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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Jay Cooke, whose fortune WIS
swept away by the crash Of 1873,
is to-day one ofthe wealthiest men
of Pennsylvania. He has invest
ments in iron, coal, gold and silver
mines and railroads reaching far
into the millions.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

PHILADELPHIA, May 3.-Judge
Thayer to-day delivered an opinion
IN the court of common pleas No. 4
admitting Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore
to practise. Every other common
pleas court has refused her admis-
sion, although exceptional action
was taken some time ago by the
orphans court, where the lady is
a practitioner. Judge Arnold dis
sented from the opinion of his col
leagues, Thayer and Alcoek. The
court tooRthe ground that its &C.
ton was sustained by the common
law of right, which the legislature
had not intorfered with by statute.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

The new imperial palace at Stras-
burg is to cost 81, $50, 900, and will
be completed in three years. The
people view it as piece of extrav-
agance, as the German Emperor
has dozen palaces already.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

The custom of announcing on
stage programmes who made the
leading ladies dresses, has finally
got down into base ball circles
The Brockville Journal announces
that "keeney's three-hit in the
Springfield game" was made with
Spaulding's black band, second
growth ash bat.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Julian Hawthorne says that his
father, the novelist, wrote q num-
Der of tales having witches for
their subject matter, but they were
burned by their author because
"they embodied no moral truth /;
they were mere imaginative nara
tives, founded on history and ira
dition, and had not the spiritual
balance and proportions of a work
of art,D
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Here is an example of the cor
seientious study which the best
Partisan actors give to parts
in the most extravagant
Palais Royal farces. Daubray,
who takes the role of butcher in
the new place Gle Train dePlai-
sir" has been in the habit for the
last few weeks of rising early and
paying visit to his butcher to
learn practically the way to "cut
up" and "dress" meat.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

The State Pharmaceutical asso-
citation meets in Waco on the 18th
inst. About $3.50 has been raised
to entertain the brotherhood, but
more is needed to carry out the
entertainment intended by the To-
cal druggists.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

TIE Cotton Seed Crushers asso-
citation held a meeting at st. Louis.
Fifty-thrce representatives of mills
operated in the South were pre-
ent. Eighteen new mills are re-
ported making a total of 122 on
the roster of the association. Only
one representative from each mill
is admitted to the floor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

CORRESPONDENTS of Northern pv-
pers in Houston are warned that
for this week politics are banished,
and that no capital can be made
for any presidential aspirant, no
matter whether he be Democrat or
Republican.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

The Paris Evenement makes.
"under all reserve" the statement
that a prince of the blood, a near
relative of one of the pretenders
to the French throne, has Just SCI
cretly married his-housekeeper.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Among the things to be exhibi-
ted at the meeting of the inventors
in Cincinnati is the first patent
ever issued in the United States.
1t is dated New York July 81,
1890, and is signed by George
Washington, President; Edmund
Randolph, Acknowledgement and
Thomas Jefferson, Secretary.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Six hundred public story-tellers
earn a good livelihood in Toxic,
Japan, by plying their trade as
improvisators. They post them
selves on the streets provided with
a table, a fan and a paper rapper
to illustrate and emphasize the
points of the tales.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

A new religious sect, the men,
bers of which style themselves
"The United Brethren in Christ, "
is developing wonderful success
throughout Eastern Pomerania.
The founder is carpenter, whose
followers compare him to Christ,
because of his calling, his lowly
origin and the great purity of his
life
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Edison, the inventor, is lectur-
ing on applied electricity in the
Eastern cities to large audiences.
AT Worcester, Mass, he lectured
TO a paying audience of 1000 peo-
pie.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Dennis T. Coddigan, the oldest
of New York hotel clerks, died in
that city Thursday last. He was
over 20 years of age. He was head
clerk of the st. Nicholas Hotel for
twenty-four years.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

The creditors of Moses Fraley,
the st. Louis Spectator, who sus-
pended a few days ago, offered to
settle with him for 33 l-3 cents, but
he declined the proposition and
paid dollar for dollar. His inbebt-
edness was about 100000,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Only three years ago Malone
said IN the Senate that he was q
better Democrat than Ben Hill.
Now he says he is a better Repub-
lican than Dezendorf, the straight
outer, who is fighting him in Vir-
ginia.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

During the first two months of
this year 1854 persons emigrated
from Germany. In 1888, during
the same time, 1856 Germans left
the Fatherland, while in 1882 the
number was 1852,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

The bridal veil originated in the
custom of performing the nuptial
ceremony under a square piece Of
cloth, held over the bridegroom and
bride, to conceal the bushes OF the
laftar
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

The Marine Bank of New York
and the firm ofGrant & Ward have
both failed. Ex-president Grant
and his son U. s. Grant, Jr., were
general partners in the firm. A
report is current that Ward, the
manager of the firms business, has
disappeared and that he has car
ried off 100000. The failure crea-
ted quite q futter in Wall street.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08
How a Lawyer Treated the Case.

new HaVen COnIl-, Inlon-
1, David Strous, of New Haven,
Connecticut, was attacked with &
severe rheumatism in my right
arm, hand and foot, so that 1 walk
ed with difficulty and could hard.
ly use my hand to cat with. 1
used one bottle of st. Jacobs Oil,
rubbing well three times day, and
obtained instant relief and per-
feet cure.
David Streuse, Atty at Law.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Paul H. Hayne, the southern
poet, is being liOnized in Augusta,
Georgia, Mr.. Hayne is a true son
of the muses. and a fine type Of the
old-fashioned southern gentleman.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08
NEWSPAPER reporters are n

NEWSPAPER reporters are not
infallible. The Brennan reporter
of the Galveston News report.
ing a fashionable wedding that
took place here on Tuesday, saws
that Rev. Warner Riggs performed
the cermony. At the time cere-
mony took place Rev. Riggs was
in Houston. Rev. ]. II. Luther
performed the ceremony.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

It is said that a woman in Maine
has formed $50 Ineligible words
from the letters comprising the
familiar word "incomprchensibil-
ity."
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

George Mayo, the champion ora
tor of Lawrence University, Kan
sas, stole half his piece from Col.
A. X. McClure's grafton at Dickin-
son College, Pennsylvania, in 1878.
Mayo was expelled.
Wilmington, Del, May S.1As-
tors new steel yacht Nourmahal
was launched to-day. She is said
to be the largest pleasure vessel
ever launched in America and the
largest yacht afloat.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

Pierre Iorillard has contributed
$4,000 to the fund being raised in
New Jersey in aid of the pedestal
for the Bartholdi statue.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-08

1 Ladies' approve OF your smok
ing "Little JOKER"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-31
THIS MoREIEG's news.

In New York Saturday Government bonds were
quoted at 128 for As of 1907 1183 for AS sterling
sSG4 sO1; 1919 for IS, 100 for 5s silver bars,
1IIt.
Silver in London, 5Oli; cOnsols, lO2 1ed; 5
per cent United States bonds, extended, los; 4s
l26; AIS, 1154.
s7IdSS cents.
There was a light business in mining stocks at
San Francisco Saturday morning, and prices were
essentially the same as on Friday.
The annual session of the Grand Parlor, Native
Sons of the Golden West, will be held in MarYsyile
April 18th
Thomas Davis (colored) shot a Chinaman yester.
day in Salem, Or
Full and graphic details of the terrible riot in
Cincinnati are given this morning.
A Chinaman was fatally stabbed in Portland, Or,
last night by two highbinders.
George Frye, pioneer, died Saturday near olym-
pia, W. T.
dynamite explosion at Thompson's Point, N. j,
killed six men.
The American College in Rome is exempted from
the Propagandaeale.
Five colored children were fatally poisoned near
brunswick, Ga, by eating pork
The Pope informs Emperor Francis Joseph that
there are reasons which induce him to leave Rome
at a more or LEES early date.
During March 2,5ll emigrants left s.. Paul, MINI,
for Portland, Or.
The Holiness Band is being annoyed at san Jose
by hoodlums.
High water prevail in southern Utah.
A gale in the Elst Saturday night caused consd-
cradle loss of property and several lives.
A negro uprising is imminent at Sandersville, Ga.
The funeral Of the late Duke OF Albany will take
place in London next Saturday.
Prairie fires doing great damage in Kansas.
Schaefer, the bilardist, accepts slosson's chal-
lenge, and will play him in Chicago.
The trial of Senator kellogg has been fixed in
Washington for April 21st.
Sargent declines the mission to St Petersburg
and proposes to resign his present position.
1t is charged that millions of acres of public land
in Colorado and New Mexico have been converted
to private use.
Victor Guyot dropped dead on the San Bruno
road, near San Francisco, Saturday.
woman and her 14-year-old son have been sent
to Jail in San Jose for stealing goods from store.
At I alias Tex, yesterday, Willis Adams shot and
killed Michael Burns
fire at Lyons France, caused loss of 100000
francs
Four thousand barrels of oil were destroyed by
fire at Dublin yesterday.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-31
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Grass Valley is warning on street-colner
loafers,
New Postoffices have been established at
Henning, A. T., and Comanche, Or.
For miles between Ward and Phoebe,
New, the country is under water four feet
deep.
An effort is being made to have the Car.
son, New, Guard stop shooting on Sun
days.
Not less than 1000 fruit trees have
been set cut in Butte county during the
past year.
Roseville, Or, has new Touring mill
and new winery in prospective at an
early day.
The Sun claims 100000 bushels Of
wheat for Coluss county tdis season if no
unfavorable symptoms manifest themselves.
The Ceur d'Alene Steam Navigation
Companys steamer Cpur d'Alene was sue
cessfully launched at Cear d'Alene city
| Thursday.
The police of Victoria, B. c., are or
dered to suppress gambling. Open gam
bling has always been carried on in Vic
toria saloons.
The Chico Record states upon the au-
thority of a gentleman of that place that
there are no less than fifty tramps camped
in that vicinity.
Edward Kemp, from Centreville, Or,
took drink of concentrated lye Thursday
at Walla Walla, thinking it was whisky.
He is not expected to live.
Three large devilfsh, two of them meas.
uring eight feet between the tips Of the
tentacles, were taken at Anacortes, W. T.,
last week by some Indians.
The knights of Pythias OF Utah, Thurs.
day, atSalt Lake, organized Grand Lodge,
after working under the jurisdiction of the
Supreme Lodge of the United States for
eleven years.
A company has been formed to pipe
water from the new water find in the Bar
quoquiva mountains, a. T., to Qdijotoa, a
distance of twenty.six miles. This settles
the question of water in the new camp.
There was a colt born at Livermore last
week whose head resembles that of large
bog with jaws and ears, and its tail has a
bunch of regular hog bristles, and the skin
is as clean and clear as that of a scalded
hog. The mouth stands open, and the
front or upper jaw is horribly defermed.
1t is asserted that the Central Pacific
had secured control of the Oregon Railroad
and Navigation Company, and that it has
secured all the ex-Nillord corporations, ex-
ceps, perhaps, the Oregon and California
Road and the Oregon Improvement Com
pany. Il is also said that Flood and Mackay
are in with the Central Pacific in these
new acquisitions.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-31
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The Supreme Court will open for bust
ness to-day in its new quarters on Post
street, between Geary and Dupont streets.
Saturday afternoon Harmon and Kittle.
man filed articlesto run foot-rsce, Is yards
and repeat, for 81 600 side, on Sunday,
April 18Th. The men are to start by mu-
tusl consent. Tue race will be run on the
Oakland Track.
+. s. Solomon, special counsel for the
collection of delinquent taxes for 1879 so,
has filed report with the Board of Super
visors that he has collected, between Sep
tembsr IS, 1888, and March IS, 1854, the
sum OF SIG 6S. snd has paid into the City
Treasury Sl95 o.
Daring the past week $50 persons have
arrived in this State in charge of the State
immigration Society. The officers are in
receipt of numerous letters from Norway
and Sweden, asking for information about
this coast, showing great desire on the part
of the inhabitants OF those countries to
emigrate. a party of Lutheran Germans,
from Illinois, have arrived to secure farms
for 200 families.
The steamer City of Rio de Janero de.
parted for China and Japan via Honolulu
Saturday afternoon at o'clock, She car
ried about thirty saloon passengers, and
Steward Tom James will have fifty Chinese
to provide for, or rather see to, for such
was the number departing. OF these thirty
60 with or without return papers, eight are
in transit per Colims from Panama, and
twelve have come from Havana, Cuba,
lately, overland.
One of Coroner Liviugston's unknown
dead was identified Saturday by means of
photograph of the corpse, hung up for
public inspection. This is the first in
stance OF Identification under the new Act,
and as such possesses considerable interest.
The unknown proves to be Charles H.
Fisher, and his case will be remembered as
that of the man who committed suicide by
hanging himself to the Lombard. street
bridge on the lst of November last. Cor
nelius Palmer, of AS Fifth street, who
effected the Identification, stated that
Fisher was carpenter, aged A. years, and
that he has wife and several children in
Hamilton, Ohio.
Just as the crowd was pressing its hardest
about the doors of the Grand Opera House
at l:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, lively
diversion was created by two of Sheriff
Connolly's deputy's forcing a passageway,
and putting an attachment on the box
office. The crowd thickened at the tenn
porary close of the sale of tickets, and
piled up like ice Il jam at the breaking
up of river in the spring, and for nearly
twenty minutes danger by suffocation was
great to some of the ladies, when Colonel
Mapleson was found, and satisfying the de.
mand, the blockade was removed. The
demand amounted to $40 so, and was
bill for pertaining the house on Monday
night. The impressario considered it exor-
bitsnt, and declined to pay it, until the
firm doing the work found their money
would be totally lost, and attached the re.
ceipts at the box office, as stated.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-31

OFFICE SEEKERS IN THE WHITE House.
An anecdotal paper on 1.-The White
House," by L. Y. Smalley, is the opening
illustrated paper of the April Ceatuy. OF
Office seekers he says in part The late
President Garfield once said that he was
obliged to see an average of about thirty
persons for every office to be filled. If the
question was one of removal the number
was much greater, including the friends of
the incumbent as well as the candidates for
the place. There is an amusing story, not
a new one by any means, of the method
Mr.. Lincoln adopted to settle a contest
over postmastership which had greatly
annoyed him. There were two candidates
In the field, and petition after petition had
poured in upon the weary President, and
delegation after delegation had rushed to
the White House to argue the claims of
the rival sspirants. Finally, after he had
been bored for half an hour by fresh del
egation, Mr.. Lincoln said to his Secretary,
This matter has got to end somehow.
Bring pair of scales The scales were
brought. Now put in all the petit ms
and letters in favor of one man, and see
how much they weigh, and then weigh the
other candidates papers, 1t was found
that one bundle was three.quarters of a
pound heavier than other. Make out the
appointment at once for the man who has
the heaviest papers, ordered the President,
and it was done"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-31

FLowEE.MAKERs OF PARIS. 1t appears
almost Incredible that in Paris no fewer
than $4,000 women find their living by
making artificial flowers. The majority Of
them are asserted by a too credulous ad-
mirer to be real artists, initiating nature
almost to perfection, with exquisite taste
and well. developed imagination. The rose
in the workshop of the flsuriste is the mas
terpiece. If the art of making rose is
acquired, the maker is supposed to be able
to initiate any other flower, the rose being
considered as particularly developing the
imagination of young artists. As in other
branches of industry, there are specialists
in the flower factories, the buds, the
foliage and the mounting being done by
different people. At present great num-
Der of fiower.makers are out of work, ow-
ing partly to flowers being cut OF fashion
and partly to the enormous competition in
England, Germany, Switzerland and
Americl, which increases with every sea-
son. No country, however, can compete
with France in elegance, delicacy and
taste, although the flowers are generally
made after French models. 1t is y curious
fact, says a complacent FrenohmsD, that
women who in France were highly esteemed
for their taste in the manufacturing and
arranging OF flowers lose all their ingenuity
when, as not infrequently happens, they
go abroad to pursue their calling.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-31

that the corporations seek to escape all
taxation.
But, as we have intimated, while direct
taxation is obnoxious, and has always been
received with barest liberation by the peo-
pie, an income tax of all others is most un-
thinkable in republican form of govern
ment. 1t is always the last resource of
power, when money must be raised at all
hazards 1t has always been deemed a tax
on honesty and bid for perjury. Theo-
retically it has, with the provisos of COM
plete equality and perfect inquisitorial
power, received the approval Of political
economists, but practically and effectively
has not operated benefcially, for the rea-
son that these theoretic requirements, and
upon which all the theories hinge, cannot be
attained
Indeed, history does not disclose, among
the most tenacious advocates of an income
tax, single one who proposed to apply it
to particular class. nor yet one who has
not admitted tat, to be just. it must be
equal in bearing, but in fact it has been on
trial grossly unequal. "Any tax, says one
of these, passing over some classes, and
bearing more heavily on others, is based on
an unjust principle"
But how much more detestable is such
system as that now proposed, which is to
tax the income, and at the same time, by
regulative Commissions, cut at the other
end of the line by regulating or limiting
the earning capacity Of one particular class
of transporters.
In other words, it is proposed to give
all that class paying property taxes-and
which, being always the majority, and
possessing the power to elect and dictate
to Legislatures power, first, to fix the
rates, without limit, at which railroads
may be operated ; secondly, to tax with
out limit the revenue resulting from such
operation and thirdly, to tax anew the
property by the use and operation of
which the taxed revenue Is derived, and
also the new property in which savings are
invested. 1t will, therefore, always be
an appeal to the majority to lower the
rates it must pay for service, and en-
large the tax upon that service,
since both operations will apparently
benefit it that is, lessen its cost of living,
and disproportionately tighten its govern
mental burdens. And this, ace assert, is
more obnoxious than communism, and is to
be denominated as coafscation pure and
simple, unthinkabIe in a republic, destructive
of Just government, and directly moving in
the path toward tyranny, Decentralization
and anarchy.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-31

PASSENGER LISTS.

MoJAvE March 30th-Passed here to-day, to
arrive in san Francisco March 31st: W. A Dennis,
san Jose J. f. Woods. Canada O. C. Callahan,
st. Louis; d. Il. Prinev and wife, Phoenix, A. T
Mr. and Mrs H. P. Mchoon, San Francisco S s.
Haggin, Iowa; S Stoll, Los Angeles; Mrs = NJ.
Hail. Ohio; d. +. Scott, Los Angeles Captain X.
II. Pratt and wife, L. 5. A, Carlisle, Pa. C. W.
HlrnicS and wife, Chicago; Mrs. o. B. Gamson,
Miss Monja, Los Angeles; Lewis Jacobs, San Ber-
nardino H. Roman, San Francisco A. Mandine,
Sister Josephine Sister Dsmion, Sister Clrmelite,
Sister Mary Joseph, Sister Boriglto, Los Angeles
NJ Wailleigh, Wisconsin; Hall McAllister, DR.. J. C.
Shorb, San Francisco NJ. Knowey, New Orleans
D. Hewes, Arizona J. Boos, Mexico; o. B. Peck,
san Bernardino; W. S. Anderson, C. A. Anderson,
England: C. S. Moonion, New York C. K. Mi lice,
Topeka, Ks; Miss Deerborn, San Francisco Mrs. A.
A Hurd and child, Top ,ka, Ks; Mr.. and Mrs. J. G,
Jennings Cleveland, o; G. L. Bowman and wife.
Peach Springs, A. T.; G. B. Bradley, Springfield, o..
J. II. Kelley, Topeka, rs.
CARLIS, March 30th. Passed here to-day to arrive
in Sacramento!March 3lst A.IOnderdonk and fam.
lily, British Columbia; Mss Hillman, New York
city; J. W. Ford Nebraska Mrs. Chas. E. Main
and child, Salt Lake City; Miss Lizzie McCloskey,
Philadelphia w. F. Thummel, Iowa J. W Palmer,
E. Morris, San Francisco S. NJ. Sprague Boston
Mrs A G. Leland and daughter, New York city
H. Mclean. Idaho. Also, 81 emigrants, includ-
ing 81 males TO arrive March Slsf.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-31

CoNDITIONS-An trottiug races are in 5, I'M
less otherwise specified five to enter and three or
more to start; National Association rules TO govern ;
all purses divided at the rate OF CO. 30 and 10 per
cent. to first, second and third horses All running
races five TO enter and three or more tn start Pa
citc Blood Horse Association rules to govern where
not otherwise specified In all races where entries
exceed ten, $500 will be added. Entrsnce to all
races, 10 per cent. Of purse, money 10 accompany
nomination. All entries TO be made in writing Civ
ing name, color and sex Of horses: also, name and
residence Of owner Entries in all the races to close
with the Secretary Saturday, April 5, 1ss4
Write Entries to Races on outside Of envelope.
BY order of J. W. WILSON, President.
c. II. TCDD, Secretary.
= o. Box No 400 Sacramento mrll-tl