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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1879
Page
2
An assortment of items from Galveston to Dallas covers political shifts in Texas, court actions, poll tax debates, and national party dynamics. Discussions touch on taxation, Supreme Court admissions for a DC practitioner, a poll tax plan, the San Antonio and Houston presses, and upcoming Democratic Senate consultations.
The legislature approves Galveston county stock disposal in the Gulf road and parties discuss private ownership to revive the system. The Paris Texan backs whipping posts as a cure for theft and high taxes, criticizing reform opposition while urging taxes to fund state government despite public grumbling.
The Potter committee report implicates Sherman and Kellogg in frauds that affected Louisiana and Florida votes for Hayes. It argues the Louisiana and Florida boards ignored laws to declare Republican victories, and the electoral commission upheld Hayes 8 to 7. It predicts historians will find Republicans bribed boards to reach a wrongful outcome.
Senate actions include a bill to regulate juries in capital cases and a measure authorizing Galveston county to sell its stock in the G C and S F railway with private sale under bond to build toward Belton. Other items enroll include public domain sales for schools, land taxes, and pension repeals. The week features numerous district court plans, county reforms, and local notes from Victoria to Dallas.
The Dallas journal scene features the Daily Alews Fez Aerald Commercial and In telligencer as leading papers with others likely doomed. Congress debates pensions and an extra session is scheduled for the 18th to address fiscal year needs. A Richmond confrontation ends with Curtis shot by Poindexter after insults and a pistol exchange.
The forty fifth congress limits session to March 4 and extends into Sunday. A conference committee fails to agree on the house clause banning troops at the polls but settles other disputed points.
Tuz San Antonio argues in the sixth district race that national finances should not figure. The platform seeks a congressman focused solely on Western Texas material interests and frontier concerns, with close ties to Mexico. The writer favors electing the ablest Democrat for the district.
A San Francisco dispatch reports widespread regret and indignation after the president vetoed the Chinese immigration bill. Mass meetings, effigy burnings, and flag at half mast occurred in Ballister San Benito county and Fairfield Sonora county. In Dutch Flat the town’s best Chinese shanty was burned on the news.
A Denison citizen returns from a trip to his old Virginia home and visits his grandfather Shepard Gilmore, a Bath County farmer aged 113, described as hale and hearty.
The document invites communication with Gen. Gano in Dallas as chairman for the permanent organization of the Confederate Soldiers Historical Association of Texas. It lists state figures including Gen. R M Gano Col Ashbel Geta Ey Rev Dr Bunting Gen Walter P Lane and others with notes of their locations and positions.
A destructive assault near Brady in McCall County caused a wall breach and the entire structure to collapse, leaving the mansion and crockery, meals, molasses, and medicines ruined. Police and a church service interruption followed a chaotic scene with hymns sung to calm the crowd.
A Comanche store was burglarized with watches stolen. The incident marks a rare major crime in the peaceful town and underscores concerns over security. No injuries reported. Local authorities urge residents to report suspicious activity.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss gunners in a line at a strategic position. Aimed at stopping supply flow, the text cites a height standard of five feet six inches, with reference to a 5 feet 10 inches measure and a recent treatment in Washington Townes.
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