Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-12-09

49, is to hare.a meeting
for the. purpose of securing the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railway.
OREGON has three men to one
woman in her population and
she is about to extend the right
of voting to women. =
The Waco Examiner says
the bell punch law is dead
statute and should be repealed
by the next legislature.
The presidents message is
quite a voluminous document,
making nearly seven long col
umns in the Houston Post.
The ways and means COM
mittee of the house think that
the floating bonds can be re-
funded at three per cent.
IT is reported that senator
Malone of Virginia will form
himself into a third party in the
senate, or as Dundreary puts it,
flock by himself.
Down in Massachusetts, in
stead of going to church num-
Der Of men had a rifle shooting
match and no less than ten BIZ
cycle races took place.
DR.. c. A. Washington was
hanged by a mob at Otero, N.
NJ. He had chloroformed and
taken improper liberties with a
dining-room girl.
EDISON is coming to the front
again. Sara Bernhardt has been
on visit to him at Melno Park
and had the wonderful things
explained to her.
GEN.ScHoFIELD will be re-
lieved Of his position as COM
mander at West Point. He
does not think that colored ca
diets are a success.
In Chicago on Monday there
was three small failures on
change; the parties had been
specializing in grain and provis-
ion futures and were swamped.
REPUBLICAN senators held a
caucus in Washington and re-
solved that with one or two inl-
portant changes the committees
would remain as at present.
If Ell Paso ever gets to be
such place as it is picturedby
the railroads and newspapers,
the Marlin Ball threatens to roll
itself out there and become a
daily.
NAT Q. of the Georgetown
Record has gone north and
east in the interest of his paper.
He is going to enlarge it to an
eight column paper at no dis
tant day.
RAILROADS are defended by
the Age from the various at
tacks made on them by the
newspapers, saying. the roads
would be kept in order if it were
possible to do so.
ONE ofthe sons of Gen. Hous-
ton is, with able assistance, says
the Waco Examiner, now enter
ed upon the work OF writing a
life of his father, which when
completed will be reliable.
FATHER CHAMBoDUT, the well
known Catholic priest of Calves
ton, died in that city on Tues
day last aged 50 years. His
first connection with the church
in Texas, was at Galveston in
1851.
A DALLAS special to the
News says the Texas and Pacif-
ic, and the Houston and Texas
Central railways have been
cleared of wrecks and passenger
and express trains are going
through.
IT is stated in army circles
at Washington that it has been
decided to put Brig. Gen. E. Q.
c. Ord, of the department of
Texas, on the retired list and to
assign Brig. Gen. Augur to duty
in lis place.
THE train due at Waco on
Friday night was wrecked be-
low Marlin. The upbound train
run off the track eight miles be-
low Waco smashing up five cars
and wounded several railroad
men.
a New ORLEANS grocer COM
plains in the Times of having
been compelled, by the NUM-
cipal authorities, to pay license
to the amount of eighty dollars
when he did not have i stock
of over fifty dollars in the house.
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