The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-07-23
Chips, and Things.


Hugh Craig died in Bount county on the
10Th, aged o. years.
Doughty, who lives Oh Clinch, supports
Stokes this week. ..
At Washington on the 10th, the thermome.
ter indicated 1Ol degrees.
The Honorable Wisener is not candidate
for the Legislature.
Gen. Gordon Granger has been married to
Miss Letcher, of Kentucky.
The Cuban flag has five stripes, three white
and two blue, the colors alternating.
The region round the North Pole is to be
explored by a French baloonist.
A "smilc" that foretells sorrow-the one
you take In u bar-room.
The Little Rock Railroad Is finished to For
est City, beyond st. Francis River
When man does what he likes and gets
paid for it, he has found his vocation.
Cholera Is reported in New York-one or
two sporadic cases.
The Nashville Press and Times has COM
menced conjuring up fresh Ku Kux outragcs.
Voters are being made in the State now at
the rate of eleven thousand Il day.
A colorcd boy out in Maury county killed a
The trial of Turner, the negro postmaster
at Macon, is still progressing.
President Grant is to have q complimentary
ball given him at Long Branch.
Col Stokes still continues the canvt IS,
though he has abandoned all hopes of success.
The Mayor of Washington demands amaga-
nation in the City Schools. His name is
Bowen.
A le--the story Of the murder of four me-
grocs in Wilson county by the KuKluX. The
Stokesitcs must be getting hard up.
In 1867, California had 20,0O0.O0O grape
vines. and made 10000 gallons Of brandy
III 1868 -he made $4,000 gallons.
Smyrna, Delaware, this year, shipped $500
quarts of straw berries. One half acre raised
1000 quarts, netting Sijj.
The big Methodist camp meeting, at Round
Lake, New York, still continues. The grounds
cover forty acres.
The wealth of the city and county of New
York, in 1868, was S9OS, i36,32I; in 1869, S9Gi,-
Notwithstanding an increase of $55,66l,270.
Jo., son of Governor Holden. of North Caro-
lima, has been having another rough-and-tum-
bic fight in which he was awfully thrashed.
The Radical plan to protect the currency
against thieves is to make it not worth steal
ing.
Dry goods importations to New York the
first six months of 1869, were S92, 499, S42; in
1868, S7I,2j4, lS2.
John NJ. Fleming is running for the Lcgis.
lature in Knox county. He has no opposition
worth mentioning.
Ryan's camp of Cuban fillibusters OH Long
Island has been destroyed by the government
forces.
The Chinese Emigration Society have or.
ganizcd at Memphis, with capital stock Of
one million.
President Grant is at Long Branch practicing
with Il velocipede with view to competing
for the next prize.
Asa Packer, the Democratic nominee for
twenty millions.
Giles county has new Rcgstrar-Jas. II.
Dickcy, Esq. lie issues certificates to white,
rs well as black men.
probably an Alternative, for it alters dollars to
cents, virtue to crime, and men to brutes.
A "gay and festive youth" of the age of 102
years has been arrested in II hudson, New York
for drunkenness.
The great eclipse of the sun will occur OH
the 9TH of August. This is the one-thou.
sandth time we have announced it.
Indictments have been found against three
of the R,dical Aldermen Of Memphis, on q
charge of thieving and corruption.
The Chattanooga Republican has at last
discovered one man for Stokes. His name is
Pete Monger,
A severe storm at Cincinnati on the 18th
which did much damage. One person killed
by lightning.
If the Radical papers may be believed vo
tiers are now being made at the rate of $4,000
Il day.
Hon. ]. S. Golloday. a candidate for the
United States Senate in Kentucky, boldly ad
vocatcs reputation.
A little white girl, seven years of age, was
outraged bv three negro boys near Nashville
Il few days ago. No arrests.
Three murdercrs were rescued, by party
of masked men from the Jail at Athens, Ala
bama. n few nights ago.
There was Il heavy rain and thunder storm
in the vicinity of Nashville last Friday even.
ing.
Some Of the newspapers are doing their lev.
el best to write Doughty, who lives over Oh
the Clinch, into notice.
China and Japan have population of foui
hundred and fifty millions-an average o.
about $40 to the square mile.
The twelve hundred convicts in the Sing
Sing prison threaten to rebel. Call out the
melish.
The railways of France. which run at low
rates, under restricted tariffs, have, for the
last six years, averaged dividends of II pei
cent.
An uninjured whiskey bottle was the only
thing capable of Identification about poor
fellow who was run over on an Ohio railroad