Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-08-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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out its growing rooster and re-
marks This is our crow"
THE Bastrop Advertiser Of
last week publishes lieutenant
governor Sayers' speech in full.
COOKE, Erath and Clay coun-
ties send anti-RobertS delega-
tons to the Dallas convention.
DeJarnettc, the murderer of
his sister at Danville, Va, made
an unsuccessful attempt at sui
eide.
ACCOUNTS from the cotton
crops in Egypt arc favorable,
although the yield will be some
what smaller than in 1879.
HAVING had considerable rain
and high water in Texas, it may
interest our readers to know
that the river Nile is also rising.
THE Flatonia Argus claims to
be the only democrat paper
published in Fayette county.
What says the LAGRANGE Jour
nal?
THE Fourth ward ratification
meeting at Galveston, which
was to have been held on Mon
day night, has been indefinitely
postponed.
No less than eleven hundred
bogus doctors have been fur
nishcd with bogus diplomas by
a bogus medical college in
Philadelphia.
Two burglars entered the
house of John Mcmahon, in
Chicago, and while he sat up in
bed shot and killed him. They
then escaped.
The primary election i'll Nc
Lehman county settled the con-
vention's instructions. The vote
stood Hubbard SIS, Roberts
754; Sayers 14I.
The Burnet Bulletin prints
the greenback slate platform in
full and remarks: This is all of
it, reader, Can you follow the
authors of such a tissue Of DEM
agoguery and injustice
THE San Antonio Express
says it appears to be pretty
well settled fact that western
Texas will almost unanimously
support Maxey for reelection
to the United States Senate.
THE North Texan man says
he is prepared 10 eat crow; he
has had the rheumatism, chol-
era; was q soldier four years;
was in a federal prison nine
months. He says he can stand
anything.
THE Dallas Times is opposed
to any recruits from the repub-
lican party; it says they are all
hungry and want chicken-pie.
1t believes in nothing but the
red-hcad, truc-bluc, moss-back,
old bourbon democracy.
The Austin Capital, a green
back sheet, extends its sympa-
thy to Shepard on his nomina-
ton as the democrat candidate
for congress. The Capital had
better reserve its sympathy for
its man, Tones-he will need it.
The Tyler Democrat is in
favor of the reelection of
MaXey to the United States
senate. So far as we are able
to judge by our exchanges
there are but two or three pa
pers in the state opposed to him.
The Flatonia Argus carries
at its masthead the name of J.
D. Sayers for governor, but it
inclines to the opinion that Rob-
crts will be nominated. 1t is
well to remember that there's
many slip bctwixt the cup and
lip"
GENERAL GRIERs on met Vic
toria's band of Apaches between
Eagle Springs and Quitman
mountains. Seven Indians
were killed and many wounded.
Gen. Grierson whipped the In
dams with colored troops losing
only one man.
TUE Fort Worth Democtdt
says it cannot conceive OF a
greater calamity to the demo-
cratic party than the placing Of
the name of Hubbard orThrock-
morton before the state conven-
ton. 1t thinks it would arouse
all the bitterness of the last can
vass and do no good.
THE Galveston News, of the
18th inst, publishes Il communi- |
cation without data or signature, |
in which Seth Shepard is used |
up and completely defeated and |
Wash Jones duly elected to con-
gross, the writer being evident |
ly i Jones Man, or at all events |
but d democrat