Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-03-25

good plan to cast the letters
and u together, as the former l
never used without the latter fol
lowing it.
/ THE Huntsville Item says its an
nouncement column does not leor
up very strongly; but 1t does 1t
duty toward the party, whethe
the party does It's iull duty towar'
the Item or not.
The candidacy of Major Fl. II
Boone for congress is very favora
bly, received in his district. Tn
Houston Post says, it looks lik
we are to have a lively time al
along the line this year.
The Houston Age says thong
Moody and Sankey have been t,
Dallas and cave labored and eZ
horted there, it does not dIscove
in Sterrott, of the Times, any les
hardness of heart or reprobacy o
spirit.
ACCORDING to the Fort Wortl
Gazette Texas has a population o
| 2, 100000; the Knights of Labo,
claim a membership of $4,000, o.
about one In every hundred. Com
paratlvely speaking the organiza
ton is weak.
THE Cleburne Chronicle can SCI
no good to come out of the govern
ment obtaining control of the rail
roads as suggested by the Rights
of Labor. Such an arrangement
would give the government entire
ly too much power.
A KANSAS CITY dispatch of thu
18th inst. says that Grand Master
Workman Powderly was to have
left St. Louis on the 10Th inst. anC
that if Vice-Presldent Hoxie will
consent to meet him, settlement
may be speedily arrived at.
The union of the assemblies Of
the Knights of Labor at Fort
Worth on Saturday passed resolu-
items never to return to work on
the Gould system, unless the OF,
ficers of said system agree to
arb1trate with the organization.
A New YORK paper tells of q
prominent cotton broker who late.
ly got caught on futures, not being
in the right ring, who says that a
man can't be a cotton gambler and
a good Christian at the same time.
But the cotton broker continues to
"broke" IN cotton.
IT seems that Hon. II. II. Boone,
of Grimes county is a candidate fo1
congress in his district, subject 10
the action of the Democratic con-
Vention. Mr.. Boone is an able man
and would make good representa-
tive. He is the favorlte with the
people of the district.
IT is now very strongly suspected
that the engine which blew up at
lola, near Fort Worth, on the
Texas Pacific, and by which ex'
plosIon the engineer and fireman
lost their lives, was blown up by
dynamite; who the guilty parties
were it is Impossible to say.
BRADsTREET's review of saturday
last estimates that $4,000 persons
are now out on strikes. 1t says
the general industrial situation has
not improved. Higher wages
paid TO mill operatives in the east
has had :: tendency to advance
prices, but the markets are heavy
and uncertain.
THE Galveston News calls atten'
ton to the numerous laws upon
the statue book regulating rail
roads, and it also calls attention to
the fact that the raslroads are en-
titled to some consideration at the
hands of the state. The state
should protect railroad property.
DIR. JAMES Orr, Of Terrell, Is
favorabIy spoken of as promi,
Sant candidate for Superintendent
of Public Instruction. He is an
earnest advocate of public schools,
thoroughly conversant with their
workings and would, no doubt, fill
the position aeceptably 10 the pco.
pie ofthIs great and growing com,
monweaIth.
/ A MASKED mob of $50 men play.
ed havoc with the railway proper,
| ty at benson last Saturday night.
So far as the papers show the
Knights OF Labor, Is an organiza
ton have not condemned this act
Of lawlessness. As the men were
masked 1t is OF course unknown
who the men were; 1T would be
unfair to say they were knights
until that fact had been establish.
ed, and therefore it may be that
the knights do not regard it as
their business, more than anyone
elses to condemn the action of the
mob.