Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-03-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

ONCE Lang leit the Grangs
but little has been heard Of it.
WITH the exception of Rob
ert T. Lincoln, all Of the new
cabinet qualified on Monday.
Col. S. H RUSSELL, Of Texas
is in Washington looking after
an appointment as first assistant
postmaster general.
THE Brazoria Independent
does not believe that there is a
time for everything. 1t says
there is no time for delinquent
subscribers to pay up.
THE forces at Austin have
been strengthened by the ar
rival of Andrews of the Sunset,
Mobiles and James P. Scott OF
the Texas and Pacific.
The Austin Review of last
week is in mourning for Mr.. c.
G. Lathrop its founder. 1t is
now owned by commercial
college Jones.
The Waco Examiner is op-
posed to the railroad bill now
before the Legislature it would
have no legislation calculated
to retard railroad building in
Texas.
BRITToN DAVIS, son of en-
Governor Davis, a cadet at
West Point, has been promoted
to the position of lieutenant
and adjutant, which is the high
est position a cadet can obtain
at the Point.
The editor of the San Anton
10 Express recently made
trip to the City of Mexico, he
has returned and has commen-
ced the publication OF a series
ofinteresting articles on Mex
leo and its people.
MEN who smoke to excess
should take warning by the fate
of senator Matt Carpenter. He
was in the habit of smoking
twenty cigars a day and the
doctors say that had much to
do with his death.
The San Antonio Evening
Light, the only English repub-
lican paper in the state pronoun-
ces the 18TH legislature a fail
ure. The democratic press will
pass judgement on the legisla-
ture after it adjourns.
A SPECIAL from Waco to the
News says that Jay Gould has
ordered a suspension of work
on the Missouri Pacific road be-
tween Fort Worth and Waco, |
pending the action ofthe legis- |
lature on the railroad bill.
A WASHINGTON special to the |
News predicts smooth sailing |
for the new administration. 1t |
says the Grant, Conkling and |
Blaine elements are all satisfied.
Garfield seems to have succeed
ed in gathering around him a
happy republican family.
We have received the Illus
strated Scientific News, pub
lished by Mum & Co., New
York. 1t is valuable publica-
ton and will be found instruc-
tive and entertaining to all
classes. Price only SI.5o a
year. Its title indicates its
character.
Jay GOULD and party were in
Galveston on Monday and were
interviewed by the Galveston
News to the extent of two col
umns and a half Of solid nonpa
riel. 1t appears that the great
railroaderis simply making a
tour of inspection. He did
10 unfold his plans to the news
PAPER man,
AT last the legislature has
succeeded in perfecting abill
% kill the bell punch. The
iecond week of the bell punch
proved it to be total failure,
md it is a further proof that un-
popular and feelish laws can
lot be enforced, no matter
What clamor may be made {
bout enforcing the law. The |
Sunday law is about as
Effective as the bell punch, /
The census bureau has COM I
'leted its report on mixed tex q
lie goods. It shows that the !
Xix produced in the United a
states during the year ending /
une 80, 1880, amounted in c
alue to S54s7I,463. The gross a
alue of the material and sup 6
lies used in manufacturing was F
22,37hsQQ. There are thres
undred and thirty-sight facto- r
les in the United States, en- :
Toying a capital of sIS,Soo,- q