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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1879
Page
2
Sunstroke cases rise in Sedalia Missouri while Texas papers debate free schools and penitentary labor. Reports note gubernatorial commutations, new rail gauge changes, and local notices on education, prisons, and politics across Dallas Fort Worth and Austin. Key figures include Gen. Lee successors, Capt Lang, and Gov Roberts.
The Hegirators convened in Houston electing Dick Allen as chairman with a full list of officers. He urged immediate action to move the entire colored race from the state, noting injustices such as lowercase letters for negroes. Delegates set committees on resolutions finances immigration and addresses. A reporter’s survey finds most delegates favor leaving the state, with Washington county cited as housing many unwanted blacks.
The Houston Telegraph notes a dangerous counterfeit five dollar United States note, series 1875 letter C, with Jackson’s head poorly engraved. It lists John Allison as register and A. A. Wyman as treasurer and may imply substantial yearly savings on cotton freights through Mississippi River jetties, a point presented as remarkable.
Congress adjourned on Tuesday afternoon ending a session marked by continuous wrangling. Throughout the period 727 bills and 40 joint resolutions were introduced in the Senate and 2395 bills and 16 joint resolutions in the House.
The Central and Montgomery railroad progresses slowly toward Montgomery about five miles beyond Plantersville, starting from Navasota. The Baxter expects to report the line reaching Grenham soon, but will wait for the Santa Fe project to finish before starting another venture.
The Hempstead Register began April 15 with vigor but failed to attract patrons and quickly folded. Its Saturday issue carried its own obituary as the editor seeks employment in rail work or other tasks.
The young democracy of Texas opposes Gov Roberts and pledges to uphold the party platform including free public schools. Only three Texas papers Galveston News State and Journal endorse the governor. A Leapvitis correspondent in New York questions Colorado mineral production estimates citing Leadville silver forecasts and state yield far below prior figures.
The article argues that public schools advance progress and support immigration, urging that even imperfect current systems beat no schools. It warns enemies to education in the state, saying civilized people will not settle where education is proscribed or schools do not exist.
A St Louis Republic editorial criticizes Texas Governor Roberts for commuting the death sentence of Coward to life imprisonment. It argues killings by murderers should face hanging, notes Coward’s crimes and the rarity of white-murder convictions in Texas, and highlights new tramp punishment laws advancing in Pennsylvania Connecticut Massachusetts and Vermont with similar bills in New York.
A medal by the Nihilists shows czar with a revolver and the phrase Death to Despotism on one side, and Liberty with bread and salt on the other with Everything for Liberty. Police misdistributed many pieces believing they commemorated Aprilth and that the government ordered it, until later correction.
A partisan column denounces the governor and lawmakers for repealing the public school law and allotting 275000 for schools while proposing a 10 cent ad valorem tax reduction. It forecasts a public vote in favor of schools, condemns the anti schooling majority, and predicts a political revulsion and new leaders. The piece cites penitentiary killings in Wood County, condemns guards, and notes a Sedalia Democrat obituary of Hightoned Brown, a printer.
Franklin B. Gowen, president of the Reading Railroad company, has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws by Washington and Lee University in a formal recognition.
The June 30 session reports a substitute for a bill to establish a court of errors and levies an occupation tax on merchants by thresholds. Senate and House debates cover land escheat sales, penitentiary resumption, school land sales and a range of Bills with amendments and approvals and rejections.
Washtneron June 30 The speaker read the veto message on the marshals bill and the house refused to pass it over the veto by 83 to 63. A second message from the president urged making provision for the marshals.
For want of tenants Sir John Ramsden owner of Huddersfield and earning about 500 a year has been forced to take in six of his large Scotch sheep farms into his own hands to manage the estate amid rental difficulties.
Dublin residents lament the newly unveiled Tom Moore statue is zinc rather than bronze. Rain entered cracks in the head when painted, filling the statue about half full of water.
In the days leading to his death A. T. Stewart profited by a large raw silk investment. The text implies his successor or another merchant could replicate the gain this year using Stewart’s foresight.
A reader letter from Williamson County describes varied crop conditions with rain in parts, dryness in Brusky, and thriving Georgetown with new arrivals and hopeful merchants. The writer plans to travel to Lampasas and then Taylor County, stating will recruit and continue letters.
The London Queen reports that the editor of the New York Herald will travel to Bengal next winter to hunt a tiger. The item frames the assignment as a noteworthy editorial adventure.
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