Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-03-19

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OUR AGENTS.
JoHN F. WEBUscH, Burton, Texas.
F. nj. GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
To M1KEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
PAUL C. SrREcxERT, Caldwell. Texas
PRINCE Jerome Napoleon of Rome
is dying.
WEDNESDAY was a lively day in the
Legislature.
The Australian ballot system was
defeated in Maine.
FoREsT fires in France have laid
waste 500 acres of pine forests.
The Secretary of war Will shortly
visit Texas on q military inspection.
a STEEL trust has been formed in
New York. All the trusts do more
or less stealing.
A FRIARs PoIST, Mss, bank with
a capital of only $50, 900 earned SIG
500 within a year.
UNRESTRICTED reciprocity between
Canada in this country is advocated
by the Liberal party of the Queens
domain.
The pension appropriations of the
Fifty-frst congress are S65, 100000
more than those of the previous
congress.
A BLIZZARD in South England has
stopped railway traffic, md the snow
is raising the Thames to a danger
GUS point.
NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for
the establishment of an air line rail
road from St. Paul via Kansas City
to Galveston.
The Lea election law has been re-
pealed by the Tennessee legislature
as being no longer necessary in view
of the force bill in congress.
The Mississippi and its tributaries
are on boom and great destruction
is feared. The rivers are away up
now and still rising. The low places
are oyerhowed.
TIE foods are raging east of US.
A Mississippi overflow is im1nent
and the rivers beyond in Alabama
and Georgia above high water mark
and doing great damage.
The forthcoming book of Ben
Butler is alarming his most intimate
friends by reason that the report
has been circulated that it will be
lively and outspoken and fun ell
around when it appears.
The net surplus in the United
, States treasury at the close of bust
ness last Thursday ws.< less than
100000. Quite diA renee from
the amount that the Democratic
administration left when Harrison
took the reins of government.
A BANK failure was averted in
Buenos Ayres few days ago by an
original plan. A run was started
on the principal bank of the city,
which would have speedily closed it
up, but the government declared a
holiday for two days, thus suspend
ing business and giving the bank
time to arrange matters.
CARRIERS bill for the recovery of
School land and for girls industrial
school has passed. The first named
authorizes the attorney general to
bring suit to recover school lands
where the purchasers have failed to
pay the purchase money or the in
terest thereon. There was an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the in
dustrial school house.
WIeGINs the old weather prophet
again comes to the front and pre-
diets that a storm is now approach
ing the American coast more severe
than any that will happen during
the remainder of the year. or il
1892. He predicts an earthquake in
North America Aug. II, 1904, which
will rock the surface from Philadel- |
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