Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-01-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EVERY paper you PICK up d'
this time has something to say
about small poX.
TEXAS has several newspa-
pers with politics of the most
approved stem-winding char
acter.
WIN. E. CAMERON, of Virginia
was duly inaugrated as gov
ernor on the I'd inst. He is
readjuster.
IT is telegraphed all over the
world that the emperor William
received new years congratula-
tons from the Gar.
THE. Chicago, Texas and
Mexican railway is now COM
pleted to a point fifty miles
southwest of San Antonio
IT seems that the Mutual IN
ion Telegraph company is max
ing lively opposition for the
Western Union company.
A HOUSE built at Southamp-
ton, Long Island, in 1850, has
lately been torn town to make
room for a modern mansion.
A NEW town called Belo has
been started in Dallas county
and named in honor Of Col. y.
H. Belo, of the Galveston News
a JAW bone four feet long,
and weighing 100 pounds, al
legged to have done service for a
prehistoric human, has been
found in Louisan awell.
IT seems from our exchang-
es and the Geographic reports
that people throughout the
state have been on their good
behavior during the holidays.
JOIN A. LOGAN, of Illinois, is
called by a Chicago paper. "the
Imperial Egyptian" Logan is
from that portion of Illinois
known as Egypt.
For a wonder the Houston
Age is becoming funny: it
heads its city news, "Eor- Age"
The Age is frequently sarcastic,
but it takes to a new departure
in joking.
LAST Monday was generally
observed as a holiday in the
large cities; in the small town
time is too valuable to be vast
ed in taking any unnecessary
holidays.
AT Texarkana, a few days
ago, a man with a fully develop
ed case of small pox was de-
tected mingling with the crowds
on the streets. No wonder the
disease spreads.
The Guiteau case is still
dragging along. The examina-
ton of medical experts is still
in progress and the assassin is
still talking, sometimes sensibly,
and at others nonsensically.
GOVERNOR ROBERTS has pur-
chased a farm of 2soacFes near
Austin. The politicians will of
course draw their own refer
ence. it is presumed those of
east Texas are most directly
interested.
THERE seems to be an cpl
demic of verse writing, for it
certainly is not poetry. The
San Antonio Evening Light of
last Monday had no less than
four columns of alleged or So
called poetry.
A NUMBER of our exchanges
contain editorials of a column
and upwards in length on the
subject of New Year. Such
matter, while it affords room
for good writing, is hardly in
teresting to the mass ofreaders.
VALKlNGBuRG's show has
been shipped to Laredo, en-
route to Mexico, where they
will be the first American show
that ever exhibited in Mexico.
The San Antonio Light is sorry
that the show is not a better
one.
The Houston Post will get
out special edition on the first
of March next devoted to a
description of the State by
counties and also the different
lines OF railroad. The issue of
such papers is calculated to ad-
vance the interest of the State.
IT is said. and perhaps with
truth, that the republicans are
scheming to Mahonize Texas,
South Carolina, Tennessee and
Mississippi next year. The OBJ
ject is to control the federal
patronage and by that means
get into the state offices.
Two iron steamships are to
be built at Cramps shipyard, in
Philadelphia. to carry anthrac-
lite coal to San Francisco for c.
P. Huntington, of the Central
Pacific Railway. The compa-
ny owns mines at Port Carbon,
Pa. The steamships will be
55o.feet long, and have $500
tons capacity.