Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-07-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

sas and the cotton is regarded as
safe.
CLINT is developing some strength
in northern Texas for attorney
general.
IT is rumored that Cutting is TO
be removed from Paso del Nortc
to chihuahua.
SIX members of the Galveston
delegation TO the convention arc
knights of Labor.
FRIENDS of tho oloomargerino
bill are working hard TO induce
the President TO sign it.
Tue Colorado Citizen cant help
thinking that Ross will get the
nomination for governor.
GONZALES county Instructs for
Roberts for governor and S. B.
Maxey for the United States SEN
alto.
NAcoDocHEs county did not in
struct, but the membcrs are known
to be in favor OF Roberts for gov
ernor.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Hunts
vile tom writing from Dodge
says, awe want Grddings for gov
ernor."
The directors OF tho broken
Provident Savings bank OF St.
Louis have been arrested for grand
larceny.
The counties OF Washington, Mi
lam, Burleson and Falls have in
structed for Hon. R. Q. Mills for
congress.
The Houston Post wants some
Ross organ TO name some subject
upon which Gen. Ross has taken 4
decided stand.
ACCORDING to the Galveston News
congress is displaying great patri-
otlsm by remaining in session dur
ing the dog days.
THE Temples Times wants the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road
to build an extension from Temple
TO Burnet and Mason.
ACCORDING to the Bolton Journal
it Is just possible that Gould is en-
gineering the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass railway.
THE Hampstead Enterprise made
its first appearance last week. 1t
greets its readers IN salutatory
nearly a column in length.
AN FL Paso special to tho Gal
weston News says there is no I'M
mediate prospect of Cuttings re-
lease from prison in Mexico.
c. D. MCKENZIE bookkeeper Of
the A. c. |. railway at Atlanta,
KY, is SHORT in his accounts $685.
900. he is supposed to be IN Gam
ada.
THE Dallas Herald says that
Major John Henry Brown of that
city does not want 10 be state treas
urer and that he wants no state
Office whatever.
In Iowa & dlstillery building has
been converted into a piano fac
tory, and now the people are at a
loss 10 determine which Is tho
greater nuisance,
The Fort Worth Gazette is proba-
bly, satisfied that Swans guberna-
torial goose is thoroughly cooked,
and therefore it has nothing more
to say about him,
A PORTLAND, Dakota, special
says the hailstorm in that section
on the Oath INST, ruined 100000
bushels of wheat, involving loss
at present prices of s45O,OOO.
The Austin county convention
met at BellvilIe on saturday and
endorsed Glddings for governor,
l.. W. Moore for congress and A.
Chesley for the supreme henCh.
The Bolton Journal Is OF the
opinion that Maxey should be re-
tanned or be succeeded in the sem
ate by John ireland, under no cir
cumstances does 1t want Terrell.
MAUD S. the flyer is now in train
ing at Robert Bonner's farm near
Tarrytown, N. Y. The other day
she made a quarter in the wonder
full time of 80 IL seconds-a 202
gait.
The papers OF Texas are now
busy commenting on the Cutting
case. From the tone of the pross
it would seem that there is a decid-
ed disposition to make Mexico be-
have herself.
A SPECIAL to the Galveston News
says the authorities at Washington
are inclined to treat the imprison-
ment of Cutting by the Mexican
authorities at Paso del Norte as a
matter of little consequence.
THE Houston Post charges that
there is a combination to prevent
Swain from securing the delegation
from Harris county, but, "will 1t
win ?" We can tell more about 1t
after the convention; better walt.
The Lampasas county conven-
ton instructed for Walter Acker
for attorney general, but did not
instruct as to other officers. 1t is
understood that Ross is the prefer
ence OF the delegation for COVER
nor.