The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-07-02
Chips, and Things.

knoXVille is flooded with counterfeit postal
currency. But little genuine in circulation.
Nashville boasts of over ninety licensed
drinking saloons.
The old National 1nteligcncer, Washington,
has suspended.
Turner, the negro postmaster at Macon,
Georgia, has got his commission.
Hicks Block of Buildings Nashville, was
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.
Thomas jenkins, of Giles county, was killed
by lightning last week. In
Secretary Borie has resigned and is succeed
ed by George NJ. Robertson, of New Jersey.
Bad boys at Knoxville steal the Press and
Herald.
A Cuban expedition of 800 men sailed from
New York last week.
The Fourth of July comes on Monday the
9th this year.
The old negress who lived in the time of the
Revolution died again last week at Nashville.
The number of assistant assessors of inter-
nal revenue has been reduced 2,2l7.
Growing roses on apple trees is the latest
triumph of Illinois genius.
Sheridan, Kansas, is a village of fifty houses
of which forty three are whisky shops.
The New York Sun has nominated Schuyler
Colfax for President in 1872.
A fire in Philadelphia on the o5th, destroyed
10000 worth of property.
In swallowing jokc.look out for the points
as it goes down.
There are seventeen different newspapers
and periodicals edited and published in Nash
vile.
The Supreme Court, at Brownsville, has
sentenced two negroes convicted of MURDER
to be hung on the 10Th Of August.
The financial affairs of Nashville have pass
ed into the hands of a Receiver by order of
the Chanccry Court.
Sixty-one newspapers were started in the
United States during May. Too much of
good thing.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has decided
that women are not eligible to hold office in
the Custom House.
A foolish man named Campbell has an
nounced himself rs Democratic candidate to
the Legislature from Coffee county.
President Grant and family are going to
New England to remain during the heated
term.
The Pennsylvanians are mad because the
President took Borie's successor from the his.
toric Jerseys.
Kelley, who was shot by Callahan, at Rich
mond, Va, has since died and the murderer
is to be tried by IL military commission.
The people of Virginia propose to elect
Walker the conservative Republican,, by 20,-
600 majority.
Two thousand seven hundred bushels of
wheat were sold in Nashville last Saturday
at one dollar round
The Radicals in Washington are in perfect
ectaces over the admission Of colored men to
the jury box.
A merchant at Bristol-on-t hc-Line adver-
tses for 10000 bushels of blackberries for
shipment to New York.
The Hon. John Trimble respectfully declines
to become candidate for the State Senate in
the Nashville District.
Zach Boyd, found guilty of murder at Nash
ville has been sentenced to the pentcntiary
for life.
The Indians of the Plains keep up their
Summer game of killing and scalping with
more than usual energy.
Gen. Jones, of Virginia, a gallant Confede-
rate soldier, has blossomed into successful
Washington correspondent.
1t is all very well to advise people to take
the bull by the horns, but what will the bull
aforesaid be about all the time?
There Is a German in New York who swal-
lows 80 glasses Of lager every "a hours-and
saysit makes him "feel goot and shleep sound"
Colonel John Q. jackson, late of the Confede-
rate army, announces himself a candidate for
Governor of Mississippi.
The celebrated Fanny Ellser has married
Don Ferdinand, eX-King of Portugal. Fan
ny is buXom old gal in her 59th year.
"Can't" is spoken ten times where Sean is
once. That is the proportion and the direc-
ton in which the world drifts.
Two boys, in the town of Salem, Conn.,, set
fire to the school house SO that they could go
to the circus.
A young lady was burnt to death at Will
mington, Delaware, last week, caused by the
explosion Of coal oil lamp.
The proposition to repeal the law exempt
ing negroes from taxation has been voted
down by the Connecticut Legislature.
Two negro members of the South Carolina
Legislature were recently tried for murder by
a jury of their peers, all black as the ace of
spades, and acquitted. ...
Either certain great German astronomer
is a ninny or the earth will soon have the SER
vices of another moon, considerably larger
than the old one.
A written placard, on the State House stair
way, at Hartford, Conn.,, informs the public
that the Committee on Constitutional Amend.
ments can be found 'on the third .hore."
A young Welchman, Tilted by the girl of his
choice, has sent into her a bill for damages in
which perhaps the most cruel item is, "To -
days lost in your company, "a Is 3d." ..I
Two rich men have lately died in Boston
and left no legacies to Harvard University
1t is supposed that Harvard will try to break
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