The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-02
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The distinguished Mexican General Almon-
te, diedin Paris few days ago. s..ltyT'i
Geo. w. Stoddard, a newsman on tho New
Orleans Crescent, died last week.
There are, said to be twelve thousand Euro.
pean gipsies in the United States.
Ten female physicians were graduated in
New York last week. ", Nt''r'
Keith. who murdered Hall in Morgan coun-
ty, has surrendered and been admitted to bail.
There were four hundred and eighty-three
deaths in the city of New York last week.
A murderer named Andrew Price is to be
hung at Ironton, Ohio, to-day.
The Duke of Montponsicr is to be the new
King of Spain. t" Do
The new Spring bonnets are just about the
prettiest little affairs one can conceive of.
Thos.S. Woods, editor of the Ohio Patriot,
died at his home in Salem, OH the Goth ult.
A negro has been appointed State Auditor
in Louisiana.
The most vilainous and slanderous of news
paper humbugs, is Harper's Weekly.
A newspaper correspondent writing about
Brownlow says: His face is all rock, his
hands all crab.
An Illinois railway is getting freight cars
bbuilt on which is painted .'From Ocean to
Ocean-No Transfer"
| The Presbyterans and Methodists in this
country are each divided into ten different
organizations.
The ancient Episcopal Church in Hampton,
Virginia, 200 years old, is to be rebuilt.
| A heavy rain and wind storm occurred in
Wilson county last week, which done good
deal of damage.
| The untimbered surface of the plains be-
to !, 100000 square miles.
| A brute of writer speaks of an old maid
as "a stern and awful specimen of the female
sex in its fossil state!'
Late Washington advices represent mu-
tinous disposition among the Bread and But
ter Brigade now in that city.
The Princess Metternich, at recent recep-
ton, offered her guests cigars, and led off in
the smoking herself. a..3s
About forty smallpox cases have been Ia
ken to the pest-house ut Nashville, since the
first of January.
A chap was actually arrested in Cincinnati
a few days ago and lodged in the station house
for stealing an umbrella.
Some two hundred clerks, male and female,
have been discharged from the Departments
nt 81, a., 81, l., c.,,,
President Grant did not receive visitors yes
tcrday. Cause-headache. Cause of head
ache not stated. .......
Wives are valuable in Kentucky. A Louis
willie man advertiscs to pay $500 for the return
Of his. 'i
John Bull, the patent medicine man, pays
the largest income tax at Louisville-the re-
turns being sl40,225.
A farmer of McMinn county predicts the
heaviest wheat crop this summer that has
been gathered in fifteen years. ..,
Another attempt has been made to throw
off the cars on the East Tennessee and Virgin
Ia Road. % g. = tE-iT
The Hoosac Mountain has been tunnelled
9.3Ss feet, and there yet remains to be bored
1893 feet.
OF the 10000 persons holding office under
the General Government, there are said to be
less than 400 Democrats.
1t is known in Havana that several Ameri.
can expeditions have landed on the Cuban
shores within few days.
A site has been chosen for q new cotton fac.
tory in New Orleans. 1t will run ten thou
sand spindlcs.
Dentists in Japan extract teeth by pulling
them out with the fingers, after having loos-
ened them by blows with mallet.
Kentucky paper announces itself us the
"Organ of the People and of the Bourbon
Whisky Trade.' .N
In North Carolina the other day a negro
school teacher got drunk and whipped his
whole school, consisting of sixty little negroes.
A Wisconsin legislative committee has re.
ported unanimously in favor of the re-enact.
ment of the death-penalty for murder.
The shutter of New York store bears this
unique placard: "Closed on account of the
Sheriff."
Governor Senter has recalled the militia
from Overton county. Since the death OF
Bowles their presence there is deemed no lon.
ger necessary.
An advertisement in an exchange sets forth
that "a servant is wanted who can take care
of children and pigs" Pleasant association
of darlings and duties. ...
a radical member of the Legislature of In.
diana is reported to have bought plow with
his stationary" and silk dress for his wife
with his allotment Of 'postage stamps.o
A New York paper says: "Doctor Hayes
wishes to go North again. No Arctic cxplo.
rer is really happy until he has failed to conc
back"
"The people have no interest in disorder
If they do wrong tits their error-not their
crime But with the governing power it il
far otherwisew
The remains of Methusalah's cow-old Pide
were discovered few days ago by some la.
} borers engaged at work on the grade of the
} Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.