Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 17, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 19, 1889 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY BANNER.
J, O. RANKIN, Proprietor.
O. 11 V. OAKKETT, Editor.
Saturday, January 19, 1889.
Gen. Patrick Collins, of Boston,
eavs that the late so-ca'led presiden-
tial election was not an election but
an auction.
Gov. Ross has sent in his list of
appointments to the senate. There
is no change in the present list
■worthy of note.
The Fort Worth Gazette states
the issue in good shape. The news-
papers are only demanding a law to
protect, not to license, the press.
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The citizens of Brenham must
have that creamery, and then, in-
stead of buying our cheese and but-
ter abroad, we will supply other
places.
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The Banner will no more dispute
such a thing as a lunar rainbow
Too many citizens happened to lie
up last Tuesday night, who aver
that they saw it.
Nolody is expected to believe tin-
daily reports tl.at there is a quiet
undercurrent of opposition working
against Senator Coke. The Austin
correspondents are bound to send
out something to their papers.
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There will be three grand parades
during the New Orleans mardigras
festivities. The firemen will parade
on March 3rd, the arrival of Rex
will'take place the following day,
a nil then the Mardi Gras parade.
The Banner doesn't believe in mob
law, but it is a pity in such cases as
the brutal and cowardly murder re
ported from Dallas, the courts of the
country do not admit of making as
quipk shrift of the criminal as does
Judge Lynch.
The charge that the British gov-
ernment is directly interested in a
number of dynamite plots recently
unearthed in this country, in order
to draw away American sympathy
for the Irish cause, is a serious one,
and should not be made without
the best of proofs.
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A Washington paper says that not
a dollar of conscience money has
been received at the treasury in
nearly two years. The reason is
that Grover succeeded in turning
the worst lot of the rascals out and
they haven't had an opportunity to
steal from the public crib.
The black-and-tan discordant re-
jublican leaders had a meeting in
Vustin the other day for the purpose
>f trying to make some kind of an
irrangement by which harmony can
je secured and democrats prevented
roro getting any chicken pie under
he Harrison administration.
pared to hail with joy the time when
his services can by dispensed with
and will look upon it as the dawn of
a new era in Texas civilization. But
with so many miles of country ex-
posed to the Mexican frontier and
with such organized banditti as they
have over there, who are in the habit
of making raids on Texas soil, the
ranger can still be made of use.
HOW TO START FACTORIES.
The Banner has become enlisted
heart and soul in the work of stir-
ring the citizens of Brenham up to
such an appreciation of the necessi-
ty existing for the establishment of
industrial enterprises as shall take a
practical form, and we do not pro-
pose to cease agitating the question
until our people do become prop-
erly aroused. In our last issue we
aimed to impress upon the reader's
mind the important fact that Bren-
ham has reached a crisis ; that the
dull times that are upon us are not
only temporary and are not depen-
dent upon short crops, for Brenham
is no longer a country village, and
while good crops, as a matter of
course, will to some extent relieve
tht' stagnation, yet we will continue
to experience a stringency in money
matters, a falling off in trade and a
general depression until wo cease to
depend upon local trade and the
sole industry of cotton-raising. The
Banner flatters itself by stating that
it feels satisfied that it succeeded in
showing that Brenham had reached
its crisis and we do not believe any
sensible person who read what we
had to say will deny that our posi-
tion was sensibly taken. We also
showed how this crisis was to be
met. It is by establishing manufac-
turing and industrial enterprises
that shall net only give employment
to our home people and keep
money in circulation here, but bring
money into the city. But it is not
so difficult to make this fact appar-
ent as it is to induce people to lay
hold of an enterprise and to put
their theories and ideas into practi-
cal shape. Unfortunately it is the
case in nearly every town, and es-
pecially in this sectioq, that when
any public-spirited enterprise re-
quiring capital is inaugurated peo-
ple of moderate means always hold
back and expect the wealthy to take
the lead, when, in fact as a general
New York World: Gen. Harri
.on is a very much more puffed up
•erson than we take him to be if he
ancies that he can do at the South
»y bluster or force what Grant,
fayes and Arthur could not ac-
omplish. We think he will try to
lissolve the solid South rather than
o break it.
There is k rumor from Austin that
in effort will be made to pass a law
teparating state and county elections
from elections for congressmen in
jrder to do away with possible fed
tral interference in the election of
ocal officers. The Banner suggest-
ed such a step directly after Har
rison's election.
James Hfmbles, a colored man
.dio fought for the confederacy un
ler Gen. "Jeb"' Stuart, has been
presented by Miss Mildred Lee,
laughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee,
irith two handsome steel engravings
—'Our Fallen Braves"—showing
the portraits of all the leading gener-
als of the Southern army.
The citizens of Denton, a town
half the size of Brenham, have
started a fruit and vegetable canning
factory with a capital of §6,000. As
small as it is, this investment will
give employment to aud support at
least twenty persons, besides Realiz-
ing a big profit for the investors. It
will also afford the farmers an addi- j
tioiiul market and put an increased
amotmt of money in cir culation.
thing this class of our citizens are
the most unprogressive, illiberal and
the least enterprising. For, as we
have remarked before, where they
are already in possession of their
thousands and hundreds of thous-
ands they reason that whether the
place prospers or not they are com-
fortably "fixedthey can live on
the interest of their money, and the
harder the times the higher the rate
of interest—so that by helping to
build factories, which put money in
circulation and make everybody
prosperous, they are really injuring
their business of money-lending. In
Texas nobody lends money at less
than ten per cent, while up North,
where towns half the size of this
teem with industrial enterprises, 5
and 6 per cent is considered a good
rate of interest. The people should
not look to the wealthy capitalists
to take the lead. They should
adopt the plan of building up en-
terprises that is in vogue in the
North. Men of moderate means
and even poor men with not more
than $300 or $400 laid by take stock
in factories up there with a guaran-
tee of employment icf the concern.
They first start factories on a small
scale and run them as a kind of mu
tual co-operative concern. Every
employe is an owner and while he
has a permanent situation and de
rives a support and maintenance for
his family from his daily labor in
the business, he also derives a divi
dend from the net proceeds accord
ing to the amount of stock invested
In this way a creamery, a fruit and
vegetable canning factory or a sor-
ghum mill could be started in Bren
ham with small capital by men with
scarcely any means by making it a
co-operative concern.
Whatever may be the cause,
there is a confident tone about the
press which leads us to believe that
I the present year will witness the in-
j au£ruration of industrial enterprises
j in Texas on such a scale as will
! mark a new era and insure prosper-
FARM AND HOME.
The old cry that the ranger must I ity to the people. There is scarcely
go ha« been raised again around the j a town of any size in the state that
■t*te capital The Banner is pre-]hasn't some scheme on foot.
THE farmer
Agriculture is the foundation of
the busiDoas and prosperity ot the
whole country. When the toil of
the farmer is utterly lost; whon,
after planting and tonding and
waiting, the harvest-time brings
no harvest to him, every industry
and every interest instantly feels
it. How completely a series of
crop failures, or even of short
crops, paralyzes the business of
the country! So a series of good
crops stimulates every business
and revives every drooping indus-
try. The railroad lines lengthen,
the rolling mills are busy, the iron
mine, the saw mill, the lumber
camp are all scenes of activity,
and every intrument of commerce
is in use. The hum of the machin-
ery is the natural accompaniment
to the songs of the harvest field.
The daily published telegram from
the money centor of the world is an
unconscious daily tribute to agri-
culture and the farmer as the
prime factor in commerce. They
noto and chronicle every frost, ev-
ery rain, every hostile insect as
carefully as tho physician the
symptoms of his patient. Stocks
go up and down with tho varying
reports as to wheat and corn. The
Wall street gambler who never
hoard tho meadow-lark in the field j
reads with as eager interest the
nows from the grain fields as one
caring tor a friend would the casu-
alties of a battle. But suab tribute
is temporary and compulsory. It
springs from selfishness mostly,
and the crop assured, indifference
to agriculture proclaims itsolt too
often in an undue levy upon the
crop for carriage and in other ways,
too numerous to mention. With
the growth of the county increased
prosperity and the multiplied and
splendid educational facilities; our
colleges, universities, academies
and other institutions of learning
are filling up with ambitious farm-
er boys, vigorous in body and
mind, bent upon acquiring knowl-
edge. This is well. They make
good students and scholars, but
it is feared that too many of them
rather disdainfully turn from farm
life to the professions as being a
step higher. Now I would liko to
impress upon such young men
that they are mistaken in this.
Thero is in a true sense no ''step
higher" from tho calm, thought-
ful, healthful independent life ot
the intelligent farmer.
I tell you, there would be a great
any mora romances if they did not
id in such a matter of fact way.
sr
ay.
Fate is with people's lives, like the
young woman who begins to
e
write a
story." It seems to go* a certain way
with them and then it drops them, or
else it suddenly becomes practical and
makes everything prosaic. Romance
does not last You go to a picnic and
you meet a lovely girl, and you have
just the sweetest time in the world
under the tree and by the brookside.
And you are in a kind of a poetic
dream until it comes time to go home,
Smoking a Corncob Pipe.
"Exactly. Your head aches,
your eyes bother 3*011 and your
throat is always parched," said a
well known physician diagnosing
tho case of a patient. "Now I can
tell just what brings on those dif-
ficulties. You smoke a corncob
pipe. Isn't that a fact?
Tho sufferer replied in the af-
firmative, but was curious to know
how the doctor learned what kind
of a pipe ho used.
"1 see so much of this that I
couldn't help knowing what ailed
you,'' explained the medical man.
"Men apparently' enjoying perfect
health come to me every day. They
are great big, robust fellows, and
they all suffer from the same causes.
At first I was nonplused, and led
myself to believe that it was a new
disease, but I finally discovered
that the whole trouble was caused
by corncob pipes. It needs no
credulity on your part. Notice
yourself when you are smoking a
corncob, a sickly, overpowering
odor, which fills up your throat
and lungs, and causes a smarting
sensation of the tongue. That is
the smoke of the burning cob, and
it contains enough creosote to
cure a ham."—New York Evening
Sun.
and when you get to the ferry you
make a break for your dinner. You're
too hungry to be poetic. The human
stomach, come to think of it, is a sad
destroyer of your romance Its pro-
saic call is so recurrent and so impera-
tive. I don't like to think of the shep-
herds and shepherdesses of Acadia
sitting down to a meal of coarse bread
and buttermilk; there may be poetry
compatible with eating grapes, but
even pears and apples and oranges are
only poetical when they are part of
the landscape.
Few people can eat oranges and feel
comfortable without a finger bowL
When you come to think of it, every-
thing in life seeins to conspire against
poetry. It's all very well to fancy
your sweetheart laid on her snow
white couch dreaming of you, or
standing in a gauzy costume by the
window looking at the moon and apos-
trophizing you as Romeo. But tnen
you know that she has to take her
boots off and take the hairpins out of
her hair, and when herdaintly little
feet touch the floor you know that she
screams, "Ouch I how cold itisf'and
in that single instant poetry is dashed
to pieces. And you! Well, you have
lots of poetry internally, I don't doubt,
but you are not poetic in a robe de
nuit; you know you're not I know
a fellow who reduccd everything to
prosaic. Wo walked up Market street
one afternoon, A pretty girl was
earning down. There are plenty of
them.
"What a pretty girl," I said.
"Yes."
"That is as pretty a foot as I liavo
seen in a long time."
"Yes. What a pity such a lovely
angolas that has to cut her corns."—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Efficient.
Seventy years ago, more or less, a
well known citizen of Richmond, N.
H.. named Nahum Grout, was reputed
to be a Federalist, perhaps the only
one in town. Political feeling ran
high in those days, as it has often done
since, and naturally the "minority of
one" was looked upon with small
favor.
The majority, in order to show their
disrespect for the man or their detesta-
tion of his political principles, elected
him hog reeve, an officer whose duty
it was to ring all swine found running
at large in the highway, or else to put
them into the town pound.
Grout assumed the oflico with much
complacency and great dignity withal,
and shortly began operations in earn-
est, as w as soon found out by many of
his opponents, who had been accus-
tomed to turn their hogs into the pub
lie way.
Securing efficient help he gathered
quite a respectable drove—respectable
in point ot numbers, at all events—
belonging mostly to such of hi? neigh-
bors and townsmen as had been fore-
Death For tbe Potato Weevil.
A correspondent of the New
England Farmer gives the follow-
ing directions lor destroying the
potato weevil: "Take an ordinary
manure hod, one that is broad and
light to carry is to be preferred, and
grasping it by the hole for the left
hand near th emouth ofthe hod, with
a broad and limber broom carried
with the right hand, proceed
through the field, placing the hod
against vines infested with grubs
and gently beating or sweeping
them over the edge ot the hod and
into it with the broom. In this
way a great majority of ail the
grubs in a small potato patch may
bo gathered in a short time and
destroyed. This may be of service,
especially in case where there are
objections to the use oi the poisons
offered in the markets. A little
practice will enable a person to do
execution with the above imple-
ments with considerable dispatch."
The object of the farmer in feed-
ing animals through the winter
should be for profit. Feeding stock
to gain a pofit from is a nice point,
and requires study and close atten-
tion. It is not enough to feed a
sufficient quantity, but the feed
must be of such as is best for accom-
plishing the object of feeding.
Oue hour to-day is worth two to-
morrow. '
have it, the inclosure was not stron;
enough to hold this kind of cattle, am
the pigs all got out, and, with a few
exceptions, made their way home
agaiu.
Grout was equal to the emergency;
he sued the town for damages. By the
town's neglect he had lost his lawful
fees. The court decided in his favor,
and the town was mulcted in the sum
of nearly $1,000.
After this the solitary Federalist of
tho village was allowed to remain a
private citizen.—Youth's Companion.
Santa Fe Saloon
NEAR UNION DEPOT
BRENHAM, T'BXAS.
open day and "night
Lanchea of &U kinds to order.
WIJLLIE HAMELMANN, frop.
Assignee's Sale of Land.
The undersigned will sell at public auc-
tion at the court house door in Brenham, on
Tuesday, 22d Day of January, 1889,
the following real estate belonging to the es-
tate of Bassett & Bassett and B. H. Bassett:
1. An undivided half inteiest .'n the lot
and building on corner of Main'and Mar-
ket streets, in Brenham, wiih vault and Tale
time, reserving privilege of moving safe.
This is a two-stoiy brick, and was lately oc-
cupied as a banking house.
2. A Hall burglar proof safe 34x30, two
combination locks.
3. Lot 2, block 25, Wilkins' addition in
Soathwest Brenham.
4. Lot 21 in Bassett's subdivision of lot 87.
south of the Central Depot
5. An undivided half interest in Lot 60x110
fronting oik Church street, and immediately
north of Central Railroad track.
6. An undivided interest 5-18 in 3 tract# of
land in Fort Bend County, on west side Bra-
zos River. The first tract contains 1475 acres
being a part ofthe E. Robinson league. The
second being one-sixth interest in 90 acres,
out of the John Jones' 1-4 league. The third
lot No. 1 in the partition of lands of Wm. 8.
and Man- Jones' estates, containing 376.34
acres.
7. 98 acres in tte Goacher league, Wash-
ington county, conveyed by L. 6. Gee to
Jeff Bassett. •
8. I83 1-2 acres, part of the Mancha league
in Lee county. Texas.
9. 50 acres, part of the James Schrier
league m Washington county, Texas.
10. 35 acres in Harris county, Texas, being
lots I, 2, 10, and east half of 9, block 1,
Smith's Survey.
11. Lot 10, block 240, City of Houston.
12. 61 acres of land in Washington coun-
ty, a part ofthe Bird L- Hanks' league.
C. C. Garrett and
J. T. S wearing k.v,
d&w Assignees.
My Poor Back!
That "poor back" is held responsible for more than its share of the sufferings of
mankind. If your dog bites a man who kicks it, do yon blame the doc* On the 1
principle the kidneys utter their protest
resulting constipation. These force them
system of the poisons which are the
blood. Then the sufferer says the
eased. "Not yet;" but they will
the blood purified, and the constipation
of kidney troubles, and Paine's Celery
With its tonic, purifying, and laxative
kidneys, making it almost infallible
neys. If your hopes of cure have not
against nervousness, impure blood, and
to do extraordinary work in ridding the
result of effete matter retained in the
back aches; the kidneys are dis-
be unless the nerves are strengthened,
removed. These are the causes
Compound removes them quickly,
effect, it also strengthens the weak
curing all diseases of the nerves and kid-
been realized, try Paine's Celery Com-
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Sold by Druggists. Send for Illustrated Paper.
WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Proprietors,
BURLINGTON, VERMONT.
DVT.
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— DEALER IN■
General Hardware, .;
FARMING IMPLEMENTS, FENCE WIRE, ' _
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISH, WINDOW GLASS, IRON PIPE' V
Pumps, Steam Fittings, Rubber Belting, Ac.,
Weal Sandy Street, BRENHAM, TEXAS.
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TRADE MARK.
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PURE, STEONG AND HEALTHFUL.
The moat reliable powder In the market. It ts
rapidly superseding other brands wherever intro-
duced. Dealer* are authorized to guarantee it in
every respect, and to refund purchase money if un-
satisfactory. C. M.S<:irAKD, S. W. Agt., Dallas.
J" T. SWEAR1NGEN,
Attorney-at-Law,
Brenham, Texas.
E3" Has ;i complete ab3traot of Laml Titles ol
Washington county.
beauregard bryan,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GiiABER BUILDING,
Bronham, Toxss.
W. W. SEARCY.
v. b. qarrett.
Searcy fc Garrett,
Attorneys at Law.
0FEICE OVER 0IDDINBS & BIDDINGS BANK
BRENHAM. TEXAS.
l. r. bryan.
J. D. CAMPEIX.
Bryan & Campbell.
Attorneys at Law,
Brenham, Washington Co. Texas.
Will practice in all Courts of Washtngton
and adjoining comities. Have a complete
abstract of titles of Washington county.
OFFICE OYKIl GIDDING8 & OlDDIXGS BASK
W.H.VINSON,
Lawyer, Land Agent
And Notary Public.
I have valuable farms for sale, al p> derira*
ble residence* in the city.
DR. J. M. ROSS.
SURGEON ii PHYSICIAN,
BRENHAM, TEXAS.
J9* Special attention given to
Chronic cases. "ttt
LUMBER!
On hand a full sto^k of Rough and Dressed
DOORS, SASH, ETC.
CalM Wapns, All Sues.
Cypress Cisterns.
IaDFOTed Buckeye Hovers.
Barbed Wire, Honston Brick,
Lime, Cement and
Fire Brick.
f, W. WOOD,
Near Compress.
LUMBERYARD.
Wo carry a complete stock of
ROfl&HaiOREmD LUMBER
Shingles, Windows, Doors,
BLINDS and MOULDINGS.
-AGENTS FOH—
WALTER A. WOOD MOWERS
Kentucky Cane Mills, Evaporators
Studebaker Wagons,
Ghdden Fence Wire.
W. A. WOOD CO.
Brenham, Tezas.
Health is Wealth!
REATME
G. F. FROUWEN.
llftlHiA
Resident Dentist.
BRENHAM, TEXAS.
Offic* orw Carl et on & Nasb'« Draft Store
Teeth extracted without psin by use o
LAUGHING GAS
Pennington House,
Corner Main and Douglass streets,
BRENHAM, TEXAS.
ASA. PENNINGTON; Proprietor
Board by the day, week or o onth on res
sonab'» ermr Ve»U 26 cents-
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Treatment, a guaranteed specific for Hys-
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Neuralgia, Headache, Nervous Prostration
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Wakefulness, Mental Depression, Softening
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to misery, decay and death, Premature Old
Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power in either sex,
Involuntary Losses and Spermatorrhoea
caused by over-taxation of tho brain, self-
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The highest duty of plant, animal
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INSURANCE AGENT,
Over Hermann'§ fMmUnvr Ittrr.
Brenham. Texas.
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