The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-08-03
ChiDs, and Things.


Richard G. Spears iailor of Monroe county,
died at Madisonville last week. f
The Knoxville Press and Herald Of Friday
last failed to reach its subscribers ut this place
A little nonsense, now and then, is reished
by the wisest men, u y ana. n
The Campbell House, Chattanooga, closed on
the LIST.
The Criminal Court at Knox Vile seems to be
doing Il lively business. .....
Are we to have II good, old-fashioned sort of
Camp Meeting at Cedar Springs during the
approaching FallY
We regret to learn that the house of Mabry
Turner,& Co., dealers in Agricultural Imple.
ments. Knoxville, will close on the It'll inst.
The sweetwateritcs. except the editor of the
Enterprise" and his ''devll," have all gone
to White Cliff in search of health.
The preaching at the Presbyterian Church,
Athens. for the last few Sabbaths has been of
an intelligent and superior character.
The man who made the balloon ascension at
Edgeficld last week WAS probably born to he
hung.
Isaac McSpadden. of the 9th civi district of
Monroe, lost portion of his right hand IN II
thresher on the Goth ultimo.
Notwith standing the failure of the wheat
crop, the demand at the Athens Machine Shop
for the Improved Turbin Wheel is quite lively.
People who are ,aised in the shade are rarely
of much account. Ii takes sunshine, cloud and
storm to make men.
"Figures they say won't lie," but great
many people nowadays manage to figure pref.
ty largely in lying.
"Fortune's favors are like steep rocls--only
eagles and creeping things ever reach the sum-
nit"
A Chicago dispatch announces the destruc-
ton of $4,000 worth of window glass by hail
storm.
The list of Federal Jurors on the first page of
this paper was clipped from theKnoxville Dali
ly Chronicle.
Among the most rigid stickers for the DEM
ocratic policy of the past are number of prom
inent old line wings.
The new railroad from Marietta to Athens is
to be a broad gauge. We don't want any mar
row gauge in ours. --.
Counterfeit 20's of the United States alton.
al Bank are in circulation--but not round
here.
Somebody styles Long Branch the "brevet
capital Of the nation" There il more in the
conccit than its author thought. perhaps.
If your boy evidences Il genius for plough
ing or peddling peanuts, keep him at it. "You
can't make a silk purse out of sow's carr
woman was recently sentenced to the pen-
Tertiary in Missouri for refusing to pay her
board bill.
One hundred and seventy nine trains. carry
ing passengers. daily arrive and depart from
Chcngo-S3 Of which carry U. s. mails.
The area of Tennessee is 1900 square miles.
or 29,lS4,00O acres. Population in 1870. ,2js..
10. Number of inhabitants per square mile 81.
The Fall Session at Masonic Institute in Sc
quntche county, opened last month with 70
students.
The Sequatche Sun wants to build narrow
gauge railroad up the Happy Valley to Pike
Vile.
"lcevllle" is the appropriate name Of a cosy
little locality where the Atlantanese held pic
mics.
Capt. Ross has resigned his position as Su-
perintendent of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Road.
The Boston News says that the Republican
party in Massachusetts IS anondescript animal,
in which rum head is Joined to prohibitory
body.
Will some one, versed in the laws of this land
srrvi"c. advise us when the next election for
Sheriff. Tax Collector, County Trustee and
Constahles take place in McMinn?
Capt. Howe informs us that there is an I'M
usual amount Of sickness along the waters of
The Tennessee-principally fevers, which the
physicians readily control.
"Adversity takes us up short and sets us
down hard, and when it's done with us we feel
ms contcnted us II boy that's been spanked and
set away to COOL" .'..
The elder born Of the Car of all the Rus
sas is to sail for the United Suites on the 3Oth
instant. His fatheris said to be the best Judge
of brandy in Europe.
The editor who tried to publish paper that
would please everybody died in the asylum
FOR idiots week before last. The overseer of
the poor declares his estate insolvent.
An irate rebel in South Carolina emptied II |
pitcher of milk over n member of the KukIux
Committee. Had it been pitcher of whisky |
instead, the recipient perhaps would have |
made less fuss about the transaction.
When we said last week good article of
Cream Ale could be had al the Athens Drug
Store, we didn't mean that the printing Office
had been presented with a half dozen bottles |
Of the beverage. Fr. .-r"ygfr
The brassy appearance of the heavens and
other unfailing signs indicate drouth. IfI
wisdom tlwells with our country cousins. they
will keep the dirt well stirred in their corn
fields. Be-
Philologically, there is reason to believe that |
fanytbing like I'm orginalthouyht or idea was
% flash across the brain of some of our country
,otemporaries the result would be disastrous. |
IN copying this paragraph exchanges will |
please give the proper credit. +
The Interior forces of this terrestrial ball are
in an active and vigorous condition.
Is earthquakes and tidal waves are heard from
n various directions. The material devil is
probably enchanting himself-the spiritual
me has been loose for some time.
Faded flowers and sere and yellow leaves
'are their beauties, but to orr eye a younggal |
S much more attractive object than an old
me. ct is proper to say that this brilliant
originated with the Junior member
If the concern. who. if he lives long enough,