Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-16
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The Southern Press associa-
sion will meet in New Orleans
on the 10th Of February.
Jeff Davis, who has long been
blind in one eye, has now nearly
lost the sight of the other.
A woman in Nelson county
Tenn, procured divorce and
married in thirty minutes after
ward.
The grand lodge of Knights
Of Pythias of Virginia will meet
in animal session at Portsmouth
next month.
The recent crop of oranges
in Florida surpassed both in
quantity and quality any previ-
ously raised in the state.
A Jersey legislator advocates
as a measure of poetic justice
the establishment of the whip
ping post, in that State for wife
heaters.
Gen. Malone is the richest
man in Virginia, and smokes
dollar cigars; the governor of
the state is a poor man, and
smokes two tor five cents"
The horsemen Of Lowell got
excited on the road during a re-
cent Sunday of good sleighing,
and it is said that FIVE trotters
were killed by over exertion.
Two pieces of mud-slate, on
which appear distinct land
scapes, have been found thirty
three feet below the surface in
the Smart gold mine, near Mon
roe, N. c,
AT the Grosvenor gallery
opening in London the aesthetics
mustered a strong force in very
"greenery-yelIery" attire, and
attracted far more attention
than the pictures.
Samuel Percy, the actor who
lately died of small pox in Bos-
ton, was a disbeliever in vacci-
nation, and month before TAX
ing.the disease refused to pro-
tect himself against it.
Verdi declines all offers to
compose new operas, on the
ground that he has finally re-
tired from the stage. He re-
ceives an ovation wherever he
appears in public in Italy.
The eucalyptus tree now bor-
ders many of the roads and ave
nues crossing the Roman Cam
pagna, and, wherever planted
by the monks, it has driven off
the malaria and fevers.
A ring has been formed in an
opposition colored Ebenezer
church at Richmond, Virginia,
against the Rev. John Jasper,
the author of the "Sun Do
Move" theory" Bro. Jasper
has taken up the cudgels, and is
on the war path.
John Wilson, of Tauton,
Mass, has been in the habit of
tying heavy rope round the
neck of his grown-up daughter,
and then dragging Ter about
until she yielded entire submits
sion to him. He was fined $40,
and the girl paid it with her
own money.
Tie St. Petersburg police
have issued an order forbidding
the appearance Of any actors or
dancers on the stage of the thea
tiers OF the capitol whose dresses
have not previously been rem
dered incombustible by means
of chloride Of lime. The same
rule has been in force in Berlin
for five years.
Virginia is not likely to give
up her whipping post at once.
The judiciary Committee of the
House of Delegates with a Re-
adjuster chairman, and compos-
ed largely of that party, yester-
day reported adversely bill
looking to the abolition of that
institution. The hen roost and
the whipping post should be
coexistent.
One who grandiloquently
styles himself "Resurgam" adj
vertises in London paper for
three younger sons, with small
capital, in the only grand ad-
venture yet uninterrupted"
Fame and splendid fortune are
guaranteed in two years. Sue
cess is pronounced to be GER
tain, and full particulars will
be given in confidence.
The recent death of Mr..
James Wyllie, the tenant of the
farm of Mossgiel, near Mauch-
line, Ayrshire, is noticeable
from the fact that he occupied
for forty years the land which
Burns TILED, being the second
tenant after the poet and his
brother Gilbert. 1t was while
at Mossgiel that the bard wrote
some of his finest productions.
Good musical entertainment
is provided in Cleveland in a
course OF twelve concerts at ten
cents each or a dollar for the
dozen. The best local talent is
engaged, and singers are some
times brought from a distance;
but the other expenses are
kept down as low as possible,
and the philanthropic mana
gers are able to make both
ends meet.
August Gottel, late a banker
of New York city, gave $4,000
for the benefit of the sufferers
by the Vienna theater fire. He
intended being present at the
theater on the evening of the