The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-18
News. and Other Krienets.

III 'NUlut rNll " NuIlIl CLAW p'l
Postmaster schon, Athens, desires all who
owe for box rents to shell out.
BY colicry explosion in Wales last week tlf-
teen men lost their lives.
The Missouri gold bonds are to be paid in le-
gal tenders,
Obion county warrants are at par with green
backs. MrMinn warrants ditto.
Hamilton county warrants are selling Mt 80
cents to the dollar on the street, of Chattanooga.
The Gilbert sisters have been performing ut
Knoxville.
1t is calculated that Russia can raise within
few days, an army Of 100000 soldiers
A bill looking to the admission Of Utah has
passed the House Of Representatives.
VIM. 2. Ecklc died, at Knoxville, on the 18th,
in the 18th year of his age.
Mr.. Dadd, of Iowa, is the "dad" Of nineteen
children-eight pairs and three aces.
"rll rap you on your little head is a west
ern parody on a popular song.
The small pox continues to spread in all part,
of the British Isles.
II. p. Archer succeeds Col. Fisk AS Vice Presi-
dent of the Erie Railroad.
Clayton, of Arkansas, is likely to be expelled
from the United States Senate.
As this is leap year, the Lagrange Reporter
advises the girls to look before they leap.
The proposed fete at Memphis to that Russian
Jukc Is estimated to cost $4,000.
VIM. b. Shaver, of Carroll county, is the larg-
est man in Tennessee.
The difficulty with Spain is assuming en-
larged proportions-in the newspapers.
There is good deal of corn and other truck
going South over the East Tennessee Road.
The Knoxville and Charleston Railroad has
at one hundred dollars per MONTH
A well executed counterfeit hundred dollar
bill on the Ohio National Bank of Cincinnati is
circulating in some portions of the country.
The Court Of Appeals has decided that the
Kentucky state and the Paducah lotteries are
legal institutions.
! Leap year parties are popular in New york.
/ The ladies invite the gentlemen to dance, and
then wait upon them at the supper table.
The vote on the Cincinnati southern Railroad
bill in the Kentucky House of Representatives
was, yeas 80, noyes SO.
Memphis has twelve cGttm COMPRISING cs-
tahl>hmcnts, which have total capacity Of
5000 bales in twelve hours.
London, with population of 3,OO0,o0O, has
only nine daily ncwspapers-New York has
Itwcnty-fOur.
Some sarcastcal odss at Nashville wants to
know If it is lawful to store cotton on the side.
walks of that city.
The story circulated by a "rooral" journal
that Wilkes Booth is chopping wood for the
DucktOwn Copper Mines, needs confirmation
The London syndicate GOT the United states
government for three months interest on the
new bonds.
i Week before last noted hunter of the Biz
smoky Mountain killed Bear that weighed
j12 pounds.
Acting Governor Conlcy has subsidized. and
Georgia now has an Executive elected by the
unrestricted and unbiased vote of the people.
The Democracy have no hand in the disgrace
full mudde at New Orleans. 1t is purely rad
zeal affair.
A Kentucky farmer refused to buy sewing
mHrhnc--''hc sOwcd his wheat out Of Il
bucket
A gentle and studious youth ,of nineteen in
a Paris college, has invented u steam guillotmc
warranted to dccapItatc sixty men nH'l,oua
All over Kansas the people are agitming the
subject of building railroads. There is not Il
townof five hundred inhabitants in the State
= that is not expecting railroad.
Agricultural College Land Scrip for 27,0Ot
acres of lani given BY tue Ulitcd States to tn,
? State oC Georgia, has been sold 10 an Ohioial
Tor $2i3.0OO.
The correspondence bctwccn,G Grtzachotl ant
Minister Curtin in reference to the Catacazy bu
sincsS, is represented rs somewhat wrathy, an,
rather insolcnt ON the part Of the Russian.
b. the death Of Col. Jim Fisk, the ill'
agency of the Great Western Dispatch Fas
Freight Line has been discontinued for the time
o being.
The Governor of Wisconsin reports receipts
, by the Executive of $lG6 1896, for the rc,lcfo
the sufferers by fires, of which amount Sill
391 % remains uneXpcnded.
John Slaughter, an East Tcnnc>secan, whC
violated his step daughter while travelling il
Missouri, has been sentenced to the penitcntia
: ry for IA years.