Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-11-03

Austin from Washington. He
reports that nothing is definite
| ly known as to Ex-Governor
Davis chances for a cabinet
position.
ONE might suppose that all
editors are honest. but they are
not. ] NJ. Oliver, editor ofthe
Webster, Georgia, Dispatch, is
in Jail on the charge of being
engaged in an extensive swim
die.
GEORGE MEYER, a wealthy
citizen of Sedalia, Mo-, left his
home last February to visit re-
latives in Ohio. He never reach
cd there and all trace ofhim from
the time he got on the cars at
Sedalia has been lost.
! The cashier of the Mechanics
Bank at Newark, N. J., has
proved.to be defaulter in a large
amount and now the papers say
that he will not go to the peni-
tertiary as less than half his
stealings will keep him out.
THE Dallas Times wants to
know if Roberts Texaswould not
have been pronounced a good
book if the governor had not
been suggested as a senatorial
candidate. Opinions as to the
merits Of the book are very
conflicting.
The handy and tree use of
the pistol is becoming very
common III all parts of the
country. At Laurenceville, ILL.,,
last Tuesday two MEN quarreled
about girl whom both were
counting. One whipped the
other and then shot and killed
him as he was running away.
w. L. COLLINS, the man who
got up great railroad excur-
sion in Texas in 1873 and had
trouble with the railroads at
Hannibal, is now in New Or
leans getting up an excursion to
Atlanta. Perhaps some of Collins
Texas excursIonists will 60 over
to New Orleans and join his
excursion.
Col. WILL LAMBERT, well
known to newspaper men
throughout Texas, has entered
the political arena; he has
taken the first step to become a
politician by announcing as a
candidate for alderman in the
9th ward at Austin. His plat
form is, mo doubling up on Of
icers. A fair chance around |
everybody's home"
A MAN named Oyster was
fireman of the government
printing house at Washington.
He wanted to be public printer
but was fired out" and now he
seeks revenge by telling of i'm
moral practices in the printing !
Office. So long as he held a
position he kept as dumb as an
oyster, and now that he is not |
no one will believe him.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has lat
terly been spending a good
deal of his time with Gen. Grant,
who is looked upon as his con-
ident adviser. The New York
Sun says that Arthur ought to
spend a great deal of time with
Grant and it cynically remarks:
From Gen. Grant, Gen. Ar
thur can learn nearly everything
that a president ought not to
do"
PROSPECTIVE candidates for
the governorship of Texas are
beginning to be numerous and
the Navasota Tablet is impelled
to remark that, "the fate of the
gentleman from Navarro whose
boom spent its force with
scarcely a reverberation, doesn't
seem to deter other patriots
from coming to the front and
offering to step into the old al
calde's brogans.
PROHIBITION is to be made
an issue in the next general
and this being the
case the Waco Examiner calls
The attention of the prohibi-
:ionists to the reportof the cen
;us in connection with crime in
which state seems to
lave a much larger proportion
If criminals than the anti-pro-
libition states, and fully as
much drunkenness as any of
hem,