The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-11
News md other Brle flets.


Knoxville paid out $5OO,0OO.
The New York Senate has ratified the 10th
amendment by vote Of q to !.
Gen. Andrew Porter, formerly Of the U. 8.
Army, died In Paris last week.
The snow in Utah lies from ten to fifty feet
deep; rather too thick to Utah.lse for sleighing.
W. L. HARRISON, Attorney at Law, has chang
cd his location from Decatur to Swectwater.
1t Is said the Battle House, Nashville, Is be-.
coming the most popular hotel In the city.
The Pennsylvania Central RaiIroad Is said to
be trying to get possession Of the Georgia Rail-
road,
j. c. S. Timbcrlake q Radical eX-coIIector, IL
in Jail at Montgomery for cmbezzng ovey $780,
900 of Dallas county funds.
The most definite description Down-EasS
woman could give of her lost baby was, "kind-
cr fat, with calico dress on"
The extreme tllctlmtion In gold during the
year 1871 was just seven per cent, the highest
price having been 1855 and the lowest l0S3s.
One thousand and ninety deaths are reported
in Philadelphia from small pox since The dis
ease became epidemic.
Dcmocrac, to follow the lead Of the Liberal
Republicans"
A Supreme Judge in Pennsylvania has been
mutld!ing his legal brains over the woman's
rights question.
The House Of Representatives. IN Illinois have
voted to permit women to hold department Of
fees in that state.
An Indianian, who hadn't n whole pair OF
boots or trousers. received three silk hats as pres
cnts at Christmas.
IF Burns were living now, he would tell the
man that wants to see himself as others see him,
to run for office.
Mrs. Laura Fair, who killed her paramour,
Crittenden, died in prison at San Francisco, on
the Both December.
Forty-eght so-called KukluX have been SEN
fenced in South Carolina to Imprisonment in va
rious penitentiaries.
The Nashville Union and American sptaks in
colnmcndabIc language of 'Old Robertson
County"
At the quarterly term Of the County Court of
Warren a tax of ten cents on the one hundred
dollars was levied for county school PURPOSES
Us. Vangilder has been re elected Mayor of
notwithstanding bis competitor, Col. james
Luttrell, 5O7 votes.
Four bottles OF brandy peaches and two quarts
of Cincinnati bust-head tlattencd out drouthy
citizen Of Indiana OH Christmas Day.
One of our best and most neatly printed cx-
changes is the alabama Reporter" published
at Huntsville, by Wrench & Ragland.
The City Council of Eufala, Alabama. have
been indicted for failure to keep the streets of
that city in good repair.
New York has million of children attending
her public schools. and raises over ten uil!'o'3
of dollars annually for educational purrp.r-.
Since the advent of the Gcntilnsinto Salt Lt)y,
City, it is said to be dangerous to be ab"o'a at-
ter nightGll.
The up-passengcr last Monday morning was
heavily freighted with "Quo Warronto<," bound
for the U. S. Court Knoxville.
"A Pennsylvania gentleman announces That
Wilkes Booth, who killed President Lincoln, is
not dead, for he has received letters from him
since his reported death.
A later dispatch says Mrs. Fair is not dead.
1t was Counsellor Cook, the gentleman who de-
Tended the unfortunate woman with so much
ability. that died last week.
The Nashville Banner asserts that His Excel
lcncy, Governor Brown, has not yet determined
when he will call the Legislature together in
extra session.
The young woman who asked the man Mt the
managerie to show her the ''contlrango," was
evidently mistaken in regard to the character
Of the animal.
Intelligent Europeans are discussing the ques-
ton, "Does the visible splcndor o: an Office tend
to increase its power" The result is looked for
with much anxiety.
In Alabama they are making contract. freely
for 1872, and the planters experience less trou.
bic in securing labor than at any time since the
war.
Nearly half the internal revenue Of Great
Britain is derived from inland dutic. OF malt
and spirituous liquors and licenses for their
sale.
William. who used 10 boast that he never ow-
ed Il dollar in his life and never would, in less
than year after his marriage mad little Bill
to take up every day.
An effort is about to be made in the Wis
conSin Legislature 10 promote system Of forest
culture in that State. In Tennessee we are de.
stroying the grand old forests as rapidly rs pos
sible.