The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-07-30
Chips, md Things.

The yellow fever Is prevailing to some ex-
tent at Pensacola.
Mean--the fellow who stole copy of Brick
Pomeroy's Democrat.
Chicago numbers population Of $4,000
the sameas New York in 1880.
Russia, with its immense millions of popu-
lation, has 800 printing offices.
NJ. NJ. Burns has been elected President of
the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad
Father Bunllum of Tennessee preached in
Atlanta last Sunday.
The injunction against the Nashville mu-
nicipal officers has been sustained.
There will be four coored members of the
Virginia Senate, and fourteen of the House.
Kerosene oil is said to be an effective anti
dote to the poison of the bee sting.
Thirty-eight millions of bushels of grain
have gone out from New Orleans this spring.
Suicides and fatal accidents are unusually
frequent for this time of the year.
A Pennsylvania infant blew her cheeks out
while trying to eat torpedo.
The Rev. II. II. Rivers is engaged in writing
the life Of the late Gen. VIM. r. Haskell
Civil war is raging in Spain-an6 Egypt is
| armng against the Commander Of the Faithful.
1t is said that under the new system of ex-
tracing alcohol from garhage,a palatablc ar
ticle' of beer may be obtained from old boots.
The Alaska Times. printed at Sitka. boasts
of representing more territory than any other
paper in the world.
| VIM. Edmunds, colorcd, convicted of killing
another colored man, was executed at St.
Louis on the 23d.
Between sixteen and seventeen hundred
certificates have been issued in Knox county
under the new registration.
President Grant has gone to Long Branch
for relaxation. We have had already too
many "rclaXed" Presidents.
A careful parrnt of this place objects to
sending his daughters to n mixed school be-
cause he says it makes them boySterous.
There is a rupture between Turkey and
Egypt, the Sultan growing jealous of the pow
er Of the latter.
There is a large number Of dwellings for
rent in Washington City-and the number
will increase from this time forward
Secretary Fletcher says that not more than
one fourth of the candidates have filed the
oath required by the franchise law.
The Radical Mayor of Missouri City sold at
auction the other day negro who couldn't
pay a fine.
BY the way the Presidents principal bro
thcr-in-law turns the political grindstone, he
earns the title of an aXcv-Dcnt.
New Hampshire has 5000 pupils in its pub
lie schools, and employs nearly three thousand
teachers.
Martial law has been declared in Madrid.
We are threatened by Stokes with the same
thing in Tennessee.
The work on the Tennessee and Pacific
Railroad is rapidly progressing The work
men are paid $50 cents per day.
The Wcsleyans of England increase slowly
having added but $3.50 to their membership
the past year, giving them total Of 3ij,jG2.
| The collection of bones on the battic-telds
of Virginia, 20 be used as fertilizers, is now
prosecuted us Il regular business
A fire in Nashville, on Friday night. result
lars worth of property.
| The irrcprcssiblc Bokum when last heard
! from was at Cincinnati going it alone on the
Chattanooga Railroad.
An infant near Atlanta swallowed several
percussion caps the other day and came very
near going off.
Postmaster General Cresswell after writing
that letter endorsing Stokes, fell from a chair
and broke his arm.
Severe earthquake at Memphis on the morn
| ing Of the 25th. Several large mcteors fell
during the night.
An unknown man was run over and killed
on the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad,
near New Market, few days ago.
| 1t is rumored treaty is concluded between
France, Austria and Italy, whereby Italy. in
case of war, is to support France with fifty
thousand troops and occupy Vetirbo.
An old man named Wilson, II years of age.
murdered his wife, at Chicago, Il few days ago.
The murderer was formerly an officer in the
British army and served in the Crimean war.
! Chinamen are abused in San Francisco
! lOuHS rOuSns ana HullOWS-DlruS stone them
in the streets, and throw cayenne pepper in
their eyes.
Richard Grant White says that Miss Paul
line Markham, the actress, has found the lost
arms of the Venus of Milo, and that her
speech is "vocal velvet.' Struck.
| a devil fish has been caught ut New Orleans.
| His chief characteristics are length of twelve
and breadth of fourteen feet, and II mouth
two feet wide.
A Wisconsin woman, bitten in the ankle by
a ruttle-snuke while out berrying, saved her
| life by tightening her garter and making her
! little daughter suck the wound.
1t costs % cents a cuss to swear in Cincinna-
IT.. Old Ben Wade got mad last week at some
thing on the street and invested to the amount
of five dollars.
Carl Schurz wants to campaign it in Ohio for
the Radicals. We hope they will accept his
services. A few campaigners like Schurz
would ruin any cause.
a company has been organized in Provi-
dence, r. L., for the manufacture of fins, made
to resemble frogs feet, to be attached to the
feet and hands of human swimmers.
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