The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-09-24

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ling of Frazier, has surrendered himself.
Foolish-to get drunk and complain next
day of the headache.
Another foolish thing-neglecting to adver-
tise, and wondering that you don't succeed in
business.
The body Of o. Hillman, of Tennessee. was
found in the river at Cairo, few days ago,
with his throat cut.
A report is current that Secretary Boutwell,
will recommend tax of one per cent per
pound on raw cotton.
The majority Of the Republican candidate
for Governor in Maine is 6,965-against 10000
last year.
The New York papers say Dry Goods have
fallen in price, and the fall trade is opening
lively.
Sixty-eight thousand children were present
on the first day of the opening of the public
schools in the city of New York.
At Gordonsvile, Florida, 100 pounds of Rose
potatoes have been raised from one pound of
seed, dug July I.
The Conservative majority in the General
Assembly of Virginia is seventy; II in the
Senate, and SO in the Lower House.
A general convention in regard to the re-
moval Of the national capitol is to be held at
st. Louis OH the Goth October.
Payment of all descriptions of claims, by
the General Government, has, for the present,
been stopped.
Harriet Beechcr Stowe is reported seriously
i'll. Her last Byron sensation has probably
killed her.
A farmer named Carpenter, living in Iowa,
committed suicide last week because the rain
had destroyed his oats crop.
Hon. o. H. Browning, of Illinois, who was
Johnson's Secretary of the Interior, has Joined
the Democratic party.
Some of the papers predict trouble between
the negroes and Chinese when the latter get
into the South in any considerable numbers.
Texas has so newspapers and sixty thou
sand registered white voters, or one paper to
every 100 men.
vile a factory for the making of all descrip-
tions of improved agricultural machinery.
A fire occurred at Toronto Canada, on the
18th, in which two children were burned to
death, and two fremen killed by the falling
of a chimney.
John Pope, a lineal descendant of Alexan-
der Pope, of Twickenham, who used to sing
songs and essays, is II candidate for Mayor
of Nashville.
The sensation papers have story that
Twitchel, the Philadelphia murderer. who
committed suicide to escape the gallows, is
alive and doing well.
notwithstanding the Avalanche. it is said
that everybody in Memphis except the deni-
zcns of that portion of it known as "Hell's
Half Acre." are for Andy johnson for Senator.
A fellow named E. McBarron Temoney, who
killed Radical member of the Georgia Legis-
lature. has been banished to some desoate spot
in Peru.
Somebody says, a bull in china shop would
be mild way Of putting it, compared with
Sickles as the representative of this country
to Spain.
Southern officers at Vicksburg in the war
bear testimony to the undertaking courtesy of
the late General Rawlins in his intercourse
with them.
Secretary Boutwell, has returned to the
Treasury Department after an absence of sew
en- weeks. President Grant is still sliding
round.
The new Legislature for West Virginia is to
be elected October 2Sth, and the leading issue
is the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the ex-Confede-
rate officers and soldiers.
'Do you ever take anything" asked Sharp
of Snozzles. "Never, sir, except Pm unwell,
and then my weakness is cognac. just now
Pm troubled with hollowness, and don't
care If / do"
The election in Texas will be extended over
four days. If the Radicals cannot work the
thing up to suit themselves in that time, there
will be no value in transporting negro voters
from one county into half a dozen others.
The editor of the Springfield, No., Leader
has been advertising for a boy for several
weeks, to learn the printing trade, and on
Thursday his wife filed the order for him,
which shows that advertising pays.
A Missouri girl lately shot at and missed
a young man who had inveighled her away
from her home, taken her to Omaha and then
deserted her. She had three more shots left,
but the young man capitulated, and compro-
missed the unpleasantness by cleaving to her
again.
row occurred at Morrisvillc, Fauquier
county, Va, few nights since, between some
of John Robinson's circus men and the citi-
zens of the place, which resulted in seve
raj citizens being badly beaten, and the Kill
ling of one of the showmen and the wounding
of several others.