Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-03-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

| lilC lOhSl hlSSloolppl 10 Nobhiia
ted at one hundred million dol
lars.
THE Missouri Pacific railroad
reached Temple on Monday
evening and will be pushed on
to Taylor.
| CoNKLING has written a letter
to President Arthur declining
the associate iusticeship of the
supreme count.
The San Antonio Times has
an editorial a column long on
the attempted assassination OF
Queen Victoria.
DURING the past year The gov
ernor has granted I35 pardons
and committed two sentences
in capital cases.
CAPT. STERRET, editor of the
Dallas Times, has been called
upon to become a candidate for
the state senate.
BOURBON, a correspondent, is
still enlightening the readers oil
the Tyler Democrat on the
/ question of democracy.
WORK on the Galveston har-
Dor improvement is being vigor-
ously pushed. A large supply
of stone and brush is on hand.
The French and the insur-
gents are still fighting in Algeirs
and lively battle is reported
to have taken place last week.
Col. GoREE, superintendent
of the State penitentiary thinks
that by January next $500 con-
victs will be in the penitentia-
ries.
FLIPPER, the colored lieuten-
ant about whom so much was
said in the papers awhile ago,
has not been Tipped out OF the
army.
The silver dollar is the money
of the people, and many man
handles silver dollars who never
gets his fingers on a twenty
dollar gold piece. .
Mr.. COSTING, president of the
Texas Press Association, has
called the annual meeting of the
association in Houston on the
4th of April next.
THE one hundredth anniver-
sary of the birth of Thomas H.
Benton is to be celebrated on
the 18th of March by the Mis-
souri, historical society.
KENTUCKY has 100000
gallons of whiskey stored away
in her warehouses and we
never hear a word about pro-
hibition in that state.
THE Sweetwater Advance,
published in Nolan county, is
one of the latest journalistic
ventures. Sweetwater is on the
Texas and Pacific railroad.
GENERAL SHERMAN passed
through Austin on a special
train Tuesday en- route to San
Antonio. He is on tour of
inspection of the military posts.
For the information of theGal-
weston Journal we would state
that that very funny paper, the
Austin Review, languished and
died of hamilton nearly year
ago.
The Montgomery Journal says
it is now the G., c. & S. F. rail-
way and not the Central and
Montgomery, the name having
been changed with the owner
ship.
THERE is a movement on
foot at Washington by which
marshal Norton, of Dallas. is to
be removed and younger and
more progressive republican
put in his place.
REV. T. SALLERs the first
colored man ever admitted to
the ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal church of South Car
DINA, was ordained at Charles
town by Bishop Howe.
THE Dallas Times refuses to
believe the report that Gould has
bought the Centeral railroad.
When it sees Gould on top of a
box car twisting a brake it will
believe he has an interest on
the road.
The Denison Democrat says
there is no duty connected with
editorial life SO hard to perform
as writing obituary notices. A
great many editors have the
writing of obituary notices re-
duced to a science.
THE Fort Worth Democrat
Advance says Judge Hancock's
severe criticism upon the out
rageous practices of the FEEDER
al court at Austin will find
hearty endorsement at the
hands of the public.
THE San Antonio Light
thinks that the two congress
sional districts to be carved out
of the 9th must be either repub-
lican or independent. Harbor
improvements and protection is
the Lights watchword.
THE Journal says Galveston
is not candidate for the state
democratic convention, but she
possesses advantages that no
other city in the state can offer
and the executive committee is
invited to consider them.
The Dallas Herald says that
one pound of refined cotton !
seed oil goes as far as two and |