Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.
LEON county instructs for Ross.

! SAN AUGUSTINE county instruct'
for Ross.
ELLIS county Instructs for Ma
rion Martin for governor.
CONGRESS is preparing to adjourn
the latter part of next week.
MENARD county sends a Swair
delegation TO the state convention
IF instructions go for anything
SWANS chances are becoming less
day by day.
MIDLAND county instructs fol
Giddings for governor and Lanhan
for congress.
IT is reported that the town o
Vancouver, British Columbia, II
again in ashes.
THE Wichita county delegates
are instructed to vote IN tho con
vention as a unit.
HOPKINS county instructs fol
Ross, and is solid for Maxcy iol
the United States senate.
The evidence so far heard agains'
Chicago anarchists is very strong
and they will not have easy sailing
The Marlin Ball says Terrell i.
spreading it a little too thick Il
suit the sensible and conservative
people.
THE congressional campaign il
the Dallas district is getting so hot
that it can't be handled without
tongs.
In the Liberty county conven.
ton a motion TO instruct for Ross
was voted down and the delegates
90 uninstructed.
AN item in the Railway Register
says the construction of the Topo
lobampo railway will begin in
October at Topolobamps.
THE Orange Tribune says: Fol
Governor, D. Z. Glddings. That
is the name that strikes us some
where about the center.
The Ell Paso Evening Tribune
thinks the State Convention could
make no better choice for governor
than Hon. D. c. Giddings.
The river and harbor bill passed
the Senate on Friday with al
amendment cutting every appro,
prlatlon down % per cent.
HUNT county is decidly for Ross.
1t sends fifty delegates TO the state
convention instructed for Ross
first, last and all the time.
THE oleomargerine bill was dis
cussed in the Sanate on Monday,
several of the senators getting
warmed up over the subject.
ORANGE county sends an unin'
structed delegation to the State
convention. Stewart was unani
mously endorsed for congress.
THE general outlook for fine
crop of cotton and corn in Arkan.
sas Is splendid. There has been
too much rain in some sections.
THE Tarrant county convention
instructed for Beckbam for con.
gress, during the convention Fur,
man arose and Withdrew from the
race.
REPRESENTATIVE Cobb, OF Indiana,
and Laird, of Nebraska, had q reg.
ular fist fight in the capitol build,
ing on Friday. Cobb was knocked
down.
THE Austin Statesman does not
regard the nomination of Swain as
certainty, but it proposes to stick
to him as long AS there Is any
chance.
THE ninth congressional district
is composed of the counties OF
Navarro, Limestone, McLennan,
Falls, Bell, Milan, Burleson and
Washington.
In the vicinity of Shreveport
they are having too much rain
cotton worms are appearing and
Paris green is being ordered in
large quantities.
IT is regarded as almost certain
that the House will not agree to
the senate amendments 10 the river
and harbor bill and that it will
not pass at this session.
KNAPP, Stout & Cos lumber
yards at st. Louis, containing 25,-
100000 feet of lumber were burned
on Sunday afternoon. Loss not
given insurance $275,0O0,OO0.
AT the Gonzales county conven-
ton a preference for Q. NJ. Roberts
for governor was expressed and for
MaXey for United States Senator,
and for Judge Moore for congress.
A PRECINCT meeting was held at
Wallis, Austin county, and the
delegates to the county convention
wcro instructed for GIddings for
governor and Moore for congress.
GRIMES county convention with
out a dissenting voice, instructed
for Ross, so long as his name was
before the convention. A rasolu-
ton TO instruct for Giddings was
tabled.
ABOUT a dozen members of the
st. Louis house of delegates have
been indicted for drunkenness
and bribery. 1t is charged that a
good deal of crookedness has been
going on.
THOMPSON, the heightened de-
fauIting cashier of the Provident