Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

will run a line from Bolton to
Georgetown.
ABILL to revive the whipping
post for wife beaters is likely to
pass the Indiana legislature.
THE Waco Examiner favors
May as the time for the meeting
Of the State Press Association
at Houston.
The Dallas Times says it is
rumored that the Galveston
News will establish a branch
paper at that point.
THE Bolton Daily Journal is
not yet an assured fact-the re-
quisite number of subscribers
has not been obtained.
HALF-sHELL newspapers are
by no means popular with their
readers or with the newspapers
that get out full sheets.
In San Antonio, according to
the Express, the newspaper
with the least stufing in its
purse generally goes up.
|, ACCORDING to the census re-
turns Texas had 2,IsS,5s4 acres
in cotton in 1880, and the crop
is given as 7SS,6o7 bales.
The Maine excursionits rep
resenting $4,000, 900. bought
IS lots in Baird City on the
Texas and Pacific railway.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has been
a successful practitioner Of the
law; he has saved $780, 900 out
of the fees he has received.
The Paris North Texan las.
week contained a two column
communication on the necessi-
ty of a prohibitory liquor law.
A DAILY line of stages is to be
run fromSan Antonio to Laredo
and from the end of the railroad
as it is completed beyond that
point.
ACCORDING to the New York
Sun some of the temperance
advocates in Kansas are dis
playing gaod deal more zeal
than sense.
ALL the grading force that
can be obtained is at work on
the Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as extension, between Waco
and Hlllsboro.
The county clerks office at
Marshall was entered the other
night and all the ballots cast at
the late election were stolen end
made away with.
The election fraud cases in
Harrison county were disposed
of in the Federal court at Jeff
erson by filming 46 men who
plead guilty 81 each.
THE people at Dallas had
quite an interesting time in en-
tertaining the Maine capitalists
who are making a tour of in
spection through Texas.
SAN ANTONIO has organized
a merchants exchange with thir- |
ty members who have paid an
imitation fee of $50 each, and
monthly dues of ten dollars.
The Giddings Lone Star
thinks that the next tilt the
governor takes at Milan Hubby |
will be a Communication, of his
to life Imprisonment.
Now that Bolton has got the
Santa Fe railroad it wants an
other road, and yet another I'M
til it becomes a great railroad
center like Indianapolis or
Houston.
A WASHINGTON special to the
News says there is the most Bit
ter opposition to the river and
horbor bill by its enemies. 1t
IS thought that the bill will go
through. -
A NUMBER of state legislator
IS have passed resolutions of
sympathy for the Irish people.
These resolutions are very
cheap and the Irish people are
doubtless profoundly grateful.
The Waco Examiner wants
he Galveston Civilian to send
{ a blank sheet as it is SO badly
printed that it can't be read.
This is the first time we have
heard of the Civilian for months.
The "big devil of the Cald-
veil Register was sloshing about
generally last week. which, says
hat paper, accounts for the
absence of funny business"
Caldwell is very quiet in a local
way.
THE Navasota Tablet is OPP
,osed to the state taking any
BART in inducing immigration to
Texas. An economical admin
stration of public affairs it
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