Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-25

OUR AGENTS.
JOIN F. WErBUscH, Burton, Texas.
F. NJ. GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
10 MIKEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
Paul c. STREcKERT, Caldwell, Texas
A CONFEDERATE monument was IN
yelled at Pensacola, Fla, one day
last week.
W1cH1TAw FALLS is advertising a
grand harvest jubilee on Friday and
Saturday July 8 and 4.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and family
have gone to Cape May, which will
remind the public of the cottage
scandal of last year.
PROCEEDINGS have been commenced
in Donblin, ireland. against Parnell
to, recover $500 and cost in the
O'Shea divorce case.
The recent statement of the treas
urer of the United States shows the
net cash balance to be S1,235,000
the lowest figures yet reached.
The president has denied the ap-
pheation for pardon CT Edward
Belden, convinced in Kansas of muir
der and sentenced to hang on the
26th.
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SECRETARY PROCTOR has ordered a
court martial to try Col. Compton
of the Fourth cavalry for failing to
take steps TO prevent the Walla
Walla lynching.
PEDo MoNTT, who was commits
stoned. by the Chillian insurgents to
obtain recognition of their cause
from Mexico, has also been accredited
to the United States.
Ar Irish-American in Newark, n.
J., was let off from punishment in
court recently for thrashing a FOR
eigner who disputed his assertion
that the United States was the best
country on earth.
ADv1oEs from Mexico say the fin
ancial condition of Guatemala is ter
rible. President Barrillas is called
tyrant, and the election excitement
is great. The excitement is extend
ing to Honduras.
The seat in the New York ex.
change of Douglas Greene, who ran
away to Europe with Mrs. Alice
Smell McCrae, abandoning his wife
and two children, was sold for ST.
500.
The memorial asking that an ex-
tension of time be granted to the
so.called intruders IN the Chicasaw
Nation, was referred by Secretary
Noble to commissioner OF Indian af-
sfairs, Gen. Morgan.
SECRETARY FosTER in a recent
speech called attention to the fact
that after July the 1st it would be
discretionary with the secretary Of
the treasury whether silver coinage
should be continued OF not.
Thunder has never been heard
more than fourteen miles from the
fash of lightning. The report Of
artillery has reached much greater
distances. The cannonading at the
Battle of Waterloo was heard at the
town of Creil, in the north of France
about lis miles from the field.
san ANTONIO has a new humorous
weekly called the Eagle. If it fails
to soar right off into the realms of
sufficient fame to bring prosperity,
the BANNER hopes that its beak and
talons will always be sharp enough
to grasp hot tamale before It's
wings grow weary or it sinks to
rest.
The water power of the Rhone in
the neighborhood of Geneva is now
largely used for driving electric mo
tors, of which ZIG, with a total Of
1865 horse power, have been in op-
Grafton during the past year. The
smallest motors. of ] horse power,
have been employed for running
sewing machines, while the largest
one, of 625 horse power, drives the
dynamos for lighting Geneva.
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TIE official mails from Chill re-
ceived at Washington bring exciting
news from that republic. The house
of deputies has prepared bill
authorizing the president to levy a
forced loan of S20,000,000 to carry
on the war. 1t has not passed the /,
senate, however. The decree has
also been issued prohibiting groups |
of more than three persons from
standing together in the streets,
squares or in the Duhlic nlaces of |