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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19
CITATION.

THE STATE OF TEXAS-To the Sheriff
or any Constable of Washington county
Greeting:
You ARE HRzKBY COMMANDED to summon
Louis Frecking, by making publication of
this citation for once in each week for four
successive weeks previous to the return day
hereof in some newspaper published in your
county to appear at the next regular ferIn
of the District Court of Washington County,
to be holden at the Courthouse thereof, in
the CITY of BRENNAN, on the first Monday in
March 1891, the same being the End day Of
March 1891, then and there 10 answer a peti-
ton fled in said Court on the 9TH dsy of
Dec 1890, in suit numbered on the docket
Of said Gear. $500, wherein Alvina F1ecking
is Plaintiff, and Louis Frecking is Defendant,
said petition alleging the nature of plaintiffs
demand to be as follows
That plaintiff and defendant were legally
married in Washington county, Texas on
the 18th of Dec 1881, and continued 10 live
together as husband and wife until Oct. Ist,
1887, when defendant voluntarily abandoned
plaintiff. That plaintiff is an actual bone
fde inhabltant ofsaid State and county and
has been for more than SIX months next pre-
ceeding the fling of this suit. That defend
ant is a transient person and his residence IS
unknown to plaintiff. That during said
marriage plaintiff and defendant had three
children born unto them, Anna Z. Matilda
: and Emma 5. That said abandonment
was voluntarily and without excuse or justi-
ication. Wherefore plaintiff prays defence
ant be cited to answer this suit, and for
decree of divorce and that the custody,
maintenance and education Of said children
be awarded to plaintiff, and will ever pray,
etc.
HEREIN FAIL NOT, but have you then and
there before said court, on the first Day Of.
the next term thereof, on to wit: the md
day Of March 1891 this writ. with your re-
tura thereon, showing how YOU have execa-
ted the same.
Witness A. NJ. Krug. clerk of the district
court of Washington county. Given under
my hand and seal of said court, at Office. IN
the city of Brenham, this the 2Ist day of
January, A. D, 1891,
A. NJ. KRrG,
rssal Clerk District Court, Washington
(--j County.
A true copy of the original and / hereby
order the same published in the WEEKLY
BANNER for four successive weeks previous
to return dSy. d. E. TKAGUE
Sheriff W. Co
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THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH.

The present Congress says the
New York Continent is not going to
consider the postal telegraph.
None the less, it is reform that is
sure to come sooner or later. The
public demand for it is undoubtedly
growing, and will soon become ire
sistible We are aware that there
are those who denounce the idea as
dangerous paternalism. But would
these same people wish to abolish
the postofice and intrust their cor
respondence to a private company?
And how can it be wise to let the
Government carry our letters, but
dangerous to allow it to forward our
kilograms?
The only difficulties in the postal
telegraph scheme are minor ques-
tons of ways and means and the adj
justment of the Governments rela-
tions with the existing companies.
These could easily be overcome.
The present Postmaster General has
emphatically expressed his readi-
ness to undertake the task whenev-
er Congress will give him the neces-
sary legislation. In England, where
the telegraph system is in the hands
OF the Postoffice Department, it
costs twelve cents to send twelve
words between any two points, and
at this low rate there is an annual
prft to the Government of over
100000. There is no doubt that
an American postal telegraph could
show still better results in the way
of efficient service at low rates.
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FEBRUARY STORMS.

The weather prognosticator ". T.
Foster, of st. Joseph. Mo-, says that
while the next storm wave will be
of more than average force, it will
not be a great storm as will be the
one following. 1t will be due to
leave the Pacific coast about the
18th, cross the Rocky-Allegheny
valley from the 18th to the goth and
reach the Atlantic coast about the
21st. This storm will cause SHOWS
north of the 40th deg. and rains
south of it, while the cold wave fol
lowing it will go below the average
for the time of year. The storm
will principally affect the Southern
states.
The greatest storm of the month
will be due to leave the Pacific
coast about the 23d, cross the great
valley between the 9th and 26th
and reach the Atlantic coast about
tue 9th. 1t will begin to show
signs of force about the time it de-
scends the eastern slope of the
Rocky mountains, and will begin a
furious storm after it has crossed
the Mississippi river, about the 18th
and will become a great storm in
Eastern states about the 26th or
9th. Following this storm cold
wave will reach far into the South
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AN ORATOR AND STATESMAN.

Mr.. Gossett's speech in the legis-
lature Tuesday for his bill to declare
chattel mortgages on unmatured
agricultural products void, showed
him to be an orator and statesman.
He proved from the state agricul-
tural reports says an Austin cores
pondent that chattel mortgages on
crops are increasing near about 100
per cent every year. That they are
destroying the personal independ-
ence Of the poor men engaged in
farming, and he contended that the
law under which they are legalized
was adopted to meet the supposed
needs of the people emerging from
reconstruction, and is entirely unfit
for the free Texas of to-day.
The speech can not be SUMMARY
ed and do the speaker justice. but it
was a ringing warning against a
relic of the dark days of reconstruc-
ton that will probably mark sue
cessful final assault upon a measure
that lends the aid OF the criminal
law to the money lender in making
his collections.
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ern states with very cold weather
along the line between Canada and
the United States. 1t will not cause
as much rain and snow as did the
storms between the 9Th and 14th,
but the SHOWS will be more of the
blizzard kind. The storm may have
sufficient force to develop tornadoes
in the Southern states, but the indi-
cations do not certainly imply a
tornado period.
ANOTHER blizzard has swept over
the North, apparently from Dakota
to the Atlantic. 1t has had the
same effect in the matter of mixing
up wires that nearly every similar
storm has had in New York this
winter, and we are again told that
the telephone has ceased to work
there, that the electric lights cannot
be lit in consequence of the danger
from tangled and broken wires:
that the electric street cars have
ceased running for like reason;
that the fire alarm circuits are down
and many telegraph wires are use
less. This is a very old story,
which has been told so often this
winter that it has become monoto-
nous. 1t apparently requires but
slight breeze to completely upset
the entire electric system of New
York and other Eastern cities.
ACCORDING to the official returns
which have been compiled and pub
lished in the New York Tribune
Almanac, the Democrats in the
November election carried 80 of the
A States by pluralities aggregating
1,019,610 and the Republicans Is
States by plura-ities aggregating
100,531, leaving a net plurality for
the democrats of 919, 079, the largest
ever polled for any party. in the
Union. The figures that produce
this result are in every case the
votes polled for the heads of state
tickets where there were such tickets
and the vote for congressman where
there were no state tickets. The In
dependent Farmers Alliance vote, |
which does not enter into this COM
putation, would immensely increase
the popular majority against the
Republicans, whose defeat was the
most overwhelming one in ourpoliti-
cal annals.
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WORSE THAN AN ORDINARY PRIZE
FIGHT.

ARTICLES of agreement have been
entered by Captain T. S. Shiel and
Peter Erea for a broad sword con-
test on horseback for $500 a side.
Luke Short is stake holder. The
battle will occur as soon as the men
can train Prize fights with light
gloves have become frequent while
the authorities winked at this viola
ton of the law, in spirit If not in
letter, but we wonder if men will be
permitted to go into broad sword
contest without restraint, and in case
they engage in this contest and one
is slain, what the charges against
his slayer will be? If there is nc
law to prohibit sucha contest the
22nd Legislature could do nothing
better in the time it would take
them to enact .one.
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CITATION.
THE STATE OF TEXAs-To the Sheriff
or any Constable of Washington County

THE STATE OF TEXAS-To the Sheriff
or any Constable of Washington County
Greeting
You are hereby commanded to summon
Frank Alworth. by making publication of
this citation for once in each week for four
successive weeks previous to the return day
hereof, IN some newspaper published in Your,
county, to appear at the next regular term
of the District Court of Washington county,
to be holden at the Courthouse thereof, in the
city of BRENNAN, on the first Monday in
March, 1891, the, same being the I'd day of
March 1891 then and there 10 answer a pc
tition filed in said Court on the 18th dav of
November 1890, in suit numbered on the
docket of said Court 6SSS wherein Silvey
Aworth is Plaintiff and Frank Alworth is
Defendant, said petition alleging the nature
of PLAINTIFFS demand to be as follows: A
suit for divorce because of the willfa absn-
donment of Plaintiff by Defendant for more
than three years.
Herein fail not, but have you then and
there before said Court, on the first day Of
the next term thereof. on to-wit: the 2nd day
% March, 1891, this writ, with your return
thereon, showing how you have executed the
same.
WITNESS. A. N. Erug, Clerk Of the Dis
trict County. Given under my hand and
the seal of said court, at office, in the city of
BRENNAN. this the 22nd day of January A.
D. 1891.
- A. M.KRue,
Css.,( Clerk of District Court. Of Wash
A ! ington County
A true copy of the original and hereby
order the same published in WEEKLY RAN9Vs
YER for four successive previous to M
turn day.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

GEN. SHERMAN is dead. Few
Georgians grieve. The people Of
Georgia are a God-fearing people
and are inclined to obey the divine
Injunction to ''love thine enemy,
and forgive those who tresspass
against you but his tresspasses
through Georgia made him an enc
my beyond the conception of this
inspiration, and a tresspasser such
as had not been contemplated at
the time.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

PRESIDENT HARRISON, in glowing
tribute to the memory of Gen. Sher-
man. saws: mo living American was
so loved and venerated as he.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

Gov. NoRrHEN, of Georgia, re-
Gently refused to meet Jay Gould,
and now that Jay Gould is sick
some one wants to know if the
Governors cut was the cause.
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-The last OF a series Of ive irc

The last or a series of five iron
bridges contracted for in 1890 by
the Bee county commissioners
court has Just been completed. says
the Beeville Bee Others will be
built as necessity requires. In the
construction of these bridges bonds
were issued and taken up by the
permanent school fluid, thus giving
the children of the county the inter
est on the bridge bonds instead of
outside capitalists. Bee county is
distinctiyely q progressive county.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

THE managers of the Worlds fair
are throwing mud at Jackson Park
and at Congress for cutting down
their salaries.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

George Vanderbilt has already ex-
pended 100000 on the foundation
and first story OF his North Caro-
lima castle, near Ashville.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

The working men of Washington
recently held mass meeting to dis
cuss the eight hour question, and
take measures to secure additional
legislation bv congress on the sub
ieet.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

In half dozen or more States
the legislature have had bills intro
duced providing for the election OF
United States senators by direct
vote of the people, and in the Uni
ted States senate Mr.. Turpie, of In
diana, offered a proposed amend
ment to the constitution to the
same effect, and the question is now
before the people for discussion.
We are of the opinion that vast
majority of the people would be in
favor of such an amendment.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

TIE measure before the legislature
relating to loaning the states money
to the railroads has a fair chance OF
becoming Law.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

The effort to form Texas league
of baseball fof the approaching
season has failed with but little
hopes of its success in time for the
approaching baseball season.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

A BILL to prevent the shooting Of
pigeous in exhibitions of markham,
ship, and other like sports, has been
introduced in the Illinois senate.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

SosrE of the foreign correspond
ents say that Emperor William is
going crazy.
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ISFLUENzA's CRADLE.

Prof. Tester, of the Medical
Faculty of Lyons, finds influenza to
be a growth of Russian soil, and a
smouldering malady when not a
raging one. The winter life of the
people in close heated houses, the
bad drainage of the level soil, the
universally sodden condition during
the April thaw, and the 6lthiness of
the farm-yards, streets and rivers,
all tend to make this the home of in
huenza. The microbe of the disease,
in fact, exists in the putrid mud left
by the river floods.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

TIE New York contractors who
were the lowest bidders for the
work of improving Galveston Har-
bor,ss have not signed the contract.
and the bids are 30 be re-advertised.
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Thursday, February 10, 1891.

SENATOR INGALLS, threatens to write
a political novel.
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To Shippers and Farmers.
P. II. BALLARD & co.

u South Desplaines St, Chicago.
WASrED-Buttter, cheese. eggs, live and
dressed poultry, beans, grain and dried
fruits. Potatoes. maple syrup and sugar
Send for daily market report.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

An Austrian ship will be sent out
shortly to search in South American
waters for the lost Archduke Johann,
the Captain John Orth of the full
rugged iron ship Santa Margherita,
which Is supposed to have been
wrecked off Cape Horn.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

ST.. MARY's hospital at Rochester
N. Y. was destroyed by fire Monday
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

TIE Chicago airship has raised
the wind very successfully, if it be
true that its inventor has induced
capital to the amount of $20,000,000
to back him Hitherto, however,
the wind has not. raised the airship
to any remarkable extent.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

PATTI has been arrested in Berlin
for breach Of contract. The great
diva does not seem to farewell in
Germany, where they evidently be
ieve that bird that can sing and
won't sing ought to be made to
sing.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

If che free coinage of silver is a
national issue in the campaign of
1872, Clevelands may not be presi-
dent on account of his views on the
silver question, but he will have the
Consciousness Of having had the
courage to speak his honest conuc-
tions.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

A PORTION of Gov. Hills last Sep
TENDER speech is recalled by a
Albany dispatch to the New York
World, to show that be was for free
silver. it having been charged that
he was skulking rather than express
himself.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

Gov. HoGG has received a letter
from Horace Baker, at Weatherford,
post commander Of Sam J. Randall
post No. As. of the Grand Army of
the Republic, applauding the gov
ernor in the name of all the ex-Un-
ion soldiers in Texas for the recon-
mendations in his message respect
ing the need for a Confederate home
for the disabled soldiers of the late
war.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

A PARTIAL list of the consolidation
schemes or deals that have been
mentioned within the past week is
quite long one. Approximately it
is as follows: The Southern Pacific
and the Missouri Pacific are to buy
the Atchison, the Richmond Ter
minal is to buy the New Albany
road, the Lake Erie and Western is
to acquire the same property, the
Richmond Terminal and the Louis
vile and Nashville are to be united,
and the Great Northern is to absorb
the Stickney road. 1t is also to OBJ
tain possession of the $500" The
Susquehanha and Western is to be
bought by any half dozen different
lines, and the Baltimore and Ohio is
to become Gould property. If the
consolidators continue their work,
there will not be an independent
road left.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

The age of consent in Texas is
ten years and there is some prospect
of the Legislature increasing it to
twelve. TIE Fort Worth Gazette
and the Waco Day have both in
dulged in a righteous clamor for
the time to be still further increased
It should at least be fifteen years.
The appeal to increase the time
when a girl may be considered old
enough to marry. or barter her
chastity, should touch the heart of
every man who horors true woman
hood, and we do not believe if
rightly considered there will be
found many who will stand in the
way of this social reform.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

The temperance people of Iowa
are enjoining the saloon keepers
from selling liquor. II they want to
brake up the trade thoroughly they
should enjoin the patrons from
drinking it.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

THE Conger anti-cotton seed oil
bill now before the Senate ought
never to be passed. Repudiated as
it is by the Western farmers in
whose interest it is normally fran
ed, the bill, sectional IN its character
and aimed at the South. should be
defeated by the senate. It has been
thoroughly exposed by the farmers
OF the South, the west and all por-
tions Of the country as a measure
intended to financially benefit some
Eastern manufacturers at the ex-
pense Of TIE cotton growers 1t
will be another great VICTOR over
sectionalisrn if this bill is defeated.
as now seems likely.
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SOME Republican are advocating
nominating Leland Stamford for
president or a Farmers Alliance
platform. This would be more tran
sparent says the \. O.. New Delta
than the recent attempt of Ingalls, to
make the farmers of Kansas believe
that he was farmer.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

Is regard to the report that the
Northern Pacific preferred stock
would be retired, it is stated that
the matter has been under consider
alton for two years, but the company
has arrived at no conclusion. It was
thought that there would be legal
obstacles in the way, but it is be,
lieyed that none now exist. The
earnings of the company recently
have been sufficient to more than
pay fixed charge of 5 per cent on
the amount of the preferred stock.
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The new congressional apportion,
ment says the Dallas Times-Herald
promises to make a dozen of the
most interesting fights Texas has
ever known. The thirteen districts
will be so shaped that they will be
entirely new, and. excepting Ian
ham and Culberson, none of the
present congressman will have any
advantage over their competitors
for the nominations. In this dis
trict there Will be most interest
ing contest. To the list which has
been published from time to time
may now be added that of Barnett
Gibbs and ". G. Conner rs proba-
bic candidates.
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THE ELECTRICAL NAP.

An instructive scientific toy sold
in Paris, consists of a map, with
metallic plugs inserted to mark the
chief town. Questions at the sides
of the map ask what are the chief
towns of the different Departments,
and also have a metallic plug for
each. A small electric bell and a
dry pile are provided. The child
puts one end of the conducting wire
over any question plug and moves
the other end over the town plugs
until the bell rings, when the town
is correctly indicated.