Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-03-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

SIesS'
The Dallas Evening Blade is
defunct. 1t died a natural death
last Saturday.
The Bastrop Advertiser is
now certain thar Bastrop will
soon have a railroad.
LABOR troubles are gaining
in number and virulance
throughout the country.
WITH one accord every news
paper in the land speaks well Of
the late poet, Longfello%.
The Chinese of San Francisco
are said to be flooding Montana
with counterfeit silver coins:
EVERY county paper in the
state solicits correspondence
from the towns in its neighbour
hood.
SINCE it commenced the pub
LEGATION OF a daily the Tyler
Weekly Courier has been much
improved.
The last number of Colman's
Rural World contains an immi-
grafton review ofNavarro coun-
! ty, Texas.
LAST weeks GAINESVILLE Regis
ter is full of the proceedings of
the Stockmen's convention at
that place.
THE Lullng Signal has been
enlarged to a seven column pa
per and evinces other signs Of
prosperity.
BLANToN DUNCAN contributes
a column on the Mississippi
flood, etc., to the San Antonio
Express.
THE Seguin Times is very
anxious that Seguin and san
Antonio bein separate congress
sional districts.
| THE administration is work.
ing vigorously to prevent the
nomination of Cornell for gov
ernor OF New York.
THE Fort Worth Democrat
says the Seventeenth legislature
was bad enough but was not al
together without merit.
The Cherokee Argonaut says
it is opposed to prohibition,
that it takes "our'n" straight
and proposes to fight for it.
GRANTS son-in-law, Sartoris,
is now in Washington and will
accompany the ex-president on
his proposed southern tour.
The Fort Worth Democrat
Advance says the successor of
Governor Roberts will be Sui
Ross, of McLennan county.
The Meridian Blade thinks
that a prohibition amendment
will be submitted to the people
of Texas some time next year.
The Houston Age thinks
that if any shelving is to be
done that Governor Roberts
can up put very neat job him
self.
DEPOT grounds for the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad are being
bought near the public square
in Bolton and will cost nearly
$4,000.
THE Tyler Courier says Ire
land for governor would sound
well and give almost general
satisfaction to the tax payers of
Texas.
The Times-Democrat of Sum
day thinks the worst of the
flood is over and that more
eerming news may be ex-
pected.
THE papers should cease
bothering themselves about
Nat 9. Henderson. He is abb
solutely able to take care of
himself.
ScovILLE will retire from the
Guiteau case as soon as the bill
of exceptions is filed. 1t will
be several weeks before the bill
is completed.
The San Antonio Light
thinks that tobacco is nearly as
great an evil as alcohol and that
both should be prohibited by
the government.
CONGRESS has been in session
nearly four months and no bus
mess of general Importance has
yet been disposed of. The re-
publicans are in the majority.
REPORTS are out in Washing
ton that either Newcomb, of the
Light, or Seimering of the Free
Press, will succeed Manning as
postmaster at San Antonio.
The Bellville Times man is
Citing poetical as the season
advances. He says: "The
ETHEREAL mildness of spring, has
come. and the loquacious 'skee-
ter is heard IN the land"
The San Antonio Express
says the friends of Governor
Roberts would almost elect him
dictator, emperor or what not,
by alteration. They are piling
it on a little too thick.
TANNER, the starvist, is now
trying another experiment.
seeing how long he can do
without drinking. Some men
have to drink every quarter of
an hour.
The Cleburne Chronicle thinks
that what remains of the public
lands should be withdrawn from
the market altogether except to