Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-05-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
In 1885 Kansas raised q soTg'
hum crop of 10000 acres.

y
i foreigners 100000 worth
= tea.
o President Cleveland has sent (
Y the senate 2,l65 appointments an
k only six have been rejected.
i An International Bakers Coz
, gress and Bakers exhibition is {
= be held in Amsterdam.
o Texas has about eight person
= to the square mile, and ninet
;, acres for every one of her popul'
| ton.
D In Iowa the straight Greer
: hackers are to hold a convention
next week for the nomination of
; state ticket.
, A correspondent finds "younl
man" clement in Southern politics
which is proving very troublesome
to the machine.
There is still a prospect that the
fusion of Democrats and Green
bakers in Michigan will be a strong
movement.
The labor committee ofthe Mass.
achusetts legislature recommends
state loan of $1,000, 900 to assist
workingmen to build homes.
According to the postal authori-
ties the special delivery system
has been successful only in Now
York, PIttsburg and Washington.
Senator Mitchell, of Pensyl-
vania, is so SICK that he will prob
ably not appear in his place again
during the session.
Mrs. Langtry has introduced n
new dodge into the commemora-
ton of fiftieth performance by
distributing her photograph.
Thirty million logs are said to
be ready to be fioated down the
Connecticut river. They will be
sawed at the loot of Mount Tom.
Georgia has prohibition in lis
out of 1877 counties, and is waiting
anxiously to see whether or not
there will be a state prohibition
ticket in the field.
Tho explored coal beds of Ire
land, according to the latest blue
book, contains about 209, 000, 900
tons of workable coal, chiefly an
thracite.
Wolves attacked and freed Ed
ward Burk within two miles Of
Manistique, Mich. They watched
him for hours, and then gave him
a chance to escape.
Vienna has had the longest win
ter in fifty years. The plains of
Hungary had on March IA, been
covered with snow since the mid
die of December.
A boy living within sight Of
Plymouth Rock weighed 304
pounds, at last accounts, though he
is only IA years old. He has
grown at the rate of fifty pounds a
year of late.
Gen. Brown for the Republicans
and Lieut.. Gov. Black for the
Democrats seem likely to be the
candidates for the next governor
ship of Pennsylvania.
There arc ten aspirants Tor the
nomination for gov
ernor of California, Congressman
Morrow being among the number.
In Georgia the Prohibitionists
allude to the colored voters as "our
brothers in black"
Tho Boston Globe wants the
president to reappolnt Pillsbury
and Chas, the rejected collectors.
According to the Florida Times
Union, Senator Jones has been made
the victim of q political intrigue.
The house of Representatives {
passed bill authorizing the estab-
lishment of export tobacco manu-
and to allow such estab- {
Iishments drawbacks on imported
A sixteen-year-old young man, I
heir to large English estate, has /
arrived IN the Red River Valley {
to a largo farmer by his
guardian, who pays the farmer
ESQ besides his services for Instruo. I
ion in Dakota farming for one !
year.
A Baptist missionary in China
writes home that what an Ameri-
,an family throws away in year
would keep dozen Chinese fami-
les, and what q Chinese family
throws away in the same time p
would not feed a mouse. 4
Mark Cook, of Champaign, ILL.,, v
CLAIMS to be ITO years old, and s.
gives the date OF his birth as Sept.
II, 1776, with nativity in Chatham
county, N. c. OF course, he fire.
luontly saw George Washington,
md was in the war of 1872, under
Andrew Jackson.
The French are the least mlgra-
DRY of nations, the average OF emil
grants being under 5000 out of a = :,
of 100000. :
Lartijo, the chief bull-fghter OF
during his career has kill l.
ID IN the arena S4a bulls without a
he slightest injury to himself.
Bullock county, Georgia, has 81
hirty-two families that contain 376
children. One family has twenty Q
wo aud mono less than ten. 0
1t is proposed to lower Lake :,
Ner, Florida, about four feet by
:utting o canal to the Oklawaba. y
Society trowns on Representative Al
Gilman OF South Carolina because
le don't wear drawers. W
NOTICE.
This is to notify the public that in this, the Il
nal settlement Of all the affairs of the late st