Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-18

late war are now in course Of
publication by the government.
The first two volumes will be
issued soon.
THE Gainesville Register
thinks that Hon. George R.
Reeves, OF Grayson county is
the proper man for the house
of representatives.
The Galveston greenback-
ers are about recognizing.
They propose maintaining their
party at all hazards; they all
want more greenbacks.
Hon. THURLow WEED was
e<crtained by the press club
OF New York on the evening of
the 18th inst, the occasion be-
ing the SGD anniversary CT his
birth.
The GAINESVILLE Register is
wicked, it says, "if the bosses of
| the democratic party in New
York city were all hung, we
might stand some chance of
success in 1884.
GEN. SHERMAN has submitted
| has annual report to the secre-
tary of war. He agrees with
Gen. Sheridan that the army is
too small to fulfill the heavy
duties now imposed upon it. 1t
is overworked.
The Post-Dispatch gives sem
ator Cockrell of Missouri hard
lick, charging him with medioc-
rity and hypocracy, 1t favors
B. Gratz Brown for the senate
but thinks he has no chance of
being elected.
OK Monday last the town of
Newport, Ark, on the Iron
Mountain railroad was nearly
destroyed by fire. About 200
families were rendered home
less. The loss is estimated at
about 100000.
The Dallas Herald urges the
necessity of the cultivation of
wheat in its section of the state.
1t approves of cotton as a prin-
cipal crop but also thinks di-
versity of crops is the true poll
cy for the farmer.
THE Marlin Ball says it is
evident from the way some of
the colored people voted the
democratic ticket that they are
beginning to have independence
enough to vote with whatever
party they please.
A WOMAN, Mrs. Meierhoffer,
has been sentenced to be hang
ed IN New York state for the
murder Of her husband. The
murder occurred in Essex coun~
ty, and the woman is to be ex-
ecuted January 6, 1881.
ACCORDING to European sta
tistics, $4,000 Immigrants have
been brought to the United
States this year, which is four
times the number brought last
year. Nearly all the new COM
ers find homes in the great west.
The radical carpetbaggers
throughout the country, who
once fed like cormorants upon
the South, are having their at
tention called to the fact that
the state treasury of Texas now
contains nearly ST, 900, 900. Oh,
times have slightly changed.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the
Dallas and Wichita road near
Louisville, Denton county, fell
through the false work at a
bridge on Hickory creek, kill
ing three men instantly, NOR
tally wounding two others and
wounding eight or ten less
severely.
WHIN Garfield resigned a
few days ago his place as con-
gresham from the ninth dis
trict, still having in reserve for
next March a senatorship and
the presidency, he must have
forgotten the old proverb of a |
bird in the hand being worth
two in the bush.
The greenbackers did not
carry state in the union and
they have lost eight congress-
men. Weaver can now go back
where he belongs, in the repub-
lican party, and Chambers can
devote his entire attention to
his lands, and lending money
at interest.
The claims of judge Wesley
Ogden, prominent republican
of San Antonio are being urged
for the vacant judgeship. Judge
Turner is looking for the posi-
ton and as he is already in