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RENHAM WEEKL ANNER -r i I' VOIiTOfflBf XIY. BKENIIAM, WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1879. NUMBER 4-0 CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE TEE GREAT MalAeialAutidote. It rated mo of China and Frrer." can. r.

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Mlca- "ItaaTedmyltfe." ILW. no). Ken Tort Car. "It If a arrpcrlor medlclrie. Sr.Vo.o.

Hnhnsrd, iTr" TM It hat effected wonderful carea." CKasodl McNeil. HactnexvUe, in. "It Is a Success." J.aOatf, Kflnon, Cirau. oaiceaT.cuaa,iii. 'KnoTTfaatojm EnDMiat "It Sa a Tamable remedy." Isoa XuU, Xaafias.

"It tare rffmwflnU Belief Vj'm. a. Feral, St. JoserA Ma, ItltTcrTrcllablc." W. Son.

Havana, CO. "It has saved hundreds." It proved a "Soeeeaa." X. 1. UeaXro, Qreearnia, Texas. "It la an rrrrlscnt Xoclc- no.

8. Moan. St Loota. IU effocta are tronderfol." Oea 8. WritM, It oorea In ereTT i J.

HcCacSex. HasavBJft in. It ia the beat In uae." as roller, Keokuk, Zona. It takes the lead." Paul a.Sttah, Calm, m. "It iatho best known." i E.

Somes. Teue Haute, Ind. 'It eared me when Doctors failed." z. s. Kr-tcomn.

Manctwsler. N. H. It ffta rmnrttfihlo Jsar.CMIrra, "It Is Infallible." W.E.8m!ta,Bartfarl,0iiaa. It la aaf and speedy." B.

noffkamp. St Loots "Its merit reeommend It." J.E.Pontwt.M.P.IMctaale.Teaa. J. C. RICHARDSON, Proprietor.

GJUiJUtAX AQESTS RICHARDSON Wholesale Druzglstt, St. Louis. retrlfoee Is Sold brail IJtokIs. FALL GOODS 1- EaJaFMNKEE, Isowfrccoring a full -stock of, DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS. BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS, ETC.

A Tall Stock cf Choice GROCERIES, Queensware, Glassware, Lamps, Tobacco, Cigars. The public are respectfully invited to ca and examine my stock before purchasing elsewhere. Satisfaction as to quality oi guuus auu puces guoranieco. WOl pay the highest price for COTTON and all kinds of country produce. dclSdly Ji.

I. FRANKEI- Ship Tour Cotton Where you can get the highest prices, with least expense and quick returns. I hac practically demonstrated that Houston is such a Market As any cf the numerous shippers who hat kindly patronized roe last season can testify. Your shipments to me will not disappoint you. Wst D.

CLEVELAND, Wholesale Grocer and Cotton Factor. WIOLKiLI GROCERY DEPARTMENT Is now amply stocked with fresh and cheap goods bought for cash. I will compete with any House Tcas and offer some advantages besides, tha one else can. What is the use of gomef1ri-t to purchase Groceries when half of our goods ha to pass through Houston from first hands, then back again Wm. D.

CLEVELAND, Wholesale Grocer and Cotton Factor. July 17, E. L. SALLEY, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, St Charles Street. BRENHAM, TEXAS Hiring bought out A.

Potter's stock of groceries, I desire to inform my fnends that I will continue the business at bis old Itand, and will keep on hand, at all times, a full stock of fresh groceries and family supplies, which will be sold at reasonable prices. All goods purchased of me will be delivered, FREE OF CHARGE, to any point within the corporation. Giie me a trial. E.1 November 27, '7S. dtf F.

A. ENGELKE, GENERAL, Insurance Agent, BRENIIAM, TEXAS. rouaca or 2nickice xssvttj oy Buildings, Stocks of General Merchandise, Dwelling and Farm property in Brenham and vicinity, at lowest possible rates in the LEADING COMPANIES OK 'America Europe rirnrOfnttbeTRAYEt.rRS'TNSCRANCE AY fit lllrtfrtrrt fh AnTrmmi.tnT. dilus an aeddent In Brenham, Pol icies against accidents k-urt upon ibe life of 50 pernwntn. ILLIAM ZEIbb, Ci'l1 IT Tt EEH, AND Main Street, Brenham, Texas.

DEALER in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Wiues, Liquors, Lager Beer, a.c Hot Bread, Fresh Cakts and Pies on hand al' Urn's jan I'uMIsIumI Ilmll antl "TcfeIj. IIANKIN i UEM.V, l'iprlrtur. Largest Circulation of any Paper pub-Hshajfrln this Senatorial District. Kate, of Sabarrlptlon: nallr. onr eOOO eeklv one copy one vear.

5 00 Jtates of Advertising: Transient and Lpgal advenWtmr nts inserted at SLCOptr square Tor first insertion, and J5 conu per square for each subsequent incr-tlou, Srarriflfre and Oblhiarv hotlrrft. evcecdinr. sjirht hair price. notices ora purrly bninc character. 10cnts a line each nsertton.

Dallas expects to have the letter carrier system early in October. a Tun first snow of the season fell on the 25th jnst. at Mount Louis, Quebec. A sliciit shock of an carth- (. quaj.c was at JfenlpljJs cn Thursday night.

The Galveston AVaw favors the re-opening of intercourse with New Orleans. Mrs. Loukdsbury, who killed her husband at Stratford, pleads guilty to murder. Heavy and destructive frosts occurred in New England on the morning of the 26th. Gen.

Maxey was serenaded by the Galveston Artillery company at Galveston on Saturday last. It is reported and partially confirmed that seven hunters have been killed in the panhandle country, Gov. Rodets has appointed Capt. J. H.

Dinkinsfish commissioner. It is an honorary posi tion and without profit. A man named Goodall, aged 84 -was set on by tramps at Great Barrington, and beaten nearly to death. A movement is now on foot for a general strike of the trades throughout the United States and British North America. Madam Walker, the colored lecturcss, is charged with stealing a horse and carriage from, a colored man in Waxahachie.

Under the new militia law organized companies having uniforms will not be required to purchase the regulation dress. Is every state in the union except the state of Blaine, the the liquor trafficc is licensed by law, so says the Houston Age. 1 as 1 Senator Bruce, chairman of the committee to investigate the freedmen's bank says when the report is made there will be startling revelations. The liquor dealers association of Houston have resolved, it is supposed on the advice of their attorney, to take the bell punches and fight the law. an old and well known New Orleans house with a branch in StLouis speculated in grain futures and failed for $10,000 or $15,000.

Under the apportionment of the school fund for the present year Washington county receives $9,222 against $15,504 last year. Brenham gets $2,319. The Houston Age saysspeak-iug cf the Sunday law and bell cnacments of the 16th legislature are infamous, puritanical and anti-democratic. Baltimore has just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the public schools in that city. The first public school was opened September 21, 1829, with about 100 pupils.

On the 24th inst 150 colored exodusters from Nashville arrived at St Louis cn route to Kansas. They claim to be emigrants able to pay their way and take up lands on reaching their destination. The validity of the Sunday law will be contested before the court of appeals at Tyler, as soon as the court meets, which will be the first Monday in October. Cases will be taken up from Galveston, Houston and Dallas. At Westcrvillc, there lives an obstinate liquor dealer.

Neither law nor persuasion would move him, so the prohibitionists put two kegs of powder under the house and blew it up, nearly killing the proprietor, his wife and babe. At Morgan City on the 25 th there were three new cases of fever, at Berwick City two new cases; no deaths at either place. At Memphis seven cases were reported, six deaths. Five cases are reported at President's island, live miles below Memphis. The Der.ison News says several parties from St.

Louis have just passed through Dcnison cn route for the newly discovered Sierra Mojada mines in Mexico. Dennis Kearney has been snubbed by Gen. Grant at San Francisco. On two occasions he sent his card up, but both times the general refused to see him. Texas is soon to have a circus.

Cooper, Bailey Co's. great London show will open atDenison on the 13th of October. They will make a tour of the state. Track laying is to be commenced immediately on the Texas and Pacific railroad; it is expected that the cats will be running to Wcatherford by December 1st. The New York walking match closed on Saturday night It is thought that the gate receipts will amount to $80,000.

Weston made 455 miles, Rowcll 530, Merritt 515 and Hazael 500. There is a splendid quarrel going on between the different patentees of the different bell punches; they have filed numerous injjnctions against one another, meanwhile the barkeepers are happy. The governor and the attorney general have concluded that the Santa Fe railroad is not entitled to its land certificates for the last section of the road as it is incomplete on account of the Brazos bridge being down. The illustrated edition of the Dcnison Hetald issued on the seventh anniversary of the founding of the city of Dcnison is a highly creditable paper. The public school building is very handsome edifice and the picture of it justly is a prominent feature in the paper.

President Hayes who is now making a tour in the west, was in Sedalia a few days ago. The Democrat of that city heads its local: "Hayes Holiday. Viewing the Vetoist" The president was entertained at the residence of Col, A. D. Jay-nes.

The Sedalia Dcmociat calls its brethren of the country press "rural roosters," and there's a fine lot of 'em big, little, old and young. The St. Louis papers calls the Democrat a rural rooster, but still he is a big and loud one and crows lustily for Tildcn. 1 a- The golden or fiftieth anni versary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Francis Adams was celebrated a few days ago. At the time of their geldcn weddings John Adams was 79 years old, John Quincy Adams was 80 and Charles Francis Adams is now 72. No more two-for-a-quarter in Dallas; fifteen cents for each and every "snort" and ten cents for ein beer. Bell punch is the cause of the advance. Every man in the state who takes a drink at a bar will be made to suffer in thctendercst spot his pocket for hearing the tarnal thing "strike." The two-cent postal card will soon be in general use.

It is a double-ender, having two stamps, one at each end. It is divided into two spaces, one for the question and the other for answer. One' stamp is cancelled at the office from which the card is originally sent, and the other at the return office. Col, Mosby, United States consul at Hong Kong, charges that his predecessors in office, Seward and Bailey, were defaulters; that the fact was known to the government and that Bailey was sent to cover up Seward's short comings. AH of these gentlemen are republicans and were in high standing in the party.

The following is the fever report for Friday: New Orleans, one death from vomito. Morgan City, twelve old and one new case; no death. Berwick City, twelve old and two new cases; no death. Memphis, six new cases in all; four deaths. At Oak Grove ten miles from Bailey station four cases are reported.

Tun Banner has received from the publishers, Geo. P. Putnam's Sons, 1 82 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. a very neat volume entitled "The fall of the Alamo, an historical drama in four acts, by Professor Francis Nona." The title fully explains the nature of the work.

It is of special inteiest to Texans. The price of the book is S1.25 James Quisinbury was shot and instantly killed at Palestine by C. C. Rogers, city marshal. Rogers had been an important state witness against Quisinbury in the Grayson murder case and Quisinbury had threatened to kill Dallas and Fort Worth arc just now engaged in a quarrel as to which is the best cotton market, each place claims that it is paying from a quarter to half a cent more than the other The papers of both places boast of receiving cotton that ought to go to the other.

The rooms occupied by Gen. Grant at the Palace hotel San Francisco, were furnished with California laurel, Carrara marble French wines, Irish linen, Artie landscapes, Holland gin, Persian coverlets, Turkish carpets, Japanese fans, and Kentucky whiskey. Grant'is a cosmopolitan sincehis circumnavigation of the world. A Sedalia boy about fifteen years old playing with a rope concluded to hang himself for fun and just to see how it would feel. He came very near making a success but was cut down just in time.

He said he had no idea of hanging himself for good but the sensations were decidedly pleasant; he began to sec things in the other world. Belton had a disastrous fire on the morning of the 28th inst. Between two and three o'clock in the morning a fire broke out in Dechard Mackinsons store destroying it and five other stores, two more were pujlcd down to prevent further loss. The total loss is estimated at about 1 00,000. The buildings were the newest and best in town.

Geo. McCormick, attorney it as his official opinion that jurors in mayor's recorders' and justice' courts are not entitled to pay under the new Code of Criminal proceed- ure. lie says it was the intention of the codifiers that jurors should be paid; but the legislature by amending the article fixing compensation evidently intended that they should not be paid Thus.is another big feather added to the cap of the sixteenth legislature. Somebody has been grumbling at the Comanche Cklcj and he retorts by saying if you want a political paper, we advise you to take one. If you want a religious, scientific or literary paper, subscribe for it.

The Chief is strictly a country paper.Jand says "if you.have not a sufficient desire'for the welfare of your county to take it you can let it alone." There is nothing like a paper being perfectly independent a good paper gives value received to its subscribers and is under no obligations to any who take it. About twenty-five years ago a very fine church was built in the then residence portion of the city of SILouis by the Unitarians the edifice was called the Church of the Messiah ancj. was used by the congregation until a few years ago when by the growth of the city the location of the church had become a business quarter and to-day the church building has been rcmodlcd and is doing duty as a temple of the muses; in other words it is a first-class theatre not an opera house. 1 i An accident on the Chicago and Alton railroad resulting in the fatal injury of three men occurred near Joliet by a passenger train running into a freight train. The freight train started with the understanding that it was to have four minntes of the passenger trains time, but for some reason or through the neglect of the dispatcher the passenger train followed the freight without waiting for the four minutes to expire; the result was a smash up costing the company and three men their lives.

The Beautiful Indian Territory serves the purpose of a Gretna Green to the lovesick and matrimonially inclined in northern Texas. A Collin county youth aged 20 rode into. Denison and sold his horse lor $8 and having found a willing widow of 30 he induced a minj ister of the gospel to go to the territory; a wagon was hired for half a dollar and the youth, the widow and the preacher drove over into the territory; the preacher then married them and they returned to Texas happy and poor, but the price of a marriage license had been sav OBABT. A few days ago the took occasionMir-say ovation tendered Gen. on his arrival -atJSa was not an outpourn pect for him as a zen and cx-prcsident ted States, and a- drt.

military chieftain, but that it was gotten up by the leaders of the republican party, as a party measure and for the purpose-nf working up public sympathy; for him arid making him appear to the masses as a great hero, as a man of transcendant ability and "huge prcponderosity," as a man whom the people should worship. It is expected by a continuance of the ovation to. daze the masses and make them believe that Grant is the only man in the United States fit to occupy the presidential chair. We fully endorse the following from the Sedalia, Demo-oat: "Unquestionably, Grant was no common soldier, but all these rejoicings over his arrival arc not the outgrowth of his military past. It is probable that no single thought of Shiloh, Vicks- burg, Cold Harbor, or the Wilderness mingled with the roar of the artillery or the mighty voice of the multitude which welcomed home this man, aptcr than any other American so far at learning the trade called king craft, and using its appliances.

It was not as the victor of Appomattox Courc House that he was taken by the hand by all California. It was not because he had walked step by step up that slippery ladder of success, the first round of which was a regiment and the last the presidency. It was not Grant the man, soldier, citizen, ruler, or Republican but it was Grant, the living, real, tangible embodiment of a centralized military despotism. We need not misinterpret the signs of the times. All the heavy capitalists of the country, all the corporations, all the aristocrats having no other pedigree but a suttlership during the war, and no other pride but the pride of the purse all the office holding class, and all the large cities want a master.

Grant's special advocates never fail to assert that the country needs a strong government. They clamor for a leader." The C. and M. Survey. Mr.

Walker, the chief engineer of the Central and Montgomery railroad, who has just finished the preliminary survey from Navasota to Brenham, says the route is eminently practicable the survey has been very carefully made, sufficiently so far a working line. Mr. Walker will make estimates of the cost of the proposed line and will send them to the gentlemen having the matter in charge here and to Mr. Fred Rice, the president of the road, who will submit a proposition to the committee. Mr.

Walker informed a Bannlr reporter that the company is very anxious to extend its road in this direction and that they mean business. He says the road will be extended from Montgomery to some point on the International and that it is a matter of vital importance to the company that it be extended west to Brenham and beyond as soon as practicable. Wc think our people may look for a favorable proposition from the company. A horseback reconnoissance be made by the engineer of the route from Washington via of Independence and upon his report it will be determined wheth er or not a preliminary survey be made. The following is the yellow fever report for Saturday: Morgan city seven old and three new cases; no deaths.

Berwick City, twelve old and one new case; no deaths. Ccntervillc, one case and one death. Bayou Boeuf, several cases and one death. Concordia, fever exhausting itself for want of ma-terail. All the sick doing well.

Memphis, four cases in all were reported to-day. At Oak Grove, Marshall county, there is one or two cases. On and after October 1st there will be no more five-cent glasses of beer in San Antonio. The liquor dealers association say the bell puncc will prevent the selling of any more beer at five cents, so the little glasses ill be set away to rest and schooners at ten cents each ill be substituted. It is more than likely that ten cent drinks will be raised to fifteen cents and thus will the bibulous be taxed fifty per cent, extra on beer and thirty-three and one-third per cent on the more condensed fluids.

It is always the smoke from the other man's cigar that is offensive to the young lady. There is one woman in Saratoga who dresses altogether in I lace Ex. That's too thin. it-ruiiiTm. i 1 STATE UBWS.

prisoners in market 1 foot to ctty of is to ennat nave IVtlll. and httcen beer punciics. V. 1 Corn is delivered at 'Fay' lorsvilic by the car load from Neosho, Kansas, at fifty centsja bushel. Watermelons sell in Brown-wood at two for a nickel while corn is selling at a cionar a bushel.

Thieves arc on the rampage in Bastrop two houses were burglarized one night week. The guns for the Navasota guards have been shipped. The company is a new one, T. D. Cobb, captain.

It is asserted that mesquit grass, which requires moisture, will yield seed in ten days after its appearance above the surface. Ye lokc on the San Antonio Herald publishes a stump speech on potatoes, soap and whitewash the three missionaries. Incendiaries tried to fire Runge Co's warehouse at Cuero. A timely discovery prevented a serious conflagra-gration. The Burnet Bulletin says there is not a single bushel of cotton seed for sale in the county.

Farmers will not sell atany price. Major Penn has done noble work in Georgetown; he has converted nearly every lawyer in the town. There has been 241 conversions in all. The Mexia Ledger intimates that an orderly saloon in its town will lose money If saloons can not be kept orderly they should be closed up. Waxahachie had a great excitement over an attempt to burn the town.

A man named Cohn was suspected, but an examination exculpated him. The San Antonio Herald says that a man named Fisher, and his wife are sick in the suburbs and that their nine children are absolutely starving. A few days ago a child was born on the south bound passenger train of the International railroad. The mother and child stopped atHearne. Mrs Lee of Travis county, was killed on Wednesday night by the running away of her team as she was returning from Penn's campmeeting at Georgetown.

Jo. London and Geo. Washington a pair of practical horse thieves were captured near Palestine. London has had much experience in his line of business. A negro boy about 20 years of age was shot and killed by an unknown party while standing in the door of his cabin, on Tom Hancock's place in county.

A negro was brought into Bastrop and jailed for stealing bacon from a smokehouse. Such cases will be very common before the next crop of cotton is made. The old mud roof buildings that have done service for years in San Antonio arc disappearing one by one and their places are being supplied by modern buildings. E. A.

Miller's residence at Navasota was totally consumed by fire on Monday morning. The Tablet says again the necessity of a hook and ladder company was made apparent. The Waco Examiner advises the planting of grape vines saying, an acre of grapes can be cultivated with as little labor as an acre of corn, and will yield from 15,000 to 20,000 pounds of grapes. A well-to-do colored man living near Navasota who owns a few acres of land, ten or dozen cows, a horse or two, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, is selling out lock, stock and barrel for the purpose of "exoding" to Kansas. The Dallas says, a gentleman living six miles from that city, across the river, claims that he has two acres of ground covered with gold-bearing quart, a specimcr.t of which brought to town and which will assay $500 to the ton.

A Gainesville paper says the whole of Texas is coming to that town and it is going to be the place. Dallas and the little towns of Shernnn and Dcnison will have to keep wideawake or Gainesville will swal low them before hcy know 11. A man named Limcbergcr attended campmeeting near Jefferson for eight day succession, J'ent crazy and was confined 111 jail at that place. 1 11 jail he became almost unman-aglc and with difficulty was prevented from killing some of the other prisoners. John By rd, a well known stock man of Fort Bend county, the other day went to Richmond with one oi lus herdsmen, the two drank considerable Richmond whiskey; about the middle of the afternoon they started home and on the wa quarrelled, liyrd made at the herdsman with a knife when the latter fired on lUrd shooting him through the bowels and fatally wounding him.

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rjtr Ijwsnn. at N'av- sota, walfcleatiing and fixing up an oldshot gun, supposed to be 1 unloaded. He pointed it at a small negro boy nine years old apd snapped it. The boy was instantly killed. The coroners jury returned a verdict in accord with the facts.

George Lacy T.as f-und guilty of murder in the second degree in the district court at Meridian and the penalty was assessed at 13 years. Lacy and his father, a baptist minister, were jointly indicted fjrthe murder of a young man named Swank, in April 1877. Marshall is having a beautiful muddle over the market house; the renter of a stall offered to pay his rent in scrip; the marshal was instructed by the mayor to dispossess the butcher. AH hands went to law -and the marshal and two or three policemen all succeeded in having one another arrested. The lawyers art: happy.

At Fort Worth, a drunken man named E. M. Butler at tempted to take liberties with a lady whom he met on the streets; she escaped from him and was joined by two other ladies armed with clubs; they found Butler and beat him so badly that he spent more than a week in bed, lecoveri.ig from his bruises and repenting of his indiscretion. Colorado Citizen: The grand jury indicted two "young bloods" for disturbing religious worship. The son of the foreman of the grand jury is said to have been the head center in the frolic, but was not indicted.

The "expense of the district court at the last term amounted to $1149,95. New buildings arc continually going up. Cotton receipts have fallen off. John W. Byrd, who was recently shot by a herdsman named Williford in Fort Bend county, is dead and was burried at Houston on Saturday.

Byrd made a dying statement charging Frank Williford with shoot ing him. He says he was not drunk at the time and had had no quarrel with Frank; he had 'truck a younger brother of Frank's with a small quirt. An outrage that would be discreditable to savages was committed near Colepian a few days ago. A traveUing party of -four of the demi-monde were camped a mile from town; a party of men went to their tent ransacked their trunks, scattered their clothing and broke up their furniture and fired hundreds of shots into their tent Respectable people arc highly indignant. The Columbus Citizen learns that on the retirement of the jury in the Hunt case, they voted unanimously that the accused was guilty as charged, but in assessing the punishment, four of them were unwilling cither to hang defendant or send him to the penitentiary for life; though all believed the testimony of Mrs.

Killough. Juries are very frequently disposed to be tender hearted. Juries arc sworn to render their verdict according to the law and the evidence and if the evidence is such as to justify hanging by the law it is their duty to bring in a verdict accordingly. The jury as individuals are no more responsible for hanging a man than is the judge who passes the sentence. The Sunday law discussion at Newark, N.

J. is causing much bad feeling and both sides are giving way to their prejudices. The St. Louis Republican referring to this question says: "In most places, Sunday laws, when they -absolutely prohibit work orjrestrict ordinary recreations, arc dead letters. They remain on the statue book, but the authorities make no attempt to enforce them and there is a tacit consent on the part of all that they shall not be enforced.

Religious congregations are strictly protected from disturbance and the day is a legal and business holiday. This is about as far as it is considered practicable to enforce Sunday observance." A mjmduk of English emigrants arrived at Galveston a few days ago and went west on the Sunset road to grow up with the country. New Philadelphia is the point they went to and the other day two gentlemen of the party returned to Galveston, claiming that the country had been grossly misrepresented to them; musqui-tocs were abundant, the land poor, sandy and swampy in wet I weather. One of the gentlemen, a man of family, said if he did not get work he would return to England. The others who went to New Philadelphia arc also dissatisfied LITTLE BANTTEES.

Women's tears arc alwa coaiin' thro' their 1 c. It not tike Iialf so long to make a wound a to heal one. Patience i something thatccry other person should possess. 1 arc all the rage with oucg la.hes who possess heavy gvld bracelets. The mot treacherous memory in the world to the joung mm with a new watc't When a oung lady hems a handkerchief for a nc'i bachelor, she probably sew that she lna reap.

The amount of occupied by a wom-n when she call, at the post-office is simply remarkable. The dearer and more gi-d the silk handkerchief, the further it is allowed to stick out of the coat pocket What makes the average wahwo-nan boil with rage is to disco cr that black socks arc going to be shionable this winter. The proposition to Introduce ladies as railrrnd conduct'irs i fniwri.d upon, in irw of the fact that their trains arc behiU'l. "Hurrah! bejabers! the green's above the rcil exclaimed an Irish Patriot sis- he saw a red-haired man with a cabbage-leaf in his hat. False fnends arc l.ke our shadows; keeping close to us while wc walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant cross the shade.

The nice joung ladv who goes to a picnic in a whitcdress and sits downon the moist crass, get up wiser, but considerably greener. "There is no rcmedj for love," Thoreau, "but to love, more." Quite ttue. The more of them jou love, the Icsyou care for any of Uiem. There i undoubtedly a great deal of poetry in an opening rose but there considerable more to the average citizen in the free opening of a restaurant When the dentists of this country can discover a way to pull teeth without making a man wish he had been bom a hen, life will hav tw ice as rnucli brightness, It is all very well for poets to call the hHy a thimble, a wine glass or a bugle, but no one has jet been brave enough to come out and deno i inatc it as a beer mug or "schooner." 1 1 considered cry painful to be compelled to wait an hour for a train, but is not a circumstance to being obhged to lounge arou fifteen minutes waiting for breakfast time to arrive. "Father," said a wistful lass about sixteen ears of age.

"I know something about grammar, but I cannot decline matrimony, nor sec the reason whymvsclf ard Gilbert cannot be conjugated." Doubtless men will gamble in cotton, as in almost every other article of merchandise as long as the world stands. Experience is teaching more pointedly than ever, producecrs may keep it at home and buyers from commercial centers will-seek them out and offer prices remunerative for thcirlabor, and they will know when selling the result of their years labor without awaiting on the ragged edge of anxiety to learn of the fluctuation of the market and how their profits have been inflated or contracted. Persons may reason that the towns in this country arc to small to justify that. They are not too small to justify business houses sending hundreds of drummers to secure their trade, and cotton purchasersSvill be just as anxious to secure their product of the fleecy staple. Gonzales In-quit er.

Wc are under obligations to Judge Robert Kleberg, of his county, an old San Jacinto veteran, for a list of deaths that have recently taken place, as foUows: Mr. James Chappin died on the eight 8th of July in San Augustine county, Geo. H. Delesdernier died in Galveston, August 20th, 1879, aged seventy years, seven months and eleven days. He was born in Maine January 9, 1809.

John M. Pruitt died in Brazoria county, on the 15th August, aged sixty-two years. Four signers of Independence of Texas are now living, and not more than sixty-four of the seven hundred and eighty-three reported by general Houston as having participated in the battle of San Jacinto are now in existence. A few years more and there will be none left to answer to their names at roU call on Indepen dence day. -Cuero Bulleton.

While Cononel Harper, the fancy duck of the Okolona States, is off lecturing in the Northwest, poor Bill Ker-nan, the Constitutional expounder of the paper, is compelled to stay at home and write all the epigrammatic editorial and saw all the wood. Mr. Kernan's fine, epigrammatic style as a writer wss first suggested while sawing wood for kitchen use. The short, jerky sentences in his able articles represent the hard knots, and the long, glowing paragraphs represent the passage of the saw-through a soft chunk of cotton-wood after being lavishly basted with a bacon rind. Baltt- ttibte Gazette.

Grant was rithtr notorious for his deadheading propensities but he accepted the favors of the railway managers as a matter of course, and never thought it worth while to open his mouth to thank them. It remained for Fraudulent President Hayes to make a speech thanking a railroad for dead-heading him. Cincinnati Southern Railroad may congratulate itself on having got a cheap advertisement. AVw Yotk Sun. There is an old soldier now employed at the British Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, who was present at the funeral of Napoleon at St.

Helena, in 1 82 1. He was also at the funeral of Napoleon at Chisclhurst, in 1S73, and on Saturday, July 12, 1S79, with the gentleman cadets, he attended the funeral of the emperor's only son. I Ic was in the Royal Artilllery, and his name is Hcn-rv Weathers. The gin house of Jacob l'ov located at Victoria was burned together with eight bales of cotton, last week. The fire is supposed to have origi nated from some- one smoking a pip1 31th.KDl.0YU i- EW1NG nX Xjowy Brvnham.

Teiaa nt'X. b. ROGERS, Attorney-at-Law, Ciafp.1' Hilt'lVa. -try- c. haiku m.

-riijblcian and Surgeon, mch S-tf. WrwtcT.Tcaa eJ.F MATCHETT, 51. D. Surgeon and Physician Brenham, Texas. firth- In form hU oM iYiemN at cltvimd virlninr that ho ha Nmt-l omw at thi 1 H.ium marjo.

G. II. BEAUMONT. M. Practicing Physician.

Brenham. Texas. Can be found at Luhn's drug st-j-c during the day and at his residence at night jani6wtf Teias Military IasUlnts, TEXAS. Twelfth Anrjnal oss-lon opcaa GHitpmhr 3, ls73. toureuf Mm.

Hi'IrntlUc antl wiltt il Hilary Io-tnietiuo aiUIcil. Istaloupuii and Circular, now ixa-lr. AiMm-, CbL-JOHN I. JAMKS. ilvCT-tf L.

EDWARDS, Contractor and Builder, iircnliam, Texas. I prepared to contract for building general carpenter work. Intimate anJ design furnished at hort notice. Special attention to Job work. Paltonage solicited anu -''sfaction guaranteed.

Shop south side of mxnvtrcet opposite Mclntyre House. March 23.1877- KATTMANN, LIGHTNING NEWS DEA.LEE, Sc'iool Cooks, Stationary, rcriothcals. Varieties and Notions. Subscriptions rrccivcd for alij'ublicalion. Minkwitz's Building, west side of square, decisdtf Brcnhain.

Tesas XT AVAKAUGH TRESLEK. RccclviDfT, Forvtardlojr, and COMMISSION MERCHANTS I hive associated Capt. J. M. Presler with me and will continue business at my old stand.

Wc solicit the patronage ol on. friends and the public. S. KAVANAUGH. Hi July 2S, '79.

diwjm 7" II. MURPHY, PAIOTEB, fa: opj)olta Mdntytc Ilouii Brenham, Texas House, Mgn and onumcntal paining, paper hanging and glazing neatly and expeditiously executed. AU work, guaran teed; prices reasonable J. K. BASS.

EDMOND LOCKETT. BASS LOCKETT, LAW. CLAIM, AND GENERAL AGENCY OFFICE, BRENHAM, TEXAS. gSF Personal attention given to all matter-; entrusted to mayajwtl runs fisher. BUTCHER, AND DEALER IN ST.OCXC, Corner of Ant and Quitman streets, BKE.M1A3I, TEXAS.

The highest market price paid in cash for bed cattle, hogs- and sheep. Apr. lediwtf. BEAUMONT LUMBER GOMP'Y DEALERS IN AU. SJ.NDS OF Shingles, Sasb, Doors and Blinds Ant street, near passenger depot, Brenham, Texas.

I offer lumber at the following prices: Hough lumber, allUri'la, perM 8J0OT Pressed and matchedfloorinj, 1 22 ShinjclM, O. peril 555 U. Doors, smallest size, 2-6x6-C, 1 Ti Sashea, jrlazed, smail.vtf.lze, 8x10. 1 Blindj, rolling-slats, smaUeatslte.bxlO, I August 7, Id79-Tr- Pennington House, Corner Main and Douglas streets. (Old Crumpler House,) liJtENIISAI, TtXAS.

The undersigncg having made additions and refitted this well known house, is now prepared to accommodate regular and transcicnt guests at the following It ICE'S: 5 Boordpcr day Hoard per week A-5Q Hoard per month 1S.00 Day board 15.ee SSTThc table is at all times sunpUe with the best the market affords. E. rrourietor. HOFFMAN, Dealer in Staple and lancy dUcfii of ctyoiD CLOTHING, HATS. BOOTS, SHOES, GENTS' rURNISHlNG GOODS, Indies and Misses FINE DRJ3S GOODS Hosiery, Hoods.

Sliawls, Kobcs. Silks Satins Lawns, Toplins, Mozanibiqucs, Dciaines. MnsUns, lacvnsts. Ties. Hssucs, levvelry, etc All of tthi.hvvillbev.ldat verj reasonable figures for cash.

Call and eaaune mv mock anv prices i ed..