Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-28

Dey. oil the capitol
Progressing lively, so
ysts write to the gov
RofN om sb.rs
+ Gov. RRowN, of Georgia, was
sworn in as -ILn;tc1 States sena-
tor on the 10th inst. and took
his seat.
II is estimated that fifty
thousand foreign emigrants ar
rived at New York during the
past month.
The Denison NrIUS does not
top to waste any words with
Rev. Briggs, but proceeds TO
write him down an ass.
The Kalloch impeachment
case was to have went to trial
before the supreme court at
San Francisco on Wednesday.
THE Waco Telephone says
that the Santa Fe railroad may
come to Waco yet, but the Bel
ton people don't believe SO.
Gov. HUBBARD addressed an
immense crowd at Corsicana
on Tuesday evening; his theme
was the new narrow guage rail-
way.
The new revolution in Cuba
is reported to much more form
liable than was at first supposed.
The negroes are interested in
the war.
SENATOR COKE has succeed
ed in securing an additional ap-
preparation Of $4,000 for carry
ing the work of improvement to
Galveston harbor.
No COMPUTATION this week,
says the Waco Examiner, just
as though it expected the gov
ernor to commute a sentence
every week as a regular part of
his routine duty.
JUSTICE Jos. P. BRADLEY, of
8 to 7 fame, left Galveston on
Wednesday, via the Santa Fe
railroad, for San Antonio, where
he will open the United States
circuit court.
SAMPLES Off Texas wheat
from Bastrop, Tarrant and Nc
Lehman counties have been
forwarded by the Texas Star
Mills, of Galveston, to the Mil
lers national exposition at Chi
cago.
GOVERNOR STocKDALE, ex-
presses the opion that the Gal
weston and Camargo railroad
will be improbable from the
fact that it will have the gulf
on one side and a competing
railway on the other.
The San Antonio Express
says Mr.. Banks, who has just
returned from Austin, reports
that work on the International
railroad is progressing rapidly
and that fifteen hundred men
are now at work on it.
The military authorities at
San Antonio think that the mis-
creants who attacked the Ora
ham party at Bass canon, west
of Fort Davis, were not Indians
but some Of the white outlaws
who infect this section.
DENIsoN has lately had
more. fires than should have
occurred in the regular course
Of events, and incendiarism is
very strongly suspected. The
R1aM throws out some dark
hints as to what might be the
possible fate of the incendiary-
ifcaught.
The Ronham News says that
the trouble is, governor Roberts
and the Mexia Ledger man were
born FIVE hundred years too late,
hence they are opposed to pub
lie schools. Their views would
have been in entire harmony
with the spirit of the dark
ages.
The Brentwood Banner says
that the people of Brownwood
need a railroad in their bust
ness. A call for a railroad meet
ing was issued. 1t is proposed
ed to build a narrow gauge
road from a point on the Texas
and Pacific to Brentwood and
Comanche,
WHAT is the matter with Nc
Gary of the Age. 1t is not
long since he was spoken of as
Dan McGary, occasionally as
Major McGary, but since the re-
cent press reunion he has been
re-christened and is now spoken
of as uncle Dan'l. He certain
~ isn't growing old.
Col. w. w. LANG addressed
the people of Smith county, at
Tyler, last week. The Demo-