The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1872-11-15
CHIPS. mud THINGS.


Never contradict fool or u drunk man.
The Forty.Third Congress docs not meet IN
regular session until December, 1873,
sam. Gamble, m attarhe Of the chattanooga
Times, paid us u short visit on Monday,
The girls In the December Fashion Plates ARE
bumped like dromcdarlcs.
There are only three ways Of making living
by work, by robbery, or by bcggory
You can buy wood in Colorado for eighteen
cents pound.
The horse diseases spreading with great IA.
pdity in England.
Hundred, of Minnesota deer are dying Of cpi-
zootir.
The most dangerous kind ola bat that flies Mt
night is u brickbut.
J. c. stanton has been nominated for Mayor
Of Chattanooga.
The Republicans have 81 majorIty in the New
York Legislature.
There is no abatement o. the horse disease in
Chicago.
In the Missouri Legislature the Democrat,
will have II majority of SO.
Bowlcs Brothers, Bankers Of London and
Paris, have failed.
At Topeka, Kansas, DR.. Sam. A,hmOrc, in Il
drunken frenzy, hot and killed his wife,
The Tennessee Legislature elected last week
meet, ON tie first Monday Of january, 1873.
senator Brownlows term won't expire till
the 18th of March, 1875.
Greeley carries Louisiana, Texas, Missouri,
Kentucky, Georgia, aud Tennessee.
In Texas the Democrats elect four Of the six
Congressman.
Fifty eases of the horse disease are reported
ut Cincinnati.
The Republicans had a joliiication at Knox
willie saturday night
The steamer Katie sunk at Helena on the Sth.
Part of the cargo saved, boat total loss.
Grant, majority in New York is reported at
jj0jo
Ex-Governor Bard was scrcnadcd at Chatta-
nooga saturday night.
a lrc-damp explosion in u French mine kill
ed - miners.
six eases Of cholera have occurred at prc>-
den.
encourage foreign immigration.
Barum'> big show was at Na,hyillcon Tues
day and Wednesday.
The Republicans have elected seven Of the
ten Congressman in Tennessee.
The Rogcrsyilc Reporter walls like n lost
spirit over the reelection Of Butler in the First
District.
Brother Reeves, Of Grccnevllc, was along on
Saturday, looking Us cheerful rs Death on the
Pale Horse.
A forty ton snow pillow is being constructed
by the Union Pacific Railroad Company at
Omaha.
A rendezvous of thieves and burglars has
been discovered upon an island in the Mi,si,-
sppi, sixteen miles below Davenport
Crittcnden county. Arkansas. has voted one
kindred thousand dollars subscription to the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad.
A white man, named VIM. Reese, was stab
bed by negro and killed, in Maury county. on
the Sth instant.
special train from Boston to carry the Wor-
cc>t,r fire Departmental the burning city, made
the run of NJ mile, in Is minutes.
English vessels IRE doing lively business in
the slave trade between 'rripol and CONSTANT
noplc
The Republican members Of the Spanish Cor
tcz demand that the Government shall cmanc-
pate all slave, within its domlnonS.
A late date from Nashville says the .Johnso-
mans and Chcatamites are still making mouth,
ut each other.
The COuricr-Journal congratulate, the Lib
eral Democracy ON having carried Kentucky by
10000 majority.
The Washington Patriot. Democratic, has
suspended publication. 1t has been published
two years ut loss Of 100000
1t is said there are fly thousand young men
travelling in the United States rs commercial
travellers.
The Trenton Emporium says: The "ju>t-u>-I-
predicted" and 'ju>t-as-I-rXpcctcd" Individual,
were plentiful on the streets yesterday, but no
body was ordering 'bilcd crow
The Knoxville Chronicle continue, to cult
waite the "Unon-C on,crvatvrS." "Will You
walk into my parlor!' said the spidcrt the fly;
'li> the prettc,t little parlor that ever you did
>nV."