Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 285, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1894 Page: 2 of 8
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BRENHAM DAILY BANNER
J. O. RANKIN, Proprietor.
Wednesday Morning, December 19.
The Senate will adjourn in a few
days.
The Texas Legislature will
session in a few weeks.
Gebuasy proposes to retaliate on
the United States for its disinclina*
tion to take up the sugar schedule.
The Tory leaders in England are
showing great hostility towards the
Rothschilds because the latter have
helped Russia with a new loan.
The fusion legislature proposes
to gerrymander the cities of North
Carolina so as to make Democratic
victory in them impossible in the
future. «
Carlisle's bond issue appears to
have gained currency. The cur-
rency was, however, chiefly in the
shape of legal tenders, instead of
gold, as desired.
Etbhnal vigilance, Dr. Parkhurst
says, is the price of good govern-
ment in Jfew Yofk city. He wants
the citizens' vigilance committee to
have a permanent home.
The Spanish Government in deep-
ly agitated over a report that
Morocco has ceded the Island of
Peregil, near its coast, to Great
Britian for a coaling station.
The newly inaugurated state
officers of South ^Carolina are all
young men. The governor is 31,
the attorney general 25 auri the ad-
jutant general 24 years of age.
Russia is ready to take advantage
of any troubles in which the Ar-
menian massacre may involve Turkey
&nd has mass 20,000 additional
troops on the Armenian frontier.
# ill
Champ Crark says he is proud to
sit in Congress with W. C. P. Breck-
inridge. It is the honest belief of
many persons that Champ would be
proud to continue sitting in Con-
gress with anybody.
The strongest testimony yet given
to the scarcity of money is that of
the presiding elders of the North
Carolina conference, who report dis-
tressing financial conditions through-
out the boundfe of the conference.
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The Kentucky courts have de-
cided that a gas company cannot
collect rents for its meters. The
meters of a gas company, like the
scales of a retail grocer, are, the
court says, a necessarry part of dis-
tribution.
COTTON NEXT YEAR.
A correspondent who is supposed
to be a cotton expert writes to the
New Orleans Times-Democrat as
follows:
"Cotton can be bought in Liver-
pool for October and November,
1895, that is, next year, at 3 1-4
be -n cents in the interior of the South.
Thus the cotton grower has before
him the cheerful prospect of already
knowing that Liverpool will sell him
American cotton of next year's
growth at 4 1-2 cents before he has
put the seed in the ground that is
to grow the crop of next year.
What better object lesson ttaan this
does the Southern cotton grower re-
quire to show him that an enforced
reduction of the cotton acreage is
imperatively demanded. Another
and successful attempt to raise
again next year a crop resembling
in size the one now being marketed
will force Liverpool for October-
November, 1895, down to 2 to 2 1-2
pence, equal to 8 and 3 1-2 cents at
interior points in the South. Far
more profitable for the South to
buy October-November in Liverpool
at 3 pence than to plant a crop
which in Europe is already selling
at 4 1-2 cents, or less, on plan-
tations."
If this correspondent is oorrect in
his statements and conclusions our
cotton planters would save money
by not producing a pound of cotton
next year.
We have little hope, however, of
seeing the acreage greatly "reduced
Still, it is the duty of every newspa
per and every man with any influ-
ence whatever, to urge the farmers
to plant less cotton and to diversify
their products. When our people
adopt this policy and manufacture
their cotton at home, they will be
able to bring up the price to a
profitable figure. Even then, there
will be no great prosperity for our
agriculturists until we increase the
volume of our currency. Under
the gold standard it will be hard to
arrest the decline of prices.
At Cost, i|i| At Cost,
AT A. & H. HARRISON'S.
Grand Clearance Sale of Entire Stock.
Every item in every Department of our large stock has been
reduced in price to insure its sale. Don't,miss this Sale.
WEDNESDAY A SPECIAL
BARGAIN
The commission sent to investi-
gate the condition of things in the
Indian Territory reports that In
dian selfgovernment there is a com-
plete failure, and on the strength of
this it is proposed to erect there a
regular territory with a government
dominated from Washington.
Two Morman elders are promul-
gating the doctrine of their church
an the Hickory Grove neighborhood,
Kentucky. They hold services ii
schoolhouses, preaching about three
skimps at a place, and canvass
#very%ouse, leaving tracts and other
literature concerning their doctrine.
The recent announcement that
the Kaiser is about to discriminate
against American coal oil is another
ifadicativ n of his anxiety to forfea a
commercial war on the United
States. But when he knows us bet-
ter he will understand hdw cheer-
fully nine Americans in every ten
can forgiye him for everything he
does to the Standard Oil Company.
Rev. Sam Joxes has been on atoar
through South Carolina, and de-
larea
vast improvement oyer the old fash-,
ioned saloon. He says a dispensary
it by no means what ii has been
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THE CAME COE8ON.
The speculators who forced the
two recent issues of government
bonds through the complaisance of
the secretary of the the treasury
says the Ft. Worth Gazette, have
fairly under way their third game of
shuttle-cock with the finances of the
country. Having possessed them
selves of #100,000,000 of bonds sold
to get gold, they are repossessing
themselves of the gold which lately
paid into she treasury, and propose
to use it to buy another issue of
bonds.
This transcendent farce goes on,
it should be remembered, by special
permission of the administration.
If the plain letter of the law were
followed it would stop instantly.
What is needed at Washington is
mi Andrew "Jackson with the dispo-
sition, and the will to protect the
public treasury against any and all
attacks.
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The utilization of convict labor
upon the public highways of the
State has long been ably advocated
by the Houston Post, but it has un-
fortunately failed 0 impress; the
law-making power with the import-
ance of the subject. Howfeyer, the
Post is not discouraged^ khv it. is
again industriously engaged in call-
ing the attention of the n,px| legisla-
ture to the matter, and it is hoped
that its efforts will meet with suo-
oe88. The convicts should, bf all
means, be prevented from coming in
competition, with honest labor, and
there is nor* better way to do it, or
one that would prove of more bene
fit to the State, than by putting
them to improving the public roads.
The Secretary of the Navy, in his
tihpuat report, makes a suggestion
which, if carried out, will go far to-
war d.dojng fcway with the qwfrctty
of men, which now troubles the
navy and threatens to prevent the;
manning of some of the ships now
in oourse of construction. The sug-
gestion is that a rtfired naval officer
Ilea—i that desire
in naval
mu jh as an army officer is
stationed to give instructions
This Space belongs to
F. W. Schuerenberg'
DEALER IN
, ( ARTS, .
Carriages, Hacks. Wagons,
And Agricultural Implements,
West Sandy Street,
Brenham Texas.
Astonishing and Remarkable Reductions
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IIST PRICES!
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Our December" Sales must eclipse those of any other month, and
accomplish thjs we will SLASH PRICES on desirable and seasona-
now on until January 1st, 1895, which will result in
such bargains as have never been offered before.
I reserve nothing; everything is embraced—both
and'Men'S..depai|n|ents&o at 13*1
TEMPTING BARGAINS. NO HUMBUG, but
stem, stubborn, unvarnished facts.
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Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 285, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1894, newspaper, December 19, 1894; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth486485/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.