Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Light is writing up the business
men of its city.
The locomotive whistle is
now heard in Bolton and Bolton
wants the machine shops.
FRANK MAGRATH a negro,
was handged at Georgetown, S.
c., last Friday for murder.
THE Rural Texan, lately pub
lished at .Giddings, is to be re-
moved to Llano and resurrected.
SITTING Bull is reported to
be at Milk Creek. 1t is not
long since he was reported to
have surrendered.
A CONVENTION of stock men
is now in session at Austin dis
cussing and proposing amend
ments TO the stock law.
THERE was no session of eth
er branch Of the legislature on
Saturday, the day being devo-
ted to committee work.
THE Relton Journal is in ia
vor of the criminal laws of our
! state being so "coopered up"
that no guilty man can escape.
CANDIDATES for municipal Of
fees are coming to the front in
Galveston by making their wants
known through the columns of
the News.
A GERMAN servant girl in
London, England, saturated her
clothes in coal oil and then APP
piled a match; she burned to
death.
De LEssEPs says Grants ca
nal scheme is impracticable and
Grant says the same of De
Lesseps', but the latter has all
the money backing.
MAxEY does not suit the Eve
ming Light. Governor Davis is
the man who should been cleo
ted to the senate according to
its way of thinking.
The Evening light says that
Dan McGary of the Houston
Age and Norton of the Dallas
Norton's intelligencer, ought to
go into partnership.
The farmers OF Tarrant coun-
ty held a convention at Fort
Worth, the object being to or
ganize an association for mu-
tual improvement and protec-
ton.
The. Houston Age thinks
that inasmuch as w. H. VAN
derbilt does no; suffer for the
lack of fuel in this world, "may
be he won't in the world to
come"
DAKOTA territory wants to be !
admitted into the union as a |
state, although her population
is only ninety thousand. 1t is
thought the petition will be re-
jected.
THE Huntsville Item thinks
that its townspeople should
feel happy as they get their
in a fluid form, while
in Dakota it is served up in
chunks.
The board of aldermen of
New York city have been at a
dead lock ever since their first
on the third of January.
Fifteen ballots were taken with
out electing president.
JUDICIARY committee No. I,
agreed to report favorably on
the bill to change the time for
holding the general election to
the Ist Monday in August 1882,
and every two years thereafter.
TANKERsLEY's Houston mon
lment bill, which was recommit-
ed, has received favorable
'eport and will be passed when
t comes up before the house
lgain, says a special dispatch
o the Telegram.
Mr.. STEWARDS joint resolu-
ion amending the constitution
o as to exempt from taxation {
Ill capital invested in manu- s
acturing enterprises for a ,
'eriod of ten years. will be re- :
'orted upon favorably.
The Democratic senators q
eld caucus last Saturday; c
he subject OF congressional re- :
pportionment was discussed, !:
nd it was generally agreed that
ONE bill for that purpose ought :
o be passed by this congress. t
JOHN MINSTREL, a native of i
'etersburg, Va, died in that E
ity few days ago at the age
f So years. His last request .
'as that his body should not y
e shrouded, but simply placed I
a winding sheet, and that no il
neral services should be held. c