The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-12-25
Chips, and Things.
Congress has adjourned to 5th Janurr!

| Cincinnati had so, 900 fire on the Goth.
DR.. Huntington declines the Iowa Bishopric.
The Tennessee Legislature meets First
Monday In January.
The jackson Wing and Tribune is to be is.
sued daily on and after the lst January, 1878.
The colored delegates In the next Congress
will number seven.
| The roof OF the Catholic church at sedaia,
No., fell a few days ago, killing three persons.
The best sign a merchant can have Is good
advertisement In a well conducted newspaper.
Gen. Finch Tilghman, OF Baltimore, died
ITuesday-ageJ 85.
Tine Eagle Wooden Mills at Gallatin were
totally destroyed by fire on the morning Of the
/ 18th inst. Loss $780, 900.
| A. T.. Pottes Clubhouse, four miles west OF
Spring Hin, Maury county, was destroyed by
fire last week.
| Goose Sands cut and MORALLY wounded
Mood Bay in an alteration at Silver Springs,
Wilson county, on last Wednesday.
The New York sun thinks it might be pos
sible for General Grant to make Mr. Bristow
the next President.
Thee will be four ministers Of the gospel
In the next Congress. Two Of them are Re-
publicans and two Democrats.
Hsdenyille, in Massachusetts, has suffered
another terrible disaster in the breaking of a
dam.
Fletcher Lane, one Of the oldest cotton fac
tors Of Memphis, died Of heart disease in that
| city OH the 10Th.
State Senator Jones, Of Cannon county, as
sumes editorial control of the Woodbury.
Press.
Joseph Knowles, senior publisher Of the
Providence, Rhode Island, journal, since
1893, died Tuesday.
Lewis T.. Parsons has been appointed U. 6.
District Judge for Alabama, vice Busted, re-
signed.
Ed. NJ. Ragland, has sold the Huntsville
Independent to A. II. Wigs, its original
founder.
Colonel Samuel Pike, said to have been the
Oldest editor in the United States, died at
Leesburg, Ohio, on the 10th instant.
Jefferson Rives, one of the proprietors oil
the Congressional Globe, dropped dead on the
Goth Of apoplexy.
Col. S. III. Coins of Sparta, committed sui
eide last week by shooting himself through
the head.
An Ohio editor insists that monthly school
reports must be handed in ON Wednesday OF
each week TO insure their publication"
Asaprettey general rule the charity that be-
gins at home isn't the kind that "covers null
titude Of sins"
The Iron Works of the Great Western Rail-
way, Reaping, Pa, were burned on the 10Th.
Four hundred men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
A Chicago gectcman has sued the Times Of
that city for 100000 damages to his character.
The Times asks him to knock of the cyphers,
take dollar. and call It square.
GOV. Brown has engaged the services of
Col. A. $. Colyar and son to prosecute the
murderers of Nj. Baur the Gruetli postmas-
ter.
Hon. Jno. b. Rice, member of Congress
from the First Illinois district, died AT the
residence of his daughter, in Norfolk, Va, on
the 18th instant
Col. Samuel Anderson. Of Atlanta, Ga,
formerly private secretary of Gov. Crawford,
committed suicide ON the 2lst. Financial en-
barraSsmcnts are assigned as the cause.
A New Jersey paper has this paragraph -
"A deaf man named Taft, was run down by
n passenger train and killed on Wednesday
morning. lie was injured in similar way
about year ago"
An honest farmer, being asked why he did
not subscribe for u newspaper. explained:
I"Bccause my father. when he died. left me II
good many newspapers, and have not read
them through-set,