Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-01

The Brennan Banner.
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Entered at the postof6ce at BRENNAN, Texas,
as SecOnd-claSS mail matter.
Official Journal of Green's Brigade Association
OUR AGENTS.
JOHN F. WEBUsCH, Burton, Texas.
F. NJ. GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
10 MIKEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
Savannah claims the oldest Amer.
ican theater.
The New York attempt to corner
coffee was a failure.
Russia has ordered twenty engines
and 5S5 carriages for her war line.
WALTER GRESHAM is being urged
for the vacancy on the interstate
commerce commission.
ACCORDING to American Army of
fcers the much talked of smokeless
gunpowder is for small arms utterly
worthless.
Macon, Ga, has ten-year-old
stenographer and typewriter who
has started in business for herself
in prominent hotel of that town.
JUST now the earth is in such q
position that the rings of the planet
Saturn are invisible, from being
presented edgewise. This occurs
only once every fifteen years.
In Louisiana the papers have a
never ending theme at which they
can hurl fiery anethemas when
ever theEf feel cross grained, and the
lottery is having trouble to get It's
charter renewed in consequence of
the condemnation of the papers.
ACCORDING to Senator Ransom,
who has Just arrived from North
Carolina, says Washington special,
the Farmers alliance does not
threaten the Democracy in that
State, as the alliance seeks simply to
obtain control through that party,
but not to destroy it. The real
fight is between two factions of the
party for supremacy.
PENITENTIARY INSPECTOR SAM II.
DIXON was in Austin Wednesday to
stand trial before his alliance on the
charge of heresy or obdurate oppo-
sitlon to the sub treasury platform
of the national alliance They can't
turn him out unless they turn out
half the alliance men of the county
and it is likely they will surrender
th5ir charter rather than do so.
A LARGE fire proof vault is being
added to the court house of Waller
county. Soon the commissioners
viii meet again, when the question
of increasing the vault capacity of
Washington county will come before
them. Every county should be
thoroughly prepared to preserve her
records, those of Washington coun-
ty extending back to the early his
tory of the State being invaluable.
PHILADELPHIA, the staid and sober
city of brotherly love, seems to be a
favorite field of operation for swind-
ling and rotten financial schemes
and operations. City finances,
banks, watch companies, have all
been represented, and the short
term benevolent steals fourished
there aud grew to amazing proper
tions. Now hundred or more
frauds in the shape of so-called
merchandise and supply companies,
have, according to the Philadelphia
Herald, been brought to light. It
seems strange that mental and NOR
al senses of defined types should be
at times epidemic as are physical ills.
The Republican convention of
Massachusetts nominated for COVER
nor ex-Congressman Allen on the
first ballot. The platform declares
against free coinage, in favor of a
high tariff, the force bill and all the
iniquities perpetrated by the Repu-
lican party in the last congress.
There is not only great disappoint-