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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1900-12-27
WHITWELL DEPARTMENT.
GEO. w. LEWIS, Agent.

DR.. E. A. Burnett, Of Looney's
Greek was on our streets last FRI
day;
Deputy sheriff and candidate Tor
sheriff w. H. White was in the
city Saturday.
DR.. J. L. Thompson and son,
Leonard, of Victoria were in the
town last Friday.
Mrs. e, E. Bull went to Knox
Vile Thursday on visit to her
sister, Mrs. Worsham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Rigby went to
Knoxville Saturday to spend the
holidays and honeymoon.
W, E McCurry. student at the
Cumberland Law school came
home Friday to spend the holidays,
Jeff Shelton, student at the Lt-
banon Law school came home
Friday to enjoy the holidays AT
Sulphur Spring.
J.H. Geren of Jasper, is in the
city. He will commence teaching
school at the Masonic hall sons
time in January.
Miss lula Ashburn who is at
tending Centenary CoIlegs al
: Cleveland. Tennessee, is at home
spending the holidays.
Albert Keath and Kelly PrycI
5 gave an entertainment on TIT
mountain side and at the Rec
q Mems Hall last week.
t Married last Thursday at tn,
residence of Robt. Erwin, Rev. J
/ F. Hash officiating, Mr., Joe Rigb,
q and Miss Gilla Perkins.
DR.. A. T. Peay and John Parke
. are going into the rat bushes
having received their first consign
v ment OF rats last Thursday.
Miss Maud Chastain and Mis-
+ Alverna Miller who are attendin
school at Dechard came home Las
Y Wednesday to spend the holidays
Work is being rapidly pushe
:, on the Masonic and |. o. O. +
: Hall by the contractors Messrs l
~ NJ. and J. A. Walker Whe
finished it will be one of the mos
o attractive buildings in the city
n One Of Wiley Parker's boy
It while shooting toy pistol las
Thursday received frightiul gas
: above the eye by the breechpi
- blowing out. 1t was a wooden on
=. the boys had put in. The gas
a was about eight inches long. d
Peay DIR, ssed it and the boy is dc
log well
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1900-12-27

Don't Tobacco Spit and smoks TOuT life LWay.
To quit tobacco easily and forever. be mag.
netic. fun OF life. nerve and vlgor take No-To-
BAG, the wonder worker. tnst makes weak men
strong. An druggists, o.. Cure guaran-
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New YORK
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1900-12-27
Victoria Union Officinls-

Victoria Union, A F. of L., No. 1900,
meets lst and 3rd Saturdays. Pres. J.
Christian; Vice Pres, Jerry Rogers;
Sec, j. w. Mosier; Treas, A. Floyd.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1900-12-27
0ERigghf
If your liver is out of order, causing
BiHousness, Sick Headache, Heart
burn, or Constipation, take dose OF
Pills

On retiring, and tomorrow your di-
gestive organs will be regulated and
you will be bright, active and ready
for any kind OF work. This has
been the experience of others; 1t
will be yours. HOODS PILLS are
sold by all medicine dealers. % cts.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F.J. Cheney g. Co., Props, Toledo. U.
We. the undersigned. have known. F.
j. Cheney for the last Is years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable In all bnsl
ness transaction, and. financially able to
carry out any obligation made by their
firm.
West and Truax, Wholesale Druggists
Toledo, o. Walding, Kinnan and Mar
win. wholesale druggists, Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internal
ly. acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system.
FL. Cheney s. Co., Props. Toledo. Q
Sold by druggists. price 75c.
cEHall's FAMILY Pills are the best.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26

There il lots of improvements that
could he done here, the Conrt house
needs touching. our sidewalks. our
streets. our drainage. the church square,
our town hall need be wiped out OF exis-
lance. our cemetery. The town Is in a
delapidated condition.
Let us make an effort to keep up with
the progressive world. let US revive the
old town and make it lively, and make
other people see that we are alive, this
will improve our condition and make US
feel better. II we do, we can than ex'
uect to see factories going up. procuring
employment for our growing genera
tiOns.
fall our business men will pull TO-
gether we can make a new and bette
town of old st. Martinville, and now Il
the time to all pull together.
A BUSINESS Man
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26
SATURDAY, May 2e. l9OO'
PRIMARY ELECTION.

Ex-Governor Foster in his an
nual address to the Legislature and
Governor Heard in his inaugural
address. recommend the passage
of law regulating and legailzing
primary elections.
We are of opinion that this Is 9
wrong idea, and wrong princl-
pie, why should we have two cleo
tions, legal elections whenever 1t
will be necessary to elect officers
municipal, parish or state, We can
not see any good to be derived
from such a law, on the contrary
We have too many elections alrea-
DIV. without making it legal to
have two elections when we have
only one now.
What we need is a change 10
the present election law, We want
to do away with the State return
ing board who decides who shall
or who shall not go on the oficia
ballot, having the privilege OF re-
jecting candidates upon any ina
ginary pretext.
We want also to do away will
that parish returning board, wh'
also has the privilege of puttinl
ON the tickets only the candidate
that they are disposed to let ru1
in, municipal affairs.
The election law should b
framed in such manner as to al
low all the citizens to become car
didate if they think proper t
ask the suffrage of their peopl'
and their names should go rigt
before the people at the gener'
election.
We believe that instead of Il
CALLING the primaries that the
should be entirely forbidden. an
all candidates should 60 direct
the people at the general electio
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26
Letters from the people.
A Business Man Talk.
Mr.. Editor:

Mr.. Editor:
In your last issue you had an article
about public improvements. but you
have made mistake when you said wa
ter works aud electric light are the first
things We need, am quite in favor OF
all improvements, but believe We are
more in need of sidewalks than any
thing else. and when we have good. sub
stantial side walk, then We can talk wa
ter works and electric light.
What good would water works and
electric light do us IL we have to wall
In the mud up to our shoe tops? l stand
for good side walk and good drainage
first.
Another thing Of the greatest impor-
lance we need is good schools and two oil
three other churches. with progressive
ministers, SO as to induce strangers Il
come and locate among US. these lateI
remarks are not intended for the coun'
ell, but for the business people OF the
town. who should strive to make thei'
town a lively business centre. W.
should build churches Of all denomina
tions 30 as to induce other people Il
come here, 50 we can tell them we have
churches and schools.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26


ments that were significant and IN
teresting. The convention was at
tended by a number of cotton
manufacturers from New England
and other sections of the country,
and among them was Mr.. Arnold
B. Sanford, president OF the
American Cotton Yarn Exchange,
Boston. In response to an invita-
ton to address the convention MI.
Sandford took occasion to pay a |
tribute to Southern enterprise
manifested to the development OF
the cotton manufacturing indus
try. He said:
1.-THE United States has now
|2l 100000 spindles, 5.25O,OO0 OF
which are in the South and 3D.
|955,OOO in the New England
States. By the end of this year
; the South will have $125,OOO.OOO
invested in cotton industry.
"This remarkable result is a
splendid tribute to the energy and
enterprise of the Southern people.
and challenges the admiration of
4. the business world"
!. Mr.. Leonard B. Paulsen, lead
Q ing New York cotton manufactrr-
or. said:
u "As to the price OF cotton yarns,
d 1 am not prepared to say what the
" future will be, but I can tell you
n this-nearly all the spinners Of
the South, as we'll as those of thu
e East, have their product sold sew
eral months ahead, some being
:. sold until September. Most o
10 the weavers are also sold up.
Z. "The South is qualified to com
tn pete for foreign yarn business
20 Formerly a great many of th
~ yarns you are now producing wer
?. made by the New England mill
n. only.
4. "The Southern mills are no.
n turning out yarns equal not onl
=. =. to those of New England, but {
old England also, while in coars
T. yarns the South can beat tt
IN world"
ri These tributes to the enterpris
~, and progressiveness of the Sout
ths are gratifying because they CON
st. from men whose interests are in
competing section. For quite
IL time it has been apparent to Il
an an New England spinners, that Il
as South has greater natural adva
la tsges for the profitable manufa
ub- ture of all grades ct cotton goo'
lux than any other group of States
the American Union. Cott'
W. mills are being almost doubled
val, number every year. The Sou
;ast is forging to the front becau
BY she is alive to the necessity
Ia tae making the most of the magni
~. cent advantages which are desti
con ed to make her rich and powerf
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26
18th Judicial District Court
No. 1926,
J,B. WATKINS b AIS
FRANCOIS LEBLANC,

By virtue of writ Of Seizure and Sale
iss ned In the above entitled and num-
bered suit and to me directed BY the
Hon. 10Th Judicial District Court In and
for the Parish Of st. Martin dated May
9th 1900, have seized and will proceed
to sell at public auction to the last and
highest bidder at the Court house door
in the Town of st. Msrtinvills between
the legal hours on
Saturday the goth day Of Juue
1900 =
the following described property to-wit:
A certain tract of Lsnd measuring
One hundred and Twenty four (l24) ar
penis in superficial area bounded North
by Land of Hervillien Melancon, South
and East by Land of Alfred Cormier and
West by Land of Ursin Broussard.
Another tract of Land measuring IL
400 arpents In superficial area. boun
ded North by Land Of Valery Thibodeaux
South Land of herein seconded desert
bed-on the West BY public Road, on tn
East by Land formerly belonging t
Aladdin Bourque.
Another tract Of Land measuring IL
400 arpents, in superficial area boun
ded North by tract Of Land last desert
bed, en- the South by tract Of land belo'
described, on the East by Land formerl
belonging to Aladdin Bourque. and on th
West by public Road leading from .
Martinville to Breaux Bridge.
Another tract of Land measuring IL
: 400 arpents in superficial area bour
| ded North by the tract Of Land last d.
scribed, South by Land Of Gervais Ca
title on the East by Land formerly Ala
!. din Bourque and West by aforesaid Pal
lie Road from st. Martinville to Breau
4 Bridge.
Also q certain tract Of Land measul
ing 40 arpents In superficial area bouu
ded North by Land Of Mrs. c. Huv'
, South by Land of Francois Leblanc. Ea
by Land of Francois Wiltz and West
!, public Road all OF said Lands are in Il
= South Western Land District OF Louis
: ana together with said Lands all Il
buildings and improvements theret
erected and thereto belonging.
81 Sold to satisfy said above mentions
writ.
Terms and Conditions--CASH.
>. Sheriff's Office this 26th day OF May
!" n ,oOo. d. REES. Sheri
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26

Mrs. George Labarre and Miss
Laperle Bienvenu of New Orleans
are in town visiting their brother,
Mr.. w. A. Bienvenu, who is on
the sick list.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26

State of Louisiana. Parish OF St. Aartil
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26
DON'T THINK

THAT BECAUSE YOU ARE BIG AND WEAR Ex
IRA SIZE CLOTHES, YOU MUST GO WITHOUT
ANY.
WE HAVE FULL ASSORTMENT Or LINEN
Suits IN SIZES 40 AND LARGER.
INST THE THING FOR THE COMING HOT Days
Eft lis TRY OUR HAND AT FITTING YOU.
HAVE YOU SEEN OUR WHITE SHIRTS IN SIZE
IN and IS at IS cts'
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-05-26

Excursion to Louisville, KY.
Via sunset Routs"-Accouus confsdsr-
ate Veterans Reunion.
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SHERIFF's SALE.
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On account of the Reunion OF Reuni-
ted Confederate Veterans, the Southern
Pacific-Sunset Route, will sell excur-
sion tickets to Louisville. KY. MAY 9th
and 28th, good to return until June 9Th,
at exceedingly low rates.
This lie an unusual opportunity for
Texas people to 60 North under the most
favorable auspices.
Sunset Route agents can sell you tick
cts by almost any route you desire to 60
Call on them for further particulars. OF
address L. j. PARKS,
G. P. and 7. A.. Houston. Texas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-14
CORNER IN FLAXSEED.
Combine Said to Be in Control With
100000 Of Profits in Sight.

Chicago, May Alt is stated here
that fiaxseed has been cornered: that
the combination is in control of the see
and oil market. and that not less than
SIS, 600 900 in profits are in sight
Owners Of mills outside the trust and
dealers in the seed, paint and oil say
that the American Linseed Oil com
pany and the Albert Dickinson com
pany of this city form the alleged COM
binatiOn.
From so cents five months ago flax
seed has advanced to $50. Linsaed ell
has advanced in the same period from
"a to IS cents a gallon
The corner is SO complete, it is stated
that nearly every independent mill in
the United States is shut down, while
the trust is running only a small per-
centage of its capacity.
The Dickinson company are the
largest faxseed dealers in the country,
They refuse to speak of the matter
The nominal price of fiaxseed is $1-1(
| a buShel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-14
CHINESE WIFE SUES.
Mrs. San Toy Fong Of New York
Wants Her Wedding Money.

lTew York. May IA little lady of
Chinatown. bright-eyed and shy, with her
sturdy son of eleven months. monopolized
attention in Part v of the supreme court
for an hour. She is Mrs. san Toy fong,
wife Of Chu FOng, the richest merchant
in Chinatown.
China's custom Of giving wedding pres
ents OF gold and silver. wrapped IN DTS
of paper. is responsible for the suit Al
her wedding five years ago she received
many gifts, being the daughter OF a pow
erful Chinaman and her husband being
a klnsman Of the emperor
]. p. Joachimson. counsel Tor MS san
Toy FOng, had brought along Joe single
ton, as interpreter. but the lawyer Tor
the defense objected 1t was promised tnaI
a satisfactory Interpreter might De secur-
ed BY tomorrow. Mrs San Fong knows
only her native tongue. She leIt the court
with her husband and a train OF pros
porous looking men of Chinatown when
the case was postponed.
Mrs San Toy Fong viii testify that she
received at her wedding something like
$500. She bought a half interest in the
property Nos 20 y and p Pell street
Being an alien. she could not take the
title. but was given a certificate Of trust
Robert Kerr, the defendant in the suit,
who keeps a lodging house at Hester
street and the BOWery f0reclosed a mort
gage on the property in 1897. and when
the property was sold bought IL in Mrs
San TOY F0ng has brought suit TO have
Kerr declared her trustee for half OF the
property and for an accounting of the
rents since 1897.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-14
PARTED WITH HIS MONEY.
A Westerner, Named Murphy, Loses
$4,000 in New York

New York, May 14.-An elderly man,
short in stature. with q prominent nose
and black whiskeTs that are very gray
on the sides, gave his name to the police
of the West Sixty eighth street station
Saturday night as Mike Murphy, and
said that he was IS years old and was
from the west He was a sporting man
he said, and was living al the lmerpial
hotel, having come TO this city to at
tend the race meeting and to see the
Jeffries- Corbett fight. He accused May
Meyer and Kitty Atkinson of robbing
him of $1,000.
Murphy and a friend. who would not
tell the police his name. went TO the
races and had a fairly prosperous day
in the betting ring. On their way home
they met the women on the train and
went to the Women's fiat in Sixty sixth
street A few minutes later Murphy s
friend came running out of the house,
went up to Policemen Murphy and
Brady and told them that his friend
Murphy had been robbed Of $4,000 in the
fiat
The policemen searched the house, but
could not find the money, but Murphy
was positive about his loss. The women
were taken to the West SiXty-eighth
street station and locked up. Then the
/ sergeant said that he guessed he would
lock up Mr.. Murphy for safekeeping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-14
SUED FOR So, 900.
Thomas Reed Holds DR.. Berry Re
sponsible For His Discharge.

Suit has been brought in the district
court by Thomas Reed against DR.. J.
Albert Berry for 50. 600 damages
The petition states that DR. Berry
brought suit against Reed in the city
court for S29. so for medical services.
Reed claims that the case was set
for trial in the morning and that he was
not served with a summons until 1920
o'clock in the afternoon, seven hours
after the case was called On May "a
earnishment proceedings were brought
against the Topeka Milling company
and Herbert Hackney. Judgment was
taken on April and the costs. s.. 10,
were assessed against Reed. Reed com
pIains that the action was unnecessary
and not fairly brought and that as a re-
suit of the garnishment proceedings he
lost his place with the milling company
and asks damages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-14
CRONJE'S SURRENDER.
Detailed Report of How the Beers
Received the News

ICorrespondence of Associated Press.l
London, May 5.-The Daily News cor
respondent, a G.. Hales. who was taken
prisoner by the Beers and returned BY
them TO Gen. Gatacre. sends his paper
an account of how the Beers received
the news of Cronje's surrender he was
at Burghersdorp when the news came
through He writes:
When the news came the folks would
not believe it. They would just as soon
have believed that the sun could fail
from the heavens and leave the earth
in darkness as that Cronje, the iron
willed, tiger-hearted Cronje. could throw
down his arms Had the news come
that he had made a mad rush at our
guns and persisted with all his men
around him, they might have believed
it-belieyed it and Wept. and even as
they wept they would have sworn to
avenge him. But they would not, they
could not and they did not, believe
that he, the man in whom they had
placed their faith. had surrendered with
$50 of his men.
But at last the truth become known;
some who had escaped from Cornje's
/ lager brought in the fateful news and
| then the stolid-looking fighting men
| broke down. They wept like boys Great
rugged bearded men dashed their rifles
| on the ground and spurned them with
/ their boots, whilst down their sun and
wind tanned faces the tears poured
| readily. Others took the news sadly,
/ with chins dropping on their chests. with
/ haru set races, While with passionate
4 pain too deep for words they stood lean
| ing upon their rifles with hands hard
/ gripped until one would think the tight
| ened muscles would leave the impress
! OF the straining fingers upon the cold
/ steel. Others crowded together and
I looked dumbly from face TO face, like
cattle fOregathe>ed TO the sham bles.
The blow had stunned them To them
| Cronje was something more than a
/ man; he was an idol: what the great
Corsican was to the French soldiery af-
/ ter the battle of Austerlitz, so Cronje
/ was TO these rude farmers. He was their
brain center. their rallying point. Had
/ Paul Kruger betrayed them TO their
foes for the sake Of British gold, they
4 would not have felt the shock as they
felt this one mans surrender. If CronjE
had loved his country half as well as his
| country loved him, he would have
marched right on to the point of a Brit
| 1sh bayonet on that morning so disas-
trOus TO the BOer arms. and have yield
ed up his life in order that the memory
| Of his name might have remained as
WatchWerd on the lips and in the heart.
OF his gallant yeOman soldiery. WheI
the crash came. when the Beers knew
for a certainty that Cronje had yielded
they felt that their idol was shattered
he had been TO them as a god fashioned
out of marble; they found him at las
. to be only man made out of mud ans
when he fell the Cape Dutch cause am
= the Orange Free State fell with him
: When he laid down his arms he launch
, ed thunderbOlt into the Boer cam
which wrecked 1t forever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-14
HURTS THE HANNA MEN.
Hard Feelings Over the Congressional
Nomination in Ohio.

Cleveland. o.. May 14.-Not for a long
time have the hearts of the Hanna and
administration Republicans of this part
of the state been so sore as at present
because of the defeat Of the administrsa-
ton candidate. Congressman F. o. Phil
lips, for denomination to congress from
the Twentieth district
James r. Garfield, who was a promi :
rent candidate before he withdrew at
the behest of the administration, says
Phillips was defeated by trickery- The
nomination of Beidler and the defeat or
the administration candidate in Han
mas home congressional district viii
probably make the break in the local
Republican ranks wider than ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-14
PRISONER A HYPNOTIsT.
He Practised the Art on the Turnkey
and Was Let Out of Jail

Indianapolis. Ind, May IA peculiar
case Of jail delivery is reported from
the town Of Geneva where Frank Steed
was arrested and placed in Jail on a
charge Of assault with intent TO kill
At noon yesterday Turnkey johnson
went TO Steed's cell to serve him with
dinner. Afterward when Johnson was
found il was several minutes before
he could be induced TO talk, and when
he did 50 it was with great effort that
he could be understood He finally said
that all he remembered was that Steed
had fixed his eyes upon him and had
told him to unlock the door and let
him out. He did not know why he did
so, but he obeyed the request and was
pOwerless to stop the prisoner as he
walked out through the door, though
he knew that he should not have done
so. II developed later in the day that
Steed, who was stranger in the town,
was a hypnotist and had praeuced the
art in the country before going into the
town, where he got into fight with a
/ saloon keeper
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-14
CORRIGAN'S VISIT TO ROME.
Impression Among Churchmen That
He Will Soon Become Cardinal

Rome May IA correspondent call
ed today upon Archbishop Corrigan of
New York for the purpose of interview
ing him, but was unable TO see him. His
secretary says that the archbishop in
variably refuses TO see newspaper men,
The archbishop will remain in Rome
till the close of May.
Cardinal Rampolla said that Arch
bishop Corrigan hopes to see the pope
soon for the purpose of introducing
some American friends. He viii then
make a tour through Europe. Consid-
cradle attention is being pair to Arch
bishop Corrigan by such prominent
church dignitaries as Cardinal ParOc-
chi Many think that the archbishop is
likely to be made a cardinal before
long