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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

ROkaAoeAOhb wiz O$ASAS hAAS l'SO@
pie for Office.
MIR. Journey, living near
Bonham, brought to town SAM
piles OF June apples-the sec
ond crop this season-fully ma
tured and ripened.
Stephen Campbell, an hon
est darkey, found a pocket-book
with money and returned it to
its owner. A clear conscience
is his earthly reward.
Eggs are twenty-five cents
a dozen at Pleasanton, and
although that part of the state
is a stockraising country butter
is very scarce and high priced.
"A Gonzales restaurant
keeper serves his customers
with "chile con carne," "a Mexi-
can mixture OF red pepper and
beef; great deal of pepper
and very little meat.
Waco has a buggy and car
rage factary on large scale.
1t is now prepared to turn out
fine work. Manufacturing estab-
lishments add materially to the
prosperity of town.
"A man named Davis, en-
ployed as a shipping clerk by
Heidenheimer Bros, in Calves
ton, while suffering from the
effects of a protracted spree, at
tempted suicide on Monday.
The American Hotel, a
private boarding house, and two
small business houses were
burned at Mexia on Saturday
night. Loss about $1,000;
cause, careless handling of coal
oil.
Mat. Mcknight, who muir
dered Dirrick and killed John
Kemp, at Bolton last week, at
one shot of his pistol, made his
escape. The shooting was
done on the public street at ten
o'clock in the morning.
"A correspondent of the
San Antonio Express records
the death of Calamity Jlm," a
faithful steed that was made
famous by his rider, Hans
Mickle, a west Texas newspa-
per man. Calamity Jim was a
steed of good character.
= San Antonio is infested
with small and uncomely DON
keys which roam around the
streets and invade yards. The
police say the donkeys are of
SO little value that if inpounded
their owners, will not come after
them.
The state claims to have
secured a new and important
witness for the pending Roths-
child trial. 1t is one Jennie
Simpson, colored, who was
chambermaid at the hotel in
Jefferson where Rothschild and
Diamond Bessie" stopped.
Richard Duval, who had
been taking care of Ross sheep
in Bandera county, was sent. to
San Antonio with a lot of wool
which he sold for $1,000. Du-
val and the money have disap-
peared and Ross is anxious
about the whereabouts of both.
w. B. McCRARY, formerly
a custom house employee at
Eagle Pass, was shot and
killed in a bar room by one,
Farrow, in that town. The
men had been drinking and
quairelling. Farrow is in jail.
McCrary had many friends.
"A row occurred at Golinda,
Falls county, on Saturday, a
a negro named VIII Ross was
killed and a small negro boy
was wounded. Ed. Blocker,
who had been cursed and
knocked down by Ross, did the
killing. Ross was a bad negro:
Blocker has eloped.
= The drive OF Texas cattle
to Kansas this season, from the
most authentic data that can
be procured, is 257,7S4. In ad-
dition to this number, some &c.
900 head have been driven from
the Pan Handle of Texas to the
neighborhood of Caldwell and
Hunnewell, Kansas. Altogeth-
er, the total drive, in round num-
bers, is not far from 100000.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

S. A. Bourgay, a young man
living in Union parish, La,
found the words: Beneath
this tree l bury all my effects, ="
cut into the bark OF a swamp
oak, and digging at the roots
of the tree, unearthed little
bonanza in the shape cftwenty
dollar gold'pieces.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

Political affairs are very
changeable; in the late election
Boston gave Hancock a small
majority and St. Louis, hereto
fore a democratic city,gave Gar
field a majority of about two
hundred.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

One Van Pelt, an unlicensed
practitioner of medicine at New
Orleans, has been indicted for
manslaughter in causing the
death Of a child by malpractice.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04
Crooks.

Andrew Clark, collector at
Atlanta, Ga, telegraphs that in
Red Oak, Campbell county,
during the last thirty days
twenty moonshiners or illicit
distilleries have been destroyed;
that nine of them were in one
neighborhood and that as soon
as they are Destroyed in one
place they are put up in another.
The mountaineers in Georgia
are SO crooked that they can't
drink straight whiskey, and as
whiskey seems to be necessary
to their existence and comfort,
they are compelled to make
crooked whiskey for their own
use, and little for sale to their
neighbors, who are similarly
constituted: As long as there
is a tax on whiskey crooked
goods will be made in the woods
and in wooden, or as they are
known in the woods, log stills.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

The New York Express has
begun the publication of what
it terms "The Life and Esca-
pades of James Gordon Bennett,
proprietor of the New York
Herald. This is evoked by
the Herald's attitude in the New
York mayoralty contest. The
Herald opposes Mr.. Grace, dem
ocratic nominee, because he is
a Catholic and supported by
John Kelly. The Express is
largely controlled by John Kel-
ly, aud hence the war that cul-
inmates in this very personal
publication by the Express.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

FRANCISCO speeiai &c
'eNS York Herald gives
I Hancock $1,000 majority.
AT NechesolIe, Anderson
county, Reagan got II9 votes
and the greenback man 3.
THERE was a riot at Lexing-
ton, Miss, the sheriff was killed
and two others were wounded.
The democratic executive
committee in New York gave
up the contest on Tuesday
night.
BETS on Shepard and Jones
at Austin are said to be even
by the correspondent of the
News.
ONE thousand eight hundred
convicts are now hired out in
Texas cotton and sugar planta-
tons.
AT Navasota and Courtney
the greenbackers and republi-
cans voted solidly for Brady for
congress.
II is said that large Numbers
of plantation darkeys were sent
all the way to New York to
vote for Garfield.
THE Bastrop Advertiser hav-
ing an extra amount ofjob work
printing tickets, was compelled
to patent last week.
PRESIDENT HAYES has issued
the usual proclamation declar-
ing Thursday, November 25th,
a day of thanksgiving.
JONES beat Shepard about
200 votes in the Manor precinct,
Travis county. The tickets
were badly scratched.
A TAYLoRsvILLE dispatch to
the News says that Jones is
supposed to have carried the
county by a small majority.
THE Chinese letter did some
good; in one parish in Louisi-
ana it gave ninety votes to
Hancock, still he is defeated.
U. S. GRANT, JR., was married
in New York on the Ist inst. to
Miss Fanny Chaffee, daughter
of senator Chaffee OF Colorado.
A MANIA for suicide pre-
vailed at Macoupin, Ills, a few
days ago. There was two at
tempts at suicide in less than a
week.
HENRY BLEYER, ex-council-
man of Wilmington, Del, was
found drowned in the Brandy
wine river. Foul play is sus-
pected.
A SERIES of wrecks on the
Central near Mckinney delay
ed the upbound passenger and
freight trains to Denison for two
days.
In many towns and cities in
the United States business was
entirely suspended, every man
turning out to electioneer for
his favorite.
THE readers of the Dallas
Herald should understand the
tariff question. 1t had "a FIVE
c. lumn editorial last Sunday
on the tariff.
THE Bolton Journal learns
that the Central railway has
abandoned for the present, the
idea of building a line westward
from Calvert.
The Sherman Chronicle
wants to trade off our man Nor
ton, he of Indiana fame, for the
most trifling darkey that In
diana has to spare.
A NEWSPAPER man has writ
ten an essay to prove that the
well known word damn" is not
an oath, and that consequently
the use oft is not swearing.
Two prominent citizens of
Cleveland, Ohio, have been ar
rested for illegal voting; both
had voted the republican ticket,
democrats always vote legally.
MANY clergyman In this
country have lately received a
circular from a London dealer
in secondhand sermons, offer
ing them at twenty-five cents
each.
A FORT QUITMAN special
says that a band of thirty Apac-
hes attacked a picket of twelve
men of the ninth calvary, ff-
teen miles south of the fort, kill
ing two.
In New York on Monday
government stocks were adj
vanced in order to give the re-
publican vote force. Cotton
was also doomed, but did
not stay up.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

Mrs. SCHUYLER, a resident OF
Addison, Ills, was bitten by a
mad dog about ten months
since, manifested the first symp-
toms OF hydrophobia on Sun
day, and died three days there
after
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

WHAT has become of the JEFF
ferson Democrat, it has not APP
peared at this office for a week
or ten days. The limp says it
is going to present the editor
of the Democrat with "deer's
tail" so that he can run wild.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

BAYOU SARA, La, had $780,
600 fire on Saturday.
TIE greenback fallacy is
permanently exploded.
\THE monumental cotton press
at baltimore burned last Satur-
day.
The Orleans congresses now
charge Is cents a bale for COM
pressing.
WISCONSIN rolls up republic
can majority OF 10000 and up
wards.
AT Cameron, Milan county,
Shepard and Jones ran about
even.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

n. o. Times.
Nothing
ceit out Of tho
TO order his p
and then seeW
along and gd
him Conte
M. Carl SD
is the name
pointed Dam
country. M
way of SPELL
we have SEE
tic Monthly.
@What, " sxd
henes, as IA
upon his heal
valuable to 4
a free ballot
fair coant72
ed Dioger-S
on his head and
N. Y sun. Z
When aYa<
a thunderbolt
ways clear a&
lot the onlyi !
upon recovenh.
is the disheartel
can't capture Il
hibit it for mo
American.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

Cambridge, Mass, will cele-
brate its 25oth anniversary on
the twenty-eighth of next De-
cember. Ten years after the
landing of the Plymouth pill
grims and three months after
the settlement of Boston Gov.
Winthrop decided that forth
fed place in the vicinity was de-
sirable. The site of Cambridge
was selected, and the Governor
with others built residences
there.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

WADE, under sentence of
death at Indianapolis, desires
to be baptized into the Catho-
lie church, and the Quakers will
endeavor to secure a commu-
tation of sentence for Mrs.
Brown, his paramour.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04
Is a Farmer a

The Dspison (
:. =
chant. Tha
his cotton t
purchasers
5000" TIL
not PROPOSE
but merely
ing as an I'M
g: 9: -
ofconductf
west. The
steers, keeH
and sell tn
Per head
doubae his capita
if his losses do nd
cent and he has lu
method Of raising
Oregon, or Utah
necessary numbd
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

Our tele
few minu
without
dispatches
were paid
New York TIMES.
There was IS
the Grant =
Paterson n
locomotive
struction,
P;ttsburg
Chicago
Fontane
that this
made to 60
while the nj
faster than
locomotive
!! !! :
has two rib
than the other
touches the tracl
ner or smaller ri
driving Wheel
the driving WI
nicated is maj
rangement
-I.ol $500
the driving
speed IS i9k
| nm Of thu
to the larger
liar to that
to any wheel
rate Of niotid
such a hub
at the perip
In tbR3n1
| ofkhe dri
IS magnihed b
rsngement Of
upon. Mr. Fon
that his loeofnetj
not for the incre
Of the ali. coald
rate Of Io7 miles
expects It 10 M
hour easily. Z
Of the new loe|
stood propped
was put % motto
with Satisfactory
railroad men ha,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04

Our seIs&
few minu
without
Dispatches
were paid a
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-27
Things We Don't Know.

Doubtless man is very wise animal,
but there are some things he does not
know.
& A cloud of ten thousand gnats dance
up and down in the sun, the minutest
interval between them, yet no one
knocks another headlong on the grass,
or breaks a leg or wing, long and deli
cate as these are. Suddenly, amid
your admiration of this matchless
dance, a peculiar high-shnuldered,
vicious knat, with long pendant nose,
darts out of the rising and falling cloud,
and, settling on your cheek, inserts a
poisonous sting. 9K
What possessed the little wretch to
do this?
Did he smell your blood in the may
dance? -
No one knows.
A flock of geese seem to be fairly
under your carriage wheels, almost
under the horses loofs, and yet they
somehow contrive to flap and wadd.e
off. Habitually stupid, heavy and in
dolent. they are nevertheless equal to
any emergency.
Why does the lonely wood-pecker,
| when he descends his tree to drink, stop
several times on the way. listen and
| look round before he takes his draught
No one knows.
How is it that the species of ants
which is taken in battle by other ants
to be made slaves, should be black, or
negro ants? "i 9' S
| No one knows.
Many birds seem to understand how
/ to Judge danger and how to avoid it,
but man cannot understand how or
] why they know it, and never will.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-27
naPnErEnRED THE ALs1ANAC.
BIZ PARMENAs NIX.

fnere no 1000 aone upon the street cnap on saWky
And tnyas,n eye, !. ,,o.. ,ro a,rn.r and
- =. a., - sooe " NJ NAiiI P-Ss io,'A ~'''-'e, anu
10 ;. 70 aiae ,h.,a. h,r .h.,. :,
. Ia.en ~ tnAI never run, snousn huns sieie %
sign
Now fortune had of late adorned his honor with
a,d - :,
stitch and hem
An o'd watch ticking with the dirt OF years Still on
It's Wheel,
was neio securely In aus place BY Dangling cnn OF
steel. =
s
This chap who viewed the golden piece, and thought
" quite Immense, ~
was led to think its works had cost no tribe OF ex
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-27
Another Canal Project.
Paris Dispatch to the London Times ]

A.r
N. Lepinay, to whom the task of in
vestigating the question of a canal con-
Meeting the bay of Biscay directly with
the Mediterranean was committed, has
drawn up his report, The canal M.
Lepinay proposes starts from Bordeaux,
and would emerge, after trayersing four
hundred and six kilometres, az the
ancient port of Narbonne. The num-
Der of locks would be sixty-two, their
length being one hundred and fifty
metres, SO as to allow the passage of
ships one hundred and thirty-four
metres long. The depth is $50 metres,
and the breadth, where the canal is of
single width, is fifty-six metres at the
surface of the water, and eighty metres
where it is double, the aggregate length
of the latter amounting to 180 kilo-
metres, or 45 per cent. of the whole
length. NJ. Depinay estimates that
with the aid of engines of 600 to. 1 900
horse power, an average of fifteen kilo-
metres an hour might be attained; and
in this way the journey from Bordeaux
to Narbonne might be made in abont
forty-eight hours, loss of four hours
on an average in waiting for the depart
ures included. From sea to sea the
journey would take fifty-four hours,
thus making the voyage from Malta
to B1est matter of four days gain for
steamers going thirteen kiloneters an
hour, and of nearly thirty hours for the
large packets, making twenty-six. The
estimated cost is 550,00O,00 francs.
The saving to navigation, were this en-
terprise carried out in the manner M.
Lepinay proposes, would be distance
of 1900, 1900, and 1900 kilometres
from sea to sea; from Bordeaux to
Marseilles it would be no less than
2,570 kilometres.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-27
Surviving a Dislocated Neck.

One of the most curious cases of acci-
dent which ever occurred in our city,
and the facts of which have Just leaked
out, occurred on Saturday last, week,
late in the evening. AS Mr.. Jablecnik,
the mail-carrier for the southern part
of town, was crossing the railroad track
at Thin teenth street, his horse became
frightened at a passing train, and, dash
ing up the street, threw him at the cor
ner of William and Thirteenth streets.
MIR. Jablecnik, in falling, struck violent
Iy on his forehead, and was taken home
very much bruised. 1t was then noticed
that his head was twisted around
toward his right shoulder, and could
not be moved without pain, but the
physician, who WAS called in did, not
consider any thing serious. the matter,
raj condition, left him. During the
early part OF the week he became
worse, and DIR. Chadwick was sent for.
A careful examination of Mr.. Jablec-
nik's neck, which was greatly swollen
and very painful, led to the conclusion
that a partial dislocation of the first
two bones of the neck, the atlas and
axis, had taken place. The neck was
greatly twisted and very painful. and
partial paralysis of the nerves which
affect the respiration was also found to
exist. Fearing to attempt any reduc-
ton of the dislocation, which is always
very dangerous and often fatal op-
Grafton, the doctor left him for the
night, determined the next day to hold
u consultation, and put the ma1f under
chloroform while the operation was per
formed. .fas'J ea .as-lz-' 't-fe - S
The next morning, when he arrived,
he found that the neck. had slipped
back into its socket during the mans
turning Oh his pillow. The pressure on
the pneumo-gastric. nerves, however,
had not been taken away, and last even
ing the patient was still in very crit
ical condition, owing to the extreme
difficulty in respiration, and the filling
up of the lungs with serum.
The case is a very singular one, in.
deed, and should the patient recover
he may well congratulate himself on his
recoyery.-O Omaha Bee.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-27
Who Starts the Fashions?
Paris Correspondent Of New York Graphic.l
Themost interesting point is the Oh

Correspondent
Ths-most interesting point is the pro-
mitigation of fashion. Tne inventor, let
US say, has arranged something new in
his mind but how does he get anybody
else to weariitH Under the Empire this
was pretty easy, There was regular
hierarchy of influence, beginning with
the Empress and going on to leaders OF
lesser grade and you had only to obtain
their support to launch your fashion.
Very much the,s sme thing is done now,
only it is d little difficult to do for want
of a good organization. There are
al ways in Paris, at any given time, two
or three women who are famous for
dressing we'll Ali the other women
watch them, and try to find out, even
before they know it themselves, what
they are going to wear. These, two or
three women-Mme. de ePortales was
one OF them in the time of the Empress
ARE the mark of the artistic inventor.
He takes them into his council, lays his
plans before them for the coming season,
accepts their suggestions, and finally
has the completed scheme of fashion
ready. The discussions have led to this
important re ult--a something has been
found which he will consent TO make,
and somsthing which they. win con-
sent to wear. The scheme is well ma
tured in the cabinet before is launched
to the world. The world has in fact
only to hear and obey. and, therefore
those who have to give it orders must
be careful to know their own minds.
When he,project is ready it has to be
submitted to the supreme head of the
mode-under the Empire, of course, to
the Empresss under the Republic, to no
one in particular, and that is why the
dress-mak rs shake their heeds over this
institution, and say that it can never
last. There is no one to take the place
of Eugene, Nine. de McMahon, with her
plump material figure, never dressed
in any true sense of the word; she
was merely attired. Nine Grevy is
is even worse, but inasmuch as some
thing must be worn, as often as not an
actress starts the fashion. E5en in the
] titne OF the Empress it was not she who
first appeared: in the innovating gar
i ment. She SIMPLY accepted IL as. a
thing she might possibly be induced to
wear after some adventurous sp rits had
made trial of it.. Thus, when Worth
and Nine. de Portales had come to an
understanding, with one another, and
when the Empress had come to an un
derstanding with both, Madame would
fl 1tsh upon expectant Paris in the new
robe. t:Io8s as7 81 r5r
/ Nowadays, as have said, the frs
lpioneer is very often an actress. The
new dress pieces fill the theaters just al
much by virtue of the dressing as by
virtue of the plot and of the acting
The pit on first night is half full o
| poor dress makers, nots book and pencil
in hand, who are copying the styles t.
make up in cheaper form for their owl
clients. These industrious artists onl,
quit. the theaters of an evening to attend
the churches in the morning. The,
watch weddings as assiduously as tine.
watcn play, because a new dress j
very often launched at ceremonies o
that description,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-05-27
New Way to :. Raise" Setter Dogs.
Waterbury Americana

A good joke on a Rockville sporting
man has just come to light. Having a
fine litter of setter pups-pedigree stock
-he was taking special pains to give
them good start in the world, and to
this end it was his custom to rise from
his bed at short intervals to feed them.
1t became rather tedious business for
him TO "crawl out' during the cold win
ter nights to attend to their wants, so he
tried new plan. Setting a pan of milk
in warm corner behind the stove, he
went to bed, and in the small hours the
young CANNES called for food. Think
ing to make one job of it he rose in the
dark and carried the pan carefully to the
woodhouse, when se'zing each pup by
the nape of the neck he thrust its nose
into the pan, and when all had "got to
their work" returned to his bed. The
next morning he was reused by his wife,
who wanted to know what in the world
he had done with her bread pan. Inves-
tigation followed; his wife had wet up a
batch of bread and set it behind the
stove to rise; this pan our "shot' had
carried to the pups, and they, after gorg-
ing themselves with the dough, waddled
back to their warm nest. The yeast
was good and the puppies rose, looking
like 80 many mufs with the head of the
animal used for trimming, while their
legs and tail resembled warts on an
EARLY Rose potato.