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The Weekly Banner.
J. G, KANKIN, Proprietor.
Thursday, July 9, 1891.
Sexatok Horace Chiltok spoke for
two hours at Cameron on the 4th,
his "first spe'ech since his appoint
ment. His speech was in harmony
with the democratic platform adopt
ed at San Antonio.
It was a glorious Fourth. Almost
the entire Union celebrated, and
fewer tragedies are reported than
usual on the occasion of large
gatherings simultaneously through
out the country.
The Arbitrator! published at Cole,
man, is a new bark launched upon
the sea of journalism, with Messrs.
Boom & Futch at the helm. It is a
seven column folio with a patient
outside and is devoted.
The Charleston has returned to
San Francisco harbor with the
Itata with her original crew. They
came direct from Iquique, being out
23 days. She will be turned over
to the United States authorities.
The Baxxer believes there ought
to be an extra session of the Legis
lature, but not lor the sole purpose
of remedying the alleged evil that
.some of our exchanges are claiming
that the alien land law will work.
The receivership investigation de
veloped the fact that Judge McCord
is an advocate of high salaries Two
.men at S10,000 each, two attorneys
at $7,500 each, and a number of
other soft snaps at equally high
salaries.
Haxxibal Hamlik, the venerable
statesman, patroit and diplomat,
former 'governor of'Maine, a Unit
ed States Senator, Vice-Presi
dent from 1861 to 18G4 and once
.minister to Spain, died ot Bangor,
Me., July 4th.
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A frightful wreck occurred on
the Kanawa and Michigan railway
in West Virginia on Saturday last
-when two heavily loaded excursion
coaches went over a high trestle
that had burned the night before so
that the rails spread. One man's
Lead was completely severed from
his body, several killed and dozens
wounded.
' If the International and Great
Northern railway investigation re
sults in the total abolition of the
free 'pass system it will have ac
complished some good, resulting in
a large saving to the Texas roads in
the way of transportation. The
Baxxer believes that no one is en
titled to ride on railways free.
There is no business in the propo
rtion. The I & G. N. receivership inves
tigation at Galveston has at last
ended, and while the Baxxer has
not had the time and patience to
read all that testimony carefully, in
what it has noticed there was no
developments worth the cost and
- trouble of the investigation which
seems to have been inspired by
malace and pushed with the hope of
injury.
- - -Oh...
At the meeting of the Great Sou
thern "Exposition at Kaleigh, N. C,
Cjct. 5, she Northern settlers of the
Southern States will assemble in
mass meeting and state to their
Northern brethren how they are
pleased with their Southern homes.
What they say will be printed in
pamphlet form and circulated in the
North, and will doubtless result in
much good.
The Southern Cadets, of Macon,
Ga., at the interstate drill at India
napolis Monday had some trouble
on the street with negroes and two
of them got slightly hurt. The
trouble created considerable excite
ment and the Cadets marched to the
depot with fixed bayonets and car
tridges in then guns. Fears were
entertainod that the Belknaps would
have trouble on their way home.
A terrible cyclone struck Baton
Rouge Monday, blew down the state
penitentiary and released ten unfor
tunate prisoners of their servitude
by death and seriously injured thirty-six
others. The cyclone was 300
yards wide and scattered devasta
tion as it went. Houses were un
roofed and blown down in the city
to the number of fifty or more and
scenes of greatest horror greeted
tboBe engaged in the rescue of the
unfortunates all along its wake.
The weather service has recent
ly been putunder the super-
mann nnrl fnAlz rn fli nvist,ll-i,...l
bureau, which is all very meat and
proper, as the agricultural depart-1
ment of tho United States is largely
dependent upon the caprice of the
weather. Prof. Nipher, of St. Louis
was selected as the most suitable
muu to preside, but Uncle Jerry
Rusk wired the gentlemen and asked
."what are your politics?" when he
wired he was a scientist that settled
it. It takes a Republican under the
present administration, and a Har-
risou republican to preform any.of
,the duties of government
HORTICULTURE.
Washington Countjr Made the Be9t
Record at the Lampasas Fair.
At the nfth annual meeting of the
Texas Horticulturists held at Lam
pasas recently, there was exhibited a
wide range of horticultural pro
ducts, which demonstrated beyond
preadventure that Texas is as well
adapted to fruit growing as any
section of the union, and that our
own Washington county is in the
lead of all Texas in horticulture,
the
rosedale xursery
exhibit at-tho meeting, having made
a record not only creditable to Mr.
Wm. Watson and his nursery, but
one which Washington county
should feel proud of, for out of
twexty-sevex extries he took
TWEXTT-FIVE FIRST- PREMIUMS
first, on the best general display of
fruits, best collection of pears, best
collection of grapes, and the first
premium on the following varieties
of crab apples : liysiop, xranscen-
daut. Pears: Gen. Toddlebun,
Howell, Duchess, Bartlett. Plums :
Kinsly and Bobinson. Grapes :
Ives, Duchess, Triumph, Delaware,
Empire State, Jefferson, Warden,
Black Eagle, Brighton, Diana, Lind-
ley, Wilder, Black July.
Such a record in competition
with displays from all over the great
state is quite a feather in the cap of
Washington county and should iur
nish an incentive to fruit culture in
this section, for aside from its
profitableness one who has been
through the Rosedale nurseries
could but think it must possess un
surpassed attractions.
The next meeting of the associa
tion will be held at Dallas. J. M.
Howell, of Dallas, was elected presi
dent, C. Crew, of Hempstead, was
elected first vice-president, and H.
M. Stringfellow, also of Hempstead,
for second vice-president.
Mr. Howell next named Mr. D.
r. Watson, oi iirenham lor re
election to the office of secretary,
which position he has filled with
marked ability lor me past year.
Mr. Watson tried to "be,
off"
urging that the duties
of the office
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required so. much of his time as to
conflict to a considerable degree
with his private business, but was
finally urged into acceptance and
was unanimously elected. Mr.
Watson was very highly complimen
ted by Dr. Bagland and others for
the efficiency of his work and his
untiring zeal for the good of the
society. President Kirkpatrick sug
gested that the society vote Mr.
Watson pecuniary remuneration for
his services hereafter, as he so well
deserved it, but Mr. Watson posi
tively refused to accept it, saying
the society was really not in a con
dition to do sot but upon being
promised all possible aid that the
new president could give he agreed
o again devote himself to the work
of secretary for another year. Mr.
Howell said he never knew a more
efficient officer or one so persistent
in reminding members of their
duties, and the society just could
not do without him. Of course his
election was enthusiastically unani
mous.
Mr. Heber Stone, of Brenham,
was re-elected treasurer witnout
opposition.
The re-election of these two
officers from Washington county,
and the high compliment paid
them, and taking practically all the
first premiums that Rosedale nurse
ry entered the contest for, was
surely eneough glory for our -county
at the State Horticultural Society
Fair, but Brenham slept over her
rights by not inviting them here
next year instead of letting them
go to Dallas. The secretary was
not authorized to extend them the
invitation and didn't feel like taking
m'i-ic-r-irrieiil-JltfT nt It-. Itia nnininn
lug loapvucuuuibjj ui "aa ma uuuiiuu
the next meeting would have been
held here.
The Baxxer congratulates Mr.
Wm. Watson, proprietor of Rose
dale nurseries upon tho success he
achieved in making an exhibit and
taking so many first premiums at
Lampasas, while it is a matter of
county pride that Washington coun
ty is the home of such a nursery.
Next year we hope to see him send
an exhibit to Dallas that will cap
ture all the prizes in sight, which he
can easily do, judging from his
past success.
i The railroad commission will fix
express rates for Express companies
on the 15th inst. Houston Post.
Glad to hear it. A long suffering
public, who have had to pay exorbi
tant rates for the service of these
companies will hail with delight
any movement that is calculated to
.make them "tote fair' with the
PeoPle-
jj0 KOveruor has ever beaten the
i present governor of Texas sticking
! t.n l.ic cf finivoafr,n vnm
Exactly. Gov. Hogg is a true man '
never turns his" back upon his
riends, but sticks to them like grim '
, death to a dead negro's shin. '
Jt j
Jxo. Waxxamaker, seems to be-'
I lieve in the advice the old man!
j gave hi3 son "make money honestly, i
'my son, if you can,, but make'
'money.''
THE SPEAKERSHIP.
It is announced from Washington
that Hon. R. Q. Mills will soon be
gin an aggressive campaign for the
speakership on the Western plat
form as opposed to the conservative
notions of the Western democracy.
The Austin Statesman, commenting
on the Washington dispatch, says:
"When Mills lays violent hands on
these same 'conservative notions' it
will be like a robust he-cyclone rip
ping up a plank turnpike and driv
ing it through the pulsating heart
of a colored campmeeting. Mills
understands that the so-called 'con
servative notions of the Western de
mocracy' is but republicanism in dis
guise. Being an honest man, it dis
gusts him, and when he tacles it
something has got to tear. Mills is
a born leader, a man of brains, of
courage. He is no good-lord-good-devil
democrat, no dilletante in
statesmanship. Ho knows what the
country needs and has the courage
to speak forth his convictions with
out any circumlocution or politic
qualification: He is such a man as
an honest, God-fearing people
should be proud of and feel honored
in following. Ho is entitled to the
speakership. He has, by faithful
service shown himself worthy of the
highest honors. He is the most
fearless, the ablest champion of
pure democracy now living.
Last week Rev. Mr. Crawford,
from New Orleans, a white man of
genteel appearance, wealing the
Grand Army of the Republic badge,
made his appearance at Dodd City,
in i'annin county, and delivered a
lecture to a negro audience at night,
after which he went home with a
colored man and went to bed in a
room with two riegro boys. This
was a species of social equality some
of the devilish white boys of the
neighborhood did not take kindly
to, and at once determined to resent
it. Some time during the night
they surrounded the house and fired
several shots, then retired and
awaited developments, the first shots
not having the desired effect they
returned and fired another volley
into the house, wounding one of the
negroes. Crawtord tool: the hint
and hurridly left the building and
made his way to Bonham, where
in a doleful tone he related his "tale
of woe." Served him right.
A debaae on the race question
took place a few days ago at a ses
sion of the Lake Mohonk negro con
ference, at Lake Mohonk, N. T.
The Rev. A. L. Phillips, a Southern
delegate, made a speech in which he
urged that Northern teachers, while
maintaining business relations with
the negroes, should confine their
social relations to their own race.
That was sensible adyice and that
delegate knew what he was talking
about- The whole trouble created
by Northern teachers coming South
to teach the negro, is that by associ
ating with them socially they incul
cate in them a notion that they are
the social equals of the whites,
which will not be tolerated in this
section.
The Nashville American says
Harry Tracy, the Alliance state lec
turer for Texas, is, upon investiga
tion, showing up an ugly political
record in .Arkansas. It is shown
that he stumped the district for I.
P. Langley, the opponent of C. R.
Breckenridge, for congress, and
worked in conjunction with the
state republican executive commit
tee. Thus the records and histo
ries of these Alliance leaders con
front them at every turn. .
The opposition to the alien land
law, it will be observed by those
who notice the trend of events,
comes from the money centers where
corporations have foreign stockhold
ers, who little care for the system
of peonage that ensues where for
eign corporations get hold of the
land by plastering large tracts of it
with mortgages and buying it in.
The Bonham, Fannin county, Al
liance have entered their solemn
protest against the indorsement by
the Ocala and St. Louis demands,
the sub treasury bill, loaning money
on lands and the demands in re
gard to that section of said policy
relating to the final ownership and
control of railways add telegraph
lines in the United States.
The campaign against the accept
ance of the lottery proposition, to
give 1,250,000 a year for the exten
sion of its charter, in the state of
Louisiana, has opened up lively.
One parish has declared to fight to
the bitter end and if need be to re
sort to bloodshed and violence rath
er than submit to the incubus
longer.
Coxgressmax Caldwell, of Cin
cinnati, a Republican of tho strict
est sect, says his party is bound to
win, for "tho rank and file of the
party are touching elbows in their
unanimity of feeling for ths success
of the party." Any how that "touch
ing elbows" business is no indication
of a prohibition movement within
the party.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Four murderers in New York are
to be electrocuted.
Russiax securities have taken a
tumble in London.
Queex Victoria has invited Em
press Eugenie to visit her.
Laboucuere contends that Eng
land is in the triple alliance.
Germaxy is gratified at the recep
tion accorded the Kaiser in Eng
land. The first bale of tho new cotton
crop was received at Houston Mon
day. Vicuxa has been elected president
of Chili. He was Balmaceda's can
didate. The private and savings bank of
Moses Bros., of Montgomery, Ala.,
has failed.
Tammaxv celebrated July the 4th
and boomed Crisp, of Georgia for
the speakership.
Wm. Hexry Gladstoxe son of
Wm. E. Gladstone, is dead. He was
50 years of ago.
The Galveston News thinks that
if Mills don't get the speakership
he will name the winner.
Sax Axtoxio is badly disappointed
at the Belknaps not taking first
place at the Indianapolis drill.
The Baxxer believes that Blaine
will be a candidate for first place in
the next presidential hippodrome.
The artesian wells of New Orleans
are going dry. The oldest one
which has been flowing for six
years having ectirely ceased.
Pbixcess Louise, the gran
daughter of Queen Victoria was
married to Prince Albert of Anholt
at Windsor castle Monday last.
Shxator Plumb thinks it will be
Gorman and Gray in 1892 for the
Democrats, and a man has a right
to think as he pleases this far in ad
vance. The four New York murderers
were electrocuted at Sing Sing early
Monday morning. Their names
were Slocum, Smiler, Wood and
Jugin.
The democratic party needs the
great democratic leader, Hon. R. Q.
Mills, for speaker, and if he is not
given it the party will be standing
in their own light.
Agext Bexxett, the government
agent who is doing the ejectment m
the Indian Nation is said to bo dis
gusted and that the intruders have
been grossly misrepresented.
The fourth parish in Louisiana that
has declared in favor of the third
party movement and decided to put
a full ticket out against the regular
democratic ticket is Calcassieu.
If Phoebe Cousins don't hurry up
with her legal proceedings, the
World's, Fair will have come and
gone and Phoebe will only have a
memory and a nightmare to cling
to.
Politics is the science ot good
government. Then there is no rea
son why the Alliance should eschew
politics. Let the Alliance wade in
and the tallest be the last to go
under. 4
The Michigan house of represen
tatives has passed a ballot reform
bill. If it becomes a law all hope of
the Republicans again obtaining
control of the state will be de
stroved. The citizens of Beinville and Lin
coln parishes in Louisana threaten
revolution, bloody, stern and terri
ble, rather than submit to the deg
radation proposed by the lottery
company.
Ax extra session of the legislature
is demanded from every quarter of
the state, the Galveston News says
for two reasons to do work the last
session failed to do, and to undo
work they did do.
Grasshoppers stopped a Rock Is
land passenger train near Topeka,
Has., recently, covering the track for
four miles. It is feared they will
attack the corn as soon as they are
matured enough to rise." They were
on the track for four miles.
Col. Tom Ochiltree is credited
with matrimonial designs upon the
daughier of Col. North, the nitrate
king, who has S2,200,000 in her own
right. There's nothing like striking
high, and Col. Tom does not lack
the cheeK to reacn ior tne eartn.
To what extent does alien corpor
ations owning large tracts of Texas
land help develop the state? Rath
er do they not hold aloof
from the market and preyent other
sections around it from developing
or being settled. There are two
sides to the question of alien owner
ship of land.
Accordixg to tho ruling of the at
torney -general women can serve as
notaries public under the constitu
tion and laws of Texas. And why
not Thero are many public offices
that they could fill as well as then-
brother man, and their sphere of
usefulness should be enlarged wher
ever it can be.
STATE NEWS.
Smallpox is reported at San
Diago.
Lampasas has organized a fire
company.
Gainesville is about to pave its
streets.
Austin has two young lady bi
cycle riders.
A board of trade has been or
ganized at Bryan.
Over 500 trees were planted in
Vernon last week.
There is talk of a 10,000 acre
silk farm near Runge.
Corpus Christi is crowded with
visitors and prospecters.
Geo. Thomas, colored, was
drowned at Waco Saturday.
Senator Coke says a third party
will not eventuate in Texas.
Miller & Tuttle, furniture deal
ers of Abilene; have assigned.
Daniel Crown, a painter, is
strangely missing from Shepard.
Sixty car loads of watermelons
have been shipped from Hempstead.
Dallas had a small fire on' the
4th, H. C. Clark losing two cottages.
Miss Mollie Brown, of Austin,
The grocery storo of W. B.
Green was burned at Corsicana Sun
day. San Diego has passed resolu
tion condemning the alien land
iaw.
A fire at Abilene Sunday de
stroyed a two-story frame business
house.
left Monday as a missionary to
Brizil.
Fire destroyed the Presby
terian parsonage at Henderson,
Texas.
Bard Burris, of Union, Texas.
was fatally shot by unknown as
sassins.
J. M. Cunningham has been
jailed at Wichita Falls on a charge
of bigamay.
One ofBell county's farmers
made over SHOO off of his oat crop
this year.
Bonham has raised 86,500 of
the $8,000 necessary to build her
street railway.
An unknown man committed
suicide at the Matney House in
Kaufman, Texas.
Mrs. Billie Williams, of Sher
man, committed suicide by taking
morphine Saturday.
The first church of the Chris
tian Scientists in the state of Texas
is being built at Waco.
At a Saturday night dance near
Queen City, Bob Upchurch slabbed
Tom Barnwall dangerously.
Bryan and Corsicana are both
making strenuous efforts to secure
additional railroad facilities.
The protracted meeting held at
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
at Dodd City closed last Sunday.
The contract has been let for
building an addition to the Uvalde
public school, at a cost of, $3398.
The grand jury of Austin coun
ty found fifteen indictments, eleven
felony and four misdemeanors cases.
It is estimated that the cotton
in Rockwall county will make three-
fourths of a bale of cotton per
acre.
The Tyler Democrat says Mr.
C. T. Palmer raised a tomato which
weighs one pound and eleven
ounces.
Will Parson escaped from jail
at Vernon Sunday. He was a trusty
charged with stealing a bridle and
saddle.
The summer normal at Sher
man opened on the 1st, with an en
rollment of eighty-six teachers in
attendance.
On Thursday night, July 2nd, a
colored female preacher held the
pulpit at the colored Baptist church
in Ualdweil.
Mr. Cleveland's portrait has been
placed alongside of those of the
other ex-presidents in tho hite
House gallery.
Ellis county crops are booming
on account of the rain last week.
Corn will be good. There are plenty
of roasting ears now.
The Georgetown Chautauqua
continues to draw large crowds and
much interest seems to be manifest
ed in the proceedings.
Lee Simmons, for killing H. M.
Williamson near Greenville last year
was sentenced at Greenville recently
to 5 years in the pen.
The whoat and oat crops of
Childress are very fine this year.
Mr. E. Howard's oat crop averaged
eighty bushels per acre.
The cotton mill at Fort Worth,
which has been running with 110
looms is to be enlarged. It is ex
pected to employ 300 hands.
Work has begun in earnest on
the new cathedral at Palestine, a full
corps of workmen having been set
to work Monday morning.
Mr. G. W. Trapley, a Jones
county farmer, made thirty -fivo
bushels of wheat per acre on some
land which was broken last July.
The directors of the Texas
World's Fair Exhibit association
have appointed Mrs. Gov. Hogg as
honorary lady manager for Texas.
There were twenty-nine addi
tions to the church during the Witt
grove meeting. Fifteen of the neWi
members took membership at Lanj
caster.
KOrmM'C llmni- -haa "CTa
Worth report that the melon crci
ml I I a AT ! !. i 5 3M
iii uc iub luigetL raiseq in yea
uu mo jjuoiuuH me uuest yet grc
m mat section.
A fine bucrffv horse of .1 Tl
Cheney, of Richmond, died of hy-
aropnobia last Monday, having been
uuien Dy a mad dog some twoj
weeks ago.
A man named Sapps was kill
on the Missouri, Kansas & Ti
railroad near Celeste Saturday j
xie went to sleep with his hi
the track.
Lafayett Rogers reed
cencea to death m Dollati
of criminal assault, is tbj
man ever sentenced to ,
las county.
Dalian countv is t
J.ne election lor eonl
county officers will be h
Texline is the leading cai
the county site.
Lewis Brnch. colored.
tried at Anderson, found fui
given five years in the nenifS
iur ruuoing k. n. xempieman s 31
in ixavascta
The 3-year old daughter of
Capt. C. W. Pierce, was drowned at
Cisco Saturday, fallincr off a foot locr
across a creek trying to follow its
mother to the watermelon patch.
The Alvarado roller mill and
elevator was burned Saturday morn
ing. It was insured for $25,000,
but cost originally $35,000 and ex
tensive repairs had recently been
made. WT
Partial showers have fallen in
Milam county but a good rain is be
ginning to be badly needed. Some j
of the corn is made, but a great w
deal of it will be short unless it gets
more moisture.
Private Jas. Wilson, of Co. A,
Fifth infantry, at San Antonio, has
been arrested for the murder of Jul
ian Jaso. Three of the same com-
pany have been arrested for cattle
stealing. . At Forest, on the 2nd inst.,
John Felder fired a load of buck
shot into Mack Beasly's corpus. Re
sult of an old feud. Felder surren
dered. Both parties to the fracas
are highly colored.
Several fine residences f re in
course of construction at Palestine.
The engineers are at work on the
plans for extensive improvements
on the waterworks, and the workoLji
construction will begin as saSaas" J
they are completea.
The corpse drawn from the-j
gulf in a seine by fishermen, at Gal-
veston, on June 25th, was not that
of B. H. Thomas, the painter.
Thomas is in Austin as lively as a
cricket. The identity of the corpse
remains a mystery.
P. D. Dunwoody, an employe
of the Ft. Worth and Rio Grande
railroad was killed at Logan's Gap
Saturday by falling from the con
struction train while in motion, five
cars passing over ms body mangling; y
him almost beyond recognition. v.
W. JS. Taylor, an attachee or
the Corpus Christi and South American-railway,
while riding through
the Santa Gertrude pasture last
week, was struck by lightning, in
stantly killing him and his horse.
Taylbr was about 23 years old and a
native of Bell county.
A commodius- tabernacle, or gfe
shed has been erected in the edge
of a beautiful live oak grove, near
Eagle- Lake, in which a union pro-
traded revival meeting is being heldp
by the Methodist and. Baptist de
nominations. Several 'distinguished
divines from both denominations
have promised to be present.
Hon. H. A. Spepcer delivered
his great speech on "banking with
out money" at Sulphur Springs on
the 3rd inst., in which he proposes
the issuance by the government of
certified checks secured by labor
contracts, real estate mortgages,
warehouse rpcpiptr, or any other
tangible comi.'f-rcial s- runty. Hon.
Leland Stanffard, the California
railroad millionaire, is one of his fa
vorites for the presidential nomina
tion in 1892. K
Texas gets three prizes out of
seven in the interstate drill at India
napolis, and the state is booming
there. The Dallas artillery feel ju
bilant over first money and the Sea
leys are feeling good over taking
third in the free-for-all contest, with
the Belknaps taking second, whiclw
was a surprise to everybody. They
were conceded by the general pub
lic to be first, with the reservation
that the judges might change it 4$
few point against them. They lost
by ouly three points, and this was by
carelessness of members who thought
they had it. The Branch Guards
openly acknowledged that the Bel
knaps can go on the field to-morrow
and take it back bv a' good score.
Captain Green says he had rather
given up all the money and kept that
cup of Galveston's, as the Houstou J
Light uuaras will twit them on los
irg it.
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