Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-23

der"
KYLE saNtion west
of Austin, q the IntermStional
will soon be opened for D,usi
ness. n
THE democrats Of Maine still
claim the election of Plaisted
by majority of between $50
and 200.
THE state occupation taxes
from October list 1879 to same
date in this year will reach
100000.
GALVESTON is getting a great
deal of cotton this year. Supe-
rior facilities says the Journal
Of Commerce.
Our neighboring towns keep
quoting cotton well up to Bren-
ham prices, but cotton still rolls
into BRENNAN in an unbroken
stream.
Bolton merchants who are
in search Of gloryar said to be
paying Waco prices for cotton.
The farmers can stand it if the
merchants can.
Hon. L. S. FOSTER, former
president of the senate and act
ing vice president of the United
States, died at Norwich, Conn.,,
on the 10Th inst.
Mr.. JNo. w. CLAMPITr, jun
ior counsel for Mrs. Surratt,
publishes an able resums of
that memorable trial in the
North American Review.
"GouRD-HEADED" is the gen.
teel way an up country editor
refers to one of his contempor-
aries. The amenities of journ-
alism are strictly observed.
NEAR Eufaula, l. T., John,
Taylor white shot and killed
Sam Booker, a negro. They
had made crop together and
quarrefled over a division.
THE Waco fire department
which disbanded on the 18th,
has been.fully reinstated. The
city agrees to pay the actual
expenses of the department.
THE Chronicle, New York
paper, says that, adding the in
creased acreage, the yield of
cotton promises to be consider
ably larger than the crop just
marketed.
IT is said that at least sixty
thousand of the population of
Washington are dependent up
on the government for bread.
Already there is a "shakiness"
among the department clerks.
KALLocH the deposed mayor
Of San Francisco is again before
the people as the workingmen's
candidate. Kalloch never did
a days manual labor in his life
and has always been a fomenter
of strife.
The Austin Statesman ac-
cuses the man who does the
Austin correspondence ofthe
Texas Christian Advocate, of
occasionly getting gloriously
drunk in Austin.
The Galveston Journal of
Commerce is unable to see that
the completion of the Texas
and New Orleans railroad to
Houston, has in any way inter
fered with Galvnston's trade.
THE reduction of passenger
fares by the Santa Fe railroad
is attracting universal attention
and commentator throughout
the state. The travelling public
Of Texas are unanimous in the
opinion that five cents mile
is too much for railroad fares.
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa
Fe railway managers have invi-
ted propositions from the Dali
las railroad committee and
board of trade, for extending
their line to Dallas. Fort
Worth is working for the.Santa
Fe road, too, with brilliant pros
poets of success, SAYS the repor-
ter for the Galeeston News.
MAJOR B. RUSH, PLUMLY
who has beenin Washington
for some time has returned to
Galveston. He informs the
Journal of Commerce that the
great and grand work of plac-
ing deep water over Galveston
bars is proceeding surely.
Aboul $4,000 yet remains
unexpendcd Of the last appro-
priation.
R. F. s., under date of the
18th inst. writes a letter from
Brennan to the Houston Age
in which the cityis highly COM
plimented for its business ac-
activity, general thrift, and its
free schools. 1t is the kind of |