The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-09
Chips, and Things.

President Grant has nominated two negroes
for justices Of the peace at Washington.
Camp, who killed Ashby at Knoxville, fast
summer, has been appointed United States
District Attorney for East Tennessee.
The machine shop of the Memphis and
Ohio Railroad at Memphis, WAS burned OH
the morning Of the list. ......
Wells has been reinstated as Governor of
Virginia. r."
The nomination of Gen. Longstreet as Sur
veyor of the Customs at New Orleans, has
been confirmed.
Gen. Mower is in command at New orleans.
The District Of Louisiana has been discon-
tinued.
Several trains of United States troops, col
ored, have passed this point within the last
eight or ten days going to the Southwest.
An observing genius has discovered that
where there are no eats there is never any hy-
drophobia.
The Baltimore Radicals are qusrrcling
about the everlasting negro.
One hundred and three persons were killed
on the New Jersey railroads during the year
1868.
James Gordon bennett and Horace Greeley
are warmly contrasting the question of their
respective beauty.
The late Hon. Edward Bates was the father
of seventeen children by the wife who sur
wives him.
J. II. Bunce, Independent Democrat, has
been elected mayor of Louisville.
J. Winthrop Motley has been nominated as
Minister to England.
The order disseminating the Department of
the Cumberland has been revoked.
Governor scnter expresses an opinion that
the militia will soon be disbanded.
A locomotive exploded on the Nashville
road last Friday evening. killing one man and
dangerously injurins another.
The long projected road from Decatur to
Montgomery, Alabama, has been put out to
contract. ...l i.ssIl...a
The price of killing negro in Ballard coun-
ty, KY, is S45o-two men having been. each
fined that amount for the crime.
General Grant. Artemus Ward-like, is will
ling to sacrifice his and his wifc's relations
for the benefit of the country.
Somebody says widows are curious crea-
lures, of whom the more you study the less
you know. .s
The ghost of dead printer haunts news
paper Office in San Francisco. 1t is probably
after back pay. '..
Secretary Borie, who Is very rich, is reduc.
ing the wages Of all the employees in the
United States navy yards.
The number of voters in Montgomery coun.
ty, Tennessee. is estimated ut 3,100. or this
number 1853 are white and 1881 colored.
Senator Brownlow is said to he awfully
riled ut the confirmation Of Longstreet. Glad
of it. 1t will stir his blood and do him good
United States Consul at Havana that Amcri
can citizens must be protected.
The Supreme Court at Washington will ad
, journ on the 10Th. Nothing yet in regard t.
the Tennessee franchise case. -,s
General Longstreet is the cousin. thirty-twC
times removed, of Mrs. President Grant.
Ex.King Ferdinand of Portugal has beer
invited to the throne Of spain, and will proba
, bly, accept. .. .... .....r.t
+ The President has read and signed the ten
ure-of- Office act:
So fades a summer cloud away,
go sinks the gale when storms are Ger
So gently shuts the eve Of day.
G And dies the wave along the shore.
| Mr.. President, you are in the tolls.
Tbn inyncibln lySsos In ( rcf,,II u stru RI
his colors to the Senate. and is sending il
nominations with perfect rush. Some folk
may feel disappointed but we don't, you bet
The London Times is disposed to make
present of the two Canadas to the Unitet
States whenever the Kanucks show DISPOSE
y ton to be annexed.
Wilder, colored man, has been appointed
y postmaster at Columbia. South Carolina, Yer!
y much to the disgust of two or three carpet
bag applicants. --.,
Nearly the entire business portion Of Rod
ney, Mississippi, was destroyed by fire on tn
: night Of the 3lst Loss 100000. PARTIAL.
insured.
4 Mad dogs are getting terribly numerous il
: many portions Of the country, and death
c from hydrophobia are becoming UNUSUAL.
# frequent.
c As was predicted few weeks ago, Presi
: dent Grant has fallen into the hands of th
: politicians of the party, and they are running
: the machine pretty much in their own way.
1t has been well said that the best bank is
: bank of earth. 1t never refuses to discoun
to honest labor. And the best shares ar
i poughshares, on which dividends are Away
Il liberal.
= The word April means "to opcn''-th
month being that during which the cart
opens her bosom again, and invites the hus
bandman to cast in his seed.
A man In Launceston, England, recent
i lost his life by the sting Of bee on the jugu
i lar vein. Faintness came over him and h
q died within half an hour.
- A Connecticut hen laid an Easter egg tina
ought to be put upon record. 1t measure
So inches around lcngthwise and 81 inche
, = around the centre.
II New York is filled with Western men VIII
are making their Spring purchases. They sa
the prospect of q brisk trade in the West wa