The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-05-07
Chips, and Thin gs.

The last spike Of the Pacific Railroad was
driven on Monday. ttF
The Tennessee House, Atlanta, was destroy.
cd by fire OH the 2d. ........
Minister Motley will sail for England in a
few days.
| Senator Sprague was screnadcd at Philadcl.
pha on the evening of the Sd.
| Portions of Louisville arc afflicted with small
pox.
Ten per cent Of the population of the City
of Mexico have been In prison the past wear,
The Commercial Convention will meet at
Memphis on the 18th. Delegates half fare.
The Nashville Gun Factory was partially
destroyed by fire on the night of the 3Oth.
Maj. J. Il. Barnck, editor of the Constitu-
ton, died at Atlanta last Saturday morning.
The fruit trees North and West are reported
injured by the recent cold weather.
j. G. Atkinson. Treasurer of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. died few days ago.
Knox county, Tennessee, has the promise of
n large blackberry crop.
/,
Richmond, has been suspended
Henry T. Blow has been appointed Minister
to Brazil
Capt. All Richardson, who was shot by the
militia at Humboldt, is getting well.
The President declines TO remove Impcachcr
Ashley from the govcrnorship of Montana.
A protocol for conference between France
and Belgium has been signed,
Col. A. 7. Wiley. an eminent Texas lawyer,
died at Washington on the Sd.
There is another lively contest OIL hand
about the Nashville post-oflice.
Immigrants recently invested 100000 in
real estate in GAINESVILLE, Tennessee.
The negroes of Savannah, Ga. spend all
their money in litigation and lottery tickets.
man through n street in Savannah, Ga, the
other day.
Mrs. Letchcr. the venerable mother of en-
Governor Letchcr, of Va, died in Lexington,
on Sunday last.
The Free Mcthodists began their dcnomina-
tional existence in 1860. They now have 1000
members and "a preachers.
Gen. Lane, formerly Governor and Senator
from Oregon, has become a convert to the Ro-
man Catholic Church.
The bark Grapeshot sailed from New York
last week with full cargo Of men and NUM-
tons for Cuba.
\ N pf Nyh n Int FOL
universally esteemed that 10000 people fol-
lowed his body to the grave.
Ninety thousand miners belonging to the
Anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania have
resolved to suspend work.
The radical authorities of Arkansas have
turned the murdcrcrs of Gen. Hindman loose
without trial.
A newspaper man named Young has sued
the editor of the New York Sun for 100000
to repair damages to reputation.
VIM. a. Fowler, n telegraph operator at
BurnSvillc. Miss. fell from Il train near there
Friday night and was killed.
The French and Prussian Ministers at
Washington are both about to leave for
Europe.
Governor Hoffman is vctoing the plumber
ing bills of the New York Legislature right
and left.
Young Chanlor, who killed the British of
is to be tried for murder.
Comptroller Blackburn has effected an ar.
rangcmcnt with the New York money chang
crs to pay the July interest OH the State debt.
Barden, the recently appointed Postmaster
ut Madison, Ark, has been arrested for rob-
bling the mails.
A spring-sun, placed near q hcn-roost. cost
the radical party in Memphis q colorcd vote
the other night.
There are now living in Epson county, Ca.
an old couple, man and wife, whose united
ages are 203 years-the man being l01, and the
woman 102 years.
Hiram Gee, the celebrated public speaker of
McMinn county. made speech ut Cleveland
last Monday. lie was eloquent and forciblc
as usual.
An eXpectant but disappointed office. Sc cker
does not like the present administration,
which he calls one of unfair waits and mcu-
sures.
Ten thousand extra copies of the Knoxville
Press and Herald, containing an account OF
the Beaver Creek Adventure, were sold on
the morning of the LIST instant.
Astronomers estimate that the most remote
fixed star is coming toward the earth at the
rate of twenty-eight miles second. Which
beats steam or velocipedes considerably.
The manager of mcnageric in Belgium re-
Gently took the place of his ''lion tanner" who
was sick. He got along very well until the
lions became hungry, when they ate him up.
An Iowa woman experienced religion" at
Il revival meeting, but when she got home she
was so much in fear of "falling from grace
that she killed herself Immediately in order
to prevent any such calamity.
Pic Mic at Charleston.
DEAR POsT:-NOtwithstan the fact that
the LIST May day at this place was mixed ever
and anon with splashes of rain, 1t was an in
teresting occasion to the young and old of the
community. 1t had for some weeks been set
apart as q day on which the two Sabbath
Schools at this place, Methodist and Cumber-
land Presbyterian should celebrate Pic Mic.
At an early hour the Schools met at the re-
srective Churches-and at an appointed time