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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1878
Page
2
The issue notes President Hayes age and health, Indiana, New York results, and a Houston-Galveston quarrel. It reports Greenback and Republican debate, whiskey stocks, and a mass of state finance topics including internal revenue and customs, quarantine, and debt, with observers citing inflation impacts and public school growth alongside legal notes on courts and taxes.
The Bryan Pilot warns that without citizen action Brazos County may elect a freedman to the next legislature. It urges Democrats to back Capt. Williams as the sole strong candidate and condemns independents as aiding Republicans. The piece argues conservatives should not vote for any independent in county or legislative races.
Police brazenly seized sixty gallons of Mexican wine during a San Antonio bust. Authorities reported the smuggling operation and confiscated the illicit spirits.
A partisan column urges Democrats to vote the straight ticket to protect county finances. It touts R Hoffman for tax collector and Captain A H Adams for floating representative, attacks Billingslea and Lockett, cites Pomeroy’s papers and New York Advocate, and claims the Greenback paper aims to disrupt the Democratic party.
The Greenbackers drew 468 votes out of 45 798 cast in Hamilton County Ohio, constituting barely one percent of the county total. This small showing provides little comfort to backers despite the vote being described as large.
New Orleans reports 42 deaths and 143 new cases as total figures reach 10 929 cases and 3 333 deaths. Jackson Mississippi adds 860 cases and 15 deaths. Memphis logs 28 deaths in the last day. Chattanooga Grand Junction Biloxi and Bay St Louis show varying new cases while Baton Rouge notes 35 cases and 5 deaths. The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals rules a mixed race marriage in state illegal under state law.
The message condemns Republican factions aided by independents and new party candidates and urges voters who favor administrative change to back the Democratic ticket, described as the only conservative option in the field.
Harris county furnished 312 convicts to the penitentiary since 1866. Austin county farmers pay 75 cents a hundred to pick cotton. An Ireland meeting in San Antonio drew about 75 people. Galveston reports yellow fever scare and hoodlums. Schleicher county, Morton district politics, and court crimes are covered. A man killed near Round Rock. public schools and jail openings noted. varied local incidents across Denison, Waco, Bryan, Galveston, and Dallas.
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