The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-08-06
Chips. and Things.

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Some enthusiastic Rad prints Col. Stokes as
"both a gentleman and Statesman"
A horse thief was shot and killed in Blount
county, last week, while resisting an arrest.
A Chinese giant eight feet six inches high
has arrived In New York.
A tombstone in Dixon, Illinois, bears the
simple cpitaph, "gone up.'
The State Journal says the "Hon. ANDY
Knott has gone back to Stokes. Not so.
Recruiting for the Carist faction in Spain
has commenced in New York.
The entire village of Moore's Flat, Califor.
mia, has been destroyed by fire.
Col. Hoo-ray addressed the friends of Stokes
at Chattanooga Wednesday night.
The drinking saloons and retail shops at
Nashville were all closed on election day
Gen. Grant is a subscriber to and regular
reader of the Imperialist.
Chinese workmen are flocking into Omaha
to take the place of white luborers.
A proposition is out for meeting of Fede-
raj and Confederate soldiers at Gettysburg.
Seven million dollars of the public debt was
paid during the month of July.
General Longstreet Is appointing negroes to
office at New Orleans.
Adam Lee, of Illinois. who drew the Crosby
Opera House. in the Chicago lottery, fs dcau.
The report about yellow fever ut Pensacola
is contradicted.
The ties that connect business men with the
public--Adver-tise.
1t has been satisfactorily settled that the man
with the largest head wears the largest hat.
Why are elections like tents? Because the
canvass ends at the polls.
The last Cabinet meeting about which there
has been so much speculation. was in reference
to the death of Gen. Grants "Favorite Mare"
A monster snake. twenty feet long, has
made its appearance in Galloway county, Mo.
4 snake hunt was being organized.
In Brownstown family recently caught
the small pox from some old bedding which
had been infected for seventeen years.
Handkerchefs are now made in New Or
leans from the ramie plant. The texture is
finer than silk.
~ utllCu'c ltpl VI Viz i'sto III tho I'Ni
Francisco Industrial School consists in giving
them nothing to eat for three days.
A nurse in rockingham, England tired of
the baby. threw it over precipice 100 feet
high. She had no further trouble with it.
The everlasting sea sarpient has again made
his appcarancc--this time along the Jersey
coast.
| Franklin, North Carolina. is soon to have n
newspaper-to be presided over by gentle
man of ability" Happy Franklin.
| A corner lot in Cincinnati which was sold
in l19S for So, was lately sold at auction for
the sum of Sl20,5Oo.
After several million harmless encounters
one German student has been killed in Il duel
near Leipsic.
The Canadians are afraid of another Fcnian
raid. One had better be dead than scared to
death all the time.
| Tray. Winham. Capt. Grisham and Steve
| Bowel. have adopted resolutions declaring
Sentcr's registration illegal.
/ Two convicts in the Sing Sing prison fought
n duel with knives last week. Both wounded.
but not dangerously.
Thousands are every day deserving Sen
ter" says the Tennessee State Journal Bad
| that for Senter.
Daniel White was stabbed and MORALLY
wounded in fight at Kingston last week, by
Il maj named Taylor Bowling. Whisky.
Father Bokum when last heard from was on
Lookout Mountain, prospecting in behalf Of
immigration.
There is no secure, durable government. but
that which is founded on the free consent of
the people.
| Brick Pomcroy says when you see a short,
fat, girl, it is sign she has not been properly
Rugged
The official vote of Virginia was: Walker,
1855; Wells, 1Ol,2O4. Walkers majority,
1881.
Notwithstanding the great losses by the late
| flood, so abundant are the crops of Western
Texas that the product of corn and cotton
will still be large.
"Them soldiers must be an awful dishonest
set" said an old lady, "for not night seems
to pass that some sentry is not relieved of his
watch.'
An unfortunate man named Coleman fell
from his horse, in Knoxville last Friday and
injured himself so badly that he died in Il
short time.
Some bright youth has discovered that the
match between the Harvard and Oxford
crews, on the 3lst of August, will be one of
the last rows of summer.
! During the period between 1915 and 1868,
tifty-four years, six and half millions of peo-
pie left Great Britain to seek homes in other
climes.
A burglar robbed sleeping apartment in
Terre Hautc and left his false whiskers on the
face Of the lady occupant. She was some
what surprised in the morning.
A correspondent praising the hardihood of
some lady travellers in the Yo Semitic Valley,
says ''they burst their conventionalities."-
We hope he dscreatly looked the other way.
Newton Dennis was indscreet enough to
tamper with young lady of Virginia who
had two fierce brothers. Consequently New