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The Weekly Banner
Official Jonrnal of Green's Brigade Association
J. O. ItAXKIN, Proprietor."
Thursday, March 19, 1891.
But don't Rome howl.
The effort to abolish capital pun
ishment in Arkansas has failed.
The Senate has -wisely raised the
age of consent to fourteen years.
a cmvu. service bulletin says the
worst of the Missippi flood is over.
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Gladstone and his colleagues are
nrflimrinc the liberals' electorial
platform.
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The Texas Italians have had little
to say and have taken no action in
the New Orleans affair.
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The governor of Wyoming has
issued a proclamation prohibiting
the sale of firearms to Indians.
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The Wisconsin legislature has
passed a bill securing civil rights
for the black man in inns and public
conveyances.
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Charles F. Cool, officer and part
owner in three suspended banks,
was arrested at Chicago recently for
illegal banking.
Basker Siiimoxs, of New Xork has
been found guilty of embezzling
$022,000 worth of bonds of the
Sixth national bank.
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The House passed a resolution
Friday to amend to Constitution so
as to make the payment oi pon tax
a requisite to voting.
Guatamala accepts the invitation
to participate in the World's Colum
bian Exposition, and has given the
assuranoe of hearty co-operation,
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The Senate are nearly through
with the Commission bill.. The
stringent provisions of the Terrell
bill will in, all. probability not be
modifie'd: .. , ."
Advices fro'ni- Chilli state that
there has been further fighting be
tween the insurgents and the gov
ernment troop's, and that the former
were victorious. It is reported Here
that the republic of Paraguay has
offered to mediate between the con
tending factions.
Assistant Postmaster General
Tyncr has ruled that if the postage
upon a letter is" fully prepaid no
postmaster has a right to detain it,
no matter what he may suspect it
contains or to whom it may be ad
Axn-a Dickinson the noted anti-
slavery, lecturer and -woman's lights
advocate, has been placed in the
Danville lunatic asylum. It has
been known for the last six months
that the mind of this remarkable
woman -was giving away. She has
not been herself since her failure
upon the Btage.
Congressman Mills chaiices for
the speakership are as good or a lit
tle better than any other candidates
and in all probability he will be
calbd to the chair at the assembling
of the next Congress. The Fort
Worth Gazette thinks, however, that
it -will lessen the chances for Demo
cratic success in 1892.
Da. Bin.tr, of Now York, has re
cently returned from Germany
where he learned Prof. Koch's
method and procured a quantity of
the lymph. Ho is now on His way
South, and will treat cases of tuber
culosis and lupus free of charge aud
invites physicians to be present.
He will be in Ft. Worth about the
23rd.
A bill has been introduced into
the Massachusetts legislature to
punish by fine and imprisonment
any person who for profit or gain
personates the spirit of a deceased
person, or presents oy means oi
trick, device or contrivance anything
to represent such spirits. Prof. W.
I. Thompson, a Spiritualist, and
thorough believer in the materiali
zation of spirits, declared that 90
rer cent of the alleged manifesta
tions are fraudulent.
Faosiall over the United States
comes the news that the Italians
are meetine and denouncing, pro
testing and making threats for re
venge, reparation, etc., for the killing
of the eleven Italians in "New Or
leans. Some of them are .ready to
declare war at once and boast of the
Italian navy, but we guess these
threats do not amount to much in
frightening the people of the CreB
ent City, which in itself would be
almost a match for the Italian Government.
Gov. Hogg sends a message to the
legislature urging them to appoint
a committee to pass upon a number
of claims for services rendered in the
inforcement of the quarantine law,
remaining unpaid. He says some of
them do not appear to be legal, but
the just ones may be paid.
The Palmer resolution recites that
the Legislature of Texas sends
greeting and a vote of thanks to the
101 Democrats and Messrs. Cockrell
and Moore for the election of the
eminent statesman, gallant soldier
and pure patriot, John M. Palmer,
to a seat in the Senate of the United
States. w
The ugliest strikes of working
men that occur in this country are
of men who are not citizens, and
who never intend to be citizens.
There is no reasonable doubt that
the intention is to grind these men
down pretty low, and they resent
this just about the same as if they
were born here.
One of the meanest acts on record
is that of David Henly, a wealthy
Springfield, 111., man who refuses to
pay what he promised a young man
who 6aved his son from tjie peniten
tiary by pleading guilty and serving
two years in the penitentiary. He
has recently been released and
Henly now refuses to pay him. ,
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At Nashville Tennessee 103 guns
were fired when the news of Pal
mer's election as United States Sen
ator from Illinois was received. One
for each of the 101 democratic legis
tors and one each for Cockrell and
Moore the two republicans that, vo
ted for him and broke the deadlock
on the 154th ballot.
A poll of the Indiana legislature
on presidential prefernces showed,
Democrats Cleveland, 50; Gray, 2G;
Hill, 7; Palmer, 2; Voorhees, 4; Vi
las, 1; Turpie. 1; the nominee, 4;
Republicans Harrison, 17; Blaine,
20; Grosham, 3; Alger, 1; the nomi
nee, 1. Gray was the second of 3,
Cleveland of 2, Harrison of 1 (after
Blaine). One wanted "Blaine or
any good republican." Another de
manded "A western man." One
was for "Cleveland, of everywhere."
Wuttf a Spaniard eats a peach or
pear by th'e fbadside, wherever die
is, ha digs ahole'in the ground with
hia foot and covers the seed. Con
Bpnucctlv all over Srjain. bv llmi
roadside and elsewhere, fruit grows
in the greatest abundance, and maj
be picked and eaten by anybody. It
is a custom that might be well imi
tated in America, says the Texas
Farmer where a tree from which the
public is free to gather even the
poorest fruit is indeed rare. Our
A few arc lights in Corpus Ghristi
would be a wonderful improvement
over the small incandescent lights
now used, to light our streets.
Gulf News. y
If Brenham had the incandescent
lights even, what an improvement it
would be ever the old smoky kero
sene lights that are now incorrectly
supposed to illuminate the streets.
But Brenham is going to have them.
At the next meeting of the council
the question of getting the charter
amended so that the city can be
bonded for an amount sufficient to
put in a plant will be considered.
.
The State legislatures now in ses
sion are, one after another, making
appropriations for paying the ex
penses of their representation at
Chicago at the World's Columbian
Exposition of 1893. West Virginia
has set apart $40,000 for this pur
pose. Governor Markham, of Cali
fornia, has approved a bill for $300,
000. Governor FranciB, of Missouri,
has sent a special message to the
legislature asking for 150,000 for
that purpose. Both houses of the
Indiana legislature have votod $100,
000. The North Carolina legislature
has decided that S25.000 will be
sufficient. It is highly necessary that
every legislature now in session
should attend to this matter, so that
the work of preparation maybe com
menced at an early day. The Texas
Legislature has done nothing to
wards it.
Chief Ijfennesy. We are opposed to
mob 1 aw, but those people were on
the ""ground and seemed to be busi
ness men, leading citizens and were
ye 4rhap8 more capable of judging of
vhat it would take to break up the
Vxnnrl rtf Tnnnlnrnnq pnr. tlirrmrs flint
linfectcrl Win r-ifv Minn rliORft ftWftV
who condemn their action on the
principle that lynch law is never
justifiable.
But the will of the American peo
ple, when aroused is greater than
the law, and no foreign power or
secret society is hedged with a di
vinity sacred enough to be held in
violate when the law seemed inade
quate to reach this band. This riot
bhould convey a lesson to dynami
ters, hybinders and all secret orders
whose aims and purposes, may be
foreign to American ideas. The
Italian consul acknowledges the ex
istence of the Mafia. The fact
comes out in Mondays dispatches
that the Italian flag was raised in
honor of their victory after the
jury,'! .erdict, with the American
flag hanging under it, indicating
their triump and that arrangements
were being made to have a giand
celebration Sunday, but instead thay
had funeral celebrations.
The Italian covernmeut has in
structed the Italian minister at
Washington to present a vehement
protest to the United States govern
ment against the action of the mob.
Secretary Blaine expresses horror of
the acts of the mob and promises
that he will immediately take the
orders of the President in the mat
ter and a decision would be commu
nicated to the Italian government.
Protests and condemnations of the
action of the mob are pouring in
from every place where there are
any Italians.
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LtTTEK rEOSI AUSTIN.
SCIEIfTIFIC MISCELLANY.
ARTIFICIAL rubies.
Since their discovery of artificial
rubies some years ago, Messrs.
Fremy and Verneuil, the French
chemists, have striven to make crys
tals of sumcient size to bo useful,
Even now, however, their best crys-county isIarge.
STATE NEWS-
A fine hotel is to bo erected at
Cuero.
Settlers are flocking into Hale
county.
The acreage of corn in .Grayson
tals, though much larger than their
first, are barely large enough to
mount. Their process has been con
siderably changed, alumina alka
nized by potassium carbonate having
been substituted for pure alumina,
and the time of operating has been
extended from 24 hours to several
months. In a recent trial seven
pounds of brilliant red gems were
turned out Among the red crystals
is occasionally seen one of a violet
or blue color, approaching, but not
yet equalling, the sapphire in ap
pearance. These remarkable experi
ments are not without risk, for M.
verneun has narrowly escaped los
ing his sight as an effect of the
great heat required for fusing the
chemicals.
In a recent lecture, Mr. H. W.
Henshaw, of the National Museum
at Washington, declared, concerning
the antiquity of the Indian, "that,
whether the Indian originated on
this continent, where he was found,
or elsewhere, it was in by-gone ages
--ages so far removed from our own
time that the internal is to be reck
oned, not by the years of chronology
but by the epochs of geologic time.''
AgBLOODY DAY IN SOT ORLEANS.
A 3Iob 3Iat.es llotue Howl.
Saturday was a bloody day in
New Orleans, and one that will live
in history for a long time without a
parallel.
Eleven Italians were butcheied
by infuriated citizens because they
thought the Italians had escaped
the strong arm of justice. They
were charged with the murder of
Chief of Police Hennesey some four
months ago, the proof "against some
of them seemed conclusive, but the
jury acquitted six of them, and
virtually acquitted three others. A
mass meeting of citizens was called
and those citizens resolved them
selves into a mob, went to the
prison and tcere snot some, nung
some and altogether butchered
eleven helpless prisoners. Those
Italians are a hard lot, hard to cone
vict by reason of their indifference
as to whether they swear falsely or
to the truth, and it did seem that
the end the citizens hope to attain
that of breaking up the Italian
Marfia would almost justify any
means for its accomplishment, but it
could hardly justify such wholesale
slaughter, whichj being done without
Austin, Tex., March 1G. 1891.
Editor Banner : There is nothing
but trouble. Even your correspon
dent is in trouble; if he writes a long
letter no one will read it, if a short
one he can't tell all he knows.
The legislator is in trouble be
cause he is only getting 2 per day
now. Then he has seen in the
papers that there were 12000 bills
introduced in the last congress and
4000 in the senate and here his time
is nearly out and he is ten thousand
behind. Then Terrell is in extra
trouble. He slipped Brown's little
bantling v from its cradle and sub
stituted his own more vigorous pro
geny. Then came tne senate
doctors and cut and carved it so
"the mother that bore it can not
discern her offspring more.'
Gov. Hogg is in trouble; shall he
not appoint the commissioners, what
else was he a candidate for? Do the
people know better than he does
who can control rail roads and
themselves also.?
Will he have to rely on his veto
cracker to his potlitical whip? And
if he does, will the leaders stand it:
and the wheel horses, what will they
do.?
But after all the legislature is a
great school. After a session or two
they learn not to chip in when it is
not their chip. Some were born to
make long speeches without saying
anything and a few born to
make short talks and say a good deal,
and all were bom to write laws and
offer amendments, but no one has
vet learned the difference between
shall and may. They will take shall
out of a law one session and put it
back the next until the two words
may be called legislative stock in
trade.
Even Terrell, learned as he is, and
to whoso management Travis county
owes so much since he has come to
be the mouth-piece of Hogg, may
learn that one shrewder than himself
tho' not a member of either branch
of the legislature may come nearer
being the father of the commission
bill than he is, and he will find him
self in the condition of the man in
the song, "Booking another man's
baby and thinking twa's his own."
Great is the lobby and Waco pulls
the bow oar.
PERIODS in weather.
A Swiss meteorologist. Prof.
Bruckner, has demonstrated the ex
istence of fairly reerular periods of
auout db years in the cjimite of the
whole earth. These are most marked
in the interior of continents. The
years 1700, 1740, 17S0, 1815, 1750
and 1880 seem to have been centres
of warm, dry periods; while the years
1720, 1760, 1795, 1830 and "i860
were centres of cold, wet periods.
The passage of oceanic air to the
continents was hindered in the warm
periods and favored in the cold, giv
ing increased rainfall during the
latter.
AN EVIL OF MODERN LIFE.
At' a meeting of the Paris Academy
of Medicine, M. Motais contended
that myopia, or near-siahtedness, is
a disease of civilization, induced by
articficial conditions of living. He
supported this new view by aninves
tigation of tho eyes of wild beasts in
captivity. Lions, tigers, etc., which
had been captured after the age of
six or eight months were found to
be, and to continue, far-sighted;
while those which had been captured
earlier, and especially those born in
captivity, were near-sighted.
STRIKES.
Toads and roadsiders are too much authority, could be nothing but ad
neglected, in many ways. j duig eleven more murders to that of
Anent the recent strikes and the
alarming frequency of them for real
or immagmary wrongs, suppose the
farmers who are getting pretty well
organized all over the United States
should decide to strike "go out,'
for a season to bring the market
to terms' Think of the effect.
Wouldn't it be a paralyzer: The
commerce of the world would cease,
locomotives rust in the round house
and freight cars fill the side tracks.
The hum of the factory would cease;
and the merchant would have but
little to sell. Government aid
could not purchase that which had
not been made, and would conse
quently be powerless to avert the
disaster that would follow. How
foolish would be such a strike, but
not much more foolish than some of
tho mechanics who are dependent
upon their daily labor for food and
clothing for their families.
LIGHT-SENSITIVE CELLS.
In an experiment before the Lon
don Physical Society, Mr. Sholford
Bidwell, F. E. S., connected a sele
nium cell with a delicate relay, which
in its turn caused a circuit to be
established with an automatic switch
and an electric lamp. While suf
ficient light fell upon the soleniun,
the electric lamp did not act, but
when the light striking the selenium
fell to a certain degree, the electric
iigtit snone in full brilliancy. The
going out of any lamp could be
signalled to a distance by a similar
arrangement. Different colored glass
interposed beteen the light and the
cell showed peculiar properties in
the selenium, and suggested to Dr.
Thomson the probability that seeing
by electricity will be accomplished
wnen we are able to transmit the ef
fects of the colors to a distance.
ANCIENT GOLD MINES IN INDIA.
In gold mining in India, the
English appear to be not so much
in advance of the ancients as we are
wont to belieye. Wherever indica
tions of gold are found in Mysore,
evidences have come to light of
skillful and syatematic mining at
some remote period. Shafts and
galleries were constructed in places
not easily worked even with modern
appliances, a. mine in Jkoiar was
opened with great difficulty until
hydraulic drills were put in opera
tion, when, after penetratiug 300
feet into the hard schist, the miners
were astonished to find these re
mains of old workings.
A firm of stone-cutters in Berlin
have introduced a pneumatic chisel
into their establishment. The work
man holds the syringe-like appara
tus with both hands, and, as he
slides it over the surface of the stone
or metal, the chisel, making 10,000
or 12,000 revolutions a minute, chips
off splinters and particles.
Immigration is pouring into
Swisher county.
Ladonia has received 2800 bales
of cotton during the season. v
Bee county farmers are con
fident of a big crop this season.
A now Methodist church is in
process of erection at Stockdale.
G. W. Bichil was held up and
sandbagged near Forney recently.
Two Mexicans at Big Springs
got ten years each for horse stealing.
Milford's Baptist church is al
most completed and the furniture
has been ordered.
Two residences owned by Joe
Bruckmuller were destroyed by fire
bunday morning in Marshal.
Policeman John Fenn was
killed at Houston Saturday night.
and the slayer is still at large.
Work has commenced on the
new Baptist church which the color
ed people are building at Tyler.
Waller Coffee, the little fellow
so terribly crushed by the cars at
Sherman Saturday died Sunday.
Cuero Stan Most of the farm
ers of the county have corn up and
their cotton seed in the ground.
Cooke county has awarded the
contracts for seven bridges to bo
built over the creeks this spring.
Alderman Henry Bitter, of San
Antonio, died from the effects of
having his leg amputated Sunday.
Lampasas Dispatch: Peach and
plum trees are in. bloom and many
tanners are through planting corn.
Hillsboro Reflector: It is feared
that the fruit crop will be a failure
on account of the recent cold weath
er. Quince Wilkerson, one of the
prisoners in the Belton jail Jbas the
smallpox He has been in jail nine
weeks.
The tide of immigration' that is
pouring into Tom Green county is
heavier than ever before from all
reports.
Corn planting in Corryell coun
ty is under way and people are busy
planting ana preparing their land
for cotton.
The postoffice at Forney was
broken into Sunday night with a
sledge hammer, but nothing of value
was stolen.
Will Sprouse was iailed at Dal
las Monday, charged with being im
plicated in the killing of Jno. Webb
at Garland.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
People who think are the one who
act. '
No man can live wrong and. die
happy.
If the heart i3 rotten how can the
life be pure.
Prince Napoleon of ITrance has.
had a relapse.
When a woman does not do gooct
she does harm.
is still rising at
A large number of residences
are under contract or under way in
Wolfe City at the present time.
This is in addition to the business
houses and factory projects. Wolfe
City is moving. i, ' ' d
Frank Morgan and Ike Harrison
of Sulphur Springs had a duel with
knives Thursday. They fought near
a wagon and team and one- of them
disemboweled a horse. Both of them
were fearfully cut but not necessarily
dangerous.
When President Lincoln was taken
down with measles he wiote to Col
fax that he might let the army of ' coming up
officeseekers approach, as he had!
now something he could give them.
Kerrville's large and substantial!
nign scnooi Duudmg is completed.
and it will be opened immediately
for the high schooL
Twenty-three cars of fat hogs
for Mexico and 107 cars of fat cattle
for the North passed each other at
Denison Sunday.
An attempt was made Sunday
to destroy the court house at Belton
but by prompt work of the depart
ment it was saved.
Denton county commmission
ers have let the contract for the new
jail at about $25,000. The lowest
bid was about $20,000.
Prof. Dwyer, the balloonist,
was driven against a fence while try
ing to make an ascension at New
Boston Sunday evening.
The new Christian church at
Corsicana, recently dedicated, meas
ures 5Ux5U feet and is crothic in
architecture. The cost was $35,-000.
Limestone county people are
reported to fie opposed to the tax
of 50 cents on the $100 to build a
$65,000 court house at Mexia.
One person in Childress county
made over $500 from watermelons
and turnips last season, and he only
had iu cultivation about one acre of
each.
The Abilene National bank has
increased its capital and surplus to
$200,000, making the total capital of
tne tnree national banks in the city
$425,000.
Ennis claims that that town
will soon have the finest depot on
the Houston & Texas Central rail
way. The plans are all prepared
and work ready to commence.
Corn in nearly all the fields is
up and growing off nicely, says the
Cotulla Times, and the cotton land
is ready for planting some farmers
have already planted. All tho farm
ers are waiting on is a shower or
rain, which will insure the cotton
The Mississippi
Greenville, Miss.
Give a woman your confidence
and she's got you.
No man is strong who has a weak
spot in his character.
President Harrison killed six red
head ducks Wednesday.
Denver's saloons have been order
ed to close on Sundays.
Gen John W. Fuller died at
Toledo, Ohio, Saturday.
Loafers always wonder that busy
men accomplish so little.
E. H. Jackson still holds the fort
with his abducted spouse.
Money can be made in any busi
ness if you attend to it.
Nearly everything that a man
likes to do is bad for him.
Duty is nothing more than honea
ty, industry and patience.
"Every rose has its thorn,'r and
the thorn lasts all winter.
When you have hard work to do.
sing while you are doing it.
The really good man is the
strongest man in the worldT
Chauncey M. Depew is said to-
have a salary of $75,000 a year.
You will seldom find genius and
truth in the same advertisement.
Queen Victoria claims that she
suggested the opera of Ivanoc."
The cigarettes is an illegal lux
ury for youths in twentjr-nine states.
The benevolent Leonard Jerome
of New York died near London,.
Eng.
The greatest rainfall in years is re
ported from Tennessee and Missis
sippi. Before denouncing the world we
should remember that we are part
of it. t
The City ofi Brooklyn is having-its-
first experience with a negro police
man, t
Every man is too extravagant with
abuse, and two economical with
praise. f
Republicans have a majbrityin the
Connecticut house of representa-
tiyes.
it is easier to be brave.in a great
trouble than in a succession oflittle.
ones.
Because a man has a silvery laugh
it does not follow that he has a rich-voice.
Germans in southwest'Africa are
threatened by Witboor, a native-
chief, who has 500 men armed with
breech loading rifles.
SAJRSAPARFLLA.
Isn't one Sarsaparllla as good &
another? 2fo! Ho!! Roll'.
Dont think
think it.
it
Dcsn't for a mrnnnl
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ii you want soil a Earsenarilla,
demand it and (ake bo other. It contains
sarsapanlla. TheJa very Ingredients tht
ingredients that an not found in any other
Some wag recently started the
story that Mrs. Stanley is about to
write a book entitled "How I Found
Stanley." and she is receiving letters
from people who think it is true.
Unusually heavy snow storms havo
cut off communication with Silverton
and Durango, Col.
New York business men propose
to raise $35,000 to erect on eques
trian statue of Gen. Sherman.
make it different from otter sarsapaxillw
aro the most important. In fact, essential
to its curative -virtue. Omit them and
Ball's Sarsapanlla would be as inert as.
the many interior preparations of saraasa
rilla found in many drag stores. 3nu's.
Sarsaparilla contains no unimportant in
gredient. Each ingredient used is ehosta
for its beneficent effect upon the "human
Dr. JOHN BULL'S
system. Combined, they exert a harmo
nizing influence upon 'every function of
tho body, improving digestion, strengthen
ing tho liver and kidneys, cleansing the
blood of poisonous matter, soothing the
nervous system, enlivening the mental
faculties, and in a word, by infusing new
strength and life, completely rejuvenates,
every part and makes one feel altogether
like a new person.
SARSiAPARBLLA
Elmer Hodion, Alvarctto, Tex., writes:
" My strength and health had been failing
ma for several years. My blood was in a
very impoverished condition and very im
pure. My limbs felt lame, rickety and
rheumatic and I could not walk without
tottering. I felt myself growing prema
turely old. and my face besan to look.
pinched and shrivelled. I'auflered j"pa
siderable, was restless at night, very ner
Tous, and growing very melancholy. My
yes -vera sore and I had catarrh. I triad
many tonics, and bitters and blood puri
fiers, but failed to gat better. I finally-
IS THE BEST!
bought six bottles of Bull's Sarsaparilla,
and -before I had used it all I felt like
another man. My strength and health
improved, pimples and sores disappeared
from my person, aches and stiff joints left
me, and I consider myself a well person."
BST There li no other remedy so pleasant
to take and so lure In Its effect as Dr. Dull
Worm Destroyers. Price Scents.
OV There ia one chill remedy whose ef
fect Is a certainty. It hat been tested.ln
many thousands severe eases and never
known to fall. It Is called Smith's Tonic
Syrap. Take no other.
John D. Pari: fe Soxs, Wholesale Agents,
lTSOTandira Sycamore St, Cincinnati, tt
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Joj. Trutram, acnt for above medicines.