Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-04-03

fact that he is free and independ
, ent voter.
T. On Sunday morning the Wac
Examiner passed into the hands 0
a new management. the Waco Pub
fishing company, who have lease,
) the paper for FIVE years. 1t ask
patronage only on its merits as
newspaper.
The Houston Evening Journa
is expanding; it has been enlarget
from four to FIVE column papc
and is beginning to get n fair shar
of advertising patronage. 1t is
widc-awake paper and is cortainl,
deserving of success.
drumming newspaper the grca
secret of success is to fortell jus
what is going to happen and tn j
have it to happen just as you tolt
it, is the motto of the Houston
Post, but unfoI tunately it some
times makes a mistake.
An attempt is making in Callfor
mia TO irrigate some 100000,
acres of land by water fed from
Kings river. The water will b,
conveyed in a canal, and it is OK
pected to be five feet deep, with I
fall of eighteen inches to the mile
!, SLUGGER SULLIVAN is on n star
ring tour and is drawing gooC
houses wherever he exhibits. 1
is not so much admiration for tn,
manly art of self-defence as i'd,
. curiosity to see a prize fighter tina
induces people to so to see Sulll
van.
| The Encouragement has re
fused to approve the charter o
the independence, Clay station ant
Brazos Valley railway company
to run from Independence to Clay
station, on account of a conflict
with the statutes in drawing ur
the charter.
THE Waco Day announces that
the railways have refused reduced
rates of fare to fremen at.
tending the celebration at Hous'
ton on the 21st inst, but will
charge full fare both ways. That's
what we call base ingratitude. to
say the least of it.
The Brazoria Independent has
completed the fourth year of its
publication. The Independent is
not very pretentious paper, but
it is now on a sound bases; it has
done and is now doing good ser.
vice for Brazoria and adjoining
counties.
THE New York butchers kick at
bringing dressed beef from the
west to their city. In New Orleans
the butchers kicked against dress
ed beef from Texas, but their kick
ing did no good, and now Texas
dressed beef is daily sold in the
markets of that city.
IT is most positively announced
that under no circumstances Will
Hon. Henry B. Payne, of Ohio, be
candidate for the Democratic
nomination for the presidency.
1t is also announced that if nomi-
mated he would not accept. This
disposes of one Ohio man at least.
A MAN who is poorer than Van.
derbilt and who has time to devote
to ornamental calculations, has
figured out that Vanderbilts wealth
is increasing at the rate of over
$1,000 an hour. When he dies he
will leave his money in this world
and then it will be scattered again.
JUDGE SMELL, of Washington
city, fixed the bail of a young ne
gro, who was brought before him
for carrying at pistol, at $1,000, and
he at the Same time informed the
negro that he ought to be hung for
carrying the pistol as he had no
money and was in no danger of
being robbed.
CAPT. JAMES B. EADs has written
to the Texas delegation declining
to appear before a congressional
committee to give his opinion re-
garding the improvement of Gal
weston Harbor. He says the bill
as modified and reported meets his
views and that il it is passed he is
sure that he can do all that is
promised and required.
FRIDAY was a fine day for the
hangman. At San Barnadino, Cal,
W. r. Mcdonald was hanged for
murder. AT Tombstone, Arizona
Territory, Sample, Bows, Delane
and Kelly were hanged for the
Bisbee murder: James How
ard was also hanged with them.
At Planerville, Col, Francis Peres
was hanged for murder,
AT Sandersville, Ca, on Sunday,
grave apprehensions were enter
tanned of an uprising among the
negroes, caused by 2 communist
emissary who had caused great
excitement among the negroes by
urging a massacre of the whites
and confiscation of their property.
Later advices reports the excite
ment allayed and trouble averted.
JOHN W. HoYT, ex-governor of
Wyoming, who is in New York,
has sentG letter to leading mem