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The Sequachee news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 189?-1896, 1896-01-16
AN ANCIENT INSTITUTION.

The establishment of County
academies i'll Tennessee antidates
and was the initiative of educa
tion at the public expense. Lo-
Gated at the various seats, the
venerable academies have become
the alma mater of some of the
brightest minds Of the state, and
to its credit the public statutes
show a running current of legis-
lation, especially in the early
part of the century, all tending
70 foster aud develope education.
Such one is the Sam Houston
Acatemy at Jasper, initiated,
founded and maintained at the
public expense by men who liv,
ed farther than their own gems
GRAFTON. With the growth OF
population, the old academies
have become partially inoperA
alive since the advent of public
schools and private institutions,
but in most cases the county seat
has become the gamer, from the
fact that the academy buildings
furnish a public school building
for Ne town. This is as it should
be ara in reality is the continual
tion of the idea which prompted
the institution of the academies.
The time is coming when aIl
these buildings and revenues
should be blended into and made
a part of the Public school sys-
tam. Acting on these lines the
Trustees ofthe Sam Houston A
cademy in connection with the
Directors of the 7th. District
have arranged that for the year
1895 the public school shall bt
taught for ten months, to be
paid tor by balance on nand and
pro rata OF 1890. TINS we think
= good thing tor the people liv
ing in Jasper, and they ought tc
see to it that hereafter, every
year, the public school is maiu'
tanned ut least that time.
Tue public school is 10 nj
sense antagon'stic to any other
In TACT as we look at it, it is th'
real inception of and leader tt
the best and highest education
and 80 it follows out TIE idea o
the old County academies tina
they should be the preparation,
schools for collegiate and higher
educational institutions.
The Sequachee news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 189?-1896, 1896-01-16
Sam Houston Academy.

The trustees ell ected by the Coun-
ty Court after being duly qualified
in open Court, met Thursday, Jan.
9, 1896, and organized. Thomas H.
Hill was elected President; A. r.
Hall, Secretary; d, NJ. Tate, Treasur-
er.
After general conference and in
spection of the property, the Board
adjourned until Saturday, Jan. Is,
1896.
The Sequachee news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 189?-1896, 1896-01-16

The County Court has met
and done the business brought
before them aud gone home.
We are glad they rose equal to
the occasion and made a fair ap~
The Sequachee news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 189?-1896, 1896-01-16

We have had some very pleasant
days lately, hot enough at noon to
cause che to take his coat off.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13
HUNG IN MIDAIR.
The Perilous Plight of a Soldier in Chi.
 nese ThIbet.


 An amusing story is told of the Eng fish officer who determined to enter Chinese Thibet by stratagen. He man. aged to cross thefrontier at night, and so escaped the guard.
 On the following day, however, while the officer was journeying deeper into Thibet, the Thibetan soldiers overlook him, and informed him that as the country was unsafe because of rob bers, they would go with him in order to protect him, to which arrangement the traveller was compelled to agree. In a few hours they cane to a river, which was crossed by roie bridge.
 The Thibetans passed over first, in or der to show that the bridge was safe, and then the official got into the moose and was pulled along by the Thibetans, Suddenly, however, they ceased pull ing, and left the Englishman hanging in midair above the rushing torrent.
 Tn vain the officer shouted to the Thibetans to pull. They merely smoked and nodded their heads. The hours passed, and still the officer hung above the torrent. At last the Thibetans agreed to pull him back if he would leave Tibet immediately. This, of conrse, he was compelled to do, and took his departure from the forbidden land.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13

scared, will give considerable sport, and the man who can get three with two shots out of small flying flock may regard himself as a good shot. Of course, man wouldn't aim al the center of the flock, and pull. He aims at par ticular birds, and. if he misses the ones aimed at, he calls the shot miss. Red winged and crow blackbirds fly rap idly, when their nests are not near by. They are not protected, and may be found in partly wooded pastures.
 Some sportsmen may object to this as being useless slaughter, and it would be if the birds were thrown away. He would dress them all, except the king fishers, which taste fshy, and the pot pie they make would be followed by another before long. The English spar rows make a fine stew, as the flesh is al- ways hard and sweet.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13
ANOTHER ICE PERIOD.
A Predicted Result of Cutting the Isthmus
 of Panama.

"A
 of Panama.
 ssThe best scientific authorities pre- dict dire effects from the cutting of canal through either the Isthmus of Panama or Tehuantepec. The late George R. Marsh said of this that "a new ice period might be oecasioned by the withdrawal of so important source of warmth from the northern zones, and Sir John Herschel wrote: Were the Isthmus of Panama broken through there is no doubt that the whole climate of our island Great Britain) would un- dergo most notable deterioration. The sum of $9,0OO,G00 has been voted by the legislature of the state of New York for improving the Erie canal sys- tenn; the Hennepin canal has had $1,- 100000 spent on it. and work has stopped until new appropriations can be made. Matt Quay is using his influence for the construction of a ship canal from Pitts burgh to Lake Erie, to cost SIG, 6,0G0000, and a ship canal from Philadelphia to New York, besides advocating the eX- penditure of $50 0,000,000 in canalizing the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. One of the most stupendous of these engineering works is the Chicago drainage canal, now in progress, which is to cut the divide which bars the way between Chicago and the Mississippi river. The distance is only 30 miles between Lake Michigan and the Illinois river, and one can easily see the startling nature of a union of the great lakes and the father of waters.'"
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13
Pure Food and Drink. Perfect pleasure

is that which is greater the more you have.
 Pure and fine tea twice a day is perfect pleasure.
 Money-back tea is more apt to be pure and fine than no-money-back tea.
 One money back tea is SrA1ll1ng's Best. Do you know of another?
 SeAilling's Bestcofee, soda, baking powder, spices, and flavoring extracts are also good in their way-and money backed.
 4 .SeAiA2ing 6 Comtany San F,ancisco
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13
J. B. Early, J. A. Kilroy, Jerry Millay,

J. B. Early, J. A. Kilroy, Jerry Millay, I. N. Bell, Robert Hudson, c. w. Grouse, c. M. Sturges. D. M. Purman, Wm. Freeze, LiD60ln Fowler, Chas. W. Pugh, N. A. Morford, T. J. Wolfley F. A. Hartwell, M. H. Calderwood. L. J. Wood, c. M. Frazier. Political meetings-Thomas Fitch, M H. McCord, Jos. H. Kibbey.
 Correspondence J. Wolfey, J. B. Early, J. A. Kilroy.
 Primaries-Pierce Evans, D. M Purman, c. M. Frazier, T. J. Woifley W. H. Stillwell, Lincoln Fowler, I. N. Bell.
 Reception-Jerry Millay, ". A. Han cock, c. W. Johnstone, c. W. Grouse R. A. Lewis, J. D. Monihon, H. Good man.
 Printing-N. A. Morford, c. w. Pugh, c. M. Sturges. Naturalization-C. W. Grouse, J. L. Cant, Wm. Webster, Robert Black Geo. A. Xintz. Order of business-F. A. Hartwell, J. M. Damron, H. Goodman, c. H. Knapp A. E. Hinton. Celebration and transportation-D Scott Helm, c. Eschman, c. J. Dyer W. s. Pickrell, G. H. Honshell. Ira P, Smith.
 Executive-Jos H. Kibbey, G. H. Honshell, Frank B. Moss, H. E. Kemp M. B. Collins, A. J. Sampson. Organization-Wabster Street, L. H Goodrich, J. B. Early, H. B. St. Claire Jerry Millay.
 Registration-L. J. Wood, F. A. Hartwell, A. J. Porterie, Robert Hud- son, Wm. Widmer, T. A. Jobs, Wm Buck, F. Prothero. Finance-J. M. Ford, Wm. Christy Geo. Hoadley. T. W. Hine, Lincoln | Fowler. Proramme-C. M. Frazier, c. W Pugh, J. A. Kilroy, c, w. Grouse, L. B Hayes.
 1 Enrolment of membership-M. H Calderwood, T. H. Molloy, L. J. Wood W. H. Ward, M. A. Heissman. Political education-A. J. Sampson Thos. Armstrong, IT,, H. c. Magne W. H. Rulings. Walter Bennett.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13
HAD BEGUN TO PROSPER.
A Periodically Humorous Story Told or
 Cumberland Mountain Fafner

A Patheticaly Humorous Story Told of
 Cumberland Mountain Farmer.
 A writer in the Detroit Free Press tells pathetically humorous story Of a friend of his, Jack Negly, a Cumber' land farmer. The writer had lent Jack a few dollars, with which to buy pair of steers, and had received from him many visits of apology; for Jack was an honest man, and did not enjoy being in debt.
 He was renter, and at least every other season he was occupying olf- ferent farm. By my advice, he hao moved the year before into an entirely new field, dozen miles from his usual baupts, and I had not seen him for several months. When I did see him, at last, it was by accident as business called me into his neighborhood. As I rode past his place he hailed me from the corn-feld and came out to the fence,
 "Hello," I exclaimed. "Is this your farm?"
 "Yes. and list come over to tell you, colonel, that I'll be ready to pay part of that claim uv your a1ore long.
 "You must be doing well?'
 "'I think I'm doirg fust-rate, and I'm powerful obleeged to you, colonel, fer headin' me this way"
 "Pm always glad to help, if l can"
 q knowed that, colonel, and that's why I come away over here so fer frnm . home. Hits kinder strange to me. but ez long ez I'm doin' ez we'll ez am I'm a-goin' to stand hit.'
 "Are you mak;n nc any money?"
 Jim's face bri&htened rerceptibly.
 ''No, ain't, colonel he replied, hope fully; but I'm losin' it slower'n ever done in my life afore.'
 It struck me as rather odd at first, but upon reflection I concluded that Jim might have reason for his hopefulness.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13
UNPROTECTED GAME.
Suggestions for Sportsnen Who Want to
 Shoot Near Cities.

Shoot Near Cities.
 A good many shooters are puzzled to know how they can get practice for bird-shooting near the cities during close seasons without paying for prac- tice at the traps.
 There are several kinds of birds which fly in such manner as to require skill in the killing, and are not protected by law at any time. Of course, a small gauge gun is best for such practice, as it takes more skill to kill with it than with a big gun, and the more skill re- quired the better the practice.
 The kingisher is a rapidly-darting flyer, rather shy and hard to kill With a 2S-gauge gun a shooters abilities would be well tested
 The English sparro,., if put up badly
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13
REF UBLICAN LEAGUE OFFICERS
 AND COMMITTEES.

Officers-C. M. Frazier, president; Pierce Evans, vice-president; Wade H. Rulings, second vice-president; T. A. Jobs, secretary; T. w. Hine, treasurer.
 Board of directors-Pierce Evans, chairman; Thos. D. Molloy, secretary J. M. Ford, treasurer: A. J. Sampson.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13
Maine's Waters.

Maine has 1,620 lakes, with an area of 2,3O0 square miles, and 5000 rivefs and streams, making Maines inland water surface 3,200 square miles. Maine rivers fall OF their passage to the sea mean distance of 6,OO0 feet, yielding an aggregate gross power of 2,656,2OO horse power.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13

M. ANAToLE LEROY BEA1rLIEU, the French political economist, who is not radical, proposes that tax be put on the French ''rentes" as a concession to the socialists. The ''rentes" are the equivalent in France of registered gov ernment bonds.
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13

But, notwithstanding they are now in tn city itself, there are few lots fer sale yet at prices corresponding with the "Sound Money Doctrine" of President Cleveland and his cuckoos, which means that kind of dollar which will buy two dollars worth of property. These lots are near the new elec- tric car line which is now in operation. The
 lots are in the city and their occupants do not need to ride into town, but the presence
 of electric street cars is popular and adds market value to the property. Inside of five years this will be business property. Buy a lot now for a residence and when
 business crowds you out the rents will SUD-
 port you in house outside in some addition
 where you can keep horse and drive into
 town and collect your rents Terms, cash
 in one year, in two years at 10 per cent interest
Arizona republican., 1896-09-13
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

The following is the electoral vote of the states as based upon the apportion- ment act of Feh 12G1.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14
His Fall From a
Sea Captain
To a Digger of CLAIMS.

Herbert Clay is an old clam-digger, who
has his home in tiny dilapidated shanty
on the bay shore near East Oakland. He
is only a poor man now and has to work
very hard for very little. But things were
not always so. Herbert has been the cap
tain of many fine ships, and ali of the good
things of the world were his. That was a
long time ago, though, and his hair was OF
a darker shade then than it is now.
Herbert Clay was born in England
seventy-two years ago. When he was II
he went to sea, and before he had reached
his majority he was first mate. Things
came his way and he decided to try his
fortunes under the stars and stripes. In
less than year he had command of a big
clipper that sailed out of New York and
soon became famous for fast voyages
By the time the War of the Rebellion
broke out Captain Herbert Clay had taken
ships to all OF the principal ports of the
world and had considerable money laid
by. Then came several years OF excite
ment as privateer, mingled with wounds,
hardships and sickness in rebel prisons.
When peace was declared and Herbert
was discharged from the hospital he found
himself without dollar and American
shipping thing of the past. He managed
to reach California about 1866 and has
been here ever since. The glories OF his
past career, however, have been only men,
cries. He could not get a ship, SO took
command of bay schooner; and. as he
says, was glad to get it. But he wasn't
the man he used to be when he stood on
the bridge of big packet, and when he
lost that job he was compelled to ship as
an ordinary seaman.
When at last Herbert got so that he
couldn't do any work aboard ship he took
job in the Oakland railroad yards, which
he held until about six years ago, when he
again found himself adrift on the world.
For long time he didn't know what to
do and wandered about almost starving,
until one day he saw some men digging
clans and concluded that he could do the
same. He built himself q little shanty and
in less than two days was at work. He
has been digging ever since and says that
1t has been the happiest part of his life.
Herbert certainly looks happy. His
:ace is ruddy and his eyes bright, and
even if his house is small it is as clean as
possible, and he sleeps with a clear
conscience. He don't make money, of
course, but he has enough, and a little to
spare to buy tobacco. When he gets his
pipe alight, he lays back and dreams.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14
His Whole Life
Has Been
One Endless Hardship.

George Clark is one of the human wrecks
OF the water front. His life has been one
long hardship, and there is no sign of
change in sight. George has his home
under wharf on the banks of the chan
mel, but he wanders from place to place all
day long, and can often be seen in differ
ent sailors resorts.
Just when or where George first saw the
light of day Is something he don't know.
but he thinks it was in New York City and
about fifty years ago. he looks much
older, but his life has been an awful hard
one.
MY first recollection" said George.
was of getting whipping. I don't
know how old was, but my father was
doing the job on the deck of a canal-boat,
while my mother looked on. remem-
Der going to some sort of a charitable
school for several years, where l was
beaten all the time and then back to the
canal-boat and more beatings. OF course
1 didn't like the beatings and the first
chance l got ran away to New York,
where crawled into the hold of ship.
When got starved out I came on deck,
where SOL WuIppSu anu PuS w "OAN
How 1 got around the world until
was young man is pretty hard to say.
was on good many ships Some of them
were wrecked and ran away from some.
But they are all alike-poor food, hard
work and an occasional beating. When
the war of the Rebellion came l was one
of the first men to enlist. l thought
could not have any harder time than 1 had
been having, but 1 got fooled. Ny company
saw plenty of fighting and privation.
was captured and spent several months in
a rebel prison before was exchanged, only
to be captured again in short time. /
managed to escape to the swamps and
soon became so starved that I passed N.Y.
self off as Southern man and Joined a
rebel company. After that didn't do much
fighting, but had an awful time getting
food.
before ! knew it the war was over and
| got my honorable discharge as rebel 1
could get no work In the East SO started
| to San Francisco, and walked all the way,
begging my food. 1t took a long time,
and when got here the only Job 1 could
get was on a whaler. After three years
voyage I owed the ship 81, and had to ship
again to keep from starving. l have made
many voyages since, but no money. In
/ fact have never had $50 at one time in
!. my life
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The stones we're dressed so as to be laid
with three-sixteenth-inch joints.
When course of stone was dressed it
was shipped to the site by the steamer,
which would be moored as close to the
reef as practicable. Each finished stone.
averaging in weight about two and half
tons, was then placed in a rope netting,
attached simultaneously to the derrick on
the steamer and to that on the structure.
and it was thus landed. By this method
of handling the stone none of them were
spalled or Clipped, and when the last
stone of each course was slipped into place
the joints on each side of it were found to
be just three-sixteenths of an inch thick.
The face OF the pier is composed Of 1889 of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14

The northernmost lighthouse in the Dis
trict of California is the one on ST. Georges
Reef, on the coast of Del Norte County,
and about twelve miles distant from Cres-
cent City. 1t is beyond doubt one of the
finest lighthouses in the world, and the
position it occupies made the work of con-
struction long and expensive.
The need of lighthouse on st. Georges
Reef had been manifest for many wears.
but nothing was done in the way of build
ing until April 3, 1883, on which day the
schooner La Ninfa left San Francisco with
a party of engineers aboard for the pur-
pose of making surveys and drawings.
This took several months, and the work of
construction was not commenced until the
following year. The stone work was CON-
pleted in 1891 The lamp was not lighted
until October 20, 1892.
The lighthouse engineers were never
confronted with a more difficult Job. The
first work was to prepare the surface of
the rock to receive the foundations. which
necessitated a great deal of blasting.
Wharves were then built and the neces-
sary derricks and tackle had to be put in
position before anything could be done.
IL NdS III budG bU6Te should be
good anchorage for the steamer that car
ried out the material, and II, 000-pound
weight was sunk ana an enormous buoy
anchored to it, so that the steamer could
tie up quickly. Every step of progress
was slow and tedious, and before the work
was completed 100000 had been expended.
The long time, required together with the
great incidental expenses, were due, in a
great measure, to inadequate appropria-
TONS The stone in the structure was quar-
ried from granite powders found on Mad
River, near Humboldt Bay, 100 miles from
the lighthouse site. These had to be dug
up and broken up into suitable sizes. The
larger pieces, which are used for dimen-
sion stones, were sent to the yard at the
entrance TO Humboldt Bay, where thew
were dressed. Each stone was cut BY a
gauge to fit the space it was to occupy in
the finished structure. 1t was then marked
with its number and record was made of
the time used in dressing it and of the
name of the person by whom dressed.
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ton to rats. They were comfortably fixed
and had stoves, beds and other convent
ences. They might have been there yet
had not the old hull sprung leak few
months ago. This necessita ted their find
ing other places of abode. Since then the
bottom of the hull has all rotted out, so
that the inside of the vessel is like
pond. The old wreck is not as pic
turesque as the others mentioned, but she
has graceful lines. and the portion of her
that now shows above water presents an
appearance pleasing to an artist.
On one of the largest ranches in San
Joaquin County there is the wreck of a
sloop in the bottom of shallow pond.
The hills around it are higher than the
highest water recorded in the locality, so
shat the sloop must have drifted over them
not later than 1861. The owner of the
ranch says the wreck was there when he
bought the place, twenty-five years ago,
but what its name was or how it came
there are facts of which he has not the
least knowledge.
To enumerate all of the wrecks about
San Francisco would be long and diff
cult task. Oakland Creek is full of them
and the bay shore is ornamented by one
every mile or so. There is the wreck of
big ship up at Frenchmans Island that
nobody knows anything about and on the
eastern shore of the bay there are nearly
dozen of them. From all of these yes
sells the names have disappeared and the
people who live near by have forgotten
what they were if they ever knew. But
the fact is that some people soon become
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these dressed dimension stones, and it is
believed that no finer, more substantial,
or more accurately fitting stonework can
be found in the United States.
AS the completed lighthouse now stands
1t Is certainly an imposing structure. A
massive circular stone pier rises from the
rock to height of sixty feet above high
tide On top of this the light tower is
erected. This is square stone structure
that rises 145 feet above the water. with a
circular projection for the spiral stairway.
st. Georges Reef light is of the first or
der. The lenses were made especially for
1t by Eenry Lepaute of Paris, France. The
lamps of the Funk pattern, with a FIVE
WICK burner and capable Of producing 500
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as sort of duck-shooting lodge for many
years. Some say the vessel has been there
less than four years, but if such was the
case some record of her would be found at
the Merchants Exchange.
A few old river men who have seen her
say the Schiev must have got into her
present location during the high water OF
1861. They say that the water in that spot
has not been deep enough since. But
every big flood through the San Joaquin
marsh has got several small craft into the
same fix, and their wrecks are scattered
all along for miles.
As the Schiev lies at present, she looks
most forlorn. Her masts have broken
off and all her rigging has disappeared.
Only stump of the bowsprit renal ms.
The hull is quite deep in the mud and
marsh grass, but strangely enough the
inside seems to be dry, except for a little
rain water. Numerous colozs once adorned
the sides of the vessel, and even now the
yellows and blues are brilliant. The
picturesqueness of the wreck does not lie
SO much in the shape or dilapidation, but
in the great amount of characterization on
her sides. A careful examination of the
hull of this vessel shows that it is not in
very bad condition, as it was built of very
good material.
The cause of the Schiev's abandonment
can only be guessed at, but Judging from
her present appearance she was not de-