Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-09

ian ballot system.
The sultan of Turkey has ratified
the Brussels anti-slavery act.
L1EUTENANT-Gov. PENDLEToN favors
an extra session of the Legislature.
A CENSUS bureau bulletin says the
United States are the leading pro-
ducers of aluminium.
TIE druth in British India con-
tinues. The poorer classes are suf-
fering for food and water.
GEN. JUBAL A. EARLY will deliver
the grafton at the unwilling of the
jackson monument July 4, at Lex
ington, Ky.
The Houston Post scholarship
contest excited more interest here
than a gubernatorial contest or a
presidential election.
The order of the State Militia
makes it mandatory on the part of
the voluntary guard to assemble in
encampment once year.
SHERIFF and Tax Collector John
Warfeld, of Desha county, Arkansas,
is missing. He is short in his ac-
counts at least $4,000.
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The weather bureau has been
transferred from the United States
signal service to the agricultural de-
partment where it really belongs.
FRANK ME1BoUNE, of Australia has
invented a rain producing machine
with which he claims he can bring
rain over q territory of 10000 square
miles.
THE German emperor objects to
having all his movements arranged
for him on his visit to England, and
requests that some time be left free
from his own disposition.
Jay GOULD came near colliding
with train few days ago. Those
that he has struck previously have
always got the worst of it, and in all
probability this one would.
The part of the Mckinley bill eff
fecting tin plate went into effect
July LIST. The result is that i'm
mense quantities were brought into
this country before it went into ef-
feet.
The Fort Worth Gazette publishes
a list of A places in Texas where
there is to be big barbecue and
4th of July celebration, but this
does not near include the list. All
Texas is going to celebrate.
IT is now said that Ex-city Treas
urer Bardsley, of Philadelphia, is
likely to be let off with light punish
ment, because some upper-tens
are involved in the confession he
made some time since the publica-
ton of which was stopped.
SENATOR TELLER, of Colordo, is out
In a three column interview in which
he strongly intimates that demo
critic candidate for President who
favor free and unlimited coinage will {
be the man he will support in pre- 6
ference to an anti-free coinage re-
publican.
JOIN L. SULLIVAN says he will
fight Frank 2. Slavin for $4,000
side and purse of $4,000, either
in the Olympic club of New Or q
leans or the Granite club of Hobo
ken, N. j., the fight to be decided L
any, time between September and a
February, and Richard Z. Fox, Al
Cridge or Dick Roche can hold the c
stakes i
JAY GOULD says that while the ex- 6
port of gold to Europe does not
create comfortable feeling, it is
blessing in disguise, demonstrating
the great wealth of this country. S
We do not need it in this country t
because it is not much used as cir u,
culating medium and its export !:
hurts sentiment more than it hurts
trade.
1T would be OF great beneht to i
consumers says the Colorado Citizen =
if few of the Texas railroads could
get out of the clutches of receivers.
It seems to be the policy of receiv- j
ers to keep fat job just as long as a
possible or the judges will allow; :
but the man who pay the freights
on these lines is the one who suf- v
fers the most. THE toiler foots P
the bill" g
Tbs Austin Statesman scores a t
point at the close of a lengthy e
editorial on the alien land law in u
which it says: 1t is high time that 6
we ceased to alright ourselves with