The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-02-14
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Chattanooga Railroad, near Tantallon, is dead. =,
Mr.. ]. Frazer Matthews, a promising and !
highly esteemed young man, was murdered a \
few days ago near Beaufort, South Carolina, |
by negroes while trying to recover some {
mules which they had stolen from him. II
There are thirteen candidates for Tax Col t
lector in Rutherford county. '
The Boston Traveller says it would like to
see Fred Douglas on the Grant ticket for Vice
President.
The LAFAYETTE, Ind, Journal. of Wednesday,
records that Mrs. Smith was burned to death,
from carelessness in reading in bed by candle
light.
Tn Jefferson county, Tennessee, there are
nine gentlemen who wish to serve the dear
people as sheriff. Aspirants for the other of
fees to be filled are almost equally as numer-
Gus.
A man named Campbell, charged with Sc
duction, was shot in the Court room at Salt
Lake CITY, on Tuesday, by the father of his
victim.
At Mound City, Illinois, there are eight
monitors laid up, and as the care of them is
rather costly and troublesome job, it is pro-
posed to excavate basin, at cost of 100000,
in which they may be allowed to rot or rust |
without further expense.
The total number of electoral votes in the
Union is s15.~If the Southern States all vote, |
it will require 15S votes to elect. If they do
not v~tep 22f wil|Sf TIE whole number cast,
of which l19 constitute majority.
Two negroes cholled and beat an old lady in
Memphis and robbed her house on the 9th inst.
Part of human body was found in a cot
ton warehouse in Memphis on the 9th instant,
which was shipped to the city in unginned
cotton.
| Albert Cook, lately postmaster in Kendall
county, Illinois, was prosecuted by Postmas
ter General Randall for balance of eight
cents, due the government. Mr.. Cook paid
the amount claimed and 500 costs.
A few days ago eighty bales of cotton were
DESTROYED by fire on the railroad near Cuth-
bert, Georgia.
Another revolution is reported imminent in
Mexico. Several prominent Generals have de-
clared against the government.
The highest embankment in the world is on
one of our Western railroads; its height is
$40 feet, and its base is $50 feet thick.
Timoney, the ex-Federal officer who killed
Richardson, member of the Atlanta Conven-
ton, has been held to answer in a bond
of $4,000.
The Mississippi Republican Convention has
nominated B. B. Egleston as its candidate for
Governor.
In the Virginia Convention proposition to
declare ineligible to the office of Governor any
person who had aided the rebellion, has been
defeated by Il decided vote.
John A. Fisher, Esq, formerly cashier of
the Bank of Tennessee, writes from New York
to some friends that he will start to Nashville
about the 18th instant.
A large fruit crop is predicted next season.
Thus far all kinds Of fruit have been exempt
from damage by cold weather.
1t is generally believed, from the tempera-
ture of the weather, that the grounding did
see his shadow on Candlemas day, and re-
treated to his hole.
The report that Gen. Meade would be re-
moved is officially denied. The President has
never expressed any such intention.
The Emperor Napoleon has accepted an in
Vitation to visit the Sultan Of Turkey next
summer.
On the 10Th ult an attempt was made to as
f sassinate the King and Queen of Portugal
: while out hunting. They were fired upon
. from the roadside but escaped unhurt
The cholera has made its appearance at Ce
dar Keys, Florida, and several deaths have
4 occurred. Disease spreading rapidly, anC
= the people are fleeing.
If Captain Brown, formerly on the staff of thu
Federal General Patrick, was garroted nea
Richmond, Wednesday night and robbed of
watch, pistol, and 800 in greenbacks.
u Geo. Dixon, living in the vicinity of Cold
" water, Michigan, killed his son last week b,
beating and exposure, and has been arrested.
A dry goods clerk in st. Thomas, Canada
has been put in jail to prevent his killing
% young lady with whom he is desperately il
love but who declines to reciprocate.
- The dancers at the Queens Theatre, in Lon
. don, are required to wear dresses which hav
/ been saturated with tungstate of manganese
y which renders them tire-proof.
m An ordinance has been passed by the Florid
4 Convention, authorizing the issuing of scrip
n to pay off the members. In three months
i
a Three of the negroes concerned in the lat
IS murders in Newton county, Miss, have bee
y recognized and arrested. A gun belonging t
1e one of the murdered men was found in thei
lg possession.
III The Iowa House of Representatives III
~ passed resolution denouncing Preside1
y: johnson and applauding General Grant.
,r From sunrise to sunset is now about a
m hour and half longer than it was at the b.
$, ginning of last month.
re A new iron bridge is to be built over til
i Running Water, on the Nashville and Cha
ID tanooga Railroad.
Ill Senator Guthrie of kentucky has resigned
~ Summers Senatorial term expires on the At
he of March, 1859.
~ A woman in Monouk, ILL.,, caught her hui
ed band trying to commit suicide by hangin.
tie and cllttinp him 6O,-,,