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BRENHAM WEEKLY BANNER VOLUME XIY. BRENHAM, WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1879. NUMBER 18; 1 ttOm i iifi fiibUihed Dally ed Weekly. KAXKIX A tKTIW, Proprietors. Larrest Circulation of any Paper published la this Senatorial District.

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The very last portion of the rebel army has surrendered. The Banker-Is indebted to Senator Maxey and Hon. John H. Reagan for congressional favors. The recent heavy rains were generaL In the vicinity of Austin much damage was done by water.

as Gov. Robets, classes the public free schools of Texas as a luxury with which the people can well dispense. The people of Texas, no doubt, favor the payment of the state debt and will hardly thank Governor Robertsfor his repudiation veto. The Austin Statesman stands fair on the record as being opposed to the public schools in the state and eulogises Gov.Rob-er&fbr vetoing the school appropriation. The widow Oliver having acquired great notoriety by her suit against old Simon Cameron has taken the field as a lectures.

Her first appearance was at Alexandria, Va. There are said to be acres of public land in the Indian Territory embraced no Railroad corporations are anxious to get hold of it and open it up to settlement It may be and doubtless is absolutely necessary that the state practice retrenchment, but would it not have been better to have reduced the school appropriations than to have wiped them out of existance. In 1869 the United States imported paper to the amount of $527,465 and exported none worth mentioning. The last yearly statistics gives worth of imports against of exported pa--pcrs. It would seem that Governor by vetoing the appropriation for the payment of the.

July and January interest, assumes theindividual responsibility of putting the state in bad xeputeso far as its credit is concerned. According to the circular of Dun, Barlow for the first quarter of 1879, just issued, there were 2,524 failures in the United States for that period, for the corresponding perion of 1878, and 2869 for, 1877. The Austin Statesman says the Wisconsin legislature has set up the whippingpost and all the knaves of Wisconsin will emigrate to Texas. It further says our Texas legislators are too tender hearted to establish the whipping post in order to expel vice from the state. The San Antonio Exptess says the jury that found the verdict in the Greer case at Hempstead should receive twenty-four hours notice to quit the state.

The Exptess argues that Greer was either guilty of murder and should have been hung, or he was not guilty and should have been acquitted. SB) The beauties of an inflated currency or an abundance of jjaper money is illustrated by the condition of Buenos Ayrcs. In that country an ordinary clerk is paid $75,000 a month while a mechanic can casly earn or $20,000 a month. Tke wages are paid in paper money, however, and it takes three dollars of it to buy a loaf of bread and fifteen dollars to buy a. yard of cloth.

Money is very plenty but it takes near about a bar'l of it to buy anything. The Bell Palish. The bell-punch bill passed by the legislature of Texas goes into effect the 1st of October. It requires payment in advance of $250 per annum occupation tax and a bond of $5000 with good security to insure compliance with the Jaw and the keeping of an orderly house. The tax is two cents a drink on wine and whiskey and half a cent on malt liquors.

The law applies to all dealers in spirituous, vinous and malt liquors in quantities less than a quart Nothing more is to be. paid by tne dealer until the tariff on drinks exceeds the annual $250 tax. One third of the net amount realized goes to the county. Incorporated towns and cities are allowed to collect in the same way one-fourth of a cent on alcoholic drinks and one-eighth of a cent per drink on malt liquors. Severe penalties arc affixed for violations of this law" The Keepers of large barrooms approve of the law as it will do away completely with the credit system.

A man who wants a drink will have to pool his cash on the grocery keeper's counter. The bell has to tintin-nabulate every time a drink "goes home." There is no avoiding this under penalty, and the necessity of the bell-ringing also necessiates the doing away with the slate. The probability is that a large number of the smaller barrooms will be compelled to shut up shop, but whether there will be any diminution in the quantity of liquor drank or any increase in the state revenue remains to be seen. Business has been remarkably brist with track and bridge gangs'on the various railroads in Texas for the past few days. There is not a rail road in the state but what has been more or less damaged, and on nearly all of them, travel was entirely suspended for a day or two last week.

The Austin Statesman says the African race is doomed. In a northern climate and in competition with the white man the negro is bound to the wall. The extinction'of the race on American soil is only a question of time. The coming winter will extinguish many a negro in Kansas, if they stay there. The Missouri legislature has passed a bill compelling every citizen to vote in every election.

We look upon this as a capital law. The worthless never fail to vote it is the intelligent citizen who is chargable with apathy, and by his neglect to attend the polls, bad men are too frequently elected to responsible offices. The United States marshal for this district, Stilwell Russell, is now in Washington. Report says he is there to defend himself against an effort to remove him from the marshal's office or to get the appointment of United States district attorneyship. The Austin Statesman says the marshal's office is hardly worth having anyhow.

aa 1 The LaGrange Re cot favors the meting out of even handed justice to all criminals. It says we must let the men whq violate the law be made to understand that the punishment shall be severe and prompt All we have to do is to punish them prompt, and in proportion to their crime, and they will soon hunt another country." The San Antonio Exptess has received a lerter from Al-Ieyton, Colorado county as follows: A number of public meetings have been held over the county by the colored people to consider the feasibility of their exodus to Kansas, where they can shuffle their jaybird heels and sport with barbaric delight on those frozen hills and desert plains. The Rockdale Mcsscngct regards the sale of the Santa Fe railway to the syndicate as a very fortunate thing for the people interested in its construction. It says "the road can be completed to Brenham in time to move the growing crop. We may expect its advent into Milam county some time next year.

Its coming will be of great ben-fit." ODSSCHOOLS- The Banker learns that Gov. Roberts has vetoed the school appropriation, and as there was considerable opposition to it in some quarters, a two third, majority to pass the bill over the governor's head could not be had. At this writing we are in the dark as to what the Iegis-ture has done. 'Gov. Robert's veto of the school appropriation wipes out the public schools of the state after the 1st of September next Whatever the causes that have inducted the governor to pursue this course, we feel warranted in saying that it will meet the approbation of but few of the people, considered as a mass.

Taxes will have to be paid as usual, the stoppage of the school fund will not stop taxation by a single farthing, the same amount of taxes will be collected bnt applied to other purposes than maintaining schools. The public free schools of Brenham will, in common with the district schools, be deprived of the benefit of the state fund and it will be incumbent upon our citizens to raise the money to maintain them, either by taxation or contribution. The experience of Brenham with her graded schools during the past four or five years has demonstrated to the most skeptical that they are of vast benefit to the city. They have drawn here a great many very worthy citizens, whose sole inducement in coming was the education of their children. As a general rule a man who educates his children is a good citizen.

By the influx of this of people to Brenham the value of property has been enhanced, many new and some elegant buildings have been put up, employment has been given to mechanics and laborers and trade to store-keepers. The reputation of Brenham as a live, enrtep rising and growing young city has been heralded abroad and her example has been pointed out as worthy of emulation. Brenham, Houston, San Antonio and-New Braunfel have all maintained public free schools on the graded system, and these cities have established a reputation for thrift and progressioncss, not exceeded by any towns in Texas or out of it for that matter. As the case now stands our citizens will be brought face to face with the question, shall the public schools be maintained, or will we make a retrograde movement and abandon them? In the light of our past experience, we think there can be but one answer, and that is, maintain them at all hazards. When we get more definite and fuller information concerning the veto we shall have something more to say on this very vital and important subject Friday's Galveston News came to hand on Saturday.

From it we learn that the recent rain was general, extending west to San Antonio and damaging the Sunset track in places. At Clarksville, in Red River county, and at Palestine and Crockett it was the same rain and flood. At Houston there was a flood in White Oak bayou. On Thursday evening the water rose rapidly tearing away barges and dredges at the wharf, and throwing the Galveston railroad bridge out of gear. The Central bridge over White Oak bayou fell -with a crash.

The warehouses on the bayou were submerged. It is said all the bridges except the long bridge were wfoshed away. a It appears that northern Texas is to be the Mecca towards which a portion of the emigrating negroes are to turn their faces. A number of Boston philanthropists or negropholists propose establishing a negro paradise on the alternate sections of land given by the state to the Dallas and Wichita railroad. It is said to be the purpose of these Boston men to buy the state lands along the line or if settled by white people to buy them out and start a New Africa.

The plan is practicable and the climate of northern Texas is much better adapt-ted to the colored brother that of Kansas or Nebraska, THE EXTRA SESSION. It is supposed that an extra session of the legislature will be called at an carl day, probably by the 1st of June next. The appropriation bill- having failed to pass no money can be paid out of the treasury without an ap propriation thereof. Appropriations were made for paying the interest on the state debt due July 1st, but the governor for reasons best known to himself vetoed this and the school appropriation. Without an extra, session and an appropriation the state; will be in arrears for interest The members of the legislature will have time to go home and consult with their consti-uents and when they reassemble will probably be in a better position to act in accordance with their wishes.

If we are not much mistaken the school appropriation will be almost universally 'demanded. The people have had public free schools for some years and have in a manner become wedded to them; they have come to look on them as a part and parcel of the government and can not well do without them. The advantages of a well regulated public school system over the illy supported, and too frequently wholly inefficient, private schools are palpable and well known. As between stopping the schools and a failure to pay the interest on the public debt, it would be far better that default be made in the payment of the interest. The holders of the State bonds might perhaps be put to a very slight inconvenience, but they could put up with it without suffering materially.

The State is rich in resources, and abundantly able to pay her debts, principal and interest; if not immediately, in the future. The bond holders are in a position to wait The children of the state grow in age and stature day by day, Every day brings each child nearer to manhood and womanhood, time waits not, and every day's schooling lost is forever gone. Children who are deprived of schooling now can never make up for it, as they grow into men and women and begin the battle of life they will have no time to devote to schooling. Money saved by closing schools may and will probably be thrice spent in the prosecution of criminals in the courts and the maintainance of prisoners 'in jails. Upon the re-assembling of the legislature the school appropia-tiou should be re-enacted and the defects in the present system of district schools should be remedied so as to free them of some if not all of the objectionable features.

1 01 Gov. Roberts was nominated, run and elected as the "dark horse." The Banner never had much faith in dark horses and before the meeting of the state convention so stated. Governor Roberts by his vetoes of the appropriation bills for the public schools, and payment of interest on the public debt has weakened any confidence that he may have heretofore inspired. We are in favor of open daylight candidates; so that their good and bad points may be seen. The financial affairs of the state seem to-be in a sad pickle.

Year by year the discrepancy between the receipts and expenditures has been growing grca-te'r. The plain truth is the revenue is not sufficient to pay the expenses and the legislature has not had the backbone to set about an amendment to the constitution so that the evil may be remedied. It is only a qucs-of time. Sooner or later the revenue of the state must be made equal to the expenditures. After an eighty-one day's session the legislature closed its labors on Thursday last Much work has been done and much left undone.

The Austin papers speak very highly of the members of the legislature for their sobriety and devotion to' business, saying they leave Austin attended with the kindest feelings of its people with whom they have associated for the past threq months, TAXATION Year after year for few years, the revenue state has fallen short penditnrcs. At the. new constitution 1 such was the case it is the case, now. There has an universal cry lor retrenchment, but experience has proven that retrenchment does not retrench. At the cxpiratioTfof an eighty-one day's session of the legislature the state finds itself as far if not further from the goal of retrenchment tlan it was at the beginning of the session.

The reduction of the salaries of a few ttate officers, who were not excessively paid in the first instance, is far from accomplishing the object The laborer is worthy of his hire and to have competent and efficient officers the state should pay good salaries. The experience of the past few years proves, we think, conclusively that the revenues of the state are insufficient to meet its requirements. We can not have a government without expense, neither does sound business principles justify the state going into debt A state government is purely a business matter, the same as any individual business venture, but on a more extensive scale. If the receipts of a business do not pay its expenses, it is evidently in a failing condition and steps must be taken to remedy the evil. The state now finds itself unable to meet its liabilities from its current receipts.

The legislature in order to keep faith with the pledge of retrenchment was afraid to take steps for an increase of direc? taxes, but in order to increase the revenue resorts to a system, of bell punches, tax on railroads, drummers, etc, etc Anything to avoid the necessity of direct taxation. It must be conceded that a low rate of taxation is a very desirable state of affairs, but where a people, like an individual, get into debt they must expect to suffer inconvience. It can not be- otherwise. The people as a mass have the taxes to pay and whether the revenue is derived by direct or indirect taxes is a matter of but little difference in the long run. Suppose, by way of illustration, that the direct taxation on real estate, the larger portion of which is lands devoted to agriculture, was reduced one-half, the necessity for money would still exist, and in order to raise the amount the occupation tax or license would neccsarily have to be increased in order to meet the deficiency caused by the reduction of taxes on real estate.

Those paying the increased license oroccupationtax would be compelled to charge more for their goods, professional services or labor, so at last the consumers ofgoods and those requiring the services or labor of the payers of license or occupation taxes would at last have to do the paying. Taxation and death are equally certain, neither can be avoided. Taxation to be just should be equal, all should bear the burden. To make taxation equal is a problem that seems to give the law makers a world of trouble; the exclusive taxation of one class at the expense of another does not accomplish the object As we have already stated the consumers, in the long run have all the taxes to pay and to that extent every who labors, no difference in what capacity, for his own support and that of his family, is a tax payer, and to the extent of his earnings contributes his quota of the expenses of the government The hoodlum and loafer who lives at the expense of others is about the only one who is in reality entirely from taxation, although he votes regularly every time, and perhaps several times, at every election. A poll tax belore voting would fit the hoodlums case exactly, and he has no money of his own the good man who wants his vote would of necessity be forced to pay for it.

ssfc There was three deaths in Bastrop during the past ten days. So many deaths in so short a time is a very vmpual occiirapce. at that toyn, nsnsnsnsnsnsnnsnsnsnsnnTf JJ NEWS. ry company is nized is Shcr- Evcryboc Dallas where chan tails are sold two fd A Kansas CityS woman is in Denison looking round with a view to opening a barber shop. Five divorceswr'erc granted by the district court at Bastrop last week.

There were also six felony convictions. They have began going; last week two wagon loads of "niggers" passed through Denison bound for Kansas. LaGrange now boasts of an organized band of thieves. A stable was broken open and two fine horses stolen. In Denison on Monday last the school tax question was voted on.

Out of 272 votes polled, but 2 were against the tax. The man Goodnight.recent-ly killed at Palestine was well bu unfavorably known in Brazos county, where he was a lawless character. It is estimated that not less than 50,000 cattle have passed over the trail at Taylorsville on the way north during the past thirty days. J. H.

Hazelwood a farmer of Dallas county, went out to his barn and hanged himself. Bad health and scarcity of money the A San Saba county par son tells of a hog in his neigh borhood that is waist-high to a good-sized man. The hog is still growing. Charles H. Lee, another of the Fort Worth and Fori Yuma stage robbers, was captured by a United State deputy marshal near Fort Worth.

He will be taken to Austin. The proposed stock show at Bastrop on the 23d inst, was a total failure 'on account of the heavy rains. If another day is appointed due notice will be given. Sunday fishing is not always lucky. A party started out from Dallas last Sunday morning on a fishing frolic.

The team ran away, and one man was badly hurt. The body of James Ed--wards was found drowned in little river, near Bryant station, Milam county. Edwards was deranged and had been missing about two weeks. A daily mail hack is now run from Waco to Comanche. It only takes twenty hours to majce the trip and all Comanche is happy.

In the sweet by and by they will have a railroad. A negro witness in a case in one of the Waco courts asked a reporter not to put his name in the paper, giving as a roason; "I dosn't want to be mixt up wid dese white folks at all." Julius Toettel, now in jail at Sherman, charged with the murder of Brenner at Denison, takes his fate very hard, and says he is not the man who killed Brenner. The evidence against him is very direct Among the many and varied attractions of Dallas, the Sherman Registet enumerates the following milk lemonade, mad dogs, six-year-old whiskey, girls in breeches, bock beer and a greenback mayor. With all these attractions Dallas should be happy, but she isn't. Hous.

Holt, the Denton connty murderer, is credited with having remarked "That if the people of Pilot Point were not careful how they swore in his case, they would not live to eat roasting ears." This coming to the e-irs of the citizens they are highly indignant About a month ago, says the Statesman, four Englishmen, just from the "old country," arrived in Austin and have been looking around with a view to embarking in the stockraising business. They made a general survey of the situation and being unable to find any one who was making money declined to invest. 'BBBBBBBBB' BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBI.A WcnisoHB UstsssV tO Hcock- ir two-bits. On Thursday night the 22d inst. Chas.

A. Batts, aged 17, while on guard duty at the jail in Bastrop, was struck and instantly killed by lightning. Batts was standing before the fire drying his clothes. Johnnie C. Johnson, a boy now in the Bastrop jail under sentence to the penitentiary, writes a letter to the Advettiset in which he warns all boys against bad company.

Bad company got him into jail. Neal Cain, who was assassinated and killed at Taylorsville, it is said, told his wife that he recognized the part- who did the shooting, but the name was not to be made public by her until after the arrest Jake Summerville, who some two years ago shot and killed a man in Hcarue. was recently, on a change of venue, tried at Cameron, found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to ninety-nine years in the penitontiary. Print Olive, well known in Williamson and Milam counties, who was implicated in hanging and burning two men in Nebraska some time ago. has recently been tried in that state and sentenced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.

At a recent meeting of the commissioners court of Grayson county it was determined to send all county convicts to the poor farm and make them work during their time of sentence. They will be guarded and at night safely housed in a caboose made expressly for their accommodation. The people on the Colorado river about 15 miles above Austin have all turned out into the woods digging Seneca or snake root It grows wild, but its existence was unknown till discovered by a botanist recently; It is worth 40 or 50 cents a pound and is extensively used in medicine. All kinds of cattle seem to be in unusualdemand at present Several buyers are now in this city after yearlings and two year olds, while a Kansas City man wants 3000 head of beeves from three years' up. Cattle buyers are beginning to make San Antonio their headquarters.

San Antonio Exptess. In Austin men are arrested and fined for yelling on the streets, in saloons and other business houses. To all of this the Statesman assents, but it complains that negro preachers are allowed to rival on overgrown and uncontrollable jackass in making hideous and outrageous noises, while ostensibly engaged in preaching the gospel; it wants 'em stopped apparently forgetting that the average negro is of a religious turn of mind and values his preacher entirely by the strength of his lungs. On Monday night last Neal Cain was assassinated at home in Taylorsville, The murderers shot Cain through the window after he had retired. He died on Tuesday morning.

Cain furnished information which lead to the arrest of two men and the killing of a third at Houston, and the breaking up of the gang that robbed the Circleville store, old man Jordon near Austin and Major Lourain's bank in that city. From recent occur-ances it seems to be a dangerous thing to meddle with thieves, robbers and murderers. Hans Mickle and Calamity Jim are at Eagle Pass. Hans is a correspondent of the San Antonio Exptess and Calamity is a mule that is rode by Hans on his travels. Eagle Pass is discribed as a lively town of about 1000 inhabitants one half Mexicans.

Durimrlfis stav in town a Mexican crazy from jealousy entered his house and with a razor murdered his wife, cut a young woman in the arm and nearly murdered a man with an axe. He then escaped to Mexico. Cleave Fast to thy Two darkies were vaunting their courage. "I isn't 'feard nothin', I isn't," said one. Den," Sam, I reckon you isn't feared to loan me a dollar?" "No, Julus, I isn' 'feared to loan you a dollah, but I does hate to part wid an oje fren' forebber." Damage by tho Rain A gentleman from Chappell Hill informs the Banner that recent heavy rain done much damage in that neighborhood.

Fences on low lands and in the creek bottoms were washed away and crops in such places completely ruined by being washed out or covered up. The creeks were higher than had been known in the last forty years. A man who was starting a brick yard cast of town on New Year's creek had all his wheelbarrows and brick making tools drowned and carried off to towards the Gulf of Mexico. The man went into the water to save some of his "tricks" and was only rescued with difficulty, some men having to make a raft to ferry him ashore. When the tram from Hempstead crossed the Brazos on Friday morning it was bank full and rising rapidly; the probability is much damage has been done along that stream.

Travel on the main line is entirely suspended and the roadj both above and below Hempstead is badly damaged. The prairie between Hempstead and Houston is said to have been one vast expanse of water; an immense inland sea, so to speak. It may bea day or two before travel is resumed, and in the meantime, we are without mails from the outside world. This is very inconvenient, but what can't be cured must be endured. The fine stone Jabutment on the west side of the railroad bridge at Woodward's creek is completely undermined and the walls are said to be badly cracked, so much so as to render the bridge unsafe.

The Galveston News speaking of the adjournment of the legislature says while it is to be credited withsome felicitous acts of omission, as well as commission, the sum of the history of the late session, it is feared, will be found to contain more of the elements of failure thin of success. Especially does the legislature appear to have failed to do justice on the financial requirements. How to Males a Tailless Kite- As the kite season is now at its height boys will be interested to know that a man in Rochester has succeeded in making a kite which dispenses with that troublesome adjustment, a tail. It is made after a Holland pattern, and the Rochester Express thustells how to copy it: "The shape of this kite is what the boys call diamond. The cross-bar, which in tail kites of the diamond pattern is straight, should be made of hickory and bowed by connecting the ends with a taut st'ing.

It should then be placed at right angles with the par-pendicular stick and fastened securely, and bend of the bow being backward from the intersection of the sticks. Run a string around over the end of each stick and cover the frame with light tissue paper. For a four-foot kite the perpenduc-ular stick should extend three feet below the point of intersection with the bow'and one foot above it The bow should be one and one-half feet long on each side of the point of intersection, with the perpendicular stick. The belly cord should be united at the point of intersection, and at the same distance down the perpendicular stick as the arms of the bow extend on each side of the perpendicular stick. The band is attached at only two points, the point of intersection and at the point below, in the four-foot kite mentioned, one and one-half feet below the point of intersection.

Tie these two strings together and attach the captive cord, balancing it so that the captive cord shall be exactfy opposite the point of intersection, or at right angles with the 'perpendicular stick frame. The face of the kite is then convex and the back, of concave. If you don't first succeed, trv again. It is fun for all sorts of boys. This form of kite is sometimes very eccentric and as game as a wily fish." In the opinion of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle the trouble with the New England cotton mills is not so much "overproduction as dishonest management and expensive running." Farmers 'in the eastern part of the Pennsylvania find it very prpfitable to raise their own trout, and have large quantities to spare for market.

The trout pond on a farm is becoming as. common as an orchard. IF. Ifsklcs-TtlreMuer, And ini -tfrrrrcwrr. Ami fonrr th'-tom- on land iftrt in; rrrahfoy sainmer' I'erstnM cDIBrrs What a tofta this would If urf-t lodger v.

Aid nitNtrsra -tronfrr. t- If Fir vnr? Walil blde-tr (jlte wunlt! Btti. Irenes were-ontfccr To all Uie other- Wbat an Arcxdla this would be! WereGreed abolhhed -And Gain demolished. i Were Slavery rbalnea ftwl Freedom ftref rail earth's troubles Collapsed Irss-babM-- What an llrrtunr rhls tfonkl'Se! 1 1 Bftrrliss. The oat crop' in1 Mississippi is said to be excellent.

Straw hat making; is one of the flourishing industries of Nc wark, N. J. The first shipment of canned" meats and vegetables from this country to India was, made a few days ago. A Bowling Green maa ship' ped the past month 300,000 eggs A rope-walker has been walking across the Mississippi river at Natchez. An Arkansas paper remarks that resumption has not injured the price of coon Geneva, Switzland, is to hold a grand exhibition of -watches in 1S80.

General W. S. Hancock Is the wealthiest "officer in the United States army. The Burlington Hawkeye says this country is just full' of climate. Mexico will reduce its army-next month so as to save annually.

Latest novelty in hats, Ventilators, at Harrison's Two hundred and sixty laws were passed during the session ol the Tennessee legislature. The general assembly of the Southern church will meet in Louisville, May 15th. One oyster vender in Char-, lotte North Carolina has; sold' 565 gallons of oysters the season began last fall. The Chilhowee mountains, southeast of Knoxville, were covered with snow the first and second of April. Colonel J.

B. Kellebrew, commissioner of Tennessee, says that the prospects for a large wheat crop were never better. A lady temperance advocate is lecturing upon the subject, "Why do men drink?" In nine cases out of ten it is because they are asked. "Rochester Democrat. A gentlemen was threatening" to beat a dog which barked intolerably.

"Why," exclaimed an Irishman, "would you beat a poor dumb animal for spakin' out?" A railroad from Jocona to Za-mera, Michochoacan, Mexico, is almost completed. This improvement is due to the exertions of a Catholic priest, Father Plancarto. Ex-senator and ex-secretary Sawyer, who was tried a year or so ago for official misconduct and passed some time in jail, is now a 1,200 clerk in the coast survey bureau. Mr. and Mrs.

W. E. Gladstone were lately in a London police court to assist in the prosecu-, tion of a deaf and dumb man for obtaining charitable assistance on fraudulent representa tions. Biennial session of state legislatures continue to growiii favor. In the New York, assembly on Tuesday last the constitutional amendmeet in favor'of such sessions was debated, and it was ordered to a third reading by a large vote.

A correspondent calls Mr. Maxey of Texas the beaver of the Senate in work. "His West Point training, coupled with the methodical habits formed by years of a large law practice and great personal industry, enable him to get through with an amount of work that would kill most1 men. He is not one of the talk-' erswho habitually are on their' feet His services are tct'be best judged by the nuteberTpP" bills he has succededin getting-' through benefitingXcxas rather1" than the numberof Iris speetbV-cs in the Record." jEr The SDrinp- elections in TJpw' Jersey were full of political sig- mncance. or instance in Jersey City, the republican gains were made in -all the local government boards Nobody can.

disputcthat this is an of the comitiffrepublidin tidal ivavcy which is to sweep the-confederate1 congress out of Washington. Aml-'therj, again, in RahwayiardeavScrai'is elected mayor over the-present republican incumbent, and council, lasfyear republican, is nowatiei This also indicates, but, an the whole, it isn't worth while to draw conclusions. In some localities the indications don't quite, general- theory. hicago Jimts 4 is. A li r.

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