Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-09-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.
NV ORLEANS exncnded s. 600.

THE Dsllas Murcury has boel
adopted as the official organ of tn
State Alliance.
THE HillsborO Reflector is first
class weekly paper. Ii Is CAREFUL!
edited and neatly printed.
THE Dallas Mercury, a leadin!
prohibition paper, says the PrOhi
bition state ticket is an absurdity
IT is thought that the new s
silver certificates will DO put il
general circulation IN about TIVE
weeks.
! A. b. DURAND, tho oldest Amcri
can painter of note, died on Satur
day at South Orange, N. j., agec
90 years.
THB Bolton Nows thinks III,
Democracy of Bell county SHOULD
not be bulIdozcd into making noun
nations.
SATURDAY evening the town o
Joliet, ILL.,, was struck by cyclone
and about a dozen houses wcr,
blown down.
IT is now positively stated tina
the will of tho late Sam J. TildeI
will be contested by his nophows
S. J. and George Ii. Tilden.
MARTIN IRONS, who was a very
prominent man last spring, was
lately locked up in the Kansas City
calaboose us common drunk"
THE Whitney Messenger says
Ireland's administration has beer
the weakest Texas has ever had
and 1t does not want ireland made
senator.
THERE are 343 convicts in the
Texas penltentiary under 90 years
of age. This is a strong argument
in favor of state reformatory fol-
youths.
The conclave of tho knights
Templar is in session In st. Louis
and on Monday it was estimated
that there was 10000 Knights in
the city.
Tue Houston Post of Sunday
last was twenty page paper de-
voted principally to Houston in.
forests and Is highly croditable to
tho Post.
On Monday evening by a vote OF
40 to SO tho city council of Phlla-
delphia decided to lmpeach Mayor
Smith on the charge of maIteasance
in Office.
Hon. JAMES S. HoGG, nominee OF
the Democratic party for attorney
general, WAS for several years devil
in the Tyler Democrat. He is a
soIf-mado man.
THE Waller County Courier is
now under tho management of E..
C. Stacy, a practical newspaper
man, who has already greatly I'M
proved tho paper.
In Arkansas tho colorcd men
have ceased to vote rs unit for
any ticket that may be called Re-
publican and are now joining and
voting for Democrats.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is a fisherman
too; last Saturday she caught five
pickerel, 80 the dispatches say.
The presidential party left for
Washington on Monday.
ANARCHIST PARSONS says his
present wife is not and never was
the wife of the negro Castings, of
Waco, and that he first met the
present Mrs. Parsons in Austin.
THE Paris News says a newspaper
mHn only gets INTO hot water once,
that is when he first begins news
paper work and he never gets out
of it until he writes his valedictory.
The United States owns some
fine mountains in Alaska. In the
range known as the st. Elias Alps
there are three mountain peaks,
from $4,000 down to 5000
feet.
ENVOY SedgwIck arrived in
Washington on Monday and will
as soon as possible submit his re-
port to Secretary Bayard. He
positively declines to be inter-
viewed.
IT was currently reported in Gal
weston and believed that the Santa
Fe railway company would dis
charge all tho old passenger con-
1uctors, and also their two general
agents.
The Marlin Ball says Terrell
should take warning at the fate of
Gibbs. Riding into high positions
on wave of class prejudice will
not win in a land of pure and I'M
iefiled Democracy.
The Temple Times after a tenn
porary suspension of four weeks
under tho exclusive
management of MIR. W. D. Cox,
who first started it. The BANNER
wishes Mr.. Cox success.
JEROME G. KEARBY is out as q |
regular Prohibition nominee for
in the Sixth district. He
$ also an anti-monopolist and Will
AXE all the Republican and dark
antcrn votes he can get.
Thomas ROGERS, printer, tried
o suicide in New York by taking
. solution of matches, this falling
ne stabbed himself with nail and
ried to cut his throat with q piece |