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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-23

LOCAL NE VS..
BUSINESS was tolerably brisk Tues
DAY.
TIE Artillery Company is drilling
almost nightly.
BLINN college is reported in a very
prosperous condition.
WIrH gravelled streets and electric
Lights, Brennan will be fixed.
Two sacks of -four were stolen
from the Santa Fe car the other
night.
AMONG the shrubbery planted in
the courthouse yard Saturday are
Nseveral pines.
Mr.. H. FISHER is having new and
commodious ice vaults built at his
establishment.
THE Central committee of the Mai
Fest association had busy meeting
Monday afternoon.
Mr.. H. Fisher went to Sealy Sat-
urdey night and returned yesterday
He will establish an ice house at
that point.
WHAT is the matter with the com
MIGHTY elections It is hardly more
than month of, and not single
candidate. has announced.
A CITIZEN of Brennan has called
our attention to the prompt and
business-like manner displayed by
Miss Eta Anderson at the delivery
window of the Postoffice.
The Leap-year ball to be given by
the ladies at the Frohsinn hall on
the 10Th of February is attracting
much attention in German social
circles The ladies are using every
effort to make it a success, and
there is no doubt they will succeed
- Goodwin, the efficient and
ular pastor of the Methodist
rich, passed the sixtieth mile
stone on the highway of life Mon
day. Though the advance of years
has silvered his hair, the spring of
puth is still in his heart.
TIE occasional correspondent of
Galveston News from this city
Is merited compliment to Misses
rnita Byrnes and Sadie McClung,
he post Office. They add much
he efficiency and dispatch of the
s5ness and are popular with
e4rybody.
PRESENTS James Estis, form
erly of this city, but now residing in
MSntana, has sent his daughter, Miss
N<ttie Estis, of this city,, "a genuine
original Indian pipe. It is quite a
curiosity. He also sent Capt. ]. NJ.
Byrnes handsome pair of Indian
moccasins. The workmanship on
them is very fine.
SHOOTING Three shots were fired
Tuesday night about 10 o'clock near
the compress. Upon investigation it
was ascertained that some one had
fred through the window of house
occupied by colored woman, Rosa
Lee. The lamp on the table was
broken in pieces, but no further
damage was done.
The members of the BRENNAN
Fire Department will have a Jim
dandy time at Mechanics Engine
Company's hall on Tuesday night.
the occasion being a free lunch III
honor of the reception of their new
hose carriage, When it comes to a
free lunch, tke Brennan fire boys
are "he "a to turn down"
Mn. HARRY HAYNES has just been
notified by Senator Reagan that the
position of consulate in Guiana IL
duth America is at his command al
salary of $1,000 per year. Mr.
Rynes has no thought of accepting
profered position, but the offel
well merited compliment to his
long labor In behalf of the Demo.
Evening journal., 1888-08-21
PROTECTION DID ~.

Before the war Chattanooga. Tenn.
contained from 2, 900 to B. 600 people. To-
day it is a thriving manufacturing city
with population Of over G5OO0-about
the size Of Wilmington. The streets are
well laid, the houses substantially built
and the stores as wen furnished as those
Of any northern city Of equal size. vii
mington for instance. Industries Of all
kinds have sprung up, the mining inter
est being especially wen represented.
Around the city is a belt railroad for pas.
senger traffic, connecting with horse
railways extending into the heart of the
city. just after the war Missionar,
Ridge. the scene of celebrated battle
was purchased for $25 an acre. 1t was
soon efter sold for SIS an acre. and re-
Gently for $500 an acre. II is now part OF
this prosperous town, and is covered will
fine residences, reached by an inclined
plane railroad This city is an illustri
GUS example of industrial awakening in
what IS called the New South. Doe,
this prosperous community. in the yer,
heart Of the Solid South. ask that pro
lection. under which it has grown anc
fourished, be supplanted by free trade
Its history is the answer
Evening journal., 1888-08-21

carpet workers in this State, Pennsyl-
vania and Connecticut will be especially
interested to see that Mr. Mills cut down
duties on foreign carpets from A. ga 80
40 per cent. pretending that 40 per
cent. is enough TO cover the differ
ence in wages, which appears from
official tables to be 50 per cent.
The Mills bill does not put iron ore on
the free list. only because Mr.. Cleve
lands friends did not dare to treat pro-
ducers of copper in Southern States as
they treated producers Of copper in
Michigan. or Of lumber in that state and
Wisconsin. or Of salt in New York The
duty on ore is but Al per cent, while the
difference in wages of miners between
this country and Great Britain is 1il.9
ppr cent. The bill reduces the duty on
pig iron, now $3.50 per cent. to about 50
per cent, while the difference in wages
in iron furnaces is J5.6 per cent. so that
the advantage offered to foreign produ-
GERS is not large, But producers of pig
iron cannot live unless the manufacture
thrives. and the bill reduces about one
eighth the duties on bar iron. now only
80. 70 per cent. although the difference
in wages between this country and Great
Britain is 772 per cent. still more
ugly blow is intended in placing tin plates
on the free list, Of which the imports are
already over 635, 600 600 pounds, and in
reducing from a. 33 to 50 per cent the
duty on steel rails, the difference in
wages in these as in other rolling mills
being 77.2 per cent
These comparisons suffice TO show that
the Mills bill does not more than cover
the difference in wages between this
country and Great Britain, as free
traders pretend 1t was deliberately in
tended not to protect, and therefore it
gives the foreign producer the advantage
in every industry Of whic'. wages have
been examined With wages in 1902 occu-
pations % per cent. higher in this coun-
try than in Great Britain, as official
records show, could there be more
impudent pretence than that duties
averaging 40 per cent. on dutiable arti-
Giles, with several hundred articles placed
ON the free list, will "more than cover
the difference in wages between this and
other countriesg-New York Tribune.
Evening journal., 1888-08-21
LOGS AND LOGS AND LOGS.
Think OF 10000 Of Them Bound T@-
gether.


A long, dark brown mass of wood. like
q cigar in shape. composed of 80. 900 logs.
varying IN size from % to 200 feet, and
bound together by massive linked Chains
such was the Joggins. the great raft
that mas been successfully towed by two
tugboatS from Nova Scotia to New York
The Joggins was the largest raft ever
constructed-592 feet long SO feet beam
tapering to II feet beam at the end 3s
feet in depth of hold and drew % feet Of
water. 1t weighed about Is. 900 tons. con.
tanned 100000 feet of lumber. hoard
measure, cost, when launched. S50. 600
and was worth from $50, 900 to sS5 600
delivered
1t was bound together with fiftv-eight
triple bands of seven-eighths inch crucible
steel wire; through the center there ran a
double and three-quarter inch cable
which was connected with the wire bands
by cross cables. The raft was towed from
the center cable. Forty-five miles of wire
and $500 feet of cable were used.
The raft was towed by two Of the most
powerful tugboats in the world.
The success of this venture, which bids
fair to Tevolutionize certain branches of
the timber business, is due to the In.
genuity and pluck of Hugh r. Robertson,
Of st. John, N. B., the patentee of the
system of ocean timber RATS. and the
builder of the raft that was lost last De.
cember. and to James D. Leary, of New
York.
In 1888 James Murray, Of st. John, N.
B., brought to New York a small, rude
craft, containing about one-sixth the
quantity of timber contained in the NAM
moth hulk above described. Murray's
craft was badly and extravagantly con
structed. and the towage bill was heavy
The expense precluded another attempt il
Evening journal., 1888-08-21
VIEW OF TIE RAFr-


lShowing. by drawing representations Of frame
immense Leary's craft is
Dec, IS the tug parted from the raft
In gale, and the raft went to pieces
sixty-fve miles east of Block Island
When the loss Of the raft became known
great alarm was felt among vessel own
ers. as the logs were squarely in the track
OF the ocean steamers. No disasters were
oceasioned. however. The loss Of this
raft gave a valuable practical lesson in
ocean currents. Logs breaking from it
have been encountered in many parts Of
the north and south Atlantic, aud short
time since a vessel reported that part
Of the raft had been sighted intact near
the Western Islands, off the coast of
Africa.
Immediately upon the loss Of the raft
IN 1887, Mr. Leary announced his I'M
shaken confidence in the feasibility of the
enterprise and declared his intention to-
launch another raft He and Robertson
were out about $4,000 on their first
venture, and it was considered foolhardy
70 again risk such sum. They went
ahead, however, contracted for the logs
20 be delivered at Port Joggins in the
winter of 1878, and the successful result
has already been described.
Evening journal., 1888-08-21

gayety as they put silly questions to an
imaginary class Of protectionists whom
they had planted ON a false premises.
1t was a theory" and not condition"
which produced their cheerfulness. They
are invincibie ON theories of their own
choosing. Every Evening assumes that
because gold foil costs less in this coun-
try than in Europe that the
American gold-beater must be earn
ing less than the European gold
beater Our local imitator of the New
York Evening Post could not imagine for
a moment that it was just possible that
the European manufacturer might be ex-
acting more profit for his gold foil, or
that it might cost him more TO manufac-
ture it, because Of poorer machinery. Oh,
no. it is only the American manufacturer
that exacts two and three profits at the
expense Of his employees. 1t is the VIII
mington employer, and not the employer
Of Manchester, for example. who is skin
ming his employees It is the Wilmington
Dental Manufacturing Company, the
greedy grinder, that is rolling in wealth
because Of the American tariff No Eng
lish dental manufacturers are robbing the
public, although their products are sold
at higher rate than the American
product
The import duty on gold foil for teeth
filling has accomplished for dentistry
what similar duties have done for almost
every industry in the country. II has
developed dentistry and all that pertains
to it so that American dentists, their
materials and their instruments rank
first in the world The tariff protected
American workingmen and American
doctors until they attained the first place ;
and so perfectly has it done its work in
this particular that gold foil which costs
&2i an ounce in its crude condition is
put into teeth at a cost Of S2S an ounce,
or 81 an ounce less than it is sold for in
London. OF the difference Of 81 between
the gold and gold foil the worlSmcn get
$3, and 81 60 to the manufactures, the
middlemen and the dentist
What protection has done for dentistry
illustrates its entire history. Bessemer
steel, salt and indeed every article of
American manufacture went through this
process. The protective system enabled
the workingmen of America to expert
ment with all these things until skill and
competition have brought then all to the
rock bed of cost
Our contemporary, led by and copying
from the Evening Post, has assaulted
almost every industry in Wilmington.
1t is almost daily making hysterical
appeals to the prejudices Of the working
men, who by the way do not read its col
umns, and it would if it could array
classes against each other in this city
and all for the sake of half Matched idea
1t gloated over it when the thieves Of
Paris raised a riot recently and called it
a workingmens strike and It would not
merely extract comfort from it. but
would exult in ii il similar outbreak
should now occur in Q city of protective
America This is the true Evening Post
spirit II is this spirit which Every
Evening is trying to emulate
Evening journal., 1888-08-21
THE PLAY s THE THING.

George Holland in Comedy Opens the
Academy and "Our Jonathan the
Opera House.
Mr., George Holland, the distinguished
and popular comedian, is to be the open
ing attraction OF the dramatic season at
the Academy Of Music. The engagement
is an excellent one and sure to be success
full in every way. Mr. Holland will bring
with him large and capable company
comprising some Of the best known actors
in the profession, and the plays selected
are all very well known and Of excellent
quality. On the first night, Monday.
August y, Mr.. Holland will play Lord
Dundreary in "Our American Cousin,
character that he has performed more
than |, 600 times; on Tuesday evening
he will appear as Sir Peter Teazle
in Sheridan's greatest comedy,
THE School for Scandal part
in which he has achieved the
greatest success, and on Monday night,
August ~, the engagement will close
with his appearance as Henry Graves in
Money" There will be matinees on
Tuesday and Wednesday, Mr. Holland is
well known and popular in this city, ana
his Appearance here with his own com
pany ana IN Such capital plays viii
make his short stay u brilliant one Due
notice will be given OF the opening Of the
sale of reserved seats.
On Saturday evening. September l. the
opening attraction at the Opera House
will b. Our Jonathan, play similar in
many respects to "Alvan Joslin The
coming Of Dore Davidson and Ramit
Austin in DIR Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at
the opening Of the season is an event
looked forward TO with more than ordi
nary interest The interest in the work
that made Robert Louis Stevenson
name immortal. has not tagged, though
the book has been out over two years
Dore Davidson's Interpretation of the
dual title role takes front rank among
others who have attempted the part. VI
will be remembered last season favorably.
This year. however he reappears WIN
dramatizatiOn somewhat different and
cast stronger than he has ever before APP
peared before a Wilmington audience
The company viii appear for three
nights at the Opera House, commencing
on September and the usual matinees
will be given.
Evening journal., 1888-08-21
TARlFF lax.


Because wages are in some states
higher than in others it is said that "the
tariff fails 70 regulate wages Nobody
imagines that it regulates wages in that
sense or prevents a rise of wages where
ever labor in any branch happens to be
scarce. What it does prevent is the de-
preston Of wages TO the foreign level. by
the nnrestrained competition Of foreign
producers, and that unrestrained com
petition is precisely what the Free traders
are striving TO bring about, though they
cannot fail to see that il must deprive
American workers Of the wages by which
free and self-respecting workers are
enabled to support families in comfort
and TO educate their children.
The audacity of the claim that duties
averaging 80 per cent. will more than
cover the difference in wages between
this and other countries will be better
appreciated if the wages of workers in
certain industries be compared with the
present or proposed duties The follow
ing table shows by industries the average
weekly wages of the persons in the g3
in Great Britain aud the
United States as given in Census Volume
No 90, with the percentage of excess in
the United States
Evening journal., 1888-08-21

mediation. Then the SERVER" having lit
the candle at the south end, advanced
tmidly toward the north. But DR.. Temple
gave him a look that put him precipitatelY
t. fight, and the service went on with
only one candle.
Typhena, thirty fourth queen of the
Zut family of gypsies. is encamped at
Saybrook Point, Conn She will go to
Bristol, England, in November to attend
an international gypsy encampment TO be
held at that place.
Clara Louise Kellogg is preparing for
her winter operatic tour. and the interest
ing information is furnished that her hus-
band declares be has heard in all Europe
no better voice than Cara's. Her season
will begin in Boston, November 16.
Mr.. Sidney Dickinson is meeting with
great success in his Australian art-lecture
tour and viii considerably enlarge his
original programme He was called upon
to read the Declaration of Independence
at Fourth Of July celebration at Botany,
Mrs. Berry Wall is connoisseur in the
matter Of hairdressing She has her hair
dressed professionally She affects the
Psyche knot but with the latest modern
addenda-a soft little bunch of curls issu-
ing from the top like smoke coming out
Of a chimney.
Senior CASTELAR,, now fifty-six years old,
lives with his accomplished sister in a
beautiful home at Madrid. There are fire.
quent rumors that he is going to get mar
ried, but they are only rumors Hell now
growing bald, though his hair and mus
tache are still jet black.
Miss Cleveland who is still at Holland
Patent. has been much annoyed by the
appearance Of book on etiquette pUr-
porting to be from her pen and contain
ing her photograph The fact is that
Miss Cleveland has had nothing to do
with the book, and never heard of it until
she saw it in print.
Evening journal., 1888-08-21

A young lady Of this city. who evidently
thought it a very easy and insignificant
matter TO get OFF street car while in mo.
ton, made quite an exhibition Of herself
not long ago = e What a bewildering
confusion Of dainty skirts. What glimpses
Of trim ankles incased in colors that sug
gested brightest aurOral tints. as the
mortified maiden was tossed and whirled
by the momentum impaired by the vehi-
Gle from which she had so gracefully but
foolishly jumped. -Ithacat IN ~ Journal
Evening journal., 1888-08-21

growled; what do you s'pose opened IL
WITH Il thought, from the language
you used, you were opening it with
prayer. Life.
Miss. F. D. CurIett, 7th and King calls
attention to her line of corsets. side gar
tiers and dress forms.
Trunks and Bags at Yerger's. 4o7 Shin.
ley street. - ''r
Mr. Spofford, the librarian of Compress
and his assistant, Mr. Hutches are noted
for their wonderful memories. Not only
can they refer instantly to any book in
the library that may be asked for, but If
requested TO mention the best books on a
particular topic they are able to enumer
ate them with rapidity that would
shame book canvasser.
Butcher, Sign Painter, 400 shipley st.
The reason Mohammed refused to 60 to
the mountains was because the hotel
rates were so high.-Life.
Riding Saddles and Brides at II. Yer
gers, 4O7 Shipley street.
Arnold G. Cameron, class 's6. Prince
ton College, son of Henry Clay Cam
Sroil' mas been elected Professor of Modern
Languages in Miami University, Ohio.
Gliding on glass, 4O6 shipley street
A six pound bass is the last record for
Sackett's Pond, Sullivan county. II will
grace the Orange Lake Club rooms.
Dr.. e. G. Honeywell, 703 Market street
Teeth extracted, % cents; with gas. 80
cents. Good teeth s.. so set the best IS.
A fakir at Coney Island was caugh
working lung tester the other day that
lnnocently registered the exhalations of
ms customers, but responded TO suction
with measure Of malt whiskey.
Show Cards, Rucher, 400 Shipley st.
Vermont man searched swamp for
a mine of plumbago and almost found it
lie secured a rich lot Of it without the d.
Evening journal., 1888-08-21
WELL-KNoMN PERsoNs-

Citizen Train is at Berkeley Springs. Va.
Mr. George w. Cable is resting at Sar.
atoga
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton has rome
from London to Marienbad
Mr. George KEENAN, Is spending the
summer with his family at Dennvsville
Maine
Mrs. Shaw. the pretty American
whistler, returns to this country the
latter part of the month, after great
season in London
The late Larry Jerome was one Of the
few practical jokers who possessed
enough philosophy to bear the brunt Of a
practical joke himself
Mrs. James Brown Potters dresses for
the coming season viii, TO put il plainly
far outshine that lady genius. Every
one Of them is by Worth
The Bishop Of London sternly frowns
down all ritualistie advances. Recently he
WAS AT a service IN a London church where
he insisted on the erection of platform
at the north endof the altar for his accom-.
Evening journal., 1888-08-21
A Hungarian Patriot.

II is not generally known that we have
living in Milford the grandson of noted
Hungarian patriot who hid Louis Kossutb
under large pile of tobacco leaves in his
cellar and thus saved him from the hands
of the Austrian executioner and enable
him TO escape to this country. This patriot
was Joseph Tausk. of Pirchof Trencm4
Combat, Hungary, and his grandson Is
Henry +. Wesper, who can tell some in
teresting stories Of the great Hungarian,
who some years ago created so much ex
citment in this country. On another occa-
sion when the soldiers searched Tausk S
and turned over the pile of tobacco, Kos
suth was hidden under the sick bed of
Wesper's mother, then young mnmar
ried girl in her fathers house. Tausk 5
property was confscated and he was
thrown into prison where he remained
until the union Of Hungary with the Aus.
trian Empire kossuth escaped to Amer
lea, and afterwards sent Tausk $40. 600 to
make up to him the loss he had suffered
in aiding him TO escape. Milford News
and Advertiser
Evening journal., 1888-08-21
ARLINGToy CPMrTrny.

G0th Of May. ITO. occurred the great 70.
llgious and patriotic dedication. With the
famous grafton by Gen. John A. Logan
religious ceremonies BY DR.. John P. New
man. then chaplain of the senate aud now
a Methodist bishop. assisted by otheA
ministers. military parade reviewed by
President Grant and other prominent
generals. and a display of flowers exceed
ing all previous displays in the United
States.
Only 200 acres are az yet devoted to
cemetery purposes; but near 10000 sol
diers are already buried there, and the
location Of SheIidan's grave win I'M
doubtedly tend to make this the favor
ite cemetery to the families of other emil
nent soldiers. Year by year the military
organizations Of different states are add
ing monuments. The Grand Army Of the
Republic Of New Jersey last Decoration
day unveiled a beautiful memorial in
marble Of Gen. Paul; and not far south
Of the mansion is an imposing granite
sarcophagus over the grave Of 2,1ll ''un-
known" In this lovely and h0llowed
ground will rise tho monument Of Philip
Henry Sheridan, and in all the future Of
the nation Arlington win be a goal Of
pious and patriotic pilgrimage
Evening journal., 1888-08-21
WANADYAKER,s

PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, August q, Isss.
In the drift of last week
there came to us, among other
things, three bargains. To-day
they are out on the counters
ready for you.
Bargain the first. A yarn
spinner spun too much jersey
yarn and made him too much
cloth, and that's why you may
buy to-day for $I.25 a Jersey
the like of which we sold yes
terday for double.
This bargain covers the full
range of sizes and gives a
choice of vest front or plain.
All are full coat back and cuffs.
sewed with silk and faced with
satin.
Tables west OF Chestnut street entrance.
Bargain the secend. Toll
anette cloths which plainly
means fine cotton Table cloths
in high colored fancy plaids.
They are of German make and
fine quality. Fruit juices are
apt to stain white cloths, which
suggests an added use for the
Toilanette cloths. They are
samples for which the maker
had no room, and that's why
YOU get them for nearly half
price. 400 in the lot.
2 yards long, 80 cents each.
- yards long. 81 each.
3 yards long, Sl.O each
~ yards long, u 40 each.
Main Aisle, near Transept steps.
Bargain the third, We have
taken a dealers entire stock of
Ladies Collars and Cuffs. On
the counters to-day. In good
order and generally Of the latest
styles. They shall 90 at one-
th1-d eff the original prizes.
Southwest Of centre.
john WANAMAKER.