The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-01-15
Chips, and Things.

JOHH MluVf bOJts uteu ~ Htb HoSi0 IN Oui-
pepper county, Va, on the morning thesth.
. Last week, Mr.. James walker, q well-known
citizen, committed suicide, near Rogersyille
function, by blowing out his brains with
pistol. ''4A'E
"The machine called NAH isav very compile
eated and delicate one. and 10 table to setout
Of order" 80 say the patent medicine men.
The public debt statement for the past month
shows an Increase Of two millions only.
The aeorgiatis Of ali parties are protesting
against any more reconstruction by Congress.
All they want lie to be let alone.
Menard, the negro Congressman from Lou.
isiana, had to be dead-headed home from
Washington. The wool on his head will be
very white before he gets that seat.
The editor Of Vermont paper says he had
a present on Christmas morning, which "was
not piano, but It could YELL"
The "Blister' is the name agreed upon for
the paper soon to appear in London to advo-
cate woman suffrage.
A young woman in Mississippi has made
ten thousand dollars out of q Teller who had
promised, ana then wouldn't.
Rutter, the Memphis National Bank man,
says he has $4,000 school money which he Is
ready to pay over. 'af E An
Advertising for a wife is as absurd Ms get
ting measured for an umbrella. "Talk up"
to the dear creatures, if you'd marry them.
Capt. Thos. W. Burwell,a soldier Of 1s12-14,
died at Richmond, Virginia, on the sth instant.
aged 81 years.
Capt. whitfield, of the firm Of Moore Il
Whitfield, was shot and killed Mt Memphis
last week, by man named Doran.
The municipal board of Memphis is COM
posed of 10 Democrats and radicals.
Gen. Porter, who was sent to Arkansas to
examine into the condition, remained one day,
and returned knowing less about it than when
he started.
Bennett and Greeley are both advertised to
retire from the newspaper business.
Another great battle has been fought in
Afgkanistan. We don't know which side
whipped, nor don't care.
Flour sells in Nashville at from seven to
twelve dollars per barrel. r..
General Washington died at 10 o'clock Sat
urday night, December 31st, 1893.
The troubles on the Ogeechee which were
largely magnified by the newspapers, have
subsidized under the presence Of the military.
| Two cousins, named Cricket, were married,
last week in Jefferson county. We are oppos-
ed to such cricket matches.
A perpetual Trust Company" has been in
corporated IN Massachusetts,. How much it
costs to be perpetually trusted isn't stated.
A bachelor friend says he dislikes young
married couples, "because they are SO apt to
give themselves helrs.''
A man writing an anonymous note is like n
puppy inside of an enclosure, barking at you
with his nose under the gate.'' g.
"Not guilty"-said an Omaha jury; "but
| If the prisoner is smart he will leave the Ter
ritory before night" He left.
The death Of General Rousseau leaves two
vacant brigadcrships in the regular army.
The New York Herald calls on General
Grant to go to work and reconstruct Mexico.
Charity admonishcs to begin at home.
Henry Sanford, President of the New Haven
National Bank, died on the 9th, aged SO years.
The Inhabitants Of the chief city of Nebras-
ka delight to call themselves Omahogs.
Negro men are hiring around Columbus, Ca,
4 for from S65 to 800 year; women $40 to 500.
Here good many don't hire at all-they just
loaf round. r,4IyfI
Fifty persons were injured, besides the eight
| l. -. 81 &c Aonr ~ ha or
school room the other day.
The average salaries Of the New Haven cler-
gymen are thus given: Congregational, $3,2SS;
Methodist 81 800, with parsonage; Episcopal,
So 900; Roman Catholic, $500, with parsonage.
"Wine is mocker," we are told. No doubt
it is in most cases, if the drinker thinks he is
consuming the juice of the grape. s.
New Orleans is employing 1900 men in re-
pairing the grand levee, and is patching up the
other levees at the same time. .,..
There are two periods in the life Of Man, at
which he is too wise to tell Woman the exact
Hunnicuss the busted radical Of Richmond,
proposes to revive his paper, and threatens to
give carpet.baggers fits. t..G
Virginia is promptly paying the interest on
her State debt. ""
Gen. Grant is reported to be At years of age
and the smiling Colfax only As. President
johnson is 81, and old man Seward 6S.
During 1868, charitable persons in London
contributed sS5, 100000 Ia gold for the benefit
of the poor Of that city. .}f
The new Mayor of Philadelphia has appoint
ed policeman six feet seven and half inches
J high.
Sheridan's mode Of extinguishing the Indiar
war-killing the women and little children.
The New York Sun calls our Governor thu
"illustrious Brownlow." Malicious. -,
Goldsborough, Maine, containing eighteen
} hundred inhabitants, has no house Of public
worship. ttt+. ...,o~,,t.tg
The average price Of gold in 1868 was 1904
In 1857 1t was 1882. 'f
t The Petersburg Index says that the worlt
is to be saved by the "foolishness Of preach
ing" and not by the preaching Of foolishness
Mexico is still In bad way financially
n She is unable to pay her debts, and also una