Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-10-06
EpIToRI.ENOTES.

SENATOR NANCY mas lett LOT
Washington to be on hand at
the opening of the senate.
JUICE Moore, OF the state
supreme court, dangerously i'll
at Austin, is reported as much
better.
THE Galveston Journal thinks
that physicians should be COM
PEELED to write their prescriP-
tons in English.
THE official report OF the
postmortem examination Of the
body of President Garfield has
been published. .
The city council of Austin
has at last granted the right of
way asked by the Houston and
Texas Central railway,
| GuITEAu has been indicted
by the grand jury for the muir
der OF James A. Garfield. His
trial will be next in order.
KING KALAKUA will be in Chi
cago on the 9th inst, en- route
for San Francisco, where he
will take a steamer homeward
bound.
GOVERNOR ROBERTS isreport-
ed as being opposed to the use
! of his name for a third term and
as favoring Judge Devinc for his
successor.
THE Navasota Tablet insists
that Sabine Pass is the natural
harbor Of Texas and that it
must of necessity become a
great seaport.
The Central railroad has re-
scinded its special rate on cot
ton from Corsicana and now
the compress and cotton men
are out of sorts.
THE question with the au-
thorities at Washington is how
to get Guiteau to and from the
court without having him
mobbed or murdered.
ALBERT BISHOP, city marshal
of Hearne, TeXes, has rendered
his services to the authorities at
Washington to execute Guiteau
in case of his conviction.
COUNSEL for ex-postmaster
general Brady, under Indict-
ment for Star Route swindling,
have pied a motion to quash
the indictments against him.
In Canada they never have
any Indian outbreaks or Indian
troubles. The government and
its agents deal honestly with
the red man and they have no
differences.
| PINKEY, the new horse dis
ease, has become epidemic in
the stables at New Orleans.
One street car line in the city
has eighty horses under treat
ment for it.
On Sunday night the Calves
ton Lycemu debated the ques-
ton. whether Whipping
posts should be adopted as a
punishment for minor criminal
offenders"
LAST Sunday mosning one of
the Skinner boys, confined in
the Sherman Jail for theft and |
on other charges, made his es-
cape but was soon recaptured |
by the jailer.
The republicans in New
York state seem to be divided |
into Conkling and anti Conk-
ling factions. If they will con-
tinue divided honest men NAV |
get their dues.
+. BERNARD, ESQ.,, of Calves
ton, writes to the Colorado
Citizen suggesting that school
and university funds be invest
cd in a state bank or in the
banking business.
THE Fort Worth News says
that the Democrats railroad
map of Fort Worth had very
depressing effect on the aver
age Dallas man, who squirms
at the right of a railroad map.
The governor has pardoned
six more boys out of the peni-
Tertiary; none were over fifteen
years of age. A state reforma-
tory for youthful of off tenders
is one OF the needs of the day.
WoRK on the Gonzales tap
road has been commenced and
the Gonzales Inquirer and ev-
cry other man and woman is
happy at the prospect Of Con
zales soon becoming a railroad
town.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, last
Saturday night a prisoner con-
fined in Jail murdered the jailer. |
Five thousand indignant citi-
zens burst open the jail took
the murderer out and lynched
him.
F. J. MOSES, governor of
South Carolina in the palmy
days of radicaiism was arrested
and locked up in New York
the other day on the charge of
swindling an ex-hotel keeper
opt Of SIS.
A LONG information against
eX-assistant postmaster general
and other Star-Routers
aisp fled in the court at
kon. 1t begins to look
Isiness was meant ;
,onOas ~ tho |