Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-21

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A NEW Knights of Labor paper
is to be started at Donison; this is
caused by the dissatisfaction grow
ing out OF the removal of the Labor
Siftlngs to Fort Worth.
A DESPERATE attempt was maze
at Bloomfield, Ind, TO lynch ne
gro murderer. named Epps. The
sheriff by strategy and the aid of a
PAIR of fast horses run Epps to the
Jail at VIncennes.
The Fort Worth Mail says a
movement is on foot TO induce
Moody & Sanky to visit Fort
Worth. 1t would seem that the
local preachers ought to be able to
look after the spiritual welfare OF
the city.
CHOICE corn-fed beeves are ship,
ped from Texas to st. Lous, Kan.
ras City and Chicago; and choice
beef is shipped from Kansas City
and perhaps Chicago, In retrigera'
tor cars, TO tho first-class hotels
in TEXAS.
THE miners and coke-drawers al
ConnelsvilIe threw down theiI
tools Friday and quit work. They
demanded 10 per cent. increase IN
wages, which was refused, and IN,
dlcations are that the strike will
become general.
The Hampstead Courier says,
"plant less cotton, raise more corn,
and don't go in debt is the motto
of the frugal farmer" The motto
is good one, but the frugal far
mer is the exceptlon-not the rule
in this section of the state.
STATE PRESS of the Galveston
News says, the Columbus Citizen
is unsurpassed by any purely
weekly paper in the state. The
BANNER fully eonrnrs with the
News. The Citizen IS carefully
edited and the work shows to adj
vantage.
A DALLAS special to the News
says four Atlanta business men
representing o capital of over ST.,
100000 are in that town prospect,
ing with a view to transferring
their capital from Atlanta to Dal'
las. They express themselves as
extremely well pleased with Dial
las.
Miss KATE BAYARD, oldest daugh'
ter of Secretary of State Bayard,
dropped dead suddenly at hel
fathers residence IN Washington
Saturday afternoon. She had just
about completed her toilet to sc
and assist Miss Cleveland in a re.
ceptIon at the White House. Miss
Bayard was about p years of age
THE Dallas Times says off there
Is any law in this state to prevent
jim-crow lie insurance assOcia
lions from doing business ii should
be enforced" People who take
chances in alleged insurance as
sociations that promise to pay
back about twice or three times as
much aa they receive, have no just
cause for complaint i! they are III
timately swindled.
AT socialist meeting IN Chi
cage recently one OF the leading
speakers said the SOCIALIST vii not
get their due until they burned
everything before them as General
Sherman did in his march through
Georgia. The speaker is evident
ly q crank of the frst-water or ar
unprincipled scoundrel; the proba
bility is, that he has nothing him
self and does not want anybody
else to have anything. He would
destroy all property in order tc
make, as he supposcs, work fol
laboring men.
The Navasota Tablet intimates
that the alleged sale by S. Ruben
stein of the stock of goods held by
him, was made for the purpose o
preventing attachments rom being
run on the stock. 1t says tina
Rubenstcin left a large number o
home creditors with the bag t
hold. Cases of this kind are be
coming too frequcnt IN Navasota
and the Tablet says they injurc tn,
/ business standing Of the tow
abroad. More stringent laws ar,
needed to prevent fraudulent faIl
ures,
A MEMORIAL OF the c6Iored north
ern Americans, asking tho cstab
lishment of national industrial
school in the States and Terrific
RES, so as to give colored youths
q common school education and {
trade, and also asking government
| aid for the establishment of n Gar
field colony in Lower California
| has been laid before the Senate. II
would appear that the colored poo'
pie yet regard themselves as
wards of the nation" They are
free citizens and should depend
upon their own resources the same
! as the whites do.