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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-06-17
TENNESSEE TIPS.

Obion County farmers estimate
their crop at two thirds.
A new bridge is to be built over
the Clinch River at Kingston.
The cost of the proposed water
works for Huntington will be $17, 600.
Lauderdale County has the best
wheat crop for years and so has Ma
riOn.
The wheat crop in Carroll County
is larger than usual and the harvest
Is being gathered.
The wheat crop in the vicinity OF
McKensle is fine. 80 bushels to the
acre is expected by several of the
farmers.
A large quantity of wheat has been
cut in this county. The farmers say
that the yield viii be very large and
the quality exeellent.-Newbern
Tennessean.
Wheat harvest will soon he on In
this county, and if the outlook is not
decpiving the crop will be largely
more than an average one.-Tulla-
homa Guardian.
Petitions are in circulation in
Grundy County and being freely sign
ed asking the County Court to sub
init to the people the question Of
! changing the county seat.
Sam Farmer, of the seventh dis
tuct, owns a 2-month's-old pig that
has three well formed ears, the third
ear icing larger than mans thumb
He swears this is no fish or "panter'
story, too.-Covlngton Leader.
A party of seveu students and two
professors from the University oI
Tennessee will spend two months OF
the Cumberland plateau in scientific
research. They will, gather botanI
cal, chronological and geological
specimens.
| ]. M. Williams, living one mil,
east of town, while boring a well, Oh
his place, struck mineral substance
resembling copper or silver. j,
thinks he has struck gold mine anC
he Is going to work it for all he
worth. Huntington Republican.
A big real estate deal has jus
been made IN Uniooi County. rh,
International Fraternal Alliance 0
Baltimore, Md, sold to the Souther
Industries Company 8,579 acres Q
mineral land for 100000. 1t is ex
pected that the Southern Industrie
. Company will begin mining opera
tons this summer as this tract cor
tains an abundance of iron ore of
! good quality.-Johnson City Come
! A very rare relic of the Noun
: Builders was Eouud last week o
/ Robert Saunders place near Tro,
+, is of finely polished lesh-colore
t marble and, so Mr.. George Flourno
tells us, was an ornamental stone Vi
ed in their ceremonials. II is a pei
feet cylinder 2 inches long and thre
D fourths Of an in IN diameter shape
D on the outside much like little bal
g rel; two flanges proiectsng LATERAL
lengthwlse beyond the ends of I'll
barrel and both beautifully and syn
metrieally carved make the who
much resemble the nuts that taste
the handles on cr0ss-cut saws.-Tro
4, News Banner.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-06-17
Cowlets and IIoglets.

Hog gone 1t!
"Every dog has his day.
Hog and hommy.
Hogs and harmony-nit
Where there is a hog there's q way
into the garden.
Cow pasturage to let, Apply to
owners OF best gardens in town.
Our town cows are somewhat aris-
tocratic and usually prefer walking
on the sidewalks.
Visitors will please walk around
and not disturb and cows or hogs
sleeping on sidewalks.
One spot so far has been free from
the invasion of cows and hogs, and
that is the croquet ground in the
rear of the bank.
The cows are enjoying the freedom
of the city. One Of them remarked
to her sister the other day, ave are
doing just as we please; and are
going around in our own sweet
milky way"
Strangers will please observe the
large number of COWS on our streets
and sidewalks--in substantiation of
our claim that this is a land flowing
with milk and honey.
! We are for the cow-every time;
lbut we want the horses aud mules of
the town given a few privileges.
Turn them on the sire cts and let
them enjoy the good grazing.
Your little child, if on the street
alone, is liable TO be gored to death
by a vicious COW. But that is
small matter; the personal liberty of
the COW and her friend must not be
interfered with.
u We notice one or two enterprising
citizens have built up frames on yard
fences in front of their trees, to pro-
tect them from the browsing cows.
We suppose the citizens have some
rights, but such projections are an
annoyance to the COWS and should be
abolished.
One of the inspiring sights of the
town is to watch few old COWS wi
. ping their cLlns on a freshly painted
! fence. They enjoy it nearly as we'll
D as does the owner of the fence.
0 Some citizens complain that the
hogs are roofing up their sidewalks
s ,and tunneling int their gardens. 70
all such we would say that where a
i. hog can walk you can walk-and
! that hogs ''weigh" is always an i'm
{ portant thing, and should be respect
: ed.
sl Recently we saw ten cows and
calves i'll the front yard of widows.
!. 1t IS proper to state that the lady wa.
= absent from home, and thus missed
the full pleasure of their visit. Her
= grass and roses, however, showed ev-
: licences of the call,
The eighty-fve congressman spent
d only few minutes in Sweetwater-
n just long ehough-to admire our hogs
2. and COWS. One congressman from
d the billowy prairie cattle country oi
y the West said it reminded him Of
3 homo and insisted on stopping off
r but friends prevailed on him to con
e tinue the journey.
d No other first class towe of it's siz;
r in the South offers so many advan
y tages to the prospective Lomeseeke
le as does Sweetwater. Other frs
/ class towns do not offer their street
lie and sidewalks for tree pasturage pur
N poses. SWeetwater does, Peopl
y contemplating m owing to Sweetwa
ter will please bear this in mud an,
bring along their cows, hogs, goats
VI and sheep. -Sweetwater Telephone.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-06-17
Tallest and shortest.

Cyrus A. Sulloway. tallest mem-
ber of the both congress, is 6 feet
81 inches high and weighs $50 lbs
Samuel W. Smith, the shortest
member, is 5 feet 2 inches high and
weighs l15 pounds,
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-06-17

Winchester repeating Arms Co., this
week. An old and reliable concern |
whose products are we'll known and
appreciated.
Sequachee as usual will celebrate
the anniversary of the declaration of
independence. A program is being
prepared which we shall we shall
publish next week.
The News has just got IN S25 90
Of brand new job type. The News
has always had the reputation of do
ing neat nice printing and proposes
to keep up to itsstandard.
Mr.. II. Kent was around early
Monday morning with TX 4 smile
on his countenance. It is girl, just
what he wanted. 1t Is not often
that people get just what they want
but this case is an exception.
Boston papers of May 81, June 2,
and June 10, have come to us and
we thank the donors. The likeness
of Lieut.. Mulkepn is not much like
the Tom Mulkeen we used to know.
The best part Of the picture is his
hat,
Chris Wagner had charge of the
new Mccormick reaper for the Town
Co, and it was cut quick. Not to be
caught by a shower the reaper was
running by moonlight Monday night
after bed time. When Chris starts
to do anything he gets there.
Our friend Col. S. II. Melcher, ev-
er thoughtful, sends us copy of
the Golden Jubilee Edition of the
Chicago Tribune, a beauty in many
ways and which we shall carefully
file away, as showing the growth of
the fourishing village of Chicago.
No, Maude, dog tennel is not good
, food for cattle. The only use we
know to put 1t to is for the hogs tC
deposite feas in-alsO filth. The
; people walking through carry the
fleas into their houses. The sur
blazing on the filth causes it to smell
and then comes fever,
The latest society in town for 1T
erary and charitable purposes is com
l posed of very young people. They
4 propose next Saturday to give al
entertainment at TIE Blowing Spring
to raise funds. They will have
glass of cool lemonade and a piece 0
cake for nickel. BY all means pat
ronize the "WoodIands." Weshall
The advertisement of Cunning
ham & Co., who are ready to thresl
wheat, &c, for the people of the Val
s ley appears in the News for the frs
e time this week. AS their outfit i
new, brand new, and up-to-date, th
farmers will appreciate the benefit
! will give them in cost and labor.
The olank, Clank OF the COW bel
+ is very much in vogue these day
and gets sometimes wearylng. On
q poor frame of a COW seransded u
y Saturday night for three solid hours
We think that in the matter of GOV
bells distance ends enchantment
say a distance of two miles to begi
4 with.
w. G, Hill and J. w. Graham
took prospecting tour for possibl
berries on Sunday but the fires tina
were set this spring has cleane
a them all out, so that huckleberrie
;, will be scarce this season. Incident
o ally they killed a rattlesnake thu
n measured four feet long and was tn
k distinguished possessor of a caudf
n appendage consisting of 10 rattle
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-06-17

Mr.. Chaudoin, father of Adrian
Chaudoin, of this city, was visiting
here Saturday,
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-06-17

The News is read by every one.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-07
The Right Kind of a Juror,

The allusion in the court proceed
ings of yesterdays Tribune to the ac-
tion of Juror Monte in asking the court
for certain information relative to
pending case dwelt upon the amusing
side of this somewhat unusual Incl
dent, but there can be no doubt that If
jurors would more frequently initiate
Mr.. Monies example until they are
absolutely clear in mind concerning
knotty points in the pleading and in
the evidence, the result would upon
the whole he beneficial.
In fairness to Mr.. Monte we desire to
say that it was not the intent of our
reference to his action to belittle him.
He spoke, as he explains, under he
misapprehension that both attorneys
had rested and consequently his inter-
ruption was a little out of the ordinary;
but in any event his purpose was an
honest desire to see justice done and
that is the kind of purpose which is
needed in the jury box in every court
in the country. We honor him for hav-
ing had the courage to call for addi-
tional light on the points at issue, and
we commend his example to jurors in
general.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-07
INDEPENDENCE ONLY.
ON the Now York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Referring to the possibility that the new
Spanish cabinet might actually carry into
effect its promises of autonomy, the Gu
ban leaders in this city agree that the
measure will have no effect upon the gem
eral situation in the island. Autonomy"
they unanimously say, might have saved
Cuba from the horrors of the present war.
But now that the country has been laid
waste the men in the field are determined
to keep on fighting until Spain Is driven
out Of Cuba. 1t is greatly to be regretted
that by resorting to the trick of grant
ing a semblanco of autonomy Spanish
diplomacy should once more mislead pub
lie opinion in the United States as to the
nature of the relations between Cuba and
Spain, and thus possibly avert action by
the American government toward the
termination Of the. war. BY now granting
autonomy, Spain would recognize the right
which led the Cubans to appeal to arms.
They tried for years to convince Spain
that autonomy should be given to them
and Spain refused to grant it. War came,
the problem was complicated, and auton-
omy, which would have been welcomed by
a majority of the Cubans two years ago,
ceased to be a. solution for our troubles.
Independence alCne can put an end to the
war;
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-07
A Comparison.

Professor James Bryce, author of the
American Commonwealth" and now
visitor in the United States, offers
some valuable and timely opinions
concerning the charter of greater New
York. Among other things he says
"rhe first mayor should be a man of
unusual capacity successfully to put in
operation the complicated machinery.
He should possess executive capacity
OF high order, for he will find himself
sorely tried ct first. In a cosmopolitan
city like New York, where there are
conflicting interests, prejudices and
customs arising out of racial character
istics, the difficulties arising in the
suitable administration of the munich
pality are naturally greater than in the
more homogeneous great cities of Eng
land. The success of municipal gov
ernment In New York will depend upon
the strength and the nearness TO unity
or public opinion. When the people
rise up and not only demand but insist
on businesslike administration of civ
ic affairs the result will be apparent at
once"
The definition thus presented OF the
qualities needed in the first mayor of
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-07
The District Attorney ship.

IN a county having TIE complex pop
ulation elements of Lackawanna the
necessity for promptituda and energy
I'm the district attorneyship is uncom-
monty urgent. The office requires that
its occupant shall be good student
of the law; but even more important
than this, it makes rcquisition for
ready tact, sagacity, nerve and shrewd-
ness. The duties of the district attor-
neyship grow more eXaCtng year by
year and there is material economy
20 the county in granting to the ac-
ccptable occupant cordial reelection.
since to break in a new man consumes
usually one-half his term.
When the Republican convention re-
nominated District Attorney John r.
Jones it did so in remembrance of the
notably good work which had charac-
terized his first term. Commendation
public records and only a few days ago
II was again formally uttered by the
grand jury. a study of the statistics
of criminal court during the past three
years will sustain the assertion that
not since the organization of the coun-
tv government has the prosecution of
criminals been more actively pushed in
Lackawanna than under the official
tenure of the district attorney who is
now indorsed by his party for re-elec-
tion.
Mr. Jones, moreover, presents numer-
Gus personal claims to the favor of
the electors at the polls. His entar-
prise and liberality are proverbial and
continually manifest themselves in
various directions. Into whatever he
undertakes Mr.. Jones throws his whole
heart. In common parlance he would
be described as n hustler" and of the
type that the American public some
how instinctively admire. Well is it
remembered with what ingenious now
city of method he made known his can
didacy for this office three years ago;
and the example thus given of his en-
terprise and claverness has since been
replaced by many others. He does not
follow, he establishes precedent; and
the popularity which he has won in
dicates that his methods command pub
lie approval.
Thu recollection of John r. Jones we
believe to be assured.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-07
OCTOBER MAGAZINES.

Among several prominent articles in the
Century that by Theodore Roosevelt pay
ing tribute to the heroes of peace on the
New York police force who have won
promotion by conspicuous gallantry i'm
the performance Of duty will be likely TO
be read first by majority of the Cen
tury's patrons. 1t is most interesting and
timely, and like all of Mr.. Roosevelt's
articles it is tonic with mental ozone. The
October Century Is also to be remarked
for bringing to it's end General Horace
Porter's exceedingly informing series of
papers descriptive of General Grant III ac-
tive military service.
o.
An expert debate concerning the wis
dom of international bimeta!lism, in which
the affirmative position is taken by Ed
ward Tuck, a retired New York banker,
and the negative by w. NJ. Grinnell, an
active New York banker: a paper by Jo-
seph Nimmo, jr., upholding section % of
the Dingley bill; and a discussion of the
present and future Of naval warfare, by
Fred II. Jane, the English war corre-
spondent, stand out among the well-se-
lected contents of the current Forum.
In the line of opportune contents no
magazine this month has a better selec-
ton than was made by the Cosmopolitan
when it incorporated in its issue a paper
by Dean G. Worcester and Frank S.
Bourns showing up Spanish rule in the
Philippines. These writer's know their
subject and a perusal of their vivid con-
tribution helps materially to an under
standing Of the recent cabinet crisis at
Madrid.
McClure's this time pleases us more by
what it promises than by what it per-
forms. 1t offers the usual choice variety
of fiction, poetry and miscellany, but also
announces that in its November issue will
appear the first insta.lment of Charles A.
Danas personal recollections of the war.
Mr.. Dana, it will be remembered, served
for President Lincoln as assistant secre-
tary of war under Stanton, almost exclu-
sively for the purpose of informing the
executive ct Washington how things were
going at the front He was. in short, the
eyes of the administration, and it follows
that his narrative of these observations
now for the first time put in shape for
general reading, will be of historic and
literary moment.
The last number of Municipal Affairs,
the quarterly issued by the committee on
municipal administration of the Reform
club at so William street, New York,
opens with an instructive debate upon
the question: "Should Greater New York
Operate Its Street Railways?" The aftr-
native is argued with skill and emphasis
by Hon. John Dewitt Warner, and the
negative receives at the hands of Ed
| ward Il. Higgins an equally thourough
defense. Municipal Affairs is an invalu-
| able publication to all serious students of
| its special theme.
An article in st. Nicholas which will
prove as informing to old folks as to
young describes minute!y and with spirit
| how in our leading cities the firemen
proceed to get the command over fire.
| st. Nicholas, by the way, continues
easily to excel the juvenile periodicals of
| it class.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-07
Need of State Police,

a subject of importance which has
already received discussion in The Tri-
bune is intelligently elaborated in the
Philadelphia Press. We refer to the
need of more certain police protection
for sparsely settled rural communities
Our contemporary refers to the fact
that within fortnight two helpless
old men representing opposite ends of
the state--one residing near Erie, the
other near Norristown-have been at
tackled, plundered and beaten by gangs
of rufiians. one of the victims having
since died from the injuries received; ;
and it continues:
"The fate these old men suffered is
one to which any man or woman in
any lonely house in the state is liable.
Such an occurrence could not take
place in England, France or Germany.
1t might in Spain, South Italy or
Greece, because these are countries
with bandits, and the deliberate,
planned torture of men and women to
force them to give up their money is
the work not of ordinary criminals but
of banditti-in other words, of men
who have got past the skulking habit
of the ordinary criminal and who or
ganize in a permanent gang which
takes time to its work, does it with
system and terrorizes a neighborhood.
"Our states in the past have been
free from this evil, but here, as in
other parts of the country, the state
has shamefully neglected the protec-
tion of the village, the farm and the
solitary dwelling. 1t provides no police
it gives no patrol to the country road
| and it leaves men, women and families
as open to attack as in the jungle Our
immigration has for decade past come
| from countries like Calabria and Sicily
| rife with banditti. AS a natural re-
suit of our defenseless lack of the or.
| dinary protection of civilization, this
| immigration furnishes the material fol-
| banditti. This is not all. In some
quarters, as in Southern Indiana, ban.
| dts have been developed by the alb,
| sence of the due protection of the state
in county with pure American pop.
uldtlOI' rOr years, around versailles
where the recent lynching of five mer
took place, an organized band has rob,
bed and plundered without arrest, in
dictment, trial or punishment.
Bandit has strange, foreign un
American sound, but ages of expert
ence have shown that If rural district!
are left unprovided with an efficient
organized, omnipresent police. in du,
time local organized bands will begiI
to plunder, torture and worse. Expert
ence, too, has proved in hundreds o
instances that when this sort of thinl
once takes root it will take years t,
destroy 1t. This state like Others, b!
neglectlng the provision of a stat
police to protect the small towns, vii
lagos and farms, is running grav
risk of the growth of conditions whicl
may take a generation to remove ant
reform.
1T is monstrous that great stat
with abundant means should leav
its citizens unprotected over grea
stretches OF its territory simply be
cause they are farms, inhabited b,
farmers leading lonely lives. In tn
cities the men and women of this stat
are safe enough. They have a righ
to be as safe In solitary homes any
where. They will be when there Is
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-07
sAGAsTA's OBVIOUS SNARE.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Autonomy of this limited character viii
never be satisfactory 10 Cuba and will
never be accepted by the Cubans. The
island has been ruined by Spanish con-
troll. 1t has been saddled with debt 1t
can never pay, its industries destroyed,
its trade stfed and its taxation made
onerous beyond the possibility of collec-
tion. No mere modification of Spanish
rule Is possible, because, as long as 1t re-
mains, commercial prosperity cannot re-
turn to the island, and until the island is
prosperous 1t will not be politically quiet.
The United States has a right to require
that a large and fruitful territory, three
or four hours sail from its shores, Is so
governed that trade with 1t shall be both
profitable and secure, No such plan as Is
proposed by Senor Sagasta will give this,
and none which does not will be accepted
by the United states.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-07

state police, mounted and organized,
patrolling every country road"
This presentment Of the matter.while
eminently true, does not exhaust the
arguments for such a force of state
patrolmen. Labor troubles, impas-
stoned mob uprisings of all kinds, af-
ford frequent work for a quickly
mobilzed body of regular police and
the National guard, while worthy of all
praise, is an expensive and sometimes
an unwieldy substitute.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-10-07
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
state.

State.
State Treasurar-J. S. BEACON, OF
WestmCreIaEd.
Auditor General-LEV1 G. MCAULEf, I,
OF Chester.
County.
Sheriff-CLARENCE l.. PRYOR, OF
Scranton.
District Attorney-JOHN r. JONES, Of
Blakely.
Prothonotary JOHN COPELAND. Of
Carbondale.
ton
Clerk OF the Courts-THOMAS p. DAN
1ELS, of Scranton.
Recorder - CHARLES HUESTER, OF
Scranton.
Register-WILLIAM X. BECK, of Mos
COW.
Jury Commissioner - CHARLES WIG
GINS, of Scranton.
Election day, November q