Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-01-07

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to do too much and their expenses
exceeded their income.
The Houston Post has a lengthy
editorial in which it advocates the
hiring out of convicts; it wants
them made self-sustaining and
thinks that short-term men could
be utilized to great advantage by
putting them to work repairing
and building public roads, which
are VIGOROUSLY bad throughout
the state.
The Dallas News raps President
Cleveland over the knuckles for
his remark that the newspapers
are gwen to lying. 1t reminds
Mr.. Cleveland that the newspapers
have raised HIM from obscurity to
the highest position IN the world.
Some paper had been lying about
him and he was IN bad humor
= when he wrote the letter.
TUE Liquor Dealers Journal, n
mrw venture IN the newspaper
world is published at Dallas. 1t
says 1.-THE journal supports with
zeal all measures which have a
temperance tendency, yet we can
not give assent to any movement
however plausible in appearance,
which contaminates the purity of
urDemocratic institutions"
THE Fort Worth Gazette in an
editorial on "DaiIy Journalism" in
Texas says that there can be only
two kinds of daily papers; the
local and the city paper.
The city paper can only
exist where the railway facilities
are ample to distribute the paper.
ANY effort to obtain more than
local patronage must result in
failure.
THE San Antonio Light says the
silver question is sectional one.
1t can hardly be called sectional
because the anti-silver men are
small in numbers, but they are
wealthy and are confined to the
money centers which arc located
in the large cities. The masses;
farmers, mechanics, small mer-
chants and laborcrS, are not OPP
posed to silver.
| The Bellville Times has taken
in sail; 1t has been reduced from
nine TO eight columns and is still
plenty large for its town. 1t has
done wisely in reducing its size to
the wants of its patrons. 1t is an
old aiage with newspaper men that
there is no money In publishing a
nlne-column paper in a six-column
town. BellviIle is a good town
but not quite large enough to sup
port q nine-column paper.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND in q letter
to Joseph Keppler, editor of Puck,
says there never was time when
newspaper lying was so general
and so mean as at present, and
there never was country under
the sun where it fiourished as in
this. This is by no means compli-
mentary to the general public who
are the most liberal patrons of the
newspaper of any country under
the sun.
D. NJ. FERRY & Co.'S great seed
store at Detroit, Michigan, was
completely destroyed by fire on
the LIST inst. The fire broke out
at 8 o'clock IN the morning. Four
hundred men were employed IN
the store and the same number on
the seed farms near the city. Capt.
Filban, of the fire department,
was killed by falling cornice.
The total loss is estimated at ST.
500, 900.
A SPECIAL from Albuquerque,
N. NJ, to the Kansas City Times
says there is more OF less uneasi-
ness among the Navajo Indians. /
There are 5000 of these Indians
and some of them manifest a dis
position to go beyond the limits of
their reservation on hunting and !
maurading expeditions. The cat
tlemen are determined to prevent
this and there Is some apprehen-
sion of an outbreak.
BEER seems TO be rapidly be-
coming the national beverage.
The total production has been
nearly doubled IN the past ten
years. For tho year ending May
l, 1885 the production was 1926
$50 barrels; ten years ago only /,
10,S32,91O barrels were brewed.
The present production is at the
rate Of about three barrels q year
for every man, woman ana child
in the United States. We are evil
IDENTIFY beer drinking people.
The Columbus Citizen says, all
are agreed as 10 the idea that the
state convIcts should be selt-sus-
tanning, but differ as to the proper
mode of rendering them so without
coming into too great competition
with free labor. The Waco Day
thinks the state should provide
large farms for long-term convicts
and work them under strict guard,
and pass law requiring short
term convicts to work roads in
counties. There would be no con-
fiict with honest labor in the first
instance, and IN the second the
people would be relieved of an ,
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