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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-08-06

Click ordered the cattle quarantined 81
once. and directed the State Veterinary
10 20 there and investigate the matter i'm
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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-08-06

TOPEKA, KS, Aug. 5.-The Texas fever
has appeared among the cattle in Ellis
county. Apprehensions are felt that 1t
would spread unless vigorous means were
immediately taken to suppress il. Gov.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
PUBLIC DUTY.

The duty of the hour says the
Houston Post is to sustain and
strengthen the action of the extra
session ofthe legislature and so
handle public sentiment as TO crys-
talize it in support of the policy
inaugurated for the suppression OF
lawlessness and the protection Of
property. The remedy rests on
three propositions: l. No man
shall fence land not his own. 2.
No man shall be Inconvenience
for the want of roads and outlets
and, 8, No man shall cut, injure OF
destroy the property of another.
These propositions should be car.
ried out and it is, says the Post,
the duty of the press and all
classes to accept them and uphold
the administration and constabu
larry in an earnest, faithful and
vigorous effort to give them force
and effect. So much for the duty
of the press, the people and the
officers; now 1t remains for public
sentiment to endorse the enact
ments, if it does but little Difficult
ty will be found in tho enforce
ment.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
ORGANS.

The San Antonio Express defines
its position In regard to being an
organ. 1t says to Governor Ire
land that as long as his official acts
meets its approval he can consider
the Express in the light of an or
gan to make music in his behalf,
but one thing must be remember
ed, the editor himself will turn
the crank. The Express is the or
gan of every man it believes to be
right; just that far and no farther.
1t may be remarked that there is a
disposition among some of the pa
pers of Texas to accuse the other
papers of being organs, simply be-
cause they approve certain official
acts. The deduction is not war
ranted by the premises. The ap-
prevail of acts that were worthy of
commendation does not make o
newspaper an organ. An organ
paper grinds out but one tune and
that the praise and commentator
of all and every act of the party
or individual whose cause it advo-
Gates. A conservative and intel
ligent newspaper, while it may
have and most papers do have,
strong political predictions, but
at the same time they are able to
take perfectly impartial views of
the acts Of officials and politicians
and to give what they honestly be-
lieve to be the truth concerning
them, commencing and condemn
ing as may seem proper. It is
possible to pursue this course and
still uphold the principles of a
party. However, a very large ma
jority of the Republican press
throughout the country is blind
whom 1t comes to seeing any good
in the Democratic party. 1t is a
way they have, and the way they
were raised neHt 80 an.-f RI
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THr benefit of popular education

The benefit of popular education
is universally acknowledged, and
the Louisville Courier-Journal is
in favor of it, but it thinks that no
greater disaster could befall the
south than a bill providing for the
distribution of s1O,Q00,O0O annual
ly for five years among the states.
1t would paralyze local effort,
create feeling of relief from per-
sonal responsibility; it would
strengthen dependence on some
outside influence which under
mines all voluntary work. The
passage of the bill would put back
the common schools of the south
for five years, and no effective plans
could be executed until the period
OF subsidies had expired and the
people are again thrown on their
own resources. The people ofthe
south are now on rising ground;
are prosperous and progressive
and are abundantly able to support
thorough system of common
schools without the aid of the. ma
ton government.
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COMMERCIAL GAMBLING.

The New York legislature has
several bills before it for the ar
rest of option dealing and stock
gambling. This matter has long
attracted public attention, and the
st. Louis Republican, a paper well
posted in all:commercial affairs,
says: Not much confidence is ex-
pressed in the efficacy of these
measures. The subject is a diff
cult one to deal with through leg
islative methods These kinds of
transactions so run INTO legitimate
business that to prohibit the one
almost necessarily disturbs the
other. Gambling in futures is now
so widely practised and the habit
has the countenance ofso many re-
spectacle men and SO much capital
that it is extremely difficult to
reach the evil in an effective way.
Ifs sentiment could be built up
among business men, who know
the dangers of speculation and the
almost certainty that those who
engage in it are not safe, to refuse
business relations with those who
thus gamble, as they would with
those who indulge in the vices of
the common gamester, no doubt
the evil would speedily decline and
might eventually be confined to a
class whose influence would be
quite circumscribed. In this way,
nodoubt, the reformation must be-
gin. Public sentiment, so far as it
finds expression, is almost unani-
mousIy against. commercial gam
bling, 1t would not be difficult to
pass through any legislative body
a law promising to be effective in
suppressing it. Juries are ready
to condemn such gambling. The
charges and judgements of all
courts are emphatic in reprehend-
ing it. 1t is only wanting to find
some mode of reaching the evil to
speedily put an end to it. Sure
~ the business community itself
does not differ from the moral sem
timent of the body of the people
on this subject. Why, then, can
not those who see the subject in
light of the general sense of all
other classes themselves assist in
drawing the line between real and
fictitious trade, between spccula-
Iation, prre and simple, and real
transactions, between gambling and
business?
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

The New Orleans Pieayune says:
erred Douglass views with calm
ness the state of turmoil into
which the colored people of the
country have been thrown by his
nuptuals. He says his theory is
that 'in time the varieties of races
will be blended into one.' This is
a sort of variety performance that
will not go well at present"
Whereupon the Vieksburg Herald
takes the floor and remarks: erred
Douglass Will never live to see the
varieties ofraees blendedinto one.'
He may see an occasional case,
like his own, where the Caucausian
mates with the African, but he will
be blended with his mother earth
many thousands Of years before
the blending of the races will
occur"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
PRESIDENTIAL BoOMS.

A number of presidential booms
have been started during the past
six months, but every one, like an
overlooked river or smaller stream,
has run its course and accomplished
nothing, save to damage the cause
of the party doomed. 1t is almost
as bad not to enter race at all as
to enter it too soon. The follow
ing remarkt of the Dallas Herald
on this subject are sound and well
worthy of consideration. We are
evidently now having calm pre-
ceding the political storm:
"The absence of presidential
blooms in either party, but more
expressly the democratic, is the
subject of universal newspaper
comment. With the great national
conventions almost at hand ii
would seem that candidates should
be thick rs leaves IN Yallambrosa.
Instead of such being being the
case, the available men to
bear the party banners may
be counted on the fingers of one
hand. Not that there are
"not plenty aspirants for that honor
the woods are full of 'em-but
because past experience has proved
that premature candidacy is the
shortest road around the White
House, and because again, neither
side desire to show q shining mark
to the ambushed sharpshooters.
This comparative quiet in'the po-
litical camp is significant 1t means
that the coming campaign is to be
death struggle that as few mis-
takes are going to be made as pos
sible in nomination, and that when
the ball "opens it will be the mad
dest, merriest music ever heard in
all this land. The delay, there.
fore, is not apathetic it is the
silent mastering of every force,
great or small, that will help turn
the scales, the boarding of every
ounce of ammunition until short
range Is reached and the husband.
ing of every atom ofstrength until
the goal is in plain view"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
VBhASeo Us. GALVESTON

The Brazoria Independent pub
fishes letter from Messrs. B.
Kanters & Sons, of Holland, Mich,
former contractors for deepening
the channel at the mouth of the
Brazos, in which they propose to
guarantee 2S feet of water or for
fetal pay for work The INDIE
pendent remarks that Eads prom
Uses Galveston 81 feet of water for
81, 500, 900 and the Messrs. Kanters
will give the mouth of the Brazos
a foot more for one tenth of the
amount. Galveston should look
well TO her laurels; the people OF
the interior of Texas want deep
water sea port and they, while
generally kindly disposed toward
Galveston, are by no means we'd
ded TO her. There is no reason
why the old village of Velasco
could not grow and develop into a
city much larger and mightier than
Galveston, and in very few years
time at that. We live in an age OF
rapid Improvement; those who
have lived in Texas for the past
ten years have witnessed a won
derful progress; the population OF
the principal cities has more than
doubled and in some instances
tripled. Many miles of railroad
has been built and new country has
been opened and settled and new
cities built. The progress and i'm
provement in the state together
with the vast increase of taxable
values has been marvellous, and
yet marvellous as 1t may seem we
are only beginning to develop the
state; its future greatness can hard
1 ly be predicted, but 1T is certain
that the next ten years develop.
ment will far exceed that of the
past. This being conceded there
is no reason to doubt that a great
city can be built elsewhere than al
Galveston. It is true that Calves
ton is now fine city and is very
favorably regarded throughout the
state, but when it comes down to
matters of dollars and cents people
always go where they can get the
most for the least money, and if q
deep water harbor is established
at Velasco before it is at Galveston
and cheaper rates of freight can be
had to and from it than to and
from Galveston, the freights will
seek the cheaper port. A vast
amount of capital is invested in
Galveston and its permanancy de-
ponds upon its facilities as ship.
ping point. As a purely financial
transaction it would be better and
cheaper for the property owners
of Galveston to pay the s7,50o,oOO
out of their own pockets or even q
larger sum than to abandon the
town and lose all that
is now invested there. Texas
must have deep water sea
port In the near future, but it is
not yet definitely known whether
or not it will be Galveston or some
other place. Galveston, however,
is the favorite with the state.
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Professional Notice.


Having formed copartnershfp for the
purpose Of practicing the Homeopathic sys-
lem Of Medicine and surgery, we take this
method of thanking the citizens of Brenham
and surrounding country for their liberal
patronage IN the past, and solicit o continu-
nncc of the same for the future.
Special attention given to chronic diseases,
diseases of women and children, surgical
diseases, injuries and obstetrics. Calls in the
city or country promptly attended to, day or
night
Only the really needy, who believe in tho
Homeopathic system treated free.
All bills collected on the first of every
month.
OFFICE and residence on Sandy street, one
door east Of Parks livery stsble.
Respectfully,
G. Sic. HUssKr, n. D.
F. G. MAGEE, NJ. d.
Brennan, Jan. LIST, 1884.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

THE president and the president
pro tenn, of the.Baltimerc and Ohio
railroad company appeared before
the senate committee on postoffi'
ces and post roads to defend the
interests of their company in con
nection with postal telegraph
measures. Mr.. Garrett, president
pro tenn, stated that his company's
inclination would be to accept rea'
sonable ratio fixed by any practi.
cal commission. The railroad
would guarantee the completion OF
its lines quicker than the govern.
ment could build.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

AN English paper speaking on
the subject of advertising, says;
at is a mistake to suppose that a
thing has become sufficiently we'll,
known to need no more advertis-
ing. The public has strangely
short memory. A firm which had
for twenty years spent 10000 q
year in making a partIcularSarticle
public, tried the experiment of re,
ducing their outlay to $4,000 pei
annum. But the next year it took
ego, 900 to restore them to their
position. Enormous fortunes are
amassed by those who advertise
largely, judiciously, and incessant,
ly; but all who have had expe.
rience in the matter will confirm
the statement that the latter is the
one great point. Itdoes not do to
relax in exertion."
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14


The colored people in the cot
ton districts of the South have for
years enjoyed picnic during the
cotton picking season. Numerous
unsuccessful attempts have been
made to invent a cotton picking
machine to supcrcede colored la
Dor. A solution, of the problem
has at last been arrived at by Mr..
Alex Hosmer, formerly planter
in Mississippi, who after the war
went to British Honduras; he
learned there by experimenting,
that the monkeys, which are very
numerous, could be made useful on
cotton plantations-that they could
pick three times as much cotton as
an ordinary hand. He proposes
organizing large company with
abundant capital for the purpose
of importing monkeys to pick the
cotton crop of this country. 1t
would be an amusing sight to see
the monkeys in the cotton fields
picking and the colored people
standing round laughing at the
monkey shines of the monkey.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

The Colorado Clipper is evil
IDENTIFY beside itself with rage at
the legislature for having passed
what is pleased to denominate a
"herd law" 1t says the poor man
already-here is notified to move
on. IF he has stock he is permit
ted to take them with him, but the
sole of his feet must not rest upon
a single acre Of state land, but
move on he must. The general
feeling is, that if the inherent
stock man cannot afford to pay q
few cents an acre per year for the
use of the grass upon which he
raises his cattle he had just about
as well move on.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
"a posraL 1TLFGRAPH.


Every business man in the United
States living where there is a tele-
graph line has occasion to use it,
also a great many private citizens
and professional men. All who
have dealings with the telegraph
companies know that delays are
freqaeni md, vexatioas, and that
ordinarily the charges are high
ifuot exorbitant. The telegraph
business Of tho country is virtual
u nonopoiized BY tho gigantic
corporation known as the Western
Union Telegraph company, who
do perhaps 80 per cent. of the tel
egraph business of the country.
In Texas we have but one indie
pendent telegraph line, that along
the route Of the Santa Fe railway.
For some years the matter of the
government taking control Of the
telegraph system and operating it
in connection with the postal ser
vice has been agitated, both in and
out Of congress. The use Of the
telegraph in business has become
even greater necessity than the
use OF the mails and it Is argued
by those who favor the postal tel
egraph system that the govern
ment has as much right to control
the telegraph as it has to control
the transportation and delivery Of
the mails. The Western Union
Telegraph company, of which Jay
Gould is one of the leading spirits,
is violently opposed to govern
mental interference. Of course il
the government wipes out the tele-
1aph monopoly, the owners ofthe
stock will be paid every dollar
their stock is worth and will meet
with no actual loss, save that they
viii be compelled to seek other
ehah3eis f0r the investment OF
their surplus capital. fit be the
purpose of the government to do
the greatest good for the greatest
number of the people, taking con-
troll Of the telegraph system would
in all probability be step in that
direction. A few months ago Dr..
Norvin Green, manager of the
Western Union Telegraph compa-
ny, contributed a lengthly and
elaborate article to the North
American Review, in which he set
forth all the reasons at his COM
mand why the government should
not take control of the telegraph
system. The question Is now be-
ing discussed before the senate
committee. DR.. Green has been
before the committee and present
ed his side of the question. Mr..
Gardiner c. Hubbard made
an argument in answer to DR..
Green, showing theworkings ofthe
Western Union and its nature as q
monopoly. TIE company fifteen
years ago said thatneitherits CAPT
tai stock nor bonded debt should
be increased except by consent Of
two-thirds of the stockholders,
This was a pledge to the country.
They kept the pledge for time, Blu
in 1881 they changed their. policy.
When a new company is formed
the old one reduces the rates and
either compels the opposition to
sell out or consolidate. 8a
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

A sroNe effort is being made for
the relief of the whiskey men who
want the bonded period for distill-
ed spirits now in bonded ware
houses extended. The commits
sioners think provisions should
be made for the payment to the
government by the creditor whose
time is extended of 4 IL per cent.
interest on the amount of tax dur
ing the time of extension. atfz q
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

Is hereby given that Veterm Donation Ger
tifcate No. 80, for 1886 acres of land, issued
to Moses Austin Bryan by W. G. Walsh,
Commissioner General Land Office, August
End, 1881, has been lost and unless inteIli-
gence of same is received by me or the Com
missioner of the General Land Office within
three months after date of this notice, will
apply to the proper officer for duplicate Of
said certificate. NOSES AUSTIN BRYAN.
January p, 1884,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

THE Arkansas river is now high
er than it has been for years at
Little Rock some Of the stores on
the levee are flooded, while the
town of Argenta, on the opposite
side. is completely submerged.
Railroad traffic is delayed.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

The Secretary of War is taking
active measures looking to the i'm
mediate relief of the sufferers from
the overflow of the Ohio river and
its tributaries, in accordance with
the act appropriating 100000 fol
that purpose. The assistant com,
missary-general has been ordered
from St. Louis to Cincinnati, where
he is to have charge of the dlstri'
button of the supplies. Secretary
Lincoln will also give his personal
attention to the subject.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

The BANNER is very fond of a
good thing, but then there can DO
too much of a good thing. For
several days it has been receiving
two copies of the Houston Age.
One copy wouldanswer every pur-
nose.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
COMMUNISM.


since Che days that Greenback-
ism was rampant in the country
and stump orators like Wash
Jones and Greenback newspapers
edited by cranks we're preaching
the doctrine of fat money and
plenty of it there has been a spirit
of communism pervading the land.
Texas with her millions Of acres
of grazing lands has been a very
favorable place for the communis-
tie'idea to grow. Men have grown
rich raising cattle on the prairies
where the grass and water were As
free rs the air we breath. Now
pes have changed, the grazing
= have, to considerable ex.
pazsed into the hands ofindi-
and corporations the pub.
set apart by the state fol-
oils university and asy'
become valuable and
ould be made a source
This the Legislature
do by leasing them, o.
rds making those who
,ef;t. from the said land,
cattle and sheep OF
rent to the state and
the available fund fol
the university and tbs
Every man in the stat,
b agriculture, mechani
Professional pursuits !,
ay taxes toward the sup
. state government anC
Itions. The farmer pay
us land and upon all the
on his farm. The gra
Exposed to pay a 1.-THE o
he cattle he owns, bu
of taxes does he pay Of
hat furnishes him fire,
he subsistence of his cat
% who contend for fire.,
free range are at bes
ut communists and enc
pciety. Property right
Us been respected from
arliest history of civil
always will be respect
mmunist Is no respecto,
y rights, but would if h
y the fruits of the labo,
without any other exer
part than simply taking
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
Dissolution.

The co-partnership heretofore existing be-
tween G. w. Booker and 4: K. Lockott, gen-
eral merchants at Hidalgo. was dissolved on
the 22nd january 1884, BY mutual consent,
G. w. Booker retiring, and Lockett, & Lott
continuing the business.
Fzo5 G. w. BooKKR-
~ ~ rr.- r. K L0cKErr.s
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
NOTICE.

The partnership heretofore existing under
the name Of G. 4. Long& Co., doing bust
ness at Graball, has this day been dissolved
by mutual consent D. D. BoLTos. &
kTanilarv %. 1894
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

Iris said in San Antonio that
Hal Gosling, now United States
marshal, is the coming man for
the congressional nomination in
that district.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
FINE FARM FOR SALE

l offer, on easy terms, my farm Of $50
acres of good improved land, with a two
story frame dwelling, known as NAYS place,)
FIVE miles north Of Navasota, in Grimes
county, Texas. MRs. C. @. RUSSELL,
Anderson, Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
DIsSOLUTION.

The copartnership heretofore existing be-
tween Oscar Samuel and G. F. Schram a.
ginners and millers, has this day been dis
solved by mutual consent, Mr.. o. Samuel
continuing the business and assuming all IL
abilities of the late firm
OSCAR SAMUEL,
CT. ScHRAN,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

THE distinguishing feature of
the Marshall Herald is the almost
total absence of local news.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14

u. L. MOODY, R. G.
Wells. and a. Il. Belo,
ton deep-water COM
gone to Washington
With others: ask help
So for the harbor I'M
at Galveston ander the
ads plan. &.