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

EDITORIAL Mules.
NINETEEN states elect goven-
ors this year.
The president has signed the
deficiency appropriation bill.
MEMPHIS is to be the next
city illuminated with the cleo
ric light.
REV. HENRY w. BELLOWS, D.
D., a celebrated New York di-
vine, is dead.
The capitol contractors are
making arrangements to bring
their machinery to Austin.
FRIDAY next has been fixed
as the day for hearing the mo-
ton for a new trial in the Gui-
teau case.
IT is stated that the track on
the Missouri Pacific railroad
is laid half way from Waco
to Temple.
THE Calvert Courier will sup
port the Jones movement in the
coming campaign, SO says the
Navasota Tablet.
THE San Antonio Light re-
fers to Mr.. Willis, a merchant
prince of Galveston, as the
mossback merchant.
GOULD, Huntington, Sage,
and Stanford have been elected
directors of the St. Louis and
San Francisco railroad.
THE Mexican Central Rail-
way company has filed reso-
luton Authorizing the increase of
capital stock to 100000.
The fire in the telegraph Of
fee at Houston cut the dis
patches short in the Post and
Galveston News, on Tuesday.
AN effort is to be made at
Galveston to raise subscription
for the purpose of continuing
Prairie View Normal School.
The reunion of the Terry
Rangers to take place at Gal
weston has been postponed till
May I'd. Notices will be sent
out.
THE amount of state occupa-
ton taxes collected by the
county collector for the year
ending September..3o, is s5o7,-
eS3.
THE San Antonio Light, re,
publican, says we want the
constitution, as it now exists,
overturned, and with it its au-
thors.
ACCORDING to the San An
tonic Light the reforming of
the democratic party is a bigger
job than reforming the public
abuses.
THE man who made the affi-
davit that Gulteau's jury had a
newspaper, has already been
bound over for forgery in the
District.
GOVERNOR ROBERTS is again
laid up from the effects of vac
cination. A good many per-
sons in Austin are disabled from
the same cause.
IT is thought that the New
York, Texas and Mexican rail-
way will be completed and run
ming to Victoria by the middle
of April next.
IT is stated that Mrs. Gar
field did not manifest any inter
est in the trial of Guiteau and
made no comments when the
verdict was reached.
THE prize fight soon to come
off between Ryan and Sullivan
at New Orleans, is being extern
sively advertised free by the
New Orleans papers.
TWENTY-FIVE colonies are on
the staff of the governor of
Massachusetts, and the Dallas.
Herald says it is glad to find
out where all the colonies come
from.
No REPORTERS have been al
lowed to visit Guiteau for two
days and he seems to be greatly
annoyed thereat. He says he
intends to put Scoville off the
case.
THE Deep Water committee
at Galveston will send a COM
mittee to Washington to urge
an immediate appropriation to
continue the work on the chan
mel.
BY the explosion OF a boiler
in the Belleville, ILL.,, nail mills
last Monday the buildings were
almost totally destroyed. Sew
eral persons were seriously in
jured.
NAfI. "a ". DAKZlZA, well |
known lawyer of Houston, died
in that city on the 2oth inst.
He had served several terms in |
the legislature and was we'll
known throughout the state.
THE Bonham News has some
kind words. for Hon. J. w.
Throckmorton and thinks he
would make good governor.
It has been announced that he
will not be a candidate.
The governor proposes to
the general reward
Of 500 offered for robbers. 1t
doesn't bring them. 1t may be
hat when a robber is caught