Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-06-11
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Tnr empress Of Russia Is dead.

CROP prospects IN Ireland this
season arc splendid.
ANOTHER Indian fight has &C.
CURED in New Mexico. Three
Indians were finished.
The senate and house have
both adopted resolutions to adj
ourn on the 10th inst.
DURING the past ten years
the production Of cotton in the
southern states has increased
1870 per cent.
A FEW days ago 100000
young fish were distributed
throughout the streams of the
state Of Missouri.
A WELL known Texas news
paper man has dome and gone"
and converted himself into
lightning rod man.
FRANK FRAYNE, one Of the
actors who played an engage
ment in BRENNAN last season, |
has lately lost his wife. !
On Tuesday last a terrible
hurrican swept over southern
Minnesota causing damage to
the amount of 100000.
THE greenback national con-
vention meets in Chicago this
week, but their proceedings will
be stale fiat and improbable.
THE International railway |
proposes extending the George
town tap road to San Saba.
Will the extension help Austin.
MONTH after month complaint
is made-of the failure of the bell |
punch as a source of revenue.
1t is the same in every county
in the state.
TWENTY thousand persons
visit the window Of the New
York postoffice where stamps
are sold. Over 100000 letters
are received daily.
THE annual reunion of Hoods
brigade takes place at Seguin
on the 18th Of July. A full at
tendance is desired the interests
Of Hoods children are at stake.
THE mayor of Houston de:
cided that a man may sell ice
and goober psas on Sunday
without violating the Sunday
law; ice and COOLERS arc classed
as necessaries.
PRINCE FRED is the name
now given Fred Grant, or rather
was before U. S. G. was defeat
ed. The result of the conven-
ton has settled the royalty bus
mess in this country.
The merchants exchange at
St. Louis, as soon as the news
of the destruction of Savoy, in
this state, was received, took
up a collection. In a few min
utes $500 was raised.
AT Dallas the white and col
ored republicans are utterly dis
gusted at the Chicago nominees.
Some Of the stalwarts avow the
purpose of not to yield their
support to the Chicago ticket.
The city compress has been
decided upon as the place of
holding the democratic convcn-
ton in Dallas. 1t will be ar
ranged for seating 5000 people.
All political parties are contri-
buting.
The dissentions engendered
in the Chicago convention may
possibly result in the dissolution
of the republican party. The
contending factions have all
gone home discontinued with
the result.
AT Albany, Saratoga and
other prominent interior cities
in New York salutes were fired
in honor of Garfield. The
sound was probably anything
but pleasant to Conkling and
company.
TIE Dallas He,aM has an ed
itorial on the pardoning power, T.;
but fails to convict itself or eX-
pess any opinion as to question ,
of a board ofpardons. No one {
would claim that such a power ,
should not exist. ,
EAST ST. LOUIS does not S
want to be a city any longer, t
but wants to surrender its char t
ter and be run by a board of
commissioners. East st. Louis
is in debt and has been in the
hands of rings for many years.
THE St. Louis and Iron !:
Mountain railway company is :
about to take charge of its own ,
express business. Should it do !;
SO, it proposes to extend its line
Texas and will relieve /.
he neonle of the exhorhitant