The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-12-06
CHIPS, and THINGS.

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from 10 to 20 inches.
The Jail ut Homer, Louisiana, was burned on
the Goth ult by negro prisoner.
Last week destructive fires were raging IN the
prairies adjacent to Duvalps Bun, Arkansas.
There are sad TO be more wooden buildings
in Chicago now than before the late fire.
A heavy break has occurred in the English
Iron trade,
The ghost of old 10. Miller has located per-
mancntly at Titusvilc, Pennsylvania.
The rolling mill spike and nut factory ut AL
burn. Ohio, was burned on the 10Th November.
Cob John +. Morgan died at Columbia, in this
State, last week.
New York city had q one HUNDRED thousand
dollar fire on the 2Sth of November.
Hon. 30. Guild has rendered his resignation
rs Judge of the Law Court at Nashville.
Boston reports 81 deaths from small poX in
one week
Phelps Dale, professor of music, was burn
Ell to death in Boston few days ago.
Judge Strong, of the Supreme Court OF New
York, is dead ut the age of 81.
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to be erected at Gettysburg.
Rut56ian adyices report the cholera raging at
the city of Khiva with unusual fatality.
The Presidents son, Fred, has gone to his
regiment at Fort Griffin, Texas.
Hon. Chas. Sumner returned from Europe
last week, improved in health.
The deer, har $ and pheasants are dying by
hundreds near Bath, England.
The negroes of Washington City are to parti-
clpatc in the next inauguration ball.
Constant and persistent advertising is u sure
prelude to wealth.
The sugar cane IN Louisiana was damaged
by the late cold weather.
The Boston fire is unC;Norably affecting the
New lor! money market.
Since the election Senator Schurz has been
lccturing on the Franco-Prussian war.
Chicago killed and packed 1882 hogs dur
ing the month Of November
The Moore County Pioneer says everybody
out that way has got the "up-the-snootic."
There are now 1889 locomotives running OH
the railroads entering into Chicago.
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from five to ten cents per pound.
An average Chicagian shot and fatally wolInd-
ed his wife because she refused to furnish him
money to buy his whisky.
Mrs. Mary Iutscl died in Blount county,
Tennessee, on the 18th of November, aged 50
years.
The public printing at Washington during
the past year cost one million eight hundred
thousand dollars.
1t is reported that every league of land in
Kansas contains chils and fever enough to sup
ply thousand families.
The time Of holding the Knoxville municipal
election has been changed to the third Satur-
day in January.
The Rogcrsville Reporter complains that its
columns are without Il single local advertise
mcnt.
Ben Bacon, Il negro, was hung at Augusta,
Georgia, last Friday, for the murder of j. II.
Martin.
The police reports show that since last Au-
gust 81 persons have disappeared mystcriously
in New York.
Mary Ann Moore, of Dover, New Jersey, was
beaten to death by her husband Thanksgiving
Day.
The German Minister denies the story that his
government had taken measures for the prevcn-
ton Of emigration.
The number of hogs slaughtered at Cincin-
natl during the month of November is stated at
10000.
A coal oil fire occurred at New Orleans on the
night Of the 30th ut., which destroyed 20 small
houses
Twenty Chicago gambling houses Were raid
ed by the police on the night of the 30th, and
the inmates locked up.
President Grant has politely asked his father
to vacate the post-otlce at Covington. which the
old cock of the walk declines to do.
Gen. Gideon j. Pillow has been recently uni
ted in marriage to Miss Il. b. Trigg, of New Or
leans.
A dozen or two drones and dead-bcats will
eat out the substance of any Ordinary-sized COM
munity.
Report says that all the East Tcnncssccans
who went to Georgia after the war to raise cot
ton are getting rich.
Dead men, neatly dressed, are an occasional
feature in the scenery along the Mississippi,
near Memphis.
New York has lost in the last four weeks
Loo horses, and Brooklyn and Jersey City
number.
Mrs. Suilins' school.
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