Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-04-10
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meeting at Austin Tuesday, and
excluded the newspaper reporters
The lumbermen say they will fur
nish the press with such of their
proceedings as they desire TO be
made public.
WHEN the Clay Station and In
dependence railway is completed
Navasota expects TO get a large
and lucrative trade from the indie
pendcnce ncighborhcod. In this
case Navasota's gain will be Bren-
hams loss.
! Gov. IRELAND and the peniten-
tiary board ofcommIssioncrs visit
ed the Rusk penitentiary on Sat
urday. The quality of the iron is
said to equal if not superior to the
celebrated Scotch pig for car wheel
and foundry purposes.
The House committee on post
Office and post roads, by vote of
is to 20 have reported a resolution,
that 1t is expedient for the gov
eminent either TO construct pos
tai telegraph or purchase any ex-
listing line of telegraph.
The Cincinnati riot has had one
good etfect-it has reopened the
discussion of the manner in which
the criminal laws are abused
throughout the United States. The
press and the people are unani-
mously In favor Of a change.
The city election in Houston on
Monday passed off very quietly;
the total vote polled was 1915, and
of this number W. r. Baker, the
present incumbent, received 264S
votes and Chas. Tinsley 1888. Mr..
Baker had a regular walk-over.
THE Victoria Advocate wants the
congressional convention for the
Seventh district held at Victoria,
and it says that Victoria
county will have no candidate in
the field. Prospective candidates
are very active and numerous.
A CAR load of hogs were shipped
from Hill county to st. LOnis last
week, and in few weeks the pro-
duct of these same hogs may be
shipped back to Texas in bacon,
thus paying freight both ways.
Texas should make her own bacon.
The Grapevine Telephone is the
very latest venture in journalism
in Texas. 1t is almost impossible
to keep up with all the new papers
issued in this state, As soon as
newspaper dies another and per-
haps two fall in and fill the ranks.
SEVERAL of the detectives en-
ploYed to ferret out fenoe-cutteIs
will be discharged from the secret
service. 1t appears that none of
them have accomplished anything
except to maintain the-seerecy of
their employment and draw their
pay.
THE details of the wreck of the
steamer Steinman Halifax are
heartrending, but few of tho pas
sengers and crew were saved. The
steamer struck q rock and sunk
an official investigation into the
causes of the loss will soon take
place.
A DISTINGUISHED citizen of Gin
einnati publishes a letter in the
Toledo Commercial Telegram, lay
ing the blame of the late Cincinna-
ii riot on sheriff Hawkins and say
ing that the firing by the militia
was utterly uncalled for and cow
ardly.
THE Republicans elected at the
convention lately held IN Buffalo,
n. Y, are said to be in favor of
Arthur for the presidency: Sever
al Republican districts in Pennsyl-
vania have elected Blaine dele
gates. So far q Logan delegation
has not been reported.
The Dallas Herald compliments
the press of the state in general,
saying that the leading dailies
compare favorably with issues in
cities twice and thrice the size of
our cities, and that the weekly pa
pers are as rule, simply remarka-
BILE as evidences of enterprise and
ability.
MARIAN MARTIN Is opposed to an
Indiscriminate free school system;
I that is. he does not wish white tax
payers to support non-tax-paying
eolored people. Or TO state the
matter plainly he is not in favor
of educating The colored children.
He has no faith in summer normal
schools.
TRor out your freo-grass candi-
date for governor, says the Mar
shall Messenger. But few of the
Texas press champion the cause of
freegrass, and it maybe regarded as
a certainty that free-grass candi-
date would be so badly defeated as
not to know that he had been in
the race,
. Mr.. VANDERBILT admits that he
is not pronounced upon the ques-
ton of protection or free-trade,
but is changeable. He naturally
inclincs toward tho Republican
party, but is disposed to kick
against the price every time he
reaches for SIS duty ON ton of