Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-06-13
News Breyities.


= Admiral Laissett of the French navy
is dead.
Queen Victoria was 60 years old on
Saturday, 2Is. ult.
California crop prospects are reported
very promising.
= Pleasure travel to Europe will be
heavy this summer.
= Hayes and Grant is the last ticket.
1t comes from Maryland.
= The new constitution of California
goes into effect on July 4th.
= Five cases of yellow fever have been
reported at Indianapolis.
: Prince Labanoff will be appointed
Russian ambassador to London.
The annual summer epidemic of fnan-
cial failures has commenced.
The democrats of Iowo have nominal
ted II. II. Trimble for governor.
= The prohibitionists of Indiana have
nominated R. T. Brown for governor.
A Kentucky minister hanged himself
because he thought he was hYpocrite.
= Adventists have fixed the nth of IDLY
for the general smash up" of the world.
Capt. Eads, will now get the final inr
stallment of 100000 on the jetty contract.
= The-treaty of peace between Great
Britain and Afghanistan was ratified, goth
ult.
= Sir Garnet Wolseley has been made
British civil and military commander in
South Africa.
Thomas Jefferson was only twenty
three when he wrote the declaration of in
dependence.
= The Mechanics Bank of Montreal,
suspended 18th ult.; liabilities, S626,ooo
assets, S332,ooo.
1t is Mr.. Frank Blair to whom the Sc
cond daughter of Senator Bayard is enga-
ged to be married.
The German. Empine has Fl univer
sites, with 1880 professors, and more
than 1900 students
- The next series of Georgia four per
amount of 100000.
Vice President Wheeler is troubled
with chronic sleeplessness, the disease that
killed Horace Greeley.
= Mr.. Cannon, the delegate from Utah,
has four wives and eighteen children living,
and yet he is mild hammered and quiet.
-Twenty-three states have democratic
governors, and fifteen have republican gov
errors, and in several of the latter the re-
publican party is in minority.
- The French Government recently
paid the last installment of its debt of l.
oo,ooo, 900 franks to the Bank of France,
incurred at the time of the war with Ger
many.
The exports of provisions to Europe
are falling off very rapidly-the total during
April being only about SIS. 100000, or ST.
100000 less than during the month of
April 1873.
1t is announced that Miss Mildred
Lee, daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee. who
is now travelling in Europe, is to be mar
ried shortly to a prominent merchant of
Birmingham, England.
III. ]. Jewett receives $4,000 year
as president of the Erie. Col. Sect is pre-
sident of seven railroads, vice-president of
eleven and director of thirty-four. His wa
ges amount up to 100000 every year.
- Roch, the general executioner of
France, followed his many victims ecently
at the age of S.. During the eight years
he presided over the guillotine he had cut
off 81 heads. His salary was ST. 800 year,
with the addition of $3.50 on working
days.
= Mr.. Winans, the Baltimore millionaire
is Hiding on the Clyde a monster cigar
ship, at cost of nearly one hundred
thousand dollars. She is to be of 4, 900 or
5000 tons burden. and it is believed by her
owner that she will be able to cross the At
lantc in FIVE days.