The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-07
Chips. and Things.

snOulu reau, ''uleu Oh lJS own InnrInltles."
Fashionable ladies in New York have adopt.
ed the Paris fashion of carrying their parasols
hing on one side of the dress, like sword.
Two loyal leaguers got into a fight near
Bristol the other day, during which one of
them named Whitaker was killed.
j. W. Brown & Co., of Chattanooga, have
purchased the well known Byrd Mills on the
Chickamauga.
The overland mail carries about $4,000 let
tiers weekly. The time Is now 10 days from
sea to sea, and two months hence will be two
days less.
Eighteen members of the present British
Parliament have been unseated for bribery
since 1865. .t.}
The White Owl is the name of new week.
ly paper published in Jefferson, Texas, by
1. Rollem and U. Pullem. ,.
The ncwly-clected carpet-bag Senators are
extremely anxious for another Impeachment
trial. The poor devils evidently believe the
Radical stories about the corruption and BRIDE
| ry of Senators on the first trial.
TO be Democrat is to be rebel in Radi-
cal point of view; and voting the Democratic
ticket is therefore rank rebellion.
A man named Baker originally from Ken
lucky, was killed by his partner named Drum
mond, in Oglethorpc county, Ga, the other day.
Henrietta Hastings, of New Orleans, shot
Henry Alvord for asking her hand in marriage.
He popped the question and she popped the
questiOner.
The head and front of Stokes cavalry made
a speech at Nashville last Friday night 1t
was emincntly Characteristic as well as classic.
Governor Brownlow's war message has
weakened Tennessee Bonds very materially.
July lG was the hottest day experienced in
England for fifty years.
| Twenty-four churches were struck by light
ming in a district in France, lately, in one
storm. Only three claps of thunderwere heard.
The mania for suicide seems to be rather on
the increase. The great majority of cases are
on account of disappointed love; some before
marriage but by much the greater number after.
A sensible writer advises those who would
enjoy good eating to be good natured; "for an
angry man," says he, "cant tell whether he is
eating boiled cabbage or stewed umbrellas"
Seward declines to support either ticket
He thinks the present Secretary of State
should have been nominated.
Lieutenant Governor Cox of Ohio declines
the place of revenue commissioner.
Mrs. Lincoln didn't so to Europe with
Reverdy johnson. r.. .-
. But two deaths have occurred in New Or
leans from yellow fever this summer.
3 The time for converting the seven-thirtie
? expired on the 31st July.
The funding bill is reported dead, dead, dead
The orange crop in Florida is UNUSUAL.
f promising and engagements are being made a
E, twenty dollars per thousand.
;. The Winnebago Indians of Minnesota, hav
i decreased from 100 in 1868, to 300 at present
A riot occurred at radical meeting in Littl
Rock last "eek, during which u Federal sol
der was shUt by negro.
II The New York Herald says "the fact is. tina
| the people have nearly forgotten that Grant i
n candidate"
The young man who asked the daughter
hand and got the fathers foot, had the conso
= lation Of knowing that his wooing was no
bootless. .r.. F&
= A Michigan woman has found out how +
make butter from sweet milk at the rate Of
t pound for every pint. M
= The statement that the rebels were organic
: ing regiments in Louisiana turns out to be
! laundering big lie.
e In the classic language of Bill Stokes, Soutl
: Carolina is about to wallop the radicals out 0
office. M
. The war between Mercer and Prosser a
Nashville has suddenly ceased. 1t was abou
time.
: a white man was shot at Columbia, Sout
Carolina, on the night of the 1st, by a negr
{ member of the South Carolina Legislature.
A warrant for the payment of the purchas
money Of Alaska has been issued. The amour
V is 81 100000 in coin.
u Mich Davis refuses to serve as Elector for til
State of Alabama at large on the radical ticket
= = Josh. Morse, now under bonds in the sum
i 81 200 to answer charge of murder, is there
- fore the only radical Elector for tho State.
r. Our latest cable dispatches are silent as t
- the precise whereabouts of Farragut.
r. j. Brent, Esq, in a card, pronounce
Buffers statement regarding his arrest in Ba
timorc to be unequivocally false.
st. Marie has at last received his ten thor
q sand dollars for betraying Surratt, and is no
off for Europe.
], Mr.. John Dupree, colored citizen of Geo
T. gia is tired of the carpet-baggers, and advis,
his brethren of the African persuasion to vol
with the Democrats hereafter
n John G. Breckenridge is living very quiet
q. at Niagara, a little town about twelve mill
RS away at the eastern terminus of Thompson
g. Railroad.
III One of the Atlantic cables has been destro
" ed by an iceberg. f.ug
= All the leading radicals of Memphis ha,
signed petition for removing political dis
Ia bilities ~ .