Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-20

OF AinCan olooo.
The Milwaukee breweries.
produced s6,432,ooo worth of
beer in 1880. fowEu
The German colonists on the
Volga, in Russia, are suffering
for want OF food. @ .si''
The total value ofpropcrty in
the State of Ohio exempt from
taxation is SIS, So5,7o5.
The Sultan has decreed that
there shall be Arabic newspa-
pers started at Mecca, Bagdad,
and Aleppo.
The Western Union telegraph
lines in British Columbia have
become the property Of that
Dominion government.
The Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road company have telephohic
communication between Wash
ington and Baltimore.
or the AS, 100000 bushels of
wheat produced in the entire
country last year. the south
produced al, 32S,ooo bushels.
The orange and lemon crop
now being gathered in Sicily is
the largest on record, and the
fruits is unusually fine in quail
ty.
BY the census of 1880 the
number of citizens in the United
States which contain 10000 in
habitants,. or upward, is sixty
four. se Nifp III liiiiI
Eighty-fvc ships, with SS43
emigrants, left the Mersey in
November; 1918 Of, the emf
grants came to the United
States.
From the recent official esti-
mate of the population Of the
United States, Colorado has
shown the greatest relative in
crease.
Sixty-fve large cotton fac
tories IN North Carolina and
only one in Texas, and yet
Texas is larger and better than
North Carolina. q 5a{ aa{ Z 4
Russia has a hundred first
class torpedo boats-that is,
boats not carried on ship of
war. France has fifty and
England nineteen.
The rumor that Don Gamer
on wants to go into the Cabinet
is revived with more force than
ever. His preference would be
for his old piaceAsecretary of |
war.
In Philadelphia Uncle Sam |
uel must disburscs S62,47o for |
United States deputy imarshals |
employed, to no end or pur-
pose whatever, on last election
day.
Some statistics proposed by
the state department show that
the balance of trade with the
world for the year 1879 was in
favor of the United States by
S24o,o3o.Ioo.
Mr.. Jay Gould has Just given
it as his OPINION that the present
expansion of credits in the
United States will end in the
greatest financial revulsron the
world ever saw.
As an instance OF the can
ness of the laws of New Jersey,
every railroad company doing
business there is ccnpeiied by
statute to furnish the .nbers
ofthe legislature with dead-head
tickets.
1t is said that Mr.. w. w.
Corcoran, of Washington, has
given away in all $4,000, 900 in
public benefactions and 81 ,ooo,-
600 in private charities, and
that this was about three quar-
tiers ofhis fortune.
Parnall, the Irish leader, is
said to be very abstemious,
little but water or tea.
In the intervals of his meeting !
he is great rider, a moderate
ly keen sportsnen and some
thing of a farmer. !
A newborn son of Marshal
Canrobert was baptized the 9TH !
er day in Paris, receiving the f
names Napoleon Louis. Prince {
and the Prin-
cesi Mathilde were the sposors. :
Canrobert is now seventy-six I
years old. '
Out of twenty-eight railroads |
their gross earnings /
to the New York Financial
for. the third week in {
December, an aggregate net in $
crease of over IS per cent. is 6
observed, against the same week a
in December last year. - 7
The scarcity of small change !
in the Dominion is giving bust = =
ness men much trouble. Pos
tage stamps are coming into
circulation, as they did in the /.
United States during the war,
and a Belleville, Ont, trades I
nan has gone so far as to issue ;
tickets for small amounts, re- II
deemable by himself.
The Common council of Lon
Ion has decided on representing :
% Gen. Roberts a sword OF :
honor for his rervices in India, 7
IN sixty years 1t has only given /.
TX swords. The last to a gen. :,
eral was TO Sir G. Wolselev in u
1874; TO navy man, to Admir- 9
al Pellew, Viscount Exnouta, :
n 1917. :
The Iaroeet gold b-;ci- o,,a