The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-09-11

A jury III wales recently tossed up penny
o decide case of manslaughter. Tails won.
The increase of the national debt for Au-
rust is between five and six millions of dol
ars. How are you, tax payersY
Ifyou want to hear Tennessee radical cuss
lsk him about the taxes and what becomes ofthe |
immense revenues collected from the people.
Loafers abound in the streets of Bridgeport, |
md insult ladies in the evening. A short
lime since. young lady was approached and
nsulted by one of these loafers; and she set |
lied the matter by drawing pistol, and shoot
ing him in the mouth.
The clerk of the Superior Court at Savan-
nah has been called upon to furnish a certified
copy Of an indictment, now pending against
himself for larceny.
A party of Louisiana negroes mutually ex-
terminated each other in fight over stolen
corn, the other day.
Twelve months imprisonment is the pun
ishment meted out to a couple of fraudulent
voters in England.
The Atlantic cable is earning at the rate of
50 100000 per annum in gold, equal to $780,
600 in green backs, or at the rate Of about fifty
per cent. per annum on its cost.
The New York Tribune substantially gives
up the fight In its issue of Thursday, Sey-
mour is not once called liar, nor Pendleton
scoundrel.
Sixteen kinds Of fossil horses have been dis
covered in North America, and yet there were
4 I, 81,
The work on the suez canal is prosecuted
with such vigor that the directors affirm that 1t
will be finished in 1869. Ten thousand men
are employed upon the canal which will be
twenty-sx feet deep all the way. two hundred
and forty feet wide at the top, and about nine
ty feet wide at the bottom.
Grant draws S22, 900 a year, and pays no tax.
He is a useful citizen. He is opposed to the
greenback dodge; wants to be paid in gold.-
Is that honest?
The right way-sixteen ounces to the pound.
1t is reported that Herr Lengel, the lion
tanner, who was so seriously injured at Madi-
son. Indiana, last week, died from loss of blood
on the boat between that point and Cincinnati.
A little child was poisoned in Pennsylvania
few days ago by eating jamestown weed.
A serious potato riot has occurred at Cork,
Ireland. The military had to be called out to
suppress it.
1t is estimated that five thousand cattle will
die of disease in the four Illinois counties of
Iroquois, Yermillon, Champaign and Ford.
There are 90 cardinals, 90 patriarchs, arch
bishops and bishops. 1872 priests, 100 semina-
ries, 2.947 monks, 2,l91 nuns, 1902 Jews, and
1888 Protestants, in Rome.
Forty bears were surrounded and destroyed
by fire in one of the swamps Of Canada lately
The Indians are stealing horses and taking
scalps in the neighborhood of Denver city.
The cotton crop of Texas is the heaviest fol
many years, and will reach Ia, 900 bales.
The President is very sanguine il regard t,
the Presidential election, and believes tina
Seymour and Blair will oyerwhelm the Eadi
cal ticket.
Alden, the radical Mayor of Nashville, ha
been bound over to appear at the Crimina
Court
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ken out among the women at Mount Desert
Maine, and scull races and walking matche
are common.
The body of the horsc-thief Burns, who wa
taken from the custody of the Sheriff at Fay
etteville last week, by an armed band, has bee
found. lie had been shot.
A fight occurred at Louisville, Lafayett
county, Arkansas, last week, resulting in til
death of seven negroes and five white men.
George French, negro one hundred an
six years old, died at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, O
the 4th.
Gen. Grant will not return to Washngto
until the near approach of the Presidents
election.
1t is understood there will be no session
Congress in September.
Foreign advices by steamer say that Il
storm on the 22d was very destructive. I'll
beach is strewn with wrecks.
The big snake has made his appearance
Humphreys county and has dwindled to IL
insignificant length of forty feet.
Hatcher, the monster who committed
; outrage upon a little girl in Maury count
) and then murdered her, is to be hanged to-da
The Iowa State election this year is held {
the 3D. of November. On every year exec
the Presidential year the State election of Low
falls on the second Tuesday of October.
There is movement on foot to unite Il
, United States, England and Russia in an L
petition to solve the problem of the Nor
pole.
: A man hung himself ere his honeymoon W
e half spent, in New Hampshire, the other da
!, Interesting protracted meetings are progr'
I sing in the Baptist and Christian churches
: Richmond, KY, and numerous additions ha
u already been made to both.
One of the grandest demonstrations of t
campaign was had at New Orleans on Ii
Saturday night.
Mississippi eNacts tax of fifty cents I
l. bale from every bale of cotton raised in IL
II State