Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 2, 1887 Page: 2 of 4
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BT RANKIN * LITIN
Wednesday Horning March 2, '87
Thkkkare seven hundred inmates
in the South Carolina lunatic asy-
lum. _
— Tom Moore, of MiHican, was
shot and killed by some nnknown
person on last Friday night.
Stanforp and Hearst, United
States Senators from California,
are *aid to be worth 190,000,000.
Th* aggregate reduction in the
public debt under Cleveland's ad-
ministration amount to $154,000,-
000. _
The most woeful accounts of dis-
tress, starvation and death are re-
ceived from the western and north-
ern districts of New Foundland.
Vint, the winner in the six days
walking match at Philadelphia,
walked 538 miles and one lap,
which is considered pretty pert
traveling.
Mr. Riuben A. Rikves, of Pales-
tine, Texas, has been nominated
by the President for Associate Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of the
territory ot New Mexico.
The secretary of War has receiv-
ed a report to the effect that Louis-
ana has an available forco of 318,-
430 men subject lo military dutj-,
while the state of Mississippi loo<ns
up with 140,000.
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The Boston Herald notes that
both Massachusetts senators are on
record in the senate as practically
favoring woman auffrage, but it has
discovered no other indication that
the state favors the measure.
The Denison Sunday Gazetter
says the year 1887 is only about
fifty days old yet, but it has usher-
ed in more than 100 strikes and
thrown more than 100,000 people
out of employment at a loss of 11,-
000,000.
Thk meeting of the National edi-
torial association will be held at
Denver, Colorado, on the 5th day
of September next. A meeting of
the executive committee of the as-
sociation was held in Washington
city on the 24th of Fobruary.
Th* government has completed
and signed a treaty with the Piegan
Indians at the Black-foot Agency
in Montana Territory. The bounda-
ries of their fature reservation is
given and the government is to
pay them 11,500,000 in ton equal
installments. j
Th* Roman Catholic Church in
the United States has a member-
ship of over 10,000,000, and an
equally large membership in Great
Britian, as the Catholic Year Book
for 1887 claims, making it much
the largest Christian denomina-
tion in the world.
Th* New York Sun says the
most heavily endowed educational
institutions in the United States
are: "Girard college, $10,000,000;
Columbia, $5,000,000; Johns Hop-
kins, $4,000,000; Harvard, $3,000.-
000; Princeton, $3,500,000; Lehigb,
$1,800,000; Cornell, $1,400,000.
Tn* Philadelphia Times, refer-
ring to the legal quibbles over tbo
will and estate of the late Mrs. A.
T. Stewart, truthfully remarks.
•'The millions of the hard task-
master seldom benefit humanity,
and the world cares little whose
cupidity or perjury shall rob the
legates. Had A. T. Stewart been
just to himself he would bave been
generous in his home, generous in
his habits of life, generous to the
.children of sorrow and generous in
public spirit; but he was the hard-
est taskmaster with himself, and
nobody cares, as nobody knows,
where bis dost reposes, and little
or no interest is felt in the disposi-
tion o t bis millions. If ad ventur-
ers get away with little or much
of them the jrnMie will not be Of-
fended, and if they shall be ulti-
mately secured .to those wbo are
the legatees of the wills, nobody
will care bow m«ch tsrotaVle they
may have in their battle with ln-
aolent greed. These were wasted
lives, and whatever misfortunes
■say follow their fortune the world
will jog on without interest or
sympathy. The rich poor men are
ibe poorest of all mankind."
PR OBIB1TI ON.
At last the Texas legislature has
yielded to the pressure of the pro-
hibition party and have agreed to
submit a prohibition amendment
to a popular vote of the people,
and the first Thursday in August
next has been designated as the day
upon which said election shall be
held. It is almost a certain fact
that the issue will meet with a
Waterloo defeat; nevertheless, it
behooves all parties interested to
so conduct the canvass as to ob-
viate the necessity for any bitter
wranglings in discussions. The is-
sue should be met with an open
field and given a free fight, without
resort to mud throwing or indulg-
ing in personalities. Both parlies
to the issue will, no doubt, be
thoroughly organized and well
equipped tor the fight, and somo
responsible work will be done on
both sides. Let the issue bo square-
ly and fairly met and the result
willingly abided by. Opponents
of the measure have no time to
loose, as the friends of prohibition
have already called a convention
at Waco on the 15th of this month
to consider ways and means for a
thorough canvass of the state; a
similar action will likely become
necessary on the part of the oppo-
sition, who should not allow them-
selves to become afflicted with over-
confidence.
The following sensible extract
is taken lrom tho letter of a cor-
respondent of tho Fort Worth
Southwest, the official journal of
the Knights of Labor in Texas,
and we commend it to the careful
perusal of eur readers:
"Fellow-toilers, educate your-
selves. Our form ot government,
although I believe it to bo the best
iu tho world, requires a people
highly educated and thoroughly
civilized to guarantee its perpe-
tuity; then the perpetuity of our
government and the liberty of the
people are in your bands. Tf you
will educate and learn to vote in-
telligently, then tho grand old
temple of liberty will be preserved
and perpetuated; if you do net,|then
it must go down in the darkness of
ruin and despotism."
J. L. Moork testified before the
outrage mill at Washington on
Monday that ho bad received no
written notice to leave, but mere
verbal information from demo-
crats; that Hackworth was a mem-
ber of the church in Brenham, and
that his standing among the repub-
licans was good. Two years ago,
during the county canvass, Moore
denounced Hackworth on the
stump as a dishonest man, totally
unworthy of confidenco. Now he
testifies to his good character.
Verily, consistency thou art a
jewel.
Editorial Correspondence.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 24,1887.
This has been a "banyan" day
with our witnesses—a banyan day
is one which all hands on shipboard
fast. Not a witness on either side
was examined—the majority of the
committee—Republicans were en-
gaged last night and to-day in cau-
cus over the election ot presiding
offiter of the senate. The witnesses
on our side have been treated with-
out any courtesy or respect what-
ever and their convienence has not
bothered the heads of the Republi-
cans on the committee. An effort
will be made to-night or to-morrow
morning to have the investigation
hurried up. All hands except the
scalawags are getting heartily
tired, and like the boy, want to go
home. The scalawag chiefs and
their scalawag witnesses, Jodon in
particular,are seemingly delighted;
they are getting three dollars a
day and as catfish can be bought at
3 cents a pound and corn meal at
15 cents a peck they can make a
fortune on witness feos. If the in-
vestigation lasted for the next con-
secutive twenty years they would
ail be rich.
There is but another week in
which the Senate and House must
close up their business and it is
now impossible to say when we
will be disahatged—all are hope-
ful that ft will birsoon. It looks as
though the Republican end ot tbe
committee haa enough; tbe two
Democrat* have ail along been sat-
isfied there wa4 nothing in the in-
vestigation. L*vi*.
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—Fines and cost* In tbe county
court of Bell oounty last week ag-
gregated $1977.11; thirty-seven
convictions having been secured.
■Tbe opera house, postoffice
and four stores at Marshall were
burned on Sunday. Loss not stat-
ed ; building insured for $2750.
— Huntsville has shipped 8500
bales of cotton this season.
Aa ImalftMl at Cutis Garden.
It may. be M interest to Headers to
learn somethi^ ot the process at landing
and disch&rgiUg an Immigrant at Caatfc
Garden. Alter th« steamship has been
inspected the steerage passengers are
placed, with their baggage, on a barge
and taken direct to the garden. Here
the baggage is transferred to the baggage
room and the passengers are sent to tin-
rotunda, where they are registered. Then
they are given instructions in their re-
spective home tongues regarding the de-
parture of trains and such other matters
as directly affect them. A short time i*
is now afforded those who wish to leave
at once for out of town to purchase their
tickets. This luiving l«en done, the re-
maining portion of the arrivals are sep-
arated from the rest and the licensed
boarding house keepers are allowed into
the rotunda to solicit business. Those
who engage board are then given a
cliance to leave. Those who are expect-
ing friends wait until a call for thorn Ls
received, ami others, who liave no friends
nor any settled plans for the immediate
future, are allowed to remain in the
building over night. These people Bleep
on the floor of the rotunda u;a>ii their
own bedding. Those who are sick or
destitute are removed to the temporary
hospital to await transportation to Ward's
island, whence they are discharged to re-
main in the city or sent back to Europe
upon the return of the steamships which
brought them here, dopending entirely
upon their ability to care for themselves
and avoid becoming public charges.
Those immigrants who are able to care
for themselves, but want some sort of
employment and have no friends to se-
cure it for them, are provided for by the
lalx>r bureau. In speaking of the opera-
tions of this department Mr. Connolly
said that female immigrants are and al-
ways have l>een at a great premium,
lie has u large number of applicants for
servants in excess of the supply, About
100 ladies visit the bureau daily looking
for servants, Ixsides a great number, of
,applications which come by mail from
every part of the Union. With the meri
employment is not always so easily ob-
tained, es]>ecially at this season of the
year, when outdoor work is not generally
engaged in. Still most of tho immi-
grants nre provided with places witiwut
much difficulty. Last year the butean
provided employment for over 10,000
persons.—JJuw York Graphic.
How Tunis Jow.khch Dress.
The costume of the Jewesses of Tunk
is striking and peculiar. The first time I
saw one standing at the door of the house
I thought she had just got up and liad
forgotten to dress herself before appear-
ing in public. They wear tight, short
chemises, reaching only to the hips;
wooden sandals, fastened to the feet by a
single strap across the toes, and very
small, comical cajs, called "kuflas."
The bottoms of their feet, tho palms of
their hands and the tips of their fingers
are stained a yellowish brown with
henna, and their nails are stained black.
The kufla is of some bright color and
heavily embroidered with gold and silver.
The rest of their apparel is of silk and of
the brightest colors. When they go out
into tho streets they sometimes put on a
haik And bright colored greaves, with
gold or silver embroidery.
They are all inordinately fat, purposely
made so by a Bystem of diet They look
like ballet girls who have escaped from
the theatre in costume. The dress of the
little girls is the same, except that it is
all white. They are generally pretty,
and some of them, with regular features,
languishing black eyes, clear olive com-
plexions and dark curling tresses hanging
over their neck and shoulders, are per-
fect beauties. They lose their beauty
and become coarse soon after the fatten-
ing process begins, which is usually at
the age of 12.—Boston Advertiser.
KngMskmen Ahead of Us.
English people of petition surpass our
own in direct, practical forms of doing
good. The rector of a principal church
in the Isle of Wight suffers no Sunday
morning service to pass without boldly
reminding his titled hearers, after ser-
mon, of the wide distress among the poor
at their gates, speaking of special cases
during the woek, and urging the duty of
personal visitation, inquiry and aid, in
which, his parishioners say, he follows
liis own injunctions liberally. The
Earonees Bemsen gives a pleasing picture
of the prompt charity of her father in the
bod harvest of 1709, when even families
of wealth were exhorted to consume as
little bread as possible at meals, and
brown bread was in fashion. Ho wrote
his brother at New York to send him a
quantity of wheat flour, which he sold in
small quantities at cost to tho poor,
standing in the servants' hall and seeing
the applicants himself. Societies move
slowly, but there is nothing to prevent
any good man or woman to-morrow
setting up the sale of fuel and food at
cost, in small quantities, which would be
the salvation of tho poor of this country
from one of their worst miseries.—New
York Mail and Express.
The Modern Cook Book Dinner.
The modern recipes for making cheap
dishes are framed upon the supposition
that you are to obtain the materials of
manufacture for nothing. They should
be written in this form: Go to the market
and beg a beef bdhtf from the butcher;
steal a couple of parsnips and half a
dozen ot potatoes out of the peddler's
cart; get your grocer to trust you for
half a pound of rice; barrow from your
neighbor a cupful of flour; from another
neighbor a hod of coal: pat jgm bone
into e quart of water and let it stew
sknriy; silce year potatoes and parsnips;
get an onion somewhere and shoe it also;
thsss in with the beee; stew two
and add your flour; simmer twenty
mtnotes and serwe. This dinner will i
a flittber and mother and twelve
and there wfll be enough left to feed
four tramps. Cost, one-hundredth
at a osnt for match to start An.
would be poor?—Boston Courier.
i part
Who
KrMeatl? a*
Among the begging letters recently re-
ceived at the otifoe of a henevotent society
was one running thus: "This unfortu-
nate young man is the only son of a
widow who died childless, and his earn-
ings maintain his aged father and infant
brothers, whose sole support he is." The
secretary of tbe bureau wrote on the
margin of the epistle the following note:
"The circumstances of this case are evi-
dently exaggerated."—The Argonaut
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WHOLES ALE RETAIL GROCERS.
Free^Delivcry to a'l'parts of the City.
Farmer*' Plow and Implement Department,
Located on. Central It. it. track, in Amsler block, containing
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Buggies and Wagons.
IS IT ?
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