The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-02
Chips, and Things.


clines to the Nashville new departure.
A casuist asserts that bad morals are the le-
ultimate fruits of corrupt literature.
"The journal of Commerce" is the title of a
nice semi-weekly recently started at Atlanta.
The Germans of New York city have resolv-
ed to support none but honest men for office.
Mrs. Fairs case for appeal has been set for
the 18th Of November.
Gen. Bennett, of Indiana, has been appoint.
ell Governor of Idaho.
November 23d has been named by Governor
Hoffman for Thanksgiving day in New York.
There are 10 prisoners in the Knoxville Jail
at this time-about an average for that county.
DR.. Medlicott, the Kansas poisoner, has been
convicted of murder in the first degree.
They are are talking about "Vigilance Com
mittees" in New York to straighten things up.
The Radicals have majority of ten on joint
ballot in the Ohio Legislature.
A horse thief named Norman was shot and
killed not far Fl ON Shell Mound last week.
Thirty-three men lost their lives by collie
ry explosion in England on the 26th ult.
Ben Hill has been interviewed again, and
croaks like a raven about the future of Georgia.
Il. ii. Reeves retires from the Tennessee Pa
triot as editor,and is succeeded by j. L. Sparks.
Gen. Sumter Anderson died, in France, last
week.
1t is officially stated that the cost of the Gu
ban war for the past year was 50 100000.
-Four prisoners confined in the Bount coun-
ty Jail made their escape on the night of the Goth
three acre field of bananas in Florida pro-
duced 1928 per month all the year round.
The Radical majority in Ohio for Governor
is officially stated at 2O,iGS.
Potter Palmer, the great millionaire of Chi
cago, laughs at his losses in the fire, and says
he don't care continental about it.
Chas. O'Conner, the celebrated New York
lawyer, has been nominated for the Legsla-
ture.
Them South Carolina nggers, recently in
convention ut Columbia, decline to endorse
Grants administration.
The white cusses who sell fire-water to the
Indian men and debauch the Indian women
are to be expelled from the reservations.
Roderick Random Butler it is said is about
to start Radical paper at Rogersville. Sup
posed to be insane.
The waters of the Mississippi are lower than
for many years, and shipping has been seli-
ously impeded.
The two Knoxville dailies have been vi~or-
ously employed for q week or so in washing
each others dirty linen.
We neglected to state last week that Ellis.
Radical, had been elected to the Legislature
from Knox and Sewer by plurality of 10.
The negro boy whose arrest caused the late
riot in Virginia, has been sentenced to the pen
itentiary for six years.
A verdict for sS.925.76 has been rendered
against Mynatt, the defaulting Trustee of
Knox county.
Victor Powell, Of the First Auditors Office.
Washington. has been arrested for frauds
amounting to 100000.
The loss to the corporation of Chicago by the
late fires in city property is stated at i've mil
lions.
The fires which were raging in New York
last week have been subducd. Ten flour mills
and 10000 tons of hay were destroyed.
1t is now said that IL good many of the Insur-
ance Companies lose more heavily by the Chi
cago calamity than ut first reported.
Senator Sumner has written another letter
insisting that the negroes shall ride in public
like white folks. Sumner may
have been born in the United States. but was
evidently conceived in Africa.
The devil must have pretty irm grip on the
seat Of mans trousers who will take his To-
cal newspaper for one. two, or more years, and
then refuse to pay for it. We mean you, sir!
Two Of the men recently arrested in South
Carolina charged with KukluXism are respec-
lively eightyone and seventy years ofage. The
eldest has been hopeless cripple for years.
The latest sensation is that Chicago was fired
by II member o: the "Societe Internationale."
The attempts to fire several other large cities
about the same time gives color to the report
Boss Tweed, the Great Tammany Sachem,
has been arrested and must now go through
the Courts. If he has as many millions as re-
ported, the operation wont hurt him much.
A woman has been arrested in Nashville
charged with stealing spoons. She halls from
the Fifth Congressional District of Massachu-
sets.
man named johnson, who murdered three
men in Jackson county, Tennessee, five years
ago, has been arrested in Missouri and brought
back to suffer the penalty of his crimes.
The two political parties of Chicago have
struck hands and divided out the municipal
offices Of the city. Sweet are the uses Of adj
verslty.
DIED,
At the residence Of her father, in Madison.
ville Tennessee, on Tuesday morning. Octo-
Der oath 1871. Mrs. MARY l.. WHITE, wife of
+. Y. White, and daughter of &. w. and Ma
nv III, Muyo-in her 24th wear