The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-06-18
Chips, and Things.

crowd at Cleveland last Saturday. l
A new Stokes paper IL to be issued At Nash
willie in a few days. ~
New Axiom--A thorn in the bush is worth
two in the hand.
1t is reported that the Hon. VIM. II. WISE
ner will soon take the stump for Senter.
A.W. Hutchinson was crushed to death by
falling barn, in Monroe county, last week.
Boston has chosen woman to deliver its
4th of July grafton. Good for Bosting.
One hundred and twenty persons were re-
Gently killed by coal mine explosion in Wales.
The negro postmaster at Macon, Georgia,
has secured and filed his bond.
The conscience" fund in the U. s. Treasu-
ny now amounts to over $4,000.
Grasshoppers are multiplying in Missouri,
and committing extensive dcpredations.
Good motto: never take more to heart than
you can kick off at your heels
What's the matter at your house, Bill, case
of slrstrokef No, its gal!
Cuban expeditions multiply like hydra
heads-another one has sailed from New York.
A snake three feet through the body is wag-
Cling about in Indiana.
Two children were ran over by horse at
tached to a milk cart, in Memphis, few days
ago and killed.
At Atlanta last Friday, Col. Adair sold =
farm of seventy acres in Clayton county, for
$40 per acre, cash.
One firm in Switzerland sends to this coun.
try music boxes to the value of S2,000,000 q
year.
Gen. Jordan, of South Carolina, has full
command of the Cuban forces, with two thou
sand Americans in the crowd.
Two foolish newspaper men who went out
to shoot at each other last week, near Peters,
burg, were arrested by the police.
Twenty-four persons have mysteriously
disappeared from the city of New York with
In the last two weeks.
Miss Lizzie Brock is at Nashville in search
of her father, Jerry Brock, whom she has not
seen for some eight years.
The municipal muddle at Nashville has
been settled by the appointment of competent
and honest men to look after the city finances.
The grand jury of Davidson county have
found true bills against Randall Brown and
j. III. Austin for embezzlcment.
Dennis Reed, under sentence of death in
Boston, disappointed the morbidly curious by
committing suicide the night before.
A wise man of Canada finds that the frogs
are building their nests in the middle of
bitches, and predicts dry summer.
Nearly all the Poles believe the next year
will witness the restoration of their nation in
all its freedom and glory.
The French Empress Eugene has bought
the tree near Cairo under which the Holy
Family rested during the flight into Egypt.
During Jubilee week, Boston, instead of be-
ing the club of the Universe" will be the
Hubbub.
whipped for stealing, took his revenge by kill
ling his father and burning the body.
| Our navy is without midshpmen, we are
told. 1t is almost without anything that
should erect pride in the heart of an American.
Chicago has another breach of promise case,
- W. pia'N ohu hCSio SIl prosecuting
white man for decorating her affections.
1t is stated that II good looking Chinese girl
can be bought in the streets of Canton for
about the value of three U. S. postage stamps.
The first cut nail in the world was made in
III, by jeremiah Wilkinson, of Cumberland,
Rhode Island.
In New York city, petition to the Presi-
dent against the appointment of coorcd men
to Offices has received 5000 signatures.
A lady in Washington has been trying in
vain for the last four years to whiten her CON-
plexion by drinking pale brandy.
| A fellow in Kentucky has been fined the
enormous sum of five dollars for kissing his
neighbours pretty wife. AS though he could
help it.
The pi omised Empire is already established
on n small scale in the village of GAINESVILLE,
KY, where an aristocracy of nine trustees,
holding Office for life, rule in all affairs.
The smack Of parting kiss caused the hor.
SEES attached to bridal carriage in st. Louis to
run away with the happy but frightened pair
and smash the wedding bonnet of the bride.
| chicago infant stole the whisky bottle
from the pocket of his drunken father, had q
high revel in imitation of the paternsl exam
pie and died.
Last year two thrifty Germans purchased 81
acres of land in Southern Tennessee. Thi,
season they gathered Strawberries enough
from acres to pay for the whole tract.
Count dc Schmidt, distant relative of thu
famous "John Smith," Is the happy German
gentleman upon whom the widow Lincoln Il
about to bestow her hand.
A contemporary recommends those exposed
to the sun to put cabbage leaves in their hats
This is not necessary to those who wear cab.
bage heads.
George House, prominent colored orator Of
Hamilton county, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for three years for stealing po
tatOes.
The government will commence issuing it,
new money on the 1st of July, when all thu
present issues of legal-tenders and fractional
currency notes will be called in as speedily az
possible '''..''
When Queen Isabella heard that the Span
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