Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-06-08
EDITORIAL MOTT

HE state OF Pennsylvania
mands Of the Standard oil &C
pany 100000 as taxes.
MORE than half the ncwSps
pers of the world are printed j
the English language.
DAvITr and Dillon, the Iris
patriots, will sail from Liverpool
for New York on Thursday.
THERE is now over one hun
dred thousand silver dollars in
the state treasury at Austin.
The Egyptian minister of f.
nances is reported to have gone
insane through fear of violence.
THE Caldwell Register offers
to insert the announcement of
candidates for matrimony at re-
duced rates.
J.. R. JONES made the first
through shipment of lumber
from shreveport to chihuahua,
Mexico, on the 3Ist ult.
KANSAS boasts of a million
and a half acres of winter wheat
four feet high, which will proba-
bly, yield 6o,ooo,ooo bushels.
THE Waco Examiner learns
that Col. Bob Taylor will likely
be the republican candidate for
congress in Culberson's district.
THE Greenville Banner re-
marks that "a man never re-
ICES how little property people
have till he becomes tax asses
sor."
CoNKLING publishes letters
showing that he canvassed for
reelection contrary to his own
wishes and at solicitation of
friends.
THE Mexican soldiers, it is
said, receive from the govern
ment $500 for each scalp taken
from marauding bands of In
dians.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among
the colored people Of Nashville,
Tenn, looking to the early es-
tablishment of a cotton factory
in that city.
A NEGRO charged with a GRIM
inal assault upon white woman
was taken from jail at Fairfield,
S. c., and hanged by a mob of
disguised men.
IN the court of appeals at
Austin, the case of Restor VS.
McNutt ct al, from Washington
county, the motion to withdraw
transcript was granted.
ACCORDING to the statement
of the associated banks of New
York, they now have on hand
S3,o5I,Ioo in excess of all legal
requirements.
The republicans claim a vic
tory in the Oregon election on
Tuesday, by from 500 to 1900
majority. The democrats claim
a majority in the legislature.
OFFICERS and clerks in the
department at Washington have
been ordered to come down
with two per cent. oftheir sala-
ries for campaign purposes.
Mrs. SPRAGUE has been
granted a divorce from her hus-
band, and Roscoe Conkling
need have no further fears Of the
contents of that old shotgun.
MCLEAN, the man who at
tempted to shoot Queen Vic
toria, has been acquitted, after
a full trial, on the ground of in
sanity, of which there is little
doubt.
The Terrell Star is one of the
most industriously edited week
lies that comes to our table; and,
then again, its views are perfect
ly sound on the political situa-
ton.
In the United States court, at
Topeka, Kansas, last week, ten
Kickapoo Indians became nat |
uralized citizens of the United
States, under the new law re-
Gently passed by congress.
THE contest for the democrat |
ic nomination for the office of |
Congressman at large from Ar
kansas is very warm and they |
seem to be about evenly divided |
between five or six aspirants.
The Kansas City Indicator
estimates the cattle drive from
Texas to Kansas this year at
fifty thousand in excess of last
year, and predicts for the stock
men an increased profit on their