Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

IS new weekly
Press, it seems
institution.
Texas and
NC gone to
Ter railroad
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money.
II is rul
evening pars
started at HoS
says Houston
start paper. .ss E
HIRAM o. An =
projectors of the j. Z & +
with Cyrus w. \
died at Belfast, Nj
day aged 81 years.
PUBLIC sympathy
and child of Maso1
over $4,000. II
the people of this cQy
great partiality for -
DALLAS is rapids
a metropolitan city.
day night there was
match between two
ais at Craddock's !.
The Massachusetts
has passed a billauthd
licensing of women t
law, and no doubt is
ed it will be signed b
| ernor.
II is regarded as h3
tain that the bill prov
compulsory retirene.
officers at the age of6
forty years service will
senate.
THE San Antonio 4 s
says it is understood that
Houston Age will be eleeS
oragan of the prohibition part
when the convention meets on |
the goth inst.
On Saturday the 18TH inst the
visible supply of cotton for the
world was 2,o4o,679, of which
I,o2I,o24 bales is American,
against 3,o23,I4S and 2,o55,64S
respectively, last year.
THE Galveston Journal of
Commerce advises the governor
to veto the bill reducing rail
road fares, and it intimates that
he will do so if he possesses
a backbone of sufficient rigidity.
PILGRIM of the Gonzales In
quirer is opposed to whiskey,
but tobacco is, to his way Of
thinking, not essential to a
mans well being, but it does
work serious injury to his neigh
Dor.
THE Gainesville Register al
lowed couple of greenbackers
to have a controversy in its col
umns, and it now finds them so
long-winded that it is compelled
in self defenrs to shut down on
them.
We are not running the Schu-
lenburg Enterprise, hence we
have no advice to offer it, but if
we were running it we would
suppress Peter Finders lucu-
brations and remand him to a
spelling school.
The editor Of the many-head-
ed Corsicana Observer is now
in Austin, and writes to his pa
per that if the legislature was
nominating convention, Roberts
would be defeated for governor
on the first vote.
The Georgetown Record does
not think that the people of
Williamson county are a unit
for governor Roberts, and says:
"Of course, if he were nominal
ted, we would all vote for him
but he ought not to be nomin-
ated.
STRANGE mistakes creep into
the papers. The Galveston
Journal of Commerce speaks of
the stalwarts as "medalsome"
fellows. The intelligent COM
poster and the careless proof
reader frequently mlsrepresent
the writer.
The New York Sun says:
Any concerted movement
among the Germans would de-
termine the votes OF Ohio, In
diana, Illinois and Wisconsin at
the next presidential election.
The liquor question may be the
cause of such a movement.
IT is estimated that the pri-
vate claims now before congress
amount to Seoo,ooo,ooo and
within the last eight months no
less than IL, 900 war claims have
been filed; every one of the
claims originated not less than
seventeen years ago.
The Galveston Journal of
Commerce says the election of
good men to office is more to be
desired than partisan success.
In local contests, especially,
the question of fitness and the
Jeffersonian standard, is he hon.