Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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its usual standard ofeXcellence.
VIM. PERRY, noted English
pugilist, died in London. on
Christmas eve from the effects
of drink.
In the vicinity of Fredericks-
burg, Va, on the Ist inst, the
thermometer was % degrees
below zero.
SEDALlA, Mo-, wants the cap
itol of the state located there.
Only those places want the cap
ital moved that expect to get
it.
The Dallas Herald let its
readers offlight on New Years;
it gave them a New Years edi-
toiial of only one column in
length.
THE Brownwood Banner has
completed the 4th year of its
! publication, and it is yet willing
to take wood on subscription at
any time.
MORE silver dollars have been
sent to Texas than 10 any other
state in the union. The cart
wheel or buzzard dollar is quite
popular here.
OLD Mother Skipton, many
years ago, wrote these words:
"The world to an end shall come
in eighteen hundred and eighty
one" Selah.
We believe we violate no
confidence when we say that
the work of recognizing the
democratic party of New York
City is still progressing.
IT appears from Jefferson
special to the Dallas Herald that
the people of Jefferson were tax
en- by surprise at the jury agree
ing in the Rothschild case.
THE Chicago Times of Satur-
day week was a gigantic paper
containing 100000 ems of
reading matter. An edition of
$4,000 copies was printed.
THE Bohemian Club of Hous-
ton went calling on new years
day andwere royalty entertained
at a number private residences.
Uncle Dan'l was of the party. !
EX-sHERIFF FORD, of Worth !
county, Georgia, shot and killed |
B. Story near Atlanta. There |
was mutual exchange Of shots, /
Ford being wounded three |
times. |
A PARTY of New York capt.
talists, interested with Jay Gould
in Texas and Mexican railway |
enterprises, passed through |
Dallas, en- route to Waco, on
Saturday last.
MEMBERS of the legislature
have already began to arrive at
Austin. Candidates for the
legislative Offices are increasing.
The new attorney generals hard
at work writing opinions.
The Globe Democrat says
the ridiculous rumor that there
will be no Ohio man in the cab
met is now started. A cabinet
without an Ohio man-it makes
people laugh to think of it
R. L. FULTON, once mayor
of Galveston, is announced as a
candidate at the ensuing cleo
ton in April against Leonard,
the prerent incumbent, who was
also mayor some years prior to
his last election.
THE News says that Calves
ton should have 5000 inhabit-
ants instead of $4,000, and
would have had them had
more liberal policy been pur-
sued in regard to deep water
and wharf charges.
Mr.. CoCKRELL's reelection
to the United States senate by
the legislature of Missouri is a
foregone conclusion. This is
the prediction of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, and it is violent
ly opposed to Cockrell.
THE state legislature will
meet on Tuesday next. The
question of disposing of that
surplus million dollars will be
one of the first things to engage
the attention of that body.
New YEARS day appears to
have been more or less observ-
ed throughout the state. In
some towns men got drunk and
in other towns the day passed
off the same as other work
days.
A PHILADELPHIA firm has on