Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-16

democratic congressional committee
on account of his capacity for blowing
off gas. At least that was the strong
point urged in his favor by Con
gresham Breckenridge.
The BANNER is in receipt of the re-
port of disappointment and board
of trustees of the state blind institu-
ton. 1t makes a favorable showing.
There are at present in this asylum
seventy-four male and forty-seven
female patients and students.
SOME of the London booksellers
assert that the sales of Harper's and
Scribner's magazines equal three
times the sales of any home publica-
tions. It is evident that America is
fast destined to be the seat of learn
ing and cradle of English literature.
RICHARD Fox, proprietor of the
New York Police Gazette, has been
arrested for aiding and abetting
prize-fghts by arranging for them
and by serving in the capacity of
stakeholder. He and his sheet
should have been suppressed long
ago.
UNCLE DAHL has opened a cores
pondence bureau is his Age for the
accommodation of those who wish to
boost themselves or friends for Office,
and Judging from the eagerness with
which requisition is being made on
its space a long-felt reed has been
supplied.
PowDERLY, grand master of the
Knights of Labor, seems to have
been lost in some kind of shuttle.
The strikes on the Reading road and
its operated coal mines are still in
full force and vigor, but he has not
been heard from in regard to them
for several days.
The "trustn combines are oper-
ated on the same principle with the
boycott, which is SO generally con-
demned, and therefore must go, but
to insure their going, and not stand
on the order thereof, the robber tar
if, which is responsible for their ex-
istence, must go also.
The president of the Metropolitan
bank of Cincinnati has been arrested
for fraud growing out of the Fidelity
bank transactions. There seems to
be a growing and healthy sentiment
of late years in favor of making the
law no respecter of persons, which
is to be noted with pride.
The weather that everybody in
this section have been longing for
has come at last, and the farmers
will need no offcious advice to make
good use of it. Should the weather
remain favorable from now on they
will have sufficient work to employ
them for several weeks to come.
BILL CHANDLER's bill to regulate
elections in South Carolina provides
that only five of one party can vote
at a time. After five democrats
have voted it is proposed to hold
the crowd back until five republ-
cans can be hunted up to offset
their votes. Old Bill is genius.
THERE is a kind of mania, as it
were, developed among the papers
of New York for working up gigantic
frauds, bogus banking and mining
schemes, &C., and it is an exceeding
ly cold day in July that they do not
succeed in getting up sensation as
well as encounter big libel suit
PROFESSOR SULLIVAN has gone into
training at Windsor within a stones
throw of the queens castle to meet
Mitchell. At latest accounts her
majesty had not yet honored him
with formal visit, which may be,
however, explained by the snub adj
ministered to her son some time
back.
In Volapuk "Odad" means hell,
and many a small boy will be start
led to think that, like the old lady
who had been speaking grammar all
her life without knowing it, he has
been ANONYMOUSLY using "cuss"
words every time parental authority
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