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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-09-18
Tennessee Valley Association.

This association, organized so lately,
is progressing in manner that shows
forcibly The fact that success follows
energetic effort, and that 'where there
is a will there is way"
Their Fair will be a success. The
race track Is now completed, and a
splendid one il is. bespeaking energy
aud judgment on the part of S. 7 How
ard, Esq, who superntended the work.
Mr.. Russell is pushing the work on the
buildings, which will soon be complet-
ed, ani will afford ample room for the
large amount OF products Of farmers.
mechanics and artisans, which will be
on exhibition. The stalls strong and
comfortable, Will accommodate large
number OF fine horses, cattle, sheep,
hogs, &C., expected TO be on hand. The
premiums are liberal aud the list exten.
sive.
The grounds are situated near the
large and well furnished hotel of Mai.
j. G. Wasson, Proprietor of the Rhea
Springs, where visitors will find spIeud.
id accommodations. The officers ana
members show a disposition not 10 be
excelled and they are not likely to be.
Among other noted orators invited
and expected. is ex-President johnson.
The Fair will be held on the 18th, 10Th,
10th aud 17th oil October.
lpcEpyru
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-09-18
Southern Thugs.

The Republican Congressional Con.
venIion at Tallah assoc was distinguish
ed by one of those scenes which have
been u suai this season at Grant gather
ings in the South. There were two
candidates for Congress Purman, white,
the present member, and .Joshia 7.
Wales, coiored. Purman used every
effort TO obtain control of the Conven.
lion by bribery aud promises Of Fede-
raj Offices. The Convention organized,
however, without hisaid. When Purman
aud his friends learned that the supper.
iers Of Walls were running the meeting.
they rushed to the door of the hall,
in number about one hundred, armed
with clubs and bludgeons. The door
was burst open, aud the mob began an
indiscriminate assault upon every per.
son in the lobby opposed to Purman
The tables and desks were broken up,
and for a brief time the affray aud up.
roar were terrible. Col. Martin, who
occupied tho chair. arose 10 make o
molion, aud Purman slipped into Mar.
tins seat. lie refused TO vacate and
Martin took him by tho widest portion
Of his panlaloous and landed him sprawl
ing on the floor. The clubs aud blud-
geons made no Impression on the skulls
OF the negroes. and they obstiuat, ly
nominated their candidate, who is said
TO be better man than his white pre-
decessOr 10
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-09-18

A dispatch from Memphis says; Mel
son McGheo, ono Of the prisoners takon'
from the Jail at the time OF tho "Gib.
son County Outrage" and the acknow.'
lodged loader ofthe negro organization
has written letter to bis wife from
Hickman, Kentucky. From ,hls fact It
is supposed the other nine escaped like
wise, as no trace Of their bodies has'
ever been found
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-09-18
A Wholesome Law.

In the French penal code tits provid-
ed that any person or persons who shall
combine TO raise or depress the price Of
articles OF food above or below what II
would bc in the natural state Of trade at
the time, shal! suffer two months im.
prisonment, aud pay fine OF not less
than 5000 nor more than 500 They
propose to operate with this against
men who make corners OH grain.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-09-18
Verv OH pes,nle.

A Philadelphia dispatch Of the 4th
instant SAYS ofa jolly old crowd:
About fourteen hundred old folks
participated IN an excursion TO Rock
land to-day Scarcely any were under
GO wears Of ago. The three oldest were
l0S l02 aud l0l. The latter walked
about supported by cane, and greatly
enjoyed the amusemepts provided
There was band Of music, and dane.
ing was participated iu by many who
had passed four score.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-09-18
The Nashyille IIanner says, 0sunahe

The Nashville Banner says: Sumner
county will write her choice for U. s.
Senator on her ticket for representa-
tive" Thai plan may not result In Sc.
lecilng the Senator but will DO apt TO
elect Republicans 10 tho Legislature
from most Of The doubtful districts. We
hope neither East OF West Tennessee
will do anything 80 silly and suicidal.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-09-18
The Post.
Athens, Friday, September IS, 1874.
The Memphis District.

The Memphis District.
The Republicans of the Tenth Con-
gressional District have nominated Bar
bour Lewis for reelection. Lewis IA
vors the Civil Rights bill and will vote
for it's passage whenever it ia called up
at the next session of Congress.
More HOnOrs for the Funnel.
1t is stated that a Republican Conven-
ton, in which all the Southern States
are to be represented, is to assemble at
Chattanooga on the 18Th of October, for
the purpose OF taking into considera-
tion the condition Of affairs in the
South. But the beauty of ii is imbed-
ded in the fact that the proposed gath
ering has the hearty appreciation OF The
President and his Cabinet. If his Ex-
cellency could be induced to ornament
the occasion with his august presence,
all Chattanooga could lay its hand upon
lis little belly and say, Now, Lord, lie,
thy servants depart in peace" for the
measure OF their ambition is brimful
and running over.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-09-18

Governor Brown has offered a reward
Of FIVE hundred dollars for the appre.
hension Of negro ncud who recently
outraged the person Of Mrs. Bennett
Mason, nt her dwelling, thirteen miles
and half from Nashville.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-09-18

"Tobaeco Ficnds' is the name given
TO those chcwors OF the weed who buy
none aud beg all they can. There arc
several in Athcus
The Grange advance., 1874-02-14
sR1cKsoy, P11sRsoN l. co.

This is . new firm just formed tAev are
successors to the Arm of Erickson & And
erberg. They oecApy . building on Plumb
street forty five by fifty feet on the ground.
and two stories high. They employ nine
men. They do al the different branches Of
work necessary TO taking rough timber and
turning out wagons and sleighs complete,
having separate rooms for storing material,
making gearing, ironing and painting
The old firm manufactured during the
year, SO lumber wagons, light spring
wagons, 40 pair Of bob sleigbs; in addition
to which they have carried on a general
blacksmithing and repairing business
The value Of the work turned off during
the year is $4,000.
Mr.. G. 4. Erickson is young man Of tai
cnt and enterprise, who has made manful
fight with many difficulties and come out
ahead. He was at one time connected with
Swedish newspaper started at this place,
and is widely known and respected.
The other members of the firm are all
practical machinists of many years expe-
rience.
OLE PETERSON,
occupying small shop on Eighth street,
has made six wagons, eleven bob sleighs.
and two irsys Work turned out including
repairing and blacksmithing done. is worth
$1,000. Employs no help but is assisted
by his son.
Mr.. HARTMAN,
on the corner of Bush and Fourth streets,
does general blacksmithipg, has made fif-
teen pairs of bob sleighs. Value Of work
for the year, $1,5oo. Two men are EN-
ployed. -..~
CHAs. LYUNBERG,
successor to Chas. Anderson, on Fourth
street, has just commenced business.-Ther
have been made in the shop during the
year, three wagons and twenty-five pairs
Of bob sleighs. There are now two men
employed in the shop. Fourteen hundred
dollars will cover the value of the work
turned of during the past year in the shop.
FOSTER 4 PUTNEY
are new firm who have erected new
shop on South Bush Street and just COM
menced work and propose to devote them
selves to the making of wagons and sleighs,
and blacksmithing.
The Grange advance., 1874-02-14
Red Wing Mills and Manufactures.

The Suw Nils, Playing Mills, an2 Lumber
Dealers Wagon Shops-hoev they haze
qro,cn, and ,ohat they have done IN one gear.
In 1855 there was neither saw mill, grist
mill, planning mill, wagon shop, or any such
thing within the limits of the place of
hills, groves and fountains" that being
the very appropriate name first given to
this place by the first proprietors, the In
dians There have been manufactured in
this city during the past year 10 breaking
plows, 25 steel cross plows, SO seeders, G5
harrows, SO light sleighs, 320 pair of bob
sleighs. 43 light wagons, and $40 lumber
wagons.
1914, 4,3o2 feet of lumber, 6,725, 900 shin
giles, about 1,250O00 brick, six thousand
dollars worth Of terra Gotta, large num-
ber of barrels, anil yet in scarcely one of
these branches mentioned has the supply any
where near reached the demand. Agricul-
tural machinery, except harrows, few
plows and seeders, are not manufactured
here at all, and yet the demand Of the re-
tail market alone is enormous, as will be
seen by the statement Of salesfog1d else:
where in these columns: Thete> IS no place
in the United States wheFe the chances are
better for building up a ilarge wholesale
business, in all classes Of Agricultural ma
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-
D. C. Hill, Contractor and Builder, came
to Red Wing in May Of 1855, when there
were neither saw mills or planning machines
in the County, and all the saving and
planning had to be done by the slow and
tiresome process Of hand labor. He contin-
ued in his business Of Contractor and
Builder alone, until 1862, when he pur-
| chased machinery and commenced in the
fall of that year, the planning mill business
as an adjunct of his business as builder in
in a building. S015O and with only four or
five hands. His present wood building,
including dry house and boiler room, is
60x65, and his new two story brick building
is 50x6O. He has constantly been adding
machinery as.l his means anl business has
increased: He has a car track from the
lumber yard Of the Red Wing Mills Compa7
ny running into
THE FLAMING MILL DEPARTMENT.
In this part of the wood building Ae has
Ia Smith planer and hatcher foY dressing
flooring and siding, and a Woodswb Birth
planning and matching machine on, the other
side for sufacing, dressins-~nd matching
wide lumber. 9 Here also is circular saw
for ripping.
IN THE sAsF. AND DOOR DEPARTMENT
is a saw for cutting. the required length,
, 1874-07-02


How BELKNAP BECAME SECRETARY OF
WAR.--In company with Mr.. Allison
called on our honored citizen, the genial
and very competent Secretary of War,
General Belknap. He is in appearance
every inch q soldier, and in bearing q
gentleman, without the frigidity or fus-
siness of too many officials. During
the pleasant private conversation he gave
me this item of his personal history:
II was born in Washington, and in
passing the War Department l used to
wonder il. would ever get into it. In
the course Of time read law, and be-
cams clerk for six months in the War
Office. 1 then took my satchel and
started West for Iowa. with deep con-
viction and presentiment in my mind
that would one day return here as
head of the Department. A fellow clerk
said to me: 'Belknap. you are a fool
to leave good clerkship, with a salary
of twelve hundred dollars, and go West
I went West, he said. am Secretary
of War, he is my clerk" This is only
one of thousand incidents illustrating
the wisdom and correctness of the Oft
laughed-at advice of the sage of Chapa-
qua. $50 West, young man r'-Wdsh-
d'gton Correspondence Of the Cedar Falls
G1zette.
, 1874-07-02


VALE, k1CHARDsoN!-On his surren-
dering the portfolio of the Treasury, the
New York Tribune bads Richardson
farewell in the following pathetic terms
"Gone like beautiful vision. Like
the baseIess fabric of paper ten cent
piece, the Great Minister of Finance,
who for fourteen months has delighted
the heart of the American people with
the nost unique spectacle ever Witness
ed in a republic, has disappeared; fad
ed away like the plan for specie resnmp-
ton in sums of five dollars and less
1--WE shall meet and we shall miss
him." Think how gradually he has
slid away from us; melted away like a
moonbeam or q snowflake: dried up like
a dewdrop or like the red herring of his
native strand; gone like slow-trotting
nightmare of finance, whose retreating
footsteps echo on the ear of q country
that wakes. up in cold sweat and fubs
its eyes. All! he was great. In his line
the greatest we have ever had. How
beautifully the succession tapered off in
him. He was great in that the line end
ed with him. The "little end of the
horn" was reached when he took the
portfolio of Alexander Hamilton. In
this his greatness lay: he was suigeneris.
He had no predecessor-even Mr.. Bout
well--to compare with him, and there
can never be such another. The mold
is broken. We shall never look upon
his like"
, 1874-07-02

STEAaBoAT1NG.-Mr. Samuel Coulter
who was awarded the contract for car.
rying the mail between this city and
Bellingham Bay, we are informed has
purchased the steamer Libby, and will
continue her on that route. We hope
he will retain her present efficient and
accommodating officers, as he has prom.
ised us free pass on his steamer.
The contract under which the North
Pacific carries the mail between Olym-
pia and Victoria expires on the first Of
July. The award of the contract for the
next four years has not yet been an
nonnced. We are informed that it is
the intention of Capt. Finch to put the
steamer Olympia on that route in any
event.
The steamship John T. Wright, be.
ibnging to Wright & Finch, will take
the place of the lost steamer Prince Al
fred, on the San Francisco and Victoria
route.
, 1874-07-02

x That eminently respectable and
numerous body of religionists who call
themselves Dunkers or Dunkards will
be q good deal astonished. if not horri-
fed. to see the way the telegraph has
libelled them in transmitting the re-
ports of their convention at Girard, ILL.,,
to the Eastern newspapers. Several
journals published the report with the
heading, "a Drunkard's Convention, -
as the telegraph made it, and the Bos.
ton Journal improved upon it in this
way: "A Novel Observation-Disclosures
Convention of Drunkards.
, 1874-07-02

CRY OFFIcERs.-We have been cen>
sured by some, and our motives ques-
toned, for suggesting the improperly
of members of the Citizens Nominating
Committee being candidates. The object
eftaking the nominations out ofthe hands
of party politicians, is to secure disin-
serested action, looking only to the pub
Ne interests. That object signally fails
when members of the committee use
their positions to promote their own
personal ends. Ring combinations are
as corrupt and Objectionable under one
name as another, and nomination, or
a number of nominations secured by an
interchange of votes by the members of
committee popularly selected, has all
the corrupt and Objectionable features
of the secret caucus system of the old
political parties, against which this peo-
PIES movement is a public protest. It
is a monstrous assumption that this
committee, embracing not much more
than a twentienth part of tbe voters of
the town, include SO large portion Of
the virtue and intelligence of the popu>
lation that suitable ticket cannot be
made up without permitting the men,
bers to vote for each other and divide
up the offices among themselves. II
there are any who desire nomination
they have no more right to sit in that
committee to influence its action than
they would have to sit on jury to de-
termine case in which their own inter
ests are involved. We highly approve
of the plan adopted to present tlcke1
free from party entanglements, but IL
order to be successful. it must be KEEP
free from the suspicion of ring combi
nations.
, 1874-07-02

A Washington special says Supervis-
ing Architect Mullett gave the contract
for the granite for the Cincinnati Gus
tom House to the Balm Granite Co. at
70 cents per foot or less than it would
take to transport it from the quarry to
Cincinnati. The mystery attached to
such a singular contract has, it appears,
been solved that by an agreement with
w. and P. Mullett the Granite Co. are
also to have the cutting of the stone on
the following conditions: The company
are to furnish yard room and Govern
ment men and pay all expenses and the
Granite Company to have Is per cent.
of the entire cost. By this arrangement
the Granite Company can afford to give
stone for nothing and still clear one dol.
lar foot on the cutting.
, 1874-07-02

INDIANS AS VoTERs.-The st. Paul
Dispatch says every Indian in the State
Of Minnesota has a legal right to vote.
They are both citizens of the United
States and of the State. Every citizen
of the United States is entitled to the
ballot without reservation or quali6ca-
tions. The judges of elections have no
right to reject their votes if offered. It
is true that registration laws must be
complied with, but their object is to de-
termine who are citizens, and to protect
he ballot, not to withhold it. Should
the Indians, then, at the coming cleo
ton, offer to vote, who shall forbid
them? It is for the Indians themselves
to accept the ballot or to exercise their
J rights. No one else has the right to in
terfere.
This is startling doctrine. But as a
legal proposition it cannot be contro"
verted. Congress has destroyed the
tribal relations. By legislative enact.
, 1874-07-02

The PORTLAND. DALLEs AND SALT
LAKE RA1LRoAD.-The following dispatch
signed BY the Senators and Representa-.
nve from Oregon, was received at Port
land:
WAsHINGToN, June %, 1874.
Cart. A. P. ANKENY: Owing to the
great amount of business on the caler-
dar, 1t will be impossible to get the bill
up this session in aid of the Portland,
.salles. and Salt Like Railroad, in either
he Senate or House.. for consideration
OF action. The bill having been report
ed favorably from the Committee of both
Houses. it will not fall by adjournment,
but stand on the calender for action
next session, when we have no doubt of
Its passage. Had it not been for press
OF business taking precedence on the
calender it would without serious doubt
have passed this session.
We regret the failure of the bill before
mentioned and are gratified at the fa-
vorable prospect of its passage at the
next session of Congress, for it is a
matter of as much interest to the people
of this section as of any other. The
bill is for Congressional aid to a narrow
Ruage railroad from Kelton, on the IN
Ion Pacific. to the Upper Columbia, and
thence to Portland. At the point of in
tersection of that road with the Seattle
and Walla Walla railroad, the distance
is less to Seattle, an ocean port,
than to Portland, one hundred and
twenty miles from the ocean. In
a national view, in connection with for
eign commerce, the superior advantages
of the Seattle route are too manifest for
argument. When this bill was before
Congress, and fayorably reported upon
by the Committee in both Houses, We
cannot comprehend why no effort was
made to extend its provisions to the Sc
attle road. We hope the interest of
this section will be better represented
OF the next session. Previous to this.
there have been no less than five land
grants to Oregon for works of internal
improvement. Like grants have been
made to oil the old Northwestern States
and Territories. Washington Territory
has been organized over twenty years,
and has yet received no grant or aid of
any kind to assist tie settlers in devel-
oping their unparalleled resources of na-
tional wealth. Special agents. sent to
Washington at the expense of private
citizens. have failed to procure for us
the poor privilege of taxing ourselves
for improvements of national advantage,
while one half of the available lands in
the Territory are held and kept out of
market and withheld from settlement
by a rotten and bankrupt corporation.
composed of nonresident unscrupulous
Spectators, whose operations have been
q cnrse instead of blessing to the Ter
ritory. Our people. if they expect any
favors from Congress, must make their
demands known and their protests
heard. In expressing our surprise that
the most factious got the most favors in
Washington, an old political stager an
swersd US with the quaint proverb:
1.-THE cryingest child gifts the most nus
SIM"
, 1874-07-02

ment the the status of domestic depend
ent nations under guardianship has been
abolished. The guardian. at once the
Court and officer. has been discharged.
Then the Constitution, rising superior
over all laws, vests the rights of citizen
ship and bestows the ballot. TIE ques-
ton is no longer one of expediency. If
it were, it would be well enough to con-
slider its propriety. 1t is too late now,
and it becomes the dirty of Congress
to adapt their policy to this new state
of affairs.
, 1874-07-02

q The Norristown Herald says: ga
loving wife in Bridgeport wants di-
vorce. She recently found pieces of an
ostrich plume in her husbands beard of
entirely different shade from that on her
own hat. He explained that bits of os-
trich feather sprinkled on the beard is
the latest style in New York, and it is
not his fault that the shade is different
from her own.
, 1874-07-02

V In letter from Paris to the Utica
Herald, Writ Skies says: There are
Americans who keep shops and stores
of every sort here; one of tho most pop
ular and fourishing of dress-makers is
10 Connecticut man, out of Hartford,
named Kingsbury-an artist whose cos,
tunes are brought by high-born French
danes, and whose vogue is like that OF
Worth"
, 1874-07-02

A FUNNY DUEI..--A model duel recent
ly came off at Ottawa, Canada. The
two men having indulged in an excess
of what Mr.. Dick Swiveller POLITICALLY
calls "the rosy" quarrelled and caused
their employer considerable annoyance.
After he had tried in vein to reconcile
them he procured pair of rusty pistols
and persuaded the belligerents to fight
it "out like gentlemen" Having go,
them out into the yard he placed them
back to back. capped the pistols, and
told them to walk ten PAGES, turn and
fire. The couple proceeded to pace. but
the courage of one oozed out so rapidly
that he never turned at all. When last
seen he was still keeping straight ahead
in frightened condition.
, 1874-07-02

The PRINTERS AGAIN.-An ~ dent low
er, pouring out his passionate devotion
IN verse, spoke of that night when walk
ing with his sweetheart, he kissed her
under the silent stars" In print he
was made to say that he "kicked her
under the cellar stairs"
, 1874-07-02

MATRIMoNY IN NEvADA.-A Nevada
man. who was walking with his brother
to attend his wedding. was astonished
b. proposition to take the bride elect
off his hands and marry her in his stead
With true good nature he consented.
and the prospective bridegroom and
groomsnan changed places, to the sat-
isfaction of all parties concerned.
, 1874-07-02


TROUBLES OF RoYALITY.-Just now
social and political circles in London are
excited by rnmors of controversy be-
tween the Queen and the Prince of
Wales in regard to the payment of debts
to the amount of some $500. 900, which
the latter has incurred and refuses to
pay. A portion of these are of long
standing, and the creditors have become
clamorous for liquidation, but his Royal
Highness repudiates them on the ground
that they were incurred in the PERFORM
ance of State duties, shouldered off up.
on him by her Majesty, who, as is well
known, shirks as much IS she possibly
can the fatigues and arnoyances of
levees and courtly ceremonials generally.
In short, the Queen has made the Prince
do her work, and has failed to meet the
expenses incurred; and the heir appar-
ent, in his turn. has neglected to pay
those expenses, so that. as we have said,
bills to large amount have accumulat-
ed, and the august mother and son are
differing with each other as to the re-
sposibility therefor. Both of them
have immense private fortunes, and re-
ceive very large allowances from the
public revenues, especially in order that
they may be able to defray the cost of
maintaining their regal state. The an
nual income of the Prince of Wales is
not less than $3.50. 900, and his mother
has two or three times as much; but
neither of them is willing to disburse a
penny by way of keeping up the royal
show. And the consequence is that
Parliament will be asked to make an ex-
ira appropriation. The dread of scan
dal is very potent among conservative
Englishmen, and that $500, 900 will be
ordered paid. without delay. - Troy
Times.