The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-02-22
CHIPS, and THINGS.
Knoxville Is to have line opera house.

Knoxville Is to have u line opera house.
,iarrctt Davis is getting well.
Hon. George II. Pcndlcton has spraincd hi
ankle-sa an associated press dispatch.
The Kuklux trials commenced at Jackson,
Tennessee on Monday.
The reported freezing of Spotted Tail and his
band Is contrndctcd by General ord
Philadclphln reports 1870 deaths from small
poX during the past week.
Twenty persons are reported frozen to death
in Nebraska during the more recent cold snap,
Josh Billings says no man can guess where
he Will exactly fetch up when h. touches calico,
"RouScr' is what some of the newspapers
call Ransom, recently elected Senator from
North Carolina,
The Committee on Ways and Means have de-
cidcd that the income tax shall be collected for
this year.
A coal famine Is reported at Chattanooga
with river and railroad communication both
open.
The Southern Methodist Publishing House,
Nashville recently destroyed by fire, is to be
rebuilt.
They don't keep amy whl,key for sale in
Greeley, Colorado, but they have medicine
for rattlcsnakc bite, which squltc rs good,
An oldnrgro man, named Lnrkin Lewis, died
in Griffin, Ga, about the 18th inst, aged one
hundred and ten years.
Sour words indicate sour origin and show
that the heart is in IN acid state.
The Russian luke has been ordered to rcjoln
his fleet ut once BY by, mi hay,
Mckenzie church, Nashville, now has Il
membership Of 700
| The attempt 10 use ish soaIcs for weighing
purposes has not proved successful.
All the western trains, except George Francis,
are stopped by the weather.
A man write. to say he only backed one horse
in his life, and that was into Il shop window.
Should auId acquaintance be forgot: Not II
they have money.
The Rev. Mr. Newman, of Washington, get.
two dollars minute for praying Mt the scnrtc
The lee gorge at Cincinnati started on the
10Th, sinking - coal boats. Loss $4,000.
A man TINT boards riches and enjoys them
not. is like IN ass that carries gold and eat,
thiStlcs.
It's the way with mites there is not one OF
them :!.at does not think himself the entire
CHEESE
Col. Tom Scott has been elected President o.
the Texas Pacific Railroad, vice Marshall O.
Roberts, resigned.
Cmmud"c' says that some girls are like old
mu>kets; they Use Il good deal of powder, but
won't 90 off,.
1t is said to be as impossible to yet money out
of II miser as to cut mutton chops out of bat.
tcring ram.
Diamonds are reported advanced in Arizona
You can't now purchase really good ones short
of sixty cents Il bu>hc.
The wheat crop in Northern Texas is looking
well. The cold weather has been benefit
rather than an injury.
The Franklin journal and Review refuses tC
publish Shcrih's sale, unless some party viii
become personally responsible for the fees.
The Government paid last year in 'bountic
and back pay 10 volunteer soldiers" the sum o
SlO,G56, 800 So.
The last years pecan crop IN Texas is cStmat
ed Mt over one million Of bushels for export
which will realize to that State several million
of dollars.
i In many portions of Texas corr has bccl
planted. and is up knee high. All kinds o
vegetables have been planted, and from prcscn
indications there will be an abundontycd.
The amount Of money paid for whiNkcy il
North Carolina during the year ISL is owe
e@o,OcO,OOO. This would lave paid the stat
debt.
One Of the Memphis beauties writes in thu
Evening Ledger: I'VE girls are going to hcu
Olive Logan tonight, and some Of Us are goin:
to take young man along with u>'-whicl
looks like Il crusade, you know.
AN exchange says that il is rather amusiu!
to see n newly married healthy young woman
whose husband earns Il salary Of twelve or lif
teen doIar,a week, hunting fora girl to help il
housekeeping.