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INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION.


Tho first annual report of the
United States commissioner of la
Dor has just been published; it
deals with subject that has for
three years occupied the public
mind-the industrial depression
and labor troubles. 1t discusses
the question with the utmost fair
ness. In the search for the causes
oflndustrial depression the singu-
lar fact was encountered that there
was no fewer than 13S alleged
causes found and grouped under
such heads as administration, bank
ing, capital, competition, credit,
currency, railroading, education,
interest, labor, living, machinery,
speculation, production, tariff, tax.
alton and wages. 1t is interesting
to note, says the commissioner,
how fully trade, profession or call
ing influence opinion. Bankers
and merchants are likely to give as
tho absolute cause some financial
or commercial reasons; clergymen
and moralIsts largely incline to as
sert that tho social and moral IN
fluences, united with providcntral
causes, produce the industrial diff
culties which afflict nations; manu-
facturers give industrial conditions,
labor agitation, the demands of
workiDgmen, over production and
various features of the industrial
system as causes, while the work
ingmen attribute industrial dis
eases to combination OF capital,
long hours of labor, low wages,
machinery and kindred causes.
The commissioners opinion is,
that the real causes are falling
prices, machinery and over pro-
duction, variation in the cost of
production, variation in the rate
ofwages, speculative railway build
ing under, consumption and tariff
Irregularities. The report esti-
mates that in the year 1885, of the
17,992,OO persons engaged in all
occupations in the country there
were 100000 out of employme nt,
crippling all dependent upon them
and involving loss of 1000, 900
a day, or s3OO,OOO,OOO a year-a
sum sufficient to cause a reaction
in business, and a general curtail-
ment of expenses, with apprehen-
sion and timidity among all class
es. Notwithstanding this the vol
ume of business was not impaired.
The st. Louis Republican COM
menting on the report seems to
think that the general decline In
prices is at the bottom of the diff
Guilty. Profits have been down
this has been caused by sharp
competition and is the chief cause
of complaint among manufacturers,
merchants and contractors; they
have to do as much business as
ever-ln many cases more-but
they have little to show for 1t, be-
cause they are constantly working
on @ decreasing market. In this
it may be noticed that
the labor agltators insist upon an
increased scale of wages, notwith-
the fact that evcry de-
cline in articles of necessity and of
luxury too, increases the purchas
ing power of the money they re-
oa,va for yva0cs
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The disaster at Sabine Pass is
even worse than first reported. 1t
is now concluded that a genuine
tidal wave was the cause of the
flood. Only one house remains
uninjured where the town stood,
and only two more houses are left
standing, both badly wrecked. A
schooner was driven completely
across the peninsula on the nam
land and now lies nearly two miles
from the water. Where the town
stood was covered with water to
a depth of from nine to twelve
feet. Nothing at all save the
clothes on the backs OF those who
escaped from the town was saved.
Many are absolutely without food
or shelter and have no clothing
save that they had on. Their con-
dition is pitiabIe i'll the extreme
and they are urgently in need of
immediate aid.
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! embrace ajl The Territory in Justices Precinct
/ No. J embraced within the following bu n
/ daros 10 Wit: Beginning 4, the corporate line
Of the City Of Brcuham between Wards a and
!; thence with the corporate line 10 the
Brcnham and Travis road; thence with said
road TO the intersection OF the Brenham and
Industry road; thence with said road to the
south corner OF Julius Iehmann's survey.
thence with Lehmann's west boundary line he
ing between the surveys ofAug lander, Julius
Lehman and !. Weiss TO Smiths branch.
thence down Smiths branch to the north cast
corner OF the Nelson Smith league; thence
west with said league line being north wet
boundary line Of Snid league 10 Goes creek.
thence up Goes creek 10 the Central railroad
including the farm now owned by Mrs. Wood
and formerly owned by w. Kruger: thence
with said railroad 10 the corporate line Of
Rrerhan, and on the line between Wards
and ! and Wards and 4 10 the place of be-
ginning including Ward No. g. That tn,
voting place for said cleo ion shall be at Viii
kins Warehouse in the city of Brenham
ELECTION PRECINCT No. I3-Election Pre-
cinct No. Is in Justices Precinct No. I shall
embrace all the territory in Justices Precinct
No. ) embraced within the following bonn
diaries TO Wit: beginning at the boundary line
OF JuStlces Precinct No. ) at the south west
corner Of he J. Clark league: thence with said
line TO the old telegraph road; thence with said
road TO Goes creek; thence up said creek 10
the Central railroad; thence with said railroad
to the eastern boundary line of Phil Coe league;
thence with the line ofelectiun Precinct No. 10
10 tie place of beginning. The voting place
for said Ecle ton Precinct shall be at Peschs
store, Berlin.
ELECTION PRECINCT No. I4-Election Pre-
cinct No. IL in Justices Precinct No. shall
entrance all the territory in Justices Pre-
Cinct No. } lying south and west of Election
Precincts II, l. and Il and the voting place
tor said Election Precinct shall be at Palms
stuIc.
| ELECTION PRECINCT No. I5-Electon Pre-
cinct No. IS in Justices Precinct No. :; shall
embrace all the erritory in JUSTICES Frcc net
No. 3 embraced within the following boun-
darieS wit: Beginning a, the mouth ofKuy-
kendall creek; thence up said creek following
the boundary line of Justices Precinct No. 4
to the public road leading from Brenham to
Blalle'S crossing; thence with said road 10 New
| Years creek at the Elliott Allcorn crossing;
thence down New Years ere. k TO the place Of
beginning. votingplacc for said Election
Precinct shall be at Schendelt rim.
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Election Precincts i'll Justices Pre-.
CInct No, 3,

AT the February Term 1886 tho following
order was made by the Commissioner Court to
wit.
1t is the order that the remainder of the
Philip Coe league be detached from Election
Precinct No. II and attached to Election Pre-
cinct No. 10.
ELECTION PRECINCT No. Io-tlection Pre-
cinct No. 10, in Justices Precinct No. 4, shall
embrace all Of the territory in Justices Pre-
cinct No. included within the following
boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at the corpo
rate line of the city of Brenham at the point of
the division line of Wards one and four Il and
a; thence TO the Central railroad; thence with
said railroad to the western boundary line of
the A. Harrington leaguei thence north with
said league line to the southeast corner of the
James Clark league; thence with said league
line west 10 the boundary line of JUSTICES
Precinct No. 7; thence with said league line in
Il northerly direction to New Years creek;
thence down New Years creek to the Bren-
ham and Washington road, leading to Kuy
kcndIlrs creek; thence with said BRENNAN and
Washington rod 10 the corporate limits of
brennan and the division line Of Wards
Nos. and 5 and Nos, and i to the
place of beginning Including wards Nos I and
,. The voting place for said ElCCti II Pre-
cinct shall be At the Court House, in the city
of Brennan.
ELECTION PRECINCT No. GI-EIestion Pre-
cInct No II, in Justices Precinct No. !, shall
embrace 2iloi the territory in Iusticcs Precinct
No. 5 embraced within the following bulInda-
RES, To Wit; Beginning at the corpcrate line
Of the city Of BRENNAN on the road leading
from BRENNAN to Washington, via Kuyken.
daifs creek; thence with said road to New
Years creek: thence down New Years creek
to The boundary line Of JUSTICES Precinct No.a;
thence with The said boundary line oil
Justices Precinct No. To the south !
east corner of The Isaac I.ee league; |
thence with the southern boundary line
OF s;'id league running in westerly direction
and continuing the same course 10 intprsectthe |
BRENNAN, Travis and Bclvillu road: thence |
with saliruadto thn corporate limits Of the city |
Of Brenham following said corporate line. and |
on the line between wards 3and and wards |
AID to the place Of beginning, including |
W ard No :. The voting place of said Elec-
lion Precinct No II shall he held nj the City /
Hall,
Election PRECINCT No Iz.-Elcction Pre-
Clnci No. IL in Justices Precinct No. / shall |
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Election Precincts In Jn0'' n
cin"t

$780,, - NO. 2.
- February, 1886, term of the Commits
sioner's Court the f. flowing election PIE
cincis were established in Justices Precinct
No. ?, to wit:
ELECTION PRECINCT No. 6.-Elcclion Pre-.
cinct No. g commences where the line be-
tween Justices Precincts Nos. 2 and Z crosses
New Years creek; thence down New Years
creek 10 the Crockett ford; thence souihwardly
on direct liuc 10 where the Chappel Hill and
Buckhorn road crosses the RAILROAD: thence
with SAID railroad in westerly direction 10
where the line between Justices Precincts =
and J crosses the railroad; thence with the
line between said Justices Precincts 10 the
beginning. The voting place of said Election
Precinct shall be at the town OF Chappell Hill.
ELECTION Precinct No. 7---CommenceS at
the Crockett ford on New Years creek; thence
down said creek 10 the Brazos river thence
down said river TO the line between Washing
ton and Austin counties; thence with said
county line TO where the Chappell Hill and
Buckhom road crosses the same; thence north
ward with sad road to the railroad; thence
northward along the western boundary of
Election Precinct No. 10 the place of begin
ming. The voting place Of said Election Pre-
cinct shall be at Routt's gin
ELECTION PRECINCT No. S-Bcgins at the
Caney Creek ford, where the ChappelI Hi.
and Buckhorn road crosses the same; thence
up said creek, which Is the line between
Washington and Austin counties, to where the
Chappell Hin and Scmpronious road crosses
the said creek; thence with said Chappell Hill
and Sempronious road to where it crosses the
railroad; thence cast with said railroad to
where the Chappell Hill and Buckhom road
crosses the same; thence with said road to the
beginning The voting place of said Election
Precinct shall be at Chadwicll's gin, on the
Garnctt place.
ELECTION PRECINCT No. 9-Begins at Ca
ney creek. where the Chappell Hill and Sem
proniOus road crosses the same; thence up
SAID creek with the line between Washington
ami Austin counties 10 the southwest corner of
Justices Precinct No. and southeast corner
of Justices Precinct No. 3; thence northward
with the line between said precincts to where
said line crosses the railroad; thence east with
said railroad to where the Chappcll Hill and
Sempronious road crosses the same: thence
with Chappell Hill and Sempronious road to
beginning. The voting place OF said Election
Precinct Shall be at Felder's gin
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Tho city council of Sherman
will soon advertise for one hundred
street lamps.
Tho courthouse yard at Colum-
bus has been converted into q drill
ground by the Columbus Rifles.
Dallas is making great pre-
paratlons tor the coming fairs the
city will put on u regular gala APP
pearancc.
Bastrop is to have Il good old
fashioned Democratic arousing on
the 2Sth INST. Ross, Reagan, Mills
and Swain are expected to deliver
addresses.
Mr.. Z. Srcllcnbergcr, of Aus
tin, is bugol@ist, he has in his pos
session the largest collection of
bugs in tho State. lie has over
5000 specimens from different parts
of the world.
- The Morning Star alliance. OF
Hopkins county, recently passed
resolutions that tho one crop sys-
TEN is ruinous TO any country, and
that they will IN future cut the cot
ton crop twenty-five per cent. and
give the ground and timo to other
crops that they may produce meat
bread and molasscs ut home. They
ask all alliances TO adopt similar
resolutions. This seems to be q
step in the right dcrccton and if
other alliances follow the Morning
Star they will be doing good work
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No horse will be permitted to enter and
compete in any of the above races that has
not been owned in Washington county or
counties adjoining Washington for a period
OF six months Immediately preceding the
races.
Jan entrance fec of 10 per cent will be
charged on all purses
No horse considered entered until entrance
fee is paid.
Entries to close at p. m. the day previ-
GUS to the race.
Two horses 10 enter; two TO start. No
money for walkover.
Will postpone, if deemed expedient, on
account of bad weather.
The above races will DO conducted under
regular racing rules. The best of order will
be enforced.
Props of BRENNAN Race Course.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-10-21

The Houston Herald seems to
be tho organ of the peoples ticket
as opposed 10 the regular Demo-
cratic ticket, and it even goes SO
far that it objects TO the Demo
cratic executive committee raising
a campaign fund.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-10-21

DR.. MCANALLY, editor of the St.
Louis Christian Advocate, and a
minister who is known to almost
every Southern Methodist, says
temperance friends in Missouri are
working earnestly to have prohl-
bition submitted to 4 vote of the
people. He says, Gall this is well
enough in 4 tree country, but we
can give them an unpatented, I'M
copyrighted plan for obtaining
prohibition right at once-it Is for
every man TO enact prohibltory
law for himself and keep it." The
prohibItionists IN Texas ought to
know that men can not be made
sober by lazy.
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KING COTTON.

The Houston Age of recent date
acknowledges that heretofore it
has been very loyal TO King Cot
ton, and has taken up arms when
ever there has been n movement to
dethrone him. 1t realized the fact
that cotton is ready cash. The cdl-
tor of the Age met Capt. I. J. Hare,
whom it describes as, "an intclli-
gent, practical farmer of this coun-
ty," Capt. Hare remarked that
money would be scarce in Texas
while Texans continued to keep
their smoke houses and corn cribs
in Kansas. This set the Age 10
thinking and it was not long in ar
irving at the conclusion that Capt.
Hare was right.
The BANNER IN common with al
most every newspaper IN the cot
ton belt has for years advised farm
ers to plant less cotton and raise
moro corn and hogs; tho farmers
as q rule scoffed at the advice of
tho newspapers, saying IN effect
that they understood their busI-
ness. The farmer who buys corn
at a railway town pays on an aver
age, taking ono year with another,
seventy-fve cents a bushel for IT.
For tho past two years s cents or
$40 bale has been about an aver
age price for cotton, so it takes a
bale of cotton to buy SO bushels of
corn. Taking an average, ono acre
ought to mako rs bushels of corn,
while the cotton crop at an outside
estimate will barely make half Il
bale to the acre. The farmer can
mako his own calculation and thon
tell whether it pays to raise cotton
for 8 Genes pound and pay 70
cents bushel for corn. The farmer
who buys corn as matter of course
buys bacon and lard. He can also
make q calculation on the profit of
selling cotton at s cents and pay
ing from to IL conts q pound for
bacon. The figures speak for them
selves without any calculation.
1t certainly has not escaped the
notice of the farmer than IN years
IN which he has had an abundance
of corn to answer all his purposes
without buying any, that on squar-
ing up accounts about Christmas
he has or ought to have more ready
money than he had in years IN
which he bought corn to mako a
crop. Last summer a great deal
of money was spent for corn in
Brenham; this fall there is an al
most universal complaint that
money is scarce. 1t is scarce here
but it is plentiful in Kansas, where
it has been sent to buy corn and
bacon. 1t would certainly seem
in the light of all the experience
of the past, and in view of the fact
that there little or no hope OF any
advance in the price of
cotton for years to como, that the
true policy of the farmer would be
to make as much corn and bacon
at home as be requires for his own
use, and then to devote his best
energies to the production of all
the cotton he can raise as his
crop. He will then have
to pay taxes and buy neces-
sarlcs and luxuries, too. If this
policy is pursued it is moro than
likely that King Cotton will not be
but will be more regal
than ever.
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The Waco Day says: ave be-
lieve the newspapers of Texas, al
most without exception, insist that
the legislature ought to sub
NIT a prohibition article to a
vote of the people of the state"
The BANNER has put itself upon
record as being opposed to the sub
mission of any such amendment at
the present time and it has given
Its reason for SO thinking. Briefly
it is this: Texas has local option
gaw ample for all purposes, and
whenever q majority of the popu-
tatlon, by counties, adopt local OPP
ton it will be high time TO talk
about a prohibition amendment.
The rights of majorities are not
thoroughly understood.
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CAPT. BLACK, counsel for the con-
victed anarchists, feels absolutely
certain that they will never be
hanged. The general opinion
throughout the country is, if they
are not hanged justice will have
been wrongod.
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GEN. BACON MONTGOMERY, of St
Joseph, Mo-, was accidentally kill.
cd at a mine owned by him in
Preside county, Texas. Mont.
gomery has an unonviable history
he was mixed up in the border war
between Missouri and Kansas prior
to the war.
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THE Temple Daily Bee is . neat
Iy printed and lively six column
paper lately started at Temple. 1t
Is we'll Datronized by the NOR
chants, having about fifteen col
umns of live advertisements.
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Thursday, October 81, 1856.

THE Huntsville Item is working
like Trojan for the Democratic
ticket in Walker county. 1t says
tho candidates are not near as &C.
tive as they oughtto be.
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The great strike at the packing
houses in Chicago is still unsettled.
The packers demand ten hours for
days work and will have moth
ing less. They have refused to
deal with the Knights of Labor
committee, practically taking the
same stand that Hoxie did last
spring. They say if the men wish
to return to work on the I0-hour
basis they can do so as individuals.
The packers have advertised for
men and will probably obtain all
they need in a few weeks at the
furthest. The Knights propose
to boycott Armour's meats.
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RACES
FIRST DAY.

FIRST RACE-Trotting, mile heats, best two
IN three, for horses that have not made
better time than 100 (owncr to drive J
Purse S35. First horse, S25; second
horse, $40.
SECOND RACE-Running, halfmile heats, best
two in three. Purse. SIS. First horse.
$50; second horse, S25.
Third RACE-Trotting, mile heats, best three
in five, for horses that have not made
better time than 800. Purse, $40. First
horse, $50; second horse, SO.
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THERE is not sign of a wharf at
Sabine Pass. All of the improve
ments at the waters edge were
swept away. 1t is thought also
that the bar was choked up. There
is no property at the town, and
there are doubts that the people
will settle down there. The wo-
men say that they will not return
and the men are discouraged. At
present it looks very much as if
Sabine Pass were dead.
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THE JOHNSON',S BAYOU DIS
ASTER.

The disaster at Johnson's bayou
is if anything moro disastrous and
appalling than at Sabine Pass 1t
is known that 100 people have
been drowned. Johnson's bayou
is a settlement in Cameron parish,
La, ten miles east of Sabine. The
settlement is twenty miles long
and has an average elevation of
twelve feet above the sea level.
1t is composed of a series of ele-
waited ridges having width of
from one TO four miles. The set
Element is bounded on the south by
the gulf of Mexico and On the
northeast and west by marshes
and lagoons. The population of
the settlement was about 1900,
mostly farmers. Radford which
was the head OF navigation on the
bayou had four stores and a cotton
gin. The stores and gin were
swept away. There were 1000
head of cattle in the settlement
and all but about 500 were drown
ed. The storm lasted twelve hours.
The water was ten feet deep on
the first or south side, and four
feet deep on the north side twelve
miles from the sea. The people
all took to the houses, and all the
deaths were caused by houses
falling down; some houses were
too low to escape the freshet, and
the occupants of these persisted.
There is great restitution and sui
feriug,
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TIE Liquor Dealers convention
at Chicago passed resolutions in
favor OF temperance and good or
der, but opposing prohibition in
every form. They will have moth
lnr 70 do with politics.
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TIE Galveston News Of Sunday
has a lengthy editorial on the
threatened cotton seed monopoly.
The Austin oil mill has lately pass
ed into the hands of the Howard
oil company. The very moment
the Howard oil company gets con-
troll of all the oil mills the price of
seed will be put down to a mlnlm-
nm.
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The San Antonio Light says the
Knights of Labor do not and never
intended TO draw tho color line.
In resolution passed at the gon-
eraI assembly at Richmond they
declare they have no purpose to
interfere with or disrupt social re
lations which many exist between
different races in various portions
Of our country. The Light is now
playing the roll Of labOrer's cham
piOp.
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SECOND DAY.

FIRST RACE-Hunning, half mile heats, best
two in three, for two-vear-,,ld colts.
Purse, S65. First colt, $50; second colt,
SIS.
SECOND RACE-Trotting; mile heats, best
three in five. Purse, SIS. First horse,
$50; second horse, SIS.
THIRD RcE-Running, mile dash for mules
slowest mule takes the purse. Purse, $40
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Up to Saturday evening there
was no change in the condition OF
tho pork packers strike at Chicago.
At Minneapolis the switchmen's
strike was in full force.
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On Friday last the Waco Elk
aminer published a current scan
dal involving the names of two
families who had previously stood
we'll in the community. In one
family there was an unfaithful hus-
band and IN the other an unfaith-
full wife. The publication as might
have been expected set the town
agog. On Saturday morning the
following appeared: "The Elk
amIner turned the town over yes
terday." For icy GOODNESS this
can not be excelled, but then the
average newspaper reader delights
in scandals.
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If the prohibitionists are in
earnest and want to do good they
ought to follow the example OF
Father Matthew, the celebrated
Catholic priest and apostle of tenn
perance. During his life time
Father Matthews reclaimed thous-
ands of men who were slaves to al
cohol. Whenever the drinkers are
reduced to a minimum the occupa-
ton of the saloon-keeper will be
gone and the saloon will be num-
bered among the things that were.