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

J. G. RANKIN, Proprietor.
q. H p, GARRETT. Editor.
Thursday, January IL, 1883.
SENATOR HoAR has introduced
bill in congress providing for
Worlds exposition, to be held at the
national capital in 1892.
The school teachers of New Jer-
sew have memorialized the legisla-
ture to enact law prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes to minors.
The old saying that precious
goods are done up in small packages,
applies with a peculiar and special
force to the Weimar Daily Gimlet.
An average Ohio democrat is IS
sorry specimen of humanity as one
needs to meet up with. They should
forever be tabooed by the nationalad-
ministration.
TExA~has been promised couple of
northers lately, but they failed to
materialize. Is Greeley losing his
grip?-Houston Post
It would seem so.
DANA and Butler are now in / e
for Cleveland and democracy, l 1t
this fact viii not be on that accor Mt
deemed by either as any special
cause for eongratulation.
TIE Fort Worth Gazette is heavy
on coming words to suit its fancy.
1t refers to his royal nibs, Prince of
Wales and patron of the smuggling
art, as ''his royal altitudousness.
SENATOR RICHARD COKE, or in other
words ''Old Brains" is all right,
whatever the penny-a-line papers and
cheap-John political tricksters may
say to the contrary Notwithstanding.
ALLISON, of Iowa, who is next to
Blaine the strongest man in the re-
publican party for the presidential
nomination, is out and out in favor
of a radical revision of the tariff.
And still so it goes.
ADvIcEs from Massowah are to the
effect that Generals Gene and .Cagni
have advanced their fortified posts
to point near Dogali, while Don
San Mariana is moving his head
quarters to Monkucto.
The Sir Hubert of the San An
tonic Express says the presidents
messages school-boy composition.
There amt any boys about the Ez-
press Office who will ever be able toi
write such a production. |,
r-Jo4S SHERMAN is to be banqueted
blythe members of the Home Market '
club of Philadelphia. Evidently the {
old fraud has succeeded in quilting j
them with the belief that he is still t
in the ring for president. '
MARTIN IRoxs, the loud-mouthed :
jawsmith who figured in the great !
strike about a year ago and who was
guilty of insubordination to Powder
ly, is now the proprietor of cheap .,
eating house in st. Louis.
SOME of the little breeches politi-
clans about Austin and Santone are
their wires to GUST Congress t
man Sayers, but by the time they have t
succeeded in the undertaking they e
Will ind 1t about as easy JOB as
lifting oneself up by the boot straps.
SECRETARY LAMAR has rendered his a
resignation to the president, from L
which fact it would seem that the q
of the failure of the senate L
to confirm him on the supreme bench v
has not caused him to lose any sleep. &
despite the insane rawlings and hula i
baloo of the bloody-shirt shriekers. 9
THE mayor and police should see
that the ordinance prohibiting rail-
way trains from obstructing the
street crossings beyond a reasonably 6
necessary length of time should be =
strictly enforced. This ordinance
has been hitherto rather loosely re- !,
garded, and the railroad men have
seemed to regard that nobody had
The RIGHT of Dassope on tbe streets L