The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
Chips, and Things.


IIristol-on-thc-Linc on the 10th.
There has been refreshing revival in the
Baptist Church ut Joncsboro. Tennessee.
The attcmptto unite the two radical factions
in Missouri last week didn't succeed.
Trains on the Pacific Railway are now get
ting snow bound.
A tax on cats, so cents per head per annum,
is imposed in Paris.
Eight hundred thousand barrels of -four are
needed in France to supply the deficiency.
The corn crop of Bedford county is reported
good, and selling at 81 per BARREL
The election public printer has been post
poncd to the 9Th instant.
The Mormons talk Of a general emigration
to Mexico.
A kind ''no' is often more agreeable than
rough "yes."
A hair dye man has made two millions in
five years, and wholly by advertising.
President Grant has appointed Geo. II. Ba-
kcr Minister to ConstantinOpe
Gen. Iorato Sicklcs succeeds Forbes, the
defaulting pension agent at Philadelphia.
Gov. Palmer. of Illinois. is after Phil Sheri-
dan for the murder of Gen. Grosvenor.
II. l.. Faler, Of Nashville, accidentally shot
himself dead a few days ago.
Gen. Sherman and staff sail for Europe in
few days. May the land breeze blow mild.
A fellow at Little Rock who sued a newspa-
per for 100000 damages to his character got
verdict for one doUdr, currency.
The conyicts of the Indiana northern State
prison turn out 100000 barrels and s. 600 chairs
annually.
Nineland has this year sent to the New York
and Philadelphia markets over six hundred
tons of grapes.
John Smith, Il brakeman. on the Evansville.
Henderson and Nashville Road, was accident
ally killed last Friday.
Robb, the Custom House Collector at Sa-
vannah. has been indicted for embezzlemcnt
and conspirng to defraud the government.
\ little son ofColumbus Powell, at Powclls
Station. accidentally shot and killed himself
last week.
Several of the Alabama papers are advocat-
ing the enactment by the Legislature of law
to secure the collection of physicians bills.
The survey of the Atlantic and Great Wcs-
tern canal has been commenced at Duluth,
Georgia.
| 4 nv SN'pii SCNlIOH vi tNtulN llltS WI lHc
Southern Pacific railway has been finished and
accepted.
Out Of scventy-eight delegates elected to the
Constitutional Convention in West Virginia.
only eleven are Republicans.
y prominent journalist in New York. who
is perfectly bald. has offered a reward of 81 600
for Il tale that will make his hair stand on end.
| \ locomotive attached to mail train in
Ohio. exploded her boiler on the 18th killing
two men.
1t is said the all-dcvouring Pennsylvania
Central wants TO lease the Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore road.
\ silver mine has been discovered in IIaw-
kins county, which it is thought will pan out
largely.
The Virginian of the 3D. announced that the
mountains ten miles south of Abingdon We're
ON fire.
The Georgia coast down about Savannah is
said to be infested with negro KukluX. who
are committing all sorts Of deprcdatons.
Uncle Aaron Mitchell, 1872 years old. recent
| ly paid visit TO the Office of the McMnnyile
New Era. Uncle Aaron dates originally from
Africa.
| The great Nero fire in Rome in GA destroyed
! 1908 acres; the great London fire in 1866 de-
strOycd 43G acres, and the late Chicago fire
! , 600 acres.
| Gen. Stokes says he has as much right to get
up fraudulent bounty claims as the President
has to accept gifts and sell the government pa
tronage.
The Sequatchie sun man wants five thou
sand new subscribers. If they should prove
like some of ours he wouldn't want them more
than three or four years.
Pittsburg has four hundred and seventy
five manufactures, which if placed in con-
tinuous line would extend Il distance of fifty
five miles. And its newspapers.
There are five hundred Indians on the ration
rolls at Camp Grant. and, on the last ration
day. only fifty answered, the remainder being
on the war path.
The negro vote cast in the late Pennsylvania
election is SAID TO have reached 10000. The
Republican majority was only fourteen thou
sand.
Some of the papers intimate that Attorney
General Akcrman's stories about South Caro-
lima are heavily freghted with eXaggcration
and falschOod
The woman who never owned Bible, sup
posed she was quoting it when she greeted her
son who came home to keep ThankS9iYing in
the following words: Here comes the fattcd
calf"