Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-09
EDf1 al NOTES.

!, off more funny cuts than any of the
: alleged professional humorous pub
i locations.
: SENATOR KENNA's speech in reply to
Sherman on the presidents message
would make splendid campaign liter
AZURE if given wide circulation.
. SENATOR CoKE has sent the BANSER
several packages of seeds, and the
, BANNER force hope to be reyelling m
garden Sass before a great while.
The BANNER is in receipt of a copy
OF the Dandelion Clock song and
chorus, presented by Mr.. R. E.
Luhn, the well known druggist of
this city.
| FoRT WORTH has raised $4,000
to build paper mill If there is any
place on this continent that deserves
to prosper it is the Fort. Its bust
ness men are ahead OF any others In
the state in pluck and enterprise
A NUMBER of southern ladies at the
national capital viii apply their deft
fingers to making a beautiful silk
ermine to wrap around the judicial
dignity of Lamar This viii be-
heaping Goals of fire on the bloody
shirt crowd.
That abnormal extension of the
female anatomy .vllgarly called the
hustle, has again created distur
bance; it caused split in detach-
ment of the Salvation army en-
gagged in storming the forts of satan
and sin up in York state.
The BANNER is in receipt Of a
blanket sheet from Denver, Col,
called the Rocky Mountain News,
accompanied with a request to
please copy pages four and FIVE. u
The matter it wants copied refers to
the national range association.
BELvA LocKwooD in her contest
for the presidential nomination VIII
find strong opponents in President
Dow, of the Dover street railway,
and Mayor Salter, of Argonia, Kan
sas. The fair Belva's pathway isnot
scattered over with roses as it used
to was.
Gov. BUcKNzR, of Kentucky, re-
fuses to surrender the Hatfield
gang of murderers to the West Viz
ginia authorities, and says there il
no warrant of law for doing So If
a half-chance is given the border
Virginians there viii be no need Of
any red tape.
The News local tells of a number
of young bloods who chased skunk
several miles down Galveston Is
land the other day under the delus
ion that it was English, ye knaw,''
and that they were chasing fox.
Their de,usion was dispelled by
simple old farmer with whom they
met up.
DRuMMERs always want the earth,
md if there is no particular law cover
ng their case they think there ought
% be one. One of the festive gentry
las sued Kansas City for damages
or being robbed, claiming that the
,ity is obliged to guarantee to every
,ne within its gates absolute safety
If life and property.
THE papers in one of the towns of
Mexico are advertising q grand bull
light, the proceeds of which are to
De devoted to interior decorations of &
he parish church In that country
hese amusements are Generally, =
more of a success financially te the
'hurch than lotteries, grab-baf,s or
ven the change racket in this
Texas Will get no concentrated APP
this year for deep water
t is astonishing how non-commital
Il of the Texas delegation are, with ,
he exception of Grain and Judge
lbbott, and how anxious they are
o shoulder responsibility on Con-
Stewart, who-ha served
n the rivers and harborscommittee-
TaE constitution of the United
tates and of the several states
hould be so amended as to place
and anarchists under the
lasses inhibited from voting or
gliding Office. 1t is but justice to
eny to persons hostile to lawful
overnment the right tc participate
/ making laws, and it would be poS