Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-26

OsAN NRASoS j 1t-F
at his home. in that city on. FRIDAY
evening. His death will be mouEned
as apublic loss. y: 4
TIE Fort Worth Gazette recon
Giles itself to the cold weather with
the exclamation, more snow, more
wheat The Gazette can have all
of.the snow from now on if it
chooses. The farmers in this sec
ton want to get to work.
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TRAIN RoRB1NG as an industry APP
pears to be, becoming more and
more improbable in this country.
Il was left, however, to a Texan to
give the business its first serious set
back, and his good example hasbeen
followed right along ever since,
If THE pure food convention now
in session at Washington could
reach the landlords and boarding
house keepers, and make them serve
their guests with genuine, whole
some food instead of the shams and
substitutes now in use, they would
secure national blessing.
ALL over the state the complaint
of impossible roads between the
towns and country are made, and in
the winter the merchants lose heavi-
" in trade from this cause. It
would repay them to subscribe lib
orally in the fall of the year to have
the roads put in good condition
THz resolution introduced into
Congress by Mr.. Mason, of Illinois,
authorizing inquiry into the meth
ods of combination and operation CT
''trustsn in this country, has been
reported favorably and adopted
Legislative inquiry should not cease
until every last one of them are
broken up.
HoS. Us. GassE1I, who won
national fame in connection with the
irial of the anarchists as prescott
ing attorney, viii probably be the
next nominee of the democratic
party for governor of Illinois, and it is
said that he viii come as near carry
ing the state as any candidate the
party could put up.
The observation by the Galveston
Tribune that sold Boreas is losing
his grip" is peculiarly appropriate at
this writing with the ground freez-
ing. A man can't afford to risk his
however, on predictions
n regard to Texas weather. He is {
Just as liable to be fooled as to hit {
5he nail on the head. ;
TIE republicans have read Hon.
James Russell Lowell, ex-minister to
England, out of theparty for embrac. .
ng tariff reform and for eulogizing ,
President Cleveland at Boston :
banquet. They now call him !
'denationalized American. All the ,
ame, Mr. Lowell carries great ;
weight with the Americans yet.
The executive committee of the
tate immigration society will meet .
It Austin on the oath, and the sec 7
etary is DESTROYS that every county =
end III a report stating what has 6
'een done Or proposed by it in aid I
f the movement. To both of these =
questions Brennan and Washington
ounty can answer in one word, and .
hat is absolutely nothing =
BALFoUR, the detestable English d
ccretary for Ireland, is jeered at q
nd hooted by the Irish people v
wherever he goes. Even when he T
teps into restaurant to dine, a
mob gathers on the outside and sa- q
1tes him with EXPLANATIONS of 'cBal- q
our, the iarI" These little Incl a
ents must furnish him with very y
leasing reflections in his retire {,
lent. .
WrFE-BEATISG appears to have be- a
ono mania in this country. s
very day the dispatches tell of o
ONE brutal domestic scene, where d
he poor wife suffers from the n
.ounds and bruises and stripes of +
n imbruted husband, and ofttimes n
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