Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.
ARKANSAS has six newspaper
editors in her legislature.

editors in her legislature.
The Columbus Times wants
Texas divided into four states.
The Grand Lodge of the Odd
Fellows of the state is now in
! session at Austin.
Senator Hampton has drop
| ped his clutches and walks wei
with a brand-new wooden leg.
Hon. BLANToN DUNCAN, Of
San Antonio, has written a
lengthy letter on light" to
the New York Star.
NFw ORLEANS now has a re-
publican paper called the Re-
publican; it is published weekly
in the interest of its party.
The governor omises to
restore Barney Hobby to citi-
zenship; his term of imprison-
ment will expire on Friday
next.
Mr.. BLAINE has made the
solemn declaration that he does
not know what party will con-
troll the senate after the 9TH Of
March next.
The San Augustine Saxon
approves Of the pistol law as
passed by the senate; it thinks
the Imprisonment clause is an
excellent one.
A DISPATCH from Cincinnati
to the New York Sta,, states
that the defence of Abe Roth
schild was conducted at the ex-
pense of $4,000.
FROM advanced sheets of
the census report we find Wash
ington county credited with
total population of27,5S4; white
12,S55, colored I4,72o.
The president has sent in the
name of Adam G. Mallory to be
collector of the port of Calves
ton. The Houston Post asks,
who is Mr.. A. G. Mallory.
Georgia is rapidly developing
a great lumber business. The
estimated product for this year
will be 3oo,ooo,oo feet, valued
at more than S5,ooo,ooo
GARFIELD found the Presiden-
cyof the United States in his
stocking Christmas morning.
Hancock found only an honest
mans foot in his when he put
1t on.
Bolton, Caldwell, Brennan,
Kenney and Bellville are all red
hot for the machine shops Of
the Santa Fe railway. Time
will prove which of them is to
draw the prize.
How Garfield will treat the
Grant Element" is the heading
Of a Washington dispatch.
With whisky straight, we should
'ay, if he consults the true tas-
:es of the element.
AT Coultersville, Randolph
county, Illinois, the people are
n feverish state of excite
nent to determine whether or
lot a billiard table shall be
placed in their midst.
THOMAS CARLYLE, one of the
'est known English authors,
lied in London on Saturday
asst at the age of IS years.
lis works are known wherever
he English language is spoken.
LAST weeks Rockdale Mes
enger is intensely interesting
4
D people living outside the cor
crate limits Of that town-it is
evoted almost wholly to the
utilization ofthe Rockdale city
rdinances. A.;
The citizens of Bastrop are
OF fully aware of the benefits
fwell conducted free schools or ;
icy would have voted for the S
,wn to take charge of the f
;hools, as it was the vote result {
ID in tie. t
THERE is reason to believe !;
lat Mr.. Chester A. Arthur, :
&c president elect, was born in n
anada and hence Is not eligi- t
e for the position. Mr.. Ar II
er says that he was born in -
e United States;
The Waco Examiner asks, II
I'VE we an aristocracy? and it r
savers the question affirma- ii
rely, saying that the rich men t,
the country compose the ar y
:ocFacy and eontFeol lsgisla- h h
ton. -
PROF. RELY, the entomolo- C;
I of the agricultural depart
onceived a new plaa l.,
Re or less W