Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-25

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which one passenger was killed, fl
teen injured, four fatally.
The Republicans in Washingto
dined Speaker Reed upon his re
turn to the capital recently. If h
lost any flesh over election worl
they propose to replace it and max
the sash fit again.
A NApA (CAL.) paper tells of
clergyman who has grated into
pecan tree on his place diferen
varieties of stone fruit, until now h,
gathers from it almonds, plums anc
three kinds ofpeaches.
THE present store of silver in til,
United States Treasury is 900 tom
"a trifie of $50 carloads. What
loot this might prove for foreign
feet the next time hostile guns
should be brought to bear on the
national Capitol!
If Speaker Reed continues tc
speak in public and the press con.
tinues to publish his illusions of
wind and buncombe, the next house
OF representatives will be demo
cratic by good majority.
IT is SAID that the time is coming
when hotels will print their bill of
fare in English. It is to be hoped
that such time will come, for the
average business man cannot tell in
Wrench what he wants at the leading
gtels nowadays,
Ris now playing lone hand
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experienced typographical artist AMI
Journalist.
HARMONY grows apace In the Re
publican party. A Republican State
Senator named Matthews has been
making speech in which he cor
daily approved of Mr.. Kennedy, and
hauled Matthews Stanley Quay and
the other anti-force bill Republican
Senators over the Goals in wild Wes-
tern fashion.
"GoD made woman beautiful"
said Ella Wheeler Wilcox. etHe
fashioned her in divine mold. Her
beauty does not belong to her. She
has no right to selishly keep it to
herself and rob others of enjoyment
And what is more lovely in woman
than her throat and shoulders?n
Answer-Her eyes and lips.
The Senate has voted to put bind
ing Irvine on the free list, for the re-
lief of the farmers of the Republican
States in the Northwest, and at the
same time it refused to put iute
bagging on the free list for the re-
lief of the farmers in the Democratic
States of the South This tariff bill
is for politics only.
DURING the war, VIM. R. johnson,
an Indiana soldier, injured his leg
while crossing the river on q log
near Munfordsville, Ky. He had
pass, and was on his way to church.
Recently Assistant Secretary Bus
seY ruled that he was entitled to
pension, his attendance at church
being ia cline of duty"
COMMERCIAL failures have been Oh
a big scale during the last few days.
The Boston bankers and note hrok-
ers who closed their doors last week
are in for about $5,000,000 liabilities
and the New York commission house
that has just gone under has losses
above assets of nearly 100000, it
Is SAID. These concerns evidently
went on the principle that if you
have got to fail you should fail big.
The BANNER has received the re-
port OF the International American
conference relative to an intercon- 6
tinental railway line, a plan of ar t
bitratlon, recommendations on pos
tai and cable communication with
Central and South America and a G
uniform system of weights and S
measures with the message of the
Presidents message recommending I
the international conference. i
Saturday evening an Indian living
few miles from Juarez, Mexico. /
locked his two little children, girl !;
and boy between the ages of 8
and z years in n hoy IN pra,-o,I