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| liC PHCSCul SCiOOi IuuQ VIII DC
So per capita for children within
the scholastic age. Under Hub
bard's administration the dis
tributive share of each child
was $3.50.
A PARIS dispatch says the
American objections to DeLes-
sep'S, Panama canal have been
waived. DeLesseps wishes to
issue the total amount of six
hundred million francs $780,
ooo,oco) in shares in Paris, Lon
don, Frankfort and New York.
The use Of Gen. ]. B. Robert
sons name as an independent
candidate seems to have been
unauthorized by that gentleman;
the Waco papers say nothing
about him and the Telephone
expresses the opinion that the
independent movement will end
as it began-in talk.
SOME time ago the BANNER
published an item to the effect
that a German daily paper was
to be started in BRENNAN. The
item went the rounds, and now
the Victoria Advocate says that
Brcnham has German daily
paper, which is piece OF news
that no one here knew.
a WARD orator in Cincinnati
is making a strong point against
Hancock. He says Hancock
mustn't be promoted to the
presidency until Sherman and
Sheridan, who outrank him,
have been served with term
in the white house. The orator
seems to have completely over
looked the fact that he outranks
Garfield.
Col. ]. D. WILLIAMS has dis
covered that there has been a
long felt want in Kansas City
for another evening paper and
he proposes supplying the ach-
ing void by the publication of
the Evening Express. Refer
ring to this contemporary re-
marks that, it will probably be
found that the Nails filling the
field completely.
A HANCOCK man writes to the
Galveston News from Lexing-
ton taking issue with the "Anti-
Bloody Shirt" man, in which he
argues that Shepard is not re-
sponsible for the action Of tie
democrats who voted against
Hancock. He advises all Han
cock men to walk up to the
polls and vote like men for
Shepard.
Col. JOHN A. JOYCE, former
ly an ornament of the St. Louis
whiskey ring; in reality the man
who furnished the brains to run
it, and who graduated in the
Missouri penitentiary, is now
spending his leisure time in writ
ing campaign songs for the re-
publican party. His latest pro-
duction is a ballad for the ex-
elusive use of Garfield clubs.
The republican convention at
Richmond nominated Burton
colored, for the state senate
and Thompkins, white of Wal
Ter county, and Dock Lewis, a
negro, of Wharton county, for
representatives from the 57th
district. Hon. w. II. Burkhart
Was rcnominated for district
judge and r. E. Hanney for
district attorney.
a WRITER in the Corsicana
Observer-Index says some farm
ers in Navarro county are talk
ing about paying one dollar a
hundred for picking cotton; he
gives the figures to show that
at that rate i bale of cotton
weighing 500 pounds will cost
the producer s45. AT that rate
those who raise cotton would
save money by giving their cot
ten crop away in the field.
The triennial conclave oil the
knights Templar is now going
on at Chicago. The Houston
Telegram publishes a special of
three and a half columns giving
full particulars. Two hundred |
and eighty communicates arc
represented and the city is more
crowded than it was during the
republican convention. The |
hotels are crowded having in
many cases about double the
number of guests they are in
tended to accommodate.
Hon. THoMaM A. Hendricks
made a speech at Indianapolis
in which he says Garield's NOM
nation means the endorsement
and approval in the most posi-
tive manner possible of the
presidential fraud of 1867.
He had more to do with it than
any other man, and was the only