Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-10-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

brought $4,000 in gold to
New York.
The New Orleans papers
have been publishing lengthy
editorials on the defalcation
ofsheriff Gathreaux.
The socialistic, labor and
greenback parties of Brookly,
N. Y, have fused and nominal
ted a candidate for congress.
The Virginia fire company at
Augusta, Georgia, was burned
out the otncr night, the engine
and building being a total loss.
The Flatonia Argus publish
es a communication about Gre
nation. In thinly settled coun-
tries there is no occasion for
cremation.
In Denver Jim lockwood
and Jim Kennedy quarrelled.
lockwood was shot dead. His
epitph will be "Died with his
boots en-"
A FAMILY of Galvestonions
! at Milwaukee, Wis, were pois-
oned by eating wild parsnips
for dinner. They are nearly
all out Of danger.
WADo sends committee to
Galveston to confer with the d.
rectory of the Santa Fe road,
with a view of getting it extern
ded to Waco.
lHE New YORK papers estI-
mate the number of pleasure
visitors to Coney Island last
summer 4, 500, 900 and the mon
ey spent by them at SII,oo,o 900.
a STAGE running between
Pierce city, Mo-, and Eureka
Spaings; Ark, was stopped by
robbers the other day, and the
passengers were relieved of
5000.
The New York Herald con-
dennis, in the severest terms,
the parties who have induced
immigrants to go to western
Kansas, a part of the country
that is rainless.
CIGARS named after popular
candidates are all the go now. |
In this district we have the
Shepard cigar and in San An
tonic a live cigar dealer has in
troduced the Epson brand.
The Marshall Herald comes
beautiful illustrated with a rail-
road map showing the route of
the Memphis and Jefferson rail-
road. The road looks we'll on
paper. and may at some day in
the future be built in reality.
The rate of freight on cotton
from Waco to New Orleans is
$3.50 per bale and from Waco
to Galveston S4.25, while a bale
is carried all rail from Waco to
New York at sI.54 per hundred
pounds. The rate of freight to
Galveston is too high or the
rate to New York is too low.
The Galveston News says
there is now in the treasury idle
and of no present use 100000,
and of this amount about $780,
900 is collected in occupation
taxes. 1t thinks it would be the
part of wisdom to abolish occu-
patton tax except for licenses
of retail liquor dealers.
SENATOR MAXEY passed down
the Central on Monday night
for Austin. He said to a News
that he was well pleas
ed with the canvass in the state;
that the republicans wefe very
weak, but the greenbackers are
developing more opposition
than is generally supposed.
A New ORLEANS special of
the 5th inst, to the Galveston
News says that Frederick Sing {
er, a native of New Orleans,
aged 10, died of yellow fever a,
and was buried on the morning :
Of the 9Th. The case is consid- {
ered sporadic and no apprehen- +
;ion is felt in the community. t
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch a
iays: tits mistake to suppose c
hat the republican party is I'M :
Ible to get behind the memoir
es of the war. In the big re-
publican procession in Phila-
lelphia the other night one
statesman carried a Transparent s
y on which was inscribed this
hrilling battle-cry; Remem- +;
yer Polk and the tariff of A." =
t is safe to bet that until that
transparency made its appear S
nee there weren't a dozen cit
zens of Philadelphia who knew
hat the country had a tariff in
S44-and the only thing they 81