Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-17

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the question of improving the
Mississippi rver, aud to &C
knowledge no friends who op-
pose that measure.
HoN. FERNANDO WooD, rep
resentative in congress from the
ninth district of New York, died
last Monday, aged 6S years.
He was first elected to congress
from New York in IS4I and has
been a prominent public man
since that date.
The Bastrop Advertiser says
that ten thousand six hundred
and twenty-five dollars is the
amount already subscribed for
the tap road. The people of
Bastrop mean business and are
now determined to have rail-
road communication.
A SPECIAL from Waco says
that a Houston firm is about to
invest $500, oooi in a cotton seed
oil mill. A New Orleans firm
is also going to establish an oil
mill. If Waco gets two oil
mills she will probably be over
stocked in that line.
Gov. FOSTER, it is reported,
will make quite an extended
tour through the South soon
after the Inauguration of Gar
field, and many political wise
acres believe that if he were
going into the cabinet he would
not contemplate such trip.
Mr.. DENMAN. member Of the
legislature from Angelina coun-
ty boasts that he never went to
school but six months in his
life. He remarked in speech
that he was not to be bullied by
men of fine education. He had
reference to the lawyers.
ACCORDING to Professor Tees
weather representations for
1881 there will not be a day
during the spring or summer fit
for a pic mic. The young men
and women should appoint a
committee to dump Tice and
his weather representations in
the river.
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SOME of the pilots contend
that there is only twenty-six
eet OF water in Eads' jetties
and not thirty feet as claimed
by him and for which he has
been paid by the government.
1t does not seem to be a diff
cult question 10 solve. A sound
ing line would do the business.
EDISON is now superintend-
ing the placing of the new Por
ter engine, which is to furnish
all the electricity he desires,
He says that in six weeks the
Maxim people will not be able
to touch his coat tails. He is
evidently light-hearted, and
feels sure of success.
The Waco Examiner feels al
most certain that the Santa Fe
road will build connecting
line to Waco and also that it
will have the Missouri Pacific
road. The narrow guage to
that point is an assured fact and
Waco certainly has a brilliant
prospect for the future before
her.
GOVERNMENT detectives have
arrested an employee OF the Chi
cago post-ofhce and taken from
him some $4,000 to $4,000 |
worth OF vaIuables stolen from |
the mails. The thief is discov-
cred to be well known "crook"
who by some means got into
the Office, the more sue
cessful to practice his calling.
In his testimony before the
Whitaker court-martial Gen.
Schofeld stated that he had re-
tanned the accused at West
Point in opposition to the unani-
nous opinion of the academic
board. He is now being re-
warded for his generous kind
ness to the colored cadet by
the abuse of all the stalwart Re-
publican papers in the country.
An expensive court-martial
in New York city is threshing
over that old straw about cadet
Whittaker's ears. The proba-
bilities are that since the cold
weather set in thousand pairs
Of better ears than Whittaker's
have been nipped off by the
frost in this country, and yet no
public attention is paid to toem.
The fire department of the
city of Denison has decided to
disband until such time as the
city furnishes them facilities for
their work. There is danger
that the fire department of
will do the same
thing. Those who are not &C