Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-13
The citizens, OF Wore.

Massachusetts, are happy over
the fact that million of her
four per cent. bonds sold last
week for Io6.o3-which viii
give the city premium of
about $4,000.
A special from Fort Buford,
Decotah Territory says Major
Iigis's command have had 4
fight with a band of hostile
Uncppa Indians. Their Chief
with 500 Indians, three hundred
horses and forty guns were
captured.
In the municipal cremation
furnace al Gotha, in Germany,
you can get yourselfincinerated
for $40. Since the establish
ment Of the furnace, two years
ago, thirty bodies of the nobil-
ity and gentry have enjoyed its
hospitality.
The payments at the New
York clearinghouse for the year
just closing were larger than
those of London, and exceed
the receipts and disbursements
of the United States govern
ment during the whole period
Of its existence.
Two negroes, mother and
son, froze to death near Boon
| Vile Mo-, on the Tst. They had
| plenty of provisions, but were
helpless from old age and and
sickness. The son was about
sixty years ofage and the moth
er nearly one hundred.
Two-thirds of the men who
have sat in the supreme court
of the United States, previous
to the present bench, have died
while in the service, and in
about half the cases they were
upwards Of seventy years Of
age, -.-
"A New York banking house
in two days received subscrip-
tons to the Mexican National
Railway company amounting
to s. 800, 900. This scheme is
the one upon which Gould and
Grant desire to concentrate all
American5interests. -
The drouth in central Illinois
is becoming very serious, and
is aggravated by the extreme
cold weather, which has CONVEX
ted into ice. the scant supply Of
water in the smaller streams.
Live stock is suffering greatly
in consequence.
The novelty of delivering
mail from carriages. was wit
messed in. New York, December
a6th and 27th. The accumula-
tions Of Christmas and Sunday
gave an average of eighty
pounds to each carrier in the
down town districts. Two car
riers accompanied each carriage.
Christmas cards were as plenti-
ful, as valentines in February.
1.-The superintendent of the
census reports the population
of the United States at 5o,I52,-
$50. These figures are subject
to corrections, but it is thought
they are very nearly exact.
nineteen of the states have,
such a population in excess of
1000, 900. The increase is sur
prising when we consider the
retarding causes set IN opera
ton by the panic-o 1873.
The New York Sun suggests
that congress, before it adj
journs, appropriate 100000
for Samuel j. Tilden, on the
ground that he was rightfully
elected president and was
cheated out Of the office and
the salary" If the Sun is in
earnest it is the throes of a fit
of lunacy, but if If jokes, then
tits informed that such a colos-
sal discharge OF humor at the
expense Of its alleged bosom
friend is in exceedingly bad
taste.
ST. Louis shipped very nearly
three times as much grain down
the Mississippi river this year as
it did last. the figures showing
fifteen million bushels for 1880, |
against about six million for
1879. The republicans of that
city in alluding to these figures, |
says successful transportation
of fifteen million bushels by the |
river route has forever set at |
rest the fear of grain suffering |
any more damage by that route
than any other, and expresses
the opinion that the volume of
expectation via the Mississippi |
river will now go on increasing
steadily from year to year.
.aJ Just the Truth.