Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-10-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

| 10y HaA~eAy'
THE Houston Post beseeches
its correspondents to be brief.
CoLouITr is elected governor
of Georgia by majority of
10000.
THE long looked for election
in Indiana is at hand; it take
place to-day.
HoN. JNo. H. REAGAN will
speak at Columbus tomorrow,
the 18th INST.
THE Galveston Journal thinks
thar the occupation tax law
eshould be repealed.
NE Castrovillc Quill discus
on independent journalism
| and goes fer party organs.
The Denison Herald esti-
mates the Texas cotton crop at
100000 bales this season.
GorAUlrr, who was lately
elected governor of Georgia, is
said to be a Methodist preacher.
JUDGE THos. H. DuvAL, of
the United States court for
Texas, died recently at Omaha.
SURVEYORS are now marking
out the Inc between CIeburne
and Fort Worth for the Santa
Fe railway.
THURSDAY last there was a
terrible storm in the English
channel causing the loss of some
shipping and several lives.
ACCORDING to the Austin
Statesman the drummcrs paid
over eight thousand dollars into
the state treasury last week.
An engineer on freight train
on the International road was
Killed an accident near Jewett.
His name was Thos. +. Fisher.
The Jefferson Democrat and
the limp do not dwell together
in peace and harmony, on the
contrary they are quarreling.
THE BANNER is IN receipt of
a complimentary ticket to the
Capital State Fair at Austin,
October 10TH to 23d inclusive.
The San Antonio Peoples
Banner is a semi occasionally
sheet. 1t is issued occasional
and occasionally it fails to ap-
pears.
a WOMAN is stumping califor-
MA for the democracy, but she
is offset by one in New York
who is stumping for the repub-
licans.
BALA4N has an historical ani=
NAL in Brennan, who throu Oh
the columns of a newspaper in
another district, bFays for Wash
Jones.
]. R. HAM, the land forger,
now in the penitentiary, is an
artist-he handles paint brush
and puts the finishing touches
on wagons.
Mr.. L. K. TARvER has sold
his interest in the Observe In
dex at Corsicana, to his partner
G. P. Miller, who continues its
publication.
TIE San Antonio Times says
it was not started as campaign
sheet, but that it is established
upon a firm basis and will be
reliably democratic.
qSEwERAeE" is the title of a
column editorial in the Dallas
Herald, which paper thinks that
all the Texas cities, especially
Dallas, should be severed.
Two circuses are wagoning
through the state and making
the newspapers off the lines of
the railroads happy with adyer-
tisements and show tickets.
The United States grand jury
held a four days session at Wa
CO last week. and finding every
thing serene were discharged
without finding an indictment.
Two white men were recent
ly lynchcd in Nelson county
Virginia. They were guilty of
rape and robbery and were TAX
en- from jail and hanged by a
mob,
The San Antonio Express
intimates that the governor has
rewarded his friends by having
the election proclamation pub
lished in several papers of linn
tied ejaculation.
THE Dallas Times says that
Barnum, of circus fame has sued
the Central railway for 100000
damages for a forfeiture Of con-
tract in putting tie circns
through to stations on agreed
time.
c. Z. GILBERT has disposed
of a half interest IN the Navaso-