The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-06-05
Chips. and Things.


sent Roane county In the next Legislature.
A cyclone struck st. Louis one day last
week doing much damage.
The press reporters lied, as usual, In regard
to the difficulty between Toombs and Lamar
The Singer In the wood ple' is assuming
larger proportions than ever.
Portions Of West Tennessee are afflicted
with diseases Of the bowels.
In Lincoln county, In this State, corn Is sell.
Ing at $500 per barrel.
Kingston, Tennessee, has the mumps. Keep
her above the waistband, boys.
Congress has knocked the woman's rights
question on the head-fOr this session at least
Several shipments Of new wheat from Mis-.
sissppi have reached st. Louis.
III. A. Asble, Memphis saloon keeper, fell
dead on the 10Th from ''heart disease"
The inevitable Colyar spoke at shelbyyilc
Monday night on "cheap taxes"
Rev. Andrew Granting died in Cherokee
county, Georgia, last week, aged 81.
Augusta, Georgia, is badly afflicted with
whOoping cough.
The friends Of Col John II. Savage are urging
his name for the U. S. Senate.
Col Matt Martin is a candidate for Congress
in the Fifth District.
Gov. Washburn, of Wisconsin, has erected
5000, 900 flour mill at Minneapolis, MINI.
IL is now pretty well settled that no salts.
factory currency bill will bepassed during the
present session Of Congress.
Eifaa,s hnnlraI ynunp b,i 81 from
pennsylvania called on the President few
days ago and were courteousIy received.
Henri Rocheiorte. the French communist
who recently escaped from New Caledonia
has arrived IN New York.
The Arkansas Legislature adjourned on the
lance was passed.
A. Bolin, aged 60, was married In Benton
county last week, to Mrs. Nellie Kellrum
aged 10.
The Superintendent of Public Instruction
and the Nashville Board of Aldermen are
crowding things on the civil rights bill.
Col. Robert w. Haywood, of Brownsville,
Is candidate for Congress in the Ninth DIS.
trict.
Benton county has thirty-six candidates for
county offices, thirteen of whom want to be
Tax Collector.
X. ID. Smith and Frank NJ. Lavender are
candidates to represent Williamson county in
the Legislature.
A yankee editor has recently got up rene.
dy for hard times. 1t consists Of ten hours
labor, well worked in.
Bose White, coored, was killed near Nash
vile few nights ago, and his body placed on
the Decatur Railroad to conceal the crime.
Gen. Grant is expected to veto the civil
rights bill should the House be foolish enough
to pass It.
The Rev. Acton Young Is preaching in Mid
die Tennessee, and talking about suing some
body for SANDER.
The Treasurer Of Howard county, Kansas,
has leyanted with $l5, 900 belonging to his con-
sttuents.
There Is muss in the household of Queen
Victoria-growing out Of question Of pre-
cedcuce.
The most popular judge In Missouri just
now is the one who has decided that Il woman
is not an old maid until she Is forty five.
Alabama iuXuriates in State debt of $780,
100000. Tenuessec's State debt is less than
$25 O00, 900.
These are the days in which she says,
81 don't care: wish ! was deadp' and he
sympathetically reioins, Slang the bonnet
You're never satisfied"
married man IN Chicago Is not looked af-
ter until he has been absent from home five
days. Then his wife begins to think some
things wrong.
The Shelbyyillo Gazette says There Is n
man in Shelbyyile who says he had rather bis
son would marry an intelligent black woman
than poor white one.
Mr. Bender, the Kansas gentleman who
started cemetery on his premises and
made name thereby, is supposed to be bask.
ing in the sunshine Of Florida.
A terrible famine prevails in Asia Minor
1t was near the place, in the Garden of Eden,
that great deal Of trouble was caused by II
young lady eating too much.
A Missouri jury, in the ease of man found
with ten bullets in his head decided that she
had been shot, or met with some bad accident
in some manner not just now Known
Kentucky people protest against any sug-
gostion to muzzle dogs just as the lightning
rod agent and book-canvasser season is COM
ing on.
Mississippi man has recovered $4,000
from the Southern Railroad for killing his
wife, and is preparing to invest in another
matrimonial speculation. He says it beats
cotton planting all hollow.
local Esricnets.
James NJ. Prother died IN this vicinity last
do lan. ,ii,nr LIZ, L. L.. 4.