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CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

Horrln, the man who without
any provocation whatever muir
dered DR.. Barradall in drug store
at Fort Worth, after several con
t,.;-usnces and q change of venue tc
tohroor oo,S,.v. was lately tried
at CIeburne and given ten s"fS II
the penitentiary. When the MUIR
der was committed Herrin was
drunk and armed with six-shoot-
er. His plea was insanity and
judging from the lightness of his
sentence this plea must have had
great weight with the jury. If he
was insane he should have been
sent to the lunatic asylum for life,
or if he was not insane he ought
to have been hung. The plea of
insanity has been used so often as
to be brought into contempt and
Is commonly spoken OF as the din
sanity dodge" and the word
"dodge" as used in this connection
is very significant. 1t is usual to
blame the law for the non-punish-
ment of criminals, especially mur-
derers. Upon close investigation
it will be found that the law itself
is not near so much to blame as
are the average juries empaneled
in criminal cases. With the ex-
ception of the ease with which con-
and changes of venue are
obtained there is little wrong with
the law. 1t was popularity sup
posed that the law passed by the
last legislature would put a stop
to the continuances granted from
term to term, until the witnesses
were all dead or had moved away,
but up to this time if there has
been any improvement in this res
pect 1t has not been made apparent.
In the matter of an improvement
in the REGULATION" jury, it is not
possible to determine at this time
whether or not there has been any
Sklllful criminal
lawyers seem fully equal to the
task of circumventing the laws as
fast as the legislature passes them.
It is to all appearances much
easier to pick flaws in the law,
than 1t is to enforce it. The SYM
patty of the pubic and of the ju-
ries is too much in favor of the
living man, while there is none for
the murdered man, his family or
1t is true that sympathy
does a dead man no good, but the
of his "deadening," If the
word IS admissible, should have
its weight with the jury. The OBJ
Jet of the law is to punish the
wrong-doer and to deter others
from doing wrong. All laws to be
oficaclous should be prompt and
certain in their action. For too
many men are restrained from
wrong-doIng by fear of the law and
not by any moral sense.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

The Galveston Tribune of Satur.
day devotes over a column to a de-
tailed account of tho freezing Of
the bay: Northeast, three miles
away to quarantine station, due
north to Bolivar point, five miles
off, and northwest to Half Moon
light, twelve miles distant, as far
as the eye could reach, was solid
sheet of ice, presenting the uneven
surface of crestipg waves, which
froze >as they rose and fell" II
any person doubts that the bay
was frozen over the above ought
to satisfy them.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

FORT WORTH is now thebest ad-
vertlsed city in Texas. 1t has al
ways been the policy of the lesd-
ing and representative business
men of Fort Worth to literally sus-
tain the newspapers of the city.
The Houston Post says the even
ing paper in Fort Worth receives
$500 to ss1, 200 a year from each of
the live firms there; the result is
the best evening paper in the state.
No city ever lost anything by the
policy adopted by Fort Worth.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

The young men who were born
during the last year of the war be-
come of age to vote this year. But
very few of them have any par
ticular veneration for the bloody
SHIRT.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Mr.. BLAND, of Missouri, after
Mr.. Reagan had finished his speech
on the silver question said he had
no doubt that the committee on
coinage, weights and measures,
would report some measure on the
silver question at an early day,
and, if necessary give weeks for
discussion.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

A new law in Georgia emolns
that persons must be put up in
scarlet wrappers, and the bottles
labeled with paper of the same
color, the printing to be in white
letters. "Ofall the hard papers to
find in this Market" said whole
sale druggist, "scarlet is the most
difficult, and three printers to
whom l have applied say that they
cannot print in white upon such a
surface. Those lawmakers could
not have hit upon 4 more difficult
problem in the way of packing for
us to Solvc.'
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

THE Houston Age wishes those
fellows in the North country who
have more silver dollars than they
want, would send the surplus to
the Age Office. at wishes were
horses beggars would ride" says
an old proverb.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

The Navasota Tablet urges an
absolutely tree bridge at old Wash
iDgtoD; it says great deal oftrade
from the Washington section now
comes TO Navasota and q perma-
Deut FREQ bridge would hold it.
Navasota is right to get all the
trade she can, but the trade OF this
county ought to come to BRENNAN,
and if the Brennan merchants
want it, it is their duty to make a
proper effort to get it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

The Texas Greenback conven-
ton, which was so extensively ad.
vertised few weekg ago, to take
place at Waco on the 11th inst,
proved to be perfect fasco. DR..
J. D. Rankin and two others com.
prised the entire convention. No
quorum being present the meeting
was adjourned indefinitely. DR..
Rankin still has faith in the cause.
The idea seems to be that the
rights of labor cannot hope for re-
lief from either of the great politi-
cal parties, as both are favorable
to capital and monopoly.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

The approximate value OF the
Girad College grounds and build
ings, IN Philadelphia, Is S., 100000,
while the assessed valuation OF the
banking houses, dwellings,, stores,
wharves and farms comprised in
the Girard estate is placed at 49,
398: 1000. Tho total capital resid-
uary fund amounts to S10,594,9I7.-
%. The expenditures on tho es-
tate were S419,77LO5, and for col
lege S42O,2l9.06. The balance in
the treasury amounts to 144,312.-
%.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

AT tavern in GreenviIle the
other night two young gentlemen
A. S. Harrison and Walter Har-
rington got to joking each other
and finally wound up in fight in
earnest. Harrison stabbed Har-
ringtop five times. People before
Joking should first learn to take q
joke.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Nm. J. II. Cook, manager ola big
cattle ranch in New Mexico, IN a
letter to the Ell Paso Tribune thus
describes the Apache Indians
"Little bodies and big heads, dirty
and semi-naked, and as full of HI
ss a tsrantuIa-that's the Apache.
He murders tor pure cussedness
and demoniac delight of it," The
Apache is far from being a love-
able creature.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

The secretary of the interior
has had the tract of land known as
Nolan grant, No. SO, in New Mex
lco. returned to he public domain )
this throws open to settlement
SIS, 900 acres of land.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

QUITE a number of presidential
postmasters were confirmed Tues
day, but IN the list there Is only
one for Texas, viz: Thomas r.
Coke. of Victoria.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

TIE Pacific Express company
has adjusted its differences with
the Texas and St. Louis railway
and has reopened its offices along
the line.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

JUDGE REAGAN made strong and
exhaustive speech in favor of the
continuation of silver coinage, on
Tuesday. He contends that silver
has not deprecated, but that gold
has appreciated in value. Silver
is now boarded in the treasury be-
cause it is not paid out as it should
be. Mr.; Reagan favors the pay
ment of the NATIONAL debt SIS fast as
possible and the abolition of the
national bank notes.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Lotto Griffin, a colored woman
who claimed to be over 120 years
of age, died yesterday at Hann1-
bal, Mo. She has a daughter over
eighty years of age. Several old
citizens place her age at from 10
to 120.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Mr.. Ferdinand Ward, it is said,
is running a small printing press
at the Sing Sing Penitentiary. Mr..
Ward may some day become the
editor of great Republican organ.
He has already shown the posses
sion Of the moral qualifications for
such place.-Cbicago Times, Ind.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

In Houston Tuesday morning
two old sports lmprovised q sleigh
and won't whirling through the
streets. Sleigh riding in Houston
is a great novelty.
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AT Sacramento on the 18th inst.
all the Cinnamon employed in a
flour mill, a wooden mill, and
American laundry were dis
charged. Three hundred white
men have been employed in their
places.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

SENATOR STANFORD, of California,
says silver money is tho peoples
money, and paper money the bank
er's money,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Colonel Mapleson was witness
the other day in suit which he had
instituted to recover the duty paid
on some aTmor and costumes he
had brought to this country for
the operate stage. "What is your
business?" he was asked. Il am an
Impressauo, " replied the colonel,
with lofty dignity. "Well, now,
tell us, Mr.. Mapleson," said the
lawyer, "what is an imPressario?''
IAN imprcssaro," SAID MapleSon,
unbendIng somewhat, and reveal
ing the suggestion of q smile, "is a
man who tries 10 please the public
and never succeeds"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14
Thursday, January IA. 1885.

THERE will be no Democratic op.
position to the administration, or
to the president personally.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

THE people of Sealy are looking
forward TO the extension of the
West Texas Narrow Gauge rail-
way.
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For Sale,

One hundred and eighty acres ofland With
running water. Thirty acres in cultivation;
two dwelling houses and other improve
ments. For information apply to
d, AHRENBEcK, Hampstead Texas
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Mr.. O'Keefe, a Nationalist, has
been appointed High sheriff of
Linn erick, ireland.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

THE presidential Succession bill
still hangs fire; wide diversity of
opinion on the subject remains to
be harmonIzed.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

The craze at Paris for Japanese
art has subsidized and dealers have
large stocks left on their hands.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Tho grand jury of Austin eoun-
ty adjourned last Saturday. after
having found seventeen bills OF in
dictment.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

The electric light at COrsicana
is now an assured fact.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Some twenty colonies have been
established in the Santa Fe district
of the Argentine Republic. Their
territory occupies ninety-five
square leagues, and the settlers
number ], 259 families. During the
last thirty years the district has
grown through colonization unit
it has a population OF 10000
souls.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

rHe aPacne wan cam 1e cnucu
only by putting troops enough in
the field to protect every exposed
ranch, guard every water-hole and
mountain trail, and still have
enough men TO pursue the Indians
into their Businesses. The frontier
people ought to devote all their
energies to getting the government
to understand this and do lt.-Kan-
sas City Journal.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

An old autograph album IN
Washington contains the following
letter from Gen. Winfield Scott,
dated Washington, June Is, 1860,
to the proprletors of the Girard
House, Philadelphia: "Gentlemen
Expect me at the Girard House
tomorrow night at Il O clock, and
give me bed at least six feet SIX
inches IN length or one without
footboard."
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CITATION.

r. d. HARRIS,
Assignee of W. c. Dixon
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Miss Rosamond Davenport-Hill,
Mrs. Webster and Mrs. Westlake
have been elected members of the
London School Board, and Miss
Helen Taylor, who has been q
member of the board since 1876
could have been re-electsA brt
she declined to dsvote bcrSsIf ~
inc iruiIl0as task of trying to get
m. o the House of Commons.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Houston Post is becoming
its city IN every issue.
Fort WORTH wants q grand inter-
state drill in May or June next.
GOVERNOR FORAKER, of Ohio, was
duly inaugurated at Columbus on
the 1lth inst.
AT present the chief business of
senator's and congressman is the
introduction of bills.
Mr.. Ross has been appointed
postmaster at Waxahachie and
Judge G. B. Gerald at waco.
A PARTY of negroes, numbering
several hundred, passed through
Chattanooga the other day enrOutc
for Kansas.
SETH SHEPARD Is beyond doubt
the best advertised man in Texas
to-day, and best of all 1t has not
cost him n cent.
The coolest weather L. reported
at Minnedosa, Manitoba, wi,rc on
Saturday last the mercury was 80
degrees below zero.
The nomination of Mr.. Jordan
as treasurer of the United States
has been reported fayorably by the
committee on finance.
On Saturday night at Chicago
the thermometer was down 10 y
below zero. Railway travel is de-
layed b. snow aud severe cold.
THE Panhandle people want a
federal court established at Mo-
beetle. Senator MaXey mas pre-
scented their memorial in the SEN
ate.
SEVEN members of the New Or
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-14

Prohibition does not prohibit.
No man of any candor or care for
his reputation for veracity will Tor
moment deny this aphoristie
statement. The only question of
debate involved in it is the mean
ing that may be attached TO it by
those who use it.-IndianapoIis
Journal, Rep.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-02
Miscellaneous Notes.

Montana Central engineers are said TO be in
the field running line to Butte.
A meeting of the Northwestern Freight Asso-
citation has been called for to-day.
The Manitoba announces that company's
branch between Elk river and MALAGA was
opened for business yesterday
The Northern Pacific has issued circular an
nounclng that the Spokane 81 Idaho line was
opened for freight business yesterday.
The Railroad Gazette attributes the recent
wrecking of a train and burning of passengers
at Rio on the st. Paul road, in Wisconsin, to
defective switching arrangements.
Commencing with yesterday, the Omaha will
hereafter run its through trains over it's own
track TO Omaha, and connect at its own depot
there with the Union Pacific. The Omaha
and ST Paul via Council Bluffs and the Burlinc-
toms Kansas City road
The Chicago Journal says Simply because
another carload of people have not been burned
to death since the Rio disaster is no excuse for
letting the car stove drop out of sight. safer
method of warming railway cars is imperatively
demanded. Let the railroad companies see to it
that the want is supplied
President Corbin, of the Philadelphia & Read
ing, is promptly carrying out his ideas for the re
organization of the management of the property.
BY an order issued yesterday the engineering
department. ia swept away, or, rather, the main
tenance of way bureau is separated from the en-
cheering department The chief engineer will
hereafter be In charge only of new work al
though he will probably continueto act in an ad-
visory capacity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-02

Melvin L. Parker to Henry G. Wright
and wife. lot 5. of Phillipss subdivision
of block "a in Johnson 8 heirs addition y
TO indianapolis OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Z,3oV.VU
Sarah Simmons ct al to Henry @. Wright
and wife lot 4, in Phllipss subdivision
of part of block %, in Johnsons heirs
addition to Indianapolis. -.........-.... 10000
VIM. Il. Morrison and wife to Elizabeth
johnson. lot %, in f. T. Fletcher's
subdivision of E. T. Fletcher sfrst addi.
- ton to IInndianapolis ...a..........s. 1915
VIM j. Thomas and wife to Henry c.
Allen. lot 3d. in Samuel Record sub
division, in the town of Lawrence. -. 1880
Ambrose p. Stanton and wife to Phoebe
NJ. Taylor, part of lots A and 5, in
square 80 in brakes addition to Indian
apollS 4,OOO.OO
Charles S. Fort and wife to DonD Wells
i56, IN fndian n iaDa.is.9n :. 0a a5ooo
John ii. Vajen and wife to Carl H. Mat
thias, lots % and 20, in Ezra A. Ole
mans subdivision of block 8, in
Holiness Westend addition to Indian
aponS SOOVV
T. NJ Churcbman ct al to Vim. Tilford
Msrtin,s addition to i Indianapolis Gss 10000
John ii. Vaien and wife to Richard Ryan,
lots %, % and 90, in John III. Vaien's
subdivision of block 13, in Holiness
West-end addition to Indianapolis. $500
cOnveyances, IL; consideration. $50, zoe. 20
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-02
Believes in Honorable Competition.

A railroad man we'll acquainted with Presi-
dent Garrett of the Baltimore & Ohio road,
says that Mr. Garrett believes in competition;
that so long as it is conducted on healthy
basis he believes that it helps the transporter,
the producer and the consumer For this rea-
son he took little stock in the rumored deals be-
tween the Pennsylvania and the B. & O.. The
railroad man thinks, however, that the two
arrangements are on better terms now than at
any time in some years. The Philadelphia
Record, as we'll, attaches little Importance to the
rumored friendly deals. The Record says: 'For
years it had been the aim of his father and him
self to reach the trade of New York. and to
share the valuable traffic that originates in
Philadelphia, amounting to an average of nearly
%, 900 tons of through freight per day. After
the cars of the Baltimore corporation had been
driven off the lines of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company; after Mr.. CARROTS company had
spent nearly $l2, 900, 900 in carrying out his
plans; after 1t had overcome the greatest obsta-
Gle which confronted it--that of the opposition
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to its
entry into Philadelphia-6oes it seem probable
that the advances and promises which the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company had persist
emily urged, and which had been as persistently
rejected, would induce Mr.. Garrett when his
work had been accomplished, to suddenly aban-
don his nroiect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-02
ADJOURNED SALE
OF CERTAIN PARTS OF THE
LAKE ERIE And WESTERNRAHWAT

In the Circuit Court of the United States for the
District of Indiana the Southern District of Illinois
and the Northern District of Ohio western Divisionl
The Central Trust Company of New York vs. The
Lake Erie & Western Railway Company ct al. and
consolidated causes
Notice is hereby given that the sale of the line Of
railway and property extending from Bloomington
Illinois to Muncie Indiana covered by the first mort
gage made by the Lafayette Bloomington & Muncie
Railway Company to the Central Trust Company of
New York, bearing date May l. 1879 and the sale Of
the line of railway and property extending from
Muncie, Indiana, to Fremont, Ohio, covered by the
Railway Company to the Central Trust Company Of
New York, bearing date August Is 1870, heretofore
advertised in this paper to take place at the city Of
Muncie, in the State of Inciana Saturday the
18th day of November 1886, has been. by order of
each of said courts entered in the above entitled
cause adjourned for thirty days from said last named
date; and that to the original order and de
cree of sale entered in said cause by each of said
courts respectively the undersigned special MASTER
will offer for SALE at public auction, to the highest
bidder at the door of the building used as a court
house in the city of Muncie in the State of Indiana
on TUESDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF DE-
GENDER, A. D. 1885, between the hours of 10
o'clock a. m. and o'clock p m. Of said day, begin-
ming at 10 o'clock in the forenoon all and singular
the railway and property covered by each Of said
and upon the terms stated in the said DEGREES of said
courts and the said notice of sale heretofore pub
lshed, to which DEGREES and notice reference Is
hereby made for particular description of the
property ordered to be sold and terms Of sale
JOHN A. HENRY. Special Master.
Butler Stillman s. Hubbard Williams & Thompson,
Solicitors for Central Trust Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-02
The Western Passenper Pool.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The member of the West
ern passenger pool were in session to-day for the
purpose of accomplishing q reorganization, but
they ran up against new obstacle. The Wa
bash agreed to adopt the same periods as the
other roads for ascertaiping business upon
which to award percentages. but insisted upon
being allowed to make the same rates per mile
between st. Louis and Kansas City as the Chi
cage roads between Chicago and Council Bluffs
All of the other lines were a unit against this
proposition, and no agreement being possible.
the question was referred to Managers Potter
Chappell, Newman and Talmage, they to reach
compromise, If possible. The meeting ad-
journed subject to the call of the chairman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-02
PERSONAL AND SOCIETY.

John A. Finch has gone to Memphis, Tenn.
Miss Bessie Day has gone to Chicago to spend
the holidays.
Mr.. b. B. Peck returned last night from
Franklin after a short stay.
Theodore Hanneman leaves to-day with his
family for Los Angeles. Cal.
Walter Stanton, of New York. is in the city,
stopping at the Denison House.
Dr. P. G. G. Hunt will leave for Florida the
last of this week to spend the winter
The young ladies from this city who are at
tending Vassar College will not return home for
the Christmas vacatlon
State Geologist Maurice Thompson is still con-
fined to mis- home at Charlottesville with rheu-
matsm. His physicians have advised him to go
South and spend the winter, and this he will
probably do.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-02
A PropositIon Reieoted.

CHICAGO. Dec. IA special to the Daily
News from Springfield H., says: Officials of
the Ohio Il Mississippi railroad appeared before
the railroad and warehouse commission to-day
and offered to make an agreement to put the
Springfield division in good condition provided
the commissioners will withdraw their suit in the
courts to compel the road to make the improve
meut. The commissioners declined to consider
the propositiop