The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-07-09
Chips, and Things.


was destroyed by fire on the night of the Cd.
The amount of interest due at New York
on the LIST, was estimated at S60,00O,000.
Ex-Prcsident johnson is to speak at Leba-
non on the 10TH
The liabilities of the National Intcllgencer
amount to more than $4,000.
The prohibitory liquor law in Massachu-
sets went into effect on the 30th of June.
Hurry UP the Empire, and "Let us have
Peace"
| Another Cuban expedition is about starting
via Canada.
David Dickson. of Hancock county, Geor-
gia, has 1000 acres planted in cotton.
Lawyer S. II. Benton was killed at Spring
field last week by s. r. Simpson. Jealousy.
There are said to be good many Stokes
men in Bedford county.
The Missouri River Bridge at Kansas City,
was opened on the 3d.
This is the centenary of the steam engine.
A patent was granted to Watt in 1869.
| A freedwoman successfully carved freed
man to death the other Gay near oxford, Miss.
Hc dGTcSI Vi clllLenS, WITHOUT knOW cause,
by the military. still goes bravcly on IN Texas.
A reward of one thousand dollars has been
offered for the apprehension of Sam Hide
brand, the Missouri desperate.
Roane presents four candidates to represent
that county in the lower branch of the next
General Assembly.
The fifteenth amendment has passed the up
per branch Of the New Hampshire Legisla-
| ture.
Mr.. Seward was received at Sacramento
with salute of fifty guns, and other demon
strations of welcome.
st. Louis, New Albany, Madison, Ark,
Holly Springs and Corinth, Miss, were shock
cd by earthquakes on the morning of the Cd.
| If you are truly benevolent and charitable,
perhaps you will, when you see neighbor in
distress, ask some other neighbor to help him.
| An acute observer has discovered that the
Grecian bend is not INDUCED in by ladies in
Strengthened circumstances.
A powder magazine on Sombrero, West
India Island, exploded May 81, killing seven
men and wounding twenty.
1t costs ten dollars in Natchez, Mississippi,
to get drunk and indulge in the pleasing sport
of shooting down citizens unfortunately.
Chicago boasts of its big Strawberries which
have attained to that degree of size that they
are sold at so much fore or hind quarter.
A storm in Iowa carried four thousand feet
of lumber distance of three miles, tearing
the boards to bits as they flew threw the air.
A youth named Willie Campbell, was struck
by lightning and killed, near Somerville last
week.
Hatehel, the scoundrel who outraged lit
tie idiot girl in Maury county some time ago,
has been shot and killed.
John d. Wilson, a Bureau man at Column
bia, has been arrested, charged with attempt
ing to defraud widow woman of her bounty.
The smallest and dirticst thing Ulysses I.
has been guilty of is the forcing of negro
postmaster upon the people at Macon.
The City Auditor of Nashville has been ar
rested for assauting negro woman who had
too much self-respect to dance with him.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania will meet
in Convention on the 14th to nominate candi.
dates for Governor and Supreme Judge.
The so-called Republicans in Spain are
out with another manifesto. They issue Il
manifesto about once week, on the average.
Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York, has
lately recovered property amounting to the
value of S1,0O0,0OO, in a law suit.
President Grant, it is said, contcmplatcs
having his life insured so that he may get a
policy.
A woman has been arrested in Cambridge,
Mass, for whipping her stepson, boy of six
years, to DEATH
1t is said that there are 100000 children in
Missouri, 100000 of whom attend Sunday
school.
The rice crop on the Savannah, Ogeechee,
Altamaha and Saltilla rivers Will, this season,
exceed any since the year 1860.
The Republicans of New York are threaten
ed with muss similar to that going on in
the party in this State.
The man who sued a Columbus. Ohio, news
paper for $4,000 libel, has the privilege of
paying his own costs.
The Spaniards attribute the recent success
of the Cuban insurrectonists to the fact that
there are good many Americans in the army
of the latter.
That chap who was "lonely since his mother
died." is all right now. His father married
the "head" of q large family girls, and they
keep house for him, and give party nearly
every night.
The Minnesota squash vines have struck,
and voted that owing to the unreasonable
demands of the bugs there shall be no squashes
grown in the State this year.
The largest returns made by newspaper
men in New York are those of the Bennetts-
senior and junior-the former returned $780,
500 and the latter $4,000
Jacksonville, and several other places in
this State where the fear of the Lord is not
much cultivated, have recently been favored
with young earthquakes.
The red flag paraded in the Quarter Belle
vile, Paris, during the recent riots, was n red
crinoline, mounted on broom. That's our
flag.
} Andrew johnson says if Senter is elected in
Tennessee, and Walker in Virginia, it will be
Al IL II a.,