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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19
FOR SALE.

Several city lots. suitable for
residences.
KEY & RoBEsoY.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19
Dress Goods Department.

Cashmere beiges; Poplin lus-
ter Black, Brown and Navy
Blue Bunting; Alpaca Lustres;
1ndien Cashmere. Les Fills De
A Guillaumat brand; Black
French Cashmere. All of the
above goods We are selling as
low as any house in the city;
will be getting new styles as the
season advances. Have order
ed the following new styles:
Monies. Camelots. Australian
Creipc, French and wool Taffe-
tas and British Melangcs. We
still invite our friends to call and
examine before buying.
c. G.. Couch.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19

C.aSp NJ. S,RrEY.-Mr. Jn,cs
i. Randlc, who was IN the city
On Wednesday, reports that the
engineer corps were ~ bis
hoase seven miles FROM Wash
ington; they will probably reach
BRENNAN by next "Wednesday.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19
Novelties !

In laces, cmbroiderics, hand
kcrchiefs, ribbons. ties hosiery
Sc, at
PANP7LL & lIARRIsoS's
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19

B9- tits astonishing how low
clothing for men, youths and
boys is selling at
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Trunks 81

Thousands of dollars are saved every
year by progressive farmers who use Uncle
Sans Condition Powder ir feeding their
stock. 1t restores the sick, adds TO the use
fitness, increases the beauty, and promotes
the growth. Sold by J. Tristram.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19

Nothing in the world equals BLACK.
DRkUGHT"ir female dieeascs. S,,4 :,
.Tristram.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19

Domesties 4 cents a yard and
upwards at the cheapest house
in BRENNAN. \. Nj. WHITE.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19

Coualr CoUgr.- Ihis court
has been in session since Mon
day and the civil docket has
been disposed Of for the term.
Probate bushes is next in or
der.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19

FAIL gardening has been
brisk the past four days.
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.Geats, be sure and see

On hand. 500 boxes cigars.
hftyin j box, for ono. dollar.
a. NEVER.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-09-19

Gents furnishing goods at any
price at A. NJ. Whites.
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"BLkcK-DRAueHT, euIes sOsdse-
ness and sick headache. Sold By lnstrafa-
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11
The Dwelling House of the Flu
tuTe.

If the world grows wiser as it grows
older, the city of the future will be SO
built as to allow each residence to stand
in the center of lot from seventy-tive
to one hundred feet square, with q wide
open space in front and back and sides.
In fact, the city householder will have
dooryard and such as he most likely
played in as a boy in the country. The
real estate owners Of this grasping gen.
Grafton would doubtless hang themselves
i'll despair if some great sanitary revolu-
ton should threaten to compel them to
sell building lots only in accordance with
such plan; but it is the simple truth
that men are fools to go on building
houses on the present abominable plan.
The city house Of to day is merely box,
long, thin and high, without openings at
the sides, and communicating with the
outside air only by few windows and
doors at the front and rear. If it is a
large house there are rooms in the mid
dle-probably sitting rooms Or sleeping
rooms-into which the suns rays never
penetrate, and under the conditions
which govern most of the houses in New
York and Brooklyn. Its best rooms
are not fairly lighted and cheerful for
more than three hours in the day, and
gaslights and furnaces are called on in
Winter to supply what the sun cannot.
Any conclusion based on these facts, as
compensating GOODNESS in Summer,
would he misleading. The fact is that
our brown-stone and brick houses be-
come storage reservoirs for heat in the
Summer, and this cannot be radiated
from the sides, but only from the front
and rear, it follows that the refreshing
GOODNESS that ought to come soon after
sunset is delayed till toward morning,
after the tortured inmates of the house
have nearly sighed their souls away in
vain longings for a cooling breeze. If
houses were built with an open space on
every side, instead Of being put up like
mere pigeon holes, it would be possible
to plan them that every iving-room
might be well lighted, every sleeping
room well summed, and all their inhabit-
ants have plenty of air, with chance
to benefit by the grateful breezes that
sometimes tempt the heat of an August
night. 1t would be interesting to CON-
pare the mortality rate of an ideal city
of this kind with that of the New York
Of to-day.-New York Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11
Pixies Peak Signal Station.

About six years ago, the United
States signal service station was estab-
lished on the summit of Pixies Peak,
1886 feet above the level of the sea.
1t is the highest, and is now considered
one of the most important stations on
the globe, especially for the study of as
tronomy and meteorology. The rarity
Of the atmosphere at this high altitude
gives remarkable orilliancy to the
stars and all the heavenly bodies. On
the highest point of the summit stands
the signal station, a one-story building,
"a by 80 feet, containing four rooms
officers room, kitchen, store room and
wood room. The station is now in
charge Of officers Sweeney, Choate and
Blake. Usually two officers ale at the
station on the summit, and one here to
receive the reports per telegraph ond
transmit them to the department at
Washington. Four regular observa-
lions are taken daily at the appointed
minute, and every particular in regard
to wind and weather is carefully record
ed, such as direction and velocity of the
wind, highest range and mean lowest
barometer and thermometer, mean hu-
nudity, number of clear, fair, cloudy and
foggy days, rain fall, snow fall, etc. In
case of unusual storms in any part of
the country extra observations are taken
at any hour of the day and night and
reported to headquarters. There are only
two seasons in the year on the peak; Sum
mer-August and September-all the
rest grim Winter The highest Their
mometer during Summer is about fifty
degrees, and no night passes without the
formation of ice. The coolest weather
the past Winter was thirty-seven de-
grees below zero. The swiftest velocity
of the wind was LOG miles per hour,
which is but a gentle zephyr when COM
pared with the fierce blasts of old Boreas
whistling over Mount Washington, n.
H., at the rate of nearly 200 miles per
hour. From June until November the
summit is accessible-not without much
fatigue and difficulty-on foot or on the
back of an Indian pony or donkey, and
parties of five or ten Or sometimes more
go up almost daily, among them not
few ladies. The officers go up and
down every three weeks on Norwegian
snow shoes, twelve feet long. Thunder.
storms on the peak are alarmingly ter
rifle. The atmosphere is highly charged
with electricity, ard at times the whole
mountain top appears like one immense
sheet of flame. The supplies for the
station, consisting of about 5000 pounds
of provisions and family stores, are car
ried up in the Summer on the backs of
the little, sure-footed donkeys in loads
of 200 pounds. Wood is cut at the
timber line about three miles from the
summit, and it costs SIS per cord de-
livered at the station. Troy (Colorado)
Times
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11
A French View of American So.
ciety.

Comte Louise de Turenne, who spent
more than year, in lS75-76, in travel
in this country and Canada, in company
with Baron Edmund de Rothschild, of
the Paris branch of the renowned bank
ing house, has been making quite book
about us-two volumes octave in fact.
He seems to be careful observer and
a candidreporter, paying good deal of at
tertion to statistics. The Comte is ap-
preciative when he speaks Of our women,
whose personal charms he considers su-
pelior to those of any European nation,
while their manners are so elegant and
refined that they alone prevent our harsh
and angular men flom relapsing into
barbarism. The Comtc thinks that a
great many otherwise sensible and re-
fined people in Baltimore and Washing
ton display rather ludcrous anxiety to
trace their origin back to ancient and it,
lustrious houses, but indeed he conceives
that the mania for titles is common to
all classes of American society. The
number OF judges, generals and COVER
nors to whom he was introduced was
simply amazing. Society, however, in
the sense Of these rapports, those sym
pathetic communications that one has
with Others, does not, in the Comics
view of the case, exist in this country,
except in very limited proportions
There is small and secluded circle of
eminent minds, enlightened and cult
waited tn art and letters, but these only
associate with themselves and admit
none from the outside. Besides these,
so far as he saw, society is confined to
the mOveaux riches, whom the Comte
characterizes acutely, saying, "America
is full Of men who have succeeded mar.
velously, and who are themselves fail
ure; whose residences are splendid, but
whose souls are vulgar; who have pic
lures and cannot appreciate them, books
and do not read them, clothes and bad
fashions, clients (clientes in the Roman
sensc) but no society; fatterers, but no
friends. They have acquired fortune by
great effort, but they do not know how
to enjoy it."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11
Women Gamblers.

The number of lady gamblers in
London is increasing steadily. A cor
respondent of the Standard states that
there is more gambling among women at
the present time than has been the case
since public gaming tables were put
down by Act of Parliament. The harm
less bet of a few pair OF gloves at race
meetings is now considered far beneath
the notice of dashing matron or fast
maiden. There are not o few female
"plungers" on the turf who put the pot
on" as the idiotic jargon of the race
course has it, with as much eagerness as
the most dissipated subaltern at the
Raleigh, who stands to win heap of
money at Ascot or at Goodwood, with
the alternative of running his old father,
the country rector, if he loses, and al
lowing his sisters portions to be swal-
lowed up in paying his "debts of
honor" II the female plunger be un-
married she has recourse probably to
some accommodating dressmaker, or
worse still, she accepts pecuniary help
from some male friends, and perhaps
puts herself for life in the power Of
man who will one day make her pay
dearly for her discretion.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11
Homesteads in Great Britain.

The difficulties in the way of man
in humble circumstances obtaining a
homestead of his own in Great Britain
are almost insuperable. Land seldom
comes into the market, and when it does
is competed for in all eager way by the
wealthy who wish too add to their hold
ings. The cost of an inquiry into titles
is very heavy. The case is mentioned
of farmer, who in December, 1877,
bought three acres of glebe land, with Il
Inherent charge of SIS a year. The
examination, establishment and transfer
of title cost him $3.50. But land is so
tied up by entail and held in large
tracts by few persons that it is almost
inaccessible. The law of primogeniture
prevents sale, and so does the power to
make 999-year leases, thus tying up es-
tates and keeping land out Of the market.
Great Britain has thus become emphat-
ically the country Of the landless, for
all the lands are owned by less than
100000 persons. In England and
Wales Ii, 100000 acres, or one-half the
whole, are owned by $500 persons. In
Scotland 40 persons own one-half the
soil. One-half of Ireland is owned by
$50 persons, and two-thirds by less than
1000. No wonder the British farmer
is eager to come to this country, where
land Ii so easy to obtain and so cheap.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11
Lightning Strikes a Temperance
Lecturer.

The Lake House, ON the road ascend
ing Pixies Peak, was struck by lightning
lately, but was not seriously damaged.
Dr. w. G. Gibbons, who was descend
ing the Peak during the storm, had
very narrow escape from death. His
wife, who was with him, describes the
incident to the Colorado Springs Ga
zette as follows: "As we were riding
along a place where the wire was about
two feet from our heads-my husband
about ten feet in advance suddenly
heard what 1 first supposed was pistol
shot, then ] saw q stream of fire run
from the wire to his head; his horse
reared on his hind feet; my husband fell
to the trail, and the horse bounded of
down the mountain All this occupied
but a second; then my horse bounded
from the ground and threw me back
ward, SO that my head struck the ground,
my foot still in the stirrup. His second
bound tore the stirrup loose from the
saddle. his hind feet st, liking me in the
forehead, while at the next bound his
feet struck my husband, and then my
horse also left. For some time the
doctor .remaiued unconscious l raised
him up, found the mark of the lightning
JUST above his left ear-which fol-
lowed . xigzag course back of his head,
down his back to his shoulder. finally
got him to his feet, half carried him
down the trail for half mile, where we
found our horses. Ihelped him ON his
hosa / mounted nina, and slowly We
made our way 70 the Lake Houss, . nile
further on."-Dsnvsf TtibanA
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11
SO HE DOES.

He lights upon your head.
A naughty word is said,
AS with a rap,
A vicious slap
You bang the spot
Where he is not.
He laughs, and rubs his sauzy wings,
He scratches head and legs. and sings
He slyly grins,
And then begins
Some mischief new
At once to brew.
And just as you have grown serene,
Recovered of your golden spleen,
With clustering buzz he boldly goes
Half up your nose.
You sneeze
And wheeze,
And gin to swear,
When, boo! right in your ear
The rascal drives pell-mell.
And now you rage and tear, my friend;
You wish him evil withous end;
You want him sent lowell
Most truly
Do hate fly.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11

How rapidly, says the Burlington
Hawkeye, . man looses al interest in
politics and national finances wheu he
shnts door on his own thumb
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11

People call you dear when they would
fAvn upon you.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-09-11

VANCOUVER INDEPENDENT.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY AND COUNTY
Vancouver Clarke County, Washington Ter
ritory.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-30
A SINGULAR CHURCH SCENE.


A Pittsburgh dispatch dated 22nd inst,
says The people of this city are in fe-
yer of excitement to-day, owing to a Rsti-
cuff fight which took place In the First Re
formed Presbyterian church last night
Some weeks ago the congregation voted for
pastor, Rev. Neviu Woodside being
chosen. A majority of trustees charged
that his selection was the result Of illegal
votes. A majority of the congregation
were determined that Woodside should be
retained. Last night the quarrel culmina-
ted in free fight. Both factions were
present Ia full force. Woodside wanted to
preach, but his opponents had another
clergyman whom they wished to preach
Both parsons waxed hot, and scrimmage
occurred for possession Of the pulpit. A
general fight, which was thickest around
the altar then took place, and lasted
quarter OF an hour. The police finally
queled the riot, but not before number
of people had their arms broken and heads
cracked. The church presents a sorry ap-
pearance to-day. Pews are broken, rem
nants of broken glass, hymn books, bibles,
hair pins and bangs are strewn over the
floor. Great Indignation prevails in church
circles.
The Rev. Nevin Woodside was until he
removed to Pittsburgh, the pastor of the
First Reformed Presbyterian Church in
Dufiied street, Brooklyn. He had about
two hundred members in his church and
he preached to small congregations. His
ministry was satisfactory, and his church
reluctantly consented to his going away
One of the elders said last night that they
had given him letter strongly recommend
ing to the love and affection of his new
charge. lie added, in dry and humor-
Gus way, that the letter did not seem to
have had much effect. The Brooklyn
church, he said would gladly receive him
back. The story which kept the Brook
lyn gossips busy about five years ago, at
the time of Mr.. Woodside's marriage, has
entered into the trouble in the Pittsburgh
church
The story, as investigated at the time,
developed into a very curious romance, in
which a young lady, with whom the preach
or was iu love, married a man nearer her
own age, who, soon after their marriage,
died. When Mr.. Woodside learned that
she was widow he pressed his suit, and
soon made her his wife. Afterward it was
alleged that her first husband was not dead
at all, but that Mr.. Woodside had induced
him to leave the country. The elders of
the church investigated the different sto-
ries, obtained documentary evidence dis
proving them, and were perfectly satisfied
of MIR. Woodside's purity of character
The cergyman's friends allege that the
stories were started by those who were
jealous of his marriage, and that they were
sent to Pittsburgh to cause discord there.
Mr.. Woodside will be Immediately recalled
to Brooklyn if he is kept out of his pulpit
in Pittsburgh.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-30
A Meteor That Killed a Man.


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 18.-The re-
port from Nemeha county, Kan, of the
death of David Meisentlater, stockman,
by being struck by falling meteor, first
came through the Tribune published at SEN
eca, the county seat, and has since been
confirmed by gentleman from that place
with whom our correspondent had an in
terview. The latter says there is no doubt
about the meteor. Mesentlater was we'll
known and his death is acknowledged to
have been caused as stated. 1t took place
on the morning of December 12, about
eight o'clock, and the sky at that time was
perfectly clear 1t was very cold, and
Meisentlater had gone fiom his house to
pasture about five hundred yards distant to
drive up some cattle. He was walking
towards the barn on his return, and while
standing about twenty feet from the trunk
of a maple tree was killed. The aerolite
which caused his death came from an east
erly direction, and first struck the tree
trunk, which caused it to glance slightly,
aud in its fight it cut the upper
DiauOhcS vi buc Audpio anu enbeTeu NlelS-
entlater's body from below the right shoul-
der, coming out at the left hip, and then
partially buryipg itself in the frozen
ground Its course was undoubtedly
changed by contact with the tree, as could
be seen by the manner in which the latter
was splintered.
The deadly missile is said to be about as
large as an ordinary mans head and egg
shaped and rough, as If taken from hot
furnace and cooled in its fight through
space. 1t rescmbled in appearance iron
taken from blast furnace and cooled by
rolling In sand, and is composed of iron
pyrites. IL was perfectly cool when dis
covered, about half an hour after it's fall,
and lay not more than two feet below the
surface of the ground.
eB- IIngh McGinn kept livery stable
in San Francisco, did the hardest and most
menial work himself lived in loft among
the hay aud ate the coarsest food. He was
so close at bargain that, when brought
to his deathbed, he refused to employ
physician, except on the condition of no
cure no pay. He left 100000 to his wife,
whom he bad many years before turned
away because she bought silk dress, and
who afterward earned living as a domes-
tic servant.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-30
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TO
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In the reach OF the Republican voters OF the State
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'The Press Is thoroughly devoted to the prin.
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The and q the people
stnpendous political conflict of this epoch will
take place. Upon its issue will depend the poltl
cal destiny OF the country for many years.
The Press steadily resists tile aims of the
Solid South" winch Is now organized to capturel
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every public interest to the overmastering pur.
pose OF controlling the policy of the Nation, and
what it lost on the field. The Press" enforcesI
the duty OF enforcing in full force the Consti.
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line war; uphods the right Of every lawful voter
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cast; justlfes the use OF all necessary means tOI
prevent fraudulent voting and fraudulent return.
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1880.
H0rpe1's Young People
ILLUSTRATED.

The evils of sensational literature for the
young are we'll known, and the want of an
antidote has long been felt. This is sup
piled by "Harper's Young People," beauti-
fully illustrated weekly journal, which is
sensational juvenile literature aud of that
moralizing tone which repels the youthful
reader.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-30
Another Csc Of DIspepsIa.

MAPLE1ON DHPOT Pa
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would recommend il u similarly aniicted.
JENNIE BkOOAlBAUGu.
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The Volumes of the Young People'' begin
with the first Number, published In November
of each year. When no time is mentioned, 1t
will be understood that the subscriber wishes
to commence with the Number next after the
receipt of order.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-30
All That is Recommended to Be.

DEAR SYR;-This is to certify that have used
your INDIAN BLOOD SYRUP 10 my family with
the best satisfaction. My wife was afflicted with
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A Valuable Medicine.

GRIERs POINT, PERRY Co PA
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