Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-10-16

THE WEEKLY BANNER
j, G, RANKIN, Proprietor.
Thursday, Oct. 16, 1890.
THE cabinet at Lisbon has been
completed
CERTAIN portions of Canada are
CRYING for more wives and men.
HoN. CHAs. STEWART will deliver
an address at Beaumont on October
IS.
PHoroeRApHERR at Navasota are
are taking cabinet size photographs
at 81 per dozen.
AN explosion of petroleum occur
red near Paris saturday involving
great loss of life.
AN electrical road from Seattle to
Tacoma, Washington, is the longest
line ever constructed and operated.
The Houston Post is engaged in
a righteous warfare on dens OF
iniquity, and calls upon the pastors
of the churches to join it in the
crusade.
Jay GOULD will, within few days,
start on a general tour of observa-
ton in the Southwest. He will be
in st. Louis probably both going
and coming.
The receipts of cotton at all ports
in the United States within the last
forty days show an increase of 49,
900 over those of the corresponding
forty days of last year.
The government of Great Britain
has advanced large sum to a rail
road company in Ireland, which is
intended to give employment to a
number of Irish sufferers.
GEN. ". W. BEIKNAP, ex-Secreta-
nv of war during President Grants
first term, was found dead in his
bed at 9 o'clock Monday in Wash
ington City. He was born in Rud-
son, n. Y, in 1887.
AN old family fued existing be-
tween two families at Temple,
Texas, resulted Saturday in a shoot
ing scrape in which Will Pittsford
was mortally wounded by E. Dalton.
THE engagement of the daughter
of the Confederacy, Miss Winnie
Davis to Mr.. Alfred Wilkinson, OF
Syracuse, n. Y, has been declared
off on account of the i'll health OF
the young lady.
President HARRISON, after ap-
pointing Blaines man to the posi-
ton of collector of the port of Ban
gor, Me-, took to the woods to es.
cape the wrath of Reed. At least
he came west.
BOOMERS are crossing into the
Cherokee strip with the avowed pur-
pose of setting. They will settle,
but it will be with the United States
government, and the terms will not
be very agreeable to the boomers.
Mr.. CAN was too highly colored
to make lilly white ticket. There
are two colored gentlemen on the
ticket, but their complexion is such
that in a mixture with the remainder
of the ticket they will not suffer OIL
the average.
FANNIE PASCAL, colored, under
life sentence to the penitentiary fol-
mvrder Richard Love, for burglary
two years, and Fred Clark, ter
years for murder and two years fol
assault to murder. all succeeded il
escaping from jail at st. Augustine
Texas, Saturday.
To CURE feion, says a correspon.
pendent, mix equal parts of strong
ammonia and water, and hold you
finger in it for fifteen minutes. AT
ter that withdraw it and tie a piece
of cloth completely saturated with
the mixture around the felon anc
keep it there till dry.
In the South the commercial
movement is very active. The cot
ton crop is moving to market more
rapidly than usual, nearly 100000
bales having already reached the
seaboard. The great staple is il
active demand and is bringing prices
that are remunerative to producers
DISPATCHES from Richmond, Va.
say that the Governor will probabl,
recover from his surprise on being