Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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rously i'll st his noue III LOUIS,
villo, Ky.
Papers in Southeastern Texas
are warm supporters OF deep wa
ter at Sabine Pass.
BELroE subscribed S3l 900 for i
college. Can't BRENNAN do As
much for e railroad?
The Galveston Tribune wonder
If the name of Sabine Pass will b,
changed 10 Stewartsburg.
BUSINESS failures continue nu.
ncrous IN the western and south
srn states and in Canada.
SPor cotton in New York is Oh
about an eighth on the week; IL,
demand is light md the marker
weak.
The ICE gorge IN the river at ST.
LOUIS is about to break up. Sever
al steam boats were damaged BY
ice.
fEE Columbus Citizen says that
Swain III bis Interview prepetrates
neat straddlc on the prohibition
question.
The funeral Of ex-governor Sey-
moar vii! take place from Trinity
church, Utica, on 2 o'clock P. nj.
today, Tuesday.
ACCORDING TO the Gazette Fort
Worth is the only remaining north
Texas city; Dallas, it says, is a
suburb OF Galveston.
The Montague and Southwestern
railway is beng pushed to an in
terscction with the Fort " orth ana
Denver road, near Brusby Mound.
TIE hrakemcn Ga the Louisiana
diyiSon OF the Southern Paclnc
railroad are on 3 strike At Gretna,
La, where there Is freight Dluch-
ade.
GEE. Ross wants 1t distinctly uL-
durstoou that ne 10 . Iarnor, anu
lie wants 10 wall unIIi The Iarmere
are al Ieasure Deioro no opeue III.
Canvass.
GEO. 4. CAsEog, the head-cenll e
OF the Mormon cnurcn, Is now III
the nsnus the United hIatrs MAR
snal. lie had been Guiding arrest
tor nearly Year.
Ire Apache cEIef Geronimo
wants to meet Gen. Crook ana al
range Tor the surrender vi the re-
Inaiuder OIL the Apache braves VINO
are yet On the Wal patch.
Tue leading tribes in Territory
| protest against the establishment
OF a Federal court al Fayetteville,
Ark. They want the court estaD.
lished in the Territory.
The city of London is a big
thing. Its police force consists OF
$4,000 trained officers. Enough
men TO make a fourishing Amerl-
can city of at least $4,000 popuIs-
ton.
The Bolton Daily News has been
received; it Is a neat six-column
paper and starts of with fair ad-
vertising patronage. 1t large
undertaking for Bolton. We wish
it success.
No European Mormons have az
rived at Castle Garden this win
ter. The attitude OF the govern
ment toward the Utah Mormans is
not such as to encourage immi-
grafton to that territory.
The San Antonio Light says one
Of the richest jokes of the season
is the Galveston News and San
Antonio Express giving each other
lectures on truo Democracy, and
giving lessons on consistency.
The Bolton Journal says the Bell
county Democrats will support
Ross in preference to Swain. This
it gathers from a careful canvass.
Judge Reagan, 1t thinks. is the
first choice of the people, but he
will not allow he use of his name.
HEAVY rams have caused the
Delaware river TO rise and flood
the lower portion of the city of
Trenton. Such a flood has not
been experience since 1857. At
Reading, Pa, the SchuylkiIl river
is ten feet above low water mark.
A TERRIBLE MINING disaster oc
Cured at Webb City, Mo-, last
week. Two miners had loaded Il
heavy charge of eighteen sticks of
giant powder and were tamplng it
down when it exploded. Both
men were literally blown 10 atoms.
A NUMBER of miners from New
Mexico and Arizona have started
Tor tho newly discovered gold
fields OF Honduras. They go south
through Mexico. Miners from
other parts OF the United States
have gone down. There is plenty
of malaria if not gold in the alleg-
ed mining district.
ARTICLES Of Incorporation have
been filed by Thomas A. Edison
and others, at Albany, y. Y, OF the
International Railway Telegraph
company, which is TO introduce
his device Of telegraphing TO and
from moving trains. II this de-