The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-02-19

| lHc NlOltnL lenisi tuphcl is AuNuhcihS rap
idly. a few more months and the railway
lines of France and Italy will unite beneath a
mountain $500 feet high.
| A man in Worcester county, Mass, is ma
king velocipede with three wheels eight feet
high, which is designed to make thirty miles
| ~ Corn, as food. tends to fatness; or, IL made
into whisky. to fuilincss. 1t is commonly
much betterin the stomach than in the head.
The Albany Courts have decided that let
ter carrier is not u mail carrier. and can there
! fore be knocked down without constructing
the mail" r .a #
The exhibitor and agent of q patent non-eX-
plosivc gas generator, at Toledo, was blown
W. by his own machine in the presence of u
large audience, the other day.
! A correspondent wants to know II railroad
director was ever known to have been hurtby
Il railroad smash up.
Twelve years ago Newburgh brewer COM
menced business with peck of malt To-day
he is worth sa6OOOo.
! An amiable husband named Mitchell, is un-
attempt to murder his wife by throwing bot
tie of kerosene oil into the fire, burning her
in Il shocking manner. .''
| a new Radical dodge in Kentucky is the
organization of a"Soldier's Republican Asso-
ciation.'
|, The Steamer Ncttie Stevens was burned on
Caddo Lake, Red River, on the 18th. Sixty
| liyes1ost.
Bro. Pcarne reads Judge Swami, of the
cambridge Circuit, out of the Radical party
You are going little too fast, old gentleman.
The electoral vote as counted in Congress
stands: PA for Grant and Colfax, and go for
Seymour and Blair. ..,U
Snow in the mountains of California on the
18th from II to 10 feet deep. ,. o.,,..t
1t is said Gen. Longstreet wants to be Col
lcctor Of Customs, at New Orleans. And hence
the milk in the. cocoanut and the hair OH
the anmulc.
Old Ben Wade goes out on the 4th of March.
His incapacity and want of tact when the
electoral vote was counted shows he ought
never.to have been in. u
| Cleveland. below the Hiwassee, has been
favored with a real Indian Dance and Ball
Play. Our friend, Bob, was there to sec.
Whaen, who murdered Darcy McGhee,
was hung ut Getaway, Canada, on the 11th
The Tennessee State Treasury being full to
overlooking, it is proposed in the Legislature
to give Railroad Receivers $4,000 per annum.
The days come and pass, and life is soon
ended Is it worth while, then, to hate or be
at enmity with each other? " .,r...
Greece is organizing corps of $4,000 gucr-
rillas- thirty battalions of 800 men cach-to
protect the Notifications OH her northern from
tier. ~.
1t has been demonstrated out West. that wo-
men can ride the bicycle velocipedes by wear
ing bilegular garments. What in thunder is
them? JILL. ,.q.r.i,.- .t
Welearn from the East Tennesseean that
"the State has at length risen in its majesty
and raised its powerful arm" Stand from
under. '...r "a
Kingston, Tennessee, is to have United
States Bonded Warehouse. There are already
several applicants for the position Of gauger
and sampler, - ,.:..g'p pt,. ..I.f,. r
The most valuable block of buildings in
Franklin, in this State, was destroyed by fire
on the morning of the 18th. Incendiary.
The newspapers of the rural districts all say
the wheat crop of the ensuing summer will be
the heaviest even garnered. Let's wait a bit
and see.
France is still preparing for war on a large
scale. Prussia alsois said to be ready and not
at all indisposed.
A daily line of steamers is plying between
Nashville and Cairo. tr
The River Improvement Convention will
meet at Chattanooga on the cath instant.
A New Orleans lawyer has married pretty
girl whom he took from begging on the streets.
tcnyears ago, educated and fell in love with.
A man recently travelled from Maine to Vir-
ginia to shoot the seducer of his wife, but be.
Ing poor shot the destroyer of his peace still
lives. o4 .
A New Albany paper says that "the divorce
mills in Indiana are running on full tnle and
doing Il splendid business"
The telegraph at Washington announces to
the country that Gen. Grant attended the thea
ter on the night of the 18th. Flunky.
VIM. A. Robinson has been arrested for the
murder of Murray Mcconnell, at Jacksonville.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a reso
luton to elect members to Congress on the
first Monday in April.
A printer named John W. Brown, was dam
gerously stabbed at Memphis on the 18th
Weichman, who swore away Mrs. Surratts
life, iseditihg aRadical paperin philadelphia.
The Governor of South Carolina has vetoed
the bill lending the name and credit of the
State to the Greeneyille and Colpmba Rail.
road Company.
The Grecian Bend has reached California,
where ii Is called the"Paciic Slope" ~
The weather is growing Marchy. y,
For further particulars see special dispatches
from Flat Rock and Hawkersville, iY q