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lEsppxpEScE.

al, IL course, engages
lsention al every one. The
Rlcles o, exhibition, l was
told last night by a gentleman
who ought TO knew, and who
does know, surpass any thing
ever shown at any of its seven
predecessors, this being the
eighth Fair. The attendance
yesterday was small. 1t is be-
lieved it will be large to-day,
but I am writing too early in
the morning to be able to say
how it may turn out.
Washington county was we'll
represented ia the fruit depart.
menf. Rosedale is ahead on
every thing in this line. The
sigh. OF strawberries, raspber-
ries and peaches made many
mouths water. Orders will
come heavy on Mr.. Watson for
trees from e~ery part of the
State.
The exhibition of live stock
is very fine. Mr.. J. Mas, OF
Waller comfy. will get alfthe
premiums on hogs. lie sold
eleven pair of pigs yesterday at
twenty-five dollars pair. He
exhibits one monster hog, not
quite four years old, that weighs
ten hundred and tifty-fve
pounds. That is enough. on the
hog question.
| heard a man say yesterday,
that the various stables of run
ming horses equaled any he had
ever seen, and he has witnessed
racing on many courses. For
the first race yesterday afternoon,
a dash of a mile and a halt,
there were three entries, Rebel,
H@dy and Tempin-won by
the first named in 2.394a. Little
Rebel Was the tavorite, but |
hope this will not be accepted
as evidence OF lisloyalty on the
part of the visitors.
For the second race, mile
heats, Coronella, was first choice
in the pools. There were five
entries. Virgillian won the
first heat-time, 1.+6a. The
second heat was won by Belle,
a beautiful little mare, in LAG.
The third heat was also won by
her in 1.47. The running was
really beautiful. There were
only two horses in the last heat,
and for three fourths OF the dis
tance, a blanket would have
covered both Of the riders. Old
turfmen said they had never
seen prettier running.
Col. Mills spoke yesterday af-
ternoon at 6 o'clock, acquiring
himself with his accustomed
ability. His speech, was as it
should be for the. occasion, de-
voted to progress and the neces-
sity of keeping even pace with
spirit of the age.
Col. ID. G. Giddings, and
Hon. J. FL. Reagan, are among
the distinguished congressman
present.
/ would like to say a great
deaImore about fine fair than l
have said, but | know how lim>
tied is the space.
Gen. Johnston had not put
in an appearance at midnight
last night. If he does not come
to-day, many will be disappoint-
ed. d. McC.
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Communicated
OsYKA, MISSISSIPPI, |
May II. ". {

May IL, "a.
Editors BANNER
The next morning after tie
pleasant interview with your F.,
in the fourishing city Of Bren-
ham, we, that is, my wife and
self, took the South bound train,
and in forty hours were safe and
sound among loved and loving
friends, in our own home in
this tar awcy land. We were
detained some tour hours on
the way making connections at
different points; SO that our
actual travelling time did not
exceed thirty-six hours. The
distance travelled is 535 miles,
hut as the crow flies, it is only
$50 miles from this place to
Brennan.
Shakespeare says:
There is a Divinity that shapes our
ends,
Rough, hew them how we may;
and my experience demonstrates
its trnth, for after living so many
years in your beautiful and pro-
ductive country, l find myself
tied down as it were, here in
very poor and barren region
where hard work is required to
force from reluctant soil bare
subsistence. When the war
came on l was established in
business in New Orleans. there,
in my opinion, is the most de-.
sirable place. to live in on this
continent. When the ankles
made it unwbolesome for me to
remain there, l took refuge in
the piney woods of Mississippi,
the land of my birth and rails
ing, where fate and an extern
sive professional practice, which
could not be easily closed, con-
fine me still.
must confess, that as long as
l had lived in your State, | had
not formed a due appreciation
OF it until my late visit, when
the great contrast it presented
to the section in which | have
spent the last dozen years forced
it upon me. Here the vision is
bounded by immense pine for
ests on every hand; the trees, to
use Miltonian phrase, being
fit for the mast of some high
admiral. One fresh from the
prairies- almost breaks off his
neck with constantly looking up
at their immense height. The
country is well watesed and
healthy. We have good society
and all the commercial advan-
tages that could be desired, be-
ing on the New Orleans, jack
son and Great Northern Rail-
road, eighty miles from the
former city. The soil, original
ly thin, has by long and slovenly
tiIlage been pretty well exhaust
ed, and paying crops can only
be raised by the extensive use
OF fertilizers. Hence a great
many persons wish to leave here
in order to better their condi-
ton. I have mad time to do
but little else since my return
home but reply to applications
for information about Texas.
Scores OF honest hard working
families, the bone and sinew of
a country, could be induced to
emigrate by imparting to them
correct information of the adj
vantages Texas affords, desirable
localities, and the mode OF get
ting there. / feel in conscience
bound to do all | can for them
in this respect; and if | could
wind up my business here |
should not be long in putting
myself again under the jurls
diction of the Lone Star State.
| have made arrangements to
visit Texas again in next July,
when l hope.to find the editors
of the BANNER in health aud
prosperity. L. APPLEwnITE.
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HARDWARE.

House Furnishing Goods. Pamps of all
descriptions. Cooking aud Hearing
Stoves, in large variety
wrought Iron Pipe and Steam Fiji
tings cut and fitted 10 order. Roofing
and spouting done al SHORT notice
Thankful for the liberal patronage
bestowed upon the old firm, we r, spect
fully solicit a continuance of the ssme.
BRENNAN. July Goth. 1878.
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GEN. oRD has gone to Chica-
% to consult with Sheridan con-
corning Mexican invasions upon
the Texas border.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1877-05-25

HoS. George II Pendleton
viii likely be the candidate OF
the Ohio Greenback Democrats
for United States Senator.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1877-05-25

THE State of Georgia has re-
covered 100000 on an old
claim against the general gov
ernment.
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TuEKsy has spent SIS, 900. 900
on her navy in the past five
mouths.
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TnE cost of the production of
eotton is greatest in Mississippi
and Louisiana, and least in.
Texas. South Carolina and
Georgia.
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THE women are getting their
rights at last. BY a recent act
Of the Minnesota Legislature,
women are admitted to the
practice OF the law in all the
Courts OF that State.
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Nu1rIrLY 9S7e54Sa1 by As
and see what a curious result
of figures it gives.
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WHEN will business revived
Houston Telegram.
About the first of next Seq
TENDER.
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STATE SEws.

CorroN seed scarce in Collin.
Terrell is to have city hail.
Coriicana is to have must
cal aud dramatic society.
BuReLARs are working up San
Antonio at a lively rate.
NEw wheat is being received
at the Dallas Mills.
TnE Texas Irish potatoe crop
is very heavy this year.
Bryan and Bolton are each
to have military company.
GRASS thirty feet in length
grows in the San Marcos river.
J. L. Stephenson becomes the
sole editor of the Guadalupe
Times.
San Antonio is now agitating
the question of water-works in
that city.
RANGERS continue to arrive
at Austin with prisoners from
Kimble county.
The wheat crop OF Navarro
county was seriously damaged
by the hoppers.
An abundance of stone coal
has been discovered near Savoy.
in Fannin county.
CoRrus Christi expects to han
die four or five million pounds
of wool this season.
SPANISH ponies are selling at
from five to fifteen dollars per
head at Corpus Christi.
THE tide of immigration to
Texas over the Texas and Pa
citic Railroad is daily increas-
ing.
The East Texas penitentiary,
at Rusk, is to be $40 feet long,
and contain 52S cells, each 6x9
feet.
The population OF Young
county is said to have almost
doubled within the past six
mouths.
MAJ. PENN is conducting a
great religious revival at Jeffer-
son. There have been already
rs conversions.
THE Victoria Advocdte says
that those who tattened cattle
on corn last winter find that
it pays largely.
A Mrs. Elliott committed
suicide at Bolton last week by
shooting herself through the
heart with a pistol.
THERE has been one million,
two hundred thousand pounds
of wool handled at San Anto-
Mo this season.
Fl. A. MOORE, Radical post
master at Bryan has been re-
moved and \. D. McConnico,
Democrat, appointed in his
stead.
TURKEYS are selling in the
Cuero market at fifty cents
each, chickens at $3.50 per
Dozen. and beet at five to eight
cents.
SMITH county Is to contest
the validity of the subsidy bonds
given the international and
Great Northern Railroad COM
pany.
THE doorkeeper of Coles cir
Gus attempted to commit sui
eide at Hearne, on Saturday
last, by cutting his throat with
a knife.
The San Antonio Herald
states that movement is on
foot to build a narrow gauge
railway from San Antonio to
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Is there to be no limit to the
softeaing down Of harsh ternlss
4 stabbing ARRAY is now styled
"a carving match BY an overly
refined coLemporary.
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IT is thought that the admins
istration will recognize the Ler-
do Government in Mexico.
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NEW wheat is worth one dol
lar and Fifty cents per hushsl in
Coryeli county.
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TuEnE is said to be no truth
in the reported uprising OF the
Normons.
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TnEaE are fifty prisoners now
coniined in the Grayson conn
~ Jail.
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M0NTH-Agents wan
DlCO ted everywhere business
honorable and first class. Particulars
sent free. Address J. WORTH 4 Co.,
St. Louis 30. msrslwif
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TfE Russians have been re-
pulsed twice at Batom.
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REDFrELn has been roaming
over the South looking for signs
Of a break 10 the lines of the
Democracy. His report is:
aThe result of my invesriga-
tons is that the land lies in
about the same old way. The
South Is us solid as a granite
mountain. and if there was a
general election to-day, every
Southern State would 90 with
the Northern Democracy, if the
r-Mte took them to the devil
- WE'LL
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A stylishly dressed young
lady stood complacently on
Broadway, near Fourteenth
street, yesterday, having a
s.sliine" at the hands of a pro-
fessional bootblack.-N. Y. Iri-
buase.
Well, what of it. Whitelaw
Reed is mad only because he
was not the happy SINNER
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Ex.Gov. Ben. G. Humphreys
will become candidate for the
next Governorship OF Mississip-
pi. Nine years ago he was elect
ed Chief Executive of the State
by a majority OF eight thousand,
and lifted out OF the place by
the irresistible Federal bayonet
before he became fairly settled.
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FEATERNAL.-Mr. w. W.
Williams. of the Cass County
Sun, called at the BANNER Of
fee yesterday. He is visiting
family relatives in this county
aui in Travis, and will remain
IN the city several days.
Mr.. Williams represents ev-
cry thing in his section as being
IN a tiourishing condition.
The "lSua" shines without a
cloud to obstruct its intelligent
rays.
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A MONUMENT is TO be erected
to n me,nory Of the Coufeder-
ate Chattanooga, Ten
nssses. s.y me good people Of
that city.
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Duane the past month the
sales OF school lands in Bee
county amounted to some 49,
600 acres, netting the county
something like $4,000, the in
terest on which, paid semi-annu-
ally into the school fund,
amounts TO the snm OF 81, 165.
About 1000 acres of these
lands sold for $3.50 per acre.
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The Lexington (ya.) Gasette
remarks: at is fact that new
er in the history of the Govern
ment have the offices been made
such matters OF bargain and sale
as they are made under Hayes,
and never before has the princi-
pie been boldly and unblushing-
ly announced that they are the
stock in trade of an administers
ton.
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THE .. S. Supreme Conrt
has decided the case of the State
of Virginia as. the Chesapeake
& Ohio R R., against the latter.
The Company claimed that it
was exempt from taxation and
will now have to pay $4,000
tax to the State.
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SouTH CAROLINA, under Wade
IIslapton's administration, ex-
hibifs already signs of prosperity
and Thrift. Taxes have been
reduced one-balf; confidence has
been restored. and the people
appear to be coutented and
happy.
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Tax Notice /!

w. NJ. Francis, ;ax-assessor of Aus
tin county, will be in the tax-cnliector's
Office in Beliville, Monday, May the
l4th, where he will remain six DAYS
for the purpose of enabling parties.
who have NOT already done 90. 10 give
in their property tor assessment.
April 9th, wtd
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MR. HAYES knows no North,
no South. no East, no West
nothing but Ohio.-Chicago
Tri5une.
But it IS very doubtful if Ohio
win be considerate enough to
know Hayes at the next State
election. 1t she should not, it
will be .one more illustration,
added to thclmany that have al
ready been given, of the ingrat-
itude of Republics.
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1s76-Supplemental Roll for Pre- No ]

Flneher, 9 A, by j. E Gray. 4e acres
Herman Henseley Ice.
Harrington lge; lG acres walker:
lge. 3 ocres Dallins lge sc acres Kuy
kendall lge.
Keneda. S R. 1863 acres Obediah Hud-
son lge;2 lots in Burton
McGregor. lnhn & Gilbert by Gray, $50
Sam M williams lge.
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LARGE width head cabbage
are becoming plentiful, and are
remarkably cheap.
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rs. paslisbsss and Prepsissa,s.

-iday. May 25, 1877.
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ATTEST C. Il. CARLISLE.
may10 Secretary.
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in great abundance and of good
quality has been found four
miles from Savoy. in Fannin
county.
THE claims against the Hous-
ton and Texas Central Railroad
have been satisfactorily settled
BY Commodore Morgan, under
whose management the road
has passed.
David P. Baker who made
his escabe from the Lockhari
jail in the summer of 1875, has
been arrested in Arkansas and
returned TO Jail in Lockhart.
He is under sentence to the
penitentiary for eight years for
killing a man named Ellison.
Mr.. Josselyn, of Boston. Mass.
has purchased a $4,000 stock
ranch in the neighborhood OF
Helena, Karnes county, Texas;
the ranch consisting of $4,000
acres under fence and stocked,
and with a water front ON the
San Antonio river of six miles.
THE Schulenberg Argus
speaks hopefully of the crop
prospects in Fayette county.
At the date of its last issue,
May 11th, early corn was four
feet high, and the grasshoppers
all gone. All the crops dam
aged by them had been replan-
ted.
The Calvert (Texas) Central
Ieran says the real Belle Boyd
is not "married and living with
her husband and children in
Baltimore" but occupies an
humble cottage in that town,
and pronounces Baltimore's
Belle as a base article, with
cheek ana impudence only ex-
cused 10y her absolute destitu-
ton OF honor and truth. The
Texan adds that the heroine
asks no charity, but with her
needle supports herself and lit
tie sister,
The daily gazette., 1877-07-10
AKANs Az GAs WELL.

A natural gas well within the limits of
Wyandolte City, Kansas, on the Wilder
man farm, has become one of the West
ern wonders. 1t was discovered by a
company while prospecting for coal. The
company did not value the flow of gas at
first, fearing the gas would become ex-
hausted. The company recently com
pleted large gas tank and gas holder,
and so soon as the frost is ont of the
q ound will lay street mains to convey
the gas into the city Of Wyandotte, and
ultimately to Kansas City, Mo. This well
furnishes pressure enough to force the
gas in any direction desired. 1t is not
only convenient for heating purposes, it
proves most excellent for light. For a
small cost the gas can be purified so as to
make 1t equivalent to seventeen candle
power. Coal gas, ordinarily distributed
Through Western towns, is seldom over
fourteen candle-power. Experts from
the Pennsylvania oil regions have visited
this well, and after careful examination
state that it produces gas enough to light
a larger city than Kansas City, and they
give it as there opinion that the supply
will prove inexhaustable. The gas is
similar to that produced by petroleum
wells of Pennsylvania and salt wells of
New York and other Eastern States,
where gas flowing from springs has been
used for fuel and light since the time
OF the earliest inhabi.ant. For instance
the General Washington Burning Spring
IN the kanawha salt region of West Vir-
ginla, and nearer home, at Fort Scott and
lola, kansas.-KdnSas City Times.
The daily gazette., 1877-07-10
THE CURSE OF RUM.

TWO CHILDREN FOUND STARVING TO
DEATH AND THEIR PARENTS IN A
BEAsTY STATE OF INTOxICATIoN.
New York, July 9.-Officer Saverpool,
OF The Eighth precinct, found little girl,
years OF age, lying on a stoop at corner of
Grand and Sullivan streets last night. She
was in very critical condition, being
almost starved TO death as well rs suffering
from exposule. The officer learned Lhat the
little one IVES STah Ann Noonan, whose
parents we're dissolute people given to In
toxicalioD, and that while In a drunken con-
ditlon on Friday they turned the girl out
Of doors and refused to allow her to return.
One OF the neighbors had given the child
something to eat at first, but she had been
neglected since that and had not swallowed
morsel for several days. She was taken
by the officer 10 the station house, and had
nst reached it when her mother Catherine
Noonan, was brought in. She was SO in
toxcated that she was hardly able to re-
cognizs the girl. The latter on being ques-
toned, said that sue sd al 1877 South
Fifth Avenue, and that she had sister
younger than herself there. An Off ser was
despatched to the house and there he found
Mary NoonaD, two years Of age, who like
the other, was almost starved to death, and
her father, John Noopan, who was almost
insensble from iutoxication. The tWJ chill
dren were sent to the Central office and put
in charge Of the matron, Mrs. Webb.
The daily gazette., 1877-07-10


LEG BLoKEN-This morning Mr.. King
who resides at No. 2l5 Madison street,
went to work at the city sand lot, at
Thirteenth and Orange streets, but had
not been long at work before bank cav
cd in upon him. He was taken
out as soon as possible, yand removed to
his home, where Drs. Maull and Nor
rison attended him. His left leg was
broken below the knee and his ank le dis
located. Being an elderly man. his in
juries will affect him quite seriously
This Isis'pietty good states rights doctrine
from the New York Tribune's editorial on
the returning board arrests eft there
was frand in any OF the details Of the pro-
cess, IL WAS an oIense against the state law
aud cogDizabie by state courts. No author
iiy'exists by which the CRIME, II any there
was, could he coHdoned, and certainly none
exists which could bind q prosecuting
officer not to proceed agaiD-t or grand
jury not to ndict, ths offeHders." -. a
The daily gazette., 1877-07-10
BLOOD WHICH TELLS.
From. the Reading Eagle. .,

From the Reading Eagle. q. .s.s.sn~~~asusass,.s,
The brutal assault of Haldeman and
Yonge upon Mr. Geist editor Of the Ner
Era, last week, in the city Of Lancaster
Is pretty generally condemned by the
people everywhere. The Lancaster rail
road depot, q public place TO which al
persons are obliged to go who wish u
leave that city, was turned into drunk
en- assignation caravansary, and girls o
respectable parentage and heretofore gooC
character, made drunk by their malt
associates. A scene like this, exciting
the disgust OF all decent and respectable
people everywhere, was described and de
nounced in the Ne,o Era, and because o
this publication Messrs. ualdeman ant
Yonge, like highwayman, attacked a maj
old enough to be their father, in the pub
lie street. If Mr.. Geist had not giver
the readers of his paper this disgracefu
occurrence, he would have been false tC
the interests of the readers Of his papel
who are entitled to know how some o.
the best blood and society of Lancaster
treated young ladies in their company
Parents, brothers and guardians being
warned against the conduct of Haldemau
and Yonge and their associates, they
would keep their daughters, sisters and
wards out of their company, which they
probably would not have done, had they
not known of the dlsgraceful depot affair
Therefore Mr.. Geist not only did his dli-
ty as journalist, in this respect, but fol-
his faithfulness in the discharge Of his
duty he is certainly entitled to the thanks
of all moral people. But Haldeman and
Yonge claim that their drunken debauch
and midnight carOusal should not have
been published, because they were OF
"blooded" stock, belonged to the "frst
families" had descended from people
who were regarded as "first-class" and sue
cessful in life, and while it, would have
been all right and perfectly proper for
MIR. Geist to have published the details
of an assignation scrape in Wholesome of
the common people were participants, yet
he committed an objectionable sin in
dealing with the blue blood of Lancaster
in the same way as he would have done
with convict in striped suit. Mr.
Geist, we repeat, is to be honored for
treating Haldeman and Yonge and their
crew as he did, for as between withhold
ing the publication of the details OF an
harlot's carnival and the drunken orgies
of the sons of respectable parents, the
choice should be in favor rather of the
harlots and against the young men, who
by their birth, association and education
better things were to have been expected.