The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-08-20

becomes more intense.
Mr.. Peabody, the philanthropist, is reported
to be rapidly failing in health.
Eighteen persons were recently killed by
steamboat explosion Oh the Ohio river.
Grants family are like Fundamentally
get all they AK.
A chancery suit that was commenced in 1905
has just been compromised in London.
Chicago gambling houses clear three mil
lions annually from faro alone. There are
forty establishments.
A citizen of Salvisa has a small cow that
gave one thousand four hundred and sixty
gallons of milk in one year.
Two Irishmen were entombed on the Ohio
and Mississippi railroad few days since by
the caying of bank.
John Slack has abandoned the proprietor
ship of the National Union newspaper to 60
to the Legislature. Fdcilis est descenSus
Senters majority is greater by several thou
sand than all the votes cast for Stokes in the
State.
Frcights between New York and Chicago
are now carried for eighteen cents per hun
dred pounds.
The first bale of new cotton that reached
Montgomery. Alabama, sold at so cents per
pound.
The last company of the militia has been
paid off and sent home, and peace prevails
throughout the State.
There are only four conservative candidates
for Mayor of Nashville. The love of Office is
not entirely confined to the radical party.
President Grant is interfering in the Mssis-
sippi canvass. There are SOME fools who
won't even learn in the school of experience.
The river Nile is said to be lower than it
has been in one hundred and fifty years. So
is the Eastanallec.
The Radical majority in Massachusetts is to
having reached even the old Bay State.
| At Des Moines, in Iowa, during the late
eclipse, the darkness exceeded that of the
night.
y West Tennessee paper suggests meeting
of conservative editors at Nashville when the
Legislature convencs.
| 1t is popular now to present burial lots in
the cemeteries to defeated candidates for Of
flee in Virginia.
a Chicago paper mildly and in saint-likc
terms protests that German brass bands arc
not adjuncts OF Christian Sabbath.
London has church of "St. Judas Iscariot,''
which has neither creed, priest or title, and
obcys only conscience.
The people of Venice once Missed an eclipse
which did not quite come up to their expec-
tations.
The Chinese and japanese are said to take
to whisky as naturally as duck takes tc
water.
Logston, the Fentrcss county murderer, has
been tried and sentenced to be hung on the
18th of October.
The pay of assistant assessors in Tennessee
North Carolina and the Gulf States, has been
reduced fifty cents per day.
The railroad war in New York has beer
suspended without bloodshed. The reader
would hardly be interested in the details.
The Virginia Legislature is to be assembled
i'll short time, when all members who can
not take the iron-clad will be left out.
There is man in New York State who of
fers to cat bushel of cut hay on wager
Any mule can beat that.
Gen. Jordan has achieved another decided
success over the Spanish forces sent agains
him.
Three millions of brick were made in Mem
phis during the past season--not the kind yol
wear in your hat, "don't you see!'
A Louisville paper, says the panier is not s,
pronounce as it was, and will soon be one of tn,
curiosities of the past.
The old Board of Directors of the Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad have been unani
President.
The Indians of New Mexico have been out
lawed by the Government, and all persons ar
authorized to kill them when found off thci
reservations. Lo, the poor Indian!
w. S. Barry, the Oldest print in the State, i
a candidate for Door-kecper of the House o
Representatives. He is said to be in his 9Otl
year.
Bullct-proof knapsacks are to be suppliet
to the French army. AS they are thrown
away in battle, the invention is an importan
one.
Wisconsin lately had n thunder storm whicl
'thrcw men out of bed, and made others fee
as though red hot poker was being passc,
up and down their bodies"
DR.. Fink, of st. Louis, finding this vail
and empty world, kept himself full of liquo
for successive weeks aud then left off fo
good, having died.
The horn of the rhinoceros consists of nu
merous hairs firmly united together. Tn,
horn of an old topper is said to consist of til
chairs of the dog that bit him."
Somebody in the Nashville Union an,
American suggests L. A. James, Of Hamilton
for the Speakership Of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
The special in Northern paper that Stev
Bowel had been ordered to leave Nashville i
unfounded. What would anybody want t.
hurt poor Steve FORT
One of the gentler sex says that the HEAVIER
of the strong-minded women is, "where but
tons grow in their proper places, and wher'
men cease from botheriug, and needles are a