Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-01-17
AMERICANS jailcd--in chihuahua

complain mat tney arc only hiio"
ed I cents day to buy food and
they are nearly starved. Ameri
cans should try to keep out o.
Mexican jails.
The Dallas Herald says that
Texas should be fully and compre'
hensively represented at the New
Orleans fair next fall, and to thi:
end it urges the legislature to
make liberal appropriation.
The press of Texas, almost as &
unit, are in favor of having the
State properly represented at the
coming New Orleans Exposition
and they are in favor of the legis'
lature making an appropriation fol
that purpose.
The New York Sun has seeming
ly abandoned Holman TO his fate,
Its boom of Holman failed to take
with the public and he will have to
content himself with his present
position. He will never reach the
presidential chair.
The Gould lines of railway are
very liberal in the matter of car.
rying excursion parties over their
roads. A large party of capital,
lists, railway officials and editors
are now in the state making 3 gen.
eral tour of inspection. A news.
paper man is along taking notes to
write a book descriptive of the
country through which they will
travel.
The Texas Deaf and Dumb asy-
lum will be re-opened..o n the Sd Of
March next and continued in ses-
sion until June 1885. This long
session is thought advisable on &C
count of the interruption of the
school owing to the erection of
buildings. Pupils should be in
place by March LIST. No children
under years will be received into
the institution.
THERE is an extraordinary
amount Of good sensible talk in the
following paragraph from the
Louisville Courier-JournAl: "The
public debt was reduced s109, sol, :
o5S,o4 during the calendar year
1888. This is the way the people
are uselessly taxed to pay q debt
which there Is no necessity of pay
ing, and Of which the present gen.
Grafton has already paid more than
its share" T l-E
NEWS nowadays travel rapidly
and frequently in the most round
about way. For instance: A st.
Louis dispatch says, sdvices from
Mobile say the recent cold snap
caused immense damage in that
section. The loss to the orange
groves will be nearly $1,000, 900
and the value of the vegetables
killed will be nearly as much.
Market gardening is carried on
very extensively in the neighbor-
hood of Mobile.
IT seems that there is now q law
on the statute books making all
streams in the State of certain
width navigable and preventing
their Enclosure or bridging with.
out permission. This law, the
legislature intends to enforce, and
also an opening allowed to every
stream at certain distances, so that
stock can be driven to water.
When this is done fence cutting
will be punished severely.
WHILE the stock interests Of
Texas are of vast Importance, the
true wealth and prosperity of the
state depends upon the develop
ment Of her agricultural resources
and the establishment of manufac-
turing industries; before these the
stock interest dwindles into cams
parative insignifoance. The six
or seven acres of grazing land de-
voted to the support of cow and
calf could be made to support sew
eral hundred inhabitants.
IT is reported, says the Washing
ton special to the News, that when
the measure to secure deep water
at Galveston is introduced In Con-
gress, in will not be under the jur-
isdiction of Mr.. Randall, chairman
of the appropriation committee,
who is opposed to liberal appro-
priations. Under the present
rules the committee on rivers and
harbors have exclusive jurisdic.
ton over such bills. and much Is
hoped for from this committee.
An influential delegation of
Texas Republicans are now in
Washington working on President
Arthur with reference to the ap-
of a Federal Judge for
the Eastern District of Texas. |
They want a Republican appointed
under any and all circumstances,
and will ask the appointment of
either Jack Evans or Judge Cham
bers' and it is thought that one of
these gentlemen will draw the
prize.
The nomination of Henry B. |
Payne, the candidate of the Stand
ard Oil monopoly, to succeed Pen
dleton as Democratic senator from
Ohio, is a victory for the Enquirer
wing of the party, but it is not