The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-05-28

of impeachment.
summers war speech is still being comment
ed upon by the London press-ius5 what the
Senator wanted
The Secretary of the Treasury has deter
mined 10 sell two ANIL Il half millions Of gold
per week.
a stable, two miles from Nasty Sllo, was de-
stroycd by fire on Saturday morning, ANA four
valuable horses burned to death.
The Lincoln County News says the wheat
crop in that county Is likely to be Il iailurc.-
Premature.
The Philadelphia Ledger says it is n re-
fact that the oldest Frecmason dies
once week.
Strong, who killed Bcllum, in South Carroll
ma. has been sentenced to be hung on the 81
of June.
The spring fashion in the wearing of hair
for young ladies is to allow the trcsses to flow
down the back a Ia naturelle.
\ bogus "war widow has been "dong''
the charitabIy disposed loyaiist. of Hannibal,
Missouri.
Green AMI butter color are now the favorito
hues for hair among that class Of French wo-
men who lead the fashions.
Josh Billings says il man tlattcrs you, you
can calculate that he is \ rogue or you are
u fool.
A radical journal says the name Of John
Brown will live forever. That of Judas Isca-
riot is also having pretty long run.
In the first week after President Grants
inauguration gold sold rs low rs 100. 1t has
since gone up nearly twelve per cent
According to recent developments the mu-
nicipal ring mt Nashville can beat the school
flinders at stealing all hollow.
A woman has been presented to the grand
jury of Owen county, Kentucky on a charge
OF being witch.
The Hub, is new paper published in Bos-
ton, which describes itself Is - journal for
the carriage and ear shop"
Somebody with more money than brains
proposes to start paper mt Memphis to be-
called the New Administration"
Since his Inauguration, Gen. Grants ia
nous remark-'Let us have Pcacc"-is rapid
~ growing obsolete.
Inc baltimore anu OnlO WIS tHo
first road started in America. and is said to be
the best managed road in the world.
The velocipcdc has thrown great many
gallant riders. and is now himself about to be
thrown aside.
Fred Douglass, Junior, son of the old man,
has been appointed to q clerkship at Washing
ton.
The radicals had barty-Whcre is dat party
now? And where is all dose roustabouts, Not
kicks up such u row?
1t is becoming patent to some Of the daily
journalists that there is to be no war with
England about the Alabama claims.
Mrs. Macomb, widow of the late General
Macomb, died at Washington few days ago
III the S1st year of her age.
The men who robbed IIerndon's Express
at Baltimoi have been captured and all tho
money recovered.
Stokes friends claim that Middle and West
Tennessee are largely in favor of the Chevalier
for Governor as against Sentcr. ..,..
The wife of a wooden-legged man in West
Tennessee recently gave birth to wooden
legged baby. Fact, by golly!
The Sentor-tes of Nashville propose to start
paper at that place in short time. Go in
Lemons, if you do got squeezed.
Pimp Forney it beginning to excuse Gen.
Grant for appointing all his and his wife's re-
cations to Office tn.r
| A velocipede schooEis to be opened at Knox
vile under the auspices of Lieut.. Col. l.. Il.
Gamble.
The Lynchburg, Va, News begins to- hear
already complaints from the farmers THAT the
wheat is heading too low, and tile heads arc
entirely too short for good yield..
There are four hundred joint stock cempa.
ncs in process of liquidation in Londonalonc,
the loss involved in which amounts to ten mil
lions.
| President Grant is said to be much incenscd
at General Thomas for refusing to accept the
service of plate recently rendered him by
some admiring friends. ..a..
A young man named James johnson has
been lodged in Jail at Columbus, Miss, for
poisoning his wife, to whom he had been mar
ricd but two months. r.
| Secretary Borie, the smallest man In Grants
cabinet, is discharging working-men ana Ia
borers from the Navy Yard purely ON politi-
cal grounds.
For hollow horn, bore hole three inches
from the head clear through the horn, and pat
in vinegar, salt and pepper as hot as cav DO
borne with the hand. .E .gm,
Gaming the preachers Of tho Methodist
Episcopal Church, North, seems to- be favo~
rite pastime at Observation-Disclosures j. w +.
Mann and J. d. Ford being the last victims,
Nothing further from the Comet. '''..'