The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-02-01
CHIPS, and THINGS.

F. W. Ernest is a candidate to fill the vacancy
In the First Senatorial District
O.P. Hill is candidate tor Tax Collector of
Loudon county.
Juke Alexis. who wears u No. l2 boot, has
accepted an invitation to visit Louisville.
senator SEIZURE expresses confidence that Gen.
Grant will not be re.nominated.
The journal" is the name Of u new paper
just .tartcd ut Lawrenccburg in this state.
"News Raggery" Is what they call country
printing office IN Missouri.
James W. Locke has been confirmed as Dis
trct Judge for Southern Florida.
The small poX Is rapidly on the increase at
Chicago.
Gen. Ewell died last week at his home in
Maury county.
At Thayar, Iowa, one hundred deaths from
small pOx have occurred In the last four weeks.
A resolution has passed the U. 5. senate to
adjourn on the 10Th of May.
Commend the Posi- to yout neishbor-, and
so help to swell it, circulation.
A Mrs Hatfield was burned to death In st..
The price of horses and mules South Is adj
yancing.
Twenty -four of the South Carolina Kukux
have arrived ut Albany, Now York, where they
are to be- imprisoned.
)ne hundred ear load. OF freight leave Chat
tanooga daily on the Western and Atlantic Rail-
rOsd.
The wife of Ex-Governor Reynolds, Of Mis-
souri,. was burned To death last week, by her
dress accidentally taking fire.
Shares in the Nashville and Chattanooga Rail
road are worth 50 cents on the dollar--bcng II
considerable advance.
The best and cheapest mode Of advertising Is
through the newspapers. This is the judgment
of all who have tired it.
The biggest snow storm since hi-6 visited
Knoxville last Friday night, saturday and Sat
urday night.
Mr.. Fanny Hyde, young married woman
shot Geo. ". Watson dead, IN New York, on
the 10Th. He had been slanderng her.
1t is said that Gen. Hancock will not accept
the Democratic candidacy for President in the
event It should be tendcr,d him.
A woman locked three children in Il room in
Detroit. and the hOnse took fire and burned two
OF them to death.
Ex-Governor Vance, of North Carolina, has
ut last hud II lucid interval and resigned hi,
lnoOtcd seat in the United States senate.
The Nashville Union and American Is AS
dumb II, the most ,irtuous oyster in regard to
tb 1t little affair o,et' in Missouri last week.
The Union Pacific Railroad continues badly
blocku,l,d with snow. Hurry up the southern
Pacific.
">haI Il young man cngagrin F"rnIngT' isa
question now occupying The utttntlon OF the
new >papcr agricuiturui.t,.
The thermometer marked ~ degrees below
zero ut Omaha on the 18th u!t. Hurry up the
southern Pacific.
The Kansas House of Representatives has de-
leited the blIl to remove the disabilities Of dis
lranch>rd persons.
A lire 1T Springfield, in thi, state, lax Thurs
uay morning, destroyed fifteen thousand dol
lars worth OF property. No insurance.
a newspaper oycrcrowdod with cheap ad-
refreshments is The poorest property 4 man can
own or subscribe for.
The cOlorcd citizens Of Washington city are
threatening Il new departure unless the white
brethren give them ftirer division of the spells
in future
A collision is reported on the lower division
Of the Alabama and Chattanooga Road, in
which the baggage master. express messenger,
brakeman and one passenger were killed.
The "Ohio Law" takes the place of the IA
nous Maine Law" in the temperance nomen-
claturc in the West. 1t is the 'PunislI-the-man.
who-make the maI-drunk" law.
I'VE do not bel,ng to our patrons,
Our paper ,s wholly our own;
Whoever may like it may take 1t.
Who don't, can ju, lett alone