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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

IT is said that Names hay crop
this year is worth S15,O00,O0O, and
yet they complain Of hard times.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

Gov. Ross has accepted the presi-
dency of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

CARLISLE is among the leading
tariff debaters of the Senate. No
public man in the country is better
posted on that issue than he.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The tobacco leaf board of the New
York Board of Trade protests
against the passage of the Mckinley
tariff bill.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

Our republican contemporaries
have been claiming Arkansas as
doubtful state, but the figures now
at hand will not support their
theory.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18
OUR AGENTS.

JOHN F. WEIBUsCH, Burton, Texas.
F. NJ. GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
10 MIKEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
PAUL C. STRECKERT, Caldwell. Texas
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

TERMs.-Legal and transient advertise.
hents inserted at one dollar per square of
one inch for first insertion, and fifty cents
per square for each subsequent insertion.
Obituary notices and tributes Of respect in
serted at half price.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

TEXAS will make herself known to
the outside world in the future by
her works.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The real problem of the navy is
not SO much to get new men into it
as to keep the old men from run
n1ng away from it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

IT cost S6,OOO,OOO to take and
complete the census of 1890.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The New York Exchange urges
the adoption of reciprocity.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The Kansas Republicans demand
deep water on the Gulf of Mexico.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

ACCORDING to the late census Texas
gains three congressman and New
York loses one. But few states
oain
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The Philadelphia Times says that
Pattison, the Democratic candidate
for Governor Of Pennsylvania, will
be elected by $4,000. No wonder
the Republicans of the Keystone
State are scared. Quayism is doomed.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The movement for deep water at
every available point on the extend
ed gulf coast of Texas is destined
to rival the Atlantic seaboard as the
center of vast ocean commerce.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The Alliance is getting to be an
important factor in American poll.
tics. The Alliance is composed of
men schooled in economic science
and the country Will be all right in
the hands of such men.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

A WASHINGTON correspondent says
congress will reconvene in November.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

A CABLE from London says "fckle
fashion has decreed that women's
hair must now be of the color of
mahogany" Some of them will
have to dye first.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The Chinese Imperial Treasury is
said to be almost destitute of funds,
and the emperor has endeavored
lately, without success, to obtain
loans from several Chinese million
aires.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The wagon road amendment to
the constitution is a plain home
spun kind Of affair, but the people
won't forget nor neglect to vote for
for it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The attempt to COLOMBO the de-
serted farms of Vermont with
Swedes has resulted in complete
failure. In one township near the
southern part of the state not set
tier remains. In most of the other
townships but very few of the as
sisted settlers can be found. Some
have left their farms to work on
railroads or in manufactures, and
others have found employment in
various small industries. Most of
them, however. have gone into the
numbering districts near the Cana
dian border.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

SINCE the foundation of the gov
eminent it has been the unbroken
custom for. the Congress following
the census to make the new con-
gressional appointment. There is
not one single instance where the
Congress elected before the census
was taken passed the reappointment
bill. This custom has been so long
so continuous and so unbroken that
it almost has the force of law. And
yet for a miserable party advantage
the Republicans leaders announce
that they propose to depart from it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

THOUSANDS of persons Will come
to Texas this fall to visit the fairs
and Washington county should not
neglect to have an exhibit to adver-
tise her advantages.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

JOIN HowELLs, son of the novelist,
has chosen architecture for his life
work. IT the young man succeeds
AS well in his line as his father has
In literature, John will ultimately
become plain carpenter.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

KENTUCKY has a constitutional con-
vention in session. Why don't John
A Morriss go there and make his
insulting offer to the assembled
statesmen of 1.-The dark and bloody
ground?'
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

Weekly, 81 6 year, in advance.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The vice-president of the Worlds
Fair has resigned. Chicago seem to
have bit off more than she can mas
ticate properly when she arose in
her might and took in the Columbian
Exposition.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

WITH an unblushing effrontery,
born of consciousness of a power
to perpetrate this unprecedented
act, the Republicans announce that
they propose to put through the
congressional apportionment bill, in
order to gain votes in the electoral
college. They say (and it is true)
that the next House will be Demo
cratic, and that an appointment un-
fair to the Democrats, or giving the
an undue advantage,
will be impossible in the next con-
gress. They therefore now propose
to take that unfair advantage while
they have a subservient majority in
both houses to pass and Repubi-
can president to sign the bill.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

A SINGULAR affair has occurred at
Toronto, The wedding suit of John
Creighton, a lawyer, which cost
nearly 500 and was paid for and
leave the tailor's shop and which
had been attached by woman for
the payment of a debt, was sold at
auction last week. The highest bid
was $3.50 from the tailor who
made it. The claim, which was for
over $40, is, therefore, not liqui-
dated. Creighton was absent on a
vacation and is not vet married.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

Nothing was accomplished by the
Spanish Socialistic Congress. As a
rule, the average Spaniard is too
much disposed to enjoy his dolce far
niente to care a great deal about
eight hour day schemes or serious
propositions for the amelioration of
the condition of the laboring man.
In fact, give the Spanish working
man his cigarette and his guitar, and
he cannot be made to, believe that
he has any wrongs that need to be
righted. We are not surprised that
Socialism does not grow sturdily in
Spanish soil.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18
S1!SsYsyISSITTTF5EKV73

Use Parkers Ginger Tonic. Il cures the Cough,
Weak Lungs Debility, Indigestion, Pain, Take in time
HlhDE The only sure cure for Coma
Stops al pain. l5c. At Druggists, HISCOX CO., N Y
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

published DAILY AND WEEKLY
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

The executive committee could
only be governed by the will of the
people expressed in the State con-
vention in the arrangement of the
ticket, hence 'for the amendment"
was all they had the right to put on
the State ticket. Those who want
to vote the other way will find
against the amendment on the Re-
publican ticket; can you vote it
THERE will be, says the Dallas
News, at the Dallas fair jar of but
ter seventeen years old. An enter
prising German of Dallas will enter
against it mere scrap of Limberger
cheese only seventeen days of age.
The result will be contest that no
visitor can oford to turn up his nose
at. The races will be leading feat
ure this year.
The strikers at Corsicana were de-
feated. This is not unexpected.
There are too many men in the coun-
try anxious to get employment and
willing to adapt themselves to the
wishes of their employers, for any
set of workmen to be able to dictate
terms to the men or corporation that
have them employed.
A DEPUTY sheriff in Callistoga Cal,
went to arrest lady the other day.
She asked to be excused until she
could arrange her toilet, and returned
IN few moments without rag of
clothing on. "You can take me
now, was all she said. The officer
fed and has not made the arrest
yet.
TIE schools try to satisfy the pub
lie by making show of teaching
what they don't teach and can't
teach. One of the chief difficulties
or disadvantages in our school svs-
TEN is that there are not, as a rule.
enough teachers to do the work as
it should be done,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18
The Brennan Banner.

The Brennan Banner.
published DAILY AND WEEKLY
Weekly, 81 6 year, in advance.
TERMs.-Legal and transient advertise
ments inserted at one dollar per square O
one inch for first insertion, and fifty cent
per square for each subsequent insertion.
Obituary notices and tributes Of respect In
serted at half price.
OUR AGENTS.
JOHN F. WEIBuscH, Burton, Texas.
F. NJ. GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
To MIKEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
PAUL C. STREcKERT, Caldwell. Texas
THE New York Exchange urges
the adoption of reciprocity.
IT cost S6,OOO,OOO to take and
complete the census of 1880.
The Kansas Republicans demand
deep water on the Gulf of Mexico.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says
congress will reconYene in November
Gov. Ross has accepted the presi-
dency of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college.
THERE will be several candidates
for speaker of the house in the next
legislature of this state.
A MEDICAL journal reports that in
1888 in England there were 1856
deaths from delirium tremens.
IT is said that Names hay crop
this year is worth S15,000,000, and
yet they complain Of hard times.
ACCORDING to the late census Texas
gains three congressman and New
York loses one. But few states
gain.
TEXAS will make herself known to
the outside world in the future by
her works.
The tobacco leaf board of the New
York Board of Trade protests
against the passage of the Mckinley
tariff bill
Fort WORTH has taken a moral
turn She has abolished varieties
and filed 16S divorce suits in her
district court.
The real problem of the navy is
not SO much to get new men into it
as to keep the old men from run
nlng away from it.
CARLISLE is among the leading
tariff debaters of the Senate. No
public man in the country is better
posted on that issue than he.
Our republican contemporaries
have been claiming Arkansas as a
doubtful state, but the figures now
at hand will not support their
theory.
The wagon road amendment to
the constitution is a plain home
spun kind Of affair, but the people
won't forget nor neglect to vote for
for it.
A CABLE from London says "fckle
fashion has decreed that women's
hair must now be of the color of
mahogany" Some Of them Will |
have to dye first.
THOUSANDS of persons Will come
to Texas this fall to visit the fairs
and Washington county should not
neglect to have an exhibit to adver-
tise her advantages.
The movement for deep water at
every available point on the extend
ed gulf coast of Texas is destined |
to rival the Atlantic seaboard as the
center of vast ocean commerce.
The Philadelphia Times says that
Pattison, the Democratic candidate
for Governor Of Pennsylvania, will
be elected by $4,000 No wonder
the Republicans of the Keystone
State are scared Quayism is doomed. |
The Chinese Imperial Treasury is |
said to be almost destitute of funds, |
and the emperor has endeavored |
lately, without success, to obtain |
loans from several Chinese million |
aires.
KENTUCKY has constitutional con-
vention in session. Why don't John
A. Morriss go there and make his
insulting offer to the assembled
Il
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-18

AT DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
The CHARLES A. VoGELEa CO., Baltimore, "
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-28
Typesetting Machines.

MONTREAL, October 27th.-The Dominion
Government has purchased four Mergenthaler
linotype machines for use in the Government
Printing Bureau 1t is probable large number
more will be ordered as soon as these are in
perfect working order. 1t is understood they
the House of Commons during its sessions.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-28
AMERICAN INDIANS.
Commissioner Morgan Reports Progress
in the Right Direc ectiOn.

WASHINGTON, October 27th.-Commissioner
Morgan, of the Indian Bureau, in his annual
report says that for ten years there has been
real progress in the right direction on the In
dian question, and that the outlook for the fu-
ture is encouraging. lt has become, he says, a
settled policy of the Government to break the
reservations and tribal relations, settle the In
dians upon their own homesteads, corporate
them into national life and deal with them,
not as nations, or tribes, or bands, but as indi-
viduai citizens. The American Indian is to
become Indian-American. The Indians them
selves are coming to understand the pres
ent poll Y of the Government, and are showing
increasing readiness and even desire to adjust
themselves to it.
Upon the subject of the improvement of the
personnel of the Indian service, Commissioner
Morgan says that wherever it Gould be done
without too great hardships he has endeavored
10 remove those who were immoral, incompe-
tent, inefficient or unfaithful. No one has been
discharged on account OF politics or religion,
and in no single instance except for the i'm
provement of the service.
Great Improvements have been made in the
government of industrial schools. The Com
missioner says that, believing that the public
schools are a more effective means of American
izing our foreign population, he is desirous of
bringing the Indian school system into relation
with that of the pubic schools. Not only SO,
but wherever possible he is placing the Indian
pupils in the public schools. He favors COM
pulsory educat on for the Indian chi dren,
At the date of the last annual report there
were l35 Indian Reservations in the United
States, having an aggregate area of ll6 100000
acres or I07 go square miles. During the year
about l3, 900 9G0 acres have been secured by ces-
sion from the Indians, and agreements by
which about 4,s09,C00 will be secured are row
pending in Congress. The work of making the
allotments of lands in teveralty under the sew,
eral Acts of Congress has steadily progressed
dIlrinU the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-28
Important Teeision by the interstate
Commerce Commission.
REPORT OF THE INDIAN BUREAU.
Ex-President Cleveland Argues q
Case Before the Supreme
Court-Postal Changes.
Twzc1n. DsrArOHEs 10 THE HnOonD-us1os.l 4
INTERSTATE COMMERCE..
The Railroad Companies Upheld in the
Rates for Carrying Petroleum.

WASHINGTON, October 27th-A lengthy de-
ciSiOn was announced on the interstate COM
sgainst the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific,
Atehison, Topeka and Santa Fe and Others in
reference TO rates on petroleum and its produces
10 California points, as affected by the long and
short haul clause.
The decision is in favor of the rail lines. and
maintains the position that under the Act to
regulate commerce they have the hight to make
lower rat at California water and terminal
points on this kind of traffic to meet the COM
petition of water lines, without redu, ing their
rates 10 the same level to Intermediate points
where no such competition exists.
The decision also sustains the carriers in
making "blanket' rates. as il is called on this
traffic, being through rate that is the same
to California points from all points in the
United States east of the 9Th meridian of longi-
tude, on the ground that this rate has its origin
and is based upon &C ual competition between
ali rail lines, on one side. and water lines,
which are not subject to the Act to regulate
commerce, on the other.
III reference to freight large in amount the
decision states that the other claim of com
piainants that defendants, rail carriers, made
lower rates to receiving tank stations in Cali
fornia TO favor the Standard Gil trust and its
atfiliai ed companies firms and associations, and
then low local rates from such receiving tank
stations to adjacent points, whereby preference
is given these shippers over other shippers OF
this kind OF freight, is not sustained by the evil
dence in this proceeding. The Southern Pacific
Company is ordered TO publish its rates as to
this class OF freight in its weSt-bound tariff at
stations between Prosser Creek, on the central
Pacific. and Sacramento aud the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe is ordered TO publish its
rates as to TINS class OF freight in its 1es-bound
tariff between Las Vegas, in the Territory OF
New Mex co, on the line Of the Atchison, To.
nesa and Santa Fe Railway, and California ter
minal points on the lines or this carrier
AS to transcontinental lines the complaint is
dismissed, but is held for further evidence and
investigation in the case of certain Southern
and Southwestern railways who are also parties
defendant in t5is proceeding.
This was the last of series OF cases tried at
the same time, and the tIill of which had Just
been completed, by the celebrated franklin B
Gowen, as counsel for the complainant, only q
few hours before his death, in December, 1889.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-28
DEPARTMENT OF THE COLUMBIA.
Annual Report Of General Gibbon on the
Condition of Affairs.

WASHINGTON, October 27th.-The Secretary of
War has received the annual report of Briga-
dier General Gibbon, commanding the Depart
ment of Columbia. He repOr!s that the Indians
OF the extreme Northwest are perfectly peace
full He says he thinks they will remain so in
definitely, unless goaded to desperation by the
constant eEcroachments of the whites and their
acts of injustice"
He says in regard to Courts martial: "The
supposed irregularities in Court martial pro-
ceedings have recently given rise TO a coed
deal OF comment throughout the country, and a
proposition has been made TO take nom Depart
ment Commanders the power to order gen.
eral Courts and rest only in the Division Com
mande.s. am of the opinion this would be q
great mistake. 1t would not be in furtherance
of The administration of justice. and would
simply add one more to the disadvantages of
the present division organization"
He recommends, however, certain improve
ments in the administration of military justice,
as follows To authorize the Secretary OF War
to establish schedule of punishments for GER
tain well-defned offenses, which the Courts
should conform in sentences. By requiring
strict compliance with the law in convening the
general Courts. By establishing Military
Court of Appeal, whose duties should be similar
to the corresponding civil Courts.
General Gibbon reports that the troops in his
department are in good condition as regards
discipline and drill, and gives it as his opinion
that the various measures taken to decrease the
number of deserlions in the army will result
benefcially.
mo steps" he says, will produce better re-
suits than plan to ge. better material by en-
listing recruits in the rural districts rather than
the crowded Cities
He reports the canteens in his department in
satisfactory condition, and says the system is
not only better than that OF the leadership but
the enlisted men are beginning to realize some
OF its benefits.
He recommends that the War Department
charter a seaworthy vessel for the trensports-
tion of stores across the mouth of the Columbia
river and Bakers bay, as was done until re-
Gently, when the contract for that service was
disappr3ved. Since the stoppage of the steamer
the garrison at Fort Candy has been cut off
from ordinary table supplies.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-28
The Tyrant of sxracusa

Near Syracuse. in Sicily, there is re-
markable cave, the work of human art and
skill, which was constructed by Dionyslus,
the Tyrant of Syracuse, who died B. C.
367. This queer excavation is $50 feet
long by so high, and is shaped very like a
human ear. 1t was, in fact, scientifically
constructed whispering gallery, wherein
all sounds, however faint, were reflected TO
central chamber 1t is said that the
tyrant put to death the architect who de-
signed and the workmen who excavated it,
in order that its purpose might never be
known. In it he imprisoned suspected
persons, and in the central chamber passed
whole days listening to the conversation
of the prisoners in order to ascertain what
conspiracies existed against him. The
prisoners were chained to the floor at such
points as were most favorable for the re-
Election of their voices to the secret cham
Der, and the staples with which their
chains were secured are still to be seen In
the stone. Although time has done much
to ipjure the marvellous contrivance, its
powers of rejecting sound are still so good
that the ightest whisper may be heard
with great distinctness from the entrance
to the further recess. Its mysterious
power was not known until many years
after the tyrant's death, and his habit of
spying on his prisoners enabled him to
reign for thirty-nine years and thwart
every plot against him.-,S. Louis Globe
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