Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-03-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

ting the old alcalde have rest
from politics.
The Denison Sunday Gazetteer
seems to enjoy magnificent adj
vertising patronage.
Ifbut one convention be held Fort
Worth is the place TO hold it, says
the Bolton Journal.
IT is estimated that damage by
the recent food in the Ohio valley
is about $4,000, 900.
IL few months people will
cease talking about Ben Thomp-
son and he will be forgotten.
ACCORDING to the Galveston
News, 1.-TWO state conventions will
keep state and national politics
apart.
The Mckinney Black Waxy calls
the Agricultural and Mechanical
college at Bryan the Texas dude
factory"
THE cotton mills of South Caro-
lima employ $500 persons, and the
value of the product is placed at
S6,OOO,OOO.
The Austin Statesman says II
can name congressman Mills sue.
cessor, but it won't and there is an
end ont. Just so.
VINCENT, the defaulting Alabama
treasurer is now in Mexico and
SAYS that he crossed the river five
miles above Laredo.
JAY GOULD and his family are
now in Havana. He is travelling
on his own yacht and will visit the
principal ports of the island.
GEN. DAVID, of the civic guards
and Williams a banker, fought a
duel with swords at Antwerp on
Sunday. Williams was wounded.
THE measure for the retirement
and recoinage of the trade dollar
has been made the special order
in the House for to-day, Tuesday.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR says he will
appoint a judge for Texas within
the next ten days, No lntimation
is given as 20 who will draw the
prize.
GRADING on the Bremond East and
West Texas narrow gauge railway
is nearly completed to Liberty
Hill, IL miles east of Nacogdo-
ehes,
MONTREAL has sensation on the
American plan. Some of her city
officials have defaulted to the
amount of s25, 1000 and have skip
ped out.
MEssRs COKE AND MAxEY have
called on president Arthur at diff
erent times to protest against the
appointment ofJack Evans to the
judgeship.
THE Galveston Print says that
the San Antonio Light has been
doing splendid work by its en-
deavor to drive the negroes out
of the Republican party.
As far as VIC are able to judge by
the tone of our exchanges, and
they are very numerous, eonsid-
cradle majority of them are oppos-
ed to the two-thirds rule.
The Laredo Times learns that
the Texas and Mexican railroad is
to be extended to the Hunt coal
mines, and thus Galveston will be
furnished with cheap. coal.
W. A. SAYLoR, a Republican po-
litician has abandoned the idea of
getting the Brownsville collector
ship and is now an applicant for a
similar position at FL Paso,
The effect of the two-cent letter
rate of postage has been to de-
crease the demand for postal cards
and increase the demand for post
age stamps and stamped envelops.
The Corpus Christi Daily Critic
has put on its golden slippers and
dwells with the angles above. 1t
is a difficult thing to make daily
paper selfsustaining in a small
city.
The Waco Day learns that Gen.
Ross, of Waco, has written to
prominent gentleman ofthe state,
positively declining to become a
gubernatorial candidate for the
next term.
The BANNER is indebted to the
Travellers Insurance company of
Hartford, Conn, for a very hand
some picture of Bartholdi's statue
of liberty, to be erected in New
York harbor.
ACCORDING to the philosophy of
the Fort Worth Gazette, the aver
age man is very economical with
the truth. Does not the Gazette
use the same kind of economy in
this paragraph?
We have ut last received the ini-,
tlal issue of the Daily Capita |
published at Auftin. 1t is very
neat eight page paper with plenty
of reading matter; is well edited
and handsomely made up.
The Palestine AID vOcate wants
the state convention held in a city
that can furnish an unlimited guam