The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-05-21
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There are % stores In McMinn county. Ten
-nesstc, dealing more or less in dry goods.
d The triple alliance sensation l@s exploded
as without formation. ~ ~ ,n'l'i,' Ef.P
Polk county. Minis State, Is to hayea New
Court.house. ~ si' ?" Gq'. ~, 'h,i'a'i
| Itj, now positively settled that the Virginia
elections shall occur on the 9th Of July. .rfb
A political victim of Ex. Governor Fletcher,
of Missouri, has sued him for $4,000 damages.
A French man-of.war visited the port Of
New York last week g&t, fssf 'S'f.h
Serious disturbances are occurring in diff
fercnt portions q Spain. Z 9G % 1
Land that sold in Virginia four, years ago
for six dollars All acrc(wiai now bring thirty.
There are million Daptists in Great Britain
and Ireland. q T. 81 n" l-- al q y
A Mrs. Mcconnell died at Shclbyvillc. In
this State on the 9th Of Starvation.
There is said to be ly--.not In the LOCKOUT
in the wheat in some portions Of the State.
Bank of Tennessee notes. old issue, are
quoted Mt Nashville at 80 cents.
When Gen. Grant said "let, us have peace
he only Intended to make u remark. o. % .rr.t
1t is again positively asserted that Euos is
postmaster ut Nashville. : t"a'
IS. Burk. Cashier Of the Southern Ex-
press Company, Knoxville. died on Friday
last.
A fire occurred at Dayton. Ohio. on the
morning of the 18th. which destroyed proper
ty to the amount Of S600.O00. .... --y..
Rufus J. Lord, the victim of the celebrated
Lord Bank robbery, died in New York OIL
the 18th. ',f .'
The recent overflow of the Alabama river
| destroyed thousands Of acres of cotton and
corn. .. .r., r... ltf H.t. a.. ...
Austria has 100000 acres of virgin forests,
produced by planting, which are estimated to
be worth several hundred millions of forms.
President Grant proposes to give both New
York and MASSACHUSETTS, u full complement of
negro office-holdcrs.s q Z, SN IS 49,
The radicals of Maury county assembled in
CONVENTION last week and resolved that Sam
Arncl didn't steal any of the school fund.
III INC iasl SiN Hhonths, SIN l.cSnorn pullctS,
in North Bridgewater, laid five hundred and
forty rggs-a very liberal shelling out.
Attic first opening of the County Court at
White Pine. one hundred and fifty lawyer,
were OH hand. ".- e". 81
The County National Bank in Clcarfeld.
Pa. was entered by burglars ON "Wednesday
night aud robbed of $4,000. a..a..-
John Brownlow is lccturing the negroes of
Middle. Tennessee upon their duty in the jul
dicial election.
An Australian gold hunter recently un-
carthcd II nugget whlch weighed 30 pounds,
and yielded o..GS ounces Of the pure metal.
| Comptroller Blackburn Is nudging tho tax
collectors to fork over. lie says the State is
approaching a crisis. III .-
The spanish authorities think they will be
| ablc to suppress the Cuban instruction by
| the close of the present year.
Capt. r. II. Fletcher was waylaid and MUIR
dcrcd near Daw son. Georgia, last week, by Il
man named John Ice.
| The receipts Of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad amount to the handsome sum of
s2l3000 per month. -
Ore paying $4,000 Il ton has been struck at Il
depth Of 100 feet in the Ebcrhardt mine at
| White Pine. .''..HI
The savannah Republican says that Sims
has no qualifications for the office of Postmas-
ter, except that heis anegro. ,,t.l....-t5
An English clergyman identified his bible
in court from the marks Of its having been
used as a raAor-strop.' ~ III . Ey,M
4 soldier with bullet in his brcast--not
bac%l-rcceivcd ut Bull Run. has been remov-
ed from an Indiana post Office, to make place
for rich Radical. =
About eight or ten days before the time of
farrowing. give your SOW slice of salt pork
each day, and she will not trouble you by
eating her pigs. a"i "nr>
The standing army Of Tennessee has been
reduced to 4I6 men. the rest having been
mustered out, together with Gen. Cooper and
staff. ....-
Bill Baker. who edits a little radical paper
ut McNtnnvillc. announces himself as n can.
didate for the State, Senate, from Warren
county. ...i.... .t....,.... .p.-}
Very large quantities of black walnut lunl-
Der are being shipped from Tennessee to New
York. The logs are merely squared and other.
wise shipped whole. ......'
The excitement In England over Senator
Summers gasconade is subsiding. twill take
several such blow-hards to get the two colln.
tries into war.
The only colored man appointed to Federal
office in Tennessee Is Thos. j. White, to be
Mail-route Agent from Nashville to Decatur
Alabama. ID
Thirty-scven thousand dollars worth OF
Kansas Pacific Railroad lands were sold by
the National Land Company in the month Of
April. The lands were sold to actual settlers
The amount of business done at the st. Lou.
is postotfce during Aprit including money or.
dcrs issued and paid, remittances from other
offices, and stamps sold. was over Sao0, 900
Senatorial Convention.
The Radicals Of the seventh Senatorial Dis.
trict propose to meet in convention ut til,
Court house in Athens, on Saturday, the 1911,
Of June, for the purpose Of nominating Sen.
ator; also, u candidate for Joint Representa-.
| tiya for fho ar of ho .ni,uti a.