The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-08-28
Chips, and Things.

were totally destroyed by fire on the night of
the 18th inst. Loss $3.50, OOO-one half covered
| by insurance
| Five thousand bales of hay were shipped to
Europe from New York last week.
The cattle disease has appeared at two or
three places in York state.
The radical OF gan at Montgomery, Alabama,
has suspended for want of support.
Vermont paper speaks of corn % feet
high, and wont abate an inch in its height.
More military are needed in Texas. A mad
bull tossed good RaCical twenty feet high
into the air the other day.
A delirious soldier at Quebec broke from
his attendants, lcapcd cliff 100 feet high.
picked himself up unhurt ut the bottom, and
then deliberately drowned himself in the st.
Lawrence.
The Radical Governor of Florida has vetoed
the bill recently passed by the Legislature.
requiring railroads and other lines of carriage
to make no distinction in passengers on ac-
count of color
In one year and seven months the Democrat
ic gains in the United States have been four
hundred and thirty-seven thousand.
Jack Hinton, section boss on the Nashville
and Chattanooga road, was run over and
killed last week.
A rural editor of this State. compliments
brother rural editor thus: ''Nr. Brown is u
clear thinker, ready and vigorous writer,
and q first rate fellow 'to boot"
Ex-Chief Justice Dupont, Of Florida. has
issued an address to the people of that State
denying the legality of the Reconstruction
acts. and refusing to recognize the election of
his successor on the bench
j. Il. Hawkins has been nominated for re-
election 80 Congress from the Seventh District
and W. u. Hall as Elcctorin the same district
Surprise Weddings" are the latest novelty
at Cleveland, Ohio. They take place Mt pie
mics, camp-mcctings. excursions, and the like.
They are said to be very good.
We believe it was Dcroc who wrote the fol-
lowing:
wherever God crects house of prayer,
| The devil always builds Il temple there,
| And twill be found upon examination,
| The latter has the larger congregations"
A rattle snake measuring seven feet in
length and twelve inches in circumference,
was killed near Greenwood, Mississippi. n few
days since. The skin. after being taken from
the reptile, held twelve and u half bushels of
sawduSt.
Miles ORoillv's paper. the New York Cti-
zen, is offered for sale for $4,000. Some New
York politicians propose to buy it, and make
it Republican paper.
Horace Greeley is reported going mad
''Vilain," "iar," "traitor," now make up the
staple of his editorials.
| Baltimore is to have its census taken by city
authority. 1t expects to find that its popua-
ton has increased one hundred thousand since
the census of 1860, when it was 212,41S.
Three churches have recently been burned
in Surry county, Va, by incendiarics-two
were owned by the whites, and one by the
colorcd people.
A railroad collision occurred in North Wales
on the Goth, by which % persons lost their lives.
History repeats itself occasionally, but Rad
ical cant and meanness is perennial and cter-
nal.
The Radicals are in great tribulation lest
the negroes and scalawags of the South should
starvc to death before the Presidential election.
A Dentist of Galveston, Texas, is now en-
joying the sweets of prison life, for taking i'm
proper liberties with and attempting TO yio-
late the person of Il patient while under the
influence Of choroform.
A suicide epidemic is prevailing at Clcvc-
land Ohio, two or three Oh al average being
reported daily.
A cal fish weighing 95 pounds was caught
at Louisville last week.
a carpct-baggcr last week hung himself to Il
meat hook in the Nashville markct-housc.-
Some humane crss released him.
The United States treasury has received
100000 in gold, from Alaska, for customs.--
This is the first profit from the new territory,
The bridge at Sterling, Illinois, on the Chi.
cago and North Western Railroad, is burned
Claims for captured property must now
come before Congress, the law giving the
: Court Of Claims jurisdiction having expired
a horrid rumor has gained currency in tho
West, to the effect that the ''loiI'' baby which
Grant kissed ut Omaha was stuffed one.
At the Grant-Co demonstration ut At
lanta on the 18th but three white men were in
the procession.
Readers of cable dispatches will be plcasot
to learn that Farragut is coming home.
The Nashville Press and Times of Monday
, says:-Both houses of the Legislature me
: yesterday, but no quorum being present, al
journcd until to-day.
The dreaded cattle plague has made its ap
1 pcarancc at Cincinnati. One dairymcn ha
, lost seventeen cows.
= Woman suffrage is making progress in OF,
England.
t There is as high authority on record as th
Nashville Press and Times for saying tina
''civility and courtosy' are shining virtues
Congressman Williams of Pennsylvania on,