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

IOh Odi mas Ohiy pSSh INV S"SON
three inches since Major Mansfield,
the government engineer, has had
charge of the work. The result is
certainly far from encouraging.
ACCORDING to the Mckinney
Black Waxy two tons of hay per
acre is the average product ofTex-
as prairies. At that rate hay is
sold to .cattlemen at 4 cents per
ton and yet they want it for moth
ing.
Is it not about time that q mans
military record should have moth
ing TO do with his fitness to fill a civ
il office under either the state or a
county government The impress
ion is very general that the war is
over.
THE wool growers of Mitchell
county held a meeting at Colorado
and passed a long string OF resolu-
tons demanding a high tariff on
wool. They also oppose the lease
of school lands and advocate their
sale to actual settlers.
The report of Mr.. Nimmo makes
a grand showing in favor OF the
importance of Texas and 1t is con-
fidently expected that it will carry
great weight in favor OF the Gal
weston harbor when that matter is
formally presented to congress for
its action.
FAILURES throughout the country
are becoming q matter OF every
day occurrance. The failures for
seven days are 1S2 in the United
States % in Canada. They are
most numerous IN the south and on
the Pacific coast.
The Caldwell Register announ-
ces that beginning this week, it
will be an all home print paper.
When paper can afford 1T it is
much better to issue a home print
paper. The Register seems to be
on rising ground.
ANOTHER fraud has been discov-
cred in the bureau of medicine and
surgery. Secretary Chandler has
ordered an investigation. If all
the frauds on the government were
investigated, the investigation
would be endless.
B. W. BROWN, of Longview, for
seven years a member of the legis-
lature, announces himself as a can
didate for lieutenant governor,
subject. to the action of the Hous-
ton convention. Barney Gibbs
will be the nominee.
IT is proposed to have an exposi-
ton of the agricultural and me-
ehanical capabilities ofthe colored
race at worlds exposition to be
held in Chicago on the 25th of
November. What will be the next
thing in the exposition line?
The bill to grant right ofway
through the Indian Territory to
the Southern Kansas railway is
pending in the senate and will fin
ally pass. This line Is an extern
sion of the Atchlson, Topeka and
Santa Fe and will enter Texas at
Denison.
THE boosting that the various
papers in Texas are giving their
fovorites for president will not be
likely to carry any very great in
fiuence to Chicago, but the paper
which has happened to favor the
man who is nominated will arise
and say, 81 told you So"
JOHN BURNS, the contractor, con-
victed in Texarkana of saie-blow-
ing and robbery and sent to the Ar
kansas penitentiary, was shot and
killed by the guard at Lewisburg
while trying to escape. Before his
conviction Burns stood well in the
community in which he lived.
THE Austin Statesman warns the
bosses and seems to intimate that
if Ireland is nominated at Houston,
that it will be the work of the ma
chine. Machine or no machine
Ireland is evidently the choice of
the people. The machine is the
exclusive property of the politi-
clans.
OMAHA, Neb., must have a beau
tiful mayor. The city council has
mpeached him for drunkenness,
incompetency, and neglect of duty,
bribery and conspiracy, and con-
niving with other officials to rem
der the laws in operative. He
must be the wickedest man in the
state of Nebraska.
The Austin Statesman, after COM
menting on the failure of the gov
ment engineers to get deep water
at Galveston, says it is no wonder
that Galveston turns to the Eads |
plan. 1t comedies that deep water
is necessity to the people of the
state and it would like to see deep
water at Galveston or any other
Texas sea port.
THE Central railway makes it a
rule to retain permanently an en-
ploye or official, once he has been
found honest, capable and faithful.
Many of its officers and conductors
have been in its service for fifteen
years. If all railways and corpor-
ations followed this rule they
would have much better service