Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1881-09-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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of recovery. w
The indications are that the
constitutional amendments have
been defeated.
JEFF DAVIS arrived in Lon.
den on lhc 9Th inst. He is moi
in good health. 49,
The president continues to
improve although he is not yet
regardedas out of danger.
AND now it is said a Mas
sachusetts man has named his
newborn baby-boy Guiteau.
EX-GOVERNOR YARMOUTH, oil
radical fame, is one of the larg-
est sugar planters in Louisiana,
HASTINGS, Mich, has an cpl
demic of diphtheria, there be-
ing $50 cases at last accounts.
IT is stated that there is in
New York 500 persons who
are worth over 100000
each.
THE British steamer. St.
Louis, which sailed from Liver
pool on Monday had 357 i'm
migrants for Texas.
The prohibition convention
lately held in New York was
presided over by a druggist
who sells whiskey every day.
The president sat up in an
easy chair far about half an
hour on Tuesday. He. may
now be regarded as out of dan
ger.
Mr.. ARTHUR, vice-president,
was in his young days a school
teacher and in 1870 was the
principal Of a large academy in
Vermont.
i COOKING is not such aeon
temptible business after all.
Delmonico, the celebrated New
York restauranteur, paid his
head cook $4,000 per year.
The San Antonio Light
thinks the state should license
robbers as well as drummers.
1t is very likely there is some
sarcasm in the Lights idea.
Bolton, Waco's nearest
neighbor, only gave ten votes
for Waco, and now that it is all
over the Dallas Herald rises
and asks, "why is this thusP"
The Jefferson limp is
greenback paper and in view of
the failure OF fall gardens it re-
commends its readers to catch
and dry all the lizards possible.
THE San Antonio Light says
that it proposes riticising the
official acts OF Capt. Bob Nc
Farland and Judge Turner
whenever it thinks they need
it.
The Cincinnati Enquirer puts
it in this way: Flipper has
only been trying to show that
he has all the accomplishments
Of white men for official posi-
ton.
New HAVEN, Conn, has an
other sensation in the arrest of
eX-mayor Shelton and DR..
Brown, one on a charge Of Sc
duction and the other for abor-
ton.
The Luling Signal says that
when any enterprise is started
having tor its object the welfare
of the town the largest property
owners touch it as lightly as
possible.
The permanent location Of
the Sunset machine shops has
been postponed for the present
and in the meantime temporary
shops will be erected at Har-
risbprg;
IT is reported that a vein four
feet wide has been discovered |
in the Central Hills, that con- |
tains more precious metal than
ry'artz and is said to be worth
q.--
sI5o, 900 to the ton,
HENRY WArTERsoN suggests
that legislators be paid by the
year instead of by the day. |
They would then finish their
business in the shortest posi-
bic time and go home.
The Brazoria Independent
says that the surveyors of the
Palmer-Sullivan were at Oyster
creek last Tuesday aad that It
is understood that the road will |
cross the Brazos at Column
Dia. |
Thomas NEAL, a madman, on
the morning of the I'd inst, at a
mechanics boarding house in
Chicago. got up out Of his bed
and shot five men, one after the
other. One or two of them are
fatally injured. |
AT Fort Smith, Ark, last
Friday, five men, three white
md two Indians, were hanged
or murders committed IN the
erritory. All FIVE of them were
certain that they were going
straight to heaven.
n MOB of one hundred men
ode into the town of Dardan-
lie. Ark, a few days ago and
aking out two prisoners, put
opes around their necks, drag
red them some distance and
lung them on trees.