Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-09-30

AT Cargeville, Ky, Julian
b Phelps and Larne House, quar-
relied about a law suit. House
had a trusty revolver and with
it he killed Phelps.
UNDER the head of choice
items news carefully conden-
sed the Denison Herald,
which includes "a budget of
shocking accidents, suicides,
ETC."
Mr.. JAMES CURRIE, the gen
tleman who has made a national
reputation by killing Porter, the
actor, at Marshall, is now in
Vincennes. Ind, working in the
machine shops of his brother.
FACTS speak louder than
words. Eight years democrat
ic rule in Missouri and 81 ,2S4, :
900 of the state debt has been
paid. 1t is so in all the states
where the democracy is in the
ascendency-that retrenchment
goes hand in hand with reform.
THE colored voters Of the vi
cinity Of Waelder, Gonzales
county, held a meeting and re-
solved to support the national
greenback ticket, but for coun-
ty offices the race was to be free
and easy, every one TO vote for
their individual choice without
regard to politics.
Col. w. Y. LEADER, of the
Dispatch, an obscure republican
paper published at Austin was
expelled from the Garfield and
Arthur club of that city by a
vote of got 1. He was charg-
ed with unjust and unwarranted
attacks upon well know true
and tried republicans of Travis
county.
A SPECIAL to the St. Louis
Republican says that on the
10 inst, three trains were wreck
ed on the Texas Central rail-
road. AT Thornton one engine
and ten cars we're all smashed
up; at or near Kosse seven cars
and an engine were wrecked; at
the high trestle bridge, near Cor
sicana, the engine and first car
jumped the track.
DEMOCRATIC meetings are US
ually harmonious, but the meet
ing at Tyler the other night
seems to have been otherwise.
There was a candidates meeting
at the opera house and charges
and counter charges were made
Several chairs were thrown and
other pleasantries, much more
becoming to republican meet
ing, were INDUCED in.
The New Orleans Times gives
sketch of the celebrated Carl
caturist, Kepler. who fifteen acc
was an actor in a German thea
tire in New Orleans, from there
he went to ST: Louis, Chicago,
Cincinnati, and finally to New
York where he has made a bril-
liant success of Puck, the publ
cation of which was first began
in St. Louis, but the field being
too small it was not successful.
The Burnett Bulletin announ-
ces with great pleasure that Ed.
Wilkes of the Llano bar, has
abandoned greenbackism of
which he has been an earnest
and honest advocate on the
stump for sometime past, and
comes out bravely and manfully
for the cause of the democracy.
He says he is satisfied that
radicalism and greenbackism
mean pretty much the same
hing.
The Gonzales Inquirer takes no
stock in the election for county |
officers, each aspirant goes be-
fore the people direct, without
the intervention of a conven-
ton. 1t advises its readers to
vote for those best qualified.
Each one should vote for his
0itterest enemy against. his
best friend, provided he believes
he former to be the most COM
oetent OF the two. This is the
spirit that should actuate every
loter. Many men allow their
personal feelings to get the best
If their judgement.
The ladies will doubtless be
Interested in knowing that anew
fabric has been received in New |
York from Paris which is ex-
'eccsted to be "all the rage" 1t
"as cloth of gold" being
woven with golden
threads. 1t is splendid beyond
description. The price is only
$50 a yard and as it only takes
twenty or twenty-five yards
TO make dress we presume
that all the ladies in Washing