Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-06-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

nave BOHe " HuIOpe loI thelI oulh-
mer vacation.
THE Houston Post is working
hard to get a cotton mill establish
ed at Houston.
DAVID DAVIS, ex-vico president
is now on his death bed and his
demise is expected at any moment.
KING LUDWIG, the Bavarian mon
arch, was buried at Munich, with
the usual pomp and ceremony on
Saturday last.
THE military cncampment AT
Lampasas is in full blast. Briga.
dier-gencral A. S. Roberts is in
command.
The State encampmcnt at Lam
paSas is pronounced 4 complete
success. Nine companies of militia
are on the grounds.
THE interstate drill opened at
Lampasas on Monday, the 21st.
Eight companies of militia were
present Sunday evening.
IT is said the whipping post is a
relic of barbarism the man who
Whips his wife is a barbarian and
should have barbaric treatment.
IT is surmised that the Travis
county delegation to the state con-
ventlon will favor Swain as soon
as Breckenridge Is out of the way,
GALvEsToN's Democratic county
convention elected delegates to the
congressional convention and in.
dorsed Grain, the present congress
man.
GIBBS and Furman, candidates
for Wellborn's seat IN Congress,
arc both working to secure q NOM
nation from the Farmers Alliance
and Knights OF Labor.
THE civil service commission
will hold examinations for applI,
cants for departmental service in
Washington, at Fort Worth, Austin
and Houston, July 8, 10 and Is.
The Rains county Alliance held
a meeting at Emory last week and
passed resolution that they would
as an organization, have nothing
to do with politics or politicians in
any shape, form and fashion"
JUDGE B. II. DAVIS and Chas
Davis, of Ell Paso, have made ar
rangcments to buy $4,000 acres or
the Mexican side of the Rio Grando
having 40 miles river front in the
state of Chihuahua and convenient
TO the Sunset route.
NORTH CAROLINA utilized hel
cpnvicts IN building a railroad
across the Blue Ridge mountains
from Raleigh to Ashevllle, This
work would never have been I'M
dertaken had not the state had its
convict labor at command.
THE Columbus Citizen says that
for some reason the Austin Call is
opposing W. G. Walsh for CommIs
sioner of the General Land Office
and it remarks: "Wash is good
enough for rs, and is very likely
to secure another term, II he wants
it."
THE army post known as Camp
Grant will be abandoned juno 80
The post is beside tho tGmb Qt
Gen. Grant in Riverside Bark, and
a detail OF the regular army has
been maintained there SINCE the
entombment at Grants remains
last summer.
EMANCIPATION day was generally
celebrated by the colored people
throughout tho state on Saturday
From all peiat9 come reports o.
the very best of order. No dis
turbance of any consequence oc
Cured anywhere and the coIored
people aye pQmplimennted all round
for their good behavior.
THE Taylor county convention
met at Abilene on Saturday last
1t Endorsed o. NJ. Roberts for gov
ernor in the event of his name go
ing before the convention. As
between Swain and Ross the con
Fention favored Ross. 4 FepeaI
of the lease lazy is demanded.
j AN educated negro, Willis Fer.
dinand, OF Union county, Ark,
became too familiar with a neigh.
boris wife. He was taken out
into in the woods and whipped
nearly to death and would have
been killed but for the Interference
of white men who heard his cries.
The Dallas county Democratic
convention passed a resolution ia.
voring the working of short term
convicts on the public roads. The
other conventions that were held
were SO busy with politics that
they did not have time to give the
convict problem any consideration.
IT is expected that fnlIy 10000
people Will attend the sale of
town lots at BalIinger on the goth
inst. The prospective town is al
ready. referred to as city and
everything is reported to be on a
regular boom. If 10000 people
attend the sales there will be a big
crowd.
IT is now a settled fact that the
tariff bill will go over until the
next session of congress. The la
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