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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-03

A'''FDN' 3 '"''N 'A'~J'
J. S. Hooper went to South Pitts
burn last Wednesday.
E. H. Hicks. Of Looney's Creek,
was IN town Saturday.
G. w. Coburn. Esq, is prepar>
ing to run a peddling wagon.
Mrs. Stone and children, Of Chat
tanooga, are in town visiting rels,
tives.
jeff Hooper is having his house
reprinted. l. N. Martin is the ar
fist.
Abner Moore reports 70 sch GLARS
in attendance at his school 1T Red
Hill.
Rev. John Alley, of Dunlap,
preached at the Hall Sunday at 7
p. M.
T. A. Havron, of the Statesman
Democrat, was in town Monday
night.
The picnic on the Mountain
last Saturday was an enjoyable oc|
casiOn.
Mrs. Lou Martin, Of Sequachee.
was in town last week visiting re-
lations.
Miss Stone, of Chattanooga, is in
town, the guest of Miss Thula
Grayson.
J.B. Harris, of Ebenezer, brought
load of watermelons to town last
Saturday.
J. NJ. Byers had a severe attack
ct cramp collie last week, He is
about we'll now,
Several of our young ladies and
young men will go somewhere to
college this fall.
Rev. Mr., Boyd, of Spencer, Tenn
preached at the Christian Church
, Sunday at II a. m.
Col. Tom Graham Is having &
, we'll dug in the rear of his hotel
his old one having caved in.
An ice cream entertainment wa!
given by the brass band last Wed
nesday evening netting them S15
! Miss Dosa Walsh, of Jasper, wa
in town Saturday. She will teacl
a school at the Hicks school house
/ James Baily shot a crane las
Monday morning while flying, l
measured 3 feet 6 inches from til
= to tip.
. There was wreck on the inclin
one day last week, tearing one ca
g all to pieces and damaging tw
1t others. No one hurt.
An infant of Mr.. and Mrs. Kell
g BaiIy died last Wednesday and wa
buried Thursday. Rev. A. l
r Stewart conducted the funeral Sol
t. vices.
Mrs. Nettie Worsham, Of Knox
vile, was in town last week vlsit
ing her sisters, Mrs. e. E. Bull an
Mrs. J. w. Norwood.
Mr.. J. H. Vinzant was in tow
4 Monday. He says that the won
. an that was with him last week
, reported in the News, was not Mr.
Viuzant.
" Judge Estill and Judge POI
and several lesser lights of Il
3 3 Blackstonian school passed dow
)" the road en- route home from Dul
lap Wednesday morning.
The meeting at New Hope col
Quoted by Revs. Walter Croffol
" and G.. H. Mack is very interestir
and will hold till after next SUI
:, >, day. Rev. Mr.. Miller, MissiOnal
' Secretary will be there Sunday.
e. There are now IN Whitwell te
ID stores carrying a general line
merchandise. two first class Dirt
ID stores, two restaurants, two barb
shops, FIVE blacksmith shops, 81
oil doctors. two lawyers, and one ba
cry.
* A lodge Of the A. o. U. w. W
organized last Friday night wit
IN the following officers. w. r. NJ
Rec, P. NJ w, David Davldson;,A
W; william Bells, Foreman;
H. Reeves, Guide; A. L. Rank
Overscer; J. II. Pryor, Recordt
q Fayette Sanders, Financier; FRI
IS Crenshaw, 1. W; Wn. Houts.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-03

a Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic 10e OF Sc
If g. c. G fau % cure, druggists refund money
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-03

Educate Your Bowels with CaHchreta-
Candy Cathartic. cure constipation forever
tos 80 nc 6. g tan. druggists refund money.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-03

MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
No Pastor. Meeting End Sunday at
IL a. M. and p, m Union Sunday
school a. 10.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-03

CHRISTIAN CHURCH,. R. johnson,
Pastor. Meetings Saturday before Attn
Sunday at p. m. Sunday school p.
m.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-03

NJ. E. CHURCH, S0UTH-A. D. Stew
art, Pastor. Meeting LIST Sunday al
II a, m. and p. m. Union Sunday
school at 9 a. 10.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-03
WHITWELL DIRECTORY.
CHURCHES.

C. P. CHURCH, G. H, Mack pastor,
Meeting Bird Sunday at 11:00 a. m. and
700 p, M. Sunday school at 900 a, m.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-08-03
Nonresident Notice.
Success to the News.

Attachment case consolidated before
G. w. Ooburn, Justice of the Peace,
B. B. ALDER VS.. JOHN HOWARD,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21

Beers wait for this to be done? viii
they hold Off until England has amassed
an army in South Africa which she
thinks adequate for their defeat? 4
dispatch from Capetown says the inn
preston there Is that the Beers will at
once take the initiative, but British mill
tary authorities are said not to fear such
a contingency for the present. The
T%ransvaal government probably does
desire to begin hostilities, since that
would enable England to throw upon
the Beers the responsibility for war.
There will of course be no hostile dem
onstration pending the meeting of the
British cabinet and its response to the
last Transvaal note. But If it should
become obvious that England Is parley-
ing solely to gain time in which to
complete preparations for wal the Beers
would very likely take the initiative, for
which undoubtedly they are entirely
ready.
Evidently the crisis cannot be much
longer postponed. The tension is too
great to be prolonged beyond perhaps a
few days. The British cabinet council
will doubtless settle the question
whether or not there is TO be war.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21
ENGLAND GAINING TINE.

A council of the British cabinet has
been summoned to consider the last
communication from the Transvaal gov
ernmcnt and it is expected that it will
be held this week. The dispatches say
that 1t is by no means certain the coun-
Gil will adopt extreme measures, in spite
of the uncompromising nature of the
Boer reply and note that the delibera-
ton on the part of the British govern
ment is interpreted not only in London
but in other European capitals as a de-
sire on the part of Great Britain to gain
time while the transports are hurrying
troops to South Africa.
This is a not improbable view. The
British army in South Africa is not
sufficient to cope with the Beers and 1t
will take at least a month to get an
adequate force there for offensive opera
tons. If hostilities were to begin now
the British would be at a disadvantage
and to suffer immediate defeat would
be a strategic blundef that would in
evitably have a most damaging effect
uloh biltioh plesliSe |IOuJ SOutl
Africa. 1t is needless to say that this
Is fully understood by the British cabi-
net. If there must be war the policy of
the government will be to push it with
all possible vigor, carrying 1t into the
Transyaal and prosecuting 1t energetic
ally and relentlessly. This could not be
lone with the force England now has
in South Africa, That army would be
compelled to fight on the defensive. 1t
would be fully occupied in guarding
British territory against Boer invasion
and it is questionable whether 1t would
be entirely successful in this, since it is
very certain that the Beers would put
all the energy they possess in their cam
paign.
Manifestly, therefore, II England in
tends to go to war in the event of the
Transyaal government rejecting her
terms, she must have a much larger
force in South Africa than Is now there
or invite repulse and discontinue all
along the line. If the Beers are able
to put in the field IN army of 10000, the
British should have a force at least
equal TO that and TO collect such a force
will require several weeks. VIII the
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21
AUTUMN.
Bede'S Budget.

beueS buuSet.
o the wheat is wearing whiskers
And the corn is wearing silk,
And the stocks are waving tassels all 50
fair,
And the berries blush for pickers,
And the cows give butter milk,
And the thistle down is floating in the air.
And the argus-eyed new later
Is a peepin' from the hill,
And the flax says. won't you twist me into
Irvine?
And the ghost-dust covered miller
Is ~a-grinding at the mill,
And the punk'in IS a-pullin' at the vine.
And once more tits Indian summer
For the weather's smoky blue,
And the little ones are swinging on the
gate,
Are both making much ado,
And the officeseekers seeking DER the state.
And we hear the loud exhorters,
For tits now campmeeting time,
And the chickens are a-laying very low,
And the harvest moon gives quarters
To all those without a dime,
And lovers stroll where gentle breezes blow.
And Jack Frost his nest has feathered,
And the squirrels are in glee,
And the thresher's hum is heard throughout
the land,
And the nuts will soon he gathered,
And we'll have a huskng bee,
And natures music beats the Rosa band.
And the cider press is gripding
And the farmer takes his swine unto the
And We see the gourd a-climbing,
While the prices follow suit,
And the thistle down is floating in the air.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21

In the controversy between Auditor
Cornell and Governor Poynter over the
supervision of insurance companies the
overwhelming popular sentiment is I'M
q~uestionably with the governor. The
insurance department has for years ex-
erted a demoralizing influence upon each
successive auditor. 1t created n scandal
last winter that came very neal to cul-
minating In the impeachment of Auditor
Cornell. His summary suspension and
removal was only prevented by the en-
actment of the law that divorced the in
surance business from the auditors
office. Cornelrs persistent defiance of
the law only confirms the wisdom of
the course taken by the legislature.
Why any officer with a fixed income that
cannot be legally increased by fees or
perquisites of any kind should resist the
effort to relieve him of additional labor
and responsibility passes comprehen-
sion.
If Mr.. Cornell imagines that obstruc-
ton OF the new insurance Jaw will oper-
ate as a vindication of the indefensible
methods pursued by the insurance in
spectors for whose conduct he was re-
sponsible he is, to say the least, labor
ing under a delusion. His contention
that he is still the head of the insur-
ance department Notwithstanding the
law which he and every other state
officer is expected to obey so long as
it is not declared invalid by the courts
naturally creates the impression that he
Is waging a fight for plumber rather than
good government. 1t was his manifest
duty in the first place to turn over the
books and papers of the insurance de-
partment to the new commissioner, re-
serving to himself the right to test the
validity of the law in the courts. His
attempt to starve out the commissioner
is as ill-advised as his confusing circu-
lar letters to insurance companies.
The people of Nebraska care very little
who has control of insurance super
vision, but they have no patience with
any officer who foments discord at the
expense of po~licy-holders and subjects
them to imposition and extortion by
wildcat insurance companies that take
advantage of the war that prevents the
application of the safeguards thrown
around policy-holders by the last legis-
lature. Incidentally the people have a
right to feel aggravated over the course
of Auditor Cornell whereby the treasury
is deprived of revenues estimated to
yield from $4,000 to 100000 every year.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21
ANOTHER

There will be more or less interest
felt, particularly in official circles, re-
garding the conference between General
Otis and a prominent insurgent officer,
but that anything practical will come
of 1T Is hardly to be expected. The
idea at Washington appears to be that
the proposed parley is to gain time, but
we cannot see why the insurgents
should have such motive at present, a
month or more before the rainy season
will end and military operations ear be
renewed on a large scale. The insur-
gent leaders certainly understand that
a conference at this time can make no
difference in the preparations that the
American military authorities are MAX
ing for the active renewal and vigorous
prosecution of hostilities and that a par
ley in which they should offer anything
less than unconditional surrender would
be utterly futile and useless. .
1t is possible, as surmised at Wash
ington, that the insurgent general who
desires a conference may represent an
element which is disposed to surrender
if assured of considerable treatment on
the part Of the American authorities.
1t is not unreasonable to assume that
among the insurgents there are some
who feel that their cause is hopeless
and who are willing to yield If given
assurance Of security and good treat
ment. 1t is needless to say that any
such would be given the assurance. But
there is little satisfaction in conjecture
and a few days will disclose the pur-
pose of the proposed parley.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Thomas Balm, new speaker of the Cana
dian House OF Commons, is a farmer, the
first to gain that post.
The total number of deaths In Boston last
year was 1886, a decrease of 26S from the
previous year, and the death rate was the
lowest on record in the city.
The national memorial committee has
voted 10000 for the erection of a suitable
library at Hawarden for Gladstone's collec-
tion of books and the work will begin at
once.
The Society of the Army OF the Potomac
is to hold its thirtieth annual reunion in
Pittsburg, Penn, October II and ~ and ar
engagements already made there insure 1t
the heartiest welcome.
Senator Deboe of Kentucky, having
shaved off his dropping moustache at the
instance OF friends who wanted him to be
modern, now looks so much like President
Mckinley that 1t is difficult to tell them
apart at a short distance.
An admiraps salute of seventeen guns is
to be fired by the battery of the Pennsyl-
yania state arsenal in Harrisburg on the
day that Admiral Dewey lands in this coun-
try. Similar salutes will be fired at the
same time at Wichita and Topeka, Kan.
Il. d. Fee, the new treasurer of Barnwell
county, South Carolina, has found a shortage
in his predecessors accounts of nearly
$4,000. Mr.. Fee announces that his fathers
estate lis worth about the amount of the
deficiency and he will devote 1t to paying the
shortage, since his father was the former
treasurer.
The Ingersoll Monument association has
issued an appeal for funds to carry out
its project of erecting a memorial to the
famous agnostie at his old home in Peoria,
Ill. Julia Marlowe, whom Colonel Ingersoll
did much toward introducing to the public,
and Mrs. French Octave Thanet) are
among the contributors.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21

Rear Admiral Schley will accept his
assignment to sea service as commander
of the South Atlantic squadron, now
under command of Rear Admiral How
ison, who will retire for age next
month. Schley desired sea service and
while 1t is probable that he would have
preferred a different assignment he has
too high a sense of duty to complain of
the action of his superiors in authority
and his acceptance is a rebuke to those
over-zealous friends who have alleged
that his assignment was prompted by
unfriendliness of the Navy department.
and a desire to practically shelve him.
The Maryland friends of Rear Admiral
Schley have been especially noisy in
their criticism of the assignment and
their course appears somewhat ride
ulous in view of the decision of the ad-
miral and his statement that he always
obeyed orders and would cheerfully as
sumo the duties of any post selected by
the authority which it had been his
pride to serve for forty-three years.
liz 10 lit SpillC vi d l. <AhiSllIdh
sailor and there is none truer than Win
field Scott Schley.
The South Atlantic station has not
been regarded as of great Importance,
but it will grow in Importance, as the
president pointed out, and assignment
to it is officially regarded as a mark
of distinction rather than a slight. At
all events it appears TO be the only
command to which Schley could be as
signed at present. Thus there is no
reasonable ground whatever for COM
plant and criticism and those who in
dulge in it are o doing Schley a
friendly service.
There is no doubt as to the position
of Rear Admiral Schley in the respect
Of the American people, They honor
him as an able and gallant officer. The
place he will occupy in naval history
is well assured. He is fully qualified
to protect his rights and maintain his
professional honor and his friends may
safely leave it to himself to do this.
The injudicious course of some of them
is very likely distasteful to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CORN CROP.
Juicy Array of Figures for Repub-
lfcan Spellbinders.

Persons who revel in big figures will
ma a source of great joy in the agricultural
statistics of this hountiful year. They can
begin to work up their enthusiasm with the
cotton crop-too large, we fear, to bring
satisfactory returns to the planters. Then
they can take up oats, peas, beans and
barley, each In its turn, and find the supply
joyfully ample. But the ecstatic hour will
not set in until they gaze upon the estimate
of the corn crop of the United States which
Chicago experts have figured out. 1t is put
at $500, 900, 900 bushels. OF course, no esti-
nate, whether official or otherwise, can be
guaranteed to be absolutely correct. Nobody
has ever made or ever will make a count
of the bushels of corn raised in a year. But
the acreage can be and is closely approx
mated, and so with the average yield per
acre. Thus we are able to get within a few
million bushels Of the actual quantity, and
the result is, perhaps, as likely to be below
as above the Understandable verify.
This output Of $500, 900, 900 is the largest
crop on record, exceeding by 500, 900, 900
bushels the greatest of its predecessors,
that OF 1885, the first year of the first
Cleveland administration Since 1t is a
fact, however absurd, that crops influence
votes, and are, therefore, a political factor,
it. may be worth while for republican spell
binders to remember that Mckinley is
5000, 900 bushels of corn ahead of the only
democratic president since Buchanan!
The $500, 900, 900 crop Of this year means
more than thirty bushels to each man,
woman and child in the country; more
than $50 bushels to each family. We leave
to those who delight in such tasks the pleas
ure of figuring out how many carloads and
how many miles of cars would be required
to carry this crop to market. 1t means
low prices, which may not be good for all
the producers, but will not injure the con-
sumers. 1t ought to mean cheap meat, es-
pecially hog products. Only a small por-
tion OF our corn Is used for bread, but 1t
is the raw material from which various
kinds OF meat are made. And, besides be-
ing bread and meat, it is animal power. 1t
Is the strength Of the horse, the mule, and
the OK. 1t runs the pillow, the dray, the
wagon, and the carriage. Nor is this the
limit of its utilities. 1t is milk for babies
as we'll as for larger folk, and it is converted
into beverages that cheer and, also, inebri-
ate. There are, in some of the states, a
good many prohlbitionists who see no in
consistency i'm raising such varieties of
corn as the distillers prefer and hauling 1t
to the distilleries. But they are very bitter
in denunciation of the man who leases a
building in which whisky Is sold.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21

deficient yield was used in the markets to
the utmost, but wheat declined three-duar-
ters OF a cent, while corn advanced Ia
cents and cotton an eighth, and pork de-
clined 90 cents per barrel, without change In
lard or hogs. The heavy exports this year
are not attributable to a fall in prices, but
in breadstuffs there appears a gain of $5,O71,-
023. In quantity a loss Of $4,000 bushels
OF wheat was more than balanced by an in
crease OF 400. 900 barrels OF flour, making
17,169, SS6 bushels, -four included, against
16, asa, 1888 last year. though owing to lower
prices the shipments last year were SS3l,69a
more than those OF this year In value. But
in corn the increase of $1,000, 900 bushels
brought an increase of SS.927, 600 in value,
and in oats the Increase in value was S753.OOO.
Including cattle and hogs, exports OF pro
visions show a gain in value OF S2,2Sl,2fo'
A large part was due to the increase OF over
5000, 900 pounds in butter, the gain In value
being $S6S. $50, but in fresh beef the gain
was $532, 600, in hams $685., 900 and in oleo
S24I,OO0. Though pork declined, the exports
increased only slightly. The cotton exports
decreased nearly 500, 900 in value, the guam
tity being 1858 bales smaller, though the
average export price was 6.2 cents, against
6 cents per pound last year. The oil ex-
ports, however, increased 1897 900 In IL
Eliminating, and some increase in other items
made the total gain Sl,54S, 5O2. Inc totai
value of these principal staples exported In
August was S53, 1925, ASS, not only exceeding
those of last year, as above stated, but also
those of August. 1897, by ST, 600, 900 and those
of August, 1896, by about S17, 900, 900.
In brief the fall movement starts with
larger exports of staples in August than
were seen last year in September and with
nothing to indicate that a decline Is proba-
Bile. The foreign demand for the winter Ia
usually foreshadowed fairly well In August,
unless checked by subsequent change in
prices. and the range has now been so
nearly maintained for six weeks. with an
outgo considerably greater than that of last
year. that in breadstuffs and provisions Its
continuance seems probable.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21

How account for the unexplainable
absence Of Nebraska's governor and his
trust-smashing attorney general from
the gubernatorial antitrust love feast at
st. Louis? The attendance at the st.
Louis meeting is chiefly from the dem
ocratic states Of the southwest, whose
official representatives will revel in de-
nouncing the trusts and demanding
their absolute destruction. Even if it
takes a sergeant-at-arms to get him,
Nebraska's Illuminating attorney gen
eral should be there to tell how much
practice Is necessary to perform his Won
derful act Of hitting the trusts a death
blow with the soft end of a feather
duster.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21
MaIign influence of Golf.


No doubt much ill-timed and cruel levity
Will be excited among the editorial fra
ternity by the news that an Iowa farmer
has gone crazy through watching the noble
game of golf and has been placed under re-
straint because he insisted upon ''lofting'
cabbage heads over the chicken coop with a
hoe handle. The spectacle is, indeed, some
what ludicrous. Yet it is scarcely more
provocative of mirth than is the sight of a
gifted journalist in full golf panoply wildly
whacking away at a small ball in the pri-
Vacy OF his own back yard-an entertainment
which we are informed may be enjoyed by
those who know their way about Evanston.
No doubt after the journalist peTfects his
stroke he will be seen in public, but in the
meantime let us pity rather than ridicule
the Iowa agriculturist. 1t is evident that
the game of golf exercises its malign in
t1uence upon all alike.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21

Senator Hanna's announcement that
he has no intention of retiring from the
head of the republican national commit
tee before his time is up may be eX-
of the personal assaults upon him by
the popocratic newspaper batteries from
n end Of the country to another.
When the popocratic organ is in doubt
what to do it turns to Senator Hanna
for punching bag exercise.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21
King Corn n Millionaire.

Corn in the country as a whole is a little
later than it was last year, yet the frost
which is predicted is not likely to do it
any serious injury. The crop is too far ad-
vanced to be harmed now unless the frost
is more widely extended than seems likely
to be the case at present, and to last longer.
The indications still are that the yield will
go considerably above the 1000, 200, 0O0-mark.
Corn is the most valuable of all of Amer
ica's crops, and the probabilities are that
this years product will not be much behind
the highest figures ever touched. The agri-
culturists will have no chance to grumble
at the present conditions.