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

loI. a NaGa4 AtSCCnudll VI HIS
has been given a clerkship in
tn -4-- Department. but
he viii always be open to the
suspicion that he is only Il neph-
CIV of the IroquOis senator from
Illinois.
The New York Tribune, a
paper owned and controlled by
Jay Gould, predicts financial
crisis at no distant day, as the
result of railroad speculations.
lnasmuch as Gould is the king
of the railroad spectators it is
reasonable to suppose that the
Tribune speaks by authority.
THE Washington Post sug-
gests that the large number OF
murders committed during the
Christmas week was due to the
fact that bad eggs were used in
egg-nog. Either this or the |
cold wave must account for it.
There has never been a bloodi- .
err holiday week in the history
of the country.
The Waco Examiner says:
the oldest inhabitant is just now
in his glory all over Texas, and
swears it is the coolest weather
ever experienced. He does it
regular every winter, but the
earnestness with which he as
serts it this time renders it high
| ly probable that he speaks the
truth.
n PRESS dispatch in the Gal
weston News is headed, An
Editor Passed to Paradise" 1t
records the death OF Col. r. H.
English, editor and proprietor Of
the Selma Daily Times. One
thing is certain, and that is, all
good editors ought to go to par ..
adise they work hard enough
in this world to deserve prefer
ment.
THE Denison News is dis
posed to be practical in its
views. 1t says if the churches
which annually spend large
sums of money in endeavoring
to convert the heather in for
eign lands would spend por-
ton of their money on the poor
who are starving under their
very noses, they would haye !
the satisfaction of knowing that |
their efforts were appreciated. |
The Denison Herald is right |
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in saying that, drunkenness
should never be allowed as an
excuse for crime. 1t should be |
made a crime of itself, and the
punishment severe. The idea
that man should surround him
self with, and fit every muscle
of the body and every emotion
! of the heart for, the perpetra-
ton of crime and not be held
responsib BILE for his acts, is ab-
surd.
Ed. ). l-OCKETT who once
left Brenham under cloud,
and who turned up in Houston,
where he was extensively adver-
tised for crookedness, has now
made his escape from Waco I'M
der about the same circumstan-
ces that he left BRENNAN and
Houston. A special to the
Galveston News reports that
Lockett sold goods for St. Louis
and New Orleans merchants
and has taken a trip with the
proceeds. Ed. S. Lockett is evil
IDENTIFY a hard case.
THE Chicago Tribune thinks
it worth while to show that
Weaver's claim that the green
back party has been gaining
strength lately rests on no solid
foundation. 1t shows that the
greenback party in the last two
years has fallen off in votes in
every state ofthe union, the de-
crease in ten states being 2SA.-
37I, the average loss being 90
per cent. Ii Weaver's party
keeps on growing at that rate
there will be none of it left in
1882.
II seems that there is trouble
brewing at Bolton in regard to
the Santa Fe railway. The
company, according to the
Waco Telephone, propose max
ing a town at Birdsdale on the
main line, eight miles east of
Bolton and leaving Bolton out
on a branch road by itself. The
subscribers to the subsidy are
beginning to kick as they ex-
pected Bolton to be on the main
line OF the road. The Tele-
phone claims to have got its in