Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-01-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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New York now has a walk
ing match in progress.
The Columbus Citizen of last
week publishes the governors
message in full.
The track of the Santa Fe
road was within two miles of
Bolton on Monday night last.
MAJOR CLARENCE MAUcK, of
the Ninth Cavalry, died of con-
sumption at San Antonio on the
24th inst.
ACCORDING to the Giddings
Lone Star, the Rural Texan of
that place has suspended publ
ton.
TRINITY church, Philadelphia,
is to have a chime of bells cost
ing $4,000; they are now be-
ing made in Belgium.
JUDGE w. H. RUSSELL, of
Brownsville, is in Washington
in the interest of the Brazos
Santiago harbor improvement.
BoNFIRxs were started and
anvils were used as canons at
Marquee when the election of
Maxey to the senate was made
known.
THE Houston Age is of the
opinion that no salutary a meas
ure as the whipping post should
have more advocates than it has
at present.
SENATOR HoUsToN is a new
ly married man and he has in
trodiced a billin our legislature
to give the fair sex a chance for
state employment.
BERNHARDr will not come to
Texas this year; she goes from
New York to Mobile. At New
Orleans $1,000 worth of seats
have already been sold.
GREY VARNELL, a justice of
peace at Memphis, Tenn, was
murdered in his store last Tues
pay, about noon. 1t is supPos-
ed that a negro committed the
deed.
THE Dallas Herald calls upon
the legislature to pass a law to
prevent the seining of streams
and the wholesale destruction
of fish. We agree with the
Herald.
Hon. IRA B. SADDLER, rep
resentative from Brown county
died suddenly at Georgetown
on Tuesday, while en- route to
Austin. He was attacked by
paralysis.
IT is rumored at Dallas the
Chicago, Texas and Mexican
railway will be taken in hand
by the Gould combination and
pushed as fast as men and
money can do it.
A CHICAGO girl only ten
years old attempted to commit
suicide the other day because
her cruel parents refused to let
her attend a party when she
was i'll with a cold.
THE New Orleans Cotton
Exchange has bought the lot,
corner of Carondolet and Ora
vier streets about 100 # square,
for $4,000, and will soon put
a new building on it.
The Alexandria obelisk was
placed over the pedestal in
Central Park on Saturday. Be-
tween 5000 and 10000 people
witnessed the operation. There
was no funeral ceremony.
AN Austin special to the News
says the indications are, that I'M
less the Maxey men flicker, he
will be elected senator on the |
first ballot. There is no excite
ment over the contest.
The Sugar-Bowl, a journal
that has peculiar facilities for
gathering information upon the
subject, estimates the sugar
crop of Louisiana at not less
than 225, 900 hogsheads.
THE Columbus Citizen thinks
that it is not quantity Of laws
that are wanted-TeXas has
enough laws already, but quail
ity. Every member goes to
Austin with his pockets loaded
down with bills.
IT depends upon the citizens
of Bell county whether the NJ,
X. and T. will run a direct route
from Waco to Georgetown or
whether it will be run through
to Bolton. Right of way and
depot grounds are required.
LAST Sunday 81 German I'M
migrants arrived at Galveston
from New Orleans. They were
destined to various points in
the state, IS coming to Bren-
ham by the Santa Fe road, s
TO Caldwell and . to BellyIllc.