Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Guiteau case is sill being
argued by Judge Porter.
THE very latest application of
electricity is for hiving bees.
ANOTHER paper has been
started at Calvert; it is called
the Weekly News.
The Burnett Bulletin has pro-
noted Guiteau, it speaks of
him as a colonel"
THIRTY-FIvE hundred China
men are now working on the
Southern Pacific railway.
The subject Of independent
papers is again being discussed:
but no new ideas are advanced.
ATLANTA, Ga, had a $780,
900 fire on Saturday last. Seven
fine business houses were bunr-
ed.
July Ist is set as the time
when San Antonio will be in di-
rect communication with San
Francisco.
GUITEAU made his speech to
the jury on Saturday last, and
at one point in it cried like
big booby.
THE Seguln Whooper is the
name of a paper published at
Scguin for glory, and it has
glorious name.
ACCORDING to the St. Louis
Post Dispatch the union depot
in that city is to be purchased
by Jay Gould.
GOVERNOR ROBERTS is still
confined to his room, not hav-
ing recovered from the effects
of being vaccinated.
GALVESTON is making ar
engagements for a grand Mardi
Gras carnival to take place on
Monday, February goth.
THE Mississippi legislature
has reelected senator L. Q. c.
Lamar to be his own successor
in the United States senate.
The Austin Statesman has
"hred" Nat Henderson out of
the democratic party and land
ed him in the republican camp.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Prus-
STA, will be S. years old on the
22d of March next and there is
talk of his abdicating on that
day.
The Vienna stock jobbers
have curious way of doing
business; when a financial panic
comes they take to committing
suicide.
The Philadelphia Times of
fered rewards of $4,000 for
jury hxers and succeeded in
sending half a dozen or more to
prison.
THE Dallas patent outside
publisher reprints the BANNERS
description of Chadwick's plan
tation and white labor without
any credit.
Hon. GARRISON N. POTTER,
died in New York on Monday
He was a member of congress
and a prominent democratic
politician.
LOCAL papers in local option
counties claim that local option
is successful, but still it is not
impossible to get whiskey in
said counties.
VIRGINIA has fund of $780,
900 intended for the establish
ment and maintenance of a nor
NAL school for the education of
colored teachers.
The BANNER received Louis
lana exchange the other day
with patent inside and only a
column and three-quarters of
home matter, all told.
THE Castroville Quill says:
We are afraid the Wash Jones
movement is "too utterly utter"
and it also says that the Hous-
ton Age is an esthetic paper.
The oldest Mason in Texas
is Capt. Hatch of Lavaca coun-
ty, who is now o5 years of age.
He was made a mason at Wash
ington seventy-fve years ago.
IT is no defnently settled
that Jay Gould has purchased
a controlling interest in the I'M
ion depot at ST. Louis and will
soon purchase the remainder Of
the stock.
THE Houston Posts special
edition to be issued March Ist
will be a mammoth one. The
Post says that one hundred
thousand copies have already
been ordered.
On Saturday last the Cumber-
land river, at GAINESVILLE, was
six inches above the great food
of IS47. Railroad travel is i'm
peded and a large scope Of
country is submerged.
THE senate committee on
pensions has unanimously