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- The Weekly Banner.
J. G. KANKIN. Proprietor.
Thursday, July 30, 1891.
The negroes of Ohio are asking
t,a MVKinl elites some pertinent
questions, which for want of satis
factory answers may cause some 01
them to go .over to the Campbell
.side ot me ngnt.
Ttr a skulkin? sneakinir coward,
nrlio writes an anonymous letter to
otrlnriv. Tf ft man is afraid to sign
lnolofforsvmimavbe sure of two
things. There is some fool threat
that he would be ashamed to ac
knowledge in ik and that he is de
void of the grit to back it up.
Mbs. Maybbick, the alleged hus
band poisoner, recently sued the in
enmnpn cnmnanv in whose office her
husband had insured his life for
10,000, but the Terdict went
against her. The opinion has been
given that this decision will be re
versed and it will devolve upon the
insurance company to prove mat
she poisoned her husoana.
The conflict between the strikin
miners of east Tennessee and the
State militia is watched with inter
est bv government troops. The
State militia are being massed at
JKnoxville preparatory to going to
the coal creek mines for the pur
pose of protecting the convicts. A
resolution was unanimously passed
Jby the miners to appoint a commie
tee to arbitrate the present difficul
ties.
A KoniETv with headauarters at
"Washington composed exclusively of
veterans or the war is to do iormea
with a view to reform existing
abuses in the pension laws. Allen
jL'ooto, special Agent oi me census
bureau, is the originator, and he says
that two-thirds of the pensions
should be stricken from the rolls,
which would reduce the annual ap
propriation by 540,000,000 to S50,
000,000.
Sam Small says the Alliance is a
"horse galloping through the bourn
with great energy." In Texas it
seems to be a bucking broncho and
the efforts of some of the politicians
to ride it and at the same time lead
a democratic horse at the end of a
lariet, with him trying to go quietly
along the old road, places them in a
difficult position and threatens them
with getting dumped over the fence
into a republican held.
' hi
TChe Geological report of Prof. T.
B. Combstock on the mineral re
sources of Central Texas, which the
Austin Evening News says will form
a part of State Geologist Dumbles
report says: "To sum it all up,
and basing conclusions on our pres
ent knowledge of Llano,' the indi
cations for gold or silver in paying
quantities are not good. This does
not preclude the possibility of fu
ture discoveries. One thing is cer
tain, and admitted by Comstock
himself, that there are prominent
traces of gold as well as silver in
Iilano.
Recent events in Eussia and the
continuance of the policy of expell
ing large numbers of poor Jews from
the empire have caused renewed in
terest and activity on thesubject of
a scheme'of colonization of Jews in
Palestine, and a series of meetings
have been held during the week mj
4all the large cities throughout ling
land by branches of the society for
the promotion of this object. It is
proposed to raise a permanent fund
with the intention of lending a
helping hand to those who are ready
to co-operate with the committee by
settling in Palestine.
The Bexar County Farmer's alli
ance on Tuesday last adopted a ser
ious of resolutions strongly condem
ing the Ft. "Worth sub-treasury con
vention and indorseing the sub
treasury plan and alien land law; one
of the resolutions is as follows:
"That the subtreasury and alien land
law demands having been selected
by our enemies as worthy of especial
attack, we therefore give them our
endorsement and invite any and all
opponents to discuss these measures
with the speakers of the Farmers'
alliance, and we mo3t particularly
invite the senators and members of
congress."
It is generally understood says a
"Washington special, that the iiine
new judges of the circuit court of
appeals to be appointed by the pre
sident, will be taken altogether from
the bench. That i to say, it is
President Harrison's intention to
promote judges now in service rather
than to select outsiders. This belief
is founded on truntwoithy informa
tion, as is also the further report
that the president will appoint Re
publicans exclusively to these posi
tions. The chances aie that Texas
will be honored in the naming of one
of the judges, and that thelucky man
will bo Daud E Bryant, new judge
of the Eastern district of that state.
He is known to stand very high at
"Washington, and his appointment
would be in line with the policy of
promotion that the administration
Mas decided to follow.
EBITORIAL NOTES.
Pej ixgtoh's Air ship company
has collapsed.
The crops of Texas were never
more promising.
The whole Southern portion of
China is in turmoil.
Loan Salisbury is said to be in fa
vor of woman suffrage.
Justice Melville W. Fuller, of
Chicago, is spoken of for President.
The Alliance is said to be growing
very tiresome to the Republicans in
Kansas.
Des Moixes, Iowa is said to be
the largest city in the woild without
open saloons.
Cubbexct is being shipped to the
West from "Washington to move the
crop of this year.
Camp Stanley is said to be re
markable for the neat manner in
which it was kept.
The cost of indulging an unworthy
passion is well illustrated in the
Parnell-O'Shea case.
The coal miners at Huntington
and other points in the Indian terri
tory are on a strike.
The National convention of the
National Farmers' Alliance will be
held at Indianapolis.
The Wall street Stock Exchange
is said to be duller than it has been
at any time for years.
The triennial assembly of the gen
eral council of Royal Arch Masons
are in session in Minneapolis.
The San Marcos Chautauqua has
closed S1,T00 that was raised at its
conclusion to erect more buildings.
Mbs. Olabdy spoke at Rockwell
Tuesday, announcing as her text
"Free trade and more greenbacks."
Between ten and fifteen thousand
people attended the anniversary
celebration at Leonard on the 22nd.
A poiXTEB for those visiting Aus
tin on Sunday. If you don't want
to be too dry join the Pickwick
club.
Pabis is to have another daily pa
per, which is to be published by a
stock company with a capital of
S10.000.
Thus far an aggregate of $2,665,
000 has been appropriated by
twentynine states for representation
at the World's Fair.
Alliance meetings are being held
all over the State and with great
unamimity they are endorsing the
sub-treasury scheme.
Ex-Tbeasubeb Pope of Tennessee,
who defaulted in March 1890, for
the sum of S70,000, has been arrested
in the City of Mexico.
m With the proposed constitutional
amendment to the school law the
public schools can then be run
eight months in the year.
One per cent of the permanent
school fund will prevent the school
tax from being raised. Vote for the
constitutional amendment.
The prospect for low prices for
cotton counteracts the exuberance
of good spirits with the farmers at
having raised a'good crop.
It is said that the whisky man of
Kentucky are troubled with a sur
plus. That's where they differ with
the present administration.
A bevolt has occurred in Buenos-
Ayers, and several men were killed
m the outbreak before it was sup
pressed and the leaders arrested.
The man arrested as "W. H. Pope,
defaulting treasurer of Tennessee,
proved to be Governor Carlos R.
Ortiza, a member of congress from
Sonora.
The Tennessee coal miners have
the sympathy oHhe people in their
ngut against convict iabor, and the
Tennessee papers are speaking out
in no uncertain terms about it.
The unveilinc of the statute to
Gen. Stonewall Jackson, at Lexing
ton. Va.. took place bn Julv 21.
which was the 30th anniversary of the
hrst battle of Manassas, where Gen.
Jackson, then Colonel commanding
a Yirerinia bricade. won his first
laurels in the Confederate army, and
received the soubriauet "Stonewall.
A KEXTUccr erirl has won a nrizn
for an esseay on the kind of a man
to marry and this is her description
of him: "If I wished to marrv
which of course I do not I would
desire a man too noble to commit a
mean act. but cenerous enough in
forgive one. A man as gentle as a
woman, as maniy as a man; one who
does not tilk scandal nor tell dis
agreeable truths. A man whose
name I would be proud to bear; to
whom I could carry my doubts and
perplexitios, and with whom I would
nna sympamy ana oy.
The San Antonio Daily Times has
joined the innumerable caravan of
journalistic angels. But the ghost
of its dead self has appealed slight
ly emaciated, with the "ban Antonio
Daily'- dropped, and calls itself
simply "The Times." It has also
left off dispatches and other costly
robes, and walks forth from tho
tomb of its deceased predecessor
clad in a "knock-around home gos
sip'' costume, which makes it an in-
terehug little matron, who says
she owes allegiance to no masters
save Democratic principles.
STATE NEWS.
Bryan has-elected a permanent
Board of Trade.
A new lodge of K. of P. has
been organized in Houston.
New buildings are springing
into existence in different parts of
the city.
A Denver syndicate has pur
chased the hotel Bovles at Houston
for S150,QOO.
Young Tom Burt of Temple
was drowned while bathing in the
Leon river recently.
The first test of the electric
lights at Del Rio was made Wednes
day and proved satisfactory.
Nora "Webster, of San Angelo
suicided Tuesday night, shooting
her brains out with a revolver.
Dr. Mitchell, once a prominent
Boston minister, but late of Fort
Worth has again been adjudged in
sane. "
A Davidson, arrested at Galves
ton and carried to Fort "Worth for
embezzlement was held in the sum
S500.
The corn crop of Hall county
is reported to be fine, and the rains
last week put the ground in good
condition.
Frost is to have a big barbecue
on the 29th. Hon. J. T. Jester and
Attorney E. J. L. "Wyrick will ad
dress the people.
The Belknaps have presented a
numerously signed petition to divis
ion headquarters to be assigned to
the Third regiment.
Del Rio has quarantined against
the Mexican side of town, thertf.
ing about 20 cases of smallpox
among the Mexicans.
Mr. Otto Petzell, of Corpus
Christ! is the owner of a vicious dog
that has severely bitten three of chil
dren during the past few days.
The walls of the new court
house at Cameron are rapidly going
up, and the water tables are being
cut and will be put in place this
week.
From 5,000 to 7,000 is the
crowd of "horny handed" and their
families that are estimated to be at
tending the Alliance campmeeting
at McKinney.
After a time sheep may be useful
only for mutton. "Wool, the chem
ists say, can be made more cheaply
from wood fibre than it can be
grown on sheep.
A too much married woman
was arrested and taken to Paris re
cently. She was a Mrs. Walter, but
after a six years separation had mar
ried Dan Landers. '
Mr. Rodney Crave, oneTof-'the
old Texas veterans was drowned
while fording the Bosque river near
Valley Mills recently but his body
was not recovered until Tuesday.
John Stevens, for some un
known cause, struck Robert Gibson
on the head near Bonham recently,
from the effects of which he died.
They were 11 and 16 years of age.
Durham, the man who recently
drowned himself in Arkansas, it has
just boen learn by a photograph of
the deceased was the Durham wanted
for killing a man near Terrell eight
years ago.
-Wilbarger county was organized
October 10, 1881, with 200 people.
It now has 7000. This season at
Vernon, the county seat, 1400 plows,
574 self-binders and 54 threshing
machines were sold to farmers.
Wm. Brown, of Chicago, went
to sleep under a coal car at Dallas
one night recently, and a switch en
gine run over him, breaking his arm
and leg and inflicting injuries from
the effects of which he can not re
cover.
There is a probability that the
city council of San Antonio will be
adjudged in contempt of the supreme
court refusing to seat Hoefling, who
after a contest decided by the su
preme court, was declared elected
Alderman.
The killing of Ned Nobles,
colored, at Gonzales by David and
Walter Dubose a few days ago
threatens to bring on more trouble
yet, notwithstanding that on the
preleminary trial it was shown to be
a clear case of self defense. The
negroes threaten to kill them as
soon as they are released.
A negro entered the home of
Mr. Zimmer near Taylor and chlor
oformed the whole family and at
tempted to outrage Mr. Z's 16-year
old daughter. Her father finally
awoke and made at the negro with a
butcher knife, when he jumped out
a window. A posse of 30 well
armed citizens followed tho negro
whose name was Roberts and cap
tured him and was sent to Taylor
to keep him from being lynched.
The Houston Post correspond
ent at Corpus Christi, says he has it
on good authority that a laige body
of laud on tho coast line, south of
Corpus Chiisti, has been acquiied
by tho Corpus Christi and Padro Is
land Haibor company, which about
settles tho location of the great j
ueep water emei prise vol uiett
has been so ardently pushing for
the past several years, and insureu
tho commencement of work at as
early day.
BREVITIES.
Fire this year has cost S50.000,
000.
Chicago will build a home for
working girls.
One New York hotel rents for
S250,000 a year.
Sometimes the lay of the minstrel
produces an egg.
The prince of Wales carries $800,
000 life insurance.
Masculine dwarfs should trayel
by the "limited mail."
A famine is threatened as a result
of the drouth in Russia.
The tallest man in Parsons, Kan.,
is named A. Short Inch.
Ex-President Cleveland has a re
markable memory for faces.
A Georgia woman caught thirty-
three rats in a trap one day.
Schooners Head is near Bar Har
bor, but there's no beer there.
The highest altitude ever reached
by a balloon was seven miles.
A four-winged duck was hatched a
short time ago at Bar Harbor, Me.
The male of the silkworm moth
travels at the rate of 100 miles a
day.
Bee county ginned its first bale
of cotton of the new crop last Satur
day. Portions of Cheyenne county, Col.,
are being desolated by grasshop
pers. The grade of the Brooklyn bridge
roadway is 3J feet per 100 feet of
length.
Over 10,000 acres of grain and
timber land has been burned near
Milton, Cal.
A great financier is a thief who
succeeds. A thief is a great finan
cier who fails.
A church with a poor foundation
never gains anything by having a
very tall steeple.
A method of blasting by electricity
has been tried in Sweden, with re-
Ported good results.
The best kind of religion to have
is not always the kind they have in
the biggest churches.
True worth never seeks credit fqkr
more than it isthat is left.for imita
tors and counterfeiters.
Heaven is always close to the
penitent sinner, but millions of miles
away from the hypocrite.
There is nothing for which a man
has to pay so dear as he does for the
privilege of being stingy.
William Waldorf Astor, the head
ofi his family, is the greatest real
estate owner in the world.
The drouth in British India con
tinues. The poorer classes are suf
fering for food and water.
A Shreyeport (La.) beet of the
blood-red variety weighs forty-six
pounds. It grew on Silver Lake
soil.
On dark nights a white light can
be seen further than any other color
on bright nights red takes the first
place.
Ex-President Cleveland is to be
given a dinner at Sandwich on the
25th by the Massachuetts Demo
cracy.
Two witnesses in a murder at
Buffalo Talley, Tenn., mortally
wounded each other in the court
room. "
A Delaware peach grower says it
doesn't take a frost to kill the set
ting blossoms. A cold wind will do
it as effectually.
A flowing well from which a
strong current of cold air constantly
gushes is the latest curiosity near
Greenburg, La.
A Viennese professor says that
the figure of the average human
male is much nearer perfection than
that of the female.
Yellow fever is abating in Vera
Cruz. All the cases are now confined
to the hospitals, and none is con
sidered dangerous.
An Atchison woman discovered
by accident that peppermint will do
to flavor ice cream when there is
nothing else in the house.
The government has been unable
to locate the man who assaulted
Detective Freeman, and who is sup
posed to be Defaulter Marsh.
It is asserted now that G. W.
Marsh, the Philadelphia bank wreck
er, is on his way tp Brazil, having
started for that county May 30.
Frank Melbourne, the self-styled
Kain iung, succeeded at Canton, O.,
on Tuesday last in bringing a nice
shower of over an hour's duration
according to promise. He now pre
dicts a good rain for that entiro
section on July 11th.
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