Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-05-13
Ar Chicago tho labor situation is

Mr.. HOME was before the labor
investigation committee at St.
LOUIS on Tuesday. His evidence
was unfavorablc to the strikers.
He stated that no grievances lad
been presented to him since Sep
tcmbcr last, and that he had been
and was now in favor OF arbitrating
any differences between the COM
Pany and its employees.
The Dallas News says that DR..
Young. of Clcburnc, will grow old
and ugly before he creates u ripple
in tho politics Of this state. The
doctor wants to be tho Grecnback
candidate for congress. The Green
back party has been dead for some
years, but a fow men arc still liv-
ing who imagine that tho Green
hackers are yet to create rcvolu-
ton IN the world.
THE labor movement is to all
outward appearance quoting down
Laborers and employers have
about agreed upon nine hours as
days work. This question is one
that Is now agitating every city on
IN tho United States and is one
that will require the best minds
and the best statesmen of this
country to settle it IN manner that
will be satisfactory to the contend
ing elements.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, was on Tues
day visited by a terrible cyclone;
the town was literally blown away.
The courthouse and the largest
school-housc in the city were total
ly wrecked. In tho school house
somo twelve or fifteen children
wcro killed and in the courthouse
4 number of persons were killed.
A Cyclone is thing that is in tho
present time liable to visit any
place on this continent, and if it
should happen along, look out!
The Houston Herald is always
ono of the first papers opened in
this ofllco-Roason, tho Herald al
ways uses old copy's for wrappers,
and if there is anything in this
world that interests q newspaper
man it Is second-handed copy.
The old Galveston Civilian used to
turn old envelops wrong side out
and use copy written on blll-h cads,
dray tickets, bills of lading and all
that kind of thing for wrappers.
Paper put up in an interesting a
manner are always first opened.
THERE is q strong probability of
Brennan having substantial
boom IN the near future, and in
Wow of the following from the
Baltimore Manufacturers Record,
while not new Is opportune: Every
many promising towns have been
ruined by the cxtravagant prices
demanded by real estate owners,
who became convinced upon the
first signs of prosperity that for
tune awaited tho owner of cvery
little piece of property. By ask
ing exhorbitant prices they have
driven away intending settlers,
and gradually these towns have
drifted back into an almost hope
less inactivity"
A GENTLEMAN by the name OF
Hatfield, who lives at Bryan,
writes letter to the Galveston
News, in which he makes no bones
of expressing his opinion that
Judge Gustavc Cook Is not n gem
tleman, because Cook ventilated
his views on tho labor question,
1t would be unkind TO say that Mr..
Hatfield was not gentleman. Mir.
Cook has for many years occupied
the bench as Judge and if he i
not a gcntlemrn he should have
long since been displaced. When
it comes TO o discussion as 10 what
really constitutes a gentleman it
depends altogether upon the dis
cussOrs to determine that for them
solves. The definition of the word
tgentlcman" IN tho dictionaries is
susceptible OF various eonstruc-
tons.
TIE st. Louis Republican says
the pro hlbitlon question will come
up and be settled by the people of
Tennessee in tho order of regular
business. They will first decide
by vote of tho people whether they
want 1t in politics at all, and after
that will consider it 81 ther as a
dead or living issue, according to
the returns. This desirable condi-
ton has been reached in a very
simple way. Tho last Legislature
passed resolution, enactment, or
law, as it may be called according
to taste, notifying the people that
if they wanted the question of sub
hitting a prohibition amendment
considered they must elect an in
structed legislature. Complying
with this, the governor has issued
proclamation notifying the peo-
pic who will elect legislature to-
determine whether or not the PEG
pie shall determine for or against
a prohibltory amendment. This
method seems somewhat circultous
in arriving at results, but when
they arc reached they wlll be I'M
mistakablO.
Strong Testimony from the Pulpit.
My little daughter Manda was
affected with scrotula since birth
The glands of the neck were en-
lnrnnh mud fnnrlullu mlcnrnlnl and