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ThB Weekly Banner.
BY RANKIN & LEVIN.
Thursday April 29 18SG.
Paws is putting forth noblo ol
forts to sccnro an extension of the
Golf Colorado and Santa Fo rail
way and about ?24000 of tho
amonnt required has already been
raised.
The San Antonio Light is an ad
miror of Randall because of his
high tariff proclivities and says.
he is all wool a yard wide died in
tho fleece and warranted not to
fade with Ohio and western flock
matters. It pnts .Morrison down
as jnst tho opposite.
At a meeting of business mon in
Longviow a subscription of capi
tal slock to tho amount of 53000
was raised for publishing a Demo
cratic wockly paper in that place
Sam Cundiff G D. Harrison 1. II.
Crutchor. C. W. liawronco E. a.
Terry A.S. Taylor and Dock Pc-
gues wore choson directors.
Col. Charles DiEoese of Rod
JRiver county was at tho Texas
Veteran reunion at Dallas. Ho is
dead against Swain and wants to
bo governor himsolf. There was
it scorns a goncral gathering of
tho politicians at tho reunion
Swain was there but Ross was
sick and unable to attond.
The Houston Post says Mr. O.
T. Holt is tho coming man for
stato sonator. Thad is a native of
Washington county a clover gen-
lal gentleman; a man of broad
viows well matured ideas ; a truo
democrat firm in what he conceives
to bo right and just. Tho Banneb
hopes he may bo nominated and
elected.
The Victoria Advocate received
a circular proposing to furnish
Judgo Torrell's late speech in sup
plement form for that paper lreo of
charge in ordor that it might gain
circulation through tho mails
freo of chaTgo. Tho Advocato ad-
mits Judgo Terrell's shrewdness
and ability but is not disposed to
"vouch for his political honosty."
The Galveston Tribuno thinks
tho noxt legislature of Texas can
earn tho cratitudo of all good citi
zens by making the crimo of rape
punisbablo with death. Tho man
who in anger shootsjdown a follow
man may bo pradoned but tho
fiend who assaults an innocent wo-
man should bo promptly sont to
bades by tho shortest route possi-
ble The president has withdrawn tho
nomination ofO. VT. Powers of
Michigan to bo chief justice of tho
supremo court of Utah. It was
shown to President Cleveland that
certain acts of quoslionablo moral-
ity were a blot on the record of
tho nominee and the prosident
very prudently rovoked the ap-
pointment. The Victoria Advocate mentions
thp killing of two bald eagles on
tho Sau Antonio rivor last weok
tho male-weighed 13 1-2 pounds
and his wings measuring 7 f eot four
inches fromtip to tip; while tho
other weighed 11 1-2 pounds and
measured six foot and seven inches.
Both birds were literally covered
with lice and very thin and
emaciated.
The tostimony of Gould before
tho investigating committeo of the
House on the labor troubles oc-
cupies upwards of four columns
in tho Galveston News. Ho said
among olhor things that so far as
the striko was concerned it was a
matter of the past on the roads
with which he is connectod in the
southwest. They aro all in opera-
tion without any intcrferanco.
The Cloburno Chroniclo sounds
tho alarm and democrats should
not bo slow to heed its warnings.
It truthfully remarks: When you
sound it to the bottom in.raost in-
stances you will find that it is old
oppononts of the Democratic par-
ty who aro trying to draw tho
Farmers Alliances and Knights of
Labor into political affiliation and
and tho nomination of candidates
for office. Let Democrats bo on
their guard. In Democracy alono
is tho truo safeguard to political
freedom and social elovation.
There has been a wonderful rush
of travel to Kansas lately the
trains passing through Kansas City
being crowded almost to overflow-
ing. This condition is brought
about by tho law regarding homo-
steads under which at least 100-
000 families will havotomovo into
and settlo in Kansas during the
present year. There aro that many
homestcade pro-omptcd there own-
ership in which can be completed
only by tho claimants sottling on
tho properly. Union Depot at
Kansas City constantly crowded
with travelers.
The Philadelphia Press has tb'S
description of Miss Folsom to
whom it Is said tho President is to
bo married in June from one of
her schoolmates at Aurora: "She
is tall and June-like in outline
with soft brown bair neither light
nor dark which sho wears combed
loosely back from her face and
coiled high on her head. She has
a steady toxturo of skin and a
complexion of ivory whitoncss nil
the red on her face glowing in her
full and beautiful lips. Violet blno
eyes full round chin awell-sbapod
noso and a fino profile complotes
tho pictnro of hor who was admit
tod to be one of tho handsomest
girls in the college"
rAIlTY FEALTY.
Tho tondency of political jiarty
managoment is demoralizing and
wbilo wo cannot hopo to remedy
tho evil yet as a public journalist
wo proposo to uso what littlo in
fluence wo havo in battling against
political wrongs no matlor in what
nartv thov mar bo found. It is
well enough lor professional poli
ticians and tho woods aro full of
thom to appeal to tho passions of
tho pooplo to induco them to sup
port cortain measures upon the
plea that on their individual voto
deponds tho glory and wolfaro of
tho nation that part- treason is
disgraco and ruin; but unless this
is mado with the earliest eoiivie'
tion that tho mon and measures ad-
vocated aro necessary to tho pro
motion of tho public good it is
neither patriotic nor honorable to
say tho least of it. Howovcr it is
jnst in this manner that thousands
of men aro enrolled in tho political
parties of tho country and mado to
do duty under leaders whoso con-
trol is absoluto tlio great majority
in somo locations having no intcl-
ligiblo idon of cither tho men or
tho measures for which they voto.
The ballot box furnishes American
citizens tho means of determining
who shall bo their rulers and law
makers. Tho casting of a ballot is
a very simplo matter but is fraught
with grave results; ncvcrlhloss it
is accompanied with a vast amount
ofpolitical machinery andtrtciti
cry and frequently with regard
forncit hor honesty or decency
means not calculated to inspiro
confidence in cither tho independ-
ence of intolligonco of tho people.
Tho political parties aro nocessary
under freo government no ono
will question ; and tho moro near-
ly they aro equal in numhors tho
puror will bo theso parties. Tho
natural tondency oi all monopolies
whether in politics or in business
is to corruption. That there should
bo a certain amount of cohesivc-
noss in politics thorough and sys-
tematic organizations no ono will
question but all parties should bo
hold together by tho announce-
ment of principles which will com
mend themselves to tho reason and
intelligent apprehension of tho
membors of tho party lint no
disrcputablo means should be used
to forco obnoxious men or moaS'
urcs upon tho voter. A stolid ad-
heronco to party under any cir
cumstances is fraught with disaS'
tor.
It is a well established truth that
there is no security outsido of in
dividual freedom ; and as no indi
vidual person can control or regu-
lato his own affairs without tho
fullest excrciso of freedom of both
thought and action subject only
to the laws of propriety and socie-
ty neithor can thero bo any purity
of action in parly without tho
freedom of thought and action of
its members subject only to such
wholesomo rules and regulations
as aro necessary to securo tho or-
ganization and unity of tho party.
Fealty to right should always bo
superior in tho mind of evorj
voter to fealty to party.
The Bonham News is a staunch
democratic journal and always ox-
presses it opinions with forco and
firmness. It now thinks our great-
est need is good men in our legis-
lative halls; mon who aro puro in
heart and action men who daro to
do right because it is right men
who havo tho norvo to riso above
solf and selfish motives and will do
all they can for tho good of their
country.
The combined capital of tho firm
of the Rothschilds is now placed
by persons who pretend to know
at tho sum of 81000000000 ono
halfof it gamed within tho last
twenty-fivo years and tho wholo
of it in scarcoly moro than a cen
tury. Tho loundcr of tho family
and its fortunes Mayer Anslcm
was a poor clork in a Hanover
banking-house.
The Kentucky legislature has
passed a law making gambling an
offonso punishable by a fine of $500
and confinement in tho penitentia-
ry for not loss than ono nor moro
than thrco yoars besides disquali-
fying such persons from holding
any offico whatovcr either stato
county or municipal.
.
The Bronham Banneb informs
tho LaGrango Journal that tho
Texas Press Association will meet
at San Antonio on the 18th of next
month. Wonder whero tho Ban-
ner got its information as to tho
timo? Fairfield Recorder.
From tho President and Sccrcla
ry of the Association of course.
Give us another ono.
The Houston Ago says tho
Knights ofLahor and tho Loyal
League aro tho only two secret or-
ganizations in America that at-
tempt to run tho politics of tho
country.
TnE democrats of Palo Pinto
county will nominato a count'
ticket in opposition to tho ticket
recently put out by tho Farmers
Alliance and Knights of Labor.
The Paris .North Texan says La-
mar county may" ho set down as
for Swain for the governorship the
opinions of the Balanco Wheel to
tho country notwithstanding.
The Williamson County Sun has
entered upon tho tenth volume of
its publication and lsJn a prosper-
ous condition.
Geo.
dorer
B. Graham a wifo mur-
was taken from jail at
Springfield Mo. and hanged by a
mob on Tuosday morning
The LaGrango Journal is in fa-
vor of publicly flogging "wifo beat-
ers." Thorn's our sentiments too.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Terrell Star favors tho boy-
colling of tho Louisiana lottery.
Gov. Knott ol Virginia has
signed tho bill making gambling a
Iclony.
The Apacho Indians aro again
raiding tho settlements in Xow
31 oxi co.
Terrell will novcr warm Max-
cv sscat in the sonatc. Jlnrlc our
prediction!
Swain is all right in this neck o'
tho woods so lar as the governor-
ship is concorned.
TnE Spanish sanitary council
has authorized tho practice of
inoculation lor cholera.
The noxt Democratic stato con
vention should bo held at Galves-
ton tho city by tho soa.
The Evening Mail says the rail
road from Fort Worth to Brown-
wood will bo built at oiifo.
Experiments sro to bo tried with
olcctnc lights in tho street cars of
tho Brooklyn City Kailroad.
The widow of tho Into President
Barrios who has a fortune of ?S-
000000 is now living in Now Or-
leans. Baltimore has or"anizcd a cre-
mation company and a cromatory
will bo erected at once in that
city.
The Knights of Labor of St.
Louis threaten to boy.cut the
butchers who sell meals tolloxio's
family.
The Grconvillo Banner thinks
capital and labor should take each
other by tho hand and not by the
throat.
A number of tho striking Knights
at St. Louis havo roturned to work
with tho Missouri car and foundry
company.
The Schulcnborg Gossip NciII
L. McKinnon editor is a now can-
didate for public favor. It is neat
racy and well gotten up.
The Railway Register says tho
labor troubles will soon bo settled
and then thero will bo no moro
disturbances for a long timo.
The Templo Times says Moore &
Walker havo so vorcd their connec
tion with tho Bolton Daily Kows
Got "soured" in about one week
eh!
Prohibition has caused a difi-
ciency in tho rcvonuo of Atlanta
Ga. of nearly ono million dollars
which must be provided for by in
creased taxation.
The Uvalde Hesperian says
ranchman of southern Texas has
made alcohol out of tho juicoof tho
prickloy poar which is pronounced
of superior quality.
The Orango Tribuno truthfully
remarks that if tho noxt Democrat-
ic convention will abolish tho two-
thirds rule thero need bo no fears
of a dark horse.
There is at Fort Worth but ono
opinion of the Into wreck at Alva-
rado and that is that it was
caused by strikers who have lost
their placcson tho road.
Jeff Davis is tho only veteran
of the Mexican war excluded from
tho pension bill now hoforo con.
gress to the everlasting shamo of
tho nation bo it said.
One hundred thousand orango
trees wero planted last winter in
Southorn California. Tho crop
noxt winter is oxpoctod to aggro-
gato 900000 boxes of fruit.
At last a movement has been
placed on foot having for its ob
ject tho erection of a monument
over tho grave of Stonewall Jack-
son. Better late than never.
The legislatures of Now 1'ork
Ohio Rhodo Island and Iowa
adopted resolution's favoring Glad-
stone's home-rulo scheme This
ohtght to mako its adoption cer-
tain. The Orango Tribune announces
that Gen. Ross will open his can-
vass for tho governorship of this
great stato at Sulphur Springs
Hopkins county on tho 8th of!
May.
Dr. Frish tho Austrian delegato
sont to Paris to investigate Pas-
teur's hydrophobic treatment ad
vises tho medical profession ofi
Austria to adopt tho Frenchman's
method.
The Orango Tribuno "knows ol
no roason why Knights of Labor
and tho Farmer's Allianeo
shouldn't tnko a hand in polities."
Well no; notifthoy aro political
organizations.
It. A. Sibley of Edgorly La. is
engaged in shipping bird skins to
Newark N. J. whuro they com-
mand from 5 to 12 1-2 cenls each
according to size and plumago.
They aro used for trimming pur-
poses. The chances for tho passage of a
tariff revision bill during tho pres-
ent session of Congress is consid-
ered anything but promising.
Should tho measure pass tho House
it would very likely bo killed in
tno Senate.
Col. Abnir Tibbitts president
of tho El Paso St. Louis and Chi-
cago Railway was found dead in
his bed in a- Pullman coach near
Frcsnillo Moxico whilo en route
to tho C'ly of Mexico. Heart dis-
ease is said to bo i''0 eauso ol
death.
Charley Day of Cambridge N.
Y. was inviled to call at tho resi-
dence of tho aunt of Nellio Lovo-
joy a sovontcon-year-oui sciiooi
girl to whom ho had boon atten-
tive Ho called tho door was
locked behind him and Nellie's
friends and a clorgyman had no
difficulty in persuading him that
he ought to marry Nollie. Ho did
and at onco disappeared and his
brido has not socn him since
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Ship-building on the Clyde is
improving.
In 1885 Kansas raised a sorghum
crop of 11G000 acres.
Senator Hurst of California" has
an ineomo ol 52000 per day.
It takes at least-thrco persons to
lorm a corporation in Indiana.
Drinking botweon drinks is what
ruins the American constitution.
Thoro is just nowqinto a favor-
able activity in tho raw silk mar-
ket. Tho Fifth Avcnno hotel in Now
York is rented for S1S5.000 per
year.
Tho timo has gono by when men
sneer at poultry raising as a small
business.
Tho rich editor Josoph l'ultzer
lias invented IUUUUU in govern
mont bonds.
Tho past month has been tho
coldest March in England lor
seventy years.
Miss Mary Lcc tho eldest
daughter of tho beloved Robert E.
Leo is in Portugal.
Mark Twain is to bo tho nominco
iiftho KnighlR of Labor for the
mayor city ol Hartford.
The Florida hotels get their
supplies of meat and vegetables
and even lisli Irom JNcw lork
A nugget of gold weighing forty-
seven ounces was takon out of a
mino at Forest City Cal.
Tho Now York Evening I'ost
calls the Blaine educational bill a
"bill to promole mendicancy."
Tho firo mdomnity paid by in
suranco companios on Boston prop
crty last year amounted to over
SiUUUUUU.
Numerous candidates aro alrendy
iii the lielu lor the placo madova
cant by tho resignation of Con
gressman Pulitzer.
Tho Pope of Jtomo is a subscri
her to tho New York Christian Ad
vocate The total circulation ol
tho paper is 07.000.
Tho National bank ut Angelica
N. Y. is wrecked. Its cashier
took 550000 of its money and is
in uanaua ior ms ncaitn.
Two largo pilo-drivcrs for tho
government work in Kentucky
river havo just been complotod at
tho ship yard at Oovington Ky.
Mary Albro aged ID a 830000
orphan hoircsss of Covington Ky
eloped with n sUating rink man
They wero married at Falmouth.
Wyoming cattlo kincs havo pur
chased oiiuu acros in nillsboro
and Manatee counties Fla. for a
caltlo range Tho prico paid was
S5-iouu cash.
Logan's bill to incrcaso tho
army forco to 30000 mon failod to
pass tho senato by a voto of 19
yeas to 31 nays.
A younger brothor of tho famous
Marquis of Quoensberry has just
arrived in ban rrancisco from tho
Sandwich Islands.
Wm. Walter Phelps' belief that
Blaino's nomination is inevitable
has bcon confirmed by his rccont
visit to Maine
Thero aro 25000 boor saloons in
Pans. Sinco they havo become so
numerous not so many thirsty
throats as formerly aro crying.-
"On toBorlin!"
Thero is somo talk in Vermont
ofdowning tho Republican machino
and nominating ox-Collector Wells
of Burlington as a Republican can-
didate for governor.
Mr. A. Cuttor of Louisville Ky.
holds tho championship of pulling
the body up by the littlo finger of
ono hand. He did it six times in
succession in 1878.
A heavy tax is to bo placed on
tho waters from Lourdcsand other
shrines in France and tho govern-
ment oxpects to derive a revenue
of 6000000 francs therefrom.
Tho crime of tholast boy sent to
tho Now Hampshiro roform school
was tho sotting on fire of a passing
load of hay whoroby the farmer
sitting on top of it was uenrly
burned to death.
"Chambermaids" in Mexican ho
tels aro male Indians termed
mazos Thoy are quick and will
niro tncmseives to a stranger
tho capital for 53 a wook giving
their omployer undivided and vcry
woicomo service
A rccont careful calculation
shows that England owns nearly
thrco times as largo an extent ol
colonics as all tho rest of Europe
together. Her colonies aro eighty-
fivo timos as hie as tho mother
country.
The literary St. Botolph's Club
of Boston has begun a series of
weekly "unoKo talks" the room-
bcrs enjoying thoir cigars while
tho chosen spcakor discourses in
an easy conversational way. Tbo
club proposes moving into tho
Back Bay district.
Tho onions of Wothorsficld Conn.
havo long been famous but Sunder-
land township in western Massa
chusetts dovoted sixty-three acres
to that pdoriforous bulb last year
which yipldcd 534 bushels to tho
aero each worth 330000 or about
317 to tho acre
A boy in tho gallery of a Spring-
field Mass. thcatro disconcorted
the actors tho other evening dur
ing a most pnoctin'' part of tho
play. Thp stage had beon darken
ed and ono of tho actors at anoth-
er's approach repeated his lino
'Hark! What is that?" "Rats!
shouted the gamin and the au-
dicnco and actors responded.
At tho foot of Main street in
Danbury Conn. stands a. houso
built by EInathan Osborn in 1696.
It is a low hip-roofed house stud
ded witn enormous beams and
lighted by very small diamond
window panee. Vlion thp British
under Tryon fired tho villago this
was tho only house spared.'
An agent of mo Government of
Newfoundland has boon buying
liyo black earno for tho purpose of
stocking tho Newfoundland woods
with this gigantic grouse. Ho has
had difficulty in procuring many
howovcr and roports that tho ex
cessive rigor of tho past wintorin
Scandinavia has made camo scarce.
Tho Decorator says: St. Louis
furnituro manufacturers aro sour-
ing on Indian territory trade
That land ought to bo tho Mecca
lor all tho Socialists lor m mat
blessed nock of woods everybody
owns everything and thero is no
law to mako anybody givo any-
thing up. That is why tho St.
Louis aro' sick bocauso tbey can't
collect. '
A scheme has been unearthed
to rob VandorbiU'a tomb.
11 pays to quiet politics: Roscoo
Conkling now wears sapphires.
A sample car-load of Alabama
coal has been shipped to Brazil.
Portland Oregon expended
last ycarsiuuutiuu in improve
ments.
Last yoar Cincinnati produced
56000000 worth ol boots and
shoes.
Work on tho Panama canal is be-
ing vigorously pushed for
ward.
A great many peoplo shoot off
their mouths simply to hear tho re
port.
Tho British museum has recent-
ly added a largo number of books
oxtending back into tho sixtocth
century.
From Casllcton Vt. thoro aro
shipped evcy month about 1S000-
000 slato pencils.
Way no MacVcighhas boon olcct-
cd president of tho Philadelphia
Civil-Servico Reform association.
It is estimated that not less than
50000 trees wero planted in Berks
county Pa. on Thursday last
Arbor Day.
Thirteen million sheep nro said
to havo died in New South Wales
within tho last thrco years for
want of water.
A lightning rod which does not
go down into tho ground far enough
to reach perpetual moisturo is
worso than no rod at all.
The government official crop re-
port makes a reduction ol 3500000
acres in tho winter wheat area
Irom that of two years ago.
It is stated that tho British gov-
ernment has decided to subsidizo a
lino of steamers between Brinish
Columbia and Hong Kong and
Australia.
Joseph Lilloy tho oldest ex-
United Slates Senator linihhed his
ninoty-fifth year heartily and in
happiness at Nottingham N. U.
rocenlly.
It begins to look as though tho
sonalorial fight in Massachusetts
might bring tho Republican party
of that stato under tho control of a
now set of leaders.
Tho Atlanta Constitution calls
Mr. Blaine "tho presidential
Herod." Sherman Logan and
Edmunds aro tho "innocents"
whom ho is slaughtcrin".
"Commodore" Strain tho steam-
ship owner of New York is said to
bo worth Si 000000. .Not main-
years ago ho was a counlry doctor
earning Sl.UUU aycar.
It is now understood that Franco
will join the powers in an ultima-
tum to Greece insisting on disar-
mament but will refuse to join in
any naval demonstration intended
as coorcion.
Women govern ns. Let us In
to render them moro perfect. The
moro they aro enlightened so much
tho moro shall wo be On tho
cultivation of the minds of women
depends tho wisdom of man.
Thrco hundred and soventy-thrco
cases of canino rabies wero report-
ed in London and neighborhood
during 1S85 and its 26 deaths from
hydrophobia. Tho greatest num-
bor of cases occurred between July
and Dccombcr.
The happiest placo m tho coun-
try must bo tho town of Webster
N. II. It has no pauper nor crimi
nal and has no rcsidont to whom
it gives aid and thero is no penal
or rolormatory institution nny-
whoro that contains ono of its sons
or daughters.
Thero is a woll-foundod belief
that if unhappily married men and
women spent lianas much timo try
ing to bo contented as thoy do in
trying to bo miserable half tho di-
vorce courts in tho country would
bo out of employment. Very of
ten peoplo find what they look for
in this world whatever that may
be
Tho following is told of a woll-
known London diner-out whoso
love of oysters is notorious. At a
dinner party tho other ovening
oysters wero duly served to him
hut when he got the fourth be sont
his plato nway. Tho hostess by
whom ho sat observing this ex-
pressed hor concern adding "I as-
suro you they aro nativos." "I
don't doubt it" ho repliod : '-but
that last ono I ato was :. settler."
A Nebraska husband went homo
the other day and iound that his
wife has eloped with a handsomer
man. Instead of getting his pistol
and taking tho war path ho quick-
ly settled down to business. When
told a certain sum of monoy would
sccnro tho capturo of his wife he
replicij. "No thank yoUj I will
savo that to oducato the cbildron."
There was nothing heroic about
this but thero was a good deal of
common sense Atlanta Uonstitu-
tion. Domestic differences aro not
confined to our Now York clubs.
Tho other day at tho conservative
in St. James stroet London one
member mado complaint of anoth
er to thp committeo with rogard to
a carcjirig traqsactiqn. Qno night
A won 57500 from B. who settled
at onco. Oa another occasion tho
tables wero turned and A. lost
$23000 to B. but next day gave
notico that ho would not pay as
ho was under thp influonee pt wine
at thp time. Thoy worp bolli com-
ppllod to resign.
Burnet Bulletin: Somo m.on do
not aoetu to remember tho hundreds
of kind words that tho country
paper bestows regularly tho
thousands of harsh things it sup-
presses but whon it chances to
offer a littlo criticism to commit a
slight error or express an adverso
opinion up in arms theso roaders
appear forgetting tho good thoy
bavo road and aro all at onco bit-
ter opposors of 'what they a littlo
whilo ago hugged with words of
approval.
Such is man such is
inc.
Mr. Whitlier dislikos lor him
self biographies and biographers.
Ul courso I am glad ho said to
a rocent visitor "to havo thco tell
my friends anything aboutmo thoy
caro to know ; but such famo as a
mangots from books written about
him alter ho is dead seems to mo
worth very little. 1 havo novcr
thought of myself as a poet in tho
sonso in wnicli wo uso tho word
when wo speak of tho great poots.
I havo just said from timo to timo
tho things I had to say and if has
been a scries of surprises to mo
that peoplo should pay so much at-
toution to them and
remembor
them so long."
STATE NEWS.
Fort Worth is to have a crack
er factory.
Dallas now has two fair asso
ciations.
Moro fenco cutting in San
Saba county.
-Uflicors continue to arrest
strikers at Palestine
Thoro arc 5S7 inmates in the
Austin lunatic asylum.
Nacogdochos is to havo
Baptist church.
San Antonio is to havo n 550-
uuu sanitarium.
Seguiii is to havo waterworks
at a cost ot 835000.
The Bcllvillo Turnvorein will
hold no fest this yoar.
Abilcno will adopt the elec
tric firo alarm system.
Work is being pushed in the
Jjlano silver mines.
Ruby has been cloctcd tho
county scat of Fisher county.
The district court of Leo coun
ty convened on Monday last.
Flatonio was visited by a des-
tructive hail storm on Tuesday.
A heavy rain and hail storm
visited Dcnison on tho 25th inst.
uoal has been discovered near
Sinta Anna Tom Green county.
Major F.H. Fry county clerk
of Leo county diod on tho 26th
inst.
rans lias organized a now
military company tho Maxoy
rules.
Efforts aro being mado to es
tablish a tclephono exchango at
iiryan.
Col. . I. II. 15. Miller has retired
Irom tho editorship of tho Austin
statesman.
Tho Odd Follows arc soon to
creel Widows and Orphans homo
at Corsicann.
A convention of the undertak
ers of the stato is in session at
Kort Worth.
In Camp county now discov-
cries of mineral coal aro reported
every week.
Isaac A. Goldstein indicted
lor forgery at Waco has been hon-
orably acquitted.
Midland has voted a tax ot 20
cents on tho hundred dollars for
school purposes.
It is reported that tho hoycot
against thoMnllory steamship lino
has been raised.
Col. Charles Stowart of Har
ris county is announced for re
election to congress.
The German sociotics of Dal-
las will cold a test on tho 16th and
17th of May next.-
Tho Labor Sittings a Fort
Worth paper has suspended gono
dead so to speak.
The bondod debt of Galveston
81335800; whilo tho floating debt
of tho city is 893205.
Col. Crawfo'rd of Dallas will
likely enter the raco for congress
against Olin Wellborn.
About 12000 of unpaid school
warrants havo bcon registered by
tho Stato treasurer.
The Dcnison Sunday Gazetteer
is tho handsomest wookly paper
printed in Toxas.
W. II. Roo has been commit-
ted to jail at Huntsvillo charged
with poisoning his wife
A white man hamod McCuno
was rnn over and killed by a train
on Saturday near Dcnison.
Wo regret to learn of the
death of tho wifo of Mr. F. P. Crav-
ens of tho Waco Examiner.
A sample of silver oro taken
from the Patton mines in Llano
county assayed 818074 silver per
ton.
Ed. Biggins colored was ac
cidentally killed while fooling with
an empty gun at Brcmond on Sun-
day. Dr. J. II. Kcndrieks an ovan-
golist of tho Presbyterian church
is conducting a revival at Rock-
dalo. Right of way through Waxa-
haehic has been nbtainod for the
Fort Worth and Now Orleans rail-
way. Tho 67th anniversary of Odd
Fellows April 26th was duly cele-
brated by tho order in many towns
in tbo state
Passenger trains are running
on tho Aransas Pass railway to
Kenedy station sixty miles from
ban Antonio.
Wcthcrford has organizod a
ppmpany land has been purchased
and a large fish tank is to bo con-
structed at onco.
Tho Bclton Journal roports
tho Baylor Collcgo building fund
short some S1500 and calls upon
subscribers to pay up.
Farmers in McLennan county
predict a wet season and the larg
est grain and cotton crops over
raised in central Texas.
The dpad bpdy of Bussoll
Washington colored was fished
out of tho Brazos rivor at Wash
ington a fow days ago.
Prickloy pear is being shlppod
from Cptula JiaSalle cpu.nty to
Tyler whero it is to bo converted
into rope and paper
Tho Fqrmor's Allianeo ip John-
son county will meet on tho lath
of May for tho nomination of repre-
sentatives and county offices.
Tho Beagan Guards a now
military company recently organ-
ized at Minegja. hav J;cen sworn
into tho servico of tho stato
Albert Bouort3 shot and kill-
ed his wifo near Tyler on Tuesday
night and then escaped. Thoy had
boon separated about two weeks-
Tho citizens ol Cloburno are
making an effort to sepuro tho
leicution of tho machine shops of
tho Atchison Topeka and Santa
ro railway.
A. J. Bcntford accused of
murdoring E. N. Caldwell at l!o-
trcat in Grimes county a low days
ago has bcon arrested and jailed
at Anderson.
Tho Brooklyn Eaclo apprehends
that if tho English languago inter-
lores in tho war bptweop Senators
Bltunb and Loiran it is nrottv sure
to bo fatally injured.
Zeko Brown. Tom Hawlov and
Stillwell havo been arrested at
Palestine on indictments charging
thom with obstructing trafiio on
the International railway.
L. W. Ellis who had contract-
ed to deliver 300 head of cattlo at
Wills Point on tho 22d inst. and
had drawn S1250 of tho money has
turned up missing.
Mrs. V. A. Owens received a
divorce Irom her husband in tho
district court at Cloburno last
week and immediately married a
man named Elijah Forrester.
Tho Knights of Labor and tho
Farmer's Allianeo of Palo Pinto
county havo nominated a full coun
ty ticket and still thoy claim to bo
non-poiiucnl organizations.
Tho lair ol the Williamson
county Live Stock Association at
taylor on Wednesday and Ihurs
day last was a magnificent success.
tho competition m all depart-
ments was strong.
Crews and Mooring employes
at ;tho Agricultural college near
Bryan amused themselves with
snapping guns at each other on
Monday whon Crows pistol fired
killing Mooring instantly.
Miss Sarah Goss has boon ar-
rested at Nacogdoches chargod
with tho theft of SSOO from Miss
Nancy Strahan an old maid and
has confessed to tho theft. Sarah
is now in jail in default of 5300
bond.
Tho democrats of Colorado
county will hold thoir county con-
vention on tho third Saturday in
Juno to elect dolcgates to statotho
convention and to attond to such
other business as may como before
them.
Sanford Lewis colored who
has had tho contract for convoying
mail to and from trains at Waco
has been found guilty of abstract
ing money Irom mail pouches.
Sanford will sorve tho stato at
Huntsvillo lor a while.
In tho corapotitivo examina
tion at Galveston ol applicants for
the appointment to scholarship in
the U. S. Naval Academy Mr.
Geo. II. Law Jr. and W. J. Rceso
Jr. carried od' tho honors and
will bo recommended by Congress-
man Crain for appointment.
An unfortunato difficulty oc-
curred between John and Ed.
Burko at Galveston on Monday
last- John whilo drunk stabbed
his brother in tho nock with a knife
and afterward shot himself with a
pistol. Neither aro expected to
recover.
An attempt was mado in Gal-
veston at 8 o'clock on Saturday
night to outrago a respectable
whito woman on Church street
which was provontod by tho arriv-
al ol two gentlomcn. Tho young
lady was choked and badly used
up. Tho scoundrel escaped in tho
darkness.
The largo four-story flouring
mill owned by tho Brown county
Milling company at Brownwood
was consumed by lire on Sunday
morning : loss 840000 ; insurod for
S17.000. Tho flames also caught
and destroyed tho Millspaugli ico
factory valued at 525000; partially
nsnrea.
A cyclono struck Killeon Bell
county on Sunday night tearing
up things gonorally. Tborcsidenco
ot jJlr. Uslcton near town was
torn to pieces injuring tho wholo
family; tho houso of Norman Bros.
was also destroyed the family
being saved by taking refuge in a
storm houso. Hail felt as large as
a hen ogg. Great damage was
done to property.
Superintendent Baker issues
tho following instructions to jnn-
cipals of summor normal institutes:
Open July 12: closo August 7;
oppn to all visitors ; enroll as mem
bers only teachers and thoso ex
pecting to teach at an early day
nstruction being lrce Ho will
issuo normal certificates on recom
mendation of tho institutes. Teach-
ers can attond any instituto in tho
State irrespective of residence
Martin McGrath and Wm.
Shamrock wero convicted in tho
district court at Sherman of will-
fully showing contempt of courtm
refusing to oboy writs of injunction
issued restraining them from inter-
fering with tho property of tho
Missouri Pacific railway company
and sentenced them to three days in
tho county jail. This light scntonco
was given thomonaccount of their
bbing poor men with families do-
pending upon them.
A very destructive hail storm
visitod Rockdale on Tuesday even-
ing; hail stones measuring two
inches and over in diameter fell.
destroying all manner of vegeta
tion ; largo holes woro punctured
through tin and shinglo roofing
windowpancs sash and blinds on
tho west sido of houses woro
broken; Iruit and crops aro
completely dostroyod ; a number
of buildings in town wero badly
aamageq.
Bryan Pilot; Many people do-
clino to tako a newspaper for tho
reason that thoy havo no tusto for
roadinir or havo not time. In
most instances thoy havo cbildron
growing up who would be greatly
uonenueu Dy acquiring a naoit ot
rcadinjr tho nowspapcrs A'o
school can over glvp a jhildren so
great an insight into tho ways of
thp world and tho eurront ovents
of tho day. As thoy grow oldor
ana go out into tbo world tnoy will
be able to understand lifo as it is
and successfully moot thoir duties
andobligations to thoirlollow-mon.
Too' many parents allow their
children to read cheap novels and
other trash thus filling thoir brains
with falso ideas and causing thom
to bocomo woafe shiftless crca-
turos ashamed ot honest labor
and of no uso to themselves or to
tho community. Awcokly paper
costs from thrGO to fivo conts per
week and tho person who. can not
get that amo.unt oi good out of it i3
indeed a queer-constructed mortal
to say tno least.
wojinv Axn roon health.
Multitudes of women loso health
and lifo every year in ono or two
ways; by busying thomselvos in a
warm kitchen until weary and then
throwing themselves on a bed or
sofa without a fire; or by removing
tho outer clothing or perhaps
changing dress for ono thinner as
soon as they enter tbo house nftor
a walk or shopping. Tho rule
should be to go to a warm room
and kcop on all tho clothing for
live or ten minutes until tho lore-
head is perfectly dry. In nil weath
er if yon havo to walk and ride
upon any occasion it is better to
do tho riding first. Hall's Jourcal.
According to the Two Itcpnblics
tho valno ot tho building improve
ments of tho City of Mexico for tho
vcar 1885 was between 87000000
and 8000000.
a nkw i:n.r.
Perhaps boys yon would liko
to know the day of tho wock on
which you wero born if thero are
a dozen or so ot you in tho family
your mother can't remember tho
day your father don't care your
oldor sister is sorry you woro born
at all and don't want to know
your aunt ncvor know and your
grandmother is doad and so you
must rely on somo homo rulo as
follows: Sot down tho year of
your birth less 1 divido by. 4
(throwing away remainder if any)
and add to tho date; also add tho
number of days from January ist
to tho dato of birth divided by 7
and if 0 remains Sunday is your
birthday; if 1 Monday; 2 Tuesday
and so on.
Kxamtlk Suppogo you wero born March
0 1875 then 1 less would be
ltil
Divide by -J
Add Jnnuarr
Add February
Add March 9.
1GS
31
28
9
Divido by 7)2110
34 1.2 remainder.
This makes Tuesday the day on which
you wero born.
In computing don't forgot to
give February z'J days it vour
birthday was in leap year and il
tho abovo rulo don't work wo will
forfeit a last year's almanac.
sriuxe auvicg
Begin to look over tho tonco at
your truck patch and wonder how
long it will boloro your wilo makes
you tako off your coat and tackle
it.
Get out your spado and digsomo
bait for noxt bunday s nshing.
Don't uso a crow-bar in planting
corn; uso a drill.
In sowing grass uso a finonoodlo
and thread.
Don't plant potatoes with weak
eyes.
Do not permit tho hogs to tako
rootm yourgardon.
Cold slaw should bo set out very
early.
A layer two inches deep ot salt
spread over tho gronnd will kill
tho weeds.
Subscribo for an agriculturl jour-
nal for tho spring campaign.
Plant your foot down on any
outside interferences in the mattor
of gardening. A man who can't
mako a garden had better mako a
will and quit.
Wool with mixtures of silk laco
and velvet is much in vogue in
Paris for dresses.
Gloves aro being of Russia loath-
ea tho smell of which is so much
admired.
Tho Rev. M. D. Smith of Mm-
ncoopolis who recently quit tho
Baptist denomination preached
last Sunday beforo tbo congrega-
tion of tho First Union church of
that city and prefaced his sermon
with a brief statement of his pres-
ent bclict. He said th:ii ho placed
the Bible at tho head of the world's
religious literature but rejected
tho traditional theories of "me-
chanical and verbal inspiration;"
that whilo recognizing tho vast
superiority ol Jesus and tho gran
dear ol his character ho was com-
polled to withhold from him the
title of "Infimtoand Etornal God;
and that ho believed "for oven tho
least dovcloped and poorest speci
men ot our raco more is a better
oulcomo than an eternity of fire
and brimstone.
Tho number of telephones now
in tho United States is 325574
whilo in Great Britain there are
only 13000. In other words thoro
aro over twenty-fivo telephones in
tho United States for every one in
rJngland. Thoro is no country
which protends to bo in tho front
rank of civilization whero tolo-
phonic facilities aro so limited as
In England and Scotland.
The Stomach as a Gasometer.
In tho dyspeptic stomach impure gases are
generated after meals that distend and dis-
tress it as well as tho bowels. Tho best car-
minative for cramps colickv pains and heart
burn or bilious eructations is UosteUer's
Blomach Bitten-. Carbonate ofsoda and
effervescing aperients are far inferior to it in
efficacy and as phvsicians now understand
impair tho tone of tho stomach Copious li-
bations of any sort aro Injurious to the stom-
ach and to dilute its juices is certainly not
tho wav to increase their dieestive usefulness.
Aided by the Bitters tho digestive organs
when enfeebled and disordered regain their
lost tono and reguloriiy not of course im-
mediately but with a degree of rapidity high
ly lnaicaiive oi ine excellence ox uie remedy.
It has the further effect of mrulatinz the
bowels and liver protecting tho system
airainst malaria relieving rheumatism and
neuralgia and increasing constitutional
vijror.
A stato agricultural socictv eom
posed ontirely of calorod mon has
Dccn lortnccl ip Arkansas.
About three years ago the agent tor
jvckcts nngnsitiKmcay amt caiiod at nis
town and since Ihcu tho number of testimo-
nials that have hcn sont in to Carlton &
Nash concerning tho merits nf tho
tienieitr and the many cures effect
ed surprises them. They wish it
to no Uioruujihly undemoo that for nil
colds hoars. ne.s asthma croup whooping
wuj;u ait iii!iiisn-ai bruuu:cs iney nave
never known its equal and positively guar-
antee it.
Tho newspapers report that a
western member of congress has
wop 810000 at pokor sinco tho-bo-ginning
of congress.
Ask your drucsrist for the wonderful 1. P.
P. Warranted to stop cholera and make
llrtlll lnif Srtlil Ira Trto TriafMm
in tno united Ktates there now
137 normal schools with more
than 15000 pupils.
Savo your poultry br usine: V. V.
P. the
- all dis-
most successful remedy known for all dis
eases of fowls
J os. Tristram.
Prico
i cents. Sold by
Watered silk and ribbon aro ex
tensively used in London and
Pans for trimmings.
P. P. P. is warranted to stop cholera in
chiptrna. Sold hv Tne Tcim
A good girl like a good watch
Is known by her works .Hither of
them may bo really good without
having a pretty tacc.
HnColden's Liouid Beef Tonic Is a won
derful remedy for weakness fever and loss of
appetile.
Somo ol tho eastern shoddy
aristocrats are beginning to claim
descent Irom tbo kings ol-bngland
It will surmised that tho descont
is very great.
Young Piiysiciav. Your analy
sis of Ued Star Cough Curois no
doubt correct. Itis tho samo as
that which wo lately published of
I'roi. Urothe UrooKlyn iioara oi
Health who found tho remody
absolutory free Iron poisons and
safoandsuro. It costs only twonty
fivo cents a bottle.
An exchange says "So man over
regretted doing good living vir-
tuously tolling tho truth or boing
respectful to overy ono."
NOTICE IJf PKOBATE.
THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To tho ShcrilTor any Constable of Washing-
ton county Greeting:
You are commanded to causo to bo pub-
lished for at Ica4 twenty days in tho Iinxx-
nxii tiAXSSR a newspaper printed in tho
county ot Washington th following notico:
The Statx or Tiuus.
To all persons interested in tho cstato of F.
I tcddikcr deceased :
C Wcide executor of tho estate of F. Kod-
dikcr deceased has filed in tho County Court
of Washington county his final account with
the estate of F. ICoudikcr deceased and
an application for final discharge from
tho administration thereof which ill
bo heard at tlo next term of thaa county
court f said county commencing on
the Third Monday in Mar 185 at tho
courthouse thereof in tbo city of Brcn-
hani at which timo all persons interested
in said cstato may appear and contest said
application and account if they see proper.
Herein fail not under penalty of tno law
and of this writ mako duo Trun. Issued tho
13th day of April ttiSfl.
Witness. II. M. Lewis clerk of said court
L. & and seal thereof at office in the city
of Brcnharo 13th day of April 1SSU.
IL St. LEWIS
Clerk ol County Court Washington county!
I hereby certify that the abovo and fore-
going is a truo and correct copy of the origi-
nal citation now in my!hancu.
N. E. Diver ShcrilTWashington Co.
ESTRAY NOTICE.
Taken up by Drurv Geo on February 1
I860 and extrayed before W. P. IlilL J.P
Precinct ?to.5.in tho 18th day ot starch
188: one bay mare branded S Y K on left
nip and punish brand on lelt thigh; about
14 hands high; blind in right eye; about 8
years old. "Appraised by Thos. 11. Lipscomb
and J.S.Almandat $30.
Attest : IL 31. Lewis a a W.CL
Kstray Xotlcc.
Taken up by L. F. Harris on tho 1st day of
December 1885 and cstrayed before CT G.
Campbell Justico of tho Pcaco Precinct No.
fi on tbo 15th day of January 1886 on horso
described ns follows to-wit: Chcsnnt sorrel
about 13 1-1 hands high three years old last
spring has a star in the forehead and a few
whito hairs on the nose no brands visiblo.
Appraised at S10. Attest
IL JL Lewis
Ctcrk County Court Wash Co.
Is'otlce to Crefllturs.
Estate of Andreas Grabalchets deceased.
Whereas letters of administration upon the
estate of Andreas Grabalchets deceased
were granted to the undersigned county court
of AN ashington county on the olh day of
March A. D. IS86. AH persons holding
claims against said estate aro required to pre-
sent the amo within the limo prescribed by
law. My residence is near Gay IlilL Brcn-
ham is my postoffice address.
J. E. Cale
Administrator.
Notice to Creditors.
Estate of Chas. "Winter deceased.
Whereas letters of administration upon
the estate ot Chas. Winter deceased were
granted to Ihe undersigned by the county
court of Washington county on the iSth day
of January IS56. All persons holding claims
against said estate are required to present the
sane within the time prescribed by law.
My residence is at Brcnham and my post-
ofiice address is E. B. Handle
al-4t Adm'r est. of Chas 'Winter detfd.
THEO. AHRENBECE
DKALXB Et
Staple and Pancy Groceries
Tobacco and Cigars
Next door to R. Hoffman Main Street
BRESIIASr TEXAS.
tT Highest market price paid in cash for
all kinds of Country Produce. Goods deliv-
ered to all parts of the aty f.ee of charge.
XrtS. iuIM FBXX fl pptlMSU uA to nitatatnoC
irMrvttfcmt
lilaviratloM.
MtiMa tbr m
vttfcmt ardwtsi Ik .
. At mitnii urn ibv P(B
tbr Htlaf all arlctIM r YE BETA II LE
uriMisaaii
lWmftl
U4 JLO WEB 8EZDS BBLBS mo. IsTtlubl
to n. wvmUUt M VirkM Gardnn. Smt tut It W
O. M FERRY CO Detroit Michigan.
SHE DINGEE & COWARD GO'S
t BBAUTIFUZj ETEJkBLOOJLXTiG 0
ROSES
8Sag?w?SS2gaiWK5SS3SSS
latMtJfoetttiu and HM Itatod SorU Va dalircr
strong rot rimu twfdj by mall at th. rot offi
f SPLENDID VARIETIES CI
' Tonr'Chotce all labeled for w 3
lOteSZi 40teg5. AlBootlitr Varie-
Jt-E &psft wt luoiii rntt I
owttsTWeit fciroTp. Cheater Co fa
horSES
For sale in ear load
lots or single ani-
mal suitable for
range or stud pur
poses. Send for
'CATALOGUE"!".
DILLON BROS. -
NORMAL UcLeaaCo. ILLS.
BRANCH OmCEi ILBAXr. Shackelford Co Tniiu
KLLLOUGH & MYERS
AND
Live Stock Dealers
Sandy St. bet. Ant and St. Charles.
Urcnhain. Texas.
PIANO TUNING.
Ilavine: returned to Brenham. T ei.K.n- it.
patronago of tho public for toning and re-
pairing pianos and organs. Sqt'aft;nn
guaranteed. Orders left t J. McForlaTid's
will receive pri'inpt attention.
L. C. EodEES.
Lehmann's Saloon
Corner m tit. Uhnr.es and gjinay Street
brouhAoi Texas.
My bar U always .Dj-j..lletl with the flnfetll-
illiora In Ihe niarL!. In trlf MiltrriT nrt
cello an-1 OM ltnc 11ml. In wines we keep a
fell stork of California KeHey'a Island Krajr
Chamnairrie. The llnet limn.U nf firmr l tr-
city ratrcs&ge solicited.
J. H- QUEBEC
DEALEK IN
STAPLE All FAUCI GEOCEEESl
TOBACCO A2fl CIGARS.
Vnd Central Hotel BKENIIAH TEXAS
Froo Dolivery.
THE
(i
ROUTE.
VIA HOUSTON AM M ORLEANS
Is the Shortest and Mest Direct Una tr
pot rib in Uiiahbipid. Alabama Utorgla Ken-
tucky Vl'ginia Tennessee .North and South
Carolina Last and Southeast.
Through trains without change irom Sew
Orleans to Meridian Tuscaloosa .Birmingham
ii iiantii naiiaaoogii A-enniou una UU
cinnatl.
The Celebrated Mann Boudoir BaTet Cars
on all trains. The rates the same as in ordinary
sleepers.
The Queen and Crescent Is the line that car-
lied the Texas Editorial Delegates to Cin-
cinnatlchnj;ui.ler&al satisfaction.
Sure Connections ffn.trfinteni with thn n Jt-
C. Double ilaily trains leaving ew Orleans
Z-Ja noo3 and 8i5 p. in.
For the Finest Sppnprv ami th TViatne
RunninsTlme in th South take the Q. & C.
train leaving New Orleans at 12:35 noon.
ilr. J. U. Moan Union Agent at Hrenham
will cheerfully sell you Queen and Crescent
ticket. Impure ami aak lortliem. licketa on
sale at all common office-in iheStae
jmWlmXlfMSi. TtJtL
' vHh
Ira
Croscen
Gtu. r. lupton ceni Affent
Dallas. Texas.
I. HARDY Ass't G. F. & P. A.
Vtcksbars- Mlds.
H. COLLBRAK O. F. & P. Agt.
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