The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-07-27
Chips, and Things.

The city OF Chicago has nineteen national
banks. o. 70 y q. a H q.
We notice. q splendid hack on our streets
from Rhea Springs ] a ~ n.l. i
sixty-fve guests are reported at White Cliff
Hotel. t1 dg1.I3a' Fftr.
The store boys about town are nearly run to
death waiting on customers. 'I 90
The report that the Express Office Mt Knox
vile had beeurobbed was incorrect.
The wheat crop Of Campbell and Anderson
counties Is reported bad-hardly worth seed.
Some Of the newspaper men have "cuodu-
range on the brain. .....
A farmer out west ha, erected barn capa-
BILE Of accommodating 1900 head ST cattle
There II talk Of a Grand Base Ball Tourna-
mcnt at Rhea Springs. ... ...i
The corn in parts Of Washington and Greene
counties Is reported injured BY the drouth.
Poor John killed one day last week 202 Vi
pers I'm field near Bristol OH the Line
Sweet potatoes have made their appearance
IN the Atlanta market. .-i ~.
Queen Victoria has abolished the military
purchase system In the British army.
Miss Tcnie c. Claim Is announced for Con.
gress In the Sth district of New York. "a.
A monument is to be erected ut Dayton TO
the memory Of the late c. L. vallandigham.
Kissing the baby is reported by a high au-
thority to be the next best thing to kissing the
baby's mother. = Is Hf ts6
The Engineers OF the Macon and Knoxville
Railroad are making reconnaissance. a
Nearly one hundred millions Of. the French
Indemnity has been paid. France is not ruin.
ed yet. .f...-
A member of the New Brunswick Assembly
recently spoke "a hours against time. In order
to defeat some government measure. ~. d.
Last week the lower end of Knox and por-
lions of Blount, county were injured by the
storm. 20 "a, .,
The Democratic State Committee Of Mary.
land has nominated VIM Pinckney Whyte for
Governor. ,.., ...-..r,. .-.-,r- .-r.....,-|
1t is estimated by the government that 49,.
00O. 900 in counterfeit notes on the National
Banks are IN circulation. -......
The Chattanooga IRON Mill Company has
contracted to furnish N. b. Forrest 100000 tons
Of rails for his road. r I'll I'D. ''''..'
Rumors are current that-a company IN form.
ing to erect large hotel at Chlhowee Springs,
-, mt. 8 distant from Athens.
The total population Of the United States,
according to the latest revision of the census
tables, is 81, 249 1857.
Wendell Phillips tells the radicals that
their party in Massachusetts is "party
of Spoils." yH NIL. sp.
1t Is reported that passenger on one Of the
Pennsylvania railroads was recently robbed of
nefalcations are announced in the post Office
T,n 81 a., ncI ;c t,o at, At
Savannah. Georgia. r e
Prof. Clutsam's next session Vocal and In
strumental Music, Riceville, will commence on
Monday. the 2lst day Of August.
| A riot occurred on the Erie railroad few
days since. between some Irish and German Ia.
borers.N Unfortunately no one was killed.
Having read the villainous JEFF Davis SLAM
der. Mrs. Grant proposes to accompany the
President on his trip to California
| Dwell not mournfully on the past, it comes
not back again; enjoy the present, It is thine:
and go forward hopefully and manfully to
battle with the future. -.
| A New York paper says that horsc-radish
and sweet oil. mixed. and used internally to
the full capacity of the stomach. and eXter-
nally as poultice, will cure hydrophobia.
cities are waking up TO the alarming fact that
a wooden pnvemcntis sure breeder of small
poX and soar throat. n 2. a. Z.
Josh Billings says that large policy of life
insurance doesn't exactly make a mans corpse
smile at his widow, but It helps amazingly to
get another fellow to do 1t for him.
1t is stated that New York has not during
the past twenty years ever been in so peacea-
BILE and orderly condition as it has been since
the riot.
A coppcrhead was shot and killed by po-
licemn,lin Lo,lisviilea few days ago. He mea-
sured 2x feet In length--the snake, not the
policeman. -. ~-..
1t may interest portion Of our readers to
know that "Parepa Rosa ia coming" and that
she will bring her knitting along and stay to
tea. 49, ..--- 49,, .....---
Our exchanges from the North, East and
West continue to be filled with robberies,
steamboat explosions, railroad accidents, riots,
suicides, murders and lynchings.
The man with the organ and the monkey was
along on Saturday. much to the relief of the
loafers and dead.bents who infest the street cor
ners Of Athens. ''
The gold discoveries in Monroe county men
toned in the associated press dispatches last
week, are the old Coker Creek Mines, which
have been worked at times for period offorty
years. s- g 90 8 O. sreaAV s~.- p. ~. q s.
Tie Fifteenth Amendments Of Brooks
county, Ga, are being thinned out. Andrew
johnson persuaded Boss johnson into a coffin
with dirk, and another darkey named White
did likewise to a fellow-loyalfst with!a gun,
last week. .-.., -