Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28

The latest report from the Lang
Try is that she has become the hand
maiden of an English hord.
The aggregate debt of all the
colonies of Australia is said to be
$215 per head or $6SS,OO0,O00.
HEREAFTER in Texas instead Of
saying ''as dead as a mackerel," PEG.
Pile will say ''as dead as Gustave
Cook"
The local war in the democratic
camp is still going on in Bell coun.
ty. They are getting themselves In
to an ugly muss.
CULBERsoN, who was nominated at
San Antonio for encouragement,
Is the youngest man ever nominated
for state Office in Texas.
The San Antonio city administra,
ton is making efforts to purchase
the waterworks system of that
place, which have become a giant
monopoly.
The Philadelphia Record says that
McKinley's crazy-quilt tariff bill
would not open market for a sin
gle barrel of pork, but that,it would
open huge frying pan for many
barrel of fat.
THOSE who think that the com
mission amendment will not carry
will be as badly fooled as those who
protested to believe in the early
part of the campaign that Hogg
stood no chance for the nomination.
Hon. W. H. MARTIN, alias
E'Howdy" Martin, congressman from
the Palestine district, has been de-
feated for a denomination. Hon.
John B. Long, of Cherokee county,
secured the nomination after several
hundred Intellectual ballots were
cast.
INGALLS,, of Kansas, makes the cal
culation that the last surviving SOL
der of the late civil war will expire
between 1910 and 1850, and that be-
fore the account is finally closed the
government will have paid out not
less than four billion dollars in pen
sions.
An exchange says: James Rob-
inson, who could not read or write,
went to Phoenix, Ariz., and became
a millionaire. He could not write
his name, but could make his Y
mark. He is now forty years old
and is attending primary school in
Kansas City.
THHRE will not be an unbroken
delegation from Texas to congress
this fall Hon. W. Il. Bailey, of
Gainesville will succeed Congress
man Silas G. Hare He carried the
Collin county primaries last Satur-
day, which insures him the necessary
two-thirds vote.
JEFF DAVIS county borders on the
Rio Grande, where people are sup
posed to get up and kill man
every morning before breakfast to
stir up an appetite. And, yet, the
grand jury of jeff Davis county met
the other day and adjourned for the
term without returning single in
dictment.
THE st. Paul Pioneer Press, a
staunch republican paper, says
eve cannot recall in recent political
history any such general revolt
against a measure brought forward
in congress, and supported by all
the power and prestige of party
leaders, as that which the Mckinley
bill has had to encounter
WILL the negroes of Washington
county fight the white democrats
this fall and try to antagonize them,
while the white republicans in the
state are trying to throw them over
board, in order, as they say, to make
their party respectable? If the
darkeys go against the white demo
Gratis and the white men oftheir own
party shake them of, who will be
their friends?
CAPT. L. P. SEEKER appears to be
the coming man for adiutant general
of the state. As governor, Mr..
Hogg could not make a more popu-
lar appointment. Capt. SEEKER used
to be in command of company 'sD''
of the state rangers and there never
was a more brave or vigilaut officer.
He is popular with everybody and
especially with the West Texas peo-
pie, among whom he lived. Capt.
SEEKER is at present filling the posi-
ton of quartermaster
CAPT. EDGAR ScHRAMM, chairman
of the democratic executive commit