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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1879
Page
2
A scattered survey of election results, editor changes, and legislative debates in Texas. Reports include Governor veto reactions, extra session calls, Quarantine rules, and local editorials from Denison, Dallas, and Galveston. Also notes on lightning deaths in Indiana and Underwood conflicts in Kentucky.
Austin remains a gas hub even when lawmakers are away. A Tuesday event featured gas supply and a planned balloon ascent. Reports mention a tornado near Lake Chades Louisiana injuring six passengers, a Yazoo cotton planter with large acreage, and a debate over free public schools in Arkansas. Col Mills prompts weapon shipments to Texas units, Homan nomination tainted, shad stocking from Maryland to Texas rivers, and Beecher critiquing newspapers. Austin’s Statesman notes Beltonites seeking Santa Fe rail to Round Rock, and Galveston finance backing Brenham rail via Santa Fe. The Texas State Guard paper folds after poor patronage.
N A T writes from Houston to the News claiming Baron de Pardonnet is an abused, honest man not an adventurer or confidence man. He cites documentary evidence, notes the baron has gone to New York, will visit Europe, then return to Houston to prosecute railroad enterprises.
The State firemen's Association of Texas to hold its fourth annual convention at Houston on June 11 1879. Railroads will sell delegates tickets at one and one fifth fare. Delegates credentials prepared on blanks by secretary J W Golledge of Waco Texas. Central tickets valid June 16 to 13.
A Dallas special notes negotiations to consolidate the Afe ald and the Commercial of Dallas. Opinion favors merger as beneficial for both papers, suggesting one strong paper could thrive while two dailies struggle financially. A Montgomery County Journal notice discusses extending the Central and Montgomery railroad from Navasota to Brenham, boosting lumber trade and Santa Fe regional supply. Dick Richard Allen and thirteen other Black leaders call for a Houston colored convention on July 1 to discuss emigration and related issues.
Readers note Brenham newspapers like the Brenham Daily Banner and Brenham Baxxer produced eight page issues with full Volksfest coverage. Descriptions highlight city business, enterprise prospects, and lively editorial praise for newspaper enterprise in Texas towns. Local papers also issued double numbers and extended editions to capture the event.
An article argues that colored labor is unreliable and injures crops in Washington County. It blames political and religious activity for reduced work, cites scarce labor and high wages, and proposes united planter action and large-scale immigrant influx to Texas to stabilize farming and crop production.
Ex-senator J. L. Alcorn writes from Friar’s Plantation about the Kansas migration of African Americans. He argues northern life will prove harsher and that the uprooting cast a shadow over labor and racial dynamics, while Texans debate politics and social boundaries amid mixed editorials.
State news item broad collection notes crop reports in Milam and McLennan counties, a new club room and library planned for Marshall, cotton bolls large in Fort Bend, wheat shipments from Ennis to Galveston, and various crime trials and local events across the region. Notable items include a fatal shooting at Marshall, plans for theaters in Houston, and railroad and railroad-extension updates.
A list of sale items including 250 cases Pratt's Oil 100 barrels sugar 300 sacks salt 150 bags coffer 100 coils rope and 200 barrels flow liquor tobaccos cigars at Galveston wholesale prices. Also low prices on cloth shoes 175 reduced to one dollar at C A Potters for sixty days. Prints sale for sixty days. Kerosene oil coffee sugar molasses and new shoes advertised by multiple vendors.
Prices for white vests and silk tunics listed by D W Bloomburgh Co with various shades colors and sizes. Pampers Harrison mentioned as a supplier note.
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