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and Willie about five. A chronicle of
their doings and sayings would fill vol
ume, but two specimens must suffice.
Both were very fond of milk, and
mug of it completed their supper But,
while in the country last sommer, it so
CHANGED that they one day saw the girl
milking.
"There Willie said Freddy, "you
see that do you don't want any more
milk after the cows had it, and he with
drew very much disgusted.
That evening, when their mugs were
placed on the table, both stood untouched.
A reason of this phenomenon being asked,
Freddy simply declared that he didn't
want any milk after the COW had had it,
but further refused to explain. Willie,
however, told the experience of the
morning.
The mother then explained to them
that the milk did not come to them sec.
ond-hand-that the COW ate grass, which
wos changed into milk by a wonderful
chemical process, akin to that which pro-
duced everything in Nature. In the
light Of this explanation, Willie was sat
: is6ed, but Freddy still turned up his nose
at milk, sticking to the original PROPOSE
ton.
After supper, Willie, who on these i'm
portant occasions always acted as ex,
: FOUNDER, took his brother aside into q
I. corner. "It's all right, Freddy" he sale
"and you can just go on drinking YOU
/ milk again. The COW eats grass, anc
5 that's what makes it. Now if the COW
didn't eat the grass, you'd have to, yor
4 see. That's what the cows for"
Freddy resumed his evening draughts
To his mind the only alternative wa
eating grass, and from that he shrank.
How observant children are, and hoy
: their ears prick up at an intimation tina
anything is going on which they are no
Y particularly desired to see or hear!
: A little fellow-a minister's son." By
: the way-sat on the floor one afternoon
, playing with his blocks, when some ladie
e called on his mamma. Very soon th'
g oonyarcat;on furnaj n ON, sorry .S 49,
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POst-Office Thief Caught.

The Atlanta Intelligencer of Friday
last contains an account Of the detec-
ton and apprehension of post-office
clerk of that city, named Walker, who
for some time past has been robbing the
mails. Itsays: ....
The individual guilty of these long
continued distractions turns out to be
one David A. Walker, a clerk in our city
post office. The evidence against him
was so clear that he pleaded guilty to
the charge, and has been committed by
Commissioner Smith for trial in default
of bail required (S2,50W for his appear
ancc at the sitting of the next term of
the United States Court for this Dis
trict. Walker is young man of re-
spectacle family connections, who in
an evil hour yielded to the temptations
which it seems beset him, and began his
depredations in our city post-office,
from which this paper has greatly suf.
fered, and its patrons and correspon-
dents been greatly embarrassed.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Another Outrage.

LITTLE Rock, Jan. 27.-Intelligence
of a frightful outrage, perpetrated near
Pine Knob, in johnson county, has just
reached this city.
Invitations have been out for several
days to wedding which was to take
place on Friday night last. The parties
were highly respectable, the bride be-
ing young and beautiful girl, niece of
one of the former Judges of the Su-
preme Court of Arkansas. just after
the company had assembled, and before
tho marriage ceremony was performed,
a company of negro militia, command
cd by white man, surrounded the
place, and, putting out tho lights, laid
violent hands on the ladies. The gen.
tlemen present were fortunately not
without arms, and after a sharp fight
they drove the marauders of. A sis.
ter of the bride was seriously, and per.
haps mortally, wounded. Four of the
militia We're shot in the melee. The af.
fair created great excitement, and the
people turned out in pursuit. The Rad.
icals say the object of the negroes was
not rapine, but that they wanted to or
rest man.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Why He Left the Farm.

A correspondent of the Northern
Farmer, in telling why he left the farm
for town life, gives some of the reasons
for the lack of interest which so many
take in farming operations. He says: !:
The principal one is that it is too Of
ten the case that young men are brought
up on the farm to a period verging on
manhood without having the least idea
of the world, toiling necessarily from
morning till night, week in and week
out. year in and year out with no OPP
portunity of obtaining an education, or
are not supplied with the reading to
mould their minds and fit them to guide
them clear of obstacles that cluster
around the inexperienced entering up
on the course of a farmers life.
Now, if out of ten men brought up
in this manner three settle down on the
farm, it is ten chances to one if they do
not make the poorest of farmers; al
ways patterning after the modes that
their fathers followed during their lives,
and never open to conviction insregard
to any way being possible to derive
those benefits from farming otherwise
than by the sweat of the brow, and at
the expense Of the muscle not know
ing. or apparently ignoring the fact,
that brains were made to cooperate
with muscle in all labors upon the farm
more than in other places.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Mrs. Lincoln's Pension.

Mrs. Lincoln's health, we under
stand from her petition for pension,
requires her attendance upon the min
eral springs of Germany, and the enjoy
ment of the climate of Italy in the win
ter; and she cannot live in the style be-
coming the widow of the Chief Magis-
trate of q great nation on the means that
she possesses. Physicians do not usually
order German mineral water and Ital-
ian air for persons unable to pay fol
such luxuries, and those who have or.
dered her to Europe should be held re.
sponsible for an incorrect diagnosis Of
her purse, whichis the part of her sys,
tenn most likely to be affected by for.
eign travel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Sensible Talk.
The Cincinnati Commercial, a Re-
publican paper, saws about Arkansaa


publican paper, says about Arkansas:
Governor Clayton holds the life Of
every man, woman and child in Arkan-
sas in his power. is only necessary
for him to throw the entire State under
martial law, and the property and exist
ence of any one becomes unsafe. In
deed, when such men as Catterson and
Upham are appointed to command such
bands as l have previously described in
the Commercial, an innocent man stands
but poor chance to escape their venge-
ance for imaginary wrongs. This tur-
bulent spirit has been manifest for many
years--long before the war murders
were frequent, and since they are of al
most daily occurrence. E...t
No political party can be made re-
sponsible for them, as all parties suffer-
ed equally. The remedy selected has
been worse than the disease, if the mil
itia was intended as a remedy, or can
now be considered as suchs The GRIM
inals whose acts called for punishment
were no sooner aware Of the organiza-
ton of State troops than they chose one
of the two avenues of escape from JUS
tice, to leave the country or join the
ranks. Now, any one who gives mo-
ment's attention to this subject cannot
fail to perceive how ineffective an army
of troops must prove against q lot of
struggling desperadoes, with all the
advantages of position and perfect
knowledge of dens and hiding places.
In the Southwestern District, all that
was necessary for Bakers men, was to
cross the Red River into Texas, and
laugh in the faces of Catterson and his
| force. mi, t..
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
An Ironed Prisoner on Our Streets.

Three of Clayton's men, who came
with him as sort of private body
guard, had charge of the young man,
William Bray, arrested at Helena
They brought him up from the boat to
the Peabody Hotel for breakfast, about
seven o'clock in the morning, and said
they wanted to give him square meal.
He was heavily handcuffed and not al
lowed to communicate with any one.-
The prisoner was tall, fine-loOking
man, about thirty years of age. A pas
senger who came in the same boat pre-
dicted the prisoner would be killed as
Major Harney was, before Saturday
night. He was conveyed back to the
boat and carried along with the party
that went to Mound City. His captors
alleged at the hotel that he had killed
four men, and we may next hear it
charged that he killed eight or sixteen.
The prisoner took his arrest as quietly
as if expecting no evil fate. He might
have known that innocence and untar-
nished honor are the worst crimes in
the eyes of the militia. We will be
surprised if ho ever returns to Helena
alive.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Shocking Murder.

{ From the Memphis Avalanche January 9th. }
Mr.. George Wallace, an estimable
Young man, the only son and hope of
Mrs. Wallace, widow lady, living six
miles from Bradley's Landing, was
murdered by the negro militia in the
most cold-blooded and shocking man
ner. He left the Landing last Saturday
evening, with six dollars in money. a
kcg of whisky, and trunk, on one
horse wagon. When nearly in sight of
his home he was shot by the negro mi
litia, who asserted that he was carrying
powder and shot, contraband articles IN
time of war. The fact was, they We're
nothing more than highway murder
ers, and wanted his little plunder. The
trunk, his tools and two gallons of
whisky, were given to q negro Oh the
Hodge place, who had piloted the mill
tia. Young Wallace's body was lying
Sunday evening in the woods without
his boots, coat or hat. When he left
the landing he was unarmed, and his
death was an unparalleled atrocity.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
A Northern Pork House.

The Buffalo Courier has the follow
ing paragraph in relation to pork
house in that city:
Messrs. Metcalfe g. Cushing have
stopped the slaughtering of hogs for
the season, and we, on Saturday, took a
look through their store house at East
Buffalo. From the basement to the
roof there was pork, pork, pork lin
fact more pork than we ever saw to-
gether at one time, and more than this
firm, large as is their business, have
ever before had on hand at one time
There were in the building about ten
thousand dressed hogs--aggregating in
value $250,00O. Messrs. Metcalfe 4
Cushing have slaughtered this season
about 1900 hogs. Their facilities are
first class, and they usually kill from
600 to 800 hogs per day when their es-
tablishmcnt is in full operation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The gnst.
Athens, Friday, Feb. s, 1860.
The Income Tax.

A contemporary thinks it high time
the income tax should be repealed. II
is by far the most odious ofall the taxes
levied on the American people, and its
proceeds are rapidly diminishing not.
withstanding the increase in our popu-
lation, and they will continue to dimin.
ish so long as the tax continues. The
receipts from this tax last year were
only thirty-two millions of dollars, al
amount almost insignificant in compari.
son with what the Government. has to
raise from year to year, and all amount
which might be raised by other means
far less Unsatisfactory and obnoxious
to the people.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Railroad p Populations in New York

A recent New York date says: The
examination of the Erie Railroad pecu-
lation proves that nearly all the con-
ductors of the road have appropriated
the funds of the company very freely
Many of them who have been five or
ten years on the road are worth $4,000
to $4,000, which, they claim, they have
made by investments, but which the di-
rectors think they stole. Numerous
conductors have compromised with the
company by paying over certain sums,
and have been retained. About thirty,
who have been discharged, declare that
they had as good right to be dishonest
as the directors. 1t is reported that sew
eral millions have been stolen from the
company by its employees within the
past three years. Gould and Fisk in
tend, as soon as possible, to put new
men on the road and establish safe
guards against future plunder.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
What is to Become Of the Negro?

What is to Become Of the Negro?
A South Carolina correspondent of
the New York Times gives the follow
ing prophecy of the fate of the negro,
and Of his present condition:
The condition Of the negro race is de-
plorable-deplorable in his utter want
of the faculty of self-gOvernment. My
own individual opinion has been form
ed after goodly portion of life spent
among negroes, and under feeling of
interest in and sympathy for the color
ed people; and l am solemnly impress
ed with the conviction that the colored
race in the South is destined to die out
under the operation of natural causes.
Tho Indian is ceasing from the earth.
He is out of his element in being in
contact and competition with supe-
rior race. So also will it be with the
negro. The negro's best friends are be-
ginning to see that Liberia is his best
hope, and that his emigration thither
should be- encouraged. The next CEN
sus will show that the black race is IA
pidly decreasing. 1t is already percep.
tible here now. Besides, VIC know that
Gen. Howard reported more than mil.
lion dead since the war.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
A Model LOyalist.

One Captain Dale, who has been fig
ing at the head of one hundred men
from Missouri, Monroe county, has
made good thing of it. During his
military reign he impressed, or bought
fOrcibly, large number of horses and
mules, and gave his individual note for
the same to keep people quiet. About
the time his troops were to be mustered
out, which took place recently, he ran
off the stock and then ran off himself
without paying any thing or any body.
He is fair specimen of the loyal Re-
publican party-so-called Republican,
in Arkansas. OF such is Southern 10y
atty.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
PeanutS.

Southern Virginia and upper North
Carolina furnish the principal supply Of
peanuts for the United States. Fifty
bushels to the acre are easily raised and
find ready market at $3.50 per bushe.
They do best in thin, poor soil, and
require lime only as specific fertilizer.
During the war peanuts were converted
into oil for lamps in the South. The
demand for them is constantly on the
increase, and the varied uses 10 which
they are put render them very profit
able crop. Farmers plant rs much az
fifty acres of peanuts and grow them in
hills about the same distance apart as
sweet potatoes.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Children. .

Parents shouldn't preach to children.
If any preaching is to be done let the
pastor do it. He is up for the sobricties.
BE earnest, sincere, frank with the little
folks, but not solemn and ponderous.
You don't want your children to think
of you as graveyard on legs, mum
bling sepulchral tones, but as human,
living, heartful parents. Then don't be
preachful to them. Take any shape but
that.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Handsome Profits.

Colonel V. X. Stevenson has recent
ly disposed of his tract of land lying in
Crow Creek Valley, near, Chattanooga,
which he purchased few years since
for five thousand dollars, for the round
sum of one hundred and ten thousand
dollars in cash. This is one of the best
trades we have heard of lately, and full
ly establishes the enhancing value of
Tennessee lands.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Sent Over the River.

A Memphis paper says, few days
ago Lieutenant and six men of the
Arkansas militia came to the city, hea-
Willy armed. They were arrested by the
police OH charge of the intentioned ar
rest Of certain persons here, but were
subsequently placed on ferry boat and
sent over the river. If the police had
treated Gov. Clayton in the same way,
when he came sneaking about Mem
phis, they would have deserved still
more credit. ..-
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
BOwles on Interpretations.

A proposition to incorporate some
little town in Middle Tennessee being
before the House of Representatives,
old man Bowles, of Overton, offered
the following:
Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Tennessee, That the
entire State of Tennessee be, and the
same is hereby, Incorporated, and that
all lesser interpretations be permitted to
incorporate themselves without expense
to the larger one. .-
The Speaker ruled it out of order.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
More Lynching.

The Memphis Appeaps Madison coun-
ty correspondent says that Monday
morning just before daylight two horse
thieves, named John Fox and Sam w.
Taylor, were taken from the custody of
Esquire Lawrence, near Poplar Corner,
and taken to the woods and shot to
death by party of masked men.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
MORE ABOUT ARKANSAS.
Clayton and his RufIlans.

We commend the following to the
attention Of Brownlow's Recruiting Of
ficers 3fll6,t, gats. ,4N 4
LITTLE Rock, January 26, 1S69.--A
squad of Clayton's militia, commanded
by negro, went to the house of a Mrs.
Burns, near Rochester, Mississippi coun-
ty, on Friday last, and took from her
stable two riding horses and o mule,
with which they made off, in spite of
the protestations of the owner, who is
old and infirm and widow. &e
An hour or two after Mr.. X. b. Dash
iel, q respectable citizen of the county,
and son-in-law of Mrs. Burns, came TO
the place, and, finding what had hap
pened, set out with Sheriff7s warrant
and Constable in pursuit of the marau-
ders.
They came up with them at Bells
Bluff, where they had encamped, and
Mr.. Dashiel told the chief of the party
that if he would give up the stolen pro-
berty no proceedings would be resorted
to. The negro replied that 'nll hell
should not make him give up his law
full rights" He further said that it was
his intention to take whatever he want
ed from the white folks, as he was in
structed to do so from Washington
Mr.. Dashiel was in the act of remon-
strating when another of the negro
party came up behind him and shot him
dead. The Constable turned to fly, but
was caught by the negroes and tied to
tree, where they left him and beat a
hasty retreat. The case has been re-
ported to the Governor, who refuses tc
entertain it.
The people are flying for their lives
in every direction, hiding out in til,
woods, and otherwise seeking to evad'
the militia, whose officers declare thei
intention to depopulate Arkansas ant
repopulatc it with negroes.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
Florida.

In the Legislature resolution passed
the House declaring the evidence sub
mitted by the Investigating Committee
insufficient to substantiate the charges
against Governor Reed Of high crimes
and misdemeanors, by o vote of 42 to 8.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The GrasslIonners.

The grasshoppers of the Northwest
have already made their appearance,
preparatory to the usual spring cam-
paign. They have reached a length OF
only three inches up to this period of
time; which will probably be doubled
with the advent of the season of flowers.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The Rings.

The Fat Contributor, who gets off
some good ones occasionally, and a
great many not so good, has the follow
ing about the Hon. John Morrissy:
There is great deal of useless talk
about Morrissy's having been in the
"ring." A member of Congress who
isn't in some sort of "ring" now-a-
days, is very rare indeed; and there
are few of those "rings" as respectable
as the prize ring. f Tt
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
South Carolina.

A dispatch from Columbia of the 2Sth
ultimo says. 5s..r
A joint resolution has passed the Leg
islature authorizing the Governor to em-
ploy an armed force for the preserva-
tion of peace, and it was sent for ap-
proval to the Governor. o(F
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The Bankrupt Law.

AS the law requires bankrupts to pay
fifty per cent. of their Indebtedness
since the lst of January, q movement
has been made in Congress to have tho
restriction removed. as e.iri
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The Truth Coming Out.
A letter from Columbia to the Nash

"A iot'ot iioHi So'uihcA" w eno WASH
vile Banner says: ,,N ...f,sr
1 have been reliably informed that
Jordan and Stephenson admitted to Sc
veral persons before they fled to Perry
county last week, that "they whipped
HarGin to death on purpose, knowing
it would be blamed on the KukluX, and
they could then get the militia to Maui
ry county, They have not been heard
from since they left. tr
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
The Missouri Senator.

Somebody, who is probably mistak-
en-, says: ,r..,.fs -.
Carl Schurz, Senator elect from Mis-
souri,, has been voter only two years,
and cannot take his seat in Congress,
the Constitution requiring foreign born
citizens to be voters nine years.
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BYESAM. ?. WINS,
TER m s (.
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Immigration.

z The bin appropriating fifteen thou
sand dollars for immigration purposes
has passed its second reading in the
House Of Representatives. iea
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

p@ By recent act of the Legislature
one hundred thousand dollars of stock,
owned by the State in the East Tennes-
see and Georgia Railroad, has been
transferred to tho several Turnpike
roads running out from Knoxville.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

gsyH The greatest good of the greatest
number involves magnificent princi-
pie; but somehow the world insists ups
on it that No. is the greatest and has
the most good in it, and acts accord-
inUlv
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

R@- An ounce of prevention ia said
to be worth pound of cure. The au-
thor of the noted saying neglected, how
ever to tell where the efficient ounce
could be procurei, ~ ..,i9
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

BAY In bowling the point is to knock
everything down IN the shortest possi-
BILE time. In life everybody wants to
knock everybody else of his pins at the
earliest moment.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05

+. pss- Ex-Governor Pickens died at his
home in Edgefcld, South Carolina, last
week. NM -,tt
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HGy- Guppy, whose wife l,as the Gre
clan bend, OOaplaiHs That it makesi her
quarrelsolNcs She gets her back UP ey-
cry time she goes out. 80 -. -