Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-08-06

Thursday, August 6, 1891.
Ex-senator THURMANs health is
said to be failing.
The war between lottery and anti
lottery men in Louisiana is fierce.
THERE is talk of abolishing the
Mexican free zone or modifying its
restrictions.
A MOVEMENTS is on foot to ar
range for the deportation of the
negroes of the Southern States to
Liberia.
THREE hundred people we're
drowned at Bombay, India by a re-
cent flood. Fifteen inches of rain.
fell in "a hours and water was waist
deep on the streets.
The stockholders in Newburyport,
Mass, of the Continental land and
security company, have received no.
tice of the companys assignment for
the benefit of creditors.
TIE Farmers Alliance ia Arkansas
is making vigorous effort to enlist
the farmers in a common cause.
They are urged to remain inside
the democratic ranks and not be led
into the third party move.
MAUD .EsTERBRooKE, formerly rib
bon clerk in st. Louis dry goods
house, and the thirteenth wife of
Mormon Elder jenkins in Salt Lake
City, is heiress to fortune in Leeds
England. She refused to return.
DILLON and O'BR1EN have declared
that they can't again accept Par
nell's leadership, as they are strong
Iy in favor of supporting the evicted
tenants and cannot see how patriot
ic Irishmen can refuse to assist
them.
The editor of the Hot Springs
News says that he has talked with
many leading editors and publishers
from various states, at the National
editorial. convention, relating to
presidential matters and found the
democratic sentiment practically IN
animous for Cleveland.
JERRY SIMPSON keeps up his attacks
on John Sherman. By assailing that
powerful champion of high tariffs,
trusts and 'monopolies he probobly
hopes to offset the effects upon the
farmers of the fatal charge which
has just been brought against him
that he, the admired sockless states
man, wears silk socks.
Ex-SENAToR JOIN J. INGALLS, lee
tured at Prohibition Park on Staten
Island Sunday afternoon to 1900
people. He classed the Anglo
Saxon race as ELI" and Dennis was
applied to the other races, because
Ell got there and Dennis got left.
He had no patience with the third
party and opposed Government own
ership of railroads.
SECRETARY NOBLE asks to be re-
tired from the cabinet, and it is said
that Secretary Proctor will resign
in few months, when the Presi-
dent will fill both places at the
same time. With two cabinet posi-
lions to fill and nine fat judgeships
President Harrison has hand full
of trumps and will endeavor to play
schrewd game of politics with
them,
ROBERT PACKARD and wife, of New
Hartford, La, are the father and
mother of 26 living children. The
first of the offspring, man now 40
years of age, is married and lives on
a farm adjoining his parents. The
other % are single and live under
the paternal roof. There is only one
girl among the number. The first
child was born alone. The next five
births were triplets and the remain.
der are sets of twins.
The Iconoclast, published at Aus
tin, by W. q. Brann, has been re-
ceived at.this Office. 1t is twenty
page monthly magazine neatly
printed but poorly bound, and is
full of lurid criticism in keeping
with its name, Iconoclast, SCATTERING
ideals and exposing shams from the
pinnacle of its own ideals. In its
fierce denunciation of the vices it's
explanations of them furnish almost
as sensational disclosures as the
sensational newspapers of the day
Especially was this the case in one
of the lesding articles on the Social
Evi or how Magdelines are Made. :"
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEvELASD's news
paper, the Saturday Globe, has col