Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

HANCOCK county, illinois,
people paid over $1,000 for dog
taxes last year.
REPRESENTATIVE MONEY has
introduced a bill TO modify the
postol money order system.
So far there is only three can
didates in the field for the office
of chaplain Of the legislature.
ABOUT $50 or 500 coopers at
Peoria, H., have struck because
their bosses refused to furnish
truss hoops.
NEARLY all the contracts for
grading the St. Louis and Tex
as Narrow Gauge railroad from
Waco to Corsicana have been
let.
The Sth on January was eel
ebrated at New Orleans by a
general suspension of business
and a grand parade by the mil
itary and firemen.
THERE is now in the United
State army LII commissioned
officers who rose from the ranks;
IL are in the staff corps, and I27
in the field and line.
THE Jefferson Democrat says
it has not met with a success
beyond its cXpatations when
first starting. The Jefferson
ians should support it literally.
One of the new engines for
the Santa Fc road arrived in
Galveston on Saturday, another
is looked for every day, and
FIVE more are expected in Feb
ruary.
GEORGIA is gradually arrang-
ing a millennium of its own. The
new constitution of that state
provides that the legislature
shall meet but once in two years
and then sit but forty days.
A MoMEMToUs question has
been amicably settled; it was a
game of checkers at Senterfeit,
for the championship of west
Texas, Col. Messenger, of LAM
pasas wears the champion belt.
The stockmen's convention
met at Fort Worth on the 10th
inst. Dealers from all portions
Of western and northwestern
Texas and from St. Louis and
Kansas City are in attendance.
The special to the News from
all points in northern Texas re-
port more cold weather and
snow storms on Sunday last,
AT Dallas the mercury was
down to 8 degrees above zero.
HEREAFTER the United States
Signal Service will give notice
of approaching northers for the
benefit of Texas stockmen. 1t
will be of great benefit to large
sheep owners on the Rio
Grande.
AND now the weekly papers
are complaining that there are
some of their subscribers who
haven't paid up for last year.
All such subscribers should
pay up at once and make the
papers happy.
AT Fredericksburg, Va, last
Sunday there was a very heavy
snow storm damaging orchards
and shade trees. At Concord;
N. H., at the same time there
was fourteen inches of snow
delaying trains.
Hon. BLANroN DUNCAN, of
Kentucky, announces to the
world the approach of another
glacial period. If the world is
to be destroye it certainly makes
little differ whether it is froze
out or burned up.
The anniversary of the battle
of New Orleans was celebrated
in Philadelphia by a meeting of
the association of the veterans
of 1872; only seven were in at
tendance and most of them were
accompanied by friends.
The opening up of the Co.
lumbus and La Grange tap
railroad, killed Ledbetter nearly
as dead as a heavy frost kills
gourd vine. Giddings will
also lose considerable trade on
account of the new road.
THE liquor dealers of Dallas
county have saved upwards of
$4,000 in state and county tax
es since the bell punch law has
been in operation. How much
the city of Dallas has lost by
the operation has not been stat
ed.
THE Times tells what Bell
vile needs-it is much easer to
tell what a town needs than to
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