Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-19

j. @. RANKIN. Proprietor.
Thursday, February 10, 1891.
SENATOR INGALLS, threatens to write
political novel.
ST.. MARr's hospital at Rochester
n. Y, was destroyed by fire Monday
So,rE of the foreign correspond
ents say that Emperor William is
going crazy.
THE managers of the Worlds fail
are throwing mud at Jackson PARK
and at Congress for cutting down
their salaries.
The measure before the legislature
relating to loaning the states money
to the railroads has a fair chance OF
becoming Law.
George Vanderbilt has already ex-
pended 100000 on the foundation
and first story OF his North Caro-
lima castle, near AshvilIe.
President HARRISON, in a glowing
tribute to the memory of Gen. Sher-
man. saws: NO living American was
so loved and venerated as he.
A BILL to prevent the shooting OF
pigeous in exhibitions of markham,
ship, and other ike sports, has been
introduced in the Illinois senate.
The effort to form Texas league
of baseball fof the approaching
season has failed with but little
hopes of its success in time for the
approaching baseball season.
Gov. NoRrHES, of Georgia, re-
Gently refused to meet Jay Gould,
and now that Jay Gould is sick
some one wants to know If the
Governors cut was the cause.
TIE New York contractors who
were the lowest bidders for the
work of improving Galveston Har-
bor,ss have not signed the contract,
and the bids are 20 be re-advertised.
The working men of Washington
recently held q mass meeting to dis
cuss the eight hour question, and
take measures to secure additional
legislation bv congress on the sub
ject.
The temperance people of Iowa
are enjoining the saloon keepers
from selling liquor. II they want to
brake up the trade thoroughly they
should enjoin the patrons from
drinking it.
A PORTION of Gov. Hills last Sep
TENDER speech is recalled by a
Albany dispatch to the New York
World, to show that he was for free
silver, it having been charged that
he was skulking rather than express
himself
PATTI has been arrested in Berlin
for breach of contract. The great
diva does not seem to farewell in
Germany, where they evidently be
1ieYe that bird that can sing and
won't sing ought to be made to
sing.
An Austrian ship will be sent out
shortly to search in South American
waters for the lost Archduke Johann,
the Captain John Orth of the full
rugged iron ship Santa Margherita,
which is supposed to have been
wrecked off Cape Horn.
TIE Chicago airship has raised
the wind very successfully, if it be
true that its inventor has induced
capital to the amount of $20,000,000
to back him. Hitherto, however,
the wind has not. raised the airship
to any remarkable extent.
If the free coinage of silver is a
national issue in the campaign of
'92, Clevelands may not be presi-
dent on account of his views on the
silver question, but he will have the
consciousness Of having had the
courage to speak his honest conuc
tions.
SOME Republican are advocating
nominating Leland Stamford for
president or a Farmers Alliance
platform. This would be more tran
sparent says the n. o. New Delta
than the recent attempt of Ingalls, to
make the farmers of Kansas believe
that he was a farmer
TIE managers of the American
Bible Society, desiring that every
youth in the land possess a bible,
have adopted plan for furnishing