Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-01

las Hernld's press? Thereis great
room for Improvement in its press
work. Nothing detracts from a
paper more than bad press work.
JUDGE REAGANs condition was
reported to be much better on Sun
day afternoon and the physicians
have strong hopes of his recovery,
Judge Reagan is now 66-ycars OF
age.
FRANK JAMES arrived at Boon
vile, Mo-, on Monday in charge of
an officer. He was admitted to
bail in the sum of $4,000 for his
appearance at the July term of the
court.
The Mckinney Black Waxy eel
cbratcd its eighth birthday by
changing from a folio TO quarto
and the patent inside has been
abandoned. We wish it abundant
success.
GALVESTON is now well supplied
with evening papers. The Print
has been rcsuscitated and the Even
ing Record, an entire new candi-
date for public favor, also made its
appearance.
TUESDAYS storm did considerable
damage at Fort Worth about fifty
houses were severely injured in
the southern part of the city;
most of them being blown from
their blocks.
If Texas newspapers advocat-
ing the two-thirds rule are TO be be-
lievcd, a newspaper that favors the
abrogation of said rule should at
once be read out of the party.
This is hardly fair.
The Corsicana Journal gives it
as It's opinion that "the radical
party in Texas, without the negro,
would be a long, slender, smooth
tail, without tho COON" In this
the Journal is correct.
AND Senator Maxey, too, is op-
posed to the two-thirds rule. The
Democratic party in Texas would
be somewhat "scrimped" if all the
opponents of the two-thirds rule
were excomunicated.
some ofthe strongest Democratic
papers in the state concede that
Sterrett is the victor in the pen
contest with Gen. John NJ. Glai-
burn, chairman of the State Demo
cratic executive committee.
THE st. Louis Republican says
the earthquake in Great Britain
is as nothing in comparison with
the one that will make the
republican party shake in the
United States next November.
THE Longview Democrat endors-
es Hon. John G. Buchanan, of
Mineola, for the position of state
Superintendent of common schools,
and says there is not a more COM
petent man in Texas for the place.
The Houston Age says that the
lease system will put more money
in the school fund, and fewer chill
dren in the school house. If the
school fund is honestly handled
there should be more children in
the school house.
IT is rumored at Dallas and tele-
graphed to the News and the Post
that the Huntington syndicate is
about to obtain control of the Santa
Fe railway. 1t will be bad day
for Galveston if the Santa Fc pass
es into other hands.
The Laredo Times learns that
several large firms doing business
in New Laredo, Mexico, expect
soon to move to this side of the
river in consequence of the obnox-
ious stamp act, which has gone in
to effect at Tamaulipas.
The law to appoint commits
sioner to the New Orleans expo
sition will go into effect on or
about the 5th of May. The COVER
nor will announce his choice soon,
and in the meanwhile the public
may as well rest easy.
JUST now the Austin Statesman
is doing its best to get the Fort
Worth Gazette Strengthened out
and put on the Democratic track.
The Gazette is, to use a vulgar ex-
preston, bull-headed, and persists
in going its own way.
THE Corsicana Courier wants the
double-back action non-explosive
census taken as soon as Fort
Worth is through with him, and it
promises to have Corsicana show
up with $4,000 inhabitants or for
felt a pint of goober peas,
In Chicago the other day Sadie
Reign, the young woman who shot
and killed Pat Kingsley, head
waiter at the Briggs house.. for de-
flaming her character, plead guilty
and was sentenced to two years
and ahalf in the penitentiary.
In 1870 the taxable property of
Texas was assessed at s174, 900, 900.
In 1888 the assessment had increas-
ed to $4,000, 900. The San An
tonic Express very properly says
no one can very well conjecture
what the assessment will be 10
years hence