The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14

n attempted 10 aSSstSSIlIdlC AHAAO
,ot at him with large navy revolver,
II missed. The report of the pistol
.ouoht aid, which saved his life. The
meanings of the poor people i'll regard
their loss, is beyond description. The
lure is a heavy calamity to Memphis,
I'd lasts a gloom over the city. Heavy
mo were made on other banks, which
the crisis. General distrust
rrvails in financial circles.
TIE TENNESSEE MEMBERs.-The Wash
notion correspondent of the New York
g,rnress telegraphs that paper as fol-
ows:
rrbn Tennessee members of Congress
no oDenlv avowing their purpose to adj
Tocafe Reputation should Congress re-
Esa the claims of their State for sup
lick furnished the army, and which
4 to stveral mIllions OF do!.arsik
YrRefS1A-AboGt midnigi on
law last, the residence of Mr.. RShsoNe
Brock, Oh Linckhorn bay, in Princes
Anne county, was attacked by a gang OF
desperadoes, himself and family driver
therefrom, and the premises ransackcd,
and robbed of everything like money
and yaluables that could be found.
MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON RAILROAD
This road. we learn, is in a most SOL
vent condition. The Company has paid
its Indebtedness to the Government,
and in march next will pay its stock
holders the same rate Of dividend It
was paying before the war.
OH1o.-The Ohio Legislature have
adopted resolutions requesting the re-
peal of the reconstruction acts, and de-
mandatory of the pending Supplement-
airy and Supreme Court bills.
| SHsRP.-Thurlow Weed, not know
| inc what was coming from Washington,
uttered the following proverb: " If you
wish to ruin popular hero, soldier OF
civilian, put a pen in his hand"
A WAs1uSGroN dispatch to the Gin
cinnati Times announces that ''Prcsi-
dent johnson will veto Mr.. Julian's bill
forfeiting the lands granted to the
Southern railroads, and it will not be
, passed over the veto it Is thought
f This will be hopeful news for ali those
interested in Southern roads, whose
. granted lands were proposed to be for
c feited.
N1sso1-RI.-Near Laclede, Missouri,
two families named Sibert and PHILIPS,
= have been IiYin" on one farm and occu-
lDyin9 the same house. y quarrel &C
Z Cured between them q few days ago
= about some cattle, and Phillips shot ST.
Of bert with Il heavy load of buckshot1
killing him instantly. The wife of 81
:, bert was standing by his side with ak
=, infant in her arms, and single shot
from the charge penetrated the child ;
-, head. causing its death. The murderer
in fled, and had not been captured at last
accounts.
= OUTRAGE IN SUMNER.-In Sumner
Ill county on the night OF the 9TH INST, MI
Charles Raglan, we'll known citizen,
ed stepped out of his door Oh the porch TO
IL get a drink of water, when he was as
saultcd by two negroes, one using al
~ axe. and knocking him scnselesS to the
III floor The noise attracted the attention
of his father and wife. who Immediate
" came to his assistance, and by striking
= ONE of them over the head with 4 chair
emf and offering resistance to their attempt:
TO enter the house, the negroes fed anC
y were not identified.
KELLEY IN tTEOhtTlA' ~ NS-A'
en- ton passed the relief clause-yeaS 81
in nays 45. 1t denies Jurisdiction TO TIT
Courts over all debts contracted PRO
IN 10 the surrender, but leaves 1t dIscrc
on tionary with majority of the Leglsla
ture to confer jurisdiction i'll all cases
except as to the purchase OF slaves.
HOP In CAMDEN, Arkansas, Henry Vile,
ERE mas oeen ~, No1cI Ro,Izer with i'm
i'd tent to produce stUpOr of mind, or weak
4 Of ness of body so as to prevent ettectui
,ors resistance. with intent to commit rape
and sentenced to be hung on the 18th o
t VI 7ebruaI.y inst 1t has been 4 law OF IN
ca State ever since 1888, that every persel
the white or black, convicted of this GRIN
hall should be punished with death
ma Mrs. Mary Holland, of Vinton, NlIiC
has had her son Thomas arrested Oh
charge of perjury, in swearing that h
was twenty-one years old, i'll order
on obtain a marriage license. The fon
Olu- mother is bitterly opposed to the mattel
cial and says she would rather see Thoma
ssti- 90 to the penitentiary than to marry ii
iver woman he intended to-
Oiu The Newton CAIass.) Journal say
sion there is so much destitution in Il
and neighboring '.shoe towns" that SOU
for houses have been opened.
rdli- Parker Pilsburv, the ancient Abol
d. zionist and co-worker with Carlson al
Phillips, will, it is said, stump Ne
con- Hampshire for the Democratic cand
40 dates this spring.
GEES A LETTER in the Paris papers stat
Nv or the authority of a Colonel of Il
tbo,- French army, that instead of there b
JIG! ing an exaggeration in the account
gail the famine in Algeria, things are eve
lore worse than stated. More than two hu
hen drpd thousand nnrsons If Is renOrte