The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-05-17
CHIPS. and TIkNGS.


lawyer and editor had fight ut Joneshoro
lat wcck--all about church matter.
Idiots will shortly commence to take PreSI-
dental votes on the ears.
Keep n list of your friends and let God be the
first on the list.
A sugar refinery burned out in New York on
Friday involving loss Of 100000.
Greeley hats and coats, white, are appearing
on the streets Of Chattanooga.
There We're five hundred and forty-eight dele
gates in the Nashville Convention.
The subscription list of the IIolston Metho-
dist, Morristown, is rapidly increasing.
The carpenters of New York ore on n strike
for $3.50 per day.
The Mexican revoutionsts are on the march
to the capital of their unhappy country.
1t is stated positively that England has with
drawn from the Geneva Arbitration.
The insurrection In Spain has been put down
without much bOodshed.
The san Fran iSco Monitor cditorially favors
the Cincinnati nominations.
The Nashville Exposition continues to be
largely attended.
The Huntsville Reporter runs up Greeley
and Brown.
The Radical papers say that Col. Mosby, of
Virginia, prefers Grant to Greeley.
Hon. Dan. Voorhees,, of Indiana, is reported
bitter against Honest Horace.
The Knoxville Chronicle is happy over the
prospect of third electoral ticket in Tennessee
Last week thirty three new papers We're start.
ed in the United States, and seven suspended.
Some one ut Nashville has discovered that
sprituali.m is I'M unmitlgatcd humbag.
A Jersey reporter talks of u glassiul of death
on pale horse, meaning gin.
T. Buchanan Read. the poet, died in New York
on the llth.
lee can be bought at Knoxville at one cent
per pound.
A 10Y named Smith committed suicide in
Bradley county last week.
Ten dollars is the amount charged Knox
vile brute for whipping his wife.
Wendell Phillips thinks the Cincinnati nomi-
nation has killed both the old parties.
The Mobile Daily Tribune hoi,ts the Cinci,.-
matt ticket.
Hon. Alfred IIuger died of paralysis, at
Charleston, south Carolina. on the 18th inst.
Capt sam. IIoncycutt, of Morgan county. died
few days ago of cramp collie.
Jas NJ. King is candidate for the Office of
District Attorney for the Knox District
The KnOXyillr Press and Herald runs up the
names o: Greeley and Brown with whoop,
Gen. Wilder has rendered his resignation u,
mayor of Chattanooga.
The cleveland races are to occur on the 29th.
Both and 3l>t May.
The New York Herald says majority of it,
exchanges 90 for Greeley and Brown.
Col Bob Byrd proposes to be Il candidate for
Congress in the Third District.
There were fifty deaths from smallpox in
Philadelphia last week, IN increase of fifteen
over the previous week.
The miners of the Lake superior region arr
in open rebellion. Troops are being forwarded
to suppress them.
The boss coopcr> Of Boston have acccdcG to
the demands of TIE Journrymcn for eighteen
dollars per week.
The Federal 0hlcr-holdcrs generally are for
rc-clccting Grant. The balance of mankind are
for Greeley.
The American President curtains to the Brit
i>h Queen. and i, ready to compromi,c the qucs-
ton Of consequential damages
Carey, the Presidential brothcr-in-law. has re-
signed the Collcctor,hip Of Customs at New Or
leans.
a majority oi the Democratic members of the
New York Legislature are in favor of ratiiying
Grecey's nomination.
pair of tongs with which Gen. Washington
used to chunk up the fire has been presented to
Lee University by II gentleman of Chattanooga.
Hon. Horace Maynard was scrcnadcd at
Knoxville on saturday night. and responded in
his usual fclritou> manner.
The Radical Reform Convention at New York
last week nominated Mrs. Victoria c. Woodruff
for President. and Fred Douglass for Vice.
John Henry, II student at the University,
Knoxville, was drowned while bathing in the
lIol>ton last Friday.
The Huntsville Advocate, leading Rcpub-
lican paper in North Alabama, has run up the
Greeley and Brown ticket.
The Louisville Ledger HOSTS the names of
Hancock and Kerr. Of Indiana, for President
and Vice President.
1t is sad sight to see Il young and engaging
gent enduring the first agonies of his first plug
hat.
The Cincinnati Commercial notices that
"Grecley has but one brothcr-in-aw, and no
father and his nephews are all nieces."
Scott and Chcrcst. who committed double
murder in Connecticut last January, have beer
sentenced to the State Prison for life.
A man who Is not able to make bow to hi'
own conscience every morning. is hardly in n
condition to respectfully salute the world at any
other time of the day.
Sarah 4. Williamson has recovered iudg-
ment of SlI5 against II saloon-kecper at IIud-
son, Michigan. for money paid to him by her
husband during three years past.
That indv idual known Us the "lazicst man."
has made his appearance. Ileis generally seen
sitting in some shady spot, doing nothing with
all his might.
Some of the people of Monroe county are talk
ing about building narrow guage railroad
from jacksonville to Reagan's Station, in Me-
MINI.
President Grant has written letter cndor.-
Ing the supplemented civil rights bill of sum.
ncr. His EXcelency Is anxious to retain the
negro vote.
THE letter Of W. Il. Carver shall appear
next week. Though dated May 3d. 1t did not
reach u until the morning Of the 18th.
EDITOR posT:-Thc many friends Of Col.
ARCHIBALD BLIZZARD have been anxiously