Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-12-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

States senator.
The millers at Minneapolis are
about to form q pool to control the
output of -four by the immense
mills at that city.
THERE is now in actual circula-
ton 6l,77l, AS standard silver dol
lars, the largest amount that has
ever been in circulation.
TEMPLE seems to want the
world; it wants large cotton mill
and the great machine shops of the
Santa Fe railway to start with.
If the coming legislature does
not establish q reformatory for
youthful offenders it will lose q
splendid opportunity to do good.
A. P. HARRIS, tor many years
editor of the Orange Tribunes, re-
tires from that paper and its man.
agement is assumed by the Tribune
Publishing Company.
The Galveston News in an edI-
torlal on lynch law arrives at the
conclusion that the uncertainty of
the law is one of the main causes
OF lynch law being resorted to.
The Fort Worth Gazette is CIV
ing railroads temporary rest and
it now says: Good country roads
should be the persistent cry of
Fort Worth and Tarrant county.
BUCKET shops exist in n number
of the important towns IN Texas,
but they cut no conspicuous figure.
The legislature may attempt to
legislate them out of existence.
THosBs, the man who will con-
test Speaker Carllsle's scat in the
Fifth congress has secured the SER
vices Of Con. Butler, which means
bitter fight TO unSeat the speaker.
Col. CUTTING is proving a dis
NAL failure in the lecture field.
The Shreveport Times says there
was a solitary listener who gather
ed at the opera house to hear the
lecture.
Col. GEORGE MOBILES, the Texas
manager of the Texas and Pacific
railroad died at Dallas on Saturday
night, aged Sc years. He was
very popular with the employees OF
the road.
The BANNER learns from a gen.
tlemau from Milan county that
local option WAS defeated at the
election held on Monday. Local
option had been in force two years
and proved failure.
IT is now suggested that if Man
ming comes home from the City OF
Mexico that he be succeeded by a
total abstinence or pure cold wa
ter man; a man who will not
"monkey" with mescal.
T. S. MIzE, the defaulting cashier
for Ames, the Boston coal mer-
chant, is short $4,000 and to re-
pay it and save himself from the
penitentiary, his father has been
ruined, having sacrificed all his
property to save his son.
THE Presidents message will be
shorter than last year. The tariff
question will be treated as live
issue. The report of Secretary
Manning, showing a great increase
In revenue, and calling for some
method OF reducing taxation, will
govern his utterance.
THE Waco Examiner wants the
business mon and property owners
to be up and dong something to
induce the San Antonio and Aran.
sas Pass railway to build its road
to Waco. The Bolton News copies
the above and says it will apply
equally as we'll to Bolton, which
town wants more railroads.
THR Fort Worth Gazette wants
to know what has become of the
Roberts senatorial boom. The
Austin Statesman says: "Let the
Old Alcalde alone. he is no aspl-
rant. If he were he has probably
more sound Texas craftsmanship
in that venerable head of his than
some east and north Texas that we
wot Of"
THE Houston Age says: In the
discussion of the hanging OF the
three negroes at Brennan night
before last, the feeling chiefly
manifest is that the white scoup-
drels who instigated the negroes to
the murderous deed for which they
were hung, ought to have been
sldepartners of the negroes at the
hanging.
That the crop mortgage has been
the means of keeping many farm
ers poor none can doubt, but it is
the farmer. himself, far more than
the merchant who takes the mort |
gage that is to be blamed. The
merchant takes the mortgage to Sc
cure himself, but he would much
rather sell his goods for cash at a
small profit than to sell them at a
high price and take the chances of
the mortgagor making q crop to
pay for them. Tho crop mortgage
is a miserable arrangement, not on
ly for the farmer, who is compell-
ed 10 resort to it, but equally so for
the merchant.