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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1879
Page
2
Reports from major cities show unprecedented cold for twenty years. The piece notes Texas Dallas reports imperceptible money market effects while northern cities face ice, snow and fatalities from freezing temperatures.
The San Antonio Express notes a sudden prosperity yet cites large crowds abroad or homeless before elections. It argues hunger fades post election but returns next cycle. It mentions St. Louis charity ball raising over $7000 and claims urban business boomed, refuting hard times claims.
A wide spread Texas wire reports freezing weather with subzero readings in Dallas and Longview, snow in Marshall, Denison and Millican, and cold impacts on livestock. Incidents include a fatality at a county poor farm, a gin fire near Millican, fights and fines in Denison, and political shifts in Navasota and Palestine.
On January 6 record shows a sale action involving 652 and 1656 lnzizest in a Philadelphia area transaction. Details are sparse but the entry notes a public sale event and associated parties.
Readable scraps cover bank failures in Cornwall and Texas, crime costs, a Houston court term, rail contracts, weather and sleet in Jacksonville, and a push for fish commissions. Reports mention Ge o Hancock funeral in Austin with Knights Templar, and a Dallas banker suspect. Also notes on secessionist politics, prison labor, and cotton spindle economics across states.
Over six months letters mailed to New York and eastern cities failed to reach targets until Special agent Foster arrested the culprit in Philadelphia, a Houston mail agent. Houston’s quiet city election saw democratic gains with minor independents left out. Baltimore reports oldest man claims 149 years. In Galveston, Thomas Reed, cashier of the First National Bank, is missing about $27,000 with $25,000 in hundred dollar bills and $2,000 smaller notes. Reed, long trusted, was seen on the Houston train Tuesday morning.
A Saturday night blaze leveled the Tue Henore block, a major Chicago business office complex housing the post office, U S army HQ and legal offices. The 300000 dollar building, dating from 1874, burned from the basement carpenter shop through the elevator hatch to the roof, forcing tenants from upper floors and sparking several near misses. The fire’s route echoed a similar St Louis incident at the Southern hotel two years earlier with notable loss of life.
Henry Wartrerson critiques the Solid South in the North American Review claiming the negro is driven by circumstance and past promises. He notes blacks voting Democratic after fearing the Freedman's Bureau and failed land grants. Dallas Heald describes white supremacy as natural, while two Hood county emigrants perish in snow and a Mexican lion attacks a woman during a rescue effort.
The Belton Jona' editorial laments juries and delays in enforcing law saying honest farmers face thieves whose only trade is stealing earnings. It concedes Texas law exists but execution is slow and often fault lies with people, while horse and cattle thieves are punished quickly and murderers escape.
Fuhrer outlines a work titled the Colored Cadet at West Point claiming fair treatment. The Galveston News counters that Flipper shows promise as a soldier rather than a refined writer, a compliment that still casts doubt on his military prowess.
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