Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-12-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A DISEASE resembling rabies has
broken out among the cattle IN
Nebraska.
THE Evening Reporter is the
name of a new daily paper recent
ly started at Cleburne.
The Fort Worth Gazette thinks
Reagan can do more good in con-
gress than IN the senate.
IL is now conceded that Carlisle
will be elected Speaker of the
House without opposition.
CUTTING Iectured at Shreveport
the other day, but nothing is said
about the size OF his audience.
THERE are now stored in the
bonded warehouses of Kentucky
IS, 100000 gallons of whiskey.
A BILL to create a bureau of Ia
Dor and statistics has been intro
duced in the Georgia legislature.
REAGAN's candidacy for the Sen
ate will have the effect of compli.
eating matters very considerably
IT is estimated that the cotton
crop of Arkansas this year will
reach 100000 bales against 100000
last year.
A BILL has been introduced il
the Alabama Legislature appro
priating $4,000 to encourage i'm
migration.
NEVADA farmers are Shipping
! potatoes by the train-load to the
Sacramento and San Francisco
markets.
Hon. W. J. SWAIN has concluded
to make Austin his homo and ba:
formed law partnership with 81
C. Childress.
THE Rusk County News favor'
the passage by the legislature of
bill making the carrying of a dead
" weapon a felony.
Hon. G. C. PENDLEToN, of Bel
county, seems to have the inside
track for speaker of the house o
representatives.
BLIND Tom, the celebrated negro
pianist, has been declared mentally
unsound and incapable of manag
ing his own affairs.
The Abilene Reporter predicts
that Hon. J. 81. Reagan will b.
the successor ofSam Bell Maxey IL
the United States Senate.
AGAIN business failures are re
ported to have been moro numer
GUS in Ike South last week than il
any other section of the country.
= RRooKs, q well known
ERAsTUs - vo,,, No
iurnallst, died in New
vember rs, aged II years. he was
editor of the New York Express
in 1886.
THE official count Of the Cali
fornIa vote elects Bartlett, demo
crat, governor, and gives the demo
Gratis a majority of ten in the
legislature.
A NUMBER of papers are in favor
of submitting prohibition amend
ment to vote of the people. The
BANNER can see no good reason fol
doing so.
THE Tyler Courier is making {
vigorous war on the chattel mort
gage, advising farmers to avoic
trading off their cotton crop be
fore it is made.
THE Cleburne Chronicle thinks
that drunken men should be denied
Abundance to places of publi'
amusement, as their company il
neither pleasant or agreeable.
S. H. H. CLARK formerly mana
ger of the Union Pacific railway
has been elected first vice-presi
dent of the Missouri Pacific rail
way, vice Il. NJ. Hoxie, deceased.
Nat Q. HENDERSON is once NOR
before the public. This time HI
has professed religion and some o
the papers say he will become al
evangelist. He has the assurance
to do most anything.
AT MIDDLETowN, N. Y, last weel
Sampson Townsend, aged 70, wa
married to Mrs. Julia Gillespie
aged IA. A three year-old grea
granddaughter of the bride wa
at the wedding.
The Tyler Courier says: off thu
farmer sticks to the mortgage sys
TEN set him down as poor mai
and a slave all the days of his life.
In this the Courier is very correct
Too much credit is the ruin of thu
average farmer.
AT Salem, Mass, there is a strik,
among the tanners, and as usua
when a strike Is in progress mol
union men have been whipped
and a street car was wrecked. 4
striker was shot and severely
wounded by a Lon-union man.
HENRY GEORGE says heis making
arrangements for tho publication o
a weekly paper which intends tt
issue about the first of the year
1t will be called the Standard, ant
will be published in the interest o
all who work with hand or head.
THE Houston Herald says Their,