Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-11-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

"PRoHIBITIoN BIBLES" are now
sold in Atlanta. These Bibles are
very popular and are all "loaded."
IT seems there is q sentiment In
North Texas in favor of Hon. John
H. Reagan for United States Sen
ator.
IT is now estimated that Ross
majority over Cochran for COVER
nor will be at least 100000.
The Texas Press association will
meet in Fort Worth next year.
The Gazette says they will see the
liviest city in the southwest when
they come.
In the state of Maryland $4,000
persons are employed in canning
fruit and oysters; II is estimated
that they put up 15O,OOO,OOO cans
annually.
The clam OF Editor Cutting
against the Mexican government is
on file in the state department, but
it has not yet been examined by
the secretary.
EDGAR LOMBARD, a prominent
shipping merchant of Boston, sui
clded by lnhaling gas through
rubber droplight tube-family
troubles.
A CALL is soon TO be issued for a
convention of all the trades unions
in the United States and Canada to
begin at Columbus, O., on Wednes-
day December Sth.
SULLIVAN and Ryan, shoulder
hitters, had set-to in San Francis
co on Saturday last. The receipts
at the door amounted to $4,000.
Sullivan was the victor.
Mr.. PowDERAY says that he con-
siders James G. Blame the great
est fraud on earth. He is trying
to beguilo the labor element with
his generalitles IN the tariff ques-
ton.
SPECIALS TO Bradstreets up to
Friday evening show a continued
lack OF general activity IN the dis
tribution of staples, with excep-
tons IN favor of iron, steel and
lumber.
THE stock yards strike at Chica-
go is over and such of the men as
can get work in the packing hous-
es are returning. The packers
have decided not to discharge any
new men to make room for strik-
ers.
THE Houston Post wants the IL
bel law of Texas amended so that a
party claiming to have been libeled
shall be required to prove a good
character. 1t will not do to pre-
sumo that all men possess such an
ornament.
The Baltimore Manufacturers
Record estimates that from fifteen
to twenty million dollars OF North,
ern msney is disbursed every sea-
son at Southern winter resorts,
which are scattered all over the
South.
In the recent election Arkansas
was the champion prohibition
state. The Fort Worth Gazette
suggests that 1t would be a. good
state for Brother 6ranfH 10 re-
move to, he might pqlveriEe the
rum power there,
LA CROSSE, Wis, is now superla-
lively religious. Seventy viola
tors of the Sunday law were ar
rested, including saloon-keepers,
BARRIERS, copfectIoners, livery
men and railroad men. An effort
is evidently being man to make the
law obnoxious.
A FRENCH company is now con
strueting q railway from the City
of Mexico to Vera Cruz, which
practically parallels the Mexican
railway, which is owned by an
English concern. The entire line
will be 265 miles long; of this 165
miles are now finished.
The Austin Call administers a
well-merited rebute to one Dixon
G, Williams, so-called evangelist
who has been preaching in Austin.
Mr.. Williams, if he is correctly
quoted, uses language II the pulpit
that is nnbecomIng in a gentleman
and Is insulting 10 respectable peo=
pie.
OK the LIST ofJanuary next Wash
ington L. Conner, who was Gould's
partner, will follow Gould's ex-
ample and retire from active life
IN Wall street. The firm of W. E.
Conner & Co. will cease to exist
and a new firm under the name of
Gamer y %. will succeed to the
business.
Both the News and the Waco
Examiner are at 1T hammer and
tongs. This Is hardly an issue of
either of the papers named with
out an uncompllmentary notice of
the other. The course of the Ex-
aminer during the last canvass was
not such as to ondear it to its con-
temporarles:
ABOUT 100000 miles ofnew rail-
way has been built in the last
twenty years, covering the Western
States and reaching across plains
and mountains to the Pacific slope
and the Rio Grande. Considering
the newncss of railways and the