Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

gan lot pTeSluent.
The typographical appearance
of the Waco Examiner has been
much improved of late.
THERE is talk OF constructing
wooden mills at Jonesboro and
Abilene, in this state.
ACTIVE preparations are being
made in Galveston for the coming
Mardi Gras festivities.
Mas. TREvINo, daughter of the
late General Ord, died in New
York on the 18th inst.
THE Galveston Print stands off
and laughs at the war now going
on between the News and the
Post.
The Houston Evening Journal
is a bright little paper and if able
to keep up it will no doubt prove
a success.
The Knights of Honor, of Tex
as, have been called upon to aid
the victims of the food of the
Ohio valley.
The governor has not yet made
up his mind who he will appoint
as commissioner to the New Or
leans exposition.
ROSWELL P. FLOWER, of New
York. is beginning to loom up as a
possible Democratic candidate for
the presidency.
BOB TooMBs describes the late
Wendell Philips as San internal
machine set to music" Philips
was a finished orator.
The county clerk was kept busy
Mondap dishing up scrip to those
who had bills allowed by the CON-
missioners last week.
PEoPLE would do we'll to bear in
mind the fact that 1t is 8 felony to
wilfully destroy grass, whether in
closed or not. in this state.
A WOMAN was lately lynched in
Colorado and now twenty-five
newspapers in that state demand
the abolition of lynch law.
THE BANNER acknowledges the
receipt of an invitation to grand
masquerade ball at Mikeska hall,
Nelsonville, on tho AID inst,
THERE seems to be serious trou-
Bile in the Republican camp at
Galveston. The leaders there are
all quarreling among themselves.
The body of General Ord is .ex-
pected to reach Washington on the
9th inst. The remains will be
buried in the Oak Hill cemetery.
THR Houston Age now predicts
that the relations between the Gal
weston News and Governor ireland
will be much kinder than hereto
fore.
The treasury department has
suspended the issue of one and two
dollar notes, pending an appro'
priation to enable the printing of
more.
The Texas World, a strictly
pure Independent paper, is to be
started at Dallas next week. 1t is
no doubt intendde to supply long
felt want,
THE exact cost of the extra ses-
sion of the legislature was little
over sA, 900. Whether the money
was well or badly spent will soon
be determined.
IT is said that Joseph Medill, of
the Chicago Tribune, was taken in
by Baltimore sharpers and swim
died out of $40. A Chicago editor
ought to be sharp.
The old story about Thomas P.
Ochiltree and the sign reading
"Thomas P. Ochiltree & Father,
Attorneys at Law" is revived by
the Dallas Herald.
A STRONG delegation of st. Louis
ians has gone to Washington to Sc
cure the Democratic national con-
vention for st. Louis. $4,000 can
be raised if necessary.
THE Photograph, a weekly pa
per, is the very latest journalistic
venture in San Antonio. 1t is a
neat six column paper well, fitted
with miscellaneous matter.
THE Texas Live Stock Journal
thinks that the legislature did well
for stock men, who range their
cattle, even if it did do some in
justice to the pasture owners.
DURING Gov. Roberts admins
tration more public lands were
disposed of to corporations and
land syndicates than at any time
during the history of the state.
Two men, Brockman and Craig,
went to bed drunk in hotel at
Lexington KY; before doing so
thoy blew out the gas, when found
in the morning both were dead.
JUDGE McCORD, of the district
court at Tyler, decided few days
ago that ''iron clad" notes are in
the nature of a contract of such an
oppressive nature that the courts
are not justified in enforcing them.
The Galveston deep water CON-
mittee has so far occupied its time