Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 151, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 26, 1883 Page: 2 of 4
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2«, 1883
The Print thinks Galveston
wjll be sure to get the proposed
military encampment.
■is-
The A. and M. college at
Bryan has done better work
this season than ever before.
It is stated that the cotton
factories in Maine are overrun
with cheap help imported Irom
France.
The Grand Council of United
Friends of Temperance, of Tex
as, will meet at Waxahachic, on
Wednesday July nth, proximo.
In last Sunday's News N. A.
T, who is now in New York,
gives his ideas of the dude.
He does not entertain any-
thing like an exalted opinion
of him.
The body ol Charles T.
Goodwin, the misting cashier
of the Lake Shore freight house,
was found in the lake at Clcvc
land, Ohio. He had suicided ;
it is thought that he was de-
ranged.
Thp Temple Times an-
nounces that it has enlisted in
the war in favor of Temple for
the county scat and that it will
fight it to the bitter end. The
Times is right in taking sides in
(avor of its town.
Since ex marshal Russell's
incarceration in the penitentiary
at Chester not a word has been
said about him. Petitions for
his pardon were numerously
signed and sent to the president
but nothing has been heard of
them.
Thomas H. Mukkay, of Col-
lin county, has been suggested
for railway engineer. The Fort
Worth Gazette takes a seat on
Mr. Murray, and hays, what he
knows about engineering can be
found on the fly leaf of McGuf-
ley's speller.
The Waco Examiner sug-
gests that the lawlessness and
desperadoism which has lor
some years disgraced Uano
county, should be put a stop to
by the law and that the desper-
adoes should be driven out, or
hung or imprisoned.
The Washington Post will
present the question of open-
ing on Sundays the National
museum, the Smithsonian insti
tution, Congression library, etc.
Quite a number of persons favor
the movement, while of all the
ministers in the city only two
approve of it.
The Mississippi river at St.
Louis is unusually high; the
lowlands on the Illinois side are
all under water; the crops are
ruined. Several of the rail-
way tracks are submerged and
passengers are transferred by
steamer from St. Louis
to Alton, where north
bound trains are made up.
The Missouri river is also very
high and much damage has
been done.
Tapers in various portions of
the state are actively engaged
in advocating good roads. In
the winter season bad roads are
complained of throughout the
entire state and in the summer
when it is possible to work the
roads nothing is done to im-
prove them, because they are
then passable, there being no
soft places and bog holes. The
roads leading to Brcnham get
in very bad condition in winter
and many of them might now
be repaired to great advantage.
Thomas F. Bknnie, of Edin-
burg, Scotland, who was in Wa-
co the other day, speaks in
glowing terms of Texas. He
said he had traveled through
every other state in the Union
but found none to equal it.
For soil and climate Texas is
as good as any other country
in the world and she will be-
come the garden spot of the
United States within the life-
time of many now living. Her
development will be much more
rapid .in the future than in the
past
ile it is true that the state
as resumed control of the pen-
itentiaries, it is also true that it
will be many years before all
penitentiary convicts can be
kept within the penitentiary
walls, if they ever can so long
as our criminal code remains
unchanged. The proportion of
short term men is much greater
than long term ones ; by short
term men, we mean those who
are sentenced lor two or three
years, and we think it can be
shown, we have no statistics at
hand, that the number of con
victs sentenced for two years
excceds that ol all other terms
combined. It is evident that il
the short term, or two years
men arc placed within the walls
and given mechanical work or
work requiring skilled labor,
that it will take them nearly a
year to acquire the use of tools
or the manipulation of machin-
ery, and it is doubtful if many
would be able to do it in that
time, while many of them, hav-
ing been raised on farms as
field hands, would never learn
anything. The consequence
would be that such convicts
would prove a pecuniary loss to
the state if sent within the walls.
At present such convicts are
lured out on plantations, where
their labor has proved very
profitable to those who have
worked them.
It is a fact conceded on all
hands that the public or wagon
roads throughout the state arc
generally in a bad condition ;
now the suggestion we have to
make is this: Let all the two
years convicts, say belonging to
a senatorial district, be formed
into a road gang and sufficient
guards be employed to pievent
escape, then put the convicts to
work ditching and building
wagon roads; the amount of
woik done could be easily ap-
portioned to trie several countics
in proportion to the number Of
convicts each county furnished;
by this means gangs of forty,
filty or more hands could be
organized, and the work of fifty
hands,with proper tools, well di-
rected would accomplish* more
road work in one day than
three three times the number of
hands under the prcsen loose
system of road working, lly
this means each county would
get back at least a portion of
the money expended in con
victing the wrong-docn and
there would be an actual saving
the state. This course would
reduce the number of peniten-
tiary convicts within reasonable
bounds and there then would
be ample room within the peni
tentiary walls. This sugges-
tion is doubtless open to objec-
tions, so is any one that* might
be made. It is plain, however,
that under the present law the
several counties pay a consider
able sum for the trial and con
viction ol thieves, etc., and
never directly receive any re-
turn, other than being rid of the
rascals for a couple of years.
At all events some other dispo-
sition should be made of the
short term men and the coun-
ties in which they arc convicted
should have the privilege ol
utilizing their labor in sonic
way.
■*. — .
Although nearly a year will
elapse before the meeting of
the national conyentions of the
two great parties considerable
interest and no little speculation
is being indulged in as to who
will be selected as the respec-
tive standard bearers. It is
about settled that Mr. Tildcn
will not again be a candidate,
and some of the friends of Sen>
ator Bayard in the south are
beginning to urge his claims.
The name of Secretary Lincoln
has been suggested by a few re-
publicans, but it docs not seem
to meet with popular favor.
•
The Austin Statesman pub-
lishes in full the decision of the
supreme court of the state in
the case of Hanrick vs. Cava-
naugh, involving the title to the
Agiurre eleven league grant in
Williamson county. The opin-
ium was delivered by Maj. B.
H, Bassett, of Brenham, special
judge.
SUU» Sews.
— Palestine expects to have
a fine railroad hospital.
—There is talk at Waco of
establishing a small park on a
part of the plaza.
— A twenty thousand dollar
college building is in course of
construction at Decatur.
— According to the States
man several Houstonians con
template moving to Austin.
— Wood is scarce in Waco;
the weather is so hot the wood-
haulers do not care to work.
—LaGrange is to have water
works—a well is being dug in
the vicinity of the courthouse.
—The town of Columbus is
to have water works at a cost
of only $2200, so says the Citi
zcn.
—Butter and eggs are scarce
in our market, savs the Colum
bus Citizen. So it is every-
where in the state.
— Major Moran, of Waco,
was accidentally shot in the arm
while driving in his buggy near
Waco, last Saturday.
— Since the introduction of
icc in Texas it is no longer re
garded as a luxury, but has now
conic to be a necessity.
—An effort is being made at
Ikllville to establish a fire com
pany. The town is certainly
large enough to have one.
—Hrick of good quality is
now being made near Beiton,
and it is likely stone will be su-
perceded as a building material.
— Mr. John Nalle, of Austin,
has bought the Clinton com-
press at Houston and is now
engaged in having it removed
to Waco.
—At I.ongview, last week
couple of negro boys died from
the effects of eating plums that
they had stolen from a neigh
bor's orchard.
— The body of William A.
Stephens, supposed to be "from
Decatur, III., was found float
ing in the San Antonio river at
San Antonio on Sunday morn-
ing.
—Max Bordeaux, a German
boy about sixteen years of age,
committed suicide near La
Grange last week with a pistol.
He left a note stating that he
was tired of living.
—Four new houses in Rich
mond are nearly completed.
The Nation says, Rosenberg,
our little western suburb is help-
ing us wonderfully, it being al-
most at a standstill while Rich-
mond is going ahead with giant
strides.
— A man calling himsel
Fcagson is now in jail at Beiton
He failed to draw J500 from a
bank in that town, on a check
which he had forged. Ifhe h?t
got the money he would have
jumped the town.
— One clieathan who was ar
rested at Sail Marcos and taken
to Longvicw on a charge
forgery, committed suicide at
the latter place by shooting
himself in the head, in the court
room during the trial,
— The Statcman continues
to urge the establishment of a
cotton compress at Austin, anc
it thinks that one hundrec
thousand bales of cotton wil
be handled by that city the
coming season. Such calcula-
tions are much easier made than
fulfilled.
—At Lampasas on Saturday
morning, one Marsh in pulling
his handkerchief from his pock
ct dre.v his revolver. It fell to
the floor and was discharged
as luck would have it Mr
Marsh, the owner, received
wound in the arm, instead
some innocent man who did not
carry revolvers and handker
chiefs promiscaously mixed up
in his pockct.
— Fort Worth Democrat
We understand that Mr. John
A. Randle of Brenham has as-
sociated himself with John G.
Rcily as a partner in the real
estate business, in our city.
Mr. Randle has purchased
quite a lot of business property
in our city, among which is a
one-third interest in the Pow-
ell, Chestar & Leverette block.
We welcome all such citizins to
our city.
— Austin Statesman: It is
whispered that the Rev. J. B.
Link, D. D., editor of the Bap-
tist Herald, Houston, is here
to "feel" Austin with reference
to moving his paper to this city,
and get away from wicked
Houvton and the sinful in-
fluences of Brother D. McGary.
The Statseman will welcome the
Herald, as it can join in the re-
ligious efforts of Statesman to
reform our well meaning but
erring cotemporary Texas Sift-
ings.
By a vote of 62 to 58 the
Massachusetts Medical Society
has refused to admit women to
its membership.
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Wanted.
A Tinner, one that understands Cornice
making or Plumbing. A steady situation
to the right man. Write immediately,
GEO. A. BRUSH, Austin, Texas.
MI88 ANNIE NORMS,?
Teacher on the PIANOFORTE and
ORGAN, will resume teaching on the first
Monday in September next.
She promises a thorough course of in-
struction and solicits a share of the public
patronage.
PIANO TUNING I
i am now prepared to
TUNE ANI> REPAIR
Piano., and Organs in the most eftici»nt
manner, and i guarantee my work in every
particular.
ttf Office in McFarland's Book Store
L. V. ROGERS.
ON TUESDAY, JULY 3rd, 1883, I
will sell at auction, for cash, one hun-
dred and four notes and accounts against
various parties in lavor of P. M. Daniel,
The claims range from one dollar, up to
two hundi ed and fifty each; some in judg-
ment and will be sold in separate lots from
(l to 11) one to eleven inclusive.
A complete list, showing names of the
debtors, amount of each claim, and num-
ber of claims in each lot may be seen at
the courthouse door, or at the cost office.
For furlher inlormation, apply to the un-
dersigned.
T. T. SWEARINGEN, Assignee.
Notice to Tax Payers.
There will be a meeting of the citizens
of Washington county held at the court-
house 'n Brenham, on Saturday, the 30th
day of June, 1883, for the purpose of all
taking council with cach other; and to
protest against the issue of the bonds of
the county by the county court, for the pur-
pose of building a county courthouse; and
against the tax payers being burdened by
taxes for years to come, to pay interest, etc.
The meeting will be addressed by the
Hon. C. B. Shepard and many other speak-
ers
Tax Payers interested are expected to
give their own views on this subject at the
meeting.
Come one, come all, aud let us act to-
gether. By order of the
COMMITTEE.
Milliilery.
Mrs, J, T.NORTON
has this week received choice au«l large
assortment ot
Spring Millinery,
Straw, Chip anil Leghorn Hats, In all
new shapes anil colors; Shrimp, crushed
Strawberry, Raspberry reil, Terra 1,'otta,
Alacanta, Ac. Mowers, wreaths anil silk
laces In colora. Fine lane neck-wear, linen
collars, lace caps for In Ian is. Kail line of
colored straws for children. French Hair
Woods—all new styles. (Jlte us a call, you
cannot fall to be suited.
FOR SALE.
My residence, fronting on Main Street,
in the Eastern part of town, a good well
of water anil two small rent houses on the
place. The dwelling house has six rooms
and is convenient to the public school.
MRS. M. 1. MATCHETT.
Market Hue Restaurant.
FISHER'S BUILDING.
ADOLPH LEHDE. Proprietor.
Meals at all hours. Board by the
day, week, or month.
PATRONAGE SOLICITED.
COTTON SEED.
Special Notice!!
On and after the 1st of July we wil.
cease baying cotton seed. I'he company
will build a large seed warehouse and we
will again be in the market on the 1st day
of August.
ADOLPH TESTARD,
Agent Galveston Oil Company
Brenham, June 4, 1882.
Railroad Restaurant
And BEER SALOON.
Near Union Depot—Opposite Muery's
Saloon, Brenham Texas.
F. SCHULTZ, Proprietor.
Meals at all hours, Board by the week
or month. Cold beer always on tap. Best
cigars in the city. Patronage solicited.
A. M. BRONNEXKANT,
Practical Watchaaters Jeweler
in ;
turnebsfest
or hie
faskiiltn, Austin aid Fayette Mies Tornersbnad,
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
Warn li fawn
ON THE
4th OF JULY,
At the Germania (irotimls. The Programme
will be as follows :
Prof. VW Brass Hand will furnish the Music.
Prize Shooting by the Schulzeii Verien. At 11 o'clock
tlifl Procession will move to the German ia Hall, where
the Turtierbuiiil will be addressed by the president
of the Association, after which tin re will be-
speaking, turning, etc.
At 8 o'clock the
GRAND BALL AT GERMANIA HALL,
Admission, day, 25 cents; at Night, 50 cents.
THE COMMITTEE.
R. HOFFMAN,
DBALF.RJN.-
Dry Goods,
Is now receiving his slock of Spring and Summer Goods
Dress Goods of tho latest styles and textures.
Ttimtnings of all kinds. Lac-cs and Embtoideties. Hosiery—all
the latest novelties for Ladies and Children. A full line of
CLOTHING-,
For M011, Boys and OMldren.
BOOTS A INTO SHOES,
For Ladies, Gentlemen and Children. In the
GROCERY DEPARTMENT
Will be limnd a full ami complete I i nr of :ill goods to bp .found in a tirsl-olass groceiy store,
Purchasers are cordially Invited to call and examine the goods ami prices.
R. HOFFMAN",
Main Stroot. Brenham. Texas.
KT DOMESTIC PATTERNS A SPECIALTY.
A. SIMON,
DEALER IN
BRENHAM,
TEXAS.
Spccial attention given to
Watches and Jewelry, Als<
er 'in Jewelry, Clocks, and Watches, Spec
1 repair-
so, deal-
tades, Ac. Patronage solicited.
Per month Ham.
Agent* Jubilant with
iiccess ertry where •tiling oyr new braided
Silver Mould Wire Clothes Line, Lasts' for-
ever. Sever rusts. Warranted Sella read-
ily at every house. Sample and term* free
bv mail. Address UIKAitl) WIRK MILLS.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
North-west Corner of the Public . Square,
BRENHAM, TEXAS.
— Ilaa just received a full and complete stock of —
spring summer!
LATEST STYLES IN
LADIES' DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS, TIES,
Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps, Queenswarc, Groceries.
Alsd, a large and varied assortment of
Parlor aud Bed-room Furniture
CARPETS, MATS AND HOUSE FUKNISIIING GOODS.
l9"Call and examine our goods and prices befere purchasing elsewhere. We guaran-
tee satisfaction in all departments. Give us a tria
H. COHN,
DEALER IN
Dry Ms, Clothing,
Gouts Furnishing Goods, Hats,
Caps, Boots, Shoes, &c., &c..
Connell Building, East side Square,
BHBNHAM, 1:11; TEXAS. I
We have one of very largest and best selected stock of Gents, Boys anl Youths
CLOTHING,
to be found in Brenham, which wc offer at astonishing low prices. Our clothing can b
seen up-stairs, aud wc invite all in need of goodi in our line to call and inspect them.
Our line of Indies Dress (roods, trimmings, ties, hats, &o., is complete and are of-
fered cheap, ttf I have also in store a full and complc stock of
FAMILY GEOCBBIBS.
IW* All i ask is a trial, as I can and will sell goods cheaper than any other merchan
in Brenham. I mean Business. Call and be conviced.
Hermann Fisher,
BRENHAM, TEXAS,
— Wholesale and Retail Dealer i*—
Western and Texas Produce,
Imported and Domestic
WINES, LIQUORS, 0IUAUSr TOBACCO,
Delioaoies, landies, Preserved Ycgetablos, Fruit, Meat,
Fish, tickles, Oauuod Fruit, Nuts, ete.
Sole Agent of Anhauser'i Celebrated St. Ionia Beer.
IN QUANTITIES AT LOWEST RATES. "W
Lowest wholesale prices to the trade I Pays the highest
market price for cotton and other produce. Jan. I, 1881-dwiy
E. B. RANDLE.
Attorney at law,
Brenham, Texas.
Money borrowed and loaned.
Land bought and sold.
Office in Graber building, west tide
the square.
^ 11. BEAUMONT, M. 1>,.
Practicing Phyaician.
Brknham. Tkx as.
10" Can be found at his office ortn
the square in real estate bwldiag Airing
the day and at his residence at niehUani6
DR. D. €. WILLIAMS,
Resident Dentist.
1 Mice over Dwyer'e hardware atore, comer
of Main anil St Charles street!. >
Special attention paid to every branch el
the profession.
Kkkehknck: 15 years practice In this coun-
ty. H-TKKM- UA8H.
DROWNED IN BEER.
Concerning this Popular Beverage Two
Km Express their Minds.
"The fact is sir, and you may stick a pin
there, that the people of this country are
likely to be drowned in a flood of lager
beer," shouted an enthusiastic teetotaler
the other day into the ear of your corner-
ed correspondent. That German drink has.
struck us hard. It is the second deluge.
"Yes, and the wont of this beer drink-
ing business is that it gets up kidney trou-
bles, as a heavy wind raises the waves,'"
added a city physician, who had a knowl-
edge of the times and a tendency to Meta-
phor. "The midnight 'schooner' leaves,
behind it a wake of furred tongues, head-
aches, torpid livers, nausea, and all (hat
and lays the foundation of Bright's Dis-
ease."7 1
This melancholy fact accounts in part for
the increasing sales of BKNSONS CAP-
SINK POROUS PLASTER, which at
once mitigates these symptoms. Price 15
cents. Ask your physician about it.
Seabury & Johnson, Chemist, New York.
PARKER'S ¥«
Makes fast and lirm friends of all who use
it. Invigorates the kidneys, liver, bowels
and stomach and purifies the blood.
Pleases the palate, stirs the circulation and
cheers the mind. To women and aged
persons it imparts strength and hoperal-
ness. The best known antidote to the
liquor habit. 50c. and $1 sizes.
HISCOX & CO., New York.
BURHHAM'S
pamwh.et free by
BURNHAM BROS,YORK,PA.
BOOKS-125 TONS
of standard books, many of them the best
editions published. Your choice sent for
examination before payment, on reasona-
ble evidence of good faith, the books to be
returned at my expense if not satisfactory.
Spccial bargains this month. New publi-
cations every week. Prices lower than ev-
er before known, ranging from two cents
for Tennyson's "Enoch Arden," unabridg-
ed, large tfpe, to $15 for the largest and
best American Cyclopedia. Not sold by
dealers—prices too low. Circulars free.
Mention this paper.
JOHN li. ALDEN, Publisher,
18 Vesey Street, N. Y.
Wm. D.Cleveland,
Solicits open otdets fot *11
kinds of Gtocettes, including
Tobacco, Cigats and Liquet s,
and will fill them with that cate-
ful selection and moderation in
puces that such otdets .should:
always command.
He desires also to be terncm-
be red by every Cotton Shipper i»
the State when the new etop is
teady fot matket. No one in 0*
out of the State, can give bettet
tesults than he can.
Buying goods at HOUSTON,
and ship ting Cotton to HOUS-
TON is no longer an expetimenl.
It is a saving, and a success.
Houston, Texas.
THE SUN
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