Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-10
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l. are not very interesting, being d,
n voted chiefly to accounts of the fc,
If tivities of the season in their sey
y eral localities. All of them, how
+ ever, promises to be better an,
more interesting this year thai
last.
The west wing of the mali
: building of the Texas Universit,
r at Austin has been completed ant
. the structure accepted by tn,
, building committee. Last Monday
the classes were moved from tn,
temporary capitol to the new
building and since then the schoo
has been in operation there.
: We have received the first ISSUE
of the LaGrange Journal under the
management of Col. P. f. Edmon
son, who is an able newspaper mar
and n good writer: The Journal
is now an eight column paper, and
one in every respect worthy of 8
liberal support, which we doubt not
the people of LaGrange and Fay
cite county will give it.
/ THE bill prepared by Judge Ter
rell on the fence question has met
with considerable favor in and out
of the legislature. In a general
way it is not unlike the recommen-
dations of Governor Ireland,
though more specific and involving
new matter. The main features in
the bill are those making fence cut
ting felony and forbidding the
enclosure of public or school land.
MARTIN FARouHAR UPPER, the
harmless old gentleman who wrote
"Proverbial Philosophy" is out
in letter to the London Times
approving the elevation of Mr.
Tennyson to the Peeragc. Read
ing between the lines, however,
it may be observed there is one
word for Tennyson and two for
Upper. Upper should write an
ode TO John Brown.
The New York Central Railroad
has established the lowest rates of
fare of any railroad in the world.
It has reduced rates on all fares
between New York and Pough-
keepsie. 1t sells 624 trips Zone
each way for every week day in
the year, for $40. The distance
is 10 miles, and the rate, therefore,
is little over 8 mills mile. Tick
cts to Yonkers, Is miles, are sold
at the rate of about 6 mills mile.
THE Houston Post boasts of its
enterprise in publishing the news /;
it published the governors mes
sage in advance of its delivery and
from an advanced copy sent to it
with a request that it be not pub
lished until after delivery, and it
also published the words Especial
to the Post" leaving the "unini-
tiatsd" to suppose that it had re-
ceived the message by wire.
JEFFERSON DoGGETT, the young
est railroad conductor in the
United States, was killed on We'd
nesday last on the Florida Central
railroad. He was throwing a stone
at tramp who was stealing a ride,
perched on the rear truck of the
moving train, when his head
struck the platform, breaking his
neck and killing him instantly.
His mangled corpse was taken to
Jacksonville on his twenty-frst
birthday. He leaves a young
wife.
THE Legislature met on Tuesday
at noon and proceeded to organize.
In the senate Lieutenant-governor
Gibson called the house to order.
The governors proclamation con-
vening the Legislature in extra ses-
sion was then read, and the speak
er declared the House ready for
business. The governors message
was read, after which regular bus
mess was commenced. In both the
Senate and the House a number
of bills were introduced, most of
them bearing on the fence cutting
question.