Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

N 'A AN 'ohSA ANo SHS
pended; want OF patronage is the
cause of the suspension.
TO-DAY, Tuesday, eulogies of tho
Vlce-president Hendricks will be
delivered IN the house.
TUE Galveston News seems tc
have Its Terrell boom for the sen
ato1ship all its own way for the
present.
A RAILWAY PAPER says: The
Texas Central will be sold at al
early day under the proceedings
for foreclosure.
4 GAS war IN Baltimore has re
duccd the price OF gas to fifty cents
per thousand feet. 1t will not be
long before there is 4 rise.
Rev. DR.. BAINEs, of FL Paso, de-
irvered a lengthy sermon in thai
city last Sunday on the baneiul
effects OF the opium habit.
Y LARGE immigration OF farmers
20 arkansas Is expected from West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and por'
tons of Ohio, this season.
LANPAsAs is now working to Sc.
cure connection with the Texas
and st. Louis road. The Journal
says the road must and will be
built.
II is estimated that the damage
TO the orange groves and growing
fruit in Florida by the late cold
snap will amount to at least 81, ;,
100000.
The Laredo Times says If the
orange trees in Florida are killed,
as reported, Mexican growers will
have a good thing supplying the
market.
TIE Houston Post informs the
Dallas News that the charter of
the Houston and Texas Central
railway locates the general offices
at Houston.
PHOT oGRAPHs are now taken al
most life size, with brilliant lights
and deep shadows, much better
than any portrait painted By the
average artist.
THE Bastrop Advertiser says ii
the court of appeals allows Tom
Yarnell to be released on bail,
many honest citizens will have a
contempt for the court.
THE county poor-house at Jack
son, Michigan, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire on Sunday morn.
ing. There were forty inmates,
five of whom persisted in the
flames.
J. A. WRIGHT, q negro residing
in Philadelphia, and two relatives
have discovered or think they have
discovered that they are heirs to
an estate in Baltimore worth 81
100000.
THE proposed amalgamation OF
greenbackers, DrohlbltioRlsts, Re-
puklicans and soreheads generally
does not seem to materializlng to
such an extent as to cause the
Democrats any loss of sleep.
The Austin Statesman asks, Of
what use are a lot of county con-
vlcts lying up in Jail and being
fattened at the expense of the tax
payers of the county. 1t wants
them put to work on the roads.
REGEIVER DILIINanAM rendered
the use OF special train oyer the
Houston & Texas Central railway
10 carry the remains Of the vcner-
able DR.. Ashbel Smith to Austin,
This action, says the Houston Post,
was both generous and graceful.
THE Railway Register says that
the coinage of silver ought to be
stopped for the present. 1t thinks
it would be to the interest of the
railways of the United States, be-
cause a good deal Of tee stock in
them is owned by foreign capt.
talists,
The Dallas Times goes tor
Fort Worth paper in this manner:
a Fort Worth paper speaks etern-
oily about the Dallas end. People
will begin to believe that the pal-
las end has sting IN it If SAID pa.
per does not quit screaming so
painfully.
The books of the United States
treasury are being overhauIed; it
appears that there are millions of
dollars owing TO the government,
and in some instances the United
States is still a debtor. 1t will be
sometime before the statement is
made up in full.
THE Mcxla Ledger says the Ger
mans are elamoring for bi-matalic
standard. They claim that
commodities have not kept pace
with the frmness of the money
market, and farmers find it almost .
impossible to pay OF mortgages
md other debts.
OS the lst day of January 1856 /
Texas had 1851 miles OF railroad, /
and it IS probable; says the Dallas
News, that the railway mileage of
Texas will touch 10000 miles be-
ore the half Of another decade is
passed, when the state will have a