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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

THE San Antonio Express
commends the state senate for
its economy in refusing to put
the state to an expense of 40
cents a day for ice. The sub
ject was duly debated and time
enough consumed to have
bought and paid for ice for the
senate for several years. When
the legislature takes the re-
trenchment fever it is always
in an acute form-retrenchment
is disease that never becomes
chronic.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

IT is hardly likely that the
bill to sell the public free school
lands will pass the Legislature.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07
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ion.i'hson' ooen men were
verely cut and the young Lad
tainted.
- Trouble has begun at Pal
estine, growing out Of the Cray
son murder case. On Satur-
day evening a collision took
place between Col Adams and
Chris Rogers and Bill and lin
Ouisenburrv. Bill told Rogers
that he had testified falsely on
the stand. Jim knocked Rop
ers down. and some one u
them stabbed Rogers in tbs
back. Rogers then arose and
fred sevesa! shots. wound
ing Bill Ouisenburv 5,,x1
tally. They fred two shots =
Rogers as he retreeted. Jim
glastonbury and Steve Girls
nave oeen arrested.
= The Waco E-ausinsr re-
ports an exciting juil:delivery at
brentwood. Brown county. on
tuesday of last week Itseems
that a large party of masked
men suddenly appeared in sa-
loon where Chas. Allen. daPufy
sheriff and Jaiier' was espeiling
ten pins, captured him ont the
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

The river and harbor bill has
been finished by the sub COM
mittee; appropriations will prob
ably amount to five millions.
The appropriations for Texas
will be as liberal as for other
sections.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07
STATE NEWS.

= Gainesville is building
new courthouse which will cost
10000.
- Pneumonia is very preva-
lent and fatal in Red River
county.
= Orange culture is begin
ming to receive attention in Vic
toria county.
Plum trees are in bloom at
Victoria, and peach tree buds
are opening.
Two Dallas bucks quarreled
over colored Venus and one
knitted the other fatally.
= The local editor of the
Denison Hyald has opened
war upon Green, ofpatent med
icine fame.
= A very large beaver was
caught in the Colorado river at
the mouth of Onion creek in
Travis county.
= The Jefferson limp has
been presented with the boss
turnip. 1t weighs nine and a
half pounds.
= In San Antonio many bus
mess houses are substituting
gasoline in place ofgas-the lat
ter costs too much.
"A Dallas lawyer was caught
in McLennan comfy carrying a
pistol; he was crested and fined
SIS which he paid.
= The democracy of Calves
ton will be recognized and
conduct a vigorous campaign
in the coming city election.
= In Victoria everything is
active. Building.repairing,p paint
ing, withdrawing. pruning. gar
dening, ETC., is the order of the
day.
- Two negroes met in the
road in Falls county and dispu-
ted about who was to give the
road. One shot the other in the
jaw.
= The first shipment by the
Central and Montgomery rail-
road, consisting of a car load
of cotton, has been received at
Navasota.
- Two most excellent gen.
tleman of Bell county have re-
fused to go bail for their rowdy
brother, who is in hook for car
rying pistol.
A number of burglaries
were attempted in Denison on
Friday night. They are all
charged to the account of the
numerous tramps that infect the
town.
"A Rusk county darkey
went :razy because a negro wo-
man with whom he was in love
gave him the mitten. He has
been sent to the lunatic asylum
at Austin.
- Bryan Plot Col. Hig-
ganson arrived a few days ago
from Mississippi with a number
of colored farm hands for Bra
EOS bottom plantations.
= A desperate named Viii
liam Worts, alias Jack Murray,
alias Wild Bill, was killed in
Denison the other day, while re-
sisting arrest. He was notori-
Gus in the Territory.
= A man in Fort Worth
bought an old worn out fiddle
of pawn-broker and sent it to
Chicago for repairs. He got a
letter offering $500 for it, says
the Denison Me1cs. Fiddle
stix," say we.
= The Dallas Herald tells of
another shooting affair at Trini-
ty mills. Two men, Males and
Dowden, shot at each other a
number of times; their aim was
bad and neither was hurt.
= Several prominent citizens
of Hearne played a social game
of "pokaire' and were arraigned
in the Justices court on a charge
of gambling. The jury said
mot guilty" as the gentlemen
played in private room.
= The Lamar street Metho-
dist church in Dallas was burg
larized and robbed of two cost
ly chairs, which were afterwards
found at secondhand furniture
store where they had been sold
by an unknown party.
a lot of chaps who had
fines entered up against them
on the mayors docket in Bel
ton, entered that worthy Off
Gals office and removed from
the book the leaves containing
the charges against them.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07


QUITE a stormy debate took
place in the house of reprcsen-
tatives on the amendment of
fered by Mr.. Cox,o New York,
to reduce the army, in the
course of which Mr.. Mills, of
Texas, charged the democrats
with being responsible for Gus
ter's death, because OF their mi :
cradle economy. The house
rejected the amendment, and
also another reducing it to 2o,-
900. The vote stood &c to II8.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

= Mrs. Crimes, whose hus-
band was killed by the Bass
gang at Round Rock, is now
living in Lampasas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

An advocate Of the whipping
post writes to the San Antonio
Herald giving the the following
statement: "a Grimes county
negro stole a box of sardines
from a store; this made it pen
itentiary offense; the little fishes
were worth twenty cents; the
negro was tried, convicted and
sent to Huntsville. 1t cost the
state $1,000 to land him there.
So, that we uns,' who won't
steal, must pay for those who
do. 1t will strike the average
taxpayer as an awful price for
sardlnes. Such cases are COM
mon throu ghout the state.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

KITE CLYDE, famous in
song, still lives and writes a let
ter to a Waco paper.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

THE Denison Rnald contains
a long editorial on Officers ex-
penses." livery truthfully says
that at present there is not only
no incentive to an officer to do
his duty, but rather discour-
agement. 1t is now made the
duty of a sheriff to follow and
capture criminals, but he re-
ceives no pay for that service.
He is compelled to attend court
as witness, but is allowed no
fees for his attendance. Off
GERS should be paid for their
services.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07
THr Sherman Reristr, as

THE Sherman Registe, as
sumes the responsibility of max
ing the following assertion:
A neighboring Texas editor
recently had the temerity to an
nounce that a certain young la
dy was the prettiest girl in town.
Specimens of his hair now adorn
about forty center tables. The
poor fellow now wears a wig
and takes his meals in the Office.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07


DURING November last Mr..
Goree, superintendent of the
penitentiary, issued vouchers to
the amount of S74II.3o to sher-
ifs for conveying II prisoners
to the penitentiary. Thus it will
be seen that it costs the state
over 500 for transporting each
convict to the penitentiary, OF
more than the cost Of a first
class passage to New York or
Boston by rail.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

GALVESTON sends boy only
"a years old to the penitentiary.
The probability is that this same
fourteen-year old boy will grad
uate from that institution a har-
dencd criminal, if not a finished
thief.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

THE Paris Baaae, is quite
moderate in its views on the dog
question. 1t thinks the legisla-
ture should pass a law prohibit
ing any resident Of a large town
or city from having more than
4 or 5 dogs on his premises. 1t
thinks when a man has fifteen
or forty dogs to prowl around a
house and howl, the thing is mo-
notonous. 1t would place no
restrictions whatever on the
number of dogs kept on farms.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

The Brazos Pilot has been
enlarged to a 32-column paper.
The BANNER is pleased to note
this sign CT prosperity on the
part of its neighbor and wishes
it that success it so justly merits.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

SOME 5000 barrels Of cotton
seed oil have lately been ship
ped from New Orleans to ports
on the Mediterranean. A large
proportion of this cotton seed
oil will find its way to the Uni
ted States and northern Europe
where it will be sold and ate up
as the finest and purest olive oil.
THE Round Rock Head
light man has received instruc-
tons how to run his paper
mostly from men who do not
patronize it. He suggests that
if they desire to experiment in
the newspaper line that they can
buy him out for cash. His
motto is, put up or shut up.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

TnE Oeeaaoaalis the name
of an occasional amateur publi-
cation at Columbus, Texas. 1t
is hardly as neatly gotten up as
the GrassAo1per Times, former
" published at San Antonio.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

WHO DRAW
ounty 1914 per month.
Some ofAEse paupers az COM
paratively able bodied and are
able to earn their own living, as
is attested by the grand jury.
The language of the report is
plain and unmistakable and
calls for vigorous and prompt
action on the part of the county
commissioners. The pauper
list has grown to elephantine
proportions and has about be-
come an unbearable tax upon
the honest, hard working, tax
paying people of the county,
The BANNER is informed by
members of the grand jury that
there are many other things in
connection with the county's af-
fairs to which attention might
with propriety be called, but
they deem the two items to
which they have called special
attention, of paramount imPor-
lance at this time, and think
they are quite sufficient to oc-
cupy the attention of the COM
missioners' court and the public
for the present. The BANNER
has for several years insisted up
on the establishment of a coun-
ty or poor farm, but the former
| commissioners court in their
wisdom did not see fit to do so,
but instead continued to add
pauper after pauper to the list
until it has attained its present
formidable proportions.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

THE San Antonio Herald pub
: fishes an account Of tornado
in the vicinity of New Braunfels
on Sunday the 10th ult. 1t be-
gan two miles northwest of Four
Mile creek, destroying Frank
Hildebrand's farm; the store
house of William Wetzel was
scattered to the four winds and
only a small portion of the goods
could afterwards be found. Stol-
ties dwelling was entirely ruin
ed; a blacksmith shop was COM
pletely blown away and a gin
house was carried completely
off leaving the machinery stand
ing. Everything in the path of
the tornado was carried away.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07

with the county court in Collin
county.
Bill to provide the state may
rent each alternate section of
land belonging to the school
fund; referred.
Favorable report on senate
bill providing for building CAPT
tol, adopted.
Committee reported unfavor-
ably on bill to repeal occupa-
ton taxes.
The question of allowing
criminals to testify in their own
behalf was discussed to adjourn
nent.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-02-07
STARTLING FIGURES.

We call special attention to
the report ofthe grand jury pub
lished elsewhere. 1t will be
seen that there is a deficit of
s62I2 in the tax collectors &C
counts fosthe years IS75-4 and
s. Th& have been rumors to
~ for some time, but it
q beTs been made
official or tangi-
m also finds on
he names of
= county 1914 per month.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-12
General Porler,s Case.

A Washington special says:
The President.aad secretary of war
have not yet decided what to do with
the report of the board in the Fitz
John Porter case. but will probably
send it to congress without recommen-
datiOn. This is all that Senator Ran
dolph, who is Porter's representative
here, asks. Mr.. Randolph is. chairman
of the military committee of the SEN
ate, and he thinks he can secure action
upon it favorable to General Porter,
if he can once get the matter before
the senate. As General Porter is a
Democrat, and most of his friends are
Democrats, he will be better treated
than he would have been by the Re
publican congress.
General Garfield was a member of
the cOurt-martial that originally tried
General Porter, and pronounced upon
him the sentence from which he now
wants to be relieved
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-12
TENNESSEE.

The fruit crop is greatly damaged
by recent frosts.
Total deathsin Nashville last month,
Ga; 26 white and 80 colored. The
rate of mortality of the white popu-
lation for March was 1882 per thous-
and per annum, while that Of the col
Ored population was 47.5S, and of the
total 28.34.
Dendridge Watchman: While out
hunting, last Saturday evening, Joe.
Carter, accompanied by his brother
William, killed seven red foxes, six
young ones and the mother; also a
large black hawk, which measured four
and half feet from tip to tip.
Brownsville States: The creditors
of the defnnct corporation of Browns
vile arc preparing to make an appeal
to the Federal courts to appoint a
receiver to dispose of the assets of the
former corporation. About all they
will find will be a lot of back taxes
which the city authorities tried in
vain for many years to collect
Esquire A. B. Joyner, Of Haywood
county, is one of the few citizens of
this State who ever saw General La
fayette. ne relates that he was pres
ent in Nashville when the general
visited that city in 1924. He came
with General jackson from the Her
mitage in a carriage drawn by four
gray horses, and was greeted by the
cheers of tens of thousands of people.
Both of these old heroes were grey
with years of public service, and were
justly the lions of that day.
Upton Record The chamber of
commerce of Memphis sighted Upton
county by not requesting her co-opera-
ton in the matter of securing govern
ment aid to improve the navigation Of
Hatchie river. The Taxing District
forgot that Upton furnishes repre-
sentative in congress, and is the home
Of the boss captain of Hatchie navi.
CATION. We are good-natured peo-
Pile and did not get our back up about
the matter, but have concluded to lend
a helping hand in the good cause A
convention will be called, to meet at
Coyington on the first Monday In May
next. The Taxing District may count
us in.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-12
How scarlet Fever is Spread.

Cor. New York lIerald.l
Having seen lately articles in the
Herald regarding the inspection of
public schools to prevent the spread
of disease, and especially those of a
contagious nature, feel it to be my
duty to point out method auxiliary
to others, whereby the further spread
of the eruptive fevers, notably scarla-
tina, may in a measure be prevented.
[ have seen this winter very many
cases of scarlatiua and measles con.
tracted in our schools, and some of
them very remarkable in the mode of
contraction. am led to believe that
the books furnished to scholars have
been in a great many cases the cause
Of disease and subsequent demise of
bright and promising children. A
child goes home from school feeling
sick he carries his books with him
his disease is pronounced scarlatina,
diphtheria or measles, as the case may
be. During the first week he is very
i'll then the stage Of desquamation or
peeling" begins, and with it conva-
lescence, Now he wishes for some
thing to amuse him, he is tired of
looking at the ceiling, so, if strong
enough to sit up, he asks for his books.
They are brought. While reading, he
mechanically strips from his fingers
and hands the exfoliating epider-
mis-, some of it surely falling be.
tween the leaves of the book,
and if he has discharge from
ear or nostril, he carries his hands
from those points to the leaves and
covers of the book, staining them with
the injecting poison. Thus book after
book is contaminated. In due course
Of time he RECEIVERS, and is allowed to
return to school. He may be promoted
very shortly His books, if not too
much worn out, are given to the next
scholar entering the grade he has lust
left. In few days the new scholar
is taken i'll with the dread disease, and
everybody wonders "how ho got it.
Now, sir, II seems to be not only right
and proper, but essential, that the
books Of every child returning to
school after scarlatina, diphtheria or
measles should be burned without de-
lay. 1t should be the duty of every
teacher to isolate at once the books of
those so returning, and to see that no
other child gets them. These books
cannot be disinfected, for the particles
Of epidermis ipclosed within the books
contain the germ of disease, and hold
it for months. If it 6uds q resting
place in oongenial soil, it will repro.
duce the disease from which it was
born. They may say TO destroy so
mspy good hooks is waste; hut TO let
The books live and the little ones die
would be more expensive in many
ways The health and lives Of our
httle ones are worth more 10 us aud
TO the community than the cost Of all
the books destroyed Very respect.
fully, G. MILES ARNOLD, NJ. u.
March, 81, 1879.
The Passion play spectators lost
$1,000 recently in San Francisco.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-12

The anonymous, unprincipled, cow
ardly letter writer's have commenced
their summer work against Memphis
early. We are surprised somewhat
that reputable journals will allow their
columns to be used for such an out
rageous purpose, which is calculated
to iuiure a defenceless community,
mislead the public, interrupt business,
and can do no possible good. We
have never seen copy of a paper
called the Louisville Post, though
there may be such a paper
but somebody sends us copy
Of the States and Union, pub
lished at Portsmouth, N. H., in which
appeaCs a half column article on the
terrible condition of Memphis, -
credited "letter to the Louisville
Post" Memphis is described as un-
questionably the nastiest, dirtiest and
filthiest city in the United States, if
not in the world national nuisance,
with no pure water and so on, all of
which is as false and malicious as the
author of the article is eowardly and
debased We do not claim that Mem
phis is the cleanest city in the country,
but We believe that it will compare
favorably with the average. The local
government has done all that was pos
sible to enforce sanitary measures, and
it is safe to say that the city is in a
better condition chan it has been in
years, for the cleaning up has been
done in the winter, aud still goes on.
Our home papers do not conceal any
fact in regard to the true condition Of
the city, and we hope that as a matter
ofjustice aud decency the press of the
country will look TO these papers fer
the news rather than to irresponsible,
reckless scnbblerS, who hide in the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-12
dark to deliver an assassin's stab at
defenceless victims.


THE death of Captain George Il.
Stahl, which occurred at San Antonio,
Texas, last Wednesday, will be sin
cerely regretted by all who knew this
most worthy and estimable gentleman.
lie lived in Memphis a number of
years and was prominent and rising
member of the bar. Ill health, how
ever, interfered with his success, and
some six or eight years ago he found
it necessary to seek a change of eli
mate. He spent summer or two in
Colorado and then bought a place
near st. Paul, and in the meantime
having married Miss Rudisell, of
Memphis, settled there, expecting to
remain permanently. The climate,
however, proved too rigorous and he
removed to San Antonio, where he
went into business and lived the rest
Of his life. His health seemed to i'm
prove and it was thought was perma-
nently restored, Consumption, how
ever, had set its fatal stamp upon
him and it was only question of
time and development when he was to
become its victim, This was FASTENED
by the recent death of his partner in
the milling business a few weeks
ago. Captain Stahl undertook to carry
on the business as before This neces-
STATED night-work and exposure,
which brought on a fatal attack. He
died after a short illness. attended by
his devoted wife and number of
friends. Captain Stahl was a
gentleman of superior education,
of easy and modest manners,
and was universally esteemed and
respected. He was native, if
we mistake not, of Pennsylvania, but
was of German parentage, and spent
several years in Germany in the com
pletion of his education. During the
war he was an officer in the Federal
army, and distinguished himself for
his courage and GOODNESS, After the
war he settled in Memphis, which he
always spoke of as his home even after
he left here. Memphians who visited
San Antonio within the last three or
four years were always welcomed and
treated most cordially by him, espc-
cially the excursion party that went to
Texas about two years ago. A truer
man to friends and principles never
yielded up his life in the Alamo city.
Peace and honor to his memory.