Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

THE Waco Examiner advises its
readers to take rest from poll
tics on Sundays.
THE scheme TO have Dakota ad-
mitted Us state seems to have
died natural death.
Dun & Cos. commercial agency
reports failures on the decline
throughout the country.
THE car drivers at Cincinnati
struck on Saturday for raise in
wages from s55 to $50 per month.
HENRY J. HALL, California
millionair, shielded at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York, last
Friday.
SAM JONES is out-spoken; he ex-
presses his contempt for base ball,
but base ball continues to flourish
all the same.
The Dallas News rises to re-
mark: "Somo knights of Labor
are now having days of rest" 1t
would seem so.
AND now they say that ovan-
gelist Sam Jones "chaws fiat ter
hacker" Sam ought to be
ashamed Of himself.
THE LaGrange Journal is unable
to see where Gen. Ross ever left
the impress OF craftsmanship upon
any public act of his.
THE Tyler Democrat compares
the Waco Examiner to q little
Spanish mule. The Examiner will
raise the Dem oerat n chip.
The Waco Examiner is devoting
all its energies 10 making Ross
governor of Texas. lift succeeds
it will be the proudest paper in
Texas.
SIMON CAMERON is 81 years old
and Hannibal Hamlin 81. The old
saw, that the good die young would
seem to have no application in
these instances.
! The Bonham Review and Record
have been consolidated and will
hereafter be run under the man.
agement of the Fannin county
Alliance, as the Record.
The Galveston Tribune says the
labor troubles here have notified
capitalists throughout the world
that Galveston is an excellent city
for them to keep away from.
THE dispatches report two prize
fights last Sunday, one near Ell
Paso and the other at Rye, a vii
Iage on the line between New
York and Connecticut. Both af-
fairs were brutal.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, is a manufac-
turing city and its prosperity seem
to know no let up. An English
sydlcate has lately organized Il
mining and furnace company with
a capital stock ofs1, 100000.
GEN. SHERMAN, in a letter said
that he paid taxes TO tho amount
of 5000 IN st. Louis. The New
York Sun investigated ard finds
that he pays Only 1925. Better
men than Sherman lie about their
taxes.
The LaGrange Journal says it
will either be Swain or dark
horse. The only probability of
its being a dark horse is by the
convention adopting the two-thirds
rule and totally ignoring the wish
es of the majority.
IT is asserted and generally be-
lieved, says the LAGRANGE Journal,
that Barlow expects to become
secretary of state, provided Ross
is made governor. We do not
know what authority the Journal
has for its statement.
THERE is no wharf monopoly at
Sabine Pass, says the Bolton
Journal. Nor any other kind OF
monopoly, but there Is a big cor
ner on unbroken solitude, says
the Galveston Tribune. 1t is the
native heath OF gallinippers and
alligators.
A GATEsvILLE special to the Gal
weston News says that DR.. J. B.
iCranfill has been solicited to be-
come q candidate for governor.
The doctor has not decided
whether he will become candi-
date or not,
IT is thought at Austin that there
trouble brewing III regard to the
convicts now being worked at the
Burnet granite quarrles. 1t is pre-
sumed that the knights OF Labor
will take some decided action In
regard to the matter.
| THE Adsst.in Statesman publishes
a private letter from Hon. i"hn
Cardwell, consul general to Egypt,
to a citizen of Austin, suggesting
the formation of a museum for the
State University, and offering his
services IN collecting historical
relics and curiositres in Egypt.
A LAREDO dispatch OF Sunday
says snow fell at Monterey and
SaltilIo, Mexico, 100 miles south.
While the mountain tops were
covered with snow the gardens
were a-bloom with tropical plants:
THE Dallas Times, a strictly re-
ligious paper, says that since
Dixon Williams and the other