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Entered at the PostoTicc at Brcnham
Texas as second-class mail mailer.
J?j-iclry. - Sept. 152 1879
Quincv Illinois has just had
a S 125000 fire.
No case of yellow fever has
been reported in New Orleans
since September 1st.
Mr Grant is the title now-
adopted by the St. Louis G.-D.
wfocn referring to the general.
The. Dallas limes seems to
be making headway and has
been enlarged to a seven col-
umn paper.
"It's gcttcng pretty close"
says the Telrjpam referring to
the recent yellow fever death at
Morgan City.
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The assessors convention at
Dallas seems to have been a
lame affair; nothing of any im-
portance was accomplished.
A Sax Antonio preacher is
named Dcvilbiss but he signs
his name De Vilbiss thus dis-
posing of the devilishness of his
name.
In many Texas towns the
Sunday law is strictly observed
by the front doors of the sa-
loons; the back doors have oil-
ed hinges.
From all portions of the
state comes reports of a scarci-
ty of water. Whiskey must be
abundant or people would com-
plain about that too.
It is announced from .Berlin
that with the exception of old
and defaced coins all th silver
hitherto held back has now
gone into circulation.
Ex-Gov. Hubbard is in Cor--sicana
for the purpose of clos-
ing the contract with the citi-
zens for the Texas and St. Louis
narrow guage railway.
It is understood that Hon.
John H. Reagan will deliver
the memorial address before
the Hood's brigade association
at Houston on the 13th.
A Mrs. Potts is jnst now
engaged in winning fame and
fortune by walking from Phila-
delphia to New Orleans. She
has got as far as Charlott N. C.
Fresh trouble has broken
out in India; the Afghans are
again in revolt The British em-
bassy at Cabul has been attack-
ed by three Afghan regiments
Eighty English farmers with
their families arrived in New
York oa the Sth inst. They
will proceed to Texas where
they will locate.
Campmeetings are epidemic
all over the state and a west
Texas paper says they will be
productive of immense good if
all the converts will hereafter
be honest.
The cars formerly used on the
narrow guage or sand road at
Galveston are being shipped to
Texarkana to be used on the
St Louis and Texas narrow
guage railway.
Judge Ireland gives it as his
opinion that the Sunday law
was not amended and that the
law of 1871 known as the 9
and 4 o'clock law is the only
Sunday law we have.
Near Zoleski O. recently
Jno. F. Sharp murdered Mrs.
John A. Sharp and her step-
deaughter and Dan Benjamin.
Jealousy is the alleged cause of
tliis wholesale slaughter.
The Montgomery Journal
learns that the grading on the
Central and Montgomery rail-
roa'd will be finished by the 1st
of October next and tracklay-
ingafewdays thereafter.
J. K. Bell who lately abscon-
ded from Kansas city with $j-
500 of the Adams express com-
pany's money has been captur-
ed at Cove Springs Florida and
2500 of the money recovered.
Another. The Grimes coun-
ty Sentinel published at Ander-
son is a patent paper and its
last week's outside is the same
as the Brcnham Texas Gieen-
backcrvcn& the Hempstead Cour-
ie. The Bonham News describes
the greenback mass meeting at
that town as a failure not a hun-
dred persons were present and
the entire affair was distinguish-
ed by an utter lack of enthusi-
asm. In a Houton boarding house
three young men dressed them-
selves as ghosts and visited the
room "of a negrp man on the
premises. Entering his room
they demanded his money he
replied "all right" and moving
over to his trunk drew an old
big navy pistol and presenting
StHU2rnot.
President Hayes and family
have arrived in Cincinnati from
Chillicothc; their journey was a
continued ovation. Mr. I layes
made a number of short speech-
es on the route.
Houston's compresses arc all
taxed totheir utmost capaci-
ty. They have a capacity for
1000 bales a day and employ fifc
ty hands day and night to keep'
up with the work.
The Maine election took place
on Tuesday. The republicans
are victorious and in addition
have large gains. -Maine and
California both go republican to
the intense Relight of the stal-
warts Senator Voorjiel:: of In-
diana is quoted as expressing
the utmobt contempt for Mr.
Tilden for his "despicable cow
ardice in not taking the office
to which the people elected
him."
Ten-hns will soon be a thing
of the oast in Texas. "Thc tax
on alleys is about S2000. An
enterprising man has i.rventcd
a substitute for ten pins in the
shape of an overgrown pigeon-
hole table.
. .
The Chisholm murder trial
at DeLlab Miss. seems to be
attracting universal attention.
Representatives of the press
from New. York Chicago
Vicksburg and New Orleans are
in attendance.
Galveston has quarantined
against Calcasieu river from
mouth to highest tributaries
said quarantine to take effect at
12 P. si. on the 10th inst. The
resolutions against Lake Char-
les still in force.
The home production of liq-
uor has increased 15000000
gallons the past year and the im-
portation has been 4434455
gallons more than in 1S78 rath-
er discouraging statistics to tem-
perance advocates.
The McKinney Advocate has
a leading editorial in which it
takes strong grounds in favor of
a speedy and thorough organi
zation of the democratic party.
It suggests the formation of clubs
as the best means.
The State Holiness camp-
meeting near Corsicana still
continues. There has been
four hundred professions of jus-
tification up to the iotli inst
two hundred of whom.had pro-
fesssed sactification.
California is republican and
its loss to the democracy is at-
tributed to the greenbackcrs.
Without being able to carry an
election themselves they nearly
always succeed in placing the
republicans in power.
x he siierm s annual conven-
tion at Austin was attended by
forty sheriffs. Resolutions were
passed favoring the publication
of a monthly paper descriptive
of criminals and suspected per-
sons. The local reporter on the
Caldwell Registo reports having
passed the party of surveyors at
Lyon's store locating the per-
manent line of the Gulf Colo-
rado and Santa Fe railroad.
They will be at Caldwell this
week.
Some one who was the happy
possessor of plenty of time a
pencil and a slate has figured
out that there is land enough in
the state of Texas to provide
every man woman and child in
the United States four acres of
land each.
A Bryan special to the ATc:vs
says a man but a few days
from New Orleans passed down
on yesterday's train. He had
evaded the quarantine; which
he says is being done contin-
ually without trouble. Why
was he not arrested.
Hi
H. L. Wood retires from the
Round Rock Headlight after
two months experience ; he
made an excellent paper but no
money. It will be continued
under a new management and
will advocate democratic prin-
ciples. "Old Si" Sam Small of the
Atlanta Constitution says he has
not inflicted misery enough on
the newspaper readers of this
country so he now intends pub-
lishing a book being a collec-
tion of the funny and good
things said by "Old Si."
The election of Davis re-
publican candidate for governor
of Maine is conceded; the dem-
ocrats claim a majority in the
state senate. John Sherman
Blaine and Hamlin seem to
have done effective work in that
state. Money v.ms freely used
to accomplish the result.
Bullion is constantly arriv-
ing in this country. New York
dispatches of the 10th inst. re-
port the receipt of 51.556200
from Liverpool $1595600 from
Havre $1290000 in French
and German coin from Ham-''
burg and S450.000 in foreign.
can and bcs from Bremen. j
Sunday law squelched" is
the caption of an article in the
Castroville Quill detailing the
trial of a number of cases in the
justices court at Boerne; the
juries said not guilty even" time.
1I1L. UUULUVUUU iUUU Jl
broken out afresh in Cart
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county Kentucky. On
last snuirp Hnlhrnnk w
-' atvdkillcd by a party i:
bushMonday one of th
dcrwoods went up -th
way.
The 1
compos
sitors on th
ort
Worth Demoeitti
.-day
last
week devoted thcJclay's wages
to the vellow fever sufferers at
Memphis. Funds are very mnch
needed there but this is the
first donation from Texas that
.vc have read of.
A Norwegian bark the Co-
lumbia bound from New Lon-
don to Quebec was struck by a
large fish or sea monster and a
hole knocked into her bottom
causing her to sink in half an
hour. The crew barely had
tfme to escape in the boats.
JIstrixcUTE No. 2 the Austin Inde-
pendent. Houston Telegram.
The daily Jimp has the repu-
tation of being one of the
poorest dailies in Texas and
there arc several of them. On-
ly those who have seen the dai-
ly Jimp can have an idea how
poor a paper it is. It is nearly
as devoid of news as the
It is now said that John Sher
man candidate lor tne presi
dency during a recent visit to
Cincinnati visited the beer sa-
loons and made himself quite
sociable with the crowd usually
to be found therein. John
treated drank beer and ate
pretzels just like a candidate for
constable.
Hayes' civil service reform is
still in force; the assistant post
master at Buffalo New York
has been officially censured for
attending a ward meeting. Vice
president Wheeler attended the
republican state convention at
Saratoga and it now remains to
be seen what Hayes is going to
do about it
A St. Louis policeman lately
committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with
his pistol. He had been a
policeman for seven years; had
a large family and was pecuni-
arily embarrassed. It is very
seldon that police officers re-
sign and still more seldom that
one commits suicide.
At Dallas the republicans
held a jollification meeting at
the opera house to celebrate
the victory in Maine. Postmas-
ter Cochran and J. C. Bigger a
little lawer speechified. A res
olution was passed that funds
be raised to buy ammunition
for 100 anvils the powder to
be burnt on receipt of the news
of the arrival of "Mr." Grant at
San Francisco.
Arrangements are making
at Savannah for laying the cor-
nerstone of the monument of
sergeant Wm. Jasper of the
revolutionary army who fell at
the seige of Savannah the 9th
of October 1779 on the centen-
nial of that event A large
number of prominent men have
been invited and the oration
will be delivered by Senator
John B. Gordon.
A Navasota special to the
Galveston Nezes dated loth
inst says the extension of the
of the Central and Montgomery
railway and connection with
the G. C. and S. F. railroad is
a fixed fact On Tuesday the
engineers commenced running
a line from this place to Bren-
ham. Their arrival in Brenham will
be duly chronicled.
Abner Walker convicted of
the murder of Heaton in Falls
county having had the decision
of the jury affirmed by the ap-
pellate court was on Monday
last at Marlin sentenced by
Judge Alexander to be hanged
in the jail yard at Marlin on
Tuesday October 14 1879.
Walker persists that he is inno-
cent of the murder and that it
was committed by other par-
ties. &-.
Jay Gould the celebrated
Wall street stock operator has
frequently had his name in the
papers but heretofore only in
connection with some shrewd
operations in stocks. Now
how ever Mr. Gould appears be-
fore the public in the role of a
philanthropist He has lately
sent the Memphis Howard as-
sociation S5000 and will send
more; for this noble act of char-
ity Mr. Gould deserves com-
mendation. The Brcnham B nm:k comes
to iii this week enlarged and
otherwise improved. It was one
of the best weeklies published
in Texas before it enlarged and
now it surpasses all of them in
our opinion in its get-up and
ceneral appearance. Ttvo Tn-
icdos
THE BACHISE EE0P2.
TheTSlcr Democrat a 'tf i euj is
deeply interested in secuun ihe machine
hop- such a? Marshall ami Palestine
Lae-of the Tea. and St. Loui rarrow
gauge railnaj. Texarkana W-co and
CorMcana will Lid for thoe shop -nd it is
nine Ijier was waKingup.
a rail-
qtiP
line
uted
Mar-
the lo-
uston
niak-
ow is;
the com try immediately around
Houston is rather sparsely set-
tled and by far the largest por-
tion of her local trade is deriv-
ed from the employes of the
railroads and the railroad shops
located there.
Brenham should have the ma
chine shops of the Santa Fe
railroad their location here
would be of vast benefit not
only to merchants business
men and property owners in
town but to the farmers and
gardeners for miles around.
The machine shops would add
largely to our population and
would of course proportionate-
ly increase business in all
branches. Wc are not advised
as to the intentions of the com-
pany in this regard but would
call the attention of our citizens
to the fact that wc have Bell-
ville on the south and Caldwell
on the north either ol which
places would be only too glad
to secure the location of the
shops ; these of themselves
would in a short time build up
quite a respectable country
town. Brenham is perhaps the
most desirable point on the line
for the shops as it will be the
largest and most important
shipping point on the line as
well as being the junction with
the Central road. In the course
of a few months the road will
be completed to Brenham and
the building will be continued
on to Belton without any delay
whatever. The property own-
ers and merchants of Brenham
arc the ones most vitally inter-
ested in the location of the ma-
chine shops and the Banner
would suggest that it is about
time some concerted action was
taken looking to this much de-
sired object
THETEVEE.
New Orleans Sept. 10.
Four cases of yellow fever are
reported at Morgan City. Na-
tional and state officers are
working to prevent its spread-
ing. The town has been in a
fearful condition since the
storm.
Memphis Sept. 10. Sixteen
cases in all 7 white 9 colored;
nine deaths in all.
Coi John S. Ford (Old Rip)
who takes charge of the state
deaf and dumb institute at Aus-
tin is an old Texan having
come to the republic in 1836
with a party ofTennesseeans.
He served Texas during 1836-37-38-39.
In 1844 he was el-
ected to the Texas congress.
He is an old newspaper man
having edited papers from 1S45
to 1S58 and again in 1S67. As
an Indian fighter he stands at
the head of the list having seen
much service on the frontier.
Pyromania is the scientific or
technical name of a disease
which manifests itself in a mor-
bid desire to set buildings on
fire just for the fun of seeing
them burn. Sedalia Mo. has
a "pyromoniac" in the person
John W. Stewart who set fire
to a building while laboring un-
der the influence ofalcohol and
a physician sets up in his de
fense the theory of insanity in
a form which he denominates
pyromania. The defense is as
ingenious as it is novel.
The Bonham Nczvs takes rath-
er a novel view of the Sunday
question saying:
"The Bible command to work six das
is just as poitne and obligatory as the
command to rest on the se enth; and fail-
ure to work six dajs in the week is certain-
ly as much an offense against the law of
God as working on the Sabbath."
If this view be the correct one
Brenham has many violators of
the scriptural command; there
are men here who never work
yet they manage to live no one
know s how.
At Newark N. J. a largely
attended convention of dele-
gates from various parts of the
state was held the other day to
protest against the enforcement
of the Sunday laws. Resolu-
tions were passed and a proces-
sion of 5500 people paraded
the streets.
The Capital the Austin or-
gan of the greenback party de-
votes an editorial to the ruin
wrought by democratic rule in
Texas. It studiously avoids
saying a word about the ruin
wrought by the radicals before
the democracy got into power
The Brcnham Daily Banner
has enlarged one column. If
the Brenham people know how
to appreciate an excellent and
sound paper they will soon ob-
lige it to add still another c"!-
I jmn Wise f "".!ur.
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" THE DEltOCEAOr.
The Brow nwood Banxct
thinks that whatever encourage-
ment the greenback party has
received in Texas has been due
to the miserable backwoods
barn-door policy of the old al-
calde and the mob of so-called
statesman that have misrepre-
sented the people as a legisla
ture at Austin. But in spite of
this it like all good and true
democrat? docs not proprose to
abandon the time-honored par-
ty. It says the democracy of
Texas must arouse itself; there
must be no lagging back those
who are not for prosperity and
progress are against it.
"Ihe great source of. our pres-
ent troubles is the people have
been too much in the hands of
the politicans ; cut and dried
precinct meetings have led to
cut and dried county conven-
tions and cut and dried county
conventions have led to cut and
dried state conventions; the re
suit of the state convention is be
fore the people. The people in
order to remedy existing evils
must elect a diffiercnt class of
men to legislate for them. It is
genrally acknowledged that the
present legislature taken as a
whole is a most stupendous
failure ; there was some good
and able men in it but they be-
ing largely in the minority were
powerless for good and not
strong enough to prevent evil.
The election of another such
legislature must be prevented
if the democrats expect to con-
tinue to control the destiny of
the state. The first question in
regard to a candididate for any
position no matter if it be only
that of constable should be is
he honest is he capable? if hon-
est and capable let him be a
good democrat if one can be
found but on no account nomi-
nate a man simply because-he
belongs to the democratic par-
ty nor on account of party
services; honestly and capabili-
ty should be the first test. In
many counties a few men party
leaders so-called get together
and make out a slate to suit
their own purposes and conven-
iences; the same thing is done
in state affairs and lastly a few
men again control the destiny
of the party in national affairs ;
the will of the people who are
all powerful in themsevles is
thus by the management of
trained politicians set aside and
politicians are nominated and
elected to office; why the peo-
ple themselves do not know
although the reason is plain.
There has .been entirely too
much apathy upon the part of
the men who are most directly
interested in n good govern-
ment; honest hardworking res-
pectable men who stay at home
and work to pay taxes allow
the irresponsible elment in the
community to manipulate nom-
inations and do the voting
while they stay at home work
pay taxes and do the grumbling.
The StLcuis Post-Dispatch
says Jay Gould has recently
surprised the world and it is a
rather left-handed compliment
to say that he has surprised it
by doing a generous action.
His character and career have
not been such as to justify the
belief that lie was capable of
doing a charitable act. The
P.-D. says it is hardly sound
principle to allow alms-giving
to atone for unscrupulous prac-
tices. Boss Tweed in the days
of his prosperity was noted for
his magnificiencc and charity
how he obtained the money he
so lavishly disposed of is well
known to the world at large.
The Brazos Pilot has some-
thing to say about the green-
backers who succeeded insend-
ingten or twelve members to
congress. They failed to
harmonize each man having
views of his own and the Texas
greenbacker Wash Jones on
more than one occasion voted
with the radicals. The fact is
the greenback party is divided
the eastern greenbackers want
a high protective tariff while the
west and south want a low tar-
iff. Some of them want fiat
money and some of them don't.
The editor of the Columbus
Plaindcalci is afflicted with an-
onymous communications hav-
ing received no less than five
this week. He is a new hand
in the newspaper business but
has learned enough to "chuck"
all such letters into the waste
basket. It really seems strange
that writers for newspapers have
not all learned that anonymous
communications arc never
hardly ever published. The
safest plan is to give your name
every time as a guarantee of
good faith.
On Sunday a mob of two
hundred men made a forward
movement on the Fort Worth
jail w ith the avowedintcntion of
taking out the negro rapist and
hanging him. The sheriff who
was advised of the movement
had a strong guard in readiness.
j The mob dispersed.
QAMBLINO.
In every city town village
and hamlet throughout the
length and breadth of the Uni
ted States gambling is carried
on to a greater or less extent
in many perhaps a large major
ity of the places gambling is
carried on clandestinely. State
and municipal laws are enacted
against gambling; it is condemn
cd in the pulpit and by the
newspapers ; the condemnation
is as general as the gambling
yet in spite of the law the pul-
pit and the newspaper gambling
continues to exists. It is use
less to sav that cambltnfr is
wrong and ought to be suppres-
sed; this is universally admitted;
it ought to be suppressed but the
fact stares us in the face that it
is not suppressed and if expe
rience be worth anything it can
not be suppressed. This point
it is useless to argue for the rea-
son that if gambling could have
been suppressed it would have
been done long ago. We live
in a practical matter of fact age
and must deal with facts as we
find them and not with abstract
theories. The existence of
gambling is an established and
incontrovertable fact; grand ju-
ries indict and courts fine gam-
blers; they are arrested and
fined in police and magistrates
courts; yet gambling goes on
from day to day and year to
year arrests and fines are impo-
tent to arrest the evil. Gam-
ing is an inherent vice with
many of our people it is not
confined to a class but is com-
mon from the highest to the
lowest There is hardly a first-
class hotel in any city in the
United States that has not one
or more rooms sacredly dedica-
ted to and set apart for the
great North American game
known as draw poker; those of
our readers who have no per-
sonal knowledge of this fascina-
ting game have at least heard
of it. After the fashionable-hotels
come the regular and irreg-
ular gambling houses. In the
larger towns and cities games
are divided into two classes
"square" and "brace." The
square game is played honestly
for the percentage there is in
the game; the brace game is a
swindling one the more a man
puts down the less he takes up.
In the principal towns in
Texas Galveston Houston
San Antonio Dallas Austin
Denison Waco and perhaps
other places gambling is open-
ly and publicly carried on the
authorities being apparently un
able to prevent it If they were
to succeed in preventing public
gambling it will be done private
ly and in a worse form than pub -licly.
There is but one remedy
for gambling and that will not
cure it; the remedy is to license
the gambling houses; prevent
minors from playing and en-
force severe penalties on all
crooked games. This proposi-
tion may be startling to some
persons of nervous sensibility
but it is the only solution of the
question unless those persons of
nervous sensibility had rather
let gambling go on as it now is.
A Denison Herald reporter
visited the quarantine station
situated at the site of old Red
River city one mile from Red
river. The building is a one
story frame building of the box
pattern 28x28 feetsquare. All
those coming down the M. K.
and T. road without proper doc-
uments are made guests of the
state of Texas for three weeks.
The guests at quarantine
"rough it" by sleeping on the
floor; they do not go out to
club rooms or saloons and the
consequence is everybody goes
to bed sober. A number of
persons are now detained at the
station. The accommodations
are sufficient to supyly necessi-
ties but not sufficient to make
it attractive to boarders.
The Galveston Neivs of the
Qth inst. reports the arrival of
the steamship City of San An
tonio with the greater portion
of the new iron Brazos bridge of
the G. C. and S. F. railway.
The rest of it will arrive in a
few days. A Netus reporter
ascertained at the company's
office that the grading from
Richmond to Brenham sixty-
three miles is almost completed.
The Brazos bridge can be put
in place in thirty days; when
this is done there will be noth-
ing to prevent the steady ex-
tension of track-laying as long
as the supply of ties last. The
road can be completed to Brcn-
ham in ninety days from the
completion of the Brazos bridge.
Gun. J. B. Robertson gives
notice that there will be a spe-
cial meeting of Hood's Texas
Brigade association held at
Houston on Saturday Sept.
13 for the purpose of making
proper arrangements for enter-
ing upon the important duty of
caring for the orphan children
of Gen. Hood. Every member
who can possibly do so is invi- j
ted to attend.
TEE C.A5D M.ET.AQAKf.
The Banner had intended
saying no more in regard to the
extension of the Central and
Montgomery railroad from Nav-
asota to Brenham until after the
preliminrry survey had been
made and wc should not have
referred to the subject had not
the Navasota Tablet re-opened
it As will be seen by our local
columns Mr. Camp of Navaso-
ta and Mr. Fayette Smith of
Washington were in our city
on Friday inTurthcraace of the
project. Both gentlemen call-
ed on the Banner. From Mr.
Camp we learn that there has
hererctcfor'e been some opposi-
tion to the extension of the road
in Navasota owing to the fact
that it is supposed the Houston
and Texas Central railroad owns
an interest in the Central and
Montgomery line which by the
way will soon be completed to
Montgomery distant 28 miles
from Navasota and that the ex
tension would as a matter of
course be ol no advantage to
Navasota which is anxious for.
a competing line. Mr. uamp
says that the people of his town
are willing and anxious to make
a connection with the Santa Fe
railroad and Brenham but wish
to be absolutely certains that in
doing so they are escaping from
the clutches of the H. and T.
C. monopoly. To make such
an escape an absolute certainty
it is suggested that the people
of Navasota Washington In-
dependence and Brenham or-
ganize an independent compa-
ny obtain a charter and build a
narrow gauge line of their own.
A narrow gauge road can be
built and equipped for probably
less than 55000 per mile and
the money necessary to build it
certainly ought to be raised
along the line of the road. The
leading property owners of
Navasota favor the project; at
Washington the leading citi-
zens are to use a familiar ex-
pression red-hot for it; Inde
pendence is doing her best to
secure it and in Brenham there
is not a man opposed to it
while a number of our leading
and influential citizens are stead-
ily but quietly working to put
the enterprise in a tangible
shape. There is no reson why
the road should hot be built
while there are reasons by the
score why it should be. When
the survey is made we will be
able to speak more definitely of
the cost of the road and the
steps necessary to be taken in
order to effect an organization.
The Navasota Tablet which has
heretofre avoided saying any-
thing in favor of the extension
comes to the front as follows :
It is suggested by prominent
citizens large property owners
of Navasota that if the people
of Brenham Independence and
Washington who are now try-
ing to secure an extension of
the Central & Mnotgomery Rail-
xoad from this place via the last
named towns to Brenham will
unite their energies and means
to obtain the construction of a
line of road fromunderthe influ-
ence or control of the H. & T.
C.j the citizens oi Navasota will
lend a hearty and liberal cooper-
ation. Navasota is indifferent
to an extention of the C. & M.
as that road is generally regar-
ded here as a sort of half-sister
of the H. & T. C and conse-
quently could be of little advan
tage to her business and amonnt
to naught as a competing line.
A narrow guage road would; it
is believedanswer the purposes
of the. two towus and country
intervening cost one-third less
and be of more advantage to
Navasota and Brenham than
would a broad guage. Or a
Navasota Tap.to the.Galveston
Colorado & Santa Fe R. R. at
Brenham would meet the wants
of people of Navasota as a com-
peting line to Galveston and a
protection against outrageous
inconveniences brough about by
commercial jealousies between
our two sea-pors.
The LaGrange Record says
some of the leading citizens of
that town are "beginning" to
manifest a deep interest in the
question of a railroad and that
a movement is on foot looking
to a connection with the Sunset
route. By building a tap road
to either the Sunset or the Cen-
tral road the people of LaGrange
will put themselves in the hands
of one orthe other of two of the
most gigantic monopolies in the
state. If they will "pool the is-
sue" and join Brenham in a nar-
row gauge road from LaGrange
to Navasota they will put them-
selves in connection with the
entire railroad system of the
state and will be measurably in-
dependent .
A number of English emi-
grants arrived at Houston from
Galveston on Tuesday and
took passage on the San Anto-
nio road. They are says the
Telegiam a solid substantial
looking body of men and go
west to engage in agricultural
pursuits. They were induced
to emigrate by agents of the
Sunset route and should they
find everything satisfactory in
their new homes will no doubt
be followed by many more of
their countrymen. Such men
are desirable in any communitv.
STATE KEW3.
Beer on Sunday as usual
says the Castroville Quill.
Gatesville people are get-
ting disgusted with the Sunday
law.
At Kcrrvillc home made
bacon is selling at S cents a
pound.
No election on the consti-
tutional amendment was held in
Colorado county.
Two men .were fatally in-
jured by a boiler explosion at
Fredericksburg.
A revival meeting hasbeen
in progrees for the parftJtwo
weeks in Columbus.
Houston's backbone re-
minds us of that found in the
oyster. Palestine News.
J. J- Gcenslen one of San
Antonio's oldest and most pro-
minent physiciansMS dead..
On Tuesday last two and
a quarter inches of rain fell in
two hours at San Antonio.
Gonzales is now under-
going the excrutiating agony of
hearing a new brass band prac-
ticmg.
Jim Pace another ofrthc
Pegleg stage robbers was arres-
ted in Blanco county and taken
to Austin.
Between four and five
thousand people attenped the
Lampasas campmeeting on Sun-
day August 31st
The yield of cotton in
Brazos bottom Joweredge of
Robertson county villbe half
a bale to the acre. .
The corner-stone of the
convent of the Sacred Heart was
laid at Corsicana on Monday
with appropriate. ceremonies.
Henry Washington the
negro .jyIio was 'shot" by Dan
Scott and Mary Turner' in
Houston a few days ago is dead.
Navasota has a military
company of over fifty members.
Exemption- from road and jury
duty is a wonderful incentive
to "jine" the militia.
Hugo Miller's saloon in
Columbus was burglarized this
week and S7 in lawful money
was unlawfully taken and ear-
ned away therefrom.
A circus agent has been
to Bonham. Since the tax on
circuses has been reduced to
SSo'the probability is the state
will be overrun by them
Bill Toliver a negro living
on A. L. Gardner's place' near
Millican was assassinated in
bed and killed on Monday
night; no clew to the assassin.
The Bastrop Advertiser
"understands" that a greenback
club has been .organized in Bas-
trop. Robt. Keir colored was
elected secretary of the club.
Hugh Merrick one of the
Goodnight gang convicted of
complicify in the Walker rob-
bery was sentenced to ten years
in the Liberty county district
court
The first cotton fire of the
season occurred a day or two
ago near Forney on the Texas
and Pacific road; fifty bales in a
box car and nine on a flat were
burnt.
Recently an unknown
scoundrel entered the pasture
of Dr. N. W. EastonDe Witt
county and shot and killed two
fine horses belonging to the
doctor.
On Thursday last an at-
tempt was made by four mask-
ed men to shoot deputy sheriff
Grove of Montgomery county
on the road from Willis to Mont-
gomery. A Lee county man whose
corn crop is a failure has gath
ered 250 bushels of mesquite
beans for his horses; he says
two bushels of beans are equal
to one of corn.
Two years ago a party died
in Lee county from the effects
of the bite of a skunk; within
three hours after the bite the
patient exhibited all the symp-
toms of hydrophobia.
Mrs. Yates who was burnt
to death by a lamp explosion
at Maj. Penn's Lampasas camp-
meeting was a young girl only
sixteen years of age and was
married on the 5th ult
Jack White a Houston
policeman got drunk the other
day and got soundly whipped
by two women after which he
was arrested by a constable. -He
will lose his place.
The Grimes county Sen-
tinel says there will not be as
much cotton made in the county
this year yet considering the
price farmers will do about as
well as last year.
The Columbus Plaindealer
publishes a card'Tn which one
man calls another an infamous
liar. The card is introduced
with an editorial note saying
"we are not responsible for the
following card."
The Qiero Bulletin says
the streets are crowded with
cotton business is good and
should quarantine be raised at
an early date the season will be
the busiest experienced for
years.
At Dallas the train men
heard a voice in a box car and
opening it found Mrs. Clark of
Fulton Ark.1who was going to
Weatherford to join her sick
husband. A purse was raised
and she was sent on her way.
George and Andrew Brown
will be takan to Denton at the
next term of the districtcourtto
have the death sentence passed
upon them. I he court of ap-
peals having affirmed the ver-
dict of the jury it is likely they
will hang.
A party of three brothers
named Martin from Blanco
county got drunk on Austin
whiskey and made targets of
the clock pictures and furniture
in an Austin saloon. A police-
man attempted to arrest them
and had a pistol snapped at him
for his pains; the Martin broth-
ers were not arrested.
A well digger at Elgin put
five blasts in a well and suppos-
ing they were all discharged nc
descended and began drilling
foi another. His supposition
was not well founded as a blast
cxploded'nearly killing him.
The Fairfield Recorder
reports that scvc'raTfamilics who
left Freestone county and went
west to grow up with the coun-
try have returned poorer and
wiser than they went; they pro-
pose staying m-Freestone for
the future
The editor of the Henriet-
ta Journal left it in charge of a
pro-tern who was tinctured with
greenbackism and turned the
paper over to that party upon
the return of the editor de facto
the paper was restored to the
democracy.
The body of a dead man
was found near Cremer's store
in Fayette county last week.
The- body was" 'found in the
woods in a decomposed condi-
tion. It is a question whether
he was sun struck or murdered.
He was a Bohemian.
The Fort Worth Demo-
crat of Friday last contains a
lengthy account of the. ravish-
ing of a sick white lady by a-
brutal black negro drayman.
The fiend was arrested and rec-
ognized by the lady after which
he was -put in- jail.- Hanging
will be almost too good for him.
Frederick Deitrick a Ger-
man aged 20 got drunkln Dal-
las and squandered two or three
hundrcd.dollars on women and
wine and being without money
determined to maintain his rep-
utation as a gentleman commit-
ted suicide in a barroom. His
parents in Germany are respec-
table and wealthy.
At Anderson work on the
new county jail is progressing.
The Sentineithinks Ihe build-
ing will be an ornament to the
town. The idea of a jail being
an "ornament" to a town is a
sad comment on the morals of a
community yet jails are an ab-
solute necessity and in new
counties are generally built be-
fore churches.
The Gonzales Inquirer ad-
vises farmers' to plant as large
an acreagein winter wheat oats
and'millet as possible thus get-
ting good winter pasturage and
a paying crop in the spring.
The farmer who is able to pock-
et a hundred or more dollars for
produce in May or June is in a
fair way to bridge over the sum-
mer until cotton is "ripe."
The man who make's locals
on the Caldwell Register is noted
for his patience and mild dispo-
sition. He recently made a trip
and on his return found that his
dog had run off; he didn't get
mad and rant and swear but
says if anybody knows where
the dog is they will say nothing
about it as if there is any good
in that dog it is still there un-
developed. Three bales of cotton were
received in Waco from Ross
station on the extension of the
Central; this is the first shipment
over the road. Aquilla a new
station 20 miles beyond Waco
has been laid off in lots. The
work on the bridge across the
Brazos is progressing and will
be completed by October 10th.
Grading is finished to Steele's
creek in Bosque county.
A woman got drunk on the
other side of the San Tedro at
San Antonio and was outraged
by two 'negroes; they were ar-
rested and jailed. Similar out-
rages by negroes are becoming
of alarming frequency and sum-
mary measures will be resorted
to if it is not stopped. A day
or two ago the Banner reported
the raping of a white woman by
a negro near Industry Austin
county.
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