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The Portland daily press., 1890-01-28

the Maine Central accident at DOyd's Mills,
took place i'm Bangor Sunday. They were
conducted by Rev G. d. Illsley. Among
those In attendance at the church were the
Odd Fellows, Mr.Angell having been men,
Der of Penobseot Lodge Of that order, and a
large number Of the members Of the Brother
away coming to this city by special train
from VancebOrO. The Odd Fellows marched
to lhe church from their hall in body. The
floral offerings were very beautiful and pro-
fuse, among them being the emblem Of the
Odd Fellows, three links, and crescent
from the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engi.
neers. At the receiving tomb the final
ceremonies In the Odd Fellows service oe-
aurrnd
The Portland daily press., 1890-01-28

Local Weather Report.
P0RTT,ANn Me-. Januarv 07 10.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22
HALSTEAD AND FORAKER'S BOOM
FRANC

EhiNN.
Although the accepted saying that
everything is fair in love and war
has been amended so as to include
politics, yet occasionally there are
acts of political dishonesty which
prove veritable boomerangs to the
party OF individual guilty of perpe-
trating them. And, perhaps, there
was never more striking instance
of the political rascality and scoun-
drelism of an individual recoiling
with q double force to plague the
user OF them than is afforded in the
case of Joseph Benson Foraker, ex-
governor OF Ohio, and Field Marshal
Murat Ealstead, OF the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette. The story OF
their intrigue against Governor
Campbell to connect the latter gen
tleman's name in a compromising
way with a certain ballot-box bill
pending in congress, so as to injure
him in his race for the governorship,
is familiar to every person who takes
sufficient interest in political matters
to keep posted on current affairs.
In order to injure Gov. Campbell a
creature was found to forge his
name, and after the forgery was de-
tected Foraker declined to refer to
it on the stump by making a candid
and honest admission of the forgery.
His inglorious defeat and permanent
retirement from politics is the re-
suit. His name is rarely ssen in
print nowadays. And what of Mu-
rat Halstead. who published the for
gerry and aided and abetted Foraker
to the extent of his powerful ability
and resources in his campaign Of
calumny, misrepresentation and fol-
ly? While the defunct Little
Brooches Foraker lies under the po-
Iitical daisies, Murat Halstead is
compelled to sacrifice his interests,
to leave his property behind, to turn
his back on his home and in his old
age to seek new associations and a
home among strangers. While he
still owns the Commercial Gazette,
it is said that in order to keep it
from becoming dead weight on his
hand and non-money making piece
of property he is compelled to give
up the managing editorship and to
allow others to take charge of it and
run it, while he goes to Brooklyn to
assume charge of another paper.
How have the mighty fallen! Only
last fall Foraker and Halstead had
things their way in republican coun-
sells in Ohio and had the shaping of
the destiny of the party to make or
unmake it. Now one of them is as
dead politically as a man ever gets
to be, while the other is a voluntary
exile from home.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22
ADMINISTRATIONS CREATURES.

The newspaper men Of Gainesville
appear to be in bad luck. A week
or two ago Capt. Joe Means, the
proprietor OF the Hesperian, was
murdered by tramp printer for
some trivial pretext growing out OF
a newspaper controversy. And now
a special dispatch from Gainesville
contains an account of a brutal and
probably fatal assault committed on
Mr.. E. E. Walker, the editor of the
other daily paper there, the Evening
Register. Mr.. Walkers assailant
was dressed in the livery of dep
uty United States marshal. The
minion of the law went to the Office
of the Register, accompanied by two
other deputy marshals, who of
course, went along iii order to be
handy in case OF an emergency, and
there violently assaulted, beat and
kicked the editor about the head,
face and neck in the most brutal and
cowardly manner, breaking his lover
jaw and knocking several of his
teeth out. The three deputies were
arrested and applied for writ of
habeas corpus, which was heard be-
fore District Judge Barrett, and re-
suited IN their being sent to jail in
default of $500 bond each. The
assault, according to one account,
resulted from the Register attacking
the official acts of the deputy mar
shall; and, according to another &C
count, it was provoked by the fact
of the paper mentioning that he
had passed through Gainesville on
the cars accompanied b. dis ef,u-
table woman. In either cas-" ne
officer was wholly unjustiia",a Ill
making the brutal assault, anI he
seems to have been in luck in escap-
ing from being lynchcd by the infu-
rated and incensed citizens of
Gainesville. This deputy marshal,
to say the least, was totally untitled
for the place which he occupied, and
an action for heavy damages should
lie against the federal government
for allowing such cowardly, brutal
bully to stay in its service. And
Just here it is to be observed that
the aforesaid deputy marshal is a
pretty fair average specimen of the
character and class of men who are
occupying similar positions in many
of the districts throughout the
Southern states since the advent of
the Harrison administration. They
seem 70 have been selected for their
brutal qualities, for their unscrupu-
lousness, their capacity to do dirty
work and to serve as creatures and
tools of an administration and party
which are constantly attempting to
usurp authority, to take away the
liberties Of citizens and to ceatralize
the government The people will
get tired of this some day. Or
rather they Will express their disap-
proyal of it IN no uncertain tones.
They are already tired.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22
THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY.

After all the war that has been
made against it, after all the denun
alton that it has received and after
all that has been said in disapproval
and in anticipation of it's application
to the legislature for renewal and
extension of its charter, there is a
pretty strong prospect that the dis
graceful Louisiana lottery swindle
is to be perpetuated by authority of
and with the sanction of the govern
ment of Louisiana. There are two
strange circumstances in connection
with this subject. The Louisiana
lottery, besides carrying on exten
sive swindling operations all over
the United States in defiance of the
federal laws and against every at
tempt to cripple it by denying it the
/, use of the mails, is one of the most
corrupt political organizations in ex-
istence. 1t might, therefore, be ex-
pected that the politicians, schemers
aud wire pullers of the state would
be in favor of granting a renewal of
its charter. But the strange part of
it is that the formers of the state
should favor the lottery swindle and
should be backed in their approval
of it by a great newspaper like the
Times-Democrat, than which there
is not a secular paper in the United
States with healthier moral tone.
According to the Times-Democrat,
the farmers alliance of Calcasieu par
ish met a few days ago and adopted a
set of resolutions, calling unani-
mously upon the state legislature to
submit to the popular vote for final
action the question of the extension
of the lottery's charter, and express
ing the opinion that in the present
status of Louisiana, more than ever
crippled financially by the overflow,
it would be wiser for the people to
accept the proposition made by the
lottery to help in the construction
of the leyees, to improve the public
schools and double the term of tut
ton in them and to grant relief to
the suffering in hospitals and asy-
lums. The sentiments expressed by
the resolutions receive a quasi in
dorsement of the Times-Democrat,
because, as it explains, of an effort
made by certain persons to drag the
state alliance into politics and to
make of its opposition to the lottery
a political tenet. It might be well
while the people Of Louisiana are
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22
THE STATE PROXIES MEET.
The state political campaign m

liz Il
The state political campaign may
now be regarded as having opened
in dead earnest, since Bre'r Cranfll
and his prohibition party have met,
resoluted, declared their lack of con-
fdence in both the democratic and
republican parties and have put out
ticket of their own. The meeting
was held at Fort Worth on last
Tuesday, and after adopting a plat
form a committee appointed for the
purpose reported the following
ticket to be voted for by the prohi-
bition party at the ensuing state
election: For governor, E. G.
Heath, Of Rockwell; for lieutenant
governor, J. NJ. Thompson, of Car
son; for treasurer, W. D. Jackson, of
McLennan; for commissioner of the
general land office, S. 6. Tomlinson,
of Hopkins; comptroller, S. G. Null
lens, of Navarro; attorney general,
J. B. Golf, OF Travis; superintend-
ent of public instruction, A. Hood,
of Clark. A state executive COM
mittee was appointed, composed of
one member from each congressional
district, except the Sixth, which has
three. The proceedings of the con-
vention were almost entirely harmo-
NOUS, the only disagreement result
ing, as on former occasions, from an
attempt to embody a declaration in
favor of female suffrage into the
platform of principles. There are a
number of good points in the plat
form, such as an emphatic denuncia-
ton of the brutal convict lease sys-
tenn, which the democratic conven-
ton soon to meet might well adopt.
But, of course, prohibition is the
main thing with these third party
folks, and the original question
though an aged and venerable chest
nut by this time-still recurs. Does
prohibition prohibit? Ex-Gov. st.
John, the cold water apostle of the
jayhawker state, and once the chief
est among ten thousand and the one
altogether lovely in the republican
camp, was present at the convention
and delivered an enthusiastic ad-
dress of about an hours length, in
which he gave a vigorous denial to
the statements that in Kansas the
prohibition law was failure. And,
yet, in the same issue of the
paper from which The BANNER
obtained the foregoing information
of the proceedings of the prohibi-
ton convention, there were two dis
patches-on from Leavenworth,
Kansas, and the other from Sioux
City, Iowa; the one from Leaven-
worth announcing that Judge Gro
zier of the First judicial district has
pronounced unconstitutional that
part of the law which confers on the
encouragement and his assistants
the power to summon persons be-
fore them to testify to violations OF
the law. The dispatch from Sioux
City says the law and order league
have caused warrants to be issued
against thirty saloon-keepers and
owners OF buildings asking injunc-
tons to restrain them from viola
ting law. So it seems that prohibit
ton does not prohibit in Iowa, al
though the law passed a number Of
years ago, and the courts have to be
to for writs of injunction.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

Boston GLOBE: The movement
for shorter hours is properly an edu-
cational one. The working men now
agitating it are moving steadily,
nationally and peaceably forward
The constant increase of productive
power makes it just that the work
ingman should enjoy his share Of the
saving of labor, and in the end JUS
tice will prevail.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

discussing the question of extending
the charter of the lottery company,
for the leading newspapers of the
South to give expression to their
opinion. The Louisiana lottery is
not only disgrace to that state, but
it is a reflection on this entire sec
ton, and Northern papers have fire.
quently cited it licensed and char
tered by state authority and public
sanction) as an example of the ideas
OF civilization and public morality of
the Southern people.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

ALEoK MOORE, a colored man who
works at the compress, asserted his
common law right early Tuesday
morning by administering a drub-
bling to his wife. He was waltzed
before Justice Curry without unnec-
essary delay, and on a plea of guilty
to charge of simple assault was
fined So and costs.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

BETWEEN 10 o'clock and midnight
on Monday night there were some
vivid flashes of lightning and cleo
trical displays in the western frma
ment. Old Texas weather prophets
say when it ightens at night this
time of year it is almost Invariably a
a sign of dry weather.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

MIR. D. P. Turner, the popu
commercial man who represents tb
well known house of W. D. Cleye1
land, of Houston, is in the city, He
is accompanied by his bride, nee
Miss Francis KNITTED who has been
visiting her parents and relatives at
Burton.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

THos. Fl. LovE,,the colored teacher,
applied for a license Tuesday to
marry Mabel Wood, but the girl be-
ing under age the license was re-
fused. He claims, however, that
there are no parental objections and
that the failure to get written per-
mission was simply an oversight.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22
NOTICE no CREDITORS.

The State of Texas, Washington County:
All persons having claims against the es-
tate of Joel Newman, deceased, are hereby
notified that, on the 21st day of May 1890,
letters testamenmry in said estate was grant
ed me and all persons are required to pre-
sent their claims thin the time prescribed
by law My resideucs and postoffice address
is Brady, McCuiloch county Texas.
f. NJ. NEw'IAE-
BRENNAN, TExAs, May q, 1880.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22
THE GovEKNORsHIP CONTEST.


In a brief card addressed to the
democracy of the state from Paris
Senator H. D. Mcdonald announces
his withdrawal from the race for
governor He does not state why
he was induced to retire; from the
simple fact, no doubt, that he
deemed that no explanation was nee
essary. He was hardly known to
have been in the race anyway, and
would have been still less recognized
as an actual candidate or even as a
possibility, had it not been for the
fact that, OF the dozen candidates,
more or less, already in the field or
considered as prospective candi-
dates, he was the only one who
came out fat-footed and expressed
himself in actual opposition to the
proposed railway missio on
amendment. All the other candi-
dates were commission advocates,
actual or pretended. Therefore, on
account of his platform, the anti
commission men were compelled to
give Mr.. Mcdonald some sort of
support. 1t was, however, at most
very cold support and lacked
great deal of being sincere. But,
while Senator Mcdonald was not
strong candidate, his withdrawal
must necessarily strengthen Mr..
Hogg's candidacy and weaken the
opposition to him. 1t will also
probably bring matters to a climax
and precipitate the campaign and
compel the anti-commission forces
to show their hand sooner than they
had intended and before they are
ready. There is in our opinion at
the present stage of the political
developments only one way in
which Mr.. Hogg can be defeated
for the nomination for governor.
And that is by inducing Hon. Seth
Shepard, of Dallas, to become can
didate. He is the only available
man to make the race against Mr..
Hogg. Mr.. Shepard is broad
minded, unselfsh, patriotic states
man equally popular among
all classes of the d m o c.
racy and with all factions
in the party. There isn't man in
the state more deserving of political
honors or who could be more safely
entrusted with the affairs of the
state. He would discharge the du-
ties of the Office with scrupulous re-
gard to the interests of the people
and with exalted purpose and pure
patriotisra. Should he enter the
contest he would secure the almost
undivided support and following
that would have gone to Gov.
Throckmorton, and scores and
scores of other votes in the conven-
ton on grounds OF personal consid-
Grafton. Many railway commission
advocates could afford to make that
question of secondary consideration
for the sake of having such a man
for governor of Texas. But Mr..
Shepard has repeatedly asserted
that he was not and would not be a
for governor, and no
longer than two or three days ago
the Houston Post asserted by au-
thority, as it claimed, that he would
not consent to enter the race. On
this understanding some of Mr..
warm personal friends
who would support him under any
have expressed ITEM
selves in favor o. Mr.. Hogg.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

The Prairie Hill gun club has just
purchased tract of seven acres of
land back of the Samuel church and
will put up new hall and target
range. The next meeting of the
club, on the LIST of June, will be held
at the new range.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

Mr.. SIM D. CARoTHEs, a well known
farmer out in the Greenvine neigh
borhood and an old resident of
Washington county, has purchased
a tract of land near Corpus Christi,
and says he will probably move
there next fell.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

The way certain sheets are climb
ing on Hogg's back, and to hear
them denounce him as demagogue,
one would think the democratic party
deserved ignominious defeat for ever
having elevated him to the Office of
attorney general. Denunciation of
Hogg by democrats is self-stultifca-
ton.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

A GENTLEMAN who has returned
from a trip to Navasota and Grimes
county says that the people there
for the time being have quite think
ing about the proposed Huntsville
and LaGrange road and are wholly
absorbed in the question of remov-
ing the county seat since the burn
ing of the Anderson courthouse.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

THE doctors now say that boiled
cows milk is not good for babies
that it is better raw. It does look
natural to suppose that raw COW
would give better milk than boiled
COW, but we are still of the opinion
that cows milk boiled is best for in
fants.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

Mr.. Sam Arnett. well known far
mer in the Grecnvine neighborhood,
whose illness was mentioned week
or two ago, IS still seriously sick and
his neighbors have to sit up with
him at night.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

JUDGE MAxEY sat down with a dull,
sickening thud on the scheme of the
Anticipated lawyer who sought to
prove in the Dick Duncan habeas
corpus case that Texas was without
q criminal code.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

Gov. NICHOLS, of Louisiana, has
grown tired of waiting for ex-Treas-
urer Burke to fulfill his promise to
return and answer to the charge of
swindlin g and embezzlement
Hence, be asks the state legislature,
now in session, to offer a reward for
Burke's capture.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

The HaGrange Journal is after
the county commissioners court of
Fayette county hot and heavy, and
there is some talk of boycotting the
paper. In this county it is the
grand juries which go for the COM
Inissioners.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

THE NaYasota Tablet says that eff
Mr.. Hogg is elected, he will be the
first native born governor Texas has
had" If he is born governor what's
the use to elect him?
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

The Seymour Sun, Vol. No. l,
has made its appearance in the BAN
NER sanctum. It is edited and
managed by G. II. Magill.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

IsN'T it rather funny that since
Throckmorton's withdrawal from the
race the Throckmorton clubs are op-
posing Hogg?
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

RECENTLY a West Virginia lover
of 80 years of are walked 20 miles to
court a widow Of IS. Whereupon
an exchange remarks that there is
no fool like an old one. A young
lover would have hired a team or
else have got a girl nearer home.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

Mr.. George Wilson, of the Elk
change hotel, has returned from a
trip to the Fort Worth spring palace.
He reports that the exhibit is not
near as great a success as last year,
but says that the town is crowdeds
with visitors.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

THERE is talk of adding social
feature to the Brenham Field ArtiI-
lery organization. 1t would prove
very popular and keep up interest in
the organization.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

The Post on Tuesday mentioned
the presence of Col. Giddings in
Houston for the purpose of wcrki
up q boom for Hon. Seth Shepa
for governor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

The people of Tombstone, Arizona,
have come to the conclusion that
there is something in a name and
that there's is entirely too sugges-
tive. They want it changed to Rich
mond.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

Bolton has lately become one OF
the most enterprising, progressive
and wide-awake towns in the state.
Its nearness to Temple compels it
to exert itself Pity that Brennan
hasn't such competition.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

THE New Delta is the title of a
new and spicy afternoon paper which
has made its appearance in the Ores
cent city and which comes to us for
an exchange.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

HoN. JOIN CARLISLE has been
elected to fill the vacancy in the
United States senate from Kentucky.
He will not present his credentials
before the vote on the tariff bill is
taken.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

The Terrell Star says that the op-
ponents of Acknowledgement Hogg
are hard up when they bring out R.
NJ. Hall for governor. 1t does seem
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

The Luling Signal speaks of the
remains of a deceased person being
quietly laid to rest" That is the
usual way in which funerals are con-
Quoted. Any boisterous manifesto
lions would have been unseemly.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

MEssRs. LOUIS F. GRAssMUoK, J.
r. Glenn and G. W. Hess became
lost in Fritz Harms pasture on Sun
day night while returning from the
fest and ball. 1t wasn't due, how
ever, to their net being able to see
straight.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

REV. SAM SMALL is a candidate for
the legislature in Georgia on the
prohibition ticket.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

PoLIucs makes strange bedfelIows
indeed. That volapuk trap in which
the News caught the Post is still a
narrowing incident. But it doesn't
keep the two papers from pattipg
each other on the back and quoting
Approvingly derogatory expressions
concerning a candidate against
whom they are making common
cause.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

IT is quite singular coincidence
that at nearly every annual conven-
ton of the state fremen's association
the "boys" have a chance to display
their skill in putting out a blaze.
While they were in session at Pales-
tine last week the place was visited
by fire.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22
A TRADE is being NEGOTIATED for

A TRADE is being negotiated for
the purchase of the new compress
in this city by the Brennan COM
press company. The papers have
not been drawn up yet, but the,
trade is considered as having been
already contaminated. The amount
OF the purchase money was not
learned.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-05-22

Mr.. JOE RoUTT, who was up from
Chappell Hill Tuesday, says he is
not candidate for sheriff.