Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-05-07
BRENNAN sis in it." and to stay,

BRENNAN sis in it, d" and to stay.
IT Is said that all the Italian
killed in New Orleans voted there a
the last election.
The first session of the seventh
parliament of the dominion of Can
ada is in session at Ottawa.
BRENHAx's prospects for the flu.
ture are looming up like MONDAY
sun emerging into clear sky from
behind dark bank of clouds.
The Rockdale Messenger, which
was recently burned out for the sec
ond time in its history, has received
its new outfit and is now issuing the
paper in its former excellent shape.
IT is reported in the dispatches
that the Chinese refuse to receive as
Minister, Granny" Blair, or any
Minister who opposes Chinese emf
grafton. 1t will doubtless be hard
to find one that does favor it.
DURING the week which ended on
Saturday nineteen steamships landed
1900 steerage passengers at the
Barge Office, New York. During
the corresponding week of last year
twenty-three steamships landed 49,
900 immigrants.
OFFICIAL returns show that desira-
BILE immigrants are rapidly decreas-
ing in numbers, and that a large
per cent of those now coming,
from their character, can never
become good and useful citizens in
a country like ours.
GEN. BUTLER is now seventy-three
years old, and he has not improved
in appearance in the last few years.
He is SO stout that he can only walk
with waddling gait His eyes are
usually almost entirely closed, and
The flesh lies in deep ridges about
MS face.
IT is.but a few years since sewing
vas introduced into the Philadelphia
public schools, but in that time
great progress has been made, and |
4Iready hundreds of girls, besides
he usual accomplishments, are quail
fed to cut and make garments for
themselves, so that they are practi-
al dressmakers.
The Worlds Fair convention to
e held in Ft. Worth on May the
9Th should have representatives
rom every town in the state. It is
specially an suspicious time in the
istory of Brennan when she should
ave representatives everywhere that
1ere is chance to bring her ad-
antages before the public.
THERE is hardly an instance re-
'rded in which the population of
'untry as ascertained by an official
'nsus has not proved a disappoint-
ent. Every state and county and
tY, previously to the count, have
ade an estimate of their inhabit-
It's, and the estimate has always,
ON patriotic reasons which are ev-
ent, been in excess of the reality.
President HARRISON has made
ccessful trip from the Atlantic to {
e Pacific, and not an accident has
AIRED the journey. He will make
other trip over in 1892, and it will \
so be successful and without acct
Antonio Light. :
There was no objection to this
p, but the democratic hosts will
Use vigorous protest against the I
p in 1892. {
HELEN GARDENER, whose novel Is
us Your Son, My Lord? has Gre
ed such genuine sensation, reach
3 sale of $4,000 copies in five
'nths says the Arena, is a dos
ndaut of Lord Baltimore. Her
'ther was a grand-niece of Sir z
bert Peel. The gifted author is
native of Virginia, her father beng
weu-known clergyman in that n.
ate. r. r.
ACCORDING to the Times-Herald
man life is cheap in Dallas coun- u
'Not long since two country
ys rode away on two horses, the Z
'perty of Hill county farmer. L
ey were arrested, tried, convicted
/ sentenced to ten and fifteen
RS respectively by Dallas coun-
jury. That same jury turned =,
se upon society four murderers. ~
mment is unnecessary"