The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-05-14
4 Chips. and Things.

f'"S fph ouiehuheuI ny strict party Vote.s
Rebels are permitted to sit as jurymen ii
Judge Houk's Circuit. '''''"
Fik cttvassei IL reported below Ncw Orleans
which threatens great damage.
Generat Terrell, of Indiana, has been ap
pointed Third Assistant Postmaster General
Hon. Thos. A. r. Nelson Is the East Tcnnes
see candidate for Supreme Judge.
The last spike in the Pacific Railroad wa,
driven at half past 2 O'Clock OIL Monday.
The election in Virginia is to occur on tn,
first Tuesday in July.
Upper East Tennessee is reported to be al
most unanimous for Stokes. -s.....
James Birchett was killed BY his son -in-law
Capt, Chandler, in McNairy county last week
John Hodges was killed ut Jackson, in thi,
State, last week by young man named Pryor
Some sixty thousand dollars have been ex
haustcd in paying off the disbandcd militia.
The Maxwell House, Nashville, is not YET
occupied rs hotel. ..ll., w.
Ireland is threatened with another revolu
| tonary movement.
1t is again reported that Enos Hopkins has
been appointed postmaster at Nashville.
The President has been induced not to send
Gen. Sicklcs to Spain.
Two houses in the Yankee notion trade fail
cd in New York on the 10th.
The public debt has increased forty millions
of dollars in the last eighteen months.
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The Reaction in Germany has commenced
and Bismarck is said to be losing ground.
There has been heavy panic in the London
money market.
The President has appointed Bill Lassiter
pension agent Mt Raleigh, North Carolina
1t amt sour Bill" ....
Mr.. Grips can't exactly keep hotel, but
he can keep almost anything else that falls in
his way; and he generally does it.
a French doctor has succeeded in making
a dog whg his tail after death by injecting
fresh blood into the creatures veins.
A movement is organizing in Texas to ship
to the North large number of negroes who
desire change of climate and labor.
A plantation in Twiggs county, Georgia,
containing 1,i00 acres was sold to Il Philadel-
phian recently for $500.
Blaciberrics are beginning to be plentiful
i'll the Mobile market, and are selling ut ten
cents per quart. rt.
The Nashville Press and Times is "going,
for the parties. who stole the school fund.-
We hope it will just keep going.
N Ill, l., h,,,
bic az the school fund robbers. cleaned out the
neighborng town of Edgeield few nights ago.
We are authorized to say that DR.. Leather.
man, of Memphis, is not u candidate for Gov.
When the plague attacks cattle in Maryland
the whole herd is Immediately scnt to Wash.
ington for beef. ..- r. ...... ..
There are one hundred eases of divorce
pending in the Supreme Judicial Court for
MiddleseX county, Massachusetts.
Ten thousand people took part in the decora-
ton of the Confederate graves at Memphis on
Saturday last.
The negroes Of lIayti are highly indignant
at President Grant for having appointed a
black man minister to that country.
Eleven persons were drowned near the Ar
kansas shore, opposite Memphis, OH the 9Th,
among them Drs. Carey and Miller, Dentists.
The Radicals Of Wilson county have de.
elared for Senter for Governor. The combat
deepens.
Richard Mosby, one of the oldest Odd Fell
lows in the United States, died at Baltimore q
few days ago.
"A company is about to be formed in Belgium
for the purpose of constructing railways and
telegraph lines in China.
The Nashville Press and Times-radical--
says the Pennsylvania Legislature--radical-
"is conclave of unmitigatcd scoundrels."
A street-car driver in st. Louis attempted
to quit the business by taking large dose of
laudanum a few days since.
The Secretary of the United States Trcasu-
ry proposes to purchase $40 bonds to the
amount of n million dollars cash.
Judging the coming season by the past, the
cotton crop of Mississippi will be worth near
ly forty millions of dollars.
Mr.. Creswcll is getting his ",lgly mug'' en-
grayed as an ornament for the drafts and war.
rants issued by the Postoflice Department.
A blind beggar of New Orleans lately be.
came security for friend and swore to the
possession of $4,000 worth of property.
\ Boston undertaken, who was himself re-
Gently taken under, buried 1850 dead folks,
whose friends paid him for his services, and
nearly as many pauper corpses. r.. ..,
Sleighing in Bethel, Maine, on Saturday last
was lively. The people there have had five
months and sixteen days sleighing, and the
winter is not over yet. ...
Fourteen railway locomotives have explod-
ed within the past seven months in the United
States, killing 90 persons and wounding q
much larger number.
The first telegraphic dispatch from White
Pine to San Francisco. dated April II, was as
follows: "The jewellers amid the clouds greet
the dwellers by the sea. Allwell."
A young lady in Kansas, who offered to
voteyat a recent election, has sued the Judges
for ten thousand dollars damages for having
refused to admit her ballot. .........,,
1t has been legally decided that in Cncin-
natl it Is impossible to steal a wife or an UNI
brella and that possession is in both cases