Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-12-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

On Monday last the San An
ton Express issued magnificent
holiday edition of sixteen pages.
The Houston Post says, it is set
tied. No Waco man need apply
TO the next State administration
for an Office.
The Statesman says Austin
should have had the railroad that
San Marcos is now building TO the
Sunset route.
The Bolton Journal wants its
town to strike the st. Louis, Ar
kansas & Texas railway while it is
in the building mood.
THE track of the G. C. and s. F.
railway has been completed to
Ladonia and the work Is now pro-
crossing toward Honey Grove.
CUTTING has abandoned his plan
of lecturing in the south and at
last accounts was IN ST. Louis en-
gagged in his colonization scheme.
ALL reports of changes in the
Presidents cabinet seem to be
made to order tor special occasions
and have no foundation whatever.
RUSSIA is a large and great coun-
try but she is staggering under a
national debt of S2,9SS, 1888, 900 on
which she is paying interest at the
rate of 5 per cent per annum.
The Austin Record says the
friends of Judge J. E. Shepard, of
Brennan, are urging his appoint
ment as secretary OF State. The
Record pays the judge a high COM
pliment.
The Galveston Tribune wants
the governor to offer reward for
the men who lynched the negroes
here some weeks ago. Does the
Tribune think q reward would
catch any of 'em?
A BILL has been introduced in
the senate providing for the re-
demption of trade dollars. Very
few of them are in circulation now;
most of the trade dollars are IN
the hands ofspeculators.
HOUSTON AGE: The Brennan
BANNER is always on the look out
for whatever will advance the
growth and prosperity of Its town.
1t is now reckoning the Arkansas
Pass railroad to come that way.
The Tyler Courier speaking of
railway commissions remarks, In
cidentally that 1t is much easier TO
buy q commissioner or two than It
is buy a whole legislature. There
is perhaps much truth in this as
sertion.
THE Waco Day says. While it
is true that the posting of legal
notices at three points in the coun-
ty is burlesque on modern meth.
DDS of advertising there is not
much chance for a legislative re-
cognition of newspapers.
JOHN WANAMAKER, a wealthy
Philadelphia retail merchant, has
bought a homo for young women
in his employ who have no homes,
at cost of $4,000, yet 1t is COM
mon to hear the complaint that
capital and labor are enemies.
The Hampstead Courier has again
changed hands, this time Nahm &
Nooner, tive young men raised in
Hampstead, have taken control of
it. Hampstead certainly ought to
be able to support moderate sized
weekly newspaper.
GOVERNOR IRELAND still refuses
to allow pardons to be made pub
lie. A special to the Houston Post
says it is believed there has been
a great number of pardons grant
ed, but the reasons for secrecy In
the matter are not understood.
The Fort Worth Gazette says
there is nothing in common be-
tween the Knights of Labor and
Farmers alliance and that the eff
fort to unite them can be traced |
to those who have some
selfish purpose to attain by the
union.
A SERIOUS split has occurred |
among the Republicans of Indiana.
ex-governor Porter and Gen. Har-
rison are now struggling each to
usurp the leadership of the party.
The Democrats are interested spec
tators, but don't care straw which
of the two wins,
LAST Friday two negro men kill
ed an old white woman, Emily |
Brown, beggar aged 90 years, in
Baltimore Tor the purpose of sell
ing her body TO the medical college
for SIS. At the college it was DIS
covered that the woman had been
and the police was noti-
fed.
JOHN SHERMAN has the presiden-
tial bee buzzlng In his bonnet or
his ear if you prefer it. He is
stalwart Republican and hopes to
catch the popular vote by advo-
eating the abolition of the excise
tax on whiskey and tobacco.
These taxes done away with the
high protection tariff can be main
.ained intact. The scheme will
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