The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-09-18
Chips, and Things!

The Nashville Banner is after the black vo-
tiers.
A Miss jarrett was outraged by two white
men, short distance from Huntingdon, West
Tennessee, one day last week.
The Anti-Kuklux law passed by the tegis-
lature takes back to the days Of Salem witch
craft.
A fatal shooting affair took place at Lodoga.
Ind. on Monday, between negro barber
named Bush and white man named Griffith.
in which the former was instantly killed.
The st. Louis Democrat publishes list of
the "whisky, wine and lager-becr Saloons"
with their owners names in that city. The
list fills four columns of small type, and en-
braces almost sixteen hundred names.
No man should complain of being poor or of
hard times, who can afford to use rum or to-
bacco.
At spirit meeting in Brooklyn, the spirit
of Thad. Stevens was present. and in response
to the question, CHOW are you situated" re-
piled, cred hotp Leading Republicans, take
notice.
Dates from the Southwest say the heavy
rains have injured the cotton crop seriously.
Chicken cholera is said to be prevailing in
many sections of the country.
1t was that man of mighty valor U. S. Grant,
who ordered the employment of detectives in
the Ashburn murder case.
At last the circle has been squared. There
is drill on exhibition in Brooklyn which
bores square hole.
The Texas Convention is about to- wind up
and go home. Spent S10O,OO0 been eighty-fve
days in session, and done nothing save hatch
"outrages" too gross even for Radical con-
sumption. Reconstruction is failure.
| An ancient Indian mill has been found in
one of the mounds in Utah. 1t is of conglome-
rate stone. and very rude of structure.
A. L. Burden of Stafford Springs, Connecti-
cut, poisoned the flies in his house recently,
and swept them out of doors, where they were
eaten by Il brood of chickens, every one of
which died.
La Cloche says that since the new press law
of France was passed not single paper has
been started that upholds the imperial rule.
Grant has so distinguished himself by hold
ing his peace, it is not to be wondered at he
should desire more. Let him seek it in re-
tirement, if he would save his credit.
Ben. Butler proved himself by his New Or.
leans campaign the best leader of 'rite''
corps ever known in history.
A fellow calling himself Felix Robinson
who has been stroling through Izord coun
ty, Arkansas, for some time, swearing that
he would like to kill rebel, found ont
named Pinckney Morris, the other day, ant
cut him nearly to pieces. The murder wa:
unprovnked.
Grant Informed New Orleans gentleman
recently. that he chad to kick the ID scoun
drel Yarmouth (the present Governor of Lou
isiana) out of the army at Vicksburg as
; common liar"
The sale and transportation of nitro-glyce
rine has been forbidden in Sweden, the coun
try where it was invented.
The New York Mail states that it costs til
United States $4,000 to educate every cade
who graduates from West Point. a..
Forty years ago, Mr.. Edgcrton, of Coventry
Connecticut, fell dead as he brought pail o
water from the well. His wife, Olivia, followed
his eXample-though rather tardily-and diet
, in the same manner precisely, last week.
According to tho latest difnition, bache
lor is Il man who has lost the opportunity o
making woman miserable.
Mr.. Reid, of Bourbon, KY, raised betwee,
fifty and sixty barrels of wine OH four-fifth
of an acre of ground this year.
Nine casks of lager beer are said to be equa
in nutrition to one loaf Of bread.
AT lottery in Bordeaux, France, Nc
. 1853, 100 drew the prize of one hundred thou
sand francs. No one has yet appeared to claii
the prize, and it is supposed the ticket may b
in the United States.
: Let us go always beyond the duties marke
, out, and keep them within the pleasures pei
mitted.
Miss Tompkins says every unmarried lad
of forty has passed the Cape of Good Hope.
1t has been announced by the Northern pres
that Gen. Meade will shortly publish I'll
5 "Secret History of Military District No. g."
Hon. Edgar Cowan, of Pennsylvania, h,
= '"hSh piS Seu"p ioi ,oy hioui Vhu bi'ii'
J. The President received from Denver city, Q
/ Friday last, a dispatch announcing that "Col
, RADIO had elected a Democrat"
i One of the finest plantations on the Arkal
: sas river recently sold for five cents an acr
"Time works wonders" as the lady sal
y when she got married after thirteen yea
C cOurtship.
! The taxable property in Kings county, Ne
J; York, has increased $11 100000 in the pa
t year, being at present over $l6l 100000
! A. L. Alden, the present Mayor of Mas
r vile, was nominated by the "Ring" on Satu
e day last, for reelection.
A Base Ball match for the Championsh
of the State, was. played at Nashville on d
18th, by the Holston Club of Knoxville, al
the Nashville, resulting in the following scor
'- Nashville "a; Knoxville 10.
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