Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-08-26

organization. Five colored men
have joined.
Two many filibustering expe-
ditioRs have been tolerated in
Texas against Mexico, says the
Two LaIsdos.
I, A. S.discussion was held
kand Ennis by
Rockmorton and
KDoN dispatches report
fAyoob Kahn has moved
5as to- oppose Gen. Robert at
aashassarrison.
7" W sIfkR. J. ~, traveller
for LeGierse & c., of Calves
I ton. died at Navasota after an
illness oithree weeks.
CHICAGO has 7I6 miles Of
sidewalks, which is probably as
much sidewalk as there is in
the entire state Of Texas.
THE Georgetown Record
hoists the names Of the Dallas
nominees and proposes working
manfully for their election.
SIMON ZIMMERMAN, a Chica-
so mechanic, got up the other
morning and murdered his vile;
he then shot himself producing
death.
THE Arkansas negroes who
went to Liberia last spring write
back that they are delighted
with the change they have
made.
a DISPATCH from Cairo says
it is believed the Egyption cot
ton crop will be about half a
million American bales less than
that of 1879.
FIRST bales are still arriving.
Texas towns are getting some
OF them while Arkansas, Ten
nessee and North Carolina are
not neglected.
The coroner's jury IN the
Mays landing N. J., railway &C
cident returned a verdict charg-
ing the engineer and conductor
of the train with negligence.
The report that DIR. John
Buchanan, of bogus medical col
lege fame committed suicide at
Philadelphia and is now suppos-
ed to be a stupenduous hoax.
IT seems from a paragraph in
the Waco Telephone that Gen.
J. B. Robertson has not yet said
whether he would head the talk
ed-of Independent movement or
not.
THF. bark Ferguson from the
PHILIPPINE islands arrived at
Boston last Friday with the
captain down with yellow fever.
The vessel was detained at
quarantine.
A VERY pretty girl, aged two
and twenty, very intelligent and
Of pleasing manners is an in
mate of the Virginia peniten-
tiary, serving a long term for
horse stealing.
THE Columbus Times seems
to have progressive ideas; it
says it has but one fault to find
with the democratic platform,
and that is its immigration
plank.
IT is said there are now 2Iz6
convicts hired out TO peniten-
tiary lessees. The convicts
should all be confined within
the walls at the earliest practi-
cable moment.
The Galveston Journal of
Commerce writes up Milan and
Bell counties in frst-class style.
The building Of the Santa Fe
railway will do much toward
developing both counties.
AT the last election Jones
had two hundred majority in
Lampasas county. The green
hackers are weakening and the
democrats now claim that Shep-
ard will carry the county.
The Bolton Journal says the
democracy Of Texas has ap-
proved the pay-you-go policy
of the old alcalde, and that
while it does not fully endorse
all his acts it is we'll satisfied
with the nomination.
The Galveston county demo-
cratic executive committee are
going to hold another meeting
If a quorum can be got to-
gether, and decide upon having
a county convention or not hav-
ing a county convention.
JNo. FARLEY and wife, poor
people, living near Lowell.
Ohio, drowned their twin chill
dren in a tub of water. The
children were only a month old
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