The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-02-08
CHIPS, and THINGS.

Omaha city gives the Union Pacific SijO,OOC
for bridging the Mississippi at that point,
New Jersey Is incorporating narrow guage
road.
Two hundred recruits have been ordered to
Fort Brown to recruit the Tenth Infantry.
The Knoxville Chronicle trots out Horace
MAYNARD for the Vice Presidency.
A reflective New Orleans reporter desciibcda
new hcarsc ns ~ splendid, though sad, vchi1le,'
j.. A. CobIcigh, Athens, has sold his Drug
and Notion Establishment 10 Rev. DR.. Cobcigh.,
Snow fell here to the depth OF ~ inches last
Friday night.
j. u. scuddcr, Of Tennessee, has been ap~
pointed q visitor to West Point.
A bill has been introduced In the L. 5. Sem
ate 10 pay letter carriers $1,000 II year.
The Legislature of Wisconsin Is reported to
be- in favor o. the onc-tcrm principle.
Benz. +. Butler has introduced u bill In Con-
grcss providing for womans suffrage.
Sam. White, negro, was hung at Charleston,
South Carolina, last Friday.
Horace ,irccley has just turned into his sixty
second year.
Let the farmer take hclrt-East Tennessee Is
to have heavy crop of both wheat and fruit
this year.
The Chattanooga Times has been cnsmalled,.
but promises to enlarge again as soon as the me-
ccSsary material arrives.
Gentlemen visiting the printing office are re-
qcs:cd not to carry of the exchange papers,
rs we occasionally have n use for them oursclf.
The Russian Jukc has been to the Mammoth
Cave. He should now visit Knoxville, and
then git for hcmc.
Collins.a United States pension agent for the
District of Columbia, has proved dcfaultcr In
the pltful sum Of ten thousand dollars.
An cntcrprisng young woman in Milwaukee
has been doing lively business in passing
counterfeit twenty dollar notes.
Eight persons were killed in railroad cOlli-
sion ON the Lchgh Valley Railroad on the lst
instant.
Alcck stephens believes that brevity is the
soul of wit--and illustrates by writing three
column paragraphs for his paper.
A policeman in Massachusetts has been sus-
pended from duty for kissing pretty girl
whom he had captured on the street.
The Orplanage ofthe Good shepherd, at Lou
i-vilc, Kentucky, was destroyed by fire last
week.
The imports into Ncwslor for January were
nearly $4,000, 0OC-thc largest on record except
in 1866.
The Chicago bribcd Aldermen have been fined
one thousand dollars and sentenced to six
months imprisonment.
A heavy advance in the price of woodland
consequently of wooden goods-is confidently
predicted.
Fisk's will has been admitted to probate, and
his estate is sworn to rs not exceeding Il million
of dollars.
Mrs. Ann f. Cooper, wife of the Hon. Henry
Cooper, died at her residence in Edgctcld, u
few days ago.
| There is PROMISE of an abundant sugar crop
from the Jamaica plantations. The Louisiana
crop is reported short.
A WyandOttc lover committed the horrible
mistake of kissing his intended mother-in-lsw
in the dark.
''Staggcr Juice is the latest name for intoXi-
eating liquors. 10 is certainly very appropriate
as well us expressive.
James slough. an old and respected citizen of
Richmond Kentucky, stabbed and killed his
wife. on the 81 instant, while drunk.
The Missouri State Senate passed the bill over
the Governors veto by 81 to 10, to pay the bonds
| in grccnbacks.
At Knoxville in the Z. s. Circuit Court in the
.asc of the United States VS.. Jack Grub, scire
| faciaS dismissed on cost.
The Radical papers are just now extensively
engaged in moralizing on the dcmoralizing ten
dcncy of their party.
Somebody says there must be instructive
ncatnc>s in u housewife, or there will be dirt in
| the corners.
My dear sir, / will pay you in time-and
since time is money the longer you wait the
surcr you are of your pay"
Major Benton, of the Ordnance Corps, has
been assigned as Superintendent of the arma-
mcnt of fort from Charleston to Mobile.
Tccumsrh Sherman and the heir apparent OF
the house of Grant have Just arrived at Con.
stantinoplc. Let the Grand Turk look to his
ScragliO.
The Virginia House Of Delegates has passed
the Senate Bill repeating the former act author
izing the sale Of the States interest IN works of
internal Improvement.
Miss Sarah +. Smile, an eloquent Quakcress,
Is preaching in New York, with great accept
ance, to Methodist, Presbyterian, and other Or
thodoX congregations.
a Milwaukee Judgdc who could not control
his court IN any other way. restored order by
drawing scycn-shootcr and iourishing it AZ
the turbulent.
George Francis Train has offered Judge Jo-
siah Swain, Of Winchester. Tennessee. the Vice
Presidency of the United States, or the next
thing to ito place his name on the Train
Ticket as candidate for Vice.
The Hon. Galusha A. Grow, late NJ. G., and
Speaker, has become President of the Houston
and Great Northern Railroad, destined to con-
meet scaboard Texas with New York direct via
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