Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-05-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The state concluded its evldenc,
in the Maxwell murder case at ST
Louis on Tuesday.
THE Times says that Temple i
on great boom; numerous i'm
provoments are in progress.
THE labor troubles seem to b,
about over an occasional small
strike is all that is left of them.
THE Fort Worth Gazette is very
sonsIbly advocating the establish
ment of public park IN that city
Ouo's legislature has at last ad
iourned and the Democratic stat,
senators who ran off to Tennessee
can now return home.
IF we had no political parties il
this country we would have very
dreary and uninteresting time dur
ing election campaigns.
The New York legislature has
lately passed bill authorizing The
construction OF an underground
railway under Broadway.
TIE Galveston News says the
most serious charge against the
knights of Labor is that James G
Blain belongs to them.
In the prohibition counties O.
Georgia and South Carolina ped
oilers drive thriving business by
selling bad whisky to the thirs
ty.
MARTIN IRONS contemplates &
lecturing tour. This is a free
country and he is at liberty to lee
ture if he can find an audience to
lecture to.
NELSON PLATO, ex-collector at
Corpus Christi, and recently con-
vIcted as a defaultcr, will have to
pay the penalty. An effort to have
him pardoned has proven fruitless.
The Knights of Labor are hold
ing a convention at Cleveland the
object of which is to adjust differ,
ences between the knights as an
organization and the various trades
uniops.
THB senate commerce committee
have agreed to report favorably
on the river and harbor bill so far
as the Texas appropriations are
concerned. This is good news for
abe people of Texas.
The Dallas News now publishes
on Monday mornings synopsis of
the society news of its own city
and the surrounding towns. This
gives the local Jenkinses q chance
to send in their society news.
A SPECIAL from Washington, Pa,
May "a, says the Cameron oil well
was drilled in to-day and started
at 165 barrels an hour and at night
was delivering 1913 barrels an hour.
A pretty oily, well that.
WIN. ALExAEKR for eight years a
clerk in the Louisville, ky., post
Office was caught the other day
stealing q money letter. He was
arrested and may spend the next
eight or ten years In the penlten-
tiary.
The commencement season is
now at hand and for the next
three or four weeks newspapers
will fairly tenn with reports of the
exercises at the various colleges
and so-called colleges throughout
the state.
IT is stated that there are %, 900
Bohemiang ip Chicago who cannot
read English, or perhaps speak it.
Ought men who cannot speak kng-
llsh be made Qltigens by the natu-
ralization processl This is an
open question.
In Chicago the Salvation army
is making disturbance. Down
in this neck of the woods the Sal
yatlon army does nothing worse
than to drink BRANCH wateF and eat
fish and barbecued mutton, the pre-
late saying proper grace before
meals.
The investigation at Chicago has
developed tina fact that the anar-
chlsts had a well planned plot to
bnrn and sack certain districts in
Chicago, May 4. The premature
explosion of the bomb and the
prompt action of the police alone
prevented 1t.
Mr.. HUNTINGTON has authorized
Receiver Clark TO compromise
with the Houston and Texas Gen.
trail boRdht9lders on what are re-
garded as liberal terms. 1t is
thought the proposition will be &C
cepted and the road speedily
taken out of the hands of the re-
celvers.
Mr.. BopTELLE asks congress to
appropriate $4,000 for a monu-
ment to Edwin NJ. Stanton. In
the bill for a sailors and
soldiers monument passed by the
New York legislature, Governor
Grover Cleveland declared that
nothing but the absolute necessities
Of government justified the taxa
lion of the people. If the Stanton
bill passes, 1t will not take him
Iong to determine whether or not
it is an absolute necessity for the
government.
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