Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-27
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There are 1000 mllesr6f canal.
in the United States.
Millions of American cigars
are annually exported to Eu.
rope.
The annual sugar production
of the world is about 100000
tons.
Leopold Won Ranke, the his
torian, is engaged upon a uni
5versal history.
The library of Congress con-
tains $4,000 volumes and about
10000 unbound pamphlets.
a petition for the appoint
ment of a woman on the police
force is circulated in Milwaukee
Wis.
A prominent banking firm in
Boston give its clerks and en-
ployes $4,000 in Christmas
presents.
There are 20 per cent. more
women than men in America.
There is nothing like having
too much Of the good thing.
| The rival Canada Pacific sym
dicate, now organizing at To-
rondo, is seeking recruits among
the capitalists of Manitoba.
The Cincinnati Chamber of
Commerce passed a resolution
urging legislation for the sale
or lease of the Southern rail-
road.
In the last four years sixty
murders have been committed
in Allegheny county, Pa, yet
not a single execution has &C.
cured.
Governor Neil, ofldaho, in a
message to the Legislature, says
that polygamy is being rapidly
introduced INTO that territory
from Utah.
During the recent census
taken in Switzerland the female
citizens of all degrees energeti-
cally protested against telling
their ages.
A wise paragrapher remarks
that hundreds of young men
waste hour after hour thinking
over what they might do if they
only had timer
Mr.. Ever was married to Miss
Joy. The friends Of the victims
were shocked when the press
called her "a thing of beauty"
because she was "a Joy for Ever
a Hancock and English ban
ner in tatters still hangs from
the liberty pole at Charlottes-
VILE. Va. No one will haul it
down and the purpose is to let
it float for four years.
That the condition of the
notional bank currency may be
improved, Treasurer Gillian
directs that holders of notes
may forward in even thousands
for redemption, free of express
charges.
Near Sedalia, Tenn, Della
Dewham poisoned her brother
because he was determined to
marry contrary to her taste, by
arsenic with bread.
He fingered in great agony for
twenty hours.
An old and wretched man in
New York broke into a room,
md allowed himselfto be caught
n the act of committing a theft
n order to be sent to prison,
where at any rate he would not
tarve to death.
Col. Mcclure writes from
that the widow of
resident Pork is so beloved and
that, by common con-
emit of all parties, the interest
N her little fortune in Tennes- {
ee State bonds, all she has, is {
xempted from Reputation. {
Good for the Boston Herald: q
The men who talk about eeas- J
1g to patronize a newspaper l
'hich does not agree with them, t
iough it gives all the news, are +
len whose patronage helps no t
ewspaper. Most of them do /
OF know how to read" a
The governor of Arkansas
as surrendered to the authori- !.
es of Missouri the person of !.
William Hildebrand, a western :
esperado, and brother of the :
Sam Hildebrand. y
lie says that Sam, who has :;
cen reported as dead, is still .
wing. :
Geo. Davy, who killed a man r;
t Waupun, Wis, was less mer-
iful than jury toward himself.
hey only convicted him of d
lanslaughter, and he was sent II
prison for three years but n
e deemed himself a murderer, r;
nd was utterly broken down o
y remorse. He has just died r,
nd physicians say that sorrow h
lied him. -
During 1880. about 322 900 f
allons of brandy in wood and e
5000 cases in bottles were i'm p
orted into the United States, fc
gainst about $4,000 gallons n
nd $4,000 cases in 1870. OF q
nampagne, about 2I5, 1000 cases t'
ere imported in 1880, as o
gainst about 10000 during
lie preceding year. There was,
owever, a slight falling off in IL
lie importation of clarets last fr
ear. II
Gangs of negro tramps from 81 s,
,e South loOGin0 for &C. &c. QI