The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-02
Chips, n1id Things.

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Bob Lincoln has been married to daughter
Of Senator Harlan.
The Lieutenant Bcccher killed by the In
diuns, is a son of Henry Ward Beecher.
1t is stated that Virginia will have an cleo
torai ticket in the field ina few days--in which
case the State will vote Democratic.
Three negroes have seen admitted to the
Bar at Columbia, South Carolina.
Gold is declining in New York. So are Ten
nessee Bonds.
The Rev. j. L. Mann, of Greeneville, has
printed book-not on religion, but about
Church matters. He might have been better
employed.
The State election in Nebraska will occur
on Tuesday next the 9Th.
''Sweet Sixteen is the name of the latest
perfume.
The project Of crossing the Atlantic with
balloon is being revived by the mronauts. All
are willing to have somebody else try it,
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the
United States have decided on centennial
celebration at Philadelphia on the Goth of
April next.
The potatoe crop of of the State of New
York this year is about 25, 900 900 bushels.
Black, yellow, red and purple are the fash
ionabe colors for the fall.
The radical papers North are lying like dogs
about the Camillar lot. Nobody, however, en-
pected them to do anything else.
| f,;lurn Of ho al I ;,., ctool- t.,
surance Company is announced.
Steve Bovell formerly of the Jonesboro'
Flag is trying to raise company of State
Guards. None but white men need apply.
A row occurred among some radicals at
Richmond few nights ago. Unfortunately
no one:was killed.
Counterfeit treasury notes of the denomina-
ton of 500, are said to be plentiful in some
portions of Kentucky and Tennessee.
! The Georgia Legislature was to have adj
Ijoumcd on the 1st to meet at Mlledgeville
next term.
FIGURING mills in Minneapolis and st. An
thony will turn out 1000 barrels of flour in
the next two months. ..,...
Missouri is growing rapidly. Within six
months emigrants have purchased 600, 900 acres
of land on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Rail.
road.
1t has been said that Frenchman is born
for three things to dress, dance, and drown
himself.
They have discovered and are now working
gold mines in China, which, it is said, wer,
| m nh IL, n Of 7 NIL
The Radicals are certainly coming around t.
the love and support of the South. They ar,
conducting the campaign on Dixie principles
: Breastworks of cotton were thrown up n
: New Orleans by Gen. jackson, and the wo
men keep them up to this day.
Horace Greeley says: $50 far from our owl
success being assured, General Grant is in i'm
minent peril of defeat.'
"Do you Use glasses. Mr.. DINNER" swell
| do, sir, at timcs-say about II or so, and H.
Optics discontinues the conversation.
The stars that sang We're oIcratic, not as
! Economical. And they were evening, no
morning stars.
I Cames are used as beasts of burden in Nc
t vada, but the railroad is about to spoil thei
business. ....
A monster with two heads is Western GU
. riosity. He is surely a-hcad of the rest of tn
world.
T A fastidious bachelor objects to marrying
q widow, because she has too many grand
, daughters.
e Forney speaks Of Indiana as "Democrati
: Indiana That is what all the RAIDS will cal
e it after the 18th Of October.
L In Brazil, during the latter part of July.
Il meteor was observed which disturbed mag
: netic instruments very greatly, the compass
u oscillating Is degrees from north to west.
BY recent law in England, parents VIII
-' neglect their children may be sent to prise
; :. for six months. and similar penalty is al
:. tached to the husband who fails to maintai
:. his wife. .....
v John II. Fazy, said to be the fastest compos
tor in the United States, died at Philadelphia
Tuesday.
: wild hog. the size of a cow, that gnaw
y. down trees and roots up fences, is creating
: disturbance in Mississippi.
ell "A iolu III NlHNtilliitl DTOkc
:. while spanking Il disobedient infant the otht
d day. tits pity the child was too young t
s fully enjoy the catastrophe.
It Quincy, Illinois. has man who claims t
n be the son of St. Matthew.
: Shoemaker's motto-Tmes noblcst offsprin
is the last. ..
An aged couple are now living in Mort
: Carolina to whom belong one hundred an
= eight descendants, not one of whom has bee
- convicted of crime in Church or State, and NJ
G one of whom is incorporate or profane. A
v were ardent rebels during the war.
d The prosecution against Surratt it IS Sal
e will be continued.
t. Old man Bennett, of the New York HERALD
d recently said: Honesty is the best policy.
e Crazy, by thunder!
5 1t makes q radical mad to talk about tax,
tion We don't know why it should, as it
only the fewest number of them in Tennessee
IS who pay any portion of it,
II Two Ku-KluXes have been sentenced to til