Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-06-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Temple Times thinks that
carrying pistols should be made
felony.
ACCORDING to tho Fort Worth
Gazette, the free grass idea is
spreading.
The Brown. County Banner is
now under the management OF W.
B. Roberts.
OSCAR WILDE is married. Miss
Lloyd is the name of the lady who
won his hand.
So FAR there has been no ratifca-
ton meetings held by the Texas
Republicans.
The German Republicans ofCin-
cinnatl have ratified the nomina-
ton of Blaine.
The Waco Examiner is opposed
to the free grass doctrines of the
Fort Worth Gazette.
DELEGATES to the Fort Worth
convention are already beginning
to arrive in that city.
IT is sad, but true. The San
Antonio Epress is not run to suit
the Austin Statesman.
WIscoNsrNs dairy products last
year amounted TO s19,500, 900.
There is money in cows.
Ii is said that Fred Ward dimes
at Delmonico's. He is accompanied
to his meals by a deputy sheriff.
The Austin Capitol calls the
Statesman a quack, when it comes
to matters pertaining to Democra-
! y.
JuDGE BINcKLEY, of Sherman, is
a member of the Republican
national executive committee for
Texas.
THE Austin Statesman would
like to beat Ireland for the gov
ernorship, but the people are on
Ireland's side.
PRETTY much the entire nation
understands now, says the St.Louis
Republican, that Samuel J. Tilden
is the coming man.
The convention hall at Chicago
will be enlarged to seat 20, 900 per-
sons at the Democratic convention
soon to meet there.
IT Is said that the Travis coun-
ty delegation to the Houston con-
ventlon is solid for Ireland, Swain,
Walsh and Lubbock.
The department of agriculture
estimates the condition of the cot
ton crop in Texas at II, one hum
dred being the average.
SENATOR Hull will make an ef-
fort to secure the consideration OF
the postal telegraph bill sitter the
Utah bill is disposed of.
BLAINE has been receiving con-
gratulatory dispatches at his home
in Augusta, Me-, and among others
one from Mrs. Garfield.
HENRY C. Work, the noted song
writer and author of Grandfather's
Clock, died at Hartford, Conn, of
heart disease, last Sunday.
A. BENCH show is now in progress
at Chicago. About three hundred
dogs, divided into seventy-eight
classs, are on exhibition.
OcHILTREE has a number of OPP
ponents and if one is not elected
the Waxahachie Mirror says the
district should be annihilated.
THE Fort Worth Gazette is now
bending all its energies in favor of
free grass, and is giving up most
of its available space to politics.
1t is intimated that Wash Jones
is making an inspection Of the 20.
lltical creek in the 10th District
with a view to fishing for seat in
congress.
CASHIER HALT, of the Citizens
bank of Wilmington, Del, is de-
faulter. Amount of stealings un-
known. 1t is said the bank will
suspend, |!
The New York Independent Re-
puollcans entfeated the Chicago
convention not to nominate either
Blaine or Logan and it nominated
both Of Thorn. :
AFTER a lively tussel in the Tar
rant county convention the two
thinds rule was voted down. The !
Fort Worth Gazette says the old
rHle died hard:
AT st. Louis tho Republicans
held o ratification meeting and I
endorsed Blaine most heartily.
the orators on the occasion
was ]. Milton Turner, colored.
The nomination of Blaine seems :
70 have strengthened the old tick
# very materially, and the gem
,ral opinion is that 4ildeR and .
Hendricks Will sweep the land.
THE Dallas Herald and tho Fort Y
Worth Gazette are having lively n
discussion over the free grass ques- Il
ion. They are on opposite sides; f
he Herald is opposed to free grass. II
The Fort Worth Gazette says
hat the tariff plank of the Repub- +
lean convention may be construed t
IS fish, flesh or fowl. according ia G
he taste of its several readers and t