Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-11-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.
CUTTING is now alluded to as that
presidential nuisance" Cutting.


CUTTING is now alluded to as that
"pestilential nuisance" Cutting.
KANSAS druggists are being pros
ecuted tor violating the prohibit
ton law.
The Galveston News gives long
list of libel suits in which 1t has
figured as the defendant.
Boston will follow in the foot
steps of New York and have a la
Dor candidate for mayor.
CARLTsLE's Chicago speech is con-
siderod to be timely. Tariff reform
Is an issue that must be pressed.
GEN. A. S. ROBERTS, OF the State
Militia has been promoted from
brigadier general TO the Office of
major general.
ONE thousand police officers of
New York were detailed to attend
the funeral of cx-president Arthur
on Monday.
DURING the latter part of last
week a terrible blizzard ragged over
Nebraska and large numbers of
cattle and hogs persisted from cold.
SOME contractors for street work
IN Cincinnati changed the figures
IN the contract price and tried to
swindle the City out of $1,000 on
streets.
IT is stated that the Austin
Statesman Is soon to be run as an
organ of tariff reform. An organ
rarely accomplishes much good for
any cause.
JUDGlNG by the last issue OF the
Hampstead Courier things must be
very dull in Hampstead. Local
and editorial matter are both
scarce IN it.
THE Orange Tribune thinks that
if Gen. Ma1ey is not to be return
ed to the United States Senate,
John H. Reagan is tho proper man
to succeed him.
The Omaha Republican describes
Sam Jones, the alleged evangelist,
as ',jimberjawed." 1t Is not likely
that this is intended as a compll-
ment to Sam.
The Chicago anarchists are again
active and are holding small meet
ings. 1t is said they are discuss
ing plan to destroy the water
tower and fire the city.
THE Austin Statesman of Sunday
announces that Col. John J. Oar
gan, recently OF South Carolina,
has connected himself with the
editorial department of the paper.
GEN. MILES, who was in Wash
ington last Saturday, says the sur
render of Geronimo was an abso-
lutte one, and as regarded in mill
tary law, was the same thing as a
capture.
SENATOR VAN WICK, ofNebraska,
says that his state has been bound
down by cooperate power, and there
is no installing the sentiment of
the people in their opposition to
monopolles.
IT Is now definitely known that
Col. R. G. IngersolI has been re-
tanned in behalf of the condemned
anarchists, and will appear for
them to argue the appeal before
the Supreme court in March next.
The Bell Telephone company
wanted to raise tho price OF tele-
phone service IN Rochester, N. Y,
and the result was that on Satur-
day last at noon 700 subscribers
discontinued the pse OF the tele.
phone.
The successful farmers in this
part of the country are those who
make their own bread and meat at
home. They never buy corn or
bacon, so that their cotton crop is
to a great extent their surplus or
profit.
BROTHER DoHoNBY, the lately de-
feated Prohibition candidate for
governor, writes to the Fort Worth
Gazette that no Prohibitianist Will
ever return to the ranks of the
liquor party. Dohoney IS cranky
on the liquor question.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, ST.,
died IN Boston last Sunday aged
10 years. He vac the son of John
Quincy Adams. Mr.. Adams was
minister to England from 1861 TO
1868; for the past ten years he had
retired from Pabl!c life.
THE thanksgiving proclamation
of Governor Currler, of New
Hampshire, is TO BIO boycotted by
the ministers throughout the state
because it makes no reference to
the Supreme Beng. Last year bis
proclamation vas poycotted.
WALKER, the ehiet of police at
Washington City, is to be dismiss
ed. He had had congressman
Swallowed and their actions re-
ported for the purpose of infuenc
ing legislation. 1t was a secret
system of blackmalI:
EX-GOVERNOR J. s, PHELPS, of
Missouri, died in st. Louis on Sat