Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-01-11

is merely nominal-S1S3, 394;
she has III her treasury 1888,
1894 in cash, and other assets
amounting in all to 1855, JAP.
The-tax rate for State purposes
to cents on the 500.
rEcIMKNs of the goloid
Gre being made at the Philadel-
phia mint. The g0Toid dollar
will be the size OF the present
half dollar; the goloid half-iollsr
] The size of the present quarter,
and a goloid quarter trifle lar
ger than a silver dime.
THE expulsion of the Balti-
more Guano Company from the
Morapt Keys.by a British man :
ot-war causes threatening com :
mcnt at Washington. Large in
terests in the Keys are held there.
These Keys are recognized as
United States coast.
MARpI GRAs.-We have re-
ceived a large and handsome
photographic poster announcing
| the Msrdi Gras festivities to take
place in Galveston on the 9Th of
March. A cordial, invitation is
extended to friends in the inte-
rior of the State to visit Calves
ton.
BAsKRuPrcr.. is evidently a
good thing for the receivers. A
case III New York is cited
wherein the receiver collected
all the assets, to-wit: 4,425,
and his expenses were 81, $40,
leaving just..s7s to be distrihu-
ted among the creditors. Who
wouldn't be receiver in bank
ruptcys
The editor of the Unita Cat
tolica of Rome. has applied to
the Pope and got especial dis
pensationsappointing ST. Fran
ces of Sales the patron and pro
tector OF editors and newspapers
Now that the editors have pa
iron Saint it is to be hoped they
will do better.
A. ST.. LOUIS dispatch says a
special from the West says
bloody fight took place some
days ago on the Panhandle OF
Texas, between hunting parties
OF Cheyenne, Pawne and Arrapa-
hoe Indians. Thirty Cheyennes
and twelve Pawnes are said to
have been killed.
Tx 1868 Secretary Sherman
wrote letter ridiculing the idea
OF paying the 500 bonds in coin,
either gold or silver. He asser-
ted most positively that they
were payable in kind, i. e. in
greenbacks. Since the passage
Of the resumption act Sherman
has 'fiopped'' completely over.
ALL changes in public opinion
have been in favor of the silver
bill. When Congress assemblies
it will undoubtedly be stronger
than ever. Several leading
newspapers advocating the bill,
now say that the popular de-
mand for it has become SO strong
that Mr.. Hayes will hardly dare
to veto it.
BREvEr MAJOR GENERAL JOHN
PopE, who viii be known to his
tory for his celebrated dispatch
dated " Headquarters in the
Saddle telegraphs from Ell
Paso to General Fighting Phil
Sheridan that everything is
quiet, and that he thinks order
will be restored better without
the Rangers than with them.
IT has now transpired that a
scheme was Matched up in caucus
by Hoar, Edmurds and other
respectable" Republican Sen
ators to deprive Senator Butler
of his seat. 1t appears that the
plan suggested was SO low and
mean that even Conover and
Cameron of Pennsylvania. Jones
of Nevada and Rollins and
Cbaffee withdrew from the con-
spiracy-
THE reason the New Y ork and
New0rleans clearinghouse. OPP
pose the silver and resumption
bills is simply that it is to their
Interest that they should not be
passed. Ii after the LIST of Jan
llary next they are able to col
lect gold from all their debtors
they make a "big thing" 1t
would be bad thing for those
WHO have to pay.
The peace problem is still
being discussed in diplomatic
circles, but is apparently as
far from a solution as ever. The
subject is being discussed by