Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-12-09
Notes Ofthe Dag.
Nine ocean steamships were
overdue at New York on Mem
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the cheap iare compeuuon are
reporting increased earnings.
The democrats have a ma
jority Of thirty one on joint
ballotin the next Nevada legis-
lature. 4
The Denver and South ParI
railroad will pass into the hans
OF the Union Pacific nagnate
at the commencement Of til
year.
AT the recent election Kan
sas adopted an amendment to
her constitution, which prevents
both manufacture and sale OF
Intoxicating liquors.
Ford, the assassin of DR.. Cald-
well, at Texarkana, Ark, has
been captured and jailed. Since
his capture he has been play
ing the insanity dodge.
The New York canals have
during the year received ST.
$4,000 for tolls. There are
but slight prospect of moving
the boats now ice-locked.
Only 272 persons were eHu
ployed in tobacco manufac
in New Orleans in 1870
1880 the number was
increase Of nearly 500 N Z.
St. Louis is to hsvca
swimming school or bath house
one that will compare with the
natatoriums Of Chicago and Bal
timore. 1t is to cost $4,000.
Governor Pillsbury, OF Min
nesota, has offered to advance
out of his private funds the
money required to rebuild the
insane asylum burned at St.
Peter.
The mayor of New Orleans
has confessed the inability of
the police to protect shipping
in terests, and the steamboat
men viii furnish their own
policemen.
Charles A. Hill of St. Louis,
who studied law with James
Buchanan has pleaded guilty
to carrying counterfeit coin,
and has been sentenced to one
year in Jail.
Brooklyn, N. Y, is just now
enjoying business boom. It
is said that $1,000, 600 hasA
been invested in building "a (
that city since the beginning Of
the presentyear
The Chicago Times says:
One hundred moro exiled Ger
man socialists have reached
New York, where employment
as editors or cigar-makers has
been secured for most of them.
The treasury department has
sent six gold medals to Mon
mouth Beach, New Jersey, to
reward the life-saving crew for
rescuing the sufferers by the
wreck Of the Spanish bark Au-
gustine.
Algeria has a river Of ink,
formed by the union of two
branches-one conf ng from a
region of ferruginous soil, and
the other from a peat swamp.
The iron os the one and the
gallo acid Of the other unite to
form a true ink.
The largest cotton planter
in the world is Col. Ed. Rieii1
ardson. Lasl year he gathered
1900 bales from 1900 acres.
This year his crop is estimated
ct 5000 bales. His lands lie
along the Mississippi river, 4
partly in Louisiana and partll
in Mississippi.
DR.. Thos. Wood one of
most prominent surgeons
Cincinnati, died recentI
blood poisoning, occasio
operating, while his hand
chapped, upon some of
victims of the disaster u
Hamilton and Dayto
way.
The chief Of the ma
struction bureau reports a total
of I3o vessels, and declares of
prime importance the finishing I
Of FIVE monitors and two cruis-
ing ships. Com. letters, of the
ordinance bureau, says new
inventions have reduced to sec
ond class the entire armament
of the native Of the world.
The treasury department is
sued on Saturday and Monday
a million dollars in silver cerfi-
ficates payment being made by
deposits of gold in New York. .
While the government thus .
easily markets the standard
dollar at gold par, the purcha-
sers of the certificates are en-
abled to discharge debts in an
part of the Union without pay
ing express charges on boxes
of coin. 7
The rumor that the 3erks
county pretzel crop this year
is a failure is base rcorback,
gotup for political effect. The
vines were not injured by The
carly frosts, and the burning
heat of last July only shrunk
the pretzel little in size. The
crop will average sixty bushels
to the acre, we are informed r.
a friend in Reading, who knows
more than we do about farnli
ing.-Norr. Herald.
1t is the same story, there's =
coal famine. Chicago has been
excited on that point. All
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