Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-12-17

j. G, RANKIN, Proprietor.
Thursday, December 18th 1891.
Snow is from twelve to fifteen
feet deep in Manitoba.
The population of Jerusalem has
increased since 1880 from $4,000 to
$4,000.
DISGUISE it as you may, the tariff is a
tax that comes out of the consumer
pocket.
The Chinese national debt is one of
the smallest, amounting to only $685.
100000.
The name of the man who threw
the bomb into Russell Sages Office
is still unknown.
In the Solomon islands the market
quotation on good quality" wife
is 10000 cocoanuts.
GEAUGA county is the only county
in Ohio in which there is no place
where Intoxicating liquors is sold as
beverage.
The Comptroller has issued call
to National banks for a report of
their conditional the close OF
business Dec,, 2.
RoAvING bands of Indians in Mon
tana are creating considerable alarm,
as it is believed they are bent on MUIR
der and plumber.
SIX citizens of Carroll county,
Kansas, lately met with each other
in the Carroll county bank. Their
ages aggregated SIS years.
IT is said that Crisp will appoint
Mills chairman of the ways and
means committee and he will be
named asone of the committee on
rules.
MAX ADAMS, a young man well
known in Atlanta, Ga, society, has
received a commission from the
khedive as captain in the Egyptian
cavalry.
A YOUNG soldier at Ell Pase, Tex,
played baseball so well with local
club that his admirers bought mis-
release from the army and engaged
him as a star.
MARTIN D. LopPEY, wife murderer,
paid the penalty of his crime on the
electric chair at Sing Sing, N. Y,
Monday. A current of 1856 volts
were used, the same as at the July
execution, and current of that
voltage was continued from fifty to1
sixty seconds.
AT Memphis Wednesday detec-
tives arrested Dalton Hall, alias
Stokes, alias Boots, wanted in Boon
vile, Tenn, for arson. Hall CLAIMS
that he has killed ninety-nifle men
in recent years, most of them in Ken
lucky. He was visiting his wife
when caught.
The former president and the
cashier of Philadelphia bank were
sentenced, lately, to ten years in
state prison for meddling with the
funds. 1t is not always true that
there is one law for the rich and an
other for the poor, as some people
are fond of saying.
Col. GRESHAM, of Galveston,
thinks that if Mills desires it, at the
extra session of the legislature he
can be elected to the senate on the
first ballot. Certainly he could but
desire a well earned promotion, and
besides, it will furnish surcease to
his sorrow over the defeat of the
speakership.
A BOLD citizen has written a book
with the purpose of doing away with
the spoils system in American poll
tics. The purpose is praiseworthy,
but the most that can be done is in
checking abuses, and it is to be
hoped that civil service reform will
be pressed as far as practicable. The
first step is in every man dedicating
himself to perfection
The discussions among the Irish
leaders is very unfortunate. He
must be bitter enemy to Ireland
who does not regret them. The first
need is that the truth of the situation
be revealed. What are Ireland's
wrongs ? Or, what are the evils?
What the cause or causes? What
the remedy? As long as the Irish
themselves cannot agree upon an
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