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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

TEXAS Siftings publishes its
platform for 1882, and among
other good things it adapted a
basis upon which to swear off.
1t provides numerous contin-
gencies under which drinks
may be taken, and as the Hous-
ton Age iepublishes the swear
ing off platform, without note
OF comment, the supposition is,
that it meets the approval of
the Age. the editor of which is
a teetotaler.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

The Houston Age says the
necessity for reducing the DEM
ocratic majority in Texas is an
ever ready topic for heavy lead
ers in the progressive demo-
cratic papers of Texas. The
Waco Examiner of Sunday last
gives the following figures in
1876 the democratic majority
was, 100, 52S; in 1873, S3,sao /;
in 1886. 57,9oS. and in 1882
WHO can tell what it will be. It
is evident that at the above
ratio OF extinction If VIII not
take many years to wipe out the
democratic majority entirely.
The Age need not be at all
alarmed ab5ut the progressive
papers the dearly beloved
people will take good care of
themselves at the ballot boxes.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12
The Rrcnham Banner saws

The BRENNAN Banner says
Fort Worth is soon TO have
two new papers-new papers
are good for printers as long as
their owners have money to
pay. Fort Worth needs no
more papers than she has to-
day.
This may be so, but there are
some men who think there is
an unsupplied want here that
ought to be supplied. and every
now and then they try to sup
ply it. Is it not the same way
in Brennan Fort Democrat
Advance.
Bet your bootsl
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

A SPECIAL to the News from
Palestine tells a tough story
about a hard-headed negro
brakeman whose head made a
hole through a box car, a sud
den jerk dashed the negro and
part OF a car load of lumber
through the frame of the box
car. With the exception of a
small lump the negro's head
was uninjured.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

THE Bastrop Advertiser says
it has no clark horse" in view
as a candidate for governor,
but would be satisfied with any
of the gentlemen named as pro-
babIe or prospective candidates
on the democratic ticket, ex-
cepting governor Roberts. The
Advertiser, however, expresses
a preference for Hon. John
Hancock. The BANNER knows
OF no man in all of Texas who
would make a better governor,
no one who has a cleaner politi-
cal record. However, like the
Advertiser, it has no special
preference.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

Philadelphia Press; 1t is al
legged by prominent lawyers OF
this city that for the past fifteen
years not a single jury has been
drawn in which all ofthe. twelve
were honest men. sJustice has
been thwarted over and over
again, for there is no doubt
that many a guilty person has
escaped the punishment due to
hlm-tiunks to the bribe Sc
cretly slipped into the palm of
a complaisant juryman.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12
A new view of Mr.. Tilden's

A new view of Mr.. Tilden's
candidacy in 1884 is presented
by a devoted disciple. He
thinks, after the shabby way
the democrats treated Tilden
last year, they do not deserve
to have him again. We ven
ture to say that Mr.. Tilden will
not be squeamish about a thing
like that.-He'll condone it.
N. Y, Tribune (Rep.)
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

TnE sWAco Examiner looks
on as a disinterested spectator
in the quarrel between San An
tonic and Galveston sto which
has the largest population. At
present Galveston is in the lead,
and the Examiner advises the
San Antonio people to employ
the Galveston enumerators, and
thus get ahead in the matter Of
count.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

On Saturday last the general
public was excluded from the
courtroom where the Guiteau
trial is in progress. The argu-
ment of the case has been COM
Inenced. Guiteau as usual had
something to say and he said
that he was not insane at the
present5time -transitory mania
is-his case. he was insane
when he killed the president
but is perfectly sane now.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12
rarty LIberalIty.

Texas has in the neighbor-
hood Of two hundred democrat
&c newspapers that heretofore
have been fiat and answering
in their support of the demo-
cratic platform and nominees;
but gradually they have been
growing restless under the re-
straint and shunting off on to
various side tracks of one sort
or another, till it can hardly be
said to-day that more than
three or four OF them can be
called reliable Interchangeable in
their devotion to the party un-
der any and all circumstances,
such is the language OF no less
distinguished citizen of Texas
than Hon. Richard Coke, Unit
ed States senator, as published
by the Cincinnati Commercial,
a reporter of which paper inter
viewed the senator on the situa-
ton in Washington a very few
days ago. The unconditional
democratic papers may be
enumerated: JeffersonD Democrat
Houston Age. Mexia Ledger
and Dallas Times, while the
one hundred and ninety-six
other papers or fellows, which
ever the reader pleases may be
classed as independent or pro-
gressive democrats. or fence
riders. Mr.. Coke seems to be
fully alive and up with the times,
or in other words, he, too, is
inclined to be a progressive
democrat. He is aware of the
fact that sectional issues are
near about dead and says: 81
lock for breakups and divisions
in the south, to be followed by
some disorganization in the
north. We can't expect to hold
two vast armies together in op-
position unless both have vital
principal to fight for" Now
we presume the four straight or
out and out democratic papers
will proceed to read Senator
Coke out of the democratic
party. As the BANNER has con-
tended for some time a gradual
change is coming over the
minds of the people and as the
newspapers become more pro-
gressive and liberal in their
views, the people are beginning
to think more and act for
themselves; the simple fact
that a man is nominated for an
Office by a democratic conven-
ton, especially in county and
city affairs, is no longer pass
port into Office, and in most of
the cities in Texes party nomi-
nations for municipal offices are
a thing of the past; this will
soon be the case in comfy
elections, and ifnothing occurs
to make a vital issue between
the parties it will be nearly the
same in state elections, where
matters pertaining to state
policy alone will be the subject
of contention. 1t certainly
should be considered gratifying
that all sectional animosities
are dying out and that we are
on the dawn ola new era, but
for all this the republican party
still has control Of the national
government and is doing every
thing in its power to hold it,
even to the extent OF trying to
Mahonize or Jonesize this good
state Of Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

People, young and raw, and
soft-natured, think 1t an easy
thing to gain love, and reckon
their own friendship a sure
price of any mans, but when
experience shall have shown
them the hardness of hearts, the
hollowness of others, and the
business and ingratitude of al.
most all, they will then find that
a true friend is the sift of God,
and that He only who made
hearts can unite them.-South.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

The murder of the Gibbons
family in Kent=9ky lately, and
the capture Of the murderers,
is creating tie most intense .ex-
citement. The militia had to
be called out to prevent the
lynching Of the prisoners, and a
regular boat-race took place
between the boat on which the
prisoners were being removed
to MaysviIIe and the pursuing
boat in possession of the mob.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

The Rock county News is
fully in line with the progress
sive papers OF the day. 1t
wants the democratic party
cleared of antediluvians, dead
beats, demagogues and fossils
and in their stead would have
progressive men who are fully
alive to the wants and exigen-
cies of the times.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

HERE is the unkindest cut
the San Antonio Light has CIV
en- the democracy lately:
"The Texas democratic pa
pers are just dying with envy
over Nat Q. Henderson's luck"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

The San Antonio Light says
that Tom Bowers, of the PIANO.
la Waterman, goes for Lough-
cry, of the Jefferson Democrat,
on the score Of mossbackism,
and remarks that they are
simply quarreling about the
length of the mosa each 9TH
er1s backs.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

The Houston Age says that
1t should be praised instead Of
censured by the progressive
democratic press of the state.
1t says that the progressives
claim that the democratic ma
iority in the state is too large
and that the mossbacks are, by
causing defections from the
ranks, making it smaller, hence
the mossbacks are entitled to
praise. The logic of this argu-
ment is perfectly sound.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

George w. Julian, of Indiana,
recently remarked that the re-
publican party had been ready
for burial several times, but
that the democratic party had
always rushed to its rescue, got
it on its feet and endowed it
with new life. And George was
correct in his observation.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12
BEE Beaumont Enterprise d

THE Beaumont Enterprise Of
last week got out an eight page
paper devoted to an extensive
write-up of Beaumont, Jefferson
and adjoining counties. The
enterprise exhibited by the
Enterprise is commendable in
the highest degree and this is
sue Of the paper is an honor
alike to its publisher and to
Beaumont.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

The estimates of appropria-
tons for the service of the gov
eminent for the year ending
June so, 1882, have just been
completed. The total is $780,
2o2,722 against S2oS,2o2,722
for the current fiscal year. The
appropriations for the current
year were S325,555,eo5, includ-
ing deficiencies and miscellane-
Gus items.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12


The Galveston Journal says
If Acknowledgement Brewster
can succeed in landing Dorsey
in the penitentiary for his frauds
upon the government the Ma
tional Republican Committee
will be under the necessity Of
securing another secretary.
Meanwhile Dorsey continues to
occupy that position, and is
only awaiting an opportunity to
place campaign funds where
they will do the most good.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

The BRENNAN Banner has en-
tered upon its Seventeenth vol
ume with renewed energy and
assured prosperity. The Ban
ner is one of the best journals
in Texas, and deserving of the
success it has obtained.-Fla-
tonia Argus.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12
AT a festival at a negro

AT festival at a negro
church in Palestine, Wyatt
Kicks and another negro named
Moore had a disagreement re-
garding a lemon colored girl.
Kicks shot Moore in the back
MORALLY wounding him. Shoot
ist arrested and jailed.
According to the Sherm an
Courier Chronicle the prime pal
game in Texas is poker and
church raffies." Wild game may
be found in limited quantities,
but that to which the c. C. re-
fers is perfectly gentle and can
be found in all Texas towns and
cities.
Paris is a local option
town, yet there is said. to be a
place where a man may take off
his coat, leave money in the
pocket, hang it on a peg. When
he takes the coat down he will
find the money gone and bot
tie of whiskey in its place.
Five prisoners escaped
from the Giddings jail on Mon
day night. They cut through
the floor and tunneled out. The
names of the escaped are
Wright McWilliams, ]. B.
Davis, Dave Hitchcock and
Jim Thomas and Ross David
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

One OF the first performances
of Howe, after being made
postmaster-general, was to ap-
point his dearly-beloved son,
Frank, to the position of chiS
clerk. This was perfectly q
per. Howe belongs to ting
of Grantism and Nepotism
he naturally believes III m
it pleasant for his own fay
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

IT is reported that til
ocrats of New York b
Guided that "defea
Tammany is prefera
tory with it." II thu
is the wisest conclusfs
mocracy of that |
reached since it con
elect Tilden Governo
The oil mill at By
more than doubled
cotton seed in
They do it ever
Democrat.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

prising, that Germany is in pos
session of coal fields incompar-
ably more extensive than any
that England can show. The
Westphalian coal basin alone it
is said, is capable of producing
for seven centuries to come,
the same quantity of best coal
annually that all England now
yields; and not only this, but
the basinis not yet fully explor-
ed, and is believed to be capable
of material extension.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

Office shattered at night by the
vessel carrying him, he per-
ceived peculiar light emitted
by the frozen fragments. The
light is very like that produced
by breaking piece of sugar in
the dark.
Mr.. E. E. Fish has noticed
that many birds seem to pos
sess powers of ventriloquism.
From distance OF a few feet,
the cuckoo makes its voice ap-
pear to come from a furlong
away; singing on a branch, the
thrush seems to be in the. tree
top; the vesper-sparrow and
the field-sparrcw are apparent
ly In a distant field, although
really on a neighboring fence.
The robin and the cat-bird are
endowed with a similar power;
and the oven-bird, singing at a
distance, almost causes the lis
tener to believe it to be within
reach, by its sharp, ringing
notes.
The ancients had theories to
account for earthquakes-and
very curious they become in
the Iioht afxnodern :n.,es.:rr,-
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

REFERENCE was made. yes
terday to the interview with
Senator Coke published in the
Cincinnati Commercial, IN which
the senator gave expression to
views that were not exactly in
consonance with orthodox de-
mocracy. Senator Coke de-
MES the authenticity of the in
teruew, saying tits a base fabri-
cation and that his views have
undergone no change, he is a
straightout democrat and al
ways expects to be. Mr.. Coke
is certainly entitled to his views.
The Jefferson Democrat reads
The Texarkana Interstate a
lessen Tor publishing an item to
the effect that Jefferson is a
dead town. The Democrat is
always fair and liberal minded
newspaper and it says that it
never has and never will pub
fish anything calculated to in
jure another town, and in this it
is right. There is plenty of
room in Texas for all her towns
and cities and in reality there
is no occasion for the least jeal-
ousy between any of them.
Jealousy between towns does
no good.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

Hon. N. 9. Hem
brethren of the Texas pi
all Sailing" into him beca
is supposed that he ha
Georgetown postmas
Henderson has not
has been trying very ha
so and it's all the san
how.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-12

Antoine Nelson, Swede
we'll known in Brennan where
he worked as a bricklayer for
several years, was found dead
in the rear of a saloon in Bell
vile Christmas night. Coroners
jury verdict, died from excessive
use of liquor.
The Bastrop Advertiser says
that the county jail is "chuck"
full of prisoners, and charged
with petty ofienses, and that
other lazy and good for-noth-
ing blacks and whites are try
ing to break into Jail instead of
out. 1t suggests the whip
ping post as a remedy for this
class of offenders.
Henry Robinson, colored,
was convicted in Austin Of steal
ing and sent to the poor farm
seven miles from town The
same night he eloped from the
poor farm and next morning
was in the Austin Jail having
been scooped up during the
night while professionally en-
gagged in lifting cabbages.
Col. N. Thomas, an old
time Texan, for many years a
resident of Winchester, Fayette
county, and known to all the
old residents OF Washington
county, died at his home in
Waxachachie last Sunday night.
He removed from Fayettes to
Ellis county about year ago.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-17
The PrlYntc Clnims ELL.

The public credit is the theme of Re-
publican leaders and editors How elo-
quent is the candidate for Congress while
soliciting votes. lie tells of the achieve
ments of his party. Slavery abolished,
the Union preserved equal rights estab-
lished, and the debt, oh the public debt,
how we have chung TO it, How nobly we
have saved the Nations good name. Not
u penny's abatement have we made. All
doubts as TO the obligation have been
solved in behalf of the holders of the
bonds. This was right, and our govern
ment may well be proud of its record, 80
far as its relations to bondholders are
concerned. What committee of either
House of Congress ever turned deaf
ear to the noble men who placed our
bonds on the worlds market2 What
legislation was ever withheld or higgled
over which seemed necessary for the
maintenance of the nations faith
plighted to them? All this as to that
portion of our debt represented by in
terest-bearing bonds.
But oh! unhappy creditor Of this
great and glorious country who trusted it
without taking bond. Miserable man,
with an honest claim for service rem
any kind faithfully fulfilled, who shall
relate the spurns you take as you wear
out your life in hopeless struggle to get
your own. urgovornment knows you
not. There is no law for your payment,
or if there is, you were better off with n
lottery ticket, for there would be a
larger chance in favor of lucky
number than that you will be one
of the few whose cases fit the law, and
that anybody will ever get time to eX-
anime it. If you 90 to Congress for
legislation You find the committees
buried up under mountain of claims,
which they have not time to materi-
ally diminish. And so your gov
eminent, which pirates of its Won
derful honesty, and which can sell
its three PER cent. bonds at par,
refuses to provide any method for ascer-
tanning what it honestly owes to other
creditors than bondholders. Any in.
dividual who would practice the cheat
cry, evasion, and delay toward any who
had trusted him, which is the settled
policy of the United States government,
would find himself in the criminal dock
on charge of swindling. 1t is the dis
grace of the times that either through
imbecility or Indifference, no tribunal
has been created with power to hear and
determine facts rs to government in
debtedness.
There is bill pending in Congress, in
troduced in the Senate in March last by
Senator Allison, intended to provide for
the evil above set forth. If it is dis
honest to repudiate national indebted
ness, or to neglect to make provision for
it, then this or some similar measure
ought to be passed by Congress.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-17
CONTEMPLATED Frnnds.

The exposure of the frauds in the cleo
ton for member of Congress in the
Second District of Florida, the seating of
the contestant, Colonel Bisbee, and the
pending indictments against number
of the persons, in the employ of the
Democratic party, who perpetrated them,
do not seem to deter the Democratic
managers from ordering another falsified
statement of the vote at the coming
election.
Mr.. Alexander ST. Clair Abrams, chair
man of the district committee for that
district, has issued call for conven-
ton to nominate candidate for repre-
sentative in the Forty-eighth Congress
from that district.
After discharging great many blank
charges of buncombe, aimed at the pres
ent Congress, but more especially in
tended to "enthuse" the ward manipu-
lator of ballots, he proceeds, in his
address to the Democratic voters, to say:
"The same system established in 1880, I'M
der which we obtained majority of
1900, must be pursued"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Boston ladies call hustle bishop
The Cleveland bishop makes a tremen-
dous hustle.
THE Democratic mind is trying to brace
itself up, and get in position to make the
opening of saloon front doors on Sunday
a great national issue.
IT seems to be well established that
jefferson did not write the Declaration
Thurlow Weed did write it.
THERE is not member of the House
who has better moral right to his seat
than Robert Smalls has to the seat fraud
ulently occupied by Tillmnn.
THE French Assembly contemplatcs q
very radical and grave departure from
existing methods when it proposes to
substitute an elective for an appointed
judiciary.
IIiE.RE is no position in which Bour-
bon statesman swclls up with such POM
posity as whehr he finds himself at the
head of a minorityoon top of Republi-
can majority.
BEFORE the appropriation lS2r the Cur
tis-Medill Civil-Service Commission was
ruthessly cut off, potatoes sold for 25
cents peck in this city; now theyv are
selling for dollar apeck.
Ir is deemed impolitic to convict gambA.
lers in Chicago because there is no pre-
cedent, no case recorded of Il city incar-
cerating its business population and de-
stroying its leading industry.
THE life insurance managers in New
York ought to make speCial'ratcs for pro-
fessonal drelists and sheop.grazers, as
their respective vocations are more con-
ducivc to longevity than any others,
In those States whose legislatures have
supplied them with sweeping and strn-
gent Sunday laws, further legislation will
be required in order to render valid any
marriage engagement entered into on
Sunday,
Ir would seem to be in order to vindi-
cate the American COW in England as
eiectually as the American hog has been
vindiCated in France. We believe the
cry of "adulterated cheese" is an I'M
adulterated lie.
A NAUTICAL newspaper speaks of n
$4,000 punch that Congress is urged to
buy for the use of the Navy. The Navy
would be quite as well pleased with
$4,000 worth of the Hub punch as with
any later invention.
THE Democracy of Wilmington, Del,
should have the whipping-post at that
place neatly draped in mourning for Il
period of thirty days, in token of their
grief over the recent Republican victory
in that municipality.
A SAGE reasoner urges that Mr. Hem
bricks must be still in the Presidential
field, because she is so prominent in
the country papers" The same mode
Of ratiocination would make Lydia Pink
ham the leading candidate.
TIE French people perceive an urgent
makers from becoming directors of COM
panies. If they act on the assumption
that men shall not legislate on matters
in which they are interested, they will
have to send abroad to purchase ready
made statutes. Every man who is fit for