The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-07-10
Chips, and Things.

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Gen. Jo. L. Johnston has received speciaI
pardon from the President, and departed for
Europe on private business. 81 .r.r' g. n,
The United States Senate rejects the Presi-
dcntsnomiuations about as fast as he makes
them. 1t is no longer a respectable delibera-
tive body, but mere partisan cabal.
Franklin county, in this State, is suffering
from protracted drouth.
Rev.SSam. Williams, of Roane county, has
got Congress on the brain bad.
Some Of the radical papers continue to fisunt
Grants name at their mastheads, though sa-
gscious politicians of his party no longer con-
slider him in the race.
Foreign sdvices report the French Emperor
as rapidly preparing for war with somebody.
Bartlett Campbell, of the Pittsburg Mail,
has been mulcted in $1,000 for libel, and goes
to Jail FOR four months.
A man in Boston, who thought he had been
robbed of $1,000, found the money in rat
hole in his room.
Mrs. Lincoln is fulfilling her threat Of leav-
ing the country if Grant was put up for Pres
idcnt. She can come back safely in the fall.
A sharp creditor Of a German railroad COM
pany secured his pay by attaching locomo-
tive at Il lonely station. ~ -. -
The King Of the Sandwich Islands threat
ems to hoist the British flag and claim British
protection, if the United States "troubles"
him. That settles it.
A railroad traveller says the cigars he some
times meets up with while en- route smell as if
they had been dipped in u Chinese stink pot.
Some radical writer has published book to
prove that the negro is not descendant of
Adam. In the expressive language of Horace
Greeley: "Who in the hell said he wasp
The Georgia Legislature organized on the
Fourth.
The trial Of the Columbus prisoners ut At
lan.a progresses slowly, and there is some
heavy swearing being done.
Col Thomas Hays, Democratic delegate
from California to New York, died on the pas
sage from San Francisco. ..''
A robbery of 900 in coupon bonds oc-
CURED at Washington last week. The thief
made his escape.
a colored man is to be run for Congress in
the Nashville District.
A young dry goods merchant at Athens,
Alabama, named Crenshaw, blew his brains
out on the ID instant. Unrequitted love.
The new Governor over in the Arkansaw
has been inaugurated. r
The Hon. Mullins, the great luminary Of the
times, lives in Bedford county when he's at
home. '....s-,.f'. ....,
In game of cards a good deal depends on
good playing, and good playing depends on Il
good deal.
a friend of some financial experience sug-
gests that, in the event of the estate patro.
mage being removed from New York City,
Bellbuckle, on the Nashville and Chattanooga
Road, be selected as ''the next best place." OIL
Rucl, the polsoner, was hanged at St. Hya.
cinthe, Canada, last week. lie exhibited The
most abject fear on tho scadold.
A farmer in Iowa, one day last week KILLED
three hundred and eighty-six rats In his cellar
and then had to fall back for rcinforcements
1t want good season for rats neither.
Afellow named Fitzgerald tumbled his better
half out Of athird story window in New York
a few days ago. A local paper gravely an
nounccs that the "woman will die"
A Japanese author has completed shor
story which occupies one hundred and Sly
volumes.
ThoSouthwcstern Iron Works, Chattanooga
have suspended. '''~ an....'e -a-... :!
Sam Mercer, of the Nashville Press an,
Times, is working for the Congressional nomi
nation, as no white man eyer worked "beror
or since" If engaged in a less reprehcnsibl
cause we could wish such energy success.
Since the threatened withdrawal of th
estate patronage from New York City" rel,
estate in the vicinity Of Wall street is said t
have had terrible tumble. g..
The name Of the lucky individual whom tn
lightning struck in New York on Monday last
can't be seen by reference to the precodin
page. '.l.i s.t. ". ~
General Grants likely to have more "pcace
than he contracted for. He has travelled sew
: oral hundred miles recently without elicitn
'iiS iS'Hb VI diLtHllOu. Dlu Olu sell
that Chicago nomination.
Ivca Hanson, NORWEGIAN, was accused b
his employer of stealing hammer, in Chicago
a few days ago., The accusation drove him {
insanity, and he hanged himself on Monday
The four Catholic Arch-bishops of til
United States have printed protest again,
, raising battalion FOR the Pope, and urge col
tributiens of money instead.
, "Nothing" has beeR defined as a FOOTE'S
stocking without leg. The next best illu,
tration of the term is Buffers Report on In
Q parchment. .. .... ...
Mr.. Frank Reid of the Evansville, Obi
post-oflice, has invented a machine which wi
8 add five long columns of figures at once.
a Wine, it is said, sbeing made in Gainsvill
: Florida, of tomatoes. which is reported splel
! did. r. 81 " r. 20 o., r r. z
The iron manufacturers in Massachusct
are making money. The Taunton papers al
nounce that two companies in that city ha,
!, just declared dividends of 20 per; cent. each.
g During last year over half million sterlir
: -f54C, SS4--wastra to Ireland fro
t America, by emigrants to their friends, faOI
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