Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-05-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.


China and Persia.
In South Carolina the stand
Of cotton is the finest known for
several years, labor is abundant
and efficient.
The Dallas Herald wants an
available man for president, one
upon whom every democrat
in the land can be united.
THE second day of the State
sportsmens association passed
off pleasantly. Galveston will
be the next place of meeting.
THE president has nominal
ted A. ]. Evans of Waco to be
United States district attorney
for the western district Of Tex
as.
HORACE MAYARD, Of Tennes-
see, now United States Minis
ter at Constantinople, will be
appointed postmaster general,
to succeed Mr.. Key.
REPUBLICAN state conventions
were held on Wednesday in Ill
inois, Minnesota Nebraska and
Dakota, and democratic con-
ventions in Virginia and New
Jersey.
The Victoria AGvoeafe cyni-
cally ventures the prediction
that the Galveston and Camar-
go railway is doomed to an ex-
istence on finely drawn maps,
and elegant speeches.
Col. LANG made a grange
address at Palestine on Tues
day. He dwelt at great length
upon the beauties and advan-
tages of Texas. All reference
to politics was studiously avoid
ed. ai3
The Victoria advocate, al
though in the sixth COMPRESSION
al district, referring to Mr.. Shep-
ards candidacy for congress
says he would serve the state
excellently in the position he
seeks. i1
THE supreme court now in
session at Austin has decided
the clause in the general muni-
cipal incorporation act'that pro-
vides for condemning private
property for public use to be
unconstitutional. m
Mrs. HUBBY, emboldened by
her success in securing the
commutation of the Houston
murderer and the rapist, is now
busily engaged in trying to pro-
cure a Communication of the death
sentence pronounced upon a
namesake or relative in Milan
county. a1-.;e
HARRY GREENwALL of the
fremont opera house Calves
ton asked Ingersoll to come to
Galveston and lecture. assuring
him a full house, Rev. Briggs
having demolished him. Inger-
soil replied that until after the
Chicago convention he could
make no engagements.
Is not a large proportion of
the crime, now so prevalent
throughout the United States,
traceable in a greater or less
degree to the clash litera-
ture" of the day. During the
past fifteen years the country
has been literally flooded with
printed trash. lees
GOVERNOR ROBERTS and the
board of education will attend
examinations and commence
ments of the public scholastic
institutions, viz: Sam Houston
normal school at Huntsville,
Prairie View, at Hampstead, and
Bryan college. All persons in
terested are invited to lie pres
ent. M
A GRAND railroad reception
was held at Tyler on the 18th,
a number of gentlemen from
distance being present. The
stockholders of the ST. Louis
and Texas railway company
held a meeting and elected a |
board of directors. The road
is to be completed to Waco in
twelve months.
THE San Antonio Exb,ess
has information from Fort Dav-
is thata train of wagons en-
route to New Mexico, while
passing through Bass. canyon,
eighty miles west Of Fort Davis, |
were attacked by Indians. A |
man named Henry Graham was
seriously wounded and his wife |
was killed. - |
The Galveston Meas publish |
es a communication in which |
Col. Lang is attacked by a gran |
ger as a granger. 1t gives no.
tice that the name of the author
will be given to Col. Lang,
should he desire it, and it also !
warns all other political writers
that they must hold themselves
personally responsible for their |
remarks about brother politi-
clans. '''-' t'se- /
IF Hon. Seth Shepard is near
as popular with the people of
this congressional district as he
is with the newspapers outside
of it, he will be nominated and
elected by a tremendous major
ity. The one idea thataetuates
all the democratic papers in the
state is to get rid of George
Washington Jones, who notion
ly misrepresents his district but
also the entire state.
The Providence Journal,
which is the best authority in
America on astronomical mat
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