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BRENHAM WEEKLY BANNER.
VOLUME xvn.
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'prepared to substantiate every word In It
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elroor ead to tu for samples and prlcellst.
rot Bil and nrt month "we hare inaugura-
ted a very large sale of
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Prices wUl b the lowe.t ever known In the
State Send for samples Special
ettcnUon. is directed to our
Kid Glove Reductions
Kid GkrttS5c worth OOo. . 
S Button Oiwra Kids 40c. worth doable.
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from 3 W
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New Spring Goods
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barbams IN DRESS GOODS.
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JC"r Rerneml'erour Clothing Genu Fnrolsh-
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Uarrlace amlOulluary notices eireeding
eirhtllnn half nrica. fclltorlalnollcesofa
purely business character lOcen ts aline earn
nserlion.
Entered at the rostofliee at Brenham
Texas as second-class mail matter.!
Official reports from the
overflowed districts place the
number of suffers in Arkansas
at 20000; in Mississippi iS.ooo
persons are without supplies or
the means of procuring them
and in Tennessee the number is
placed between 4000 and 5000.
Rations are being issued at
Memphis by the government:
There is now on the map of
Jexas five immense territories
known as thjounties of Tom
Green CroCfc Pecos Presi-
dio and GUBiesc says the
Dallas HnHHassssssssssUia divid
er! into Co
like those
advance of
tached to
lor judicial
COMPLAr
within the laS
four men haji
5!rLrra335s!
lihaehie. an!
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itate police is sugested but
fevas has alreadv naa ail ine
excellence with state police
that she needs. The fault is in
all probability with the officers.
A telgram from Saunders-
ville Tenn. received at Gaines-
ville announces the death of
Hon. J. M. Martin late editor
of the Gainesville Register and
state senator from the Eleventh
senatorial district. Mr. Martin
had been suffering from con
sumption for some time; ne was
an able newspaper man and a
prominent member ol the sen-
ate. At Las Lunas N. M. the
other day Charles Shelton
John Raymond and Henry
French were taken from jail and
hanged to a neighboring tree.
All three were desperadoes and
all were charged with murders.
The mob also took two negroes
from jail and gave them a re-
markable genteel or good
whipping after which they turn-
ed them loose.
The San Antonio Express
says that Guiteau ought to
write a congratulatory letter to
MacLean the British crank.
He might give him some valua-
ble instructions as to how to
badger judge jury attorneys
and witnesses. Should he at-
tempt to follow Guiteau's exam-
ple MacLean can afterwards
write to Guiteau telling how he
Mac was "sat on" by the En-
glish courts.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch
 refering to Bradlaugh's
re-election says : t'Bradlaugh's
constituents in Northampton
have re-elected him to the
house of commons lor the fourth
time. Bradlaugh is having as
much fun as the hog that at-
tempted repeatedly to enter a
corn-field through a crooked
hollow log and landed on the
same side of the fence every
time."
Radicalism and fanaticism
are kindred terms and it is just
as possible that there should be
radical democrats as that there
should be radical republicans.
Some democratic papers in
Texas do not seem to be aware
of this fact. Fanaticism begins
where reason leaves off. It is
only by allowing the utmost
freedom of opinion that sound
sensible views can be obtained.
Political opinions should be as
free as the air we breath.
"On" the 7th inst. a Galveston
firm shipped one hundred bales
jof high grade cotton to San
Francisco; it goes all rail via
iilfaso and is the hrst ship-
ment of cotton ever made from
Galveston to San Francisco. It
is said this cotton is used in
California woolen mills where
mixed fabrics are manufactur-
ed. The Galveston News thinks
there is much possibilities out-
lined by opening up of the Pa-
cific coast trade which Galves-
ton buiness men seem disposed
to take hold of and push with
vigor.
The Club is the name of the
new evening paper started at
Fort Worth it is published by
an association of printers prob-
ably on the co-operative plan.
The Democrat-Advance says
that editorally the Club seems
to be on the Oscar Wilde sys-
tem of architecture. It may
survive and it may not. Peo-
ple are prone to patronize new
papers when they first start but
they don't stick to 'em unless
they prove to be of. the most
excellent character. People
have more discrimination about
the worth and merit of a news-
paper than new publishers are
disposed to give them credit
for; they invariably know a
good paper from a bad one.
BRENHAM WASHINGTON COUNTY TEXAS THURSDAY MARCH .23
ilaniclital Election.
Fort Worth like Brenham is
to have a city election next
month. The Democrat-Advance
has an editorial on the
subject from which we take the
following: "It is proper that
the acts of our city as well as
all other officials be closely
scrutinized that the people
should ask the question what
has this officer done to com-
mend him to further favorable
consideration? Has he fulfilled
his duty in all regards and what
benefits have accrued to the
masses since his induction into
office? In what respect has he
advanced the works of public
improvement and if at all has
he so to that extent which his
opportunities afforded? Has
his office borne good Iruit been
marked with honesty and gen-
uine progress or has it been a
sinecure? These are questions
which arc pertinent and should
be studiously and candidly
weighed by cviijfisuffragan
fore the tim
will be call
ballot.
the.
that oil
safe nul
ble in ap
tion?
that bur
been at tin
winter almc
unloaded j
ing reproac
tentious as .
citzen congi
on our sanitji
boast of thi
streets ai
in the ab
of sickm
If past
failed to
recards flVialf
of (rood govSRbr the
advancemadHry of our
city SHBHay i the
hadsorBstvho inaugurate
and execute a policy in keep-
ing withj these ends. Vote for
no man unless he stands com-
mitted to these things."
In many respects Brenham
and Fort Worth are alike they
are trade centers but Fort
Worth is considerably larger and
much greater improvments are
contemplated there than here ;
the ideas of the D-A are
good and our citizens.in adopt
ing them would not govery iar
estray. We want thagtery best
men available to.HftU our
municipal office:
The Sa
says that
permitted
cupations am
tired statesmen
becomes of
"Thus we have lately seen Mr.
Hayes in nankeen trousers and
Panama hat raking dead leaves
in his front yard and gossiping
about the fire in the country
store in the afternoon. He
claims to be poor but it is
shrewdly suspected that he is
salting away his cash for an old
age of solid comfort Old Bill
English is another man who
has given up politics. He owns
five hundred houses in Indian-
apolis and is fond of adding to
his bank account as Girard or
Michael Reese ever were. Un-
cle Sammy Tilden also has as
strong an affection for coin as
for cipher telegrams while
Grant's studies in civil service
reform don't prevent him from
acting as the figure-head olany
new scheme that will pay him a
fat salary. The influence of
politics seems to be to make
our retired statesmen specula-
tors or misers."
Senator Jones of Nevada
made a speech in the Senate in
favor of the Chinese bill and of
course Against alley
hinese
immigration to
He regards the
ptry.
infeiror race and
low wages of Ch:
benefitting individu;
ers would ultimately
ish the country b'
the stimulent to
saving machinery
ventions. He prop1
the African race wo
be permitted to doii
any state in the so
experiment to that
been a dismal failure
urc not because we
tried to make it a success
cause laws far above li
laws have placed our rai
ahnup nnfl cnnwiAr 1ft nil nt
Votes of ignorent classes mj
predominate but intellect
not numbers is the sup
force in this world. The na'
altzation of Uimcsc was p
hibited.
Gov. McEnerv of Lousian;
has cranted a respite of sixl
days to Paul Pringlea negJ
who was to nave been nu;
DeSota parish on Friday.
believed by his attorneys th;
evidence will be procured
will save Paul's neck. He
charged with murder.
IHrTonicle
HEutlly are
to 100K fasssskthe oc-
dWaasjKfe of re-
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Politicians and Roberts.
A Waco correspondent of the
Galveston News writing over
the signature of Ross endeav-
ors by specious reasoning to
make it appear that Roberts is
the peoples' man and the peo-
ples' choice for governor and
that the opposition to him is the
work of politicians and place-
hunters. The writer claims that
Roberts is the best governor
that Texas ever had; that to
Roberts the people arc indebted
for the cash balance now in the
treasury. There is .a vast dif
ference of oninioiaasssssssssstak.'i
the policy that h
. ed the cash bala
financiers do not
wisdom of a
much money
That Roberts
has had some
bitterest ene
and none
cused him
when
IS
in the
need of being
bm the politicians;
ntially one of them:
not want to get tid of
ut on the contrary they
e men who are working to
;ave him re-elected governor
and from the gubernatorial
chair he expects to ascend to
the United States senate. The
Banner in common with many
other papers while it does- not
impeach Gov Roberts' per-
sonal honesty and motives is of'
the opinion that there are many
other younger and more pro-
gressive men good sound
democrats at that who would
make a better governor than
Roberts. It is time that the
idea that he is the only man in
all Texas who is fit to be gov-
ernor of the state should be
abandoned. The state is not
dependent upon any one man.
State press in the Galveston
News has been matching the
course of events closely for
many years and the result of
his observation is: "The old
idea among candidates that it
is easier to secure an office
through the nomination of a
packed convention .than by a
direct appeal to the people is
becoming obsolete as regards
local officers. The people be-
gin to vote as they please and
candidates begin to find it out"
It has been apparent for some
time that packing conventions
is an easy thing and that cut
and dried tickets do not possess
the freshness and aroma to
attract voters. Conventions are
slowly but surely losing their
potency with the masses in city
and county elections. Party
success or party principles are
not at all effected by the polit-
ical predelictions of a beat con-
stable. The question between agri-
culture and stock raising in
that portion of Texas west of
the iooth meridian is it seems
destined to play an important
part in the legislature halls and
in the platforms in the coming
campaign. It is a question that
will in time regulate itself as
soon as the land is needed for
farming purposes stock raising
or more properly speaking
grazing will be abandoned and
the land devoted to farming. If
as the Governor contends civi-
lization begins with the plow
Ihe plow will find its way west-
rd to the grazing lana. ino
lation should be-altemptea
ill work an injustice to
the stockman or the
now conceded that Rea-
nter-state commerce bill
n effectually killed in
;s. The weight of opin-
s to have been against
.sure; it was at total
with all perceived no-
state rights and the
road influence of the
-was brought to bear
-t hence its failure.
tan government in its
s cessions always re-
Tk control over the
in this the various
ited Stateswould
ow her example as
11 railroads could
state courts and
i would be under
's papers take a
se they hear the
ot" pronounced
IteHllilliMfr'
EDITORIAL SOTES.
In Pennsylvania the prohibi-
'tionists have a full state ticket.
It cost the state of Minnesota
Sioo.ooo to impeach a district
judge.
It is thought at Washington
that James P. Ncwcomb will
get the San Antonio postofficc.
The Austin Statesman com
putes the prospective wealth of
the state af Texas at $200000-
000. It is reported at Dallas that
Dr. W. T Baird of Fort Worth
will succeed Norton as United
States Marshal.
he cash balance in the treas
on-amounts to $1159352
.vhich S&33oS5.35 is to
tlit of the revenue ac-
e university contest
Ing the Houston Age
it the university was
rchat the state could
pwith.
kBuTLCR thinks Conk-
ppointmeht to the su-
: bench a good one. Some
: that Ben. is himself fishing
osition.
stated that since the At-
ixposition S2oooopo of
xn capital has been inves-
n the manufacture ofcot-
In Georgia.
lemphis Tennessee two
fcshop keepers bave been
by the grand jury lor
in futures. This is a
rture.
z North Texas Stock con-
tion  meets at Gainesville
2d ult. A ball will be given
three thousand invitations
e been issued.
hat in the world is the
er with the Houston Age?
ems to have lost all confi-
ce in the people and puts its
ust in the politicians.
A clerk in the Fourth Na
tional bank of New York is un
der arrest in that city on a
charge of stealing between s.-
ooo and $100000 of the bank's
money.
The- San Antonio Light a
semi-official paper says. Gen.
Sherman's visit to our state will
be followed by important
changes in our military estab-
lishment In the vicinity of Taos N. M.
the Peublo Indians were sold
whisky; they got drunk got in-
to a row and deputy sheriff
McRea was killed. Indians and
whisky do not mix well.
The smallest town in the
United States perhaps in the
world that supported a daily
paper in 18S0 was the town
of Weldon North Carolina
whose population was only 3S2.
South Carolina is gradually
becoming democratic. Negroes
are moving away but hardly
because of the political com-
plexion of the state. The
democrats have always been the
best friends to the colored peo-
ple. It is understood that Judge
Advocate Gen. Swaim in his
review of Lieut. Flipper's case
recommmends a less serious
punishment than dismissal. It
is thought the president and
secretary of war favor the light-
er punishment
The Austin Statesman says
that the democracy will con-
tinue to triumph in Texas and
it will shape federal results in
1884. The democracy in Texas
is all right but the machine is
trying to control it.
The Texas Western Railroad
company has decided to issue
bonds at the rate of $12000 a
mile on the 45 miles already
completed and unincumbered
road to raise money to be used
in extending the road.
Baltimore has a bran new
penny paper the Star. -It
promises to make itself an ab-
solute necessity to everybody
and if it makes its promise good
it will have the largese circula-
tion of any paper in the world.
The chronic habit of legisla-
tors going to Austin with a
pocket full of bills is begining to
attract some attention. The
special session of the legislature
has all its business mapped out
and new bills will not be intro-
duced. The weather prophets pre-
dicted cold and stormy weather
along about Monday March
6th. It came and plenty of it
and now the prophets have
again established a reputation
for truth. How long it will last
is another thing.
The Waxahachie Mirror says
Hon. D. C. Giddings of Bren-
ham is being mentioned by
many papers as a suitable man
for our next governor. Texas
has no better man and we would
gladly see him our next demo-
cratic standard bearer.
Reports from the overflowed
districts on the Mississippi river
are to the effect that levees are
stiil giving way and more dam-
age is being done daily. The
water was never known to be
higher and the damage and loss
of life are absolutely immense
The Journal of Galveston is
working hard to have the com-
ing democratic state convention
held there and as anothor in-
ducement it says Galveston has
no candididates to offer on the
state ticket. Galves'ton is un-
questionably the favorite place
for the convention with a major-
ity of the papers and people as
far as heard from.
Sesator Voorhees of Indi-
ana has received a letter from
a friend in Dakota stating not
one farmer in ten desires that
territory admitted into the
union. It seems to be a move
of the politicians to have Doko-
ta admitted for political pur-
poses alone.
Walking as a profassion
seems to be very profitable. At
the recent walking match in New
York Hazel the winner got
$ 1 S3So as his share while ritz-
gcrald got $4750 and the other
walkists various sums down to
$750. Preachers and editors
arc not so well paid.
Six hundred cases arc already
docketed in the supreme court
at Austin and several counties
are yet to be heard from. Only
sixty cases arc docketed in the
appellate court. Washington
county cases will be placed
upon the third assignment in-
stead of the second as hereto-
fore. In New York city a United
States commissioner refused to
give naturalization papers to
Hop Sing a Chinaman who ap-
plied for them. The refusal
was "based upon a decision in
a like case in which it was held
that the applicant was net a free
white person within the mean-
ing of the statutes.
The San Antonio Light hav-
ing said that whiskey rules the
democratic party the Waxa-
hachie Mirror says that whisky
has also played a very impor-
tant part in republican politics
and in proof it cites General
Grant and the beautiful whiskey
ring which flourished in St.
Louis during Grant's reign.
The Commerce committee
have agreed to allow $40000
for the mouth of the Brazos and
$50000 for Buffalo bayou and
the ship channel Mr. Reagan
endeavored to get a greater ap-
propriation for the mouth of the
Brazos which is Jones' pet
scheme but Jones' name does
not seem to figure in the harbor
improvement reports published
by the Galveston News.
Gen. Sherman seems to be
ubiquitous ; he seems to have
passed through every town in
Texas on his special train at or
about the same time. He is
like the two 'celebrated war
characters the reliable gentle-
man and the intelligent contra-
band. They were everywhere
at the same time and always
possessed the kind of informa-
tion wanted.by correspondents.
The Austin Statesman says
that a movement is being made
to lead Hon. John Ireland into
the independent movement. If
the democracy of Texas acts
wisely there will be no occasion
for an independent movement
and if there is no accasion for
an independent movement of
course none will be made. Har-
mony within the ranks of the
party is what is desired by true
democrats.
The people of the Pacific
coast have made up their minds
that the Chinese must go. As
it has about been determined
that Chinase shall not become
naturalized and they possess no
value as voters there is no par-
ticalnr use for them by the
politicians. The Chinese merch-
ants of San Francisco have sent
dispatches to their Hong Kong
correspondents urging them to
stop Chinese emigration to San
Francisco.
Col. John T. Crisp of Mis
souri is now on trial at Sulphur
Springs Hopkins county Tex-
as on the charge of murdering
Felix Patrick some eighteen
years ago. A jury was empan-
eled the first day. Col. Crisp
is a prominent man in politics
in northwest Missouri and this
case has gained considerable
notoriety by the refusal of Gov.
Crittenden of Missouri to sur-
render Crisp upon the requisi-
tion of Governor Roberts.
It is safe to assume that the
present disastrous overflow in
the Mississippi valley will have
the effect to reduce very heavily
the coming cotton crop. The
overflowed district may by re-
garded as the very garden spot
of the cotton region. The plain
deduction is that the price of
the staple must rule higher dur-
ing the present season. How-
ever in advance of the planting
season it is mere guess work to
estimate the product of a crop
that is not yet in the ground.
The modern metropolitan
newspaper is certainly a mar-
vellous production. Last Sun-
day's New York Herald was a
twenty-four page paper requir-
ing for the issue the services of
120 printers and 30 proof-readers;
4300000 pieces of type
and seven double presses to
prii? it. The number of sepa-
rate advertisements it contained
was nearly 4000 or more than
the number contained in half a
dozen of the largest Texas dai-
lies or for that matter all the
daily papers in Texas com-
bined. The Clarksville Times a pa-
per edited by one of the oldest
and most stalwart democrats in
the state speaks its sentiments
in the plainest and most em-
phatic language. It says "the
Galveston Journal would rather
be d d and go to h 1 with
the opposition than to go to
glory and be happy with Gov.
Roberts." The good book
says judge not less ye be judg-
ed. It may be that the Journal
will object to being sent"b?low"
and there is no certainty which
chute the governor will take.
They might part company in
the byc-and-byc.
STATE REITS.
Tyler claims a population
of over 4000.
The Sunset railway is now
running regular trains as far west
as Uvalde.
The Austin police force
now consists of one sergeant
and six men.
The San Antonio cala
boose is locally known as the
city bat cave.
Small grain in San Saba
county is knee high and would
be seriously damaged by a
frost.
Bastrop is now having a
first-class scandal. A. Wise-
man and wife arc the parties in-
volved Fort Worth has a new pa-
per the Evening Club said to
be a wide-awake independent
sheet.
The ElPaso Lone Star ac-
cuses a daily paper of that place
of stealing editorials from eas-
tern papers.
- At Abilene on Monday
there was rain and sleet ; cold
weather is general throughout
noth Texas.
Fort Worth's gas bill was
only $25.80 for the last month
and after much discussion the
council allowed it.
The local editors of the
San Antonio papers devote a
portion of their time to correct-
ing each others mistakes.
About a dozen lawyers in
Austin have failed to pay their
occupation taxas; they have
been cited to appear before the
county court.
Refined cotton seed oil
from New Orleans is now ad-
vertised for sale by a Waco
grocer who guarantees it to be
superior to lard.
Athens will soon have a
newspaper and Wills Point will
be without one the Local hav-
ing been removed from the lat-
ter to the former place.
The editor of the Llano
Rural a greenback paper is
the happy possessor of a two-
bit shinplasfer bill and he is sor-
ry he hasn't more money.
There was a heavy frost at
San Antonio on Thursday
morning but on account of the
moist condition of every thing
vegetation suffered but little.
The residence ol Henry
Simpson at Caldwell together
with its entire contents was
burned on Friday afternoon;
loss about $1000 ; no insurance.
The temporary bridge of
the lexasand Mexican railway
across the Colorado river at
Wharton has been washed
away for the third or fourth
time.
The first wedding ever
celebrated in the new town of
Heidenheimcr took place on
Thursday. T.M. Williams and
Lulu Smith were .the happy
couple.
The Raymond House at
Austin is to be reaised and
built up until it is five stories
high. Tall buildings are usual-
ly found where ground is very
valuable.
John Hanlon was stabbed
and instantly killed by his
brother-in-law Thomas Wig-
gins on Dr. Crowell's farm near
Centerville Leon county a few
days ago.
One side of the public
square at Decatur was burned
Thursday morning. Two brick
stores and seven frame buildings
were burned. Loss about $18-
000. The San Antonio Express
says that Monday night's rain
was the best that section of
country has had for a year and
that now good crops seems to
be assured beyond a preadven-
ture. The Columbus Citizen is
the first paper to publish a list
of delinquent county tax pay-
ers. The list is comparatively
short and speaks well for the
prosperous condition of Color-
ado county.
The body of a young man
named Vaughan was found on
the road near Tehaucana creek
McLennan county drowned. It
is thought that he was
drowned while attempting to
swim the creek.
Mr. E. S. Wood an old
and well known merchant of
Galveston died in that city on
Wednesday. He was about 67
years of age and came to Texas
in 1838 or 1839 living the
greater part of the time in Gal-
veston. There was a heavy frost
at Burnet on Thursday but it
is thought that but little dam-
age was done; wheat and oats
never looked better. Graders
on the Austin and Northwestern
are camped within two miles of
Burnet.
Prohibition was voted on
in Harrison county on Tuesday
and was defeated by an over-
whelming majority. So as far
heardfrom the.vote stood for pro
hibition 41 8 against prohibition
1310. The precincts to be heard
from will increase the majority
against prohibition:
San Antonio has some es-
thetic beggars they go from
house to house and leave pathe-
tic printed stanzas setting forth
that they want work and can't
get it and are in need of assis-
tant Such appeals are usually
successful and so long as they
are the beggars will continue to
want work as by wanting work
they imke an easy living.
1862.
In Dallas on Tuesday ev-
erybody had the mulligrubs
and looked forlorn desolate and
and lonesome. Here in Bren-
ham all hands had the blues.
A day or two of sunshine puts
every one to smiling again.
A Galveston special to the
Dallas Herald reports that M.
Strickland the well-known sta
tioner is down with the small
pox at his home in Galveston
hc.having contracted the dis
ease in New Orleans.
Capt King locating en-
gineer of the Missouri Pacific
railway is at liclton and will be-
gin work on Monday; he thinks
the grading force will be in the
field very soon Belton now
feels sure that they will get a tap
road.
The town of Ranger in
western Texas is a strirr. Inral
option place and there the
tsiino i iger lives and nourishes.
He flourished to such an extent
that the internal revenue agents
went and arrested the owner of
the menagerie for selling whis-
key without license.
Potatoes imported from
Scotland are now on sale in
Dallas. They are nothing like
as fine in size as the home rais-
ed potatoes. The Dallas Har-
ald remarks that with Texas
climate and soil there is certain-
ly no excuse for importing pota-
toes over from other countries.
Fifty or more negroes in-
cluding all ages and sexes ar-
rived at Navasota on Friday
night all the way from Green-
ville S. C. They say that a
man contracted to take them to
Arkansas but instead brought
them to Grimes county. Most
of them will go to work on the
farms.
It is proposed to extend
the city limits of Dallas very
materially; those living within
the corporation are in favor of
extension and those living in the
proposed new limits object to
it because as soon as they come
within the corporate limits they
come under the jurisdiction of
the city tax collector.
John Burke a well known
stock man of LaSalle county
was killed at Fort Ewell on the
4th inst A shooting scrape was
in progress between Burke and
old man btewart a storekeper
when some one one on the out-
side shot Burke in ihe back of
the head killing him on the
spot Stewart's son-in-law was
arrested.
At Flatonia a couple of
gentlemen playedseven-up for
money. One struck the other
over the head with a revolver.
Both were arrested and both
were fined. The striker was
fined for toting a gun and gam-
ling and the strikce who had
his head cut open for gamb-
ling. The way of the transgres-
sor is hard in Flatonio.
It is a wonder how some
of the country papers in Texas
in the sparsely settled counties
manage to make a living and
when the surroundings and sub-
scription lists of 'such papers
are taken 'into consideration
the wonder is not that the pa-
pers are so poor but that they
are so good. A newspaper al-
ways makes its locality known
and if for no other reason they
should be supported on this ac-
count Three Dallas boys aged
16 16 and 18 who had been
reading dime novels concluded
to make a trip to Galveston.
They got a skiff" guns blankets
and provisions and pulled out
down the Trinity. They made
twenty miles the first day and
at night had to camp out in the
rain; this sickened them; they
concluded to return home; it
took them two days to get
back. They will undertake no
more voyages down the Trinity.
Dime novels were at the bot-
tom of the whole business.
Sometimes the simpliest means
will accomplish the most desira-
ble results. As an evidence
read the experience of Charles
S. Strickland 9 Boylston Place
and 150 Harrison avenue Bos-
ton : The pleasure which I
hereby attempt tb express can-
not be half conveyed by words.
Physicians of very high charac-
ter and notoriety have hereto-
fore declared my rheumatism
to be incurable. Specifics al-
most numberless have failed to
cure or deviate the intensity of
the pain which has frequently
confined me to my room for
three months at a time. One
week ago I was seized with an
attack of acute rheumatism of
the knee In a few hours the
entire knee joint became swol-
len to enormous proportions
and walking rendered impos-
sible. Nothing remained for
me and I intended to resign
myself as best I might to anoth-
er month's confinement to my
room and bed while suffering
untold agonies. By chance I
learned of the wonderful cura-
tive propertis of St. Jacobs Oil
I cluched it as a straw and in a
few hours was entirely free
from pain in the knee arm and
shoulder. As before stated
I cannot find words to convey
my praise and gratitude to the
discoverer of this king of rheu-
matism. Journalism is about to be
recognized by the present ad-
ministration. It is thought that
Newcomb of the San Antonio
Light and Henderson of the
Georgntown Record will be
made postmasters at their re-
spective towns. It is said vir-
tue is its own veward.
NUMBER 1)
Home. .
Dr. Holmes says: "I never
saw a garment too fine for 3
man or maid; there was nevcra
chair too good for a cobbler or
a cooper or a king to sit in;
never a house too fine to shel-
ter the human head. These
elements about us the glorious
sun the imperious sun arc not
too good for the human race.
Elegance fits man. But do
wc not value these tools a
little more than they are worth
and sometimes mortgage a
house for the mohogany wc
bring into it? I had rather cat
my dinner off the head of a bar-
rel or dress after the fashion of
Jonh the Baptist in the wilder-
ness or sit on a block all my
life than consume all myself be-
fore I gel to a home and take
so much pains with the outside
when the inside washolIow as
an empty nut Beauty is a
great thing but beauty of a gar-
ment house and furniture arc
tawdry ornaments compared
with domestic love. All the
elegance in the world will not
make a home and I would give
more fora spoonful of real hear-
ty love than for whole -sfiip-loads-
of furniture and- all the
gorgeousness all tfic upholster-
ers in the world can gather."
A Down Town UerrJiant
Having passed several sleepless nights dis-
turbed by the agonies and cries of a suffer-
ing chndand becoming convinced lhat Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrap wasjust the ar-
ticle needed procured a supply for the child
On reaching home and acquainting Ms
wife with what he had done she refused to
have it administered to the child as she was
strongly in favor of Homeopathy. That
night the child passed in snfienng and the
parents without sleep- Returning home
the day following; the father found the baby
still worse; and while contemplating anoth-
er sleepless night the mother stepped from
the room to attend to some domestic unties
and left the father with the child. During
her absence he adminutered a portion of
the Soothing Syrup to the baby and said
nothing. That night all bands slept well
and the little fellow awoke in the rooming
bright and happy. The-mother was de-
lighted with the sudden and wonderful
change and although at first offended at
the deception practiced upon hen has con-
tinued to use the Syrup and suffering ey-
ing babies and restless nights have disap- .
peared. A single trial of the Syrup never
yet failed to relieve the baby andovercome
the prejudices of the mother. Sold by all
druggists. 2; cents a bottle.
Manchester Ohfo makes a
contribution to archilogy
which if genuine is of no littlt
moment From a mound in
the city has been unearthed the
remains of a human skeleton a
Jaw bone of which measures
eight inches in length. The
thigh bone measures three feet
in length and the skull bones
are in keeping with the rest of
the remains. These measure-
ments would indicate a being
of 10 or 12 feet in height
Dr. Pierce's ""Favorite Prescription" for
all those wealcnesse s peculiar to women is
an unequaled remedy- Distressing back-
ache and bearing-down" sensations yield
to its strength-giving properties. By drug-
fiists. '
The Supreme Court of the
state of Virginia has decided
that mill owners are responsible
for all the harm done by the
throwing of saw-dust and other
refuse into mill streams. The
court holds "that the enjoyment
of a water privilege does not
include the right to dispose of
refuse in this manner except so
far as is indispensably necessa-
ry." The same question is in-
volved in suits brought by own-
ers of land in California which
have been injured by mining''
operations.
s
Tfondcrful .Tower.
When a medicine performs
such cures as Kidney-Wort is
constantly doing it may truly
be said to have powerful power
A carpenter in Montgomery
Vt had suffered for eight years
from the worst of kidney dis-
eases and had been wholly in-
capacitated for work. He says
"One box made a new man of
me and I sincerely believe it
will restore to health all that
are similarly afflicted." It is
now sold in both liqnid and
dry form Danbury News.
Dr Brown-Sequard has had
conferred on him by the Paris
Academie des Sciences the dis-
tinguished honor of the Grand
Prix Lecaze. This prize valu-
ed at about $2000 is given
only in recognition of the life-
long devotion to physiological
science which has resulted in
important discoveries.
THE AGE OF MIRACLES
is past and Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical
Discovery" will notraisethe dead will not
cure you if your lungs are almost wasted
by consumption. It is however unsur-
passed both u a pectoral and alterative
and will cure obstinate and severe diseases
of the throat and lungs coughs and bron-
chial affections. By virtue of its wonderful
alterative properties it cleanses andenrich-
es the blood cures pimples biothes and
eruptions and causes even great eating ul-
cers to heal.
It is worth remembering that
nobody enjoys the nicest sur-
roundings if in bad health.
There are miserable people
about to-day with one foot in
the grave when a bottle of
Parker's Ginger Tonic would do
them more good than all the
doctors and medicines they
have ever tried. See advertise-
ment y
eai
Gov. Cameron of Virginia
is reported ill with rheumatism
contracted on his recent naval
expedition against the oyster
pirates.
GET THE ORICINAL.
Dr. Pierce's "Pelleti" the original "Lit-
tle Pflls" (sugar-coated cure sick and bil-
ious headache sour stomach and bihou
attacks. Sy druggists!
Both Gen. Hancockand Gen.
Sherman agree that- the army
should be composed of young
men. The former advises the
retirement of company officers
at 407 of field officers at 55 and
of general officers at 65.. '
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