Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-23

is noticeable that from any point
construed ly friends or enemies, the
Maine statesman isn't given much
credit for patriotic or unselfsh me
tives.
A MEMBER ,of congress from New
York has introduced bill into con-
gress declaring that the United
States has exclusive jurisdiction
over the Hudson river from New
York City to Albany. The object is
to prevent the construction of piers
and coferdauns for bridging the
river. That congressman evidently
believes in spelling Nation with a
big IN"
ALONG with e great deal Of arrant
nonsense Sam Jones occasionally
gets off'something sensible. He has
been denounci2g the round dance
at Kansas City. A custom that has
ats origin in the bawdy houses of
Paris cannot be too severely con-
9emned, and if the Rev. Sam would
devote his time and talents to educa-
ting people out of this abo1ninable
custom he would do far mone good
than IN investigating how many
women there were in his copgrega-
tions that didn't have corns OF their
toes.
Ton OcHnTREE was invited to call
arouEd at a certain hour a few days
ago to join a party of friends who
were to dine at Delmonico's. At
the hour appointed he called and by
mistake entered a room where the
Baptist ministers union were hayi9 g
their annual banquet. The parties
he was invited to meet were mostly
strangers to him, and he was not
aware that he had entered the wrongs
room until he cast his eye over theS
table and noticed the glasses filled
only with water. Whereupon he
beat hasty retreat.
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IT is said that Mayor Callaghan,
who is a half-breed Mexican, has
formed an alliance between the Ger
mans and Mexicans to control cleo
tions in San Antonio. It is claimed
that he is looked upon as a martyr
and has great strength among the
Germans because he is under indict-
ment in the federal court for yelling
and clapping his hands and joining
in with the hoodlums the night that
rotten eggs were thrown in the pro-
hib1tion campaign If the BANNER is
not much mistaken, MIR. Callaghan
will find very little unity at the polls
between the Germans and Mexicans.
LELAND STANFORD may have been
sincere and disinterested in voting
to confirm Lamar on the Supreme
bench, but it is to be regretted that
the chance of confirmation was mar
rowed down to the question as to
how he would vote. The repubG-
cans charge that Mr. Lamar owes
his confirmation to Union and Cen
trail Pacific railway influences, and
not without reason. Hon. A. w. ]. |
Sparks, land commissioner, while in
Office made bitter war on these rail
roads and reclaimed large
bodies of land fraudulently held by
them. Lamar as secretary of the
demanded his resignation
without giving any explanation
whatever.
The total of farm mortgages in
the ten western states amounts to
twice the total amount of the ma
tional debt, and some of the farms
sre mortgaged to nearly their full
selling value in the market. And
ret the western farmers have been
to run down the south
Is an unthrifty, unprosperous sec
ion. It would be well for the
state immigration committee to
show up these facts. While the
people in the west and northwest
nave to contend with the billiards,
lave their growing truck frozen and
Tiled out, necessitating them to re-
,lant time and again, and while they
re gradually eat out of house and
lone by heavy mortgages, southern
armers can always manage easily to