispatches express the opinio
T. that Adah Menken committed suicide.
III A negro was hung by armed body of me
v near Athens, Alabama, last Tuesday nigh
for having committed rape on white lad
- The bodies of five men We're recently four
:, in Barton county, Missouri, near the sta
=, line. 1t is supposed they were shot dow
while driving Texan cattle North.
Gov. Fletcher, of Missouri, has been su,
L. by j. A. Berry, late editor of the Nilsson
AT Freeman, for $4,000 damages, arising out
H. the seizure and destruction of his paper
oil Richmond, Ray county, and his incarceratio
N0 One of the New York ocean steamers
a contract to bring 10000 more Germans
Va this country.
Inf The Artesian Well at st. Louis, which h
reached depth of 1926 feet, and cost $50, on
is failure.
go Shifting the responsibility t
liz baby. s.H..., .s
SIS All the prisoners confined in the Jail at {
lumbia, lin this State, made their escape +,
70 nights ago.
OPP A boy in Summit county, Ohio, sevente
I'm years old, undertook to perform some Giro
ess feats with rope, and hung himself
mt The wife of Senator Trumbull, of Illino
p died at Washington on Sunday morning.