Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.


to have formed an offensive AM
defensive alliance.
THE Houston Post now heads it
Austin dispatches as coming from
"Benthompsontown."
THE river and harbor bill will
be reported on in April, and viii
probably call for about SIS, 900, 900
AT Cairo, ILL.,, the river has com
menced receding. Below Paducat
on the Ohio there is no suffering
reported.
THE paragrapher on the Calves
ton News thinks that Keller might
be taught sense by the eloquent
rear leg of q mule.
A WRITER in the Galveston News
accuses the Waco Examiner of en-
couraging fence-cutting in an edi'
torial lately published.
MEASLES Is raging among the
Zuri Indians, near Albuquerque,
n. NJ, and during the past month
over 100 children have died.
THE Francisco prohibitions have
passed resolutions against an ex'
tension of the time of payment Of
tho tax on bonded whiskey.
Col. BARLOW, late of the Waco
Examiner on Monday took charge
of the Austin Statesman as general
manager and managing editer.
The Chicago Telegram thinks
that Ohio has had enough OF the
cold water movement for this year,
and that no prohibitionists need
apply.
TIE Apaches who stuck to their
farms last year raised 300 tons Of
hay, thus demonstrating that they
can do little farm work if they
want to.
Mrs. HAIaHT is sentenced to be
hanged at Binghampton, Now
York, April Is, for the murder Of
her husband. She protests her
innocence.
The particulars of the war in
Egypt are all Greek to the aver
age American reader. Fears are
entertained that Gen. Gordan has
been cut off.
AT Shreveport, La, the river
is higher than it has been at any
time since the famous food of 1S49.
The low portions of the city OF
Shreveport are inundated.
THE art of condensing news Is q
desirable one in a newspaper
writer, but some writers have a
habit of condensing items until all
meaning is squeezed out of them.
THE laws of the late session are
being delivered by the State Print
er, but as it takes 5000 copies to
supply the officials, Secretary Balm
is not yet ready to offer them for
sale.
BEN THOMPSON has been indulg-
ing in a little innocent pastime,
shooting his pistol on the Avenue
in Austin. If the people of Austin
can stand it no one else should COM
plain.
THE leading curiosity of a Bow.
cry museum is a glass half filled
with whiskey labeled "Refused by
General Grant in 1873" This is
asking the public to take too much
for granted.
IT is reported at Washington
that. both Arthur and Logan are
fixing things for the presidential
nomination. A lively time is in
store for the political trickstcrs of
the Republican party.
IT appears that the name ofMill-
helm station on the Santa Pe rail-
way at Deadman's creek, between
Bellville and sealy, has been
changed, to Peters, and that the
town is improving rapidly.
The Austin Statesman says the
indications are that there will be
another boom this summer in Tex
as lands. One thing is sure, if the
boom does not come. this summer
it will come in the near future.
A PETITION to congress asking an
appropriation for deep water at
Sabine Pass, Is being signed exten-
sively at Lake Charles, La. The
Echo says the Importance of this
work can hardly be overestimated.
The Republicans are preparing to
defeat the Mexican war pensions
bill, by insisting upon pensioning
every soldier who served one year
in the Federal army, regardless of
whether they were wounded or
out.
POKER is a profitable as well as
interesting game. The books of
the keeper of a poker room in st.
Louis show that his net gains from
the percentage on the games play
ed in his room during January
were 1857.
THEY carry business of internal
improvements to excess in Zacate-
cas-, Mexico. The mayor has is
sued an order requiring house
owners to paint their buildings and
owners. of vacant lots to build on
them.