Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

stuffed club to them.
Fl takes more than one summer
to make swallow, and more than a
few bloody-shirt shriekers to con
vince the people that the war is not
over.
Now THAT the holidays are over
and everybody is in business mood
it might not be inappropriate to re-
mind the people of Brennan that
we must have a county fair by next
fall.
The war-clouds are assuming a
dark and threatening aspect over in
Europe, and it seems that a conflict
of arms cannot longer be delayed
than spring, &c: This is printers
fat
The BANNER is in receipt of a
copy of the Paris News new years
address, which is a beauty. But
nothing less could have been ex-
pected of a paper that is itself no
SLOUGH.
The advocates of government pos
tai telegraphy appear to be weaken
ing since rejecting over the matter,
and may now be considered in a mi
nority. The BANNER has all along
been in a majority.
IT IS privately rumored that Sena-
tor Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky, who
is one of the most popular men in
the whole country, is afflicted with
cancer of the stomach, and his friends
are becoming alarmed.
IT Is said that Lord and Lady
Campbell are on the point of kiss
ing and making friends. If they do
they should go off somewhere and
never infict notice of themselves on
a suffering public again.
LEST there might be some mistake
about it John Sherman wants it dis
tinctly understood that hei is not out
of the race. And yet he is not lying
awakeat night and losing sleep in
scheming for the nomination.
{. I. Hoop & Co, of Lowell, Mass,
have designed and issued the hand
soonest calendar for 1883 which has
yet been received at this office. Six
cents in postage stamps sent to
their address will procure one.
The GAZETTE enumerates several
prospective candidates and would-be
aspirants for Senator Coke's seat,
and truly says that when the vote of
the legislature is counted it will be
found that Richard is himself again.
Bro. BLA1NE's friends are captains
general and occupy such a rare coign
of vantage that they already begin
to feel that they can safely say that
the prize is theirs. But what the
people will say is horse of another
color.
Why should poor, deluded immi-
grants stop off in Kansas and freeze
to death in that blizzard-1idden
land, when balmy weather, bright !
hospitable people and a
rich, productive soil all await them
in Texas
The Atlanta Constitution is trying
its level best to carry water ON both
shoulders. 1t is protection to the
core, but at the same time says that
no southern State can or should vote
the republican ticket, on economic
grounds,
Gov. HILL, of New York, enjoy
ed for his desert on Christmas day
a refrigerated watermelon of last
September's crop, which had been
kept frozen ever since and was as
fresh as if it had just been pulled
from the vine.
The republican executive commit
tees of Vermont and New Hamp-
shire have already issued calls for a
convention, to elect delegates to the
Chicago convention, which meets
next June to nominate candidates for
president and vice-president.
The leading newspapers are MAX
ing themselves absurdIy and dis
gustingly ridiculous by the manner
of their taking on over the marriage
of Sarah Bernhardt's son Maurice. |
WHO'S he but the son of his mother,
and who is she that so much should |