The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-09-17
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The Imperialist-newspaper--isd dead.

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Ifyou want good bargains call on those who
advertise.
A son Of w. j. Outlaw was killed BY the
falling of barn at McMnnville last week.
The fund for the benefit of Mrs. Rawlins
has reached sal 900.
We have had considerable Gather in this
vicinity for the past few days.
Gov. Clayton, of Arkansas, is a candidate
for the succession to Senator McDonald's seat.
Congestive fever is very fatal in parts of
Yallobusha county, Miss.
Asphaltum pavements are to be introduced
in Augusta, Ga, as an experiment.
The Pententiary at Nashville il to be en-.
larged
Since the Bald Eagle withdrew his forces
from Washington, all is quiet along the line.
Motto for rejected suitor-He wooed, and
she wouldn't. He cooed, and she couldn't.
Louis Napoleon has recovered his health 20
as to be about again.
Gen. b. +. Butler it is now said will not be
candidate for the United States Senate.
stoned Secretary of War pro tenn.
Four hundred Mormon emigrants arrived at
New York from Europe last week.
The whole Republican ticket is elected in
New Mexico.
The Cubans achieved considerable victory
over large force Of the Spanish troops OH the
10th ult.
The Dixie Farmer, good authority, urges
the farmers not te sell their wheat 1T the pre-
sent ruling figures.
1t is proposed to establish Stock Exchange
at the Arcade, in front of the new theater in
Atlanta, GA.
Emigration to Arkansas along the line of
the Fort Smith and Little Rock railroad is
setting in from Missouri.
The headquarters of the Department of
Missouri will be removed from Leavenworth
to st. Louis about the LIST proximo.
The reported discovery of silver mine in
Searcy county, Ark, has caused great excite
ment among the citizens.
The Memphis city government is put to "its
trumps" to raise money to pay the current en-
penses of last month.
A rheumatic San Franciscan bathed his
aching joints in coal oil and then tried to light
his pipe. friend put him out with a carpet.
BY the time the work is done there will be
buried in the various Government cemeteries
not less than $50, 900 Union soldiers.
The paying teller of the Ninth National
Bank, Boston. has gone glimmering with $780,
600 belonging to the concern.
G. II. Stewart. of Philadelphia, Treasurer
of the Avondale relief fund, has received over
$4,000.
Governor Senter having withdrawn the State
printing from the Memphis Evening Post. that
paper suspended publication OH the 18th.
A locomotive exploded on the Erie Railroad
last week. killing the engineer, fireman, break
man and flagman.
The unrcconstructed Mississippi papers
have invented new political term. They call
their Radical opponents "nitro-g lycerines."
In Detroit they are trying to revive the old
Continental fashions. Old men there are
dressing like Washington in his pictures.
Gen. Rawlins was native of Galena, Hill
nois, and at the time of his death was forty
years of age.
"The most reliable estimates of the yield of
cotton for 69-70 place it at $500 900 to 275O,.
900 bales.'
Value the friendship of him who stands by
you in the storm; swarms of insects will sur
round you in sunshine.
James Sparkman, member of the Legisla-
ture of 81, was killed in broil at still house
in Van Buren, county on the 7th
Thomas Sinclair, colored, is the candidate
of the Republican party in Mississippi for
Secretary of State.
Somebody who knows says the last style of
inviting friends to take Il drink is, "Let's irri-
gate"
The Nevada Supreme Court has decided
that the telegraph is branch of commerce,
and subject to laws regulating Interstate
commerce.
a hen in West Winsted, Conn.,, has been
sitting for several weeks on seven potatoes,
which have sprouted and grown above her
head.
The mare Flora Temple, formerly queen of
tHe tuTl, Is stlll male ana hearty, notWith-
standing she has reached the advanced age of
thirty-three years.
The Vermont election signifies nothing; but
the October result in Ohio will 90 far to shane
the Democratic Presidential programme for
1872
A raiser of poultry in Louisiana has dug a
well at the entrance of his hen-house, and
placed fitting cover on it. His catch ave-
RACES one negro night.
1t is said that about the 1st of October Sena-
tor Sprague will commence work on the CO.
lumbia Is. CO. canal, and proceed to erect
cotton factory.
A company for the manufacture of wooden
goods for mems wear adapted to the Southern
trade is now in successful operation near Ma
rietta, Ga.
Mr.. Noble, of Savannah, Ca, has con- |
structed steam engine entirely of glass,
which works with all the precision of q me-
tallic machine.
F. Burke, a planter living near Napoleon,
Arkansas, was shot and instantly killed n few
nights since while sitting with his family
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