Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-30

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Thursday, July 80, 1891.
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1t is said the citizens of Galveston
are as mad as March hares because
convict labor is to be used on the
harbor improvements there.
IT is said that when Proctor re-
tires as Secretary of War it is prob
able that ex-Gov. Cheeny, of New
Hampshire, will succeed him.
Two girls in Alabama embraced a
deputy sheriff while their brother got
away. 1t is not stated that the sheriff
made any effort to get away.
The spread of Cholera in Mecca
Egypt, is increasing. There were
40 deaths reported there last Satur-
day and $50 the Sunday before,
The Turkish pilgrims are the worst
sufferers.
A cloud burst in Colorado Sunday
wrecked the Colorado Central road
for some distance, washed away 8
cabin on the hillside in which was
man named Brooks, who has not
since been seen.
Mas. JEFFERSON DAVIS is talking OF
selling the old homestead, "Beau,
voir, in Mississippi. The confeder.
ate veterans are anxious to secure ii
and preserve it intact as it was dur
ing JEFF Davis lifetime.
VACATION TINE is the name of
bright little book by 81. s. Drayton,
Nj. D., so well known as a writer
of Hygiene, just issued from the
press of Fowler, Wells & Co., IT'S
Broadway, New York
Mr.. 7. j. PATRICK, ex-Commis-
sioner of immigration for North
Carolina, urges the people of this
section to see to it that fine dis
play of producte is at once sent to
the Raleigh, n. c., Southern Expo.
sition. EVERYTHING can be shipped
free.
Ex-PREsIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND
received hearty welcome at Sand
witch, Mass, Saturday. He was &C.
companied by Governor Russell and
staff, George @. Mclaughlin, Joseph
Jefferson, Gen. Whittier and other
distinguished gentlemen. Governor
Russell and Mr.. Cleveland delivered
eloquent addresses.
Mr.. FooTE, war veteran, whose
sense of honor has been shocked by
the frantic scramble for pensions of
everybody who was in the army from
1861 to 1865, has undertaken to re-
form the abuse. He says that not
more than one in three of the pen
sioners really deserve and need the
governments aid.
The lottery is cutting an import
ant figure in the politics of Louis
lana and the anti-lottery papers,
among which is the New Delta, which
takes the lead, says: ''The lottery
amendment is bound to be defeated.
Nothing on earth could stand the
pounding that il is receiving at the
hands of the true sons of Louisiana.
THE Austin Statesman says "the
encampment was a superb and con-
spicuous success in every respect ex-
cept one. 1t didn't draw" The
memory of the treatment received at
a previous encampment in Austin
kept thousands of visitors away, and
knocked Austin out of thousands of
dollars this time. Chickens will come
home to roost.
The report in the Galveston News
of Sunday that the Galveston artil-
lery took part in the sham battle was
erroneous. The Brennan field ar
tillerY were in charge of the battery
and feel indignant that the News re-
porter should give the Galveston
company credit for what the Bren-
ham company did Some of the
company say that the News has
never seemed inclined to even do
them simple justice.
The Greenville Herald says: Those
who attack the homestead law make
an assault on the women of Texas.
Only for this law thousands upon
thousands of women and children
the wives of dissolute, drunken or
spendthrift husbands-would be
homeless and houseless. Thanks to
the law, a woman in this state can
hold her home against all the heart
less, remorseless shylocks and money
grabbers of the state 1t is well that
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