Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-07-14
eekly Banner.
News items.

work. - "a
Grant IS touring for the next
campaign.
Gov. Colquitt is said to be on
a "still hunt" for Senator Hills
seat.
President Garfield is reported
to have lost twenty-five pounds
Of flesh since his Inauguration.
The city election in Chicago
has resulted in the election Of a
democratic mayor.
Twenty-Five Nebraska news
papers, including two dailes,
support woman suffrage in that
State.
The iron molders of Pittsburg
have secured an advance of 10
per cent in wages in forty
shops.
Pilgrims are f1ocking from all
parts Of Russia on a pious pill
grimage to the spot where the
Emperor fell.
Indiana wants to abolish the
cat-o'-nine-tails in her prisons
and devote it sacredly to the
backs of wife-whippers.
The sale of woman's-rights
publications issued in the Unit.
ed States has been prohibited
by the Prussian government.
Recent changes in the Grim.
inal code of Indiana give the
judges power to fix the punish
ment of all criminals, instead o.
the jury, as now.
1t is now said the gentleman
known as Commandant Alfred
Aylward, now serving with the
Beers, is no other than Murphy
the Manchester informer.
Elder James L. Smith, the
colored Norwich( Conn. preach.
er has Just issued a volume O
$50 pages of "reminiscences o
slave life, an autographicalwork
A prominent Baltimore ano
Ohio railroad official states thai
his road will build a line to New
York from Baltimore at once
Engineers are already at worl
Omit.
Justus Schwab, in behalf o
the New York Communists, ha!
telegraphed Most, the Freihei
editor, that the latter shall have
monetary assistance from thi'
side. bm
The Illinois legislature ha
passed a compulsory education
act, requiring all children be
tween 8 and ID years to attent
school at least II weeks in eacl
school year.
France is sending troops +
Algicrs, ostensibly to protec
French subjects from maraud
ing bands. There are som
who think that France has de
signs on Tunis. N
The exhibition of the grea
steamship Partisan at Boston
at an admission fee often cents
is expected to produce saso'
for the poor, of the city. TIL
visitors last Sunday numbers
5000. -
There were only III bushes
failures throughout the Unite'
States during the past week
and none of any significance
The number is the smallest 70
any week of the past tw
months. $3.50
Dispatches from Alaska an
nounce that the sanitary an
educational system imposed o
the Indians is meeting with de
cided success, and that Indian
at Hoocheno have burned tw
Of their number at the stake.
The rural newspapers of Cana
da complain ola general exodu
of young men to the Unite
States. Towns, in many case:
lose all of their unmarried male
which makes it bad for the MAJ
riageable females and for tn
future general prosperity of tn
community.
1t is stated that the statue q
liberty to be presented to tn
United States, by the Frencl
people, and intended for Bed
Ioe's island, is progressing vel
NJ. Bartholdi proposes also t
erect a plaster model of tn
statue in Paris, which viii towe
above Notre Dame.
The fact was elected at tn
Labouchere-Lawson trial il
London that the London Tele
graphs circulation was 5000
that its advertising column
produce $4,000 and its sale
$1,000 daily, and that its pape
mills, besides what they saw
the proprietors, bring in $50,
600 profit yearly.
France asks for 5000, ooo, oo'
at three per cent, and has thre'
times that amount offered. Ye
financial wiseacres in the Re
publican party pretend to be
lieve we could not place a 3-per
cent. loan. France is mucl
more subject to war and revolu
ton than is this nation, and OH
credit certainly ought to be a
good as hers.
Tie claimed nv MANY tha