Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Jay oCoNllIe llduS HIS SpSSCh
for the defense.
In the Guiteau case on Sat
urday Col. Reed occupied the
day in making a speech for the
defendant.
THE last heard of George
Francis Train he was in Boston
trying to lecture, but was re-
fused a license.
THE Brazos Pilot enters upon
the sixth year of its publication
and it seems to be in prosper
Gus circumstances.
A NEW ball is being put in
position at ST. Pauls Cathedral,
London, which weighs little
over $1,000 pounds.
The norther which reached
Brennan at q o'clock Monday
afternoon struck Dallas at 9
o'clock in the morning.
THE Colorado Citizen is cor
rect in the remark that a six
column town will not support a
seven column paper.
THE Dallas Times proclaims
that it is not independent as
that term is understood, but is a
Bourbon and a Mossback.
"THE Peoples Informer" is
the name of a monthly paper
published at Paris, Texas, in the
interest Of the colored people.
The FL Paso Lone Star calls
Jay Gould the patron saint of
Texas, but says that he is work.
ing for Gould and not for the
state.
A NAvALoTA special to the
Houston Post says that the
Santa Fe railway has bought
depot depot grounds at that
town.
FIVE negro convicts were
drowned in Bayou Fourche,
near Little Rock, while attempt
ing to cross in a skiff a few days
ago.
w. H. LOCKE, late, postmas-
ter at Eufaula,. Ala, committed
suicide last Sunday. He was
removed for deficiencies some
months ago.
CAN grand juries be dispensed
with is a question propounded
by the San Antonio ExpressP
1t regards the grand jury as a
relic of the past.
MRS. CAROLINA RIcHINGs-
BERNARD, one of the best known
opera singers in America, died
at Richmond Va, of smallpox
on Saturday last.
WHARTON, the present ter
minus of the New York, Texas
and Mexican railway is now
connected with the outside
world by telegraph.
The Brazos Pilot dominates
Hon. Jno. H. Reagan as its
candidate for governor. Mr..
Reagan might or might not ac-
cept the nomination.
IT is a crying shame upon
humanity that the small pox pa
tients should be exposed to the
vigors of a Texas norther with
no protection save canvass
tents.
The Houston Post calls at
tention to the flimsy character
of the buildings put up in the
cities and suggests that walls
should be thicker and the fire
departments better provided.
LAND commissioner Walsh
has lately issued 5I4 land GER
tiicates for $40 acres each to
the Sabine Pass and East Tex
as railway company, for 81
miles of newly completed road.
The Bastrop Advertiser says
that w. E. Gray, alias DR.. Col
lesto, who some years ago fgur-
ed extensively in Texas as a
swindler, has lately been par
doned out of Sing Sing peni-
tertiary.
The Evening Star was start |
ed at Fort Worth a few days |
ago to supply long felt want.
After publishing two or three
issues it bursted and now the |
papers are all poking fun at the
Star.
THE Chicago Times calls the
Dallas Herald "the foremost
Journal of the great State of
Texas" and the Galveston
Journal wants to know what the
Houston Post and other great
journals will have to say.
A WASHINGTON special to the
Galveston News says it is re-
ported that James P. Newcomb
IS mentioned at headquarters
for postmaster at San Antonio.
Newcomb has been fishing for
he position for some time.
The Richmond Nation pro-
poses advocating no mans
claims for any state office who
S not in favor of abolishing all
state taxes for one. year and
Using up that "cash balance"
low in the treasury.
The Brazos Pilot reviews the
ate interview with Senator Ho-
nan, calls him hermaphrodite
n Texas politics and then takes
lin to task for having omitted
o insert a "Prohibitory Liquor
law" in his platform.
A NUMBER ofthe most promi-
lent negroes in Arkansas have
,een in consultation at Little
2ock: thew are bitterly oDnos-