Sequachee Valley News from Sequachee, Tennessee • Page 1

P-J ill VOL. 3. SEQUACHEE, THURSDAY, MAR. 12, 1896. NO' 36 Pikeville Style.

Wanted A dozen hens. Will send The Banner in exchange one yeai. Foundry Started Up. The Blacklock Foundry at South Pitttburg commenced operations last week. Twenty-five men are now employed with Walker Marcell as foreman.

Besides manufacturing sad irons and water sinks, they rill do general foundry work. A Relic. An interesting geological discor-ery was made on the farm of Mr. C. B.

Hart, near town. It was a green stone pestle, used for pounding corn, and belonging to an age long ante, dating the American Indians. It is the property of Mr. Fate Boyd. Pikeville Banner.

Tommy and the 'Possom Chattanooga Times: Thursday afternoon as the Pikeville accommodation passed Lee's Switch, some mischievous bay threw a live 'possom in to the baggage car. Baggage Master Thos. Thach not knowing what the animal was, grabbed it. The 'possom commenced to bite, and badly lacerated his hands. The other train men said he would have the hydrophobia, and Friday he had the womds cauterized.

Now the laugh is "on hira." Sold Pter Donaldson and Thomas Neal McKinnon, of Glasgow, Scotland, have purchased the properties of the Dayton Coal Iron consisting of two blast furnace of 150 ton 8 capacity each, 5000 acres of coal and, two mines in operation, so says the Manufacturer's Record. This is part of a plan of reorganization which has been on the eve of consummation for some months. A Bottled Snake. Lum Houts has got the curio of the town being nothing more or less than a. bottled rattlesnake.

The pnake is preserved in alcohol, and measure's 3 feet 4' inches, and has nine rattles and a butto n. Mt Il'mts, a few years, ago came across his snakeship in this way. Going to a spring to take a drink, while tye was in the act of imbibing at nature's fount, he discovered Mr. Rattler in precisely the same attitude. As bad fellowship destoys good morals, Mr.

Hout's thirst was suddenly quer.chcd. He procured a forked stick and some string, and by chver manipulation caught Mr. Rattler and lngged him home. A gallon and a haTfoC was procured and his snakeship introduced to it with such result that after a vigorous conflict, Mr. Rattler succumbed, although in a lighting attitude, which still preserve.

LOCAL. Good evening. Advortise in Tiik News. W. S.

Pry or spent Friday in Jasper. A child of Mr. Fultz is sick with the measles. James Skiles of Whitwell was in town Sunday. If you want first class job work, come and see us.

We want your job work. Good stock and first class work. Rev. John Sweeney spent Monday with Mrs. Hammock and family.

T. Pryor was visiting his sister Mrs. Gott of Oak Grove Sunday. Riley Abies was down from Whitwell Sunday visiting home folks. Attend the debate to-morrow night.

There is a good program. Mr. Mat Ferguson who has been very sick is-still confined to his bed. W. S.

Pryor laid a goat to rest last weak aud lie says he likes goat meat. Rev. J. W. Robertson preached last Sunday afternoon at Owen Church.

Mr. C. II. Davidson patronized the News job olflca this week for stationary. Mrs.

James Degnan says they expect to move to Athens, in a-bout a week. S. P. and W. S.

Pryor attended the Republican conclave at Jasper Saturday. Mr. Will Smith and family were visiting Mrs. Edgar Smith Saturday and Sunday. Mr.

Venable, better known as "Bright Eyes" is a candidate for Texas they say. Mr. Cunningham, of Chattanooga, having rented the Farley house, moved in Saturday. Mrs. J.

W. Graham and Miss Lu-. la Lasater were visiting Mr. Francis and fara'ly Monday. The Koonig Medicine Company, of Chicago, now advertises witti us, and still they 'come.

We will now have a rest as the goats have nne to Fullerton's Bluff to annoy the people Miss Bell Francis is very sick with the measles, while Miss Janie Francis is now just getting able to sio up. Clean up! Make your places neat and tidy. Get out the whitewash bucket and give that dilapidated old fence a clean white coat. Do this and you will feel 10 per cent happier. Your chickens will lay more ejrz for you, and vou will lose that tired feeling.

Prayer meeting has been changed to Sunday night. Let's all go to the Cave of the Dancing Fern Sunday afternoon. Potatoe planting is now the "fad" of the season. There are lots of 'em being planted, and two months from now will see new potatoes on the market. Some of the girls said Miss Sallio Pryor was whispering all day Sunday.

Of course, for she was very hoarse with a cold and one of Sequa-chee's bad colds. We are advised that Mr. J. S. Crane, of Lakeport, N.

president of the Sequai'hee Manufacturing is en route tor the South and may shortly be expected here. Mr. Sherman hos been sowing clover on the Owen field for the Company. Stepping in a sink hole his horse partly disappeared the tother day to the consternation of the driver. One more week of winter.

Spring begins March 19, at 0:30 a. m. Now let everybody begin their spring cleaning, and let us see how neat and nicA the town can be made it will I pay. A gentleman from New Hampshire, subscribing to the News says: "I am to have the paper and I should be pleased to see the place and the News prosper," for which kind words we are truly grateful. We arc glad to annonnce the arrival of Mr.

and Mrs. Cunningham and little son, of Chattanooga. They come to occupy the Farley house. There is no better place in the- country, if people want peace, rest and happiness than beautiful Sequachee, and we want more nice families. Asariah Burnett Jr.

and Sam Ful-fer are the two proudest hunters in the town, they went hunting last Saturday night and discovered a tree full of coons they counpd four and got two. The boys swear coon meat is good, and intend to get more of the supply if coons do not give out. Squire R. J. Brown has been absent somet days in Alabama.

Last year he sold some cattlo and took notes for but as. the cash did not materialize he has gone to bring back either money or cattle if he can. Democratic Meeting. The Democrats of the County met at Jasper March 9, and transacted various business in the interest of the party. Chancellor McConnell was appointed de'egat'' to the Chicago convention with power to use his discretion, and delegates were instructed for Bob Taylor as Democratic nominee for governor.

Every thing passed off like a marriage hell in marked contrast lo the riotous proceeding of the Saturday before. A Wonderful Offer! For FIFl 1 CENTS CASH we will send to any address for three months The Louisville Courier-Journal triweekly, The Courier-Journal Almanac and Weather Forecast for 1800, and The Sequachee News. The News and the Courier-Journal alone is worth the price, 50 cts and the Almanac, a valuable reference books of 500 pages is sent free. Subscribe before it is too late, as this offer is limited to a brief period. Big Hogs va Little Oiies.

Big fat hogs are not the most tooth-some, according to the Wilmington (N. Messenger. It is well understood by old intelligent farmers in North Carolina and Virginia that the best bacon ever eaten is that produced from native hogs, says the Messenger. The "old razor back" fellows, put in the pen and properly fattened according to capacity, have been for a century the delight of epicures and of the finest flavor. There is really no comparison between the best cured North Carolina hams of "the old school" made from old native stock, and any other (the Virginia hams of the same kind are equally gooo) and any from the round, fat hogs of the West or South, hor table purposes the small hogs of the old breed are incomparable.

It is probably cheaper and bet-tar to the raiser to give his attention to making hogs to weigh 175 to 225 pounds than to raise ti pet breeds of pet bizes 400 to 600 or more pounds. We never ate a piece of an elephant, but we opine a piece from one would be more relishable than a slice from a 600 or 800 pound porker. PROU RAM. Sequachee Debating Society Fri-. day, Mar.

13, at 7:30 p. at Owen Church. 1. Public Debate. Question.

Resolved that the world'. is growing better. Affirmative. W. S.

Pryor, II. E. Tato and L. Negative. J.

W. Graham, S. P. Pryor and M. Martin.

2. Heading. Miss Sallie Pryor. 3. Recitation.

Miss Carrie Lasater 4. Paper, Miss Minnie HayneH, 0. Sorg, Miss Mali Me (jrustaison. Oil Wells. The Union Lann evelopraent I has leased 50,000 acres ot land in, Cumberland and other courilb for the purpose of drilling for oil..