Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-08-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

keepsie, N. ", on the 10th inst
The boil worm is damaging
cotton in the Indian Territory
TANNER, like the founders Of
: new newspapers, is filling a
long felt"
THE State holiness campmeet-
ing convenes at Dallas on the
25th inst.
THE official report OF the CEN
sus enumeratorS gives St. louis
a population of 33S,557.
BURKs, the rapist, has been
granted an additional respite Of
nine days by the governor.
sSlion dollars in gold
Re way to New York
Bhdon, Hamburg and
TYAYooB KAHN is a slippery
customer; fears arc entertained
! that he may elude general Rob-
eFts.
u a SPECIAL to the News from
New Orleans says there is no
! yellow fever, or likely to be
any, this summer.
BRINGING negroes from Kan
sas to pick cotton will be atten-
dcd with bad results, says i Ma
varro county farmer.
BuRNET county has d number
of greenbackers and the Bulle-
tin is doing effective in the in
terest of the democracy.
The Lagrange Journal says,
that it is a democratic paper and
the Flatonio Argus received it
back into the democratic fold.
THE Burnett Bulletin presents
its grcenback readers with a
portrait OF the Alabama green
back rooster-the bird is very
sick.
The republican paper at
Austin lays down the law by
saying that it can not and will
not vote for any man as a
greenbacker.
The Bellyille Times says lum.
Der business is brisk at Bellville
and that lumber is sold there at
s. per thousand feet less than
in Brennan.
ADELAIDE NELSON, the cele-
brated actress, died at Paris on
Saturday. She was one of the
most beautiful women on the
modern stage.
THE first bale Of new cotton
was sold in Little Rock on the
18th inst, twas put up at auc-
ton and brought 26 IA cents a
pound. 1t weighed 700.
JAMES O'SULLIvAN superin-
tendent and general agent of
the New York founding asy-
lum, has been arrested for COM
hitting felonous assault upon
a e-year old girl.
VICTORIA, the troublesome
Indian has crossed into Mexico
again: Two stage drivers and
a MeXican we're killed at the
time Gen. Byrne was wounded
in Quitman canyon.
ALLEN WRIGHT is to be hung
at Dallas on Friday. He is the
darkey who refused to take an
appeal when convicted = he
wanted to be hanged. He
wants to appeal now.
The Bonham News Eavors the
importation Of Chinese labor to
gather the cotton crop. The
Chinese have proved a curse to
the Pacific slope and would
prove a curse to Texas.
SENATOR BRUCE and wife, of
Mississippi are at stylish house
in Saratoga, kept by colored peo-
pie. The colored have folks their
aristocracy as clearly defined
as it is among the whites.
The San Augustine Saxonis
in favor Of building up a good
school at that town, and seems
to be alive to the importance of
education, but says not word
about public free schools.
A SOCIETY has been formed
in Memphis for the purpose of
inducing foreign emigrants to
settle in west Tennessee. The
move is endorsed by the state
bureau of immigration.
OK Monday night a Shepard |
club was organized at Giddings |
with sixty-four members. S. |
Bazard was elected president
and b. L. lander secretary. !
The club will grow rapidly.
The Dallas Times says Judge |
Hurt, the nominee for judge OF
the court of appeals, will not
only sustain himself but make a
reputation for learning and abil-
ity never exceeded by any
man in the state.