Brenham Daily Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 257, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1881 Page: 2 of 4
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OCTOBER 27, 1881.
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sicny is to be used in
the purification of middlings.
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The boy preacher, Harrison,
is 28 years old and his terms
are JUoo per week.
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The National Cotton Plant-
ers association held an impor-
tant meeting at Vicksburg, on
the 25th inst
Thomas Ediscn, the elec-
trician, has been granted in all
309 patents, which goes to show
that he is an inventive genius.
—The "poor down-trodden"
negroes of Lynchburg, Va.,
have just completed a very
handsome church at a cost of
$22,000.
The St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat says that "Sunday the-
atricals have been abandoned in
Cincinnati— except in the
churches."
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Little Billy Mahone is just
now enjoying a great deal of
very cheap notoriety. His fame
will be of the most ephemeral
character.
Gov. Roberts in his Texas
shows a disposition to please
all. He spells it "Texan" and
also "Tcxian;" the reader can
take his choice.
A rumor was in circulation
in Washington on Wednesday
to the effect that the c7.ar had
been assassinated. The rumor,
however, lacks confirmation.
A good circus docs very little
harm and much real good, says
the Houston Post, and it adds :
Even the money that is squan-
dered, as it is callcd, is only so
much put into circulation.
The San Antonio Express
remarks that if more energy
had been devoted to work and
less to talk they might have re-
tained the trade that is carried
away by the Texas Pacific road.
It will be remembered that
some time ago a man was mur-
dered, near Whitewall, Va., it
was supposed by his two daugh-
ters, aged respectively 15 and
17. They were lately tried and
acquitted, there being no evi-
dence to convict them.
The Fort Worth Democrat
speaking of the recent lynching
in Panola county says: "We
arc no advocates of mob law,
but in this case, if the evidence
is as clear as it is said to have
been, we cannot blame the citi-
zens for their action."
The Willis Point Local says
that Jefferson, Texas, is the
most dilapidated town in the
state. Whole blocks of build-
ings costing thousands of dol-
lars, are now inhabited only by
owls and bats. The Jefferson
Democrat makes no mention of
this state of affairs.
The total number of green-
backs now outstanding is 5361,-
511,295. The total amount of
national bank bills outstanding
>s $3S7,77°A9°- Including
specie, there is now in this
country considerably over a
billion of circulating medium,
nearly one-half of which is lock-
ed up in the treasury and
banks.
It is said that ex-postmaster
general Key expresses the ut-
most confidence in the integrity
and straightforward course of
Brady and the other rascals
who served under him. If the
ex-postmaster general does not
keep a sharp lookout he will
soon come to be regarded as
little if any better than Brady
and the other fellows.
It seems that the titles of
Messrs. Miller and Lapqam,
newly elected senators from
New York, to their seats is
brought into question, a peti-
tion from certain members of
the New York legislature hav-
ing been presented. The com-
mittee on privileges and elec-
tions have referred the petition
to the sub-committee and the hours,
the present.
A fatal shooting affray oc-
curred near Osccola, Hill coun-
ty, last Friday. Young Carr
accused young Wiley of shoot-
ing his pony, Wiley denied
the soft impeachment when
Carr drew his ever-ready re-
volver and fired killing Wiley.
Carr fled and will probably
come in and surrender as soon
as he is satisfied that he can
get clear. No gentleman sur-
renders after killing another un-
less he has so clear a case of
self-defense as to run no risk
whatever of being put in jail.
Had Carr left his pistol at home
it is very likely that Wiley
would to-day have been a live
man. Over half of the fatal
shootings reported lately are
owing entirely to the reckless
habit of carrying pistols and
drawing them on the slightest
provocation. Except on the
frontier where there is danger
of Indians there is but little or
no occasion for some to make
walking arsenals of themselves.
Robbers and desperadoes al-
ways make it a point to get
"the drop" on their victims,
and when they have got "the
drop" the victim might have a
barrel full of pistols on his per-
son or within reach and they
would be of no more service to
him, as a means of defence, than
a box of lucifer matches. The
only place that a pistol is use-
ful is in a man's home when he
can receive night prowlers and
marauders with becoming hos-
pitality, and the killing of a few
dozen burglars and robbers is
anxiously awaited by the pub-
lic. Human life is held too
cheaply, else men would not go
armed with the ever-ready six
shooter for the purpose of shoot-
ing those who give him real
or imaginary offense Accord-
ing to the testimony of a wit-
ness in a recent murder case it
is a gross violation of Texas et-
iquette for any gentleman to
put h!s hands in the direction
of the hip pocket—so great, in-
deed, is this breach of etiquette,
'that the gentleman so offending
is liable to be shot on the spot.
llrenham is maVing rapiH strides to
compete with Dallas in , hold robbing and
sneak thievery.
The above appears as a spec-
ial in the Houston Post of
Wednesday and is calculated to
cast odium upon us as a com-
munity. Brenham is no worse
than other places in respect to
robbing and thievery, and in-
deed is no better, but she is not
deserving of the special mention
made, perhaps thoughtlessly,
by the Post's reporter. Bren-
ham has a few men of bad
character who should be closely
watched by the city and county
officers and if caught in any
overt act, they should be vig-
orously prosecuted. A little
shrewd detective service is
needed here and hereabouts.
Some business men labor
under the impression that they
are too poor to advertise and
that as soon as their business
increases so that they can
stand the expense they will ad-
vertise. The business of such
houses rarely increases and
they finally drift out of busi-
ness without advertising at all.
The Chicago Times pertinently
remarks: "Advertising is the
fashion this year. It is the
fashion because it pays. There
is money in it." A good house
never becomes too well known
to advertise. A. T. Stewart &
Co., probably the best known
house in the United States, ad-
vertises all the time, and that's
how they came to be so well
known.
The uncertainty of the law
was aptly illustrated in the
county court of Dallas county
a few days ago. One Cotton
was arrested charged withjshoot-
mg a cow that belonged to his
neighbor Evans. Evans was
the oniy witness and he declin-
ed to answer certain questions
propounded by an attorney.
The court being unable to do
anything else with Evans fined
him $5 for contempt and sent
him to jail for twenty-four
Cotton, the alleged
cow shooter, was discharged.
—Thsmas Jordan, living
Georgetown, is minus one
—he lost it in a gin.
—There is but one white
women confined in the peni-
tentiary at Huntsville.
—Although the river is low
at Beaumont the city has been
"flooded" with drummers.
—A. Wiseman, for several
years a prominent merchant of
Bastrop, has been closed up by
his Galveston creditors.
—Boys that carry toy pistols
that shoot cartridge:, are ar-
rested in Bonham, just the same
as if they had pistols of larger
growth.
—Seven of Fort Worth's sa-
loonists were before the justice
of the peace last week, and
were fined $20 each for violat-
ing the Sunday la .v.
—The mills at Beaumont are
still idle—cause, no logs. A
rise in the river is expected
soon, when a larger stock of
logs will come to Beaumont
than ever.
—The Waco Cotton Ex-
change has btoken up in a row.
E. A. Early & Co., members
were on trial for cotton crook-
edness and the Exchange being
unable to agree disbanded.
—The big circus gave Fort
Worth the go-by and the
Worthies arc now consoling
themselves with the reflection
that they have saved thousands
of dollars. " 'Tis an ill wind,
etc."
—Mr. Ben Thompson is out
in a card in the Austin States-
man, giving an account of his
stewardship as city marshal
and asking a re-election at the
hands of the people. He claims
to have served them faithfully.
—Chicken stealing is a rec-
ognized occupation, yet it is
dangerous to accuse any one
directly of stealing chickens.
The San Marcos Nut Shell had
Hie temerity to acctise a gen-
tleman of chicken stealing and
the gentleman was quite anx-
ious to thrash the editor.
Belton voted on the school
question last Tuesday and the
proposition for the city to take
charge of the schools met with
a Waterloo defeat; the vote
being 152 against 37 for the
city taking charge of the
schools. The people of Belton
certainly do not understand the
working of the public free
school system as carried on in
Brenham, Denison, Sherman,
Navasota, Bryan and other Tex-
as towns or they would not
have voted it down with such
unanimity. When they arrive
at a better understanding of the
graded public school system
they will perhaps reconsider
their present determination.
Belton has made a serious mis-
take.
The Galveston Journal says
that whenever a Texas editor
steps down and out, his co-tem-
poraries announce that the
Texas press could not have
lost a more valuable member,
etc. All the Texas editors are
superlatively good, but some
them manage to get out super-
latively bad papers occasional-
ly- ^
The Jefferson Democrat will
be turned to a morning paper
if proper encouragement be
given it. The Democrat is a
good paper and the merchants
of Jefferson should patronize it
more liberally than they seem
to be doing.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The
people of Arizona have gotten
rid of their governor, the late
Pathfinder, Gen. Fremont, and
now they are threatened with
another useless tax-eater in the
person of Gen, Banks. The
probabilities are that Banks
knows no more about the wants
of the people of Arizona than
a hog does about the Georgics
of Virgil, and he would certainly
be a more pronounced failue
than Fremont. He belongs in
some snug custom-house close
to the stove in the back-room.
The Indianopolis Sentinel
says that Guiteau fired the shot
for a third term when he mur-
dered the president, and that
when Garfield went down,
Grant and Conkling went up,
and that "another chapter of the
infamies of Republicanism is to
be written."
The clerk of the Brockton
House, Brockton, Mass , Mr.
Alfred S. Backus, writes that
he was almost immediately
cured by St. Jacobs Oil of a
severe fcase of rheumutism.
Napoleon, one
.. the two young sons of Prince
,erome Napoleon, has, with his
father's permission, enlisted as
a private in an artillery regi-
ment.
Trickett.the Australian oars-
man, has challenged Hanlan to
row a three-mile race near St.
Louis in November for $1000 a
side and the championship of
the world.
Collector Robertson says that
none of the employes of the
New York custom house need
pay the assessment nude by
the republican state committee
unless they choose.
Chinese and white laborers
are leaving the railway work in
British Colombia in droves. The
former rebelled against the
head tax, and both can do bet-
ter in Oregon.
It is said that the clerks and
officials in the main office of the
Texas Central Railroad Com-
pany take a lesson in Spanish
every afternoon from an instruc-
tor who is paid by the com-
pany.
Vaccination is not compul-
sory in China, but the wily au-
thorities give a premium of ten
cents for each child that is pro-
perly vaccinated. The opera-
tion is generally performed on
the noses of the children.
Customer: "I don't know
how it is, but my clothes never
fit me nicely. Now, you al-
ways make my friend, Capt.
Stollert's coats to sit beautiful
ly!" "Yes, sir, but he's got
shoulders to hang 'em on I If
a gentleman's made like a cham-
pagne bottle no tailor can fit
him!" Exit customer in dudp
geon. —Nicholl the Tailor.
MZLLZNJBR7!
BUSINESS ENLARGED!
A full and complete line of milli-
nery goods of the finest and best
materials. All the latest styles
tor the incoming fall and win-
ter season 1881 and 1882. Also
cheaper and medium class
goods. All very select to suit
the entire trade,
With thanks to friends and
patrons of the past all arc invit-
ed to call and examine goods,
styles and prices.
Mrs. M. A. Jamison,
Fresh Groceries.
F. Krentzlin has just receiv-
ed a fresh supply of northern
potatoes, Onions, peas, beans,
cranberries, sour kraut, all
kinds of cheese, pickles, in bar-
rels and jars; imported Hol-
land herrings, Russian sardines;
sardines in mustard and crack-
ers, in fact a general assort-
ment of all kinds of fresh gro-
ceries, Also, a pure article of
imported wines and liquors.
We have Vernall Bros, bak-
ing powders—each box con-
tains a spoon with which to
measure for use. Try them.
Dr. Milton McMuktry,
former partner of Dr. Hus-
sey, has removed to the
new Graber building, under
Knights of Pythias hall, where
he has fitted up a beautiful
little office and will have a new
and comple stock of honvepa-
thic medicines ai: his command.
Special attention will be given
to office practice, surgical
specialties and diseases of
women. The doctor says he is
here to stay and will be pleased
at any time to see his friends.
Office hours 8 to 9 a. m. and 3
to 4 and 8 to 9 p. in.
"My Tormented Back."
is the exclamation of more than
one poor hard-working man and
woman, Do yon know why it
aches? It is because your kid-
neys are over-tasked and need
strengthening, and your system
needs to be cleansed of bad hu-
mors. Kidney-Wort is the
medicine you need, "It acts
like a charm," says a well
known physician, "I never knew
it to fail." Liquid or dry sold
by Druggists.—Boston Post.
Wanted.—300 healthy men
to join the T. B. A.
Are you a mechanic ? join
the T. B. A.
„ Are you a clerk ? Secure
a certificate at once in the T.
B. A.
Five thousand people want
to know what the T. B. A.
means. Ten thousand can as-
certain by addressing G. B. R.
Lock, Box 7, Brenham, Tex.
Ship Your
ru
WM. D. CLEVELAND,
Houston.
Carpets, and straw matting,
in endless variety.
E. Reichhrdt.
8k.
J. E. MOORE,
REAL ESTATE AGENT, and
GRAIN DEALER,
TEMPLE, - TEXAS.
tST A Specialty made of "seed oats. "*§4
Good Sales and Prompt
Returns-
Will Send Daily Cotton Report
and Stencil on application
free of charge.
Pianos and Organs
The undersigned i> the Brcnluuu
agent for the
HENRY F. MILLER
1'IANO FORTES.
-firovesteen & Fuller
I'lANO-FORTES, an.t the
JUNIUS HART
PIANO-FORTES and ORGANS,
Urn rfrflifrt hi. fall
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CASHMKRKS, in all colors, Tory low—lower tliau
than the lowest. COLOBEB ALPACAS,
in all Hhades, only 12 l-2c.
AUSTBALIAN CB^PES
in afl shades, with trimmiugp to match. Trim-
ming SILKS and 8ATJNS in all shades.
FRENCH MERINO—4<Mnch—cheaper tbau ever.
Shawls! Shawls !! Shawls*!!!
The handsomest line ever shown to the trade in Brenham.
SKIRTS, in all styles and sizes. FLANNELS, in endless
variety. The largest and best selected stock of French
and German DAMASK TOWELS and TABLE
CLOTHS in the city. Also crash and other
toweling. For any and every article in the above lines go to
HENRY HODDE,
Main Street, » • Brenham, Texas.
TO THE TRADE!
The undersigned lias just received a full line of Spring
Goods consisting of
Dress Goods, Latest Styles,
FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, UOKIKRY, ETC.
Hats, Boots and Shoes,
AND STAPLE' DRY GOODS.
My motto is to please my customrrs, all gooils are as represi'n'e»l and my prices aic
low as is consistent with a living profit. Huycrs are respectfully invited to call am
examine my stock and prices. I employ nose but polite and attentive salesmen.
Also the
ORGANS.
All superior instruments. Persons desir-
ing to purchase either of the above named
instruments will do well to give me a call,
as 1 am dctermed to sell them very < heap
for cash; or will sell on the installment
system.
C. C. LIEB,
Hookseller and Stationer,
Cash for Cotton Seed.
The lirenham Oil Mill is now buying cot-
ton seed and paying the
HIGHEST CASH PRICE
All gin men and seed owners are invited to
call at the Mill before selling.
HR12N1IAM OIL MILLS,
Near Santa Fe Depot.
Cash Paid!Cotton Seed
The undersigned wauls to buy all the
cotton seed that can be delivered at the
seed house on the Santa Fc track, and he
is prepared at all times to pay
CASH ON DELIVERY.
I am paying the very highest market price
and invite all owners ot seed to call and
See me before selling.
AEOLPHE TESTARD,
Agent for Galveston Oil Company.
J. J. LIEB,
deal.kr in
GROCERIES,
AND FAMILY SUPPLIES,
Main Street, BRENHAM.
lias just received a full invoice of fresh
groceries, which are offered at reasonable
prices. A share of the public aptronage is
respectfully solicited. Satisfaction guar-
anteed to customers, (iive me a trial.
BATH HOUSE
- HOT AND COLD -
TUB and SHOWER BATHS,
TURKISH BATHS.
0pm Wednesday's and Saturday'* from 5 to
0 p.m. ami Sunday from 5 to 1- m.
Priccsv-Six Tnlaiisffiwer Baths $1.
A Single bath SBe. One Turkish bath .We.
THE OLD RELIABLE. ~~
^OYSTERS S FISH.^
FRANK EVANSICH
is prepared to furntsh oysters and fish to
families every day.
Fish and oysters served at nis restaurant
and also meals to order at any time.
FRANK WOTIPKA.
Abbott building, Public Square.
F. WOTIPKA.
F.J. SCHRAMM.
Wotipka & Schramm,
CORNER SANDV AND ANT STS ,
Keep constantly on hand a large and comple stock of
ST^JPIJE «A.1TZ> TA-ITCir
Groceries, Plantation Supplies,
AN1> WESTERN PRODUCE.
JK?" All «f which they arc selling at the very lo\rest current prices. Buyers are in-
vited to call and examine goods. Satisfaction guaranteed.
WOTIPKA & SCHRAMM.
Special Notice to the Public!
The undersigned has opened in the New Graber Building, also
at the Schwartz corner with a lull line of
MENS, YOUTHS, AND BOYS CL0THIN6.
Also a full and complete line of Philadelphia and Cincinnati
Iiii lad® lifts mI Shoes.
HATS AND BENTS FUlilSHING (iOODS,
GROCERIES i GLASSWARE.
Which we offer to the public at very low figures. Parties desiring to buy their fall
supplies will do well bv calling on us before purchasing elstwiere. 1'olile
attendance will always b* extended to all.
WM. COHEN & CO
sANst BeoU; HarkTvaiB.
Sp "The Prince and the Pauper." A
book for the young of all ages. Ifcst
g book for canvassers ever published.
1C3 Sold by subscription only. For terms
S and territory apply at once to
Southern Publishing Co.
Uox nfi. New Orleans, La.
To Printers!
FOR SALE oil TRADE.
An 8 Column Paper, Job Ofticc and Job
Press. For particulars address.
W. 11. PKESSLEV,
Brenham, Texas.
JAPHET & CO.,
Li^norSj Wines & Cigars at Wholesale
IIoiMoJt, Tex as.
jlaii(U*r9 nf the Oltbratail oi.EXCOE
WUISKKV, a1m> Japhet'* Metropolitan.
Iif|irrs«nt»d by K. II. Wll.SON.
R. HOFFMANN,
Isvlaln. Street, Dxaaaliaro., Texas,
Has just received a full and complete assortment ot
Fall and Winter Ms
Comprising all the Novclli« it
Ladies Dress Goods
Trimmings, Neckwear, Ladies
and Misses Hats, and
NOTIONS.
Also a large stack of Staple
Dress Goods.
A large assortment of
Boots and Shoes7
For Gentlemen, Ladies
and Children.
Mens and Boys Clothing. The
largest and most complete
stock in the city.
Staf le and
Fancy Groceries.
The public is cordially invited to tall and examine k f stock.
The Farmer's Store,
Brenham, - Texas.
lUTfc IN STOCK AND AKE SELLING AT UUKATLV UK DUCK l> l'KKSS,
A Largo and Well Selected Stock of
Family Groceries,
Dry Goods and Boots and Shoes.
HAVE JUST JtECHIVKD*
800 Sacks of Choice Flour,
1 Car Load of Bacon, Lard and
Also, 1000 Bushels Rut Proof Seed Oats.
It!" W« eorillaltjr Invite ptircKarsm to call and rxamlnt our mock.
H.. K/. LAWTHKB,
Jan. 9, 1881-dwiy. Business Manager.
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