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The Professions.

Lawyers and doctors occupy
the same relative position be-
fore the public, when a man has
no law suits on hands and is in
| good health he has no use for
the professional gentlemen.
But when a man has law suit
he at once goes to lawyer and
if he gets sick he loses no time
in sending for a doctor, still
there is wide difference between
the mass of the people and the
professionals. Ordinary men
who take simply a plain COM
mon sence view of the matter
can discover no use for the vast
amount of verbiage used in the
present form of indictment,
which has been in use for CEN
turtles and has at least the re-
spectability that attaches to
great age. Until within very
recent period the indictments,
among other things, charged
that the offender was moved
and instrigated by the devil,
thus giving that very important
parsonage a legal existence. In
the old bills of lading there was
a clause providing against prov
idential interference, but as the
world has advanced the devil
has been banished from indict-
ments and providence no lon
ger figures in bills of lading.
The concessions made why not
extend them? majority of the
people say yes, but the lawyers
say no. They say that the SIM
pliest indictments will be quash-
ed as easilyas the old and more
cumbersome ones were. Be
this as it may the people will
be satisfied to try the expert
ment. The whiskey insanity
dodge having been legislated
out of existence the lawyers
will invent other means to cir |
cumvent the intention of the |
law. Physicians mystify pa
tients by administering medi-
cines under latin names, if they
give a man a dose of calomel
he knows all about it, but if
they write for dose of hydJay-
gyyUm he is in the dark.
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The Dallas Herald speaking
of the defeat of immigration bill
and the exemption of manufac-
tories from taxation has this to
say:
The defeat of these measures
in the legislature is very annoy
ing to the wide-awake, progress
sive portion of the states popu-
lation, but it is in some degree
their own fault. Immigration
and free schools should have
been made issues in the state
canvass and every candidate for
the legislature should have been
compelled to define himself
sharply thereon and have been
supported or not accordingly.
There could have been no harm
in the adoption of these amend
ments by the legislature that
the people might have had an
opportunity to express their
wishes and views upon them at
the polls. If the people object
ed to them they would have
voted them down and that
would have settled the matter.
But in every Legislative body
there is a leaven of ante-delu-
vianism to contend against, but
1t does seem that Texas has
more than her share. 1t is a
shame and a pity for this great
state to be continually weighed
down by the backwoods, moss
back element.
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CHANGE OF TIME.

The bill changing the time for
holding the general election in
this state from November to
Aug. has passed the senate and
will it is thought will pass the
house. By holding the state
elections in August there is no
excuse for federal interference
as the state and congressional
elections will then be separated.
August will be much better
time for holding general cleo
tons than November from the
fact that it is the season Of the
year when farmers are most at
leisure. In the fall the cotton
crop is to be gathered and
every day lost from the field is
valuable. In July and August
the farmers have time to attend
political meetings and be cleo
tioneered with. At every cleo
ton the candidates have to
spend a given amount of money
and time in electIoncering, and
the voters have to undergo 4
certain amount of talking to.
In the counties where the col
ored population is large the
loss to planters by holding cleo
tons in the fall is immense.
Colored men will go to preach
ing and to political meetings;the
latter are nearly always held af-
ter dark and continue till near
ly daylight. These meetings
are held two or three times a
week and the colored men who
participate in them are thus I'M
capacitated for work, the result
is that during the election sea-
son they only work about one
half of the time. Landowners
and tenants are heavy losers by
the transaction. Candidates
will no doubt appreciate the
change and it will be of advan-
tage to all concerned; candidates
will announce in May and
June and pay country newspa-
pers large amounts of cash in
advance for the same thus giving
the publishers money at a sea-
son of the year when about
three-fourths of them are COM
pletely strapped, or in other
words dead broke. Business Of
all kinds is dull and the election
will give everybody something
to talk about. In the fall bus
mess is brisk and everybody is
busy.
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THE COSTS BUSINESS.

1t is high time the eyes of the
public were being opened to the
manner in which inferior courts
are conducted in cases of trivial
misdemeanors. Reference IS
had to mayors and justices
courts, many of which are run
solely for the purpose ofcollect-
ing costs. Men are arrested
and taken before a justice on a
trivial charge, found guilty and
fined one cent and the costs
the costs average from $40 to
SIG or $50. In the mayors
courts it is much the same thing,
for violating a city ordinance
the minimum fine is 81, this sum
is only exceeded in extreme
4
cases where there is a reason
able prospect of collecting more.
A fine is usually gagged with the
ability of the offender to pay
the costs. The officers of these
courts have an eye solely to
the costs that are in sight. The
abuse here spoken offs not con-
fined to any one town or coun-
ty, but is general throughout
the entire state. A few papers
have called attention to it, but by
far the larger portion of the
press of the state has overlook
ed the matter entirely. The
officers are not so much to
blame as is the law itself; which
leaves the officers wholly de-
pendent upon the fees of office
for a support; officers like other
men, must have money to live
on, and far the larger portion
Of them have nothing but the
fees of their Offices, consequent
ly the greater the fees the bet
ter the office pays. In many of
the towns mayors are allowed
only a nominal salary and have
to depend upon the fees or
emoluments of their office to
make it worth anything. In
many instances when a nominal
fine IS inflicted it is done solely
for the purpose of collecting
the costs and not because any
law has been violated; in great
many cases the costs are really
oppressive. So long as the Of
6cers are dependent upon fees
there is little hope for the better
in this respect. 1t would be a
good thing if the law regarding
justices of the peace was so
amended that the commission
ers of each county could allow
every justice of the peace and
constable a stipulated salary or
a given fee for every criminal
case disposed of; district or
county attorneys should also be
saIaried. If this was the case
every fine collected would be
paid into the county treasury;
the purposes of justices would
be subserved and prosecutions
simply for the sake of costs
would cease. In the cities all
officers should be paid specific
salaries there should be no fees,
and all fines collected should be
paid iuto the city treasures.
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SPECIAL MEETING.

y special meeting OF the Stockholders
of the HOUSTON AND TEXAS CEN
TRIAL RAILWAY COMPANY will be
held at the General Office of the Company
in the city of Houston, on Monday, March
oIst, 1851, for the purpose of considering
and taking such action as may be necessary
to enable said Company 10 issue its Bonds
for TIE purpose of paying off and retiring
all former issues Of bonds of the Company
and of paying all other outstanding indebt-
edness of the company, and for the further
purpose of improving and bettering said
Company's line of railroad, and to secure
the payment of said bonds by mortgage
upon the property and franchises of the
company. A. S. RICHARDSON,
ian. 6, ISSI-qw. Secretary.
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Reply to Pillow Boz.
LONG PoINrFeb. Fl.

Editors Banner
Seeing a communication from
Plow Boy, of Burton, in your
last weeks issue, in which he
ostensibly attempts to show
the difference in good and bad
labor, or in other words, be-
tween his and mine, flor l know
| am Bob No. 1, referred toy
but in which.he really wanted to
hit my boss over my shoulder,
hope you will be kind enough
to allow me few words in re-
ply. AS to his first charge, l
lived with said boss two years
prior to 1850; never had cross
word with him; got all my dues
and was satisfied, but left him
in 1880 on account of outside
troubles ofwhich he knew moth
ing. AS to my coming out
SIo'6S in debt, he needen't
kick at that, for my boss has
paid him every cent of it, and
as he was bookkeeper, of course,
made no mistakes in my favor.
Allow me to suggest that if the
aforesaid Plow Boy had paid
more attention to his pleading,
instead of poking his envious
nose into my bosses affairs, he
might have tipped the cotton
beam at a few hundred more
pounds. III was not a niger
could tell that l am not the only
one he has hauled off of my
bosses place; could tell how he
borrowed my bosses fine Dur
ham bull and kept him until he
got all the calves he wanted,
then let his son shoot him for
sticking his head in cotton
seed pen, then sold his hide;
could tell how my bosses cows
were stuck, shot and butchered
up on his place for no other
offense than because they were
my bosses, and divers of other
little contemplate things too
numerous to mention. But as
l said being niger wont men
ton them. l hope he is now
on the road to improvement as
he has been confessing to his
priests; last summer he confess
sed to maj. Penn that he had
been very bad and done a heap
of wrong thing. (No doubt then
bosses bull was looming up be-
fore HIM like Banquo's ghost at
the feast)for which he was awful
sorry lat the time) and actually
wept. Again l hear of his last
confession to date VERY recent
of having used "cuss" words in
the presence of a certain gentle
man of this neighborhood, and
actually wept again. Truly
the ways of the transgressor is
hard" Think of it, such a pill
lar in the church actually swear
ing. Oh shame. Can't fool me,
niger as l am, he is a Catholic,
them confessions spot him.
''Ah; Plow Boy, thourt get their ferrin
In hell they'll roast the like herrin.
hope gentlemen that l have
not taxed your valuable time
too much, and being poor mig
ger, that you will make the
necessary corrections before
printing as l know you must do
in Plow Boys case. l remain
very respectfully poor decen-
dart from the Ourang-outang.
Bob No. 1.
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The Houston Post can see no
good in a sweeping prohibition
such as is now proposed by the
temperance agitation. Prohi-
bition is a failure in Maine; a
vast quantity of liquor is con-
sumed in that state and no IL
cense is collected from its sale.
The only practical prohibition
is the utter humiliation of all
the stills and total destruction
Of the art Of making alcohol.
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The election cases from Har-
rison county were all disposed
ofby Judge Morrill, at Jefferson.
In nearly all the cases the de-
PENDANTS plead guilty and low
finesNere assessed. The feder-
al officers get heir Costs and
the majesty of the law is vindi-
Gated.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-24

Isl spite of the fact that the
bill to furnish crippled Confed-
crate soldiers with artificial
limbs met with the general APP
prevail Of the press and the peo-
pie, the legislature, in its wis
dom, saw fit to kill it. Now il
the members had the hardi-
hood to oppose the bill direct
ly they apparently favored the
bill but invented many excuses
for not voting for it.
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TIE Mexia ledger is a news

The Mexia Ledger is a news
paper that always entertains de-
eided views and has no hesita-
ton in expressing them. 1t
opposes the existing puritanical
Sunday law and handles two of
its religious contemporaries, the
Texas Observer and the Texas
Christian Advocate, without
gloves. 1t regards the pressure
now being brought in favor of
prohibition, as impracticable
and ahead of the times.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-24

TIE Galveston Journal of
Commerce reproduces the syn
opsis of Capt. Gray's bill for
the promotion OF agriculture
published in the BANNER few
days ago. 1t says: "The Texas
Journal OF Commerce would be
very glad to see such legislation
adopted, but the sum appro-
priated to carry it into practice,
we think, should be at least
SIS, ooo."
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-24

The Autobiography associa-
ton of New York held a meet
ing at Cooper institute, New
York on the 2Ist. Gentlemen
of large means and reputation
took part in the meeting and
much interest is manifested in
the organization which will no
doubt extend all over the coun-
try. The object of the league
is to prevent the capture and
control by the monopolists of
the business of the country.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-24

In Florida the value per acre
of cleared land is so.5S and the
timbered land ss.o3. In Loui-
siana cleared land is worth S14.
SO, and timbered land 1888.
In Texas cleared land is sS.o8,
and timbered land 50. In Ar
kansas cleared land is valued at
SII 7S, and timbered land at
S3.4S. In Oregon cleared land
is worth S2I.7I, and timbered
$3.50. But in Nebraska cleared
land is worth $500 and tim
bered land S2s.85.
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The Galveston News says it
is a matter of establishment that
so much money should be daily
thrown away by advertising
through circulars. Ofthe thous-
ands that are scattered through
the streets, hung up in cars,
and thrown into the yards of
private residences, very few are
ever read, and those that do
receive attention usually pro-
duce an effect the reverse of
that intended. An advertise
ment to be effective should al
ways be placed in a paper that
reaches those whose custom is
desired.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-24

BRADLAUGH, the English
Radical, has been closely exam
ming the English pension list
and making some extraordinary
discoveries there. The latest
curious pension he has
unearthed is that paid to the
heirs of one Gen. Schomberg,
who was killed by an accidental
shot from his own side at the
battle of the Boyne. On &C
count of this accident the Brit
ish people have been paying
annuities to the Schombergs
ever since and have paid out in
all to them So, 100000; a pref
ty expensive price for an acct
dental shot fired nearly two
centuries ago.
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18th LEGISLATURE.

AUSTIN, Feb. 10 Senate
By Stewart: Bill to provide for
full display of Texas products
at the worlds fair in New York;
also, bill creating the office of
State Register, defining his du-
ties, etc.
By Hightower: Bill amend
ing the. law regarding gambling.
The bill relating to incorpor-
ated cities and towns was amen
ded and ordered engrossed.
The bill making appropria-
ton for the support of the state
government for the next two
years was taken up and the sub
stitute offered by the finance
committee adopted.
HOUSE, Twelve memorials
asking a prohibitory amend
ment were presented, and four
memorials from military COM
panics asking for Legislation in
favor of cncampmcnts and the
organization of the military.
A motion to reconsidercd
the vote accepting the invita-
ton to visit San Antonio was
lost.
By Woodbridge: To refund
liquor dealers the amount due
them upon occupation tax re-
pealcd by 18TH legislature.
! By McCord: To provide for
the employment of a special
force for the suppression of
lawlessness and crime. 1t IN
tends the creation of a bureau
OF special officers. or detectives,
under control of the governor.
The bill repeating the bell
punch law and fixing the occu-
patton tax on'retail liquor deal
ers reconmitted in order that it
might be remodeled in conform
ity with the sentiment of the
house.
Finlay's bill to provide artif-
cial limbs for southern soldiers
crippled in the confederate and
Texas wars and appropriating
$4,000 was taken up and after
lengthy debate, the report of
the committee, which was adj
verse, was rejected.
The bill providing for the
surrender of the charters of
towns and cities was reported
upon favorably.
AUSTIN, Feb. 2I.-Senate-
By Wynn: A bill regulating
fees of county clerks for ex-of-
fcio services, basing the same
on the population of the coun-
ty.
The bill reducing ad valorem
state tax was postponed until
Thursday next.
The governor submitted a
communication from Mr.. H. M.
HoXie, rendering the state off
Gals and members of the legis-
lature free transportation to
San Antonio and return.
Several amendments to the
general appropriation bill were
adopted after which the senate
adjourned till Wednesday at 10
\. NJ.
HOUSE, The special COM
mittee reported recommending
the purchase of McArdle's
painting of Lee at the Wilder
ness.
Bill to provide artificial limbs
for manned and crippled con-
federate soldiers was taken up.
Mr.. Barry said he had conclu-
ded the bill was unconstitution-
al and TO test the sense of the
house moved to strike out the
caption of the bill. The motion
was carried by vote of So to
go and the bill was killed.
The invitation to visit San
Antonio was accepted.
The bill for the protection of
game was ordered printed.
The bill providing for railroad
commissioners and general reg
ulation of railroads was made
the special order for Monday.
Adjourned till Wednesday.
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Texas in 1879 had 2,i5S,5s4
Acres in cotton producing 1885,
is said to be boom.

hey is plentiful and
eds Of people are pouring
o the town. 1t is estimated
that fully thousand strangers
have arrived within the past
thirty days. Gambling and
dance houses, are in full blast.
No newspaper is published there
yet, but a party from Fort
Worth IS en- route with type and
material.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-24

Nothing is so conducive to
a mans remaining a bachelor as
stopping for one night at the
house of a married friend and
being kept.awake for five or six
hours by the crying of cross
baby. All cross and crying ba-
bics need only Hop Bitters to
make them well and smiling.
Young man, remember this.
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The San Antonio Evening
Light contains a two column
article entitled ex-governor
Davis-HiS career vindication
ofthe Republican party" Davis
will require great deal more
vindication before the democ-
racy of Texas have any faith in
him.
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That Cincinnati, the Paris of
of America, is also the
real metropolis of the United
States becomes evident in Gen.
Walkers announcement that
the geographical centre of our
population. is the Ohio town of
pork and music. The census
of 1870 showed that this geo
graphical centre of population
was then about forty eight miles
northeast of Cincinnati; the
southwark and westward move
ments of the past ten years have
brought it within the confines
of that city. Cincinnati is the
centre of the population of this
country, and Deacon Richard
smith is the central figure of
the population of Cincinnati.
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Senator Houston objects to
the bill requiring the advertis-
inf of judicial sales, because it
would pay the newspapers.
Why does he not oppose all
legislation that permits the law
yer to make a fee? The sena-
tor does not make his living in
the newspaper business, but he
has done so, SO it is said, re-
markably well in the practice of
law. We, too, would oppose
the bill, were it alone in the in
terest of newspapers, but since
it is in the interest of SECURING
=
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The earnings Of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company for
January aggregated sI,4oS,ooo,
being an increase of S2o7, $50
as compared with the same
month last year.
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ALI Points in Western Texas !

AT Arcola Junction the midland -
Route connects with the l. & G. N. X. X.
for Columbia, and cities in Brazora county
AT Brennan with the II. & T. C. r. X.
for towns on its Western Division.
AT N1ilano Junction with the |. & G. N.
r. K. for Austin, San Marcos, New Braun
fels to the southwest, and all Eastern con-
nections to the coast and northeast.
At Houston with the l. & G. N, the II.
& T. C.. the H., E. & w. Texas, and with
the Texas and New Orleans Railroad
AT Galveston with the Morgan Line for
New Orleans, and with the Mallory Line
of steamers for Key West ana New York.
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The returns of the census on
the subject of municipal indebt-
edness in this country shows
the average for all the cities of
Union containing over $500 in
habitants to be SIS S. per capt.
ia. The Maryland cities make
the worst showing, averaging
sos 81 Indebtedness to each
inhahitant, and Oregon the best,
81 S.. Louisiana is far up in
the list, with per capita debt
Of SO so.
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The Rockdale Messenger ap-
proves of the bill giving females
appointments in the depart
ASstin and says: "This
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II the stomach, liver and bowels are affec-
led, to adopt the sure remedy, Hostetter's
stomach Bitters. Diseases Of the organs
named beget others far more serious, and
a delay IS therefore hazardous. Dyspep-
sia' liver complaint, chills and fever, early
rheumatic twinges, kidney weakness, bring
serious bodily trouble if triiled with. Lose
no Gme in using this effective, safe and long
known medicine. b
lHr sale tv I'm g.... 1.,-r..--
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endeavor to commence
Enterprise with a pure
he glory OF God, con-
ithout distraction and
without impatience.
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FoRTY MILES SAVED

by taking this line between Brenham and
San Antonio. h5- Twenty miles by TAX
ing it between San Antonio and Galveston,
or vice versa. for
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The Spanish treasury shows
deficit of 10000 pesolates.
The Spanish premier will sub
NIT for t. -. apDroval 4
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The BeIIviIle Times says
that Mr.. Geo. a. Trott, who has
been confined in the county iarl
on charge of swindling, has
been released on bail. When
Trott was in jail he was mention
ed simply as Geo. A. Trott,
now that Trott has trotted out
of jail he has been promoted to
Mister Trott. There is evident
ly difference between d man
being in jail and out.