The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-06-25
Chips, and Things.

Thos s. King has been appointed route agent
between Atlanta and Chattanooga. 3.
Asthe first Of July approaches Tennessee
Bonds tumble. i'H o.
PresidontGrant has swung round the circle
and returned to Washington. '
Emigrants to the number of 1911 passed
through Cleveland, Ohio. during May.
Chauncy Bailey is OH trial at Wheaton, ILL.,,
for the "taking off, of his wife's paramotlr.
A Chicago clergyman calls sin "moral nlea.
sizes"
Areward is offered by Western farmers for
a grasshopper trap.
Don't inyesttoo largely in the affairs of your
ncighbors. Six per cent will do.
Thcpost at Pulaski has been abolished and
the militia withdrawn.
They have an association of "Moral Pork.
men" at Cincinnati.
Broadway, New York, is the finest and
best looking street in the world. ...'
VIM. Rule local editor of the Knoxville
Wing, has retired, and will have no further
connection with that Journal %.
The Spiritualists of Indiana have been in
Convention at, the capital of that State for
some days past. 81 ~, . g.
The steamer Quaker City has sailed from
New York under British coors to join the
Cuban insurrectionists. a. l
Henry j. Raymond, the well known and
able editor of the New York Times, died in
that city of apopleXy, OH the 18th.
Jackson Templin, an old citizen of wash
ington county, committed suicide OH the 18TH,
by shooting himself through the head.
1t is said that Senator Chandler will 60 to
Greece, where he will doubtless become a tai
low chandler. Wicked Senator!
Three thousand ducls were fought in the
German universities last year, most of them
very harmless affairs. p, q. r.
The newly elected Clerk of Norwich is
named John L.Deyotion. He ought to be a
good man, to have such good name.
Besides the thirteen railroads now ccntcring
| In Chicago. seventeen others are building
which will have terminus in that city.
4 cook on an Ohio river steamboat kicked
Il refusal to eat his vianGs.
| Rotten Row, the Five Points of Memphis,
was burned by incendiaries last week, No
lives lost.
Tremendous gold fields exist in Northwes
tern Mexico They have just been discovered
by spectators. b.. ,t... .,...
The Chinese picture of ambition is fellow
trying to catch Il comet by putting salt Oh its
tail. r...
eve See" said Swift, in one of his most
sarcastic moods, "What God thinks of riches
by the people he gives them to.''
| Forney calls the negro riot in Washington
an unparalleled Republican victory" No.
body has been found to dispute it.
A white mocking bird-pcrfectly white,
with pink eyes-has been captured near Mil
lcdgevillc, Georgia.
The greatest libcrtine and prodigal of the
age is the Prince of Wales. the heir apparent
to the British throne.
Dogs are very destructive to the sheen in
Virginia, and it is estimated that one negro is
equal to three dogs.
| Uncle Sam is again running the powder
works near Augusta, Ga, for some unexplain
ed purpose. -,,-.f
Red, white and blue are a NICE combination.
but people often reluctantly have too much of
the latter in their composition.
A Missouri grasshopper attacked little
girl a few days since, and so nearly DESTROYED
her ear that surgeon had TO be called in.
A Kentucky paper thinks that the word
eroquet is too Frenchy, and proposes that the
game which it designates be hereafter called
Observation-Disclosures"
=, Reyolvers are more plentiful than pocket
handkerchiefs in Texas, and the blowing out
OF brains is more frequent than the blowing
of noses.
"A Michigan step-mothcr drowned the three
| children Of her husband after she had been
married SIX months, because she dsllked a
large family. on
|. Conrictsin the. Illinois Penitcntiary carry
knives, knock down the guards whenever they
need exercise, and now and then kill one
A sausage vendcr of New Orleans has pro-
cured the arrest of all the neighboring butch
ers, because they parked and mewed when
customers came to buy of him.
| Somebody suggests Boutwell,, the present
inefficient Secretary of the Treasury, for
President in 1872. No use. After Grant the
dcluge. IRA. .,.o
Crop reports from Arkansas, north Missis.
sfppi, and north Alabama are favorable, de.
spite the unpropitious weather for some weeks
| past. '
| -I'h ...l..aH r.r'. d. ...f...It.
Maynard seems to be loved equally with
Stokes and Senter. One furious editor styles
him "that snivclling, tallow-faced, long-noscd,
Observation-Disclosures of loyalty" =;
Mrs. Stanton advises that every pretty girl
should be taught to fire pistol, and allowed
to carry one for defence. Instead Of shooting
glances, to shoot men. 81 ~. .....I y ,...
A Richmond lady annoints herself with oil
every day, and finds it very economical, as
her only food for nine months has been two
| It's discovered that Abraham Lincoln was
ofGerman descent. The German paper WIZ ch
starts this story says that his grandfather
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