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


that if all the subjects now
being called to the attention of
the governor are considered at
the extra session of the legisla-
ture, the thirty days allowed by
law will not half suffice.
The Houston Age has spe-
cial contract with Texas Siftings
for puffs or complimentary no.
tees. Siftings draws on the
Age at the rate of one dollar
per line. The Age does not
state whether it pays the drafts
or not
ACCORDING to the Houston
Post, the proud city of Houston
is simply a stuck in the mud
community. This is bad pre-
dicament for the railroad center
of the great southwest, and the
future metropolis and seaport
of Texas.
THERE seems to be a general
desire on the part of the people
and the press that the Prairie
View Normal school should be
kept up. The colored people
Of Texas should certainly be
supplied with competent school
teachers Of their own race.
The Austin and Central coal
company have struck a third
! vein of camel coal, seven and
a half feet thick at their Rock
dale mine. With moderate
railroad tariffs central any
southern Texas should have q
abundant supply of cheap Goa
AT Temple the citizens al
beginning to talk OF incorpor
ing. Although the the town
not a year old they want d
have all the outward show of az
city. The Infant Wonder,
name long applied to Denison,
has been appropriated by Tenn
pie.
THE Navasota Tablet give
full account of the killing of
Moeller, at Washington, by q
Gee and 1t says: "Hutchinsd
took no precaution to secure
the prisoner; in fact, he was al
lowed the largestl liberty, beingl
unattended by any officer afteI1
the sheriff took charge of him.
SOME years ago the death J
penalty was abolished in Maine,
and since then the number of
convictions for murder in the,
first degree has increased to-
such an alarming extent that
there is serious talk of restoring
the death penalty as the only
means of checking the crime of
murder.
JOHN HENRY BROWN, himself
an old Texan, has a two column
article in the Dallas Sunday
Murcury in which he battles
manfully in flvor of the word
"Texian" instead of Texan"
He regards the latter spelling
as an innovation. II it is an in
novatron it has become a very
popular one.
NEAR Logansport, Indiana,
last Saturday, a tramp who had
committed an assault upon a
lady at whose house he was
given supper, was promptly
captured by the neighbors, who
made an example Of him by
hanging him and afterwards
casting his body into a bonfire
built for the purpose.
HAVING treated in extenso of
Ex-Postmaster General James
as "a liar and periurer." the
Washington organ of the Star
Reuters now devotes a column
to him in his capacity as "Sneak
Thief" If Mr.. James can get a
little assistance from the law
yers he will probably levy on
that new perfecting press. The
criticism of the Critic approach
the critical point.
We regret to learn. through
the Marshall Herald, that the
Jefferson Democratic has been
forced to suspend. Col. Lough-
cry says he hopes the suspension
will be only temporary; we
hope so. The Democrat battled
manfully for the interests of
Jefferson and certainly deserv-
ed a better fate at the hands of
the people of that town, who
seem to have literally starved it
out of existence. There is not
a paper published in Texas that
can live on subscriptions alone;
it is advertising patronage that
keeps up the papers and adver-
Using is what the Democrat did
not get. 1t is a sad comment
on the business men of Jeffer-
son.
"Pour oil on troubled waters"
is an old recommendation; in |
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