Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-02-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

NANDERHOoF, j bank DOCK
keeper in St. Paul turns up $780,
600 short. Grain futures got him.
Work on the excavation for
the foundation of the new CAPT
toll commenced in earnest on
Monday.
The Temple Times says a
corps OF engineers were in town
last week locating depot
grounds, etc.
GEO. H. SMALL Co., commits
er merchants at St. Louis have
suspended. Cause: too much
wheat futures.
The fund for the relief of the
widow and children of the late
Governor Wilt, of Louisiana,
has reached $4,000
GEN. ELI WARREN, aged 50, a
distinguished lawyer of Georgia,
died at his home in Perry, near
Macon, on the I4th inst.
A. NJ. SorELDo, the man who
was shot in the row in the Re-
publican Office, at Washington,
died last Saturday night.
THE postoffice is still at
Georgetown and so is Mr.. N.
Q. Henderson, but Mr.. H. has
not got the postoffice yet.
Ton OcHILTREE gave a din
ner party at Washington last
Monday evening, a number
Of prominent gentlemen dined
with him.
: WORK on the New York Tex
as and Mexican railway is being
rapidly pushed and trains are
expected to cross the Colorado
river this week.
THE reported restitution in
several of the parishes in north
ern louisiana turns out to be
a gigantic fraud, and has no eX-
istance whatever.
DURING the year 1881 there
were produced in the United
States 6,6o5,75o bales of cot
ton. Only I,9SS,o2S were con-
sumed in this country.
The state specials in Tues
days News report heavy rains
in north Texas last Monday
and much damage to railroads
as we'll as detention of trains.
On the 18th inst, three
American citizens were murder
ed near Villalldaman, Mexico,
near Lampasas. A number of
bad Americans are in that coun-
try.
THE Bolton Journal says that
track laying on the Santa Fe
road towards Lampases has be-
gun and that by the middle of
April Lampasas will be a rail-
road town.
THE San Antonio Light pre-
diets that Mason, the crank who
tried to murder Guiteau, will be
cleared on the ground of insani-
ty. Mason don't claim to be
Goods man."
Col. D.. T. KIRBY, United
States Army cashiered for
drunkenness aud conduct I'M
becoming an officer, has been
restored to a captaincy by the
House of Representatives.
The Waco Examiner esti-
mates that in the year 1000 the
population of the United States
will be one billion FIVE hundred
million. Texas will be a thickly
settled state by that time.
The Gainesville Register en-
deavors to convince the green
hackers of its section that they
should not be deluded into any
utilization with the republicans
in state affairs.
J. G. MCDONALD, of Grimes
county, has been induced to an
nounce himself as a candidate
for the state senate, to fill the
vancancy caused by the death
of Hon. ]. T. Buchanan.
OCCUPANTS of the treasurers
and comptrollers depa rtments
at Austin will soon have to
move,to make room for the
new capitol. Just at present
they have no place to move to.
The Waco Examiner pub
fishes the following: "For Sale
"A hrst-class piano, the pro-
perty of a lady about to travel
with a rosewood case and carved
legs" That lady is certainly a
natural curiosity.
The Fort Worth Democrat
Advance objects to the present
Jury system, not because of any
defect in the system itself but
because of the abuses it is sub
jucted to. Let the abuses be
weeded out, say we.
THE Galveston deep water
delegation have been before the
commerce committee and judg-
ing from the Galveston News
special there is a very fair pros
pect of getting an immediate
appropriation of 100000 for
the purpose OF continuing the
work on Galveston harbor.
SENATOR COKE has introduc-
ed in the senate a bill amending
the senate general act of March
5, 1875 granting railroads right
of way through the public lands
of the United States and espe-
cially the lands occupied by the
Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee,
Creek and Seminole Indians.
THE Schulenburg Enterprise
has lately been enlarged toa
six column paper and shows
considerable editorial work in