Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-04-24

CoURIER-JoURNAL: England swings
the lever that moves the trade and
wealth of the world. Even we have
not escaped her influence. She
markets the cotton crop of the South,
and the farmers of the North must
look to her as the purchaser of their
corn and wheat. When we build
railroads we borrow money from Lon
don and wherever we turn we see
the power of British gold, for the
territory of England is not her $4,000
square miles of island, but the wide
sweep Of all the oceans, three thous-
and times as great, and she has
known how to gather a rich harvest
from their waves. England occupies
the position which belongs to the
United States, and of which the
fraud and robbery of the republican
party have deprived US.
--
The greatest tribute that can be
paid to the sterling qualities, strict
honesty, rugged simplicity and
patriotism of the late Samuel j. Ran
dali is to simply call attention to the
small amount of worldly goods which
he left behind him. Many statesmen
have gone to Washington as poor as
church mice, and after short term
of service have found that they could
afford to erect handsome marble
front and brown stone residences
more costly than their entire wealth
was originally estimated at.
The Houston Post wants to know
what has become of the movement
to erect a monument to the Hon.
Jefferson Davis. The BANNER can
only answer for its own locality.
Here in BRENNAN a subscription list
is open at Mr.. B. Eldr1dge's store
for contributions, and the young
ladies of Independence are getting
up an amateur theatrical entertain
ment for the benefit of it.
JENNIE CALEF, Americas greatest
soubrette," who came down on Texas
early in the theatrical season just
past, and who went away and came
back again playing return engage
ments and including all of the
villages and small towns, is still in
the state making stands for whole
week at a single place. She is at
present playing at Padgitt park, in
Waco.
THE death of the late congressman
Kelly of Pennsylvania, who was
known as ''Pig Iron" Kelly, left
Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania,
as the ''father of the house." And
now the death of Mr.. Randall leaves
a third Pennsylvania in succession
as "father of the house" He is
Congressman O'Neill, Of the 2nd
Pennsylvania district
A FEW weeks ago the young son of
Mr.. B. Lehman was taken i'll and
it was thought at first he had the
measles. He has recovered, but the
attack of sickness left him nearly
blind in one eye and with one of his
arms drawn up and twisted out OF
shape. On Friday Dir. Lehman
took his son to Austin to consult an
occulist.
The Virginia state board of medi-
cal examiners for the first time in
its history has granted a license to
practice medicine to lady, Miss G.
L. Haynes, who has been elected ss-
sistant physician in the insane asy-
lum at Stanton. If there is any
calling more than another that wo-
man should follow it is that of prac-
ticing medicine.
A NUMBER of villainous looking
cuts have been running through the
papers the past few days that might
create theimpression that they repre-
sented some candidate for Office, but
on closer scrutiny are found to repre-
sent the immortal Sam Houston and
used to illustrate "San Jacinto
day" articles.
AN exchange refers to an aspirant
for congressional honors as sim
crow lawyer and two-bit politician.
Papers which call candidates by
such names should first be sure
they are not themselves guilty of the
Jim crow, two-bit Eat-an-Swill Ga
zette style of journalism.
A CRANK lawyer, who is fond of
working up novel cases and of test
ing startling law points, has institu-
ted suit to test the validity of the
Texas Criminal Code and Code of
Criminal Procedure. The suit is
brought in the federal court out at
San Antonio.