The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-11-13
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except Lee, voted heavily for seymour.
Gen. Reynolds has been relieved of his COM
inand in Texas.
The small pox is raging fearfully at Mays
vile, Kentucky.
The Franklin Review raises up Andrew
Johnsons name for Governor of Tennessee.
johnson, Democrat, is elected to Congress
from California. That's another one.
Another slight shock of earthquake occur.
red in California on the night ofthe6th.
The entire Democratic delegation is elected
to Congress from Louisiana.
The Government expenditures for October
were s2l, 100000 exclusive of interest.
Application for an appeal in the surratt
case has been dismissed, and that individual
is now free. .t. IVA 4sat..t
A farmer who resides in the eastern part of
Taunton, discovered nine skunks under the
flooring of his barn cellar one morning recent
ly. He retired gracefully.
The Lynchburg Republican heads his clip
pings Fractional Currency" We notice
some of it is very badly mutilated. ......
Senator Stockton, of New Jersey, who was
put out of the United States Senate by the
Radicals, will be put back.
A New York paper suggests that the Chris
tian powers ought to put u stop to the Haytlan
war. Will it be kind enough to name which
are the ''Christian powers?'
President johnson has lost twenty-one
pounds of flesh since he became President.
Josh Billings says he has .'seen some awful
bad throte diseases completely cured In days
by simply jining u temperance society,""
Gov. Crawford of Kansas has resigned and
gone to fight the Indians.
Gov. Clayton has proclaimed martial law
in eleven counties Of Arkansas. He Is said to
be afflicted with delrium trelnens.
Iowa and Minnesota has voted in favor of
universal suffrage. The only State where po-
ltical prescription exists to any extent now
is Tennessee. ..'r'
w. w. Saunders, coorcd, is out for Con-
gress in Florida. ...
Governor Reed, of Florida, has been i'm
peached for high crimes and misdemeanors in
Office.
Wilson, Democrat beats Donnally, Radical,
for Congress in Minnesota.
1t may not be generally known that New
York horses chew tobacco, but they sometimes
do-the nasty beasts. .....,
Another of the notorious Borlands, of Mis-
souri,, has been killed. This leaves but one Of
this desperate family surviving. "a
There is said to be several cases of dipso.
mania about town. d J
The National Bank and two large business
houses We're burnt at Lynchburg OIL the morn.
: ing of the It'll. rf
Barnes, Republican, is said to be elected tc
. Congress from the Eighth District of Ken
, lucky.
A railway traveller Of our acquaintance In
forms us that he recently caught cold through
sitting next to wet nurse. = a.rs
Tho present complexion of the next Con
/ gress Is: Senate 81 Radicals to II Democrats
D House, 142 Radicals to 81 Democrats.
The Congressional delegation in North Car
DINA stands five Republicans, two Conserva
tives. .. - ..g.rgr
l Democratic majority in Georgia forty thou
sand. ..... r., '. ...I
The Louisville Courier and Journal hav
; been Notwithstanding, we say, u rattle
: strong team.
Colfax is still swinging round the circle ma
king speeches.
General Grant has declined public rccep
ton at Washington. This is good begin
Lat, 4 hn; 60 ,laJ -
A man in Coventry, VT, recently prcsente,
II bill of $50 against School District for wa
ter that the scholars had drank from his well
The way to be happy is not to try too micl
to be so. You can't catch sunbeams If yov
| try; but you may enjoy their light and warmt
t by letting them shine unsolicited upon you.
The losses of American vessels by ship
wrecks in the last ten months exceed lively
million dollars.
Apple trees in Florida have the advantas
G of holding their leaves all winter, like an ey
t ergreen, but it Is a drawback that they bea
no fruit.
At the recent municipal election in Quebec
f small boys broke open family tomb in on
of the city cemeteries, and took out skull
which they carried about on sticks. ...
The Grand Lodge of Masons for North Caro-
lima meets in Raleigh, on the 7th of December
General Grant reached Washington on tn
G night of the It'll. He is looking us well a
could be expected.
Clayton, the Radical Governor of Arkansas
, is crazy. There are one or two other Radica
Governors in the same fix.
The insurrcction in Cuba is about squelched
; Memphis is a fast place. Shooting affair
and robbcries Of the worst sort are of dali.
and nightly occurrence. 1t is IL place, toe
where the Radicals have supreme control.
The wooden mills at Lebanon, Tennessee, ar
doing an immense business, and making III
rangements to increase capacity, by the Intro
duction of more machinery.
General Grant is forty-six years of age.
The amount of taxes to be collected in Sa
Francisco this year is over S4,OOO,000. .IH
Gen. Hood is doing good bushes as con
mission merchant in New Orleans.
An amateur balloonist of st. Louis says tn
descent is "not worse than being thrown on
of your buggy by runaway horse."g taor
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