Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-04-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

natl, on the 5th inst, the Republl,
cans were victorious.
AT citizens meeting held n,
Terrell resolution was passed
condemning strikes, from whatever
J cause.
The Transcontinental railway
war is over and the rates of freight
and passage to the Pacific coast
have been restored.
EVERYTHING was quiet at Fort
Worth on Monday and the militia
have all gone home. The rangers
will remain for the present.
! RUMoRs that the proposed Ell
Paso and Chicago railway has been
sold out TO the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe are officially denied
A WHOLE regiment of rangers
would have been welcome at Fort
Worth the other day when the
strikers took possession OF the
railway.
The Austin Statesman says the
boycott must go. The next Iegrs-
lature should make it q felony. 1t
can be ended as easily as fence
cutting.
A SPECIAL term of the circuit
court of the United States for the
Eastern District of Texas, will be
begun at Jefferson, on Monday the
18th inst.
THE governor of Kansas has or
dered a regiment of state milatia
to Parsons to protect the railway
and see that trains are not inter-
fered with.
CONSERVATIVE citizens of Fort
Worth said on Friday that trains
would move on Saturday or there
would be bloodshed-there was
bloodshed.
JUDGE BAXTER of the United
States circuit court, comprising
| Tennessee. Ohio, Kentucky and
Michigan, died at Hot Springs,
Ark, on the I'd inst.
THE grand jury of New York
has been requested to indict brib-
ers as we'll as those who have been
bribod. The former are regarded
as the worst criminals of the two.
THE Navasota Tablet tavors
Governor Ireland for the United
States Senate, believing he is quail
flied to fill the position and "shed
lustre upon his State in the national
councils"
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railway has issued circular
on Its proposed extentlon to the
G. c. and S. F. road, which will be
$50 miles long and will cost $751;
900 per mile.
The story of the shocking bru-
taIlty inflicted upon a stolen child
by man in Ohio is enough to
make ones blood run cold. If the
fend is caught he ought to be tor
tured to death.
The LAGRANGE Journal is in
favor of the whipping post for
wife-beaters. 1t is right. The brute
who would whip his wife should
be made to take an heroic dose of
his own medicine.
THE Columbus Citizen rises to
remark: awe believe none of the
friends of General Ross have been,
as yet, accused of the attempt to
assassinate Mayor Baker, of Hous-
ton" 1t is correct.
The Austin Statesman blames
Governor Ireland for the riot at
Fort Worth. 1t says he should
have ordered the militia to Fort
Worth a day or two before the
shooting occurred.
THE people in the vicinity of
Sabine Pass seem strongly inclined
to make the improvement of that
places harbor a sectional issue in
the election they want congress
man pledged to Sabine Pass.
GOVERNOR IRELAND at Fort Worth
ordered the officials of the Mis-
souri, Pacific to run their trains
and they would be protected; he
also told the county officials to In
dict every violator of the law.
EIGHT men are now under sen.
tence of death at Fort Smith, Ark.
They were convicted IN the federal
court OF offenses committed in the
Indian Territory and are TO be
hanged on Friday, the 23d inst.
Ar Durango, Col, on Friday, C.
L. Creek, gambler, and town
marshal Peck, emptled their re-
at each other at short
range. Peck was MORALLY wound
ed Greek was slightly disabled.
CHIEF ARTHUR, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, ;
was IN Corsicana on business con- |
nectod with his society on Friday.
He was interviewed by the News
but no information
was obtained.
THE Navasota Tablet says the
people are becoming anxious to 1
know who will be the candidates !
or county officers. This is a gentle t
md spring-Iiko hint to the candi- /
iates to come forward and an t
lounce-paying in advance. J.