Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-04-30
INSTANTANEOUS ITEMS.

Expect TO be treated as you nave
treated others.
There are now nineteen vessels
building for the navy.
The Maryland legislature is coz
sidering bill to tax bachelors.
The New York Sherman statue
fund now amounts to $4,000.
The agitation for the half-cent
coinage is spreading in the East.
Two hundred and fifty soldiers at
Fort Omaha are down with the grip.
We follow the world in approving
others; we go far before it in approx
ing ourselves.
Why are birds melancholy in the
morning? Because their little bills
are all over dew.
The prodigal son draws on his
mother until he can leave home and
draw on his father.
Mrs. Maybrick pines in prison,
where her duties as cook have al
most worn her out.
New York City has new ordin-
ance forbidding the distribution of
handbills in the streets.
A contract has been closed to put
larger number of Pullman Sleep
ing cars on Australian lines.
There is report in Washington
that Secretary Mobiles resignation is
in the hands of the president.
Parnell says Gladstone is useless
any longer for for an instrument
with which to obtain home rule.
The New York Time says: It is
intimaGed that Gould will become a
partner in stock exchange firm.
The Chillian war ship Blanco was
sunk by Government torpedo boats
in Caldera bay. 1t is estimated that
200 lives were lost.
Lawrence Barrett put down his
name for $500 for the Sherman
fund. George II. Pull
man subscribed $1,000.
In thirty-fve parishes of Louisiana
the colored people outnumber the
whites, in some cases in the proper
tons of fifteen to one.
Discomfort among the Indians at
Pine Ridge is beginning to show
again, and the young braves are said
to be holding conferences.
A site for a National Home for
printers at Colorado Springs has
been selected, and its construction
will be at once commenced.
Acting Governor Barber of WYom-
ing has issued a proclamation en-
joining the citizens to refrain from
selling arms to the Indians.
Secretary Proctor has disap-
proved the leasing of the Tonawa,
Ponca and Pawnee Indian reserva-
tions, and the cattlemen will be
forced out.
r. B. Alexander was tried on
charge of numbering hotel runner
at Texarkana, Ark. The jury
brought in a verdict of not guilty
on the 1st.
More than 5000 native born citi-
zens have emigrated from Bucks
county, Pa, during the last two
years, owing to the difficulty of
making living.
The New York Herald of recent
date chronicles the death of Captain
James Lswless, who died suddenly
at his residence in Bristol of neural
gia of the heart
General Gordon, United States
senator from Georgia, has joined
the Farmers Alliance. He is the
man who refused to shake hands
with Jay Gould.
A bill providing that no stockhold-
ers in a corporation shall have
more than one vote, no matter how
many shares he may have, has be-
come law in Indiana.
The United States government
refuses for the present to make
gold exchanges. Two New York
firms ordered S1,000,0O0 for export,
but the order was refused.
John NJ Macdonald, a cousin of
Sir John Macdonald, Canadian pre-
mier, and one of the most remarka-
bic character, of the day, died at
Fort Smith, Ark. March 81.
Seven prisoners took French