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The Weekly Banner
J. G. RASKIN Proprietor.
Thursday Sept. 25 1S90.
A cosvestios of real estate men
lias been called to meet in "Waco on
Monday October 13tli.
m
Victor M. Rose Las issued a call
for the meeting of "anti-commission
Democrats" at Dallas on October 1st.
Galveston's blow out Saturday
night was immense. She has much
torejoice for and from all accounts
ene litingiy rejoiceu.
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TrvTTFnTrmfi.-a industries insure
nlnnf.v of warre-earners. Wage-earn-
ers increase uie uemuuu. wi :vt
estate and thecity booms.
The citizens of Beeville are taking
shares in a 50000 school house.
They propose to rustle the building
out of the people at S50 per share.
The Parnellites claim that Dillon
and O'Brien were arrested to pre-
vent their coming to America the
government fearing the effect . of
their speeches on the public.
The President has signed the
.anti-lottery bill. It is now law. No
japer containing a lottery advertise-
ment can go through the mails and
cno letter addressed to the lottery.
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It is reported from Tyler that
rCol. E- J. Sledge and Prof. Milton
3?crk have purchased a controlling
.interest in the Southern Mercury
-the Farmers' Alliance organ of Dal-
las. 1 1 3 a J $s taol
Peesidext Eibh and Bishop Don-
aldson mormon dignitaries have
been arrested by the Uunited States
Marshal at Boise City Iowa on a
charge of conspiracy in advising the
mormons to violate the election law.
Bishop Budge was arrested on the
same charge and other arrests are to
follow.
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The merchants have been remem-
bered with a day at the Fair to be
called "Merchants Day." It should
attract those engaged in mercantile
pursuits from every section of the
state. They represent one of the
most important factors In the states
commerce and the compliment is
well bestowed by the Fair Associa-
tion. J
TTFnr. is the ''man of fijmres" at
his weary work again: There are
over 300000 people who walk about
t.Vm fifrfinls of Iiondon dailv. and in
sn dointr thev wear away a ton of
leather particles from their boots
and shoes this wouia m a jear
form (i leather belt six inches wide
nnrf one-fourth of an inch thick
long enough to reach from London
to New York.
The Lewiston Journal has been
figuring on Maine's summer visitors
and concludes that 100000 of them
this year have paid 'out S6000000
for "entertainment and incidentals"
at the rate of Si per day for each
person. Food is cheap in Maine
andtliat 51 must include a great
deal of liquid fun that the prohibi-
tory State government would'nt ad-
mit as having existence.
The Galveston News yesterday
contained a dispach from Washing-
ton stating that the Sunday Chronicle
of "Washington was refused at the
postoffice because it contained a lot-
tery advertisement. On the third
page of the News was the advertise-
ment of two lotteries and it came
here through the mail. How is this?
Is the News to be made an excep
tion in the enforcement of the law?
In this country women are en
franchised in some form m more
than half of the States. The ten
dency is constantly in the direction
of still further expansion. Indeed
the doctrine has been so widely ac
cepted that no person of general in-
formation now doubt? that the
United States will enfranchise women
at no distant day.
The fifth annual entertainment of
the Texas State Fair and Dallas Ex-
position Association begins October
18th and closes November 2nd and
the Fair Association in recognition
of the labor of the press which has
contributed liberally to the success
of the institution have decided to
honor the. fraternity with "Editors
Day" and October 22nd has been
selected as the day. The programme
will probably include an address of
some distinguished representative
the press and an tne editors are in-
vited to attend.
A whiter in "Western Texas speak-
inc of Decans. thinks that this could
be made a much better paying busi
ness than raising cotton. Me says
on 400 acres of land he has 11000
pecan trees all bearing a bushel a
year which readily brings H. per
bushel and that the trees bear at
eiffht vears old. A tree twehe to
fourteen vears will he says bear
from twelve to fifteen bushels of pe-
firiH. which navs from 24 to S30
-ner voar. "Whv not plant a few
acres in pecan3 and have a pasture
at the same time. Farmer think of
this.
THE SOUTII'S AGGREGATION F AD-
VANTAGES. Xn one can study the combina
tion of advantages possessed by the
South says the Manufacturing
Becord without being amazed at
the possibilities of the future cot-
ton of which it practically holds
the monopoly of the world is a
wonderful wealth producer that has
no equal in the agricultural products
of this or any other country. This
crop alone raised on 19000000
neres. will this vear be worth m-
cludinsrthe seed nearly $500000-
000 which about equals in value the
total com crop of the United States
mised on 75.000000 acres and is
about 100000000 greater than the
value of the wheat crop of the whole
country raised on 38000000 acres.
This is a basis of wealth for South
ern agricultural interests that prom
ises greater prosperity than the
farmers of any other section of the
countrv can ever hope to enioy.
Added to the cotton crop are the
nee sugar and toDacco crops au
sources of great wealth which the
farmers of the North and "West do
not have. Then there are the early
vegetable business which is assum
ing such large proportions aim
which-already reaches not less than
S50000000 a year; the fruit-growing
industry including the raising
of oranges grapes eany peacues
etc. in addition to the usual farm
crops of wheat corn and oats the
three staples upon wnicn western
farmers must wholly depend.
The agricultural possibilities of
the outh are greater than those of
the balance of the country all com-
bined based on the aggregate val-
ues and actual profits to the produc-
ers. With this unequalled agricultural
foundation tli6 South has the miner-
al resources that make it certain
that it will become the center of the
iron and steel production of the
world for nowhere else on the globe
can the same combination of advan-
tages be found for producing iron
steel at the lowest cost. It has far
more coal- than Pennsylvania Ohio
Illinois and all of Great Britain com-
bined and its coal is more easily
combined. It has the largest sup-
ply of pine and hardwood timber to
be found in the United States.
In addition io all of these advan-
tages it can produce cheaper than
any other section because living is
cheaper. New England for in-
stance gets its foodstuffs from the
West and the South: its cotton coal
iron and and lumber from the same
regions. Everything that its people
consume or manufacture is enhanced
in cost bv lone transportation. Be
sides its ricorous climate adds
greatly to the cost of living. The
South produces its own cotton: lit
has its own iron coal and timber; it
raises its own food stuffs its mild
nnd health-ffivincr climate must al
ways make the cost of living much
lower than in the North or West
and with these advantages which
no other country possesses it can
manufacture cotton iron steel and
lumber and everything into which
these enter cheaper than is possible
in anv other section.
These facts are gradually impress
ing themselves upon the people of
the North and West as well as upon
the capitalists of England. They
probably more fully understand the
great possibilities of such a country
than the people of the South them-
selves. They see that there is no
dano-er of overdoinc the business in
the way of stating new towns and
new industries and building new
railroads so long as good judgment
is exercised in handling such enter-
prises. And it is because they un-
derstand these facts that they are
now putting so many millions into
Southern properties.
KOKDEll l'OLITICS.
Away down in Webb where the
Moxican and American Eagle can sit
on their respective perches and shy
cactus fruit at each other across tne
Eio Bravo they are having a nice
little political squabble as to what
constitutes Democracy. The chair
man of the Democratic Executive
Committee Judge Rodriguez re-
fuses to call a convention or a mass-
meeting the little "ring there per-
hans havintr already come to an un
derstanding as to who shall have the
offices for the ensuinc terms. It is
said that about half a dozen men
meet at the parlor of a "boss in
Laredo and name officers year in and
year out and that then they call it
Democracy. However mere is com-
ing a time that this little "ring"' will
have its heretofore almost unlimited
power wrested from it. The people
are rising the "Gate City" is exposing
the "ring's political tactics" and as a
result a radical change for the better
maybe looked for there in the
near future.
SOUTH CAKOL.INA POLITICS.
The dissentions in the ranks of
the democracy of South Carolina it
seems has emboldened the republi-
cans to such an extent as to cause
them to seriously meditate the in-
tention of placing a straight republi-
can ticket in the field. Their first
intention however was to throw
their strength to the support of
some straightout democrat thereby
intensifying the bitterness between
the two warring factories; but as
the straighouts have declined to put
a ticket in the field their calcula-
tions in that direction miscarried
and they now talk of nominating a
straight republican ticket and rely
upon the dissentions in the demo-
cratic ranks for its success. In this
move they will select the very best
men they have for their nominees
men known to be both honest and
capable notwithstanding their re
publicanism believing that such a
ticket will stand a reasonable show
of success.
This is indeed a bad state of af
fairs if as represented by the spec-
ial dispatches from that state; how
ever the uaxxer is iota to oeueve
that such is the case and can but
feel that the dissention in the demo-
cratic ranks in South Carolina is not
so great as represented; and that
the few "dissenting straightouts"
will ere long see the error of their
way and rally to the support of Till-
man and white supremacy.
The nomination of a republican
State ticket cannot in the opinion
of the Times-Democrat endanger
democratic success in South Caro-
lina as long as there is but one dem-
ocratic ticket in the field there be-
ing no serious split in the party
ranks yet is deprecable to see dem-
ocratic division no matter how
small and the revival of the republi-
can party which for more than
ten years have had no State ticket
in the field in that State their polit-
ical prospects being regarded too
poor to even make nominations.
The quarrel between the straight-
outs and the Tillmanites although
it fortunately did not go to ex-
tremes succeeded in reviving the re-
publican part- which is of itself a
sufficient warming to the white peo-
ple of the South to avoid divisions
and dissentions in their ranks.
CENSUS OF THE SOUTUEltN STATES.
It has so far been impossible to
procure the exact figures of the
census giving the population of the
several Southern States although
those of the Northern States have
been already announced. A special
telegram from Washington to the
Chicago Tribune give some round
numbers with the statement that:
"The census office has not yet suffi-
ciently advanced in its work to be
told with a near approach to ac-
curacy what the exact figures what
the exact figures will be:
We here produce them with the
census figures ot 1880:
STATES.
1890
18S0.
Alabama...........
...1520000
1202505
802525
146603
269493
Arkansas 1.183000
Deleware 175.000
Florida 396000
Georgia 1840000
Kentucky 1870000
Louisiana 1115000
Maryland 1400000
Mississippi 1265000
North Carolina . 1640000
South Carolina 1187000
Virginia 1700000
West Yircrinia 774.C0O
1542180
1648096
939946
934943
1131597
I3997C0
yys&o
151265
618459
142356
1591743
Tennessee 1800000
Texas 2175900
This present basis of representa
tion is one member of congress to
each 154325 of population to each
State. If this modulus be preserved
in the next apportionment it will be
seen that every Southern State ex
cept Delaware will gam considerable
representation; but it is more than
likely that the basis will be increased
as is proposed to 1S1000; the South-
ern States will still gain representa-
tion while many Northern States
would loose.
DESKKTED.
The staff correspondent of the
Houston Post down at San Antonio
airs the views of an alleged promin
ent democrat of Austin who claims
to be a "last-ditcher" and to have
always voted the Democratic ticket
who says that he will not vote for
Hogg or the commission for the
reason that Gen. Hogg is not the
party nominee any more than he is.
It is no wonder that he refuses to
reveal his identity. A man with the
gall to stand up before the public
and assert that Hogg was not the
Democratic nominee in the face of
his unprecedented following in a
Democratic State convention would
indeed distinguish himself as a fool
his future assertions meriting the
contempt with which they would be
regarded. As long as he is not
known ho may escape the ridicule
that the assertion made over his
own signature would have cost him
but the Democratic party can afford
to loose any such Democrat though
he was old as Matheusalah and had
always voted the ticket.
There have been deserters of many
a cood ship that has afterwards
made the port for which' she was
bound and possibly Gen. Hogg will
reach the port of State if this '-'old
salt" has deserted.
Jay Gould thinks the Government
surplus will be exhausted in twelve
month and then only funds for its
current needs will bo in the treasury.
Mr. Gould has made more reputa-
tion as a financeer than we have but
its oven money that at the present
rate of expenditure it will be -exhausted
in much less time.
The W. C. T. U. women of Texas
are in search of a woman lawyer:
they want to appoint her Superin-
tendent of "legislative work."
CIIOCTATVS ANI CH1CKASAAVS GET
VAY.
From the house Indian affairs
committee a bill was reported
Monday to pay 0211714 to the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of
Indians for title in fee simple to
0201033 acres of land in tho Indian
Territory being land which the In-
dians in 1SGG leased to tho United
States for the special purpose of lo-
cating other friendly Indians and
freedmen thereon. Of the amount
to be paid the Choctaws are to re-
ceive three-quarters and the Chicka-
saws one-quarter.
A Cixcisnati Enquirer reporter
propounded the following querry to
Jav Gould among a number of eth
ers in a recent interview:
"Does the new tariff bill interfere
with the prosperity of the country?"
.'1 do not think so. it is a radi
cal change and radical changes
naturally unsettle things for a time.
There are provisions in the tariff
which I as an individual do not ap
prove. 1 am a protectionist now-
ever. I believe in imposing a tariff
which shall protect our industries
but still not be prohibitory. In the
case of an infant industry it should
be fostered until it is able to stand
on its own merits and theH at least
a portion of the protection should
be withdrawn.''
The Savannah (Ga.) News contains
the following very truthful para
graph which the Banner fully en-
dorses: "Policemen should not be
permitted to drink intoxicating
liquors while on duty and men who
drink to excess however lnirequent-
ly should not be taken on the police
torce or restained upon it mien
their weakness is discovered. They
may be worthy men but they are
not fit to be policemen. Those who
have the lives and property of citi-
zens in their keeping should at all
times have clear heads in order to
be able not only to see their duty
but also act promptly when there
services are needed."
Boutelle of Maine having at-
tempted to explain that he didn't
mean what he published about Secre-
tary Blaine we may now expect the
Eepublican press to claim that he
was hypnotized by some wicked
Democrat and made to write the
article without being responsible for
it.
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The telephone has played an im
portant part in the manoeuvres of
the Swedish fleet. There is a tele-
phonic post on board each vessel
and when lying at anchor they can
telephone to one o'nther by means
of insulated conductors which are
run down the anchor chains and
submerged.
The political outlook at Washing-
ton is reported blue with no pros
pect of Congress adjoining betore
the ides of October remaps tne
sulphurous language of speaker
Eeed when he heard of the congress-
men kicking out of congress made
the outlook blue. They say he re
tired to a private room and cursed a
blue streak.
President McLeod of the Bead
ing Railroad will now receive S40-
00U a year as salary. jluih is iuo
largest compensation given any rail-
ttt official in the countrv it is as
serted except that paid to Mr.
Depewby the New York Central
who gets S50000.
The first importation of sheep in-
to America was in 1G00 to Janes-
town Va. It is now m order tor
some "mutton-head"' to inaugurate
and exposition or celebration for the
300 anniversary of their landing
and "fleece" the "lambs."
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MeElrs.'i WINEQFCARPUI lor female diicues.
Three of the most thorough be
lievers in and stanchest defenders
of faith cures and Christian science
theories at Pomona Cal. are so very
ill in bed that they were glad to
send for physicians to attend them.
iinv nnrl steel men threaten to
.We! the tariff bill now before
Congress if they rates fixed by the
house are not restored and the con
ference on the bill was postponed
Monday for further consultation.
Another use to which electricity
is to be put is the slaughter of hogs.
It is siacl that hogs slaughtered by
electricity bleed more freely will
keep longer and are entirely free
from trichinae.
The State of Mississippi has a law
rliqfrnnchisuiff'.wife-beaters. The sub
stitution of the whipping-post would
be a more appropriate means of pun-
ishment for such heartless scoun-
drels. An enterprising Clay County far-
mer raised and sold $1000 worth of
watermelons and cantelopes this
season and he thinks he will market
S300 worth more.
County judges of Texas are re-
quired to make returns to circular
issued at Austin by which increase
or decrease of crime will be demonstrated.
The Philadelphia Ledger and in-
dependent journal comments as fol-
lows upon the new proposed tariff
bill : "Louisiana sugar planters are
alarmed over the new tariff bill
which if allowed to go into effect as
to the sugar schedule before next
summer will greatly depreciate tho
value of the Louisiana crop estima-
ted to be worth S20000000. They
want time to market the crop before
it depreciates in value by act of con
gress. These and other movements
to delay or hasten the time for put-
ting the new rates of duty into ef
fect show the difficulty of dealing
with such a subject as a change of
the tariff which by the mere act of
law-makers at Washington may
make or break fortunes. Changes
have to be instituted at limes but it
is always a serious matter to dis
turb market value by legislation a
fact which is hardly appreciated by
Bepresentatives who propose to
limit debate on a multitude of
schedules to two hours."
Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army
London is about to stirt a great
matrimonial agency. He says: "How
many thousands of men are there
in far away parts of the earth who
would be clad to set eood wivos
and who cannot get them? How
many women are they in the ranks
of our home society who would make
the best of wives but who remain
spinsters? Would it not be touch-
ing our social conditions intimately
if those two classes by some proper
method could be brought in touch
with each other? This may seem a
surprising notion to some people at
first sight but believe me there
a great deal in it."
These is a strike in the Chicago
stock yards. Fifteen engineers are
idle and all the switchmem. They
quit because two men who were em
ployed that they call "scabs." They
will loose more than enough to have
paid the scabs to leave the 'county.
Strikes don't pan out except to the
injury of employer and employed
and the country in general.
A Guatemala telegram says Sal
vador will appoint Hermonea Alvar-
ado her minister to Mexico and
Geronimo Pou will'be appointed to
a home position.
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The Carl Boesler murder case
which was commenced in the Dis-
trict court Monday went to the
jury yesterday afternoon and when
the Banner went to press they were
still out.
Some boys went out Monday to
catch the fox that has been making
depredations upon fowl houses in
the suburbs of the city. The hounds
trailed it some time but never got
him up.
Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea for Drspepsi-
Mr. J. B. Kemp advertises the re
ceipt of a large suppy of corn and
oits in this issue.
The German celebration here on
October Gth will perhaps draw as
large a crowd as has been in Bren-
hani for some time.
Mr. Joel Bryan of Brazoria coun-
ty arrived hero yesterday on a visit
to his brother Mr. M..A. Bryan.
Mr. J. N. Parks of Hondo City
is here on a visit to his father and
mother Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Parks.
Mr.
3. Donovan agent of bells
Bros circus was in
day.
the city yester-
GREAT
Texas State Fail
and Dallas
At Dallas Oct.
$75000 Premiums
The Great Texas State Fair "and
Dallas on the IBth day t uctodek .
years U1 be completely overshadowed by
Neither pains nor money will be spared by
-J .nMnMr.anGiiro TTT-POSITIO" Her UC1U1U
can interest instruct ana enierisra mo muusauu) u;
INN'S FAMOUS 13th BEGIMEXT BAND embracing arnj
mil furnish music lor tne oce-ision. xrograninic; vuhuuBuc
C A. (JOUR Secretary.
HORSE THIEVES.
At the German Methodist church
out on the Brenham'and Indepen-
dence road Sunday night some one
stole the saddle of Jacob Spross
and then got a horse from Mr.
Hondo's pasture near by. Tho
horse belonged to a young- man
whose name was not learned that
lives below here and while in town
Monday he saw a negro on his horse
and was so elated that when he
made the negro dismount and sur-
render the horse he forgot to have
him arrested.
There was anothar horse missing
from the same pasture Wednesday
morning supposed to have been
stolen Tuesday night which he-
longed to Mr. Spross.
It was supposed the reason they
preferred the horsesjin the pasture to
those at the church those in the pas-
ture would not be missod until they
had time to make good their escape.
Marriage License.
Marriage licenses were issued
from the county clerk's office to tho
following parties during the- past
week:
John Fisher to Dicey Johnson.
Alex Upshaw to Andora Long.
Henry Cooper to Jennie Johnson.
William Ford to Alice Weeks.
W. E. Saunders to Yallie von
Bieberstein.
Peter Budnik to Michaelana-
Zloczwsky. Julius Frederick Schmidt to
Emilie Mary Fisher.
Theee were six pistol shots fired
near the Santa Fe depot yesterday
morning and Fritz Dipenbrook was
up before the Mayor charged with
the offense. He was acquitted on
the statement that he was firing at a
mad dog. Policeman Lockett went
down with him and finished killing
the dog by shooting it several
times with a target rifle. Mr. Di-
penbrook had had a narrow escape
ficm being bitten before he shot the
dog.
Whatever one wills very strongly
that he is apt to accomplish for
"Man is man and master of his
fate" and the most fruitful cause of
his failure is the lack of a strong
resolute will. We can make our-
selves what we will but no amount
of longing and waiting will bring
the reward if we do not give our en-
ergy to the great work of making
ourselves.fit by ever strong action
and preserving application allowing
ourselves no rest till we have -attained
the end for which we are-
striving. A special train in charge of Col.
Faulkner came up from Houston
yesterday to convey tho remains of
Mrs. Hanon Roberts who died at
Independence Tuesday morning to
Houston for interment. Jur. u. x.
Holt accompany the remains to
Houston. Mr. Roberts was on
visit to her
dence.
daughter at Indepen-
The fox that has been making his
nocturnal depredations upon the
fowl houses in the suburbs of the
city was captured Tuesday night.
A fox hunt in a city of six thou-
sand inhabitants is a little unusual
but this was once a tame fox.
A telegram received here here yes-
terday evening from Ft. Worth an-
nounces the death of Mr. P. J. Ward
which occurred there yesterday. He
was telegraph operator at this place
for about a year and has many
friends here who will regret to learn
of his demise.
Walter Day; Ben Bradley and
Jas. Appleton were before the
Mayor this morning on a charge of
being participants in that peace dis-
turbants out at the Fair grounds
Saturday night but were acquitted.
Dr. Harry Bane formerlyof this
county but now of Lee came in
yesterday.
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