The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-23
WHITNEY'S WEEKLY
BUDGET OF NEWS
MeditatiOns on the Crime Of lS73...Wh0
Dem0netized the Coon Skin?
A FEW RAILROAD WHISPERlNGS
Results Of the Campaign Of Educa.
tiOn Over at Hickory GrOve..Ex.
perience Of Congress sman COdding.
Little Items..A Dish Of Hash for
Wednesday.

Special Correspondence of The Tribune.
Susquehanna, Sept. 22-The enormity
of the crime of 1873" Is evidently very
great. but it Is still to be discovered
who it was that demonetiZed American
money of the better and earlier time.
In our grandfather's days they could
get bushel of wheat for one coonskin.
That was the currency which those pa
triOts who severed British interference
and foreign domination of their affairs
established to promote the exchange OF
commodities. The American people
demand to know who it was that de-
monetized the coonskin. If British
domination does not appear in this me-
farious act, ! am greatly deceived.
You cannot now sell wheat for COON
skins in the Susquehanna board of
trade. Since the coonskin was demon
etized the price or that noble article
has fallen, and wheat has fallen with
it. The coonskin is distinctively an
American product. and 1t stands to rea-
son that no American who was patri-
OF could have been Interested in its
downfall. This crime has been COM
mitted through the Vaccinations of the
agents of corrupt foreign government.
If coonskins were remonetized the fur
riers of Susquehanna county could i'm
mediately go to raising coons in large
quantities. and then. securing the gov
ernment stamp on each coonskin, max
ing it a legal tender for 81, they could
proceed to pay off the mortgages on
their property. RemonetiZe the COON
skin. pay Off the mortgages in that
distinctively American currency, and
make this county and state free from
debt and taxation. We are now
ground down by the money power,
which has refuriously withdrawn from
us the privilege of our forefathers to
sell commodities for coonskins and to
remain untrammeled by foreign influ-
ences of every sort. Give us the free
and unlimited issue Of coonskins, with
full legal tender qualities. without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation. RcmoEeti2e the COON
skin and trade will flourish. the labor
ing men will roll in wealth, and work
and taxes will be unknown. Coonskins
can be deposited in the United States
treasury in unlimited quantities, and
COonskin certificates against them for
use in commercial transactions. Re
monetize the immortal coonskin.
RAILROAD WHISPERINGS.
To the general joy of the entire COM
Thursday placed on full time, instead
of eight hours as heretofore. The COM
pany had heard from Maine and Ver-
mont.
The Delaware and Hudson stations
on the Pennsylvania division will next
year be surrounded with flowers. A
green house is now being erected in
Carbondalc, to grow the plants.
The Erie is having great freight
boom-one of the biggest in its history
Dana Welch a Susquehanna division
passenger engineer, was on Friday
taken suddenly and violently i'll on his
engine at Elmra. and was removed
to his home in Hornellsville.
Colonel James Fisk's old private
coach is now used as a tool car on the
Susquehanna division.
Master Mechanic Bond is enjoying a
vacation in Boston.
Superintendent Dove. of the Erie's
jefferson division, was in town on Fri
day. He cannot come to Susquehanna
any too often.
NEWS ODDS AND ENDS.
Rev. O. II. Boughton. pastor of the
Baptist church, has rendered his resig-
nation.
our Democratic friends will have
great ratification meeting and general
hurrah on Wednesday evening. Edi-
tor Ciuaec, of the Montrose Democrat,
is one of the spellbinders announced.
On its way home from the Buffalo
convention, the Tammany delegation
on Friday afternoon stopped here q
few moments, long enough for Judge
Fitzgerald to make brief regulation
silver speech.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Gregory re-
turned home from Meshoppen on Sat-
urday, where they visited Mrs. Greg
ory's father. Artemus Rosencrants.
who is 106 years old, and. until Of late,
hale and hearty. Mr.. Rosencrants was
for many years employed in the Sus-
Huehanna shops as a pattern maker.
He expects to vote for Mckinley and
Hobart In November.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
1t has been remarked that during the
excitement of the campaign somebody
seems to have mislaid the cathode ray.
During the peregrinations of Mis-
s!onary Ross, of the Honesdale Inde-
pendent, he was bitten by a Damascus
dog. The dog may live, as it bit a
book agent last summer.
trenchant writer observes that the
new methods of elocution render prize
lighting much easier Than it used to be.
"The hand that spanks the baby
Sc the legend used to run
Is the hand that moulds his fortunes,
In this world of woe and fun.
I" 'Tis not now the hand of woman
She has other kites to fly
So the father of each infant
Has to teach him how to cry"
IN sUsQUEHANNA COURTS.
The American Chair company and
the Brandt Clay Product company, at
Brandt, have closed their works in
definitely.
The Democrats have refused to fuse
with the Populists. there are Others"
Why do not the Pops tackle the Pro-
hibitionists for fusion? Motto.
United on earth in defeat we are not
divided"
The Denny family gathering was
held on Saturday at Thomson.
There are quite number of Silver