Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-25

If the next legislature is expect
ed to take any steps looking
toward the banishment of the pis-
tol, the people should be sure to
elect peaceable, quiet gentlemen
to that body who do not make
themselves walking arscnels.
IT is announced that the great
strike among the miners in Penn
sylvania, which has been in pro-
gress for month, has at last come
to an end. The syndicate has
granted all the demands of the
of the strikers and on Monday
morning they went to work.
Mr.. MILLER, of Texas, has intro
duced o bill in the House 10 pro-
vide for the issue of small bills for
circulation, they to be silver certI-
fcates of the denomination of l, 2,
5 and 10 dollars, the ono and two
dollars being numerous enough to
answer for the general purposes of
currency.
A SAN Francisco special says
the Chinese representatives have
preferred claims for damages
cause by the Anti-Mongollan riot
and explosions. a statement of
claims amounting to over $780,
900 have already been presented
in the department of state.
II was decided at Galveston by
the committee having in charge
the Moody and Sankey revival TO
have a special service for the col
ored people; they declined to at
tend it, because it was regarded as
disseminating against them. 1t is
evident that they don't want to be
saved Moody and Sankey.
AT Corruna, a village in New
York, an effort was made to poison
the family of Robert Berry by
putting paris green in his we'll.
Several ofthe family made q mar
row escape. Tracks were found
leading to the house of neighbor
and enemy, and several parties
were arrested.
IT seems that another slugging
match is about being made up in
which the brutal bruiser Sullivan is
the central figure. This news is tele-
graphed to every newspaper IN the
United States taking the Associat-
ed Press dispatches, and by this
means the name of Sullivan is kept
before the reading public of the
country.
THE general counsel of r. G.
Dun & Co.'s commercial agency re-
terring TO the recent decision of
of the supreme court of the United
States In the Michigan drummer cas-
says: "The effect of this decision
is TO render void all state laws i'm
posing a tax in the way OF license
for commercial travellers, and the
laws now in existence IN any of
the states imposing such tax can
not be enforced"
The Houston Post thinks the
next Legislature should make the
carrying of deadly weapons a
felony, punishable by imprrson-
ment in the penltentiary. 1t would
seem that this is about the only
way to stop the habit some men
have. The BANNER thinks the
Post is right, the carrying of pis-
tils is a great nuisance and it can
only be abated by the most Wig
orous action.
In the lower house of congress
yesterday Mr.. Hanback, introduc-
ed a bill proEiding for sweeping
inquiry concerning the charges re-.
dcotlng on the integrity and Off
cial acts of CERTAIN officers of the
government in connection with tho
Pan-Eicctre company. It is to
be hoped that by tho time this IN
vestigation is had the members of
congress will discover that tho
Pan-Electric company has nothing
to do viii the case. 1t is the Ma
tional Improved company that is
making the fght-and a lively
Gght it is-and not the Pan Elec-
tPIe.
Mr.. J. B. GRANTED, aa alleged
prohibition leader OF Texas, was
~ Dallas the other day and was
interviewed by the News. lie said
if the Democratic stale convention
taakps the concessions demanded
by the pF6h;bitioRigts they will
not put ticket in the field. They
want the local option law enforced
and mare OF it, and also want a
prohibition amendment submitted
to tho people. Mr.. Cranhli seem
ingiy oVcrlooks the fact that local
option is purely local affair, and
like evcry other local matter is
controlled by public sentiment; if
public sentiment winks at the open
violation of local option IT is use
less to try to enforce it any more
strictly than the majority wants.