Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 34, Ed. 1, Thursday, August 27, 1891 Page: 2 of 8
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The Weekly Banner
J. G. RANKIN. Proprietor.
EDITORIAL JSOTES
STATE NEWS.
4chi-
Thursd3y August 27 1891.
snk of Australia
The Government crop report is
sued on Monday indicates a spring
wheat Tcild of 180 million bushels
The yield of corn is estimated at
1.940 million bushels and of oats
650 million bushels.
An Indian Territory correspondent
of the Kansas City Sunday Sun
named "Wilson who has been sland
ering the people of Musskogee was
ducked in a millponci aionaay mgnc
and given an hour to leavo that city.
He left on a cattle train.
i
The Fort "Worth Gazette is threat
ened with a libel suit and gives n
tice that whenever started it will
fifht it to the courts of last resort
and if the man has any flaw in his
injured reputation it will show it up
in the court room ana tne tiazette.
we
Fn-Tr-FivE hundred Italians sailed
from Genoa for America last week.
Crotes little storv of the inhuman
butchery of his countrymen by citi
zens of the United States does not
appear to have had much effect in
deterring others from coming over.
The bride of Mr. Jeff Ford of
Oklahoma started afire to cook sup-
per Sunday night with coal oil. An
explosion followed and the house
burned down. She was finally res-
cued from the burning debris but
was burned entirely beyond recogni-
tion. n
Br reason of a war among the
brewers beer is being sold at four
dollars a barrel in Kansas City. If
the war is continued it won't be
worth drinking and the average cit
izen of Kansas will turn up his nose
at it with the same contempt he
does at water.
The kicker has his uses. He may
make it a little disagreeable" for
some for the time being but kick-
ing brings reforms. The bold de-
mand of his rights makes the way
more pleasant for those who follow.
Suppose there were no boarding
house kickers.
The gallant service of Hon. E. Q.
Mills to the Democratic party
which is recognized by his fellow-
congressmen in their support of him
for speaker of the House should
" not be forgotten by his constituents
at home when the Legislature con-
venes and goes to elect a United
States senator lest some one quote
"A prophet not without honor save
in his own country.
Senator Carlisle recently said
i "Mr. Cleveland in my judgment is
K" ' still the strongest democratic candi-
' date. He may have offended the
oxtremo pro-silver men by his re
marks against free coinage but he
enjoys a wonderful reputation among
? tne people. "The plain every-day
ji folks in the west and south swear
by him. I know of no democrat
who enjoys the confidence of the
people as does Mr. Cleveland."
Forrest firea are raging in F
an.
The British
has susponJed.
Jacksonville Fla. has had a half
million dollar fire.
QnAr is to bo made Chairman of
the Pennsylvania State Committee.
Illinois has had a severe storm
recently which did much damage.
Inoalls is writing a book. Oh !
mine enemy what more suould
ask.
Cotton is down low but the
wheat farmer is in it. "Wheat is out
of sight.
The movement of grain in Kansas
has not amounted -to much so far
this season.
The Young German Empeior
who was to have visited the Chicago
Fair is mad.
The cotton cin has commenced
getting in its work in many places
in the state.
The bread for the German army
will hereafter be made of wheat in-
stead of rye.
The sugar bounty has reached
enormous figures of a million dol-
lars per month-
There is said to be an anti-Harrison
movement in Indiana the
Presidents native home.
Congressman Mills' canvass of
Iowa will greatly increase the Dem
ocratic majority there.
Labor is not a ground of re
proach but a downright idler
should be ashamed to eat.
The general impression is that all
the five amendments were carried
though only a light vote was polled.
The Pennsylvania Eepnblicans in
session Wednesday declared in fa
vor of free coinage of gold and sil-
ver. The new customs regulations in
Mexico dispense with the second
inspection of goods at points where
goods are delivered.
Owing to the discord among the
delegates to the International So
cialist "Workmen's congress in ses-
sion at Brussels nothing will be ac
complished.
The anti-Ioteryites and the State
Farmers' Union of Louisiana have
formed a combination in Louisiana
that it is believed seals the fate of
the lottery.
The university of Texas sent out
a circular denying the truth of the
reports reflecting upon the charac-
ter or conducts of the students of
the university.
Collector Cuket has spoken and
he says notwithstanding the little
Blaine boom in North Texas your
Uncle Benjamin will get the Texas
stats delegation.
W. M. Imboden editor of the
Cherokee Herald has issued a circu
an artesian
wants a canning
lar to the east Texas editors taking
When the legislature meets the
alien land law will no doubt come
in for its share of consideration; but
the Banner does not believe they
wiu ever repeal it They will per-
haps eliminate the obnoxious feat-
ures of it. The principals of the law
are all right and will stand the test
of a careful investigation by the
legislature who will see enough
good in it to let it stand with slight
lauuiu canons.
"
The People's Party recently in
-session at Dallas devising ways and
means to increase its members
adopted a resolution to the effect
that it be made the special duty of
the executive committee for each
congressional district to organize the
"People's party by going into each
county having the county central
committe appointed; second that it
1 .shall be the duty of the county cen-
tral committee to organize the party
in that county.
'9
An Illinois voman proposes to
give from 75000 to 100000 for
the purpose of erecting a colored fe-
male college in Mississippi provided
the ground for a site is donated by
the citi2ens of the locality where
the college will be located. This is
quite liberal of the Illinois woman
and no doubt the site will at once
be forthcoming. She evidently has
faith in the redepuption of the col
ored people of that state through
the mode of higher education.
an East Texas
"Will the now party the People's
Party becauso of the long delay of
justice to the interest of the farm-
ers which has caused a feeling of
dissatisfaction among them commit
enough democrats alliance men and
sub trcasuryites to imperil the elec-
tion of a Democrat president ? The
republicans will lend them every en
couragement they can in the south
to break its solidity and political
deadbeats of the north who never
owed allegiance to any party save
as paid emisaries will be sent
among us to sow discord and cor-
rupt the politics of the south where-
ver they can have the most influ-j
euco. Watch them.
steps to organize
Press Association.
"W. B. Eoberts of the Smithville
Optic was married Sunday to Miss
Lollie Whitehead at her home in
Smithville. The Banner extends its
fraternal greeting.
The Southern Bailway of England
has a savings institution connepted
with its management and it is said
that more than four thousand of its
workmen jare depositors.
The government claim for damages
done by the Indians at Pine ludge
iigouuy iu .Lutoiu uuxing tne uis
turbances there last wmter aggre
gate half a million dollars.
The rate of expenditure of the
Chicago Fair officials is on the basis
of double the available funds. If
this continues the biggest exhibit
of the Fair will be the deficiency.
The lottery campaign in Louis-
iana is going to be a very interest
ing one even to outsiders. It is a
fight of the people and right against
wrong uackea by unlimited capital.
The Ft. Worth Gazette contest
was a big thine worthy of a bier pa
per and resulted in sending a num
ber oi girls to college that would
otherwise never nave been able to
have gone.
In Kansas and Southwest Texas
cattle are dying of sunstroke. Both
places r.re so hot that it has been
said jocularly of each that a mau go
ing iu suuei irom eituer would re
turn for his blankets.
A. Uallas county convention of
colored people adopted a resolution
disapproving any action being taken
by the State convention which is to
be held at Houston on the separate
coach law "as the colored people ure
better protected by it."
"Two-thirds of the church mem-
bers of this country are .women"
the infidel sneeringlv remarks. Is
there anything about that to bo
ashamed of? Here is another fact :
Out of 45.000 convictR in our state
prisons more than 43000 are men.
Definite and practical resnlis
wore readied with the rain machine
at Midland for the past week or
two. Copious rains weie made to
fall and altogether the success of
tho experiments have been verified
to tho satisfaction of even the most
credulous. Now "you pav's vonr
money and you call for your rain." i
Childress wants
Well.
Henderson
factory.
District court is in session at
Hempstead.
Goldthwaite wants a system of
waterworks.
Seymour wants more residences
built for rent.
Rogers Bell county wants more
houses built for rent.
The private sale of lots at Ye-
lasco Saturday amounted to 64-
000. An attempt was made in Hous-
ton recently to burn tho Arlington
hotel.
The rain inakai of Colorado
Texas produced a copious rain there
Tuesday.
The town lot sales of Velasco
up to the 20th irsfit. footed up to
300000.
The Herald says large quanti-
ties of baled hay are being received
at Greenville.
1'ance Thompson living near
Alto was shot and killed in his bed
Tuesday night.
The People's Party will meet
again in Fort Worth the first Tues-
day in February.
.rrotractea meeting was begun
at the Methodist church at San
Saba last Thursday.
The brick-layers of Mineola
struck because a negro was put to
work on the building.
The new roller mill at Seymour
has been completed and is now
turning out good flour.
The Baptist church at Sipe
Springs is nearly completed and the
furniture has been ordered
Up to last Saturday Jones and
Smith of Haskell county had thresh
ed 25000 bushels of wheat.
Mr. J. A. Badley of Hunt coun-
ty had ten acres of wheat which
averaged 35 bushels per acre.
The new school building at
Hondo City is complete. The build-
ing and grounds cost about 2300.
Joe Baker living near Tan AI-
styne has extracted 2000 pounds of
honey irom his stands this season.
The citizens of Victoria have
let the contract for the removal of
the raft from the Guadaloupe river.
A fat man's club was organized
at Farmersville recently with .fifteen
members. Thev are to meet once a
week.
J. E. Hetchcock of Fannin
county raised four Irish potatoes
which weighed five and one-half
pounds.
The new Methodist church at
Navarro has been received by the
building committee from the" con-
tractor. At Palestine one night recently
thieves entered the residence of Col.
Wright and stole S200 worth of
diamonds.
J. P. Hirth of Longview took
morphine Tuesday with suicidal in-
tent and was shortly afterwards
found dead.
The rites of baptism were ad-
ministered to six candidates at the
Honey Grove Baptist church last
Sunday.
An old Mexican named Padilla
got drunk at Eagle Pass and rode
into the deepest part of the river
and drowned.
The Texas Wells Herald says
Rev. J. H. "Watson's concord grapes
yield forty pounds to the vine and
400 vines to tho acre.
Three Chinamen were arrested
at San Antonio who walked across
the bridge at Eagle Pass. They will
be sent back to Mexico.
W. L. Locken a sheepman in
Schleicher county lost 750 head of
sheep last Friday by boing burned
to death in a prairie fire.
At the Methodist meeting
which lately closed at Foster's chapel
near Cooper there were twenty-nino
accessions to tho church.
The polytechic Institute at
Midlothian has been reorganized.
The normal department " will open
September i and continue 4 weeks.
OscarSharman cut Horace Dan
ic ui. xeuon w eanesaay witu a
pocket knifo inflicting a wound on
tho cheek and one on the shoulder.
Mackey & Campbell are break-
ing a twenty-acre track in Hunt
county and will cultivate a winter
crop consisting principally of cab-
bages and onions.
S. Garlington Leak who was
given a preliminary hearing in
jjLuuoiuu uu a cuarge oi tamng un-
authorized agency for different pa-
pers and periodicals is in jail there
in ueiauit oi a fczou bond.
A negro by the name of Thomp
son was assassinated near Rusk
Tuesday. Wade and John Feldnr
were captured by tho use of dogs
after a two hours chase and landed
in juil.
Tho sheriff's posse out ue.ii-
ISrowuwood hunting the Mexican
bandita have returned without cap-
turing them. It is believed that tho
band has dispersed and returned to
Mexico.
Several Swisher county citizens
will make thirty or thirty-five buoh-
els of corn per acre on ground that
was broken for tho first timo since
the first of January.
S. Garlington Leake charged
with swindling in custody at Hous-
ton was discharged but as ho
emerged from the court room ho
was re-arrested on another charge of
swindling.
Mrs. J. T. Trezevant wife of a
leading banker of Dallas is now in
New York in the double capacity of
preparing herself for the stage and
prosecuting a suit for divorce from
her husband.
The Karnes County News says
wine-making is getting to be quite
an industry at Eunge. People are
utilizing the mustang grape for this
purpose and making an excellent
I quality of wine.
a iarmer named Jtiubbard is
missing from Vernon. Ho camped
hicar Pease river bridge and his
team wagon and bloody giothing
was iound and it is believed he was
robbed and murdered.
A Falls county minister named
McFarlan who resides near Eiesel
shot and killed a negro who used
rough language to bis daughter
and it is claimed that the negro was
advancing on him with an axe.
Capt. Neal Caldwell of Ken-
county threshed twenty-six and a
half bushels of wheat per acre. Mr.
Stimson's corn will make from twen
ty-five to thirty bushels per acre.
Kerr county cotton will average
half a bale to the acre.
Lubbock county had two fine
rains last week. The heaviest rain
of the season fell the other day
making plenty ol water for stock.
Crops 'and grass aro in fine condi
tion. Many farmers will make two
crop3 of sorghum this year.
Mrs. "Wm. P. Gaines wife of
the ex-proprietor of the Austia
Statesman has begun suit for the re-
covery of her child which is now in
me nusnands possession. Since
their separation she has been re
aming m or. jjouis but is now in
Austin.
Carmargo E. Eamore of Eio
Grande City created a disturbance
and three soldiers and a policeman
were sent to arrest him. He shot
the three soldiers fatally and beat
tie policeman over the head with
his pistol until he is not expected to
recover and escaped unpunished.
A drunken Indian going out of
JJemson held up E. P. Burham and
wife who were out driving and
with a drawn pistol compelled them
to get in and out of the buggy for
his amusement. He then passed on
and fired shots into residences as he
proceeded. He was subsequently
captured.
A ear Brownsville recently five
bandits went to Mendez ranch and
hung a twelve-year-old boy to make
mm ion wuere uie money was
buried. An old man present was
beat over the head with a six-shoot
er and knocked down senseless for
interferring. Mrs. Mendez tried to
shoot them but her pistol was rusty
and would not fire and she war
knocked down.. They stole every-
thing they could find. Officers cap-
tureea tnreo oi mem.
iome days ago the city marshal
of Victoria arrested a young man
named Joseph Nahm from Hemp
stead. he charge made against
him was vagrancy which occasioned
some surprise as tho prisoner did
not look' like a tramp. It trans
pires however that there was a
more serious charge against him as
Wednesday the sheriff of Waller
county arrived here and took Nohm
uauh. iu jaempsicau wnere he
wanted on a charge of forgery.
C3-. 'SIJcXEZJSfllAJSrTiS'.
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VTHOLESALX AND xetail DXALK IN
Furniture and Carpet
Mr-Parlor Sots Chamber Sola House Furnishing Goods..
CAHPETIHG OIL CLOTHS MAfflHG
ffiEROHS HAlTOfiSSES FURNITURE POLISH..
We are prepared to rornisb your houso from top to bottom at short notice. Carpet
sewed and put down. Call rad sno us. Goods doUvorddm the city FREE.
SOUTH 8KH OF PDSMC SQlRS BSSSHA9I. TEXAS
Btes 3 ?5 SjP fc 4iJflDyi sK: ?3k la Cv pvv
fines! L
Cold Fresh Beer
02?SJ BA? A2J KZCSa?
sows Wines and
ALWAYS ON HAND.
ars
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.("Lunch at all
lunch for travelers.
Brenlmiii Texas.
alwavs antai). BesnonM'
valuables left in my care
hours. Special attention
all baggage or
givon to prepaiing
WM. HAMEUlAMf Proprietor.
R. EL JLTTH.N
MAIN STBEET JBRENHAM"
Stanle Bras. Fine fkmk hm MArtiniM
finest erfasiorv and Soilcst SoaDs Oombs Hair 2ail
and Sooth Brashes ia Sndless Variety.
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LOUIS BUONEIMANT
v WATCH MAKER AND JEWELER!
Dealer laa. OXjOCIEES
WATCHES JEWELRY
Spectacles!
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ft ork and Goods Guaranteed
PLATED-MRE
FIT FOE EVERYBODY. THK
BEjT "DIAMANTA GLASSES
JOB THE EYES. tST Best attention given o all '.Uepamog
Watches Jewelry. Clocks and Regulators
West 'side Court EonEe Square BREHHAH. TEX3
Srenham Marble and (Jranite WorM
JIGG-LI fclVLARTEST Proprietors.
3MCL.TiTXT3Eiwa.ca?XJXUSJE.fil
AND DEALERS IS
ALL'KINDS OF MONUMENTAL WORKS.
Fine Statuary Tombstones Crosses Vaults eta oTT
of the best Italian and American Marble anc Domes
tic Granites Carved work and Drapery a specialty
Laree Slabs lor Printers and Candy Manufacture'
furnished. Estimates carefully made for any work-in
Marble Granite or Stone. Marble and Stone Curb-
ing also Iron fenrinjr for burial places or lots always
kept on hand can furnish same as also Cresting and
Ornaments for private residences etc. very cheap.
We euarantee you the most nrtfitin unit hat r.t
workmanship and stock at the very lowest possible price and will sell you at all times 25
per cent cheaper than any Marble dealer or agent for such from a distance. Come and
see us or write for designs and prices before buying elsewhere we win serTeyoupromptly-
Sand7 Street - - - Brenhaia Texas.
aWBW. & PA1KS
IS
T2ie Parent of Insomnia.
The parent of insomnia or wakefulness is
in nine cases out often a dyspeptic stomach.
Good digestion gives sound sl ep; indigestion
interferes with it. The brain and stomach
sympathizes. One of the promir.unt symp-
toms of a weak state of the gastric organs is a
disturbance of the great nerve entrepot tho
brain. Invigorate the stomach and you re-
store equilibrium to the great centra A most
reliable medicine for tho numoso is Hotet-
ter's Stomach Bitters which Is far preferable
to mineral sedatives and powerful narcotics
which though they m.iy for a time exert a
soponnc influence upon the brain soon cease
to act and invarinblv iniuro th tone of the
stomadi. Tho Bitters on the contrarv. re-
iiore activity to me operauons ol tnat all
important organ and their beneficent influ-
ence is reflected in sound sleep and a tranquil
state of the nervous system. A wholesome
impetus is likewise given to the action of the
liver and bowels bv'iU use.
Livery andSale Stables
UNDERTAKERS & DIRECTORS.
LCJfcgVt "f T
AFUIX tlNE OF BUBIAL EOBES TOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
AXD
The San Antonio Light says:
An order for GO.OOO ties and other
timber for the new Velasco railroad
has been placed with eastern Texas
mill men. Tho rails and other iron
works are being loaded on steamers
in Now York. JFifty teams and 150
laborers are at work on grade more
will be added and work pushed as
rapidly as possible. The new deep
water sea port is makino- ranid
strides into public notice. The num-
ber of investors increases largely
from week to week scarcely a town
in Tesas that is not represented
oy practical business men or capital-
ists seeking to secuio a foothold in
the coming seaboard. None who
come seem to go away disappointed.
Tho sooner San Antonio secures for
herself a direel connection with this
gulf port tho better for her own
commercial interests tho more cer-
tain her commercial prosperity.
Have iust received several car loads of Corn. Oats. Bran.
il Ji fS-i-i j
motion seea iueai.
FS15E 325SF2a.'2' S? AaffS" P.&H3? OP CITY
A Tiling Never Heard of rJefore.
Fifty packages of Licmors. Wines and Branrfin in ho enlrtof .
tail betwoon this date and OCTOBEE 1 1891. I mean iust wbdt I
say and m order to accomplish tho sale of this immense Stock of
Whisky whon as much as ONE GALLON is wanted for Spot Cash I
will sell it at
KENTUCKY COST
ana loso tno Iroight or sell it for less than any othor rotail doaler in
ttuoiui ounoaon jjoo or Washington counties. M.y reason for
KSTUFHSTG PRICES
in uij nuu is uiat x navo a large amount of money invested in these-
yuuut auu um cumpouoa to sen tnem cheap in order to meot other
iu wuuia muroiore my siock iUUSi' iJJi KOIjD. To mv frionds and
tiio public in gonoral permit me to call your attention to tho tact that
thoro is no friendship in business and if you want to SAVJB J"jROM
-o luouinr. vxx. you are looiish not to buy your liquora from mo.
I call the attention of overy person to the fact that my books are
j...uu. .ivu uui usk me ior croau ana save tho mortification of a re-
iuau.. xi you owo me anytning tnat is duo como forward and settle it -and
save cost. T.nTrrQ v PDtummt
Inauor Dealer at Brenham TcxaA
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