The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-01-04
News and other Breyitics.


which goes to his son Charles
At Nashville, on the 9th, the COM
, mittee cancelled State Bonds to the
amount of $2,276,000.
: A correspondent reports times dull at
Macon, Georgia-no money and no cot
, ton.
Garroters and other Gentle outlaws
are said to infest the streets of Salt
Lake City.
Ex-President Johnson says he never
knew man who wrote his middle name
in full who was any account.
Another New York post-oflice clerk
has been arrested charged with embez-
zclment. His name is Murphy.
Alta revival at the Methodist Church,
Marion, Virginia, Lawyer and an Edi-
tor were gathered into the fold. Fact.
Coal to the amount Of S25,0 900 was lost
at Pittsburg by the breaking up of the
ice last week.
The prospect fer the early building of
the Cincinnati and Chattanooga Rail-
road is not very encouraging at present.
The Methodist people propose to erect
n University on large scale at Mem
phis.
In Nebraska when fellow renders
himself obnoxious to the community
they make u hole in the ice and slide
him in.
Norwood, who short time ago MUIR
dcrcd Miss Mollio Holt, in Hampstead
county, Arkansas, because she wouldn't
marry him. has been lynched by mob.
A woman at Louisville, last week,
Drained her mothcr-in-law with q hatch
ct, and the lawyers call it case of "hys-
teria-mania."
The Nashville Union and American
confesses to a feeling of gloom in con-
tcmplatng the financial future of our
State.
The veteran actor, James III. TIackctt,
died in New York last week. He had
been on the boards since 1926, and was
generally respected.
The Central Savings Bank, New York,
has suspcnded-being the fourth insti-
tuition of the kind which has collapsed
within the last month or two.
A fire occurred at Little Rock on the
2Sth instant, which destroyed much of
the business portion Of the town. Only
q small part covered by insurance.
The deficit oft'c grain crop Of France
the present season is now estimated at
about 40,000,000 bushels. q large portion
of which will have to be supplied from
the United States.
Gen. Robert G. Foster, Sd. son of the
late Ephraim II. Foster, died at Nash
vile on tho 2Sth of December. lie
served with distinction in the war with
Mexico, and was prominent in politics
for number of years.
There was a little negro insubordina-
ton at fernando, Mississippi,on Christ
mas day. 1t is q source of general re-
greet that only one of the rioters was
killed.
Another family has been poisoned at
Louisville by eating Limbergcr cheese.
Whether by the odor, or some foreign
substance in the offensive abomination,
is not stated.
1t is stated on high authority that
Scott, the carpet-bag Governor of South
Carolina, is building a magnificent resi-
donce in Henry county. Ohio, out of the
stealings of his office.
Five prisoners escaped from the jail
at Chattanooga last week, in striking
disregard of the efforts of the gentle
man in charge to render their stay plea
SAINT and agreeable.
The trial of Mrs. Wharton. CHARGED
with the murder of Gen. Ketchum, is
progressing at Annapolis. So far the
evidence favors the acquittal of the I'M
fortunate woman.
That niger was a philosopher who
said: "My chile, don't you never do any
work afore breakfast. Eff it am neces-
sary to work afore breakfast, you jes'
hab your breakfas' fust."
Nine hundred and twenty. eight to-
bacco factories in the United States have
been bonded in compliance with the
revenue laws. The amount involved
was eight million dollars.
Will. II. Gillespie, formerly of Blount
county, was waylaid and sho. in tho
shoulder, near Knoxville,on New ears
evening. tits feared by the young mans
friends that the wound will prove fatal.
Radical editors who seek to cover up
and apologize for the immense frauds
populations and corruptions at Wash
ington, ought to have good deal less
to say about "Boss Tweed and the Tam
many Ring"
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