Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-09

terprlse alice samee like Mellcan
journals. A recent issue of the
Shanghai Mercury, which somehow
or other failed to reach this Office,
contains particulars of the hanging
of Hon. Chas. Stuart Parpell, the
Irish patriot, along with three other
anarchists, and of the finding of the
body of Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone
dead from an overdose of morphine.
M1sFoRTUNEs never come singly.
"Bunnie" Campbell won her famous
promise of brooches suit of $4,000
against ':Baby Bunting" Arbuckle,
the great coffee merchant of New
York, for the his" and '.k's" he got
from her, and now the failure of the
Cheyenne, Wy, bank, in which "Ba-
by Bunting" was large stockhold-
er, is announced. Still another rise in
the coffee market may be looked
for.
DELAWARE township, in Ohio,
boasts of q colored woman, Clarissa
jackson, who lacks two months of
being 25 years old, and yet is a
grandmother. She married at elev-
en- and gave birth to daughter at
twelve. This daughter married at
twelve and gave birth to child be-
fore she was thirteen. 1t is per-
haps the only case on. this continent
where person became grandpar-
ent so early.
A REPUBLICAN member of the ways
and means committee states that a
minority report will be submittedre-
commenting that the tax be sustain
ed. except on sugar, salt and few
other articles, and that bounty be
given to sugar planters to encourage
the industry. This will be robbing
Peter to pay Paul. Where is the
going to get the money
to pay the bounties if It be not from
The tax derived from thepeople,
The United States senate is fool
SHY wasting time and neglecting
matters in needless discus
sion of the Blair bill. It has been
discussed enough, and people are
5ired of reading the monotonous re
cord that 'fafter reading the journal,
Senator So-and-So got possession of |
he floor and announced that on the
iollowing day he would address the
Hon. Senate on the Blair Education
i bill-whereupon the senate ad-
burned" ..tr.............,, 4
Baltimore society is greatly, stirred I
,7er the marriage of Miss Edith
Johns, aged 10, to. Jesse Tyson,
lged 60. Both, stood high in soeie7
y circles and the old man was very
He settled 100000 on
he bride before the marriage cere-
nony was performed. This is
mother case where girl prefers be-
ng and old mans darling to being
roung mans subsequently, where
he old fellow has the ubicum omne,
u, in other words, dinero.
ALARMED lady of Ontario, N. Y,
las instituted damage suit against
! prominent citizen for $4,000, for
Kissing her last September. She al
eyes that he took her by surprise,
hereby producing fit of nervous
,rostration and rendering her in
;apable of performing home duties
ora number of weeks. The defend
mt admits kissing her, but pleaded
hat it was a demonstration of affec-
ion the sameas he would show one
# his children, which will render it
embarrassing to the learned Judge in
assessing the damages for purely
olatonic kiss.
Crisp makes the old rats of the
Waco Examiners Office hunt their
loles. The office is now a union
oncern under the regulations Of the
typographical union. Such changes
10 the times decree US, but no such
hanges come to the times here
San Antonio Light. |
So, 50. The Light has caught on
While tile Times, its neighbor, ;ad-
eartises to the World that none but
Killed labor Will be employed on j
hat paper, yet when it became aun.
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