Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-02-05

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manufacture
ATARDI GRAs is close at hand ant
Galveston will hold high carnival
Her doors Will be thrown open Il
all the world, and every visitor vii
be q welcome guest q
FORAKER says that the election O
Hill to the Senate does not side
track him for the nomination to the
presidency. Foraker ought to know
a side-track when he sees it.
TIE possibility of an extra session
of congress is the one circumstance
that impends threateningly above
the business interests of the coun
try, and retards business activity.
SENATOR INGALLS, announces that
he will devote his time in the future
to literary pursuits. He could write
an interesting work on the power Of
the Farmers Alliance of the West.
THEY are going to have naval
drill shortly down in the Gulf of
Mexico, which is a comparatively
small body of water in which our
navy viii not wander off and get
lost
A RACE war is threatened near
Birmingham. Ala, FIVE negroes were
killed there and several fatally
wounded at Carbon Hill mines last
Friday. The trouble is between the
employment of white and black
miners. "a
A WRITER in the Liverpool Mer-
curry asserts that the worst case OF
smallpox can be cured in three days
by the use of cream of tartar. An
ounce dissolved in pint of water,
to be drank at intervals when cold.
This is pronounced to be a never
failing remedy.
Bur little progress is being made
with the Free Coinage bill in the
House Committee on Coinage. Ac-
cording to present indications a
majority of the committee is op-
posed to free silver coinage, and the
bill cannot be reported favorably in
its present shape.
THE BANNER acknowledges the re-
ceipt of piece of new music, pub
ishAd by Thos. Goggan Bros, Gal
weston, entitled the "White Squad
room" 1t is grand march COM
posed by Mrs. Robert Thompson,
and dedicated to the officers of the
White Squadron that appeared in
the Galveston harbor during the
. deep water jubilee last February.
THE colored man who was install
ed as a member of the Federal grand
jury at Owensboro, Ky, took his
seat on Friday in the dining room
of the Howard house at Fordsv1lle.
The white guests were very indig-
nant. and with one accord arose and
left the dining hall Several of the
regular boarders also declared their
intention to quit the hotel forever.
A HANDSOME monument to the con
federate dead of the city of Pensa-
cola, Fla, is nearing completion in
the hands OF Mr.. J. T. Manning, of
Washington city, and will be erected
on the commanding site chosen for
it on Palnfox Hill, Pensacola. The
design is simple in character, but
massive and well-pToportioned. The
fine gray granite used in its con-
struction has been quarried on the
historic battle felds around Rich
mond, Va. The monument will have
an inscription on each of its four
sides; one, general tribute TO the
heroism of the men Of Pensacola and
Escambria county whose lives were
given to what they considered their
countrys cause: one will be devoted
to the memory OF Jefferson Davis
the first testimonial OF the kind in
his honor; another will be tribute
to the public services OF Stephen A.
Mallory, United States Senator for !
Florida before tie war. secretary for !
the confederate states navy and a.
citizen Of Pensacola. It is intended I
that these inscriptions snail he the
expressions of southern
sentiment as gathered from united
offered by the ladies of
the south generally, j