Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-04
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majority of rs. At Flatonia
400 votes were polled, about
two-thirds of them for Shepard
The indications are that the
race between Shepard and
Jones will be closer than the
friends of Shepard anticipated.
THE Crooked Reporter or the
Beer Jerker's Revenge is the
attractive title of a beautiful ~
story in last Sundays New Or
leans Times.
The Fort Dodge, Iowa, Times
says all kinds of labor is scarce,
everybody is earning fair wages,
times are. easy and money is
plenty,
A GAS meter enclosed in a
glass case was exhibited in Den
ison, the mechanism that regis
tiers the consumption of gas is
exposed to view.
BY the fall of a scaffold at
the Cincinnati public library
two painters were precipitated
eighty feet to the ground, kill
ing them instantly.
KENTUCKY, hitherto reliably
democratic, reports republican
gains all over the state, with the
probable election of one or two
republican congressman.
The Goliad Guard, after an
enforced suspension of two
months, caused by the destruc-
ton of its office by a cyclone,
has again made its appearance.
JIM BLAINE, the plumed
knight Of Name, telegraphs to
Garfield at Mentor, Ohio, that,
"Maine has given you hand
some majority over all opposing
tickets"
IT is thought the entire DEM
ocratic ticket in San Antonio is
elected by 600 majority. There
were no deputy marshals, and
no whiskey, consequently no
trouble.
A CHARTER for the Rio
Grande and FL Paso railroad
company has been obtained,
and work will be pushed. 1t is
an extension of Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe.
MILT. DENT, a nephew of
Mrs. Gen. Grant, has been ar
rested for fraudulently register
ing in New York. The repub-
licans tried to register ten thou
sand repeaters.
The census of South Carolina
shows population Of oo5,so6
of which 4oo,327 are males and
5o4,o7o are females. The whites
number 3oI,o7I and the color
ed people 6o4,235.
THERE was in existence in the
United States, just before the
election, 1867 greenback papers
of which the Jefferson limp was
one. The average greenback
paper is very light weight.
The adulteration of nearly
every article OF food that is sold
is becoming so common as to
cause considerable comment.
Butter, flour, sugar, lard, ground
coffee and spices are much mix
ed.
For the year ending July I,
1880, 2s,767 men offered them
selves for enlistment in the
army. OF the number 5,oo6
were enlisted and 1891 re-
jected. Only one native Texan
enlisted during the year.
THE Chinese letter investiga-
ton has been postponed till
Thursday, the evidence elected
on Monday did not change the
aspect of of the matter in the
least; the authenticity of the
letter is undoubted.
THE Huntsville Item having
said that there was not prin-
ter in the penitentiary, the Pal
estine Advocate exclaims,
That's always the way; the
printers never get justice done
Them"
Hon. SETH SHEPARD closed
the campaign at Galveston on
Monday night with a powerful
speech in which he advanced
liberal ideas and disclaimed the
charge of waving the bloody
shirt.
The first through mail from
New Orleans to Texas left that
city on Monday. The mail was
very large including letters and
papers for two days. In the
course of a week the depart
ment expects to give full salts
faction.
In Dallas a negro bootblack
was arrested and locked up for
boarding train of cars while in