Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-03-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

r humbug organ man.
The Austin printers union Is
; boycotting the Statesman, yet the
Statesman continues to thrive.
THE last issue of the Georgetown
Record is devoted almost exclus,
lively to printing Tcrrells speech.
The bill appropriating $4,000
for government buildings at Tyler
Texas, has been reported favor
ably.
, THE Eads Galveston harbor i'm
provcment bill was introduced IN
the House on Monday by Judge
Reagan.
SENATOR CoKE's bill to erect pub
lie buildings at Waco and San An
tonic was passed by the senate on
Monday.
THE Austin Statesman liz partic-
ularly severe on Hardenbrook and
Elliott, aspirants for the commits
sioner-ship.
The Fort Worth Gazette is right
in saying that the Texas delegation
should 20 to the Chicago conven-
ton uninstructed.
THAT Coryell county coffin story
is now going tho rounds of the
press. 1t has a faint Joe Mulhat-
ton odor about it.
A GREAT many people think
there is a scarcity of matter to fill
a newspaper; the Huntsville Item
says it is all mistake.
ACCORDING to the San Antonio
Times Texas has a representative
in congress who is the laughing
stock OF two continents.
Our in Colorado publishers of
interior papers take jack-rabbits,
and prairie hens and canvas back
ducks in paymens of subscriptions.
The Fort Worth Gazette thinks
that Galveston's bid for the state
convention is a meagre bait; one
that the committee will hardly
bite at.
IT is thought the vote in can-
grcss on the bill granting right of
way through the Indian territory,
will be about two to one in favor
of the bill.
The Waco Examiner wants the
press to give congressman 0chil-
tree rest. 1t Is seemingly i'm
possible to keep his name out of
the papers.
The governor will have to ap-
point superintendent of educa-
ton this spring and strange to say,
says the Fort Worth Gazette, there
is no scramble fer the plaes:
IT appears that the people of
New Laredo, Mexico, are not very
progressivej they oppose the con.
struction of a wagon bridge across
the river to Laredo, Texas.
THERE is excellent reason to be-
lieve, says the Waco Day, that the
president will, at an early day,
pardon Col. Still Russell, who is
now in the Chester penitentiary.
IT ia asserted that No. IS Is an
unlueky number for locomotive
and so superstitious are master
mechanics that few of them will
allow an sRgiRs t9 be IF that num- n:
beF, i
SAM HoUsToN was born in Rock
bridge county, Virginia, March 2,
1898. Sam Houstonis the most
prominent man in Texas history
and his mlssmgS9!ry should be Preser-
we'd.
AMONG other papers the New
York Herald recommends congress
to impose heavy tax on pistols.
Ifpist0ls could be faxed out of ex-
istence it would be good thing |
for the country.
The Cameron Herald and the
Rockdale Messenger are both pub
lished in Milan county and they
do not dwell together in peace
and harmony. One finds fault
with the other,
THE holiday edition of the Gal
weston Sunday Opera GLASS is re-
ceived. 1t is a handsomely illus
trated paper and gives full ae-
count of the late Mardi Gras fes-
tivities in Galveston
Mas. Ross, aged 60, widow
from Florida, was run over and
killed near Lake Charles on Tues
day, She was trying to get on the
cars at the time. She had rcla-
tives at Lake Charles.
Houston has not had a Demo-
cratic state convention since 1859
and she thinks it is about time she
was IGNORED. Fort Worth has
never had q state convention and
wants one this season,
THE Gulf, Colorado 4 Santa Fe
right of way bill was called up in
the Senate on Tuesday and on the
objection of Mr.. Harrison, of In
diana, it was tabled. What the re-
suit will be remains to be seen.
IT seems that the union printers
of Austin want to Boycott the
Statesman; the union printers at
Galveston tried to Boycott the
D,n. Tba pr;nt still IiyoS and