Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

something ike That TO be held IN
New Orleans.
So FAR the county conventions that
have been heard from Ireland is
decidedly the favorite.
The Austin Capital says that
work on the new capital building
Is progressing all right.
None of the suspended Wall
street firms have yet completed
statements oftheir condition.
The six-shootcr is still going at
lively rate, Judging from the
number OF shootings that are re-
ported.
R. b. HUBBARD will be one of the
delegates at large to- the Chicago
convention says the Fort Worth
Gazette.
THE Dallas Times says that not
withstanding the dolugc better
crop will be made than last year.
We hope so.
WHEN Democrats disagree who
is to settle the difference? Here
tofore the Republican party has
been the gamer.
The fifth annual commencement
exercises of the Sam Houston Nor
NAL Institute at Huntsville, open
ed on Tuesday night.
The Galveston News has got its
press in running order again and
now gives all the news up to 3
o'clock a. m. each day.
The annual reunion ofthe Hoods
brigade association will be held at
Dallas June 81. All members are
requested to be present.
Mrs. U. S. GRANT has sold her
house on Corcoran street Washing
ton City. to the editor of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer for $500.
PRESIDENT GONZALES, of Mexico,
will ask congress to permit him to
resign in June, says special dis
patch from the City of Mexico.
The San Antonio Express is UNI
able to discover any virtue in
abuse, especially in abusing Ran
dali and his alleged forty traitors.
A FEW days ago a band of Arab
ian tramps were in Brennan, and
it appears from the dispatches that
there are some of them tramping in
Ohio.
The San Antonio Times will con-
sent to division of the State, if it
can be so arranged that Dallas and
Fort Worth will be in different
states.
Two immigration societies have
been formed in New Orleans and
an organized effort will be made to
bring migrants from Europe to
Louisiana. -
The Democracy in the progress
sive counties seem to favor the
majority rule, but then the two
thirds rule men may say that such
Democracy won't wash.
The French brig Senorine, with
fifty-three passengers, was wreck
ed off the coast of New Foundland
on Saturday, The passengers and
crew were nearly all lost.
IT is stated that Charles O'Con-
ner, the celebrated lawyer, who
died recently was worth a million
dollars, never made cent of it de-
Tending murderer or a rogue.
THE st. Louis Railway Register
says the courteies shown by rail
roads to newspaper people are like
the seed sown in good ground
which bore fruit and brought forth
hundred fold.
The Fort Worth Gazette pro-
fesses to be unable to discover the
Gibbs boom. twill probably take
the Houston convention to con-
vince it that Gibbs really has a
boom. ......
TILDEN is by no means the favor
ito of Texas for the presidential
nomination, but if the National
Convention deems it wise to nomi.
nate him he will certainly get the
full vote Of the party.
The press of the state is by no
means enthusiastic for the bog
rapher of Ben Thompson to fill
the position of attorney general
but still Major Walton is not with
out friends and defenders,
IT is stated that sympathy with
Russell Sage is misplaced. 1t will
take him a year or two to figure
up how he will come out on his
transactions. Good judges believe
that he is several million ahead.
TiLDEN and Hendricks have beer
endorsed by several county con
yeptions, but majority of then
heard from have expressed no pre-
ference for president. Tariff re
form is very generally demanded
The United States Senate ha'
passed bill providing for hold
ing terms of the United States dis
trict court on the first Mondays il
February and August at Browns
vile San Antonio, FL Paso ant
Austin.