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Cottonwood News.

A thrifty little town.
Situated in a lovely valley.
Filled with enterprising and wide
awake people.
Barr Smith sports tho finest buggy
team in the Judith Basin.
Crops on upper Cottonwood were
damaged slightly by recent hail storms.
VIM. Berkins returned last week from
a trip to White Sulphur Springs.
Agentleman from the Missouri valley
will winter about 500 head of cattle on
the Cottonwood.
"'Twas only a Pansy Blossom" but
when gracefully wrought into a bouquet
by Mrs. Schaffer, 'its just too sweet for
anything" There nowl
The Cottonwood base ball club has
made some strong acquisitions since
they last played the quartz crushers"
of Maiden, and are anxious for another
contest, which will probably occur
soon.
The ladies of Cottonwood are to furn-
ish a supper in the new school building
about the first of September, the funds
realized therefrom to be devoted to the
liquidation of debt On the building.
A gentleman named Hawson has
recently purchased a ranch on the
creek and will move here with his
family. He has a large family with
two grown daughters" At least that
is what the boys say, and they keep
pretty well posted.
The new school building at Cotton
wood, is approaching completion, and
will be ready for school purposes by
the first of September. The building
will be 24x36 in size, with a fourteen
foot selling, and when completed will
cost $1,000. We were informed by Mr..
Schaffer, that there are fifty school
children within three or four miles of
the school building, while the district
embraces a great many more.
One of the many pleasant homes on
Cottonwood is that of Mr.. d. L. Schaffer,
about three-quarters of a mile above
the village. Ii is situated on the bench
that gradually rises from the meadow,
and furnishes a splendid view of the
village of Cottonwood, the Belt, High
wood, Moccasin and Snowy mountains.
Mr.. Schafier has an interest in a large
~irrigating ditch that runs through his
land above the house, which is capable
Of making many acres tillable and
affording moisture for the fine vegetable
and -four gardens, in which Mr.. & Mrs.
5. take great pride. Mr.. Schaffer Is
one Of the large stock growers Of this
section
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ONE YEAR OLD.

With this issue the first volume of
the MINERAL ARGUS is completed,
One year ago, the 9th of August,
the ARGUS made its Introductory bow
to the public, under bright and prom
ising prospects of a smooth, success
full voyage on the sea of journalism.
Success has crowned our efforts in a
limited degree, yet we have met and
done battle with adversely in all the
varied forms known to country journ-
alism. For a few months the publish
ers Of the ARGUS reaped a liberal
reward for their venture in starting a
paper here, despite the many pre-
dictIons that another paper could not
live in Meagher county until it was
more thickly settled) being enabled to
meet all obligations contracted as we'll
as to get upon a thorough business
BASIS ere the winter set in or the
depressing times through which We
ave safely passed began 70 te-. upon
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the various business interests. With
the hard times came the struggle for
life, and but for the ever ready support
of our patrons, who desire the success
Of the ARGUS as heartily as its owners,
We would have been forced to write
our obituary and ornament our front
door with a proper epitaph. Yet such
is but the experience of all newspaper
ventures in a new and sparcely settled
country, and only by dint of economy,
close attention to business, as well as
the interest of the country espoused
by a journal, a It successfully pass
the first year of its e~xistance during
the prevalence of times such as it has
been our lot to encounter.
That the lot of a country editor IS
not a happy one, we have ample proof.
1t is beyond human power to please
everyone, yet we have endeavored to
do our duty in the premises in every
instance, always looking to the inter
ests of our many patrons. How well
the ARGUS has filed its mission as 4
representative of the people and bust
ness interests Of Meagher county we
leave the public to judge.
In completing this volume We desire
to return thanks to our many patrons,
here and elsewhere, for their liberal
support during the past eventful year,
and trust they viii find it to their
interest to continue their patronage.
shall endeavor, as heretofore, to
u readers with a paper
abreast of the times, and when expe
dient-we trust in a few weeks-place
them an all-to-home paper,
The Mineral argus., 1884-08-07

The roundup of horse thieves down
on the Missouri, so far as we can get
at the inside view and the bottom facts
of the business, is n of the best
things that ever happened in the Ter
ritory. Somebody without either a
civil or military commission is doing us
the identical service for which the laws
are intended but often prove made
quate. If it should cost the lives of a
few score of men, to whom there is lit
tie chance of being Of any account to
themselves or the world, to teach re-
pect for lawful ownership of cattle and
horses, it would be a profitable ex-
change. We hope to see the day that
it will be just as safe for a mans horse
or OK to Craze on any part of the pub
lie domain as in a pasture in front Of
the house. So proud would we be of
such a state OF affairs that we would
readily sacrifice every horse thief in
the Territory to secure it-Helena
Herald.
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We are pleased to state 70 our many

We are pleased to state 70 our many
subscribers on Spring Creek and
throughout the Judith Basin that on
and after the roth inst, the MINERAL
ARGUS viii reach them the day after
publicaiion--Friday thus enabling US
10 furnish them with the latest news,
as well as to devote a portion of our
space to local happenings that will be
news when received.
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i FoR ll'II WoR7HS RAE.

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The following from the Fort
Worth Gazette shows the way In
Which business is done in that en-
1erprIsing city. When they want
a railroad they go to work and
subscribe the necessary cash and
then proceed to build it. They do
not spend months and years in
idle talk and they sit down and
wait for somebody else to come
along and make improvements for
them. The proposed building of
the road alluded to has already
caused marked advance IN the
price of the real estate, and the re-
suit will be that the property own
crs viii eventually derive the larg-
est benefit from the construction of
The road. BRENNAN capitalists
may we'll read and ponder: "If
anybody ever imagined that Fort
Worth did not mean business when
she began to get ready to build a
road to the southwest, the conclu-
sivc action taken by the men of
this city Tuesday night does not
leave room for further doubt. The
subscription of $4,000 in cash
and tile organization of the COM
pany has a very materialistie look
to people who have been accustom-
cd to regard railroad talk as an
easy and harmless channel for the
cfHuence ofwind. To satisfy every
body to the last degree, The Ga
gette can state. by authority, that
the contracts will be let and
ground broke on the road between
this place and Brownwood within
The next thirty days. This state
mont is based on information de-
rived from the best source"
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REDUcE THE NUMBER.

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Tho Waxahaehie Mirror says
there arc too many lawyers in the
legislature, and il wants to see the
next Legislature composed of a
good nnmiber OF good lawyers, and
a number Of capable farmers, some
merchants, some doctors and few
editors and mechanics. A diversity
ftalent is what it wants.
The real want is large reduc-
lion in the number of members of
tho legislature; that body is now
TOO large and cumbersome, one
fourth, of the number would do
more work and do ii, much better
than is done now, and by inereas-
ing the compensation good men
could be induced to run for the
Legislature. Very few men are in
a position TO serve the state at a
pecuniary loss to themselves, as
well as the loss of time and neg
1cct Of private business. This mat
ter has been referred to before,
but somehow the press has not
given it the attention that it de-
serves. With legislature CON-
posed of say thirty or forty men,
bers the business ofthe state could
be disposed ofin sixty dsys, or
ninety days at the outside. There
would be no occasion for many and
such long speeches, and having
men ola higher grade of ability
than the present promiscuous Leg
islature, better and more intelli-
gent legislation. Another adyan-
tage to the people would be a ma
terial reduction in the cost of leg
islative sessions. Large delibera-
two bodies become unwieldy and
hard to manage and therefore they
dispose of business very slowly
and imperfectly, frequently having
TO resort to compromise measures,
owing to a diversity of opinion
among so many members. While
there is no great difficulty IN get
ting men to run for the legislature,
there is great difficulty in getting
men Of prominence and ability,
representative men, to accept of the
position. They say plainly, there
is no money in it, it wont pay, and
as for honor, that has gone glim-
mering long ago. One ofthe most
prominent, as well as most able
members of the State Senate, was
heard to say after the close of the
extra session, that he wanted no
moro in his The had had all the
glory he wanted, and to say moth
ing Of loss of time and neglect of
private business, he was $500 short
in actual cash, or in othor words
his expenses had exceeded bis pay
that much; he does not gamble and
is not an extravagant man in any
sense His case is by no means an
exception. Fewer members of the
Legislature and better pay is what
the state needs.
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Notice in Probate.

The STATE OF TEXAS, q.
To the Sheriff or any constable Of wash
ington County, Greeting:
You arc hereby commanded to cause 10 he
published for al least twenty days in The
BRENNAN Bann-r, a newspaper printed in the
county Washington, the following notice
TIE STATE OF TEXAS,
To all persons interested in the estate of
Nathan King, deceased, o. II. p Garrett.
administrator of said estate, has sled ip he
County Court OF Washington County. an an
plcation for discharge from the adm,nistrs-
hon OF, and his final account Nth the estate
of Nathan King, deceased, which WIN be
heard al the next term of the County Cozrtof
said county, commencing on the Isl MondzT
IN May, 1884, at the Court House hereof IN
the City OF Brenham, at which time all per
sons interested in said estate may appear and
contest SAID application and accounr if thew
sec proper.
Herein fail not, under penalty of the la,r.
and ofthis writ make due return, Issued he
I'd day of April, 1854.
Witness, Ii. NJ. Lewis Clerk of said conr,
Is and seal thereof, at Office in the civ
OF BTenham, the I'd day Of April, 1854
H. NJ. LEWIS,
c. c, CIVIC
hereby certify tina the above is a true and
correct copy OF the original Citation now IN.
my hands, an | or Ter the same published in
the BRENNAN Banner fer twenty days from
this date, April Sd, 1885,
]. L. MOORE,
a.. Sheriff w. c.
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Fence cutters are again ut
work in Comauche county and a
night or two ago they cut two and
9 half miles of wire fence of ]. W.
Green and a small portion of Mr..
Springs. These same fences were
cut few days ago.
Conrad Anschicks has return
od home to Robertson county, and
is being received with hearty con-
CALCULATIONS. He WIS convicted
and sent TO the peniten liary for
CRIME which it is generally be-
lieved he did not commit.
AT Henderson on Friday there
was a destructive storm lasting
twelve hours. 1t is variously esti-
mated that the rainfall was from
twelve to fifteen inches. Farmers
are badly damaged by washing and
no estimate of the loss can be form.
ed.
Meridian now has a mineral
we'll the curative properties of
which are said to be attracting
great attention. Every well with
water that smells bad and tastes
bad is said to BE mineral we'll and
to possess marvellous medicinal
qualities.
-Corsicana is now making pre-
parations against fire. One fire
engine has already been received
and another one has been ordered.
Two fire companies have been or
ganized and when the water works
are completed the protection will
be ample.
In Hamilton county a man
named McDoughal shot and killed
young man named Proctor. The
former had slandered the latter's
sister and the latter had threaten
ed to horsewhip him on sight, but
instead of doing 50 he got killed.
McDoughal escaped.
Henry Forshall, a German sa-
loon keeper at Fort Worth, was
found dead in his saloon on Sun
day morning sitting in his chair.
He had been left there about u
o'clock Saturday night by his bar
keeper. He weighed over 300
pounds and is thought to have died
from fatty degeneration of the
heart.
"A deputy sheriff st Richmond
heard a-pistol serenade at the Sun
set depot, but when he got there he
could find no one who did the
shooting; he, however, did find
three six-shooters under the plat
form. He thinks the guns will
not be claimed as it would cost s25
fine and the trimmings to own one
of them.
notwithstanding the unusual
ly cold weather that has prevailed
since last Saturday, but little dam
age from frost is reported in the
northern part of the state and no
frost is reported at Bolton or south
of it, except at Bastrop and few
points further west, where no dam
age was done. A very narrow es-
cape has been made and it is hoped |
that all damage from frost is now
safely passed.
After the examination of near !
ly 300 men a jury was obtained in
the Cunningham case. Cunning
ham is charged will, the murder of
Fleming at Fort Worth. A |
large percentage of those |
examined had conscientious |
scruples against the infection of
death as a punishment for CRIME.
Many men no doubt are opposed
to the death penalty, but more
men have conscientious scruples
for the express purpose OF avoid
ing jury duty.
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FOR SALE.

l House and lot, GONl20, price 500,
G6 acres, about 80 in timber, .s.lancc in
eultivntiOn.situated 2115 I.ile nom town, price
S2Oper acre,
.sl3 acres, so acres in cultivation; steam gin
and mill on place. Situated miles from
town; price so per acre.
s Half acres lots, in quantities to suit, STUD
ted in Wilkins addition.
435 acres, $50 in cultivation, balance tim
Der; good dwelling, three rent HOUSES good
feNSf. Situated IL miles from town; price
$40 per acre.
81 Acres; farm in good condition, about
8 miles from town price $50 per acre.
lao AcFOS, farm in fine condition, about
Il miles rum town; all under fence, fine
dwelling house, Price $1,000.
d Acres timber laRd, about miles from
town; price SIS per acre.
2 Lots Wilkins addition, owned BY Mrs.
Hober; price 800 each.
Au titles guaranteed. Terms easy.
Apply to
RIG. SYDow.
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Valuable City Property for Sale
on Easy Terms.

lot fronting 100 f. 6 inches on Sandy and
running back 24S fl. to Peabody street. This
is one of tho IuoSt deslrlble residence lots in
this olty,
10 6-l0 acres, part of Alleorn's addition TO
Brenham, cottage with rooms, stable, corn
crib any good well of water on place-will
cut in an size lots desired.
lots in wilkins addition TO Brenham,
known as Hutchinson grove-will cut this to
suit purchasers:
Mrs. b. A. Lockett's homestead. in the
business part of the city-will cut In business
lots to suit purchasers Il desired.
Titles all perfect. For particulars apply
to u. 4. HARvIN. at Lockett's stable.
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Notice in Probate

i.
THE STATE or TDlsS,
To the Sheriff or any Constable of Wash
ington Coun y, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded 10 publish for
10 days IN the Brenham Banner, newspaper
published IN your county, the following notice:
The STATE OF Texas,
To all persons interested IN the estafe of
John NJ. McPherson, deceased, D. d. Bolton.
administrator Of said estate, has flied in he
County Court of Washington county, his fin
al account with the estate Of said Tohn M
McPherson, deceased, and his ap Jlication for
discharge from SaidtuSt, which win be heard
at the next term of the County Court Of aid
county, commencing on the Ist Monday IN
May, 1854, at the Courthouse thereof. in tbe
city oil Brenhann, at which time all persons
interested in said estate nav appear and eon-
test said application, if they see proper
Herein fail hot. under penalty of the law,
and OF this writ make due return. Issued The
4th day Of April 1884.
Witness, II n. Lewis, Clerk Of said Court
rs and the seal thereof, at Office. in The
City ef B-enham, the 4th day Of April.
ISS4- II. NJ. LEWIS. -
BY Z T. HfRBsT, &C. W. C.
Deputy.
! hereby certify that the above and fore
going is tine and correct copy Of the oriei-
nal Citation, now IN my hands. and 1 order
the same published in the BRENNAN for 10.
days from this date. April 5. 1884,
J. L MOORE,
Sheriff w. c.
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THE NEGRO AND THE REPUB-
LICANS.


The attempted organization ola
white Republican party in the
south cxcites the ire of negroes in
the North 10 a much greater degree
apparently than it does in the
states where the negroes are num-
crous enough TO be a political
factor. The New York Globe,
a journal published by negroes, ad-
vises its race in the southern states
to accept the challenge and to or
ganize literally Black Republi-
can party and send to Chicago
delegations ofnegroes.. This would
compel the national convention to
decide between the colors. The
negroes might go to Chicago and
demand a colored vice president,
Douglass, Pinchback or Bruce for
instance. In the northern states
the white Republicans are gener-
ally in the majority and the color
ed brother is a very unlmportant
factor politically, although they
have given the Republican party
the presidency in the two last cam
paigns, but yet the party Is un-
grateful and it refuses to recognize
its colored friends and brethren.
In the northern states the colored
man can get no offices 1; he must be
satisfied with the privilege of vot
ing. In Ohio there is about 80, 900
negroes, and in 1876 they polled
about $1,000 votes, all of course
for the Republican candidate.
Hayes majority over Tilden in
Ohio was only 1916, so it is plain
that if only one-half ofthe negroes
had voted for Tilden he would
have had a majority. Tt is OBJ
vieus that the negroes gave the
Republicans Ohio in that election,
and without that state their defeat
would have been so overwhelming
that the grand fraud which proved
successful would not have been at
tempted. II would not even have
been thought of. Indiana has a
negro population of about 10000,
and in that state about 10000 me-
gro votes were cast in 1880. Por-
ter's plurality over Landers for
governor in October, 1880, was
only 695S. This was the turning
point in the presidential election
of that year. Had the negroes not
given the state to the Republicans
in October. there is not one chance
in ten that they would have been
triumphant either there or in New
York in November. 1t is evident
that the negroes were of inestima-
bic service to the Republican par
tY, in truth they were indespensi-
bic. But how are the negroes re-
paid in Ohio and Indiana; there is
probably not in the two states half
a dozen negro ofice-holders. The
white Republicans hold all the
state, county, and municipal offices
wherever locally they are in the
majority; and as for holding feder-
al offices in those states they are
not so much as thought of. They
keep the Republican party in pow
er and give. it the disposition of
thousands and thousands of fat
places, while they get cold pota-
toes instead of chicken pie. In
the south it is much the same, in
the Republican counties the ne
groes elect white men to the fat
offices and get next to nothing for
themselves; they are, politically,
the slaves of their white party
masters.
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THE E,. PRICE OF coTroM.

The BANNER is in receipt of a
circular from C. P. Hunt & Co.,
the oldest cotton house of Men,
phis, Tennessee, in which is given
a general review of the cotton
market up to the 4th of April.
They give figures to show that the
visible supply of cotton in this
country will, by the middle of Sep
TENDER next, be about 372, 900 bales
short of supplying the regular de-
mand. They estimate that by the
LIST of October next the visible sup
ply of the world will be less than
for any preceding season since
1879. In that year uplands touch
ed Is "a cents in New York. How
far scant supply may advance
prices this season remains to be
seen, yet it is potent to the careful
observer that all the conditions for
a further marked and material adj
vance now exist. The manufac-
turer has already bought three
fourths of his annual supply of
cotton on basis of about I 7-Sd.
and can well afford to pay 71-2d.
for the remnant left In order to
enhance the price of and stimulate
the demand for his goods. This
planting season is three weeks
later than in 1SS2-the Mississippi
bottom all overhowed = stock
weakened and destroyed by attacks
of innumerable gnats, cngendered
by high water-and the prospects,
which in 1882 were never more
fiattering, are now more discour-
aging than we have ever known
them. When the world realizes
the actual and true state of affairs,
we look for a rapid and material
advance, and should not be surpris-
ed to see Liverpool touch 7d,,crc
the LIST of July. This will be good
a5Zs for the few who have cotton
d and for those who may be
market a po - the
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"A row of four frame buildings
in Cleburne were destroyed by
fire on Saturday morning. The
Cleburno Light Guards lost all
their arms-thirty-eight stands.
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Dallas. came near having sui
eide on Saturday night one Kirk.
ham, a hostler, took 40 grains of
morphine, but . doctor pumped it
out Of him IN time to save his life,
Mr.. l.. s, Banks, civil engineer,
in the employ of the Santa Ee rail.
way died at Dallas on Saturday
last. Mr.. Banks was well known
in Brenham and had many friends
here.
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Two large hotels, six large
stone stores, and forty or fifty 9TH
er now buildings are now in course
of construction at Lampasas.
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In Dallas the other day Ben
Hirschberg was cowhided by the
wife of Rabbi Schulz. She accused
Hirschherg of being the instigator
of the prosecution against her hus-
hand,
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About 800 members of the
State Medical association were in
Bolton on Tuesday. The usual
routine business is being disposed.
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Estimates have been made for
the bridge across the Brazos at
Richmond and final action will
soon be taken by the commission
arS
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Three hundred dollars reward
Is offered for the apprehension and
conviction of the party or parties
who pied the Dispatch Office at
Austin last week.
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Winsboro is a city of. such
vast Importance that the proceed
ings of the mayors court are wired
to the Galveston News.
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A 6sal storage warehouse with
of twenty-five car loads
of freight Is being erected in the
Firth ward in Houston.