Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-03

~ hNNs hAANfAN
a feature of some Of the leading
Texas dailys and they are. becom-
ing nearly as stale as the Jokes in
the New Orleans Picayune.
GEN. MALONE, the little pig-head-
ed Virginia repudiator, gives it as
his candid belief that West Yir-
ginia and Florida can be carried
next year by the republicans. Ma
hone is played-out POLITICAL bum
mer, and his prophecy simply
amounts to nothing.
BURNERS have been at the front
this year at the Boston City Hall, |
says the Herald, and they have
had things all their own way
Some members of the city coun-
Gill;" il is asserted, "have eat
en- and drank more at the city's
cost in one year than they ever
did at their own expense in ten"
The colossal statue of John c.
Calhoun-a correspondent in Rome
writes to the Baltimore Sun-will
he fifteen feet high. and, when set
up in the city of Charleston, will
be, with its PEDESTAL, forty-five
feet high. At the base ofthe gran
lite resta will he seated life-slze
figures of Truth, Justice and His
tory. .-- r.-...f ..rrr..-.,.' ~rt'
The New York Sun says the first
Jewish settlers IN that city were
twenty-seven exiles. banished from
Bahia, in Brazil, on the general ex-
pulsion of the Jews from that king
dom, who came here in 1854 as the
nearest place of refuge. After
fifty years they comprised but 100
persons, and for 10 years had but
one synagogue. To-day there are
thirty-one synagogues in this city
and the Jewish population is est
mated at $4,000.
Coz. LITTLE, secretary of the
! butter and cheese association, re-
ports that the total value of but
ter, cheese, eggs and poultry mar
keted in the United States in 1888
amounted to more that $500, 00O,-
900. The value of milk and cream,
sold not manufactured into butter
and cheese, makes over 100000
/ 600. Col. Van Nalkenburg re-
ported New York received for but
ter, So, 800, 900; cheese, s14,60O,-l
900; poultry, $4,000, 900; eggs, slO,-
OOO, 900. .......i..rH 49,
4 CoSGREss has rewarded itself
/ for its services during the past
three weeks by taking an extra,
long vacation, which extends not
only through the Christmas holt
days, but to the 18th of January. A
stranger might imagine that this,
prolonged recess at least followed
a vigorous beginning on the win
ter's labors, but in reality congress
has done next to nothing in actual
legislation, and indeed, has been
so few hours In session in the ag-
gregate that, in now adjourning
outright, it will be comparatively
little missed.
NEW YORK Sun: The State Con
ventjGg af eolored men which is in
session at Columbus has resolved
to petition the Ohio Legislature to
= pass laws for the pratcetion of COLI
ared men, and "to repeal all the
old statutes against them.S Is it
= possible that ealored people are
: not sufficiently protected in Ohio!
Z Dan a State which has held so
much of the alleged virtue and
actual offices of the Republican
party have kept laws against the
: colored people on its statute book
1t would be well if S. Romeo Reed +,
who is dancing about like a pea on
a hot gridiron, and filing the es-
/ teemed Commercial Gazette with
, EwailiRgs ahaut mythical Southern
outrages, would calm himself for a
moment and tell why the Ohio Re
publicans haven't protected color
: ed men.
The New York, Herald, refer
ring to the tariff reform Issue, has
} this say: "a part Of thedemoerat-
> ic party and a part of the republi-
can party are in favor of protec-
ton. These two elements ought
to combine and frankly declare for
protection. A great many repub-
! leans, a large number of democrats
and a vast body of Independent
voters are strongly in favor of rev.
enue reform. Let these follow the
: leaders who represent their prin-
ciples. Let two parties thus form
on the tariff question. Let this be
made the uppermast issue in the
legislation of the coming session OF
: congress. Let each party go be-
fore the country next year square
ly and uncompromisingly on this
) issue. The people will then have
: an opportunity to choose between
: the two. If they want protection
they will vote on the protection
! ticket. If they believe that the
welfare of the country demand
revenue reform they will elect the
men who represent that prinei-
, pie"
| The Galveston News is one o
the fairest and best papers in the
. state. 1t is at all times and under
$ all circumstances willing to do full