Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

II is said that Henry Ward
Beeeher is backing Saylor, of
Austin, for the Brownsville col
lectorship.
WEDNESDAYS edition of the Post
devotes over a column TO giving
the News what is popularity called
"Hail Colum bia."
JOSEPH REILLY attempted suicide
in New York, Friday, by jumping
from fifth-story window. His
skull was fractured.
The Houston Age wants it dis
tinctly understood that Houston
is a candidate for the coming DEM
ocratic State convention.
THERE are signs that the cam
paign will open early in Indiana.
One Indianapolis paper has called
another a ''two-cent whelp."
AT Evansville, Indiana, the
whole country is covered with wa
ter. The whole of the Ohio river
valley is suffering from floods.
The San Antonio Light has put
on an entire new dress of body
type, and is much improved in ap-
pearancc. geographically it is
as neat as new pin.
JAY GOULD is credited with hav-
ing made $4,000, 900 in Wall street
last week 1t is some consolation
to the criPples to know where
their money went to.
RuNoRs were current in Calves
ton on Sunday that Hon. VIM.
Chambers is to be made United
States judge and that Judge Sabin
was to be provided for. e..
The Fort Worth Gazette init
mates that Col. Tom Orhiltree has
a controlling influence in the mat
ter of Federal appointments in
Texas.
The Houston Post says, the
Post borrows no money to build a
new structure. L. there any refer
ence to illusions in the above par
agraph?
The Brooklyn Eagle dominates
the present incumbent ofthe pres
idential chair and Tom Ochiltree
as superior and a very suitable
ticket for the Republicans.
The French Bishop in Tonquin,
appeals for help, stating that the
priest, % Catrists and 21l Chris
tians have been massacreed and
los mission houses destroyed.
THE Austin Statesman says, The
remains of Stephen F. Austin are
to be removed from their present
resting place in Brrzoria county
and entered in the state cemetery.
THERE is a good deal of suffer
ing at Cincinnati on account of
the food; the river is now as high
as it was in 1882 and the'gas works
have ceased work, being oveFfewd.
THE verdict of the press is, Mr..
Dick Nelson, the Galveston negro,
who was unceremoniously and vio-
lontly elected from the ears at Cor
sicana, few days ago, was served
right. f
The Texas Greenbackers are
talking about holding q state con=
ventlon after the meeting of the
Democratic convention. What
they expect to accomplish Is a
mystery. -..c...
EIGHT members of Congress from
Texas have Endorsed the recon-
mendation Of Mr.. Hardenbrook
for the position of commissioner
from Texas to the New Orleans
Exposition.
THr Austin special to the Post
says there is no foundation what
ever for the report that affairs are
not harmonious at the Deaf and
Dumb asylum. The Post contends
that everything is lovely.
TIE San Antonio Light is mega
tive in its praise of the Legislature,
saying, "they could have done
worse and it probably is matter
of congratulation that they left the
state in no worse condition"
JUDaINa from the remarks of the
Houston Post, concerning its
neiphbor the Galveston News. one
would suppose that the News was
a corpse. The News is very live
ly for corpse. .a
THE death of Gov. Overton, of
the Chickasaw Nation is much
regretted. The Denison Sunday
Gazetteer says in the death of the
governor the full-bloods { of the
Chickasaw) have lost their most
Jealous friend.
Unlimited free grass for the BEN
eft of few has restarded the
growth of Texas more than any
other one agency; says the Lam
pasas Dispatch, published in what
was until recently a grazing Sec
ton of the state.
THE project to induce congress
to appropriate sufficient money to
give good channel in Galveston
harbor remains at rest until the
arrival of the Galveston committee.
1t is hoped that the committee will
prove successful.
A WEATHER prophet without
name or local habitatIon is quoted