Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-03-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.
ScovrLLE says that his wife is
a little offlat times.

SIONiLLE ID , hAin1 hio WIN ~
a little offlat times.
BLANToN Duncan and Vennor
predict bad crop year.
The stockmens association is
now holding a convention at
Abilene.
The Bastrop Advertiser re-
fuses to be converted into
Roberts paper.
Four young Englishmen are
about starting chicken ranch
near San Antonio.
IT is thought the corner stone
of the new capitol will be laid
about the 4th of July.
The meeting of the Press As
ISOLATION, at Houston, has been
postponed till April 18th.
THE Castroville Quill has
closed its third year and is in a
prosperous and money making
condition.
THE Denison Democrat treats
its readers to an essay on
Spring" the subject is season
able if not new.
The Press Association is to
meet April 25,instead of 18th
as telegraphed from Castroville
by President Costing.
is said that Tyler has not
abandoned her intention of con-
testing with Austin for the site
of the state university.
LET US hold the state demo-
cratic convention at Galveston.
tits the place above all others,
says the Tyler Courier.
If poisonous and adulterated
liquors were suppressed much
good would be accomplished
for the temperance cause.
CAPTAIN CowDoN claims to
have a plan by which the over
flow of the Mississippi from
Cairo to the mouth may be
prevented.
IT is said that Alabama has a
new postofice called Too-too.
We suspect that this is the in
vention of a too-too esthetic
paragrapher.
IT is said there is some talk
of putting ex-president Hayes
on the Supreme bench. Para
graphers will fire squibs at him
by platoons.
The Comanche Chief says it
usually takes five papers to sup
port one editor, but the Hico
Times is an exception, it sup
ports five editors.
Gov. HUBBARD has resigned
from the board of university re-
gents. His railroad duties do
not give him time to attend the
university meetings.
So FAR men have been ap-
pointed to federal positions in
Texas more on account of what
they have not done than for
what they have done.
STAR-RouTE BRADY, ex-assis-
tant postmaster, has been re-
quired to give bond of S2o,-
600 to answer the indictments
pending against him.
The San Antonio Times is
now publishing communications
in favor of and against the sport
OF cock-fghting. 1t reserves its
opinion for the present.
The Houston Post endeavors
to impress upon its readers the
fact that politics have no bear
ing upon the election of good
men for municipal and county
Offices.
LATE estimates place the
number of persons rendered
destitute by the floods in the
Mississippi valley at $4,000
and the money damage almost
incalculable.
THERE is talk at Sherman of
petitioning the legislature to
abolish the corporate govern
meut of that city and allow
ing its municipal affairs to be
run by the county.
Our country is just what the
people make it says the Tyler
Courier, and if they take no in
terest in governmental affairs
they can not reasonably expect
good government.
The Pullman Palace car COM
pany have failed to pay their
state taxes, amounting to about
$4,000. Comptroller Brown
suggests that the suit be i'm
mediately brought.
The Fort Worth Republican
says that the recent republican
pow-wow at that place was pro-
ductive oil much good-It has
been the cause of arousing the
party to active work.
HIRING out county convicts
to penitentiary convict contrac-
tors is severely condemned by
the Waco Examiner. County
convicts should be made to pay
their fines in some way.
II seems to be likely that
a general bankrupt law
will be passed by con-
gress. A bill has already |
been considered and favorabIy |
on in the senate.
The Galveston Journal says
it is not quarrelling with any of
its contemporaries, especially |