Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-03-30

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to be instructed in art.
There are now fifteen men
under sentence of death in
Pennsylvania, having been con-
victed of willful murder.
The prohibitionists are al
ready in the field in Pennsyl-
vania with a full ticket for state
officers, congressman, etc.
Jay Gould has purchased I6
lots on Twenty-third and TWEEN
ty-fourth streets, near Eighth
avenue, New York, for 81, ooo,-
600.
Governor Cornell has decid-
ee to commute the sentence of
Martin Flanagan, the Buffalo
murderer to imprisonment for
life.
Oscar Wilde, on Wednesday,
closed contract in New York
with California parties for
series of twenty lectures, to be
given, on the Pacific coast.
A subterranean stream has
been discovered in Idaho con-
meeting Indian creek and Snake
river. whose rushing waters are
audible at long distance.
Mrs. Henry Warren, of Balti-
more, finding that her husband
had to go to prison for larceny,
begged and pleaded that she
might be allowed to go also.
In Illinois, it is estimated
that the rats eat up and destroy
100, 900 bushels of corn every
year, and the question now is
whether to quit raising corn or
rats.
Prince Victor, eldest son and
heir of Prince Jerome Napol-
con, is a student at Heidelberg,
and gives promise of attaining
high rank in the world oflet-
ters.
It IS now understood that
President Arthur will take no
action in the case of Sergeant
Mason until he has served with
good behavior a considerable
portion of his sentence.
Gen. Simon Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, who has been
spending the winter in Cuba
and Florida, has returned home.
He was So years old last week,
but is still hale and hearty.
George Hazael, the pedes-
trian, sailed from Philadelphia
for Europe on Wednesday. He
went to Philadelphia in order to
avoid an action for debt in New
York, and was thus enabled to
get off with $4,000 in his
pockets.
The great coffee house of
Jewett, Sherman & Co., of Nil |
waukee, Wis, is represented in
Denver, Col, by Mr.. w. H. |
Dunlap, who says: "Put me
down as a believer in ST. Jacobs |
Oil. had rheumatism and it |
cured me. You can just bet on |
it every time"
Nicodemus is a negro colony |
of 36z families in Graham coun- |
ty, Kansas. There are two |
churches, two schools, and sew
eral stores; but the remarkable |
fact about Nicodemus is the en-
tire absence of money. All the |
trading is done with the produce
of the farms.
Ben Hogan, once a pugilist.
now Chicago evangelist, says |
that most prize fighters die pre-
maturely of weakness and dis
ease brought on by injuries re-
ceived in the ring. He cites a
number Of instances in point,
and declares that he is himself |
a sufferer from old poundings.
The Medical Department of
the Detroit University has sent |
out a pamphlet setting forth its |
facilities for graduating its "stu-
dents" to whom it promises
of great beauty and
utility. The Detroit newspa-
pers say that the President,
named Thomas, is an old chum |
Of DR.. Buchanan, the Philadel-
phia bogus diploma convict,
and that the concern is a fraud.
Evansville Argus: A man
with a siiver-plated, doubIes
back-action coin holder came
into the sanctum the other day,
and commenced explaining the
beauties of the article for
holding silver halves, ETC., and
he had gotten half through be-
fore he found he was in a print
ing Office. When he discover
I'd his mistake he went to the
door, sadly opened IT and kick
ID himself clean down stairs.
A New York clergyman, in a
on courtship and mar
,iage, said that he believed that
there is a mate for everyone
f they will but wait till the
light one comes along" The
emale portion of his congrega-
ion who have passed two score
ears said they never heard
UGH nonsense, and that the
nan didn't know what he was
alking about. II the right one
oesn't come along before a
oman reaches forty chances
re nine in ten that he is showed /
nder, or dead, or worse still,
as married the wrong woman.
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