Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-09-30

Four hundred foreign-born We
+ men keep saloons in Now Yor
\ city.
q The government is paying Sll3
b 401 every year for rents IN Wasf
5 ington.
II The worlds ninoty-four gee
graphical societies contain 1850
! members.
! Neal Dow fixes 1882 as the yea
for the ProhIbitionists to elect
president.
l Brooklyn is to have a new Demo
! cratic daily. 1t will be called tn
Democrat.
There is aplaco in Pennsylvania
called Economy. 1t is not snm
j mer resort.
The school census of Chicag,
: makes the present population o
city 703,S17.
A hail-storm in Pecos valley
New Mexico, killed 1000 sheep TO
one ranchman.
There are over eight hundred
registered cattle brands in the ter
ritory of Montana.
Four per cent. is the prevailing
F rate of interest paid 10 deposition
by the New York banks.
A reunion of tho Turner family
$50 IN number, occurred one day
last week at Klnlock, Ala.
A Cincinnati paper intimatei
that politics and poker have killed
the Louisville exposition.
Several Georgia papers are favor
ing the scheme of tho citizen sol
dlery supported by the state.
"Sea food" is the name of pop
ular dish always found on the bills
of faro in New Jersey hotels.
A tram was recently run from
Syracuse to Buffalo, N. Y, a dis
tance of149 miles, 1873 minutes.
1t is estimated that one-thIrd Of
the Dakota grain crop has been de.
stroyed by recent hail storms.
Tobacco manufacturers are for.
hidden TO put up any more ounce
and-a-half or five.cent packages.
Hurrying and worrying are said
to bring one-third of the American
nation premarurely to the grave.
Tho Scientific American suggests
tho juice of the hulls of green wal
nuts as a good dye for the hair.
The first college annual ever pub
lished in the south was recently u.s.
sued by the University of Georgia.
A matrimonial engagement with
a West Point student, is not neces-
sarlly binding, says Mrs. Grundy.
In the three years it has been
open to the public, As, 1885, 1854 poo
pie have crossed Brooklyn bridge.
The hop-growers in the neigh
borhoOd of Utica, N. Y, arc having
trouble with a peculiar kind Of
bug.
Deer are very plentiful this year
in the mountains of Nevada, and
hundreds of them are daily being
killed.
Children excursions daily take
place from Boston to the inland
villages and attractive places along
the bay.
The publication of work IN a
cheap form lessons but little, say
the publishers, the sales of a better
edition.
On Wednesday two men with
hooks and lines caught 24OO mack
erel off Newport, the greatest catch
ever known there.
The Chillans are agitating the
project of electing tho president
by majority of congress instead
of by popular vote.
The girls in the public schools
of Brooklyn are compelled to COM
nit to memory the constitution of
the United States.
A stock-grower of Hardy coun-
ty, West Virginia, has ninety head
of cattle, the average weight of
which is 1,535 pounds.
An engine IN course of construc-
ton at Philadelphia Is expected to
take train from that city to New
York in ninety minutes.
1t Is now proposed to fund all
the obligations of Louisiana and
make the debt of the common
wealth about s5I, 100000.
A nugget of copper weighing
seventeen pounds was found about
three feet below the surface of the
IN the town of Sharon, Wis.
According to the San Francisco
Alta, Gov. Hubbard ofTexas is the
first representative of this country
to Japan who has honored the posi-
ton.
A western woman, Mrs. McLanc.
is the largest maII-routo contrac-
tor in this country. She has one
hundred routes on the Pacific
coast.
Out of 800 convrcts on Black
wells Island, only three. Herr
Most, Braunschwick and Schenck Il
Inc anarchists, refuse to 90 TO
church.
A large number of coIorcd pco-
pic IN New York arc ondeavoring
o have the LIST of August made a
general anniversary of emancipa-
ion day.
q young woman at Detroit swan :
he American channel to Bell Isle |
Park, q distance of over "a half n
nile, IN thirty-two minutes, the {
running four miles an hour. {
A twelve FOUNDER brass cannon,
hat saw service in I77G and before
omrrlses the armament Of the new |
canadian cruiser Acadis, formerly '
he steam yacht Yosemite; but the I
rev are well providetwtIh small /
rms.