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

trees are bearing fruit.
The original package dealers in
most parts of the Union have signi-
fed that they will obey the United
States law which forbids them to
continue business. This is really
very kind of them.
The expenses of the Government
for the year were estimated by Mr..
Plumb Monday at S450,000,000 and
its revenues at S4O0,000,000. The
Kansas Senator predicted a deficit
as sure as the rising Of the sun.
By action of law which went
into effect September 1, the small
boy of the state of New York is un-
der the cruel necessity of concealing
his cigarette when in the presence Of
policeman who looks as though he
would enforce said law.
The republicans got black eye
in Vermont. The majority was the
smallest in the history of biennial
elections in that state. The result
may be taken as an index of the IA
vor with which the present policy of
the republican party is regarded.
Corn is selling at St. Louis and
Chicago at Al and A cents, and at
Austin and Dallas at rs cents, while
the last mentioned cities are in the
center of a good corn growing re-
gion. Corn in Brennan is selling
for IS cents while it is in one Of the
very BEST corn growing sections.
The riotous conduct of returning
cattlemen on shipboard is so great
that the Anglo-American vessels re-
fused some time since to take them
as passengers. The Amsterdam
Company has just issued an order
denying the cowboys passage on
vessels of that line.
The "White Republican is the
name of a campaign paper started
recently in San Antonio. 1t is a four
column four-page paper published
by Jas. P. Newcomb. 1t wants to
make RepublicaRism respectable by
leaving the negro. if not out of the
party, back of the party.
A WRITER in the Coleman Voice
begins an obituary notice with the
following beautiful, though some
what extravagant imagery: 1T
would be fitting to write with a
plume from an angel wing dipped in
the dew of the violet on tablet of
lily leaves the obituary Of"
The cigarette smoking dude is
threatened with more trouble. In
case French wines should be ex-
Guided from this country in retalia-
ton for Frances treatment of the
American hog, the cigarette fends
will be in hard luck. They will
either have to drink plain corn wills
key with foreign label on the bot
tie or manage to worry along with a
few quarts of diluted vinegar.
The leaf tobacco board of trade of
North Carolina met on the Sth.
There was large attendance from
all over the country. Carson Mayer.
president, explained that it would
end in disaster to the tobacco inter
ests if the Mckinley bill was passed
in its present shape, and it would be
impossible to get it out of bond in
the time proposed by the bill. The
meeting unanimously passed resolu-
tions protesting against the passage
of the bill. 1t must be huge mon
strosity, for every interest is kicking
against the bill, except the fat manu-
faeturers of the effete East.
TIE man who wipes his nose on
his sleeves, picks his teeth with a
fork, squirts tobacco juice on the
cook stove hearth, rides to mill with
corn in one end of the sack and a
etone in the other, drives to market
with hickory bark lines, deposits his
money in his last winters socks, in
sists on paying his taxes in coon
skins aud wild honey, fastens one
gallows with a wooden peg, and
and "possum belly" pants, is the
same old rooster who has no use for
his home paper, and his brother is
the fellow who tries to do business