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The WEEKLY BANNER.
j. G. RANKIN, Proprietor.
o.H.P. GARRETT. Editor.
Thursday, June l2, 1890.
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AocoRD1Ye to Mr.. B. B. Paddock,
the Fort Worth railroad president
all of the railroads in Texas ought
to be in favor of commission. 1t
raises the price of freights.
BESIDES being the prettiest place
in the state Waco seems to be well
Eheeled" financially. The Day says
it has S12S,0O0 over and above its
current obligations.
The Cherokee Herald calls the
BANNER a daisy" and threatens to
cut us off its list if we don't exchange.
The Herald is on our mailing galley,
and fit doesn't receive the BANNER il
must punish John Wanny and not
us.
The Providence Journal says that
H'the inference to be drawn from the
current debate in the house is that
the republicans consider the tariff a
tax when they wish to reduce it,
but not tax when they wish it re-
tanned"
SEVERAL months back the Austin
Statesman was loudly Boosting and
making the false claim that it was
the only daily paper in the state in
favor of railway commission. Now
it is hard to tell what it is in favor of
beyond the dam project.
Hon. T. J. BROWN, the old law
partner of Gov. Throckmnrton, and
who proved staunch champion of
the farmers in the last Legislature, is
stumping the field for Gen. Hogg
and signifies his willingness to meet
Judge Gustave Cook in joint debate.
Mrs. JAMES BROWN PoTTIpHAR
writes home that the dramatic critic
Of one OF the Australian newspapers
was dismissed from his position for
writing favorable criticism of her
acting. Those who have seen her
acting say that the newspaper mans
punishment was not excessive.
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IT seems that a strong effort is
being made in Germany to drag
down the iron ex-chancellor, Bis
marck, and to humiliate him. The
charge has been preferred against
him of intriguing at the Little Ger
man Courts and of trying to raise
up difficulties of all sorts in the way
of the emperor.
The Illinois democratic convention
has endorsed the candidacy of Gen.
John NJ. Palmer for the United
States senate, and he will make a
departure by gong before the people
for an endorsement, although the
election is by the legislature.
Whether he wins or loses his candi-
dacy must result in Strengthening
the democracy,
An enterprising Britisher import
ed a number of cannibals from Terra
del Fuego for exhibition in cheap
museums; but the New York Star
says he was compelled to send them
home because of the insuperable
difficulty encountered in providing
for them the food to which they had
been accustomed.
The rather sudden death recently
of young lady at New Orleans was
attributed to a dish of ice cream of
which she had just been eating.
This item will impress the average
young man with peculiar force and
signifcance.-Fort Worth Gazette.
The editor of the BANNER once ate
seven saucerfuls of cream, more or
less, on a wager with New Orleans