The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1868-12-04
Chips, and Things.

pixies.
The Alabama Legislature is engaged in dis
cussing the Ku Klux bills-for want of some
thing else.
1t was not Gen. Forrest, but his brother.
who shot the poice-olicer at Memphis.
The cattle in several counties of Georgia are
dying from eating corn-blasts in the field.
Ex-Gov. Foot and Senator Fowler have
been corresponding on suffrage, in Tennessee.
They have had another large fire at Nash
vile.
Grant, who shot Rives Pollard, has been
baied in the sum of $4,000.
Secretary Seward wants to fight little Para
quay.
The ticket office Of the Central Rail- DAD,
Schenectady, was broken open and robbed
of $4,000.
The statement that Gen. Hindman was as
sassinatcd by his brother-in-law is a lie, start
ed by the villains who committed the act to
cover their own participation in the crime.
Forncy's Chrenicle is said to be for sale.-
John w. is supposed to be candidate for Il
foreign mission.
Somebody says circumstances alter cases
particularly reduced circumstances.
1t is said Secretary McCulloch will recon-
mend an increase of taxation in his forthcom-
ing report.
The radicals of Mississippi want Congress
to declare the defeated Constitution ratified.
The New York Divincs continue to preach
politics every Sabbath.
scymour's majority, in Louisiana is being
largely reduced, whole parishes being thrown
out by the radicals without any compunctiOus
yistings.
Whisky. it is said, has been reduced to ten
cents a drink in consequence of the pressure
in the money market.
Ex-Presidcnt PIERCE is recovering his health
and expects to be out in few days.
1t has been definitely settled that General
Grants inaugural will be very brief.
"Brutes" is the legitimate title of an anti
marrying club said to exist in the great city of
London.
! The La Cross Democrat has been removed to
New York city.
The Roscdalc murder in New York and the
Hill murder in Philadelphia have occupied
II large space in the daily papers for some days
past.
The Nashville Fire Department is said to be
the worst in the world. but is no worse than
the city government of Nashville, or the State
government Of Tennessee.
A young German. of Milwaukee, shot him.
self recently, because an expected remittance
from "FathcranG'' did not come. The remit
lance came on Monday, in time TO meet the eN-
pcnscs of his burial.
The wife of John Offers, of Vienna. No.. af.
ter nine years of welded life, deserted him
last week. taking with her over four Thousand
dollars. John offers to forgive her if she will
return the money.
; Corn is selling Mt % cents per bushel in Ran.
dolph county, Arkansas.
j. Gamboll, VIM. GanO. Alex. Smith, and
c. l.. Evans were arrested near Memphis tho
other day, ut the instance of Il negro. who
!, charges that they are members of the Kukluy
The Empress Eugenc's expression has lost
its sweetness, and so, it is said has her dispo
sition.
A fellow in New Orleans tried TO shoot hi.
brother, but succeeded in killing friend.
1t is said that st. Louis will do more in the
pork packing line this season than either Gin
cinnati or Chicago.
Official returns from Honolulu gives Gran,
12l votes and Seymour 8. Kamtschatka has
not vet been heard from
The youngest mother in England is aged II
years.
f In the obituary list of the Hartford Couran
appears notice Of a death in that city, "burl
nj at the convenience of the family"
/ A burglar at Bridgeport stepped in a largo
: rat-trap. yelled, and was caught, thereby put
; ting his foot in it.
A Cincinnati thief stole the poor-boX from 9
church door while the minister was perform
ing the ceremony Of baptism within.
The fellow that made a matrimonial bet or
the election, says it was all joke. The wo
man holds him to his wager.
A divorced and remarked Westcrner ha,
: eloped with his first wife.
in Paris, and the number is found to be 700. 1874
The cost of the Indian war for the next
year is estimated at fifty million dollars.
Gen. John O'Nel has been elected President
of the Feniun Brotherhood.
? The radical imbroglio in Florida is still un
5 settled.
; The municipal election at Augusta, Ga.
: will occur on Friday the 4th. Trouble is an
ticipated
f The New Nation, the daily radical paper
, Richmond, has been discontinued for want o
sufficient patronage.
One of the most popular drinking saloons II
Knoxville has been 'dried up" Cause con
scientous scruples on part of proprietor.
The annual meeting of the National Board o
Trade takes place in Cincinnati, December eth
1t is said that the debt statement for Novem
Der will show i'm increase of eleven millions
Humbug-the numerous reported converse
f tons with Gen. Grant.
: The story that Henry J. Raymond an,
Thurlow Weed had purchased the Nationa
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