Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-12-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

DURING the last two years ten
per cent. of the convicts IN the
ponitentiary have been pardoned.
THE Indiana knights OF Labor
met at Indianapolis on the 2lst
inst. and organized a state assem-
bly,.
SOME of the papers are anxiously
inquiring what has become of the
Terrell senatorial boom. 1t seems
to have expended itself.
The Labor party or element at
Cincinnati has held a meeting and
decided to put q full ticket for city
PETITIONS are being presented
to congress for reduction in the
tax on oleomargrine. 1t should
not have been taxed in the first
place.
officers IN the field in April next.
THE Colorado Clipper has COM
pleted the fifth year of its exis-
tence. 1t is to all outward appear
ance in highly prosperous circum-
stances.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railway will run trains into
Gainesville to-day, Wednesday.
The occasion is TO be duly cele-
brated.
ED. EpPERsoN, formerly a men,
Der of the Arkansas Legislature,
has been arrested for robblDg an
old man of $40 at Pine Bluff, In
that state.
THE people in congressman
Reeds district in North CaroIina
want him expelled and a new cleo
ton ordered. Reed is supposed tc
have fled to Canada.
THB Tyler Courier says it car
stand the libel law as 1t now is OF
the statute book. Everyone to heI
taste, as the old woman said wher
she kissed the COW.
THB Navasota Tablets trying tc
work up boom on the Navasot'
and Huntsville road. The Hunts
vile Item says the project is com
pletely "busted."
The Austin Statesman wants thu
Democratic congressman whc
voted against the consideration o
the Morrison tariff bill expelled
'front.' the Democratic party.
BAFFALo BILL want Geronimo il
his Wild Western show. Bill il
going TO Europe with his show
and thinks that the willy "Injur'
would be an attractive card.
On Sunday last the San Antonio
Times issued handsome l2-pag,
edition devoted to a write-up of it
city. The issue was literally pat
ronized by home advertisers.
JUDGE REAGAN told the Washing
ton correspondent of the For
Worth Gazette that at the time hC
ran for congress he was not a can
didate for the United States sen
ate.
THE report of State superintend
emit Baker Is out, and contains 1
thorough exposition of the defects
in the school system. He is il
favor of county school superin
tendcnts.
| ALADY smuggler was caught by
lady customhouse offices at Tampa,
Fla. The smuggler wore a hand
somely constructed tin hustle thai
contained gallon of extra fine
Cuban rum.
A VERDICT has at last beon rem
dered IN the dirty and celebrated
Colin Campbell divorce suit il
London. Lady Campbell has beer
declared innocent of the charge!
made against her by her husband
SILVER ore in paying quantity il
said to have been found near BucI
shoals on White river in Duboi.
county, Indiana. The existence o
ore has been known since early in
the century, but no one cared tc
investigate it.
a DUEL was fought at Ottawa Ont
on Monday morning. The princi
pals were John T. White journal
list and J. Hanrahan, q machine
agent. At the second shot the lat
ter was hit IN the groin. White
said he was satisfied and left the
ground in hurry.
THE Knights of Labor went into
politics. Politics, says the Fort
Worth Gazette, is the entering
wedge to the disruption of any
order, religious or secular. Ii
might have added that no secret
political organization has ever sue,
ceeded IN this country.
THE Dallas News thinks that if
the railroads see fit to issue free
passes it Is their own business
that they know what they are do
ing and no law is required to pre-
vent railroads from managing their
own business. There is nothing
compulsory in accepting a free
pass.
EMIGRATION agents recently VISIT
ed Hindds county, Miss, to carry
off plantation hands. The agents
unrn inritnd to Ieave but did not