The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-05-15
Chips, and Things.

called to meet in Augusta, on June Both.
President Grants daughter Nellie is to be
married on the 2ist instant. go.
Col. Mosby il to be a candidate FOR Congress
IN Virginia next fall.
The great Redfeld has gone 10 Arkansas 10
interview Brooks and Baxter. ,g
North Alabama had terrific hail storm
last week.
Ten thousand persons witnessed the hang.
Ing Of Bill Kelley at Nashville last Friday.
The Court Of Inquiry has acquitted Gen.
Howard.
The Courier and the Herald, Jackson, West
Tennessee, hive been consolidated.
Congress has shelved the centennial appro-
priation bill for the present session.
Hon. Robert Toombs and Beverly Tucker
were both IN Washington last week.
The Carlist fofces have sustained another
defeat at the hands Of the government troops.
The coal beavers at Cleveland, Ohio, are on
big strike.
Kentucky has paper devoted to the inter-
ests Of Its proprietor.
Bugs are destroying tobacco plants in por-
tons Of Montgomery county.
The Alabama Agricultural Fair at Mobile,
Is reported as the gfandest success In that de-
partment ever achieved in the South.
DR.. Wight. Of Chattanooga, is spoken OF as
tho Republican candidate for Congress In the
Third District.
A public meeting held in Coffee county last
week endorsed Gen. Frank Cheatham as its
first choice for Governor.
The bill for the relief of certain Tennessee
Railroads has passed the House of Representa-
lives.
Rich and inexhaustible veins Of copper
have been discovered in Carroll county, Geor-
gia.
The negroes had q baptiZing in Pulaski on
Sunday, the 3D. instant. at which ten persons
were immersed and over 200 sprinkled.
A correspondent of the MeNnnyille New
Era says Gen. Frank Cheuthain is a model
farmer.
The Changers of West Tennessee ore to
have conference at Humboldt on the l'th Of
June,
An exchange says that l5,72s fond hearts
were made to beat rs 1864 in Philadelphia
last year.
A New Hampshire lady died recently after
having read the Bible through thirty.four
times.
The committee charged with the location of
the Baptist University, will meet in Nashville
on the I'd of June, next.
The town Marshal Of Mckenzie PAGES his
rounds armed with q double barreled shot
gun.
A good many Of the farmers of Robertson
county sold their tobacco at prices ranging
from 50 to 81.
eBy sensible regulation, Baltimore girls
must be twelve years old before they can enter
the high schools of that city.
Professor Smell, of Amherst College, says
that his records show that the last April was
the coolest one In thirtv-six, the temperature
having been seven degrees below the mean.
e. A. Haynes, coored route agent, North
Carolina, has been convicted of robbing the
mails, and sentenced to four years in the peni-
Tertiary.
1t Is announced that Governor Moses, OF
meaner man than Judas Iscariott ever dared
to be.
In some portions of the west the services of
clergymen IRE being dispensed with, the
grangers declaring that no middle man shall
come between them and their Maker.
George Smith, an English hangman, has
just died after having executed so criminals.
His biography Is to be printed for the benefit
of posterity.
Col. w. f. Kcrcheval Of Lincoln county, is
II candidate for Congress in the fifth district,
"subject to the decision of central conven-
ton"
Each Grange has q standing committee Of
three to which all questions of dispute smong
the individual members of the Grange are re-
ferrcd.
The world is full Of men who will cheerful
ly "boss Il job" for dollar and a half day,
when five dollars day for actual work would
not be the slightest temptation for them.
A small boy in New Haven made sensa-
ton for short time by quietly transferring
card bearing the words "Take one," from
lot Of handbills in front Of store to basket
OF oranges.
A man has been fined ten dollars for at
tempting to assist divine worship Ia the See.
ond Advent Church at New Britain, Conn,
n few Sundays ago, with jewsbarp, though
he defended his action by quotations from the
Bible.
DOmestics and Prints.
A large stock OF fine Domestics and Prints,
Just received at South Corner. II.
UAGAIu