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By virtue of the authority invest
ed in me as chairman of the Dist
judicial District campaign of the
counties of Washington, Lee and
Burleson, I hereby call a convention
of the delegates elected to said con-
vention by the Democratic conven-
tons of said counties to meet at
Caldwell, Burleson county, on
Thursday, July 31st, 1890, for the
purpose of nominating a District at
torney for said district.
BEAUREGARD BRYAN,
Char. Dem. Ex. Com. Dist Judicial
District. .
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Kansas corn in ear, shucked, at
50 cents a bushel. Apply to
L. J. LoCKETT,
Brennan Texas.
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Mr.. G. NJ. WILLIAMS reports
plenty of cottonworms on his farm
four miles east of town.
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just Received !

At J. Il. Quebe's: Fresh Whit
aker's hams, lard and breakfast
bacon. One car of flour and corn
meal for sale at low price.
J. II. QUEBE.
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If YOu Want

Good, reliable and cheap crockery
see the largest stock in town at
KNooP & SCBAwE.
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FOR SHERIFF.

We are authorized to announce D. E.
LEAGUE as candidate for Sheriff of Wash
ington county.
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For COUNTY CLERK.

The Banner is authorized to announce o.
a. SEWARD as candidate for County Clerk
of Washington county.
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On hand, half million Heart cy-
press Shingles" large stock dry
Lumber, will be sold close.
FRANK w. WooD.
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We are authorized to announce G. C.
BOYD as a candidate for Constable of Pre-
.cinct No. 3, Washington county.
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Merit wins, at the marvellous success Of
Hoods Sarsaparilla shows. 1t possesses true
medicinal merit. Sold by all druggists.
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Jellies, Jams, Preserves, Royal
Baking Powders, Toilet Soaps, Elk
tracts. Jacob " Eldrldge.
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ALBERT ScHAwE and Albert Tenn
erson left with their teams on Satur-
day for Davidson switch to work ON
the Santa Fe railroad.
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''Manitou" Soda Water Is not doctored
stuff. 1t is bottled absolutely natural. H.
Fisher Agent, Brennan, Texas. Samples
free.
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WALKERS Tent is the place for
Pictures. -Four Gems for so cents.
Large pictures, in Sx10 frame for
only S1.00.
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For Mocha and Java, Washed Rio
and Peaberry Coffee, Parched or
Green. Go to SLOAN & HoDDR.
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IT is reported that extensive i'm
provements are to be made at the
BRENNAN oil mill.
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Cranberry Sauce, in cans. Pears,
Prunes, Peaches, Cherries in Brandy,
quart Bottles.
Jacob & Eldridge.
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1t stands the test-Chicken Pow
der in tin cans put up by c. +.
Jensen & Co.. Burton, Texas,
makes hens lay, prevents and cures
all diseases, Guaranteed, 25 cents
box.
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Mr.. GLEN WIEBUscH says that he
soldiered in Virginia with Capt. A.
D. Saddler, the candidate for state
treasurer who was in the city the
fore part of the week and says he
was in battle with him at Malvern
Hill. Gaines Mills and Seven Pines.
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Save your Animal-GIve Jen.
sens Bots and Collie Specific
Never fails.
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REFRIGERATORS.

Just received one car load latest
patent hardwood, non-flled, North
Star Ice Chests and refrigerators.
Call and see them.
Fl. FISHER.
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THERE are a great many country
people who come to town these hot
days who show very little considera-
ton for the poor, dumb brutes which
they drive by hitching them in the
broiling SUI, where they often stand
for hours with nothing to eat or
drink.
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FoR Dat Meal, Pearl Wheat, NJ
enc Flakes, Tapioca, Corn Starch,
) beers Extracts, Spices, Dozier
Cakes and Jellies. Go to
SLOAN l. HoDDE.
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The wife of German farmer out
in the Louis Lehman neighborhood
has given birth to triplets, all Of
whom, at last account, were doing
well.
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Insurance Agent.
About two weeks ago a handsome
looking fellow, apparently thirty-fve
or forty years of age, heavy set, with
reddish hair parted in the middle
on the dude order, and dressed in
good clothes, arrived in the city.
He stayed around town for several
days, representing himself as an in
surance agent, Rather, he had made
that his business, which he had fol
lowed for several years, but was at
the time out of the business. He
called on Messrs. Carlisle & Herbst,
the Insurance men of this city, and
put up poor mouth, stating he was
ont of funds and begging them to
give him something to do. The ju-
Nor member of the firm was away
from home, attending the San Anto-
MO encampment. Mr.. Carlisle, how
ever, told MIN that while they did
not need anybody in the Office and
could manage to attend to the bust
ness themselves, yet.he might go
around the town and county and
whatever business he might secure
for them they would allow him a
a commission on it. The party OBJ
tanned blank insurance applications
from the Office and started on the
road, operating mostly around Bur
ton, Carmine and the western end
OF the county. BE held himself Out
as regularly in the business with the
firm and collected few small SUNS
of money from the customers of the
insurance firm; In addition to VIC
tilnizing Messrs. Carlisle & Herbst
in small way and inficting slight
damage to their business by holding
himself out as their agent, he was
guilty of bold and heartless swind
ling which proves him to be cool
villain and will land him in the
penitentiary. He learned while in
the neighborhood OF Carmine that
there was German farmer there
named Louis Schoenst, who expected
together with his family to
leave shortly for the old country,
and going to him he represented
himself as being an agent of steam
ship line in in addition to being in
the insurance business. Schoenst
being unable to read English the
swindler found it an easy matter to
practice deception on him. He
took one of the insurance blanks and
filed it out with some meaningless
words and made Schoenst believe
that it was steamship coupon tick
ct good for the round trip to the
old country. For this bogus ticket
Schoenst paid the sleek rascal forty
dollars, after which he returned to
BRENNAN, and telling Mr.. Carlisle
that he believed he was tired of can
vassing and desired to go to Austin,
he departed from the city on the
night train. Mr.. Schoenst soon
learned from his neighbors that he
had been victimized and came down
to Brennan to make complaint, but
the game had fed and nobody knew
where he was until Friday about
noon a dispatch received from the
city marshal of Bastrop stating that
a party had been arrested there an
swering the description of the bogus
steamship ticket and insurance
agent. He will be brought back to
this city to get his just deserts at
the hands of the law.
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Liquors !! Liquors !

Just received one-car load liquors,
consisting of Alcohol, brandy, gin,
black berry brandy, whlskey-all
grades-in barrels, halt barrels
and in and 10 gallon kegs.
81. FISHER,
Wholesale LiQnor Dealer.
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Try Fairbanks White Glover leaf
lard, for sale by 81. FISHER.
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Gumbo File and Currie Powders
Delicious for Dressing. &c.
JACOBS & ELDRIDGE.
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Wanted. 1OOOEBoarders.
Meals from 10 to II each day.
W. 81. MURPY.
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For Cider and White Wine Vine
gar, Syrup and Molases, Best Laun-
dry Soap, $3.50 per box $3.50,
small boxes 20 cents.
Go to SLOAN & HoDDE.
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For sale a

l. VI oh4S GU
BRENNAN Pulp FACTORY.
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LOCAL NE WIS
CANDIDATE FOR THE PEN.

The swindIing Operations of an Alleged
Insurance Agent.
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Cotton Seed Hull Meal,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-07-24

A Call for Democratic Judicial COnven-
ton for 2Ist judicial District.
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500 PIECES

Of all shades Ribbon which propose
figures.
of our and Chals at 5 cents yard
reduced inside of THIRTY DAYS SO therefore
call US, as prices will be no object.
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OUR WHITE LAWNS.
Our Cross Bars.

An excellent Table Cloth Red and White three yards long
which we bought job and will close at less than
Manuactors cost.
Toweng Spreads and Napkins at
cost
The prices goods friends and customers will
notice that it is strictly for cash.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-11
Hale and Harty mt the Age OF IFS.

A widow Of Revolutionary soldier
is still living in the Eeautiful and pic
tureslue country of Valley River, in
Western North Carolina at the ad-
vanced age of 115 years. The old
lady, whose name is Elizabeth Boston,
is hale and hearty and bids fair to live
n few years yet.
She stated, in a recent talk with the
writer, that she was six years old when
the battle of Kings Mountain was
fought Q780). Her husband was
wounded in that historic combat.
She talks very intelligentIy, at times,
in regard to the struggle for national
independence. She remembers seeing
the Red Goats" as she calls them, and
also remembers the time when the
patriots mazda np.- n company, in her,
living iSis"HS6H WITH her +" great sPaah sfHht the
had three children, one of whom is
still living. The old lady has lost her
eyesight almost entirely, but can
recognize the voices of persons with
whom she is acquainted. Her husband
has long since passed over to the silent
ma oritv.
The old lady has always led very
industrious life, until her advancing
age has left her without much endur-
ance. She is still able to walk about
the house by the aid of holding to the
chairs, and whatever she can reach to
steady her She has always been very
re yular in her habits.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-11
Facts AbOnt, Feet.

The common unit of lineal measure.
foot, was derived from the length of
tn ! human foot.
In man 5 feet II inches tall the foot
measures 1Oi inches, and the middle toe
2. inches.
In Chinese subjects, the ordinary
height being 5 feet, the length or foot
was o inches and lines.
The longest foot of measure is that
of old Turin, which is equal to 20 inches
of English measure.
There was time when not only each
country, but each town, had foot
measure of its own, indicating different
averages of the different feet in various
loo alities.
Among tribe of low stature Indi-
ans. whose height varied from 3 feet
| inch to 5 feet 3 inches, the length OF
the feet was found to be from 9 inches
1 lines to 9 inches & lines.
In order to get an idea of the
length Of shoe sizes in inches it may
be stated that foot measuring 1O
inches, with the weight of the body
resting upon it, may wear comfortably
No. 6 shoe.
A youth in the South Sea islands,
feet 7 inches in hcight, had foot
l2J inches long. his lower extremities
| ...."D"..l 90 i"ohoo IL, length, circum'
/ ference of calf of leg Ia inches, and
his ankle 10 inches. -MbanedpoliS
| TyibH,lP.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-11

CAIRO, LILA wind and hail-storm passed.
over Cairo at p. NJ. Hailstoues weighing
three ounces fell. Considerable damage rs.
ported from Birds Point, Mo-, where, it Is
reported, il struck the town and blew down
several house,; also, along the line OF tn,
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, All wires from
this city are down.
KANSAS CITY.-A storm has prevailed
throughout Kansas and Southern Missouri.
Snow is reported from some por ions OF
Western Kansas. Tue thermometer varied
in different localities from 25 degrees at
Wichita to 29-2S degrees at this poiut, tho
lowest reported for years. The velocity Of
the wind was extraordinary for such long
continued storm. AT Wichita, X, the wind
did considerable damage. Heavy plato glnss
windows were smashed in,. signs displaced
and chimney tops blown down. Tue water
works building was partially unroofe and n
psrt Of ono wall blown down, failing upon q
workman named William Eads, and sc verely
ipjurlpg him. In the northern part OF the
city, wnere the wind had the freest play,
-seHa6.sl feaskiabd d ND Iqqgth9uses wero demoi-
tion. at Abilene, Ka, considera6i6 6ddm sc
was done to chimneys, signs and cornices.
Snow fell during the afternoon,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.-Te!egraphi reports
from points in minnesota, DIkotA aud Iowa
show that gen sral snow storm has prevailed
throughout these States The storm has becn
most severe in northern IVA, where railway
traffic is impeded, and stocS will suffer to
some ext,nt. In Dakota the snow is reg arded
as a great benefit to the crops now being
seeded. The tsmperlturo at ail point is but
little below the freezing point. The snow is
very light here.
MILwAUKEE, WIS The w ataer Is COM
paraIively warm, but snow fell heavily, au l
the wind blows tiercely. In places drifts are
piled 80 high that the street car lines have
had to suspend traffic. Telephone wires scat
ter the streets and trip up pedestrians.
DETROIT MICH.-A vic ent gale OF wind.
accomp med by heavy fall OF snow, struck
tn city at seven o'clock aud interfered ri
ously with traffl :. as we'll as Telephone an
telegraph wires.
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DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

A wagon conta N ng John Brown and tn,
three small children Of neiGhbor asstruck
ty q train in San Francisco Brown an
two Of the children were killed an the other
child was Lndly hurt.
The Cannon Ball train on the Louisvill.
and Nashville Railroad ran into a misplaced
switch at Linck's Depot In Nashville, Tenn,
yesterday, wrccking several cars aud k.ilirg
Alexander Stevenson and BENZ ,min ID Hey.
The boiler in a sawmil near Wickliffe,
Kentucky, exploded on Satuid ~ nj: Int, de-
molishing the mill and killing John ID .nnis
and Frank Parker, mill hsnds, and Lndly
scalding r. j. Jameson, the engi ,eer, who
will probably die.
During q runaway in Madison, Indiana,
Captain Henry Tower and Charles Craveus
jumped from tho carriage, and tho former
was dangerously hurt. TIE team ran upon
the sidewalk, running over an 1t Is feared
fatally injuring Miss Alice Yater.
s q Icc.eS. ~ Compton, Pa, walked into
the Empire breaker at Wllkesbarre to watch
the working. ond was caught by loaded
coal car and crushed to death. He was 35
years of age. aud leaves q wife and four
children.
At New Harmony, 1ndia9a. Safeefr. aefr t0yess
Owen, an ex;so!dier andcT lxaaol IA spnEAfxs
fsissTa% a6nh from s Lsui.v;iis thu White
fuperal PROCESSION was crossing sfe~pljen
stream over the Tennessee border aud the
hearse had got half why across. "shs action
Of the water opened tn. doors Of the vehicle,
and before it could be prevented the casket
and corpse foated down stream and were
lost"
There has been an epidemic Of diphtheria
in BUN, New Foundland There is no doc.
tor in the district, and the sufferers were at
tended by Rev. Father Walsh, who. with his
own hands, cleaned out the throt;s OF the
victims or ~ c ises that the priest attended
only one proved fatal. The priest took the
disease himself and died after few days
illness.
At Sweetzsr, Indiana, Roy Pritchett aud
William Speece found a can OF nitro glycsr-
! ine in the woods, and tried to explode It by
| heaping leaves over 1t and setting thom on
! fire. The can not exploding, Pritchett DO yan
| to punch it with turning stick. Suddenly
the explosion occurred, lowing out both his
eyes and tearing Off both his arms, causing
| death in q few minutes. Clarence Money, a
boy who was passing, was severely injured
| ty fYing stone Pritchett leaves a wife
and several children
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A MILLIONAIRE'S DISGRACE.
He Becomes u Burglar aud Trains Hi Is
Daughters to Crime.

daughters TO Crime.
John O~sey, seventy years old, Of st.
Joseph, Mo, has just been sentenced to tho
States penitentairy for five years on a charge
ofturglary. Owsley's history is romantic. He
is a brother of the late Governor William
Owsley, of Kentucky, one of the most famous
men Of the state. The convicted man was
one OF the richest men in this section ten
years ago, his wealth being placed at over
81, O00OOO. He is the father OF two dau n.
tiers, Rose and Mary, aged twenty and ei4 h.
teen years. respectively. He met reverses and
lost his entire fortune, and disappeared from
the community.
He Heappeared in ST. Joseph again year ago.
aud soon after his reappearance number OF
burglares were committed. The ro, bsrs
were known as the "auger gang" and en-
tered buildings by boring auger hoes above
the dooriocks The police captured TIL, on
tire gang six weeks ago. Owsley, his two
pretty daush ers, n man named Wingerton,
and criminal known as 'Scarfaced Char.
lie" were ITS members.
Rose aud Mary were living I'm the sumo
house with Wingerton and Charlie Owsley
himself lived with them. Rose is d. sparately
in love with the man Charlie. He has no
nose, one eye is gone, two great sc irs grow
in his face, and one eaT Is bitten off but tstill
pretty Rose loves him.
Owsley refuses to diyulge tho story OF his
life for the past ten years, but 1t is .liev. Il
that he has trained daughters to Grim -
He wept piteouSly when sent ,nced. Tne gysct
have secured cbanSe Of venue. lis la
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side; now the bolster was gone: there was
nothing there but the bed.
But this pantomime trick was no longer
comic. she felt the tears OF fright SPRING
ing In her eyes. and something rising in
her throat. Cold fear chilled her to the
bone.
Was she In reality awake? The striking
that.
Ding dong. ding dong. ding dong, ding
dong is lightly cbimed; and then the hour
was tolled out slowly. sonorously. solemn:
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
But IL this was not halucination, what
was III The work OF actual h8nds2 What
thcn? II they had no moro dreful inten-
tion than to play trick OF this kind. they
We're not to be feared. 1t was not
terrific: 1t was merely childish mischief.
ana this renection suggested that. after
all. 1t might only be Lola who was trying to
frighten her. And just for one moment. as
she leaned back on her elbow. she fancied
eyes in the midst of the darkness. and close
TO her-therel there. above her. toward the
rs It you. GoIa7" she asked. butln avuIov
so faint. for she was sick with fright. that
she herself could hardly hear the words she
spoke.
1t was fancy. or the eyes were turned
away. Yet still leaning upon her elbow that
quivered under her. sho strained her eyes
to penetrate tho darkness.
Not long. perhaps. though 1t seemed so.
her hcart beating painfully. her mouth
parched and dry. the hot breath catching
the back OF her throat.
Something seemed to be touching her hair
Was IL tho lace curtain?
She raised her trembling hand and felt
something level with the top of her head.
But it was not the curtain. 1t was the pill
low. or shc was mad.
Hcr strength gave way. and she fell back
upon the bed; but the terrible suspicion
that the pillow had been withdrawn for the
purpose of smothering her made her throw
her hand up.
The pillow had descended: 1t was close to
her face She tried to scream, but tho pillow
was already upon hcr mouth and smoth-
cred the cry.
II closed down upon her head. firm and
hard. She could no longer breathe. It
pressed upon her throat as she lay with the
back OF her head pushed down into the bed.
The touch Of Death aroused the instinct
of self-preservation within her, and, with n
frantic effort. she tore herself from under
thnt sunocating pressure. flung herselffrom
the bed. and. as respiration returned, cried
with all hcr force for help.
TO DE Continued.
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P'"Jci re lSRDle to trium
I ~. have glorifed Thee on the earth + hono
,nished n the work which Thou gayest mn mato 70 .
! 90. John xvii, d. e''' hio 10
r, ana this rumor of Him went for,,,
throughout all Judca, and througLont iii ,I
Tue region round about" Tint is oI,o,t mt
equal TO saying from Dan AMI Baersbebo ("
Ir Ia throughout the length and breadth OF tb,
Id. iand. What joy in Main! What excltement,
concerning unheard of since the days of Eli
ian ana Elisha. How the people did tall,
now they spread it abroad through tho
Whoie land One who can not only cure the
SICK put actually raise the dead has visited
israel. The men talked, the women talked
ine children talked and it was all about
Jesus and His wondrous works
10; And the disciples of John shewed him
OF al these things" And John wasn't n bit
jealous but only desired that all might fol.
low Jesus, for no had before said: "Iie must
increase, but must decrease; tho friend nf
tho Bridegroom which standeth and boareth
him rcJoiceth greatly because of the Bride
grooms voice; this my joy, therefore is mi.
hled" John ILL, 20.-Lesson Helper.
GKocER-What noise is that In the
'eIiar, John Boy (aftcr an iaspcct;on1
Its only the vinegar ninaine. aNo
One Cares for Mothos Now