Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-06-26

and instructed for P. E. Pearson
for congress.
THE Gainesville Register, situa
ted in the midst of the cattle re
geon, is opposed to free grass ant
other humbugs.
MAJOR PEARSON, candidate fol
congress in the shoestring district
has been at Laredo talking witt
the sovereigns.
The Sultan of Turkey has SEN
as present a valuable carpet ano
other costly gifts to Abram S
Hewitt, of New York.
THE Evening Journal thinks thai
Hon. Joseph D. Sayers will have
little or no opposition for congress
in the tenth district.
The Bellville Times says there
will be snow IN Texas in August
Free grass will be showed under
at the Houston convention.
THE local political canvass is be-
ginning to warm up in Houston
and asprrants for desirable county
offices are coming to the front.
JUDGE REAGAN has nearly re,
covered his usual health, but is a
little weak. He has gone to Capen
Springs. W. Va, to spend a month
The Fort Worth Gazette wants
to know, "If Ireland is renominat'
ed will Senator Terrell kiss and
make up with the Democratic
party|
1t was reported in New York on
Saturday that C. P. Huntington,
of Southern Pacific railway fame,
had failed; the report lack contir-
nation.
JUDGE HANCOCK has introduced a
bill in congress authorizing the
funding of the entire debt of the
United States in 2 per cent. So
year bonds.
The international railway has
changed schedule and in addition
only runs one train to Huntsville,
whereat the people ofthat town are
as mad as hornets.
The Dallas Herald says that it
is reported that the Fort Worth
Gazette will support Wash Jones
for governor, but the Herald re-
fuses to believe it.
THE Houston Evening Journal
says that Tom Ochiltree is a bird.
Most of the papers in Texas have
been trying to make itappear that
Tom is a great liar.
BRAzos county has sold her school
lands, 1900 acres in Clay and
Archer counties, at 81 per acre.
The Wichita Land and Cattle COM
pany were the purchasers.
The Houston Age thinks that
the two-thirds rule will be adopted
by the Houston convention, and it
very honestly admits that the wish
is farther to the thought.
THE Democratic papers seem to
take great interest in Tom Ochil-
tree, one of them goes so far as to
suggest Tom for secretary of state
under the Blaine administration.
CoMMADoRE GARRISON was the
principal capitalist of the Equita-
Bile Gas company, of New York,
which was selling gas at 81 per M.
AT this price it was losing money.
IT is stated the Roswell P. Flow
er Is essentially a self-made man.
He began life as a hand in a brick
yard, married four million dollars,
doubled it and made four million
himself.
SEVERAL foreign Anarchists
have been arrested IN Vienna, hav-
ing in their possession a dynamite
bomb of sufficient power to blow
IN the largest public building IN
Vienna.
The Austin Capital announces that
1t has discontinued the noon dis
patches, because they are very
meagre and came so late in the az
ternoon as to delay publication till
5 o'clock.
The San Antonio Times explains
that, the man who demands tariff
for revenue only Is explicit. He
believes If absolute free trade could
be attained it would be blessing
to the world.
CoRsIcANA has new weekly pa
per called the Cyclone. A cyclone
is usually of short duration and
the paper may partake of the ma
ture ofthe atmospheric disturbance
for which it is named.
TEXAS is ahead on new wheat
this year. The first car load of
new wheat was received in st.
Louis on the Goth inst. 1t was
shipped from Waco and sold on
change for sl.2l per bushel.