Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-08-28
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OUR AGENTS.
JOHN F. WEIBUscH, Burton, Texas.
F. III. GRIFFIN, Lyons, Texas.
10 MIKEsKI, Wesley, Texas.
FIFTEEN of the republican sena-
tors are said to be opposed to the
passage OF the Lodge force bill
Gov. BoIEs, of Iowa, has been
mentioned as probable candidate
on the democratic ticket for presi,
dent of the United States.
THE Raum whitewashing commit.
tee has commenced the Job. Nobody
need profess surprise at the result
when the report is handed in.
LITTLE BEN now and then exasper-
atingly cries out that he is in favor
of the Lodge bill, but all the same
ats fate will not depend on what he
wishes,
JAS. STEPHEN HoGa will be the first
native governor of the Lone Star
State, and he will be elected by the
biggest majority ever received by
any candidate.
PEACE seems to have been estab-
Iished between Guatemala and San
Salvador. The little Salvadoran re-
public comes out with all the honors
and trophies of war.
WnKEsBARRE, Pa, was visited the
other day with a destructive cy-
clone. Again it is in order to re-
mark that this has been a year of
disastrous and appalling visitations-
QUEEN VICTORIA expresses herself
to her parliament as being in favor
of arbitrating the differences be-
tween Great Britain and the
United States respecting the Behr-
ings sea fisheries.
The colored people in the South
have been here long enough to know
what is to their interest. They
should cease trying to stir up race
antagonism, divide in politics and
support their friends.
IT has been suggested that Reed
take a reef in his sash. Since Quay
has decided to throw the Lodge bill
overheard the Maine autocrat finds
he is not quite so big as he fondly
imagined himself to be.
WITHIN the past ten years the popu-
lation in the sixteen states formerly
known as the slave holding states
has increased four million and five
hundred thousand. The South will
soon occupy her old place IN the
front.
WIN. PITT KELLOGG, a Louisiana
statesman of odorous memory, says
that he fears The consequences of an
attempt to carry out the provisions
OF. the Lodge election bill, and adj
mits it would prove boomerang to
the 6. O. P.
GENERAL JOHN II. CLAIBORNE has
purchased the New Birmingham
Times, redhot anti-Hogg sheet be-
fore the state convention met, and
has come out in support of that gen
tleman and the balance of the demo-
cratic ticket.
ABILENE, a western town way out
on the Texas and Pacific road, has
the honor of having introduced the
first "shirt-sleeves and calico hop.
The Young ladies appeared at the
dance in calico gowns and the gen.
tlemen without coats.
The new census gives Seattle,
Wash, population of 1894, an
increase of 40,681; and Tacoma,
Wash, 1855, an increase of a. 60.
Such rapid growth is almost beyond
comprehension and is unparalleled
in any other country.
AFTER many weary months Tas-
colt, the murderer of Millionaire
Smell, of Chicago, has turned up
again. This time he has been cap
tured by a citizen Of Utah. who is on