Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-26

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were born to colored couple, and
now Joe Beckman's red Irish setter
bitch has added seventeen puppies
to the canine population at one
stroke"-Light.
A big increase in the tamale trade
of that enterprising city may be ex-
pected.
In Paris during the winter season,
when the ladies are compelled to go
out under great mountain of furs
and wraps, style ofwaggle has been
substituted for walk, and the art
of waggling gracefully is taught at
the dancing schools. As soon as it
strikes this country. all the dudes
may be expected, to affect. the Lord
Dundreary gait.
TIE estate of the late W. c. De-
Paw, the wealthy glass manufac-
turer of New Albany, Ind, has been
inyentoried at six millions. When
MIR. DePauw went into the business
In 1860 he was poor man and paid
his employees an average of S2.96 per
day under alleged ':free trade" In
1880, under the tariff, he paid his
employees an average of $1.79 per
day. This is how protection pro-
tects the poor man.
The Turnerbund of Green Bay,
Wisconsin, has done good thing
in calling on the bunds throughout
the country to expel all members
tainted with anarchy and socialism.
While there need be no suspicion of
the sturdy, self-respecting Germans
of this country harboring socialis-
tic ideas, it is well to let these enc
mics against society and good gov
eminent know that they must hunt
their holes and no longer consort
with law-abiding citizens.
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AT THIS particular time, while the
tricksters and shysters are reported
TO be laying their wires to down
Major Joe Sayers on account of his
position on the tariff, the BANNER
takes pleasure in quoting the follow
ing from the Louisville Courier
Journal:
"Mr. Sayers of Texas is on his Sec
ond term. In the last Congress he
was conspicuous as member of the
Naval Affairs, committee. He is one
of the foremost men in, the great
Lone Star State, and was for four
years its Lieutenant Governor. Mr.
Sayers is one of the able men of the /;
House" +
They are honoring Congressman
Mills at Brennan by selling Roger !
@. Mills cigars for a nickle. III,
Mills will secure the ,
of a bill to pay for prop
erty of citizens of BRENNAN DESTROY
ed by the Federal soldiers in 1866 |
the price of the Mills cigar up there |
will advance from a nickel to 10 s
cents.-Houston Age. /;
The BANNER wants to see Uncle !,
Danl reimbursed for the destruc- T,
lion of his newspaper Office, and to .
that $4,000 damages for
being falsely imprisoned because he
iarred to maintain the right of free
speech in his paper, even if nobody =
else gets red cent.
TIE BANNER is in receipt of bulle- t
In No. 5 containing report of ex- v
'erlments and observations conduct a
ID at the State Agricultural and Me b
'hanical College under direction of g
leo W. Curtis, of the department "
# agriculture. The BANNER has not p
'een able to give it more than a cur n
'ory glance, but its pages evidence Il
'areful preparation, and the reports e
# tests made of the value of differ II
mt fertilizers for corn, the value of ii
Tilling as against broadcasting for 81
pring sown oats, tests of garden n
eed sent from the agricultural de- ii
at Washington, remarks on p
cchmating cattle with suggestions as
n diseases and treatment, remarks ii
n cooked and uncooked food, and a 81
able showing the per cent of live ii
Teight which good, grass-fed steers &C
MI dress, all are satisfactory, and al
nj convince the most skeptical of it
le utility of such an institution. na