Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-03-30

evidently sporting Town.
Twenty new gambling houses
have opened there within the
past few days, at least it is so
reported.
How to go on the press ex-
cursion to California and at the
same time attend to running the
legislature is a knotty question
that is no% bothering good
many Texas editors.
THE Sherman Courier-Chroni-
Gle thinks it would be more
profitable and fully as instruct
i've to talk about the governors
jIck-rabbit picture, as about
division of the state,
THE Mexia Ledger has inven-
ted a new name for the Hous-
ton Age. 1t calls the Age IN
Gle Daniels Antiquity. Thu
Age is old but Uncle Dan
still in the bloom of youth.
IT is thought THAI
will be raised for
Mason's family. He "a
remained in the arr
years and he nevs
accumulated half
In St. Lop;ss II
of six Thousand
pay taxes on upW
but only three inc
pay on over a Il
paying taxes on a
million are quite mud
The Brazoria I'M
has entered upon the
of its publication and
firm and paying
has been of great
locality and is full
of the success it has aS
A WHOLE week has
Fort Worth and the n
Advance says it has
able to learn that a
has been started. 1t
start a new paper in II
about once a week.
The Houston Post ~
closest scrutiny on tn
the state in supervising
struction of the capital &
ing that the contractors
strictly with the plan 4
cifcations should be OF
TEXAS has immense
tiles as a. sugar-growingi
in 1879 she produced h
five thousand hogsheads;;
is many thousand acres of IA
adopted to the production
sugar that are not yet in cultiva'
ton.
WHILE the judges Of the su.
preme court of the United
States receive salary of sIo,,
900 per year, the humble indi,
vidual who acts in the capacity
of clerk of the court, is content
with his lot and $4,000 veal
in fees.
The Waco Examiner thinks
that under the circumstances
idle cash balance-the best
thing could have been done was
to buy bonds and reduce the
state debt. About $1,000, ooc
has been paid during the past
twelve months.
THE Cherokee Argonaut say:
the poor" convicts in the Rusk
penitentiary are worked the
week round and on Sunday
While the cenvicts are not en-
titled to any sympathy because
of their being such they are en-,
titled to be treated humanely.
The Mexican custom house
officers at New Laredo, Mex,
CO, will not allow any freight
for the interior to be shipped
by railroad, jackasses, ox-cart:
and mule wagons are the only
modes OF transportation known
to the custom house officials.
The San Antonio Times is
mad. The Light, a republican
paper, has been awarded the
city printing, ard in the city o.
Austin the city printing ha:
been awarded to the Dispatch
a republican paper of the Least
possible circulation and very
limited influence.
THE Huntsville Item says that
Squire Hackworth, of Bren.
ham is dead, and that the
squire and Age McGary were
particular friends. Squire
Hackworth is not dead. His
father, w. w. Hackworth, died
on the 18th instant, hence the
Items error.
DURING the war Arlington,
the property OF R. E. Lee, op-
posite Washington, was confis-
Gated by the government and
converted into a national Gene
terry. Gen. G. w. c. Lee is
seing the government for the
recovery of the value of the
estate and will likely obtain
judgment for the same.
No Reduction in TaxatiOn-MilliOns
for Plumber.
New York Sum-
The republican majority in
CONGRESS aDDear TO have firmly