Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-02-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

thing in the nature ola grand
Legislative spree?
The Apache Indians have
been on the war path in Chihua-
hua ; they have been killing wo-
men and children.
HARRY HUNTER, the Lone
Fishermen, who played that
character with Rice's Evangc-
line combination, is dead.
TENNEssEE now carries offthe
palm for wholesale lynching. ~
few days ago five murdcrcrs
were lynched at Springfield in
that state.
The Gonzales Inquirer says
it is a long way ahead Of its
patronage. 1t is a most excel
lent paper and should have a
most liberal support.
Two hundred men and teams
| are now at work on the road OF
the Missori Pacific railroad be-
tween Hillsboro and the Nc
Lehman county line.
The Flatonia Argus thinks
the law regarding tax collec-
tors is need of amendment and
that they should be held to a
stricter accountability.
Col. CASH, Of South Carroll
ma, who last summer murdered
Col. VIM. Shannon in a duel,
has been indicted by the grand
jury at Darlington in that state.
THE twenty-second of Feb
ruary was celebrated in Rich
mond, Va, by general parade
Of the military. This is the first
celebration of the day IN that
city since 1861.
The Brazoria Independent is
doing splendid work in bring
ing to the sugar interests of its
section of the state prominently
into notice. Sugar raising is
very profitable.
FIRE AT McDADx.-Tuesday
morning there was fire at Nc
Dade destroying four houses.
The losers are Thomas Bishop,
Nash, Barbee and Cohen Bros.
No other particulars received.
THE Bonham News, unlike
other papers, rejoices over the
defeat of the legal advertising
bill. 1t labors under the i'm
preston that the bill is intend
ed as subsidy to starved news
papers.
The Waco Telephone says
temperance people should take
care to submit the. temperance
amendment to a vote in hot
weather as it is much easer to
swear off in hot than in cold
weather.
For the information of the
Waco Telephone we would
state that Baylor University is
one of the Oldest incorporated
institutions of the kind in the
state, having been incorporated
in 1874.
THE Denison News enters the
arena as weather prognostica-
tor and it predicts a cold storm
between the 27th inst. and the
4th prox. If it fails on this it
agrees to lose its reputation as
a weather prophet.
Missouri has published
Handbook" for immigrants
and is having it generally dis
tributed in other states. Appli-
cations are frequently received
from Europe, Texas should
have a similar publication.
THE Waco Telephone says it
has had little to say about the
advertising bill, because it was
not sure that anything it might
say would have any influence
with the average legislator. 1t
however, fully approves of the
bill.
AFTER weeks and weeks of
balloting the Pennsylvania leg
stature has elected John S.
Mitchell, of Tioga county, to
the. United States senate. This
is regarded as a complete defeat
of the Cameron dynasty in
Pennsylvania.
J. TESTER, of New York, a
travelling spirtualist gave a clair
seance at Danville, Va,
a few days ago. He had a large
audience and was pronounced
a fraud. An affidavit charging
him with swindling was sworn
out, but before the officers
could catch Foster he fled.
The present seems to be an
FRA of railroad building in Texas
here being more miles of rail-
Dad in course of construction