Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. [26], No. [17], Ed. 1 Thursday, April 23, 1891 Page: 2 of 2

                                
The Weekly Banner.
J. G, RANKIN, Proprietor.
Official Journal of Green's Brigade Association
Thursday, April 23, 1891.
Typhus fever is causing many
deaths in the city of Mexico.
Mary Anderson Navarro has got
a baby, says the cable dispatches.
Bismarck, candidate for the reich-
stag, has been elected by a large
majority, says a Berlin dispatch.
There is not a man on the royal
labor commission appointed by the
British government to investigate the
relations between capital and labor.
Reports come from Smithville,
Ga., to the effect that a strange
animal invedes that town and de-
vours stray cats and dogs. Brenham
ought to import several of them.
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The International fair at San An-
tonio dies hard, but unless it can be
revived with assurance of better suc-
cess than heretofore, it deserves
death that knows no resurrection.
Gov. Hogg is receiving assurances
from the railroads that they will
throw no obstacle in the way of the
commission bill but abide by it, and
endeavor to comply with its pro
visions.
We were promised as a result
the McKinley bill that wages would
advance. The law has beeu in opera-
tion long enough to test this matter
but we have not yet heard of an in
crease in wages anywhere in conse-
quence of the new tariff.
That there was a lot of disrepu
table junketing in connection with
the congressional escort of Senator
Heart's remains to California is made
clear, despite senatorial and repre-
sentative denials, by Mrs. Hearst’s
indignant determination to pay al]
the necessary expenses of the trip
out of her own pocket.
In the Farmers Alliance libel trial
at Austin, the evidence shows how
the farmers were scooped by the Al
liance exchange. One farmer testi-
fied that he gave his note to the
Exchange for SI,300 and while he
only got $250 worth of supplies the
note was used as collateral with
Morrison & Co., wagon makers of
Cincinnati, and that he had to pay
the full amount. The farmers of
Texas sent up $415,000 in notes, but
the testimony doesn’t show what
they got out.
Among the more progressive ne-
groes there is now under discussion
a proposal to do away with emanci-
pation day celebration altogether,
and they feel that to perpetuate
memory of their bondage, even by
publicly rejoicing over their deliver-
ance from it, has a tendency to de-
grade their race in popular esteem-
They contend that those negroes
who are most anxious to keep the
past before the eyes of the present
are men who are disposed to make
fictitious capital for themselves by
trading on the repentance and re-
grets of the whites, and that the ne-
gro who asserts the rights of his
race on the grounds of reason and
selfrespect, instead of those of pity,
has a higher and more practical
view of the future of the colored
people.
The greatest indignation prevails
over the instructions of Secretary
Noble tojthe special land agents at Ok-
lahoma for them to clear the school
lands of the dead buried on them.
The .agents are to notify corporations
to remove the dead, and if the notice
is not complied with, they are to
lodge information with the territorial
attorney, who shall institute legal
proceeding for the dead’s removal.
Owing to the peculiar circumstances
under which this country was thrown
open to settlement the people could
only make burial grounds of the
school section as they were not sub-
ject to settlement and all the other
lands were being taken up.
The consequence is, that a great
many of the school lands are used
as cemeteries all over the territory.
The order now is to lease them and
turn the money into the school fund.
Appeals to the secretary to have a
portion of them set aside for burial
purposes have been in vain and the
people are very justly indignant. If
an attempt is made to remove the
dead the government will have to
IMMIGRATION RAWS.
Since the New Orleans lynching
of the eleven Italians the press of
the country has been discussing the
foreign immigration laws, and giving
them far more serious consideration
than heretofore. The American,peo-
ple have been thoroughly aroused to
the necessity of protecting the coun-
try against the inflqx of the paupers
and outlaws of the Old World. The
Memphis Appeal-Avalanche says: A
few days ago a dozen diseased men
and women, who could by no means
support themselves, were thrown
back upon the steamship companies
for return to the ports at which they
had embarked. The bringing of this
class of immigrants is largely due
to the greed of these companies, and
against them legislation should be
especially directed. The suggestion
has been made that immigrants
shall be required to obtain from
American council abroad certificates
that they are fit to be received as
citizens of the United States. The
suggestion is a good one, and should
be promptly carried out by congress.
A man who comes to the United
States for the purpose of earning a
living here and making this country
the permanent home of himself and
his children, should be required to
take out his naturalization papers at
once, that he may not escape the
duties 'that devolve upon American
citizens and that he may stand
•amenable solely to the laws of the
United States. This thing of re-
maining an alien in the country of
one’s adoption and claiming the pro-
tection of a foreign power should be
brought to an end. It is not neces-
sary to alter our scheme of govern-
ment for the benefit of foreigners, or
to suit the ideas of European mon-
archies. A few charges in the federal
statutes, whereby a man is forced to
become a citizen while enjoying the
benefits that should belong to citi-
zenship exclusively, will suffice.
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Pleai’f in
—The Titus Times wants anoSfel —The contract for the Amarillo
banking institution at Mount Pleai’f improvement company’s $12,000
ant.    ! stone building will be let at once,
—Jefferson will have another j B^oc^ having all been taken and
■...... ■' the plans and specifications being
prepared.
A large missionary enterprise,
with a capital of $15,000,000, has
been started recently. It is a soap
factory. Its headquarters are at
Houston, but it will have branches
at various points in the cotton belt,
says an exchange.
The Paris News is sarcastic enough
to say that the members of the Leg-
islature are at home and their friends
national bank if present prospects
materialize.
—The melon growers’ association
of Hempstead, have 1500 acres in
watermelons.
—Lockhart, Caldwell county, is
having a fine three-story brick school
building erected.
—McKinney is having a $10,000
bank building put up for the Collin
County national bank.
—Nicholas Leibhammer has been
arrested at El Paso for making
Juarez lottery literature.
—The central Texas medical As-
sociation has been in session at
Waco during the past week.
—Floyd county has been the ob-
jective point for a great many
prairie schooners this spring.
—J. H. Rutlege and Will Alex- —Ed F. Carter, of Bryan, killed
anderhave been arrested at Winsboro himself with a 45 calibre revolver
for passing counterfeit money. j Tuesday. He undressed, got in bed
—Ben Shepard, of San Antonio, ja^d Pu^e^ the cover partially over
killed a Mexican on a ranch inBuchel \ and shot himself through the
county recently in self-defense. I head. He had a wife and two chil-
. dren.
—Miss Anna Beasaht is lecturing ^
in the State on the Modern Babylon j ' —Ex-Receiving Clerk Hollings-
—London its wealth and poverty, i worth, of the land office, who was
I recently arrested in the Panhandle
—E. W. Dickey, late of the Bal-1 and brought to Austin, gave bond
linger Banner-Leader, has accepted; Tuesday with several of Austin’s
the management of the Concho Her- moneyed men as sureties, and was
released from custody.
—People are beginning to get, ex-
cited over the coal find and are fig-
uring on the cost of working a mine
1900 feet deep at Terrell. Experts
pronounce it the best coal ever
found in the State.
—Lizzie Krahe, a German girl of
18 living with her mother at Austin
committed suicide Tuesday evening
by taking morphine, dying about
midnight. Disappointment and be-
trayal in love was assigned as the
'cause.
—Bill and Ned Todd have been
arrested at Leonard charged with
the horrible murder of Harry Arm-
strong about a year ago, part of his
clothing having been found near an
old well where he was last seen with
the Todd boys.
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aid.
—President Harrison has been
elected an honorary member of the
Left Handed Fishing club of Hous-
ton.
—The Ft. Worth and Rio Grande
railway has let the contract for the
extension from Comanche to Brown-
wood.
—The Fayette county courthouse
corner stone was laid at LaGrange
on the 9th instant. A barbecue was
given.
—A great many prospectors have
been attracted to Navarro county
lately and the result is many new
settlers,
—At Alto Tuesday B. F. Florence
was dangerously hurt by being
thrown from his horse and reached
home to find that twelve pound son
had just been born to his wife, and
that in the excitement his mother-
in-law fell and broke her arm.
—Henry King, a raftsman, was
accidently drowned in McKinney
bayou ten miles from Texarkana
Wednesday.
are glad of it, for they can do their L    bridge spanning
country more efficient service now. j atl.eet, has just been completed in
San Antonio.
The Florida Legislature had bet-
ter hurry up and elect a senator.
They have gone to shootiug one an-
other over the matter in that State.
A lively shooting scrape was in-
dulged in at Tallahassee the other
day between two gentlemen who
differed on the question as to who
should represent the State in the
American House of Lords.
The chamber of commerce of Ft.
Worth has issued a call for a state
convention to take measures to have
Texas represented at the Columbian
Exposition at Chicago in 1892, re-
questing that each commercial or-
ganization appoint one delegate and
one lady delegate for every ten mem-
bers. Each immigration and pro
gressive association, one delegate
and one lady delegate for every
twenty members, each city one dele-
cate one lady delegate for every 2000
inhabitants.
—An eastbound freight train on
the Texas and Pacific was wrecked
near Coal Mines Junction recently.
No one hurt.
—Pittsburg News:    A large num-
ber of immigrants will come to
Camp county from the North next
fall. This is official.    , -v
—The Houston and Texas Cen-
tral Railroad company are making
considerable improvements on the
switches and yards at Thornton.
—Mr. Anglin, of Austin, a brake-
man on the H. & T. C. fell from the
cars at Giddings Tuesday and had
his leg run over just above the knee.
—The little son of Mr. John
Schultzes went to sleep under a
freight train in the yards at La-
Grange and was run over and nearly
killed.
—The amount of wheat tributary
to Estacado warrants the Texian
Press in calling loudly for a flouring
mill to be put in readiness for the
incoming crop.
—The Vernon Guard has a report
from the Oklauuion settlement
which puts the wheat acreage there
at 10.295 against 5800 last year.
Prospects good.
—Temple was visited Tuesday
night last by a severe storm, which
blew down a good many buildings
in course of erection. The rain
poured in torrents.
—There are 100 teams now at
work grading on the Red River and
Southwestern railroad from Henri-
etta to Archer. This road will be
completed by July 1.
—Frank Wroe was accidently
killed at Winchester Tuesday by
the accidental discharge of a consta-
ble’s pistol as he struck a negro
over the head with it.    ^
—Two young men, George and
John Bell, sons of James Beil of
Hardy, in this county, were convic-
ted of lunacy aud ordered sent to
the asylum at Montague.
—The lumbermen have made
Houston their official headquarters
and will build a fine exchange there.
The lumbermen were stuck on the
way Houston entertained them.
—The citizens of Copeville are
alarmed. Saturday Joe Moon came
to this place with a sick child from
Dallas county. It died twelve hours !
after its arrival in Copeville. Four
other children of the same family
were complaining at the same time.
In less than twelve hours three of
—Wheat and oats are very prom-
ising, says the Greenville Banner.
The grass on the prairies now fur-
nish grazing for cattle. Some farm-
ers have commenced planting cot-
ton. The soil is in fine fix and a
large cotton crop will be planted.
—Texian Press:    There is not an
individual that we know of in Crosby
county that is “holding down” a
section of land for bounty purposes.
Every man that has taken up a sec-
tion, done so to make himself a
home, and has gone to work on it.
—On a recent horse hunt through
Parker county, says a correspondent
we found everybody well up with
their work in planting and an im-
mense acreage of wheat, oats and
corn has been put in. Gardens
around Weatherford are splendid,
and a good rain fell in these parts
last Monday and Tuesday. All ap-
pear to be encouraged to make a
spoon or spoil a horn.
—Two Italians brothers-in-law and
partners in the shoe making busi-
ness at Texarkana, had a difficulty j
Tuesday/ Merreno shot Angotta'
four times, three of the balls taking
effoct, in the arm breast and shoul-
der. Angotta armed with a boot
and shoe knife ran after his asailant
knocked him down with the boot
and but for the interference of offi-
cers would have got the best of bis
would be assassin.
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world feels this influence. It shapes the
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cheerful, contented, and happy. How
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wife lies ill. How grand the remedy that
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send several regiments of officers to I was found dead in his wagon ‘Wed-
do the work.    j nesday.
A Missouri ex-confederate veteran
association patriotically telegraphed
to Secretary Blaine that they were
400 strong and were ready to move
on Rome at his call says the Fort
Worth Gazette. Their ardor might
be cooled if they knew that they
could only serve as privates. No
man who was in the Confederate
army can hold any official position
in the army or navy of the United
States, no matter what ability or ex-
perience might be his. Even Long-
street, Beauregard, Mosbv, or any
other of the commanders of the Con-
federacy who if left alive, could be
no more than a private soldier, to
march and fight in the ranks, under
the eye, perhaps, of a negro ser-
geaut or corporal.
STATE NEWS.
—Burglars are doing Taylor
—Burglars are doing Corsicana.
—A labor ball is to be erected in
Ft. Worth.
—Work on the dam at Austin is
progressing.
—The Marlow mob case trial is
going on at Graham.
—Ben Clark is to be hanged in
Houston on May 29.
—The city election of Honey
Grove is to be contested.
—Henry Watterson will lecture
in Ft. Worth on the 29th.
—Mrs. John Storms was burned
to death near Era recently.
—Falls county has received quite
a large number of settlers this year. three took place Wednesday ' —,    „ plcMul
—Cute Evans, colored, residing ;ing. The physicians pronounce it: allmentquickly^_
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