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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
Sensible Article.

We clip the following wcfrtimel 20
marks from the Cleveland Commercial
Republican OF last week:
The Civil Rights Bill has passed The
Senate. Its provisions are such as to
compel the admission of oolored citizens
into all public cenveyancos OF land or
on water hotels, theatres and oil places
OF public Amusement. Also into COM
mon schools and all institutions OF
learning or beueyolence, supported in
whole or in part by general taxation,
The bill has yet 20 pass the House OF
Representatives aud receive the sane,
tion of the President before j, becomes
a law. And we hope with the school
feature attached il may never pass the
House, but IL II does that il will fail for
want Of the Presidents sanction. We
have conversed with great many citi.
zens both white and colored aud have
not heard an expression in favor OF
mixed schools, and do rot believe there
is white man in Bradley county who
fayors any such measure or would sup
port any man who would advocate IT,
nor any respectable number OF colored
men who would insist on such folly.
Ii may appear justiiiablc to persons liv-
ing in Maine or Vermont, but il will
take almost an age to satisfy this people
that such action was either demanded or
desired by the mass Of the colored peo-
pie themselves. Under The present
State School Law the colored peo-
pie have cnjoyed an equal share OF
school lax in educating their children,
and are still enjoying it, but pass this
bill into law and school houses will be
like the heads OF few fanatics empty,
and our colored citizens will find that
they, or their would.bc friends have
dropped the substance in grasping at
the shadow. We have advocated the
advancement OF the coored race, their
right to testify in court, admission to
the jury and ballot box. a fair division
Of school tax, the education of them
selves and their children, but we must
now oppose measure that some of
them may cherish, oppose ii from hon
est convictions of right, not rejadiea.
Oppose il for their own good, aud the
good Of their children, because, pass
this bin and The whole school system OF
Tennessee will go TO the ground.
The sentiment here expressed is that
Of nine-tenths Of the white republicans
Of the State.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
HreyitieS.

One hundred members Of Bowdoin
College, at Brunswick, Maine, have been
sent home for refusing to drill.
The House of Representatives has
passed bill removing the disabilities
of Raphael Semmes.
The prohibitory liquor law hes passed
both houses of the Rhode Island LegiS-
laturc.
New York had ono hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollar fire on the
Goth ultimo.
The famine in India is increasing
nearly three millions of people being
already dependent upon the govern
ment for food.
John Edgar Thompson, President of
the Pennsylvania Road, died on the 29th
ult 1t is thought Col. Tom Scott will
be selected TO fill the vacancy.
II is stated from Washington that the
civil rights bill is dead for this session,
the influence of the President being de-
cidodly agoinst Il.
The House has also passed bill pro-
viding that no person shall serve as q
Juror in the United States Courts who
cannot read and write the English Ian
guagc.
A movement has been initiated in
Kansas for n union of the Relormers,
Grangers and Democrats, with view of
concentrating upon candidates for the
State offices.
The machine shops of the st. Louis e.
Southeastern Railroad, at Mt. Vernon,
were burned q few nights ago, with
three locomotives and two passenger
coaches. Loss 100000. Uninsured.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
Tic Song OF the South.

Thus The Columbus (Ga.) Eaquirc,
sings verse OF the song Of the South
A sorry sight it is to sec n spike
team, consisting Of skeleton steer and
skinny blind mule, with rope harness
and squint.eycd driver hauling n
barrel Of whiskey over poor roads, on
n hcrmaphrodite wagon, into farmer
district where the people arc In debt
aud women and children arc forced 10
practice scani attire by day and hungry
sleeping nj night.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
A Stass senator on the Civil
Rights Bill.

DIR. " p. Jones, the State Senator
from NaAyille and Republican, has
written aletter to the Bulletin upon the
civil hgiss bill, from which the follow
ing Is extracted:
This isihe most critical period in the
history q the eolOred people since they
were frcoimes, aud If left 10 themselves
theirrhaiees for education will be ire
trieysbly lost. They, in thei: folly,
are aboit 20 exchange boon Of price
less worm for something of less value
thana sness of pottage." II we are to
hayefr schools. IN which they are TO
be "a ncaV, equal participants, another
and larger convention. or many small
ones must repeal their hasty aud unfor-
tuna'e action, and this action must moi
be delayed. Otherwise their only hope
Of edue.;ion aud elevation is gone, per-
hap foseyer, aud with the repeal of the
pubic school law, that repeal being
brolEM about by their unyatefgl ac-
ton, they win be not only without IA.
cilitis for general education, but mea-
suraBly without sympathy. and if these
things conc 10 pass il needs no prophet
to foresee their doom here and else
where
You are very largely undor the esti-
mate, when YOU say, "nintey.niue out OF
every hundred of the white people in
both political parties are opposed 10
mixed schools" Doubtless nine hun
dred and ninety-nine in every thou
sand are not only so, bnt fully de-
termibed not to vote dollar for such
schools.
My acquaintance is 5Omewhat extend.
ed in tennessee, but in the whole cata-
Iogue, from Carter 10 Shelby, do not
knowo of more than one or two, perhaps
three, whom could even suspect OF
favormg this feature of the civil rights
bill, snd do not positively know OF
one who does.
Should the supplementary civil rights
bill pass the Congress of the United
States. and receive the approval of the
President, no power beiwaan. hoaven
and earth could enforce the mixed
school feature.
Do no the colored people know that
1928 Constitute only moiety over
one-iourh of the population of our
State, and that q thousand dollars of
personally being exempt from execution
and taXi.ion, that comparatively few os
the heals Of families among them pay
a properly tax at all! and hence their
demands upon three-fourths of those
who p5y the school money is, to say the
least, in bad taste. Did they not know
such demand would beget bad feeling.
and lead o the repeal Of the school tax !?
1t has already had this effect in sevcra!
counties.
IIithero the white people of Tonnos-
see, irrespective of party, through their
Representatives and otherwise, have
acted robly in regard to providing
equal educational advantages for the
colored people, the range or study. tho
sholastic period, and the distribution Of
school money being rs liberal as TO
white children. If this courteous and
kindly consideration shall be treated
with further dsdain and contempt, will
no. the ouistre,ched hand be withdrawn
and will they not be laughed at in their
extremity aud Knocked in their ingo-
rance?
O, | beg you, sir, speak gently, but
speak again and again most earnestly to
these crring people; beg them TO LEI
well enough alone-to wait further in
dicAtiOns,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
Adjourned.

The Methodist General Conference
adjourned last week. The Courier-J Jour
nal says, lit will be long time before
we shall see here so imposing an aggre-
CATION of theological brains as during
the last month we have had in the midst
of us, and we saw it broken down and
scattered abroad with something Of the
feeling one experiences in seeing a
beautiful and imposing structure tum-
bled into ruins"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
Civil Rights.
DEPARTMENT or PuDLIo INsTRUCWoN,)
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OFFICE, :
Nashville. Nav " 1874.

Nashville, May u, 1874, \
70 County Supermtcndcnts and Public School
Directors throughout the State of Tennessee
The civil rights bin, pending before
the United States Congress, in its pro.
visions concerning public schools, is in
direct conflict with the law Of Tennes.
see under which the public school sys.
TEN of the State is organized, and by
which its officers are governed. II is
fu, thri,nO,e ia oouAiet with tho 10Th
Section of Article IL OF the Constlu-
ton, which provides: "No school estab.
lished or aided under this section shall
allow white aud negro children TO be
received as scholars together in the
same school" So that what the bill
commands, our State Constitution and
public school law forbid. That bill has
already passed the Senate, and all thC
indications point to It's passage by the
House Of Representatives
In view of the fact that in many
counties, schools now closed are OK
pected 70 be re-opened for the summer
session, in the month Of June, aud mas
much as II is desirable 10 avoid as taI
as possible, the onbarrassments tha
will necessarily follow the enactment o
the civil rights bill, deem it the par
OF prudence TO suggest that for the pre-
sent, and until further advised, NJ
new contracts with teachers, for elthe
whi,o or oolorod schools, be entered in
TO by school directors, BY observing
this suggestion much complication ant
unnecessary expense may be avoided
Should the civil rights bill fail tt
pass thep no serious harm can have re
suited from this admoution. Should
it become law, in its present shape
then further instructions from this Office
will become necessary, and will b,
promptly given. Very respectfully,
JNo. NJ. FLEMING, State Supt
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
The Georgia Railroad.

According to the Report OF Superin.
tendent Cole, the gross earnings Of the
company during the past year have
been Sl,57l ,7S5. Tho expenses have been
81 ,0i5, ,20G, leaving as net earnings
S526,570. The gross earnings are SjLG7l
less than they were during the prcced.
ing year, and the net earnings have in.
creased S36,3S2.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
Acknowledgement.

We take occasion 10 specially thank
Hon. VIM. Crutchfield for various pa
pers and documents from Washing.
ton. Mr.. Cruichfield is represented as
working member rarely being absent
from his seat during the sessions OF the
House. 1t is thought he will be can.
didate for reelection.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05

The Franklin Review refers TO tho
drouth, and commends the people "to
turn tboir hearts to the Givor Of all
good IN humble prayer, for the refresh.
ing rain TO once moro descend upon the
parchcd and blasted earth Prayer Is
a powerful instrumcntality and the sug.
gcstion Of The brother is wholesome
and timely.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
Che go5t.
Athens, Friday, June 5, 1874.
Old Virginia.
The Currency Bill.

The House OF Representatives has re.
jectcd both substitutes for the currency
bill, and the whole matter has been re-
ferred TO Committee Of Conference
The Committee on the part of the House
consists of Maynard OF Tennessee, Farm.
well of Illinois, and Clymcr Of Penn.
syiyauja,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
The Xillnpe Pnnor.

"The little village paper is The best
paper in the world. No other contains
the marriages and deaths. 10 say no.
thing Of divorces and births; no other
relates the accidents happening before
the doors OF the villagers; no other
gives The time Of the next ball. picnic,
or political meeting no other discusses
the affairs of the town aud county, tho
arrival Of new goods on tho merchants
counters. or of new hat on tho editors
desk. Without paper tho town that
has ever enjoyed well managed ono
feels indeed lost Tho well edited viii
lage paper is The most welcome visitor
at the door Of The vilngcr and farmer.
and is, IN tho same proportion, the best
medium for advertising.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05

The Arizona girl doesn't carry n par
asol to her waist, but her belt il orha.
monted with an ivory.hcaded revolver.
There IL no complaint Of lack OF po-
liteness on the part Of young men out
there.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
Crime in South Carolina.

Commenting upon the indictment Of
Governor Noses, q Columbia journal
cxclaims:
What have we come to? Fraudulent
pay certificates, County Trcasuier's De-
falcatons, the losing of acts Of the Leg
isla,ure, bankruptcy, and now an in
dictment by the Grand jury on inra-
nous charges--all matters in which the
Governor Of the State is implicated !
These things show South Carolina IN
q most odious light. They are the iii
accompaniments Of tho process which
is now going on all over the State ol
selling the peoples property for taxes
they cannot aud should not pay. In.
fanny aud outrage cannot 20 any fur
thcr VIII Tic government at Wash
ington look at our condition.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05

The New York editorial excursion
lists have swung around the southern
oirclc--and passed on in the direction Of
their homes. They have been heartily
welcomed and entertained at every
point visited and had good time gen.
orally.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-10

Bishop Potter, Of the Protestant.
Episcopal, puts his foot down on the.
proposition for a church congress, pre-
liminary to the session of the General
Convention in New York next October
The London Musical World calls
Rubinstein's dance music the most eel
ephantine, rhinocerosian, .hippopotam-
usian, mammalian, krakonian, ever
heard" Rube's piano pounding, also
has reminded some people of stirring
up menagerie.
Charles F. Matthias, who applied
for the office of dog-catcher on Monday.
appeared yesterday before Mayor Have
meyers secretary to receive certif--
cate Of his appointment. He was dress
ed IN fine broadcloth; kids enveloped
his hands. From his white Marseilles
vest dangled heavy gold cable chain
with pendant trinket and charms. On
the little finger of his left hand was .
massive gold shield ring, the mounting
being of the filagree order. He wore =
Derby hat and carried light cane
New York Times.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-10
Saratoga Fun and Facts.
from the New York SUM-

Ex-Congressman Marvin, who is the
Warwick behind the throne in the
new United States Hotel, called on a
carpenter yesterday, and said:
"Mr. Thompson, we have nice bar,
room, and we want q handsome bar.
made. Who can make the best one?''
"Well. IL d-d-don't 'zactly know
who could m-m-make handsome b-bar-
maid, stammered Mr.. Thompson.
No, no. want q nice, handsome,
bar made FITS -
"W-w-wel., dang it; if you want a.
handsome barmaid, why don't you 70.
over to T-T-Troy and get one? -
mo, no, no, man! l mean who
made these | see all around town ?''
Great guns, Marvin! H-h-how the
d-d-devil do l know who made all the
b.b-barmaids around town! / d-d-don't
know, and darnf care who did e''
shrieked Mr.. Thompson.
THE SARATOGA BELLE OF 1874.
There she goes, the old belle-and
thus we sum her up:
Nine gallons Of inflated panier, l78.
yards of muslin in trailing underskirts.
$4S worth of wig, one twenty-inch far,
1876 worth of dangling smeliing-bottles,
card cases, and straps; 1876 yards Of
gros grain silk, some cotton, pearl DOW
der; $72 worth of teeth on gutta
percha, six button gloves, mammoth UNI
brella, copy of Edmond Yates's book
and all hanging on the arm of some !
thing intended to represent a~.asan44a.
sort OF amateur gentleman saszT s.,,s
WHAT'S IN AAzies III sssss.Fl
Moses Colt Tyler re 3 lered 3;s nane
yesterday in Saratogs ho5tels when N IA 3.
Brooklyn man wrote und6f f 'al ssss y 4sti y
Illton Colt Beecher TOO. ahylEf sa46sEss
A New Yorker was inff0lnoS 4 gao II.
Cleveland gentleman to-s1a u -.
nearing his name distinckAEs ssAasl1
vow ~ Deg pardon !, sir but fdian cstsh
but my name is a very hard one to
catch, replied the gentlemah .sper-
haps it is the hardest name you ever
heard
Hardest name ever heard. I'll bet
bottle of wine that my name is Hard
er," replied the New Yorker.
"All right. said the Cleveland man.
my name is Stone-Amasa j.. Stone.
Stone is hard enough, isn't it, to take
this bottle Of wine p
"Pretty hard name," exclaimed the
New Yorker, "but my name is Harder
B. Harder-and I bet NV
name was Harder"
The joke cost Mr.. Stone just $27.s7-
The Rev. Mr.. Scattergood is regis
tered at DR.. Strong's. He is a first
class man to SOW the seeds of truth.
Deacon Gaudam, of the First Pres
byterian Church in Lock Haven is So
Journing in Vandam street. The Lock
Haven Republican says, "When the
wants the collection taken up
he eften remarks, Deacon, Gaudam
you, please pass the plate'
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-10
Comic Music.

We speak Of comic music, but there
is no such thing. Comic songs there are,
and comic operas; but no comic music,
although this art, like all others, is ca
pable of the grotesque. But music can
express neither wit nor humOr, neither
satire nor raillery, not even the ridicu-
lous. 1t can express jollity, which is a
mood Of mind, and animal spirits, an
other mood, hardly Of mind. But in
this direction its limits is phrase, the
spirit and form Of which make it not
inappropriate vehicle Of comedy. Ire
member but two musical jokes. One is
in Cimarosa's 'sMatrimonio Segreto,"
an opera which l have never heard, and
which, believe, has never been per-
formed in this country; never, at
least, within my memory. In this, up
on the fathers announcement of sun
m1trimonio mobile" there is brief ST.
lence, and then two horns are heard in
the orchestra. It can hardly be that
this musical hint of the probable conse-
quences of noble marriage in pie
beian family is accidental. But, after
all, the joke is not really musical; for
it depends entirely upon the name of
the instrument by which it is perpetra-
ted, not at all to the musical idea to
which they gave utterancc. If the horn
had happened to be trumpet, or herns
(corni) had not been the accepted sign
of q certain marital calamity the world
over. this brazen joke would have been
impossible. The other instance was a
monstrous porfanse,,to or glide in the
performance Of the air of the "King of
the Cannibal Islands, in q potpourri
by Julien orchestra. This air opens
by passage from the dominant to the
third of the scale, and whenever it re-
CURED the stringent instrument, in
stead Of taking the leap of five notes,
slid up, with . prolonged and wailing
crescendo, and then dashed off rapidly.
The effect was very ridiculous, and
always provoked shouts Of laughter.
But here again the comic effect was
produced. not by the musical idea, but
by the caricature of the not uncommon
e1aggeration of grace in vocalization.
Richard Grant White, in the Galaxy
for September.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-10
Rachel.

The most marked trait Of the treat
Rachel, as we'll as of her entire family.
was penuriousness. Rachel would sac
rifice her best friend to the sordid love
OF gain that possessed her whole soul.
and lnnumerable instances are related
in ner history of the ingratitude which
this meanness betrayed ner into. In
the end, her own life paid the forfeit Of
this gripping avarice. While Rachel
was playing in America, Mr.. Felix en-
gagged for her performances the Walnut
Street Theatre, in Philadelphia, under
q contract that obliged him to incur the
expense of warming and lighting it.
The night Of the first representation
was bitterly cold. but M. Felix was too
niggardly to heat the building for the
comfort of Che audience, and permitted
fire to be kindlcd only in Mile. Ra-
chefs drcssing.room. Before thessplzJ
was over the ladies in the houstN ejs
shivering in the chilly air, notuifl1s Il.
standing they sat muffled in wrars I'D
furs, and many Of them were az1{cfod Z
with serious colds in consequence, w I
young lady of the number is kn0Wn 4s
have lost her life from this exp6uufe
the cold which settled on her lunes ter 4
minating in quick consumption.1 The
great tragedienne herself, also, did A1t
escape the same fatal result. ~
change in her light Roman attnS ltke
play was "Les Horaces'' from the ynruas
atmosphere of her dressing-room tostaBsts
cold air of the stage, was too extreme.
and the next morning she was PROSTATE
with IN attack Of congestion of the
lungs, from which she never recovered.
All know how persistently the cough
chung to her with which she rose from
that sick bed, and how soon it carried
her to grave in Cannot, whittier she,
had gone in the vain hope of shaking it.
off in that sunny climate.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-10

A Bridgeport Conn man who
started for the West ten days ago, in
tending to settle there, has returned
disguised. He got As far as Kansas
City, and found one hundred lawyers
there and the thermometer lis degrees
in the shade. He picked up . paper,
read several columns of "Our Special
Grashopper Correspondence" and took
the next train for bis old home.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-10

TIE bridging Of the Minnesota river,
It Anoka, IS being discussed.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-24
Religious and Educational.

There is not in all the State of Texas
a single Universalist church edifice or
church organization.
Among the graduates of the Normal
School at Salem, Mass, this year, was
one young lady, graduating at the head
of the class, who has run u sewing ma
chine and earned money TO pay her ex-
penses during the two years.
The local papers of Little Rock,
Ark, are calling for missionaries or re-
ligious teachers. They state that out of
1862 school children only 1860 attend
Sabbath-school; that 1874 convicts in the
penitentiary have no religious teaching
whatever, and that 100 persons in the
poor-house are equally destitute.
During the fifteen years of Bishop
Whipple's episcopate in Minnesota,
fifty-tbree churches have been built in
the diocese and twelve churches rebuilt
and enlarged; sixteen rectories have also
been built. Thirly-iye clergymen have
been added to the diocese The bap-
tisms number $500 infants and 1880
adults, combinations, 4,l16. The total