Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-04-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.
CHOLERA has re-appeared in both
Spain and Italy.

appeals will convene at Austin or
next Monday.
The Dallas Mercury, n prohibi
ton organ, declares for Ross fol
governor.
NEBRASKA is tho only stato that
Is feeding more cattle this year
than last.
Hon. GEO. HEARST, the new sena
tor from California, is true.blue
democrat.
Col. burgess, of Scguin, is spoken
of as a probable candidate for at
torney general.
Gov. IRELAND will be our next
United States senator, says the
San Antonio Times.
Two men and,woman q were ar.
rested at New Laredo, Mexico
the other day charged with witch,
craft.
SECRETARIES Manning and La,
mar, and encouragement Gar.
land are reported ill at Washing
ton.
THE Laredo Times thinks the
boycott has done the cause of labor
an irreparable injury in this coun-
try.
Col. CULBERsoN, on Saturday,
delivered his speech on the silver
question. HIS effort was the finest
yet made.
THE Houston Post offers to pay
$500 reward for the proof that the
shooting at Mr.. Baker was a cam
paign trick.
IT is estimated that about $780,
900 will be expended at Bolton
during the year in the way of pub
lie improvements.
Iris reported that the Legislature
OF the State of Mexico has taken
the initial stages towards radical
reform of the mining code.
The Waxahachie Mirror is will
ing to wager that a dark horse
gets the nomination for governor
at the coming state convention.
AT Natchez, Miss, twenty-three
persons were buried in q fallen
building, few days since, several
of whom were killed and wounded.
The Waco Examiner continues
to blow its horn for Ross without
any seeming abatement. We'll,
Barlow is a breezy fellow any
way.
FHE Cherokee Council will
meet at Fallequah, Indian terrific
ry, on the 18th of April for the pur
pose of considering important local
measures.
THE San Antonio Light Boosting
ly proclaims that all the gas of the
gold bugs has not reduced tho
value of the silver coinage of the
United States mint.
J. E. RICHARDSON, a deputy
United States marshal, was shot
and killed while attempting 10 ar
rest Bill Pigeon, Notorious des-
peradQ, IN the Cherokee Nation.
The Houston Post of Sunday
gets after D. C. Smith, Democratic
candidate for mayor, in a double
loaded editorial. Itsays that Smith
did not write his own platform.
A LIVERY stable in Kansas city
was burned Saturday morning. An
employee named John fallmnn, per-
ished in the flames and thirty-eight
horses burned to death.
II now transpires that all the re-
ports of the capture of Geronimo,
tho Apache chief, are false. He is
still at large apd as the spring
time is here he is likely to remain
at largo.
ARRANGEMENTS are being perfect
ed at Little Rock, Ark, looking to
the construction of a railway from
that place to New Orleans, q dis
tanee of 1900 miles, at cost OF
sl2,OOO,OOO.
CONGRESS appropriated $780,
900 tor the improvement OF the
Mississippi river from Cairo to the
head of passes Gncluding the Red
river at and and below the head
of Atchafalaya.
THE Senate by a strictly party
vote, AZ to 26, passed o resolution
expressing dissatisfaction with the
President. 1t is not at all likely
that Mr.. Cleveland suffers any I'M
easlness by reason of said resolu-
ton.
The San Antonio Express pub
fishes lengthy communication in
behalf of the strike, and it says by
way of parenthesis, as it were, that
t does not wish to be held respon-
,ible for the sentiments therein
expressed.
The woman suffraglsts continue
o beslege congress with their
claims. But few of the women int
he United States want to vote,
'ut the few who do are presistant
n keeping their want before the
public.
IT is the opinion of the Pamela
Waterman that neither Swain or
Ross will receive the nomination
or governor, by the democratic
tate convention, but that a dark
lorse will capture the nomination.