Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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DAILY BANNER.
1)1* KANKIN * LEVIS.
Firday, February 18th, lSHl.
Passenger trains arc now run-
ning into San Antonio over the
International road.
If the proposition to aid de-
nominational schools from the
public*icfiool fund be adopted,
the door to endless trouble will
be opened.
Resides the loss of human life
the Afghan war cost England,
according to the official state-
ment, the enormous sum of
£87,500,000.
Thk State Military conven-
tion is in session at Austin. An
appropriation will be asked of
tlje legislature to furnish an en-
campment.
The richest mine in New
Mexico, now worth £3,000,000,
was origially sold for $3 in sil-
ver, a little gold dust, and an
old revolver.
Thk decrease in the public
debt since June last amounts to
$42,990^5939. During the
Oionth of December the de-
crease was $5,099,430.70.
The Wisconsin supreme court
has just decided that money
lent on Sunday cannot be re-
covered, not even if there is a
subsequent promise to pay it.
Ma;, Kantf.ks, the engineer
in charge of the improvements
at the mouth of the Brazos, is
confident of making it one of
the finest harbors on the coast.
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The Galveston News says it
is rumored that the Santa I*'c
road put on two irains daily on
the main line. It does not
vouch for the correctness o
the report.
The steamship St. Louis with
eighty sterage passengers is ex-
pected at New Orleans. The
sterage passengers arc English
and their destination is said to
be Texas.
It is very gratifying to learn
that the old southern states are
now rapidly improving in wealth
and population. Their princi-
pal towns have grown more in
the ten years last past than in
the seventy preceeding years,
for many of them have been
doubled or trebled in popula-
tion. Hundreds of thriving vil-
lages have sprung into being
which had no existence before
the war. A spur has been giv-
en to railroad building, to man-
ufacturing ro mining, to trade,
and commerce, the like of which
was never known in the days of
slavery, and the effect has been
to reconcile the people to the
abolition of that institution.
For reasons that are satisfac
tory to itself the Ne,v York Sun
is bitterly opposed to the river
and harbor bill, as are a gooc
many of the eastern members 01
congress. The bill will be pass
ed in spite of all opposition.
The Post says a new evening
paper is soon to be started at
Houston and that the Age will
be put to its trumps. The Post
need not be alarmed, the Age
knows the value of trumps and
will play every trump it holds
so as to take a trick. Uncle
Dan'l always holds his own.
Dispatches from Tucson,
Arizona, state that about two
hundred cowboys, mostly from
Texas, are depredating on stock
ranches in southern Arizona
and stealing all the cattle they
can lay hands on ; they operate
in bands of from ten to twenty
and all work on the co-opera-
tive plan.
The manufacturers of Califor-
nia, including milling, etc.,
amounts to $80,000,000 a year,
it is said. If our people would
but sO will it, it would be S100,-
000,000 by 1882, and that would
increase the wages-fund of this
country nearly $ 10,000,000, or
$12 per capita.
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The Houston Post is just
now engaged in a quarrel with
the Galveston News. There
is plenty room for both papers
and a discussion of the relative
merits—as seen by themselves
—will have but little weight
with the general public. The
News insinuates that the Post
is young yet and the Post does
not relish being called youthful,
though it is only a year old.
The proposed amendment to
the bell punch law fixing the
license of retail liquoi dealers
at $300 for the state and $150
each to cities and counties,
will, in all probability, meet the
approval of a majority of the
people, though may be re-
garded as high by some of the
dealers. The amendment should
be adopted; the house commit-
tee has made a favorable report
but the senate is yet to hear
from,
1'ook General Grant won't
have to go to the poor house,
any way. According to the
New York papers, a fund of
£100,000 has been made up for
him in that city and Philadel-
phia. The interest on this, and
the £7000 a year he already had,
and his salary as president of
the world's fair commission, and
the odds and ends he can pick
up now and then with the help
of Jay Gould, ought to keep
him pretty comfortable in his
old age. And if Logan can get
him on the army list again, with
£10,000 a year more, he may
even lay by a few dollars for a
particular rainy day.
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Thk New York Sun says :
When the new senator from
New Hampshire, Mr. Blair, was
elected, it was recalled or alleg-
ed that many years ago, as a
member of the house, he pro-
posed a bill to turn the waters
of the bay of Kunday into Hud-
son bay, or those of Hudson's
bay into the bay of Fundy, in
order to equalize temperatures.
Whatever may be the fact
about that matter, it seems to
have been an easy enterprise
beside the one with which he-
has signalized his reappearance
in Congress—an effort to pro-
hibit the manufacture or impor-
tation of alcoholic liquors after
the year 1900.
The Houston Post says it is
opposed in toto to the hiring
out of convicts to private per-
sons. The system should be
abandoned as soon as provis-
ion can be made for keeping
them inside the penitentiary
walls. In many instances the
convicts hired out are very bad-
ly treated and have been shot
down by inhuman guards like
mad dogs. For the first few
months, however, we have heard
no complaints on this score; the
convicts have been better treat-
ed or the mistreatment and
shooting business has been
carefully suppressed.
The French in New Orleans
now form one-third of the whole
population. They almost ex-
clusively occupy all the lower
or older part of the city, speak
French in their daily inter-
course, and have little to do in
trade or society with the rest of
the people.
Nineteen states of the repub-
lic contain each upwards of a
million inhabitants,
A telegram from New York-
says that the medico-scientific
fraternity have just made a rev-
elation which is important, if
true. They claim that the elec-
tric currents necessary to pro-
duce the powerful lights with
which upper Broadway, as well
as many establishments down
town, are now regularly illum-
inated are liable, when brought
in contact with the human body,
to produce paralysis and even
instant death, the fatal influence
)eing accelerated by the pres-
ent system of overhead tele-
graphic wires. For that matter,
it is stated that the losses of life
from this cause have already
been recorded and that many
instances of narrow escapes are
within the knowledge of the
electricians. This has a very
scientific twang to it, but the
probabilities are that the man
who first made this discovery
had a fine lot of stock in a gas
company.
Ex-Gov. Stephen A. Miller
of Minnesota has been stricken
with apoplexy, and cannot re-
cover. He was born in Penn-
sylvania in 1816, went to Min-
nesota in 1858, and was Gover-
nor from 1864 to i860.
17th LcgUUturt.
Austin, Feb. 16.— Senate—
Favorably on joint resolution
authorizing commissioners'
courts to regulate the number of
terms of county courts. Also,
favorably on restriction 'of suf-
frage to those who pay their
state and county taxes. Also,
favorably on changing clause in
constitution in reference to bills
in captal and felony cases.
Also, favorably on prohibitory
liqjor law.
Joint resolution amending the
constitution removing the re-
striction of £2 per diem for
members of the legislature after
the lapse of sixty days, passed.
Mr. Lightfoot called up the
bill amending the act granting
a land certificate of 640 acres to
indigent vcternans. The amend-
ment provided that the 'benefit
should apply to all having less
than £500 over and aBovc their
homestead. The indigent clause
was stricken out and the bill
ordered engrossed.
House.— By Hutcheson: To
appropriate the entire public
domain to educational purposes.
By Mack: Joint resolution
amending the constitution and
making the term of all state of-
ficers four years, except state
senators and district and higher
judges eight years; regular ses-
sions of the legislature to be
held every four years, sessions
to last 120 days.
The committee reported ad-
versely on the proposition to
change the election system for
the judiciary to the appointive.
Also, favorably on the propo-
sition to submit .1 prohibitory
amendment. Also, favorably
on bill which contemplates that
the school fund may be used to
aid denominational schools.
The committee on revenue
and taxation reported a bill to
repeal the bell punch and levy a
state tax of £300 on retail liquor
sellers; half as much to cities
and half as much to counties;
£300 for wholesale liquor deal
ers, one half as much each for
cities and counties; £200 for
dealors selling from a quart to
five gallons and half as much to
cities and counties each; $50
for selling beer and half of same
tax to cities and counties. The
committee successfully resisted
all propositioas to make
changes.
State Sewn.
— It takes only $90 a month
to pay the salaries of the city
officers of Cuero.
— The legislative committee
is now at Bryan investigating
the A. and M. College.
— The walking match at
Dcnison was won by the lady,
Madame Duprez, who walked
201 miles in fifty hours.
— John Hogan was robbed
by tramps between Hutchins
and Dallas. They presented
persauders at his head and in-
duced him to give them his
money, £19.50.
— Mc Carty, the man charg-
ed with killing a negro cavalry
man at Fort Concho, is now at
Austin for safekeeping. He is
a New York man and has a
sheep ranche near Concho. He
says that he did not kill the ne-
gro.
— The Fort Worth Advance,
speaking of the appearance of
meningitis in that place, says
its spread is rapid, and the fa-
talities arc said by physicians
to be 80 per cent—very much
larger than small-pox or yellow
fever. The Advance says per-
sons arc predisposed to the dis-
ease by exposure, cold feet,
drinking and dissipation. Our
physicians should read up on
this subject.
>>ws Itoms.
Seven thousand miners are
out on strike in South York-
shire, England.
The Pullman Company is
said to earn on each of its 474
cars about £i8c a month.
The exchanges at New York
in January exceeded by $400,-
000,000 the highest figure re-
corded in any month.
The death is announced of
Jacques-Edouard Gatteaux, the
distinguished French sculptor
vand medallist, in his 93d year.
Green Jackson, a negro, was
hanged in Marion, Crittenden
County. Ark., yesterday, for the
murder of another negro last
spring.
Mayor Francis Hendricks
was renominated for Mayor of
Syracuse by the Republicans
The Democrats have nominated
Charles E. Stevens.
According to the estimates
of the State Agricultural Bu-
reau, the farm and live stock
products of Illinois in 1880 ag-
gregated £236,000,000.
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"The suspense is over," as the
sheriff said when he cut down
the criminal.
FRANK WOTIPKA,
Doalor ixx
Ctenl Merchandise
Corner Sandy and Ant streets, Brenham, Texas.
— A full, fresh and complete stock of —
Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats,
Philadelphia Handmade Boots and Shoes,
Hosiery, Groceries, Crockery.
Call and examine my Goods and prices being making
your purchases. N<j trouble to show goods. Aug 12, 1880.
New
F. KRENTZL1N,
120 Reward.
Stolen from die undersigned on the ni^lit
of (lie 15th of 1-eb., from his place, 6 miles
northeast of Krcnham, a bay horse male I
4 years old, branded HE on left shoulder, I
about 14 or 15 hands high.
The above reward will bapaid on deliv- j
ery of the mule to the owner.
WILLIAM WIKSE,
6 miles n. e. from Brenham on the Inde- j
pendence road.
DEAI.KR IN
Mines, Liquors, Tobarco,
Cigars, Crockery and Glassware,
(fjratwr IliiiMini?, Wwt Side of .Square?,)
jmkmiam. tkx.vs.
JOHN A. RANDLE & SON,
Real Estate Agents.
BRENHAM, lEXAS,
(Established in 1873.)
Makes a socially of selling and exchang-
ing lands and town property, the rendering
and payment of taxes, renting and look
ing after dwellings anil storehouses.
$tf~ OHice upstairs in timber's Building
sept.6'78
ItKVKIlDY SOOTT,
STABLES.
West Main street,
IS RUN 11 AM, - - TEXAS.
Has an hind horses an 1 mules for sale,
and also has a wagen and stock yard at-
tached to ihe stable. —
J. S. \ORTO\ & <;. Xt, I) 1VIS.
Having gone into the Sewing Machinebus-
ne.>s together will sell the following named
machines—all new and first class—at the
prices given below, vi/:
New Wilson, $40; White, $35; New
Howe, $35; Singer (Eng.) $30: St. |ohn,
$35; New American, $35: Wheeler
Wilson, $35. Davis repairs all kinds of
Sewing Machines and Cotton Gins. Work
guaranteed. Parts, attachments, oil, nee-
dles, etc., at J. S. Norton's store. jant3-3m
A Bargain for Some One!
Come and see my tlwrough-bred JACK
from Tennessee, four years old last [uric,
a beautiful color, about 14 hands high, well
developed, good condition, in fact an At
proof Jack. i will sell at low figures.—
Come soon and get a bargain .
J. A. STKATTON,
Graball. Washington Co., Texas.
Janu.'ry 13, 1881 -1m
tear < ioofls delivered in all parts of the
city free of charge. jan 5, 1881-dwiy.
HOUSTON 1 •• COTTON
Those who have shipped
111c the past season will tes
tifv that I have saved them
money and given general
satisfaction, both in classi-
fication and prices. By
referring to the official quo-
tations of the different mar-
kets during three of the
best cotton months of last
winter it will be seen that
Houston quotations were
equal to, and frequent y
higher, than Xew Orleans
or Galveston. Greater fa-
cilities this season for stor-
ing and shipping Cotton,
will enable me to serve my
customers with better re-
sults.
Ladies
Do you want a pure, bloom-
ing Complexion J If so, a
Few applications of Hasan's
MAGNOLIA BALM will grat-
ify yon to your heart's con-
tent. It does away with Sal-
lowness, Redness, Pimples,
Blotches, and all diseases And
imperfections of tho skin. It
overcomes the flushed appear-
ance of heat, fatipno ana ex-
citement. It makes a lady of
THIRTY appear but TWEN-
TY: and so natural, gradual,
and perfect are Its effects,
that it is impossible to detect
Us application.
GROCERIES.
The very rapid increase of my
sales for the past two years
(doubling in amount each year)
is the best evidence that this is
really the foremost distributing
market for Groceries in Texas.
Such a satisfactory result, in the
face of the sharpest competition,
j from strong and influential rlvai
markets, is certainly a guatan-
tec that I am able to offer very
positive advantages.
WM. D. CLEVELAND,
COTTON FACTOR & WHOLESALE 6R0CER,
Aim. 10, 'so-dwtiw.
houston.
SitTerS
No Time Should be Lout
If the stomach, liver and bowels are aftec-
jed, to adopt the sure remedy. Hosteller's
Stomach Hitters. Diseases of the organs
named beget others far more serious, and
a delay is therefore hazardous. Dyspep-
sia, liver complaint, chills and fever, early
rheumatic twinges, kidney weakness, bring
serious bodily trouble if trifled with. Lose
no time in using this effective, safe and long
known medicine.
For sale by all druggists and dealers
generally.
Wm. SCTIURENBEUO,
Blacksmith, ^
and manufacturer of
AtiRltULTIlKAL IMPLEMENTS
Brenham, Texas.
Of Special attention given to Hons*
SnoBiNU, general job work and repair-
ng. Terms liberal. Shop above Gidding,
bank, on Sandy street. June 18 '74.
Furnished Rooms
By llie Day, Week or Month,
with or without hoard.
The undersigned, proprietor of the
CENTRAL HOUSE, now has con-
trol of the McINTVRE HOUSE and is
prepared to rent Furnished rooms for fam-
ilies or single gentleman by the day, week
or month, with or without board, at rea-
sonable rates.
For particulars apply at the Central
House.
S. II. KIRCH, Proprietor.
Seeds! Plants!
Fifteen varieties of vegetable seed or 25
varieties of flower seed by mail postpaid
for one dollar. Also, a splendid assortment
of plants, shrubs, roses etc. Prices low—
send fur hat you want for your garden to
E. 1IAKER,
Seedsman and Florist,
14 Camp Street, New Orleans.
A full supply and in. great variety. ALL
FRESH, at
J, S. NORTON'S STORE,
)an. 13, '8l-2m. Brenham, Texas.
W. R. JAHNKE,
8a<l<l!er and Harness Maker,
Schuerenburg's shop, Sandy street,
liRENIIAM, TEXAS.
Keeps on hand for sale a full stock of
saddles, bridles, harness, collars, whips,
ipurs, etc. Harness oil at 75 cents a quart
former price $1.50.
Special attention paid to repairing. 39
E CORNITIUS,
— DEALKUIN -
Pictnres, Frames, Brate,
Swinging Flower Pots, c- - , * z.
Pictures Framed to order at reasonable
rates. Main street, next door to Nevtbouer
llro.'s, J'.renham, Texas. sepi6wt*
Cigars! Cigars!
LIEB BROTHERS, Cigar Manufac-
turers, are now prepared to fill orders for
cigars, in any quantity, of their own make.
All goods guaranteed as represented.
Factory, corner of St. Charles and Ssndy
streets, Brenham, Texas.
The Farmer's Store,
Brenham, Texas,
Arc now receiving a car load of the Hapgood Iron SULKY
PLOWS—the lightest draught sulky in the world.
Also, one car load of the celebrated Cotton King and Pony
series of WALKING PLOWS—these plows arc especially
adapted to the black waxy lands of Texas,
We have also in store 150 barrels and half-barrels of choice
Louisiana and Texas MOLASSES; 140 narrels PURL WHITL5
off whites and yellow clarified sugars, direct from the plantations.
1000 sacks FLOUR—all grades.
75 Bags CHOICE RIO COFFEE.
The above goods were bought from first hands lor .spot cash,
which enables us to offer the purdhaser superior inducements.
R,. R/. LAWTHER,
Jan. 9, 1881-dwiy.
Business Manager.
Established 1805.
Oldest Furniture Housed City.
LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF
to be found in the City.
J®" We have just received a large stock of all kinds of
Furniture, consisting of cheap and fine Bed- =^5
Qp steads, and chairs of all grades ; also bu-
#eP reaus and chamber sets. A few of
Vaill's patent folding chairs at cost to close out.
Mattrasses, and Bed-Springs!
I am determined to sell goods, and tc that end, I am offering
great bargains. Call and examine goods and prices before pur-
chasing elsewhere. A good supply of baby buggies 011 Usf*".
Also, a full line of Undertakers goods, including mctalic burial;
cases and caskets.
C. WITTKBORG,
deci7d-w3m MAIN STREET.
THE BRICK LIVERY, FEED
-AND
Near Mclntyre House, Main street, Btcnham, Texas.
0. 13. POTTER, Proprietor.
My stable i» now supplied with new Buggies, line .saddle and work llor>e... I .1111
prepared to furnish transportation to any part of thy State. Iloise.s bought and ..old,
or boarded by the day, week or month on liberal lei iiis.
UNDERTAKING.
I have added to my l.ivery Stock a line assortment of UNDERTAKER'S (iOODS
consisting of BURIAL CASES and CASKETS, and all aiticfe requisite fur interments!
«!*>. TWO FINE HEARSES,
One toi Adult:., and a While I If 11 for < liil.lun, .1 iidla...i do-., c.ij ria-e. especial
for Funerals, l'aironage solicited. Terms reasonable.
Brenham, January 1, iSSi-diy, o, l;. TOTTER.
Hermann Fisher,
BRENHAM, TEXAS,
- Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Western and Texas Produce,
Imported and Domestic
WINKS, LIQUORS, CIGARS, TOBACCO,
Delicacies, Candies, Preserved Vegetables, Fruit, Meat,
Fish, Pickles, Canned Fruit, Nuts, etc.
Sole Agent of Anhauser's Celebrated St. Louis Beer.
«@-;iCE IN QUANTITIES AT LOWEST RATES. Tts®
Hg" Lowest wholesale prices to the trade! Pays the highest
market price for cotton and other produce. Jan. 1, 1881-dwiy
A. SIMON
DEALER LN
huh mown
Noith-west Corner of the Public Square,
BBENHAM, TEXAS.
— Has just received a full and complete stock of —
Fall and Winter Goods,
LADIES' DRESS 600DS, TRIMMINGS, TIES,
CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS, CAPS
QUEENSWARE, GROCERIES.
Also, a large and varied assortment of
Parlor and Bed-room Furniture
CARPETS, MATS AND HOUSE FURNISHING (iOODS.
Call and examine our Goods and prices before purchasing elsewhere. We
narantee satisfaction in all departments. Give us a trial. March 7, 1S80.
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