Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-06

R 81 tllloHSA A'dtidH LII SNI'Sl
day er route TO heir former
homes III Robertson COUNTY.
They were poverty stricken.
The negroes, who were in
duced to go to Indiana from
North Carolina, last summer.
have nearly starved out and
many are now trying to beat
their way back to their old
homes.
! SALADo, according to the Bel
ton Journal wants one OF the
| of the normal schools located
at that place. We would like
to know exactly how many nor
nal schools it is proposed to
establish.
ACCORDING 10 official figures
about fourteen million drinks
were registered by the bell
punch IN Texas last year. This
is only an average of one and
half drinks a day for each voter
in the state.
Col J. w, PARAMoRE of the
Texas and St. Louis Narrow
Gauge railroad writes to Waco,
that the road will not be built
to Waco on time, but will be
built through to St. Louis, max
ing competing line.
In Cincinnati the street car
drivers get ten cents an hour
for fifteen hours work per day,
and still some men complain
that they are overworked and
under paid. 1t is impossible
that everybody can be satisfied.
AN accident occurred on the
/ Mobile and Ohio railroad by
which four persons lost their
lives and several others were in
jured fatally. The engineer and
iremen were both about half
asleep while the engine was run
ming.
BLAINE, it is said will have a
place in Garfelds cabinet; he is
to be made secretary of
state. Blaine is one of the
most persistent enemies of the
south in the republican party.
He is the leader of the stal-
warts.
+ ACCORDING to the Waco Tel
ephone Tom Ochiltree, on the
Ist of January became a part
ner in the firm of Grant &
Honore, grain brokers, New
York and Chicago. Tom is
certainly ascending the ladder
Of fame.
"WE need more enterprise"
says the Brazos Pilot. This is
a common complaint through
the state. Men who have
money are very careful in max
ing Investments, and, therefore,
they are charged with a lack of
enterprise.
The Brazos Pilot of last week
puts mourning in one OF its
columns, transforming it into a
column of sorrow. 1t then pro-
ceeds to speak at length of the
numerous deaths that have oc-
CURED in Bryan during the past
year.
The New York Sun gives
lengthy account Of Chang,
Chinese giant, who is said to be
nine feet high and built in pro- |
portion. A man 6 feet 3 inches
high and wearing a silk hat
passed under the giants out
stretched arm lacking about
four inches of touching it.
The Dallas Herald is losing |
no opportunity to interest out
side capital in Texas. 1t is
from time to time setting forth
advantages offered by Texas
for the manufacture Of certain
articles. is to be hoped that
its efforts will be amply reward
ed.
GEN. c. c. AUGUR, the new
commander of the Department
of Texas, arrived at San Anto-
MO on Monday and formally
took command. Assistant Ad-
jutant General Vincent goes to
the headquarters of the new
military division of the south,at
New Orleans.
The manuscript of President
Harrson's inaugural address,
delivered on the 9TH OF March,
has just been presented te col
oncl Fred Morley of Detroit, by
a negro servant in whose pos
session it has been for nearly
forty years.
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