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VOLUME XIY.
BBENHAM, WASHESTG-TOST COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APEIL 25, 1S79.
NUMBER 17.
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nsertlon.
It is probable the legislature
will adjourn on Tuesday. If
so much, needed, legislation will
fail.
The -steamship Rio Grande
made her last trip from New
York to Galveston in 6 days and
!3"nours.
Frederick W., Minor, of
Paris.has been nominated to'be
U. S. attorney for the northern
district of Texas.
The Texas Sun, a -monthly
paper formerly .published at
Houston will hercaftar shed its,
light from San Antonio,
Judge Upson's election to con
gress in the "sixth district is
claimed by 4000 majority. The
vote polled was quite, small:
The colored convention at
New Orleans is attended by 260
-delegates; many of them from
the bull-dozed regions of Louis
iana. "A cruel deception to ad
vance a political plot," is the
-way congressman Hooker, of
"Mississippi, speaks of the exo
dus. The colored peoyle of Phila
delphia have sent money and
clothing to Milton Turner of
-StLouis, for use of the negro
emigrants.
Among the delinquent city
tax payers of Tyler, appears the
name of Ex-Governor R. B.
Hubbard for $12 on one lot and
52.50 on another.
THEllockdaleJIi'Wfffr; fully
endorses the bill recently passed
by the legislature which makes
it much more difficult to obtain
continuances in criminal cases.
Toledo, Ohio, is one of the
worst debt-ridden places in the
country. Its indebtedness now
amounts to one-fourth its taxa
ble property. City taxes are
4 per cent.
It is said the dra'matic pro
fession in New York have en
gaged Gen Roger A Pryor to
proceed to Texas to assist the
district attorney in the prose
cution of Currie.
The San Antonio Express
says: "We have had rain; now
let the legislature adjourn and
the people will brace up with
a little hope that we may be
happy yet." Selahl
That much edited paper, the
LaGrange Record, which has
usually had from three to five
editors has been sold to Upson
McGary and W. R. Gregory.
Three of the old editors retire.
Whenever the Jefferson Jimp
reaches the Banner office all
work ceases. The editorial
staff! foreman, compositors aud
devil all have to stop and read
the news. It doesn't take much
lime.
NEgro immigrants to Kansas
-who are in a starving and des
titute condition are improperly
called refugees. They left their
old homes of their own free
will and accord and -without
cause. -
The San Antonio Express ad
vises farmers to plant henjp.say
ing there will be a big demand
forit We have-plenty of hang
ing material, and can find juries
with the requisite backbone to
do their duty.
The Sedalia Democrat has
interviewed Judge T. C. Sears,
attorney general of the M., K.
&. T. railway who lately return
ed from Washington. The
judge has'been interviewing the
congressional committees on
the Indian Territory and is sat
isfied that congress will at no
distant day open it to white set
tlers. Over fourteen million
acres of fine lands arc now va
cant, The justice of breaking
faith with the Indians after set
ting the territory aside for their
use is not considered.
A Kansas City dispatch says
a large number of colored
southern refugees have been
landed at Wyandotte, Kansas
in an entire destitute condition.
Nearly 2000 sick and starving
negroes arc now there. Con
tributions are asked for their
relief.
A syndicate composed of
New York and Boston banks,
bankers and capitalists have
subscribed for 5150,000,000 4
per cent, bonds and f4.000.000
funding" certificates. This is
said to be the largest single sub
scription ever made in this or
any other country.
Apprehensions are entertain
ed that the democrats have lost
congressman Jones. Galveston
Noes. ' This, wc ar; inclined to think,
is a mistake. Jones deserted
the democratic camp more than
two years ago. He's not lost,
but simply gone.
The negro exodus from the
south is purely a political move
ment, the duped and deluded
negroes are treated simply as
chattels, and arc being used for j
a purpose; that purpose being
"to replenish the stock of radi
cal capital that had run alarm
ingly low."
As as item of interest to law
yers, doctors and preachers who
handle vast sums of money, it
is' stated that a new and danger
ous counterfiet SS20 U. S. note,
new series of 1875 has been
detected by the sub-treasury
at New Orleans. Merchants
and newspayer men arc not in
terested. The Houston Telegram, with
its issue" of the 17th, entered
upon the third year of its exis
tence. It is a very vigorous
two-year-old, and gives promise
of living a long and useful life.
As an evidence of its prosperity
it appears in a new and hand
some dress. We wish it every
success.
Colored conventions appear
to be all the go at present
Wright Cuney, a copper-colored
gentleman of Galveston, is issu
ing a circular to the influential
colored men of Texas, asking
their attendance at a convention
to be held at Nashville, May 6.
The general condition of the
colored people is to be consid
ered. The Austin Statesman has
opened war on Brenham and
Brenham fleas. It warns peo
ple not to' get off the train here.
If by any possibility the States
man man could be captured and
kept in our bastile for twenty
five hours, he would have such
a surfeit of fleas that he wpold
never write or say fleas during
the remainder of his life.
The Banner is indebted to
Mr. H. L. Mathews for copies
of the Leadville Daily Cironi
cle, April ioth and nth.
Judging from the appearance of
the Cluonicle, Leadville is a
live and business city. Restau
rant meals afe advertised at fif
ty cents. Leadville is a full
fledged city having churches,
temperance societies, barrooms,
faro banks, etc.
Jim Carroll, a negro, accus
ed of outraging a white woman
at Lickville, Maryland, was ta
ken from a train at Washington
Junction by fifteen or twenty
masked men, who threw a rope
over his head, snaked him across
a field and hanged him on a
convenient tree. The entire
performance was over in less
than half an hour; the maskers
rode away as soon as they were
satisfied that Jim was "good
dead."
The Portland, Oregon, board
of trade have adopted a long
memorial address to President
Hayes, condeming in strong
terms Chinese immigration to
to that state. They state that
the Chinese seriously interfere
with all free labor; that they
are able to exist on a pittance
that will not support a white
laborer; that they do not in any
manner add to the wealth of
the state and that every dollar
they earn over and above their
absolute necessities is sent out
of the country.
In California it is claimad that
no inconsiderable proportion of
the food they consume is im
ported from'CJiina,
CompnltozT' Suffrage.
A member of the Missouri
legislature has introduced a bill
having for its object the making
of every man exercise the right
of suffrage at every election.
The bill provides that if any man
having the right to vote shall
fail to do so for three successive
elections, he shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and be
forever disqualified from holding
any office of honor a trust. It
is unquestionably the duty of
every qualified voter to vote,
and if every man was required
by law to do so the result of
elections would.no doubt be far
different. As the matter now
stands in Dearly, if not all the
states, the ignorant and wholly
irresponsible never fail to' cast
their ballots; they arc bought up,
controlled or driven to the polls
by scheming politicians. Those
who fail or neglect to vote arc
as a general thing intelligent
men and property owners, who
are most directly interested in
the election of good men to
office.
Ontragoa Outside of Texaa
The Marshall Heiald prints a
column under the above caption.
It gives a list of murders, rapes,
cutting and shooting scrapes,
and such like at the following
places: Philadelphia, Cincin
nati, New Haven, Conn., East
Saginaw, Michigan, Greenfield,
Ind., Washington C. H., Ohio,
Buchanan, Mich., New Lexing
ton, Ohio, Chicago, New York,
Bucyrcs, Ohio, Fort Wayne,.
Ind., and Warren, Ohio. The
list is compiled from the doings
of only a few days, April 8th to
the I ith, inclusive. The result
of comparison is that Texas, in
proportion to population, is not
a whit worse than the northern
States, if indeed as bad.
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Elsewhere we publish a por
tion of the recent act of the leg
islatureapproved April 15
changing time of holding dis
trict court in this judicial
district, Under the new law
Washington county has two
terms of court,eight weeks each,
beginning on the first Monday
in March and September. The
.bill was "engineered" through
by senator Homan. To whom
we are indebted for this change
we do not know, but one thing
is certain; it could not have
been fixed at a more inconven
ient season for farmers. the
convenience of the people had
been consulted the time of hold
ing court would not have been
changed.
In the colored convention at
New Orleans it was shown
among other things that in the
population of 'Red River parish
there was two colored to one
white man. The point was
made that if the negroes were
given their rights, they would
carry the elections. The color
ed people, however, propose to
immigrate and settle where they
would be free from shot and
guns. No definite suggestions
regarding emigration were made
A correspondent expressed
the opinion that our mayor was
getting too much salary. There
are always two sides to a ques
tion. The Banker, wishes to
give all sides a fair showing it
-reproduces the following from
the Austin Statesman:
The Brenham. mayor gets
$600, a sum that will hardly
pay for the hard scratching will
have to do during this blessed
year of jubilee for dogs, hogs
and fleas.
1 1 ,
Crime seems to be rampant
in Illinois. The Dallas Herald
contains dispatches fro m various
portions of Illinois, all dated
April 14th. The captions will
suffice: "Seduction of a young
girl at Pontiac; Highway rob
bery at Lawn ville; Shot through
the head, Aurora; masked bur
glars at Chicago; Lynching of a
horse thief at Chicago; suicide
of a deserted wife at Cairo.
This surpasses a day's doings
in Texas.
The Austin Statesman wick
edly says our George Washing
ton Jones did not deliver his
speech in congress at all. He
arose ready to fire his speech
off, but was "stopped short" by
the speaker. He asked leave
to have it printed, all the came,
as though it had been delivered;
the house said yes and the
speech makes a pajt of Jhe
Congressional Rccoid".
THE SANTA FE RAILWAY
This long talked of and much
written about railway is at last
assuming definite shape. The
purchase of the road by the
Galveston syndicate is regarded
by the general public as an as
surance that its speedy comple
tion may now be taken for gran
ted. The Galveston Journal of
Comma cc, a strong friend and
advocate of the road gives some
interesting particulars concern
ing the present status ofthe
road. It says: Those charged
with the undertaking here in
Galveston will do their best; if
others will do as .well Belton
will be in railway connection
with the open sea in the next
twelve or fifteen months. The
road is completed to Richmond.
A new freight depot has just
been completed in Galveston.
The company have s ix blocks
blocks of beautiful depot
grounds, north of the Galveston
and Houston freight depot and
shops fronting immediately on
the bay. They have about a
mile of side tracks, a turn table,
a round-house and freight plat
form 170x40 feet, with ware
houses over 100x20 feet. A
visit was paid to the depot on
Friday. About 20 mechanics
were hard at work building
freight cars; about 14 have al
ready been completed. The
rolling stock now consists of 3
locomotives, 2 new and elegant
passenger coaches, t express
and mail car, 14 box, 39 flat, 4
stock and one pile driving car.
The present completed track
is about 63 miles and connects
with the wharf railroad in this
city, and is destined to revolu
tionize the lumber trade of all
western Texas, as the best long
leaf pine and cypress lumber
from Louisiana can be loaded
from vessels right into cars for
the interior. This will supply
good lumber at less prices than
people now pay for a poor ar
ticle. The construction train, with a
full gang of workmen, are bal
lastingthe line.with sand through
the Brazos bottom. A depot
will soon be built at Richmond
and the line opened for busin
ess. On to Brenham and Belton is
the battle cry of the syndacate,
says the Journal of Commerce,
backed by all Galveston and the
population along the route.
Let local aid do its best and
the syndicate wilt use its credit
and do the balance. They do
not expect to make a fortune
out of their undertaking; but
they do intend to build the
road and open a new iron high
way from the sea to the interior
of Texas and ultimately to con
nect with the shortest overland
route to the Pacific
In this connection it may not
be amiss to remark that before
local aid can be expected the
syndicate.or new company will
have to make arrangements for
the immediate prosecution of
the work; overa year ago Bren
ham had an enthusiastic railroad
meeting, but as nothing definite
has been done the enthusiam
has to a very considerable ex
tent cooled down. An assur
ance backed by ocular demon
strations that business is meant
will insure abundant local aid
all along the line. It is reason
able to suppose that the present
owners of the road will mature
their plans and make them pub
lic before many days. The facts
regarding the present status of
the road is given in the forego
ing show that there is much
more life in it at the presert
time than the general public
had reason to suppose.
The Denison Herald writes
up one H. S. Brooks, claiming
that he, the said Brooks, is the
champion liar and hotel beat of
the world. Brooks beat a Den
ison tavern-keeper out of his
board and in addition wrote to
the Elmira, N. Y. Gazette that
the population of Denison is
only 250; the town should be
stricken from the maps and that
everybody in Texas is going
to Kansas. Brooks is undoubt
edly an expert in telling lies.
Rev. Johnson Reed, color
ed, formerly of Galveston, has
acquired a state-wide reputation
as a raiser of disturbances. He
is now raising "old Harry" with
the golorcd church at San An-tonjp.
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate, April 18. A bill
has been introduced creating
the office of state's attorney, to
be appointed by the governor,
to hold office two years; his du
ties are to represent the state in
civil and criminal suits. Read
first time.
The house substitute for sen
ate bill regulating charges of the
railroad companies for freights,
establishing maximum rate at
50 cents per 100 pounds per
hundred miles, etc., passed to
third reading.
Bill applying one dollar poll
tax to schools passed.
House. The house concur
red in the bulk of the senate
amendments to general tax bill.
Finlay's amendment providing
for a supreme court of six judg
es passed to third reading.
Senate, April 18. Favora
ble report on senate bill to al
low Cunningham and Ellis, les
sees of the penitentiary to sue
the state; also on bill providing
for the printing, binding and
distribution of the revised stat
utes, penal code and code of
criminal procedure.
The governor vetoed senate
bill dissolving city charter of
Tyler, for the reason that it is
unconstitutional.
Bill requiring county judges
to keep their offices at county
seats. and allowing leave of ab
sence not to exceed sixty days
passed.
House bill regulating elec
tion tickets passed.
Bill authorizing survivors of
Terry Rangers and Forty-eighth
Texes cavalry to erect a monu
ment in the state cemetery,
passed.
House. Bill establishing
nine hours as working day for
the public offices of the state,
passed.
Senate bill requiring railroad
trains to stop half an hour when
reaching state line, passed
Senate bill allowing the gov
ernor to remove and appoint
superintendent of lunatic asy
lum at' will, passed.
Senate bill providing that
district judges shall appoint
days'for jury trials, passed.
Senate bill requiring taxes on
real estate to be paid before
titles to same can be placed on
record, passed.
Senate bill providing for sale
of public domain was taken up
and lost.
Bill ta provide that notices of
sale under execution be pub
lished, passed.-
Senate. April 14. In accor
dance with the requirement that
the senate shall elect a presi
dent pro tern., L. J. Story was
elected .unanimously. Senator
Edwin Hobby declined re-election.
Bill for second assistant at
torney general with salary of
S3000, subject to removal by
governor when his services are
no longer required, passed.
Bill for conveying convicts
to penitentiary by contract,
passed; also for colored normal
school at Alta Vista, as amen
ded by the house, passed.
Mr. Stewart reported favora
bly on bill for publication of
judicial sales.
Bill for sale, for Benefit of
public schools, of alternate sec
tions of land as surveyed for
railway companies passed. Sen
ate bill against railway discrim
ination passed.
House. Senate amendments
to bill providing against picture
back election tickets, 'adopted.
Senate amendments to b II
providing that state shall not
bid in lands sold for taxes, but
to keep same on market, agreed
to.
Bill providing for colored nor
mal school at Alta Vista, pass
ed. Bill requiring taxes to be
paid on lands before titles can
be recorded, lost.
Senate bill providing allow
ances to collectors of taxes for
advertising lands for sale, pass
ed to third reading.
Bill providing plan of collect
ing back taxes in organized
counties, passed.
Senate bill establishing Sam
Houston normal institute, at
Huntsville, passed.
Senate bill granting 640 acres
of land to each vetran pension
icr under the law of 1876,
passed.
Rockdale and. vicinity lud
fine rains lat week":
STATE HEWS.
John D. Hunt, is now in
jail at LaGrange awaiting trial.
J. GJjrojyrn ofLaf' range,
has JUBBHelll&kaBnCSC
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at Denison
drummed up."
A-ncgro was fined S45
the county court at San Antonio
for cruelty to a horse
Large quantities of brick
are being made at Rockdale for
shipment to Taylorsville.
King Fisher's case is set
for trial in the district court of
Uvalde county this week.
Tuesday last a party of
twenty left San Antonio in pri
vate conveyance for Leadville.
Col, Matthews, of Tyler,
sells $560 worth of strawberries
from two and a half acres of
land.
The San Antonio Herald
says the quantity of beer receiv
ed within the last few days is
fabulous.
Judge Maney, the defeated
congressional candidate is now
known in San Antonio as the
crazy man.
A.Mr. Fisher, a large stock
owner lining in Chambers coun
ty, was robbed of S8000 in cash
a few days ago.
Over 18,000 cattle have,
this spring, been driven from
Nueces, Duval and Starr coun
ties in south Texas.
The third and last day of
the Austin Sangerfest closed on
Thursday with a general ball at
Millet's opera house.
On Thuisday last a San
Antonio man offered Si. 10 per
bushel for 1000 bushels of corn.
It's a scarce article there.
The San Antonio Heiald
says the performance given by
the Dan Rice show was good
and merited large audiences.
Jack Jones a negro boy
was found dead on Snake creek
Fort Bend county. His skin
was much damaged by bullet
holes. '
Col. A. B. Small, of Hous
ton, is now lying at the point of
death. The Telegram says his
decease is but a question of
hours.
August Weber, who lived
near Round Top, Fayette coun
ty, accidently shot and killed
himself while out hunting a few
days ago.
The case of Huse Holt,
charged with murdering two
men at Pilot Point, Denton
county, has been continued till
September next
Mr. Coffey's residence, near
Rockdale, was destroyed by fire.
His neighbors in three days
raised $375 for his relief. Good
neighborhood, that,
Salmon about nine Indies
long have been caught in the
Colorado river near Austin.
The government stocked the
river a year or two ago.
Over one hundred people
were rendered homeless by the
late tornado at Lisbon, Dallas
county. Many of them lost all
their furniture and clothing.
The Denison Herald thinks
the Waco editors ought to "go
up" in that balloon, as it is about
the only chance they will ever
have to, go up in that direction.
In the Morse murder case
at Calvert the justice held the
Jones brothers and another with
out bail. The defendants will
apply to the district judge for
habeas corpus.
The Denison Nezvs hopes
that the next mayor of that town
will pay his subscription to the
Nezvs, something the present
incumbent has not been guilty
of for some time.
A negro family living at
LaGrange went to preaching
last Sunday. When they got
home they didn't have any-
cabin and plunder were in ash
es. Fire accidental. ,1
A Sherman juror while
out taking an airing in company
with the remainder of the jury
and one officer stepped away
from the otherjurors and bought
a cigar. It coming to the
knowledge of the court that the
jury had seperated they were
discharged and the cigar-buy-1
ing juryman was fined $10,
HI -JrleHBHBHBHBHHHHHHHHa t
Hon. H. G. Geiger, color
ed member of the legislature
from Robertson county, was
arrested in Austin for fighting.
He paid one dollar and trim
mings $16.20 in all.
Robert Williams, colored,
was fooling with an "oldrusty-
instol" in tne kitchen of Hood's
Lat San Antonio. The re-
Robert Ware, colored.
on the spot.
porter at Hord's hotel,
tonio, who accidcntally
and killed a waiter. Bob
Ware, was discharged, the cor
oner's jury having pronounced
the shooting accidental.
Denison Herald: The ne
gro well digger on whose head
the spade fell while down in a
34 foot well, is doing well but
the spade is pronounced beyond
remedy by the blacksmith.
A Denison milkman, while
on his rounds, left his wagon to
go into a hotel. When he came
out he found the wagon and
team all right, but S4.50 and a
lot of milk tickets were non 'est.
During the recent storm
and tornado at Lisbon, Dallas
county, the ground in places
was covered with hail stones,
some of which were as large as
goose eggs, chickens and pigs
were killed.
The Denison News man
thought he had a little of the
angel in his composition, but
two days experience in collect
ing newspaper subscriptions
convinced him that he was mis
taken. Arrangements have about
been completed for a grand
camp meeting on the banks of
the Gabriel in Milam county
some time in July. Major Penn
will do the major part of the
preaching.
Two men on their way to
Mooresville, near Marlin, were
waylaid by four men and shot
at Warrants had been sworn
out against the shootists for
horse stealing; hence the at
tempt to murder.
The Navasota Tablet says:
"In consequence of the reduc
tion of the salaries of officers
there is little or no interest man
ifested in the coming-election."
Big pay is the .thing to bring
out plenty of candidates.
John O. Greer, for the mur
der of Lewis Cooper, was found
guilty of murder in the second
degree and assessed five years
in the penitentiary by a jury in
the district court now in session
at Hempstead. He is yet to be
tried for the murder of Edward
Greer.
"Went Hell Bent," is the
attractive way in which the San
Antonio Exp; ess announces the
sudden disappearance of Mr.
George Bent, an architect who
departed without paying his
bills. It is hoped that Bent has
not reached his destination, but
will return and liquidate his ob
ligations. A , correspondent of the
Houston Telegram, condemns
the severest terms the verdict
of the Waller county jury which
gave John Greer five-years for
shooting and killing Lewis
Cooper. The writer claims
that five of jury was negroes.
He says " the jury has shown
itself as criminal as the blood
thirsty and cowardly scoundrel
they have just tried."
It seems that the tiger is
perfectly domesticated in Sher
man; he is as tame as a house cat,
but not so to those who play
with him. The 'Other day one
Sutherland, a:i ex-member of
Missouri legislature, and a Tex
an named Waddell had a quar
rel right over a faro table. A
fist fight ensued, followed by an
arrest, fine and trimmings the
Missouri man being the victim.
Eighteen years ago a man
named McKissick, who lived at
Golinda, McLennan county, was
murdered and robbed. The
house or cabin in which he lived
had long been deserted. A few
days ago an ancient negro liv
ing in the vicinity, and who was
fishing on a neighboring creek,
exhausted his bait and started
off to dig "wurrums." In his
search he dug up the hearth in
the deserted cabin, but instead
of "wurrjms" he found an old
skillet containing over JSooo in
gold. The negro got drunk and
told all abo ut his good luck. It
was the be.st day's fishing ever
done in Mc:Lcnnan county.
W. R. Lott, of this county,
was arrested in Dallas on Tues
day last by United States offi
cers just after he had bought
and paid for a lot of counterfiet
money. Lott went to Dallas
on purpose to get it. The Dal
las Heaid publishes several
letters written by Lott while he
was negotiating for the pur-
1 chase of the queer, He had an
cxaminauan ociorc a uniccn
States commissioner and was
held in a bond of $1000.
Julious Toettel. who mur
dered Joseph Brenner, in Deni
son, January 15, 1S79, by cut
ting him with a knife, has just
been tried at Sherman and
found guilty, the jury fixing the
penalty at death. The evidence
showed it to have been a cool
and premeditated murder. This
has been a speedy trial with a
just verdict. If the case goes
through the usual routine an
appeal will be taken and it may
be twelve months before the
murderer gets justice if he
ever get it all.
The San Antonio Express
gives the details of a villainous
affair in Live Oak county. A
Mexican rode up. to a farmer's
house and finding his wife alone
outraged ' and afterwards shot
her. ' The husband presently
came home when she informed
him of the occurrence and de
scribed the greaser. He was
pursued and killed some twenty
miles from the scene of his de
viltry; three revolvers, a derrin
gerand a quantity of stolen pro
perty was found on his person;
he was also riding a stolen horse.
At last accounts the woman was
considered out of danger.
Hempsiead Council The
county attorney has entered a
nolle pros in the case of the
State vs. W. H. Wheeler, charg-
ged with murder. Sheriff
McDade left on Friday for
Huntsville. having in charge
John Greer, recently convicted.
The knights of Honor,
Firemen and Johnson Guards
are preparing for a May day
celebration. - - - 126 indict
ments were found 90 of them
for gambling. A sad commen
tary on our churches and two
church festivals and suppers in
a week The only convic
tion in the district court was that
of Greer. ----The letter to the
Telegiam concerning the Greer
trial and jury is a slander; we
will give it attention nextweek.
- - The Brenham daily Banner.
of March 18 reached this office
Ayril 14. Quick time.
Political Notoj.
Every stalwart in thd country
considers himself a statesman.
It is a bad sign in politics
when official positions are dis
posed of as personal chattels.
People talk about restoring
confidence. There's too much
confidence now; that's just what
we want to put; a stop to.
Sharon, of Nevada, is said to
be now-one- of the regular
Wall street speculators. He is
better fitted to- attain distinc
tion there than in the United
States Senate.
Twenty years ago the Re
publican party was putting in
all its platforms protests against
alleged arbitrary acts and ar
rests by federal officers
in Kansas and Nebras
ka. The negro exodus still con
tinues from Mississippi and
Louisiana, but, as might be ex
pected, the Vicksburg Heiald
says that It is confined to the
most ignorant of the plantation
darkies.
The mean thing about Ex
Governor Tilden is that he re
fuses to paralyze according to
programme. It will hardly be
worthwhile for the organs to go
to the trouble of laying out
plans for prominent politicians
unless more attention is paid to
them.
A Washington correspon
dent credits a cabinet officer, in
this case, probably EYarts, with
saying that the' President will
not feel called upon to interpose
his veto, unless the Republican
Representatives and Sehators
make clear in debate the wrong
and harm -of the legislation pro
posed by the Democrants.
With c.uich concern and re
gret it is observed that the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean fails absolute
ly to see: any humor in "Pina
fore," aj.id yet this is quite nat
ural. An organ that would se
riously support John A. Logan
for Un ited States Senator could
hardly be expected to contem
plate anytliing in the light oi a
burlesque. The Chicago paper
demands to be constantly fed
on home-made but-very sangui
nary southern outrages; nothing
else t keep iU spirits-up-.
The Matter TTltK ICanaah.
Thrrrwa a j-oniic lady naracd Jiuiarr-,
Mtcnidamite l!rabahnr;
Hiotracnedlh. aeebool,.
Andshend'-oita untie. '
But iBreuuM necer ilay tbrtisn0fr.
.hTiwrrleil a feller named Tanner,
Thar tfrrlrd thvtar-iiAtifded hananner;
Hat thT MI vol and fit
be a gra&( nltlderylt.
Ah 'lie dri rt bow a dray ib SaranneT.
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TKo- OboAdiV Community:
St bintf Hcpobhcaa.
Thatexperirrental'arapcmo.ie"
01 nearly thirty years1 standing?
in New York, known aB the:
Oneida communisy, has at lkstt
aroused the- wratB of the clergy"
of the statov.and they arc plan
ning a campaign for its destruc
tion. A large meeting of min--isters
of all denominations; call
ed together by Bishop- Hun
tingdon, met at Syracuse last
Friday to consider the sibject,.
and determine what is ttebestt
thing to be done and tlur Bestt
way of doing it A committee,
was appointed to report arS a;
future meeting.
The clergymen were puzzled".
The obnoxious community has
existed in the town of Lenox,
Madison county, in New, York,
since 1862, the founder being
a graduate of Dartmouth col
ledge and of Yale theological
school named John Humphrey
Noyes. It began in a humble
way, with a few members;' it
now embraces 500 members,
and owns large and handsome
buildings, factories, farms, gar-,
dens and live stock. It is foup-.
ded on the principle ofcomriiu--nity,
not only of property, but:
of persons, there being no such
relation as marriage, butc cacht
member being the property off
all the others. The tie thatt
binds them together is.tliejr.re--ligion.
No woman has.aa bus
bancLofher own,, and no man
has a wife of his ovn. They
assert. that they live, thercsur-.
rection life int which theyj
"neither marry- npr.arcgiven iru
marriage." They, are not al
lowed the rights;of- making a ""
permanent choice of partners;;
i f they show, special attachments
they are subjected to.thc disci
pline of sharp criticism. The
men dress as other men do; the
women in the Bloomer costume
The men are said to be vigorous
and healthy; the women' -'nre
plainly attired and regrescnti. a
haggard and careworn appear
ance." If children are born
they are taken from the moth
ers at birth and given into the
hands of old women to be. rai
sed, and the result is that ma
ternall and family ties, are un
known. In short,, there' is no
such thing as a system of-mu-tual
rights and duties- existing
between the: members, and if
the world should resolve itself
into a vast Oneida community
human society would become
like a society of beasts. But
there is something to be said in
favor of the communists. They
afford no scandals: They are
industrious, ingenious, thrifty t '
and well conducted in their re
lations with the outer worlds
Their farm, dairy and gardeiv
products are the best in thfts
market and command a high)
price. They make the best rat
traps in the United States
Their grounds, buildingsvand
workshops present pictures of
neatness, order and thrift, and
the increase of the communi
ty's wealth is proof of their
industry and economy. It is
difficult to reach such a com
munity by legal processes; the
laws of New York, it appears,,
do not apply to them, and ths
hostile clergymen talk of por
tioning the legislature to pass,,
an act that will fit .the case and ,
enable them to have the ponj;
munists indicted, tried ajd dis
persed. A Pistol and Cajjxidge
Law. Such murders as those
of Alston and of Elliott are'not.
without their goQdt effects;-..
The grand jury at ' Atlanta, re,-,
turned seventy-fj.ye. true billsiA,
a jiffy, and. deipanded of the
county's representatives in both
branches of the.- g.eneraj assem-v
bly an-Q8jar.ttopass.ai ! &
shall p-v an effectual blockade
and stop.tp the "buying, selling,
owning," possessing, loaning,
borrowing or bringing into the
state ary pistol or pistols, or in
buying or selling any pistol car
tridges Among those indict
ed for carrying concealed dead
ly weapons are two women.
Let those villainous, instru
ments of murder be also con
demned in Texas, She has no
more deadly or mortal enemy.
It Is time they were outlawed
by every legislator, and spurn
ed by every good citizen. We
should have a law- directing the
prosecution of every man car
rying a pistol as guilty of in
tent to commit murraer. Dallas
Heiald.
"Could you tel' 1 melsir, which
is the other side of the street?" ,
On bctng told tl iat it was across
the way, the ' jghf one said
That's what ' I said; but t'
fellow oyer th 2re sent me $t-
here." over
No matte? - how hart1
find a rocld nc chair - it isoto
uay, a. ma.- .j is sur- -".' ("jrine
pne when heisfc" AJUover
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