Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

: BISMARCK name translated is
P "Mark Twain" but that doesn't sig
: nifty that he and Americas great
+ humorist are in any way related.
GRAIN has introduced bill pro
: Ndlng for a civil service retired list.
: He must have read the Banners re-
marks on the bill to pension Mrs.
Logan.
; The greatest slam yet on Fort
Worth is that the Salvation Army
should have singled out that place
to make descent on the bulwarks.
of satan and sin.
The Louisiana courts have decidE
ed that dealing in faro banks is not
gambling. In state where lotter-
les are run as chartered institutions,
this is not astonishing. I
THEhumorous Fort Worth Colonel
is no more, but those who are fond
of reading Ike Philkins' chained
Lightning" can transfer their sub
scriptions to the Paris News.
The labor war in the Lehigh val
ley has been carried into the ball
room. At dance in the valley re-
Gently "scabs" were boycotted and
couldn't procure '.pards1 in the sets.
SEVERAL counties of Southwest
Texas did not hold any conventions
or take notice of the call issued from
San Antonio, yet they were reported
as being represented by properly ac7s
credited delegates.
JUSTIN D. FULTON, the sensational
Baptist preacher, is trying to rent aS
hall in Baltimore to deliver. his lee
ture on "Why Priests should Marry
Atlast accounts he had not succeed
ed in procuring one.
AT last accounts Platt of Nebras
ka was still speaking in the United I;
States senate on the presidents mes
sage. He realizes at least that the
subject can't receive justice in a
small compass. That much is to
his credit.
UNCLE DAHL now belongs to th&z
tariff pirate gang. but judging from
5he fidelity with which he ate crow
when Smith was nominated fors
mayor of Houston, it can't be prof.
oable that he viii oppose Cleveland
lfter his denomination.
THERE is a paragraph going the
'ounds that the only so-called rel
yious daily in the worlds published
1t Montreal. What's the matter
With Rabbi Harris's and Gov Bill
'terett's paper {! Also might be-
mentioned the Houston Age.
ONE of the glorious privileges of
very citizen OF this glorious country
5 that he may run for an Office ass
veil as vote. This remark is apropos
f the coming city election, which is
ot far aft. And yet the announce
lent column of the BANKER doesn't.
how it.
The Boerne Paper, a republican
protective tariff sheet published at a.
mall place only forty miles north of
he Alamo City, says that the SOIL -,
-estern immigration meeting Il
eep water, protective t3giff ana
teal consultation convention
ught to know.
AFTER all the bright dreams an,
opeful expectancy that lightnu
-ould strike them, when the q
ouncement of the Louisiana 10
cry drawing was published the OF
: day many young mans heart
renham sank down in his boot
18th dull thud.
The Boston Traveller, republics
aper, is waging war on foreign ID
igration. It ass FITS that foreignefs
.e not assimilating with the growth
the country, and that they are re
,onsible for nearly all of the strikesl
I'd labor disturbances that are oc-
lrring.
The Houston Age is mistaken in
ying that the BANNAR classification
the fact that when Coke was last
ected to the senate every represen-
tive fromthis county voted for him.
he BANNER simply contradicted the
sertion to the contrary made care