The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-10-30
Chips, and Things.

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Another shock of an earthquake occurred
in California on the ODD. Nobody hurt.
Some additional traces of Sir John Frank
Inns unfortunate arctic expedition have re-
Gently boon discovered.
Horace Greeley and John Morrissy are the
opposing candidates for Congress in the Fifth
District of New York.
1t is stated in Macmilan's Magazine that
roast donkey is one of the most delicious Of
meats. Itisused largely in Lyons sausages,
which are esteemed the best in the world.
A Berlin engineer has invented military
land torpedo. which he pretends will blow up
whole battalion.
An American student in Berlin, challenged
by drunken lieutenant who had insultcd
him, settled the difficulty by horsewhipping
his adversary.
The Spanish revolution has set free q Mad
rid editor who was serving a term of 102 years
in prison.
A mermaid that eats Oranges has been
found at the Sandwich Islands.
The French minister of war has ordered ten
million sheets of cartridge paper to be deiv-
cred within five weeks. This is regarded as
another token of peace.
When Austria convicts journalists of press
offences, it adds casting to imprisonment as
a penalty.
An exchange amiably alludes to sour hand
some. polite, amiable. and big-hearted friend
smith," We know him.
Twcnty-rour millions of gold are required
to pay the public debt on the LIST day of No
vember. Think of that. Master Brook!
The sugar crop of Louisiana is set down at
| 10000 hogshcads.
A man living in Louisville, KY. died re-
Gently from the effects of tight boot, which
produced modification.
| New Orleans papers are fighting over the
city printing which the Legislature gave to
the truly loyal sheet.
Queen Isabella is growing bald, and they
say the loss of her hair occasions her as much
| soicitudc as the loss of her throne.
| A fellow in Leipzig has got three years in
prison for encouraging III women to think he
intended to marry them.
An old negro astonished people by falling on
his knees and wor,hiping the Lincoln Monu-
ment in Washington.
A lady with a Grecian Bend looks TO a coun-
try youth like Il crook-neck squash struck
by lightning,
Europe has $3.50. 300, 900 invested in America.
The vintage of France for 1868 amounts to
thirty three gallons for every man and child
in the empire.
Col. John Williams has been appointed
Revenue Collector for the Knoxville District
in place of Col. j. II. Alternately, resigned.
There was a killing frost and thin ice at
Richmond. Virginia. on the night Of the Goth
Vegetation all gone up.
Henry u. Christian. Il government detective
was murdered in st. Louis on the night O.
the 9th.
The Democratic papers claim West Virgin
in. SO do the Radicals. The truth will prob
ably leak ont after next Tuesday.
Gen. Grant is still up in the ncighborhood
of Galenu. Illinois, "hiding out"
4 man in Vermont has beard three feet
SIN lntncs Ill lclSlH. IlclA >uppo>'u ~ DS oh'
of suit Luvengood's natural durn fools.
Mr.. G. r. Harris, Express Agent and Tele
graph operator ut Huntingdon, West Tennes
see, left Il few days ago for parts unknown
with 50 900 belonging to some body else.
A. r. Scott was assassnated in Arkansas, by
political enemies last week. Such things ar
becoming too frequent to elicit attention.
The papers are filled with accounts of riot
; between the whites and blacks in portions o
the south, The radicals are succeeding admi
rably with their efforts to prccipitate conflic
of races.
Goldsmith Is supposed to have referred t.
the Grecian Bend, when he wrote "She stoop'
to Conquer"
The man who sang. go breathe no more thai
simple air." went into the smoking car where
the air was more mixed.
Eight bows were poisoned last Saturday a
Lincook, n. H.. from eating Indian turnip'
for artichokes. Two have since died.
A white servant girl at Auburn, New York
poisoned a Mr.. Rhodes, his wife and Ave chill
dren last week. They are all dead.
The dirty linen Ill lhe carpct-DuS - us ihio
cent Of soap as the carpet-bagger is of princi
pie.
A widower of Seventy-eight and spinste
of sixty have united their fortunes in Connec
ticut. Their fortune is not stated, but thei
! united weight is seven hundred pounds.
On Monday next cars will be running owe
eight hundred miles on the Union Pacif
Railroad, eight hundred miles of which hav
been accepted.
Seymour and Blair have no stauncher frien'
! than Senator Patterson.
Rev. S. Minton, very prominent clergy
man of the Church of England, has created
sensation by announcing his belief that TIL
doctrine of eternal punishment is unscrptural
Memphis has taken three hundred thousan'
dollars stock in the Memphis and Selma rail
road.
Mr.. Clifioi d Lanier, formerly of Macon, Ga
, has written novel called "Two Hundre
Bales" A comfortable subject.
A young woman in Illinois took corosiv
sublimate in place of Il lover whom her fathe
wouldn't let her have.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is announced a
. candidate for the United States Senate |