Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-04-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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! The stamp law in Mexico mag
preclpitatc revolution. K
The Lampasas Dispatch appears
in u new dress and is greatly I'M
proved generally.
TIE Austin Statesman is justly
severe on the vandals who wreck
cd the Dispatch Office.
DAVID DAVIS is the father of n
baby. 1t is said he would rather
be papa than president.
The discussion of the Morrison
tariff bill is now going on in the
House of Representatives.
The Waller county Republicans
in convention assembled, declared
their preference for Blaine.
THE collapse of the Corsicana
Journal does not create ripple on
the journalistic sea in Texas.
The Temple Times learns that a
new and ''first-class" weekly is
soon to be started at Temple
The Wichata Herald says the
six-shooter and the two-thirds rule
are relics of the past and must go.
|, IT is stated that the chief busI-
ness of the two leading papers of
Kansas City is to abuse each 9TH
er.
ACCORDING to the Gazette Fort
Worth in 1890 will be the leading
city of Texas in point of popula-
ton.
The Abilene Weekly Repor ter
is now issued IN quarto form and
bears evidence of thrift and pros
perity.
BERNER cost the state of Ohio
81, O00, 900 and he is now trying to
pay part of it back by working In
the penitentlary.
THE stamp act is now in force in
New Laredo, Mexico. Under this
law everything sold is reqnired to
have a stamp on it. .,.
The Austin Statesman processes
to be much distressed at what it
terms let down in the editorial
columns of the Post.
THE 1920 Biblical Reward" hum
bug is again sending out its circu-
lars. Many of-the state papers
will Innocently bite at it. .T
The Corsicana daily Journal
died natural death last week.
Corsicana has a grave yard OK
pressly for daily papers. 7a2d d
ACCORDING to the Austin States
man. Sol Ross is entitled to wear
feather in his cap, he having thus
far escaped the interviewer.
The Dallas Herald in a lengthy
leader on the political Outlook"
regards the chances fer the Dcmoc-
racy as being very favorable.
NEAR Irving, Kentucky the other
day Joe Finn and Bill Hale, two
desperadoes, engaged in shooting,
bee-there was double funeral.
B. RUSH PLuMLY, a Republican
politician of Galveston, is now in
Washington working for liberal
appropriation for Galveston har-
Dor. a--. i-
The Colorado Citizen says pub
lie sentiment as reflected by the
press is against the two-thinds rule
an Democratic nominating conyen-
tons.
ACCORDING to the Goliad Guard
Hon. w. II. Grain is the man to
beat the Red Headed Ranger for
congress in the Shoe-string dis
trict.
The LaGrango Journal favors
the whipping-post. One by one
the papers fall into line and soon
we may expect it to have a strong
support. !
The Huntsville Item says there
are.twiee as many newspapers in
the United States as can sustain
themselves, and Texas has three
times as many.
IT is stated in special dispatch
to the News that there isa strong
feeling among the Texas veterans
to have Gen. Sui Ross, Of Waco,
run for governor.
ACCORDING to the Galveston Print
men who carry revolvers about
with them are coming to be re-
garded as towards and sneaks by
respectable people.
CALIFORNIA is the latest market
for Texas cattle. Regular ship
ments are now being made from
San Antonio via the Sunset and
Texas Pacific railways,
Mr.. NoSGAssY, president of the
bingham bank, bingham, Hi
nois, has absconded and between
s25, 900 and $4,000 of the banks
money is gone with him.
SEVENTEEN negroes were arrest
ed the other day, in a st. Louis
negro gambling den, all playing
cards. The capitalist of the game
had Sl4 on his person.
ABDUL $50 doctors had arrived
at Bolton on Monday evening and
nearly as many morew ere expect
ed at the State Medical Associa-
ton meeting on the 22d inst.
The Nashville World suggests