Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-12-02

more freight for Texas per
steamer, having no accommo-
datious for same.
The Waco Examiner indulg-
es in a long dissertation on
"Spiritualism as a religion" 1t
says that spiritualism is one of
the most ancient religious be-
liefs.
SENATORS and members of
the house are beginning to ar
rive at Washington and by the
last Of this week most Of the
members of congress will be
there.
! The Giddings Lone Star in
clines to the opinion that Bren-
ham is the proper location for
the Santa Fe railroad machine
shops. The Lone Star is emil
nently correct. Brennan is the
place.
Col. NJ. D. BROWN, a well
known citizen of Pembroke,
KY, and a member of the last
Legislature of that state, was
|, shot and instantly killed by
Cass Williams, clerk in a livery
stable, last Friday.
The governor offers reward
of $500 for the arrest and con-
viction of one or all Of the par
ties who burglarized the bank
of Adams & Leorard at Dallas.
The firm also offers one-half of
all the money recovered.
If Rothschild should finally
escape the penalty of the law
for the murder of Bessie Moore,
it will be more evidence that
our criminal laws are in need of
revision. His escape will be
due entirely to legal technicali-
ties.
The hanging season for 1881
in this state opens at Corsicana,
January ID, on which occasion
Spence Ford will perform on
the tight rope, it will be arrang-
ed perpendicularly instead of
horizontally. Spence is an as
sassin.
CAPT. AYERS, who died re-
Gently at a great age, was the
inventor ofthe present bell-rope
system on railroads. When he
commenced running on theNew
York and Erie railroad the To-
connective had no cab for the
engineer.
The Columbus Citizen says:
"E. H. Anderson, of this place,
has been appointed principal of
the Prairie View Normal school,
and has gone to his post of
duty. He is educated, accom-
plished and fully competent for
the position"
A PAIR of sightless lovers
have been married at Cincin-
natl. The lady has been blind
from childhood and was educa-
ted at the Columbus institution
for the blind. The gentleman
was also educated at the same
institution.
THREE men supposed to be
forgers of United States bonds,
were released by the district at
torney at the suggestion of the
officers of the secret service, it
being intimated that there were
other parties they were trying |
to get hold of.
A LOCOMOTIVE which will run !
seventy-hve miles an hour with |
ease and safety, and draw a
heavy train with it, is among |
the latest inventions in railroad
machinery, M. Eugene Foun-
tain, of Fort Wayne, Ind, be-
ing the inventor.
SIXTY laoorers were buried
IN a snow slide, on the 10th inst.
near Chalk creek, on the Ko-
lomo extension of the Denver
md Rio Grande railroad. John
Dine was killed and nineteen
men badly injured and eleven
more slightly.
THIRTY-sEvEN national banks
lave failed during the past
rear. This shows that national
banks are not such money max
ng institutions as many sup
,ose. National bank notes are
ecured by the deposit of Uni
ed States bonds and note hold
RS are always secure.
The Houston Post and San
Antonio Express favor an edu-
ational qualification for voters,
he latter assuming that a man
Tho does not take sufficient in
crest in his own welfare to
cad is not expected to care
Or the general welfare, and his t
fer to vote should be rejected. s