Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-11

lhS SASSbOtdA WIZ VI tAAS SSsaeS'
An Austin special to the NefSs
says several parties are prepar-N
ing bids for the whole 10000
acres of capitol lands, advertis-
ed for sale by commissioner
Walsh.
HoN. J. T. LoE, greenback
candidate for the legislature in
Austin, got very handsomely
left. He will make no more
lopg-winded speechesin the leg
islaturc.
EXTENSIVE experiments are
now being made in London
with the electric light: Rail
way stations and important
streets have been satisfactorily
Illuminated.
CHAs. CLINTON, of the New
Orleans Times, has brought a
Iioel suit for $4,000 damages
against E. a. Burke, editor and
manager of the Democrat, of
that city.
In the Missouri legislature
there will be but four green
backers-two in the house and
two in the senate. The green
back movement seems to be
nearly dead.
SEVERAL ex-federal soldiers
living at Knoxsville, Tenn, say
that they witnessed John Nor
gan's death at Greenville while
he was attempting to escape
raiding federals.
The English press is satisfied
at the election Of Garfield. The
press of the south, while not
enthused to any extent over his
election, simply and quietly &C
cepts the situation.
A RICH silver mine is laying
around loose in West Texas.
specimens of the ore have been
exhibited in San Antonio and
parties are said to be in that
town looking it up.
The visiting committee of the
Santa Fe railway to Waco were
wined and dined, but did not
say word to the Wacoites as
to what their intentions were.
They left Waco for Bolton.
A YOUNG woman was lately
arrested in Minneapolis where
she had been masquerading as a
man for over a year. She
was engaged to be married to
two respectable young ladies.
ONE day last week Mr., w.
D. Cleveland, the Houston gro
Ger and cotton factor, sold a list
of 1900 bales of cotton to one
buyer. This is the heaviest
single sale of cotton made in the
state this season.
The amount of Scratching"
on local and state tickets in the
late election, was sufficient to
convince the most skeptical
that there is a good deal of in
dependence among the voters
of all political parties.
HANNAH, the greenbacker,
closed the campaign at Jeffer-
son the day before the election.
No returns are in on which to
make any figures, but we pre-
dict that he is the hindmost
man in the race for governor,
The popular idea that the
majority rules is a fallacy. In
1876 Tilden received a majority
of 100000 of the popular vote.
In 1880 Hancock receives a
popular majority, and yet Gar
field will be the next president.
THE San Antonio Express is
not one of the papers that be-
lleves the election of Garfield
will send the country to the
"bow-wows." 1t says wesnight
have been better in a short time
but we are no worse off than we
were.
GENTLEMEN and patriots who
had made calculations to secure
various positions of honor and
and profit under the administra-
ton of Gen. Hancock are all
disappointed and will have to
turn their time and talent in
other directions.
AT the Brooklyn Acadamy of
music the other night Bob In
gersoll and Henry Ward Beech
er appeared on the same stage.
Ingersoll lectured and Beecher
introduced him to the audience,
They complimented each other
in the most extravagant terms.
The Galveston Journal of
Commerce of the 9th inst. con-
tains an extended sketch of
Brennan and its business men.
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