Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

staunch believer IN JeferSonian
democracy.
! The loss by the floods on the
Mississippi river are estimated
at 100000.
NINE miles of track on the
Austin and Northwestern rail-
way were laid last week.
A SUBSCRIPTION list for the
Garfield monument fund has
been opened in San Antonio.
TIE Hampstead Review is
much improved under the man.
agement ofMr. Jno D. Mooney.
! Ex-Gov. MOSES photograph
now adorns the rogues gallery
in New York and bears the num-
Der 1901.
The Texas Siftings is getting
in new type and will soon make
its appearance in a brand new
dress. 1t has grown very rapid
ly.
R. M. SMITH has sold the
Brazos Pilot to Mr.. L. w.
Clark, a lawyer of Bryan, who
will hereafter edit and publish
it.
The Little Mesquiter, OF
Mesquite, is buEzing at a lively
rate, it is..now a six column home
paper and is well patronized by
advertisers.
The dept statement issued
on the list instant shows the de-
crease in the public debt to
be sI6,462,926.75 during the
month of March.
GUrTEAU has sold the suit of
clothes he wore when he assas-
sinated the president and those
he wore during the trial, to a
circus man for $3.50.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has par
doned Conant, the Boston bank
cashier, who was given seven
years Imprisonment for getting
away with bank funds.
IT is said that the negroes in
the overlooked districts abso-
lutely refuse to work at any
price, and that they depend
upon the government for ra-
tons.
The Galveston Journal says
that tightening might strike and
Newcomb, of San Antonio, be
elected to congress. He has
about as much chance as he has
of being struck by lightning.
SUNDAYS Galveston News
was a ten column paper and
comes under the head of a
blanket sheet. The enlarge
ment was to accommodate spe-
cial advertisers in the Sunday
issue.
The Santa ,Fe railway has
surveyed two lines from Nava-
sofa and the Tablet hears so
many rurnors about what will
finally be done that it has now
concluded to await develop
ments.
COMPTROLLER Brown has fir
ed a ten column article at the
people ofTexas and the Waco
Examiner wants to know what
he people have done to Brown
hat they should be thus sorely
afflicted.
The Marshall Herald says
he Brennan BANNER complains
hat papers steal its para
,raphs. The Herald is in err
or, we have long since got ,
'ver complaining about such a
natter as that.
THE Houston Deutsche Post I
las bloomed into a daily. c.
;. B. Medlenker, its publisher,
vas, for several years, connect a
d with the Volksbote of this +
ity and has a good many Y
riends in BRENNAN. e
The death of the Blade at a
,allas seems to have given the T
lines Of the same town a vast o
cal of concern. The Blade P
as an unknown paper and its
emise created no more stir in I
lie world than that of a fly. is
A WASHINGTON special to :
lie Galveston News, OF the I'd !'
st, says, that in the Davis II
ussell contest there will be d.
D change..either way until the q
apartment is satisfied as to all D
iarges and counter charges, g
The Austin Statesman of
nnday publishes an open let til
r from Comptroller Brown to lie
overnor Roberts. Judged by til
) length the letter is a SPLEEN q
d one-there are ten columns Pr
lid-of it. Few editors will re
we tive to read it. at
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