The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-04-23
Chips, and 'Ei,iugs.

WHITES o,oSS; Dlncks 0,0jf. Total, lO,223.
A. II. MARYLAND has been appointed Third
Assistant Postmaster General.
Secretary Boutwell, has appointed three ne.
gro clerks to the custom house at Savannah.
Chas. c. Grow, of Alabama, has been con-
irmcd as Governor of New Mexico.
The new postmaster at Abingdon, Virginia,
can neither read nor write, but is lol.
The French troops are to eyacuate Rome in
June.
Miss Susan Crawford, daughter of VIM. II.
Crawford, died ut Athens, Georgia. last week
The Mississippi elections have wisely been
postponed till next fall.
President Grant has appointed lots of mig
gers to office, but nary Inin yet.
Spain is said to be making extensive prcpa-
rations for war.
Ed. Belchcr, coloretl, has been appointed as
SCISSOR for the Third District of Georgia.
David Y. Boynton is the pension agent at
Knoxville.
John y. Fnin. one of the oldest citizens Of
Sullivan county, died few days ago.
The inimtablc Mullins has been confirmed
as assessor Of the Fourth Tennessee District
Accounts of Livingstone, the African trav-
eller. have been received in London.
The warlike sensations have caused de-
cline of stocks in New York.
Charles G. Smith has been elected Chauccl-
Tor in the Seventh District.
The Sea Island cotton crop was seriously
damaged by the frost last week.
Two millions in gold arrived at New York
from Europe on the 18th.
The widow of Gen. Rousseau is reported to
be very poor in means.
Fruit in Bedford county all killed. Wheat
looking fine.
Ed. II. East is II candidate for Chancellor in
the Nashville District
John McNamarc, Baltimore, has been SEN
fenced to be hung for the murder of his wife
in 1867.
Col. Morrow, eX-Presdent Johnson's pri-
waite secretary, has been ordered to duty in
California.
President Grant withheld the executive
signature from the bill restoring Blanton Dun
cans property.
The reception room at the White House is
said to be highly pcrfumed by the visits
Of numerous colored delegations.
Ladies are often compimcnted by being
called flowers. Single ladies of advanced age
may be classified as touch-mc-nots.
The first and greatest of cxprcssmcn was
Atlas. He carried the world OH his back, and
never had the lumbago.
A New York paper says Grants admins.
tral!on will make that of Andrew johnson
respectable by comparison.
1t iSsaid the President has withdrawn the
name of Enos Hopkins as postmaster at Nash
Vile.
At Columbia, in this State. a negro named
Tom Harris, stabbed another darkcy for kiss
ing his wife.
The Franklin supreme Court. Georgia, has
declared the homestead law in that State un-
constitutional.
y fire broke ont at Nashville on Monday
morning in which three children were burned
to death.
There were seven hundred persons to hear
stokes at Nashville last saturday, nineteen
twcntieths Of whom We're negroes.
Another negro, black rs the waters of Tar
River, has been nominated as Minister to
Liberia.
Governor Scntcr has appointed d. C. Lacey.
Registrar of Madison county, rice G. L. Green,
resigned.
A Lady in Detroit has obtained n divorce
because her husband used unkind language to
her and compelled her to black his boots.
Senator Chandler steamed up on Monday,
and gave the British Lion. another awful
thrashing. See dispatches.
Gen. Burbridge, Of Kentucky, has been ar
rested on charge of receiving brides from
distillers.
The consumption Of Bourbon and Robert
son county was fearful at Nashville during
Stokes stay in the city.
NJ. NJ. Bren has been nominated by the ne
grocS of Nashville for Chancellor. They say
East amt sound.
DR.. Cummings is turning the recent slight
shocks of earthquakes in England to prophet
ic account.
Princess Louise, daughter of Queen Victo-
ria, Is to be married on the 9th of July TO the
Prince Royal of Denmark.
Tennessee is about as quiet as any State in
the Union, and is likely to remain so as long
AS the radicals behave themselves.
A firm in New York, Palmer e Peck, have
turned up as defaultcrs to the amount of
100000. Peek has scOoted. .-
The people of Richmond, Kentucky, want
plank walks and gas lights, and if they can't
get these, will put up with dOg-law.
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, was = COM
positor in the office Of the Utica Herald few
years ago. Heavy ON the typos, that.
There is II very fatal disease prevalent
among the hogs in the vicinity of Mckinney,
Texas, supposed to be caused by eating the
roots of the young cocklc-burr.
UT What does it mean, the great rush at
Robson e. Cos? Why the fact is they have
the largest stock Of goods in Athens, all of
which were bought since 1.-THE recent great de-
cline that you read of-and the great secret
is, they are selling them cheaper than any
house in town. Call on them and examine
thpir immense stocks and Won will he convinc-