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The Brenham Banner.
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OUT. AGENTS.
Joed. F. VfxiBVSCB, Burton, Texas.
F. M. Ganmr, Lyons, Texas.
Jo Mikeski, Wesley, Texas.
rAtn. C Sirkckert, Caldwell. Texas
Pbihce Jerome Napoleon of Rome
-is dying.
"Wedsesdat was a lively day in the
legislature.
The Australian ballot system was
defeated in .Maine.
Forest fires in Franco have laid
vraste 500 acres of pine forests.
The Secretary of war will shortly
viait Texas on a military inspection,
A steel trust Las been formed in
New York. All the trusts do more
or less stealing.
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A Fkiaes Poist, Miss., bank with
a capital of only $50,000 earned $1G-
500 within a year.
Usi?EsxEiCTED,reciprocity between
Canada in.this country is advocated
by the Liberal party of the Queen's
domain.
The pension appropriations of the
.fcifty-first coDgress are $65,0UU,UUU
more than those of the previous
congress.
A buzzakd in South England has
stopped railway traffic, nd the snow
is raising the Thames to a danger
ous point.
Negotiations are in progress for
the establishment of an air line rail
road from St. Paul via Kansas City
to Galveston. -
The Lea election law has been re
pealed by the Tennessee legislature
as uemg no longer necessary in view
of the force bill in congress.
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The Mississippi and its tributaries
are on a boom and great destruction
is feared. The rivers are away up
now and still rising. The low places
are overflowed.
The floods are raging east of us.
A Mississippi overflow is iminent
and the rivers beyond in Alabama
and Georgia above high water mark
and doing great damage.
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The forthcoming book of Ben
. Butler is alarming his most intimate
. friends by reason that the report
lias been circulated that it will be
lively and outspoken and fun dl
around when it appears.
The net surplus in the United
- States treasury at the close of busi
ness last Thursday wj-? less than
89,000,000. Quite a dirence from
the amount that the Democratic
administration left when Harrison
took the reins of government.
A bakk failure was averted in
Buenos Ayres a few days ago by an
original plan.t A run was started
on the principal bank of the city,
which would have speedily closed it
up, but the government declared a
holiday for two days, thus suspend
ing business and giving the bank
time to arrange matters.
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Caetees bill for the recovery of
.School land and for a girls industrial
school has passed. The first named
authorizes the attornery-general to
bring suit to recover school lands
where the purchasers have failed to
pay the purchase money or the i
teresc inereon. xnere was an ap
propriation of $50,000 for the in
dustrial school house.
Wiggins the old weather prophet
again comes to the front and pre
dicts tuafc a, storm is now approach
mg tne American coast more severe
than any that will happen during
tne remainder oi tne year, or in
1892. He predicts an earthquake in
North America Aug. 17, 1904, which
will rock the surface from Philadel
phia to Prince Edward Island.
The following extract is from Jef
ferson Davis' memoirs: One girl,
whose sweetheart was a gallant sol
dier in the Fifth Carolina Eegiment,
and who had fought bravely all
through the Beven-dayg' battle made
the following earnest lequest:
"Bear Mr. President I want you to
let Jeems C, of compauy oneth, 5th
South Carolina Regimeut, come
home and get married. Jeems is
williu.' I is willin,' his mammy
sajri she is willin,' but Jeem's cap
taiu. he ain't willin.' Now when we
ore all willin' 'ceptin' Jeem's cap
tain, I think you might let up and
let jeems come. Til make him go
straight back when he's clone got !
married and light ust as hard as
ever.'' Mr. Davis mote on the let
ter, '"Let Jeems go."' Jeems went
home, married the affectionate cor
respondent of Mr. Davis returnedjraceat the exposition would seem to
to his regiment, and did fight as I be an intentional insult to the niil-
ivpU as ever.
the ltusbiAX aiovusiEirr.
The interest in the Eussia Jewish
question, and the tendency to op
pose the intolerant policy of the
Russian government with regard to
its Jewish subjects, has spread
widely in America. Both the press
and the clergy have taken up the
matter and worked energetically for
international interference in the
matter. Resolutions were brought
before congress prior to its adjourn
ment memorializing it to take some
action. Philadelphia has a petition
association with branches in all the
prominent cities in the United
States to petition the Tzar in April.
Protests have been made against
Bussian cruelty to stato prisoners.
One of the most eloquent and in
fluential Eabbi's of the United
States speaking of the necessity of
international interference says: "Eus
sia has no moral right to thrust her
own subjects out of the realm upon
other nations, or to subjeckmillions
of innocent people to all the tor
tures of exile. The time has come
when other nations must cry a halt
to Eussia, not only for the Bako of
humanity, but for their own self
protection. For years her cruelty
has driven hundreds of thousands
of people to other countries, where
they have become a heavy drain
upon the people. If hundreds of
thousands have proved a burden
some tax, millions will prove a dire
ful calamity. The Lord Mayor of
London on Thursday convened a
mass meeting to Express England's
indignation at Eussia's expulsion
edict against the Jews. Mr. Glad
stone proposes bringing the subject
before Paliament. Let Germany,
Austria, France, Italy, all the rest of
Europe, and the United States do
what England has already done, and
proposes yet to do. Let every pul
pit, stage and platform ring with a
cry of indignation against the brutal
ity practiced upon the Jews and the
Nonconformists imprisoned fn Eus
sia. Let such moral pressure be
brought to bear upon the Tzar that
he will come to his senses.
IN A HOLE.
Commenting upon the extrava
gance of the two sessions of the Fifty-first
Congress, taking Eepresen-
tative Sayers' figures, who was one
of the appropriation committee for a
basis, the New UJleans .New Delta,
puts the Democrats in a hole seem
ingly difficult for them to extricate
themselves. The appropriations for
the fiscal year 1892 exceed the prob
able revenues of the government for
that year more than one hundred
million dollars, a total that almost
overwhelms the immagination. It
would take a tax of $8 per capita
for every man, woman and child to
meet the obligation. It is believed
that the Bepublitans made this out
lay to necessitate the tariff and jus
tify the McKinley bill.
The hole that this parts the Dem
ocrats in is a peculiar one. The party
has declared for a tariff for revenue
with incidental protection; and as
the next House at least wil' be Dem
ocratic, if they repeal the Eepubli
can tariff, a deficit of mammoth pro
portions stares them in the face,
even with the aid of that obnoxious
and unjust measure, a deficiency bill
will have to be met. That then, is
the first question which the next
Congress will have to consider.
The demand for relief of the duties
now imposed will be urgent, but a
reduction increases the deficit, and
it is not improbable that some of
Mr. Blaines enemies and rivals may
oppose his reciprocity treaties on
that ground, and that anything like"
universal free trade is altogether
out of the question.
To that proposition, says the New
Delta, the Democratic party would
reply: "The Democratic party has
never been a free trade party; it has
always favored a tariff for revenue.
The Democratic party, however,
would not sacrifice foreign com
merce and overburden domestic in
dustry for the sake of revenue, and
least of all to foot the bills of an ex
travagant administration. 'The Dem
ocratic party holds that the South
American trade and the European
trade would both be secured by
simply not subjecting them to ex
cessive tolls. The Democratic party
is under no obligation to pay the
campaign debts of the Republican
party, and will not oppress the
country to raise the sums unneces
sarily appropriated by the represen
tatives of the Eepublican party.
The Senate has confirmed the
board of managers of the blind asy
lum and the Confederate Home, ap1
pointed bv Gov. Hogg, and; the
stato will immediately take charge
of the Home.
Hon. John H. Smith, ex-U-
States minister to Liberia, wri(
President Hairison on the sul.
of tho appointment of a colo
person to represent the negro nu
at the world's Columbian exposition.1!
The geatness. glory nud grandeur
of tho nation, he argues, is as much 'the lesult is that middling upland
the pi i Jo of the American negro aslcotton at New York is now lower!
it is the American white man and
for the president to fail to appoint a
coloied man to represent the negio
' lion loyal negro Americans.
THE aicKINLEY BIU. UVDKK TEST.
The constitutionality of the Mc
Kinley bill is being tested and has
leached the U. S. Supreme court,
and a motion been made to ad
vance the cases on the docket, but
on tho suggestion of the Attorney
General the cases went over for a
week. The principal ground upon
which it is contended that the bill iB
unconstitutional are, first that tho
bill signed by the President was not
the bill that passed both houses of
congress, a section having been left
out in its engrossment ; second that
it contains provisions for bounties
to sugar producers in this country,
which under the constitution, con
gress had no power to enact and,
third, that section 3 of the act as
sumes to delegate to the president
the power to impose taxes upon im
ports, which power is vested exclu
sively in congress and cannot be
delegated. The main grounds upon
which the motions to advance are
made are the very great importance
of the question involved and tho in
terest of trade and commerce and of
the government in having the ques
tion speedily settled.
A new religion has been started,
called Loreshan Unity, the chief
Apostle of which says. "All editors
are satans and all reporters are
devils. The new doctrine originated
in Chicago.
The alleged sockless Jery Simp
son is going to lecture in New York.
In spite of all the fun the press has
had about this gentleman be is
bringing the country around to
thinking that ho is an able states
man. According to the determination of
those in charge of the eleventh cen
sus the center of population of the
United States is found at latitude
39 11' 56" and longitude So
32' 53". This locates it in southern
Indiana, at a point a little west of
south of Greensbnrg, the
seat of Decatur county, and
miles east of Columbus, Ind.
county
twenty
The Indiana legislature has passed
both the legislative and congression
al apportionment bills over the Gov
ernor's veto; has elected a new set
of directors and officers for each of
the State benevolent institutions,
and has taken the Police and Fire
Departments of FJvansville from the
metropolitan system and restored
them to the control of the City
Council.
The commercial exchanges and
the leading newspapers of Tennes
see aie protesting loudly against
the passage by the legislature of
that Stateof a bill now before it,
prohibiting the running ,of freight
trains on Sunday. It is one of the
most extreme Sabbatarian measures
ever brought fcefore any legislature,
and one that will have the most in
jurious ettect on trade generally
and on the greatest number of in
dustries. in
The black waxy road bill has been
passed by the legislature. It is
simply a measure that gives county
commissioners in any district under
its operation power to make good
roads. It only applies to Dallas,
Grayson, Brpwn, Comanche, Mills,
Fannin, Fayette, Galveston, Travis,
Kaufman, Hunt, Hill, Collin and
Denton. Washington could well
have been included, and then if the
roads were left in too bad a condi
tion the county commissioners could
nave taken a hand in improving
them.
Peesident Elliot, of Harvard
college had his eloquence cut short
while making a speech at the Mer-
cnants JiiXcnange in ot. iiouis re
cently. He related that the waves
which passed from time to time
over the West were political convul
sions caused by the uninformed
classes. The East he said did not
experience such waves because bal
lots were cast by people who were
informed. The most verdant hay
seed in the West is not as ignorant
as thousands of self conceited igno
ramuses that reside in numerous
eastern cities, and President Elliot
did net find the St. Louis people
fool enough to stay and listen to his
tom-fooleiy.
The cotton trade this year is con
fronted with conditions which it is
safe to say have found no parallel
within recent years. The primarv
feature is, of course, the immense
size of the season's yield, which has
awamped all but t$e very largest
estimates, and as yot shows no signs
of an abating movement. The month
ly report of Secretary Hester of the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
iPla
laces tne total amount oi tuo crop
JV sight at the close of I ebruarv at
e?H,000 bales, an excess o' GGC,-
'J bales over tho same perioi ist
"eran, and an excess over tho enthe
A of 18S9-90 of about 100.000
Jfys Against this ast flood of
supply the trade has not been able
to oppose any sufficient barrier, and
than at any time since Februarv 20.
1SSG. a 3 ear of great depression in
this tiacfe. The same is tiuo of
prices at Liveipool. It is generally
conceded that the crop will leach
over eight million bales.
MIIXS BOK Sl'EAKEI!,
Hon. E. Q. Mills talking to a
press reporter at Eochester, N. 1.
frankly admitted that he was a can
didate for the speakership; but did
not desire to be interviewed on tho
subject.
When asked if any Democrats in
tho house were in favor of passing a
Kvote of thanks to SpeakerEeed ho
6aid: "Not one of them. Eeed-isa
man of ability and would make a
good general for any army. He has
very decided views and in enforcing
his views of things he does not
seem to think that the minority
should be taken into consideration,
His manner towards the Democrats
was such as to give them all offense.
The Democrats had no Tiesitation in
pasemg complimentary votes to
Speakers Blaine and Keifer, who
were just as strong partisans as
Eeed: but their tieatment of their
political opponents was much differ
ent and when they left the chair the
Democrats bore
them no feeling of
personal dislike.
The Ft. Worth Gazette has coino
out in a handsome now spring dress,
which so changed its appearance that
in hunting for it among the ex
changes Thursday night it was al
most overlooked. The new dress
though jt changed the Gazette'shead
has not changed its sensible way of
booming Ft. Worth and Texas gen
erally. The Gazette is doing a great
deal for the State.
It is now generally conceded by
republicans as well as democrats that
the estimates of the appropriations
made by the Fifty-first congress as
given out by Congressman Sayers of
the house appropriations committee
are nearer correct than the estimates
given out by Senator Allison, chair
man of the senate appropriation com
mittee. Sayers" figures 81,000,000,
000, while Allison says they will
amount to about $980,000,000.
Sayers put in the direct tax to be re
funded. There is no telling exactlv
how much this will amount to. Al
lison did not, it seems, count this
amount in. Instead of thero being
and surplus there is every prospect
deficit.
Akkaxgements have been mada
by
which a large airship is to be'
con-
structed by tho Mount Carmel Com
pany within the nexf sixty days.
The place selected is the Exposition
building at Chicago, and Mr. Pen
nington says he will make the trial
trip to New York, carrying a few
passengers. If the large ship does
not prove more practicable than the
model that has been on exhibition
for some time, the party will bo a
long time in reaching its destina
tion. Official government statistics
have been prepared at Berlin of
2,172 cases of tuberculosis treated
by the Koch method from the mid
dle of November to the end of De
cember. Of cases of internal tuber
culosis, 13 are reported cured, 171
considerably improved, 191 im
proved, and 46 died, while of cases
of external tuberculosis, 15 are re
ported cured, 14S considerably im
proved, 237 improved, and 9 died.
The success of Prof. Koch's remedy
has exceeded every anticipation.
The great Peter Cooper is credited
with the following rare bit of com
mon sense: "In all towns where a
newspaper is published should every
man should advertise, even if noth
ing more than a card telling his
name and the business in which he
is engaged. It not only pays the
advertiser, but lets the people at a
distance know that the town you
reside in has a prosperous class of
business men. As the seed is sown
so it recompenses. Never pull down
the sign where you intend to do
business, for it often indicates that
your grip, commercially, is broken.
The judicious advertiser will receive
in return ten dollars for every one
invested in the columns of a local
paper."
1AI.IUKK CET.1 THEKE.
Wednesday the Illinois legislature
on the 154th ballot elected Jno. M.
Palmer to the United States senate
to represent that state for tho next
six years. He was clearly entitled
to the nomination. Cockrell and
Moore broke the deadlock. One
hundred and three of the 204 votes
were necessary to a choice, and on
every ballot ho has received 101,
these two republican votes making
the amount necessary to a choice.
Every Demociat williejoice in the
lesult which was watched with in-
teiest for weeks.
A congress of whist players is to
be held in Milwaukee. April 14 to
17, when a new code of laws for the
gvemment
a,ue
of tho game is to be
I
Girls of 12 to 15 years comb their
hau back from tho foiehead, and
braid it to hang its length or tied in
a low loop. Their gowns ai e made
with waists of natural length, neith
er too long nor too short.
C. A. Sn'oelke, Fresidcnt. E. Eeichardt,
First Rational Bank, Brenham, Tesas
Capital and Surplus, $225,000.00.
Sirootorsi
HENRY HODDE,
MRS.
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ALWAYS ON HAND,
Cold, Fresh Boer always on tap. Responsible for all baggage or
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lunch for travolors.
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Polito attention to oil. Call and see me before bujinp cl.'cwl'cro; my
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Vice President; S. O. Enojxkz, Cashier.
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