The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-10-08
Chips, nnd'Thinxs.

Somebody predicts that the death of Louis
Napoleon will occur in 1870.
Bishop Early, recently Frustrated by sick
ness, Is recovering.
All the negro troops in Pennsylvania have
been ordered to Galveston, Texas.
Peter Staub, of Knoxville, has been recog-
nized rs Swiss Consul for Tennessee.
Taxation of United States Bonds. or Rcpu-
dation, will be the rallying cry before long.
A man at Georgetown who used bluestone
as remedy for toothache is dying of lock jaw
President Grant proposes to visit the South
during the ensuing winter.
The United States Supreme Court convened
last Monday with a full bench.
Two Radicals were killed in political row
in Philadelphia on the LIST instant.
Atlanta shows the number of deaths there in
September at 66-whites, and SO blacks.
Some scorbutc cuss styles President Grant
"the father-in-law of his country"
One farmer in Minnesota harvested $4,000
bushels of wheat the past summer.
There is to be no more marriages of FIRST cou-
sins in New Hampshire after next Christmas.
A philosopher has discovered that men don't
object to be oyerrated, except by assessors.
Jos. NJ. Logan, Esq, died at his residence in
Knoxville, last saturday.
A young man in Grundy county, Illinois,
recently murdered his father to obtain $50.
The President has appointed Sam. Brown,
T., 4 g a., H., nv N.
Virginia has paid $3.50 900 tax on manufac-
tured tobacco between March and September.
George w. Curtis declines the Republican
nomination for Secretary of State of New York.
Old men are moved down, but babies era
died.
Massachusetts is SO bitterly opposed to
drunkenness, that any individual "intoxicat-
sd with delight" is in danger being arrested.
The most popular quotation about this time:
The melancholy days have come,
The saddcst Of the year,
The injunction against the municipal a,-
thOrities of Chattanooga has been dissolved
according to Houk.
Another political riot occurred in Philadel-
phia on the night of the I'd. Eleven persons
were badly injured.
Merchants and others who advertise liberal
ly seldom have occasion to complain of dull
times.
A desperate named C. w. Powell was shot
and killed in Bedford county. few days ago,
by Mr.. Dixie, whom he was trying to rob.
The potato crop in Kansas this year is re-
ported as being enormous-SOO bushels to the
acre in some places!
Chicago is preparing for the Humboldt GEN.
tennial celebration to take place the latter part
Of the next century.
Massachusetts, has 10000 more women than
men, and wants to know what she shall do
with them.
Scott county, in this State, has an average
crop of corn. IL very heavy mast, and an abun-
dance of hogs and cattle.
W. +. Robinson, a miner at lockwood, was
crushed to death by lump of coal falling
on him last week.
A negro FAMED Scott, who had attempted n
rape on aTlitn woman, was taken from the
Jail at, $ willie few nights ago and hung.
AZ paper at shelbyvile Tennessee,
has s in anticipation Of the repeal Of
the J ~ Tess law. V
Ayes SHAN named Dick Smith was shot
and killed Mt Gainesville, Georgia, last week,
by Green Spence, who Immediately fled.
A press club has been formed in Chicago for
the cheerful purpose of attending the funerals
| of its members, and other social intercourse.
A lady in Charleston gave birth to two ba.
bies within the last two weeks, the difference
between the two births being about - days.
Dayton, Ohio, last week had its first view of
simon pure Greciun bend. A woman there
visiting showed hers 10 them.
An Iowa editor evil not support for Rep.
resentative man who is u whisky barrel in
the morning and barrel of whisky at night"
Ambrose Hodges, of Pine Bluff, Ark, has
realized $1,000 from the proceeds of six acres
of broom-corn this season.
a tcrrapin was found lately near Wythc-
Vile, Va. with the name of Casper Yost aid
June -. 1921. marked on its shel-more than
forty-eight years since.
The Boston Post thinks that the lady in the
Woman's Right movement, who wears No. IA
shoes, should be selected to crush out all op.
position.
A steamer ran through the Sucz Canal, from
Port Said to Suez, on the Both September, in
fifteen hours. Calico was right" the world
goes round"
Eight editors in Iowa have been nominated
for the Legislature Others of the fraternity
are talked Of for similar positions. But why
should they be thus punished?
There is landed proprietor living about II
miles south Of Leavenworth, Kansas, who has
this year 1000 acres In corn and all under one
fence.
Last week the National Bank at Norwalk,
Conn.,, was robbed of a large amount of mo-
ney belonging to the institution and to depos-
itors.
Dora Benson, of Kansas City, poisoned her.
self on account of n lovers quarrel. Her ador-
ed came to "make it all up'' just as she was
breathing her last.
Gen. Spinner is said to he so profane that he
swpaIs at a mark IF thn mark he Svoars ot @