The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-05
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gaining ground all over the country.
Out AZ three hundred nominations to the
scnatd,by President johnson during the pre-
sent session, only eight have been confirmed
which argues tina. the Senate contains large
majority Of little minds.
The election occurs In New Hampshire in
March. John Dedoll isthe Ddnsocratic caiidi-
date for Governor, and onslow Hearns the
Radical candidate.
Tim Maloncy, of st. Louis, wants to get
divorced from his wife Margaret. Reason,
Mrs. NJ. Is rather hefty on the Grecian dodge
The peach trees are said to be badly injured
in several counties of Indiana.
There Is more timber in Southern Minncso-
tn than there was ten years ago. The prairie
fires are stopped by the roads and fields.
John NJ. Lane, Of Concord, n. H., has re-
ccived a verdict of s1,150 SO against Comfort
and Ichabod. his mother-in-law and brother
in-law, for enticng his wife away.
The Federal Agricultural Bureau shows
that Indiana produced last ycnr, 0O,s32,Oo
bushels of maize, or Indian corn.
Charlottesville, Ind, has ladies' reading
association, to which "no gentleman is admit
ted under any circumstances whatever"
A heavy quarrel Is up between two newspa-
per humbugs- Brick fomeroy and ALI Keirolf.
The contemplated Commercial Convention,
which was to be held at Knoxville on the 10th
inst, has been indefinitely postponed.
The Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad is
now open a distance Of forty-fve miles.
There are $1,000 voters in Louisiana who
can neither read nor write. Bully country
for carpet-baggers.
The book and job printers of New York are
on n protractcd "strikc." Meanwhile the
families of a good many of them are suffering.
The old Wings of Alabama, that opposed
secession. have resolved to join with and sus-
tain the Democratic party.
| Another lot of convicts were turned out of
the Tennessee Penitentiary a few days ago.
His Exccllcncy is running the clemency fea-
ture little too heavy.
Mr.. Dowdy, the Representative from Fem
trcss county is at present occupying his seat
in the Legislature. Radical papers who re-
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and Forward bills to this office.
The death-sentence has been passed uron
Twitchel, the murderer of his mother-in-law.
He stil insists that he Is innocent of the crime.
The editor of the New York Times wants
this country to 60 to war with Great Britain
about the Alabama claims. The game would
hardly he worth the candle.
Notwithstanding the hackneyed maxim that
burnt children dread the fire, Kerosene lamp
explosions are getting to be quite common
again.
AS in this country, the weather on the other
side Of the Atlantic, has been unusually mild
and pleasant for II month past.
A banking house at, Paoli, Kansas, was rob-
bed of sixteen thousand dollars last week.
The thieves got away with their booty.
The Washingtonians are up for an inaugu
ration ball, any -how--and Gen. Grant, who il
thought to be growing a little peculiar, car
attend or not-just as he pleases.
The New York Tribune thinks an indul
gcnce in the luxury of punching a Niger.
head" 1--WE quote its own language) should bt
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The dirty dog Fitzpatrick is soon to go bach
rs minister to Chill, which will not be a bat
thing for this country whether it may be Il
that.
Some cnterprising Yankee haa got up rink
in Alaska for the purpose of teaching the
young idea how to scoot.
A rejected lover in Ohio cut the throat of hi
cruel divinity the other day-and exclaimed
! ''nop kickw
| Major John D. Lockman. once one of Gen
Galveston, OIL Friday.
Canada offers one hundred acres to each i'm
migrant. and has sent agents to Europe.
The value of the boots and shoes manufac
tured in Massachusetts last year will reacl
S100,O00,OO0.
Commissioner of Agriculture says the ne
cessty for improved implements in Southern
farming Is imperative. 0 tV
II lady snap you up, don't return the com
pliment. Show that your skin is rs tough a
she thinks her tongue is sharp. You can stant
it if she can.
| MISS CoHuuCU iS tHc WoTSt lauy we kHoW.-
Next to heris Mrs. Fits. Both get themselve
and other people into endless trouble.
Russia has sixty-eight agricultural schools
One with 5000 acres attached.
A young man in Ellsworth, Ohio. recently
dug up an iron kettle containing $500 in silve
coin. M 3
Charles j. Dupont, the powder man, is dead
Three men entered gambling saloon il
New York on the 1st tied the attendant ant
stole $4,000.
Proposals for the graduation, masonry an,
bridging of the first division Of the Air Lin
Road, are published in the Atlanta Intelli
gencer.
forty-onc of the Ogecchce prisoners hav
been committed for trial ON the charge of in
surrection.
Our namesake at Athens, Ala, drops it
politics and puts on the garb of neutrality
Bad move. Tommy.
A bill passed the lower House Of the iii
nois Legislature, by vote Of IS to 0, cedini
Chicago to Indiana.
Judge Drummond, of the United States Dis
trict Court, sitting in Chicago, has decides