Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

ton to Cheneyville, Loulsiana
5 which passes throughthc pine dis
trict.
The Bolton Journal says tn
Texas Farmer, the organ of tn
state grange, is TO be moved t.
Dallas.
The Bastrop Advertiser Is op
posed to any more free range; i
thinks the school lands of tn,
state should be leased.
THERE seems TO be a growing
conviction that the opening o
more roads is the only solution o
the fence-cutting problem.
The Lampasas Dispatch think
that if the rangers are turned loos'
in the state and the Governor
hands are united there will be NOR,
, murders than ever.
The Bandera Bugle ventures the
opinion that if Ben Thompson wa'
in any frontier town and "cut up
like he does in Austin he would
be put in Jail at once.
The Fort Worth Gazette is vel
pleased with the report of State
Engineer Britton, and says he i:
the right man in the right place
and should be retained.
+ The Dallas Times says if the
greenbackers ever had any de
signs .on Texas they have lost
the opportunity by not acting dur
ing the fence-cutting troubles.
Is is said that the butternut ele'
ment in the legislature are oppos-
ed to the appropriation for the New
Orleans exposition, but that a ma
Ijority of the members are in favor
of it.
AN Austin special to the News
says the canard about George
Flournoy being brought from Cal
ifornia to "fix" the News originated
in the executive Office a few days
ago.
The Rockdale Messenger thinks
the interior papers are wasting
their time and sweetness in advis-
ing the legislature what to do in
the present troubles about fence
cutting.
CATTLE are now transferred from
Victoria to Wichita Falls by rail
in sixty hours. Formerly it took
several months to make the drive.
Railroads have worked complete
revolution.
The losses by fires in the United
States in 1883 exceed 500, 900, 900 ;
the insurance companies made no
money and it is said thereis gen.
eral feeling of blueness in insur-
ance circles.
The Waco Day rises to remark
that there are signs of revolt in
Congressman Reagan's district.
Too much interstate grand elo-
quence and too little attention to
home interests.
ACCORDING to the San Antonio
Express Governor Ireland has
cause to be thankful to the News
for its warfare on him it has been
great help to him in establishing
his popularity.
The wreck of the steamer City
of Columbus, off the Massachusetts,
coast is attributed to disobedience
of orders by the man at the wheel,
who failed to keep the ship in the
course ordered by the Captain.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Gonzales
Inquirer, in protesting against the
Terrell bill, says ''the legislature
should 60 slow, or it will raise a
hell sufficiently large and hot 10
satisfy the most orthodox, even
Major Penn"
IT is alleged that the Republic
cans in congress will oppose the
appropriations for rivers and har-
bors in order to retaliate on the
Democrats for their threatened re-
duotiens of department spproPria-
tions.
SENATOR CHEsLEY, of Bellville,
made one Of the abiest and most
logical speeches of the senate last
week in opposition to free grass.
The speech was published in full
by the Austin Statesman and the
Houston Bast.
FENoE=epFFISq literature is now
in the very height of fashion, The
Fort Worth Gazette publishes the
speech of Senator Gibbs on this
all-absorbing topic. The speech
makes nearly seven columns of
solid small type.
FHE channel at Aranlsas pass IS
deepening and now has nine feet
IN the shoalest place. 1t Is esti-
mated that $500, 900 will give twen-
ty-fve feet of water, which would
make Rockport the deepest harbor
on the Foxas coast. ..
The Victoria Advocate regards
the editor of the Houston Age as a
sort of side partner of the entire
press of Texas. In the absence of
anything else the press can give
the Age q dig under the short Fibs,
and it takes it kindly.
THE Terrell bill was again on
Monday discussed in the senate at
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