Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-23

Thus far an aggregate of S2,669,,
600 has been appropriated by TWEEN
ty-nine States for representation at
the Worlds Fair.
ARMED lsborers in Tennessee are
driving the convicts out of the
mines, and troops have been ordered
out to avoid further trouble.
The Republicans of Kentucky will
not nominate a candidate for the
State Senate, but support Graham
the Peoples Party candidate.
The condition of the Texas cotton
crop up to the present time is very
favorable and the yield promises tc
be greater than that of last year.
REPORTS from Kansas City are tc
the effect that Texas melons are sc
cheap there that the freight charges
are more than they can be sold for
HE Alliance are not well enough
organized to form trust with thei1
wheat and cotton and force up the
price. 1t is said, however, Kansas
and Georgia are to try it.
CURRENT advice from all portions
of the South show that the cotton
crop is little backward, but in
most sections the weather is good
and the crops are doing well.
A MAN offered an insult to the
American flag at Juarez, across the
river from Ell Paso, at a banquet to
celebrate the fall of the bastile, and
was given his choice of apologizing
or leaving the city.
The Sulphur Springs Echo ven
lures the assertion that when the
tariff is reduced to a revenue basis
the people will not want to borrow
money, and will be enabled to keep
more Of that which they earn.
The Hopkins County Echo makes
the prediction that professional
farmers are going to be many, loud
and pernicious in the next cam
paign. The farmers are all right,
but the kid gloved professionals are
looking for spoils.
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The Austin Statesman predicts
that two years hence the Alliance as
a political party in Texas will be as
innocuous as the Prohibition party.
It at one time numbered 125,000
members, now not more than $4,000
and split among them.
In the Department at Washington
there is habit prevailing of Office
holders putting in low salaried clerks
and not even going about their Of
fee, Secretary Foster has issued
an order that all must report for
duty within thirty days or resign.
BRADsrREET makes the statement
that "out of 100000 pounds of
cotton seed oil produced in 1888,
70,0O0,000 pounds were used in the
mixing with lard, and that the COM
petition with this bogus product has
reduced the price of pure lard from
ten down to six cents pound"
S~-
july returns to the department of
agriculture at Washington indicate
that the average condition of the
cotton crop has advanced since the
last report. The following is the
percentages, with Texas in the lead:
Virginia n, North Carolina so,
Georgia SIS, Florida "a, Alabama 81,
Mississippi 81, Louisiana 80, Texas
IS, Arkansas SO and Tennessee 50.
The West Texas Press Association
recently in session at Baird took
a census as to their choice for Presi-
dent, Grover Cleveland receiving
one half Hill, second best, with one
for Campbell, provided be beats Nc
Kinley. All of them favored an in
crease Of money circulation from
$50 to $40 per capita. They were
OF the opinion that the receivership
investigation showed considerable
fraud
SPANISH capitalists residing in
New York, Havana, Spain and Mex
leo have subscribed capital for the
establishment of a steamship line,
to run in connection with the Span
ish transatlantic company which
will connect with Mexican gulf
ports, the Antilles, the United
States of Columbia, Venezuela, Hon
duras and Guatemala and MAKING
direct connection with the United
States and Europe.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS in her letter
to the veterans and people of the
Southern states, in which she oivae