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The Weekly Banner
" OBcial Journal of Green's Brigade Association
J. G. UANKIN, Proprietor.
Thursday, March 19, 1891.
-New Orleans is discussing the ad
visability of having a paid Fire' Department.
The National Alliance organ pub
lished at Washington says the Alli
ance is growing.
"XHE TAKMISB PATS FOKALL."
People who Btudy the report
Sockless Jebry Simpson denies the
allesration that he even wears half
hose. Oh! yes, he must-wear stock
ings that's the reason he is sockless.
Rtbptabv Bujse has sailed for
Europe with Ex-Minister Foster to
lay lusplanB of reciprocity with
Onba before the Spanish Govern
ment.
United States Senatob George is
pleased with the result of the recent
congress inasmuch as he thinks it
insures the success of the party in
1892.
New York in a furore over the re
port of a revolution in Cuba which
is said to include Havana, Mantan
zas, Cienfuecos and most of the im
portant parts of the island.
The eeneral reioicine all over
Ulinios over the election of General
Palmer is an evidence of the. fact
that the people heartilyapprove the
ratification by the Legislature of the
people's choice at the polls in the
senatorial matter.
The Indian is a warrior by nature,
and the plan of the Secretary of War
in employing the Indians as soldiers,
may settle the Indian question. The
French- employed the Arabs in Al
geria and presented trouble with
them.
The members of the board of con
trol of the World's fair have been
considering financial questions for
several days', and the result will be
a report recommending a reduction
of salaries and expenses m the ad
minietrative department of the com
mission.
.
At the beginning of the present
session of the Colorado Legislature
the House of Representatives elec
ted Mr. Hanna'its Speaker. Mr.
Hanna was continued in that posi
tion only for a week, when the
House changed its mind in regard
to iim, or .grew tired of him; and,
then, by a majority vote, it declared
the Speakership vacant, and elected
another Speaker, Jesse White, to
the chair. The supreme court of
the Btate has just decided that they
had the right to do this. The ac
tion is noted for the reason that it
is without a precedent.
NATIONAL FINANCK.
S aator Pfeffer in a recent address
in Washington denounced the policy
of the Treasury Department in oc
casionally intervening to relieve the
stringency of the market as wrong
in principle and an injustice to Kan
sas and the West He wanted the
stringency relieved, not by anticipa
ting the payment on bonds or by
purchasing the people's indebted
ness at a premium, but by the issue
of more money. He favored the im
mediate issue of $500,000,000 in $1
treasury notes. This sum, or so
much thereof as was necessary, he
would loan out, 10 per cent of each
loan to be paid each year, 9 per cent
to be applied to the extinction of
the principal indebtedness and 1 per
cent covering the interest. In that
way he believed it possible to re
deem every mortgaged home in the
land within a period of fifteen
years.
Ex-Congressman Warner attempt
ed to get at the-Sansas Senator's
meaning a little more clearly by
putting a few questions to him. To
these Pfeffer replied that' Gen.
Warner and himself argued upon
separated premises, the questions
being based upon the monetary sys
tem, which made money the stand
ard of value ob well as the medium
of exchange. His own. system eli
minated from money not only the
element of intrinsic value but the
power to limit or control the value
of things of use. He continued
speaking in this strain for over an
hour, and as one of his auditors re
marked. "If the people of Kansas
are not proudof their new Senator
aow2theyaPevertwilY,bel-. , 2LJ
of
the commissioner of Agriculture,
who keep abreast of the census bul
letins, know how great a man the far
mer really is, but it would be news to
many to find how momentous the ag
ricultural interest of the county are.
There are some who are inclined to
make hurry over "old hay seed" to
put him on the stage as a figure of
fun, to class him aB prey for the
bunco steerer, but at this season of
the year, and at the honest at be
comes apparent that the toiler of the
soil is a much more important man
in the common-wealth than is gener
ally conceded. Just now the Al
liance movement shows that when
these same tillers of the soil pull
themselves together and take a hand
in affairs political of the nation, they
are there an important factor. But
in the agricultural reports, though
facts and figures may to some seem
dry it ib unavoidable in singing
peans of praise to the farmer.
Did space and the reader's capacity
for figures permit, much that is in
teresting and remarkable might be
said concerning the heavy impor
tance of agriculture as a factor in
commercial movement. It might
be said, for instance, that
according to the report of the com
missioner of agriculture for the
season 1889-90, there were, then, on
the farms of this country 13,663,294
horses, values at S982,194,827; 2,257,
574 mules, valued at $179,444,4815
15,298,625 milch cows, valued at
8366,226,376; 35,032,417 oxen and
other cattle, valued at $597,236,812;
42,599,079 sheep, valued at $90,640,
396; and 50,301,592 swine, valued at
$iiyi,307,193. Adding these sums
together, it is found that the total
number of farm animals was 159,-
152,481, valued at the vaBt sum of
S2,507,050,058. It must be under
stood, too, that these figures, vast
as they are. are, in all probability,
made up from the various assessors'
reports, and that, if that reports
are perhaps 30 per cent below the
actual mark.
The vegetable crop for the last
year was valued at $49,500,000, the
fruit crop at $100,000, beef and veal
$360,000,000, mutton $45,000,000,
milk, butter and cheese, $372,000,
000, poultry' $200,500,000, cotton
seed $48,000,000, the cotton crop,
for the same year being worth $219,-
046,000, the sugar and molasses
crop $408,945,000. Adding all these
figures together we find that the
farm products of the United States )
ior lbba u, including stocfc, reacneu
the grand total of $5,256,620,041.
The San Fran'cisco Argonaut from
which these figures were culled con
cluded a long agricultural report
with the statement that agriculture
to-day maintains about 209,000,000
in Ihe XT. S., Europe, Canada and
Australia, and represents a capital
of $100,000,000,000.
All tnese ngures ana many more
might be instanced toi show the
greatness of the fanner and how true
was the English sign board which
had on it four figurers the first a
king, labeled, "I rule all"; the second,
a priest, with the the legend, "I
pray for all"; the third, a soldier,
with the inscription, "I fight ior all";
and lastly, a farmer, whose boast
was, "1 pay for all."
HTATE NEWS-
A mad dog was killed at Mar
shal Thursday.
Snow fell nearly all day at Sher
man Thursday.
The smallpox excitement in
Southwest Texas has subsided.
The tender vegetation has been
injured by frost at Floresville.
Another one of the Edwards
heirs has been found at Albany.
The prospect for wheat in Har
deman county still remains bright.
A reunion of the blue and the
gray at the World's Fair is proposed.
The grand jury recently in ses
sion in Columbus " found 53 true
bills.
A great many cattle are dying
in and around Haskell county owing
to the cold spoil.
Santos Lopez Las been jailrtl at
San Antonio for smuggling horsas
across the Bio Grande.
There were fifty chattel mort
gages filed with the County Clerk
at Waco m one day recently.
But Spencer, of "Uvalde, has
been arrested charged with the mis
appropriation of public funds.
Ernest Linnert, a farmer living
near La Grange committed suicide
Thursday by shooting himself.
Memorial services of the fire
deceased members of tha last Legis
lature were held in the House Fri
day. Tom Doskin has been arrested
on three charges of the theft of
horses in Karnes county. He gave
bond.
The dummy line from Waco to
Alt a Vista is completed, and trains
will begin running the latter part
of this week.
Pat Dwyer, a bridge carpenter
whose home is in Sherman has been
missing since February 25th and
loul play is suspected.
The examining trial of Albert
Cress, charged with the shooting of
A. D Walden, came up before Jus
tice Seymour at Salado.
The Missouri, Kansas and
Texas is erecting extensive shops at
Greenville, which when completed
will give employment to 600 men.
A dispatch from Gainesville
says that an officer was there Tues
day hunting for a young white
woman who run away from her home
in Greenville last Sunday for the
purpose of following a young negro
man to Guthrie, O. T. She was not
worth hunting.
Anthony Golden, charged with
burgiarizing the Fort Worth and
Denver depot, was sent up for two
years. t
The Santa Fe has contracted
with a Topeka firm for the erection
of a hospital building, 70x140 feet,
at Temple, to be three stories high.
A jury at Belton. in the case of
S. H. Hickey, charged with theft,
after having been out eighteen hours
stood "six and" and were dis
charged.
Dr. Samostz, a druggist of Aus
tin, has-been sentenced to two years
iD the county jail for aggravated as
sault and throwing acid upon Dr.
Bennett.
Alf Cross has been arrested at
Belton charged with the attempted
assaasination of D. C. Waldem, and
was granted bond in the sum of
$1000.
C. C. Hcoden and Aid Crowder
had a difficulty at Commerce, which
resulted in Hooden's being stabbed
near the heart. He will die; Crowder
is in jail.
The saloon of Wischan &
Cooper was broken into at DeKalb
Thursday night and robbed of
whisky and what cash there was in
the drawer.
The third hearing, m the case of
James Massey, who killed Mose
Burton, came up before Judge Burke
at Dallas. The defense is that Bur
ton was too intimate with MaBsey's
wiie.
Many new farms are being
openaa up in xom ureen county.
and largo crops of cotton are expec
ted irom tne irrigated sections.
3omo raised a bale and a half last
vear and assert that that is not the
limit.
' Lumber'
All kinds of Building Material!
Best Lime, Cement and Brick.
Piciets snfi Ceflar Post, Cypress Cisterns Glita Wire, Mlm Mowers
Hay Rakes: Farm Wagons.
FEAJMK W. "WOOD
DBAIiEBIN
General Bardware,
FARMING IMPLEMENTS, FENCE WLRb,
paints, oils, yarish, widow glass, im-pipe
ffiuaps, Steam Sittings, Rubber Setting, &c.t
West Sandy Street. BJRExTHAM, TEXAS.
HERMANN FISCHER,
WHOLESALE AND EETAIL DEALEE Lw
The cold weather is driving the
negroes out of Oklahoma and they
are coming south by the scores.
They are the immigrants that Mc
Cabe imported into Oklahoma from
Arkansas and Texas to starve. They
very indignant and claim that
their friends who are going to tough
it out in Oklahoma are going to call
on McCabe for assistance to keep
them through the winter. A mob
of cold and hungry negroes are des
perate enough to do almost anything
and as their violence is directed to
McCabe and his clique there will not
be many white people interest them
selves in in it. The above are the
sentiments of all the negroes your
correspondent has conversed ,with
on the subject.
Western and Texas Produce,
Imported and Someotio
WINES, LIQTTOBS, OIGAB8, TOBAOOO,
Delicacies, Candies, Preserved Vegetables, Fruits, Itfeal,
Eish, Piokles, Canned Emit, Huts, etc.
BRENHAM TEXAS.
Sole &gent of Anfcauser's Celebrated St. Xitrais Ber
tST ICE IN QUAKTITIES AT LOWEST RATES -S
Lowest wholesale prices to the trade 1 Pays tho highest m&r&e
price for Cotton and other produce.
f
H. W. GRABEB,
JEWELER
BRENHAM, TEXAS.
m
Fbiohtful storms have prevailed
the Southern port of England
during the past week and great- suf
fering is reported. Several towns
and villages completely isolated.
PALA
O
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OF BEAUTY!
A boy died in Baltimore who had
been smoking cigarette and eating
pie, and of course the crusaders
against the use of tobacco lay it all
on the cigarettes, though it may
haye been the pie.
i -
Texas does everything on a grand
scale. Even her cotton bales are'
much larger than in any other state
the average being 531 pounds with
Alabama second, her's averaging
501.
Hen-
Srx of the prisoners in the
nessey case at New Orleans were
discharged and the other three vir.
tually discharged. Great dissatis
faction was manifested at the result,
and a mass meeting called. The
prisoners were remanded to. mil to
'-- r .: , "" - - 5fJ
answer another charge & -
rTrr - !. Z.' f
Wbtte caps are organizing in"Ok-lahomaands?trouble"isTexpected0&-tween
them and the deluded negroes
who were, induced to go there from
all parts of the South. The white
caps want the negroes to leave and
tho negroes in defiance say they will
burn the town before they go, if
made to -leave.
Now Opened to the Public!
Who are invited to call and inspect tho
STOCK of JEWELEY
Kept By
Ae Ti THREi
SOUTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.
New Fall and Winter Goods'
"We have now in Stock an elegant line of Dress;
Goods in all the new styles of "Wool Palmes, with
trimmings to match.
LARGE LINE OF MEN'S, YOUTHS AND CHILDREN, CLOTHHK,
Stetson Hats, all shapes. C. P. and other popular
makes of Corsets.
Our Line of Carpets is EFow Complete.
Have just received a large shipment of the popular
John Kelly Ladies, Misses, and Children Shoes.
The Largost, Most Complete and Varied Assortment of
Hesby Wattebsos, the bright
brainy, and presistent chaperon of
the "Star eyed goddess of Reform"
thinks David Bennett Hill is done
for; that he will go down in the
Senate Maelstrom "overhadowed by
Morgan, Gray, Voorhees, Buttler
and others; "that he will lose con
trol of the machine and that will bo
tho endlpfihim.;
kails, Jewelry, Silverware, this,
Watches Spectacles Etc.
Ever placed upon this market, and at prices that will astonish you.
portion of this immense stock was purchased at Galveston at
Brenham Marble and Granite Worfel
JEGG-LI & MARTIN, Proprietors,
MARl U jb'.A.CraCrXgJEJEa.S OF
AND DEALERS Hf
ALL KINDS OF MONUMENTAL WORKS.
Fine Statu ry. Tombstones, CroEses, Vaults, etc, ou
of the best Italian and American Marble and Pomes
tic Granites, Carved work and Drapery a specialty
Lan;e Slabs tor Fruiters and Candy JLraufactnrs
furnished. Estimates carefully made for any work in
Marble, Granite or Stone, Jlarble and Stone Curb
ing, also Iron fencing for burial places or lots always
kept on hand, can furnish same, as also Cresting and
Ornaments for private residences, etc, very cheap.
We. guarantee you the most artistic and best of
workmanship and stock at tho very lowest possible price, and will sell you at all timeA 25
percent cheaper than any Marble dealer or agent for such from a distance. Come and.
see us or write for designs and prices before buying elsewhere, wewiUserTeyouprcmptkr
Sandy Street, - Brenham, Texas.
Forty Cents on the Dollar !
Being the E. P. Shaw stock, sold ior tho benefit of his creditors. Ail
of which will positively be sold
BELOW EUEW YORK COST!
So cheap that, if you will come and cxamino my stock, the astonish
ingly low prices will furnish tho desire for you to become tho
purchaser of tho rare bargains I am offering.
A. T, THREADGILL
war .a. wood fe on..-?
Lumber Yard.
In stock -all kinds of
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Windows, Doors, Blinds, Door and Window IJVames, )
LIME and CEMENT.
GENUINE GL1DDEN FENCE WIRE. STUDEBAKER W
Good Goods. Low Prices. Give us a call.
W. A. WOOD & CO., Brenliam, Texs