Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-02


| at the rate of a mile a day.
+ The Waco Examiner predicts
that in fifty years .Brazoria will
be the greatest seaport of the
south and Galveston will still
be urging her petitions in con-
gress for appropriations.
MIKE BoYLsoN, aged 10, went
home drunk and hearing his
step-father, Hirshman, abusing
his mother, entered the room
and shot him dead. This oc-
cured on 18TH street in Chica-
go.
The Tyler Courier says Tex
ar is ably represented in con-
gress, but an improvement can
and doubtless will be made, by
the election of Seth Shepard
over George Washington Jones,
greenbacker.
THE newspapers of St. Louis
do not use ambiguous language,
but speak right out. The Post
Dispatch referring to the St.
Louis Republican says: "Es-
teemed contemporary, you lie,
and you know it"
THE Waco papers contain
lengthy accounts of the hanging
of Lynchfeld Burks, Burks
accuses Sarah McBee, the child
alleged to have been raped, Of
purjury and declared that he
was innocent to the last.
THE unpaid census enumera-
tors of New York held a meet
ing and organized. A commit
tee was appointed to wait on
members of congress from the
city to secure their influence in
getting pay.
| A SHOCKING accident on the
Lowell and Lawrance railroad
in Massachusetts, last Saturday.
Five boys aged from 10 to II
who had clambered to the roof
of a coach, were swept off by a
bridge and all killed.
Col. Degrees, the retiring
mayor of Austin, was presen-
ted with gold headed cane by
the officers and employees Of
the Austin city government.
Mayor DeGress then admins
tered the oath of office to mayor
elect Croker.
The Telephone thinks the
coming dramatic season will be
a dull one in Waco; that the ex-
perience of companies visiting
the state during the past two
years has been unsatisfactory
in pecuniary point of view.
BRYAN had a grand political
meeting meeting on Monday.
Col. Brady, Gen. Hannah, Gov.
Throckmorton and Gov. Coke
all made speeches. The green
back moguls, as usual, are re-
ported to have been used up.
THE Houston Telegram pre-
diets that if Maxey is not elect
ed to the Senate on the first or
second ballot that the O. a. will
be brought out as the dark
horse. The Telegram banters
the Statesman to take the bet,
PASSENGER fares for local
travel on the Louisiana Western
railroad are II cents a mile, a
rate sufficiently high to cause
stout and healthy grumbling.
Through rate from Houston to
New Orleans is SIS or about 4
cents Il mile.
THE Georgetown Sun says
the minority after having made
square fight, has wheeled into
line and shows willingness to
abide by the voice of the ma
jority, 1t disapproves of charg-
ing them with eating crow.
The Gainesville Register says
some people argue that the ne
gro race is dying out. The ap-
pearance OF the street corners
and sidewalks of an evening
gives no evidence OF the fact.
1t looks as though they were
increasing every day.
THE Giddings Rural Texan
asks: "Of what benefit will be
the organization of a cotton ex-
change and board of trade to
cotton producers?" The Of
ganization will give cotton buy
ers increased facilities in the
transaction of business, and by
acting as body they may be
enabled to get better rates of |
freight from railroads and thus
be enabled to pay better prices
for cotton than they otherwise
1t is not a monopoly.