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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28

We learn the following graft
flying news from the Galveston
Nesrs of the 25th inst: Mr.. G.
H. Warren, into whose hands
had been intrusted the propos-
ed contract between the Eng
fish capitalists and the G., c.
& S. F. R. r. arrived on SUM-
day. A meeting of the direc-
tors was held on Monday and
before them Mr.. Warren placed
the contract clause by clause.
The meeting was held with
closed doors, but it was learned
from president Sorley, that the
contract provides for the loan
of $4,000 at 7 per cent. and
goes into effect Immediately
upon the confirmation of the
construct by the stockholders
of the road. The contract met
with the approval of the direc-
tors, with the exception of GER
tain counts objected to by Col.
Flournoy, attorney for the road,
on the ground of conflict with
the State laws and certain pro-
visions of the charter. Col.
Flournoy will probably go to
New York and arrange these
details. The negotiation of the
loan is mainly due to the indi-'
vidual exertions Of Mr.. Kop-
perl. 1t is thought that in.
less than a month work will be
in progress. Mr.. Warren feels
confident that the enterprise
will be boldly pushed forward.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28

The guileless Gen. Howard is
now on the war path against the
Indians. They are perfectly
unconoerned and supremacy
happy.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28

BUTLER has at last met his
match in the person oflady nam
ed Mrs. jerks. She is perfectly
cool and imperturbable.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28

" THIS is no time to indulge
in personal preferences" That's
what all the papers say when
they want ''the other fellow" to
be elected
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28


The Galveston Meas special
dispatch from Eagle Pass, June
23d, says Gen. Mckenzie and
Col. Shafter arrived here Friday
night. They penetrated Mexi-
CO about forty-hve miles. They
were met by the Mexican army
drawn up in line of battle. Gen.
KcKinzie warned them to get
out of the way, and they got"
No captures were made during
the expedition.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28

The Vicksburg H,aM in an
article entitled "Crime in, the
North and South says there is
much less crime in the South in
proportion to population than
in the North. In the North, it
is an every day occurrence for
every crime in the calendar.
The daily papers of the North
and West aresteeming with ac-
counts of crimes. The compar-
ison is decidedly in favor of the
South.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28
Railroad Items.

A meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the G., c. and S. F. rail-
road has been called for July
Goth, at which time will be SUBJ
mitted to them the proposal for
the purchase of 100000
bonds of the company to be is
sued for the extension of the
road. The Galveston Mescs
says the county commissioners
Of Galveston county will, in
all probability, accept. Col.
Geo. Flouraoy, attorney Of the
road, has gone to New York, in
company with Mr.. G. H. War
rem, to arrange the details. Mr..
Kopperl is yet in New York.
At what rate the lenders pro-
pose to take up the bonds is
kept a profound secret. Should
the stockholders agree to the
proposition, as it now seems al
most certain they will, work on
the line will be vigorously pros
ecuted. The grade of the road
will be considerably reduced.
thus making it much easier OPP
Grated and effecting a great saw
ing in the wear of rolling stock.
The best steel rails are to be
used, and the road and equip
ments are to be strictly first
class. The people of Galveston
are thoroughly aroused at the
prospect of the road and look
forward to it as the dawn of a
new era.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28
EDITORIAL BREvITIES.

lHE queen OF SPAN died on
the 26th inst.
| SENATOR COKE has returned |
to Waco with his family, and will |
spend the summer there.
Mrs. ELIZABETH T1rroN has
been formally accommodated |
from Plymouth church.
Gen. Grant will spend the
| winter in Europe, returning to
the United States via India next
spring.
IT is now thought that the
European Congress will con-
clude its work by the 10th of
July.
Hon. R. Q. Mills. on his re-
turn home to Corsicana, was
met by a large concourse of
| citizens.
The Ogden Reeman boldly
charges that the present Indian
war has been instigated by the
Mormons.
| S. A. CHAcE, the defaulting
treasurer of the Union Mills,
New Bedford, Mass, gets
twelve years in the state prisen.
IT is estimated by north
Texas paper that there are en-
tlrely too many colleges, and
not quite enough schools in this
State.
A SILVER City dispatch says
Towards advance troops were
attacked by Indians. Col. Rob-
bins and two soldiers were kill
ed,
CAPT. JUNE PEAK. having fin
! ished telling the Dallas local re-
porters what he knows about
Bass, has gone back to his COM
mand.
Mr.. JOHN G. CARMICHAEL, the
Banners agent at Industry,
Austin county, is out as can
didate for constable. He will
make a good one.
In consequence of an omis-
sion in the sundry civil bill, the
Hot Springs reservation will be
considered as public lands and
will be dealt with accordingly.
THE Texas Veteran reunion
at Bryan was success. A
large number of veterans were
in attendance. An interesting
address was delivered by Hon.
]. B. Russell.
The Potter investigation COM
mittee is still investigating at
Washington. Mrs. jerks was
the center of attraction. The
Florida question will be con-
sidered next.
LANG has but two newspa-
pers supporting him, the Waco
Examine, and the Marlin Ball.
If he should get the nomination
the press generally will not be
to blame for it.
The discovery of a rich gold /,
field in the Bear Paw mountain, ,
Montana is reported. In conse-
quence Of the report there is
great excitement at Fort Ben
ton.
BARNUM says that Tom ,
Thumb "is great big fellow .
now" weighing eighty pounds ,
and forty-one years old. He
and his wife live in Middleton !,
ough, Mass. :
THERE will be a total eclipse =
of the sun on the 2oth of July. r
In this part of the State the :
eclipse will be only partial. 1t
begins about 4:I5 Pm. Smok-
ed glass will be in demand. .
THE husband of the celebra-
ted Mrs. Ienks, of Potter. inves-
tigation fame, has stepped for !,
ward. He was United States
deputy marshal under Marshal :
Pitkin in. East Felicina, LOUISE O
ana.
- The Berlin congress does not
seem to be making very rapid :
progress in adjusting the Europ- =
cor troubles. England and b
Austria claim more than the :,
other powers are willing to al ! .
low. G
In McLennan county there S,
are seventy-three candidates for Il
office, county and precinct; S,
every one of these seventy-three o
ofice-seekers are appealing to
the Democracy for aid and COM :,
IL !
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28

JUDGE HARE, of Sherman,
candidate for congress in that
district, addressed the people of
Denison. He paid his respects
to the Greenback party, saying
that, in the main, the Demo-
cratic party defended the same
principles, and that the differ
ence between them was only in
the time and manner in which
the public debt should be paid.
He. said, if, according to the de
sire of the Greenbackers, the
national debt be paid off in
greenbacks, the sudden change
from contraction to imitation
would produce untold evils. "
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28

THE Lampasas Dispatch de-
precates the present system of
offering rewards for the capture
of criminals. In difficult cases
it thinks it well enough to offer
a reward. 1t thinks a great
part of the expenses of our State
government consists in paying
rewards offered for the appre-
hension of men who ought, with
out inducement, to have been
captured and brought tojustice.
Let officers be well paid for
for their work, but do not let
such temptations be in the way
of their duty" Under existing
laws arrests are not made be-
cause there is no money in it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-06-28

In Mississippi cotton on black
lands is suffering very much
with rust,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

There was n country town containing about
two thousand inhabitants, employed in great
variety of pursuits, farmers and gardeners,
raisers of stock, mechanics of all sorts They
were all gaining a modest but comfortable
living by their various labors. One day there
moved into the town man, believed to pos
sess enormous wealth He bought u large
place, built a splendid mansion, and said to
the people II have come to spend my mon
ey among you, according to my peculiar
tastes. wish to employ five hundred men
in marching to and fro ON my grounds every
day, and wish also To have fireworks every
night, and will pay the highest prices for
rockets and Roman candles. | wish to have
three or four hundred little children dressed
in white, with blue and red ribbons in their
hair, to sit about the grounds in groups, or
dance in the hail every day, and l will pay
each of them n dollar a day for doing it, and
will buy the clothes and ribbons for them to
wear. / shall wish TO buy four suits of clothes
"A year for each of the men, and propose to
give a supper every night with plenty of ice
cream, TO all the inhabitants of the town"
Could anything be more attractive than this
programme Half the people gave up their
usual occupations and devoted themselves to
marching round the lawn, and the other half
to making fireworks, clothing and ice-cream
for these festivities. The people and town
prOspCreu wonderfully the men got their
three dollars. the children their dollar day.
and great profits were also made ON the fire.
works aud ice-croam. But one morning the
bubble burst The rich man had disappeared
Then it was made known that all the money
he had been spending had been borrowed Of
the town authorities at n high interest, and
that as he left no assets this was n debt which
the town must pay. The people had given
up their old occupations, had lost the taste
for regular work, had acquired a love of luxu-
ury, had learned to speculate, were no longer
satisfied with small returns. but wished TO
obtain large incomes with little labor, and be-
sides all this arrangement of their habits,
they had great debt to pay for their frolick-
ing and waste. Now would it not take long
time for the people of such place to get
back their old position? The people of the
country are in the condition of this town. We
took "A million or two of men from produc-
tive industry during four years, employing
them in destroying and wasting property.
The expense of this is an accumulated debt
which vel have to pay We have acquired hab-
its of extravaganza and waste at the same
time. And now that the excitement is over,
long period of depression has followed for
the decentralization which four years of war
can produce it will take fifteen or twenty to
repair.-Jdmos Freeman Clarke.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

SIR JoHN FRANKLIN ONCE MoRE.--A pri-
vate expedition to search for the papers of
Sir John Franklin and relics of his ill-starred
expedition to the Arctic seas has just sailed
from New York. The schooner Eothen is
sent out by Morrison & Brown, an old
whaling firm who have been ASST ted by con-
tributions from members of the American
Geographical society, and gifts of supplies
from other sources The special interest of
this firm in the fate of the Franklin expedi-
ton began some years ago when Capt. Potter
of one of their whaling vessels returned home
from the north with spoons identified as be-
longing to Sir John. These lie had obtained
from the Natchilles, a war-like tribe of
Esquimaux who are feared by their neighbors
and have been mysteriously close about the
fate of large party of white men who per-
ished in their country some years ago. Last
autumn Capt Barry came back from the Hud-
son Bay region with more spoons and some
definite information. Two Natchilles told of
n ''cairn" in their country, 700 miles distant
from Whale Point, which contained books
like the one in which the captain was writing.
'Esquimaux Joe," the noble fellow whose
courage, endurance and devotion saved the
lives of the men of the Polaris, it will be re-
membered, and who has been living at Grot-
on, Ct, confirmed Capt Barry's knowledge
of the Esquimaux tongue, and the probability
VI HIS representations len men uIc now
found ready to go on the search for the re-
mains of the famous Franklin expedition to
one that can be accepted. The general plan
Cf the expedition is to sail to the north en-
trance of Hudson's bay and then go on to
Repulse bay, where the party must winter.
When the snow comes in March or April the
sledge party, commanded by Lieut.. Frederick
Schwatka, will start across the country, and it
is supposed that all the summer will be con-
sumed in the exploration the search will be
resumed in the summer of 1880, and in 1881
the party is expected to return 10 the vessel
and home. One or more supply vessels will
be sent out, and every care taken that the
men are well cared for. The sledging party
will consist of a dozen or more f. quimaux,
Col. William II. Glider, Henry Klutcka, civ
engineer, Frank Melens 'Esquimaux joe"
and a scientific person from the Smithsonian
institute. They will make their 7OO-miles
journey on seven sledges made of spruce and
oak frames with whalebone runners, which
have been made and contributed by a New
York firm. While the land party are absent,
Capt. Barry will employ the ships crew in
short whaling voyage. Lieut.. Schwatka and
his party will go well armed, they are conf
dent of success and eager to clear up the mys-
terry which has hung over the fate of Sir John
Franklin for quarter of Il century. But not
everybody would be willing to take the risks
of achieving the glory of successful close to
their perilous three-years undertaking.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

ENGLAND's NATIONAL DEBT AND WHEN Ir
WILL BE PAD.-It is generally known by a
vast majority of Queen Nictoria's subjects
that they are enormously taxed to pay the in
terest of a national debt, which was as high
as ESGj, 600, 900 on the fall of Napoleon /, in
1911; was CSOO, 900, 600 ON the close of the
Crimean war in 1896, aud amounted at the
beginning of the present year, before the gov
ernment plunged into new military and naval
outlay, to f116, 900, 900. Nictoria's taX-pay-
ers are not generally aware that there has for
some time been an organized plan for reduc-
ing this immense debt. An act of Parliament,
passed in 1875, provided that the national
debt shall be gradually reduced by new
sinking fund maintained by annual parlia-
mentary votes The charge for tho year
1896, was fixed at e27 600, 600; for 1867,
at c27, 700, 600 and for every subsequent
year at f2S, 900, 00O The other day, an inquis-
tive NJ. p. asked the chancellor of the ex-
chequer what the precise amount of this ma
tional debt charge of CPS, OO0, 900 will be act
-ually required in the year 1889 for the pay
ment of interest on the national debt, and
how much would go toward the actual liquida-
ton Of the debt itself. The answer was in
these words; Il may state in general terms
that probably about e23, 10000 out of the
2S, 600, 600 will be required for the payment
of interest on the debt, and that about Co.,
600, 900 would be applicable to the redemp-
ton of the debt by the operation of the term
Unable annuity scheme, or of the new sinking
fund" So there is to be gradual redemp-
ton of the debt, amounting to five millions
sterling every year. Therefore not taking in
to account the strong probability of great
augmentation of the debt during the present
year by heavy extraordinary war expenditures,
and estimating the national debt itself at
f=-E Ill Ia, o,,ko 80,
driblets of five millions every ~ months, un-
til the Year of Our Lord 2O3j. Certainly that
is what may be regarded as a long lookout
something on the plan of draining Lake George
by drawing off a bucket of water once in
every - hours.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

Signor Castellani has lately sold his valua-
Bile collection of majolica by auction at Paris
for Ssl 200, and he will net about S54 900
for the collection after paying the expenses of
the sale. When this collection was on exhi-
biton at New York Castellani asked $50, 600
for it as whole, and conditional offer of
$50, 600 from the Metropolitan museum of
art was Indignantly declined. The collection
as a collection was very valuable as it showed
the history of the manufacture of majOlica in
Europe from the thirteenth to the seventeenth
century, and it is unfortunate for those inter
ested in this department of art that the col
lection, instead of being retained in this coun-
try rs a whole, has now been broken up and
disposed of by piece meal. There were
strong prospects at one time of its purchase
and retention at New York, but the museum
managers thought Castellani was trying to
gouge them in asking $3.50, 600 for it, and he
in turn thought they were trying to jew him
down in offering him $50, 900, and so the ne
gOtiations fell through.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

"Good Afternoon, Mrs. OIarry;
'Tis foine weather, sure, afther the rainin'.
Tooey's daughters gone back to ould Ireland
The rid. headed one, am mAnin'.
And = wildly just fifteen years older
Nor himself Byrnes is goin' to marry,
Aud his father is wild wild de passion"
He is?" said Mrs. OTarry.
"Au' Browns pig got into Smiths gArdin',
All the illigant cabbAges attn,
An och! but there rose great quarrel,
Case Smith gave the craythur batin'
An Mrs. MllOney last Avenin'
They've christened them Mike Jack, an Harry
Had triplet, all three in a minut-"
"She did7' said Mrs OLarry.
"An' whist Molhe Mullins was comiu'
From the grocry, Whin Father ROurke, ridin'
Long the road, spies her out an he jumps from
His horse to what she Is hidin',
Wrapped up in her Apron twas whiskey.
Am is that the stun, says he 'to carry
To your homef An the bottle was smashed, dear.
ut ?" said Mrs. OJarry.
AN they say tother night such mir'ce
Tux place at Pat ShauRhDessys wakin'.
The byes wur all drinkin'. when news came
or hght just below, wild heads brakin'.
och what shall we do I? says Jim Rooney.
ION my account none ov yez tarry,'
Says the corpse, spakin' up quite polite lihe."
"Mushna! mol" said Mrs. OLarry.
"An' thin niver a word more rAymarked he:
Pat ShAughnessy always was oliver:
But, faith must bid ye good day, ma'am,
Or I'll stand here convarsin' furiver
Tis sildom mate one so pisint-
Not at all like your cousin, Jane Barry;
An hope soon to hear more Of your tall ma am.
"Arrah! nowi' taid Mrs. oIATy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

That delightful singer, the merry house
wren, so delicate in FORM so CHEEKY in his
ways, so lively. so fearless, so sweet and Joy
GUS in his song is a fast friend of mankind.
seeking from preference to build near us. 1t
is social little creature, often building with
in range of eye and hand, and almost cheat
ing one into the fancy that his sole object is
TO sing for the amusement of his neighbOrs.
lie will begin a delightful strain close to
window, perched on a Towering shrub per-
chance. or swinging to and fro on waving
spray of some creeping vine, and sing half
an hour away with little interruption. No
one can hear one of his joyous bursts of
song without being convinced that the wren
sings with pure pleasure, out of the fullness
of his happy little heart. The birds sing to
us nothing but Truth. In this sense. their
songs are pure as hymns. There is no leav-
en- of evil in their music. And they clearly
delight i'll their gift of song. 1t is said that
ON some happy occasion, when Jenny Lind
had been surprising hersef at a charity con-
cert, she exclaimed. joyousiy, "Es list doch
schun dasS ich singer kann" (''ls it not
charming that | can sing SOD And if we
understood the language of the wren, We
might perhaps discover the same feeling of
happy wonder at his own performance. His
summer life seems to be more than half song.
lie will sing in the warmest nOontide hours,
when other birds are silent He will sing on
cloudy days. when other birds are moping.
But perhaps his choicest, most glecsoine,
most musical melody, is sung after shower,
from the head of some tall weed, and beneath
the rainbow. He sings for the pleasure of
his wife. He sings for the instruction and
entertainment of his numerous little family.
Sometimes one sees him flying toward his
nest with Il very eager, busy look, rs if Occu-
pied with some affair of vast importance in
another moment he is out again, perchcd on
the same twig where you have often seen
him singing as if music was his only object in
life. Nevertheless, he is anything but an idle
creature, regular busybody in fact a great
builder of nests, IL very kind husband, and an
excellent father to his comical little children,
who cluster together full of fun and play, but
rather helpless. and who are watched by
their parents and fed by them long after they
have left the nest. And, happily for us,
through all his family cares he sings away
merrily and sweetly beneath our windows,
ever generous with his music. From Apple
ton'S JourHdi tor June.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

The Rev. Brooke Herford tells story of a
little boy who, after being instructed con-
eening the beauties and employments of
Heaven, asked anxiously ifhe were very good
if he couldn't have little devil up once in n
while to play with him,
Whist proverb-"For want of leading a
trump the trick was lost, and for want of the
trick the game was lost, and for want of the
game the rubber was lost, and for want of
the rubber the temper was lost, and for want
of the temper the friend was lost"
The following notice speaks for itself; "Of-
fee hours for listening to commercial travel
lers, 10 IL; solicitors of church subscrip-
tions, II TO l book agents. l to 3 station
cry peddlers and insurance men all day. We
attend to our own business at night"
little girl who was somewhat out of sorts,
but whose exact ailment no one had been
able TO discover, amended her evening pray
er of God bless papa and mamma" by add
ing, "and cure me if there's anything the
matter with me. "-B0stOh Transcript.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-06-21

Grandfather Pet.

This is the room where wo slept,
Quiet and carefully swept
Blinds aud curtains like snow.
There by the bed IN the dusky gloom
She would tneel with her tiny clasped bands and
Here is the little white rose Of room
with the fragrance fed awayl
Nellie, grapdfathers pet,
With her wise little face
| seem to hear her yet
Singing about the place;
But the crowds roll on, aud the streets are drear,
Aud the world seems hard with a bitter doom,
Aud Nellie is singing elsewhere-and here
ls the little white rose Of a room.
Why, II she stood just there
As she used to do,
With her long, light, yellow hair,
And her eyes Of blue
II she stood, say, at the edge Of the bed,
And ran TO my side with a living touch,
Though know she is quiet, and buried, and dead,
should not wonder much;
For she 30 young, you know
Only seven years old
Aud she loved ne, loved me so,
Though ! was gray and old
And her face was 40 wise and sweet to see,
And It still louked'living when she lay dead,
Aud she used TO plead for mother and me
BY the side Of that very bed!
/ wonder now II she
Knows I am standing here
Feeling, wherever she be,
We hold the place dear?
IL cannot be that she sleeps too sound,
Still in her little nightgOwn drcst,
Not to hear my footsteps sound
In the room where she used to rest.
have felt hard fortunes rtiugs.
And batted In doubt aud strife.
And never thought much Of things
Beyond this human life;
But cannot think that my darling died
Like great strong men, with their prayers untrue
Nay! rather she sits at Gods own side,
And sings as she used TO do
Chapberss Joarnal.