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"Weekisy Banner.
BYRaKkIN lu levin.
J, December 15, I88G.
Austin Call suggests that
Br General Claiborne reserve
istalesmansbip for a period
when it can be utilized.
J
"""Thomas B. CoNNisr. formerly
managing editor of the New York
Herald, is being strongly urged
bj his friends as a candidate lor
the vacant Turkish, mission.
Cabtee Harrison says tbero is
no gambling in the city of Chicago.
It is hkoly that the little games
of draw and jackpot poker played
in tbe hotels and clnb rooms count
for nothing.
Bcrus K. Gadlamd for many
years a prominent politician of
Arkansas, and a brother of Attor-
goneral Garland, died at his home
near Prescott, Arkansas, on Sun
day last
A eaileoad committee from
Coleman has gone to Albany to
meet a like committco from various
places, looking to an effort to get
the e-l Colorado and Santa Fe
to oxtowiaWts lino from Coleman
on through the Panhandle.
The Fredericksburg and San
Harcos Valley railway bas been
chartered. It is to run irom San
Harcos to a junction with the Sun
set road west of the San Marcos
river, passing through Hays and
Guadalupe counties a distance of
about 20 miles.
The vote for state officers has
been counted, but tho official result
bos not been declared. The Dem
ocratic ticket is elected by a ma
jority over the Republicans of over
172,000 and a plurality over Re
publicans and Prohibitionists of
over 160,000 m round numbers.
Last Saturday night a masked
mob overpowered the jailer at
Ringgold, Ga., took out two ne
groes and hanged them to a con
venient tree. Tbe negroes had
for some timo been engaged in
robbing and burning bouses in
Northern Georgia, There is no
clue to the identity of the lynch
ers. Texas is not alone in tbe
matter of lynch law.
Specials from 'Washington to St
Louis papers report a general re
modeling of the cabinet. Air. Man
ning, secretary of the treasury;
Mr. Garland, attorney general, and
Mr. "Whitney, secretary of the
navy, are, for varions reasons, to
rctiro from the cabinet. Mr. La
mar is to succeed Mr. Bayard as
secretary of stato, and Mr. Bayard
will become secretary of the treas
nry.
Ins citizens of Washington city
have subscribed a guarantee fund
oT $50,000 to insure the payment
of prizes and expenditures for tbo
National Drill Encampment. The
drill and encampment will begin
in Washington on the 23d day of
May and end on the 30th of May,
1887. Entries will bo open to the
regularly organized " volunteer
militia of the United States for
companies, regiments or battalions,
also for cadets. $26,500 will be
offered in prizes.
Rockdalo Messenger: One night
last week a party came into Bren
bam, and capturing tbe jail, took
out three negroes, implicated in
the killing on eleet'on day, and
banged them. Several white men
who are known to have been insti
gators of negro outrages havo left
these parts in short order, and
thoro is a disposition on tbe part
of the good citizens of the county,
both white and colored, to rid it of
disreputable characters and mar
plots. Old Washington proposes
to put herself on a sound end
healthy footing, and we glory in
her spunk.
m
Senator Maxey was seen in St.
Louis by a New York Sun corres
pondent who interviewed him on
the tariff question. Mr. Maxey
said the tariff is really tbe only
question between tbe parties ol
any consequence. If tbe Demo
cratic party is not positive on the
tariff question it is positive on
nothing. Democracy and a tariff
for revenue only are inseparable.
If tbo Democratic party should
como to tho ideas of Mr. Randall
it would have to burn its history,
disband, and reorganize) under
ulterior and contracted influences.
The Galveston News, quoting
from the interview says, Mr.
Mazoy is eminently sound on the
tariff issue, and fully appreciates
its importance. No man could
properly or truly represent Texas
who was less earnest on this sub
ject.
ai I
ieople as well as newspapers
aro given to straining at a gnat
and swallowing a camel without so
much as making a wry face at it.
Tho press and a great many peoplo
strenuously object to tho police
gazettes, but a large numberof the
motrapolilan dailies published all
tbe details of tbo Colin Campbell
English divorce case. For down
right filth and absolute indecency
nothing to equal it ever appeared
in any police paper. It may seem
strange, but the great mass of the
readers of-the dally papers read
tho disgusting particulars m this
case with avidity. Strict consis
tency is indeed a raro virtue. The
publication was made by tho news
papers in answer to a popular de
mand for it. Well regulated news
papers dct not publish matters cal
culated to bring them into bad rc
jiulo with tbo public
OUR OPPORTUNITY.
Tbo Bellvillo Standard says tho
Aransas Pass and San Antonio, and
tbo Taylor Bastrop and Houston
railroads aro now being built and
in viow of tho fact that they aro to
pass through Austin county, it
would bo woll for tho citizens of
Bellvillo to make an effort to havo
one or both of them como via Bell
villo. All tbo Banner can say is
it would be a most excellent thing
for Bellvillo if she can get them
and that it would be tho worst
thing that could happen to Bren
bam in a business point of view,
However Brenham rests sorenely
upon her natural advantages; other
towns havo put their dependence
upon railroads. It is trno that
poor crops and low prices have
had a general tendency to make
times hard for tho last thrco or
fourycars, and would seem that
bottom has about been reached;
thero must soon bo a reaction and
a change for the bettor. There has
been great activity in -railroad
building during tho present year
and Texas has had her full share
of it, but unfortunately for us thero
has been no now railway built in
this section of tho State. It must
bo apparent to tho most casual
observor that if Brenham oxpects
to bold ber own and keep pace
with the progress of the times
sho must branch out and secure
more railway facilities. To use a
vory homely expression it is a
"ground hog case." Brenham
must bavo moro railway iacilitics
or come to a halt. Washington
county bas freed bersolf of tho in
cubus of radical local rnlo and
will soon resume her placo as a
white man's county, like Bell, Mc
Lennan, Dallas, Collin and Gray
son counties. Our county affairs
havo for tho past two years been
very economically administered,
and tho same will be tho case for
tho two years to como. Being a
whito man's county and having as
fino or finer farming lands as any
county in the stato sho cannot fail
to induce tbe better class of immi
grants, and tho city of Brenham
will keep pace with tho further de
velopment of the county. The
San Antonio and Aransas Pass rail
way is now building eastward and
it is regarded as very likely that
its projectors can be induced to
come to Brenham. and this lino
together with tho proposed Brazos
Valley railway will, when built,
make Brenham tho peer of any in
terior town in Southorn Texas.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Ojj Monday last tho San An
ton Express issued a maginificonl
holiday edition of sixteon pages.
TnE Houston Post 833-3, it is sot
tlod. No Waco man need apply
to tho next Stato administration
for an office.
The Statesman says Austin
should havo had the railroad that
STATE NEWS.
At Belton tbo water lowor is
ornamented (7) with advertising
signs.
Steps arc being taken for the
erection of a cotton compress at
Navasola.
Over 810,000 has been sub
scribed at Bryan, toward building
a cotton compress.
Houston Post: Judge Sliep-
San Marcos is now building to the ara. oi-urcnnnm, wants to uoseerc
imj ui 3iun, au ik m s:tiu.
Cucro is now on a big boom
and everybody there is looking
lorwar.l to a brilliant future n
tcr n ork, a street railway and a
lar'p fr h meat refrigerating es-l.M'i-i..nt
ui are in contemplation.
A luurtcen-vear-old boy, a
wail, who ays lip it from Calvert,
lias been sunt to jail at Houston
for six months lor "thclt. But for
bis youth he would bavo been sent
to tho penitentiary for burglary.
Rev. Sam Small, Sam Jones'
LETS PULL TOGETHER.
Fort Worth has had a good deal
to do with railroads and railroad
building and tbo Gazette of that
city is in a good position to know
all about railroads. Speaking of
Belton tho Gazette says that that
town has only two roads, but feels
that these aro not enough ; sho is
at a disadvantage and cannot con
trol the trade she is entitled to. In
this connection it may not bo amiss
to say that Brenbam is in tbe same
fix as regards railroads that Belton
is in. Tho Gazette says: "Tho
Beltomtes have only to put their
shoulders to the wheel and they
will bo suprised at what they ran
accomplish." Tho Banner has all
along contended that unity ofac-
tion is all that is required far
Brenbam to get additional rail
roads, electric lights, paved streets,
good sidewalks and everything
else that is needed to make her a
real live progressive city. When
wato works were needed here a
few capitalists got together and do
cided to build them ; in a few
months tho waterworks wero com'
pleted. It was tho samo thing
when it was determined to build
a street railroad. It is conceded
on all hands that Brenbam wants
additional railroad facilities and
she wants manufactories; in order
to get either there must be unity
of action to somo extent at least
Lot it bo known abroad that manu
factories are needed and that they
will not only bo welcomed but will
aided and "encouraged. Heroforo
it bas been the rnlo in Brenham,
on the part of some men who ought
to be deeply interested in her im
provement, to oppose every enter
prise of a public character and to
thus make it very disagreeable for
the pnblic-spirjtcd and enterpris
ing citizens who are anxious for
tbo upbuilding of the town. Let
the past bo buried and forgotten
and lot us enter upon a new era
and keep abreast of tho times.
In 1836 a negro man was burned
at the stake in tho city of St. Louis
for an unprovoked murder. The
St. Louis Republican of a recent
date republished tbo particulars of
tho lynching as related by a gen
tleman who was living in tho city
at tho timo. Nobody was arrested
for tho crimo and no cft'oit was
raado to punish anyone that bad a
hand in tho burning, although
everybody in town knew at least
who the ringleaders were. Tho
judge at tbo next silting of the
grand jury, said: "A great crime
has been committed in this county
since tho last grand jury sat, but
the will of tbo peoplo is tho law of
tho land." That was the only
reforenco made to it by tbo judgo
and, of course, tho grand jury lound
no indictments. In tho matter of
lynchings the grand juries of tho
present day aro not different irom
those of fifty years ago.
Dubinq tho holidays the Santa
Fo railway will sell excursion"
tickets for tbo round trip to any
point along the line and return for
one faro. This is a new departuro
in Texas railroading and one that
should bo appreciated by tho public
Sunset route.
The Belton Journal wants its
town to striko tho St. Louis, Ar
kansas k Toxas railway while it is
in tho building mood.
The track of tbo G. C. and S. F
railway has been completed to
Ladonia and the work is now pro
gressing toward Honey Grovo.
Cutting has abandoned bis plan
of lecturinc in tbe south and at
last accounts was in St. Louis en
gaged in his colonization scheme.
All reports of changes in tbo
President's cabinet soem to bo
made to order lor special occasions
and havo no foundation whatever.
Russia is a large and great coun
try but sho is staggering under a
national debt of S2,938,938,000 on
which sho is paying interest at tho
rale of 5 per cent per annum
TnE Austin RocorJ says tho
friends of Judgo J. E. Shepard, of
Brenham, are nrgmg his appoint
ment as secretary of State. Tho
Record pays tho judgo a high com
pliment.
The Galveston Tribuno wants
tho governor to offer a roward for
tho men who lynched tho negroes
hero somo weeks ago. Docs the
Tribuno think a reward would
catch any of 'em?
A bill has been introduced in
tho senate providing lor tho re
demption oftrado dollars. Very
few of them are in circulation now;
most of tho trade dollars are in
tho hands of speculators.
Houston Aoe: Tbo Brenham
Banner is always on tho look out
for whatever will advance tho
growth .and prosperity of its town-
It is now beckoning tho Aransas
Pass railroad to come that way.
The Tylor Courier speaking of
railway commissions remarks, in
cidentally that it is much easier to
buy a commissioner or two than if
is buy a wholo legislature. Thore
is perhaps much truth in this as
sertion.
TnE Waco Day says: While it
is trno that tho posting oi legal
notices nt tbreo points in tbo coun
ty is a burlesquo on modern meth.
ods of advertising there is not
much chance lor a legislative re
cognition of newspapers.
John Wanamaker, a wealthy
Philadelphia retail merchant, has
bought a homo for young women
in his employ who have no homes,
at a cost of 875,000, yet It is com
mon to bear the complaint that
capital and labor aro enemies.
TpE Hempstead Courior has again
changed hands, this timo Nahm &
Nooner, two young mon raised in
Hempstead, have taken control of
it. Hempstead -certainly ought to
bo ablo to support a moderate sized
weekly newspaper.
GOVFRNOR iRELANp Still rpfuSCS
to allow pardons to bo made pubr
lie. A special to tho Houston Post
says it is beliovcd there has been
a great number of pardonB grant
ed, but tbo reasons for secrecy in
tho matteraro not understood.
The Fort Worth Gazetto says
tbero is nothing in common be
tween tbo Jfnjgbts of Labor and
Farmers alliance and that tho ef
fort to nnite them can bo traced
directly to those who havo some
selfish pnrposo to attain by the
union.
A Serious split bas occurred
among tho Republicans of Indiana.
Ex-governor Porterand Gen. Har
rison aro now struggling each to
usurp the leadership of tbe party.
The Democrats aro interested spec
tators, but don't care a straw which
of the two wins,
Last Friday two negro men kill:
ed an old white woman, Emily
Brown, a beggar aged 00 years, in
Baltimoro for tbe purpose of sell
ing her body to tho medical collego
lor S15. At the college it was dis
covered that the woman had been
murdered and tho police was noti
fied.
JonN Sherman has ll)o presiden
tial bee buzzing in his bonnet or
his car if you preler it. Ho is a
stalwart Republican and hopes to
catch tho popular vote by advo
eating tho abolition 'of tho oxciso
tax on whiskey and tobacco
These taxes done away with the
high protection tariff can bo main
tained intact. The scbomo will
hardly prove affective
The Waco Examiner is deter
mined not to bo pleased at any
thing tho Banner says about it.
Because tho Galveston News and
othor leading papors very frequent
ly rcproduco articles from
tho Banner; tho Examiner
says' it is weak toadyism,
because tbo Banner docs not sym
pathise with it. Papers quoting
from the Banner probably know a
good thing when thoysooit.
A jewelry house in St. Louis had
a four pago advertisement in last
Sunday's Republican of that ci tj-.
Tho firm are persisient advertisers
and spend thousands of dollars
every ycr in advertising. If it
had not paid tbcm to advertiso so
extensively they would havo aban
doned it yeaT? ago. Several of the
largest retail stores in ch Louis
havo made tjicir business solely by
judicious advertising and thoy
advertise anything they
don't do.
recent partner in the evangelist
business, will ureaeh in Houston
On Sunday seventy-eight bales at Shearn Mothodht church on
of cotton, and two flat cars in tran-j Sunday next. The Houston Age
sit, wero burned at Navasota. !-ayrilsnt Sam was onco editor and
Cattlo from alone the lino of proprietor of that paper and that
in a lew months ho made a iortnno
and went to Atlanta, Ga., to spend
it.
tbo Texas Pacific railroad aro now-
being shipped irom Ballmger.
Tho Bastrop firo company is
nu n,1D5iuu lo uuuu on en- TlIE Aranss 1;lss ral)road has
ifinn hnncn nnrl Trt nrftdn.n nn pn.
ine ' I been completed as far as York-
,. ... ... ! town, in DcWitt county and trains
Bolton s city council has pa's-' , . , , . .
od in nrdirmnr-n urnhihilinn. 11,o " "" -ncuuic lime now 10
playing of musical instruments in
saloons.
Tho Temple Bee says that o7,
000 bales of cotton havo been
handled at tho compress in that
town this season.
Wheat along tho lino of the
Texas and Pacific railroad west ol
Fort Worth, is from all accounts
suffering for want of rain.
Local option was carried in
Erath county by a majority of
about 250. The county has a
Democratic majority of 1000.
John Blytho, of Fort Worth, is
to eat ono quail a day for thirty
days on a wager. It is said to be
a difficult lcat to accomplish.
Dixon Williams, tho ovange
list who converted Nat Q. Hender
son, is now trying his persuasive
powers on the sinners at Jefferson.
At Gonzales last week a ne
gro man stabbed Mr. Hcrzficld in
tho back with a knile, inflicting a
painful wound. Tbo negro escap
ed. San Antonio has two browcr
ics and throe ice factories now do
ing a good business and a now
brewery and ice factory aro oon
to bo started.
Hugh Mitchell, n former depu
ty sheriff, was shot and killed at
Overton tbe other day by Mat
Wheless. Tho killing was tho re
sult of an old feud.
A county alliance has been
organizod in Harris county.
Thoro aro fourteen alliances now
organized and a prospect for ten
or fifteen more.
Local option has been carried
in Hunt county by a majority of
not over 50. Jt is safe to say that
laxity in the enforcement ot tho
law will bo the result.
- The first station houso south
of Dallas on tho Santa Fp railway
was burned on Sunday; tho charred
remains of a man and a dog wero
lonna in wacbris,
Rain Is needed in Coleman
county to save tbo wheat which is
now up; if it does not rain soon it
will die. Tho grass is fino and
horses and cattlo arc in good con
dition.
Ti-Hamn Derry, a negro, was
tried at Palostine for porjury and
given five years in tho penitentiary.
During the great striko Hnmp
sworo that he was not present at
the killing of an engine.
Since the recent decision of
the Supremo court in tho gambling
casps a large numbor of old and
now sports are returning to San
Antonio and tho business is open,
ingup in all its old glory.
John Kelly, tho violinists, who
at various times had given concerts
nearly all over Texas, died at Vic
toria a few days ago. Ho was quito
aged having beenoefore the public
for upward of fifty years.
San Antonio merchants are
said to be complaining of dull
times and claim that business is
now duller than it was in July.
Thero is somo complaint of dull
times in Brenham, but it is not
duller here than elsewhere.
Tho Marlin Ball, of last wcok.
says that before tho 1st of January
next about two hundred families
of negroes will leave Falls county
for Brazoria county. Tho advance
guard has already started.
In Milam county, at Union
Ridge, on the 2d inst., Henry La
mar, aged 14, stabbed William
Brown, aged 15, to death with a
knifo. Thoy were school boys ;
had a quarrel and settled it by
fighting with their knives.
James House, a farmer of Par
ker county, was in Fort Worth last
week solicting aid for thirty-five
ocstituto lamilics, all drough suf
ferors. .Mr. House has tho endorse
ment of tho county alliance nud
officers of his county.
Tho jury fees of Dallas county
in the past year exceed S20,000,
largely piled up by now trials. At
tho term of the district court just
expired new trials of civil cases
wero granted in all but three.
Ablo lawyers at Dallas favor doing
away with juries in civil cases.
Taylpr pounty js now under
going a second dropth. No rain
has fallen for several weeks and
farmers aro much discouraged at
tho prospects for a harvest noxt
year. In many instances grain is
reported dead and dying. Some
farmers are about ready to aban
don Taylqr cqnnty.
Somo of tho striking yardmen
from Denison visited tho Interna
tional and Groat Northern yards
at Palestino and sought to make
trouble among tbo men. Tho rail
way officials promptly had the dis
turbers firod out of tho yards and
they took a walk on tho railroad
tracks, not having timo tq wait lor
& tram.
that point. Tbo grade is about
finished to Cuero and by February
Ht trains will be running into that
place. A Cucro dispatch says the
grading is being pushed rapidly
ahead toward Seal-, and is of a
vry superior class, as it is high
ar.d dry all along the grade. This
is the first notice we havo seen of
tbo road being run from Cuero to
Scalr.
The San Antonio Times advises
a freshly started newspaper at
Bceville, to adopt a policy of un
varying veracity and stick to it.
Ncwspapeis usually como as near
telling the truth as tho circum
btances of tho caso in hand permits.
From the old .North State.
About four j-carsago lhad what
tho doctors called catarrh boing
brought on by cxposuro to cold
weather. They said it was incur
able. 1 left Wilmington and went
to Goidabore, N. C, and whilo
there an eating soro came on my
noso. Tho doctur whom I con
sulted called it cancer. I was un
der treatment of some six or seven
physicians, somo of them special
ists in this line, in Willmington,
Goldsboro, Smilhficld, Raleigh and
.Magnolia, N. J., but I continued to
grow worse all tho time. I was in
a dcplorablo condition; my noso
eaten off and a hole in my cheok
near my eye. Depressed and dis
heartened I returned to w,,.',mTng
ton, I thought to dio. Ono" morn,
ing whilo reading tbo Dailv Star
of this city my eyos caught tho
cmiui,cfl. - was cured of
by H. S. S." This gavo
anu i sent at once to the
and procured a botll
leol better from t
tho time I had lakj
the cancer began ti
my nose is well,
two years, and I att
every day. I am
sometimes with catarrh, otherwiso
my health is good.
Rev. G. Dukes,
Timo keeper on Atlanta coast line
R. R. Willmington, N. C. Sept. 25.
1SS5.
Trcatoso on Blood and Skin Di
seases mailed free. Tho Swift Spe
cific Do., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
Mind 'Reading: Customer
"How much will von chargotogivc
mo a reading of my head ?" Phre
nologist "Well, sir, you can havo
verbal examination for 50 cents, a
written one for 81." Customer
"Go ahead j just a verbal ono."
Phrenologist "Woll, in tho first
nlace, you havo tho organ of com
bativeness very largely develop
ed." Customer "Howl What's
that you say?" Phrenologist
'You have tho bump of combative
ncss very large." Customer
"Darned lie! If you say it again
I'll knock you down." Boston
Beacon.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Harvard is tho oldest collego in
tho United States.
Ell oa Lav and Medicine.
"Stop that cough over thero!"
cried a Now York judge. "Such
coughing disturbs tho business of
tho court."
Thero was a short, painlul si
The farminc out of paupers will
l101 Connecticut alter Jan. lCnce, wrilcs Eli Perkins, during
i "Si. which a palo, consumptive man
Cake alter the soup is n new and
queer feature of somoNewport din
ners. An aristocrat has the appcaranco
of one who smelt something really
disagreeable.
The South Dakota legislature is
called to meet in special session
December 15th.
Tho noted nogro pianist, "Blind
Tom," has been declared a lunatic
by a New York court.
Advocates of having Indian lands
held in severalty should talk it
over with Henry George.
Unliko what is generally suppos
ed Paul ffevcro was a man of 40
when ho look his famous ride.
About 200,000 Americans aro in
tersted in brass bands, either as
players or makers of instruments.
Canada has 160 saloons paying
S1.000 per year license, and that
money goes into tho school lund.
Tho baso ball season is over in
tho north and cast and tho press
reporters aro relieved of ono item
daily.
Madison C. Johnson, an eminent
Kentucky lawyer, died in Lexing
ton Wednesday last, aged eighty
years.
In tho south tbo negroes call a
certain fruit watormillions. This
would bo a good name for extend
ed stocks.
A mathematician estimates that
a machino of one-horse power
would keep 27,000,000 watches
running.
To surround a burning gas jet
by a glass vessel containing wator
is said to increase tbo volumo of
light threofold.
Suffering is tho plough which
turns up tho field ol tho soul, into
whoso deep furrows tho allwise
Husbandman scatters His heavonly
sccd.
King Humbert has sent to Presi
dent Clevoland a oopy of tbo edi
tion of Dante recontly printed for
Victor Emanuel, Italian Princo
Royal.
A young lady is dri" - . c,b
in Berlin. 8b a9'ks thn lh?
mnarv iare bocauso 8no slU by
the Bide of her emnlover while ah
urives nim.
Sinco tho occupnti
struggled with himsolt, then cough
ed again, and continued it for scv
cral minutes.
"I'm bound to slop that cough
ing!" exclaimed tho judgo. "I fino
you ten dollars. 1 think that will
stop it."
'"Jedgo," said the cadaverous
man, "I'd be willin' to pay twenty'
dollars to havo that cough stopped.
If you can stop it for ten dollars,'
you'd better get down ofT tho bench
and go to practising medicine.
There's money in it, jedgc money
in it!"
drenCrv
FOR PITCHER'S . J
Henry M. Stanley, tho African
oxplorcr; in an interview in New
York Monday, said : "I am fre
quently called upon by young men
to advise them concerning mission
ary journeys into Africa. I always
paint Africa on such occasions in
tho blackest colors, that they may
know tho worst. Thoy havo no
idea of tho cost of travol in Africa.
Here, I understand, tho olovatod
roads take passengers a dozen
miles for fivo cents. Butm Africa
a stranger could not travel inland
for less thnn 820 a mile. I spont
over a million pounds sterling in
my several trips to Africa. My
first trip aftorLivingstono cost me,
after I was ready to start, 812 or
815 a milo for 3000 miles. Ono can
not travol in Africa without carry
ing with him his own polico lorco,
lawyors, army soldiers and means
ot furnishing supplies of all kinds
I toll all this to tho missionaries,
but many of them forget about it
until thoy find themselves in the
continent, and then thoy remember
my words."
sound doctrine.
Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, in his
inaugural address utters a wiso and
timely warning against tho growth
of tho central government in this
country. "Progressive accretions
to Federal power." ho says, "must
end at last in absolutism or centra
lization, Thero is one way and
ono way only to socuro in our mo
mentous tuturo both stability and
liborty. That way ia lo don-j
upon tho St.-9i and tQ trust more
.ocnl adjustment. Our great
safety, progress, performarg, and
freedom Iio In tho direction of en
larged local administration. Tho
freest government is that which
upon tho States tho larg-
nsibilities."
words contain the essence
racy. Thoy aro worthy
Jenerson himsolt, and
fortnnato in having a
cb clear vision and
itical philosophy.
knowing.
omo contain
i,000per-
iaBttiBiineaMau.uu iHn.
lndiHbi itfHHBHBHH
HnnnHwi
nuffirnTratHIRBKSIHIBBXHSBiHHO'
flHHHInHHHHHHL2uw miles
,lcs mHiBHiilra ner
TllHHKt. Daw
ronceKthe loog
in'dP ModBws seven
miles 'Bm
SouuVHHHHes por hour.
TboroPiDoUtuguagcs and
dialects. Tho Supplement.
llr. Geo. Deutcrmnn, New York citr. suf
fered nearlv a month with a feero coii'-h.
and lmvmp; tried sevc-nl remedies without re
lief, flna'ly ncd Ited Star Courh Cure which
Ac eayF, proved "-.pecay and encctual. '
Mr. Stilison Iluteliins, tho well
known Washington journalist, has
tho necessary wealth and leisure
now to givo himself up to tho or
ganization of a first-class club at
tbo oapitol. His to bo called "The
Jefferson," and will bo modlod af
ter tho Iroquois, of Chicago, and
tho Manhattan, of Now York. The
matter lias been considered, and
about 200 Washingtonians have
taken an interest in it to thcoxtent
ol lending their names.
Politics will bankrupt any man
on earth if mado the leading fca-
luro of a business man's life. Never
subordinate your busindss to poli
tics. Men havo neglected their
families, their farms, their stores,
for politics, and been ruined financial-.
Always voto intelligently,
but make your business tho leading
leature of your occupation, and
make as little nois about politics
as possible. Denton Monitor.
'Why don't jou trado with me?"
said a close fisted warchousowoman
to an acquaintance tho other day.
"Because," was tho reply, "you
have never asked mo, madam. J
havo looked all through tho news
paper for an invitation, in the.
shape of an advertisement, but in
vain. 1 never go where 1 am not
wanted.
Accordingto tho Austin Stales-
man tho farmers in Hays county
that havo oxperimontoinn juto cul
turo havo proved it highly success
ful. It is stated that juto nots 840
an acre in Hays county and that it
can bo raised in seasons when col
ton only makes half a crop. The
matter is worthy of investigation
by farmers.
It is sound business policy lo
patronizo tho liberal, advertiser.
Ho has ennndence iRnis goods, or
ho would not risk hra money in ad
vertising them. Hejinsell cheap
er than a, iion-advejgftmg competi
tor, uccauso on account ot his in
creased sales through advertising.
he can buy material at lower
prices.
At Hie masquerade ball In Adin last week,
St Jn-iibs Oil t(KL the firt prize. Nothing
r-trinre inlhif, as it i highly p izedinever
family where ut-d especially in ours.
liieKr, iau, .Hountam inbune
A dry goods clerk who died al
Kansas Uity last week confessed
that he had not tho slightest hopes
ol Heaven, on account of tho gigan
tic amount oi lying no unci indulg
ed in for twenty years. He osti
mated that ho had told at least
3,000,000 lies in working off hnlf
wool goods for all wool.
On Sa urday mornine while
tho south-bound Fort Worth and
Donvor train was stoppirg atBell
vuo water tank, tho first station
north of Bowio, it was boarded by
two men with revolvers in their
hands. They "went through" the
passenger in tho regulation man
ner a,nd got about ?I0O in MaIi, i two thousand yards ot flannel
thrco goiu "Sifhos, five silver have been given to tho aged poor
watches and some jowolry. ' Derry N H., this fall, accord
ward of $200 has been offered ir.r mg tno bequest of the latoSylvanus
tho arrest of tho robbers tJ-o
Father Tallon, pastor of St. Jo
seph's Church in Quincy, 111., is
said to ho tho only American 41-
iiiun ivuiiHjui; priesi ui uumixcu
negro blood.
It
usually fr
sho is bounded
south by the prohi
lowa ana nansas.
"How can I get rid of fleas on
my cat?" asked a subscriber. Easy
enough. Soak tho cat in four foot
of wator until tho fleas nso lo tho
surface. Then bury tho cat.
At Modoc, Cal., parties have
been organized to hunt rabbits on
ono day in each week. Tho rab
bits aro very numerous, and canso
much annoyance to tho farmors.
Tho Peanut club is a largo social
organization in New York. Tho
badgo of membership is a peanut,
and it must bo worn on ovcry oc
casion in metal, jewelry, or carved
wood.
California has sent 20,000 tons
oi grapos to tho .bast this season
Tho total crop is estimated at 178,-
uuu tons, worth on an avorage 820
a ton or 3,0oU,UuU in tho aggro-gate.
Harry Durant. ol Atlanta, Ga
is such a bicycle enthusiast that ho
arose in his sleep ono night recont
ly, and rodo his machine fivo miles
into tho country and back before
sunrise.
A cat with six young kittens was
removed from .Hilton at Green
field, N. S.. a dislanco of sixteen
miles. Sbo was not at all pleased
with tho chango, and took her fam.
lly all the way back.
.bo latal epidemic among em
ployes at Pottsdai, Pa., was caus-
od by a putrid copperhead snake
which has been fished up Irom tho
bottom of the well from which the
peoplo drank.
A billiard-player Is said to have
run ovor two thousand points at a
three-ball game in Now York on
Friday last, an achievement which
exceeds tho highest rnn ever made
in a public game.
Edward Spaulding, of North
Adams, Mass, threatens to expose
tho secrets of the masonjp frater
nity, and also to confer tho de
grees in his own houso for $2, un
less his appeals for help are hecd-
'd.
Something now in feminine loco
motion is called tho "tennis strut."
It is quite generally adoptod by tho
girls of th,o period, and it does not
matter that it is undignified so long
as it is fashionable.
Thero aro 188,747 gallons of rum
and whiskoy manufactured in this
country daily. Tho recoipts from
all sources of internal rovonuo for
tho fiscal year ending Juno 30th,
issu wero sub.uyz.su;,).
Tho following item is goinc tho
rounds: "A man in Lakefield was
struck hj- a locomotivo and instant
ly killed. Whiskey was the canso."
J ho habit ot selling whiskey to lo
comotives which aro confirmed
inebriates should he stopped.
Peoria Transcript.
"Poor boy I ho hasn't a relative
in tho world." Is that so? Hois
doubtless to bo pitied, but consider
how many annoyances he is freo
trom. lio hasn t any brothers to
quarrel with, or sisters with whom
he is compelled to divido every
thing ho has. No cousins to envy,
because they dross better than ho
can. No rich undo whom ho ox
pects to givo him a start in life and
lcavo him all his property when
bo dies, thoro by laying up a big
store of disappointment for after
years. Tho boy without a relation
m tho world knows that he must
paddlo his own canoo trom tho
start, and ho oltcn does it success
fully. Texas Siltings.
.Maryland is taking, in one in
dustry alone; a prominent share
in the business boom of tho South.
That stato employs 60,000 persons
in putting up canned goods, an in
dustry in which sho now leads all
tho states of the Union. Sho sup
plies 50,000,000 cans of oysters an
nually. In Hartford county nlone
20,000,000 cans of tomatoes and 12.-
000,000 cans ot corn aro prepared
ior ine maruci every year, and one
hrm in rrcdcnok City puts up
2,ouu,uuu cans ot corn a season
M
Tho Hungry Parson: Widow
Flapjack "I'm glad, parson, that
steps aro being tascn to provent
mo cxtermingation ot tho Ameri
can singing birds." Parson Surp
lus (who hat been invited tq din
ner) "Ho am 4, Widow Flapjack,
but at the samo timo I am gratelul
to Providence that chjekens don't
know how lo sing." "Bring on tho
fried chickon, Betsy," said tho
Widow Flapjack." Toxas Sifting?.
Casleria
Contaur Liniment is tho most -wonderful Pain-Curer
tho world has ever known,
COTTON SEED HULI
-AJSTD OIL Ga
For Teeding and Fertilizing Purposes
Refined Oil for Cooking Purposes
0IST A M HIT . MTT :
-J--a--i-lJ- VJLJlJ -Ll-fl-J . J J
WOOD & LOW,
-DHALKRS IN
fiTUDBBAKiB WAS0H8, BVfiflffiS and 6ABRU0M
Kentncly Sorgta Mills anft Evaporating Pans,
Walter A. Wood Mowing Machines, Reapers,
Stool n-ootJx Hn.y- X-lct.2x.os. 33to,
Gullett's Gins, Feeders and
Condensers!
Horse Power, Steam andl Hydraulic Cotton Presses.
Strauto ECOrn Mills,
STATIOKERI AM KfiTHLE STEAH ENBIHES AD BOILERS.
GENUINE GLIDDEN BARBED FENCE WISE.
XiTTiMiiBEK 2a.:r,:d,
Lumber, Shingles, Baah, Doors, Blinds,
Moldings and all Kinds of building-
material.
Brenham,
WOOD & LOW,
Texas.
H. -FR-AJNTKjE,
DEA1ER IN
General -:- Har
STOVES, HOLLOW AND TIN WARE,
Gilds, Hunters' Supplies, Bslliif, AgrlcnUnral Implements, J
All kinds of Tinners', Gnn and Locksmiths' Work and Repairing
rrompuy xxocmaa.
ANT STBEET, noxt door toH.Fishor, BKENHAM,TEXA3.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
EWStrKAiroB BEOK3ES
:BZ3.2exa,i
1.3.1
TB3CAS,
The pstronago of those having real estate cither to rontorsell m
any part of tho stato solicited. Prompt attontion given to any bnsi
nesi pnt in onrenro. Wo havo a complote abstract'of all records of
Washington county, and can furnish abstracts of title at short notico.
F. KRENTZLIN,
AGENT FOR-
and BotSo
tap's let
fa
i
-VZMX3. IS
Ohoice Family Groceries.
Wines, Liquors, Tobacco; Cigars, Crockory and Glassware,
GBABER BUILDING, BRENHAM, TEXAS.
J- Ordars for Ktx or Bottled Beor nromnllv fillpd. Rnn. ,?!,-
ord in all parts of the city freo of chargt.
Tho silver mines of Mexico ox
tentf from tho Siorra Madro in So
nora, near the border, to the frold
deposits in Oaxaca, in tho oxtremo
south. A continuous vein travers
es no less than soventecn States,
and since tho discovery has viold-
ed more than 54,000,000,000. Tct
theso great sources ot wealth aro
estimated to bo not moro than 1
por cent oi tho undeveloped and
unuiscoverca wuolo.
NOTICE.
The uadcraiipied, u the widow of & Texas
Veteran of 1838, will apply to tho neit (20tn)
legMaluro for the passage of a special law
granting the applicant a pension of f 150 a
year, to date from January 1, 1885, and to
conunuo during the life of applicant.
LTPIA ALLCOKN,
November Jiasa,
NOTICE.
Tho undersigned, as the widow of a Texas
Veteran of 1S38, will apply to the next (20th)
leirislatiuo for the passage of a special law
granting the applicant a pension of $150 a
year, to date from January 1, 18S5, and to
conunuo aurrag toe lite ot applicant.
-aJMHfl.-ll.15KX.aiM.
November 20, 1888,
A boy at Dover, lie., was born
without eyes or eyelids. Tho part
of his laco in which the eyes ought
10 ue, according to all precedents,
is as smooth as tho cheok. The
boy is 11 years of ago, and his name
is Stimeford. His parehts havo ro
peatodly refused offers to have tho
child exhibited as a curiosity. Tho
lad's mother is very nearsighted.
ZJTotlce.
THE STATE OF TEXA3,
WiSUDTOTOV CocuTr. f
To the creditors of the firm of Bildcbrandt &
Buler,
Tou aro hereby notined Ihflt Hildebrandl
& Baker, of the county of "Washington,
on tho 17th da- of November, A. D-, 18S6,
executed n deed of asgi?nment conveying to
the undersigned all of their property fir tne
bene6tofsuchof their creditors as will con
sent to acceDt their Drooortional share ol
their estate and discharge th-m from theii going tea true and correct copy of iho origf-
NOTICE IN PKOBATE.
THE STATE OF TEXAS,
To the Sheriff or any Constable of Washinff.
ton County Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to cause to be
published for at least twenty days in the
Hsen-tiam Danner, a newspaper printed ia
Washington county, the following notice :
THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To all persons interested in tho estate of
nomas n. xioxoy, oeccatea:
K. A-Harviiu administrator of thn ct.f-
of Thomas It. Hoxey, deceased, has filed in
the County Court of W-tshinglon county hi
final account with the estate of said Thomas
K. Hoxey, deceased, whici wfll bo heard at
i no next term oi we Uounty Court orjaicl
cuumy, cum-nencintr. on ine intra Aaitki
in January, 1887. at the crjurtbi thSsO1
in the city of Brenham. al which tima &II
persons interested ia'jwd estate ryy appear
and contest said account, if they Re proper.
Herein fail not, under penalty of the LW,
and of this writ make due return. InnMi
tho 9th day of December, 1880.
Witness, II II Lewis, Clerk of said Court,
L. SJ and the seal thereof, at office, in tao
city ot urenuam, am oay ot uecember.
1880. II. M. LEWIS.
Clerk of County Court, Washington Cov
i nereoy certny mat me aDove and lorc-
"Doos your husband boliovo in
Socialism, Mrs. Grep 1" aaked Mrs.
Tattle. "No. Ieheuldsay he didn't.
Why, if you'll beliovo me, I can
hardly got him to como into the
parlor when any of tho neighbors
call." Now Haven Nows.
Blind Bill, a colored inmate oi a
Georgia poorbouse, has a most re
markablo acnee of touch. He can
tell any ono whom ho has met by
feeling of his hand. A man whom
ho bad not met ior ten years shook
hands with him tho other d.ayr and i
Bill at onco culiod him bv name, i Tnc Hindoos and Mohammedann
though not a, word had before beon are having a religions war in In
spokon. Idja,,
A Brooklyn woman is charged
with murder under peculiar cir.
cumetancet. She bid been mar
ried nineteen years and had four
teen childron. Her husband, who
treated her in a very brutal man
ner, foil in a cistern and noither
she nor any of tho children would
assist him in getting out and be
drowned, benco tho chargo of
murder.
respective claims, and that the undersigned
nas acccptea saia trust ana lias amy quali
fied, as reouired by law.
All erectors consenting to said assienment
must, within four months after the publica
tion of tliii notice, make known to tho
fssi'mee their consent m writinsr. and. within
six ironths from tho date of this notice, file
tneir claimc; as prescribed Dy law, with the
undersigned, who resides at Crenham,
AVashimrton county, Texas, which is also his
poitofnco address.
This, the 17 day of November, 188C.
c.iiNKwrrz,jR.
Tbe lstTCE2bs GCTDB Is
I Sep, and March,
fm. 4B-3U iiiii.
j m;U taakaa, wttbavar
f,990 111 I I MiM-a
wftala Plakcra Canary.
UlTJU wamaju linn
a to (Wwwwl on all gia Jbr
rrai r tuoiiT ae TellabOTrto
orrlgr, bZ 0tva lail ca at tai.
Dttef r mtt est, drawls wear, or
fcava Asa wUbi Thaas CTVAX.tTAlX
roosa racaota ! mHai gla
ra tta antas of tk worU. tr
Trtli m a copf rua to r aua
dna npa mrfat of 10 eta. to deatoy
expensa of rwaillaB It V bear xxvam
yoa, Beapattralrjp,
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.
S7 3c 3S9 Wakaah .liana, Calea, III.
(UCti.'i
SMUaAH
. W. AYHII SON,osxau
nil citation, now In my hands.
N.E.DEVER,SheriC
By E. G. Langhammcr, Deputy.
ESTRAY NOTICE.
Taken up by Joseph Adldnson, on the
23d day of October, 1880, and estrayed before
C O. Campbell, justice of the Peace in and
for Precinct No. 0. Washin'rton rnnntv. n
the 22d day of November, 1880, one gray
horse, about 10 or 12 jcars old, about It
hands high, branded Spanish brand on left
shoulder and letter O on left thigh. Ap
praised by II P Harris and J WSehw;i-.5
RtSlO. H.1L LEWIS.
County Clerk Washington county.
Nov. 21, 1880. J
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