Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-10-28

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GEO. LhwETT, living near
Charleston, No., quarreled with
his wife, knocked her brains out
with a fiat iron, and then cut
his throat from ear to ear.
The Burnett Bulletinphas been
enlarged to a seven column pa
per and is an honor to its coun-
ty; it is a live, wide-awake, new
sy paper, and deserves to sue
coed.
a CONVENTION of ireethinkers
! and liberalists will be held in
Waco on the 25th of November
next. It's expected that 1000
or 1900 delegates will be pres
ent.
]. w. PARAMoRE, of the St.
Louis and Texas Narrow Gauge
railroad is rather ubiquitous.
He is reported as being in Dali
las and Corsicana at one and
the same time.
OK Saturday last the two
Fossett boys, Ed. Nichols and
Jake Womack, went into Meri-
dian, and raised a general muss.
Thirty shots were fred A
horse was killed. All the young
men are respectable.
The St. Louis Times says it is
known to reliable persons that
fifteen hundred negroes were
forwarded from st. Louis to
points in Indiana within a few
days before the election in that
state.
The Houston Age appears as
a peace-maker and advises its
dear friends and neighbors, the
Post and the Telegram, to cease
pickering. If Houston cannot
support all of its papers the fit
test will probably survive.
The Austin Statesman says
whenever a man gets hard up
he goes and does something
bad, gets his Rame in the papers,
brings a suit for libel, and builds
castles in the air with the wealth
he is to get from the unfortunate
newspapers.
The Corsicana Observer-In-
dex says Maxey spoke at the
opera house in that city last
week. Itsays it was disappoin-
Ted in Gen. Maxey and express
es the opinion that his place in
the senate can be filed by al
ADLER man.
The New Orleans Times says
in order to control the trade of
Texas and make that city the
principal market for Texas pro-
ducts, more capital is wanted d,
and merchants will have to dis
play more enterprise than they
have yet shown. Low freights
arc also necessary.
ACCORDING to the Gonzales
Inquirer there was a prayer
meeting and concert by the
Wizard oil company, in Con
zales the same evening. 1t is
strange but true, the concert
has about five or six to the
prayer meetings. one. What is
the matter with the Gonzalians /?
The Fort Worth Evening
News says that in a few days
grading will begin on the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe road
from that city to Cleburne. 1t
also says that Fort Worth is
fully awake and can not be sat
down upon; that she is bound
to be, and will be, the one met
ropolitan city of north Texas.
IT pays better to be an opera
singer than to handle a pillow or
jack plane. The Houston Age
says Emma Abbott gets $1,000
a week for singing. The de-
mand for singers is not so great
as for farmers and carpenters
and the public is very fastidi-
GUS; when it finds a singer that
suits it, it pays literally. There
are a great many singers out of
employment.
A COMMITTEE OF the society
of arts has been appointed to
examine into the practicability
of preventing the employment
of arsenic in any processes by
which it is allowed to remain in
finished goods, and to obtain
evidence as to the effect a total
prohibition of the use of such
processes, or the prohibition of
the sale of articles produced
thereby, would have upon vari-
Gus trades.
The baptism of converts at
Dallas must be an usual thing,
as on last Sunday twenty-five
hundred people gathered at the
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