Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-02-21
The Waco Examiner saws that


one. Should Gen Il. S. Ross be
elected governor it thinks he would
make good one.
Col. TALMAGE, transportation
manager of the Missouri Pacific
railway system, has been promoted
to the position of fourth vice presi,
dent ofthat system, with jurisdic-
ton extending over the entire
Wabash lines.
In fire at Prescott, A. T., S. n.
Holmes, proprietor of the Daily
Miner, was burned to death while
trying to save some valuable pro-
perty. A sporting woman, at the
same fire and at the risk of her
life, saved a child.
IT is the opinion of the Texas
Live Stock Journal that the out
look for beef for the coming
spring Is good on two counts.
The weather promises fat beeves
early and the markets promises fat
beeves good prices.
AND now Waco, too, would like
to have the State Democratic con-
vention. Galveston and Houston
arc also in the field. Houston is
noted for her hopitality and ifshe
gets the convention the delegates
will be well taken care of.
The office of commissioner from
Texas to the New Orleans EXPOSE
ton has no existence until ninety
days after February 6, and no ap-
pointment can be made before that
date. In the meantime the gov
ernor can pick out his man.
DR.. YANDELL, is in Austin, and
as President of the Press Associa-
ton, he favors an excursion from
the Dallas convention in May to
the Interstate drill at Houston,
and next winter TO New Orleans,
transportation having been ten
dered.
A MAN who writes paragraphs
for the Fort Worth Gazette is of a
very inquiring term of mind. He
wants to know who reads the
bibles placed in railway cars? As
drummers are noted for their piety
and meekness it may be that they
read the bibles.
COMPTROLLER SWAIN has issued
a circular to county assessors and
collectors to assess and collect
taxes on all scholastic institutions
where pupils eat and sleep. This
ruling is creating something of a
sensation in the ranks of those
most directly interested.
The Waco day says of a "stand-
ing advertisement" that it may
not be carefully read every day,
still it makes the name and bust
ness of . man familiar, and its con-
tinued presence in the columns of
paper inspires confidence in the
stability of tho advertiser.
The flood in the Ohio river is
now abating, there has been a fall
at Cincinnati of about four feet.
The amount of restitution and sui.
fering is almost beyond computa-
ton. Many lives have been lost,
and the loss of property will run
away up into the millions.
A GREAT deal of time is now be-
ing wasted in making calculations
to show beyond reasonable
doubt that the Democratic or the
Republican nominee will be elect
ed president. As figures never
lie, an abundance of figures are
given to prove each proposition.
The seguin Times is very plain
spoken paper; it airs its opinion
of Governor Roberts in these
words: "The fact is, the old Alcal-
de, when the people become intel
igent enough to study the move
ments ofhis administration, will be
regarded as the greatest fraud that
ever filed the executive chair of
any government"
The Austin Statesman says jas
tice will be complete when there
is no free grass in Texas for those
large herds of cattle. In other
words, the people will be treated
with justice when public education
is not robbed of 81, 2O0,O 900 annual
Iy through the school lands pro-
ducing cattle, in which the school
children have not a particle of in
terest.
SOMETHING OF STIR has been
created in Washington by re-
port that Bismarck had returned
the resolutions of coincidence of
Herr Lasker's death to the Ger
man minister in Washington with
instructions to return them to con-
gress. Neither the German min
lister nor Secretary Frelinghuysen
has any information of any such
action.
Mr.. WELLBoRN has introduced a
bill to provide for the removal of
the Tonkawa Indians to the Ina
paw reservation in the Indian Ter
ritory and appropriating $4,000
to meet the expenses. There is SO
few of the Tankawas left they have
almost lost their identity and if