Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-05-18
EDITORIAL NOTES

OREGON elects state
on the fifth Of June.
CONGRESS is getting re.
adjourn June 10th. 1
Fort CLARK is to abandS
soon, and the garrison sen
other posts.
IT is limited that Waco is on
of the fore most towns in thi
state for furnishing candidates.
| II is announced that the SUI
preme court will affirm the senI
tence in the Guitaau case. Gui-
teau will hang.
THE Waco Examiner, while
it does not directly oppose Col.
Mills, does not want him re-
elected to congress.
Col. TOM C. COFFEE writes
to the Georgetown Record that
he would not object to running
for lieutenant governor.
The Mexia Ledger says it
would rather vote for John. G.
Tracy, of Houston, who was al
ways a republican, than Wash
Jones.
THE commissioner of the
general land office says that
spectators are filing on the
state lands and keeping off &C
tual settlers.
THE Baptist convention at
Grcenville, S. C., adjourned on
the I4th inst. The next meet
ing will be held at Waco, Tex
as, in May 1855.
THE Jacksonville Argonaut
is six months old and it says it
is "alive and kicking like a blind
mule" 1t kicks at the other
paper in its county.
THE extra session of the Mis-
souri, legislature cost the state
but s26,6oo,-the cheapest spe-
cial session of a state legislature
ever held of late days.
The Navasota Tablet says if
such thing is possible sue
cessfnl newspaper at Giddings-
Mr.. Rust will make a success
of the Giddings Plaindealer.
The Mexia Ledger has no
faith in the howlers after prohi-
ton and the observance of the
Sunday law. 1t says the worse
they howl the worse things get.
The many headed Corsicana
Observer handles G. w, Jones,
gubernatorial candidate, with
out gloves. Jones has but few
friends among the newspapers
OF Texas.
ACCORDING to the Orange
Tribune there are towns in Tex
as where a young man can get
neither good advice or mean
whiskey, or stale beer, and Jas
per is one of them.
THE Cuero Bulletin does not
want Galveston man in con-
gress-not even Tom Ochiltree.
A man from west Texas who
can carry the coast counties is
what it bankers after.
THE Bolton Journal has it on
good authority that w. K. Ho-
man will not be a candidate for
congress in this, the 9th district,
should a certain prominent
democrat be nominated.
MEASLES are raging with fatal
effect among the Usage Indians
in the Territory. The Indian
doctors do not understand the
treatment of the disease, hence
many Of the cases prove fatal.
The Beaumont Enterprise
accuses Hon. Marshal Tankers-
ly, of Houston, with having con-
gressional aspirations. 1t does
not want Tankersly and sits
down on him in a most vigorous
style.
LET every county send her
delegates to the state and con-
gressional conventions unin-
structed; they will be able to
make better selections for Off
GERS than if sent hampered with
instructions.
The Sunday Driftwood, a
democratic paper published at
Gainesville, has been sold out to
the greenbackers; they will run
it to their way of thinking politi-
cally and call it the Working
Mans Friend.
THE Denison Herald-News
does not believe that it is in the
power of the law to stop drink |
ing and gambling; it comedies
that public opinion is potent to |
check many evils, but the two |
mentioned it thinks cannot be |
eradicated.
GEO. P. FINLAY was at Cor
pus the other day making HIM
self favored with the people for
congress. He was to go to
Rockport. Stranger things than
election of Finlay to congress
at an independent democrat
have happened.
MCKEE, nominated to sue
coed Norton, as United States
Marshal is a citizen of Waco.
He was recorder of Galveston
in 1869 and subsequently post
master. He is said to be a con-
sentative republican and moder-
ate in his views.