Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-09-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

! The Waco Examiner now taVorS
its readers with sermon ON Sun
days.
THE antI-monopoIists arc yet IL
hold a state convention at Fort
Worth.
The San Antonio Light predicts
4 political earthquake in Texas in
November.
BRIcKLAYERs in Charleston, good
bad and Indifferent are receiving
So per day.
The Laredo Times classIcally re-
marks: "Tho war spirit seems to
have pctercd."
GERONIMO, the captured bad In
dian, is 6s years old and u most di,
lapidated specimen.
CAPTAIN LAwToN Of the regular
army captured Geronimo and to
him belongs the credit.
The Austin Call has opened war
on Senator Coke and it predicts
his defeat when his present term
expires.
The New Orleans board OF health
has raised the quarantine against
Biloxi, Miss. Tho yellow fever
scare is over.
SOME of the county papers in
Texas seem to think that Cutting
owes his release altogether to Gov
ernor ireland.
The GAINESVILLE Standard thinks
the legislature should submit u
constitutional amendment on prohi
bltion to a vote of tue people.
The Mexia Ledger thinks the
prohibitionists of the blatant varic-
ty should have been fired out OF
the Democratic party long ago.
The Houston Post has been re-
organized. Mr.. Johnston is retain
ed as managing editor and Mr.. ].
l.. Watson as business manager.
The new oleomargerino stamps
have been completed and will be
supplied to collectors of internal
revenue as rapidly as they can be
printed.
PAPERS that are favorably in
cllncd toward Terrell report his
his speeches while they do not
even give synopsis of Maxey's
remarks.
The roller skating craze has
now gone the way of many other
similar freaks. The price of box
wood has declined from 500 to
$50 cord.
SAM G. SMELLING, a heightened
Boston man, treasurer of the
Lowell bleachery has been indicted
for cmbezzling some $4,000 from
the company.
The Denison Gazetteer is in favor
of temperance and sobricty, but is
opposed to prohibition because 1t
does believe men can be made
moral by legislation.
THE Waco Examiner says If
Cranfill will stump the state for
the prohibition ticket, it will try
and have Ross to meet him u time
or two for fun.
HERE is one of CranfilPs prohi
bitlon arguments: "Whencver you
hear of a man foaming at his mouth
about the grand old Democratic
party smell his breath"
Four hundred Chirachcua and
Warm Springs Indians from the
San Carlos reservation will be
sent to Fort Marion, Florida and
kept there as prisoners.
ACCORDING to the Victoria Advo-
cate it was meseaI that upset Sedg-
wick. 1t says PLAIN whiskcy is
good enough for Bayard and Sodg-
wick should make a note of 1t.
For two days prior to the 18th
inst, a heavy rainstorm prevailed
in the Adirondack mountains. The
president and party remained in
doors and mayhap played poker.
BALTIMORE has q sensation, Mrs.
Bottomor, wife of a rich merchant,
who has sued for q divorce is
charged with undue intimacy with
Brother Azarus, Catholic priest.
AN epidemic prevails among the
of Avena, Iowa county,
Wis, which results fatally IN many
cases. Tho disease is of the nature
of dysentery, ending in cases of
children in meningitis and death.
THE city council OF Philadelphia
has been investigating Mayor
Smith on charges Of malfcsanco in
office. Seven members of the
council have signed the report re-
commencing that he be impcached.
The Associated Press has made
a present OF $500 TO the reporters
on the Charleston News and COu-
rier, who worked so faithfully dur
ing the earthquake furnishing the
press with full and complete re-
ports.
MAYOR CoURTENEY, of Charles
ton reports the amount of relief
fund at this time as only about
a sum wholly inadequate
to accomplish any good at all if
divided among the Charleston suf-
fcrers.
W. il. GRAIN writes IN expIana-
tory letter 10 the Galveston News
in which he positively AYERS that
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