Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-15
EDITORrAE NOTES. {


KENTUCKY sends Henry Matter.
sen TO The national Democratic con
vention.
The pension to the widow of
Gen. Frank P. Blair has been in
creased to $50 per month.
The Washington Star says Hew-
tits tariff bill will not be reported
on by the House this session.
A SPECIAL to the News from
Terrell says considerable opposi-
ton to Ireland Is cropping out.
The Waco Examiner says the
Galveston News should let up on
Ross until he becomes a candidate.
GOVERNOR HUBBARD has been
suggested as a proper man for one
of the delegates at large to the
National convention.
The Austin Capitol is not salts
fed with the way in which Calves
ton got the next meeting of the
State Press Association.
GOVERNOR IRELAND Is being haul
ed over the Goals for his vascilla-
ton in the appointment of a New
Orleans commissioner.
IT is estimated that the present
worlds crop of Cotton is short l.
900, 900 bales. and yet the price Of
the staple is declining.
The Webb county Democracy
approves the administration of
Governor Ireland and instructs its
delegates to vote for him.
The San Antonio Times says its
ticket is: Ireland for governor
and Gibbs for lieutenant governor.
1t will be the winning ticket.
The Sunny South publishing
company will on or about the LIST
of june begin the publication of a
morning daily newspaper at Waco.
THE Dallas Herald urges the peo-
pie of its town to push the Texas
Trunk railway, now completed to
Kaufman, through. to the pineres.
THE San Antonio Light says
the Blaine boom is not booming
with the vigor of a few weeks ago.
What Republican candidate is now
booming5
STATE Press, of the Galveston
News, says the Galveston Civilian
has the honor of having used the
first power press on newspaper
in Texas. #-f.s---
On the 18th inst, the Houston
Age will have attained its thir-
teenth birthday. II is not the
largest paper in Houston but it is
the oldest. H
The Houston Age wants Tom
Ochiltree put in command of a
Galveston company of zouavcs and
sent up the Nile to the relief of
Gen. Gordon.
Hon. P. E. PEARSON, of Fort
Bend, has announced that he will
be candidate before the Demo-
cratic congressional convention for
the Seventh district.
The Houston Age wants Capt.
Bill Sterrett, of the Dallas Times,
sent as delegate to the National
Democratic convention. Capt.
Bill would make a good one.
The Corsicana Courier has evil
IDENTIFY entered Marion Martin for
the gubernatorial race; it keeps
his name at the mast head and al
ways has kind word for him.
Mr.. W. L. WILLIAMS, of Inde-
pendence, has been appointed dis
trict commissioner from this, the
Ninth congressional district, to
the New Orleans Exposition.
THE Victoria Advocate believes
that Hon. w. Il. Grain is the man
who can distance Tom Ochiltree
in the race for congress in the
Seventh or shoe7string district.
AN exchange says Gen. Sui Ross
is a good man, and would fill the
gubernatorial chair most accepta-
bly-next time. The present IN
cumbent will do for another term.
The Houston Light Guards unan-
imously decided to divide the
$4,000 prize won by them, among
the visiting companies, according
to the expenses Of each company.
MISERY loves company. The
Corsicana Courier says, the Aus
tin Statesman and Capital are bull
ly-ragging each other worse than
the Corsicana papers are said to
do.
A PROMINENT San Antonio man
lately in Austin, says that if Han
cock wants another term in con-
gress he will not have near the
opposition he had ut the last elec-
ton.
A BILL has been introduced in
the house to authorize the lighting
of the navigable rivers of the Uni,
ted States by electricity. o. w.
Child and associates are to have
the privilege.
The editor of the Houston Age,
having been cornered by the San
Antonio Express, admits that he Is
good-looking, but his face is suf
fused with bushes in making the
acknowledgement.