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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21

RAIN.-One Of the heaviest
rams cfthe season fell betws
II o'clock on Wednesday =
rand seven o'clock on tt
morning.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21

TIE pea patch should be an
indispensable requisite on every
well regulated farm. Now is
the time to plant them.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21

-. The peach crop in this coun-
~ is a failure this year.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21

IRISH potatoes are plentiful
and sen at from IS 10 40 cents
abushel.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21

yEcErABLEs. Of all kinds, are
quite plentiful and cheap.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21

silks SILKS silks.
at from ..65 to 70 cents per yard hest
quality at. c. 4, RdTrERs.
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So,nethinoNe,v

] am in daily receipt Of novelties, in
neck wear andI am prepared to, SHOW the
best stock oftheses goods ever offered IN
Brenham -. G, A, PaTIERs. Z !.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21

he entertains Serious notions of
moving to it with his family be-
fore many years. tits perhaps
unnecessary TO say that Mr..
Hill is married to a Mexican
lady. =
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Nelsonrillc Locals.
May 18th.

Editors Banner.
Were it not for using a stere-
otypcd phrase l would say that
items are scarce; so 1 will simp-
ly say news Of an interesting
nature is scattering and hard to
collect.
The recent rains have put
crops in a fine growing con-
dition, and now with a short dry
spell to give farmers a chance
to thoroughly clean out, a fat
tering prospect for a bountiful
crop will be visible.
The Austin county Times,
published at Bellville, being
Of such prodigious size that the
mail bags could not accomo-
date more than two copies at a
time, it reached us last week on
the half shell-or half sheet.
~ railroad from Beilville to this
place is now pressing necessity
as means Of transportation for
said sheet.
About half the time our BAN
NER's do not reach US here till
Wednesday after publication
on Friday; when they should
arrive on Saturday, the day af-
ter publication; where is the
fault3 don't everybody speak at
once.
Last Wednesday was a re-
markable day in the history OF
this place. 1t was a regular
court day, but alas our great
ness has departed, not a case
civil, crfpinal or otherwise,
could b. fund on the docket.
Ekausauiirl Utterly dishearten-
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21

To THOSE who are able to consume
pieces of Dry Goods, Piece goods, etc, we
viii make them liberal concessions from the
price where we have TO cut goods. Call
and see for yourself. NEwBouER Bros.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21

FoR some time boys have
been in the'habit ofpIaying on
track near the Santa Fc depot.
p Mr.. Allison has been appointed
special policeman and will ar
rest all boys caught playing on
the track.
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BAGGING AND TIES.

BAGGING AND TIES.
Bagging, double anchor,heay, 1904
Ties, all kind, per bdl ....... a759 -
LUMBER.
Rough lumber, all kinSS< pc, NJ. $40 20
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GRAIN.-An r.

GKAIE.-An Il
tity of small grain &
BY the farmers of this
we are told will retui j
yield.
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ERs report corn tassel-
q cotton squaring in some

~ Soeeoh ~ uatAlS ia SoiiiS
parts Of the county. Oats are
about. ready to eut and the yield
rs said 70 be quite satisfactory.
5 IN Washington county sports
linen fish with seins and catch
patridges in nets--pot hunters
shoot paridges with shot guns
and catch fish with hook and
Inc.
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May I74x
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

A ST. PAUL dispatch OF the 10Th says
the reports of the failure of the wheat crop
in the Northwest are greatly exaggerated.
In the southern and river counties of Min
nesota, in Northern Iowa and Northwestern
Wisconsin the crop has suffered severely
since the heavy rains of the first Of June,
which was followed by warm sun, inducing
rust; and the chinch hug has also put in his
work in certain sections. But within these
limits the losses will not exceed 40 per cent,
while in other sections the crops are gener-
ally uninjured.
The first annual exhibition of the
North Texas Pathological Society opened at
Denison on the 10th. Upward of $50 entries
Der of vegetables.
A DOUBLE hanging took place at
Osceola, Ark, on the 10th. The culprits
were George Lanford and Richard Mckee,
both cOlored. Together they murdered Ar
instead Penn, also cslored, in November
last.
ONE of the boilers in Painters Iron
Mills at Pittsburgh exploded on the 10th,
killing Fred. Cradle, engineer, and VIM.
Black, fireman.
DURING the year 1879 the cotton re-
oeivei from the United States at Bremen
was valued at $3,5OO,OOO more than was re.
ceived at that point during any previous
year.
HON. VIM. H. ENGLISH, Democratic
candidate for Vice-President, on the 18th ar
'fved in New York City for the purpose of
consulting with Gen. Hancock. On the same
day, Hon. Marshall Jewell, Chairman, and
Hon. Stephen w. Dorsey. Secretary OF the
Republican National Committee, left New
York for Mentor, O., to consult with Gen.
Garfield on the approaching political CAM
paign.
GEN. WEAVER, Greenback candidate
for President, was interviewed in Chatta-
nooga while on his way South to open the
political campaign. He is confident of his
ability to carry Alabama, Tennessee, Texas,
Mississippi, West Virginia, Missouri and
Arkansas, and says he will make heavy
gains in Maryland, Iowa, Michigan and
Minnesota. He says il he does not receive
majority Of the Electoral votes, neither Of
the other candidates will, and the matter
will again 60 to the House of Representa-
tives. II thrown into the House he will
stand an luai chance with the rest.
GILBERT II. COLLINS, prominent
business man of Omaha, shot himself
through the temple, dying instantaneously.
is not known whether it was a case of
suicide or an accident
SECRETARY ScHURz has engaged to
make number of political speecbe; in In.
diana during the pending campaign.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16

blood consecra,c. every battlefield from Bel-
mont and DonelsOn to Gettysburg AMI Apo
malto1 are denied the ;9S tS se1; Sver ae
ment-as though soldiers ana sailors cOuiI
live on gratitude alone. BY the an WI 0I
Secretary Sherman of June 10, lSN, 20 me S ss
ate resolution Of INQUIRY. it appears that tne
Government paid the soldiers IN GreenDscxs,
during the war of the rebellion, 81 .SaS,5lS.-
The total interest I'D ~ IN 16 S0aa on 1s7s
was s.. 500, Nl ,4s5.l9. The soldier has been
taxed to pay this interest while the bondnolo-
During the present Congress it has been inn
possible to Induce the committees TO report q
single bill to remedy existing evils. The Inn
s:ituted, and the despotic rules OF that body so
interpreted, as to render relief impossible.
Under these rules the Speaker is as much
nm Emperor and ruling in the most despotic
government ON the globe.
One of the grand missions of our party Is to
depIorabie spirst of sectional hatred, which,
for base purposes, has been fostered by the
leaders of the old parties. This has greatly
both North and South. Our civi!iza-
ton demands new party, dedlcateo 70
the pursuits of peace, and which Will not
will render the military strictly subservient
to the civil power. The war is over, ana the
sweet voice of peace, long neglected; calls US
pies with willing votaries. Let us have free
ballot, u fair count and equal rights for all
classes-fOr the laboring man in Northern
manufactures. mines and workshops, and for
the struggling poor, both black and white, in
the cOttOn-ieldS of the South.
most earnestly and solemnly invoke united
action of all industrial classes irrespective OF
party, that we may make manly struggle for
the independence of labor, and to re-establish
in the administration Of public affairs the old
time democracy of jefferson and Jackson,
and the pure republicanism of Abraham Lin
coin and ThaddeuS Stevens.
In consequence of the great avenues to pub
lie opiniOn-the press, the bar and the pulpit
being mainly under the control of the enemies
of our movement, your Convention Thought
various sections of the Union and talk to the
people. 1t is my intention to comply with this
request to the extent of my ability.
And now, eschewing all violence and tumult
as unworthy the cause We represent, and rely
ing upon Divine Providence and the jus ice
Of our cause. let us go forth in the great strug-
gle for human rights. With high regard. L am
your Obedient servant, j. u. WEAVER.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16

AN excellent instance of the way in
which the children in the average pub
lie school learn without learning is re-
lated by Barnes Educational Monthly.
A teacher in one of our public schools
has been accustomed to require aer pu-
pills to say: ''The equator is an imag-
mary ine passing around the EARTH"
etc. 1t never occurred to her that the
boys and girls of her school had no idea
what an imaginary line meant, until
one day visitor asked them how wide
they thought the equator is. Some
thought it was 5000 miles wide, others
1000, and others said they could Jump
over it. The visitor then asked how
they thought ships got over it. One
pupil said he thought they got out and
drew them over, and another said he
had read that a canal had been dug
through it! "What is the name of this
canal?" was asked. "The Suez Ca
nall" was the answer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16
A Singular History Which Was Told
to q Census Enumeration.

A REMARKABLE case was noted by q
city enumeration, in Louisville, says
the COurier-J0urnal, in collecting the
death statistics for the twelve months
preceding the enumeration. After get
ting all the facts from a widow as to
the number, age. sex, ETC., of her fami-
ly, he inquired if any deaths had oc-
Cured within the past year. She re-
piled that she had lost her mother and
two husbands within that time, and
made the following statement: She
had been married twice, had separated
from her first husband, obtained di-
vorce and married again. Several
months ago her husband went to Texas
and short time after his departure she
received telegram informing her of
his death from the effects of a fall from
a scaffO]d on which he was working.
Her mother was suffering from heart
disease, and she decided to send her to
the house of friend before the arrival
of her husbands remains and impart
the news to her gradually. But the
body arrived sooner than she expected
it to, and was sent directly to the house
before she was notified of its arrival.
Her mother was sweeping when the
hearse backed up to the door. and on
seeing her daughter making arrange
ments to receive it. she knew that
something had happened which had
been kept from her, and, going to her
daughter, she asked what had hap
pened. She was told of the death of
her son-in-law, and, without uttering q
word. she fell to the floor a corpse, and
the remains of mother and husband
were placed side by side in the room
until the hour arrived for the funeral,
when they were conveyed to the ce me-
terry and buried close together. About
an hour after she returned home from
the double funeral, messenger came
to her from her first husband. saying
that he was dying in the City Hospital.
and desired to see her before he died.
She hurried to the hospital, but before
she reached his bedside his spirit had
flown, and he. too, was dead. She had
his remains removed from the hospital
to her house, ordered another grave to
be prepared, and on the next day fol-
lowed him to the cemetery and buried
him by the side of her mother and Sec
ond husband.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

COMMISSIONERS RAUA has received .
telegram announcing the arrest under State
process of several Deputy Collectors engaged
in the Red Oak affair, Campbell County,
Georgia, in which one of the party was killed
by revenue officers, who allege the firing on
their part was in self-defense. Gen. Raum,
after comforting with Attorney General
Devens, telegraphed the Assistant District
Attorney to appear in behalf of the revenue
officers who are under arrest, and to take
writs of habeas corpus, with view to trans
ferring the cases to the United States Court.
An excursion steamer with one hum
dred persons on board sunk in Lake Gaze
novia, N. Y, on the 9Th. No lives lost.
THE Sioux and Blackfeet Indians had
a dispute recently about ponies which re-
suited in eight of the Sioux being killed.
A cREMAroRY has been erected near
Nashville, Tenn. 1t will compete for bust
ness with the LIE Moyne Crematory at Wash
ington, Pa.
The Cuban insurgents under Calisto
Garcia are reported to have been defeated
and the leaders taken prisoners with the ex-
ception of Garcia, who fled to Maniqua with
a few remaining followers. The captured
officers are the ones who accompanied Gar
cha on his recent expedition from the United
States.
A TERRIBLE tornado recently swept
over a portion of South Carolina. Trees
were uprooted, crops leveled, and houses
blown down. The Columbia Penitentiary
building was badly damaged and five of the
inmates were badly injured.
LAWRENCE r. JEROME, JR., and Ed
ward NJ. Patched, young New Workers, and
members of the most aristOcratic families OF
that city, are under arrest charged with
being in possession of 49,, 900 in railroad Sc
curities belonging to Brayton, Ives & Co., and
lost by messenger upon the street. 1t was
shown on examination that Jerome and
Patched knew who were the owners Of the
bonds. They were committed for trial on
charge of grand larceny.
A LATE dispatch from Dublin says:
The weather all over Ireland up to the pres
ent has been most favorable. 1t is expected
that the potato crop will be enormous. 1t
promises to exceed any thing seen in Ire
land since period anterior to the famine Of
1S47. The root and cereal crops are also
luXuriant.
A DUEL was fought in South Carolina
on the 9Th between Col. E. B. C. Cash, Of
Chesterfield, and Col. VIM. NJ. Shannon, OF
Camden, in which the latter was killed.
TYRONE, Pa, suffered from serious
conflagration on the 9Th. Some thirty BUSH
ness buildings. including the Post Office,
Opera house and all the banks, were de-
stroyed. Loss about $150,OO0; insurance,
$50, geo.
RATHER than enforce the DEGREES
against the religious orders ITO French mag
istrates have resigned.
Two deaths from yellow fever occur
red on the 4th on board a quarantine boat
in New York Harbor.
By large majority the French Cham
Der of Deputies passed the Amnesty bill as
amended by the Senate.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16

AMERICAN oysters are taken to Eu-
rope now, not alone for immediate but
for prospective consumption. The
Schleswig owners of oyster beds have
already laid down good many Ameri-
can oysters, and new company has
just been formed for doing the same
thing on a vastly increased scale. So.
with each year, America becomes more
and more the food supplier of the old
world, as well as on an augmenting
scale the recipient of her surplus popu-
latiOn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Pope has decided to accept the
Prussian Church law and will at the next
Consistory nominate Bishops to fill the va
cant sees.
The Secretary of the Treasury an
nounces that he will henceforth remove
gaugers, storekeepers and inspectors OF to-
bacco, and all applications for such places
must be made to the Secretary in the hand
writing of the applicant.
THE Connecticut Greenbackers have
placed in nomination a full State ticket
headed by Henry C. Baldwin for Governor.
A resolution was passed repudiating any at
tempt to bring about a coalition with either
the Democratic or Republican party.
AMONG recent appointments by the
President are the following: j. S. Bigbee
United States District Attorney for Georgia,
vice n. T. Farrow; Roland B. King, of
Pennsylvania, Register of the Land Office at
Yakima, Washington Territory; James E.
Wharton, Surveyor of Customs at Ports
mouth, Ohio; Andrew j. Dumont, Naval
Officer at New Orleans, vice James Lewis,
suspended; j. Mason Rice, Collector Of
Customs at St. Marys, Georgia, vice Thomas
NJ. Blodgett, suspended.
MAJOR GEORGE A. REYNOLDS, of
Parsons, HANS, died quite suddenly in
Washington on the 9Th.
Rev. BARNAS SEARS, manager of the
Southern Peabody Fund, died suddenly at
Syracuse, n. Y, on the 9th. He was for
merly President of Brown University, but
L.. T., loI ton w
The Virginia Readjusters met in
State Convention at Richmond, on the eth,
about 600 delegates being present, forty Of
whom were colored. 1t was resolved to
nominate an Electoral ticket, and
that such Electors be instructed
to cast their votes for Ham
cock and English. The Republican del
egates endeavored to force reconsideration
of the resolution, holding that if the Republic
cans were ignored the Readjuster party
would 60 down. Without any further &C.
ton the Convention adjourned.
THE Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Decentralization party met recently
in New York and adopted measures looking
to an active campaign. Gen. Weaver, can
didate for President, was present. 1t was
announced that he would at once start on a
Southern tour, opening the campaign at
Dallas, Texas, on the 10Th of July.
GENERAL SHERMAN has received q
very cordial reception in the Queens Do
minion. He was received on the interna-
tional boundary by the Premier and several
other prominent citizens of Manitoba and
escorted to Winnipeg, where there was a
military display on his arrival.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16

IT is estimated that the unsurveyed
portion of Dakota Territory alone would
almost take in the entire United King
dom.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

THE June report of the Department
of Agriculture shows the following in rela-
ton to crops throughout the United States:
There is an increase of per cent. in the
acreage under oats, and the condition of the
crop is excellent, promising yield of II
per cent. greater than last year. The acre
4 age under rye and barley has decreased
since 1879, but the yield will be about the
same. Clover has an increased acreage; the
increase, however, is confined to the cotton
growing States and the Pacific coast. The
condition of the crop is not good. Fruit of
all kinds will be quite plentiful, much more
so than for the previous year.
CH1cAGo's population will foot up
trife over an even half million, according to
the revised and enlarged returns.
THE St. Louis census shows a popu-
lation of less than 100000, and the citizens
have made an appeal to Washington for
new enumeration, on the ground of gross
inaccuracies and omissions.
The German Government, by an i'm
perial decree, has prohibited the importa-
ton of all preparations of American pork
I" as a simple sanitary measure" American
shippers claim that the measure is taken for
the protection of German packers, more than
for any other reason.
The Mississippi Valley Cotton-plant-
ers' Association has decided to hold series
OF interstate fairs in Memphis, Little Rock,
New Orleans, and Montgomery, to create a
fund for the encouragement Of inventors of
improved plantation machinery, and to put
several lecturers in the field, whose especial
duty it shall be to travel over the Cotton
States and form branch associations.
DISPATCHES from various points in
the Northwest show that the wheat crop
promises to be an average in quantity and
quality. In some localities there are COM
plants of rust and chinch- bugs, as is usually
the case, BUT the general outlook is favora-
BILE one. The reports from Minnesota, Da-
kota and Nebraska agree that the yield will
be the best in many years.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 10th
says: At q Cabinet meeting to-day there was
some discussion IS to the advisability of the
exercise of the Presidents power to with
hold the expenditure of some portions Of the
money appropriated by the last River and
Harbor bill, but it was decided that the en-
tire amount of appropriations should be ex-
pended, as fast as the War Department in
each particular case may consider desirable.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
PHILIP ScHUM and his wife, of Lam
caster, Pa, the husband merchant, were
both killed by their carriage being struck by
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-07-16
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

PHILIP ScHUM and his wife, of Lam
caster, Pa. the husband . merchant, were
both killed by their carriage being struck by
railway train as they were crossing the
track.
The Fourth.of July at Chicago was
, 1880-09-03
SUMMONS.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
the Third Judicial District of Washing
ton Territory, holding terms at Port
Townsend.
GRANVILLE o. HALLER, Plaintiff.
DAVID II. LEWIS. Defendant
, 1880-09-03
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
TIMBER IN THE TERRITORIES.

Stree Secretary Schurz has been
in Montana he has had the errors OF
some of the decisions Of the depart
ment of the government under his
charge pointed out to him in very
strong language. Especially has the
Interpretation given to the latest act
of Congress, in regard TO the use OF
timber in the Territories, been
pressed upon his attention. And
thisahterpreta,ion seems indeed to
be about the most irrational which
could be given TO the act in question.
The idea that every person, no mat
ter what his occupation or how re-
mote he lives from timber, must cut
his own Arewood and haul it home,
or il he wants a board must buy q
sawmiil and make the lumber him
self is too ridiculous almost for con-
sidsration. Yet the Interior depart
ment seems to have decided that this
was the intent Of Congress w"en it
passed the act. The attempt to en-
force this construction will certainly
lead to very unpleasant consequent
ces. II the standing army Of the
United States we're ten times as
large as it is, and we're every Other
man Marshal, such 1 law coulc
only be partially enforced. The
wanton waste of timber, certain tc
be regretted in the future, is prop
erly regarded great wrong, an(
ought to be prevented by the gov
ernment in the enforcement of strin'
gent laws on the subject. But t.
require every widow woman, who il
house keeping, to go out into the
woods and cut the fuel to cook foot
for her children is an absurdity which
no community will tolerate and nc
court uphold. The law applies tc
all the Territories, and is likely soon
to be, brought before the federal
courts, which are not likely to affirm
the'decision of the Interior depart
ment on the question.
, 1880-09-03
DIRECTORY
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF
GOOD L f M p L A RS.
GRAND LODGE OF WARRINGTON AND
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

OfficerSs
NAMES, OFFICES, P.O. ADDRESS.
Allen Weir. q Wet Port Townsend w 7.
Sist l. Calvert. ..G W v IT. Seattle,
w II Roberts. 81 w Treas. Port Townsend "
n. ID. Hill, p. q. W. e.. Port Townsend w. T
jos. Chilbcrg, g w Sect'y Olympia, W. T.
" 8 Porter. g A Sect'y.... Olympia,
Allen weir. a Juv TEN psi Townsend, "
Rev j Il Thompson a g Chap. Olympia g
Il Calvert ......' w Mar .... Seattle,
Sist A DObbins .... G ID Miu' -. Olympia, 50
Sist A Pattison =, G Guard. -. Olympia "
w 4 Wilson ~ Messenger. White River,
n PEttison -. a Sentinel 80. Olynlha,
Thos lnnes. g Coun.., ,.... Victoria, q
Car The next session of the Grand Lodge
wall be held In Yictoriii, u. g., commencing
on the third Friday in June, 1851,