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BRENHAM WEEKLY BANNER.
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VOXlJME XV.
BKENHAM WASHIiSTGTO COUNTY TEXAS THUKSDAY AU&TJST 26 1880.
NUMBER 35
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Trafessibnal Cards.
JAS. K. ROSS
ATTIMEY AT LAW
Brenham Texas.
Office otct Bassett & Bluett's Bank.
Apri2Sl8So-dw3m
BBEEDLOVE EWISG
Attoroev"t"In'n'
Bronbim. Texaa
CARL SCHUTZE
Attorney at Iiaxcr
Wlttmactfre elril btwinewonlr. In all
iL..rt In U'aah1n'TTitnriMUit And ftUIITllift
wart aiMlcoutcfib. nut 16 M
Ty C BAIRU M. D
Physician and Surgeon
Bicli-tC Wrvley.Teaas.
TKN. S. ROGERS
5 ""
Attorney at Law
CLappdl IliU Texas.
31H SUEFAKl). C C. GAESKtT.
'SHEPABD & GARRETT
ATTORNEYS AT. "LAW '
Eitnhant Texas.
gs Office Up-sUns in tlie Orabcr
Lilian. JjTil j. lSSo dwiy.
jji swEAiasumT
attorney at Lawf
Hcexham Texas.
ddwaurfiRnr; south sidecf
mCU 25-U.
rCJICTT. M. U.
?eoB and l'liyslrlao
bam Texas.
itomulds M frlwli of tills
trlhal ht has rrsuiuH mih-Hm
rxtral lloQar mar0.
1-1 TEAOMONTM.D.
VA
Tracticiag Physician.
Beckham. Texas.
J6S" Can be found at hu office north o
the square ia real estate buudin-during
the day and at his residence at nibt jani6w
J. T. liOlRISHT J. M. ROSS U. D.
UOElilS & ROSS
- gargeKS and Physicians
BUKOAU
TEXAS.
Ten d their professional services to tl
zensof Brenhain and vicinity.
J0OfEcein GMdinrs'banl.bundinc
pa6dtf
TYR. J. J- BUCHANAN
Eesi&ent Dentist
BRENHAM TEXAS.
Office over Couch's store East side of
tbepibKc squire
HOUSE & MURPHY
PAtSTTEBS
(5hop under McTarland's Book Store)
BKFNHAM TEXAS.
(W ilowr sign and ornamental paint-
er; paper lian-inp and ghuing neatly and
xpediuouly executed. ADworkguaran
tccd; jJncesjtaiooiUc... mYJod&t'
CUUSTTCO KIBER
PLAIN AND rAKCY
Dealer in all linda of
Fncifji aaf Snmeslic Frnils elc
HOME-MADE CANDY TKESII EV-
EUY DAY.
Next door to Gtddings & Giddings' Bank
uctndm.f BRENHAM TEX.
Try Them!
yomite& ajvyllnnj; inltie fine of ircsli
lrngSy.raicnt Mcduines. or
Toilet AituJes call on
2finklca c KalBton
Under Central HouscboulbslJeef b'juarc
ERIaTUAM TEXAS.
They uvc come to stay and en
dcavor to please. vni.
u MrCAxrmxL.
GJOP A. CIDDIXGS.
CAMPBELL &TGIDDINGS
i
DEALEKSJ.N
Staple and Fancy
GROCERIES
'Sandy Street west of the Opera House
BRENHAM. TEXAS.
agU floods dehrcrcd FREE to any part
the atr. sept. 10 'jo-d&n ly.
TjVK0BEKSON. T. V. SAYLES.
Sayles &Rol)ei'son
General Insurance
And Land Agents
BRENlIASr z : : : ; : TEXAS.
We Issnc -policies of insurance againU
fire vo alt classes of property is any part o
Jhe state. In first-ckus companies at the low-
est rates.
Lands boorht sold rented and exchange
cOL Orders left at ouromce for snrvcj ing
ft wnjiare prompt attention by LW.SajIcs
Cyuoly Purveyor.
bAylXS&ROBERSOX.
Office in the Opera House. jnod-wt
JNO. M. KEY
Fire Insurance Agent
DctNItAK TEXAS
Office over GMdings' Bank. May i 'So
Jaime and Cement.
A'goodfind fresh article constantly on
hand and lor tale by
xadJdom. ' J. A-WILKiNS.
JicgwulwrnfJimuM
Published Pally and TTecklj.
KAN KIN" Jfc LKVI.V Proprietors.
Larffeat Circulation of any Paper pub.
Uahed in thia Senatorial Dlatrict.
OFFICE OF PUBUCATION :
Basctt 5. Swearingen boiWing corner of
St. Charles and Sandy streets
Brenham Texas.
Katt of hubcrlpllont
I'ailr one coyoayrar.. .900
eeklr. on rtntv one year ... 2 CO
lUtm of Artrertliliis:
Transient and Lcpal a-!TfrtlcnirnlM!iF.rt-rdat$IrPOrriuarefor
fint infrliun noil
so ceata pn wpiarr for f acta eulwwinent I n-er-tlon.
MairUfT and Olntuary notlrr. neckline
lFbtliaei Itntrprio. .Utonal wticsofa
rwirrlr buMutsichanictf r lorenu a tlor f a( b
aitrtion.
Enteral at the rostoflicc at Brenham
Texas as sccond-dass mail malter.l
It would be reasonable to
suppose" that the newspapers
has had about enough crow by
this time. But it seems not;
they are still talking about it
Oix Bull the celebrated vl-
oh'nibt died at Burgcn Norway
on the 1 8th inst. A quarter of
a century ago he was the most1
celebrated "fiddler" in tlie
world.
The Sherman Chronicle fully
endorses Hie opinion of the
Brenham Banner 'and the San
Antonio Express in regard to
the nomination of governor
Roberts.
Gen. MAXiY has a well earn-
ed reputation and to dtsparase
him will not advance the inter-
ests of others seeking to occupy
his seat in the senate of the
United Stales.
- Houston and New Orleans
now lack but seven miles of be-
ing connected by railioad ; tlie
road is all ready for the rails
and the gap fs being closed at
the rate of a mile a day.
Gck. J. B. Wiuvkr the green-
back head center of the United
States was at Little Rock last
week and will be in Texas very
soon. His success in Alabama
has not turned his head.
Eureka Nevada has lately
been the scene of a terrible con-
flaragration; about three hun-
dred buildings were destroyed
and many families are house-
less. Tlie loss in property is
estimated at 750060.
AYoOB Kaun now turns up
with 10000 men and is beseig-
ing Candahar. The British
force consists of 1243 Europe
ans and 3386 natives. Fire was
opened on the town with Arm-
strong guns at a distance of
2500 yards.
ScnatorVallace is satisfi-
ed that a full fair and free elec-
tion will give Pennsylvania to
the democrats ; but who ever
heard of such an election since
a corrupt republican mi" lias
manipulated icturns in Phila-
delphia. O.SE great thing in Garfield's
lavor is the Lamar's (Iowa)
Sentinel declines' to suppoit
him only ontheground that he
is a collar republican and must
stand bv the ticket. If the
Okolona Stales will now go
against Hancock honors will be
easy.
1 m .
It is possible that the election
in Indiana will not take place in
October. Tlie decision of the
supreme court on the constitu-
tional amendment changing the
tinie for holding the election
may possibly be reversed as the
matter will be reheard. A fin-
al decision is expected in two
or three weeks.
The almost unanimous nomi-
nation of Upson in the 6th dis-
trict and the unanimous nomi-
nation of Mills in the fourth
district speaks volumes for these
two gentlemen. When the peo-
ple get a good songressman
they retain him. Jones is not
a good cougrcssman ergo Jones
will be beat at the polls.
The New Orleans cotton men
claim that Texas farmers can
make S1.50 a bale by shipping
their cotton to that city with a
margin of three-eights of a cent
a pound. The Post wants to
know what the Houston mer-
chants have to say about it. If
it is so the Houstonians will
have to bestir themselves.
-There is one republican in
Illinois who knows his party loo
well to put any trust in the office-holders.
Mailing his .ub-
scription to the Chicago Inter-
Ocean he notified the republi-
can postmasters and" mail-carers
through whose hands it was
to pass of his suspicions by in-
scribing on the envelope:
"There is g2.6o in this letter for
campaign subscriptions for the
genuine article of republican-
ism. Don't-stcal it." The In-
jtefOccan in an outburst of sur
prise and gratification remarks
that "the letter came through
in safety."
.MOlt LA1T.
For the first time since the
war Washington county has
been the scene of a lynching.
On Monday night a mob esti-
mated at from forty to sixty
armed men at Grecnvine in pre-
cinct No. 6 forcibly took Rube
Carothcrs nero a prisoner
from the officers of the law and
hanged him. The county has
long had the reputation of be-
ing quiet and law abiding and
this reputation should have
been maintained. Mob law is
to be deprecated under any cir-
cumstances but taking a pris-
oner out 6f the hands of the
law is an aggravated species of
mob violence for which no ex-
cuse can be given. We feel
satisfied that the hanging or
this negro is deprecated by all
law abiding citizens; it is a blot
upon the fair escutcheon of our
county for Inch there was no
occasion and tor wlucli no
reasonable excuse can be given.
It is not known who the mob
was that committed the outrage
but they arc supposed to have
been citizens ol this and Austin
county. That Ihe negro was a
Ihief a very bad man and in-
solent is no excuse for the act;
thai under the evidence elici
¬
ted at his trial he would have
been convicted there is no doubt.
Taking the law in the hands of a
mob is an exceedingly bad pre
cedent and if the unlawful
hanging ofone man be justified
why not that of another? there
no telling where lawlessness
will cease. It is to be hoped
that the lynchers will be brought
to justice.
AillATlT HAS COST.
The following figures showing
what the government of the
United States has cost the peo-
ple is obtained from a reliable
source and is very interesting
reading at this time. The most
sensitive portion of the aver-
age man is his pocket and these
figures show how the republi-
can party has disposed of "the
peoples money :
The net ordinary expenses of
the government of the United
States from 17S9 to 1S76 was
6566572860.66 this is exclu-
sive of payments on account of
the public debt interest and
premiums and of pensions of
Uiis sum there was expended
during the war that is for the
five fiscal years ending June 30
1S66 the sum of 3530229-
5S1.64. For the j years from the be-
ginning of the government in
17S9 to 1S62 there was expend-
ed for the same purposes J5i-
506762141.15 and this peri-
od covered the 2d war with
Great Britain. All our indian
wars up to that time and our
foreign war with Mexico being
less than one half the amount
expended during the five years
from 1S62 to 1S66.
In ten years of republican
rule in lime of peace from 1S67
to 1876 both included there was
expended for these purposes
$1528917137.87 being S22-
15497672 more than it cost to
run the government the first S2
years of ils existence.
During Ihe five years of the
war Ihe'rcpublican party spent
2024403440.47 more lhan it
cost to meet the expenses of
the government for the first 82
years of its existence.
For ten years from 1852 to
1S61 under democratic admin-
istration immediately proceed-
ing the war there was expended
572872260.52 being 956-
044.S77.35 less than it cost un-
der republican rule for ten
years immediately succeeding
the war.
The Houston Telegram pub-
lishes a letter purporting to have
been written at Brenham giving
the details of the killing of J. W.
Green by J. M.Jackson in Aus-
tin county. With the exception
of two or three words it is a
verbatim copy of the local pub-
lished in the Banner on Tues-
day morning. Kit was fixed
up in the Telegram office it was
neatly dpne and it was written
in Brcnham.if it was copied from
the Banner; in cither case the
Banner gets no credit for it.
The Brenham reporter of the
Houston Post is in error; when
a man is hanged by a mob the
hanging becomes historical and
should be truthful ; the matt
hanged in this county the other
day was hanged on a cotton-
wood tree and not a live oak
limb as stated by the Post re-
porter. There is nothing like
accuracy in all reports.
Chicago hotel and shop-
keepers wil) make more money
out ol the Masonic convocatioii
than she made out of the Qar-
ficld convention.
The Republican Counly Ticket.
The smoke arising from the
meeting of the republican con-
vention last Wednesday having
cleared off and the disgusted
having all gone to their respec-
tive if not respectable homes it
may perhaps not be amiss to
take a glance at the final result.
From time to time the Banner
published brief reports of the
doings at several of the prelim-
inary meetings. The primary
meetings proper for the election
of delegates were held on differ-
ent days in the several precincts
and were so ai ranged that the
several candidates might attend
each and every precinct meet-
ing and by their presence in-
fluence and money manage to
have delegates elected who
would answer their individual
purposes. For the past year
or more the present incumbents
of the county offices with ihe
exception of the county clerk
have been busy in electioneer-
ing and preparing for the com-
ing election. They had every-
thing cut and dried and as a
natural result every one wks re-
nominated. Hon. J. D. McAdoo county
judge io a very popular man
and was elected two years ago
by a very large majority. When
his name was put in nomination
last Wednesd.iyit as withdrawn
at his own request but he was
subsequently nominated by ac-
clamation' He has a great
many warm personal friends of
-all parties in the county and
will be re-elecled.
R. A. Harvin county collec-
tor is now serving his second
term and is a candidate for a
third term. We do not know
thai any fault can be found with
him in the discharge of his offi-
cial duties. He is the head
center of the republican party
in the county and has managed
and manipulated tlie colored
voters with as much freedom as
the the potter manipulates and
moulds the plastic clay. Dur-
ing his term of office he has
had much to do with shaping
the political course of the col-
ored people and to him as much
as to anv other one man is
Washington county indebted
for being represented in the
legislature by a negro.
J. L. Moore candidate for
district clerk is now before tlie
public for a third term. He has
made an efficient officer and
although of a quiet and retiring
disposition has had not a little
to do in the management of the
colored element playing the
second big fiddle while the dar-
kies danced to the music.
Ed -Lockett familiarly known
as little Ed. has been the tail to
Harvin"s kite acting as deputy
collector by means of which
position he has introduced him-
self to the public. As an indi-
vidual he has maintained an
honorable posilion.politically he
is a nondescript he has claimed
if we arc not in error to have
been a democrat two years af;o
he in common withsevcral ofthc
republican candidates "jined" 4
greenback club at Chappell
Hill and was a greenbacker a
republican or a democrat as the
occasion required. Save for
the service he has tendered the
present county office holders in
political work he has no claims
upon the people of the county
cither white or black.
J. II. Hutchinson h the third
term candidate lor sheriff. He
is well known throughout the
county and personally is quite
popular with nearly all parlies;
is familiarly known as "Hub"
and is one of that class of men
populary known as "good fel-
lows;" unfortunately for the
"good-fellows" they rarely
make good officers; and while
we have the highest respect for
Mr. Hutchinson as a man we
can not endorse his official acts.
The affairs in his office have
been managed too loosely.
Joe Hoffman is a second-term
'candidate for county assessor.
He has discharged his official
duties faithfully to far as we
know but he depends mainly
upon the support of the color-
ed voters and is to put it mild-
ly on'y a cats-paw in the hands
of the courthouse ring and is
supposed to exercise a potent
influence over the German vote
in the west end of the county.
Carl Schutzc is a third-term
candidate for county attorney.
Mr. Schutzc is a German and
claims to be a republican ftom
principle. Many of his Qfficial
acts arc subject to criticism.
1 Ic having appeared at all terms
of the district court those who
have seen his management of
cases can judge for themselves.
We will do him the justice to
say tljat he has managed some
cases with consummate skill.
Bc'ng a German by birth he is
supposed to be able to control
to a consideral extent the vote
of his countrymen.
A. W. Winslow formerly an
auctioneer a solicitor 'for a
tombstone maker
civil enojneer
eral other tf
sions is tied u
in the tail ofthc
as the candidate
W. H. Blount colore
candidate for thcr
office of cciaty treasurer. Hcv
was once cTtXtcd constable of
the Washington beat. If. un-
fortunately for the county he
should be elected some while
republican will make the bond
and get nearly all the emolu-
ments of the office. -
R. J. Moore colored is a
candidate for the legislature.
Blount and Moore are simply
bones from tbe'ehicken-pic of
valuable county offices thrown
out as bait to catch the colored
vole.
We have hastily made pen
sketches ofthc material that the
responsible tax-paying citizens
and democrats of this county
have to beat.
x-
Captain Eads gives the fol-
lowing reasons in favor of his
proposed ship railaay across
the Isthmus: "First a ship-
railway -can be constructed for
one-fourlh the cost of a tide
level canal and one-half the cost
of a canal with locks; second it
can be constructed in very much
less time ; Ihird wherever a ca-
nal is practicable a railway is
equally practicable and in many
points upon the Isthmus a rail-
way can be built where the con-
struction of a canal would be
out of the question ; fourth a
railway can be enlarged from
timalo time to meet the wants
of commerce at a comparative-
ly small expense ; fifth vessels
can be transported upon the
railway much more rapidly than
through the canal and with
equal safety; sixth transporta-
tion by rail will be attended by
no delay; tlie railway will ac-
commodate commerce and not
prove an impediment to it as
in the case of the canal with
locks; seventh as the investment
would be smaller the tolls and
charges would be greatly re-
duced." .
The Dcnison Herald a paper
that was opposed to Roberts
says realizing that the people
were for Roberts and the press
against him we can set no bet-
ter example than by bow ing to
their will. Let the press edu-
cate the people ratherthanseek
to make new parties. This can
only be done by a reasonable
conservative and liberal course.
The newspapers that advocate
a liberal and progressive poh'cy
for the state are in advance of
the pecple but the day is not
far distant when the people will
find that the newspapers were
right and they were wrong. It
takes lime to make radical
charges: years were required to
convince ihe world of the utili-
ty of railroads and the tele-
graph. What would the world
be to-day without them?
The Houston Post professes
to discover that the greenback
parly is becoming strong and
lespectable in Texas and that
it is worthy of more considera
tion than the press has been
willing to accord to it. The
Post is pecuhary constituted for
a strictly independent and non-
partisan journal; in its eyes the
dcmociatic party possesses Ihe
fewest virtues ol any of the po-
litical parlies now extant in the
land. The one great peculiari-
ty oflhc average independent
newspaper is its hostility to
democracy in all shapes and
forms. The Post while it ad-
mires Roberts to a certain ex-
tent would be delighted to sec
him shelved by an independent.
In Smith county there are
two or three negroes out for
county offices. The Tyler Cour-
ier says they have been voting
for a few white radicals in the
county for a long time and we
wonder if the negro candidates
will get any support from them.
The radical party in Smith
county is composed almost
wholly of negroes and it has al-
ways seemed strange that they
have not demanded some of the
loaves and fishes.
The New Orleans Times of
last Sunday contains an editor-
ial on "Sunday Rrccrcations"
in which it says nothinrr is more
marked perhaps in the relig-
ious world lhan tlie change
which has taken place in the
manner of observing the Sab-
bath day. Inmanyof thecities
the day is observed as one of
iccreation rest and legitimate
pleasure as w ell as a day for rc-
igious services.
At Augusta Ga. Paul Foun-
tain was struck in the head by
an if nknown negro and killed.
wwyer a
HIililHKr
tor CTHBiUaaP:
a ixixixixixHHixix&.
EDITORIAL SOTES.
Arkanss republicans have
decided not to run a stale ticket
this year.
The "on toMexico"-boom in
and about Austin is now a thine
tiie past.
o the dispatches it ap-
iI&U m rUlHlO Al.MIJlut
in Chicago
papers
lependent
some-
Ix ".estnrSPoBrr over 200-
ooo strangers were in Chicago
at the conclave ot the Knights
Templar.
Tom Ociultrle wh
has a national reputation is pul
ling on style at Newport this
season.
Haves' veto of the Chinese
immigration bill is lo be pub-
lished in California as a cam-
paigh document.
There is no purer gentleman
in the state than general J. B.
Robertson of Waco says the
Sherman Chronicle.
I r seems that Tennessee has
repudiated its repudiating gov-
ernor. The state debt of Ten-
nessee is too large.
A man named Waldron arres-
ted at Sunnyside Ga. wa3 tak-
en from the sheriff by a mob
who decapitated him.
The Houston Age is now en-
gaged in the task of trying to
convert the Castroville Quill to
its way or thinking.
In the eighth Illinois con-
gressional district the republi-
cans nominated Col. W. P. Hep-
burn on the 346th ballot.
Rioting is in progress at Bel-
fast and Dungannon Ireland.
The trouble is between the
Catholics and Orangemen.
The ladies may be interested
in knowing that Sara Bernhardt
is going to bring 68000 worth
of dresses to this country with
her.
The population of tlie 6th
congressional district of this
state under the late census is
243000 an Increase of our 96-
000. At the barracks in Cork Ire-
land a gun-powder plot has
been discovered. It is said that
two barrels of powder were
found.
For a rarity a collision has
occurred on a European rail-
road. The accident took place
at Vichy in France and 34 per-
sons were wounded.
A new Atlantic cable com-
pany has been registered with
Portugese concession for a cable
jrom England to the Azores
and thence America.
The Yaegcr flouring mill at
St. Louis one of the largest of
the kind in the city was burned
on Wednesday night incurring
a loss of 400000.
Ir elected to the United Stales
senate governor Roberts will
have no conscienlious scruples
about taking his seat says the
Houston Telegram.
A sfkcial from San Antonio
to the Houston Post says a gen-
tleman from Santa Rosa Mexi-
co reports a band of Indians
committing deptedations.
Several lives were lost by
the wrecking of four schooners
during the recent cyclone off
Padre island the most danger-
ous portion of the Texas coast.
The first bale from North
Carolina was recieved at Nor-
folk on the 19II1 inst. Norfolk
for several years past has han-
dled nearly as mtfch cotton as
Galveston.
At Norfolk Va. Mrs. Eliza-
beth Benson an aged lady
committed suicided by cuttintj
her throat with a case knife
and jumping into a hogshead
of water.
Rose Wateman a pretty girl
thirteen years old suicided in
New York by jumping from the
roof of a four-story dwelling.
She was in love witji a school
boy aged sixteen.
Thk government made a net
profit of 15851000 by the is-
sue of fractional currency there
being that amount of shinplas-
ter yet outstanding and which
has been lost or destroyed.
As an illustration in climate
it is stated that at Hudson New-
York on the nth of August
ti)c first rqasting cars were gath-
ered) in this section of Texas
corn was matured by July 1st.
The opening of tail commu-
nication between Texas and
New Orleans is hailed w itli ejer
light in that city and will be
productive ol great benefit to
the southern part of Texas.
With railroad facilities New
Orleans will occupy towards us
the same position that St. Lou-
ts docs tc-'northcrn Texas.
vJlH
WhfTOoH
A St. Louis preacher said a
few Sundays ago in a sermon
that all who read Sunday news-
papers would go to hell. If the
preacher tells the truth that hot
place will have to be enlarged.
The Austin Statesman was
violently opposed to the city
taking charge of the free
schools Lut so far as we have
noticed it has said nothing
about the result of the election.
J. W. Lne a vegetable dealer
at Austin was found in his room
near'the market on Wednesday
morning suffering from an over-
dose of morphine. He died at
1 1 o'clock; family troubles the
m
Thl sheriffs- convention at
alias allowed the editor of the
Georgetown Record to address
them and now the Record com-
pliments the sheriffs upon their
good looks and efficiency. Taf-
fy is cheap.
A Man is journeying down
the Mississippi in a boat drawn
by birds. The romance is
knocked out of a possible pic-
ture by the facts : The birds are
geese and the man is selling a
patent ointment.
John Sherman who was de-
feated for the presidential nom-
ination will take the stump for
Garfield and on the 30th inst
will orate at Cincinnati. He
will afterwads make "some"
speeches in Indiana and several
more in Ohio.
Thc grand conclave of lite
Knights of Honor closed their
session at Waco on Thursday.
Grand officers were installed
and the body decided lo meet
at San Antonio next August.
The proceedings were harmon-
ious. The Gonzales Inquirer of last
week has an article in regard
to the present occupation tax
the injustice of which is fully
set forth. In many instances the
occupation tax is onerous but
in the long run it is all paid by
the people.
It is becoming continually
clearer says the New Orleans
Times that New Orleans is the
only real American cotton mar-
ket That city by virtue of geo-
graphical position is the great
central cotton market of the
Mississippi valley.
J. P. Morris chief engineer
of the Auburn N. Y. fire de-
partment suicided on thc 18th
by cutting his throat with a ra-
zor. A grand fircmens' celebra-
tion was in progress and Morris
became nervous and excited
over Ins many duties.
The Apache Indians have
appeared again in Candelani
mountains. When about 60
miles from El Paso they struck
the village of Santa Maria and
killed Iwo Mexicans and stole
a few head of horses.
The fourth district congress
ional convention met at Waco
on Wednesday about two-thirds
of the counties were represen-
ted some sixty delegates were
present. Col. Roger Q. Mills
was nominated by acclamation.
What says the Brazos Pilot now?
The Gonzales Inquirer want-
ed Roberts and Storey for gov-
ernor and lieutenant governor;
it got them and it says it is hap-
py. What is fun for the boys
is death to the frogs. It would
not do have everybody happy
at once.
W. M. Morrison a leading
member of congress and whose
name was mentioned in connec-
tion with thc presidency was
renominated for congress by
the democrats ofthc 7th Illin-
ois congressional district by
acclamation.
The New Orleans cotton ex-
change has appointed a com-
mittee to co-operate with other
mercantile institutions and citi-
zens generally in making suita-
ble arrangements for the recep-
tion and entertainment of the
excursionists from Texas on the
opening of rail communication
with Texas.
The republican papers tell us
that Garfield is too dignified to
reply to the charges of corrup-
tion made against him; that it
would be beneath his position
yet Hancock is accused of be-
ing shy and cowardly because
he refuses to rush into print over
any petty charge of jnmfiry
made by s.omc ntw-spapcr cor-
respondent or reporter.
The Houston Age "says it
counseled the nomination of
John Hancock at Dallas as fl
presidential elector for the 51I1
district and it will support him
for any position in president
Hancock's cabinet that may
be allowed to Texas. "We pre-
fer Scth Shepard to any person
for congress but have cqjdisUy.
supported Hancock whenever
he was nominated."
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state ews.
Bellvillc now has a daily
mail.
The total assessment of
Austin county is 2442058.
Bellvillc booms. Improve-
ments are the order ofthc day.
Cotton and boll worms arc
damaging the crop in the vicin-
ity of Sherman.
The court house lot at San
Saba is to be fenced in and a
cistern is to be dug.
At San Saba the colored
people arc about to build a
church and school house for
their exclusive use.
Hill county is to have a
colony of Germans direct from
Germany; they have bought
1700 acres of land.
The Bellvillc Times cau-
tions its correspondents to be
brief it don't like to tackle
"nonpariel communications."
Thc LaGrange Journal calls
upon all thc dark horse candi-
dates in the county lo come
forward and announce them-
selves. -The Dcnison News says a
woman was lately in that town
trying to induce yojng women
to go to St. Louis for improper
purposes.
Allen Wright the negro
who was to have been hung at
Dallas on Friday last has been
respited for seven days by the
governor.
In Gonzales somebody has
been using strychnine effective-
ly. One man lost two pet
wolves and another a fine New
Foundland dog.
Athens Henderson coun-
ty has a new paper called the
Journal. Athens as at tlie junc-
tion of the St Louis and Texas
and the Dallas Trunk railway.
David Munn a sheep own-
er of Batcsville Zavalla county
was found dead on Monday last
with two bullet holes in his head.
He is supposed to have been
killed by his Mcxiean herder.
Coleman is much excited
over a report that ore has been
discovered in Mitchell county
that assayed 3000 to thc ton.
Thc report says there is certain
ly gold there and plenty of it
A San Saba man last year
purchased one thousand ewes ;
in the spring he succeeded in
raising 950 lambs from them.
The lambs are of improved
blood and are worth more than
the dams.
Houston had a ripple of
excitement the other day. Ii
was only a runaway couple. Mr.
Pierce and MissPrindle.of Willis
came down the road got mar-
ried and straightway went home
again.
J. M. Jackscn who shot
and killedT. W Green in Aus-
tin county had a preliminary
examination at Bellvillc' the
other day and was admitted to
bail in the sum of 5000 which
he gave.
A Colorado county plan-
ter who has over three hundred
acres in cotton five miles below
Columbus has wagered a suit
of clothes with another farmer
that he will make over a bale of
cotton to the acre.
Smith county it seems is
in much the same condition
politically that Washington is
in. The two parties are nearly
equally divided and the demo-'
crat's arc trying their luck on a
county ticket
At Columbus the cutting
of the weeds by the city author-
ities for the past year or two
has induced a thick growth of
Bermuda grass which prevents
dust and is pleasing to the eye
and to the cows.
At thc judicial convention
at Belton B. W. Rimes was nom-
inated forjudge of the 14th ju-
dicial district after the incredi-
ble number of 600 ballots had
been taken. All hands were
satisfied with the result.
Colorado Citizen: Re-
cent rains have damaged cotton
rotting the bolls at the bottom
of the stalks and bringing cot-
ton worms in many places. The
damage in the southern part of
the county is considerable.
Johnson and Odone the
men who fought with knives
last week are both dead. They
were neighbors married men
but becoming heated up with
whiskey they fought and there
is two more widows in Texas.
- A nice young man with
S480 went down to the first
ward in Austin and took a syren
out riding ; at the conclusion of
the ride he was 480 short
The money was lecovered but
the nice young man declined
prosecuting.
Joe Bullard city marshal
at Ennis was shot in tho bowels
by S. fl. Alexander a black-
smith on Thursday. The day
before Bullard had arrested
Alexander for disorderly con-
duct and Alexander took his
revenge by shooting the mar-
shal without a word pf warning.
The marshal is dead and much
indignation is manifested at the
murderer who is under a heavy
guard.
At noon on the jith inst.
13 prisoners at Laredo over-
powered the guards and escap-
ed from jail attempting lo cross
into Mexico. Officers and cit-
izens gave chase ond one Sharp
Whitley was killed near the
courthouse. The others started
to swim the river but were shot
by thc pursuers. Seven ojf tho
prisoners wcc billed five were
repaptured and one made 1:1s
escape. The Mexicans fired at
the pursuing party on this side
of the river.
A fatal accident occurred
on the Texas and Pacific rail-
way 95 miles west of Dallas. A
construction train while back-
ing was ditched by running
over a steer. Two men were
instantly killed and several
were seriously wounded.
Dallas is still excited over
the removal of mayor Thur-
mond. An election to fill the
vacancy will be held early in
September and Thurmond will
try to vindicate himself by be-
ing a candidate for re-election.
Thurmond has a world of brass
in his composition.
A correspondent of a north-
ern stalwart paper writes that
at Victoria on the 4th of July
a Confederate flag was rais-
ed in honor of the occasion.
This story is manufactured to
order and is to be used in the
northern states as an evidence
that the war is not over.
Allen Wright the condemn-
ed negro murdered was baptis-
ed in the Trinity river at Dal-
las on Wednesday. The sher-
iff tied a rope around his" body
in order to hanl Turn ashore if
he attempted to take the water
route to the realms of bliss by
drowning himself. He wept
when he fcauic up out of the
water and expressed the belief
that he had made his peace.
The Telegram notes that
colonel he used to be major
McGary on Tuesday last ship-
ped ten able-bodied cotton pick-
ers to Capt. Tom Clay's planta-
tion in Washington county and
intended shipping more.
The Colorado Citizen says
in thsjong list of candidates for
county offices there appears no
candidates for county commis-
sioners. The office of county
commissioner is of much im-
portance and the best men in.
thc county should be elected. to
fill the position.
A train of twelve wagons
containing Ihe families of "a
colony of iminrants from south
west Missouri andbound to Ham
ilton county passed throuch
Denison the other day. One
tiling says the Denison Herald
especially noticeable was the
utter absence of the usual "val-
ler dorg;" there was not a dog
in the whole outfit
Dr. R. C. Rutter was way
laid and murdered about 3
o'clock Friday morning near
Porter's prairie Burleson coun
ty. Nineteen buckshot entered
his. body. An inquest was held
and verdict rendered that de-
ceased was killed by Geo.
Means who is in jail. Dr. Rut
ter was abbut 35 years of age
and married. The Banner
learns from parties from Burle-
son county that Means had ac-
cused the doctor of having put
his arm around a woman's waist
and that a day or two before
the killing the doctor had made
him retract what he had said.
This seems to have worked up-
on Means' feelings until he way-
laid and murdered tlie doctor
as stated. The scene of thc
tragedy was some seven miles
from CaldwelL
John Sherman jr. United
States marshal of New Mexico
was at Jefferson city lately. In
regard to the Indian troubles in
Mexico and Texas he condemn-
ed the management and course
of the government In the mat-
ter. He says one of the regi-
ments is composed of mounted
negroes and an Indian is about
as much afraid of a negro sol-
dier as he is of a millstone
while not one negro soldier in a
hundred but will run at sight of
an Indian. The negro regi-
ment came within shooting dis-
tance of a part of Victorias
band. They run after the first
fire and before the Indians fired
a shot or made any attempt at
resistance. Mr. Sherman esti-
mates Victoria's force at 350
and says two white regfments
well managed would wipe them
out in a short time.
George Doren was hanged
at Corsicana on Friday. The
execution was private only those
being admitted that were allow-
ed by law. At 3. o'clock the
rope holding thc weight was
cut and Doren was jurked up
several feet. On the 1st of June
1879 he murdered William Fitz-
simmons at the house of a ne-
gro woman prompted by jeal-
ousy. He was born at Fort
Wayne Ind. and left there
young; had lived in Kansas and
the west coming to Texas
about 5 years ago. He was
a very bad man and had com-
mitted several other murders.
A Curious divorce suit is now
in the courts at St. Louis. Liz-
zie Smith or Fitzgerald as she
is indifferently called asks a di-
vorce from James Fitzgerald
and also 10000 damages. She
claims that in 1873 they mutu-
ally agreed to live together as
man and wife and did so till
till March 1S80 when Fitz. de-
serted her. They were never
legally married
n mm
At St. Louis a few nights
ago the steamer CP. Chouteau
was illuminated by two electric
lights of 3000 candlcpower each.
For half a mile or more on cith-
er side of thc boat it was as
light as day. By using these
lights when on a trip landings
can be made as easily at night
as in daylight
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