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THE WEEKLY BANNER.
BY KANKIN & LEVIN.
THUBSDAT, JULT IS, 1880
Gen. Gonzales,- will, it is
thought, be elected president of
Mexico without opposition.
Cotton crop reports from
Virginia, North Carolina, Louis
iana, Mississippi and Arkansas
represent the crop as in a fair
average condition.
Complaint is made by secre
tary Sherman of the accumula
tion of silver in the vaults of the
sub treasurers at New, York,
Philadelpliia and Baltimore.
Senator Maxev scored the
the old alcalde unmercifully at
Fairview springs on Thursday,
in reply to the governor's attack
on the members of congress.
Leavenworth, Kansas, has
lost twenty per cent in popula
tion during the past ten years.
Kansas City has taken away the
trade and population of the
former.
Governor Savers takes posi
tion in favor of active measures
for inducing immediate immi
gration; by this means alone can
the latent resources of Texas
be developed.
m
Death bed repentances are
never to be relied upon for sal
vation, says the Telegram. It
regards governor Roberts' advo
cacy of the free schools as a
death bed repentance.
The Galveston News very
properly thinks that there ought
to be a change in our jury sys
tem. As the matter now stands
the more ignorant a man is the
better he is qualified to sit on a
The greenbackers are going
to have a two days barbecue
at Dallas on Thursday and Fri
day of this week. Weaver and
Chambers and the state team
will be "thar." Fifteen thous
and people are expected.
According to a Washington
letter, the administration's little
hatchet has been sharpened and
is now being utilized in chop
ping off heads of government
employes, who are disloyal to
Garfield.
The Galveston Journal does
not bank heavily on governor
Roberts. In regard to his com
mutation policy it says: it would
all be very well, if the governor
were infallible; but it doubts
his perfection just a little.
Senator Maxev made a
speech at Waco on Monday
evening. He went for the green
back leaders and their platform
without gloves. He expressed
every confidence in the election
of Hancock and English.
The new Southern hotel at
St. Louis is now nearly comple
ted and is absolutely fire proof.
A fire might take place in any
room in the building without
burning anything except con
tents of that particular room,
i i i i
The Colorado Citizen very
kindly offered to sell out to
to the new firm who arc about
starting a new paper there, and
also offered to buy their mater
ial on a credit. How long two
papers will live in Columbus re
mains to be seen.
Prof. H. H. Smith, superin
tendent of the Sam Houston
Normal school, Huntsville,
sends us the catalogue of the
school, 1879-80. We notice in
it that Harry Estill, formerly of
this city, carried off the highest
honors in the gentlemens class.
A young man named Thomas
D. Dejarnette, aged 20, went to
a bagnio, in Danville, Va., of
which his sister, a beautiful girl
of 17, was an inmate and going
with her to a private room he
shot her in five places with a
revolver, inflicting fatal wounds.
The attempt of the republi
cans to cast odium upon Gen
eral Hancock by connecting his
name with the military murder
of Mrs. Surratt, is a virtual con
cession that they have at last
become sensible of the infamy
of that most cowardly and dis
graceful deed.
At the Cincinnati convention
the .Hancock men spent less
than $1000. The amounts
spent by several other candi
'dates range from 8000 to 32,
000. Hancock was the most
popular candidate that has been
before a national convention
for years.
The New Orleans Times says
the practice of dueling flourish
es only where there is a lack of
moral courage. Very few peo
ple care to risk their lives on a
field ol honor. The risk is tak
en because a barbarous public
opinion insists that it shall be
taken. Fear and not courage
b the cause of duels,
lET TJS GO ETTO TOf.
One of, the -most important
cuties that will devolve upon our
people at the coming election
will be the selection of members
of the legislature. To many,
the 16th legislature is of unsa
vory odor; it passed the Sun
day law, the bell punch law, and
amended the law requiring de
linquent tax sales to be adver
tised, when it was the general
wish, as expressed by the press
of the state, that all legal sales
should be advertised. They
also failed to make the required
legislation regarding railway
tariffand discriminations. The
law making power is vested
solely in the legislature; the
governor is simply an execu
tive officer.
At the special election
held last spring Mr. W. K. Ho
man was re-elected as his own
successor to' the state senate,
he having resigned to accept
the position of United States
district attorney. Although wc
do not agree with Mr. Homan
politically we regard him as a
liberal man in his views, and in
addition he is an ardent free
school advocate. This senato
rial district is democratic and
the democratic candidate would
have been elected, but for rea
sons best known to themselves,
the democrats refrained from
going to the polls. They can
blame only themselves for elect
ing, or rather allowing Mr. Ho
man to be elected.
Washington county, one of
the most populous and wealthy
in the state, has been repeated
ly misrepresented in the legis
latuie by illiterate colored men,
who, whatever might have been
their disposition to do right,
were powerless to do any good.
They were elected by the
machinations of designing white
men, that they the white men
might be elected to paying
county offices. The colored
voters were told, "you tickle
me and I'll tickle you." Wc
will vote for you for the legisla
ture and you vote for us
for this or that county office,
It was virtually a regular bar
gain and sale in which the col
ored man was completely sold,
and sold for considerations
hardly as valuable as a mess of
pottage. Will the colored men
again allow themselves to be
bamboozled by these same oily
tongucd republican office hold
ers and office seekers?
The wealth and intelligence
of this county has had no rep
resentation in the lower house
ol the legislature for more than
two years, while the manage
ment of couuty affairs has not
been in their hands for time im
memorial, It is time this .state
of affairs was changed and that
the men who pay the taxes to
support the state and county
government have officers of
their own selection. The peo
ple of this county, white and
black, are equally interested in
having a good county adminis
tration and in being properly
represented in the halls of the
legislature. They can accom
plish this if they will unite for a
common cause; to unite, the
white people must organize;
without organization nothing
can be accomplished ; this was
made painfully manifest by the
result of the last general 'elec
tion in this county.
The address of the Brenham
democratic club calls special
attention to the absolute neces
ity of thorough organization.
The primary meetings of the
democracy will be held on Sat
urday next and every man,
white or black, who has the
best interests of his county at
heart should attend. Let the
question of county affairs and
members of the legislature be
fully and fairly discussed and if
it be decided to hold a county
nominating convention, let no
man be run for any office unless
it is detcrminrd beforehand
that by a thorough and com
plete organization he shall be
elected. It will never do to let
even so much as the shadow of
a doubt enter the mind; there
must be a thorough determina
tion to win and the battle is
already half won.
Col. Forney, for many years
one of the leading republican
editors of the United States,
gives his reasons for supporting
Hancock, in an article in which
he shows what the hero did
towards achieving the union
victory at Gettysburg. Col.
Forney claims that the state of
Pennsylvania and the city of
Philadelphia will vote for Han
cock. Governor Roberts' cash bal
ance in the treasury, his great
financial feat, was shown up by
lieutenant governor Saycrs, to
be nothing more than a clever
trick to cast a glamour over the
eyes of the people, blinding to
the reality that is beneath the
surface, and is carefully kept
oat ol sight.
THET SUW THEIU HAD.
For some timetherehas been
quite a considerable element in
both the great political parties,
as well as among some of those
who profess the greenback Jaith,
to do away entirely with party
nominations for county officers.
It is concluded by all thinking
men that in reality party has
nothing to do with a man's
competency for filling a county
office. In the municipal affairs
of the city of Brenham politics
play no part, and when officers
arc to be elected no inquiry is
made regarding their politics;
the fitness of the man for the
position is alone considered and
good men have been elected.
The same rule would apply with
equal force to county officers.
The opinion is gaining ground
that we have too much poliltics.
How we are to get rid of so
much politics is a question that
has not yet been solved.
As a factor in state politics
the republicans cut but a sorry
figure, yet in some few counties
they arc in the majorily"andi
keep up asort-of a quasi organ
ization in which the colored
men figure mainly as dupes of
designing and scheming county
or local politics, that they, the
local politicians, may hold the
county offices. On one occas
ion.when Abe Lincoln was pres
ident, he was beset by appli
cants for office. He remarked
that he had "more pegs than
holes," that is, the office seek
ers outnumbered the offices.
In the republican ranks, among
the office seekers, they are in
the same fix as was Lincoln.
There arc moic office seekers
than offices, and not being able
to agree among themselves as
to a division of the possible
spoils the offices they have
decided on holding a county
convention and nominating
county officers. The edict has
gone forth.
- Whatever might have been the
disposition of the democracy,
this action upon the pait of
their highly esteemed friends,
the republicans, necessitates a
like action on their part. In
order to ayoid a multiplicity of
candidates they will be com
pelled to make nominations, and
in doing so should invite the
co-operation of every man who
desires to see a change in the
administration of the affairs of
our county. With the republi
can party it is simply a matter
of spoils. They have been in
office so long that some of them
are already spoiled, while those
who are out of office are spoil
ed too, because they have been
out of office so long.
There is an abundance of ma
terial in the county, outside of
Jhe republican ranks, witli which
to fill the county offices. Let
no man be nominated for any
office unless he is known to be
thorougly competent to fill it
and who has an established
reputation for honesty. With
such a ticket the democracy
and all opponents of republican
rule need have no fear of the re
sult. -
Ii'ot. Itobcrb.
The Houston Telegram is
delighted at the idea of Roberts
abandoning the canvass and
making a defence through the
newspapers. If the old alcalde
will promulgate his electioneer
ing documents before the meet
of the county conventions, he
will give his opponents an op
portunity to ventilate a few of
his ideas and perhaps explain
his sudden change of front on
the school question. The Tel
egram says if Roberts is again
elected Texas will go back 50
years ; this we think is an exag
eration, but, candidly, we do
not think his election will do
anything towards the cause of
progress in Texas. To develop
the latent resources of Texas
wc need bone and sinew as well
as capital; labor makes capital,
and immigration is the keystone
to the problem of the immedi
ate luture of Texas. The op
postion of the Banner to gov
ernor Roberts is not captious;
it does not think he is the man
to cope with the present emer
gencies. In the line of immi
gration, Texas is virtually at a
stand-still, Kansas, Nebraska
and the states and territories to
the west, with neither the cli
mate nor the soil possesed by
Texas are being rapidly settled
up, while here in Texas we seem
to be resting at ease and de
pending upon the salubrity of
our climate and the course of
nature to become a great and
populous state.
On Monday Walter Grcs
ham, attorney for the Santa Fc
road, closed the contract with
Bclton for the completion of
the road to that point. Bclton
is highly elated over her future
prospects. Mr. Gresham as
sured the citizens of Bclton that
the directory expected to arrive
there by rail and cat their
Christmas dinner.
TI1E 1'KUIAKIES.
In accordance with the call
of the chairman of the demo
cratic county executive com
mittee the democratic voters of
this county are rcqucstad to
hold primary meetings in their
respective precincts on Satur
day, the 17th inst., for the pur
pose of electing delegates to the
county convention which will
meet in Brenham on Wednes
day, the 2 1st inst. The conven
tion is called for the specific
purpose of electing delegates to
the state convention to meet at
Dallas, August icth, and to the
congressional convention- ,for
this district, whichljneets t at
Georgetown. Tulv astli. and. for
the further purposcf of V3ecM&;
whether or not the
of this county wi
nations for co.
Should it be dec
to make nommat
ty officers a cOnveMBnat
nurnosc will be calBat sonic
future lime.
The respccUycTirmiary inccl-
ingStwULuSKct their delegates
m
iica-ctjunly convention to
vote for or against county nom
illations, as they may deem ex
pedient. As has, already been
announced m these columns
the republicans have decided to
hold their county nominating
convention on the 1 Stli of Aug
ust, tills action upon their part
necessitates nominations upon
the part of the democracy and
also a vigorous and aggressive
canvass. The wealth and intel
ligence of this county have long
submitted to the republican
rule; it is time we had a change
for the better; by unanimity of
action and a thorough organi
zation of all those who are op
posed to ring rule and manipu
lation, an anti-republican or
democratic ticket can be elec
ted. The state and congress
ional offices will take care of
themselves; the state and con
gressional district will go dem
ocratic. It is our local or coun
ty affairs that need attention.
Heretofore there has been too
much apathy; the democrats
have nominated weak men and
by that means virtually placed
themselves in the hands of the
enemy, and as is already too
well known, the enemy has
been victorious.
The primary meeting is the
most important factor in all
political canvasses, it is there,
and there only that the individ
ual voter can express his per
sonal preferences. Gov. Rob
erts in his speech at the court
house called attention to this
fact and said, "If you want me
for your next governor, go to
your primary meeting and say
so.'' We say to every lover of
a good and free government, go
to your primary meeting, If
you arc in favor of governor
Roberts say so, if opposed to
him, don't be ashamed of it,
but speak out like a man and
say so. By this means alone
can a full andjfrcc expression
of public opinion be had.
Heretofore there has been
entirely too much apathy, men
have refrained from attending
the primaries apparently with
out cause. The coming elec
tion, national, state and county
is one of the most important in
the history of the country and
it is necessary that every good
citizen do his full duty. It will
be noticed that at every elec
tion all scallawags, loafers and
in fact all of the worst element
in every community are hunted
up treated and voted, and as a
general thing are not voted for
the ticket that is best calculated
to subserve the interests of the
more respectable portion of the
people, while the men who fail
to attend the primary meetings
and who afterwards neglect to
go to the ballot box are re
spectable men who are noted
for close attention to their pri
vate afiairs and for their fair
and honest dealings with their
neighbors. These are the men
who should be most particular
in voting as by so doing their
example would be followed by
many who are as fickle as the
wind and who are misled by de
signing men.
We hope to hear that every
primary meeting in Washing
ton county next Saturday has
been largely attended and that
every representative man in
each communtity Jias been
present. In this connection
the Banner requests the secre
tariy of each precinct meeting
to send his minutes in for pub
lication. We desire to publish
the proceedings of every pre
cinct meeting held in the county-
The Banner is in receipt of
the Virginia Free Press, pub
lished at Charleston, W. Va.,
July 3, containing an account
of the Hancock and English
ratification meeting. Maj. B.
II. Bassctt, of this city was pres
ent and made a telling speech.
He feels confident that Han
cock and English will be tri
umphantly elected.
EDITORIAL 50TES.
The ox-eye daisy instead of
beinga "4aisy" is pronounced
to be a pest.
It is estimated that 60,000
persons visit Coney Island, N.
Y., every Sunday.
And now the newspapers
call the old alcadc the great
North American egotist.
Tom Ochiltree having fail
ed to get hisman, Grant, nom
inated is against Garfield.
Selsia, Alabama, is to have
water worksC It is thought
that&r.'
ilLcoverffic cost.
"."
is one of
the
iid uncompro-
organs in the
-X
ker. the faster, has
Uthe''i4tli day of his
has lost 24 1-4
1HE VJJXlCJvCI Iiiiruu. "-
withstandingJftAe hcat-oCjmd-sumiVicr,
has donned a patent
overcoat.
Medina county, one of the
first in western Texas to hold
its county convention, instructs
against Roberts.
The Mexia Ledger, and the
Texas Christian Advocate are
still quarrelling over the Bnggi
Ingersoll lecture.
Quite a number of our ex
changes are now coming illus
trated with portraits of Han
cock and English. '
The New York Herald after
carefully studying the document
says the republican national
platform is a "joke."
Grant's managers are out of
sorts. Conkiing goes to Europe,
Don Cameron is sick and Logan
is under the weather.
The total assessed value of
the real and personal property,
bonds, stocks, etc., of New York
city is 53,600,000,000.
An editorial in a late number
of Harper's Weekly speaks of
Garfidd as "a gentleman of
unblemished character."
Geo. SAsroRD and Richard
McGec, negroes, were hanged
at Oscola, Ark., on Friday
last for the murder of a negro.
The Philadelphia Times
writes a long article to show
why Garfield should withdraw.
Garfield has taken the track to
stay.
E. J. Higgins, a prominent
wholesale liquor dealer of Nor
fork, Virginia, committed sui
cide on Satuiday by taking
morphine.
The comptroller, treasurer,
commissioner of the land office
and secretary of state were all
absent from their offices on
Monday.
The Cleburn Avalanche says
that Hon. Joseph D. Saycrs is
the right man to carry the free
school standard in the coming
contest.
Will bell-punch Finlay try
for a legislative position again,
is a conundrum propounded by
the Waco Telephone. We
give it up.
Rev Me. White, a black man
of Passamawhackbunk, New
Hampshire, has founded and
runs a new religious sect, called
"Angelic Believers."
Col. Cash principal in the re
cent fatal duel in South Caro
lina, has been arrested and will
be tried in Darlington county,
the scene of the duel.
On the 5th inst, at Philadel
pliia, 851 newbsoys had a 4U1
of July picnic and dinner at the
expense of Mr. George W.
Childs, of the Ledger.
The Chinese charge d'affairs
at St Petersburg, has officially
informed the Russian govern
ment that China docs not wish
to go to war with Russia.
The funeral of Phelim Toole,
the brave St. Louis fireman who
was accidentally killed a few
days ago, was attended by at
least ten thousand people.
"Birds of a feather flock
together" says the Flatonio Ar
gus referring to Wash Jones
appearance at a colored barbe
cue soon after his return to Bas
trop. Dr. tanner, the man who
has undertaken to fast for forty
days is doing so for money.
Dr. Hammond has staked $1000
that he can not accomplish the
feat.
Gov. Cornell, of New York
has decided not to interfere in
the case of Chastine Cox, the
negro murderer, of Mrs. Hull.
Cox will stretch hemp on Fri
day. Gen. Hancock weighs only
250 pounds instead of 350 as
stated by some of the papers.
At all events he is heavy
cough to beat Garfield very
handsomely.
The Bclton Journal of last
week thinks that all preliminary
arrangements for building the
Santa Fc road to Bclton will
have been completed by the
time for its next issue.
The president and secretary
of the Cincinnati convention
haye forwarded letters officially
notifying Gen. Hancock and
Hon. W. II. English of their
nominations.
The San Antonio Express
says, a quantity of material for
the extension of the Sunset
railway westward has arrived,
and that in a short time work
will commence.
The drought is said to have
most seriously affected the cot
ton crop of Mexico, and the
northern manufacturers of that
country will again be dependent
upon Texas for a supply.
Census enumerators have
made official returns. Popula
tion of Denison 4400; Sherman
6060. Denison has been claim
ing six to eight thousand and
Sherman from eightto tenlhous
and. Mrs. Gen. Hancock was born
and raised in St. Louis, and is
the daughter of a gentleman
named Russell, who at one time
was a prominent merchant in
that city. He has been dead
many years.
Tut first bale of cotton le
teived at Houiton this season
was sold at auction and after a
lively competition was knocked
down to Mr. W. D. Cleveland
at 305. The bale netted Mrs.
Hausman SS53-
The body of an unknown
sailor was found floating in the
river at New Orleans. His
body and arms were a complete
picture gallery, there being at
least a dozen different designs
tattooed on them.
The San Antonio Express
writes up Weaver, the green
back candidate, at considerable
length. Writing against Weav
er looks like wasting good Am
munition on very small game
snow-birds or tom-tits.
The proposition to get up a
fair at San Antonio next autumn
has fallen through, A suffici
ent amount of money could not
be raised to place it on a suc
cessful basis. An effort will be
made to hold a fair next year.
A dead Indian was found on
the railway track near Atoka, I.
T., the other day. There was
a number of bullet holes in his
body. John Anderson, a farm
er living at Eufaula, I. T., was
shot and killed by a man named
Meeks. Both were white.
Ex-Governor Throckmor
ton has many friends of many
minds. Some want him to
have a cabinet position, others
want him for presidential elec
tor, others again would make
him governor and at the same
time he is being groomed for
the senatorial race.
Geo. W. Jones in his fourth
of July speech to the negroes,
says the Bastrop Advertiser,
told them there was no differ
ence between Hancock and
Garfield and spoke in glowing
terms of Weaver. The negroes
regarded Jones' story as fishy
and cheered loudly for Garfield.
The counterfeiters have at
last made a ten-strike in the
manufacture of a 100 national
bank bill so excellent in design
and execution that it can only
be detected through the super
iority to the genuine article.
The notes of a number of na
tional banks have been counter
feited. A Dallas special to the
News says governor Roberts
left on Monday morning for
Austin, abandoning his tour in
northern Texas. He will issue
an address through the news
papers. The special says the
governor made no friends in
Dallas or vicinity by his speech
es. Electioneering is an un
pleasant business at best.
Allen Wright, the negro
convicted of murder at Dallas
and sentenced to death, refuses
to appeal and wants to be hung.
As his request is reasonable we
presume it will be complied with.
It is such a rare thing now-a-days
that a murderer wants to
be hung that he should be ac
commodated, just for the nov
elty of the thing.
The Marshall Herald refer
ring to the testimony of the ex
perts in the Currie case says :
"All that was proved by the
physicians or any one else, was
that Currie was drunk, and in
the midst of a prolonged de
bauch. The testimony as to his
sanity was overwhelming." But
in spite of this it only took the
jury ten minutes to decide that
he was insane.
The Galveston News prints
lieutenant governor Sayers,
Houston address in full in its
Sunday issue and pays Mr.
Saycrs a very high compliment
and says, his ideas of what is
best adapted to the actual needs
of the state arc such for the
most part as may well strike
the intelligent and candid read
er as the ideas of a man of
broad, progressive views, temp
ered with a judicious conservatism."
The Atlantic monthly, one
of the most sedate and refined
periodicals of this country is
constrained to say : "When a
man begins to part his hair in
the middle and wear red neck
ties, the sooner he dies a natur
al death and is gathered to his
fathers the better."
The Austin Statesman says
the verdict in the Eanes case
is regarded as a new era in the
administration of the criminal
law. The verdict meets with
the approval of every good cit
izen. The court of appeals and
the governor are to be heard
from before the verdict of the
jury is carried out.
Governor Roberts was at
Dallas last Saturday. After
making a speech at a picnic in
the afternoon, at night he
made a three hour's speech at
Craddock's opera house in Dal
las. In substance his
speech was about the same
as he made here. It appears
from the Dallas Herald that he
went into the school question
quite extensively.
In Travis county the delega
tion to the county convention
stands 14 for Saycrs to 25 for
Roberts, and of the latter it is
said many are state employess.
It is also asserted at Austinby
Sayers, friends that a combina
tion has been formed, by the old
alcade and his friends in favor
of Throckmorton for senator,
in consequence of this is said
that Coke and Maxey will join
the Sayers movement
New Orleans has a Charley
Ross case. On June 27th John
Cain aged 2 years and 7 months
strayed from his home, 93 South
Claiborne street His parents
arc much distressed and offer
a reward of 500 for his recov
ery. The boy has light hair,
inclined to curl, blue eyes, is
pretty well grown for his age.
His upper front teeth arc gone.
Houston received the first
bale of new cotton on Monday
at S o'clock. It was raised by
Mrs. Hausman, of DeWitt coun
ty, and was consigned to T. W.
House. On the same train was
another bale from Harwood
consigned toHeidenheimer Bros
of Galveston. It arrived at Gal
veston one hour and a few min
utes after Houston had receiv
ed her bale. Houston consid
ers that she has a feather in her
cap having received the first new
bale of the present eason.
The Waco Telephone pub
lishes a letter from F. K. Green,
a convict at Huntsville. He
was sent for tampering with
the mails. He writes that he
has an easy time, dresses in
spotless white and has the free
dom of the inside of the pen.
McCullough, Ham, Hobby and
McDonough, land grabbers,
have the same priyilegc and do
not wear stripes. He says that
John Wesley Hardin was caught
in a plot to escape and had
July 3 just been released from
the dark cell.
Gls. Jim Weaver greenback
candidate for the presidency,
spent last Sunday in Chattanoo
ga, Tcnn., where he was to have
spoken last Monday. He was
interviewed by an omnipresent
reporter and spoke candidly of
his prospects. He is confident
of his ability to carry Alabama,
Tennessee, Texas, West Vir
ginia, Missouri and Arkansas:
says he will make heavy gains
in Maryland, Iowa, Michigan
and Minnesota. He thinks he
will be able to carry the elec
tion into the house. He says
he will stump every state he can
before the election. Judging
from the foregoing wild asser
tions, Weaver is thoroughly en
thused and to our way of think
ing is not many degrees remov
ed from a candidate for a luna
tic asylum. The states he ex
pects to carry are democratic
beyond any doubt.
The new census will work
many changes in the forty
eighth congress, but it is not
by any means clear that it will
change the relative standing of
the two great parties of the
country in congress. The South
will lose some members, but so
will the northeast. The demo
cratic gains in and about New
York city, in southern Illinois,
and in Missouri, Arkansas and
Texas, will be apt to counter
balance all losses. The gains
under the new census are chief
ly in the cities, and these as a
rule are democratic. The re
publicans expect much from
the new census, but it is very
likely they will get a general
disappointment on top of an
adverse presidential result.
There seems to be a general
call on the Houston Post to
hoist the prohibition ticket, too.
Gov. Roberts is hopping a
bout the state with the liveliness
of a grain of pop-corn in a hot
skillet We confidently expect
to sec himmaking a full canvas of
the state and confining himself
to a scathing denunciation of
the majority of the legislature
who cut down the school appro
priation without warrant of ne
cessity or common sense. San
Antonio Express.
STATE KE1TS.
First bolls arc no longer a
novelty.
Wood retails at $9 a cord
in Waco.
Corn sells in Bastrop at 55
cents per bushel.
Austin county has a popu
lation of 15,577.
Henderson has a popula
tion of about 1600.
At Dallas the republicans
ratified on Tuesday.
Cotton worms have ap
peared in Liberty county.
Bexar county has 30,593
inhabitants; San Antonio 20,-594-
In Houston the hoodlums
amuse themselves by pistol
shooting.
San Antonio is happy, the
census has been increased to
over 20,000.
Cotton worms have ap
peared in the nvcr bottom in
Coryell county.
In Clay county tiic green
backers have nominated a full
county ticket
The Bastrop Advertiser
was presented with a 50-pound
melon last week.
Bastrop wants a railroad
and will have a railroad meet
ing on the 24th inst
The total population of
Dallas county is 53,466; popu
lation in 1870, 13,314.
The democrats of Lamar
couity will hold a primary elec
tion for county officers.
There was eleven deaths
in San Antonio for the week
ending on Thursday last
-The Jackson Clarion of last
week says cotton picking will
commence in a few days.
Jimmie Rouse, a boy 14
years old, was caught tipping
a till in a store in Waco.
The Lampasas county
greenbackers have put a lull
county ticket in the field.
A good many farmeis In
Austin county are using lamps
to catch the cotton miller.
San Saba county instructs
for Roberts for governor, and
Scth Shepard for congress.
Wheat in some sections of
Lamar county is turning out
twenty bushels to the acre.
Galveston is now manufac
turing ice for Houston ; she is
trying to keep Houston cooL
Red River county held its
convention on Saturday last
and endorsed governor Rob
erts. In the Gorilla prcdnt, Trav
is county, delegates have been
elected to the county conven
tion. At the greenback county
convention in Lampasas county
Wash Jones w:as endorsed for
congress.
In a week or two cotton
picking will begin in the Nel
sonville neighborhood, Austin
county;
Work on the extension of
the Transcontinental railroad,
from Sherman westward, has
baen resumed.
There is plenty of cotton
worms in the vicinity of Colum
bus. Planters are busy giving
them physic.
At Crockett they have
prayer meetings three nights in
the week, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Pnday.
Henderson has shipped
17,000 bales of cotton the pres
ent season ; last season 22,000
bales were shipped.
Construction trains on the
International now cross Ihe Col
orado and go a mile and a quar
ter towards the setting sun.
At a special election held
in Palestine it was decided that
the public free schools to be
taken charge of by the city.
The Galveston republicans
held a ratification meeting on
Monday night Collector Sin
clair made a lengthy speech.
Bellville improves during
the past week the Times man
notices four or five new resi
dences in course of construc
tion. Crop reports from all
points of Colorado county are
good, except from Eagle Lake,
where cotton worms have ap
peared in force.
The examination of Dr.
Ball and Mrs. Heacock, charg
ed with poisoning Heacock,
husband of Mrs. H. is progress
ing at Wills Point
A "Clement attachment"
company has been formed at
Cuero and a machine will be
put up. The company has an
abundance of capital.
Last Saturday night John
Johnson, a prisoner, was shot
and killed by John Gaines, at
Henrietta, Clay county. John
son was trying to escape.
A jackass mounted on a
float, with cow-bell attachment,
representing the XVIth legisla
ture and the bell punch at Sher
man on the 4th of July celebra
tion. Last week, a little daugh
ter of Mr. Lynch who lives near
Salado, Bell county, was bitten
by a snake, while gathering
roasting-ears. The child died
in two hours.
A little daughter of Maj. E.
R. Thomas, at Bellville, was
bitten on the ankle by a ground
rattle snake. The child's moth
er was near by and sucked the
poison out of the wound.
The witnesses against Bcard
all, who murdered a man in
San Antonio in 1S58 were all
United States soldiers; where
they now are no one knows, the
prospects arc that Bcaruall will
regain his liberty.
Farmers in the vicinity of
Kemp, Kaufman county, are
calculating on seventy-five bush
els of corn to the acre, and will
make more cotton than they
can pick out
The first exhibition of the
north Texas Pomological socie
ty at Denison was a grand suc
cess, far exceeding the expec
tations of the most sanguine
members,
Mayor Thurmond? of Dal
las, is up before an investigat
ing committee ofthc city coun
cil, charged with slandering the
police foree, bribery, etc. The
case will probably last a week.
Thomas Cueca, acting
commissary sergeant at .Stock
ton, suicided on, Monday
by shooting himself in the head
with a pistol. He .had been
drinking commissar' whis
key. T Sheriff Patterson of Uvalde
has captured an escaped con
vict named James McDaniel.
Circumstances lead to the sus
picion that McDaniel is the
murderer of Pew, late; of the
Pacific railroad survey.
John Bandy, was engaged
in repairing a well on Mr.Thos.
Burns' place a mile from Bell
ville, when it caved in burying
him 70 feet below the surface.
His body has not been recover
ed. The accident occurred on
the 2d inst
A meeting ol the citizens
of Wilson county was held to
take action in regard to the un
provoked and brutal murder of
Dr. McMahon at Lavcrnia, by
Neesom. It "was resolved to
offer a reward of S500 for' his
capture.
Miss-Betlte Bird, enumera
tor of the first and second wards
of Paris, has given eminent sat
isfaction. Her portfolio is the
neatest and cleanest of blots,
fewer interliniations and less
blots than any of the 132 other
enumerators.
John Eureker, was over
taken by a highwayman-'on the
Cibolo, 20 miles from San An
tonio, and robbed of S5. The
thieves also swapped horses
with him getting the best of the
bargain. Eureker did not want
to trade.
A man was found in Mata
gorda county who said he was
opposed to railroads, public
schools, immigration and' the
removal of the county seat
When asked who was his favor
ite for governor, he said Rob
erts. Birds of a feather, etc.
At Eureka Springs Wil
liam Deady, a barkeeper, late
of Denison, shot and killed one
Gus Richards while the latter
was under arrest and'in charge
of an officer. Previous to his
arrest Richards had shot at and
attempted to kill Deady.
A man named Hancock
died at WillsPoint, on Wednes
day last under suspiciouscir
cumstances. His wire and'a
Dr. Ball, ofMineola, are under
arrest for poisoning Hancock.
The wife js "Supposed toihavc
administered arsenic sent to her
by Dr. Ball.
T,Avillian by the name of
Casteeleputin art appearance
at Desdemon, Eastland county
and occupied his lime teaching
school and preaching. He
there married a Miss Wynn and
deserted her as sonn as ifwas
ascertained that' hehad several
other wives living.
'The Sherman Chronicle
says judge Washington Galland
will give an entertainment at
the courthouse, Uic excersises
to consist of recitations from
the poets. Galland, not long
since, was a citizen of Brenham
and lor a time edited one of the
many newspapers published
here. -
Ike Greenan ancient negro,
living in Dallas had been sick
for some time. He called ,in a
sorceress who advised him to
open and examine his bed tick;
he did so and found a voodoo
charm; the charm was put in a
tin can and dumped in the .riv
er, after which Ike felt better.
A special from Concho re
ports the arrest by captain
Long; of the rangers, of Sam
Horrell and Gus.. Stanley, iwaiy
f ed at Lampasas for; burglary
and'murder, and Tom-Snowman
escaped convict These men
have been dodging for1 Several
years.
In Galveston Hie saloons
keep open on Sunday and the
Journal of that city goes for the
saloonists and officers with a
long sharp stick. It should try
to educate the men not to get
dry onSunday; If the men did
not drink the saloons would
soon freeze out, even in July
and August
The Colorado Citizensays
that Mai. Penn, at the' Eagle
Lake campmecting', said he had
been a' hopeless drunkard len
years ago, and that he had been
reformed by the grace of God
and the prayer of his wife. His
temperance argument is oneof
his strongest points.
A precinct convention was
held at Weimar, Colorado coun
ty, on Saturday. Rob'ertswas
endorsed for governor; Storey,
for lieutenant governor; Mc
Leary, for attorney general;
Wells Thompson, for congress;
Seth Shepard second choice.
Wells Thompson was1 present
and addressed the meeting.
Allen Wriaht, convicted
nfthe murder of Tesse Wicks,
at the present term of'thellis
trict court at Dallas, has been
sentenced tobchange'd'August
20111. nc accimcu iu apui
and expressed a desire, ,ttf, be
hanged. If 'all the murderers
were of Wright's way of think
ing it would be a good thing for
the country.
A double murder was com
mitted at Morgan last Saturday
night It seems that a man
named Hodges and a woman
named Wood or Wilson were
sleeping in a tent near town.
Both the victims were shot ih
the head. No clue to the mur-.
derer. The- citizens .offer a rc3
ward of S?oo for the capture of
the murderers.
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