The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-01-29

and no enemies are SO bitter as those who were
formerly the best of friends"
Losers on election bets in California have
been trying to get back their money by legal
process. But they didn't.
The Spanish Cortez will meet on the 18th
of February to determine whether Spain shall
have Republican or Monarchial government.
The Eastern question has been settled-per-
haps to the satisfaction of both the high con-
testing parties. Louis Napoleon was chief
manipulation.
Torney wants to be Post Master General UNI
der Grant. rs
AS. Pratt has been elected United States
Senator from Indiana.
The man Harris, at Atlanta, who stole
Mahoney's cow, has been discharged.
A negro woman accidentally shot dead In a
drinking saloon at Memphis a few nights ago.
Gen. Tccumseh Sherman is quite i'll at St.
Louis.
South Carolina increases the salaries of Stu
preme Judges to $4,500-Circuit Judges to
$4,000.
tits definitely understood at Washington
that Horace Greeley can be Post Master Gem
eral If he wants to.
Chicago spends ten millions annually at the
retail liquor shops.
An old gal named Margaret Shea died at
Hobokcu, New Jersey, few days ago in her
one hundred and fourth year.
The demand for investment in United States
bonds is said to be increasing.
About one half Of the editors write them
selves to death, and the other half their papers.
The price for good mules at Macon, Ga, is
from $175, to $275 apiece.
There has been heavy decline in the sensa-
ton business at Nashville.
Newspapers with half dozen editors do
well-those with few less, better.
| 1t is announced as a gratifying fact that the
Speaker of the North Carolina House of Rep
resentatives has beeA sober during the entire
session.
| AS a general rule, the merchant who doesn't
advertise lacks the sagacity and discrimina-
ton to buy stocks of goods worth advertising.
Somebody proposes to establish radical
paper at Lynchburg, Virginia.
Indiana sheep are suffering terribly with the
foot rot. farmers are rapidly killing the stock.
10000 killed in 2 mouths.
Kentucky, it is said, has never lost a cent by
the defalcation Of any State official during her
entire existence as State.
Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, falls
this year on the 10th Of February.
The lockwood Works in Roane county, turn
out IS tons of iron per day, using knocked
coal obtained in the vicinity.
The court house at Tampa, Fla, is used as a
printing office, negro school.house, negro
church and negro ball room.
The population of Baltimore is $50, 1885,
Tho city contains $4,000 houses and 4S,375
colored people. aN
Lieut.. Braine, of "Chesapeake" notoriety,
confined since the war, has finally been re-
leased. .,.s
One English Railway Company with a capt.
tai of 95O,OOO,O0O, controls 400 miles of road.
A bachelor according to the latest definition,
is man who has lost the opportunity of ma.
king woman miserable.
A Pennsylvania lay in wait for burglar
who was breaking into his house and routed
him with II carving knife.
John Garlic shot shoemaker at Cambridge
NO., and carried the body home on his back
for which kindness he was lynched.
A little girl, in Cincinnati was recently bit
ten by mad dog, and is now dying, victim
to the superstitious belief in the virtues of
''mad stone."
Theresa is singing to Paris new song en-
titled Gin the nose it tickles me-" which WI
suppose to be French way of saying thai
she is cup to snuff"
A horseman says he has cured the wors
kind of scratches he ever saw with two appl
cations of white pine turpentine rubbed on.
No snow falls lighter than the snow of age
none heavier, for it never melts.
Minnesota spent $sO5 1863 on her schools las
} year. She has 129, 1Oa children to educate.
Sweden prohibitionists want to restrain tn,
manufacture as well as the consumption o
; liquor. Our teetotalers have yet something t,
learn, it seems. if
Snow has covered st. Petersburg and yicini
ty to the depth of twelve feet. Whole village
J are buried. w"
The largest nugget ever taken from tn,
/ South Australian gold mines has been sold b.
auction for $3.50. W
A few days ago livery stable was burned
in New York city, destroying one hundred
and forty horses.
1t Is better to have strength ofprlnciple thar
7 of mere muscle, but better yet to have both
|, A man who Is strong in intellect and instep, i
on the best terms with nature and the world
A, Missouri thief was mean enough to stea
a tombstone from railroad station. Radical
you bet.
+ A lively war is going on for the post offic
at Gsllatin, Tennessee. A negro and tw
white men are the aspirants.
The lunar eclipse Wednesday night attracte'
the attention Of good many persons who or
not in the habit OF turning their eyes towar'
. the heavens more than once week.
Over two thousand personsin England have
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