The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-07-16
Chips, and Things.

buster Henry has been appointed Registrar
for Blount county.
The Philosophers stone: Pay as you go, and
be paid as you so.
One Morris, colored, has been elected to
Congress from Virginia.
Ed r. NIulloy has been appointed Registrar
for Davidson county, uice Sheridan resigned.
Andrew McClain has been commissioned as
Il Judge of the Supreme Court.
The Irish Church Bill has been defeated in
the British House of Lords.
Father Bokum is still travelling in the cause
of Immigration.
Two dollars per day is offered in Louisiana
for hands in suger-making.
Jas. w. Harris has been nominated to the
Legislature from Benton and Humphreys.
The 4th of November next has been fixed
by the President for the Mississippi election.
There were t43 deaths in New York last
week-three of which were cholera
The Germans of Massachusetts, are organic
ing to secure n repeal OF the liquor law.
On last Sunday the thermometer marked 06
in the shade.
The negroes South are said to be excited on
the subject of Chinese emigration.
Doughty. who lives over on the Clinch, has
been speaking at Knoxville.
Tennessee Bonds are dull and panicky on
Wall street.
Laborcrs are wanted on the Pacific Railroad
near Nashville.
The Connecticut Senate have refused, by a
vote of II to !, to release Jeremiah Townsend,
the New Haven bank robber, from prison.
France is quietly going through Il civil revo-
luton. Louis Napoleon engineering the move
ment.
| There are said to be more than one hundred
colored persons now in Rome preparing fol
the Catholic priesthood.
| Paris has population of 100000, Of which
! 100000 are engaged in trade, and $4,000 are
military.
j. d. Curl has been nominated by the Sen.
terites of Granger county for the lower
branch of the next Legislature.
! A man named Walker is running for the
Legislature on the Stokes ticket in Hawkins
county.
| The total number of suicides in England
during the last five years are recorded al
G,G9G.
The Nashville negroes had convention las,
Saturday to nominate their candidates to the
Legislature.
The telegraph announces the important fact
that another mill has been agreed upon be-
tween McCool and Tom Allen.
| a man who won't pay for his newspaper
will deceive his wife, and we have our opin
| ion of 'all SIGH"
| Be not a>tonished when you see men of vir
| tue in disgrace, and dignitics worn by thost
who have no right to them.
| A home missionary was asked the cause O
his poverty. "Principally," he replied. "be
cause have preached so much without notes.
A ic--the statement that President Grant
Is under the influence Of Bill Stokes ant
itodcrck Random Butler.
The 10th was the day set apart by the Mil
lerites for the general winding up. The rea
der will have noticed that it didn't occur.
New Texas cotton in the seed, was sold il
Brownsville on the 18th ult., at four cents PEI
pound in specie.
Under the reconstruction acts Governor
| Walker Of Virginia cannot be inauguratet
until after the State Constitution has been nc
cepted by Congress.
The lives Of all the members of the Chicag,
Fire Department have been insured for 81 900
by subscriptions by the business men of tina
city.
/ Chinese emigrants smuggle opium into SAL
| Francisco in the soles of their shoes, the top
of their bamboo hats and the handles Of thei
umbrellas.
Five years imprisonment is the sentence o
an Illinois william who robbed Il house, thel
fired it, and burned widow and her daughte
in their beds.
Many cattle in Iowa have been killed b,
eating too freely Of clover, which has becom
poisonous by growing too rank since the re
cent heavy rains.
Sam. Ilildchrand, the notorious Missouri
desperate, has died of his wounds receive,
while making his last escape. His pursuers
thus lose the reward.
| Election.
Having been commissioned and qualified a
Commissioner of Registration of McMinl
county, Tennessee, hereby appoint the fol